Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Monday for us, but still Tuesday for you.
Speaker 1: Welcome to December ninth. For us and for you, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and seventy. This
Speaker 1: week we're powered by beef, and not beef with each
Speaker 1: other or anyone, but beef products. That's right. The beefiest
Speaker 1: man in video games, our own co captain of the ship,
Speaker 1: Chef Grub.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a tea bone steak over here. Absolutely, you
Speaker 2: can never cook me, right, but I'm a big slab
Speaker 2: of meat, that's right.
Speaker 1: Speaking about big slabs of meat, we got the other
Speaker 1: mediast man in games media, Dan Rikert.
Speaker 3: I agree about the Grub beef.
Speaker 4: I was talking to Mike Maharty last night and Mike
Speaker 4: even gave it up that he thinks Grub might be
Speaker 4: able to take him.
Speaker 3: In a fight.
Speaker 4: He said he had that like Midwestern dad strength and stuff.
Speaker 2: And I want you to tell him this, that's the
Speaker 2: nicest thing anyone's ever said about me.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll let him. Thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I forgot to introduce myself. I'm the prime not the
Speaker 1: prime reb. I'm the Ribbi of this cast. Janichoa and
Speaker 1: the Bad boy of games media, he's got beef with
Speaker 1: beef itself, beef on beef on beef, MyH minati.
Speaker 5: Don't buy a rib roast everybody, that's that's a waste
Speaker 5: of money. Guys like some individual steaks. What kind of
Speaker 5: ribs y'all like? Is the pork ribs or beef ribs?
Speaker 5: Beef short ribs are incredible, but that's a very different
Speaker 5: experience than eating a slab of pork ribs.
Speaker 3: I don't like eating ribs.
Speaker 4: I don't I like eating the n of ribs because
Speaker 4: they don't have bones in them. Barbecue guys, I am
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna get my hands all messy. I'm not
Speaker 4: going to try to figure out how to get all
Speaker 4: the meat off the bone here. I want just meat
Speaker 4: I can eat.
Speaker 2: I'm very finicky about this sort of thing, and yet
Speaker 2: four ribs.
Speaker 3: I will do it. I really, I'll do it, getting messy,
Speaker 3: I'll eat in I really. I don't like this as
Speaker 3: a price.
Speaker 5: We come from the guy who wishes that the restaurant
Speaker 5: would cut a steak for him.
Speaker 4: I still do well, that's kind of what I do
Speaker 4: with burn in's, and burn ins are way better than ribs.
Speaker 4: If ribs are presented to me, I will eat them
Speaker 4: and I will enjoy them, but I will never order
Speaker 4: them when there are other more convenient out games on
Speaker 4: the menu.
Speaker 1: Do you have the same feeling with chicken wings?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I fucking started the entire Remember the damn Team Boneless
Speaker 4: thing from you.
Speaker 3: That was me and Tim Turry.
Speaker 4: We got into an argument at Game Informer about it,
Speaker 4: and I started tweeting a bunch about it. Then I
Speaker 4: started tweeting a bunch of wrestlers being like, hey, gang Grail,
Speaker 4: are you hashtag team boneless?
Speaker 3: And then fucking Miller, Craig Miller.
Speaker 4: Stole that she that was why the KFC acknowledged that
Speaker 4: I started.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 4: They sent Game in Form a whole bounty of their
Speaker 4: boneless chicken because my Team Boneless thing one, and the
Speaker 4: Colonel gave a.
Speaker 3: Back of the box.
Speaker 4: So Colonel the shot Colonel, Yeah, I've got to hear
Speaker 4: Airpcekater two.
Speaker 3: Look, this is literally on the back of Airport Skater two.
Speaker 4: The Colonel proudly welcomes Air Force Gator into the Colonel's
Speaker 4: army for his insatiable love of boneless chicken. That is,
Speaker 4: the colonel said that that is a shoot.
Speaker 1: Well, forget the other thing I was gonna ask you then, Dan,
Speaker 1: I don't know you can follow a team boneless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, I'm good with boneless chicken wings.
Speaker 5: Okay, boatless wings are way worse for you than normal
Speaker 5: wings though, right, oh are good for you? Well, they're
Speaker 5: worse because that threading is basically mostly fat. It's like,
Speaker 5: this is not like.
Speaker 3: Carrots versus lard, this is they're both just fried chicken.
Speaker 2: I worked at a wing place and I was like,
Speaker 2: I think I had some drink that was like clearly
Speaker 2: like oh, this is like some dieting thing, right and
Speaker 2: all the guy was a delivery guy, and I was
Speaker 2: sitting down eating my wings that I got on every ship,
Speaker 2: and they were like the regular wings, and they're like
Speaker 2: you're trying to lose weight, but you're still eating wings.
Speaker 3: It's literally like the worst thing you could be eating
Speaker 3: across the board in fried with food.
Speaker 5: But I still think I think fried with breading is
Speaker 5: worse than a thing fried without breading. Breading is just fat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are those kinds of sugar?
Speaker 1: What are those fries? They're not like Cajun fries, but
Speaker 1: it tastes like they have a breading to it. You
Speaker 1: want that Popeyes, No, not at Popeyes. Similar they're like
Speaker 1: cousins to the Popeye fries and you can only get
Speaker 1: them that like kind of like not shitty establishments, but
Speaker 1: like this is like a weird hole in the wall
Speaker 1: or it's like this is like hotel fries or something.
Speaker 4: I know what you're talking about. There's like a flaky
Speaker 4: outer crust to them. I think they're more like thicker
Speaker 4: like steak fried type gimmicks, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, they're the kinds of like you'll find
Speaker 2: the frozen food ale I.
Speaker 3: Think, yeah, sure, or Ida probably makes weir yeah.
Speaker 2: Or you know what I just I learned recently or
Speaker 2: Ida Oregon, Idaho. Yeah, that's where the potatoes they use
Speaker 2: for or Ida potato.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Get that fascinating?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, see folks who says you never learn anything
Speaker 1: from listening to a video game podcast? And some would
Speaker 1: say that this is the number one video game podcast
Speaker 1: on the internet.
Speaker 3: Many people are saying Many people are saying that.
Speaker 1: People are also saying, like, wow, this collection of four
Speaker 1: dudes behind microphones on a podcast. I think this might
Speaker 1: be the hottest and smartest group of them actually, right,
Speaker 1: many people agree. The Colonel is also saying this, it's
Speaker 1: going to be on the back of the box.
Speaker 3: I got to catch up with the colonel. It's been
Speaker 3: a while. Yeah, for real, bring them up the face
Speaker 3: of the double down Sandwich. It was away for me.
Speaker 1: I remember that story. That's what a travesty Dan.
Speaker 4: Alternate path where I'm a big commercial dude. I'm the
Speaker 4: where's the beef of the twenty tens?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 2: First thing was like he was like all about the
Speaker 2: bone and wings right, Like that.
Speaker 3: Was yeah, he was around that time.
Speaker 4: I lived in San Francisco and me and Miller went
Speaker 4: to an APW wrestling show together and then we went
Speaker 4: to a Buffalo Wild Wings after and I remember being
Speaker 4: like at the height of this, and we made a
Speaker 4: point of like I'm gonna order boneless and he's gonna
Speaker 4: order bone in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's they're both good. It turns out I was
Speaker 3: wearing I go pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, it's gonna It's it's a weird week here
Speaker 1: at GiantBomb dot Com. Since we're pre recording this, we're
Speaker 1: actually in the air now traveling to Los Angeles for
Speaker 1: the Game Awards, but also before the Game Awards Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Jeff Grubb, We're gonna have a bunch of people lined
Speaker 1: up for you to talk to you on the video
Speaker 1: game couch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, GB at night, five pm Pacific time is when
Speaker 2: the first section will kick off. We'll have a bunch
Speaker 2: of fun friends on the couch, a lot of familiar faces,
Speaker 2: a lot of catching up with little friends like to
Speaker 2: be like, hey, you run on the couch a little
Speaker 2: we go, Let's do it again, some new people. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be a good time. Well, then the last panel,
Speaker 2: we'll all get together hang out on the couch.
Speaker 1: He'll be fun presented by Warframe nineteen ninety nine. Shouts
Speaker 1: out to them also, and then we are participating in
Speaker 1: game spots. Countdown to the Video Game Award Show or
Speaker 1: the Game Awards Show, where you two will have some
Speaker 1: some fun, fun little segments.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: Yes, I just got out of a meeting where I
Speaker 4: had to be adamant that like, no, this cannot be
Speaker 4: a prop sandwich.
Speaker 3: This needs to be a shoot sandwich.
Speaker 4: So to give you a sense of the meetings I've
Speaker 4: been having lately.
Speaker 5: How many how many lines from the Norm McDonald YouTube
Speaker 5: comedy show appreciate what are you gonna work into this.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying if I don't at least once, if
Speaker 4: you don't hear me say all the stars are here,
Speaker 4: I should retire.
Speaker 3: Literally in the script I wrote it in.
Speaker 4: About it, and even if you're second out, I'm fucking
Speaker 4: saying it.
Speaker 5: I see that line so much almost daily and mentally
Speaker 5: daily now because I like that the voter choice list
Speaker 5: for the Game Awards came out. It's like a lot
Speaker 5: of gotcha games and stuff, and I literally thought, all
Speaker 5: the stars are here. It's luckily going to be like
Speaker 5: the first thing I say.
Speaker 3: The Content Creator of the Year award. Yeah. Oh, I
Speaker 3: don't know any of these names.
Speaker 1: I think we should uh all three of us because
Speaker 1: I think I might wind up on camera at some point.
Speaker 1: We should all gym the camera for or we shall
Speaker 1: MinC the camera for Mike.
Speaker 3: Okay at some point, Yeah missed the camera.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just missed the cameras.
Speaker 5: Now, I know I'm not a part of this, but
Speaker 5: what happens if I show up?
Speaker 2: You can maybe be one of the my man on
Speaker 2: the Street segments and you could play are you Smarter
Speaker 2: than a game?
Speaker 3: String? If one if the people drops out, No.
Speaker 4: I disagree, it's gonna be like that one Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame where they had to put up pictures of Scott
Speaker 4: Steiner saying, don't let this man in here because he
Speaker 4: threatened to kill a whole Kogan.
Speaker 3: We should just on our own.
Speaker 2: We should make signs that just have Mike's face with
Speaker 2: the cross through them, so we get the Garfield picture
Speaker 2: of like to that store, do.
Speaker 5: A cooking segment with Dan and would be like, get in.
Speaker 1: There, get in there.
Speaker 3: We could do that.
Speaker 1: We could do that on the couch maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, I do have a traveling question. Let's say
Speaker 2: we end up on a flight together. What is the
Speaker 2: etiquette you want me to follow? If we're sitting separate
Speaker 2: and I get off the plane before you, Where do
Speaker 2: you want me to wait for you?
Speaker 5: I can't have to say it, just just I don't know.
Speaker 5: Outside of the gate somewhere where people walk by. There's
Speaker 5: all those seats there. You can take a seat if
Speaker 5: you want to.
Speaker 2: If I If I do that and then you immediately say, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to the bathroom, I'm gonna be mad
Speaker 2: at you. I just want you to know, like or
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to the bathroom, would I wait
Speaker 2: by the like, I'll just go wait and we'll catch
Speaker 2: you up with the bad claim.
Speaker 3: I think this is perfectly acceptable but insane.
Speaker 1: It's still so far away, but it's like we know.
Speaker 2: We have to be there. He's gonna go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I don't have to go to the bathroom. I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to wait.
Speaker 3: There for this, For this, I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 4: I love Ribbon Minati a lot, but I think I'm
Speaker 4: with him on this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If I'm gonna be playing with someone, let's both tinkle
Speaker 4: and then we'll walk. The bag claim got ale. He's
Speaker 4: just gonna be taking him third twenty minute shit.
Speaker 1: Like I remember after leaving Packs East this year, I
Speaker 1: realized snow Bike Mike and I were on the same plane,
Speaker 1: and I was we didn't get there together. We didn't
Speaker 1: travel together. And then I thought, should I wait for Mike.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't see him for Mike, wait,
Speaker 1: let me finish. And then I start walking and I
Speaker 1: start walking slowly and I stopped to tie my shoe
Speaker 1: and next thing I know, behind me, he's like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: thanks you for waiting for me.
Speaker 6: Brother, Oh that's snow Bike Mike, Mike, you've known for
Speaker 6: thirteen years. Oh god, you should have seen me standing
Speaker 6: around like an asshole, being like I thought he got
Speaker 6: up before me.
Speaker 3: But I don't see him here, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: Did you go into the bathroom and just go Jeff, Jeff.
Speaker 3: You've held on him this for like six months? Tell
Speaker 3: you right away.
Speaker 5: I don't forget what I could see if I, uh
Speaker 5: deem something that be a social slight friendt me, Mike,
Speaker 5: I have a friend who Irish could buy me ten
Speaker 5: years ago, and I still give a shit about it.
Speaker 3: I was like once a month, yeah, with a guy
Speaker 3: who throws his poop at the toilet, Mike.
Speaker 1: If anything, fine, get back at grub, work up this
Speaker 1: whole thing about waiting for each other, and you meet
Speaker 1: him at baggage claim.
Speaker 3: And I will be like, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, first you don't care.
Speaker 3: We're both grown men. We're gonna get to where we're going.
Speaker 3: This is fine, all right.
Speaker 1: And yet again I booked my flight way too early.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I decide. The thing is, the
Speaker 1: flight is only one hour for me, but I decide
Speaker 1: I need to get their first thing in the morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dane, we were sharing a discord earlier. Are times
Speaker 4: I think you and I are getting their way earlier
Speaker 4: than the Ohio boys.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm getting there like at eight damn.
Speaker 3: What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm a broken person. I don't even know.
Speaker 2: There are plenty of work to do, so though I'm
Speaker 2: sure they'll put you work if you show it's okay.
Speaker 1: I might just hang around a bit video games. We're
Speaker 1: all gonna be leaving home for about a week recording
Speaker 1: some content, so grub, I guess you are you preparing
Speaker 1: and by playing this game called Home Safety Hotline?
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely, I've been doing that. This game is interesting.
Speaker 2: It is one of these Windows ninety five games right
Speaker 2: where it's like the interface, the UI is all like
Speaker 2: you are just clicking around in a computer and a
Speaker 2: Windows ninety five environment. So you get big bulky windows
Speaker 2: with big chunky buttons and things like that, and you
Speaker 2: are someone who works at the Home Safety Hotline, and
Speaker 2: what happens is you click on your email, you check
Speaker 2: your email, then you click on the app to start
Speaker 2: the day, so you could start getting calls from people
Speaker 2: who are having home safety issues of a bunch of
Speaker 2: different varieties, and what happens is they call and it's
Speaker 2: just it's basically a voice recording, you know, just like
Speaker 2: one paragraph. You put them on hold, and then you
Speaker 2: go through a list of possible things. It could be
Speaker 2: like termites and carpenter ants and a house fire or
Speaker 2: all kinds of different things, mules, things like that, and
Speaker 2: you need to based on what they're saying, like I'm
Speaker 2: hearing scratching in the walls, but I don't see any
Speaker 2: droppings or something like that. So you need to like
Speaker 2: cross reference the symptoms they're giving with these issues so
Speaker 2: you can give them the proper packet of information so
Speaker 2: they can deal with it. Now that's day one. By
Speaker 2: day two suddenly you're getting like a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2: On day one is like blacklisted from your list of
Speaker 2: possible problems. It's like just like this is not accessible.
Speaker 2: By day two you're getting things like, okay, here's some
Speaker 2: people like start calling in about these issues, and it'll
Speaker 2: be like a pipe hob.
Speaker 3: And a pipe hob is.
Speaker 2: A little creature who lives in your pipes and eats
Speaker 2: all the hair and stuff that goes down the pipe
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, and they're mostly harmless, but if
Speaker 2: you mess with them, they'll metamorphosize into a Bogert.
Speaker 3: So you don't want to mess with them like that.
Speaker 2: And it's like, so you need, yeah, you need to
Speaker 2: try to give them the correct information as they start
Speaker 2: coming up with these more insane issues. And sometimes people
Speaker 2: won't believe you, and they will they're like, they won't
Speaker 2: put the cream out for the house, elf, and when
Speaker 2: they don't do that, if they don't do that, the
Speaker 2: thing will metamorphosize into the Bogert And you need to
Speaker 2: now tell them, okay, now you need to just leave
Speaker 2: the house and you can't ever speak its name things
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: So it's a pretty cool thing. I'm enjoying pretty good.
Speaker 2: I'm it's definitely like a you know, it's not as
Speaker 2: complicated as what was the dream Windows ninety five game.
Speaker 2: I can never remember the name of dream one, the
Speaker 2: one where you're like you were you could be in
Speaker 2: their spirits outlaw. Yeah, hypno space outlaw. Yes, it's not
Speaker 2: as robust as that. It's interface, but it's in it's
Speaker 2: in the same spectrum. And uh, I really enjoy the
Speaker 2: fact that people are calling in and if you get
Speaker 2: things wrong, we'll call back and yell at you and
Speaker 2: things like that. It's it's pretty pretty well done. I'm uh,
Speaker 2: this is one of these indie games. I heard at
Speaker 2: these Game of the Year's list. They are starting to
Speaker 2: come out, and I saw it on NPR and a
Speaker 2: bunch of people were talking about it there and I
Speaker 2: tried it out. It's on Steam. I'm pretty happy with it.
Speaker 1: This came out way early in the year, genuous, jeez, January.
Speaker 2: Back when we're all playing Prits of Persia. Probably, yes,
Speaker 2: there is that. They did release a a some DLC.
Speaker 2: It seems like, and I think it was free. But
Speaker 2: it's seasonal worker and it's Christmas themed. Uh, and that's
Speaker 2: that's out now and you can play that as part
Speaker 2: of the game.
Speaker 5: Maybe you would like that. Oh yeah, look at that.
Speaker 5: Oh there's there's not enough Christmas themed games, Mike.
Speaker 3: Have you been Inketown Holiday? I did it.
Speaker 5: I got to play it once. So that was very exciting,
Speaker 5: very passive.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 5: Prop up On it was fun because you even have
Speaker 5: even like the props are kind of Christmas like you
Speaker 5: could be a wreath or what what have you.
Speaker 3: Once, I don't think I like prop Hunt.
Speaker 5: Really, I thought that would be still your thing.
Speaker 4: The idea is very funny. But then when I went
Speaker 4: in there and it's just like, first of all, I
Speaker 4: hate any mode where I can't just respawd, Like that's
Speaker 4: the thing with.
Speaker 3: Call of Duty for mezer boo boom boo boom and
Speaker 3: back and there.
Speaker 4: So like I turn off Search and Destroy, I turn
Speaker 4: off all those where I can't just respond immediately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I need to.
Speaker 4: Go, go go, Whereas like prop Hunt is like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I died at the beginning, and now I just have
Speaker 4: to watch people shoot at traffic hones for five minutes,
Speaker 4: Like I can't do that.
Speaker 5: But the it was such a I was playing my bros,
Speaker 5: my friend. There's such a thrill, Like I had to
Speaker 5: run away at one point, and like I was given
Speaker 5: an ambulance. I was in an entire ambulance right, and
Speaker 5: it was that the soccer stadium one. So I'm this
Speaker 5: car just on a street and they're all looking for
Speaker 5: a proper They're literally like circling me, shooting at things
Speaker 5: but not me. It was a very special kind of experience.
Speaker 5: But Jeff, this game does look like something I'd enjoy.
Speaker 5: I love the windows ninety five aesthetic. Boy, that just
Speaker 5: calls to me an incredibly powerful way, so there was a.
Speaker 4: Real jams definitely not but grub and Manati, are you
Speaker 4: old enough to like remember, like you know, you started
Speaker 4: on three point one and then when like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: the start button I.
Speaker 3: Started at Doss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, like ninety five was crazy, although
Speaker 4: I start me up commercials and yeah yeap.
Speaker 5: By the time I really cared about or was like
Speaker 5: able to use computers, Windows ninety five was very new,
Speaker 5: and like I remember going to a Frances house since
Speaker 5: they were still on Windows three, so like I was
Speaker 5: aware of what the you know, the previous Windows, but
Speaker 5: Windows ninety five it's just really where my computer experience starts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was Doss and then getting like a early
Speaker 2: three eighty six or a four eighty six computer with
Speaker 2: Windows three point one using that for a while and
Speaker 2: then just Windows ninety five was the biggest event ever
Speaker 2: and Chandler bing was was selling it to me in
Speaker 2: a commercial or whatever.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was a good time.
Speaker 5: But I like, I need to find a book just
Speaker 5: about Windows ninety five, not like about all Windows, just
Speaker 5: Windows ninety five also good.
Speaker 4: We yeah, we had Windows three point one than like
Speaker 4: some of the games like Doom and Wolfenstein and all
Speaker 4: that stuff like actually run on my step Beats computer.
Speaker 4: You'd have to like open up the DOST command line
Speaker 4: to get to it. And I distinctly remember when people
Speaker 4: started talking about the Internet at school and be like
Speaker 4: this sounds cool. I really want to get on the Internet,
Speaker 4: spending hours being like, Okay, I see commercials now they're
Speaker 4: saying go to www dot zoop dot com and you
Speaker 4: can play a demo of the soup. Yeah, And so
Speaker 4: I'd be like going to the ms DOS command line
Speaker 4: being like it says www dot soup, Like we're not
Speaker 4: plugged it. We don't have a modem, like no idea.
Speaker 3: How the scores. I can't play. I just want to
Speaker 3: play soup for free.
Speaker 4: Me the same thing when I got the Dreamcast and
Speaker 4: it's like I had all bugm and everything was like
Speaker 4: it's online online online.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 4: And I'm just assuming day one, I'm gonna go home
Speaker 4: and pop Soul Caliber in and I can just play online.
Speaker 4: And it's like, oh wait, no, there has to be
Speaker 4: functionality and you have to plug in the line, you know.
Speaker 3: It's like I could not do that at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh that aesthetic, So that just speaks to me.
Speaker 2: So like whenever I see that stuff in a game,
Speaker 2: I just I zoom to it. And this does a
Speaker 2: good job of that. So we we should do another
Speaker 2: one of those demo derbys with one of those old
Speaker 2: mid nineties.
Speaker 3: The PC stuff was awesome. I would love one of those.
Speaker 1: Have on that one next time?
Speaker 3: Even that great?
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean when do kids even know what they
Speaker 5: do with Windows eleven? Like I feel like kids that
Speaker 5: they don't really have to deal with desktop computers average
Speaker 5: they don't want to.
Speaker 2: Emmy's asking for a PC for Christmas. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's just her being like I see you on
Speaker 2: one all the time.
Speaker 3: Uh. They definitely have.
Speaker 2: Computer class at school, but I wonder if they're mostly
Speaker 2: mostly on Mac because they.
Speaker 3: Playing Roadblocks and stuff. Is that on phones?
Speaker 2: That's on Xbox and phones, tablets, Yeah, it's on everything.
Speaker 5: That was Like the only time I was ever exposed
Speaker 5: to Apple stuff was like the school computers.
Speaker 1: SAME's always Apple Chrome books too, So yeah.
Speaker 2: That's right, there's a lot of chromebooks and stuff. When
Speaker 2: I was a kid, it was all Macintosh at school
Speaker 2: and then at home after the Macintosh came out. We
Speaker 2: got an Apple two actually before we got the three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh kind of like.
Speaker 5: See, my dad had some kind of computer when I
Speaker 5: was a kid, and I don't even know what. It was,
Speaker 5: probably some IBM thing and I just remember asking him
Speaker 5: to play Jeopardy and some Flintstones game. He on and again,
Speaker 5: me and the Flintstones. Apparently I was more of a
Speaker 5: flint Stones fan than I remember.
Speaker 2: We bought ours were like used, and so it just
Speaker 2: came with a bunch of like, uh, you know, illegally
Speaker 2: copied games and there would be like BC, like I
Speaker 2: think the comic Strip had a game or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2: Uh like Olympics games and things like that, and I
Speaker 2: would just plug that and it was it was a
Speaker 2: monochrome black and green screen.
Speaker 5: So it wasn't even a color Apple to It's such
Speaker 5: like an old computer mood. I've been watching so many
Speaker 5: videos about like Ultima one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I finished that book.
Speaker 2: That book was really good, The Innovators. That was an
Speaker 2: excellent Readio.
Speaker 1: You think the youth or like the gimmicks will have
Speaker 1: an interest in I guess the progression of like os
Speaker 1: is like that.
Speaker 4: It's not as easily, Like there are ways you can
Speaker 4: do with there's like doss box and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: but I feel like it's not as easy as like,
Speaker 4: oh I want to play an old N E S game,
Speaker 4: There's a million ways.
Speaker 3: To do that very easily, whereas like OS is you
Speaker 3: kind of have to do a little more digging. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think like going forward, like, uh, Windows
Speaker 2: eleven is a lot like Windows ten, which was actually
Speaker 2: a lot like what was before ten.
Speaker 1: Vista or Vista right there, just the Windows eight there
Speaker 1: wasn't yeah, there wasn't eight.
Speaker 3: Was that after Vista? They skipped nine? Yeah, that's what
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 5: It was eight to ten seven.
Speaker 3: Also, I don't like iPhone did it?
Speaker 1: They went three G then I remember an iPhone five.
Speaker 3: There was a four. I had a four.
Speaker 5: There's some reason like the companies didn't like the number nine.
Speaker 3: I think Windows Windows skipped nine.
Speaker 2: I think because one of the early versions of Windows
Speaker 2: was like Windows point nine X or something like that,
Speaker 2: So they're like just internally it was easier for them.
Speaker 3: I think. I think there's something along those lines that's
Speaker 3: not exactly right, but it's something along.
Speaker 1: That all these things are eventually all just copies of
Speaker 1: each other, just like the game that Mike and I
Speaker 1: have been playing, maybe a copy of another popular video game,
Speaker 1: Marvel Rivals Mike Manatti. I heard the dirt on the street.
Speaker 1: The Minatti brothers were tearing up the scene with Christian,
Speaker 1: Shan and Nicky.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're having playing that. I've been playing a bit
Speaker 5: of it on my own. It's insane how many characters
Speaker 5: have launched with this game. Thirty three I cannot out
Speaker 5: of the gate. Yeah, that's pretty that's pretty wild as
Speaker 5: at and it's a very nice mix of standbys like
Speaker 5: you know who you would expect to be there, like
Speaker 5: your Captain Americas and Hallgs and Spider Man's. There's some
Speaker 5: deeper cuts, like people I am not super familiar with, like
Speaker 5: that shark, Jeff.
Speaker 3: The shark from Windpool.
Speaker 1: You said, jam, Yeah, Jeff has grown into other comic
Speaker 1: book properties. Yeah, the Lace or the ice lady I'm
Speaker 1: not familiar with. Apparently she was an o c not
Speaker 1: for this game, but for a different.
Speaker 3: Marvel game who became popular. I guess like a mobile game. Maybe,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: She's supposed to be like a K Pop idol, so
Speaker 1: maybe it is a mobile game.
Speaker 3: I bet I bet it's that Marvel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a game that my sister in all plays
Speaker 2: and has played for years.
Speaker 3: She's a Marvel fan. I bet it's that game.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's pretty fun, you know, Stiffy's scratching that Overwatch itch.
Speaker 5: I liked Overwatch a lot for a long time and
Speaker 5: kind of fully began falling off in once Too came out,
Speaker 5: and don't.
Speaker 3: Have I don't have too much of a desire to
Speaker 3: go back.
Speaker 5: They even did that throwback mode not too long ago,
Speaker 5: and I was like, I'll check that out, and I
Speaker 5: just never did. I just don't really want to open
Speaker 5: Overwatch at the moment. But doing this and it's enough
Speaker 5: like Overwatch that I understood what's going on, but everything
Speaker 5: is different, like I don't know what these heroes do,
Speaker 5: and it's fun bring her out what they do, you know.
Speaker 5: And since it's Marvel, I can just be like, well
Speaker 5: like Captain America, So I guess I'll play us him
Speaker 5: for a while.
Speaker 1: Sure, that's what I do.
Speaker 5: And he has a pretty interesting move set where right,
Speaker 5: like he's melee mostly but if he at texts me
Speaker 5: well twice of his melee attack, then he throws the
Speaker 5: shoe for a bit. It says he's a tank. You
Speaker 5: can kind of you know, you can get in there
Speaker 5: an attack of choice and then get in there, you
Speaker 5: can sort of throw the shield as you're retreating back
Speaker 5: to your group.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it all works out pretty well. I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I played a little bit with Nikki after y'all did,
Speaker 1: and it was it was pretty fun just jumping into
Speaker 1: a bunch of random characters and being getting absolutely stomped
Speaker 1: in the first round, actually learning the abilities and synergies
Speaker 1: in the second round winning that one, and then the
Speaker 1: other team further learning their characters and then stomping you again.
Speaker 1: But the interesting thing that Marvel Rivals Doe is some
Speaker 1: of the heroes, if they're paired up with another specific
Speaker 1: hero or group of heroes, will have these passive abilities
Speaker 1: or even active abilities that will only happen if they
Speaker 1: get paired up. So, for instance, the Incredible Hulk, if
Speaker 1: he gets paired up with Wolverine, they can do the
Speaker 1: Fastball special where Wolverine will get picked up by Hulk
Speaker 1: and then Hulk will just launch that bad boy somewhere
Speaker 1: across the map. Other stuff is I think like Rocket
Speaker 1: Raccoon can ride on Groot if they're on the same team.
Speaker 5: That one's pretty cool. Yeah, because like it's literally, you know,
Speaker 5: like the thing in the movies, just literally on Groot's shoulder.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I am really digging this game. I was thinking
Speaker 1: at first that some of the heroes would just be
Speaker 1: one for one recreations of the miscellaneous Overwatch heroes, and
Speaker 1: there are some of those, but I think that Marvel
Speaker 1: Rivals does enough different with the abilities and the fact
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of melee characters in this versus
Speaker 1: any heroes with guns, because like Venom is just shooting
Speaker 1: his tentacles, and like Groot is just reloading his arms
Speaker 1: after doing like a longer like swipe, and I can't
Speaker 1: stay He's a Henry Cavill of this game. He's just
Speaker 1: like cocking his arms over and over again, just beating
Speaker 1: you with bathroom sinks. But like like Mike said, there's
Speaker 1: so many characters, so I think it's pretty easy to
Speaker 1: find someone you like and then stick with them, and
Speaker 1: then as soon as you get tired, you can roll
Speaker 1: onto the next character. I think the support characters are
Speaker 1: also really well done. Sometimes support characters can be a
Speaker 1: little too boring or because you kind of just have
Speaker 1: to have like that medic beam all the time on
Speaker 1: someone and just focus on that. With Jeff the Sharks specifically,
Speaker 1: you have like a water beam that you can use
Speaker 1: to heal, but you can also leave these like little
Speaker 1: bubbles around the area for your friendlies to pick up.
Speaker 1: And Jeff currently has the best sla most annoying alt
Speaker 1: in the world where you can in an AoE swallow
Speaker 1: every single person, including your friendly teammates, swallow them, and
Speaker 1: then as Jeff the Shark, you can just like street
Speaker 1: shark through the level and then spit them out wherever
Speaker 1: you want. And sometimes that can be very hazardous because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of open air in some of these maps,
Speaker 1: so you could even just exactly you could spit them
Speaker 1: through a ledgend. If you don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: you could just Kirby style and smash take them and
Speaker 1: obliterate a whole team. I'm also very pleased that for
Speaker 1: as chatty as the characters are, they're not super annoying,
Speaker 1: or at least they haven't come off as super annoying
Speaker 1: just yet. However, every time I do here, Bucky goes
Speaker 1: again and again when he's doing his like jumping launch
Speaker 1: attack is kind of getting grading. But my one big
Speaker 1: problem you'll yep, we're cyclops.
Speaker 3: But they got it.
Speaker 5: They gotta hold some back because look, they're gonna be
Speaker 5: releasing a lot of characters as.
Speaker 1: They are they are.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna ask, is the number of characters
Speaker 2: sort of freeing in a way, because it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: if it was sixteen characters, I probably should learn the
Speaker 2: learn all of them pretty well so I can always
Speaker 2: be ready to count them. But thirty three, they're probably
Speaker 2: gonna be playing against a lot of people who are
Speaker 2: also thinking the same thing, which is, ah, whatever, that's
Speaker 2: too many to learn. I'm just gonna go in there
Speaker 2: and have some fun.
Speaker 1: The other thing that they Sorry, Mike, go ahead.
Speaker 5: It was just I was just gonna say it is interesting,
Speaker 5: how already you do see a lot of the same characters, right,
Speaker 5: Jeff is very popular. He's always popping up around there.
Speaker 5: I've been seeing Wolverine a good bad Roots also is
Speaker 5: very popular. Right, yeah, exactly. So there's usually a spider
Speaker 5: Man because they like Spider Man. Then they realize that
Speaker 5: character is very hard to play and they die a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, but yeah, I think you're I think you're
Speaker 5: you're You're kind of right, Jeff Up. It's funny because
Speaker 5: because there's so many characters, almost more inclined to just
Speaker 5: be playing Captain America, right, keep being cap That's fine.
Speaker 3: Well, go ahead, go ahead, Jane. Though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, having like the bigger amount of people, it's interesting
Speaker 1: because in my limited time with Overwatch, I always got
Speaker 1: heat from people for not playing the class that we
Speaker 1: needed on a team here, at least in the early stages,
Speaker 1: people kind of care about Team Cup a little less,
Speaker 1: at least in the first couple of rounds, and then
Speaker 1: someone will realize, Okay, we might need a healer, some
Speaker 1: type of support, or some type of tank, so someone
Speaker 1: might switch. But you can kind of get by just
Speaker 1: having a hodgepodge team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think there's also just gonna help that.
Speaker 2: Uh, Overwatch very quickly, Like from the beginning, they were like,
Speaker 2: and this is the next great sport and there's none
Speaker 2: of that. There's none of that here. So it's like
Speaker 2: when you go into play Overwatch for the those first
Speaker 2: couple of years, it's like, well, you got to play
Speaker 2: like the esports people play like, we're they're making the
Speaker 2: game for them. We got to play like them, so
Speaker 2: that I think this game is also free of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: One thing I've been struggling with a little bit is
Speaker 5: the stability of the game begining disconnected from games, being
Speaker 5: struggling to connect to games, things like that. And I mean,
Speaker 5: I think a lot of that is just because this
Speaker 5: game is very popular, very quickly. So their servers are
Speaker 5: just getting the Hulk smashed right now, see I tied.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah good, well done, good right now. Also, since a
Speaker 1: lot of people are still in the discovery phases of
Speaker 1: the game, I will have when I switch characters to
Speaker 1: someone else, I'll have that moment of like, well I
Speaker 1: can do that, Like I didn't realize Rocket can just
Speaker 1: kind of like climb onto walls like a Spider Man
Speaker 1: or Venom can a lot of fun discovery. Also, there's
Speaker 1: so much room for cosmetics that I haven't engaged yet
Speaker 1: with any of the micro transactions or any of the
Speaker 1: paid stuff yet, but there's so much room for so
Speaker 1: many more characters, and it's gonna hurt me. Like they're
Speaker 1: gonna drop the Fantastic four pack when that movie comes out.
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna drop, like, uh, the the like
Speaker 1: X Men first class bunch. Right, So they'll have cyclops
Speaker 1: that'll have Jean Gray. You already have Storm.
Speaker 3: I haven't put dead Pool in yet.
Speaker 5: You know they're holding that one in their back pocket.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh god, Nightcrawler would be so
Speaker 1: fucking cool.
Speaker 5: As as we don't have a Gambit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have Gambit, but rest of shirt folks,
Speaker 1: we have squirrel Girl, and let me tell you, Scuroll
Speaker 1: Girl actually very fun to play.
Speaker 5: Uh. Everyone got mad at me when I made that
Speaker 5: comment about squirrel Girls being popular. And here we go,
Speaker 5: here we are.
Speaker 1: Now you know what you're Mike, You're you're the one
Speaker 1: that's brave enough to say these things that need to
Speaker 1: be said. You know that's three. That's because you're so
Speaker 1: wh smart and everything. And speaking about whips, where's this going?
Speaker 1: There was someone added another someone added another game, and
Speaker 1: now we gotta talk about I'm.
Speaker 3: Sorry, it's not even a game either.
Speaker 1: Uh fine, we'll talk about that first and then I'll
Speaker 1: go back to my whole.
Speaker 3: Jeff, I didn't don't care.
Speaker 1: No, because I saw that and I thought, like, all right,
Speaker 1: we only got three things to talk about. Then we'll
Speaker 1: just say save the bigger game for the end.
Speaker 5: Damn it, Jeff. This is why we like that shark
Speaker 5: more than you.
Speaker 2: Uh diggy say point is a little uh s S
Speaker 2: s D that you could plug into your steam deck
Speaker 2: that they by god.
Speaker 3: I didn't know he was gonna do it.
Speaker 2: I didn't know he was gonna undo his incredible fucking
Speaker 2: segue to put me on the spot like this.
Speaker 3: Anyway. It's really cute.
Speaker 2: It looks like an old memory card for like a
Speaker 2: PlayStation or something, and uh it's it comes to the
Speaker 2: two terribyed SSD and it's it's really really super fast,
Speaker 2: so you could but that's a cool thing where it
Speaker 2: comes a little magnetic ring that you can stick to
Speaker 2: the back of your steam deck, so it's like super
Speaker 2: low profile. But then when it's time to like actually
Speaker 2: use it, you can then just magnetize that thing to
Speaker 2: the back and I kind of don't even notice it.
Speaker 2: It's it's pretty neat. Now, it's not as sleek looking
Speaker 2: as if it were like you know, plastic molded to
Speaker 2: fit the steam deck or something like that. But it's
Speaker 2: got a really like good cable that comes with it,
Speaker 2: so it can't be super fast. I'm thinking that I'm
Speaker 2: I might try to install Windows on this, and I'm
Speaker 2: around the Steam deck with Windows. I'm also thinking about
Speaker 2: maybe doing Batto Serra, which is that like retro gaming
Speaker 2: emulator os that it's very popular that people install on
Speaker 2: old PCs and things like that, and it's you could
Speaker 2: just put it on a drive, plug it into an
Speaker 2: old PC, boot from that drive, and it just turns
Speaker 2: your PC into like an old video game utopia. I
Speaker 2: might try something like that as well. But I'm also
Speaker 2: like looking for suggestions, like, hey, what can I do
Speaker 2: with this two terabyte drive to mess around with?
Speaker 3: So people have ideas.
Speaker 2: I would love to just test a bunch of things
Speaker 2: with this thing.
Speaker 3: I like kinky stuff. I am about this. That sounds fun.
Speaker 3: They have really good like switch stuff like the covert
Speaker 3: dock and all that. Let me let me go, just
Speaker 3: go get it real quick. You guys can take a
Speaker 3: look at it. I like it.
Speaker 5: Okay, great, I don't ale.
Speaker 1: This whole time. He's not even wearing socks right now.
Speaker 1: My godh gosh, this abyss back there for folks listening
Speaker 1: to the audio, grub is just cartwheeling back to his
Speaker 1: dark hole to find it.
Speaker 5: Is impressive, actually, right.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, so it's kind of got that.
Speaker 1: That it's kind of like a it feels like a
Speaker 1: mag safe charge for folks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the magnetic ring.
Speaker 2: I just stuck to it and just sticks like that.
Speaker 1: That's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so I can just throw it in a
Speaker 2: bag or whatever when you're not using it, but then
Speaker 2: when you are using it, it just secures. It's really
Speaker 2: nice and tight on there, and I really.
Speaker 5: Look like a medical device, but for your Steam deck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, I'm trying to place exactly what
Speaker 2: memory card style they're going for here, Like.
Speaker 5: Was this looks like a lighter some it's like a
Speaker 5: third party one memory cards?
Speaker 2: Yeah that right, Yeah, that's kind of what I was
Speaker 2: thinking as well, like PS one, but I'm like, it's
Speaker 2: not it's the PS ones were.
Speaker 3: Like the gray sort of. Yeah, some like script one.
Speaker 1: Video editors that will have like a pocketable SSD that
Speaker 1: kind of looks like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so it's it's one of those twenty two
Speaker 2: to thirty SSDs which are the little tiny ones, not
Speaker 2: the longer ones, but the tiny ones, so if you
Speaker 2: want to replace it in there. But it came with
Speaker 2: the two terrabyte which is big enough. That's pretty sizable.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm gonna be using that like for
Speaker 2: a bunch of things. But I think in the in
Speaker 2: the meantime, it's like, hey, when I want to put
Speaker 2: new games on the Steam Deck, instead of going through
Speaker 2: the hassle of using the desktop mode, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: plug this thing in my computer or pop it on
Speaker 2: that and then use that to transfer it quickly onto
Speaker 2: the Steam Deck.
Speaker 5: Options for the Xbox or sixty launch was nothing or
Speaker 5: twenty gigabytes. And now this stupid thing that's magnetically stuck
Speaker 5: to your Steam Deck is too terrify, Yes.
Speaker 3: Exactly, it's yeah, things of change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Grub, does that thing get hot at all?
Speaker 2: It has not gotten too hot so far.
Speaker 3: But I've not like put it through its paces or
Speaker 3: anything like that either.
Speaker 5: That's not so hot.
Speaker 1: I see, I see. So it's not hot enough to
Speaker 1: perhaps melt faces. But an.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 1: I was not listening to Grub the whole time. Wait
Speaker 1: for the second looking for the opening Indiana Jones and
Speaker 1: the Great Circle, Dan Grub, I believe you've been playing it, Mike.
Speaker 1: Have you had a chance to dip into.
Speaker 5: I'm waiting to after Game Awards.
Speaker 1: I'm in the same boat as you, Mike.
Speaker 4: I feel like grub from talking to you. We're probably
Speaker 4: roughly around the same spot, right, like a little past
Speaker 4: to Egypt.
Speaker 2: A little bit past Giza. Yes, and boy does it
Speaker 2: get fucking awesome?
Speaker 4: Really okay, because I'm like literally like I'm at the
Speaker 4: tail end of Giza, so I haven't.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Cool, So how are you feeling about it now?
Speaker 3: I like it a lot.
Speaker 4: I mean I've liked it from the beginning, even early
Speaker 4: on when you were like discording like I hate this game.
Speaker 4: Fuck this game, I was like, hang on, this is
Speaker 4: really fun. Oh shit, I wouldn't say that. Yeah, all right, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 4: he said, don't say this. Oh yeah, I'm reading it now.
Speaker 4: Don't say this publicly, but okay, this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: I was with you on the kind of pacing issue stuff,
Speaker 4: specifically with the Vatican, because at first I was enjoying
Speaker 4: it so much. I was like, I want to do
Speaker 4: everything in the Vatican. And then it's like I was
Speaker 4: there for like hours in the Vatican and I was
Speaker 4: still enjoying it and like I was doing things very well.
Speaker 4: But I was like, man, I am kind of itch
Speaker 4: into Like these environments are so detailed, like if you've
Speaker 4: played you know, the machine games of Wolfenstein games, they
Speaker 4: put so much detail into every like little shop or
Speaker 4: area you go through. There's a lot of care that
Speaker 4: goes into everything. Like the Assistine Chapel is fully recreated.
Speaker 2: Stumble into it too, Like I didn't know I was
Speaker 2: going to the Sistin Chapel and then suddenly I'm like literally.
Speaker 3: Looking up at the ceiling going holy shit.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, it's that thing from the Jericho Ko
Speaker 4: Festival Friendship painting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, are you Catholic now, Jeff, Yeah. The tourney,
Speaker 3: I feel like, oh, oh wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I did get a little tired of like,
Speaker 4: you know, I was enjoying all the side quests and stuff,
Speaker 4: and then it was just like another one where it's
Speaker 4: just like, oh, okay, it's a nun that needs a book
Speaker 4: and I'm you know, kind of going across the map
Speaker 4: to get a book. Like it's not unenjoyable. Yeah, Like
Speaker 4: I like being in the space and just like all
Speaker 4: the little interactions you have as you go from place
Speaker 4: to place, lots of little stealth encounters and lots of
Speaker 4: collectibles and stuff. To get and if you want to
Speaker 4: read everything, there's a million little notes and letters and things,
Speaker 4: or you can just collect it, get your adventure points
Speaker 4: level up, whatever. But I yeah, I did kind of
Speaker 4: like get to the point where it's all right, I've
Speaker 4: done a good amount of petch quest. I feel like
Speaker 4: I've seen this entire space several times over now, and
Speaker 4: I was ready to move forward now.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if there.
Speaker 4: Is eventually a way to open it up where it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: I can jump on the blimp and go back to
Speaker 4: Vatican or not.
Speaker 3: Someone mentioned to me that you can go back.
Speaker 4: I've not seen that yet, though, well I'm assuming you
Speaker 4: can because I saw it and like there's like that
Speaker 4: endgame manual you can look at and it said something
Speaker 4: about the differences between like mysteries and discoveries and stuff
Speaker 4: like that, and one of them was like, oh, there
Speaker 4: are these will span multiple local so that makes me
Speaker 4: think at some point I'm going to get some mode
Speaker 4: of transportation where I get hop back and get clues and.
Speaker 3: Stuff, So that makes sense.
Speaker 4: And it didn't say something like, oh, make sure you've
Speaker 4: done everything you want to do in the Vatican before
Speaker 4: you get on this blimp, so like I'm assuming I'll
Speaker 4: get to go back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good one.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, a little bit of pacing issue stuff,
Speaker 4: but you know, I don't think there's any problem with
Speaker 4: just like when you're ready to move on, move on
Speaker 4: to the next area. And I'm just so impressed with
Speaker 4: how much the just direction of this game, like the
Speaker 4: cut scenes, it just feels like you're watching an Indiana
Speaker 4: Jones movie and.
Speaker 3: Everything you're doing good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels like I mean again it's Wolfenstein was
Speaker 4: an FPS and this I was kind of thinking like, okay,
Speaker 4: FBS developer, first person indie game, all right, gonna run
Speaker 4: around shoot some Nazis and stuff like that. No, it's
Speaker 4: it's a different type of game. It feels like you
Speaker 4: are Indiana Jones. There's a lot of like, you know,
Speaker 4: using your whip to cross you know, chasms and stuff,
Speaker 4: and then a lot of you know, holding the torch
Speaker 4: underneath the a church and a catacomb and like waving
Speaker 4: scorpions away and stuff like. It feels like an indie
Speaker 4: movie more so than I mean, I didn't see five,
Speaker 4: but more than like Crystal Skuld did.
Speaker 5: Certainly I feels gonna ask like, is this this is
Speaker 5: still like a better indie experience than Dial Destiny with that,
Speaker 5: which was better than four.
Speaker 3: But I do need to see it.
Speaker 2: I need to see Dial because I liked Dial Destiny
Speaker 2: and this is definitely like, oh, this is what they
Speaker 2: should be doing instead. This is they should be the
Speaker 2: follow ups to Indiana Jones going forward, should just be
Speaker 2: them contracting Troy Baker to do three.
Speaker 3: Four more of these that I would be so exciting.
Speaker 4: Harris, yep, yeah, pay Harrison for the likeness and then
Speaker 4: Troy does an excellent job as I was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So my number one prediction for a sequel is
Speaker 5: that there's like a stinger. There's some part at the
Speaker 5: end where we see old Harrison Ford actually just doing
Speaker 5: a bit there. They'll have money at that point to
Speaker 5: pay him a hit.
Speaker 3: It'll be weird.
Speaker 5: This game isn't a hit, right, It.
Speaker 3: Seems like it's doing all right. Yeah, but we'll you know,
Speaker 3: you're right, we'll see.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's still coming to PlayStation in a couple
Speaker 2: of months, so it'll get another chance at that point.
Speaker 1: How did that last movie do box office wise?
Speaker 3: This is great?
Speaker 5: Bad?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was like, didn't make nearly enough money that that
Speaker 2: they were expecting.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm curious if, like the name Indiana Jones
Speaker 1: still carries a.
Speaker 2: Lot of I think that I think this game seems
Speaker 2: to be re establishing the Indiana Jones name, Like it's
Speaker 2: like bringing people in in the way that the movies
Speaker 2: were not.
Speaker 4: I've been wondering lately though about like the legacy of
Speaker 4: Indiana Jones, if it is as strong as I thought
Speaker 4: it was growing up, because like in my head, growing up.
Speaker 3: It was like on par with Star Wars.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't until when I was doing the New
Speaker 4: Day podcast and I put together a best Action Movie
Speaker 4: of All Time tournament.
Speaker 3: And even when I was like sharing with the.
Speaker 4: New Day, Rest and Peace, New Day, you know what
Speaker 4: what movies were gonna be in, I put Indiana Jones,
Speaker 4: and I think it was like Big Ei or something
Speaker 4: that was like the no cares about Indiana Jones.
Speaker 5: Like what like I've been learning like in recent years,
Speaker 5: is that perhaps idiot Jones was a bit of a
Speaker 5: white person.
Speaker 1: You know, that might explain why I have no fun
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 3: Okay, just put some pieces together.
Speaker 5: Basically, Oh, my friends, you know, baking yours two are
Speaker 5: what I don't seem to care about very fun.
Speaker 1: Okay. Hold on follow up question, Well, how do you
Speaker 1: guys feel about Blade?
Speaker 3: Blade's awesome? Ever seen it?
Speaker 4: I don't about comic books up, but I remember loving
Speaker 4: Blade when he kicks the syringe in the Stephen Dorf
Speaker 4: and he blows up.
Speaker 3: Blade was in Deadpool and Wolverine. Okay, was in that one.
Speaker 1: We should do a Blade film in forties for the.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: Blade actually established that like nineties leather jacket club scene
Speaker 2: sort of vibe.
Speaker 3: Matrix, yeah, pre matrix exactly. Yeah. And he had like
Speaker 3: a blood orgy thing right before me, like a blood yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like they like blood would fall down.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Blades space is in the second one. Also, God, what's
Speaker 1: his name? Who? Kojima's best friend, Norman.
Speaker 3: Chris Christopherson the Stars.
Speaker 2: So my my U sort of trajectory with this game
Speaker 2: was it starts super strong. It's got a really good intro.
Speaker 2: I think as you're in the Vatican for the first
Speaker 2: like I was doing the same thing as you Dan,
Speaker 2: where it was like, oh, I want to do all
Speaker 2: this stuff, all this stuff is really well done, and
Speaker 2: then I begin to feel like, Okay, I realized I
Speaker 2: should be doing a lot of this stuff because there's
Speaker 2: ways to upgrade your character by finding these books, and
Speaker 2: they're all over the place, and there's dozens of them,
Speaker 2: it feels like, and and all these quests like lead
Speaker 2: to getting the points I can use to unlock these books.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, at a certain point, I'm starting to
Speaker 2: feel an obligation to do these things. But I'm realizing
Speaker 2: I am just kind of going to a place, checking
Speaker 2: a checking a box, going to another place, like doing
Speaker 2: another thing, flipping on a switch, not really doing a
Speaker 2: lot of puzzles solving that I thought was really intriguing
Speaker 2: at that point, and so it's like, okay, well I'll
Speaker 2: start to wrap things up. And then there was a
Speaker 2: couple more hours of the Vatican after that, and I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, so I'm like this is it's dragging.
Speaker 2: It feels like it's dragging. And then get to Giza's.
Speaker 2: You know, there's an interstitial scene there where things fun
Speaker 2: things happen, and that was good. Whenever it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: we're going to sort of put you onto the track
Speaker 2: of here's the big Indiana Jones action sequence. It is impeccable.
Speaker 2: It is so good, and then you get so you
Speaker 2: get the Giza. I'm like, oh, here we go again.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be like that again. And it turned out,
Speaker 2: now what, this is even better. This is actually a
Speaker 2: little bit better than the Vatican. There's even more fun
Speaker 2: stuff to do here. You know, you can get in
Speaker 2: the Nazi uniform and join an underground boxing ring and
Speaker 2: things like that, and then that can lead you over
Speaker 2: to the Nazi camp and there's fun things to poke
Speaker 2: around there. And I also began to like learn the
Speaker 2: sort of ebb and flow of the game where it's like,
Speaker 2: when I'm done, I should have been moving on quicker.
Speaker 3: And I did that.
Speaker 2: I moved the story along, and I was in Giza
Speaker 2: for much less time than I was in the Vatican.
Speaker 2: And then after that it just goes. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: spoil anything, but it has. The set piece is one
Speaker 2: of my favorite set pieces in any media ever. You
Speaker 2: step in there and you see this thing, and you
Speaker 2: immediately go Okay, First of all, I think I know
Speaker 2: it's happening with this mcguffin.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Also, uh, this is just an incredible image. And I
Speaker 2: think what they're suggesting is when I get up there
Speaker 2: to do this thing. I think I know what's gonna happen,
Speaker 2: and when it does happen, it's so exciting. And you
Speaker 2: do the Indian like you were using your.
Speaker 3: Whip to get out of a bad situation, and it's
Speaker 3: it's just so cool.
Speaker 2: And then and then immediately, you know, zip off to
Speaker 2: another place where where on the other side of the world,
Speaker 2: and that's an awesome action sequence and it's bang bang
Speaker 2: bang bang super fast. And then by the time I
Speaker 2: get back to all right, now we're in the sort
Speaker 2: of immersive sim uh uh, you know, the Butcher's Bay
Speaker 2: Chronicles Rennick style game of poking around the world. I'm
Speaker 2: ready for it now. I'm like, okay, they have figured
Speaker 2: out the pacing as this game has gone along in
Speaker 2: a really strong way, and so I'm completely on board
Speaker 2: with everything it's doing now. So it's a it's a
Speaker 2: game that starts strong, might have some issues as people
Speaker 2: like learn it.
Speaker 3: Most people aren't having it.
Speaker 2: It was me it sounds like, but I've learned how
Speaker 2: this game is operating, and now that I'm on its wavelength,
Speaker 2: I'm just like, yeah, I completely appreciate everything about this.
Speaker 3: Game right now.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's okay. Well, now I want to I'm flying
Speaker 4: out tomorrow. I want to like at least get past this.
Speaker 3: Like set piece stuff before I take It's very cool.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to have the means to be able
Speaker 1: to play this before our own discussions. Huh.
Speaker 3: Same, Sometimes sometimes the timing be like that. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: just works out that way.
Speaker 1: So well, final question for you too, given the name
Speaker 1: of the game, Indiana Jones in the Great Circle, does
Speaker 1: this qualify in the best whole category or is it
Speaker 1: just a circle, the.
Speaker 5: Circle itself being a hole. No, because the circle circumnavigates
Speaker 5: the globe. There's no hold.
Speaker 3: No, there's there's a shoot circle, and there's a and
Speaker 3: there's a shoot hole eventually too. You'll see that. Yeah, Mike,
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about. You're out of
Speaker 3: your element. Yeah, you're embarrassing yourself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I saw the trailer trailer around.
Speaker 3: Reference whatever.
Speaker 5: If it's going to beat that fucking toilet hole full
Speaker 5: of ship that the sound hill two guy buries his
Speaker 5: hand inside.
Speaker 1: The first hole is pretty good. I got a hole
Speaker 1: that I think might win the best hole.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm excited. That's very enticing. You like that, Sean.
Speaker 1: For you we're gonna be in Los Angeles for a
Speaker 1: little too long, you.
Speaker 2: Know, uh real quick. Every time I hear a Wilhelm
Speaker 2: scream in this game, I'm like, ah, there it is.
Speaker 2: I get pretty excited about stuff like that. All the
Speaker 2: sound of the sound design is so good where it's
Speaker 2: just like they are completely lifting the meaty punch sounds
Speaker 2: and things like that.
Speaker 1: Have have either of y'all ate a lemon?
Speaker 4: I saw so many lemons and I've just like shoved
Speaker 4: like five things of bread in my mouth one Scotty, Yeah, yeah, Scotti.
Speaker 3: It's so fucking funny.
Speaker 4: Every time, like all these stupid things you pick up
Speaker 4: to hit Nazis with, it's just like you'll pick up
Speaker 4: something that looks like a like a three hole punch
Speaker 4: or something. I don't know what the fuck this is,
Speaker 4: but you're beating the ship out of a guy with it.
Speaker 3: It's always sneaking up out behind.
Speaker 4: It's pretty forgiving with the stealth stuff, which I appreciate,
Speaker 4: and then you're just just whipping the shit out of
Speaker 4: these guys.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: I was completely dressed as as a Nazi in their
Speaker 2: and their things, so I was I had good stealth
Speaker 2: where I could just walk around however I wanted. But
Speaker 2: then I saw a Nazi on the other side of
Speaker 2: an elevator shaft, and I just I'm like, I can't
Speaker 2: even resist myself. So I just whipped him around the neck,
Speaker 2: pulled him down and he just did the thing where
Speaker 2: he's about the fall and then he fell down the
Speaker 2: elevator shaft it was, and then I did it while
Speaker 2: the elevator was coming up, so I could see his
Speaker 2: body was very good.
Speaker 3: It's just it's got some some good juice all across
Speaker 3: everything I'm dealing nice.
Speaker 4: I feel so excited whenever it's like I'm walking around
Speaker 4: Egypt and there's like a quarry and there's just like
Speaker 4: a Nazi like so standing by the cliff, just kind
Speaker 4: of looking down and like, oh, there's a if you
Speaker 4: click el three and earth where you just shove. So
Speaker 4: I just sprint up as then he just shoved this
Speaker 4: night off a clip. I watch his head dunk on
Speaker 4: the side of the cliff on the way down.
Speaker 1: And awesome.
Speaker 3: It's a good times. It's really good.
Speaker 1: I suspect we may hear more about Indiana Jones in
Speaker 1: the Great Circle, because I think our own Lucy James
Speaker 1: said it might be her game of.
Speaker 3: The Yes, she's very into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited to hear and see more eventually, and
Speaker 1: I want to see it.
Speaker 2: The small things, you know, you go into it, you
Speaker 2: go in the cave, you have your lighter and you
Speaker 2: start lighting daises and it's like that's cool. That feels nice,
Speaker 2: all those torches and you're just like, we have the towards,
Speaker 2: Like it feels so good every time. All the little
Speaker 2: stuff is really working kind of builds on top to
Speaker 2: make a very good game.
Speaker 4: It's fun when you get like the double handed weapons
Speaker 4: and there's like a weak wall or something, you're just
Speaker 4: like the other.
Speaker 2: And again the sound design is just like it's triggering
Speaker 2: that part of my brand. I remember that sound from
Speaker 2: the movie and the big clump of the metal clanging
Speaker 2: against the wall, like when he's trying to break the
Speaker 2: ground and uh, it was a temple of doom. Oh
Speaker 2: yeah no, no, say yeah yeah yeah. It's like that
Speaker 2: thumb thumb. You hear that and it's oh my god,
Speaker 2: they're just doing it. And that stuff can be like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's uh grating because they're trying to play on your
Speaker 2: sense of nostalgia. But here it mostly just feels like, no,
Speaker 2: they're picking from a menu of Indiana Jones isms and
Speaker 2: in a way that makes a lot of sense and
Speaker 2: feels right.
Speaker 4: And I love, like, you know, I'll be sneaking around
Speaker 4: to Egypt and that's where they introduce like more dogs
Speaker 4: and like, you know, you don't have to kill the dogs,
Speaker 4: so it's you know, I'm trying to be sneaky. A
Speaker 4: dog comes up and starts barking, and there's just a
Speaker 4: whip button and you can just whip above the dog's head,
Speaker 4: just like yah, yeah, dogs duns docile.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, me bring a whip to La. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the last thing we should bring to Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Out anyway, folks, I think that about does it for games.
Speaker 1: In the first segment, we're going to take quick Brick
Speaker 1: to Break and we'll be back with video game news. Now,
Speaker 1: all right, what if Grub you are just one row
Speaker 1: ahead of Mike, will you wait for him? Then?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: If I'm shooting, yes, of course they're like that.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 2: Like I would just be like, tell the person next
Speaker 2: to me, go ahead, I'm waiting for him, and then
Speaker 2: we would walk off together.
Speaker 3: My money thing was I was way in the front.
Speaker 2: He was way in the back, and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of people still to get off, and I'm just like,
Speaker 2: this is awkward.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go where I know we're both going
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: So now it sounds like I was I was correct,
Speaker 2: is what it's starting to sound like.
Speaker 1: I feel like you two fly the most together out
Speaker 1: of everyone just because of like proximity, right.
Speaker 5: But not as often as you would think. I take
Speaker 5: a lot of fights out of Pittsburgh instead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the last time we fly together.
Speaker 2: It was that, right, It was that Yeah, I probably
Speaker 2: it might have been this.
Speaker 1: I'm curious as to what is the etiquette when you guys,
Speaker 1: like maybe maybe are in different boarding groups and you
Speaker 1: pass each other as you're going to your seat. Is
Speaker 1: there like a plight Mike or grub?
Speaker 2: Well, so I quick because he would have to pass
Speaker 2: me because I usually I have a United cards, so
Speaker 2: I usually get at least boarding group two, and so
Speaker 2: he just says hi, and he makes me feel like
Speaker 2: a good person.
Speaker 5: This thing we usually just to take pictures of each
Speaker 5: other's like back of the heads or the top each other. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's fun. Once we spot each other. That's always a
Speaker 5: goody fantastic. It's what because I don't I don't really
Speaker 5: care about sitting in the same like ro Jeff.
Speaker 3: You're gonna be whole time.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, beautiful.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be able to entertain him.
Speaker 1: Well, I need Jeff Grub to entertain me with the news.
Speaker 3: It's b.
Speaker 2: Hi, all right, let's get into some news. Lego's doing
Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff. They got a Lego Fortnite thing
Speaker 2: called brick Life, which stricks like life looks like GTA
Speaker 2: online with maybe a slight emphasis on role play, but
Speaker 2: definitely like you're gonna get a job in the game
Speaker 2: and you can collect stuff and have a house.
Speaker 1: Yeah please Jan Okay, two things. I said this during
Speaker 1: game mess It should be called bricked up.
Speaker 4: Of course I learned what that is because like when
Speaker 4: I googled CUTI cutt you bangs.
Speaker 3: Yes, I google, I do research. I like to be
Speaker 3: knowledgeable at things.
Speaker 4: There was a time months ago when Dominic Mysterio and
Speaker 4: Rhea were still together and Dominic or Rio was doing
Speaker 4: something like licking his face or whispering in his ear,
Speaker 4: and somebody in the crowd just.
Speaker 3: Goes, hey, don't we know you're bricked up and I
Speaker 3: was like, what does bricked up mean? And I googled it,
Speaker 3: like I see, okay, mean what do you think, Mike?
Speaker 3: You're a resident pervert.
Speaker 2: And I want to use context clues there you or
Speaker 2: you just wanted to be sure.
Speaker 4: I thought it was like a cocaine thing and I
Speaker 4: was like, how is this a reference to cocaine.
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, it's an erection thing.
Speaker 1: I The second thing, Greb I was going to say
Speaker 1: is this can't be a proper Lego role play thing
Speaker 1: if people are actually talking. I needed to be like
Speaker 1: the first couple of Lego games where it's just like vocal.
Speaker 3: You should just have a button like.
Speaker 2: A Turbotoo Turbo tiny turbot trip blip and you can
Speaker 2: just do that all the time.
Speaker 3: That you didn't talk about that game enough. That game
Speaker 3: was fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very a huge part of my life because
Speaker 2: my kid's been playing it no stop and asking for help.
Speaker 3: So I've been playing a lot and like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: this game's definitely my top ten I love.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you talked about it because I don't think
Speaker 4: it would have been er like my purview if you
Speaker 4: hadn't talked about it. So, yeah, ever played tiny teri'es
Speaker 4: Turbo team Turbo Trip a Turbo Trip, Yes, yes, it's excellent.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The other thing that they're doing, Lego is or I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: Fortnite is going to have a five v five they're
Speaker 2: going they're doing counter strike.
Speaker 3: They're doing counter strike.
Speaker 2: It's called ballistic, but they're putting counter strike into Fortnite,
Speaker 2: and it's first person and you start with a gun
Speaker 2: in eight hundred dollars and if you kill people, you
Speaker 2: get money, and then you can use that money to
Speaker 2: buy better guns for the future rounds. It's counter strike.
Speaker 2: There's one map because it's counter strike. Uh yeah. Them
Speaker 2: doing a bunch of different stuff inside of Fortnite, it's
Speaker 2: been what they've been doing for a while. This feels
Speaker 2: like them doubling down because both these things feel like
Speaker 2: stuff that could be pretty huge if they take So. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's just at all what you guys want for Fortnite.
Speaker 3: I'm at the.
Speaker 2: Very least like the skins you owned will work in
Speaker 2: these things, right Yeah.
Speaker 1: Me personally, no, But I can see some of the
Speaker 1: valorant audience perhaps coming back to Fortnite because of this.
Speaker 5: Sure, maybe I meanwer still has the strong sort of
Speaker 5: hero abilities and the hero characters. I was always this
Speaker 5: distinguishing thing from Counterstrike. I'm sorry, it's hard when a
Speaker 5: genre already has two top dogs. We had that problem
Speaker 5: with MOBA's for a long time, right with with Legal
Speaker 5: Legends and Doda too. You had smaller successes, there were
Speaker 5: smites in other things.
Speaker 2: If Paragon was in Fortnite, do you think it would
Speaker 2: have done a lot better?
Speaker 5: Yes, but maybe not that much better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of what I think for hearing this
Speaker 3: as well. Exactly.
Speaker 2: Would this is definitely gonna be better than bigger than Paragon,
Speaker 2: But will it be even as big as like Heroes
Speaker 2: of the Storm.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe, But I was making.
Speaker 5: That and now Algie Jeffiffer got that Epics game right
Speaker 5: before Fortnite was a Moba that didn't take off.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, either way, this is you know that they have
Speaker 2: Fortnite as this big pillar.
Speaker 3: Their idea is, let's.
Speaker 2: Make a metaverse surrounding all this stuff, so when you
Speaker 2: do make a purchase and you got to get a scan,
Speaker 2: it'll carry over and that'll keep people in our ecosystem,
Speaker 2: and that's very important us as a free to play game,
Speaker 2: and I get it, and at a certain point, like
Speaker 2: you can only like attract so many more people to
Speaker 2: Fortnite because it feels like everyone that's already played that game.
Speaker 2: So the path to growth is to get another new
Speaker 2: pillar that's just as popular. And listen, if I were
Speaker 2: in the situation and so one pitch these ideas, I'd
Speaker 2: be like, these sound like the best two scenarios to
Speaker 2: maybe get to that point. That doesn't mean they will succeed,
Speaker 2: but we'll see, all right. Suicide Squad's current season will
Speaker 2: be its last offline mode coming this week.
Speaker 3: Mike, I'm sure you're devastating.
Speaker 5: Suicide Squad was fine, Yeah, yeah, this is came out earlier,
Speaker 5: earlier this year, right, this was that was this? Yeah,
Speaker 5: Scalling bones, scalling bombs, Concording Stars Stars came out a
Speaker 5: year for Giants, kind but huge monumental flops. Jeff has
Speaker 5: a little elf visiting.
Speaker 2: Now, Where's where's your sausage sandwich?
Speaker 3: I didn't eat it, She walked up to Jeff. I
Speaker 3: think it's on the counter. I'm sorry, don't get mad.
Speaker 3: You're there.
Speaker 2: Everyone's hearing to be mad at me on the podcast,
Speaker 2: and I think it's very funny. I will help you
Speaker 2: during the next break.
Speaker 3: All right, she walked up just watched you. Do you
Speaker 3: know what?
Speaker 2: Do you know what that pose is? That's tiny terry
Speaker 2: that she's doing.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. God a right, I have.
Speaker 1: A kid, you knew?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, sorry, I forget about him.
Speaker 2: I've mentioned this before, but like the inside out, character
Speaker 2: like that are in charge of your brain.
Speaker 3: Hers our anger, Like.
Speaker 1: It's just anger, anger and anxiety.
Speaker 2: She's got a little lowis black and they're yelling at
Speaker 2: me pretty much consistently.
Speaker 5: Suicide Squad huh sees as it did? They had they had?
Speaker 5: They added three characters of this game? Why had any
Speaker 5: characters that wasn't the problem?
Speaker 1: Else do they add besides the Joker?
Speaker 5: Added the Joker that added Missus Freeze not mister free
Speaker 5: and some other person. I read the name of a
Speaker 5: moment ago and already forgot it. I didn't know who
Speaker 5: they were.
Speaker 1: James Gunn weird, right, yeah, James Gunn.
Speaker 5: You know, like, why not ask somebody who hasn't even
Speaker 5: watched Suicide Squad. I could think of characters that, like,
Speaker 5: why don't you had Peacemaker? I think people would like
Speaker 5: that or that polka dot guy. I don't know, I
Speaker 5: like guy.
Speaker 2: I think the future of this game is since it's
Speaker 2: getting its offline mode, which is gonna make you you
Speaker 2: can play the story, campaigns and post launch content without
Speaker 2: an Internet connection, which was a problem up to this point.
Speaker 2: People had to have an Internet connection. People complained about that,
Speaker 2: but that means this game is going to work in perpetuity.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I think we get like a couple of years out
Speaker 2: and people will go, hey, hitting gems from you know,
Speaker 2: the from twenty twenty twenty to twenty twenty five, and
Speaker 2: this will be on the list. I can be like,
Speaker 2: this is not that bad and you can play it
Speaker 2: offline though. Now I think that's what to.
Speaker 1: Buy for two bucks on a steam Stone. All Right,
Speaker 1: what's the word for, like a little bit lesser than
Speaker 1: a gem?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a diamond in the rough us even better?
Speaker 3: That's bulls gold. Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's to be clear when I say when I defend
Speaker 5: this game, it's not done enthusiastically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very mild defeat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take off your joker cosplay then, Mike geez like,
Speaker 1: it's still.
Speaker 5: It's still again, it's still a game made by Rockstar.
Speaker 5: There's still some of that kind of you know, high
Speaker 5: end fidelity stuff here and there.
Speaker 3: The shooting feels fine.
Speaker 5: A lot of weird choices even story wise, right, like
Speaker 5: they just like don't do things that anybody would be
Speaker 5: happy about, like poison Ivyes, here in the plot twist
Speaker 5: is she's a child. Like that's not fun or interesting.
Speaker 5: In fact, that makes me feel kind of weird the
Speaker 5: ways that this character is usually presented. Yes, all sorts
Speaker 5: of just things like that. They're just kind of bizarre choices.
Speaker 4: Manati in the heath Ledger Joker get up and that
Speaker 4: was funny. And then I pictured full on Jared leto
Speaker 4: Joker like is playing that and that's there.
Speaker 3: Image tattooed on his head.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I never thought overseeing that first, like still of
Speaker 5: the Jared Little No One.
Speaker 3: We'll be seeing that. Ever, I don't know the worst thing.
Speaker 2: Uh, there's switched to rumors again. I'll just go I'll
Speaker 2: just hit the quick The quick hits here maybe could
Speaker 2: get announced in January, February, we know it's happening by March.
Speaker 2: By the end of March, we will have some sort
Speaker 2: of announcement. However that you know, whatever form that takes
Speaker 2: could get an event, maybe a launch event in May,
Speaker 2: because it could come out as soon as May or June.
Speaker 2: There's also some early peripherals that have started going up
Speaker 2: for pre order. Although they don't explicitly mentioned the switch to,
Speaker 2: they do it's a switch to, uh, a grip that
Speaker 2: would have to fit a switch to, and they say
Speaker 2: it's for future consoles. It's like West Generation ready, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Next generation ready.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, what the hell are could you be talking?
Speaker 5: Can't believe they are making peripherals for the PlayStation six?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: There it is, Come on, dude.
Speaker 3: Uh so yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: This switch to coming out by May or June sounds
Speaker 2: plausible to me.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys think that makes sense? They got start
Speaker 1: teasing that soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly. I think by mid June. I would say. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's like they don't need to wait till the holiday.
Speaker 2: If they have a Mario game ready, this thing's gonna
Speaker 2: sell no matter what.
Speaker 5: Right, Oh, can you imagine just tink you about that, Dan,
Speaker 5: You're gonna be playing the next and no one's gonna
Speaker 5: be able to dispute this time mainline Mario game.
Speaker 4: This Well, let's hold off until we see it and
Speaker 4: then I will I'm the of what mainline is.
Speaker 5: It'll be so funny if it's like the most obvious
Speaker 5: next Mario game ever, you're still kind of like, I
Speaker 5: don't know, there's never.
Speaker 3: A question with Odyssey or Galaxy or anything.
Speaker 1: So from them, mister Mosquito, like, but Mario, there you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna be very excited, but it won't be mainline.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, sorry I brought up that word. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we will be playing Marrow games go. Coulda be great yep, And.
Speaker 2: We could be playing it within six months, so that's
Speaker 2: pretty wild. I I don't think there's a chance that
Speaker 2: we get like a trailer before the end of the year,
Speaker 2: because they're like, we're talking about maybe something at the
Speaker 2: Game Awards, but there's just no chance Nintendo enough I
Speaker 2: switch to at the Game Awards, right.
Speaker 1: No. Also, there's some like uh loose world news involving
Speaker 1: a prominent Nintendo character, and.
Speaker 3: Luigi was gonna be a big part of their launch thing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, what.
Speaker 3: Talk about it.
Speaker 4: We don't need to talk about it, Mikeis Mike, don't.
Speaker 2: You remember you remember when the Queen died and they
Speaker 2: had the delay tears of the Kingdom, luigiman GIONI threw
Speaker 2: some war wrench in the works here for Nintendo.
Speaker 3: All right, that Luigi right on Twitter. You guys are
Speaker 3: good friends, right so I don't know him.
Speaker 5: Look out, Jeff, look out, Jeff.
Speaker 3: Oh no, what's happening? The tiny terry dance? She find
Speaker 3: her sandwich? I don't know. I put it on the cabin.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I will help you. Did you ask me?
Speaker 3: It's not my top.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, if kids this kid's food, she would
Speaker 2: kill me. Oh my god, she's attacking me anyhow?
Speaker 5: Oh she do if you if you abandoned her at
Speaker 5: an airport, she would not wine as much as you do.
Speaker 3: Six months later.
Speaker 2: I don't think so I will get it after this.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, I'm gonna keep going here. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna push this kid's face away. There we go.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Nintendo is reportedly porting another three D S game of
Speaker 2: Switch the term World.
Speaker 3: Finally, here we go, Robo Bot Dan.
Speaker 5: I just showed you the joys of Kirby. This was
Speaker 5: one of the better way.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 4: I reviewed this a Game Informer, and it's fine, Okay,
Speaker 4: I think if I didn't review it, I played it
Speaker 4: definitely and I thought it was fine.
Speaker 3: It's get link between worlds on something. I mean link
Speaker 3: between worlds definitely. God that would rule.
Speaker 2: But God, that's maybe behind in the line to like
Speaker 2: Wing Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.
Speaker 3: Would they do that first? They have, right, we try
Speaker 3: Princess would be easier, right, and they already had good
Speaker 3: HD remakes. Yeah. Well, the three y S games that
Speaker 3: they have parted to switch, what are those? Uh me topia?
Speaker 3: All right, they've done?
Speaker 2: Then they do one Oh Luigi's Mansion two?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean there's teams that were ported to
Speaker 5: three D S and then yeah, there.
Speaker 3: Donkey Kong Country HD returns. Yeah, gosh a ton I guess.
Speaker 5: Samus returned to Still on three D S. The game
Speaker 5: is even Super Mario three D Land three DS. What
Speaker 5: else we'll see a lot more of let's switch now
Speaker 5: that the we U library is drying up a bit.
Speaker 3: Good code name Steam Hell yeah, man.
Speaker 2: I was in that room when they announced that, and
Speaker 2: I was so excited. I love Intelligence Systems. It's the
Speaker 2: new Intelligence Systems game, Lincoln Text Lincoln, and I was
Speaker 2: like hot for that, and then and then it no,
Speaker 2: it's not It's.
Speaker 4: Better than stell diver. We're talking to shitty three D
Speaker 4: S games first party.
Speaker 2: Man, I would think he's still yeah, man, code name
Speaker 2: Steam is a bad games.
Speaker 3: Then used the new three dub.
Speaker 2: But it's like it's a strategy game where basically all
Speaker 2: your decisions don't matter because it doesn't give you enough
Speaker 2: information to actually put any strategy into effect.
Speaker 3: So it's just bad. And it's super slow too. You
Speaker 3: have to wait a long time for everyone's turns. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then they updated to be faster and it's still super slow.
Speaker 3: What are they?
Speaker 5: What are they doing porting Plant and rebo Bop before
Speaker 5: Triple Deluxe're just skipping a Kirby game.
Speaker 3: They already did Return to Dreamland.
Speaker 2: Yeah, order, Yeah, Return to Dreamland is like the first
Speaker 2: and that that set of three that used the same engine.
Speaker 5: With that engine, and then it was Triple Deluxe, which
Speaker 5: was the first three. Yes, when it's also very good.
Speaker 7: And also the game, Yeah, there's a mass attack was
Speaker 7: that DS that was Yes, that was the traditional yeah
Speaker 7: one that wasn't a bunch of time that one weak squads,
Speaker 7: the traditional one.
Speaker 5: Massive text is like there's a bunch of Kirby's right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: And then there was Rainbow Curse Canvus Curse.
Speaker 3: On d campus Curse is my favorite Kirby game? Still awesome?
Speaker 2: Yes, I think to answer your question though, Mike, is
Speaker 2: I think Planet Robo got like, oh, it was pretty popular,
Speaker 2: Like I think it's the one that's so.
Speaker 5: It definitely stuck around people's minds more people love plan.
Speaker 5: It has a great hook, right Carbi and Giant Max.
Speaker 3: Great, that's fantastic, all right.
Speaker 2: Ten Cent reportedly wants a greater say over Ubisoft as
Speaker 2: investment discussions continue. Basically, it breaks down this like this,
Speaker 2: ten Cent already owns ten percent Ubisoft in dire straits.
Speaker 2: Investors are not happy. So the plan is yieves Chemol
Speaker 2: and his family will take all take a deal to
Speaker 2: ten Cent and say, hey, you buy all the outs
Speaker 2: help us buy all the outstanding shares out there, and
Speaker 2: then we'll take the company private. But the Gamol family
Speaker 2: specifically eaves, but the Gemo family will still have a
Speaker 2: majority control over You be soft, but then you'll be
Speaker 2: the minority owner and you'll have a little bit less
Speaker 2: than we will and ten cents going, why would we
Speaker 2: want that? You are the people that got this company
Speaker 2: into the situation in.
Speaker 3: The first place.
Speaker 2: Why would we want to take this company private and
Speaker 2: let you maintain full control. Wouldn't we want if we're
Speaker 2: doing such a dractive change to change things And that's
Speaker 2: seems to be the hang up here now on this thing.
Speaker 3: So it's odd.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want test it to own ubi soft,
Speaker 5: but if they were going to buy ub soft, they
Speaker 5: would buy ubi soft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, and they could do that now, you know,
Speaker 2: this is the anticipation of this has caused the stock
Speaker 2: price to go up for you be Soft.
Speaker 3: But that's the only good news they have right now.
Speaker 2: Everything else, Like there was a chart that went around
Speaker 2: in the last week of how much the companies make
Speaker 2: per employee, Like for every employee you have, how much
Speaker 2: revenue do you generate? And like EA was something like
Speaker 2: for every employee that we have, we make around five
Speaker 2: hundred to six hundred thousand dollars in revenue. So you
Speaker 2: can imagine like you have an average wage of one
Speaker 2: hundred hundred and twenty five thousand. Maybe that's generous.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's a huge margin there where you can make a
Speaker 2: lot of money. You be Soft was at like ninety five.
Speaker 2: I have one thousand dollars per employee. Which is pretty rough,
Speaker 2: and they were at the bottom of the chart. They
Speaker 2: have a ton of people that they employ and their
Speaker 2: games aren't selling. It's the recipe for disasters. Something does
Speaker 2: have to change, and right now it seems like the
Speaker 2: thing they're hoping changes is Assassin's Creed Shadows will come
Speaker 2: out and sell a ton and they're just hoping for
Speaker 2: the best there, and hey, I hope that game does well,
Speaker 2: but good good luck.
Speaker 3: I just don't know.
Speaker 2: Hoping the for Assassin's Creed to change everything is probably
Speaker 2: not a great strategy. Last couple of things here. The
Speaker 2: Thing remastered is now available. Night Dive just basically dropped
Speaker 2: it out of nowhere. It was supposed to come out
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. It was getting near the end of
Speaker 2: the year. Everyone's going, is this actually going to come out?
Speaker 2: And then they just released it. Boy, I love Night
Speaker 2: Dive all their work, and the word is this is awesome.
Speaker 2: The word is they did another great job on this game.
Speaker 3: Did you play this back in the day?
Speaker 2: I think I feel like I remember playing it, but
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I must have emulated it or something. Is it meant
Speaker 3: to be? I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 4: It was like a new story like in that world
Speaker 4: or is it like Kurt Russell or they're trying to
Speaker 4: be like with The movie.
Speaker 2: Set shortly after the events of the nineteen eighty two
Speaker 2: John Carpenter film, players assume the role of Captain Blake,
Speaker 2: a US Army Special Forces captain investigating the disappearance of
Speaker 2: a research team in Antarctica.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm curious check it out because I did recently
Speaker 4: watch the thing again and I'm just a whole new
Speaker 4: appreciation for that movie right now. So I would love
Speaker 4: to see a video game take on that.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about? They Live? Is really good?
Speaker 4: The idea of They Live is more interesting than watching it.
Speaker 4: I love the theme, and that's fair. The visuals are
Speaker 4: really cool and everything. It's just like it doesn't really
Speaker 4: build to like a super exciting ending or anything like that.
Speaker 3: But I like it a lot.
Speaker 2: I think that's a fair because I'm like I was
Speaker 2: going to say, I think about that movie all the time,
Speaker 2: which is another way of saying what you said.
Speaker 4: So it's like, yeah, no, I'm very glad it exists.
Speaker 4: It's just not like the most exciting John Carpenter rewatch, you.
Speaker 3: Know, sure, yes, John Carpenter rules.
Speaker 5: It's not a big horn guy, but I saw the
Speaker 5: thing for the first time, not this Hallen but last Salloween.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 5: I really liked it, and they wanted to go back
Speaker 5: to this game, and like announced this remaster right around then.
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, that's convenient. I definitely want to get
Speaker 5: to this. I bet I'm going to enjoy it a lot.
Speaker 3: Yep. That does remind me.
Speaker 2: Do we have a best Old Game category for like remakes?
Speaker 1: And so I.
Speaker 3: Can dominate something I get and then everybody just didn't win.
Speaker 3: There's one you like. I think I.
Speaker 5: Don't think you did. I think you immediately joined the no.
Speaker 3: I think I had your back.
Speaker 2: I think I was defending you from backalar yep. And
Speaker 2: so this is why I leave you on planes, because
Speaker 2: you don't ever remember when I stick up for wow.
Speaker 4: Wow, we don't have a best old game category? Should
Speaker 4: I just call it best old game?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Best old game?
Speaker 2: Because there's a I was like, I was like doing
Speaker 2: some stuff out in the yard and I was thinking
Speaker 2: about a bunch.
Speaker 3: I'm like, we should do that, and then I.
Speaker 5: Especially your door what you definitely have been finishing, right, Jeff, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm putting.
Speaker 4: That down paper Mario, is this now? Is this a remake? Remaster?
Speaker 3: H I think it should be all of it.
Speaker 2: Like anyway, then an old game popped back up, even
Speaker 2: if it's just something you played that's old. And then
Speaker 2: if it will just have to like go up against
Speaker 2: actual remasters and remakes, and if we want to, if
Speaker 2: we get enough and we want.
Speaker 3: To spread it out into two different categories, we can.
Speaker 4: Have lumping remakes in with old games we played. I
Speaker 4: think so, yeah, Paper Mario, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: I felt bad about not giving the getting to Riven.
Speaker 5: Apparently that was very good. Then I guess, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's one.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: What I do each year around this time is I
Speaker 2: go through my Steam and sort by release date, and
Speaker 2: then I just add everything to a list called Game
Speaker 2: of the Year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: And so I'm gonna see if I can I put
Speaker 3: a bunch of Persona three, Dragon Quest three.
Speaker 5: Hut NERD games on remakes.
Speaker 1: Dan, if you have the time, could you add Pegel
Speaker 1: one and two just because I just love two.
Speaker 4: I just added Zelda Windwaker HD since I beat that
Speaker 4: this year. Okay, okay, find out if wind Waker is
Speaker 4: better than pegl Finally, I think you're the ones that
Speaker 4: you just happen to place here will have Well, they're eligible.
Speaker 5: I think they're going to have a harder time of winning.
Speaker 1: Exactly that there's a strong likelihood of tam nominating Bloodborne.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, well I'll let him do that if he
Speaker 4: wants to bring it up. But I'm just gonna go
Speaker 4: ahead and put a legacy of Caine on here because.
Speaker 1: Get him to war with himself.
Speaker 2: And killing time Colon resurrected.
Speaker 3: Okay, Mickey, is the remake this year? Yes? It was
Speaker 3: another only.
Speaker 5: Okay, Getting Evil got remastered?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was actually very good.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, Yeah, I feel like I'll think of more
Speaker 2: as we go.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm glad we did that. So it's on there
Speaker 3: now it's from the docks, so awesome. All right?
Speaker 2: And then h last thing here, people are hyping up
Speaker 2: the Game Awards. Uh just Gordon joined Tom Ward and
Speaker 2: Andy Robertson to be like, hey, this thing is going
Speaker 2: to be really exciting because we're going to be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you Yeah, what.
Speaker 1: Do you guys?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're excited about us. I think that's
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you just think it could be well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see gameplay of something we weren't
Speaker 1: expecting to see. There's probably there has to be one
Speaker 1: shadow drop, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there could be yeah, probably uh and then you
Speaker 2: know the song maybe Silk song. Tom Warren and Jess
Speaker 2: Cordon are guys that like Fallo on Xbox dues. Do
Speaker 2: you think it could be like Perfect or Heart Dark, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Crimson Skies, Blood Wake.
Speaker 2: Killer Killer Instinct is back Blinks the time Sweeper Cell Damage.
Speaker 3: I was looking.
Speaker 5: I would really like a guys I care about that
Speaker 5: Twisted Metal.
Speaker 4: I feel like there was like did that get canceled?
Speaker 4: There was like a Twisted Metal they were talking about
Speaker 4: like a couple of years ago. Yes, it's just gone now, okay, yes,
Speaker 4: so it.
Speaker 2: Was it started at one studio and that studio released
Speaker 2: Destruction All Stars and then they're like, well, we're going
Speaker 2: to move it to this other studio. And it was
Speaker 2: it was gonna be free to play under Destruction All
Speaker 2: Stars debs and then and they moved into another studio
Speaker 2: and then it got canceled with that studio. Basically that show.
Speaker 2: People like that show, the sort of like the you know,
Speaker 2: the a synergy with.
Speaker 3: That and that's not gonna happen now.
Speaker 2: It seems like, all right, yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 2: else to think about the Game Awards, like what could
Speaker 2: be a big announcement. I am very happy to just
Speaker 2: go and watch this thing though, and let things surprise me,
Speaker 2: and I hope I hope it. Like usually at this time,
Speaker 2: everyone's going, you know, don't get your hopes up too much.
Speaker 2: Jeff can only control so much. And now everyone's going,
Speaker 2: now forget that noise. Let's let's get nuts about this one.
Speaker 3: So I hope time that one seems very possible. Whi's
Speaker 3: been a bit, hasn't it since Village yea?
Speaker 5: And talks of.
Speaker 2: Nine getting debuted over the summer, right, so it would
Speaker 2: be ready to show off by now, I would imagine, Uh,
Speaker 2: all right, that's what I have for headlines.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Kind of a short and sweet one this week, as
Speaker 2: we have this weird episode handing the show back to Jim.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeff Grub. It's never a weird one because
Speaker 1: we're the weird ones. That's right, folks, We've got a
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Speaker 1: if you have a question about hardware or suggestions you
Speaker 1: want about video games. Hit are your boys, We got
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Speaker 1: for you. Speaking about questions first email. This episode is
Speaker 1: a quiz and quiz is involved a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: This comes from Nathan in Vancouver. Nathan writes in in
Speaker 1: honor of the end of the two billion dollars grossing
Speaker 1: Eras Tour, I've attached ten question question quiz for the
Speaker 1: GB crew to test their lyrical knowledge and identify if
Speaker 1: the lyrics are from a video game or Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: billion dollars two billion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you hear about this. Erasing was a big deal.
Speaker 3: I see. I think Nicki Glazer has gone to like
Speaker 3: most of those shows, so that's.
Speaker 5: I feel bad I didn't go now, like I should
Speaker 5: have just gone to one of these. It seems like
Speaker 5: it's important.
Speaker 1: I'm an important, like I'm kind of like a swifty
Speaker 1: but like honest to God. Probably one of the best
Speaker 1: shows I've ever been to.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Nathan continues, to the best of Google's knowledge, each of
Speaker 1: the video games songs included were originally written for the game.
Speaker 1: The order of the questions are randomized, and Jan can
Speaker 1: award bonus podcast podcast points if the crew guesses the
Speaker 1: game where Taylor Swift era associated with the lyrics.
Speaker 3: I gonna know neither of these unless it's the Snake
Speaker 3: Eater song.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna go that.
Speaker 3: Shh Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to abstain from this quiz because I
Speaker 1: think I know all the answers. But quote number one
Speaker 1: video game or Taylor Swift. This is my last chance
Speaker 1: to hold onto hope before it slips away.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a Kingdom.
Speaker 5: Heart's I don't think it's Keen of Hearts. This is
Speaker 5: one of the three songs.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say video games.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm going to say Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: Then, okay, Dan, you said video game. Mm hmm it
Speaker 1: is a video game from Persona five. Oh yeah, of
Speaker 1: course I was about to say that.
Speaker 5: Now I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 1: Okay, second quote, you kept oh shoot, you kept me
Speaker 1: like a secret, but I kept you like an oath,
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, so swifty.
Speaker 3: I'm yeah, that just very much rings like Taylor Swift
Speaker 3: to me. Taylor Swift, it is.
Speaker 1: From the Red era. Oh okay, when everything fades away,
Speaker 1: your voice still echoes in my heart.
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5: I would yeah, I felt like a Swift to me.
Speaker 5: It could easily be some game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go with Taylor Swift as well.
Speaker 1: It is a video game near automative fourth one. The
Speaker 1: lights are so bright, but they never blind me.
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5: I need, I need to make up ground video game.
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift shat and he guesses for the era Gentleman blue,
Speaker 1: Silver and Gold. Nope, nineteen eighty nine, Sapphire.
Speaker 3: Ruby my era.
Speaker 1: They do just mean album right, Yes, yes, they already
Speaker 1: had a word for that. But it's not enough. Fact,
Speaker 1: it's not enough for Tailor, you know, Fifth one, like
Speaker 1: Shadows in the Dark, I see you, but can't hold on.
Speaker 5: That sounds like a video game.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with video games, Trell anime games.
Speaker 1: It seems uh it is indeed a video game. Final
Speaker 1: Fantasy fifteen anime game.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, I thought it just had take on me.
Speaker 1: We'll make it through the storm, no matter where we are.
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift, I'm gonna go video game.
Speaker 5: Okay, I think Swift.
Speaker 1: It is video game legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
Speaker 4: They should do lyrics like the rap at the end
Speaker 4: of Gears of War that the Coltrane things or the
Speaker 4: Rogue Warrior one with Mickey Rourke rapping.
Speaker 2: Oh, is that like one of the things that the
Speaker 2: bird guy saying.
Speaker 3: I guess he wouldn't explain that.
Speaker 2: Words and Zelda ones right, yeah, But but in Breath
Speaker 2: of the Wild it was that bird that played the post.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's the second one. Oh right, important.
Speaker 5: I didn't I did not mean take on me, I met,
Speaker 5: stand by me, I found fancy fifteen joke my bed.
Speaker 5: Oh the next one, but I was working on that
Speaker 5: for a while. I was like, that's not right.
Speaker 1: The next one is. And the skeletons in both our
Speaker 1: closets plotted hard to mess this.
Speaker 3: Up, ghosts and goblins. I'm gonna I'm gonna say Taylor,
Speaker 3: and it's Taylor.
Speaker 5: That's gonna be Taylor.
Speaker 1: It is indeed Taylor. The Speak Now era Last Three
Speaker 1: Here Boys video game where Taylor Swift I've been living
Speaker 1: in a dream, but it's not what it seems.
Speaker 3: A name, and I'm gonna go video game as well.
Speaker 5: I gotta go Taylor.
Speaker 1: Well, Mike, you're wrong because it is a video game. Kingdom.
Speaker 3: You're getting kind of crushed.
Speaker 1: I've been living in a dream, but it's not what
Speaker 1: it seems.
Speaker 2: I was shoot, gonna say that sounds like Kingdom.
Speaker 3: Hearts too. I'm like, they can. That's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's from the song Sanctuary.
Speaker 3: It's our Sanctuary. That's my favorite one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it is.
Speaker 3: It's my favorite.
Speaker 5: Now I'm like, try to listen. I'm trying to place
Speaker 5: that in the song. I'm like, I don't even seeing
Speaker 5: you off.
Speaker 3: Stay sure?
Speaker 5: Now they don't say that, is it the part they
Speaker 5: say backwards because that's cheating.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Final two here in the Silence of the Night, whispers
Speaker 1: Guide the Way.
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift video game.
Speaker 1: Sift. It is a video game, fire ambled three houses.
Speaker 1: In the final one, Taylor Swift or video game I
Speaker 1: polish up real nice.
Speaker 3: I'll go with Taylor Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5: I think that this one's a trick question. I think
Speaker 5: it's Bob Dylan.
Speaker 3: It's both.
Speaker 1: It's actually Timothy shallow May it is Taylor Swift, but
Speaker 1: the song is called be Jeweled, so.
Speaker 3: It was a true questions kind of right.
Speaker 1: Mike, you can redeem yourself and win this whole game
Speaker 1: if you can identify the era that that song is from.
Speaker 3: Okay, per game gear era.
Speaker 5: Well, I know there's a red Era era, a Dead
Speaker 5: Poet Society era.
Speaker 1: Nope, it is the Midnight's era. Damn all right, we
Speaker 1: gotta get on OUTI here. So maybe two more emails
Speaker 1: called Tortured Poets Society.
Speaker 5: Tortured Poet Society confuse, Oh captain, my captain?
Speaker 1: All right. Next email comes from phil and Calgary, a
Speaker 1: very Canada rich email segment. Hello bomb friends, I need
Speaker 1: your expert advice at my workplace. I've been pulled into
Speaker 1: a secret Santa gift exchange that I didn't really want
Speaker 1: to be part of. Being the only one who said
Speaker 1: no felt worse than just joining in. What do you
Speaker 1: recommend for a gift under fifty dollars? Possible gift receivers
Speaker 1: are men and women ages from around thirty to fifty five.
Speaker 1: Hope you can help fill in.
Speaker 2: Cal stink bombs like one of those cheap Amazon Chinese
Speaker 2: video game handhelds A nice salt.
Speaker 5: Wow, these terrible? Well they can getting better, I have
Speaker 5: to say. I guess, gosh, I don't know. Fifty bucks
Speaker 5: huh fifty bucks is how far does that get you anymore?
Speaker 5: These days? Kind of rough?
Speaker 2: Can we do a secret Sanna? I know we don't
Speaker 2: have any time. I know we don't have time, but
Speaker 2: what if we do?
Speaker 3: What if we were like just you did it?
Speaker 1: A five dollars limit? All right?
Speaker 5: Listen up Duke's Cannon. They make a bar of soap
Speaker 5: called a lump of coal. So it's kind of Christmas
Speaker 5: seemed it funny.
Speaker 3: Definitely seen it.
Speaker 2: Three times, and every time I'm like, I gotta get
Speaker 2: that for Mike. Every single time.
Speaker 1: We should do a secret Sanna. Maybe twenty dollars limit,
Speaker 1: and we can only shop at that overpriced candy store.
Speaker 3: No Spencers, no Spencer's gifts.
Speaker 1: Okay, everyone gets still better?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: The gifts?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I thought it was.
Speaker 5: It's the only thing I think about what Spincers.
Speaker 3: I haven't been. I think about the still doos.
Speaker 4: All I think about Spencer's gifts is like bad punny
Speaker 4: T shirts and like posters of a wizard with a.
Speaker 5: Black Baver made it back to the dodo section.
Speaker 3: No, I was probably afraid. If you look around you
Speaker 3: can't see the dildo section. It's because you are the dildo.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Wow, is that a new thing or
Speaker 3: they always been in.
Speaker 1: The dildo I've always been business.
Speaker 3: Brother. Wow, it's just like donkey.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, you know, kiss balls or whatever you know,
Speaker 4: like on the dice. But I need to know they
Speaker 4: didn't straight up shoot dildos.
Speaker 5: Straight up shoot didas.
Speaker 1: Your secret person, I'm get them a magic eight ball.
Speaker 1: I feel like that'd be a fun goof in.
Speaker 2: That's what now sounds like what the what the dildo
Speaker 2: gun in Saints Row would be called the shot shoot dildo.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think we helped to fill out that much.
Speaker 5: You get that bar of soap, but I mean that's
Speaker 5: not super close to fifty though it might be a
Speaker 5: little cheap.
Speaker 2: We don't get a lump of coal for your coworker.
Speaker 2: That's something you get for someone you're like cool with.
Speaker 3: What is Michael?
Speaker 5: Oh, come on, they go get It's not actually ump
Speaker 5: of coal, it's a bar of soap.
Speaker 2: If you get like they're worth actually fifty dollars you're
Speaker 2: gonna look like.
Speaker 3: A real jerk.
Speaker 5: Yeah, God, fifty dollars is a lot for a company,
Speaker 5: Santa By, Like, what are you a stockbroker?
Speaker 3: Fifty dollars?
Speaker 1: What are you a ceo?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Maybe a waffle maker, like a Mickey Mouse waffle.
Speaker 3: Maker, Elmo toaster, a bout some of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a thermos perhaps, I feel like these days it's
Speaker 1: over fifty. Maybe like a smaller one, so you don't.
Speaker 3: Okay, go to like Barnes and know whatever.
Speaker 5: Get one of those like overpriced coffee books, but they're
Speaker 5: on sale right about Space or the Beatles or something
Speaker 5: that's fine.
Speaker 3: Copy of Rising Z Samurai Gunman that was an empty button. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or go to the local dollar store and load up
Speaker 1: on DVDs and that's hours of entertainments.
Speaker 2: Get a lot of old copies of EGM for fifty
Speaker 2: dollars off eBay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1: Ship, Yeah that's true.
Speaker 5: Just go get the scratch off tickets. Get two twenties
Speaker 5: and a ten.
Speaker 3: That's always a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually enjoy that.
Speaker 2: I got one of those for aj Minatti's birthday once
Speaker 2: forgot to give it to him, scratch it off myself
Speaker 2: months later. One one hundred dollars and then forgot to
Speaker 2: ever cash it in and then expired.
Speaker 3: Well that's awesome. Fuck yeah, will you? Will you just
Speaker 3: stop torturing me and my family? Do you know about
Speaker 3: this now?
Speaker 5: That's incredible funny though, it's funny.
Speaker 3: That difference between me and you.
Speaker 4: By the time I was done scratching that off, I'd
Speaker 4: be speeding back to the gas station.
Speaker 2: I kept it like in my glove compartment. I want
Speaker 2: to cash that in.
Speaker 3: I have one hundred.
Speaker 2: Dollars, not going to get that to a jagons and
Speaker 2: then I forgot, And I think that was myself punishing myself.
Speaker 3: Credible.
Speaker 5: I mean, do those expire? Do you have to catch
Speaker 5: the master?
Speaker 2: It said you have to cash it in with like
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty days or something like that, So
Speaker 2: that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Half a year waited more than half a year? Oh man?
Speaker 1: What if the game awards, which is getting to smoke
Speaker 1: and shigs and scratch off tickets anyway? Next email Energy
Speaker 1: comes from Matt in Australia, second and last email of
Speaker 1: the show. Hey, GB crew, all the milk talk in
Speaker 1: recent months has me baffled here in Australia drinking milk
Speaker 1: as an adult is totally normal Victoria. We have the
Speaker 1: brand Big M which advertises itself towards adult You can
Speaker 1: see some of the TV commercials on their marketing website.
Speaker 1: Some of the promotional flavors they've had in past include
Speaker 1: banana split, honey comb, and salted caramel. My question is,
Speaker 1: if you had to design a flavored milk drink you
Speaker 1: would actually drink, what would it be? With Love Matt
Speaker 1: In Australia.
Speaker 4: Orange crimst milk is really good. There's a place in
Speaker 4: Kansa city that does that. It's really good.
Speaker 1: Uh just give me Horta. I love Horhata.
Speaker 2: The people in this commercial are are drinking, they are
Speaker 2: having like summer fun, and they have a cooler full
Speaker 2: of milk.
Speaker 3: Like it's a bud Light commercial.
Speaker 2: This is another planet to me. It's like the whole
Speaker 2: joke of the Akerman where he is dying in the
Speaker 2: heat and he drinks.
Speaker 3: Milk and he's like, all milk was a bad choice? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Like that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, that's funny because it's very very true.
Speaker 2: It'd be a terrible choice on a hot summer day.
Speaker 2: And all these people look like they've never been happier.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, this is bizarre.
Speaker 1: It's not even a milk mustache in one of these,
Speaker 1: it's just a whole milk beard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what are they even milking down there?
Speaker 3: Spiders?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 3: Do they have cows? Delicious spider milk? Certainly have Australia.
Speaker 1: Okay, they have cows.
Speaker 5: When I think of Australian animals, it takes a while
Speaker 5: to I get to cows.
Speaker 3: But they have.
Speaker 1: Wow. Apparently there was a thread of like only one
Speaker 1: flavor of big m can stay and that was quite
Speaker 1: the predicament.
Speaker 3: And creamsickle milk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's super good. It's coming called Chateau. And they
Speaker 4: do like root beer flavored milk, they do orange creaml
Speaker 4: it's all super good. When I was down there for
Speaker 4: the Extra Life conference, I was like, holy shit, I
Speaker 4: haven't had this in like twenty years, and it's so
Speaker 4: damn good.
Speaker 3: I think my problem is the milk. Yes, anything you
Speaker 3: add to it's not going to get rid of them.
Speaker 3: Like picture.
Speaker 5: I don't like the flavor. I just I just don't
Speaker 5: like milk.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 4: I don't ever go out of my way to have it.
Speaker 4: But when I have it, I'm like, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 4: I put it in my What did I put it
Speaker 4: in an oatmeal to make oatmeal?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, I don't like free and I put in my
Speaker 2: cereal and that's about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, any thick drinks? I like milk shake? You don't
Speaker 5: like milkshit, I don't like the I don't like milkshakes.
Speaker 5: I'll just give me ice cream. What is this watered
Speaker 5: down ice cream?
Speaker 3: Do you have almond milk? That's what I have. I'm
Speaker 3: fine with almond milk. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: Thank you everyone for sending an email to the show.
Speaker 1: We probably have one more real official bomb cast in
Speaker 1: the year, and I'll try and throw those in there
Speaker 1: the last email of this show. Sorry emailer, I don't
Speaker 1: have your name written here, but they write in your
Speaker 1: giant bomb. Jan and Grubber cool, Dan and Mike are
Speaker 1: not parentheses. If they try and say otherwise, it makes
Speaker 1: them even less cool.
Speaker 3: I've never considered myself cool. I mean me neither. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think I'm real cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm cool. I think I've just come
Speaker 1: to terms with it. This is gonna lead into the heel.
Speaker 1: You are cool, You are cool. I think you are
Speaker 1: also cool.
Speaker 3: I don't like I don't like having someone to me,
Speaker 3: I'm not cool. Well, you're being kind of uncool about it.
Speaker 1: Actually cool, folks does it for emails and that does
Speaker 1: it for the show once again. Quick reminder Giant Bomb
Speaker 1: at night this Wednesday, five pm Pacific Standard time. Grub's
Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of guests lined up and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a fun time on the couch. And then
Speaker 1: we're also gonna have a fun time counting down to
Speaker 1: the Game Awards with our homies from Game Spot. A
Speaker 1: lot of fun segments will hand out there. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be holding down the ford. These boys are gonna be
Speaker 1: looking so fresh, so clean out there in their their
Speaker 1: new their their their proper formal where we will also
Speaker 1: be making a mad dash to a conference room or
Speaker 1: my hotel room to be talking over the Game Awards.
Speaker 1: We're gonna oh, yes, I've been figured out yet. You're
Speaker 1: doing that. We're doing it, but I have yet to
Speaker 1: figure out where.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, a lot.
Speaker 4: When did the Mario trailer reaction just on the steps
Speaker 4: of a place in New York City, And that was fun,
Speaker 4: that was good that.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Rory is just fiddling around with a newspaper next
Speaker 1: to us, and it's just.
Speaker 3: A random old man and as well.
Speaker 1: Have we announced that people the other things we're doing
Speaker 1: Friday Saturday? I don't think we have.
Speaker 3: I think we've loosely talked about it.
Speaker 2: I've mentioned it on one game this morning, I think today.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we'll just say it here, folks. We are
Speaker 1: not having a big stage show to conclude Game of
Speaker 1: the Year this year. We will be pre recording in
Speaker 1: person in Los Angeles our Game of the Year deliberations.
Speaker 1: Do not worry. We have a bunch of f fun
Speaker 1: categories lined up and we will also be crowning our
Speaker 1: Game of the Year. Take your bets now, start placing
Speaker 1: your bets now, folks, see who's going to influence the
Speaker 1: odds boys. Anything else to say before we get on
Speaker 1: out of here.
Speaker 3: I don't think. So.
Speaker 2: We will do that stuff out over the next couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. There will be a Game to year, lists
Speaker 2: from our friends and stuff like that. So your friend
Speaker 2: you're hearing this, you got your run out of time,
Speaker 2: hit me up. We'll get you on the website with
Speaker 2: a list and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: Yes, the Disney stuff cool, that's a big part of it.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, maybe it's because you haven't had an
Speaker 1: erotic dream.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the cool dudes you're having erotic dreams. Yeah,
Speaker 3: cool erotic dreams. Okay, I'll try tonight.
Speaker 2: I'll think alright, have erotic dream Jesus.
Speaker 4: Christ like the coolest dude, and my head went to
Speaker 4: John Moxley. If it suddenly turned out that he was
Speaker 4: a big Disney adult, I think it'd be like, oh,
Speaker 4: we were wrong about him.
Speaker 1: Wrestlers really love the parks though, David.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Johnny Garganos and stuff in the world, not
Speaker 3: the like cool ones. You know, Cody's a big doork.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he's cool.
Speaker 1: Gents. I can't wait to see your lovely faces in
Speaker 1: sunny Los Angeles tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: By the time you're listening to this podcast, we will
Speaker 1: all probably have touchdown and are getting the ball rolling.
Speaker 1: Uh special shouts shout out as always to the one
Speaker 1: and only Emma Fife. Oh my god, thank you so much, Emma,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Emma, Thank you so much to
Speaker 1: uh you listening at home.
Speaker 3: We're almost done for the year. Guys. What the ship
Speaker 3: December nine?
Speaker 1: I hope this kid finds her sausage sandwich.
Speaker 2: By the way, she's not coming back down to attack me.
Speaker 1: It's all right, folks. He's been he's been, Daddy's been
Speaker 1: grub I'm the Jin and I love you. Good Bye.