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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Jeff Grubbin.
Speaker 3: With me is John Turboshaan McDowell.
Speaker 1: In today's episode, the PlayStation six handheld might be very powerful.
There is a galaxy's worth of opinions about that Mario movie,
and the mind's eye situation is getting weird. Funny is
what we call it in the business. It's weird funny. Now, first, Sean,
how are you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm a little sleepy, Jeff. Another Thursday a row where podcasting.
I'm a little tired because I haven't done an event
with you guys at Giant Bomb in this way like
ever really? Oh right, Yeah, it's a work week, and
then the entire weekend is any event. Then you have
another work week after that, So, especially combine with all
my travel issues, I'm a bit tired.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I'm definitely sort of having to turn the
part of my brain off that is telling me I'm tired.
Speaker 2: I say that, I definitely like laid down in the
middle of the day today and like.
Speaker 1: Kind of put off some stuff for a little like
a little bit longer than I should have, and I say, okay,
i'll get back to work. But I just kind of
laid and got horizontal and that helped. But it's like,
we're we're gonna get through it almost the weekend, Easter weekend.
It's still gonna be kind of busy for me. But yeah,
going from work week to travel weekend to work week
is quite a bit.
Speaker 2: It's quite a lot. Takes it out of you. And
apparently it's killed Mike Manati, who's not here again. Oh yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3: Right me, you'll never see him again, but except for
May next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe next week.
Speaker 1: I was busy laying down during voicemail dump truck today,
so I didn't I didn't see his deterioration. My understanding
is he started strong and that didn't last for very long.
Speaker 2: Is that how much? Oh no, he was.
Speaker 3: He was confident, not not like over confident, but he
was like I can do this, I can get through
this in twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: And he's in there like good guys, don't don't worry. Yeah, no,
he was. He was. Yeah, Christian's right, he looked like
a zombie. Okay, well, Mike, you rest.
Speaker 1: He's in bed, he's he's listening from bed right now,
and he says hi to everybody who's listening at home.
Speaker 2: Let's let him just recover.
Speaker 1: I wonder if I mean he could have brought something
home from packs, but everyone else's fine.
Speaker 3: No, no, not quite. I'm I'm a little under the weather.
I think Chuck has a little bit of a sickness
as well. So it's like, you know, I think I
think maybe like a cold got passed around a little bit,
and then Mike got the worst of whatever it may
or may not been.
Speaker 1: Okay, that that sounds right, because it's like, yeah, a
bunch of people bring home something and then by Tuesday
they're starting to feel a little bit rough and okay,
so he could have maybe got something extra on top
of the airport. But yeah, feel better, Mike. We'll see
you on the next episode of the Sides. All right, Well,
oh yeah.
Speaker 3: You know what makes me feel better. I forgot to
mention this here. I got my cat Rosalina plush.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's amazing. Look at that. Yeah, I
had to import this damn thing. Like, I've never seen that.
Speaker 3: Don't sell these like anywhere. Yeah, I was buying some
ore stuff at one point. I just saw it on
the storefront and I was like, oh, hey, yeah, I
want this.
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Let's yeah, you know, you know what. We can't start
here PlayStation hardware news in in general. So let's start
with the price, which got very expensive the day after.
So you and I recorded a podcast Seawan this podcast
last week. Then we both headed to Boston and as
like I was landing in Boston as you were having
one of your many travails of flying across the country. Yeah,
they raised the price on this thing across the board
at least one hundred dollars for would like depending on
the device you're talking about, and when you compare it
to the launch prices for all of these devices, it
is way way up. For example, the PlayStation five Digital
Edition went up fifty percent from its launch from four
hundred dollars to now six hundred dollars, and the PS
five Pro is a staggering nine hundred dollars. This will
lead us into the discussion about the P six handheld
and all this stuff next generation.
Speaker 2: But how do you feel about the price?
Speaker 3: Okay, so first of all, I have two stories I
want too. Uh. First, when I got to packs, I
like hadn't really bound my phone much that day, right,
you know, I was traveling so much. I was kind
of just listening to podcasts, watching some YouTube biowery head
download and stuff. I get in and the first person
I see is l Will, who was you know saying
off to the side at the millionaire panel you guys
were doing? And uh, you know, I say hi to him,
you know, give him. We started talking a little bit,
and after we sell in a little bit, it turns
me in and was like nine hundred dollars for PS
five pro Huh. I turned on and I'm like, are
you talking about like what someone's selling one here for
nine hundred dollars? Like I couldn't comprehend for like two
minutes straight what he meant? Yeah, of course, like the
words were yeah, the words meant nothing. And also my
thing is when I got home, I was talking to
my mom a little bit and like, you know, just
like catching up about how your weekend was and anything
like that. And then she asked me, did you hear
about the PlayStation price going up?
Speaker 2: And I did containment.
Speaker 3: I did the slickest like a spin on your heel
you've ever seen in your life, with the most incredulous
look on my face, like, how do you know about that?
And of course the answer is I knew immediately. It
was on the national news ABC News tonight had a
story about, Yeah, the PlayStation going up by like at
least one hundred dollars across the board. So I'm like,
oh my god, this is like a bit big bag deal.
Everybody knows, literally everybody and their mother knows, but yeah,
this is just this is wild. Jeff especially, I was
thinking about this. I was talking about with my friends
there night. Psfive pro a friendly reminder technically not nine
hard dollars, kind of sort of nine hundred and fifty
dollars if you want a disk drive, because right, like,
I keep thinking about what who is buying a PS
five Pro, And I really do think it's settled on
like the collector market, like the kind of person would
buy collector's edition and like and like.
Speaker 1: The diehards of the diehard so like the big I mean, yeah,
are going to have a physical library.
Speaker 3: People who don't want to get in on PC gaming
but they want comes to eighty dollars never mind. Yeah,
we're approaching one thousand dollars for the complete PS five
Pro experience.
Speaker 1: And you're not walking out of the store with that
paying one thousand, one thousand dollars. You put one seven,
seven to fourteen percent sales tax on that, and you
are well well past one thousand dollars out the door
or did.
Speaker 2: Just sign your card?
Speaker 3: That is wild for a video game console, Like I know,
like adjust for inflation, YadA, yah, YadA, but like remember that,
like I remember growing up and thinking, oh, hey, finally
I can buy a GameCube because it's one hundred dollars,
you know, that that type of thing, and we're just
so far removed from that at the high end especially,
but even at them what used to be the mid range.
The fact that now if you want that like complete
base PSFI experience, you are looking at six hundred and
fifty dollars, and that is just so much money for
someone spend if they're not already in the ecosystem. And damn,
everybody's getting punished for waiting, Like it's it's because of
weird economic stuff, socio political stuff. But yeah, yeah, it's
just such a weird position.
Speaker 2: We're in now. Yep, yeah, I mean you can.
Speaker 1: It's a laundry laundry list of reasons why the price
goes up now, and it does go back to inflation
was real and painful for many years, and that added
up over time. And that's just sort of the base line,
the baseline that these companies understood as they were going
through that period, and we're kind of trying to deal
with it without raising the price too much. But then
you throw tariffs on top of that, you throw the
ramp pocalypse on top of that. Now you throw oil
prices and global uncertainty, and it's more expensive to borrow money,
and helium is hard to come by. So now it's
they can't properly even produce the chips to go into these.
Speaker 2: Things at all, let alone enough to go around.
Speaker 1: It's just one thing after another, and I think a
lot of these companies as we now shift over to
PS six News, which is mostly about the handheld from
leaker Kepler L two, who says the thing's going to
be The Thing's gonna be very powerful. It's going to
be more powerful than an Xbox Series S, which I
think has sort of been where everyone is had their
eye at of like, can we get one of these handhelds.
Speaker 2: That's like an Xbox Series s?
Speaker 1: And it's like there were a lot of reasons why
the answer to that question was going to be no
for a very long time, but it wasn't going to
be no for forever. And I bet PlayStation Sony they
were looking at it like we're not going to launch
one until we can do that, and they are going
to go for it. And this thing, you know, as
a reminder, is going to have like twenty four gigabytes
of RAM, it's going to have a what is it is,
Zen six CPU, rDNA five GPU, really powerful stuff. It's
going to be really modern. It's basically going to be
a PlayStation console on the go. And obviously, once you
throw in the ray tracing stuff, comparing it to an
Xbox Series that's it's going to kind of blow it
out of the water. Once it's all said and done,
the obvious question is is the price? And I think
that as we get like other reporting from Kepler, and we'll,
you know, Kepler just for people who might not know
pretty good about knowing what is in these devices, extrapolating
information from that point forward, maybe a little bit more shaky.
Speaker 2: They did do a bill.
Speaker 1: Of materials assessment for the PlayStation six, as it's written
down inside of Sony right now, and it's around seven
hundred and sixty dollars, and people are getting their hopes
up of well, the PlayStation five was four hundred and
fifty dollars in terms of the bill of materials that
we heard about before it launched, and then it came
out at five hundred, So maybe we're going to get
away with eight hundred or they could even subsidize it
for seven hundred, and like we're I know right, you're
laughing and you're right, yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, get away
with eight hundred, right, But that laundry list. The real
thing that these companies understand now at this point is
you don't know what's going to happen, but you should
probably assume that there are three more things happening on
a global macro economic scale that are going to screw
you over, and you need to build in enough of
a buffer to eat that going forward, because you're not
going to be able to always react with with more
price increases and you want to want to avoid that
as much as possible. And that's before you get back
to the original reason they want to keep prices high.
In the first place, they saw the demand for the
PS five and all those scalpers making all that money
that could have been theirs had they just priced it
at six hundred dollars to begin with, And so they
always wanted to raise the price on the next generation.
Speaker 2: It's going to be it's going to be a lot
of money.
Speaker 1: And then I just wonder if they're sort of rushing
toward that and they're not going to be thinking of
like what it's going to look like.
Speaker 2: Could they be like digging their own graves a little bit.
I don't know. I don't want to be hyperbolic, Sean,
but what do you think about all this?
Speaker 3: Well, speaking to price, initially, I forget who it was
is at the current president of PlayStation who said like
something to the effective we are looking at ways to
monetize the existing user base, and people were wondering this, Yes, yeah,
people were wondering, well, what exactly does that mean. I
think raising the price of the next console to make
that more profitable for Sony is maybe one of the
places where they start where it's not a you know,
orderline breaking even or like subsidized thing early on that eventually,
you know, gets more profitable over time. Maybe they just
make at least one hundred dollars profit right off the gate,
right out the gate, especially to compensate for the fact
that normany's play free to play games. Now, Like I
have a storytell later, but it's like I was reminded
that PS plus was a thing I went to play
on my friends there night because I you know, since
I have a Linux machine that also have a Windows
drive on for work stuff, I just keep secure boot off.
So there's some multiplayer games I can't play one without
fiddling around with some stuff that I have started playing
a decent at multiplayer over on my PS five, But
it's stuff like war Zone, And I don't think about
the fact that it's free to play game. I don't
need to pay the subscription fors plus, right, but you
do if you want to play a multiplayer game. And
I definitely think that they they're keeping that stuff in mind.
They're keeping in mind like how can we keep people
on subscriptions? How can we raise prices of games to
like try to make it a little no, so a
couple extra million on every single game from just raising
a ten dollars across the board. It's we're going to
see more and more things like this where prices are
going to go up across the board, both because the
landscape is changing, the way people play games is changing,
you know, moving to more free play models and stuff
like that, and just like people not want to spend
as much money on their console, their games and our
thing in general, they don't. He's got to find ways
to squeeze blood from the stone a little bit, right, yep.
Speaker 1: And it's uh, and we I think a lot of
people I'm certainly feeling this way. I think a lot
of other gamers in are like near us listening to this.
The people in our situation are feeling pretty bled out,
already pretty.
Speaker 2: Squeezed as it is. And you know, we've we've.
Speaker 1: Mostly rolled with the punches on increased prices for games.
We've mostly rolled with the punches with just about everything
they've tried, and we've found the games that we want
to play, and we're like, we'll make peace with this,
and we're gonna kind of be a little bit more
picky and choosy, So you come along with your you'd
be soft slop and most for the most part, we're
not going to be down for that and stuff like that.
We've no it's a it's a it's a sort of
troubled equilibrium of it's a you know, a shaky truce
between the consumer and these companies as we're like, hey,
keep making us stuff and I keep giving us more money,
and we're not at a standstill. But it definitely feels
like one side could break or the other could break
if things get much.
Speaker 3: Worse because they stand off little.
Speaker 1: Yes, stand off exactly, and it's like, you know, one
wrong move and suddenly it feels like a lot of
this stuff starts to fall apart. I do think that's
what happened with Xbox a little bit, right They just
looking around, like, what are we even trying to do here?
We need to rethink everything.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think that was that was a case
of ideas coming first and we'll, you know, we'll figure
out things as we go, and then they realized, oh,
wait a minute, this isn't sustainable. Whoops. And I think
maybe PlayStation has a little bit of down their place
right now. It's why, you know, we do talk positively
about a lot of the things that Nintendo does but's
because Nintendo's like sort of old blood, old money. They
know how to run business super profitably, and that's why
they're not having issues. They make games smaller in scope,
smaller in scale, highly profitable because they then, you know,
turn around these games that don't take as much money
to make and sell them for sixty seventy, even eighty
dollars now at this point, and so I think that
they are very smart about that. I think Xbox learned
the hard way of sort of yelling up a bit
too much, and now PlayStation sort of seeing it bite
them in the ass where they had a wrong step
with the live service doubling down, and so you can't
you just can't have a misstep at this point in time.
And like I mean, could have. It could have happened
to Nintendo as well. If they had messed up with
the Switch, they you know, would have had to scramble
figure something else out. But the Switch was a success,
and now Switch too will be a success. I think PlayStation, Yeah,
they're just kind of learning the hard way. Even though
it's not like DIYer or anything like that, they do
have to find other ways to get people back on board.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Exactly as far as the like, hey, playing games on
a PS six hand held goes sounds pretty promising, you
know that.
Speaker 2: There's yeah, it's it's very powerful.
Speaker 1: Just on the spec sheet, and then it will have
pretty impressive techno backing it up in terms of the
software that they are working with on with AMD, Pisser
is going to be as good or better than DLSS four.
Speaker 2: Point five is right now.
Speaker 1: And yeah, this thing's coming out in a couple of years,
probably a year or two, probably two years at least,
so we would expect it just just to be improved
in all those ways. But that's going to make for
really we've seen what it does for the switch to
running games like Resident Evil nine. It's like that is
with a really very light version of DLSS and and
you know so and then a kind of really a
much older ray tracing ship built into it. If Sony
comes at this with you know, two years of advancement
and really thinking about that and was working with AMD
directly to get the most out of this thing, we
could end up with a very impressive handheld. It's going
to be expensive. I don't even really know how to
begin thinking, like, what does the pricing structure look like
for all these things.
Speaker 3: I don't know, right, I did well, I was thinking
about the hard where today and just in case people
don't follow this stuff as closely as we do, maybe
there's a little bit of doubt of like is it
really that powerful? Is it going to be at that level?
And we're at the point now where if you bought
an iPhone within the past year, it runs games of
bo as well as the PS four. And that's a
device you put in your pocket that has no active cooling.
It runs on battery, and you know, it is trying
to be an efficient device more than anything else, and
it runs games that well. And that's what we see
with the switch too as well. It runs games Boswell's
PS four, you know, probably like a step above that,
and then takes advantage of very smart upscaling to make
it look even better. And that's especially apparent in handheld
mode where you can get those lower resolutions internally that
upscales well. It's the thing that people have talked about
with the PS five and when people say they're not
ready for the PS six and et cetera, et cetera.
If you actually look at the text specs of games
nowadays they are starting you run at lower resolutions and
kind of struggling to hit frame rates. I think it
was high on Life two. That's like a seven to
twenty P sixty game that then gets upscaled. We are
approaching the upper bounds of what these consoles can do
because of things like you know, eventually you need a
more powerful CPU, but most importantly that they didn't have
good upscaling like FSR in the early days, the AMD
solution their alternative to DLSS. It's not good. It's just
straight up not good. All That's why the PS fours
five ro was necessary. PSSR was the solution. It was
thats like solution, but not PLACEH has solved that, especially
with the PSSR two being very good. That's how we're
going to get a handheld that runs games, you know,
better than series s maybe even like equivalent to ultimately
PS five, even if it's not as powerful as a
PS five on paper, because now they have that really
high quality upscaling. So I think this handheld is going
to be interesting. I really want to see how they
position it. Is it basically just like a switch where
it's you know, yeah, PS five quality games on the go,
you dock it into your TV and it has that
great up skilling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like at a certain point because it's like, you know,
if this is the thing they're doing, and they are
targeting something that is between an Xbox Series S and
a PS five, and of course the you know, the
Raate tracing Raate tracing chip inside of there's going to
move it and make it much much more versatile.
Speaker 2: Whatever that's what they're aiming for.
Speaker 1: That screams to me that the PS five is going
to be around for a lot, lot lot longer than
what we're used to. So yeah, it's yeah, I think
if that's the case, you just say that if this
is going to be, if you're gonna get this thing
and you're gonna spend the money to get a PS
six handheld, you don't need to get a PS six
as well, because if this is going to play all
those games and and you can just dock it to
your TV and just play it, and if you did,
then if you want the pro experience.
Speaker 2: To go get the big Boy one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if, because I think the rumor was
that they are planning a standard PS six and then
they maybe even a pro beyond that.
Speaker 2: So okay, maybe maybe plans change as well. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think as people get used to not needing the
new thing and the hardware is available for the people
who have the money, that will ultimately be good for
the platform holder. Even and I think especially me and
you are already used to this because in PC, in
the PC world, you'll never have the most expensive, the
highest end thing, because even us who like got really
good GPUs through our jobs, we don't have the Nvidia
Pro six thousand. We don't have like a five grand
GPU in our machines, first of all because we don't
need them, but also because we're never gonna be able
for them. So it's like compromise. You always find compromise.
And if you know, the PS six generation comes along
and your PS six is the handheld, that's cool. If
your PS six is six is the base one that's cool,
the pro that's cool. Hopefully they can position this in
a way that will be agreeable both with them in
terms of profit and terms of all the audience who
wants to just buy a nice machine and not get
completely just their wall it's burned to a crisp Ryan exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, let's shift over to the Mario Galaxy movie,
which did actually release in theaters already this week.
Speaker 2: Yesterday. On Wednesday, it broke records.
Speaker 1: It had the best April Wednesday ever with thirty four
million dollars. It did better than the Super Mario Brothers
movie and a handful of other things, a well better
than any other movie on a Wednesday in April. The
expectation is things will cool off a little bit through
the weekend in terms of its comparison to the Super
Mario Brothers movie, but obviously on its way to very
likely cracking a billion dollars worldwide. Almost seems like a
sure thing at this point, and people seemingly like it.
The user reviews user scores early on Rotten Tomatoes put
it around a ninety ninety one percent.
Speaker 2: Which okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was always meant to be designed as a
crowd please, and I'm not surprised that critics hate it.
And I'm kind of having a lot of fun reading
those reviews because it's like, yeah, I bet you do,
death of cinema. I bet, I bet you do. Feel
like this is the death of sentiment and you have
to stab your hand. It is not made in any
way to sort of be a great movie, but as
a commercial for Nintendo stuff, and as someone who liked
that original Super Mario Brothers movie, which was just a
commercial for Super Mario Brothers three.
Speaker 2: I'm getting pretty excited about it, how about you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's always the funniest to me when
I hear people talk about like we should demand better
for our kids. Anyways, I'm gonna go watch the Transformers
movie and Gi Joe, which totally weren't there to sell
me Kid Boways as a kid in the eighties.
Speaker 1: Right, that wasn't Those didn't specifically exist because Ronald Reagan
lowered the regulations on children's television.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, No, target audiences are a thing. I always
like to remind people of that. Yeah, Like a kid's
movie can be just a dumb, sugary popcornfleck, and that's fine,
It's okay. It's doupop for like seeing references of things
that they know they like. They're like hearing, oh, I
know this from a game, I know this from a
comic book, and they put in the movie.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 3: It would be good if every animated movie could be
as good as like, you know, two thousands picksar and
that would be awesome, but.
Speaker 2: Not all of them are gonna be I don't know,
Like I.
Speaker 3: Haven't paying attention to like the Minions or anything like
that was sort of in an era where I ain't
have enough nieces and nephews to be watching those movies.
I have no kids on my own, so I don't
like follow that stuff. I feel like those movies aren't like,
you know, Takespeare exactly. It's kind of like the cute
story of like personal growth and stuff like that, but
I think that's kind of all It is kind of
a hero's journey type of thing. So that's what I
expect out of the Mario movie. When I hear about like, yeah,
stories kind of trash is fulfilled with references and that's
why it's bad. And I'm just like it just sounds
like that sounds like why I expect the Mario movie,
I'd be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I go to the movie so infrequently.
It's what the reasons I'm going are very different than
someone who's going because they capital letters enjoy film. I
enjoy film.
Speaker 2: I do. I just can't get out there that way.
Speaker 1: So my what I'm looking for is a big literary
experience that will be fulfilling for the family in terms of, oh,
we had a fun day, not at like, you know,
if we come out of there and it is, oh
my god, that movie moved me and I'm gonna remember
for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, that's awesome. That is the dream. I will
take that.
Speaker 1: But my baseline for feeling like I got my money's
worth taking the whole family out to a movie is
was it kind of loud and bright and colorful and
fun And I expected to do all those things. And
you know, from people early word from people like saying, oh, yeah,
that's what what you're looking for. This movie is going
to deliver that, maybe even better than the first one.
So we'll see. Yeah, all right, let's see here. Okay, Yeah,
let's the Mind's Eye thing.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Mind's Eye mission will reveal evidence that the game was sabotaged.
Speaker 2: According to the CEO, Sean Yeah, this is a wild one.
Speaker 1: We've got strong evidence of this and conducted quite through
investigations over the months since launch. We've identified parties involved
and it's now with the authorities both in the UK
and the US to deal with. I can confirm they're
assisting us with the investigation, but it's also in their
hands now. Will leave them to do what they do,
make their arrest or any announcements in due course. I
think we're not saying anything further at the stage on that.
We'll just let natural course of justice take its path.
In the meantime, here's a new mission for our terrible
video game that will prove and name names of the
people who sabotaged.
Speaker 2: Our video game. What the fuck? I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that that insane people are still making
video games, Sean that so we get stories like this.
Speaker 2: I love this so much.
Speaker 1: Actually, it's out of pocket, is the only way to
describe this.
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine. I'm the only thing I can't
imagine at this point is like he's building it up
and it's gonna be like there's some kind of miss
mission about corporate espionage and he's like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see that reference.
Speaker 3: That's what happened to us.
Speaker 2: So toothless, right, Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Just gonna be like nothing whatever cookie cutter kind of
mission impossible story or whatever. Hell he is, It's like, yeah,
we told the story. That's exactly how it happened. That's
the only thing I can think of.
Speaker 1: Right, So the claim is is not just that like
they did something to make the game bad. They are
the reason that the negative reception was there for the game.
So these conspirators, these saboteurs infiltrated the community and convinced
everyone that the game is that is actually awesome is bad.
It's oh that seems like a tough thing to prove
in court, let alone in the mission in your video
game where, okay, whatever, there are you know, at any
time ten to fifteen to twenty people playing this game
on Steam. I think most people played it and decided
they didn't like it because it is bad. How can
a mission prove that otherwise? Sean, I really don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at this quote here, take a couple of punches.
We kept turning the art chic while we got our
house in order. Now it's time to start judoing this
right back at them.
Speaker 2: God has a Carney. Yes, this is like, yeah, promo cotton,
like it's happening right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't know. I'm so lost, Jeff,
I have no fucking clute this is talking about.
Speaker 2: I just need to play it now. I've decided I'm
going to have to see.
Speaker 1: This for myself and as like, yeah, complete delusion. Marino's right,
it's uh, you know, there are often people in charge
who are like this, who deceive themselves around themselves with
people who are yes men and sick offense.
Speaker 2: And this seems like a nuclear grade case of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we get the fun result of what I
hope is just a real, real treasure for Blake Club
one day, this mission specifically. Right, all right, that's it
for the headlines. We are going to go to break.
When we come back, Seawn's going to read some super chats,
and then later we're gonna just talk about some memories
from staying home from school, sick games we played, other
memories along those lines. Will be right back. All right,
we're back, more decides Sean. It's grubb, Sean. Let's read
those super chats, yes, sir. First up here is Missouri
Matt saying thank you Jeff and Mike for the content
you create and the enjoyable environment you deliver it in.
Speaker 2: Thank you, agreeing, Yeah, oh yeah, thank you so much.
I appreciate it. Mike's dead, but hey I'm still here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right from g Nitro, I hope anyone looking I
guess switched to was watching Woot's Woot Off today kept
popping up for a four hundred dollars console only throughout
the day. Oh wow, I man, I started buying a
lot of stuff. It's just like if I'm looking for
something it pops up on there. I'm just like yep
instantly because this is probably the cheapest is gonna be
Warrior sixty four. This is a great job saying on
top of that stuff.
Speaker 2: So is Woot.
Speaker 1: Like generally I've purchased suff from Woot before as well,
but generally it is returned goods.
Speaker 2: The Amazon is trying to handle in ways oversock over sock.
Speaker 3: They they market if it's like a used item or
a refurbished item or something. But that's how I got
Like when I first wanted to try out iPhone for
a little bit, like you know, I got they like
were very descriptive of like this is an open box,
new item, and they explained like, yeah, this is just
from a company that like wasn't good to use them,
and so now we have overstocked. They even like get
descriptive about in the comments and stuff like that. But yeah,
they've been on forever, honestly, like I've been here about
them since the early two thousands or something.
Speaker 1: I'm not purchasing much from them recently, but I used
to buy stuff from them all the time fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh sure, Yeah, And you know, I guess there's
obviously some negatives about being associated with Amazon, but Amazon
Prime subscription because I kind of need it because of
my circumstances, is kind of nice that you can just
log in with your Prime subscription, like the Woot deals
arrive in like two or three days.
Speaker 2: That's kind of cool. Cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm next from I Hate Mimes?
Speaker 2: Are you smarter?
Speaker 3: That fifth grader could be good for titter? Also, Jeff,
do you think Demon Soul's PC is dead now that
Sony is falling back from PC Springles?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like it, I would assume.
Speaker 1: So there's always the possibility that's one of those ones
that Nix's was working on beforehand, but I would assume
it's not happening.
Speaker 3: Okay, Next up from Daily Beating. They've been name member
for twenty five months. Thank you there, thank you. The
comment is it's a shame how Mike died. Now he
won't get to read comments on how good Portal Pals
is Slash was.
Speaker 1: That's the real shame of this whole situation, absolutely that
Mike can't read the comments anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're missing Mikey today and you actually you
know first episodes foe, you can go over to the
Giant botb YouTube channel after this and go watch it
pun series He and Mary Kish did Oh they crush it?
Uh lurkin with mcgirkin. How does a New Game Gander
sound for a show title? Or maybe New Game Plus
and just add the person's name who's doing the video
at the end, like New Game Plus jurf also Oco Pinnissis.
Speaker 2: I like it? Yeah, No one's using New Game Plus,
so I think I could just be ours for sure? Yeah,
my lower contact you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I think Mike's just going to
use a different name every time. So maybe he'll use
that one time.
Speaker 3: Oh that's good. Communities going to love that one. Yep
from Zombie Pooring. But Chuck saying Mike is weirder as
he works with him. Who do you think is the
weirdest person to work with? What if Chuck is the
weirdest coworker?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think about that that's possible. Yeah, what do
you think, Jean? You see this uh starring Marry Me, Tomadacci.
Chuck was in chat saying I work with them. I
think Mike is weirder.
Speaker 3: I did see that, Jeff I was there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you were producing, weren't you. I think.
Speaker 3: Encroaching on my territory of trolling Mike.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't like this.
Speaker 3: It is still in my brain of infun Oh you know,
how do you feel about Dan? Then? Dann's like a
force of nature. I don't know, the fuck with like
a storm and like tornado going around.
Speaker 2: You can't do anything, there's nothing to handle.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I mean, look, my position remains the same.
If dumber is a qualifier that we can use as well,
then that that's how we split them, between Mike being
weird and Dan being dumb, like he acknowledges that too.
But if we have to pick one is the weirder,
then's Dan.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I'm still on Dan is weirder.
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, yeah, I mean I think Mike has got
his quirks, but it's mostly just kind of a lack
of shame, so.
Speaker 2: He like acts out more.
Speaker 1: And yeah, but it's it is splitting Harrison at a
certain point. You're right, we need some other qualifiers in there.
Speaker 3: It's more of like just an outgoing personality thing. Mike's
just now going dude.
Speaker 2: Yep, exactly.
Speaker 3: We in the chat we did established well, who's the
most normal person that we work with, Jeff and everybody
unanimously it was like, well, at least as far as
we know, it's Will.
Speaker 2: By a mile, so oh yeah, okay, that's true.
Speaker 1: It could be Will. We probably haven't. We haven't peeled
the onion back.
Speaker 3: We need more Will content to as far as we do.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like paints during game miss mornings, and
I think that's like actually super normal behavior. That's like
he'll just be stuff. That's cool, dude, stuff like he's
got SIPs.
Speaker 2: Call just like, yeah, I'm just gonna paint to day.
I like painting. That's pretty normal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Grant np as it has been a member for
six months. The comment is holy shit, y'all. I got
my Holy Grail dB robo for my birthday and yes
that was me who rigged that bomb. Twelve also got
the NSL Virtual Boy your fantastic.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were kind of looking at some old games
at pack Sin It's like, yeah, it's not the best
place to buy old games.
Speaker 2: Huh, it's just a bit too expensive there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Like man, I almost had my my cuba
for moment with that sealed Mega Man sixty four, Like
I was like, sure, I don't need to eat this month,
do I? No?
Speaker 1: How is Mega Man sixty four compared to Mega Man
Legends in terms of like playable?
Speaker 3: Like, you know, it's how I originally played the game.
Is one made me fall in love with it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I had N sixty four first and then later gap PlayStation.
It's mostly the same game. It is a bugier version
because it is a port and then a decent amountl
voice acting is stripped out, but also has a slightly
updated control scheme to work a little bit about the
analog stick not quite Legends too, where is just dual
analog modern controls.
Speaker 2: It's a little update.
Speaker 3: It's a totally acceptable way to play that game, like
back in the day if you didn't have a roa
toplay it obviously nowadays, I just played the PS one right, Yeah.
Urial del Gado head on applied directly to the forehead
head on.
Speaker 1: That's right, man, I remember those ads. Can they bring
them back every once in a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially if you watch cable, like especially the like
the older channels. I like, I think last time so
I was on Nick at Night at one point where
I just had that on randomly. I was just like,
Oh my god, a head on commercial.
Speaker 2: What the hell?
Speaker 3: What year is it?
Speaker 1: That's that is something that like niket Knight and TV
land should do more of, is just like run old commercials,
like work with brands to bring back their old commercials.
Speaker 2: I would like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what's it called me?
Speaker 2: TV?
Speaker 3: I think they do that every once in a while
where they have like neat occasional like block of like yeah,
we're just doing a completely retro and they'll run old
shows with the commercials. I've seen that like once or twice.
That's kind of neat count of a little time capsule there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 3: That used to be a thing. I used to watch
that on YouTube a lot before YouTube started cracking down
some ways. But I tell you what, archive dot org.
I will often on Saturday mornings look up like I
have a bookmark for the search people's vhs rips of
kids WB and so I'll just like put on Yeah,
I love that. Yeah, kids WB recording sometimes like Fox
Box or something like that. I'm like, every once in
a while, I'll be like, remember this weekend, holy.
Speaker 2: Shit, and right, oh, God brings it back. That's nuts.
Speaker 1: I didn't think about that you could just like find
a weekend that you were watching cartoons all weekend or
or whatever. Yeah, I was listening to a more civilized age.
They're talking about Clone Wars, not the Clone Wars like
the original Ginnity Tartakovski I can never say his name.
How the Samurai Jack guy his Clone Wars and how
that used to air on like in like three minute
chunks on Friday nights on Cartoon Network. And now so
when you watch it, when you go back to watch it,
they stitch them all together into like one long season
and it's a little bit weird. But that's not how
it was originally presented. It was like fifteen like seven
like maybe two seasons of seven episodes or something like that.
So fourteen or fifteen episodes that were three minutes long each,
and they would just get dropped here and there over
the course.
Speaker 2: Of weeks, and you kind of would just be watching.
Speaker 1: Cartoon Network and you'd be all right, they're going to
show the next one here, and it's over three minutes later,
and then you have to wait for forever to get
the next one. And I just remember watching Cartoon Network
at that time, and I'm like, I want to go
back and watch it in that original state, like with
the Cartoon Network presentation and everything, because that's how I
actually watched it the first time, and it was really
nostalgic to think about going back and doing that.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of I don't remember what the name
of it is now, I forget. They're talking about retro
nasci our day and I want to I think next year,
I want to do this. Do you hear about that
dreamcast thing that was preserved recently of It was a
thing in Japan where it was a like a murder
mystery drama that you could download to your dreamcast one
minute every day for a year.
Speaker 2: No, what, that's crazy. No, I've never heard of this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you get one minute of the story for
three hundred and sixty five was one minute chunks ends
up being longer than a movie even Yeah, yeah, I
forget what the name of it was, but Yeah, apparently
it's all been preserved and you can just like go
watch as a YouTube video if you want.
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 3: I want to go back and watch that as intended,
where like next year, I'll start journy first to watch
one minute.
Speaker 2: On minute a day.
Speaker 1: Okay, get that installed on the plex server or something
so I can do that.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: Uh. Next is from Antonio Morales, who has been a
member for thirty mine thirty nine months. Thank you, Ankeanonio
says grub. How's the superstation for someone who's never messed with,
mister and is a real dumbass? Is it the best
option for is it the best emulation option for a
living room TV? Or is there a cheaper option also?
It's on its way tol Coto.
Speaker 2: Oh man, what does that mean? Okay?
Speaker 1: It is a really good, mister, in terms of affordability,
in terms of the all of the features that comes
built in with in terms of its case and how
it's presented, and the fact that there's just snack adapters
built in, which just means you can use original PlayStation
controllers and original PlayStation memory cards. All that stuff owns
actually and you don't need the specialized console edition software
to take advantage of all that stuff. The mister knows
what to do with it. It makes it pretty easy
for the most part. But it's a mister, and like
you're going to have to go into the scripts to
get Wi Fi working. You're going to have to hold
down the button on the front for three seconds, so
it goes into a specialized menu to get Bluetooth working.
If you want to use a Bluetooth controller. It's a
little bit more unique, like very like it's its own thing.
It's idiosyncratic in terms of like probably what you're used to.
So would I say it's the best emulation option for
the family room. If you are someone that doesn't mind tinkering,
it might be like.
Speaker 2: It's up there.
Speaker 1: If you are someone who wants simple and familiar, I
would just get like a mini PC, although now those are.
Speaker 2: Getting pretty expensive so it's kind of tough, but you can.
Speaker 3: Buy an Xbox Series S for relatively expensive.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I believe developer mode what they took that away for
a second, but now it's back and it just works
as intended. So you put it like twenty fars and
stuff right here. Yeah, I think I think that works
as intended.
Speaker 1: Once again, there are a lot of options along those lines, though,
so I would find something that's cost effective, especially if
you have an old computer sitting around, an old laptop
or something like that.
Speaker 2: You could get those up and running, and you know.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is like probably sending down the path you
don't want to go down. But maybe installing one of
these other Linux systems, you know, batosera is that the
one everyone always does, starts doing doing stuff like that.
Suddenly you got this thing that just works very well
in the living room. But yeah, myster is really cool,
but it's not as user friendly for someone that does
not want to tinker with this stuff. So I would
be a little a little bit hesitant, maybe do some
research before you make the plunge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got options. Like you said, chat brings up
one of my favorites. Hack a wee like you know,
Hackey Away is very easy nowadays, and then you'll have
access to you know, you pop a USB drive in there,
you have access to GameCube games, Wei games, all the
virtual console games, and even some additional homebrew emulation. That's
that might be something you might already have a we
just sing around the family room or something that you
can like get set up that way if you have
a handheld like a PC handhole the steam deck example,
m U deck is very easy to use. You can
set up that the whole family can learn how to
use that. But I do think once the console UI
gets finalized with the superstation, and this is something I
don't agree with the way this is present, the fact
that it didn't ship with the Finnish Console UI, because
I think that's what people are expecting, which they would
have waited, even though that will have taken more dev time.
Speaker 2: I get why they want out the people.
Speaker 1: He's using community feedback for the people that did get
it early to make some changes and stuff, and I
do think it needs that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, like Talky's businesses genuinely just a small
operation and they're trying to like just work with the
community to get the product that you want, even if
it's not the thing you want right out the gate.
Speaker 2: But I think once that.
Speaker 3: Console UI is finalized and everything, it might end up
being the best option for if you want, like uh,
what would be N sixty four and earlier emulation in
the family room. But also yeah, the other options we
mentioned Cancil go above and beyond where you know the
Wei playing game Cuban Wi and then ecs be on
play more. So got options you can you can figure
out the best option for you, yep, exactly. Okay. Next
is from one Lex Luddi. I was gonna see a
first timer. They say, can we get some good news
on GMM on Monday.
Speaker 1: I got one piece of good news. You're on the
show on Monday, LEXI. There's you're good news right there.
Speaker 2: So that's all. That's all I can promise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that might be why she's asking, because it seems
like Mondays have been a bit of hit or missed
for news here recently.
Speaker 2: Jeff yep be rough out there.
Speaker 3: Then E Jackalope gifted five memberships the channel.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, E Jacklobe, Thank you, e Jackalope.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, let me see I'm going with Arma. Nicole
Man is up next. It seems like Crimson Desert moves
are based on some moves, especially the kicks and wrestling moves. Y.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's like a lot of like yeah rkos and
suplexes and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I was watching Max and the dudes play it,
that was like the only thing that actually got themoked
is they were like, oh wait a second, we can
learn like fighting game moves and then like do like
like you know, yeah, drop someone off a building with
those or something, and that's how they found their fun.
I think, yeah, a Crimson Desert's a kind of game
where like, if you can find something like that, that's
your kind of fun, your phone with it. And there's
other people who don't find their fun in that game exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean there's so much stuff in there you can
probably keep scratching eventually find something. It's the act of
looking for that was pretty you know, pushing me away.
But I do I do like them just throwing in
basically what looks like a fighting game move list. Like
it looks identical to a fighting game move list for
these characters.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's pretty neat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, next step, oh e Jack Lope is back. Do
y'all think we'll hear pricing for the Steam Machine slash
frames soon? Keep up all the great content coming here
and on GB.
Speaker 1: Last we heard from them, they're like, yeah, that thing's
still coming and it's coming soonish.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, Yeah, it's worse.
Speaker 3: I think they really are just like trying to figure
out the best time for it, because like they need
to commit to a price, they can't just like you know,
constantly have the price fluctuate. It's like we see with
all the console manufacturers, like the reason they are sometimes
hesitant to raise a price, they can't really lower it,
or at the very least they don't want to lower it.
So that's why, like you know, Nintendo has been playing
that game of Chicken a little bit and stuff. I
think that things seem to be nabilizing a little bit,
like you know, ever so slowly. It seems like the
AI bubble is deflating, should we say, it's certainly not
bursting imminently, but deflating. Perhaps things are starting to settle
down a little bit. But you know, like we see
the PS five price going up for a reason, committed
to that for a reason. So things are still crazy
out there. I think soon is relative, but I wouldn't
be surprised sometime in the next couple of months here
we hear another update from them, even if it's not
what we want to hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's I mean, the Kataku story from today, A
seller who's stockpiled memory now panicked after ram prices dip.
Speaker 2: So they're yes, right, that that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And it's like to me, that is early parts of
the wobbling of It's going to wobble back and forth.
And it's great we got to this point, but it
is going to wobble back and forth and it's going
to probably go back up again before it goes back
down in any permanent way. So stay the beginning parts
of stabilization for sure.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: And that's why I'm getting at because like I think
people are still right the analyst saying, like, you know, yeah,
we won't. The earliest we'll see complete normalcy again is
like two years out from now, but maybe we're starting
to see the earliest signs that things are starting.
Speaker 2: To go down. Start planning for the future, right exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So won't be surprised if Valva takes a few
more months here before we get any kind of further update.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Next up from Paul Patine. Uh, do you guys think
that far the Akarana time remake, they will have both
the OG version and the mass Request version.
Speaker 1: I know, I mean I think they will have something
along those lines. Yeah, there will be you know that
there's almost always a master quest of some sort in Zelda.
They've done that since the beginning, so yeah, I think
that when they do this, they'll focus on the OG
version and then have some way to access some form
of the Master Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm not as big of an Akarina time fan. Was
mass request for that? Did it just end up being
the mirrorred version?
Speaker 1: It's not just the mirror version, but it's been a
long time since I played it. I think it's a
little bit different.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, gotcha. Next is from Glitchy Texture. Hey, guys,
love all you do. Have you heard the rumors of
Sony having a state of play on June fourth? Thanks,
I've not.
Speaker 2: I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't checked in with any sources because it was
a pretty busy packs. But I will run that by
them and see what they say, so I'll report back.
Speaker 2: Okay, that does sound you know all right? Timing wise,
I suppose no reason it wouldn't happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, dat boy, Jerry. I want to shout out
Austin Walker's tabletop RPG realis kick Starter. It's been up
for one day and already hit one hundred and fifty
k of a fifty K goal. Please tell Chuck to
cover it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm gonna put that news in the Game
of Mornings tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We'll be talking about it.
Speaker 1: We'll shout out Austin and then and then Yeah, I know,
Chuck is definitely curious about it, so I loved. I
would love to just get Austin eventually on and have
them show it to us and stuff like that, so
we'll see.
Speaker 3: X Core Games has been a member for forty two months.
Speaker 2: Thank you, x Score.
Speaker 3: Matt Rare Monkey has been a member for five months.
A mad Crispin boyer bought a motorized scooter from a
wood Off for the Ziff office that showed up on
the One Up Show. Batman says, uh uh yeah.
Speaker 1: He would on early Oh Ziff Davis podcast, like the
e GM Now podcast. I can't remember what it was called,
but they would He would just have this game dot
com that he had Batman in all the time, and
he would just whenever he would would need Batman to
make the uh uh sound, he would just be pressing
the button. So just all day during his podcast, you
would just hear Batman going uh on this game dot com.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 3: He cut Jacob Gray, a GB plays realities would be
sick plus no dice for Dan.
Speaker 2: I don't care. If there's no dice, dance not allowed
to play.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, we can have we can have fun,
or we could have Dan play. Those are our options,
and I'm not doing.
Speaker 2: That to Austin. Yeah, exactly, I'm at.
Speaker 1: I know Austin's actually been able to get him to
do pretty decent role playing stuff before, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I would leave it up to Austin.
Speaker 3: Actually well, because if anyone could, it would be Austin, right,
of course, yes, yes, of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then from alex WP, been watching Mike play Ari zero,
I could make a five minutes super cut of all
the times he forgets the name of the only woman
in the.
Speaker 2: Game, Rebecca Chambers. Is that right? Isn't that? Yeah? Isn't it? It is? Yeah?
I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I haven't played our zero, but sure it's
pretty sure it's sir. Yeah. Alex WP follows up with
Mike trying to name three women Jill where uh blonde Jill?
Speaker 2: Oh, right, blonde Jill.
Speaker 3: Of course, yes, Mike is in the chat, he says
in all lowercase looks.
Speaker 2: Go to and we don't have a guess. Yeah, that's
all we got.
Speaker 3: That is all we have for now.
Speaker 1: Jeff, all right, if you guys send in any more
super chats, we will hit those again. Before the end
of the program. We are going to take one more break.
We'll come back. Just talk about some times when we
were playing Hookey, just like Mike is right after this.
All right, we're back at it and Sean, Mike is
sicky pooh. And it made me remember times in my
life where I wasn't feeling well and I got to
stay home.
Speaker 2: From school or or work or whatever.
Speaker 1: Maybe a couple times I played Hookey and stayed home
and played video games instead. And I was wondering, do
you have any fond memories of staying home when you
should have been doing something else or couldn't do something else,
and still having enough energy to have fun with video games?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's two I remember specifically. One is just a
quick one where I was sick and I played I
just so happened to the night before get Tony Hawk's
pro Skater four with a GameCube, which was a friendly
reminder us why I play with the analog stick? Sure,
but I was just sick and not feeling it and
just playing you know, pro Skater four was a good
way to just pass the time and like really think
my teeth into a game. The other more memorable one,
I've told this story a long time ago, so hey,
shouts if anyone remembers the story, you've been here a
long time. It was I was I was at school
feeling kind of sick, and then so like at the
end of the day it happened to be Friday, I
went home and just you know, I was just going
to be sick through the weekend. That's what I felt like.
I could feel the cold and everything like that. And
so my dad picks me up from school and we
go home together and he's like, hey, you know, let's
let's get you a nice dinner, Let's like get you
into bed, get you some rest. But hey, how about
we get you a game for the weekend, because seems
like you're just gonna be better in the whole time. Yeah,
because it was Friday, first Friday of the month, you know, payday,
so we could like go to the used game store
picks on up. And that is when I picked up
Metroit Prime. Got cool, Yeah, Metroy Prime on the game
cube and brought that home and I went to bed.
I woke up the next day. I think I might
have played a little bit that night, but then I
went to bed, woke up the next day, and there's
no from my dad. He goes off to like run
some errands because like we had a huge snowfall over night,
and he's like, hey, I need to go take care
of some stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 3: Ara went and got you some chicken soup from they
like from that one restaurant, and it's waiting in the
microwave for you.
Speaker 2: So I woke up.
Speaker 3: It was like noon, so it was like time to
eat the soup already. I remember grabbed my soup out
of the microwave, going over to the chair in front
my big comfy chair in front of the TV.
Speaker 2: Me and my dad.
Speaker 3: I had like the Joey and Chandler big comfy chair TV.
I opened the blinds in our living room and yeah,
it was like white out. It was just it wasn't
like an insane blizzard. That's why my dad is built
front maarns and stuff. But it was basically blizzard conditions,
like there's a layer of snow over everything that was
generally falling down, go over, sit down, bop my soup
on the table, start dowing down, Fire up Metro Prime.
And it was like shortly after that I started playing
that I got to a Fendrana drifts and like, hell yeah,
the managering Fendrona drifts as like snow is falling outside.
It's just like the brightest, you know, white out outside.
And that the music kicks in and everything like comes
together and I was just like, this game is cool.
This is a cool moment with this game. I have
a great time. It made me feel a lot better,
even though I was like sniffling Steezon the whole weekend.
Speaker 2: That that rules. See, I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 1: Where it's like, oh my, like the whole entire mood
is just right, and the game hits and your environment hits.
Speaker 2: There's association.
Speaker 3: I always are like wherever there's like a big snowfall,
I want to break out, Like now, Metro Prime, bastard
play it a little bit exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I kind of have that with those some
other stuff, not with a lot of like stay home
sick games, but with other things.
Speaker 2: For sure, I've told this one before.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I would occasionally try to stay home from
school sick. I would occasionally not be feeling the best,
but it's like I could probably go to school, but
I'm gonna play it up and see if I could
stay home and and just.
Speaker 2: Play Techno Bowl.
Speaker 1: It was the game that me and my brothers played constantly,
and I just always wanted to be playing it for
a long period of time, or it felt like a
long period of time. There's a strong chance it was
like three months in my life, but it felt like forever,
and you know, I stayed home and then eventually it
was like like Techmo Super Bowls coming out, and I
want to I want to play this game, and I'm like,
I'm just gonna do it. I just straight up played
hooky and I didn't really think it through. I was
just like, I'm going to go for it. And I
don't even know if that's exactly what the plan was,
but I wanted to stay home from school. I did
stay home from school, and my parents. I was just
old enough that my parents like were okay leaving me
at home by myself because they still had to go
to work. So I'm in bed, not really sick, and
I'm like I think I can get enough money together
and walk to the corner.
Speaker 2: And it was. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty far walk, but like it was
the suburbs, so it's not like a corner in a city.
It was a few suburban blocks away to where the
grocery store is Farmer Jecks I think it was. And
on the corner there was the rental place and I
had the family rental card and I just went in
there and I had like maybe like a handful of
dollars and change and I got Techmo super Bowl and
the guy was just like.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't you be in school? I was like, oh no,
not today.
Speaker 1: There was a you know, some reason I'm not at school.
And he just gives me the game and I took
it home, put it in and I played all day.
I just played NonStop. Parents didn't come home and told
it was five or six pm, and I just played.
It was the best day of just like sitting there,
I pulled off this what is essentially a heist for
a child, a child heist, and I got I got
away with it, never gotten any trouble for that ever.
It just all worked out perfectly, and I was like, man,
and I never pulled anything like that off again, really
not like that smoothly, but that was the right game
for it. And then we had it for the rest
of the weekend. And my brother's like, where how did
you get this? My older brothers who came home from
high school, I like, where did this come from? It's like,
don't worry about that, let's just play and techno super
Bowl very good game. So yeah, pretty memorable. All right,
we got a bunch here. I picked out a handful
real quick. Let's see here, Jim Jim. Jim says, with
a fever, I built the most ridiculous and dangerous rides
possible with coasters crashing into a lake.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: The idea of just sitting there, like, I don't know
how creative I could be if I'm actually home, it's sick.
I kind of just want a game that is instantly
mindlessly fun, so I could just sort of lay back
on the couch and get some enjoyment out of it.
But the idea was like, sitting there in a in
a fever like feverish state, making insane roller coasters that
send people into the lake sounds like a fun time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the roller coaster Tycoon Dream as well. That's
what you do with that game.
Speaker 1: Yep, let's see here, screaming man it says, I remember
my dad got me a game Boy Color with Pokemon
yellow while I had a fever as a kid. My
brother also got a game Boy Color and Pokemon blue,
and it was awesome.
Speaker 3: That's a great like being sick game is just any RPG,
especially handheld RPGs, you kind of just sit there, you
chill and like when you have the energy to like
get up and play a game or whatever, just chip
away at that a little bit. That's a good call.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I definitely had a like Super Mario RPG sitting around
one time all sick and was like, oh that was
a great companion for sure. Symbiosis says unlocking the Cheets
and Golden Eye between unloading coca cola.
Speaker 2: Oh what does that mean?
Speaker 3: I see maybe they were having some coca cola and
make themselves feel better and couldn't keep it down.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, fair enough. Oh yeah, I see now, soul
scream says. I remember saying homesick and playing Chew Choo
Rocket online like all day, great cozy game for a
sick day. That's that is an incredible poll there of
like connecting the Dreamcast to the modem, staying home while
no one else can use the phone line, and playing
Chew Choo Rocket all day.
Speaker 2: That's wild. Oh yeah, that's right. Dial up, good call
dial up? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh, Tommy pencils. That day I learned to not bounce
the crystal in Glover.
Speaker 3: Okay, hey, Glover is a good game. I'm not gonna
let anyone else be smirsed that the good name of Glover.
Speaker 2: Look the PlayStation version is trash if anyone played that. Yeah,
I get it. Oh yeah, yeah you yes, the n
sixty four game, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I'm not going to say it's good. I enjoy it.
I do enjoy Glover.
Speaker 2: I like Glover.
Speaker 1: Matt says, got the Chicken Pox and uh got the
Chicken Box. And then we did a run to Blockbuster
and rented like three games for the Genesis, Chester, Cheetah,
Jurassic Park, and NHL ninety four. After this, I went
and bought because it is.
Speaker 2: So damn good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got an all time banger in there, and
some fun ones that. Yeah, when you're renting games, there
is something to be said. For renting a recognizable brand.
That's kind of trash game, but you can always remember
the weekend you spent with it. It's like that's the
perfect way to experience those games. Chester Cheetish is a
perfect rental game, especially when you're sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or like when I was a kid, especially, I
think it might have been more of a thing in
like the PS two era, the Game Boy Advance era,
bargain being games brand new copy of like Scooby Doo
whatever the fuck for like eight dollars, Like, yeah, that's
how That's how I palled that one off.
Speaker 1: Ali America says I spent a whole flu playing Dragon
Ball Z Budokai three for the PS two while in
high school. That's I mean, I never played any of
those Dragon Balls Z games. I was just kind of
just missed me. I think I would have enjoyed that
quite a lot.
Speaker 2: Fun fact that game had a lot of plagiarized music.
Speaker 3: Little Yeah, the Budokai games, those are just dumb fun Jeff.
They I'm from an arrow where not every fighting game
need to be eve already super big competition game. It
could just be a dumb fun game you play with
your friends. And doesn't have to be anything more in that.
That's why I appreciate those types of arena fighters.
Speaker 1: Samo I said, had a tonsilectomy and ended a deck
to me.
Speaker 2: I think I'll get out with that one. Yeah, it's
as close as I can get.
Speaker 1: Ended a neck to me. Oh man, I'm just gonna
have to keep saying it like that. When I was
like eight and played a bunch of Donkey Kong Land
to in my hospital bed, oh yeah, the game boy
in the hospital is is that's also kind of a
powerful visual. Donkey Kong Country is one that I played
a lot while homesick. Donkey k Country was just like
one of those permanent feel good games for me.
Speaker 2: So like the original version. Yeah yeah, the original, Yeah,
I get that.
Speaker 1: Orange Bash says spent a day sick playing Kingdom Hearts
after losing the key blade. Spent a lot of time
outside of the castle. Yeah, that's it's your own fault
for playing that game. Sicker, sicker, not sick. You got
to deal with those consequences.
Speaker 3: It always are always sick playing Yes, right exactly.
Speaker 1: Little Demon Zigrias Wonder Tides says, I recall finding out
I had pneumonia sometime in the eighth grade and getting
to rent out an N sixty four game to play
all day. It ended up being ten eighty snowboarding. Yeah,
that's yeah, another vibe game, and that's one where it's
like it just feels so good to move. But that
can make you feel better, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Especially when you have pneumonia. I've had. I've had that before.
It is bad. Yep, yep. That was the one of
the sickest.
Speaker 1: I want to say the sickest because when I apparently
was a young guy, like meningitis or something, but okay,
as far as I can remember, pneumonia was the worst.
And uh yeah, input name here says recovering from jaw surgery,
I raged out at ogre Battle sixty four through hired teeth.
My mom thought I was seriously hurt. Sorry, mom, that's
very funny.
Speaker 3: I get that, though. Yeah. You ever have like any like,
oh god, how do I describe this? Are then like
you know, like I had a cast on one time
and I just could not stand the itching. At one point,
I was just dying. I was just like in a
quarter cry because I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, it itches so much. I saw it, so that.
Speaker 3: Kind of like weird uh, trying to overcome your injury
type of thing.
Speaker 2: Yep, it's torturous. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Terioki Blues says, got my wisdom teeth taken out in
high school and got a rampage in Halo three while
doped out on vicotin twenty kills without dying.
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would be trying to chase that dragon
for the rest of my life. You're still with us,
oh Man Blaze and Noahs is Final Fantasy seven?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I think that like the right You hit
it right on.
Speaker 1: The nail on the head with the idea of like
playing an RPG, something that just whisks you away on
an adventure. You can lose yourself in it. A perfect
being homesick game. Yeah and ten Derek says, I played
all of Star Wars the Force Unleashed two in one
sitting while home sick from school, and then never touch
the game again afterwards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're done with it. It did its job.
Speaker 3: Can you have that rental game kind of thing?
Speaker 2: Right exactly?
Speaker 1: I've never played Force Unleashed too, I should I played
some of one. I don't think I ever beat that
game even but I should go back to those h
Olsa is playing Pokemon in the car on the way
to the doctors and then refusing to get out of
the car because I couldn't save yet.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, yeah, remember explaining saves to your parents of like, uh, yeah,
I need, I need to stop. I need I need
to get to a stopping point.
Speaker 1: I need to get to a stopping point. I need
to get to a place where I could save or else.
I did all this for nothing. Yeah, and it was
they never wanted to hear it. I get it now
as an apparent, But now I understand the games, so
I'm like, I know that we could just save this,
that that Xbox has quick resume, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have it easy.
Speaker 3: Now. It's not like my generation was like the first
one and were I can't pause, mom, it's online, yeah,
Halo or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there there has been some of that.
Speaker 1: They'll be playing like Minecraft online and doing some weird
multiplayer game and like I can't pause, all right whatever.
Jenko says in college, got my wisdom teeth taken out
the same day that.
Speaker 2: Skyrim came out.
Speaker 1: That's ah, wisdom teeth is like an ideal one because
it's like, yeah, you get knocked on your ass a
little bit and your mouth can hurt, but you could
kind of just lay there and recover, and you could
still play video games just fine. And Skyrim is a
perfect one, Like, oh, I'll just play this for eleven
hours today. Yep, Stinky says, having a fever, a game
Boy and a worm light under the covers playing Tetris.
Speaker 3: That's a good vibe, right, there are good memories of yeah,
staying out play with the worm light.
Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1: JD Camp parents let me get a game when I
got real sick. Narrowed it down to two games, Final
Fantasy seven and Jet Moto two. I picked the correct
game and got Jet Moto.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Weezeman says, the price is right on TV, of course. Yeah,
that's also that goes with being homesick for sure. Bob
Barker telling me about the kitchen appliances. Playing Pokemon on
my GBA under the pellowport made.
Speaker 2: On the couch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, beautiful image, absolutely, Johnny Boy. My tea would watch
me until my dad got off work. She had a
bunch of GB games she got from a swap meet,
so anytime I was sick, I would play whatever random
Game Boy game she got. Teas in their swap meets.
That sounds like a perfect match, right there. Of course,
Lenny Cool Dick Denver says, I technically called in sick
when Mario Odyssey came out.
Speaker 2: I wasn't actually sick, though.
Speaker 1: I ordered stuff Cruss pizza for the first time in
my life and beat the game the day it came out.
That earns the moniker of Lenny Cool Dick Denver, right there,
I think personally, although kind of late to be trying
stuff cross pizza for the first time, right uh.
Speaker 3: See, I'm thinking about this when they say, like, call
the sick when Mario Ossy came out, Like, I assume
that's work.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna assume that's work work. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I guess we all know how old Leney Cool dickd Ever,
so they might be a little bit younger.
Speaker 2: He's timeless.
Speaker 1: Tashi says, when I had my tonsils removed, my aunt
brought me the original The Legend of Zelda and a
half gallon of ice cream. Just spent a week in bed,
sick off ice cream and confused by the Legend of Zelda.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, that's the idea of experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, legend Zelda is such a weird one because
it's like it is confusing and it works. Again, that's
an idiosocratic thing, and it's one where if you're sick,
you could I could see you getting frustrated, but maybe
you just get lost.
Speaker 2: Man, love that game. All right, that does it.
Speaker 1: Thank you to the podcast producers for all of their input. There, Sean,
thank you for your input. We will take another quick
break talk about what we've been playing right after this.
Speaker 2: All right, it's time to start winding things down.
Speaker 1: But the first before we do that, let's talk about
what we've been playing, Sean.
Speaker 2: What have you been getting into.
Speaker 3: Buck all Jeff, I've been through him because I've been
playing them of the multiplayer stuff that I always play.
That's kind of it, like Tech and eight. Hey, season
three sucks as much as season two. Who would have known?
Speaker 2: What else?
Speaker 3: New season of Pokemon TCG live post rotation now, so
I need to work on my deck a little bit.
That's been fun for a TCG head. I do have
a story though, for you. I do have a story.
Last night, my friends want to play Black Ops six
because you know, we got kind of hooked on that game.
I came out, you know, a year and a half
ago ish sure they owned the game. I did not.
Actually I didn't get review code, and so I was
just using game Pass to play it for a while there.
I don't really want to pay for game Pass nowadays
because reasons. So I was like, you know what, because, like,
like I mentioned, I play multiplayer on my PS five
a lot nowadays. I was like, oh, just pick up
but cheap PS five disc. That game gets cheap nowadays.
So that's exactly why I did. I got the disc
Black Op six, pop it into my PS five. I
did not have Call of Duty on my PS five
at that point in time. I was shuffling some stuff
around side deleted a war zone and downloads two hundred
gigabytes worth of Call of Duty, as it does because
call of Duty, right, yep. I go to play the game.
You know, I'm there with my friends on Discord. I
go play the game, we all fire it up. I
get into the Call of Duty app, I go Black
Op six and says not installed. I'm like, that's weird
because I put the Black OPS six disc in and
you download two hundred gigabytes worth of stuff? What the
hell could you possibly have you do?
Speaker 2: Here? All right?
Speaker 3: Jeff, I'll give you a guess if you wanted what
do you think that the Call of Duty app downloaded?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be as cynical as possible and say
it downloaded the most recent Call of Duty and as
soon as you like went to go see the screen
was like, hey, give us seventy fucking dollars, piece of shit.
Speaker 3: It download the multiplayer and Zombies of Black Ops seven,
a game I do not own, and ask me to
buy it was not.
Speaker 1: The disc for Oh that's crazy, that's so stupid.
Speaker 3: It knows that's the Black Ops six disc because you
need that entitlement and Aurora play it. So even if
it downloads it, it just gave me the wrong game.
Speaker 1: So it is doing this to like unsuspecting normies out
there that are going out and buying these discs, Like
there's I'm not saying this.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess at this point, who's really buying
Black Ops six and like popping in the disc acceptible?
Speaker 1: Right, it's the most accept It's the people who were like,
I'm just gonna get Called Duty later when I can
find it secondhand and I'm gonna save some money, I'll
go play that one with I'll see if any of
these friends that I always talking about want to play
that with me, like just save some money, and then
they see that screen like, oh, I guess I got
to pay to play this game I bought.
Speaker 2: That's dark pattern shit. That sucks balls. It's awful. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, man, the normy has to figure out
that they need to let them like go to the
black Ops six menu specifically and hit download on the
stuff that they have access to because of the disc.
It's insane. It's Activision doing a real bang up job
over there. Holy shit. But ye anyway, so yeah, now
I have a download. Now I can play it like normal.
It's just it was the most bizarre thing that I
had ever experienced in modern gaming of just like I
put the disc in and it gives me a game
that I don't own and don't have access to encounter.
Speaker 2: Pickabytes worth a bandwidth downloading.
Speaker 3: It didn't even give me war Zone or anything something
I can actually play, Like at least war Zone I
was just swapped over that up. It's just like a
pony up or like down. I'll figure it out. Asshole.
That's terrible. That's a real nightmare.
Speaker 1: And I mean I appreciate people who, uh, I'm all
digital these days, and it's like, oh, some part of
me is like, man, I wish I just kind of
have these discs and stuff like that. It's like, oh,
in so many of these cases it can be just
as frustrating, if not worse.
Speaker 3: It's usually for multiplayer stuff, like it's actually a bit
of a myth that, like, you know, there's nothing on
the disc nowadays, Now most single player games you just
need to play from disc just fine. Obviously have to
install it, but like, yeah, you just you can play
that perfectly fine. Multiplayer stuff gets a little funky. I
do wonder though, like, is it is it different for
digital people? Like if they buy called Duty Black Ops
six from the PSN and go to download, does it
properly download Black Ops six or does it just download
all of Duty app and the core files and you
need to go in and select the thing you purchase.
Oh it's bad, It's real bad, man.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, man gross. I got to spend some time
finally with the sind in light gun. I spent a
little bit of time getting it set up, and when
I was first setting it up, it was doing this
thing where okay, when I aim directly at the center
of the score for something like point blank that thankfully
has a configure tool when you first booted up to
make sure that everything is calibrated correctly. It aims perfect,
and then when I aim to the side, it's just
a little bit off, Like it feels like if I
go to the left five inches, it's going to the
left six inches, and so the radical is going too far,
and I'm like, I'm sure in these settings, I'm just
missing something. The wiki is has a ton of documentation
this thing, which again for a reminder for people, it
is a It looks a lot like the gun con
or early PlayStation light guns, but it doesn't use the
same technology as a light gun. It has a camera
inside there, and then the software that comes with the
light gun puts a white border around your game, and
this camera uses the white border to know where it's pointing,
and that works really well. But because of that, you
have to set it up with just about everything you use,
and they had to build bespoke like little tools and
drivers for stuff like the Mister, which it does work with,
but it means it takes a little bit of setup
for just about everything you want to do. I got
it set up with a portable version of RetroArch now
that I have set up specifically for light gun gaming,
and that has solved a lot of my headaches. But
it was still doing that weird thing, and it's like, oh,
I just need to dive into the sindin menu and
really kind of tell it what kind of game I'm playing.
And it was just like one click that I missed
it thought I was playing on a sixteen x nine screen.
Speaker 2: It's like, this game is four x three.
Speaker 1: If I just clicked this one thing, this is four
x three and it sort of all just fell into place.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit troublesome going from I had
it set up for Point Blank and Time Crisis, which
are the Namco Gun Con games. When I tried to
switch over to a game that was like the Justifier,
then it felt a little bit off again. It's like, Okay,
I'm going to have to have multiple profiles and really
kind of going there and do the work. But once
I was playing the games, it kind of worked a
charm and it was really fun to bounce between all
these things, and point Blank is very fun. People have
always described it to me as Warrior, where with the
gun before Warrialwear even came out.
Speaker 2: And it really is that.
Speaker 1: It's it's got really great It's got a great look
to it. It's not like a lot of other like
gun games where it's either you know, try to be
cool dudes shooting stuff or sci fi.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, it's bright and colorful.
Speaker 1: And weird things happen and here can you shoot twenty
five piranhas.
Speaker 2: In the next ten seconds or something like that.
Speaker 1: And it was yeah, very very cool to actually just
get this working pointed at my computer screen and being
able to use it on these this LCD panels, something
that like guns, just simply would not be able.
Speaker 2: To work with.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of sort of solutions for this
problem since CRTs have stopped being the main way that
people interact with their with their games. I really like
this one just because it is so open. I did
see that game thing at Pax which is you know,
g Apostrophe Aime, which is like a bespoke box you
put under your TV and then it works with like
certain games that are on the box, and it'say, I like
that because it's more plug and play, but I want
the option to go find the weird games like I
want to go play carn Evil and get Maime selling
and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Right exactly, So it worked really well.
Speaker 1: The other side of that was I streamed these games,
and streaming them can have a lot of.
Speaker 2: Headaches, literally because they're like gun games.
Speaker 1: And the way it worked was they would flash when
you would pull the trigger, and the objects would flash
in different ways and the sensor could detect that, but
it flashed big and bright and white. And I found
this great plugin for OBS that would just eliminate the flash,
and I was so happy with how it worked because
people were not complaining at all. Everyone's like, this is
completely watchable, and that was really surprising. All it does
is the OBS now to text a white flash and
it replaces it with the frame before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say at look ahead thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, ingenius. Yeah, it works completely well.
Speaker 1: So very very cool thing, and I'm going to be
playing quite a few more like gun games going forward.
The send in can get kind of expensive, but I
would just get the base gun if people are looking
at it, and then like if you want a foot
pedal for like Time Crisis, just by a USB foot
pedal or something for fifteen bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like literally anything can be a foot pedal. You
can use an old keyboard, yes, right, exactly. So I
was kind of wondering, like, uh, what made to look
this up now, because Sindon's been around for a little
bit now, a few years.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it was Sean Johnson.
Speaker 1: I think I was watching his Dampco video and he
was talking like when I was you know, when I
was a kid and I couldn't afford everything, I would
read the magazines and I would be so infatuated with
the games I had never heard of before that got
like a like nines out of tens, and like the
EGM review crew wouldn't shut up about him for months
at a time, and that was point blank.
Speaker 2: Point Blink was one of those games, and so it
always stuck with me.
Speaker 1: And then I'm watching sewn Sjohnson's video and he gets
to the point blank segment and I'm seeing how great
those games look and he's talking it up in the
way he does. I'm like, man, I need to just
go figure out a way to play these games. And
obviously I have the CRTs, but I'm like, I want
to make it set up so it's easy stream and
I can play a bunch of different stuff and maybe
one gun that will work across everything, and sendon became
like the pretty when I looked it up, it seemed
like the go to and I'm just glad the guy
is still doing this. He seems to just be making
them from his home and shipping them from the UK
or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's very neat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they start off I would say reasonably priced for
the tech. Yeah, the base ones one fifteen, Like, that's yes.
I think for what you're getting is just like, yeah,
playing all these old games with the like on you
and use on your modern moditor or TV.
Speaker 2: I think that sounds about right.
Speaker 1: Yep, exactly, yes, And it's again it works with everything,
so or you can you can find ways to make
it work with everything, so it's very versatile and I
appreciate that kind of makes it more worth the money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of that kind of game, though, have you
ever played pank Park? Just that randomly came to mind. No,
pank Park is like it's a Namco game kind of
similar where it's like kind of Warriorwear before warriwere you
and the r person sit there and you both like
have these you hold these grips and like the grips
are like it it's like an amusement game. It's industrial
grade and like inside as bumpers, but you and your
opponent are like pulled to like ram into each other,
and like the mini games will be around this off,
like sometimes you have to like slowly position the handle
to like move a character to like move a basket
to catch something or something like that, or sometimes you
have to like ram them into each other really hard
to like do a tug of war thing. Yeah, I know,
I know, Mike noses game. Yeah, he's in the chat
saying that we had pack park and arcade here it ruled. Yeah,
it's uh, they had a combo breaker last year and
it was really fun to try that out last time.
But yeah, Namco sort of having uh these like you know,
mini game collections before they got big with Warrior ware.
Speaker 1: Man, this thing looks awesome. Okay, yeah, I want to
track one of these down at some point. Maybe we
could do that on a road trip later this year.
Speaker 2: Who knows? All right, anything else? Sean Nope for me?
Yeah that's it for me as well.
Speaker 1: Why don't we wrap up the final handful of super
chats please?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Quite a few came in there, so thank you everybody.
G nitros Beck. My homesick memory is from high school,
played and finished Breath of Fire on Super Nintendo while
home all week with the flu. Such a core memory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: That's That's kind of what I was getting at with
this topic, because I bet this is a lot of
people's core memories with some games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3: Next up is from tuber Mike getting sick after eating
a bunch of non brand Lobster rolls on the road.
Red Lobster sends their regard.
Speaker 2: Them not a CEO with the coldest bruise.
Speaker 3: You owe made them mistaking in the natty.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: Next up is from to one Free Man, uh sick
with Sarge's Heroes. Brother hated it. I loved it.
Speaker 2: Is that? Okay that's one of the Army Man games?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, I Sarge's Heroes has to be one
that I rented at some point.
Speaker 2: It's in that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was an N sixty four game and it was
probably on PS one as well. Yeah, I had my
cousin loved those Army Men games. I never never really
understood the appear you know, maybe because they were just
like third person shooters that were like, quote unquote kid friendly. Yeah,
I know they were the kid friendly.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: I think they just found some sort of charm that
people were like, Man, I like these armyment guys, and
it's a military video game.
Speaker 2: I think you're right, that's a big part of it.
Speaker 3: And to one free man is back. I literally broke
my wrist raging at Powerstone two item outcomes boxer fracture
from punching the floor.
Speaker 2: Jesus ouch damn. I mean Powerstone two will do that
to a motherfucker for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You ever been really mad at video game before? Do
you have any memories of that specifically?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean people have seen me about as mad as
I get at video games on Blake Club, where I'm
just like pleading with the game. I go through the
stages of grief, right, I'm like denial and then bargaining
and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: That that's that's usually my tone.
Speaker 3: I think the only time I've ever gotten like really
mad game before, because I usually don't get mad while
playing a game. But was in high school playing Smash
with some friends and this I have this friend who
just he did down b with Pikachu over and over,
which is where it calls the lightning. Yes, I know
it was in it was in brawl specifically where that
was like very spammable. I was just like, is this
all you're doing? And he's like, yeah, yeah, if you
keep getting hit by I'm getting to it. Just that's
all he would do for like hours on it. At
one point just kissed me off so much, said I
tossed the controller.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, uh uh.
Speaker 3: Needless to say, I immediately went home and labt Pikachu
uh Stacy's ac is uh next uh. I was recovering
from a broken leg and had vicodin and played all
of Mass Effect one. Now remember a second of it?
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, the way it's meant to be played. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Then from drum Kid ninety two. Had a strep throat
for a few days and just vibed with Katamari Domice
while drugged up. I was the Katamari.
Speaker 2: That's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's like, that's one where you can just go and
maybe you mess up, but it doesn't matter and just
means to get to roll around some more.
Speaker 2: That's that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember when I was playing Alva Katamari Donacy
Rolling Live last year when I came out on iPhone,
I'm gonna tell you good Colorado Night game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yeah absolutely. Michael R.
Speaker 3: O'Leary, Hi, Mikey, Pretty sure. I told Sean about my
broken leg at packs Oh boy, Diddy, But that was
just before my thirteenth birthday. Dad got me a PS
one and I bought FF seven with birthday cash.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 3: Then from Jedi Mass four. Too many folks looking down
on game chat on switch too. I use it every
weekend with friends. Can be used with console, Mike no
Head said, with the noise cancel tech. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, people are just like, if people aren't
using it, that big button on the front reminds them
of this kind of this feature that they just think
is dumb. I don't use it as frequently as you do,
but when I do use it, I enjoy it and
I'm glad it's there. I want I want it to
be used as a gimmick more frequently, you know. I
want it to be in the Bomberman games, and I
want it to be like I think we were talking
somewhere when Peak comes to switch to I think jam
was saying, put those faces in the game and stuff
like that, or when we played what was that one?
Is it Lethal Enforcers where you kind of have the
mask you could just put the game chat face there instead.
That would be great Lethal.
Speaker 2: Company Lethal company there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I can't I see the point though, because like, uh, okay,
quick quiz for you here, Jeff, just off the top
of your head, do you remember the bund on the
WIU game pad?
Speaker 2: Then nobody used TV mode?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, nobody like threw a fit over TV mode.
I know you didn't have to pay for the TV
mode at least I think. I think there were like
extra services you buy in certain countries or something like that,
but like, oh no, everyone kind of just forgot about
the bun. That's that's how I think of the game
chat bun. I forgets there until like I'm like, oh yeah,
that bun's there, Like if I ever needed it, I
just don't think about.
Speaker 2: So, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it might be one of
those kind of silly Internet people getting med or something.
Speaker 2: In that period.
Speaker 1: Though with a switch to it's not even a year old,
people are going to have these kinds of complaints in
this time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it, but I also get the point
of yeah, you know what, some people genuinely like this
feature because it is kind of neat if you're hanging
out with your normany friends who don't even know what
a discord is and they just want to like chat
with you, So I get it. Then is from one
Chuck Towski, who, in just the most the old English
font I've ever seen, put one lobster role, please.
Speaker 2: One lobster roll per capita please.
Speaker 3: Then Mike man I's favorite chatter pillow toilet is here
with creepypasta text, garbletall hell that says is this a
good use of two dollars?
Speaker 2: Yes? It is.
Speaker 1: I want to like hit this button on my gooxlar
that will change my voice, but we're afraid to hit it,
so I'll just do a weird voice.
Speaker 2: Is this a good use of two dollars? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Deep Fried super chat right there, And then to one
Freeman is Beck just got the Nixy hyperion free for
the switch to random inputs happening out of the box.
Anyone else, I'm not familiar with this.
Speaker 2: I'm not either. I'm looking it up right now. Okay
these are joypads.
Speaker 3: Okay, interesting, I see oh, they're like you cam put
them on as joy cons and also do step really
I see, Okay, well.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hopefully hopefully that gets fixed to one free MANX that
would be a bummer.
Speaker 2: These look pretty slick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do usually hear good things about Nixtu stuff,
so yeah, you might just have a bunk unit there they.
Speaker 2: I like for sure. Yeah, yeah, all right that said Jeff,
all right, fantastic.
Speaker 1: In that case, I'm hitting that button right there making
sure the volume's up. Yeah, it is all right, Sean.
Where can people find you on the internet? What do
you have going on? All that good stuff? Tell them
about it.
Speaker 3: I am turbo Sean everywhere on the internet, Shawn. You'd
find me here on game mess helping out behind the scenes.
Sometimes on camera. You'll find me over on Giant Bomb
with Mike, Jeff and the whole crew, usually helping out
beyond the scenes. Sometimes on camera the same thing. And yeah,
I enough I have anything interesting, you'll hear about it.
Otherwise I'm just in the wires making sure stuff gets done.
Speaker 2: I do see.
Speaker 3: We have one more super test sneaking in here from
Zombie Pouring. Did you update the Hyperion three there's a
n ap for it.
Speaker 1: Look at that paying money man out. That's that's good
looking out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You always update your stuff when you get it.
That's that's good looking out. All right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I don't know, I'm tired, Sean. Yeah, this
same it's gonna be. I mean, look, it'll be a
fun day. We'll do gay Mess and then upf on Friday,
I might be doing some Nine Lives spending whether or
not Jan can do it, then we're gonna go. I'm
gonna see Mario tomorrow evening with the family. I'm looking
forward to that. So it's like after traveling last week
and getting some time to spend time with the kids
and stuff.
Speaker 2: That'll be good. And we're gonna do Easter this Sunday, where.
Speaker 1: I think I think I've been gone the last couple
of Easters showing because of packs.
Speaker 2: Usually I think what we do is on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Night, I gotta go hide a bunch of Easter eggs
out in the yard so they can go find them
in a scavenger hunt on Sunday.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. It's gonna be
a good time.
Speaker 1: And then got a I'm gonna put up some wallpaper
this weekend. That's actually the big thing I gotta get done.
I keep telling people wallpapers back, and I know because
I'm putting it up in my bedroom, so that'll be fun.
Speaker 3: I'm seeing the mar Mario movie on Sunday, so I'll
be able to report back. Okay, speak when I think
of it.
Speaker 2: All right, great, we can we can all talk about it.
Speaker 1: Then I want to see Project Hail Mary still, but
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: We'll get to the movie theater and see that does
look good?
Speaker 1: All right, Thank you everybody, Thank you, Christian, thanks Sean,
thank you everybody got home for listening, especially you, Mike Minati.
Speaker 2: Get better, but we'll see you next time. Bye.
Speaker 3: Like he's here.
Speaker 2: It's just like he's here. M h.
Speaker 1: I would have sex with any lizard person that wanted to,
and it was they paid well, and what the fuck?
Speaker 2: I don't remember that at all.