Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, March twenty fifth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and eighty two.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jan Cholla joining me as always co
Speaker 1: captain of the ship. He's over in the pastry section
Speaker 1: of the restaurant just looking at butter, slathering it all
Speaker 1: over the desserts and himself, Jeff grub.
Speaker 2: I gotta spend a good portion of each day convincing
Speaker 2: my child to not.
Speaker 3: Just eat butter.
Speaker 1: That's right, he's convincing children all around the world. Are
Speaker 1: our child specialist, Dan Riker.
Speaker 4: Kids need to drink more soda. I don't like what
Speaker 4: I've been hearing about the kids today, not drinking soda.
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 4: Watch Jaws and drink of coke.
Speaker 2: At six years old, Addie saw something about Jaws. Was
Speaker 2: watching the John Williams special Chefs. What's this movie?
Speaker 3: I want to watch it?
Speaker 1: See?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she has all the information she needs to
Speaker 3: know too about it.
Speaker 2: No yet, man, but the eight year old, maybe we'll see.
Speaker 4: That's a doom generation.
Speaker 1: I'm speaking about a doom generation. He's gonna lead us
Speaker 1: out of it. We have the leading anarchist and games media.
Speaker 1: The baddest boy in games media, my Minati.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, Dan, it is weird, right. I guess
Speaker 3: we just grew up. Like here's don't even worry about
Speaker 3: diet coke. That's grosser for rondos. Just all the pure
Speaker 3: regular coca. Oh you could what that's basically your kids drink.
Speaker 3: That's the kids drink of choice. And now, yeah, all
Speaker 3: the parents I know are like I would rather give
Speaker 3: my son a cigarette.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I did not mean to perk up as
Speaker 1: soon as that word got said. All right, I didn't
Speaker 1: need to make that clear.
Speaker 2: Okay, when I got I was going out for wrestling
Speaker 2: in middle school and I was not, like, you know,
Speaker 2: a fat kid, but they like did like a body
Speaker 2: fat test and like all I drank was coke.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 4: What do you say more than water? Because I definitely was.
Speaker 2: Oh definitely yes, And it was like a lot per
Speaker 2: day and it's like, yeah, you have like thirty eight
Speaker 2: percent body fatly, well that seems like a lot. And
Speaker 2: I was like that was all just the coke doing
Speaker 2: its thing.
Speaker 3: To me.
Speaker 1: Oh, do you think sugar was a mistake?
Speaker 2: No, I mean it's not been great for us.
Speaker 4: Sugar is, well, do we make it up. I'm not
Speaker 4: going to go into hold me no no, no, no, no, no, nope, nope,
Speaker 4: I understand it just fine.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I've never been more convinced than he understands something than
Speaker 2: when he said that phrase.
Speaker 1: I know we brought this up last week, and then
Speaker 1: we brought up the week before that, But who was
Speaker 1: talking about yearning for the minds? Because I haven't been
Speaker 1: able to get that yearning yearning out of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack Black was talking about it. I think was
Speaker 2: it Nikki that told us about the trailer or whatever
Speaker 2: where apparently young Jack Black said he always yearned for
Speaker 2: the mines.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the opening line. Yeah, they referenced the joke.
Speaker 3: I still haven't watched that trailer. Yeah, there's like I
Speaker 3: saw a new new trailer in front of that Looney
Speaker 3: Tunes movie from Minecraft.
Speaker 1: I'm still not convinced.
Speaker 2: I have to say, I do you think I posted
Speaker 2: this to Blue Sky that if Super Mario Brothers nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety three was made today, it would look a lot
Speaker 2: like this Minecraft movie, Like they would use that kind
Speaker 2: of they would use that kind of CGI and.
Speaker 1: Showed so much. Is it like weird CGI or is
Speaker 1: it trying to look like the CGI.
Speaker 3: It's live action and like there's real people and the
Speaker 3: real people are Jason Momoa and Jack Black and all.
Speaker 2: And then all the stuff that from the game. They
Speaker 2: are like filtering it through a realism AI filter.
Speaker 4: Basically, it's kind of like it looks it's kind of
Speaker 4: like the worst version of Detective Pikachu like that.
Speaker 3: There they made things slightly realistic in a charming way.
Speaker 3: Here it's really ugly and this is.
Speaker 1: Like we made a movie that was oops, all ugly sonic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and like they're out and proud about it too,
Speaker 2: like we look what we got here.
Speaker 4: Like Creepers all the like the cube Heads and stuff
Speaker 4: like this.
Speaker 2: The villagers are the worst because they have the dan
Speaker 2: Ackroyd penis nose from that one movie.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, yeah, the dan from one. Yeah, cone Heads.
Speaker 4: This looks like shit.
Speaker 3: I think the difference now, though, Jeff, is that kids
Speaker 3: love ugly shit these days. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I came around Maria Brothers nineteen ninety three, right, like
Speaker 2: I love that now. As a kid, it was like, man,
Speaker 2: I can't believe they did this to Mario, And now
Speaker 2: I'm like that this.
Speaker 3: Ugly shiit I wish we had more of this.
Speaker 2: It's weird and different, and I wonder if the kids
Speaker 2: are like fully embracing that.
Speaker 3: You're right, You're right. They're like the roadblocks generation. They
Speaker 3: love their ugly shit, the skibbity toilet generation, they love
Speaker 3: stupid ugly shit.
Speaker 1: Is it ironic? Then why aren't we more popular?
Speaker 3: Then? I don't mention a good point.
Speaker 1: You know, a question for the father in the room, Dan,
Speaker 1: you can chime in if you want as well. Sure,
Speaker 1: I will grub do the gimmicks, understand practical stuff versus
Speaker 1: CGI stuff.
Speaker 2: Yet like they don't think about it that much, mostly
Speaker 2: because and I don't know if this is universal, but
Speaker 2: my understanding is it's pretty universal among kids that I
Speaker 2: the age that I have, they don't really watch much
Speaker 2: live action at all. They are almost exclusively watching animated films,
Speaker 2: and that's computer animated films, which is kind of all
Speaker 2: that exists today. So it's kind of a hurdle to
Speaker 2: get them to even try some live action stuff. Emmy's
Speaker 2: just sort of like maybe doing a little bit of that,
Speaker 2: but overall it's like if it's not animated, they're like,
Speaker 2: this is not a kids movie, and therefore I am bored.
Speaker 1: You know what's not a three D movie that's in
Speaker 1: theaters right now? You can take the kids to see
Speaker 1: the world would be destroyed or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the day the earth blew up. I mean I
Speaker 3: went with my nieces and nephews and they all liked
Speaker 3: it a lot. Oh okay, I'm gonna take them ship.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's great. Yeah you'll I mean, you'll definitely like it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure they'll like it.
Speaker 1: Hey, this just crossed my mind where while we were
Speaker 1: talking about live action stuff, I don't think we can
Speaker 1: call the live action line king live action.
Speaker 3: Oh this is a very old I'm sorry, okay, and
Speaker 3: you're right, you're right, jam, But it's it is a
Speaker 3: conversation that has definitely happened a bunch And it's like
Speaker 3: even the people that are saying live action at this
Speaker 3: point admit they're like, yeah, we get it to Ceja,
Speaker 3: it's just a delineate between Yeah, we gotta make a
Speaker 3: difference here. I'm not gonna say realistic animated one.
Speaker 4: You know, apparently me and Bonk are weigh in the
Speaker 4: minority by we both like that.
Speaker 1: Movie a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're weird. You saw twice in theaters. I've never
Speaker 4: known her to see something twice in theaters.
Speaker 1: It's completely fine, but it's it's like, I don't want
Speaker 1: to see fake real an cartoons are fake. Well no,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they're they're they're presenting
Speaker 1: it as like this is live action.
Speaker 4: They're not saying it's a shoe. They didn't say it's
Speaker 4: the documentary. There's no David Attenborough talking over it.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is I just want more puppets.
Speaker 4: I know I am pro puppet.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did anybody else see Mufasa?
Speaker 3: It was okay? I uh yeah, damn. You guys love
Speaker 3: the Lion King didn't love It's.
Speaker 1: Just like it was over.
Speaker 4: It's like, wow, they did a great job with that.
Speaker 2: Well she saw twice. You guys didn't go to see
Speaker 2: Mufasa and Mufassa just came out. I guess it's on
Speaker 2: home video.
Speaker 4: I don't think we came out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it's better than their live
Speaker 3: action quote unquote live action lia Kings.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll like it.
Speaker 4: Sorry, great movies like what I watched this weekend, A
Speaker 4: Braxist Guardian of the Universe starring Jesse Ventura as a
Speaker 4: space cop.
Speaker 1: I saw that too. For some reason. Was that tam'swat.
Speaker 4: I think Tam was the one who recommended to me.
Speaker 1: Yes, thanks Tam.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 3: There was a it's a sci fi movie this that's
Speaker 3: not like, yeah, Jesse Fitcher is a space alien cop,
Speaker 3: but like the whole thing just takes place in Suburbia, Canada.
Speaker 2: A new direct got announced for April first. It's the
Speaker 2: Goat Direct for Goat Simulator. Oh did I get you
Speaker 2: guys excited?
Speaker 4: So are they doing the day before? Okay, that's it's
Speaker 4: also April Fool's Day, right, that's fun.
Speaker 3: Is the thing you're talking about. When you heard there
Speaker 3: was an obligation that had to be met for the goats.
Speaker 3: It was not for the goats.
Speaker 1: For the goats. Okay, well there you go, breaking news.
Speaker 3: Uh, I'm antio by the.
Speaker 1: Jeff Grevy want to deliver that again?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, new direct confirmed for April first, at four
Speaker 2: pm Central European standard summertime, which is not a real time.
Speaker 3: Goat Direct is happening from the people to make Goat Simulator.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: You know, don't think gimmicks like Goat Simulator and that
Speaker 1: they love goats. That's really ugly stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, and they and they think it's hilarious.
Speaker 4: I think goats A couple of days ago, is watching
Speaker 4: the show that involved a goat, and the goat was
Speaker 4: maybe in peril for a second. I was glad the
Speaker 4: goat didn't get hurt, and I was think, like, I
Speaker 4: think goats are pretty cute.
Speaker 1: Goat goat.
Speaker 3: Now you don't like goats. It's I think it's because
Speaker 3: of that one goat in my neighbor Totoro. If you
Speaker 3: don't talk about they like hyperanimate detail. This goat and
Speaker 3: it's got the weird goat eyes and it's one of
Speaker 3: the scariest things I've ever seen. It's just this goat
Speaker 3: in this Japanese kids movie.
Speaker 2: Mike was also an altar voice all the times they
Speaker 2: sacrificed goats in.
Speaker 3: The didn't you guys see The Witch? I did.
Speaker 1: You're a baby, you grow up?
Speaker 3: If you saw adult movies for grow it's like me
Speaker 3: like the Witch and that's about a satan.
Speaker 2: They really did break a lot of people. Dan when
Speaker 2: you said that made you grow up? And then Mike's
Speaker 2: like still waiting, that's like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the response you got a pretty good, admit it.
Speaker 1: Communic sensibilities. What can I say? Yeah, how's everyone doing?
Speaker 1: We're Okayring Sprung doing.
Speaker 3: Fantastic computer's here, which it was like a little annoying
Speaker 3: because like the riser for the graphics card came in
Speaker 3: a little mangled and it's still working right now, but
Speaker 3: it's a little piece of terrifying. When you guys sent
Speaker 3: me that picture, I was so angry on your behalf.
Speaker 3: I was maybe the angriest I had ever been for
Speaker 3: a moment when my brother's like, well, I don't know
Speaker 3: if this computer is gonna work. Oh. I didn't like that,
Speaker 3: and didn't like hearing that after spending the money on a.
Speaker 2: Pc I eport for people that are like hearing, no,
Speaker 2: wonder what you're talking about. The PCI eport where the
Speaker 2: riser plugs into so the graphics card can go stand
Speaker 2: up and be pretty and prominent. In the front of
Speaker 2: the case was it looked like someone had stepped on it.
Speaker 2: Inside the case it was insane. So yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: blame you for being upset, but apparently it's working.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's working, and I'm making them buy me a
Speaker 3: new riser first, Like we could send you a new computer.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, I set up the computer and
Speaker 3: I'm not Look, if you send me in your computer,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna replace the riser and send it back
Speaker 3: to you, right, Like, let's just not do they just
Speaker 3: give me a riser? But also annoying was like pieces
Speaker 3: of that thing broke off and we're rattling in the
Speaker 3: fans under there. So I like to the computer around
Speaker 3: to get those bits out. But everything's running well. Games
Speaker 3: are looking good on it. I'm looking good. I'm hopefully
Speaker 3: sounding better too. So whatever it worked.
Speaker 4: There s everything's working great. So you got a new
Speaker 4: computer that's working great. I got a retro tank that's
Speaker 4: working great.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, things.
Speaker 4: Seems like everything's just coming up GB.
Speaker 3: Folks, right, your retro tink works.
Speaker 4: Oh swimmingly? I streamed with this great. Oh the auto
Speaker 4: cropic and the auto game?
Speaker 1: Which one is this called?
Speaker 4: This is the four k CE, I mean grub you
Speaker 4: know jet?
Speaker 1: Does your retro tick not work?
Speaker 3: It wouldn't turn on. Oh, it wouldn't. Try. I tried
Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff and.
Speaker 4: The reset button on the back.
Speaker 3: I tried the re I tried everything I try to buddy.
Speaker 2: I tried plugging it in the difference fright didn't work
Speaker 2: all kinds of different cords and cables and power supplies,
Speaker 2: and like they're like, it takes a very specific power supply.
Speaker 2: So I ordered that exact power supply there. I'm like,
Speaker 2: they're like, we'll take a picture of the back of
Speaker 2: the one you have right here, like, oh, that one
Speaker 2: should work.
Speaker 3: I'm like, fuck off. And so, uh, it just it
Speaker 3: just simply would not turn on.
Speaker 2: So I you know, I emailed him, and the guy
Speaker 2: that actually makes this stuff is the guy that runs
Speaker 2: the support. So Mike Cheese like, hey, just send it
Speaker 2: back to me. I'm like, thanks, Mike, all right, here
Speaker 2: you go. So I've sent just the unit back to him.
Speaker 2: Uh and he's gonna like apparently fix it and send
Speaker 2: it back, which that's nice, but boy was it disappointing.
Speaker 2: They're like, all right, I have got like two and
Speaker 2: a half hours. I am gonna settle in for some
Speaker 2: me jeff time. I'm playing some old video games. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna set up on the computer first and.
Speaker 3: Then i'll move it.
Speaker 2: And it just didn't get past step zero. It was
Speaker 2: very frustrated.
Speaker 3: Oh that sucks. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: It is very good when you get the new one back.
Speaker 2: It's so, yeah, like what how you're kind of like
Speaker 2: tinking around with tinkering around with it because I am
Speaker 2: I realized what I am going to do with this
Speaker 2: thing primarily is and you were confused by this originally,
Speaker 2: I'm going to use my mister on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I understand that now because like the idea,
Speaker 4: yeah over it, Yeah, because you can go into HM
Speaker 4: That's what I was doing with my I was actually
Speaker 4: going HDMI out of my game cube with an adapter
Speaker 4: I've got on the back of that, going into the
Speaker 4: retro tank and then all the like actual like scan
Speaker 4: line stuff. I usually don't turn that on when it's
Speaker 4: just like an end game scan line thing. But just
Speaker 4: the level of like you know, customization you can have
Speaker 4: over that is incredible. All the auto cropping and things
Speaker 4: to make it fill your screen perfectly, like numerous different
Speaker 4: inputs and stuff. I put a VCR in the front.
Speaker 4: I was watching the Best of tool Time on VHS. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it's it's a good device for sure. The remote
Speaker 4: actually being like labeled in custom for that device is
Speaker 4: a lot better than the previous one. It's yeah, that's
Speaker 4: really really good.
Speaker 3: You could do.
Speaker 2: Direct HDMI so like the mister will put out at
Speaker 2: like the exact resolution of whatever console you're using. But
Speaker 2: the the retro Tink four KCEE has this pre scaling
Speaker 2: feature which basically just like you don't need to worry
Speaker 2: about that. On the retro Tink, It'll just take samples
Speaker 2: of like every fourth vertical line of pixels, so it's
Speaker 2: getting the information it would have originally had from that console.
Speaker 2: And then so it could just do that automatically for
Speaker 2: you and then upscale through all the filters and the
Speaker 2: and the CRT masks and stuff like that and add
Speaker 2: that on top of it, which is what I'm getting
Speaker 2: what I got this thing for. I want to have
Speaker 2: all those CRT filters.
Speaker 1: I got to ask y'all for the lame layman's out there,
Speaker 1: including myself, what would someone want to buy a retro
Speaker 1: Tink four K four So.
Speaker 4: If you play a lot of old games on modern
Speaker 4: TVs or stream old games.
Speaker 1: And using like the original hardware, correct hardware.
Speaker 3: It's basically a very nice component cable to HDMI output.
Speaker 1: It's solution for every console.
Speaker 2: Right and the main thing it does is the scaling,
Speaker 2: so your TV has a scaler in it, so if
Speaker 2: it gets four eighty I content, it knows how to
Speaker 2: display it on.
Speaker 3: The four K TV.
Speaker 2: But those scalers are cheap and shitty and have a
Speaker 2: ton of latency. For gaming, you cannot really you can't
Speaker 2: rely on them for especially older consoles. It's why anyone
Speaker 2: who's tried plugging an older console directly into the TV,
Speaker 2: that's what makes it look bad, is the is the
Speaker 2: bad scaler, the poorer scaling. So the retrotak usually understands
Speaker 2: what it's getting if it doesn't, like community members will
Speaker 2: make profiles for every device out there. But gets to
Speaker 2: the point where, like even the switch, you could plug
Speaker 2: the switch into here and and get like some benefits
Speaker 2: of plugging that into a four K TV and just
Speaker 2: cleaning up the image just a tiny bit, but it
Speaker 2: does make a difference. And then again there's no latency,
Speaker 2: so it's it is for a lot of old games.
Speaker 2: But in sort of hardware that is not outputting natively
Speaker 2: to four K, we'll get benefits from this thing.
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it weird?
Speaker 3: I'm you know, I love playing old games, I love
Speaker 3: using original hardware. I have a Retrotink five X. I
Speaker 3: have never had very much interest.
Speaker 1: At all in CRT filters. I don't know, like I
Speaker 1: grew up playing well that way.
Speaker 2: But but no, we've talked about this the other day,
Speaker 2: like you've spent also spent a lot of time emulators
Speaker 2: playing like the pixels blown up to look exactly like
Speaker 2: they look on computer, and we like, that's also an
Speaker 2: aesthetic now that people enjoy.
Speaker 3: I think that's what it is, right, Yeah, because yeah,
Speaker 3: like the first time I played Super Metroid wasn't really
Speaker 3: on the SDS, is on an emulator in like nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety nine or maybe like two thousand and two or
Speaker 3: something like that. So yeah, I'm like, I'm fine with
Speaker 3: the chunky, sharp edge pixels just as much. It's fine.
Speaker 4: There's something I really like you are about. Like, you know,
Speaker 4: I tested Mario sixty four as one of the first
Speaker 4: things because I know exactly what that game looks like,
Speaker 4: and it's like, you know, when I just had it
Speaker 4: on the base settings and everything, Yeah, you can see
Speaker 4: those little jagg's on his hat and everything, and then
Speaker 4: you turn on the gosh and blur and you it
Speaker 4: up a couple of pips and it's like, oh, this
Speaker 4: nice like smooth rounded thing or like the pixel art
Speaker 4: the portraits and like Symphony the Night and things like
Speaker 4: that look so much better with some scan lines and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just kind of yeah, seeing like two D portraits
Speaker 2: that were made for CRT TVs get smudged together in
Speaker 2: a way where they look like, oh my god, this
Speaker 2: looks much more like a person than when I played
Speaker 2: on an emulator. Yeah, just kind of getting that effect.
Speaker 3: I like that a lot. And you know, I.
Speaker 2: Just played on a lot of crappy CRTs, So I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use composite cables plugging this thing.
Speaker 3: I want the white filters to get really nostalgic. I
Speaker 3: might do that. We'll see.
Speaker 4: Yes, I watch I put in my the tape that
Speaker 4: I made in two thousand of Caxus Jack Versut Triple
Speaker 4: H in the street fight at Madison Square Garden dur Rumble,
Speaker 4: and I watched that through a retroteue port CANSA. Yeah,
Speaker 4: this is the stuff.
Speaker 3: Okaya, Yet what's that? Do you watch your nine to
Speaker 3: eleven tapes yet?
Speaker 4: I haven't been in the mood to put in my
Speaker 4: old night.
Speaker 1: Is not the season?
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, yeah, maybe Valentine's Day next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah, the need I need to leave
Speaker 1: this website because I'm not not only am I tempted
Speaker 1: now to buy a seen amount of VHS tapes because
Speaker 1: of y'all c R T TV that I don't need
Speaker 1: and don't have the space for now. I want to
Speaker 1: buy this retro tink. And now if I'm another person
Speaker 1: asking about Clark, can I expense this, He's especially gonna
Speaker 1: say no. No.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's like, well, no, we all need it, and
Speaker 4: then everyone gets it a rising tide, right, yes.
Speaker 3: Sure with all the ships ships ship be Reagan was
Speaker 3: talking about retro tinks for.
Speaker 1: Sure, totally. That's that's one hundred percent what Reagan was
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 4: Reagan thing. I thought it was like a communist.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's very much a capitalism, trickle down economics things.
Speaker 4: Com we all do this together, all of our ships
Speaker 4: will be raised. But it seems like the opposite.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Before I used to think it was a vibes based thing,
Speaker 1: but now.
Speaker 3: It's like, how it's okay that the rich are rising,
Speaker 3: it's kind of make the poor people rise to correct.
Speaker 3: We've discovered this over and over and.
Speaker 2: I let's go edit the top banner here in chat
Speaker 2: to say Jan's leaving. As soon as I clicked it,
Speaker 2: I believe Nikki had already done.
Speaker 3: Exactly that job.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit this button. My god, Okay, I should
Speaker 1: not have things on a random folder instead, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hit this all right. Video game, I think.
Speaker 3: We found our news.
Speaker 1: Alright, video games. I actually have played one, and it
Speaker 1: is one that was the big game of last week. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: we might talk about in the news. Perhaps Assassin's Creed
Speaker 1: shadows Dan Greb. You two talked about this at length
Speaker 1: last week on the podcast. I suggest folks go check
Speaker 1: that out if you want to hear their initial takes
Speaker 1: and impressions. I'm only two or three hours in, and
Speaker 1: the last Assassin's Creed that I really enjoyed was Assassin's
Speaker 1: Creed to Brotherhood. Yeah, and let me tell y'all, I
Speaker 1: am digging the crap out of this even though I'm
Speaker 1: so early. And for whatever reason, I never quite clicked
Speaker 1: with Ghost of Tsushima. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: Maybe I just found it too pretty and I just
Speaker 1: needed some like a little bit of jank or a
Speaker 1: little bit of like mindless tasks.
Speaker 3: And that's see Jan's younger than us. He needs things
Speaker 3: to be ugly.
Speaker 4: You can crank up those scan lines, brother, Yeah there
Speaker 4: you go.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, back lark, could I anyway? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I I'm really digging this, and ID I guess
Speaker 1: I kind of got the rug pulled from underneath me
Speaker 1: because I was under the assumption that this would kind
Speaker 1: of be more like Assassin's Creed Syndicate, where the two
Speaker 1: different characters are more prominent in terms of like switching
Speaker 1: back and forth of like all right, you gotta go
Speaker 1: be the brother now, now you gotta go be the sister,
Speaker 1: or you can switch at any time. And now I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm gonna be nowa for a bit. Oh
Speaker 1: that's Jill, okay. And then I'm just thinking about all
Speaker 1: of the outrage that was taking place all over and
Speaker 1: still is on the internet, and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you guys are fucking dweeds.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: It was just such a like a nothing right, like
Speaker 2: they got mad over nothing, big surprise, here we are again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got mad over nothing before the game even
Speaker 1: fucking came out, You fucking dumbshits. Anyway, that being said,
Speaker 1: the introduction to yos K. I thought he was a
Speaker 1: fucking Badassah.
Speaker 4: Right away, they give you that like R two square
Speaker 4: like three hundred kick thing, and it's like, ah, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: and you do get off him pretty quick. And I
Speaker 4: have not gone back to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just got back to the point where I'm
Speaker 2: back to him.
Speaker 3: So it's like it takes a long long time. I think.
Speaker 3: I think for me it was nine hours or something
Speaker 3: like that, and I haven't played much more. So yeah,
Speaker 3: to play a whole video game before you got back
Speaker 3: to him, basically.
Speaker 2: Yes, And it's I mean, I think it kind of
Speaker 2: is everything everyone was saying.
Speaker 3: I think it's a combination factors.
Speaker 2: I think they probably did like pull back a little
Speaker 2: bit from like his introduction like and gave more time
Speaker 2: with Nowe maybe just to like avoid criticism even if.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of it was bad faith. But
Speaker 3: I think also he just was an afterthought.
Speaker 2: Like I think it was we have Nawey who is
Speaker 2: the ninja, and that's where all the like we're gonna
Speaker 2: have all our fun innovation here. And then for someone
Speaker 2: who just wants to go in there and wreck house,
Speaker 2: here is this really tall guy in Japan just beating
Speaker 2: everybody up. It's it is like an alternative, but it
Speaker 2: also is just like less in the weeds of figuring
Speaker 2: out the Assassin's Creed system, because you could just go
Speaker 2: in there and beat anyone up by punching them or
Speaker 2: do the doing the three hundred kick.
Speaker 4: Can he climb? I think so, like he can like
Speaker 4: scale like a whole like temple like she can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if it's as elegant. I think
Speaker 3: so god, Like I said when I got back to me,
Speaker 3: it still has the beat. I know. It's a different
Speaker 3: play style, but still an Assassin's Creed game. You gotta
Speaker 3: be able to climb a building and jump into.
Speaker 2: They're saying no and chat no he cannot. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean very It is like very different in a lot of.
Speaker 4: Ways, and you have to like it's like, okay, now
Speaker 4: I'm on the dude section. I have to go through
Speaker 4: you know, his story before I can go back to Now.
Speaker 3: I like, I just got back to them, so I'm
Speaker 3: not played with them at all.
Speaker 4: Really, Yeah, I just wonder to GTA five style, like
Speaker 4: you know, switch back and forth, or if it's like
Speaker 4: story based moments or whatever the option. Yet I think you.
Speaker 2: Can like go back to your h Q and choose,
Speaker 2: because I think that's what we saw Sean do, and
Speaker 2: then Seawan chose to go back with Nowe and just
Speaker 2: continue with her story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the small bit I've played so far with Nowe
Speaker 1: makes me think that I might really enjoy Stealth. I
Speaker 1: didn't as like a younger gamer, I guess, but like
Speaker 1: now just like waiting for the right moment and sequence
Speaker 1: to pop off so I can just off a bunch
Speaker 1: of dudes. And it makes me want to go back
Speaker 1: because I've heard people clamoring for an Assassin's Creed set
Speaker 1: in Japan or like a Stealth game set in Japan
Speaker 1: for forever because of the Tenshoe series. And I never
Speaker 1: checked out the Tenshu series. Now I was wondering, do
Speaker 1: y'all think or do the people listening at home?
Speaker 2: Do the Tenshoe games hold up jas There's gotta be
Speaker 2: some Tinshue games that like. I played the first Tinshoe
Speaker 2: and loved it. But that's you know, it's from soft right,
Speaker 2: so at least it's it's interesting cookies, you know, I
Speaker 2: make up things all the time. But they were definitely
Speaker 2: involved with Shoe early on. That's why they made sick
Speaker 2: or they were going to they originally going to.
Speaker 1: And sorry I doubted you.
Speaker 3: I don't blame you. It's worth always double checking.
Speaker 4: I used to rent ten Shoot, and I really liked
Speaker 4: the idea of like, I'm just gonna throw rice balls
Speaker 4: off a roof and when a guy can't help it,
Speaker 4: youth off the ground, I'm gonna go down and stab him.
Speaker 4: But I always got caught every single time.
Speaker 1: I'm both people in that equation, you know.
Speaker 4: In San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Yeah, related, They were related enough. Jeff accounts and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: What I said, Yeah, they like quite as a choir
Speaker 2: was the main developer.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, are you back in the day. I
Speaker 1: never really played that much Tenshu.
Speaker 3: I think I rented one of them and thought it
Speaker 3: was kind of neat, but I think it seemed maybe
Speaker 3: at that point a little overwhelming to me.
Speaker 2: I see, I think the first Tensho is probably worth
Speaker 2: just like looking at as a point of curiosity.
Speaker 1: Now to continue down the curiosity train, I do kind
Speaker 1: of want to circle back to an older splinter Cell game, which,
Speaker 1: oh sure, I don't know why. I just want to
Speaker 1: hide in the shadows. Maybe that's how I feel right now.
Speaker 3: I always liked the saying the words Pandora Tomorrow together.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, that's a good subtitle. It sounds like
Speaker 3: a Steven Stagall movie. And he's positive, Jan, Doorra Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 4: Wait, which one had the co op mode? Because there's
Speaker 4: a mode.
Speaker 1: That the TV mode?
Speaker 3: Is that what you're like?
Speaker 4: No Spy versus Marks was like early Xbox Live.
Speaker 2: Want to try I've never tried spices versus Marks. I
Speaker 2: want to do it so bad.
Speaker 4: Wait, so Conviction had the co op one? Jan, I
Speaker 4: would one hundred percent do co op splinter cell.
Speaker 1: Of you don't.
Speaker 3: Conviction is the one that's basically just a third person.
Speaker 3: I love him.
Speaker 4: That's the only one I really like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, imagine, want to do it one hundred Dan, let's
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 4: I'm writing this down, Yes, I say.
Speaker 3: Confiction is that the one I played through and I
Speaker 3: barely remember a thing about except the way it would
Speaker 3: write like giant mission objectives on the walls.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right, Oh that was I thought that was kind of cool,
Speaker 1: the co op splinter cell mode. The two Sam Fisher's
Speaker 1: they had different night vision colors, right, I think?
Speaker 4: So, what was blue or something I did with Kayla
Speaker 4: when she was visiting once. Yeah, super fun. We did
Speaker 4: it a split screen. Could you still do it online today?
Speaker 4: Because like I do this Monday with you, we could
Speaker 4: do parse.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, yeah, we have to. We'll parsec it
Speaker 3: and we'll just run Yeah, I want to.
Speaker 4: It's bard well, that'd be ideal if we can.
Speaker 2: If it's backward compatible, just do that clearly. But if
Speaker 2: it's not, we could just run it on in an
Speaker 2: emulator on PARSEK and everyone parsecond and will be fine.
Speaker 1: Let me tell y'all, since I had to go into
Speaker 1: the office before UPF, I was playing Thug Pro completely
Speaker 1: through parsek. Oh really remoting straight into my home computer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, PARSK is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, free plug for PARSK fantastic. It's actually how half
Speaker 1: of the ship works around here now.
Speaker 4: It is backwards compatible convictions. Oh okay, okay, ship jan.
Speaker 1: Go okay, okay. Yeah, I gotta I gotta get my
Speaker 1: ducks in a row for that, but I would love
Speaker 1: to do that. If anyone has any other modern stealth
Speaker 1: games that they recommend. I kind of liked a Plague's Tale,
Speaker 1: but the rats just kind of made me too squeamish.
Speaker 1: If you're a hit Man. Oh yeah. The thing is,
Speaker 1: I don't play Hitman like a stealth game. It's just
Speaker 1: like a Monty Python film.
Speaker 4: For me, Solid.
Speaker 1: Five one of the greatest games of all time. But again,
Speaker 1: I don't play that as a stealth game. I just
Speaker 1: share that as like a weird action film where I
Speaker 1: can command my dog to poop. I wish I could
Speaker 1: do that in real life. Anyway. Speaking about thug pro
Speaker 1: Dan Riker, you have had the Skating Bug because you
Speaker 1: checked out Disney Extreme Skate Adventure.
Speaker 3: Checked it out, check it out?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no, I didn't know what the fuck you
Speaker 4: were talking about, girl, and he brought it up, and
Speaker 4: then I was like, there's no way, it's actually the
Speaker 4: Tony Hawk Engine and sure enough. Yeah. I streamed that
Speaker 4: over the weekend and it's just yeah, you can pick
Speaker 4: like Buzz Lightyear or Woody or whatever, or jungle Book Kid.
Speaker 4: But I was just there's like shoot children in it.
Speaker 4: They're like won a contest, and people were telling me
Speaker 4: that those are the best characters, and so I picked one.
Speaker 4: I gave night vision goggles like Sam Fisher and cool
Speaker 4: flame shirts and a skull mask and made him a
Speaker 4: real cool, badass kid. Skating around, uh, delivering ring tones
Speaker 4: the mister Nokia delivering McDonald's Like there were like polygonal
Speaker 4: rotating ps two McDonald's fries and quarter pounders and stuff,
Speaker 4: which made me really happy. It's just a fucking Tony
Speaker 4: Hawk four game with like Disney characters and stuff.
Speaker 2: Now Andy's room level, which we played in Thug Pro.
Speaker 2: It like is a good skateboarding.
Speaker 1: Fantastic Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3: Like after we after I showed it to you on
Speaker 3: that I've talked about.
Speaker 1: This game many many times since I've known you all you're.
Speaker 3: Thinking brought up the specifically said Dan, you should play this.
Speaker 1: When we played it, told Grub.
Speaker 4: Brought it up. I think you you might have chimed in,
Speaker 4: but yeah, it's yeah. So it's like there's like a
Speaker 4: Huboard's like are you starting this like city thing to go?
Speaker 4: Do you want to go to the Jungle Book place?
Speaker 4: Do you want to go to uh the Tarzan place?
Speaker 4: Do you want to go to Andy's room?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: And yeah, it's it's fun. There's like a little army
Speaker 4: men in the toy story area giving you a quests
Speaker 4: and stuff. It's just a secret Tony Hawk game on
Speaker 4: the p S two.
Speaker 3: Okay, what what what?
Speaker 2: What's the best skateboarding game that wasn't the Tony Hawk's
Speaker 2: pro Skary grind Session?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Is a grind session? That is that? The Sony one
Speaker 3: that was Sony It's just like, yeah, PS one, we're
Speaker 3: gonna make our own Tony Hawk thing. And what was
Speaker 3: Konami's Okay, that was skate Evolution and have metal gear
Speaker 3: snake in it, right or something like that.
Speaker 2: People in trying to say skate I do mean like
Speaker 2: the Tony clones. There was a lot of Tonyak clones.
Speaker 3: I think people really like.
Speaker 1: That because there's like that inline skate one that line
Speaker 1: aggressive end line. You like that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, There's there's Matt alpham Is basically just Tony Hawk
Speaker 4: with a bike.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, there's the scooters one with the scooters me
Speaker 1: Razor scooters or yeah, there was all. Well, if we're
Speaker 1: going off the Tony Hawk clones, there's the Kelly Slater one, right,
Speaker 1: so weird.
Speaker 3: I tried playing that a year ago and it's where
Speaker 3: it has all these like interstitial like documentary videos between
Speaker 3: things that have like this aggressive surfer vibe to them.
Speaker 3: Is what I would say, Like, you know, the game
Speaker 3: itself is bizarre because it's you know, it's kind of
Speaker 3: Tony Hawk. Obviously, surfing in a wave is very different.
Speaker 3: It's much more rigid and specific what you have to do.
Speaker 3: It's kind of hard to get a grasp on it.
Speaker 3: It's weird, it exists.
Speaker 1: We want to talk about weird. There was also Wakeboarding
Speaker 1: Unleashed featuring Sean Murray.
Speaker 4: Sean, that's not the Red does Shawn White?
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, No, that's Sean White. You're thinking I played
Speaker 3: that skateboard game at like a million conferences. I assume
Speaker 3: it actually came out at something. It was the de
Speaker 3: commanded the demo.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't jive with me too much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I brought this up like I had to
Speaker 2: be on this show like two weeks ago. But Johnny
Speaker 2: Moseley's Mad Tricks where he's like, what if it snowed
Speaker 2: in San Francisco, it's stuck in my head forever. I
Speaker 2: don't think I've ever actually played it. I've just seen
Speaker 2: that one clip of him.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's time.
Speaker 2: All right, Well let's make it happen. We should play
Speaker 2: a bunch of these is actually what I'm getting at.
Speaker 4: We should have more of these. I used to tell
Speaker 4: myself that too extreme was good. Oh no, it's not.
Speaker 4: It's not good. Was it one ext there's one extreme,
Speaker 4: two extreme and three extreme? Or is one extreme? It
Speaker 4: couldn't have just been called one extreme? Right?
Speaker 1: We are you talking about like X games?
Speaker 2: The first one it was called one extreme, the number
Speaker 2: one an extreme.
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't they just call it extreme? And then two extreme?
Speaker 4: Did they know that's weird?
Speaker 1: They knew you're ready, it's not crazy immediately.
Speaker 4: Two extreme is not great.
Speaker 1: It's extreme related in the same vein as all these
Speaker 1: other extreme games. Downhill Domination, I just need to shout
Speaker 1: out that game again. Oh yeah, that was great, so
Speaker 1: fucking cool.
Speaker 3: Dreams the one with street luging, Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could pick It's like a Diddy Kong racing.
Speaker 4: You could like skateboard, bike or street luge. I want
Speaker 4: to say, yeah, and you gotta beat wiz Pig insane.
Speaker 1: Should we have skate Week, sure, yeah, grind session.
Speaker 3: I mean you haven't put in a new skate deck.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we should time out skate week for a
Speaker 1: week where you can't do blight Club. So we'll do
Speaker 1: Delight Club with Tony Hawk Ride.
Speaker 4: Okay, I have the controller.
Speaker 3: Wait what, who's going to be delighted by? What are
Speaker 3: we talking about?
Speaker 1: Delight?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not a delight. That's a spike club.
Speaker 3: It's just going to be a blike club game sometime probably.
Speaker 1: Do you like Tony Hawk Ride? I don't know. We
Speaker 1: had a board at the office.
Speaker 4: Fucking terrible.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: There's an exemple the video of that pit bull playing it.
Speaker 1: Okay, somewhere on a hard drive buried in the Phantom office.
Speaker 1: His old footage that I made Gershman get on to
Speaker 1: a green screen on top of an Apple box with
Speaker 1: the Tony hawk Ride controller or the h the Jeff
Speaker 1: Gersmond pro Skater intro. That's one of my prost.
Speaker 2: He did a Christ there for one of the bits, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a shoot Christ there.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, let's see. Uh speaking about Disney extreme
Speaker 1: that is I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: That is my favorite thing about Jesus Christ. It's the
Speaker 2: Christ there. I just like, that's the coolest skateboard drink
Speaker 2: you can do. Thank you Jesus for that.
Speaker 1: Not the compassion to the poor, but it was a work.
Speaker 1: We can't do this right now, do maternal Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: Favorite games you can't do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought that you thought this was a shoot.
Speaker 3: You're you're so concerned about it if he ate corn
Speaker 3: or not.
Speaker 4: Well, I think there was probably a shoot dude at
Speaker 4: some point, But I just don't believe all the water
Speaker 4: water and.
Speaker 3: Doom Maternal that's a shooting video game.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: Jeff and I have a game club over on our
Speaker 3: like discord for our stuff, and right now we are
Speaker 3: playing through Doom Maternal. Seems timely with Doom the DARKI
Speaker 3: just coming out. And you know, I played this game
Speaker 3: when it came out and I liked it, but I
Speaker 3: did fall off a relatively quick for some reason. Like
Speaker 3: I will say, I remember back then thinking, boy, these.
Speaker 1: Levels are long.
Speaker 3: I don't know why that would be a problem, but
Speaker 3: it feels like a problem, especially in a game like
Speaker 3: this that's very you know, kind of high strong. It
Speaker 3: can't be stressful. I also got bullied by my chata
Speaker 3: to playing it on Ultra violence.
Speaker 1: So it's oh, pretty hard.
Speaker 4: Oh, because I've been watching you play it, I didn't
Speaker 4: realize I was on Ultra violin.
Speaker 3: It's it is fun that way because it is like
Speaker 3: a good challenge, but you know, it is like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like it's a taxing game. So there's something about
Speaker 3: the ninety minute levels sometimes where it's just like, oh man,
Speaker 3: we're still we're still just going through this same level.
Speaker 3: But boy, it is just very good when you get
Speaker 3: into the flow of things, right, I mean, it's just
Speaker 3: like it's predecessor. It's such the antidote what had to
Speaker 3: what have become those shooting gallery games of look down
Speaker 3: the scope, auto lock onto something. You get hit high
Speaker 3: behind cover, so your health free gens. Right, It's like,
Speaker 3: no this when you got.
Speaker 1: To keep moving.
Speaker 3: You gotta be swapping weapons constantly because some are better
Speaker 3: against different people. And you're sort of constantly worrying about Ammo.
Speaker 3: And then you're doing the chainsaw to get AMMO. You're
Speaker 3: doing the flamethrower to get armor, the glory kills to
Speaker 3: get health. It's just such a very very good flow
Speaker 3: going on there. And you know what, I like the
Speaker 3: first person platforming. I'm always under you kind of. I'm
Speaker 3: a sick go for that stuff. I grew up on
Speaker 3: Jumping Flash too, and I love Mir's Edge, you know,
Speaker 3: metch My Prime. Any any game of first person platforming,
Speaker 3: I know that is disgusting to some people.
Speaker 1: I like that shit. I'm good at it. I could
Speaker 1: first person platform with That's why I was so good
Speaker 1: at me on White, Jeff, I was in my element
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I'm ring there with you.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I've never played this, and I'm like, all
Speaker 2: the complaint is always there's too much of that stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm like, that sounds pretty good to me. So I'm
Speaker 2: excited that you're playing this and it's convinced me I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do the same.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Mike, but you didn't exist in my head
Speaker 1: yet when Neon White came out.
Speaker 3: I know it's okay, but I was very good at it, Jat,
Speaker 3: and I want you to know and be proud of me.
Speaker 1: You know what. I am proud of you, just like
Speaker 1: I am proud of Jeff Grubb. Checking out Mother three.
Speaker 2: I'm playing Mother three on my game Boy Advance. Well
Speaker 2: it's a ambernick and it's good. It's like playing a
Speaker 2: card for Yeah. I've never even played Earthbound. Really, I've
Speaker 2: started a couple of times, so I'm starting with Mother three,
Speaker 2: which is dumb and stupid, but I like it.
Speaker 3: So Mother three is basically sequel to Earthbound.
Speaker 2: They were originally making it for the sixty four d
Speaker 2: D and I remember those screenshots and magazines and then
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, we're canceling that we're making for the
Speaker 2: Game Boy Advance. It was like, okay, whatever, And I
Speaker 2: remember seeing images of him like this game looks really good,
Speaker 2: like the just visually it has a really good look,
Speaker 2: and that is definitely true now that I'm playing it.
Speaker 2: Every character has as their own like visual personality that
Speaker 2: really stands out, makes them feel fully formed. They have
Speaker 2: actual personalities when you're talking to them.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 2: And then there's you know, a lot of weird characters,
Speaker 2: but it really just feels like playing a cartoon or
Speaker 2: maybe a like a JRPG version of a LucasArts adventure game,
Speaker 2: where it's just like everybody does have such like like
Speaker 2: the movement is telling a story and like there's not a.
Speaker 3: Lot of huge blocks of dialogue.
Speaker 2: There's a few lines, and then everyone easy mooting really well,
Speaker 2: and then the combat is surprise, like has a cool
Speaker 2: surprise in it where I'm like, okay, is this just
Speaker 2: like Dragon Quest? Is it just you know, there's the
Speaker 2: enemy up there, I have my menu down here, and
Speaker 2: we're attacking it and so yeah, but guess what, there's
Speaker 2: this secret thing in here that you might accidentally discover
Speaker 2: like I did, where if you press the button at
Speaker 2: the right time, each enemy has a heartbeat, and if
Speaker 2: you time your button presses to their heartbeat, you can
Speaker 2: keep attacking.
Speaker 3: Them on and on and do like sixteen hit combos.
Speaker 2: And you have to like, it's not it is not
Speaker 2: very forgiving, and it doesn't like telegraph a lot of it,
Speaker 2: so you have to just kind of get on the
Speaker 2: game's wavelength. Now apparently I looked it up after this.
Speaker 2: There are ways to improve your ability to listen to
Speaker 2: their heartbeat, Like if you put an enemy to sleep,
Speaker 2: their heartbeat will become audible. Otherwise it's just silent, and
Speaker 2: you just have to like get in the groove with it.
Speaker 2: And I've been doing a lot of that because I
Speaker 2: don't have the sleep move yet, and I'm like getting
Speaker 2: pretty good where it's like I'm getting five six hit
Speaker 2: combos kind of every time now with my characters, and
Speaker 2: it's just because I'm like tapping my foot and I
Speaker 2: could kind of hear the beat in my head, so
Speaker 2: it's like keeping me super engaged. That's like my thing
Speaker 2: with grpgs. As soon as I begin to get a
Speaker 2: little disengaged from the combat, I lose steam. And the
Speaker 2: thing that has always helped is timed combat presses is
Speaker 2: enough for me to latch onto. And this is like
Speaker 2: one of the cooler implementations of that that I've seen.
Speaker 2: When you do it when as soon as you start
Speaker 2: up hitting the button on the second button press and
Speaker 2: you timed it correctly. Music No, it's actually pop up
Speaker 2: on the screen and you could see them circle around
Speaker 2: and like as you press them, they like, you know,
Speaker 2: burst as you get the timing right. It's just really
Speaker 2: well done. I think the biggest part of it, though,
Speaker 2: is I just really like looking at it. Game Boy
Speaker 2: Advance maybe has the most timeless looking games of all time,
Speaker 2: and Mother three is.
Speaker 3: Up there for sure. It just looks so nice. I'm
Speaker 3: really into what I played so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the GBA, I think that's where I
Speaker 1: cap out or talk where of my favorite Pokemon game
Speaker 1: looks like. I really liked how yeah Ruby and Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really thought that was really nice, as well as
Speaker 1: a bunch of other grpgs.
Speaker 2: More about that, just the English translation is done by fans.
Speaker 2: Fans you can have this skit off, but you can't
Speaker 2: turn it on done here right, Yeah. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 2: a fan translation and it's really well done. Uh, it's
Speaker 2: it feels like it could be done by Nintendo Treehouse.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of really good jokes.
Speaker 3: And stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It's I don't know, I've I've been popped a bunch
Speaker 2: of times and I kind of what I was expecting,
Speaker 2: very like vanilla, and so I was like very surprised
Speaker 2: by that. And that's like another thing that's keeping me going.
Speaker 2: It's just like, oh, the writing is really well done.
Speaker 4: Dumb question about Earthbound. So the first one, the Superintendent
Speaker 4: one that came out here, that is Mother one.
Speaker 3: No Mother one was in a Famicom slash any s
Speaker 3: game that we did not get.
Speaker 4: Is that the one we got on switch Online recently.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's called Earthbound Beginnings now here now, So that's yeah,
Speaker 3: EarthBound's mother Toot.
Speaker 4: And I Am three is the one that never gave
Speaker 4: me well, so we basically just got mother too.
Speaker 1: We just got more two.
Speaker 3: Now we have Mother one and I Earthbound was like
Speaker 3: my most started, never got that far into game for
Speaker 3: the longest time, going back to like you know, actually
Speaker 3: renting it in stores and whatnot, and only just like
Speaker 3: six months ago, I finally sat down and really worked
Speaker 3: my way through it, and it one million percent lived
Speaker 3: up to the hype.
Speaker 1: For me.
Speaker 3: It's one of those games where I beat and I
Speaker 3: just keep thinking about it constantly. I am now fully
Speaker 3: in the corner of all of the Earthbound freaks, like, oh,
Speaker 3: that game was great and special, and I really want
Speaker 3: to start playing Mother three sooner rather than later. There's
Speaker 3: always a part of me that's like, that title's gonna
Speaker 3: release that thing eventually, and I think they will, but
Speaker 3: I don't. There's no reason to think it's anytime soon still,
Speaker 3: and you know, it sounds like the fan translation is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I really play it right now now.
Speaker 4: I've started the original one, the Superintendent one that came
Speaker 4: out here several times because it's like, you know, it
Speaker 4: didn't have a lot of those trips like the fantasy
Speaker 4: RPG tropes that drive me away, so I thought maybe
Speaker 4: I'd like it, but like you might get like I
Speaker 4: fell off numerous times. I don't know if you're talking
Speaker 4: about the original or Mother three that you filled off
Speaker 4: of a bunch.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Earthbound. Earth Bound for Seri.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's the one that I've started like a few times.
Speaker 4: It's been over ten years since I tried it, But
Speaker 4: like Grub also, you know, I'm like you with a
Speaker 4: lot of those games where it's like, you know, I
Speaker 4: love all the paper Marios Mario, you know mariin Luigi
Speaker 4: RPG's because just give me a little has something to
Speaker 4: do in the fights. Do you think if I tried
Speaker 4: it now, I could come around on earth Bound?
Speaker 1: Maybe just do Mother three?
Speaker 3: Then, h yeah, maybe try Mother three? Actually I think
Speaker 3: you could.
Speaker 2: You just have to like kind of push through the
Speaker 2: very very early parts where they aren't giving you a
Speaker 2: lot of direction, just like be like, oh I if
Speaker 2: I start going in a direction that feels right, it
Speaker 2: probably is right. And then as long as you kind
Speaker 2: of stick to that and try to see what you
Speaker 2: can do in the combat, I think, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: there's a chance.
Speaker 3: It's also like I think it.
Speaker 2: Makes for a pretty good Colorado Night game, right, It's
Speaker 2: like you could just like it's being humorous and fun
Speaker 2: and it's fun to like explore, and again it looks
Speaker 2: really nice, like.
Speaker 3: Weird in a way that I like, Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3: Earthbound might be a superinteno one might be a harder
Speaker 3: cell thing because the combat is straightforward in a lot
Speaker 3: of ways.
Speaker 1: It's very just.
Speaker 3: It's this dragon quest turn based stuff. There's a fun
Speaker 3: mechanic with the health where if you take a hit,
Speaker 3: your health kind of rolls down, said just suddenly get subtracted.
Speaker 3: So if you act fast and heal, you can stop
Speaker 3: yourself from taking a killing blow.
Speaker 1: Things like that.
Speaker 4: Okay, but you know.
Speaker 3: Otherwise, it's a kind of a straightforward JR. In a
Speaker 3: ways that I really appreciate and in ways that maybe
Speaker 3: won't work for you.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Earth Earthbound zero was mother one that came out here
Speaker 3: on the Wei. Was that right? We you first, but
Speaker 3: it's on the It's just on the NISO now it
Speaker 3: is okay, yeah, well I forget where it was first,
Speaker 3: but it's on ANISO.
Speaker 1: This is this is where the PK fire Kid comes in.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, it's from Earthbound and then and then Lucas
Speaker 3: is from Mother three Smash Characters. That was like the
Speaker 3: first deep cut because he was the hitting character in
Speaker 3: Smash Brothers and in sixty four m Right, I was like, whoa,
Speaker 3: I can't believe ness is in here? And you know,
Speaker 3: you go from that to we're getting sore in the game. Basically,
Speaker 3: it's a straight line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a straight line speaking about one JPG and
Speaker 1: bringing up another. Mike Minatti, I really want to check
Speaker 1: this out. I'm excited to hear what you have to
Speaker 1: say about Zeno Blade Chronicles X or Charlie XCX.
Speaker 3: Charlie XCX only only a couple hours into this one.
Speaker 3: I kind of have a weird history with the Zeno
Speaker 3: Blade games. I've played all of them except for the
Speaker 3: original Zeno Bla Chronicles X.
Speaker 1: I play through them, but you.
Speaker 2: Ain't play them to give them bad reviews.
Speaker 3: Now, I always liked them, and then I'm always always like, oh,
Speaker 3: people really like these, and I kind of come away
Speaker 3: a little bit, Oh, I think these are a little overrated.
Speaker 3: Three was definitely the one I liked the most. Three
Speaker 3: I thought was very good. I think the third act
Speaker 3: was a little weak and long, and I have an
Speaker 3: overall problem with the series where I think the combat
Speaker 3: gets somehow gets complicated but not deep, where there's it's like,
Speaker 3: here's all the things you have to do, and isn't
Speaker 3: a lot of things, but it's always the same thing
Speaker 3: you do no matter who you're fighting a lot of
Speaker 3: the time, so I went to see how that feels like.
Speaker 3: The first impressions are, oh, this feels like this almost
Speaker 3: feels more like Zeno Blade two than actual Zeno Blake
Speaker 3: two does, because that game changed up a lot of
Speaker 3: things with the way things play and the way characters
Speaker 3: look and whatnot. This one definitely has a lot of
Speaker 3: Zeno Blake chronicles. Chronicles one vibes with the aesthetic with
Speaker 3: even just the UI. But I like the story set
Speaker 3: up right. You know, it's a bunch of people flat
Speaker 3: Earth on a giant space arc kind of a thing,
Speaker 3: and now we're on the new planet with the scary
Speaker 3: life forms and the aliens still want us, and I
Speaker 3: guess what your main character? There's two trumps right away,
Speaker 3: silent protagonists, Amnesia.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's game I can't remember, can't say where
Speaker 1: you're at? Yeah I do.
Speaker 3: It is like you make your character, So that's a
Speaker 3: big difference from the other games where you you know
Speaker 3: your Rex or your Shulk, and it's this very bespokeed character.
Speaker 3: And part of me is like, okay, maybe that means
Speaker 3: this game isn't going to be quite as cut scene
Speaker 3: heavy and of course, the beginning has still had plenty
Speaker 3: of cut scenes.
Speaker 1: I just expect that for any RPG, especially j RPG.
Speaker 3: There's just a lot of setup there. But so there's
Speaker 3: things that I do like. The music is great, and
Speaker 3: it always is in these games. I always give it
Speaker 3: up for that. I do like the setting. There's kind
Speaker 3: of some Fantasy Star vibes with the it's specific take
Speaker 3: on sci fi, and like, yeah, there's any play games
Speaker 3: I've had sci fi, sure, but the sci fi element
Speaker 3: seems stronger here.
Speaker 1: And I do like that.
Speaker 3: They've teased the giant mech robots that I think you
Speaker 3: get to fly in eventually. So basically, I'm kind I'm
Speaker 3: kind of in a how long to mech robot phase
Speaker 3: right now? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there I was watching the Game Spot show Thursdays
Speaker 1: on the Power Block and Jake Decker was talking about
Speaker 1: how it kind of is like a switcheroo because I
Speaker 1: don't believe the robots kick in Mike until forty or
Speaker 1: fifty hours into the game.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, ooh that's too long for a time.
Speaker 3: That's my other big I'm plant with these games. These
Speaker 3: games are always I think, way too long then they
Speaker 3: need to be they're always like eighty ninety hours long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's wild.
Speaker 3: I know, like Personas get Away with It, But boy,
Speaker 3: I don't think that many RPGs or JPGs need to
Speaker 3: be that long. And these games usually run out of
Speaker 3: juice for me at that point. I always like pushed
Speaker 3: myself through to the end. But I'm always like, boy,
Speaker 3: I wish this ended maybe thirty hours ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I given how slammed my schedule is lately, but
Speaker 1: my gaming preference is for maybe a GRPG. I would
Speaker 1: like maybe that I don't have to spend two weeks
Speaker 1: into a game. Maybe I just want to spend like
Speaker 1: a lovely afternoon or a Colorado night playing one. Perhaps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's why I like, you know, like before this,
Speaker 3: I was just playing Mario's Pitcross a Donkey Kong ninety four.
Speaker 1: That was, you know, a very good time.
Speaker 3: There was something about the hey, maybe this is the
Speaker 3: last game I play on I switch one. Aspect of it.
Speaker 3: That's sort of I don't know if it's neat. I
Speaker 3: guess I'm like, yeah, this game's kind of ugly. You know,
Speaker 3: it's a wee U game. I switched one. It's a
Speaker 3: definitive edition, but the switch isn't that much more powerful
Speaker 3: than a WEU, so I don't know. The texta is tiny, right,
Speaker 3: and just all these these the frame rates are not great,
Speaker 3: and I'm almost finding it kind of charming because I
Speaker 3: know I'm not going to be stuck with it from
Speaker 3: much one.
Speaker 1: Speaking about ugly looking games, Dan Reikert, you played one
Speaker 1: hell of a mess last week on Blike Club.
Speaker 4: I did no. The reason, yeah, and the reason I
Speaker 4: put it on here is because it didn't end at
Speaker 4: Blike Club. Well, I beat et for the Atari twenty
Speaker 4: six hundred on Blake Club, and now I am number
Speaker 4: ten on the Global speed Run Leader.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah player, oh yeahs on speedrun dot com. Get on it.
Speaker 4: My time's there.
Speaker 1: It's a legitimate one. I submitted it like a fucking
Speaker 1: week ago.
Speaker 4: I don't know who I need to like, what do
Speaker 4: you do if it's.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, the scene's just not active, there's nothing that
Speaker 3: many have come.
Speaker 4: On vitalize it. Yeah, I'm waiting.
Speaker 3: I gotta times up and then quit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got I beat the game in a minute
Speaker 4: forty one seconds or something like that, maybe minute forty four.
Speaker 4: But I should be nicely at number ten in the world.
Speaker 3: Speed running that game, it's gotta be a lot just
Speaker 3: hoping you get the right seed where some of the
Speaker 3: items are in geberal places.
Speaker 4: That's the thing is, like, there's two different kinds. There's
Speaker 4: the orange manipulation kind where if you hold in the
Speaker 4: button when you turn on the atari, you will guarantee
Speaker 4: the same item location. But that's not the one I wanted.
Speaker 4: I want to do the one where we actually have
Speaker 4: to like randomly run around and find the stuff for everything.
Speaker 4: And it's a lot of bullshit, a lot of just
Speaker 4: like you kind of have to get lucky at the
Speaker 4: end to make sure there's no FBI person or scientists
Speaker 4: on the screen when you call the ship. When the
Speaker 4: ship comes down, it's a it's a horseshit speed run
Speaker 4: to do, but it's very short, so I hit my
Speaker 4: head against it until I got on there.
Speaker 3: Cool, Jeff, you got a speed run one of your
Speaker 3: bad games. Now you're the only one. Yeah, Blues Brothers
Speaker 3: coming right up. Man, it's a play club game. Can
Speaker 3: you miss it? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So wait, Dan, after speed running it, how do you
Speaker 2: feel about ET Now?
Speaker 4: It's the worst game I've ever beaten.
Speaker 3: I'll do what I played through it after he did,
Speaker 3: and it was worse than I was expecting. Even after
Speaker 3: watching it play it. I can't believe how bad it
Speaker 3: feels to play that game. I cannot believe that game
Speaker 3: has a single defender, even if their motivation is pity
Speaker 3: for the band who had to make the game in
Speaker 3: a short type frame.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 3: You do not have to defend this terrible, awful video game.
Speaker 1: What is the studio that remade or like redid System
Speaker 1: Shock recently, not Dive Night Dive has more important things
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 4: Don't listen to Great's zero.
Speaker 1: What if we have Championship edition of ET.
Speaker 3: Just just add a lot of neon like no.
Speaker 1: Maybe like EAT can do like a click bullet time
Speaker 1: drift around one of the kind of sounds all right
Speaker 1: to me. Et.
Speaker 3: Championship edish is an incredible idea.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, someone needs to make that and
Speaker 1: then cut me a check immediately. Jeff Grubb, you've been
Speaker 1: getting down in the dirt all over again with Reckfest.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This is out in early access now, and I think
Speaker 2: it's something we probably should try. I know the community
Speaker 2: like sad when we play Reckfest Reckfest two.
Speaker 3: It's very good.
Speaker 2: It's got the the you know, the damage modeling that
Speaker 2: I find very fascinating, where it's cool to see cars
Speaker 2: crumple and to see the wheel beginning to like wobble
Speaker 2: really hard, and it's like, yeah, this thing's about to break.
Speaker 2: And then you go around a turn and that wheel
Speaker 2: just goes flying off, and now you're down on just
Speaker 2: not even the rim, like whatever's on beneath the rim,
Speaker 2: and so turning becomes very difficult, and it just like
Speaker 2: looks better than it ever did in Reckfest one, which
Speaker 2: was already a really good looking game. You know, this
Speaker 2: is a demolition derby racing game, so it's more about
Speaker 2: you know, spectacular spectacular res and getting points for like
Speaker 2: ramming into your opponents and things like that than just
Speaker 2: exclusively winning the race. But then, you know, the racing
Speaker 2: model itself also feels really good and it's got all
Speaker 2: the things you want, power sliding and you know, kind
Speaker 2: of drifting behind or drafting behind characters and things like that.
Speaker 2: But overall it is still very early.
Speaker 3: Access it is, and not optimized at all.
Speaker 2: At least, you know, it was running thirty frames per
Speaker 2: second on high settings, not even the ultra settings on
Speaker 2: the fifty eighty. So I think it's probably a ways
Speaker 2: off from being a game that you can really recommend
Speaker 2: to people wholeheartedly. But I definitely had fun playing Well
Speaker 2: what is there so far? Went online a little bit
Speaker 2: and that was just, you know, kind of nonsense because
Speaker 2: it really is just everybody crushing into one another, and
Speaker 2: you know, the single player mode is not very robust.
Speaker 3: It is just quick race. That's it so far. Again
Speaker 3: early access, and the whole game is meant to be
Speaker 3: played multiplayer.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm I am into it, but it may
Speaker 2: it did make me want to like maybe check out
Speaker 2: BM BMD and BMG.
Speaker 3: X xxx bmx xxx exactly. I want to check that out. Finally,
Speaker 3: a horny video game.
Speaker 2: No BM beam G dot Drive, which is have you
Speaker 2: ever seen those tiktoks where like it's clearly a video game,
Speaker 2: but it like kind of looks like a real car
Speaker 2: and they're like, here's what happens when a Ford F
Speaker 2: one runs.
Speaker 3: Into a wall.
Speaker 1: Yes, I really like this me too.
Speaker 2: All of those are done in bamang Dot Drove cool,
Speaker 2: and so I'm like, I should go check that out
Speaker 2: because it has the super realistic physics modeling of damage
Speaker 2: and stuff at that point, Hey, get what's going on? Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, anyway, Reckfest two is pretty good.
Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna go deal with a human.
Speaker 1: Being speaking about Reckfest and cars getting wrecked. I did
Speaker 1: see a cyber truck go over a speed bump yesterday,
Speaker 1: and then the car cyber It kind of did because
Speaker 1: the cyber truck. I don't know how this person was
Speaker 1: trying to go over a speedbump. Generally I will slowly
Speaker 1: drive over one. Yeah, this person decided to take it
Speaker 1: at an angle, and then he got stuck.
Speaker 4: They don't have like an inspector gadget wheels that can
Speaker 4: go up.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have a lot of anything in
Speaker 1: those cars, Dan, Yeah, very stupid. Could you play Mario
Speaker 1: Karten those or something?
Speaker 4: They put Stardow Valley on it at one point.
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cyberpunk is on him as well. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 3: wonder so cool Dan.
Speaker 1: Last shoot game on the list here, Snatcher. Yeah. Uh
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Adeo Kajima is a game developer. He's been around for
Speaker 4: a long time and did you know before Middle Year
Speaker 4: Solid he made a game called Snatcher and I played
Speaker 4: it for the Sega CD and let me tell you
Speaker 4: I booted that guy up and uh, it's like, wow,
Speaker 4: this is a for ninety four, this is cinematic, this
Speaker 4: is fucking cool. Verry Blade Runner influences on a sleeve.
Speaker 4: The music kicked ass. It was such such such a
Speaker 4: good intro, and I was like, all right, shit, I
Speaker 4: can't believe it took me this long to play it.
Speaker 4: And then I took control and you're like talking to
Speaker 4: someone and it's like talk, investigate, ask, Oh it's.
Speaker 1: An adventure game. Yeah, and I love this shit.
Speaker 4: So and then I stopped playing it. But it was
Speaker 4: really cool up until that point.
Speaker 3: What were you expecting going? Because I mean that is.
Speaker 4: I don't I just thought I wanted to stylish Kadima
Speaker 4: cinematic stuff, and it was all that until you just
Speaker 4: pick stuff from him into you and then it wasn't
Speaker 4: a video game, so I stopp playing.
Speaker 3: That's a video game still, Actually, video game video games
Speaker 3: could be.
Speaker 4: That way if you want them to be that way,
Speaker 4: but I don't.
Speaker 3: Okay, So there's a part of me that's not shocked
Speaker 3: that you don't like a Kajima game that's talkie and
Speaker 3: is a genre you don't like. But you also say
Speaker 3: constantly you don't like stealth games. I Melker Saw, but
Speaker 3: is a stealth game that's talking and from Kajima, So
Speaker 3: part of me doesn't necessarily understand that the.
Speaker 4: Stay I will take stealth like, look, I'm controlling character,
Speaker 4: I'm running around, I'm snapping next I'm like, even though
Speaker 4: I'm bad at stealth, i am doing cool stuff in
Speaker 4: Meddle Year solid. Selecting talking things from menu is not
Speaker 4: cool stuff to me, So I just had to back
Speaker 4: out of that.
Speaker 3: There's good stuff in there, though I definitely want to
Speaker 3: Snatcher sounds like way up my own.
Speaker 1: It'll probably be like, well, I like Metal Gearsalid One
Speaker 1: of Three a lot.
Speaker 3: It might not be my favorite Kajima game, but I
Speaker 3: bet I would appreciate Snatcher and Police Knots, which I
Speaker 3: think is pretty much the same style of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I also want to check out Police Knots just
Speaker 1: because vibes yeah. All right, Before we go to Bricky Break,
Speaker 1: Nikki and I had a little impromptu, unsanctioned lights out
Speaker 1: GDCGB meet up last Thursday. Shouts out to everyone that
Speaker 1: was able to attend and stop by. There is this
Speaker 1: one person though, that showed up. It was very sweaty.
Speaker 1: He ran really hot, and he just spoke very fast,
Speaker 1: and he looked like he had a penchant for perhaps
Speaker 1: wearing a robe and sitting on a floor. And I
Speaker 1: just made the assumption that he really loved dogs.
Speaker 4: Shining.
Speaker 1: I think his name was like Mattias, Matthias Rory, I
Speaker 1: think interesting. And good old Roar Dog saw that I
Speaker 1: was getting into Magic and Rory. Forever the Enabler gave
Speaker 1: me a play matt and then two Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings Magic the Gallery shouts out to good old roar Dog.
Speaker 1: Thankfully he did not fart in my vicinity this time,
Speaker 1: but even if he did, I'm sorry I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been able to hear it because it was a big place.
Speaker 1: Forever the wild Card love you.
Speaker 3: Real quick.
Speaker 2: Just before we move on from games for good, Damn.
Speaker 2: You played a bunch of those Xbox Live Arcade games. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I gotta say, like I I was looking for
Speaker 2: my Xbox three sixty that whole time I m the
Speaker 2: controller because I'm like, well, not all that stuff is
Speaker 2: going to be backward compatibil.
Speaker 3: All of it was backward compatible. You played all of
Speaker 3: that on Xbox Series X.
Speaker 4: Thing I played on that stream was backwards. I played
Speaker 4: all that on the Series X. There were ones that
Speaker 4: I wanted to play that were not on there. Sadly,
Speaker 4: there was not the Method Man Sour Patch Kids Capcom game.
Speaker 4: There was not Way of the Dog, the Snoop Dogg game,
Speaker 4: Bionic Commando Rearmed was not on there.
Speaker 3: That's okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there are there's yeah, there's just got to be
Speaker 1: on Steam though, right, Rearmed. I hope so that there's
Speaker 1: a toy that Castlevania game. Y'all finished the stream with, Yeah, weird,
Speaker 1: that is crazy.
Speaker 4: You see the whole fucking thing with all the enemies
Speaker 4: and the boss shooting a beam across the whole stage,
Speaker 4: like yeah wild, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, either way, that I just forgot how good that
Speaker 2: backward compatibility stuff. Boys, they did so much Like the
Speaker 2: fact that so many those Xbox XBLA games did work
Speaker 2: was really cool.
Speaker 4: And I really appreciate that because it's like there are
Speaker 4: certain things like I never really played Max Pain back
Speaker 4: in the day, and it's like, oh shit, those are
Speaker 4: backwards compatible and they run way better on the Series X,
Speaker 4: Like you wanna play Mercenaries Playground Destruction that is awesome
Speaker 4: on a Series X, like it really like looks good,
Speaker 4: runs good like. I really do like.
Speaker 3: How you know what else is great with backwards compatibility
Speaker 3: and the frame boosting and all that stuff. What's that
Speaker 3: the Mirror's Edge that's really good on there?
Speaker 1: Well? I got to do what an Xbox now, you
Speaker 1: know what?
Speaker 4: Okay, Jan, let's try to get splinter Cell co op
Speaker 4: working by Monday. If we hit any snags, or even
Speaker 4: if if I'm putting Mirror's Edge on the short list
Speaker 4: for the Recordslette on Monday, I'm writing that down. Okay,
Speaker 4: Mirror's Edge, backwards compati, I'm doing it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Bionic Commando and Bionic Commando re armed. You know they're
Speaker 2: both on Steam and bion A Commando two thousand and
Speaker 2: nine is very positive recent.
Speaker 3: Reviews for Really all Right, I'm gonna play that again.
Speaker 1: It's a good co op game too.
Speaker 4: Gonna say it again. The part where you say you're
Speaker 4: gonna fuck the worm Boss is the weirdest thing I've
Speaker 4: ever seen in a video game. Have I said this?
Speaker 1: I forgot that.
Speaker 4: It's the weirdest thing. The most I thought I was
Speaker 4: going crazy while playing a video game. I respect so
Speaker 4: much that they did that weird.
Speaker 3: Respect the fact that.
Speaker 4: It says it normal once and then if you die,
Speaker 4: you say you're gonna fuck the worm.
Speaker 3: It's so weird that I do respect it too.
Speaker 1: I guess I have to fuck it. Alright, folks, that
Speaker 1: does it for video game Talk. We're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick breaking break and we will be back with the
Speaker 1: video game news.
Speaker 4: My god, you gotta hit the button off.
Speaker 1: There, all right. It seems like that ary folder only
Speaker 1: has three sounds. Another time.
Speaker 4: Let's see what the button three times?
Speaker 1: Jeff Grubb?
Speaker 3: There it is, all right, I got some news for everybody.
Speaker 3: Let's do this thing.
Speaker 2: Are we getting to Nintendo directs in the next seven days?
Speaker 3: Uh, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, but there's definitely lots of smoke out there. Rumors
Speaker 2: suggest an emminent Nintendo Direct this week, preceding the switch
Speaker 2: to direct on April second, So a separate Nintendo Direct
Speaker 2: event for that or some sort of of Nintendo presentation.
Speaker 2: I guess it could be a partner direct or an
Speaker 2: indie show case, could be a bunch of different stuff.
Speaker 2: But you know, Andy Robinson was teasing this, and a
Speaker 2: prominent leaker from I think Brazil was leaking it, and
Speaker 2: now Nathan Hate saying something and I said from Brazil. Different, No,
Speaker 2: Andy Robinson in the UK, and then separate, I meant
Speaker 2: him a leaker in Brazil.
Speaker 3: And then I've heard.
Speaker 2: That there was something was supposed to happen back in
Speaker 2: February and it never happened for whatever reason. But they,
Speaker 2: you know, there were announcements that we're supposed to be
Speaker 2: a part of that that never happened.
Speaker 1: What world event happened in February event?
Speaker 2: I don't Yeah, it's possible as a world event, but
Speaker 2: I don't know that. Maybe they were worried about Jimmy
Speaker 2: Carter dying, Like you know, Nintendo's probably mostly just figuring
Speaker 2: out things because of the switch to.
Speaker 1: Is it is that when the pope entered the hospital,
Speaker 1: was it in February? Oh, maybe they worried about the pope.
Speaker 4: Dying on Black Club?
Speaker 3: That's right here.
Speaker 4: You stayed alive for the Blues Brothers.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Catholics, thank you. I uh, this is.
Speaker 3: Sorry, No, that's fine. That's just just the whole show. Now.
Speaker 2: This is if it's gonna happen, probably will be Thursday.
Speaker 2: I guess it could happen tomorrow, but I don't know
Speaker 2: what do we expect if a Nintendo Direct for the
Speaker 2: Switch one happens like six days before Switch days.
Speaker 4: Just give us all the little things that are going
Speaker 4: to come out before the you know, throughout the end
Speaker 4: of the year switch and then the big boys will
Speaker 4: be you next week.
Speaker 3: It's kind of weird because it's like, boy a partner direct.
Speaker 3: You gotta get people excited about third party Switch one
Speaker 3: games right now? Well, I mean what if it's not.
Speaker 2: I mean, because they have I believe Metroit Prime four
Speaker 2: that they need to talk about people.
Speaker 3: We're assuming they're saying that for switch to, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I still yeah, right, I don't know. Again, this is
Speaker 3: this is this is the old argument, Jeff. I think
Speaker 3: that is mostly getting prop shown off as a switch
Speaker 3: to game that's also coming on Switch one, and well then.
Speaker 2: Okay, then what about Metroit Prime two and three? Like
Speaker 2: they want to talk about that?
Speaker 1: Fantastic?
Speaker 3: I would love that, Yeah, like that would be great.
Speaker 3: But you know it's like, okay, like how much time?
Speaker 3: How much time do we have left until the Switch
Speaker 3: two comes out?
Speaker 1: At this point? Right? We don't know.
Speaker 3: They could just be a matter of months. So it's like, well,
Speaker 3: if we're going to be doing that stuff, we better
Speaker 3: you know, get on it. Here running out of time.
Speaker 2: I mean, like all the analysts think it'll be before
Speaker 2: like summer really gets started. Insider Gaming had a report
Speaker 2: today saying June. Other people have said late May. So
Speaker 2: you're right either way, there's not a lot of time
Speaker 2: based on what like all these rumors and expectations, you know,
Speaker 2: and even if it is coming out later this year,
Speaker 2: how much Nintendo really focused on stuff that isn't switched
Speaker 2: to It'll be weird.
Speaker 3: I mean that's why this whole thing feels weird.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think we talked last week Mike
Speaker 2: about uh they you know, could a Nintendo Direct get
Speaker 2: announced next week? It's like, no, they're not going to
Speaker 2: do one the week before they have the switch toothing. Well,
Speaker 2: now it sounds like they might.
Speaker 1: It's so it does weird stuff. Did you see? Uh
Speaker 1: they added Kirby and the Forgotten Land and.
Speaker 3: Nintendo Music, but only some of the tracks that are
Speaker 3: like the rest will come later this year.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: And there's just a new rumor coming out from Ecstasist,
Speaker 2: who is someone who's been had a lot of rumors recently,
Speaker 2: saying Metro Prime before Beyond isn't going to be featured
Speaker 2: at the Switch.
Speaker 3: To Direct next week. Okay, well then maybe you're right.
Speaker 3: Then what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Maybe it dance right and the game's just canceled, and
Speaker 2: then you'll.
Speaker 4: Critic Maybe I guess because John Cena turned heel and
Speaker 4: he was such a Metro.
Speaker 3: Defender, that's what it is. Yeah, x is x douse
Speaker 3: one s a good source. He's okay, Yeah, he's not bad.
Speaker 3: He said he's gotten a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm going to choose to believe he's a terrible.
Speaker 3: So because I want to see Metroid Prime four, well
Speaker 3: what did we see it through Prime four this week? Instead?
Speaker 1: That'd be crazy.
Speaker 4: I've decided I'm going to play. I'm gonna finally play
Speaker 4: the Metrod Primary Mastered. I'm gonna start that like this week,
Speaker 4: got in right, you had you had recently played it,
Speaker 4: like twenty twenty. I played through it on Dolphin with
Speaker 4: some Textra packs. But like I heard some of the
Speaker 4: good things with three masters in five years now, I'd
Speaker 4: like to go back to it, and then I would
Speaker 4: like that. I've never beat Metroid Prime two. I'd beat
Speaker 4: three and one a bunch, but I never even played
Speaker 4: so I did.
Speaker 1: Beat two good.
Speaker 3: I never beat two or three also, and I really
Speaker 3: want to, and I kind of have been just I've
Speaker 3: been waiting and hoping that they just released him on Switch.
Speaker 3: But you know, the closer coaster we get here to
Speaker 3: maybe bet our Prime four coming out, I might just
Speaker 3: pull out the Weiu.
Speaker 1: And my Metrod Prime trilogy and just do it that way.
Speaker 2: Well, I hey, we're not gonna have to wait long
Speaker 2: if this other direct is going to happen, and I
Speaker 2: don't know my expectations are.
Speaker 3: I have no idea. I really have no clue what
Speaker 3: to expect from this thing. I mean, I think if
Speaker 3: some of.
Speaker 2: This Partner stuff that I did hear about that was
Speaker 2: supposed to get announced happens, it'll be really weird, but
Speaker 2: not because of Nintendo stuff. You know, I can't seize
Speaker 2: it beyond that. But it's yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 2: to expect from Nintendo themselves at this thing.
Speaker 3: That's just my thing against like, oh much of Prime
Speaker 3: four at this direct before the big direct. It's like,
Speaker 3: if we're getting a direct this week, I am like, okay,
Speaker 3: partner direct or Indie direct, because I can't It's just
Speaker 3: weird that they would do a biggish switch one direct
Speaker 3: now maybe last month, but like a week or so
Speaker 3: before this thing. But again, Nintendo Weird company.
Speaker 1: They totally me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, jam police.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, maybe we see something completely out
Speaker 1: of left field. I mean, I don't want to invoke
Speaker 1: his name, but there's always Spoon Heaven, but perhaps we
Speaker 1: see more Tony OK pro Skater three and four stuff.
Speaker 4: They did it just about a video today with some gameplay,
Speaker 4: and it looks real good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, suburb Suburbia and that new water park level.
Speaker 4: Yes, it looks fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Spoon Heaven.
Speaker 3: It's like what Xbox was. The less people talk about
Speaker 3: that game again just recently, so pardon me, is like,
Speaker 3: maybe we see it Xbox, But Xbox they generally don't
Speaker 3: have many events except for that big Summer one and
Speaker 3: then you know whatever else they show. Yeah, they're the
Speaker 3: developer direct every once in a while. Yeah yeah, so
Speaker 3: maybe they'll maybe they won't do one of those, or
Speaker 3: in Heaven could just be a direct upon itself. I
Speaker 3: feel bad that I just say Spoon Heaven as a default,
Speaker 3: like some people like I have no idea what I'm
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 1: Hollioaw Night's silk song.
Speaker 4: What is that chat chat brings up a link between
Speaker 4: World's remaster? Oh my god, if they did, like link
Speaker 4: between Worlds or wind Waker or Twiler or like all
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 3: I would love that, right, I think, yeah, when Waker
Speaker 3: Trolley got to happen, I bet before that I would
Speaker 3: love the Between Worlds for sure.
Speaker 1: I love the game.
Speaker 3: That is a game where I think the three D
Speaker 3: is really cool though, and it will be a little
Speaker 3: bit of a farm, sure, but I'd rather do the
Speaker 3: work to fix it up permanent preseration. Maybe what's I
Speaker 3: actually play it? Like, I won't miss as much as
Speaker 3: I think I will.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's just say metro Prime four does show
Speaker 2: up at the direct this week.
Speaker 3: I mean, what are we think in a May release
Speaker 3: date for that?
Speaker 2: Like, is that is that possible so that it gets
Speaker 2: out before like if they're not associating with the switch to,
Speaker 2: you know, we are assuming things at this point. We're
Speaker 2: assuming that this new leak, which is in direct opposition
Speaker 2: to a leak we had a week or two ago
Speaker 2: that said Metterary Prime four is going to be a
Speaker 2: huge part of the switch To announcements. So we have
Speaker 2: both sides, But let's go with the one right now,
Speaker 2: that's the more recent one that says it's not going
Speaker 2: to be at the switch to. What like, what does
Speaker 2: that roll out look like if it's not going to
Speaker 2: be a hey, this is a switch to game in
Speaker 2: every way except for maybe just Switch two on the box.
Speaker 1: That's the quick victory lap, right, Like is the switch
Speaker 1: one not old?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And then I think it does have to come out
Speaker 2: in May, right because you know, you know, if we're
Speaker 2: really talking about in the summer, like we're gonna have
Speaker 2: the switch To by the time summer comes around, which
Speaker 2: is now what every analyst continues to say, Then well,
Speaker 2: yeah it has been either that.
Speaker 3: Or early June or something like that.
Speaker 2: And then you kind of like loosely associate it with
Speaker 2: switch I don't know, It's like.
Speaker 3: At that point, I just don't know why you don't
Speaker 3: dis release it when comes out and do like the
Speaker 3: Breath of the Wild thing, like, yeah, here's the we
Speaker 3: you versions. I used to switch one version also, and
Speaker 3: maybe it's even the same game, right maybe right, maybe
Speaker 3: that same game just works in both of them. At
Speaker 3: that point, I just don't know why you don't just
Speaker 3: wait the switch too much.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you're right.
Speaker 2: I think, like you know, Sam bu Nice is pointing
Speaker 2: out the thing that we all remember, Breath of the
Speaker 2: Wild launched simultaneously on both consoles.
Speaker 3: Twilight Princes is the same thing.
Speaker 2: So I think we were all assuming, like that's what
Speaker 2: this probably should look like. But maybe Nintendo's got different
Speaker 2: ideas this time.
Speaker 3: I don't try to print this. Actually, a little bit
Speaker 3: later on the GameCube, like a week or something, was
Speaker 3: that it was definitely we you know, yeah, it might
Speaker 3: have been a week, but essentially, yeah, both at the
Speaker 3: same time. They made like ten copies of that. Anyhow,
Speaker 3: there's a part of it it's like, do I need
Speaker 3: to be enough of a GameCube collector freak that I
Speaker 3: need Twilight on the GameCube.
Speaker 4: I'm a bigger GameCube fan than you, that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you know about the eject button? Dan? Oh? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: well all right, geez boy, I didn't think it'll just
Speaker 3: get dugged on for bringing this up.
Speaker 4: You get a yellow label one somewhere.
Speaker 3: It's fine. Twilet Princess is worth it because it's mirrored
Speaker 3: right on the Wei.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the HD version fixed that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. HD version on Wetastic yes, that's that's my real thing.
Speaker 3: It's like, if I want to play Twilight Princess, I'll
Speaker 3: play that Wei version and eventually that version is going
Speaker 3: to be on switch to or switch or something.
Speaker 4: Right, So yeah, at some point, having recently played wind
Speaker 4: Waker HD on a Steam Deck, that's it's still so
Speaker 4: fucking good.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Uh, speaking of Nintendo, the Seattle Mariners which used to
Speaker 2: own Griffy, Yeah, King Griffy and Nintendo used to own
Speaker 2: part of that team. That team is going to where
Speaker 2: Nintendo and switch To logos on their jerseys this season.
Speaker 2: So Nintendo's already got plans to market this thing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Oh do you think we could order food on our
Speaker 1: switch tos?
Speaker 3: I hope, so you could do that on.
Speaker 4: The Yeah, let's all go to a Mariner's game and
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 3: Okay, I would love that.
Speaker 2: I like baseball, yeah yeah, and baseball, you know, very
Speaker 2: popular in Japan. So like Shoho Tani shows up for
Speaker 2: a game with the Seattle Seattle Mariners and all Japan
Speaker 2: will be watching, and that'll be money very well spent for.
Speaker 1: Do you think that?
Speaker 3: I mean, does this make you think that a new
Speaker 3: Mario baseball game is even more likely, or do you
Speaker 3: think this part? I think so.
Speaker 2: You know, we've had the Mario Super Sluggers rumors for
Speaker 2: a while now, and I think we were like, Okay, well,
Speaker 2: wouldn't they try to time that to the beginning of
Speaker 2: the baseball season. And I think we kind of talked
Speaker 2: ourselves out of them needing to do that.
Speaker 1: Do y'all know how many copies of a Mario baseball
Speaker 1: game they would sell if they put sho he Otani
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 2: I should just n think that it's like almost a
Speaker 2: certainty that he is in the Mario Sluggers game if
Speaker 2: if if that game.
Speaker 1: Time will cry this is he already.
Speaker 3: Does maybe the shootest man so.
Speaker 4: They could say he's from like New Dunk City and
Speaker 4: that's why like, yeah.
Speaker 3: He's from Los Angeles, but yeah, or I forgot that
Speaker 3: part of the play chronicles X.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I thought it was so funny, but you know, like
Speaker 3: you're escaping Earth that blew up and they're like, and
Speaker 3: we made a new output, so we named it after
Speaker 3: the city from Earth that was based on. I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I was getting Paris, London, New York, and they're like
Speaker 3: New Los Angeles and for some reason that made me laugh.
Speaker 4: I loved it in the GameCube version of NBA Street
Speaker 4: Volume three where you Mario, Peach and Luigi and Me
Speaker 4: and Maharady played that a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 4: it's like, seemed like Carmelo Anthony dunk on Mario is
Speaker 4: the money is shit in the world. To me, it's
Speaker 4: good war that Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just doing a crossover with Mario is a pretty absurd
Speaker 3: thing to see New God of War coming this year.
Speaker 2: Maybe new God of War side story projects sit in
Speaker 2: Greece is reportedly coming this year.
Speaker 3: I heard about this. I talked about it on Blue Sky.
Speaker 2: I was trying to find out, Hey, what like there
Speaker 2: was all those rumors about a God of War Greek
Speaker 2: collection slash remaster around the time of the State of
Speaker 2: Play and that well, I heard it was not going
Speaker 2: to be in the State of Play, but if something
Speaker 2: God of War could happen around the anniversary. Now, nothing
Speaker 2: did happen around the anniversary. I don't know why that
Speaker 2: didn't happen, but it seems like something was supposed to
Speaker 2: happen and didn't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: So New God of War is a side project that
Speaker 2: is coming out this year, and it will start star
Speaker 2: the Greek Crados. So you know, I would probably set
Speaker 2: your expectations a little bit lower than like a Miles Morales.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, it quite a bit lower. Actually, it's kind
Speaker 3: of weird. I'm not I liked those games, especially back then.
Speaker 3: I don't know how much I'm hankering for a return
Speaker 3: to the Greek setting. They did a lot of those.
Speaker 3: There's the three numbered ones, and there were the three
Speaker 3: prequel ones, the two PSP ones we had, we had
Speaker 3: six of those. It's like, you know, I assume it's
Speaker 3: not gonna play like the old ones. It's gonna be
Speaker 3: it's gonna play like the new game. But we're gonna
Speaker 3: have edge Lord Kratos, which I was pretty tired of.
Speaker 1: Even a father Mike. What's wrong with being a father Mike?
Speaker 4: The ashes of his relatives.
Speaker 1: No, I'm saying I like.
Speaker 3: I like him when he's a father of not the
Speaker 3: daughter he killed in those games. He has the yanks
Speaker 3: about it, right, I don't know. I guess I should
Speaker 3: be happy about getting a new games Apartment's like, actually,
Speaker 3: I think I'd rather you just gave me a nice collection,
Speaker 3: or maybe a really like a very nice remaster remake
Speaker 3: of the first game.
Speaker 1: I just I have a lot of questions about.
Speaker 3: What a new Greek God of War game even looks, Like,
Speaker 3: what's it? What is it about? Because and we already
Speaker 3: had these three sequels that are in between coals, and
Speaker 3: now we're going back to that time frame to see
Speaker 3: him being mad at some other god or demi god. Again,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I should see it before I'm too
Speaker 3: judging on it.
Speaker 1: Greb, do you think it may be similar to Valhalla
Speaker 1: that was kind of like a roguelike, just said, in
Speaker 1: the Greek pantheon instead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like I'm I can only say so much
Speaker 2: more based on the information I was given. I know
Speaker 2: a bit more, but I'm just not allowed to talk
Speaker 2: about much more. And so again I would set your
Speaker 2: expect it's a different kind of game foundation kart racertcher, Okay,
Speaker 2: but put those two together and you got it. Whoa Yeah,
Speaker 2: kart racing Snatcher, like it's.
Speaker 4: A geometry war is like huh, okay, now we're talking.
Speaker 3: I either way.
Speaker 2: It's like I think that this is mostly them trying
Speaker 2: to find ways to get more God of War out
Speaker 2: there between Like what the core Sony Santa Monica is doing.
Speaker 2: You know, they've got a bunch of other stuff happening.
Speaker 2: This is not them necessarily.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, let's see here.
Speaker 2: Indiana Jones got its PS five release Date's coming out
Speaker 2: April seventeenth, so not even half a year later. I
Speaker 2: think it's a good amount of time. Like it's it
Speaker 2: came and it was very successful and people really liked
Speaker 2: that game, but it has already sort of left the
Speaker 2: public consciousness, and now it gets another chance to find
Speaker 2: a new audience on a console with even more people
Speaker 2: playing it. So I don't know, I think all everything
Speaker 2: about this seems like it's working.
Speaker 1: What do you Yeah, then you know it'll have another.
Speaker 3: At least boost some public consciousness when the DC comes
Speaker 3: out later this year, which is so happening.
Speaker 1: Damn good.
Speaker 3: I hope more people find this game. It's always so
Speaker 3: hard to get a sense of how successful an Xbox
Speaker 3: game is because of game Pass, because we only get
Speaker 3: the numbers that Microsoft wants us to have. You know,
Speaker 3: I think maybe this game did did well. It's I
Speaker 3: don't know, I think it's super popped off or anything
Speaker 3: like that. So yeah, I hope more people discuss check
Speaker 3: it out now that it's on PS.
Speaker 1: Five grub and everyone here. Do publishers factor in timed
Speaker 1: exclusivity when it comes to like sales numbers, like if
Speaker 1: the initial sales numbers not maybe if they're not necessarily
Speaker 1: the best, do they factor in like that second boom
Speaker 1: that I'll come in afterwards after that exclusivity window ends.
Speaker 1: I know that squeenets is very up in arms about that,
Speaker 1: but something with like Indiana.
Speaker 2: Jones, the only thing they count is the money. This
Speaker 2: is like I think we get bogged down and all
Speaker 2: kinds of different things when we're trying to figure out,
Speaker 2: like what's going on in the video game industry. The
Speaker 2: only thing these companies are ever counting is how much
Speaker 2: money did it cost and how much money did it make?
Speaker 2: Here is the P and L sheet, Here are the profits,
Speaker 2: here are the losses, And they don't at this At
Speaker 2: this point, there may be more mercenary about that than
Speaker 2: they've ever been, so like, yeah, a company like Microsoft
Speaker 2: is looking at it like, yeah, we can make more
Speaker 2: money in the profit column if we put it out
Speaker 2: on PlayStation and we don't care when we got that money,
Speaker 2: how we got that money. It is more money so yeah,
Speaker 2: they just put that all in a big bucket and say,
Speaker 2: this is the money that Indiana Jones made, and that's
Speaker 2: how it compares to the amount of money it costs
Speaker 2: to make Indiana Jones. Which number is bigger? And if
Speaker 2: the number on the left the profits are bigger, are they,
Speaker 2: like significantly bigger to the point where we can grow
Speaker 2: this team and maybe pay for some other projects for
Speaker 2: other teams, Then that's a real.
Speaker 3: Big success and we want to do more of it.
Speaker 3: And I think they're probably going to get there after
Speaker 3: the PlayStation launch with this game. For this all right,
Speaker 3: what is this about you being in an adventure game?
Speaker 1: What the hell?
Speaker 4: No before read only Memories, was.
Speaker 3: That the one there was? Oh that's right, yeah, voice
Speaker 3: for that?
Speaker 4: I did not know that was a snatcher thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a point and click sort of. Yeah, let
Speaker 3: me be the voice in your point of click eventure games.
Speaker 3: I actually like those games.
Speaker 4: Putting me in it and not match Noke's.
Speaker 2: Got a Mike's got a fun voice though, banks.
Speaker 3: How on my voices, my diaphragm. It's me video game character.
Speaker 3: I'm here to help you solve puzzles that you didn't
Speaker 3: ask for help.
Speaker 1: On Oh I got a good do you want to
Speaker 1: hear about my dead mother?
Speaker 3: Assassin's Creed Shadows is selling well.
Speaker 2: It's it's doing about as well as a lot of
Speaker 2: the recent games. It's just behind Valhalla is kind of
Speaker 2: what a lot of the analysis and you'd be soft
Speaker 2: as staying so, and Valhalla the best selling Assassin's Creed
Speaker 2: game ever, So this is probably gonna end up being
Speaker 2: the second best selling Assassin's Creed game. Uh, people are
Speaker 2: expecting it to do about six million.
Speaker 3: In the first week. You did two million and had
Speaker 3: two million players in.
Speaker 2: The first two days, and so yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: doing very well. It's probably just not the oh solution
Speaker 2: to all of the things that ale you be soft
Speaker 2: like gets very far away from that. But we it
Speaker 2: was kind of going to be.
Speaker 3: Impossible for it to be that silver bullet, right. It's again,
Speaker 3: it's just it's so hard to tell how well is
Speaker 3: well enough anymore? These stays right because you say second
Speaker 3: best launch, like, well, that's great, but I bet would
Speaker 3: be soft was probably like, well, the numbers should go
Speaker 3: up this, this should be the biggest launch.
Speaker 1: Why isn't it right?
Speaker 3: So even that, which sounds like a good thing. And you,
Speaker 3: you know, any reasonable person should be happy with that,
Speaker 3: just the way the systems work. I won't say the
Speaker 3: C word. You want to always have the biggest launch.
Speaker 3: What don't worry.
Speaker 2: Cuckolding is what he was trying to say there, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, let's see here, Mike's one of the worst
Speaker 2: games ever made could be coming to Steam. Uh, someone
Speaker 2: get got on the line. Big Rigs over the Road Racing,
Speaker 2: a notoriously terrible two thousand and three PC game, has
Speaker 2: appeared on steam dB with a potential Q two twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five release date. Developed by Stellar Stone and now
Speaker 2: possibly published by Marga Wright in Entertainment marjor right. Anyway,
Speaker 2: this used to be a game mill joint, So damn,
Speaker 2: why do you go pound the pavement, find out what's
Speaker 2: going on in your goddamn state over there.
Speaker 4: And see what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 3: God, I always thought we should play this one for
Speaker 3: for Blake Chlobely, But is this already too much of
Speaker 3: the Varro's thing?
Speaker 1: Can we really mean?
Speaker 4: I think that would have to be the blae master's call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't think so. It's
Speaker 2: a bad game. We could play it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna play all the bad games. Did I want
Speaker 3: to respect the Blake?
Speaker 2: Would care or want to be bothered by any of this?
Speaker 2: I don't think personally.
Speaker 4: We refer to them as the blae Master with proper respect.
Speaker 2: Hi, Alex, I respect you as a human man.
Speaker 3: I think, are you all right? You know, let me die,
Speaker 3: let me talk it back, mister Navarro.
Speaker 2: I think that it's okay if we play this game,
Speaker 2: but what we'll see I actually don't know.
Speaker 3: Does it fit well for anything other than a blightning round? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it would be definitely be a blightning round situation for sure.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying some of me think they're about this
Speaker 3: game is just the broken physics and the lack of collision.
Speaker 3: It's barely a game.
Speaker 1: Add an idea to the chalkboard. Uh, the next blightening
Speaker 1: round should be peripheral based games. I oh, this is
Speaker 1: just you, you Tony Hawk ride.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're just asking for Tony Hawk.
Speaker 3: He says. That's a delight though.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean there's got to be another peripheral there's
Speaker 1: a lot of bad it.
Speaker 4: You have to be.
Speaker 3: Going to play the Steel Battalion Connect game that's.
Speaker 4: Per I guess the connect is isn't that how long?
Speaker 1: To be?
Speaker 4: Way too long on that one? Like weird actually might
Speaker 4: have played pretty long? Yeah, like for a Connect game
Speaker 4: yet fifteen hours? Wait?
Speaker 1: Is that one called heavy armor?
Speaker 3: No? Wait?
Speaker 4: Yes, heavy armor, heavy armor? Sixteen hours of no, no,
Speaker 4: I'm going to break both of my arms.
Speaker 1: Well, just keep just keep in mind.
Speaker 3: Are the possibility of us giving you that one when
Speaker 3: next time you think about doing something shitty.
Speaker 2: I do like the idea of you having to have
Speaker 2: prosthetic arms you sort of to wave around with your
Speaker 2: shoulders to play, and connecting.
Speaker 1: You a razor and gizmo to be your arms. O. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, what were they thinking? Man?
Speaker 3: I like, do Maternal is like sixteen hours long? And
Speaker 3: I'm like, that's a little long for this. I like
Speaker 3: this game a lot, but I'm going to be exhausted
Speaker 3: by then. Sixteen hours for this fucking bad connected mechan Also, like.
Speaker 2: It's a game where you try to do things with
Speaker 2: the connect by like moving your hand over to a dial.
Speaker 3: The connect will struggle with that, so it's got to
Speaker 3: be longer.
Speaker 2: I wonder if that's sixteen hours factors in, like you
Speaker 2: trying to do something thirty times before it actually works.
Speaker 4: I belaved that at an Xbox pres event, and I
Speaker 4: remember it was like in one of those rooms that
Speaker 4: was like meant to work for the Connect and it was
Speaker 4: like a room that was built for Connect and I
Speaker 4: still couldn't get anything to work.
Speaker 3: That was the worst thing. That was like the biggest
Speaker 3: like thing against it. Like, here's these rooms built for
Speaker 3: the Connect, it still doesn't fuck you work. It's incredible
Speaker 3: they sold as many of those as they did and
Speaker 3: got tricked in to thinking that they had to bundle
Speaker 3: with the Xbox One because that thing was always a
Speaker 3: piece of sh the We.
Speaker 2: Did a lot to this industry, and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of them that maybe not so positive. Is all Steel
Speaker 2: Battalion or specifically this one from Soft? Or is this
Speaker 2: another one I made up?
Speaker 3: I can't remember this one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but no from Soft worked on the first Steel
Speaker 4: Battalion Okay, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: First Soft worked on this one as well, which is.
Speaker 3: Wild Just a clectic developer, all right, So anyway, Big
Speaker 3: Rigg's coming to Steam and Q two. I guess that's
Speaker 3: I'll try it. I never actually played this game. I've
Speaker 3: always been curious about it. I did see.
Speaker 2: I remember seeing Alex to Borrow play it at Awesome
Speaker 2: Games Done Quick and just putting that thing in reverse
Speaker 2: and having it fly across the train at light speed
Speaker 2: was an amazing thing.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever seen it in action.
Speaker 1: I don't know, uh, well, what's bad time, but I
Speaker 1: bet it's ugly, definitely that I can tell you what
Speaker 1: I bet is so bad about it the controls.
Speaker 3: I think that's the problem. Analog three D has been delayed.
Speaker 2: It's a bummer. Analogs upcoming FPGA Nintendo sixty four. The
Speaker 2: Analog three D has been delayed again. It is now
Speaker 2: expected to ship in July instead of the previously planned
Speaker 2: first quarter of twenty twenty five. Yeah, we were getting
Speaker 2: to the end of March and I was like, I
Speaker 2: bought one of those where is it animal?
Speaker 3: Well, here it is. It's coming out in July.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: It's still two hundred and.
Speaker 2: Fifty dollars, although I bet in that next wave they
Speaker 2: might raise the price because of tariffs.
Speaker 3: They haven't said much more about what's going on here.
Speaker 3: I wonder if it's.
Speaker 2: Just like sourcing parts actually is a little bit difficult
Speaker 2: for because there's a lot more FPGA shit happening these days,
Speaker 2: So when if they are just struggling and competing for
Speaker 2: each of those components, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just need some way to play a Nintendo sixty
Speaker 4: four games.
Speaker 2: Yeah we've been by, Yeah, we've been deprived so long,
Speaker 2: and so to have to wait a few more months
Speaker 2: before I could play anything on Nintendo sixty four is
Speaker 2: really painful.
Speaker 4: The honest question is, right now, in your house, how
Speaker 4: many devices do you think you can play Mario sixty four?
Speaker 4: Well on okay, I would say I'm guessing fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's like there are like there are ten handhelds
Speaker 2: at least that could. Then there is my phone that
Speaker 2: cuts yep, so that's eleven.
Speaker 4: I have like four actual N sixty four's that could
Speaker 4: play it.
Speaker 3: Okay, if I.
Speaker 2: Count all the PCs that are just turned on, not
Speaker 2: even the ones, not even the ones that are in
Speaker 2: this house, because there's like two under this table that could,
Speaker 2: but just the ones that are plugged in, yeah, that
Speaker 2: would be another three. So that's like fourteen. And then
Speaker 2: there's the actually there's the actual N sixty four. There
Speaker 2: is the mister I just got set up with before. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the other day, so yeah, I'm at like sixteen off
Speaker 2: the top of my head.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I don't think about maybe twenty to
Speaker 4: twenty five for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could probably get up there. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I've never defended my self. I am in a in
Speaker 3: the town sixty four mood.
Speaker 1: I think I will probably plug in mind. You're not allowed.
Speaker 3: You don't show that console enough respect.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm I'm gonna give another chance. Even finally doesn't.
Speaker 3: Suck ass, You're just gonna hurt me again. There find
Speaker 3: all my my cartridges, like from my child and stuff.
Speaker 3: I have some good ones. So I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: mood to play Jet War's Gemini. I think it's a
Speaker 3: weird kind of good weird back. I want to be
Speaker 3: the guy who beats Jet Force's Gemini on a stream.
Speaker 1: I think that, and I think I question Junior.
Speaker 3: Actually, I have gold and at some point I want
Speaker 3: to play Golden Eye and see how I really feel
Speaker 3: about it after I finish it and everything.
Speaker 4: It's fantastic.
Speaker 3: It's a good game.
Speaker 2: Oh that that did remind me me yelling at you.
Speaker 2: You're also not allowed to play Mother three with the
Speaker 2: fan translation because that's a mod and.
Speaker 1: You're not allow different okay, come on.
Speaker 5: Not allowed to use mods? No, I am not look
Speaker 5: obviously and white damn it one absolutes. Oh shit, now
Speaker 5: you cut to.
Speaker 3: The heart of me. How dare you all right?
Speaker 2: Last story here that I have Jeff Kelley and Christopher
Speaker 2: During announced new publication, The Game Business. Jeff Keey and
Speaker 2: Christopher Ring have launched The Game Business TGB, a new
Speaker 2: business publication.
Speaker 3: For the game and gaming industry.
Speaker 2: TGB will offer podcast, newsletters, and a physical event called
Speaker 2: The Game Business Live alongside Summer Game Fest. It aims
Speaker 2: to provide industry insights and foster discussions about the gaming
Speaker 2: business and its future. I'm not too surprised about this
Speaker 2: because maybe at once upon a time I worked at
Speaker 2: a place that often talked to you about maybe getting acquired.
Speaker 2: What is this competition for games being no, no, and
Speaker 2: so yeah, they're cool. I think seeing that they're going
Speaker 2: to do the live events, that also makes a lot
Speaker 2: of sense. I think Dring has had experience setting up
Speaker 2: those kinds of things and just doing it right alongside
Speaker 2: Summer Game Fest. That is going to kind of bring
Speaker 2: back Seek three in some ways.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: So this is a smart move and I really like drink.
Speaker 2: He is a smart, sharp guy, So looking forward to
Speaker 2: him being able to continue to do what he does best,
Speaker 2: which is just reporting on the gaming business, and Jeff
Speaker 2: Keeley should be a good partner for that as well.
Speaker 3: You know, there was some other stuff that popped off.
Speaker 3: Someone just messaged me about it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's the thing that we kind of knew
Speaker 2: what was happening, but now reports are getting confirmation from
Speaker 2: a bunch of different publishers. GTA six really is causing
Speaker 2: every major studio to think about not just like like
Speaker 2: holding back on announcing their release dates, but straight up
Speaker 2: delaying their games. They're now just like fully admitting this
Speaker 2: at least, you know, internally to one another enough that
Speaker 2: it can get reported. So if this weird has felt
Speaker 2: like if this year has felt weird about like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just not looking forward to a lot.
Speaker 2: There's just you know, are there games that I know
Speaker 2: are going to be on my top ten list at
Speaker 2: the end of the year, that I even know are
Speaker 2: coming out, Well, it's all just because of g t
Speaker 2: A six. People don't know when it's gonna happen, and
Speaker 2: it's causing a lot of strife for people who have
Speaker 2: to decide release.
Speaker 3: That sucks a lot for people pressed like myself that
Speaker 3: don't necessarily care that much about GT.
Speaker 1: No, I'll say it, I don't fucking care about GT
Speaker 1: A six, Give me everything else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's annoying that, Like, yeah, they're like, I won't
Speaker 3: be getting other games maybe because they're going to be
Speaker 3: afraid to launch within three months of GT six. At least,
Speaker 3: you know, Nintendo's not going to have that worry, So
Speaker 3: I'm not too worried about, like say, a Mario game
Speaker 3: coming out in December, but like the idea that Microsoft
Speaker 3: might not release you know, Perfect Dark, whatever have you
Speaker 3: this year because of that.
Speaker 1: It's annoying. So how is this grub supposed to save
Speaker 1: the games industry? If Rising Tide raises all ships?
Speaker 3: Right, that's what that's basically six.
Speaker 2: Darl Marx is really worried about GD six is launch? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that is the argument. That's the But Mike's right, that's
Speaker 2: what a lot of analysts are saying, Like it will
Speaker 2: generate more money coming into.
Speaker 3: Video games as a whole.
Speaker 2: Uh, and so the average will go up, right, But
Speaker 2: don't like looking at into the numbers beyond that, because
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, well, there's the haves and the haves
Speaker 2: not have nots. There's the averages going up because the
Speaker 2: people at the top just got a ton more money
Speaker 2: and everyone else is still fighting over scraps.
Speaker 3: It's a lot like our economic system and how it works.
Speaker 2: Overall, I think that GTA six has only ever had
Speaker 2: limited potential to really change the story of how people
Speaker 2: are feeling about gaming, and it's how it's prospering or not.
Speaker 2: It was going to help Take two, of course, but.
Speaker 1: It might help the consoles a bit because it's going
Speaker 1: to see Yes, it'll.
Speaker 3: Help the consoles a bit, but do we I don't.
Speaker 2: I just don't know if it's going to then lead
Speaker 2: to someone buying another game right alongside of it or
Speaker 2: even at the same time.
Speaker 3: Probably not, So I don't know.
Speaker 2: Switch to that will help, you know, that will There's
Speaker 2: a lot of different kinds of games that can thrive
Speaker 2: on a switch system, and switch to will kind of
Speaker 2: reignite that. So maybe between those two things it'll offset
Speaker 2: some of the stuff. But you know, those stories we're
Speaker 2: here coming out.
Speaker 3: Of GDC for the last little bit have been Yeah.
Speaker 2: Everyone's feeling really gloomy, like the survive to twenty five crowd.
Speaker 2: Everyone's like, yeah, we were just kind of telling ourselves
Speaker 2: that we're in twenty twenty five and it's not any better.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think we're gonna have to just kind
Speaker 2: of get over both of these things to switch to
Speaker 2: the G in GT six's launch and then actually sit
Speaker 2: down and figure out like, Okay, how can we make
Speaker 2: this industry better?
Speaker 3: And no one really knows at this point.
Speaker 2: All right, that does it for the news that I
Speaker 2: have in front of me, jan Ochoa, I'm handing this
Speaker 2: ship back over to you.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. Well, we're going to go take a quick bricky
Speaker 1: break and we will be back with the emails. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: all right, alright, alright. BombCast at GiantBomb dot com is
Speaker 1: the email addressed to send all of your lovely emails to.
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Speaker 1: Please do not be offended if your email does not
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Speaker 1: to a lovely user that sent it a very heartfelt email.
Speaker 1: I'll spare everyone the mushy gushiness, but appreciate you for
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Speaker 1: love human sentipede to love, as they call it in
Speaker 1: the biz ry. First email comes from John in Portugal.
Speaker 1: High Bombers. It's been three months since the Game Awards
Speaker 1: and I'm still mad at Jeff Keeley, not because of
Speaker 1: any award or game announcement, but because he did not
Speaker 1: bring a monk to sing the orchestra for metaphor. I
Speaker 1: stayed awake until six A on the belief that I
Speaker 1: would hear a monks sing that drop with a live orchestra,
Speaker 1: and when it didn't happen, I felt betrayed like never before. Anyway,
Speaker 1: what's the most angry slash disappointed you have been at
Speaker 1: a gaming show that's not related to an announcement and award. Personally,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I will ever be able to trust
Speaker 1: a heelly again. Yes, loving the new Power Block, Sincerely
Speaker 1: John from Portugal.
Speaker 3: Thanks John from Portugal.
Speaker 2: Instead of a monk, and I know he's dead, but
Speaker 2: he's just been in my head a lot recently for
Speaker 2: recent events on this website.
Speaker 3: What have they got ODIB Apart from a metaphor refontasio, I.
Speaker 4: Recently learned that there is a young dirty bastard that
Speaker 4: is odb's shoot son he's not an official member of
Speaker 4: the Wu Tank Lamb, but he's part of the Kilobes,
Speaker 4: so he's part of the affiliated Wu Tang family. But yes,
Speaker 4: young dirty Bastard he does the hair and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So we because I have like the same kind.
Speaker 3: Of crazy, like, oh baby, I like you like that?
Speaker 3: Can you do that?
Speaker 1: You do that?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like what I'm saying, I'm just like I'm gonna
Speaker 2: just go nuts and be insane.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's that's what I want.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I need to listen to young Dirty Bastard and see
Speaker 4: if he's any good.
Speaker 1: But Mike Manatti, do you know the song Fantasy by
Speaker 1: Mariah Carey? Maybe could you sing it? All right? Look
Speaker 1: at that controller dance holding?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Edwards, you know that thing feels way worse to
Speaker 3: hold than you're even a.
Speaker 4: Mad Absolutely, yes.
Speaker 1: God, we we need to do. Mike Manatti, you need
Speaker 1: to do both parts of Mariah Carey and ODB in Fantasy. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's the superior version of the song. Is it?
Speaker 4: Me and Mariah go back like babies and pass.
Speaker 3: Babies. I think that Jeff Keey should have gotten them
Speaker 3: up at Sweetham's to do the throat singing Okay, Oh,
Speaker 3: I think that'd be fun.
Speaker 1: I would have liked more muppets that one year. That's
Speaker 1: been true.
Speaker 4: The most mad I've been was when they would try
Speaker 4: to do like a you know, t bag jokes and
Speaker 4: just the most like low hanging Spike TV video game shows.
Speaker 4: But the worst effort that I still think about is, uh,
Speaker 4: they were going to show a trailer for SSX Deadly
Speaker 4: Descent at the time, and they brought some I don't
Speaker 4: know hot lady up to go to the mic ands
Speaker 4: like I love sex. Oh I read that wrong. It's
Speaker 4: s s X, And I was like, oh, fuck everything
Speaker 4: about this. This sucks so bad.
Speaker 3: I really did get mad at the whole.
Speaker 2: Joel McHale posted year like that was just it was
Speaker 2: just that it was awkward and bad.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, the Spike ones were rough, man, it was
Speaker 4: just a lot of like I just hate forced gamer
Speaker 4: humor stuff. It's just it's nubes. It's the nubes, you know, tone.
Speaker 3: I do you remember getting mad like I think the
Speaker 3: first Spike Game Awards was just the Madden that year,
Speaker 3: that one game of the Year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, upset me greatly. I'm mad that no one has
Speaker 1: ever been slimed at the Game Awards.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, yeah, I wonder who the most problematic person
Speaker 3: is who's been slimed?
Speaker 1: Like people?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure p Dido at some points.
Speaker 1: Hogan ever been slimed.
Speaker 4: He had to list of people who have been slimed Nickelodeon.
Speaker 2: Donald Rumsfeld probably, yeah.
Speaker 4: Let's see, Okay, this is just a Google thing here,
Speaker 4: Katy Perry, halle Berry, Harrison Ford, the Olsens, d J Colled,
Speaker 4: Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey. You know they've had their flirtations
Speaker 4: with a cancelation justin.
Speaker 3: Peter Beard, right, just weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Carrie, Well, Carrie had some periods of like
Speaker 4: some weird stuff. He was talking about John Carry, Uh,
Speaker 4: John Carry, John Carry slid.
Speaker 1: Oh did they ever slime? Bill Cosby, Uh, I.
Speaker 2: Think you got at the same time as Henry Kissinger.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, that makes sense Cosby slime. Just be
Speaker 3: careful with that Google search. Yeah, yeah, okay, maybe I
Speaker 3: should have added the word nicolo.
Speaker 4: Let's take the slim gimmick and let's bring it to
Speaker 4: our couch for Jeff.
Speaker 2: Like they couldn't copyright that. No, yeah, let's make it
Speaker 2: not your cheese.
Speaker 4: Then it's our own thing. Okay, sure, well not like
Speaker 4: boiling hot like Game of Thrones melt your head type stuff, but.
Speaker 1: Like, oh taste good.
Speaker 3: Sam Lake would love to be slimed Sam Sam like
Speaker 3: would be so down for that. Only ever slimed Sam Lake.
Speaker 3: Every Like we just rejected him and only him. We
Speaker 3: would never mention it.
Speaker 1: Like it's weird a nice suit. This is just like
Speaker 1: the sugar cubes bit from last year where he just
Speaker 1: handed Sam like a big container of sugar cubes that
Speaker 1: he held on to it for a good chow time.
Speaker 1: All right. Next email comes from itsy buns Hi gang.
Speaker 1: Can we please get an update from the alarmo users.
Speaker 1: You're still using it? Yeah, you're still enjoying it. Do
Speaker 1: you recommend it?
Speaker 3: Don't lie? Or well no, no, regardless, it's the best
Speaker 3: alarm clock I've ever had. I still use it like
Speaker 3: we had the new Retro Mario update. There's some kind
Speaker 3: of just os update, yes or something. I love my
Speaker 3: alarm Oh, I'm a giant fan of it. It's it's
Speaker 3: helped my sleeping schedule immensely.
Speaker 4: I use it as a clock I have. I said
Speaker 4: it to the new Mario thing and it's I don't
Speaker 4: really set alarms on it these days, but it is
Speaker 4: a nice little clock.
Speaker 2: They did update it with new features so you can
Speaker 2: do stuff like set different times you want to wake
Speaker 2: up on different days before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that be nice.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a little bit more useful as an alarm
Speaker 2: clock now, although I've always I've enjoyed using it.
Speaker 3: I like it a lot.
Speaker 4: So I update on Young Dirty Bastard from Cosbo in
Speaker 4: the chat. Younger Dirty Bastard has six children and seems
Speaker 4: fucking crazy, so he's following in his.
Speaker 3: Yeah cool fuck yeah tell yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh have you all seen how many children Nick Cannon has?
Speaker 3: No, I can't count.
Speaker 4: That's a lot for Jacob Pattoo.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, I would show up to Jacob Fotoo's
Speaker 1: kids' birthdays as like an ad. Of course you should
Speaker 1: do that. Did you have grandparents that also had like
Speaker 1: ten siblings or something? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mike, I had like seven eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'm making a lot more kids back then?
Speaker 1: Can I bring something up?
Speaker 4: This is a I was speaking of grandparents. I was
Speaker 4: texting my dad about this yesterday. The great mystery of
Speaker 4: my childhood and perhaps life is their VCR. So you know,
Speaker 4: growing up it was the VCR era of the nineties,
Speaker 4: and I would, you know, spend the night at my
Speaker 4: grandparents place a lot and they had the living room TV.
Speaker 4: That was the one room in the house that had
Speaker 4: a TV was the living room. Uh huh. You rent
Speaker 4: something from Blockbuster. You had to go into the library,
Speaker 4: so it was like down a hall far away from
Speaker 4: the living room thing, and then you had to turn
Speaker 4: into this room and then it was there's no TV
Speaker 4: in there. You had open up a dresser and there
Speaker 4: was a VCR in there and that's where you had
Speaker 4: to put the tape that would play way back in
Speaker 4: the living room.
Speaker 2: Oh, they had like central VCR like central air.
Speaker 4: It was like there's only one TV and one VCR
Speaker 4: and there were several rooms away from each other.
Speaker 1: Weird.
Speaker 4: That's fucking insane, right, And I said to my dad,
Speaker 4: was like why like neither of us know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wonder if I wonder if they just
Speaker 2: like had it installed by a professional, like Okay, we'll
Speaker 2: do this, and they have like an entercom system or
Speaker 2: something like that where the yeah, probably the same person
Speaker 2: set it up. Ands like let's just have a central
Speaker 2: system for all of your A V equipment here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a weird way.
Speaker 3: Tomorro Hussein logged in to chat just to say that
Speaker 3: alarmo is annoying.
Speaker 4: Uh, only if you have the alarm on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then all alarms are annoying. I yeah, it's
Speaker 3: an alarm.
Speaker 1: Oh I like.
Speaker 3: How which people don't like the alarm I didn't like
Speaker 3: didn't like it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a dunk.
Speaker 4: I think it looks great.
Speaker 1: Sam, Come on, y'all, Oh, this is good. People will
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 4: By the way, Sam, and the chat. If you want
Speaker 4: to see some Tam, stay tuned after this on the parable.
Speaker 3: That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna plug at the end, Daran. But he
Speaker 1: was right here.
Speaker 4: We just said, Tam, I was thought you were the
Speaker 4: Segway master.
Speaker 1: Next email fight fight fight. All right, let's see what
Speaker 1: magic eight ball of sounds. What does this say?
Speaker 3: Is that? The only thing it this one?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh? All right? Anyway? Uh. Pete in Connecticut
Speaker 1: Hey bomb cast Jane has alluded to or out right
Speaker 1: said that in the past he had used nicotine pouches.
Speaker 1: He was working on kicking an overall nicotine habit that
Speaker 1: he developed in his thirties for some fucking reason I
Speaker 1: used to be a smoker. They didn't write that I
Speaker 1: had just tortalized. I used to be a smoker, but
Speaker 1: stopped in my early twenties now late thirties. But had
Speaker 1: it started to dabble with nicotine pouches when they became popular.
Speaker 1: I've now started as an alternative to use nicotine toothpicks instead.
Speaker 1: They come in both nicotine or caffeine variety. So he
Speaker 1: switched back and forth. My question to you, is it
Speaker 1: more douchey or less douchey to walk around with a
Speaker 1: toothpick in your mouth versus packing a pouch in your
Speaker 1: lip let? Thank you for all you do. Peaton, Connecticut.
Speaker 3: Jeff Backlard does toothpick thing, and he is not a douchebag.
Speaker 3: I like toothpicks. Yeah, I like that toothpick. Look, maybe
Speaker 3: I just grew up in with too much eighties and
Speaker 3: early nineties media. Yeah you got a toothpick. You're a
Speaker 3: cool guy.
Speaker 2: I do feel like it's like insisting upon yourself a
Speaker 2: little bit, So I don't know if I feel like
Speaker 2: I could pull it off, I would feel yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: thank you for confirming that and making me more self
Speaker 2: conscious you.
Speaker 1: Be like a lollipop guy though.
Speaker 3: Okay, but I don't want to be suggestive either, So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: a big baby one.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, you got like a bonnet?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I seen or nicotine could possibly be transferred
Speaker 1: by a toothpick. I'll go find out, y'all.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be Homer Simpsons jan with eight hundred toothpicks
Speaker 4: in his mouth.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get what what's that horror movie?
Speaker 3: Guy?
Speaker 4: Uhhead?
Speaker 1: Like pinhead, I'm just gonna be pitted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nicketine tooth Oh yeah, you just acupuncture with nicotine toothpicks?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have always wanted to like flick a toothpick at someone.
Speaker 4: It's fun to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good move.
Speaker 4: Amazon says fifteen milligrams caffeine per pick. So forella, I'm
Speaker 4: holding a Baja Blast zero sugar and this is has
Speaker 4: a sixty eight and a can. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: a little less than a quarter of amountain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like how much is being transferred by just
Speaker 2: like well, you eat how you eat the toothpick?
Speaker 3: Of course? Well I eat all toothpicks, yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe that explains the sunflower seed situation from a couple.
Speaker 3: Of I forgot you don't talk about that. We don't
Speaker 3: talk about that.
Speaker 1: All right, all right? Right? You know power block there's
Speaker 1: new cannon involved.
Speaker 3: The power blockage more like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1: All right, there we go. Next email comes from Chris
Speaker 1: in Dayton, Ohio. Uh, this is a this is the
Speaker 1: long ones? Howeveryone strap in? Have you ever loved a
Speaker 1: game despite a large portion of it rubbing you the
Speaker 1: wrong way? For example, Monster Hunter? All have fantastic gameplay
Speaker 1: for different reasons. I love the feeling of swinging a
Speaker 1: giant weapon at these well designed, well rendered nightmare beasts.
Speaker 1: I would strike fear into the heart of anyone who
Speaker 1: would be doomed to share the world with them. However,
Speaker 1: the stores in these games are absolutely, irredeemably awful. Wild
Speaker 1: is the horst in that regard. Why would you let
Speaker 1: a child come with you on every hunt? Why is
Speaker 1: everyone so chipper when you save someone from a giant bird,
Speaker 1: scorpion oil monster? Why do they act as if they
Speaker 1: were barely inconvenienced by their mortal danger. The story seems
Speaker 1: like it would have some stakes, but all characters cheery
Speaker 1: ass attitudes towards everything just rubbs me entirely the wrong way.
Speaker 1: I can't even just skip all the cut scenes because
Speaker 1: they interrupt the gameplay with these walk and talk scenarios
Speaker 1: every mission. The tone of the gameplay portion of these
Speaker 1: games seems to directly clash with a tone of the
Speaker 1: story portion of the game. Granted, I'm only ten hours
Speaker 1: into it. Ten hours is a long time, so maybe
Speaker 1: it gets better.
Speaker 3: Probably you're not story I I actually just beat it
Speaker 3: and you're practically there. No, the story does not get
Speaker 3: any better.
Speaker 1: Because I remember other games in the series that I
Speaker 1: mentioned having the same tone. The opposite example, Gardens of
Speaker 1: the Galaxy gameplay is shallow and repetitive. There's zero challenge
Speaker 1: in any of the encounters. The combat has the depth
Speaker 1: of a puddle. The puzzles are all pretty simple. Anything
Speaker 1: that didn't involve story was to me an absolute snooze fest.
Speaker 1: But the realistic relationships between characters, hartful moments with the
Speaker 1: child in game in large, your narrative of the story
Speaker 1: gripped me in a way. If you have, I ranked
Speaker 1: it as one of my favorite games solely for the narrative,
Speaker 1: my opinion. Notwithstanding, have you folks ever had this type
Speaker 1: of relationship with a game. What's the game you love
Speaker 1: for gameplay but hated the story, or a game that
Speaker 1: you love for the story but hate the gameplay. Thanks
Speaker 1: Chris from Dane Ohio, PS Mike and Grubb King's Island
Speaker 1: receider point point.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We talked about Neon Wait earlier when I love
Speaker 3: the gameplay of that and like the story for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this story was just like these talking heads being kind
Speaker 3: of mem and trying to be funny, and I don't know,
Speaker 3: the vibe was just weird. It was a weird vibe
Speaker 3: in that.
Speaker 2: That's my thing with this question is if I am
Speaker 2: enjoying the gameplay and hate a story, I am ignoring
Speaker 2: the story in any way I can. If that means
Speaker 2: skipping the cut scenes, I'm skipping the cut scenes.
Speaker 3: If they have to play.
Speaker 2: I am not paying attention to them. And I'm it
Speaker 2: is not even phasing anymore. I am just like, okay,
Speaker 2: back to the gameplay, and I don't even know what
Speaker 2: just happened in the so it doesn't I take what
Speaker 2: I need and I leave what I don't.
Speaker 4: Hate The story is a strong term, but like with
Speaker 4: Death Stranding, the thing I really came around on was
Speaker 4: the gameplay. But it's weird because, like I think the
Speaker 4: story is total nonsense, but every time a cutscene did start,
Speaker 4: it's coming like all right, what are we doing here? Like,
Speaker 4: you know, it's fascinated by it, even though I think
Speaker 4: it just doesn't make any goddamn sense, you know, yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's not story. I still feel a little
Speaker 3: bit weird about Metal Gear Solid five and Quiet that's
Speaker 3: oh oh, weird character. And it's it's not even that
Speaker 3: you dresses sexy, that's fine, but like it's to go
Speaker 3: watch her take a shower and then she's in the
Speaker 3: ship with you and she literally just shoves her ass
Speaker 3: like in your face, kind of literally, And there was
Speaker 3: the whole Kojima like weird, Like it's not weird. You
Speaker 3: are all actually bad people for thinking it was weird
Speaker 3: justification of it, Like everything about Quiet, It is just.
Speaker 1: Kind of weird about that game.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your parts are near automata that I don't necessarily need.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, parts of that game, you know, like when
Speaker 1: they said fuck, yeah, that's right. Uh Fuga Melodies of Steel.
Speaker 1: For as much as throwing children into the soul can
Speaker 1: a is a major component, sometimes I just don't care
Speaker 1: about these little cat children. I just want to use
Speaker 1: their souls to defeat my enemies.
Speaker 4: Alright, Oh oh Prince of Persia the Lost Crown. Yes,
Speaker 4: I love everything about that game except for the story.
Speaker 4: That is just a nothing story there.
Speaker 1: See, I usually have a decent tolerance of stories. That
Speaker 1: one didn't bother me.
Speaker 3: That it didn't bother me.
Speaker 4: It wasn't actively. It was just like kind of nothing.
Speaker 4: I wasn't like actively like oh god, I hate this.
Speaker 4: It was just like, oh, this is doing nothing for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it didn't take anything away from me for sure.
Speaker 1: Uh. I was trying to think of Kingdom hearts fit
Speaker 1: in this mold. But no, it's a perfect game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: us no notes. We got a couple of questions from
Speaker 1: Travis and Fargo.
Speaker 2: Here he hurt me once? Can we trust him?
Speaker 1: Hey, smoke on the streets. Is that Travis has not
Speaker 1: been travy two time?
Speaker 3: He's been so sorry.
Speaker 1: We'll just well, we'll play off a couple. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: play a couple of questions. I would love to hear
Speaker 1: the GB Cruise, especially mister Manati Minati's opinion on what
Speaker 1: Disney movie has the best chance of actually being a
Speaker 1: good live action adaptation. Mm hmmm, uh, it's so weird.
Speaker 3: What's the best one so far? Is it the best one?
Speaker 3: As far as jungle Book?
Speaker 1: Jungle Book?
Speaker 4: Did they do in Aladdin one?
Speaker 1: Yes? Will Smith?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, Will Smith was the g.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it's terrible.
Speaker 3: I don't know if feels good.
Speaker 1: I eventually liked it, Okay, I say it.
Speaker 3: Atlantis probably makes the most sense because that was just
Speaker 3: sort of a pulpy adventure movie. Anyways, with all of them, though,
Speaker 3: like I think animation is such a good format already,
Speaker 3: and you could just be more creative in a laws
Speaker 3: with animation, because with live action movies, it's always this
Speaker 3: thing of well CG and live action look different. When
Speaker 3: things are animated, it's all just drawn. I sometimes they'll
Speaker 3: do three D elements and maybe that could be able
Speaker 3: to jaring, but things generally blend much better on animation,
Speaker 3: and you could do anything in animation basically for as
Speaker 3: much as doing anything else right, Like you want to
Speaker 3: have a giant robot character, that's not necessarily more difficult
Speaker 3: than having a tiny child character because it's just all animated.
Speaker 3: So it's like they can do it with all of them,
Speaker 3: and clearly they are, because they are just doing the
Speaker 3: fact that they even did Snowing seven jawars is absolutely
Speaker 3: wild and baffling. I think something like Leland's Stitch makes
Speaker 3: a little bit more sad.
Speaker 1: I just rewatched Lelo and Stitch, and it is. It
Speaker 1: holds up. It's absolutely endearing and amazing. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I need a live action of it.
Speaker 3: No, but I tek what Stitch is really popular and
Speaker 3: like super like right now, still very popular all night
Speaker 3: and if you nieces are very excited for that one,
Speaker 3: so I bet that. I bet that one's going to
Speaker 3: make a lot more money than this weird snow White
Speaker 3: one did. But yeah, like Atlantis probably makes sense. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to think of there's like, you know Atlantis.
Speaker 2: I thought you were saying Atlantis. Oh no, no, she's
Speaker 2: already live action, Mike. I don't know if you know
Speaker 2: the Suncing City Atlantis. It's like, yeah, like Once that
Speaker 2: mostly star humans, I think is what we should be
Speaker 2: looking for, not Once that star exclusively animals.
Speaker 3: That Ship and Dale movie was pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's not a live action remake, that's just.
Speaker 3: The live action reimagining. They animated characters.
Speaker 1: Two ideas here one, Let's do a Treasure Planet movie
Speaker 1: just because I really like that movie and it's already
Speaker 1: planet underciated. Uhu sub point with subpoint with with point
Speaker 1: number one. Have Tanner Buchanan from the Cobra Kai series
Speaker 1: be the main dude, Jim, I think his name is two.
Speaker 1: Here's how we save the Disney live action movie folks.
Speaker 1: Everyone sit down, everyone buckle up. Okay, right, here's what
Speaker 1: you do. People are upset about these live action now
Speaker 1: dan is actually shoot down. People are set about these
Speaker 1: live action movies. Right, some of them feel like, where's
Speaker 1: this going? This so unoriginal? But perhaps the road and
Speaker 1: the story we were trying to tell this whole time
Speaker 1: is that it was all about friendship. It's all about
Speaker 1: the friends that we're making along the way. And maybe
Speaker 1: we've been gatekeeping. Maybe we've been locked up by by
Speaker 1: keeping these movies in animated form, that we need to
Speaker 1: bring them to live action, and maybe we just need
Speaker 1: to unlock them, perhaps oh, with a key, and maybe
Speaker 1: we need to cut down these these doors, these locks,
Speaker 1: these gates with uh, not just a key but a
Speaker 1: key blade, say it or exactly.
Speaker 3: Jane, did you see the like animatic pilot of that further. Yeah, Jane,
Speaker 3: did you see the pilot for the cartoon?
Speaker 1: No? I did not. It's weird. It's weird anyway here Disney.
Speaker 1: You know how you fix this. Just do a Kingdom
Speaker 1: Heart's live action thing with with action. No, they'll give
Speaker 1: me a shoot. I'm sorry, I don't know. You can't
Speaker 1: follow me this far. I don't think we're writing a check.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I don't think could salt my friends at Disney. I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna tell them not to write the check.
Speaker 3: All right, Fine, we're going down the path. I can't
Speaker 3: follow jan.
Speaker 1: Well works. It couldn't co op.
Speaker 3: They're gonna ants it. You're gonna take your bugs life
Speaker 3: and they're gonna make an.
Speaker 1: An oh god, hell yeah, all right. Last email of
Speaker 1: the show comes from Brian in Lowell, Massachusetts, Hi BombCast. Recently,
Speaker 1: I have heard some of you, mainly Dan and Grubb
Speaker 1: wax poetic about VHS tapes of the past and their
Speaker 1: joys in playing them. Well, I am thirty seven years
Speaker 1: old with many fond memories of the VHS format. I
Speaker 1: shrugged off their nostalgia and nonsensical given the annoyances of
Speaker 1: rewinding and space needed for collecting Well that'll change this weekend,
Speaker 1: as my mother came to visit and brought with her
Speaker 1: a gift. She informed me that her boyfriend had found
Speaker 1: this while cleaning out his closet and wanted me to
Speaker 1: have it before handing me over a Star Wars Trilogy
Speaker 1: special letterbox Collector's edition. It's suddenly all made sense, and
Speaker 1: I am now trying to convince my wife that we
Speaker 1: can definitely fit a crt VHS combo into our nine
Speaker 1: hundred square foot apartment that also includes a dog into
Speaker 1: your kid. It's incredible how nostalgia for old things can
Speaker 1: create the happy chemicals in the brain. I think growing
Speaker 1: up with physical media has created a yearning for it
Speaker 1: to return, so cool question, are there any other physical
Speaker 1: media that you all are super into? Vinyl records are
Speaker 1: a big one that sticks out for me. Thanks for
Speaker 1: all you do. I'm a social worker, which can be
Speaker 1: a draining job with all going on into the world,
Speaker 1: but it's always nice to have you all provide some
Speaker 1: levity and enjoyment. Thanks Brian and Lowell Mass. Thanks Brian.
Speaker 3: I did get into vinyl because Jeff got me a
Speaker 3: record player for my birthday, and it's been fun because,
Speaker 3: like they released so many video games soundtracks on there,
Speaker 3: and just like the presentation of those other big art, Yeah,
Speaker 3: this big art, it's just like the vinyl itself is
Speaker 3: usually decorated, so it's just then you know, you play
Speaker 3: it and it sounds great, so there is something to that.
Speaker 3: Plus there is you know, you can do the thrift
Speaker 3: store dive too, and that aspect of it is also fun.
Speaker 3: So it's just a lot of fun stuff about collective.
Speaker 3: Other then obviously the old video games, which is both
Speaker 3: about like the collecting and also like, yeah, I like
Speaker 3: having the old hardware and plugging it into a retro
Speaker 3: take or whatever and still playing these games.
Speaker 1: I recently had to get rid of a bunch of
Speaker 1: old comic books just because they take up so much
Speaker 1: dang space. And I'm talking about like the long Boy
Speaker 1: boxes that are specifically built for comics, just because I
Speaker 1: wasn't reading them. I'm not interested in selling them at all,
Speaker 1: so I just gave them to a local library. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I would love to get into VHS tapes,
Speaker 1: but they just take up so much dang space.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a bunch of those VHS tapes when
Speaker 4: I got my CRT, and I don't think I'm gonna
Speaker 4: keep going down that hole because that will take a
Speaker 4: lot of space. Yeah, for me, it's probably like gaming
Speaker 4: magazines because that was the thing that just kind of
Speaker 4: got me in as a fan of games media, got
Speaker 4: me into the industry working in it. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: got like almost a whole round of Game Informer. I
Speaker 4: subscribe to the Video Game History Foundations, you know, mystery
Speaker 4: Box thing every month, so yeah, I just I like,
Speaker 4: like I know again thanks to the Video Game History
Speaker 4: Foundations are if you can like look at all this
Speaker 4: stuff online dury instantly now and search it. But like, boy,
Speaker 4: I did get so many video game magazines in the
Speaker 4: mail that it's so fun to just grab an old
Speaker 4: EGM about the Dreamcast launch and just like flip through it. Uh,
Speaker 4: just nothing will replicate that to me then having a
Speaker 4: magazine in my hands. So that's my thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a curiosity about like the stuff just
Speaker 2: to the side of VHS and even like Beta Max
Speaker 2: that like I want to get into like early HD VHS,
Speaker 2: which is a format that existed where they did HD
Speaker 2: video on VHS and they just they had it was
Speaker 2: like a different kind of magnetic strip in there or
Speaker 2: something like that, and video CDs, and there's a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of like weird formats that I want to like explore.
Speaker 2: But as soon as I start going down that route,
Speaker 2: it's like it becomes so expensive so fast.
Speaker 3: I always talk myself out of it. I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't need another money sinking and any.
Speaker 1: If you have a HD DVD drive for your Xbox
Speaker 1: three sixty no.
Speaker 4: I wanted my dad bottom HDDVD player at after they
Speaker 4: lost the war against Blu Ray, and it had already
Speaker 4: been said that they were a on there. It was
Speaker 4: way He went to Best Buy and it was way cheaper,
Speaker 4: and he wanted to get Planet Earth because he saw
Speaker 4: it on my HGTV and he's like, looks awesome, And
Speaker 4: so he went to best Buy and HDDVD players were
Speaker 4: like half the price of Blu Ray because they were
Speaker 4: already obsolete. And I told Dad. I was like, Dad,
Speaker 4: do not get this. It's already dead. He's like, it's cheaper,
Speaker 4: and I was like, they're not going to make any
Speaker 4: more disc for this, and he didn't care. So he
Speaker 4: still has an HDDVD player and rule, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, hell yeah. All right, that about does it
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Speaker 1: giant bomb dot com. Last week, BCR, we had Mike
Speaker 1: Drucker on the podcast crowned the Mount rushmore of First Levels,
Speaker 1: as well as talk about his new book. I believe
Speaker 1: it is called Good Game No Rematch, No No Rematch, Yes,
Speaker 1: lovely chat, awesome chat. Go check that out. There's also
Speaker 1: a link you purchase his book in the show notes
Speaker 1: of that. A lot of fun stuff popping off on
Speaker 1: the Power Block since since last BombCast. I particularly really
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that XBLA block yesterday.
Speaker 4: Oh that was fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah Yeah. Nicky and Sean GB kids checked out Star
Speaker 1: Fox Assault under Game yesterday. Also, John Luke and Jake
Speaker 1: Decker checked out the first couple hours of Adam Fall.
Speaker 1: If you're at all curious, I suggest you go peep
Speaker 1: that other bunch of other stuff popping off on the
Speaker 1: power Block this week as well. We're gonna have an
Speaker 1: earlier Blake Club I believe.
Speaker 4: Yes, waiting to see the details. I'm going to be
Speaker 4: recording voicemail ump Truck with Samoa Joe backstage at Dynamite tomorrow,
Speaker 4: So still working out the details on the room and
Speaker 4: the time and everything there that will be recorded. So basically,
Speaker 4: Blake Club will be starting early so I can get
Speaker 4: the Dynamite on time, So keep an eye out on it.
Speaker 4: Maybe like ten Pacific one Eastern we're probably looking to,
Speaker 4: but that's not confirmed yet, so we'll see. But Overgrub
Speaker 4: should be starting tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Over Grub should be starting tomorrow. Game break news for
Speaker 1: the rest of the week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, correct, mister Grub,
Speaker 1: that's right, We'll.
Speaker 2: Be back all the rest of the week, and then
Speaker 2: on Friday we're going to do UPF.
Speaker 3: Do we have a plan for UPFF? You posted a game,
Speaker 3: yeah that I forget what it was, Schedule one.
Speaker 4: Oh that's the Drug game.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, I kind of want to check out
Speaker 1: I kind of want to check out that PUBG tactical game.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sure, like I would like to see that
Speaker 1: Asometric one. I saw that next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we could try a bunch of stuff on
Speaker 3: on this UPF to a roundabout.
Speaker 4: Well, and Jane and I are going to strap on
Speaker 4: the goggles on Monday for our co ops splinter Cell.
Speaker 1: I need to find it at work. Oh. Actually, you
Speaker 1: know what's happening this Thursday, gentleman, after the Game Spot show,
Speaker 1: which I'm equally excited for. Uh, we will finally have
Speaker 1: Lucy Skull and Foams.
Speaker 3: Yeah we did it, everybody. Yeah, it took one quarter,
Speaker 3: but we got there.
Speaker 1: Time to pay for her crimes. Yes right, we'll have
Speaker 1: a bcr later this week and Game Spot after dark
Speaker 1: as well. But folks, and I believe Tam is going
Speaker 1: to stream The Last Berserker ah Ben Starr for that game. Yes,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, they are open critic.
Speaker 4: Like eighty one or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really good. Yeah for one of these that's like, uh,
Speaker 3: that's that's what the Pinocchio one day and everybody loves
Speaker 3: that game. Yeah, that's really good. Okay.
Speaker 1: In just a little bit after this though, we're going
Speaker 1: to be live premiering Tam and Lucy see in Japan.
Speaker 1: Turbo Shawn Sean mcdal has been doing a bunch of
Speaker 1: editing work on this Jimmy Jam. When Tim and Lucy
Speaker 1: had went over to Japan to check out Claire Obscure
Speaker 1: Expedition thirty three. They shot a bunch of footage, an
Speaker 1: interview with shue Hey Yoshida, as well as interviewing some
Speaker 1: devs on the game Keeep that we're gonna embed that
Speaker 1: into the Giant Bomb Chat. If you're watching live sets
Speaker 1: A premiere on YouTube at twelve noon Pacific time, So
Speaker 1: go go grab some popcorn in between, gentlemen. Anything else? No,
Speaker 1: we're good and.
Speaker 4: I on a they were fresh Game in Former socials today.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was hoping to talk about that today, but it
Speaker 4: looks like.
Speaker 2: Well they said they were going to talk about it today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So just keevin Ie on on game and former stuff.
Speaker 1: I will be magical soundboard. How will everyone's day be?
Speaker 3: Wo?
Speaker 1: That's bad? No, that's bad.
Speaker 4: Rings that's not good. Shoot?
Speaker 3: You know what though?
Speaker 2: If I imagine it's just Sonic losing his rings, it
Speaker 2: is good.
Speaker 1: Hell up, okay, Little Mulligan on that one. How will
Speaker 1: our day be? All right?
Speaker 3: All right? Good?
Speaker 1: That does it?
Speaker 3: Or another episode of.
Speaker 1: The Giant BombCast. He's been, he's been. Damn, he's been.
Speaker 1: Grub I've been. Jana, you at.
Speaker 3: Home, don't lose your rings.
Speaker 1: Hold on to them. Also wants it's heavy, loosey blood
Speaker 1: if you're listening to this. Later wants to listen to
Speaker 1: thug Bro last week. That was a fun time.
Speaker 3: It's GREATY gonna go. We're on Proissanta after this and
Speaker 3: then head to the stew.
Speaker 1: I love you hard. Come by thoughts are hard to me.