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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Gamesticides podcast.
Speaker 2: This is the podcast where we decide everything about the
world of games, so you never have to think for yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm your host Jeff Grubb and with me is Mike Manati.
Speaker 2: In today's episode, valves new hardware is looking pretty cool,
Japan is getting a cheaper PS five, and wait, what
the fuck? Benny Saftie's in the Mario movie. Now, all
that and plenty more, But first of Mike, how are
you doing? Oh? Okay, yeah, yeah, listen, you know you're
dealing with a little bit of us being a little sipo.
You've been a trooper coming in for these episodes. Uh,
I'm you're a hero. It's what I was getting at.
Let me move that there and then faith there.
Speaker 1: Okay, there we go.
Speaker 2: But yeah, listen, get your ship together. We got to
go shave the children.
Speaker 3: Say look, I got a shot in my ass today. Okay,
that's how much shit I'm getting together right now.
Speaker 2: So don't worry. You're on you're on the butt. Juice.
I'm I've been juiced in my butt. Well if that
can't save you, nothing will. So uh all right.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're doing You're pulling out all the stops, Mike.
Speaker 2: I am like really starting to feel the pressure of like, oh,
I got to just pick a game and really play
it because I don't have a lot of time period
right now because we're so busy doing a million other things.
And I'm like, I know I'm gonna blink and it's
gonna be early December. We're like really doing our Game
of the year stuff.
Speaker 3: So then so that's what you're going to be playing
come December, right for us?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean the other day I just was like I've
already kind of allowed myself to let go of a
little bit, Jeff, Like, the.
Speaker 2: Other day, you're pretty well set.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know what I want to play
actually is Metric Prime too. I'm actually gonna do that.
Speaker 2: So that's what I doing.
Speaker 3: It fantastic. Yeah, I do think I'm gonna need to
play Dispatch. I think I'm gonna have to give Dispatch
a try. There's a lot of buzz around that. Yeah,
I will see to be liking it, so I feel
like I should have an opinion on that one. Otherwise,
like even like even like FOM Basic Tactics again, I
wanted to get to that. It's a remaster slash remake.
It's not like it was gonna be probably my top
five necessari at least, I don't feel that bad about
catching up to that one further down the line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fairy. I did get Expedition thirty three back
and loaded on the steam deck like ready to go.
So that is like when I turn the steam deck on,
that's now what's playing. And I find that that will
help me get through that. So gonna try to actually
finish that game before it all comes to this because
I know and watch you do it tomorrow night. Yeah, okay,
that's a good idea. I'll try to get mix some
progress so I can like be right there and you
can witness it in sort of a skull sleep until
you do right, just get the whips out and stuff. God,
Py Perry, I have not packed yet. So here's what
we're gonna do the episode. Let's get this done so
we can get back to this so we could be
ready for this weekend and everyone again just should should
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a little bit loosey goosey, but we're gonna be raising
money for Extra Life, So yeah, tune in for that.
Plans to torture me. Damn, Dan's gonna do a couple
of crimes, uh, you know, international crimes against Mike. I'm
really looking forward to that, looking forward to see He
keeps talking about the new and improved Nubeshole that he
thinks is stream friendly in terms of keeping us involved
in stuff. Uh yeah, it's gonna be while Kayla is
there now helping them, So it's only going to be
more torturous, I think, because those two together seems pretty scary.
It's a lot.
Speaker 3: Just threaten a sneeze on him if he gets two
out of control.
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let's get into it. Mike Valve has new hardware. There's
the controller, there's the Compact Gaming PC, there's the v
Already headset. What do you think.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a lot of things done. Three things they
did three things that is.
Speaker 2: Three whole things.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot to think out, much to consider, Jeff,
much to consider. I am overall happy to see Valve
making more hardware. I think it's a good thing, even
though like like personally, like I find the new Steam machine,
I think that's interesting. I think this is a much
better implementation than that last round when Steaming she was
more of a brand for third parties. Fact that there's
just this one box, you know, me, I like that
it looks like a GameCube a lot. I think that's
really interesting as somebody who's like not gaming on his
TV much in general and really is just playing on
my computer. I don't necessarily know why I would need
one of these personally, but that's just kind of again
my situation a pardon me, kind of once won anyways,
because it sounds neat, it's a sickness same. But yeah,
and everyone has questions about the prices thing, so you know,
just kind of like trying to tune in. I hear
a lot of people excited about it, and I see
a lot of people skeptical that the thing's not going
to be quite powerful enough and it needs to be
priced appropriately, and.
Speaker 2: The other people will say, well, you know, don't forget.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be so much optimization for this thing, just
like we saw with the Steam Deck.
Speaker 2: So you know, you kind of have to you have
to have some.
Speaker 3: Faith in Vouve because they've done so well by the
Steam Deck. But this is also the company that you know,
the other Steam machines, which I didn't really love.
Speaker 2: You know, one of those things is more recent than
the other. Yeah, and you know those last Team machines
were done with third party partners, right, it wasn't quite
the same thing. This is all Valve making all the hardware,
with all the stuff they've learned, and really kind of
working with their partners to do a custom GPU and
stuff like that. There's a lot of efforts going in here.
It's pretty cool. I mean, break it down real fast.
There's a couple of models. There's just the only difference
is storage five hundred and twelve gigabytes versus two terabytes.
The CPU is going to be a semi custom AMD
Zen four with six cores and twelve terabytes. The GPU
is also semi custom. It's our DNA three with twenty
eight compute units. Basically, people are saying it's about equivalent
to a forty sixty or seventy six hundred from AMD. There. Look,
it's going to be six times more powerful than the
Steam dech is the number they've given us. That's pretty good,
especially when you pair it up with the FSR four
tech that is AMD's equivalent to DLSS, and that's been
improving a lot. It's going to improve even more because
Sony and AMD are now working together on FSR to
improve that, so there will be even more visual upgrade
improvements as this thing ages. The one thing that's worth sticking.
We're pointing out eight is sixteen gigabytes of RAM total,
but eight gigabytes of that is dedicated v RAM.
Speaker 1: I believe, yeah, doubt or maybe no. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: That's eight gigabytes of RAM on the GPU, and then
there's a separate sixteen gigabytes of RAM for the system
that's upgradeable. That eight gigabytes of VRAM though, that's the
thing I really wanted to talk about. People are hung
up on that because we have basically decided collectively as
PC gamers in the community, eight gigabytes ain't gonna cut
it anymore. New GPUs come out with eight gigabytes and
there are even if they're super powerful and it's super
fast memory, there are a handful of games and more
each year that really struggle.
Speaker 1: With only that amount of memory to work with.
Speaker 2: So we'll see how they're able to work with that.
But you know, that's again more than what they're working
with on the Steam Deck for the most part, So
I think that, you know, and that's shared memory over there.
Either way, power is going to be a question. Price
is going to be a question. I'm with you that
I'm curious about. It probably will get one no matter what,
and then it might be my replacement for like the
TVPC I have right now that is my media device.
I have like plex on there. It can operate as
a desktop, it can do all these other things. I
will probably turn it into like an emulation box something
like that, have all my emulator emulation stuff on there,
and then if I can play it and make it
a game tube, yeah yeah, exactly, make it look literally
like a GameCube.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited about it. It seems pretty cool.
Speaker 2: There's also the Steam Controller, which this looks like the
right sort of lessons learned from that first Steam controller.
That's the one you never were very happy with right,
if I remember correctly, Yeah, I hated that thing.
Speaker 3: And also I thought I was being gasoliped by all
the people who said they liked it. I couldn't like it,
but I'm just you know, yeah, exactly, that's what everyone says,
and I feel like a crazy person.
Speaker 2: I'm just think there's an have analog.
Speaker 3: Sticks, and people like, oh, these little square pads are
just as good, and then I would use them and
I'd be like, no, they're not.
Speaker 2: They're not. Yeah uh and people were yeah, people didn't.
I don't remember people saying too frequently like the pads
were just as good as analytics, but they were so
I think what people were saying often that that people
liked was the gyroscope in there, Like I like to
use this for gyroscope aiming in a bunch of different games.
And I was like, oh, okay, if like that's your
whole bag, if that's how you're playing all these different games,
I can see it, But I do need the analog sticks. Well,
this one has the analog sticks, has all the buttons
that you would expect on a controller, still has the
track pads. Jan and Dan used it and said that
it was surprisingly comfortable. It felt really good to use,
even though it's a it's kind of a tall controller.
You know, it's got a thirty five hours of battery life.
There's a little pucket comes with that is the dongle
that actually connects. It connects the controller wirelessly, but you
can also then dock the controller onto that puck it'll
start charging. It just seems well thought out, and then
of course it works really well with the Steam Machine proper.
I don't know if I'm like in the market for like, oh,
well I need a new controller, I'll get the steam
Deck controller. I'll probably get one of these to have them,
but I don't expect I'll be using it too frequently
because if I'm going to be playing a game that
requires like touch pads with a controller, it's probably because
I'm using on my Steam Deck and this is basically
just a Steam.
Speaker 1: Deck without the screen that controller.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm actually I didn't liked that last Steam controller,
as I just angrily told you. I think this one
looks pretty neat actually, like, yeah, it's tall, but that's
part of this because it's sort of filling in will
normally be kind of the gapy part here, which is fine.
That's not necessarily going to make it less comfortable. I imagine.
I you know, I'm somebody who's fine with the analog
sticks and either the Xbox or places to configuration both
work for me. I know, I was like dissing on
the track pads. I like having them in addition to analogs. Yes,
I just never liked them as a replacement for it,
So you know, it's part of me. It's like, oh, like,
what is it going to be like if I try
to play an OH one one seven on it?
Speaker 1: I promise you to work great.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. I like playing Civilization seven on you
know that that's been optimized for controller, but I would
still use the track pads and it was fantastic.
Speaker 1: It works really well.
Speaker 2: But you know, I use those track pads for a
million other things that create quick men use in emulation stuff.
So yeah, I'm really glad to still have those, especially
because there's going to be the occasional time where I
want to go to the desktop mode and I could
use those track pads to do the majority of the
things I would want to do.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Then there's the Steam Frame. This is their standalone VR
headset that can play VR games on its own. It
has its own processor, which is a mobile arm snap
Dragon GIN eight process or something that's in a lot
of like handheld devices, some phones. Uh, that's really interesting
because it's also running stemos. Then it also has the
really good streaming like it comes with a dedicated dongle,
so you can stream VR games from your computer directly
to this thing without having to take up the bandwidth
on your Wi Fi router or anything like that. So
it should work really good with something like a Steam
machine or any number of other PCs. You know, I'm
I'm not super into VR gaming these days. I use
the VR headset for like actually playing two D games,
so this will be good for that, and I use
it for like watching movies. This thing just looks so
light and comfortable though that I am curious about it.
But really the big thing is they got Steam games
running on basically an Android processor, an ARM processor, and
that there's a lot of implications there, Like my ayn
thor that's going to show up, it was suppsed to
show up today, I don't when it's going to get here.
Now that's that can now potentially run Steam os, and
there's a lot of possibilities there, So yeah, I'm excited
about this. How about you for the Steam Frame. Yeah,
I know that.
Speaker 3: I'm not really been super into VR and complain about
how it can make me sick, but I do still
think it's a really cool technology. Sometimes I want to
use it more, but you know, I've never enjoyed the
hassle of setting it up, like I'm dedicating a whole
room to it and putting cameras around it and plugging
it seven ways into my computer, and I know, you know,
Acless has had solutions for these. I've never been that
excited about the Oculus brand though, so it's part of
me was like, yeah, maybe with Valve does one like this,
I will be more interested in want to dig in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's It's definitely the kind of thing where it's like, oh,
we're at a point where it's very obvious that VR
is something separate happening over there. It's not taking it's
not distracting any developers from making the games that I've
traditionally liked. So it's kind of just a cool, neat
technology that I'm glad Valve is still seems very interested in. Yeah,
Steam Oless being installed on phones here very soon is
real possibility, to the point where it's like they could
even use that tech, put it into the Steam app
on phones that you already have, and suddenly maybe you're
running your you're running Hades two on your phone natively
through Steam and the Steam storre is just all there
ready to go. That seems to be a real possibility.
And you know, other people, other groups have tried to
get PC Steam games running on phones, and that's there's
been efforts made there. It can work to a certain degree,
but valve controlling the entire stack for the most part,
at least you know now that's working with its own hardware.
Apparently then they've been able to make huge strides in performance.
It's like, okay, now can they open that up or
maybe open it up to the community to figure out, now,
can we get steam os running on everybody's device.
Speaker 1: That'll be interesting to see and I wonder what that
leads to.
Speaker 2: Either way. They didn't have anything to say about the
Steam deck too, other than they're gonna make one and
they have a good idea of what it's going to be,
but it's still a little bit of a ways off
because they want to see a big step a significant
step up in power. They said they didn't even want
like a fifty percent increase in power at the same
battery life.
Speaker 1: They want to see a big improvement to both and
certainly to power.
Speaker 2: But seeing all this, it's very clear that they are
deeply entrenched now in hardware. Valve is fully a hardware
company now, So I would expect the steam Deck two
to be like their biggest launch ever after doing this, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that'll still be kind of the big product,
you know, the steam she looks nice, I bet doesn't
do as well as a Steam Deck, maybe even the
same with the new VR headset. We're so glad that
they are going into these fields and it makes sense
the way for the steam Deck two.
Speaker 2: Have that look very impressive.
Speaker 3: I have it look significantly better than a switch to
and likely probably whatever Asis is even able to do
at that point, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And really like they can work with AMD on
this current generation of Steam machines and kind of figure
out what fsf FSR four can do and that can
really inform what's going to be capable or what's going
to be possible with their next generation Steam Deck too.
And with that stuff, it's like, oh, yeah, this that
could easily outpace the switch to at that point if
they have all those technologies working together before we move on.
I don't think you guessed the price. Give me a
guest for the price for the Steam machine specifically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm bad at it. It's hard for me oursel.
I mean what people are saying, it's like eight hundred dollars,
Is that crazy? I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's certainly not crazy. It's it's more likely that than
like five hundred dollars. I think I'm going between six
and six hundred and seven hundred for the five hundred
and twelve gigabyte model, But that is I think optimistic
based on the increased price of RAM. Right now, RAM
is going up in the price a lot, and it's
going to go up even more next year or so
we'll see. And they also aren't going to have the
exact same case of the Steam Deck, where it's like
we can subsidize the steam Deck because we know someone
buying the Steam Deck is buying that thing to play games,
and because this thing, the Steam is is a just
straight up a PC. It is a personal computer. It
has all the features of a personal computer. There if
you are looking for a computer and you want something
simple that will just work. There's kind of no reason
not to get this thing, at least that we're aware
of right now. So they could end up selling quite
a few of these things to small businesses or college students,
things like that, people who might not necessarily be buying games.
So I think they will price this thing more as
a PC than as console. They set as much. So, Yeah,
six hundred eight hundred is the range, and I'm hoping
it starts somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and I see some people like guessing
like over a thousand, and look, I know that's not
outside their own possibility, but boy, I think I would
be completely disinterested at those prices.
Speaker 1: Yep, me too.
Speaker 2: Steam frame, they're saying, is going to be a little
bit less or at least at least or same or
less than the Steam Index, which was their last VR headset,
that the one that they've been selling for years, that
was let's just say, nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: I think there was a bunch of different variable models.
Speaker 2: There was one you can get like without the hand,
without the controllers, and that was like or the base stations.
Maybe it was and that was like seven hundred dollars,
but the real model was nine hundred, so I think
it'll be below there somewhere. That'll be weird because the
mediquest is like five hundred these days, so that might
be hard to you know, I don't know. We'll see
how they can position out.
Speaker 3: Let's see what the pitch is there.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see here there was that State of
Play Japan presentation. I don't know, it wasn't two enthralling,
but there now is a cheaper Japanese only, Japanese language
PlayStation five that's basically like three hundred and fifty dollars,
very similar to what the switch To did, what Nintendo
did with the switch to out of the Gate where
they had a cheaper switch To model for Japan only.
Now the games are not region locked. The system is
sort of backwards region locked, but this will enable them
to sort of begin winning over the Japanese audience again,
which I was. I read a threat. I shared it
on Blue Sky last night, I think, or maybe it
was this morning, where basically a person who's very entrenched
in Japanese gaming kind of explained it as Sony's regretting
giving up on Japan in some ways or loosening their
focus on Japan, and now they're going to try to
get it back, especially after they kind of tested the
water with Astrobot, and apparently Astrobot really took off with
kids in Japan, and that's the first time Sony has
seen any pickup with young people in Japan.
Speaker 3: Because it's crazy. If you make a game that kids
will like, then kids will like it.
Speaker 1: Yes. Now, now is that going to change their fate?
Speaker 2: Because some of the statistics the people are sharing included
the fact that on a recent poll, the three DS
is played more often by gen Z and younger in
Japan than the PlayStation five. Still to this day, well,
apparently it's been like that. It's entire it's entire lifespan.
Back in twenty twenty three, the Yes was played more
than the PlayStation five by gen Z, So young people
just don't care about PlayStation in Japan. Now Astrobot change
that a little bit, But it's like there's a big
uphill battle to climb here. With all of that in mind,
clearly that their effort here, or their purpose here is
to begin winning back that audience. And the reason for that,
apparently is if you get that audience, they're very loyal
and they'll spend a ton of money on merchandise and
other tie in products and films and television shows and
all this other stuff, so they see it as worth it,
and that we've seen that work for Splatoon and Pickmen
and all this other stuff.
Speaker 1: Nintendo's really good at that.
Speaker 2: With all of that in mind, now, when you think
back to watching that state of play, do you think
they did a good job making overtures and making a
pitch to win those people over?
Speaker 3: I mean a little bit. What they really need is
more big, high profile first party Sony games like that.
And it's difficult because they don't have Japan studios anymore.
It's a lot of those franchises that data upilled that
audience of linguished to a point where do you see
big returns if you bring them back?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Do you just try to do even more new or
newish stuff like Astro?
Speaker 2: But instead? I don't know. It's a difficult, difficult ass
It's why.
Speaker 3: I never want to get out of that game, because
it's very hard to just jump back into it.
Speaker 2: You know. I could see, like some of these games,
how they like selected them Katamari Dimashi and pac Man
World two repact with Sonic the Hedgehog DLC. It's like, yeah,
you're trying to be like, yeah, we got we have
some stuff from our partners that will appeal to younger
people and maybe some LAPS gamers as well. Someone to
Chat said it, I agree. It's all going to come
down to that rumored supposed alleged handheld that they're working
on for PS six. Like the rumor is the I
have a PS six, they might have a PS six alight,
and they might have a PS six handheld, And if
that thing is super slick and sleek, which I expected
to be, there's a chance that they could, in a
like one gasp, get a lot of people back in
Japan because I think I think the Japanese audience is
still like slick technology that can play cute games. So
if they can get stuff ready for them, if they're
if they begin planting those seeds now, it could pay off. Now,
there's a lot of things, have things have to go
right to get to that point. But with if you
just kind of look at this one in a vacuum,
I think you're right. You need those first party games
more astrobots to kind of make a difference there, and
then you're right, stuff that would have came out of
Japan Studio, and I think they're a long way in
this moment away from that.
Speaker 3: But what about instead of that, you make a Horizon
MMO and a Ratchet and Clank mobile shooter.
Speaker 2: Yes, so those those got announced. Did you have you
had a chance to look at the Horizon stuff? Which
did you? You know what system? That game's not going
to be on PlayStation five? I don't know. Yeah, it's
not going to be on PlayStation five. It's on PC
and mobile. That Yeah, that's stupid. It's stump it in weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what the hell this thing is.
That's really freaking bizarre. Uh and Seasoft what yeah?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, but I can't even comprehend it.
I can't incomprehend the reasoning behind that. The Ratchet and
Clank thing, I almost kind of get they yea, there's
an initiative. It's probably not actually taking time away from
like Insomniac, they're using this ip that is much more
active than you know, some of their other ones. Still,
like there was a Ratchet and Clank game for PS five.
I don't like looking at this thing. Gosh, I have
no there's no way that. There's just no way this
takes off. There's no way this is anything I'm looking
at it.
Speaker 2: There's just no way.
Speaker 3: It feels perhaps slightly more ambitious than Crash Team Rumble,
if that's right, and then not much more than that.
Speaker 2: I agree the when, but going back to the Horizon, like,
did you see the character faces? Like, It's like everything
looks like Horizon except for the faces, and then the
faces look like your moisturizer games, like you know, for
lack of a better term, and it's just like, oh,
that's really weird. Something about that is real weird.
Speaker 4: It looks very Master Hunter like.
Speaker 2: Yes, then the gameplay looks very Monster Hunter like, and
you know, I am not a Monster Hunter expert, but
I like, I cooked over to it during Game of
Mornings this morning, so it's like I didn't really pay
attention to the gameplay and I watched her for five seconds.
I'm like, some of these animations look like and I
don't know, but some of they look like exactly ripped.
Not that that's a complaint against it, but yeah, what
do you think Christian.
Speaker 4: The boat charging looks incredible like the boat charging in
Monster Hunter. And then they have to do all like
blade stuff that also looks a lot like the blazon
in Moster Hunters.
Speaker 2: Do we know what this game is? So then it
says a memo.
Speaker 3: I mean there's literally a scene of them cooking like Guacamolean.
It's literally like the Monster Hunter food points Monster Hunter. Yeah,
it's a million, it's exact. I mean, look, that's not
a bad direction, to be clear.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, yes, I get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as a matter of fact that the boot leg
the Horizon game it is a Most Hunter too. So
maybe I don't know, maybe we're so you don't do.
Speaker 2: It so mad about it.
Speaker 3: You are right, there is something these Yeah, the faces,
it's like, oh, that doesn't look quite right for this series.
I don't know, Like, look, this could be something. I
don't know, right, people do like this franchise. I like
this franchise. Fine, I'm not like super down aant like
like you and some of our peers. Uh, this isn't
the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 1: I don't hate it. It's just very much not for me,
that's all.
Speaker 3: Sure, A little a little strange to not have a
p S five version for your your PlayStation.
Speaker 2: I p yep Ranger rumble though. I mean, like, like
you said, I see how this one happens, and you're right,
it probably doesn't take away from anything else that we
would care about, but I don't know it. Part of
me is like, yeah, I feel like you can and
get away with announcing something like this if you have
something else that is traditional, go along with it.
Speaker 1: But you know that that's not how the world works.
Speaker 2: It's like they don't They aren't always ready to talk
about Diablo for when they're ready to talk about Diablo Immortal,
Like I get it at a certain point, but we'll see.
I don't know. It looks kind of cute if it
came to console, I might play it. But yeah, okay,
any other news we should talk about. Let's see here
about Mario movie stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, would you say Christian.
Speaker 4: Sorry she's yelled Benny Benny Sassy is, Oh, yes, he's
going to be Bowser Junior.
Speaker 1: Let's see, and who was a Brie Larson right? Is
going to be Rosalina.
Speaker 2: We watched the Mario Galaxy movie trailer. I'm hopeful. I
think Mike that this one's going to be even better again.
I'd like the first one fine, just not a movie.
I'll be like you watching a bunch of my life,
Like I got what I needed out of it when
I watched it in the theater twice. This next one
on my I hope that they kind of are like,
find a way to improve a few things, kind of
make give it a little bit more heart and and
then if there's a bunch of references, I'll be happy.
And it really was weird to see Bennye Safty announced
a's that voice, But how about you? What do you think? Sorry?
Speaker 4: Sorry before you continue, you people, I invite people to watch.
They kind of find a reaction because they thought he was.
Tim thought he was a joke that they were playing
on them when that show up there he was.
Speaker 2: So it was very funny because Benny Saftie pops up
and Tim Getty's like, it's like looking around the corner
for Greg Miller to pop out and be like, got
you fuck her? He's like, did they? Because I think
they delayed it because there it was like six am
for them when it when it aired, so I think
they watched it later and he was like convinced that
Greg and Barrett played a trick on him, and I
thought that was pretty funny. But yeah, how about you, Mike,
what do you think.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to I'm trying to see if I can
start a pull to see if people knew who ben
Benny Safty.
Speaker 1: Way, don't think the average person knows who Benny Safty is.
Speaker 2: I think you're completely fair to think that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you have a letterbugs account, you might know
who he is, ifiel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's exactly what it is. Yes, if you
have a letterbacks account, you almost certainly know who Benny
Safty is. Yes, And I have a letterbox account, and
so that really got me. And I'm not surprised anyone
who doesn't wouldn't know. I am asking the poll.
Speaker 3: Now there you go, and fans like you're wind on
left rings, Dan, you think maybe you are in like
a like a small niche community. Perhaps it's uh, you know,
it's it's the film Twitter and film Blue Sky and
all that stuff. It's relatively large, but I guess in
the grand scheme of things, it's still a niche community.
So yeah, look, I'm not arguing that you should have
known who Benny Safty was and had the same reaction
as me.
Speaker 2: Mike, I was completely fine that I was the only
one who felt that way. You're fine, baby girl. It's
dand thank you. I appreciate that. Uh that moves out
April third, I am, like I said, hopeful about it.
Speaker 3: Movies are niche the love Yeah.
Speaker 2: The level of film.
Speaker 3: Fan who has seen uncut gems is yes, that is unusual.
That is not like a normal person. Most enthus you're
a film enthusiast. That's why I'm not.
Speaker 1: It's got a film degree.
Speaker 2: You don't like.
Speaker 3: Not everybody's a film enthusiast to that degree. That knows
who Benny saftius BA Safty is not a household name. Obviously,
Adam Sailor is not niche.
Speaker 2: All right, well that's gonna do it for the big
story so far. We are going to take a break.
We'll come back and we'll hit these super chats that
people have been sending in right after this.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back, Mike, read those super chats.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's just nicely get out here chat Ai summary.
You're blocking the first super chat viewers in the chairscussing
movies like Uncut gems making comparisons between Vegan characters and
movie characters. All right, get out, all right, Nathan Malone,
he says, but the Game Awards a month away. What
are your big preditions for games shown? With this being
their first year on Prime video? Surely they go big.
I mean it's him being on Prime Video doesn't mean
that other companies are going to be more likely to
have games to show him or not necessarily. It kind
of just depends on where people are. We had a
pretty good one last year, if I recall, remember, I agree,
we're feeling good about it at the end of it.
I remember mostly being embarrassed that I pump myself up
into thinking halfway through what happened, which even of all
this valves off happening, and be thinking that they're making
halfway three. I don't think it gets announced out of
Game Awards. Clearly, they're just going to do that on
their own time.
Speaker 2: That's the Valve w Yeah, you're right, Like I want
to say, you know, Kighley did used to do those
twenty four hour whatever, those stories he would write. He
would in bed with the developers, and he did that
for a lot of Valve games. So he has a
very strong relationship with like Gabe, so maybe he could
pull those strings. And the fact that the game, if
it's coming, which it seems like it is, and it's
not announced as part of this hardware stuff, which of
course I think that makes sense because if they announced
Half Life three alongside the hardware stuff, half Life three
would have completely buried that stuff. It would have been
talked about, for sure, but most of the conversation would
have been around Half Life three. There's a chance that
shows up at the Game Awards, but I'm really hoping
because yeah, Mike, fine, you're gonna win Game of the
Fantasy Critic this match.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I forgot. I don't even remember why I
picked that up. Somebody talk like that looks good. I
picked that thing up, crazy, Mike, absolutely insane. So yeah,
you deserve to win. So I'm like looking now to
like see what's gonna happen. I think I do have
second place pretty much unlocked. Sean could catch up, but
I'm interesting to see if Dan and Backlar swapt places.
Backlar has a counter picked half Life.
Speaker 2: Three, and I want to see Half Life three like
Shadow Drop and come back and just completely ruined him
because Dan counterpicked Metroid. He should lose, he should go
like do very poorly out of all of us, but
backl Art could still actually get below him if if
that happens.
Speaker 4: So you want to hear a sad story of a
fantasy critic who was going to win my fantasy credit
because I picked up our craaiders.
Speaker 2: Little did I know the Eurogamer will come around and
choose straight up the time, such ai slop Christians. That's
all your fault.
Speaker 4: The worst part I had to defend the review because
people being mean, and I think it's a really good
review and review.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad we had that conversation for sure.
Speaker 3: Thinks could be shown though, Uh, I think we might
see Kingdom Hearts four again finally maybe Yeah, I don't
think seven uh spreemake part three, but Kingdom Arts four
might be time to re emerge.
Speaker 2: I think we will see a new Ridge Racer and
Mega Man game. Really, I think there's a chance we'll
see a new Mega Man. Yeah, I think that's actually
in the cards a little bit.
Speaker 3: Okay, now we're on that track. You think this is
where we finally see what they're doing with Castlevania Economy, Please,
I really hope.
Speaker 2: So uh no, no, wait, no, remember Konami and Keeley.
Uh they're they're still fighting because there's's friend and stupid, right, Okay,
so that happened separately.
Speaker 3: Coach, Am I still going to show up and like
talk about nothing.
Speaker 2: Huh? He'll talk about the death stranding anime that just
got announced.
Speaker 1: So he'll probably have like some like cast characters to
show off.
Speaker 2: He'll you know what, that's right, he'll I guarantee he
walks on the stage with the cast of who's going
to be on that show?
Speaker 3: You don't think it's gonna be some kind of celebrity.
Speaker 2: Do you? No, no, no, it'll be some voice actor.
Yeah that he's a deep respect for. No, No, Ben,
I fucking hope so he could be. Actually, I'm very really,
really good. He certainly knows who Benny Safty is. I
promise you that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's trying to scount him right now. You know,
you know Tim, that's who's he hits for the enema.
Speaker 2: I can see it all right.
Speaker 3: Next up here, El grug says, is it any consolation
of Mike? He does look the best in Blake Club costumes.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I saw Jeff in that knuckles suit.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Also, how is Dan's blake ripcord looking for leisure suit Mikey.
I seen a lot of people saying this, Jeff like, oh,
I should pull the ripcord on Dan, and like, I
don't know, this makes to be soft what But in
my eyes Dan has done nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: Dan one the game with rules that we all agreed to.
Speaker 3: He did a cheat, he happened to win, and then
he like it was his right two blight somebody like everyone,
I'm not surprised, it's me, but he was able to
do that, and he picked up Bad Game, which is
the show. Like, I am not mad at Dan for
this at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Like it would be kind of absurd because
we're probably gonna do Blat in the bank again, and
you would have every right to do all of this
to either one of us and we would not be
able to complain in that situation either. No, I'm one
hundred percent with you. Also, so I respect you because
you sound like a sane person in a world that's
like I got really mad because I was in the
arc greator subreddit or whatever, and they're like, it's not
it's not toxic to shoot people it's toxic to pretend
you're their friend and then shoot them.
Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck, no, it's not.
Speaker 2: That's the game. It's the entire game. What are you talking?
It has like a million up votes. Oh my god,
Oh don't get back and people just playing the game.
Speaker 3: This reminds me of when I was really into Heartstone
and they had to get rid of the thanks e
mode or something like that because everyone's like, I know
that when they say it, they're being sarcastic, and everybody
was like getting really mad and they just got.
Speaker 2: Rid of it.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, everybody.
Speaker 2: Yep, it's it's that stuff all over again.
Speaker 3: Dan asked Caleb, i't Benny Safty and sent me photos
a photos of what of her? Like, Oh, she just
has a lot of like I don't know that is face.
Speaker 2: It's just like like I'm pray by that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the face of the average American over your face.
Speaker 2: He's Safty.
Speaker 5: What Yeah, Perica, you asked them about about Benny's I
keep looking by the way at my tabs.
Speaker 3: Where I wrote the name doubt each time because I
don't I don't know this person.
Speaker 2: It's one of the Safty brothers. Mike, come on, there's more.
There's more. Great now there's two of them. Uh.
Speaker 3: Next up is blood Board PC twenty twenty five. I
can't wait for a couple of months when the name
becomes one Board PC twenty twenty six. I think when
I met blood Board, he was blood Board PC twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 2: Do you think that's right?
Speaker 3: I predict twenty twenty seven, Maybe you'll be a happy person.
Speaker 2: I don't know you'll see probably not actually no, so
I predict you might never be happy.
Speaker 1: I don't know we'll see.
Speaker 3: Blood Born PC twoenty twenty five, says blood it's about
blood Board. Blood Boorn never came to PC one. Do
you think there's a better chance on PC two? PC
two is what some people are calling the new Steam machine. Dan,
that is wild that we can't play fucking blood Born
on a PC sixty frames per sex. I mean, Sony's
releasing Horizon games on PC before PlayStation now and we
can't play Bloodborn on PC.
Speaker 2: It's upsetting. Yeah, if you seems like such a slam dunk,
it is like now this mythological game. If they yeah,
I mean, I'll repeat what I've heard and again, this
is stuff that's been updated recently by some sources that
nothing's happening with Bloodborne, and then going back before that,
so this is older info, but I think other people
have said it now that from Soft wants to be
involved for whatever reason, because I think they're protective of it,
I think is what the actual statement is now, and
they are busy so they can't. It's and I think,
and then I speculate that there is still some weirdness
between Sony and from Software, and maybe it's not a
huge amount of weirdness, but at least enough weirdness where
from Software seems more interested in working with other companies
before they go back to work with Sony, so we'll see.
And then at the same time, I think Sony is
not necessarily running to do much with from just because
I think, or at least with blood Bloodborne specifically because
Bloodborne so like it solds like seven million copies, and
I think for some reason, I think Sony looks at
that and it's like, well that, but maybe that's not
worth all this effort, which is crazy. We know, we
know it would do better.
Speaker 3: It's really good and if you, if you like, were
able to make a sequel, it would just do much better.
Speaker 2: And this was the tenth anniversary of it.
Speaker 3: If you had done a special dish, a remaster, it
would have done incredibly well.
Speaker 1: I think it's just that it would just crush a
piece of incredible.
Speaker 4: It doesn't even know like like a PS five version. No,
it isn't it like a sixty.
Speaker 3: No, not at all, not even there's no official way
to play that game in sixty forrade per second. It's
only up the base PS four version. That is all
that you get. Speaking of things in sixty fps, I
see that Red De Redemption one is coming to like
all the newer consoles with like a next gen patch,
including switch To, and I think I want to play
Red Dead Redemption one again on switch To.
Speaker 2: I played quite a bit of it when it was
up upgraded on for backward capatibility on Xbox Series, or
maybe it was even back on Xbox one X. Either way,
it was like, oh man, this game is great this way,
it really is well done.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right cyers Scotchwan says, if there was a
uh GB Mortal Kombat game, you think me giant bomb
in that game boy, because there was one of those,
what would the non gory fatalities be example, Mike, Forest
fed and Apple favorite top five Mortal Kombic characters of
five host please and thanks, uh okay, five best Mortal
combat characters are Smoke, sub Zero, Scorpion, Irmek, and Rain uh.
And then the five worst are everybody else?
Speaker 1: All right, and what would our non gory fatalities be?
Speaker 2: Do? Is it like baby realities? That friendship Baybaladies? Yeah? Yeah, okay,
friendship for friendship again? All right?
Speaker 3: The Light Club Buzzbald, We just buzzball, so yeah, buzzball.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Jan pops on the screen and begins force
feeding someone ball yes, right. The nine Challenge, Oh yeah,
oh you get buried under a mountain of chicken nuggets. Yeah,
I guess that'd be fatal. But or maybe just one
hundred nuggets just slap you in the face. Maybe that's
what it is.
Speaker 3: Kitty cat Man I three says pro tip for Mike.
They can't yellt you for saying the sea word if
he had serving in front of it, even then, I'd like,
I think that belongs to women. I don't think I
you know.
Speaker 2: Well, anyone who's fabulous can say it, and that's freaking
oh war.
Speaker 4: I would think of the other were the one we
bound on cham Yeah, you can't say that.
Speaker 2: What's the other? I guess I don't want to know
what the other sea word is.
Speaker 3: Ah Zipper Harmon says you mentioned playing You mentioned playing Siberia,
Mike Kira command the Amerzone remake said in the same
world standalone missed like remake release.
Speaker 2: Earlier this year. Yeah, I saw this when I looked
into it.
Speaker 3: Apparently Amazon is in the same universe as Siberia and
it had to remake this year. It's weird, Like, boy,
I didn't hear and we talked about this, so I'm
actually kind of realiy to hear if somebody talk about it. Yeah,
I would like to check that we still have some
miss to play. And again, I know the series has
been on a bit of a small hiatus because of
first Halloween time and now just all this constant traveling.
But we're gonna get to Miss three here. Oh yeah,
looking forward to it, andw says when halfway three is
finally revealed fingers crossed for next week, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Well, you guys beat out already, really okay?
Speaker 3: If we beat Alexyevin already, if I beat I beat
it on Quest two a virtual desktop, and I was west.
Speaker 2: I did beat Alex.
Speaker 3: I reviewed it back in the day on an index
and it's like the only negative thing about it is
that VR made me sick, right, and like, what's not
really the game's fault. Otherwise it's fantastic. It's great, Uh,
super neat.
Speaker 2: I liked it a lot.
Speaker 3: I liked the way that it kind of like set
up a half life three instead of just like an
episode three.
Speaker 2: I suppose, like we originally had. It's good stuff. I
played up until the sewers, and then the sewers were
kind of scary and gross and I was too scoop
to go in there and it was a cold baby.
I was a huge baby.
Speaker 3: Crono Rigg says, seeing Jeff and dam and Tim Getty's
all have the same reaction to Benny Safty was so
funny that I can wait to finally see the Metro
Prime four previews tomorrow. Oh yeah, I remind back of
are like in Becker insinuated there's something I'd be interested in,
so I need to I need to see.
Speaker 2: Gosh, that game is coming out. So I can't say
whether or not I sat down to see that game
or whether or not. I'm excited, but we'll find out tomorrow.
How woult you have that? James Pye says, if they're like,
let's say, if there was footage out there that was oh.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess I could have done that.
James Pie says steam controller resembles the joy con Crypt
crypt the joy Gone.
Speaker 2: Grip Dog ears Yes, actually I know what he means
by this. Yes, and it does a little bit. It
looks like a bunch of different controllers. I agree. I
think dan or Jan said it looked a little bit
like the Dreamcast controllers in terms of its height, and
it's like, yeah, I see it.
Speaker 3: Lex wy He says, how are we celebrating Transgender Awareness Week?
I say trans rights are human rights?
Speaker 4: All right, we went, I'm gonna play some Victoria Tree
or Europa Universals.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna go on the street and
do the same thing. All yell. Trans writes there you go,
I go, you get. You can't allow to say bitch
like I do.
Speaker 1: No, No, I can't pull it off.
Speaker 3: I mean it's illegal. Donnye reesis what's your space?
Speaker 2: Look out there and say that, hey, you're serving c
and people will be like, what are you talking about?
You're being weird.
Speaker 3: What's your perfect Steam Machine face play? It looks exactly
like the face of a robot that I recognized, like
that the robot who knew the Ultimate answer in Kitchecker's.
Speaker 2: Guide to the Galaxy. Oh sure, Yeah, it looks just
like that. Yeah, the led bar kind of looking like
the mouth maybe a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so maybe i'd make it look like that
or you know, a GameCube. A spice warns GameCube because
it looks, you know, so gamecubey. Anyways, I would want
it to be like still make it clear to the
Steam Machine. I wouldn't like straight up want GameCube branding
on there, but I would want it to be very
GameCube adjacent.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw the the di y e ink display.
Speaker 2: It's one of the Valve engineers created and like put
on there that they're not going to sell. I'm like,
I bet some of the community is going to come
up with something like that. That would be fun. But yeah,
ideal face plate it will be GameCube. Shit, I'm just
I'm just like mic on that stuff.
Speaker 1: I love the GameCube.
Speaker 2: It looks enough like that that I will make it
very suggestive of the GameCube. TAYM.
Speaker 3: Morales has been a member on YouTube for thirty four
months on the Tubman tier sets. Antonio, we know you
guys are busy. We know you guys are stressed. Thanks
for the content, right anyways, Penis, thank you Antonio. Oh yeah,
Oh I feel sorry for me. I'm not you know.
Speaker 2: Too, stresses it.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of travel and then getting sick and
I'm like.
Speaker 2: We were just we're just going all the time. But
it's all like I try to tell people, it's the
good kind of busy. I remember I talked to Greg
Miller like a few years back, and I was like,
aren't you just always feeling so busy? And this is
when I like, I always felt like I should be writing,
Like just constantly felt like I should be writing something.
Speaker 1: I had like five ideas at a time.
Speaker 2: It's like I'll write this thing, and then I felt
bad that I was writing that thing instead of this
other thing. And it was a lot, and we've I've
now positioned myself in a job where it's like I
feel a little bit more like I can manage it,
even though we certainly are busy, but not in any
bad way. Yeah, this is.
Speaker 3: Always a busy time, and there is definitely you know,
I think everybody in the industry takes it slightly easier
once the holidays get rolling here. So once we get
all the Game of the Year stuff banked and it's
Christmas eve time and all that stuff, it'll be I mean,
I said, thing I hate right now is because I'm
trying so much. I'm like just seeing my house kind
of get like cluttered and disrepair.
Speaker 2: That's why I haven't had time for games to the
last two weekends. I spent the last two weekends basically
just cleaning up this basement. I did a bunch of
stuff in the braje and upstairs, but it was mostly
the spacement because it just got the INTROBU came for it,
and there was like just several big spots of mess
and I had to just focus on it and it
took forever. And now it's like back to a decent shape.
But it's like, oh, I had to make a choice.
I could do this or that, and I'm like, I
got to get this done before the holidays.
Speaker 3: I gotta get decorating too. I got to clean before
you can decorate. So once I'm back from this trip
before I go to Disney. That's what I want to do. Great,
clean all that stuff XT up is well. Kyle Barne,
thank you for joining the Hamilton tier on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Appreciates that. Thank you.
Speaker 3: That's the that's he says. Finally, symmetrical thumb six. I
can play Katamari Domici the way God intended. Oh there
is a game I still actually do want to play.
People really like that new Katamari quite a lot.
Speaker 2: It's really good on the Steam deck with the with
the symmetrical sticks on there.
Speaker 3: J Web says, genuine question. Should I pick one of
these Steam machines up or build a computer? FYI haven't
touched a computer for gaming over fifteen years.
Speaker 2: I'm thirty.
Speaker 3: By the way, a game currently on a console.
Speaker 2: I in your situation, I probably would get one of
these if the price is right. Obviously this Steam os
is going to be a safe environment and easy environment,
and then it's still a computer so you can install
whatever you want on there. Uh yeah, I would.
Speaker 1: I would do a Steam machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You're gonna start building up a Steam digital library or
just you know, computer digital library in general, which is
going to become an important thing, important thing I imagine ye,
e Jacolbe, thank you so much for five gifted memberships
on YouTube to the game mess appreciate that so much.
Thank you, Jackalope screaming mass. This should be called a
new Blake Club season, leisure suit Minaate, box office, bust
and grub cole Stan.
Speaker 2: I like that a lot. Oh, it's also it's a
leisure suit Minati box office Mitch. So there's another one
where there were two words were changed, Mike, but I
think there's enough other words to sort of compensate this
time around, so you're not upset about this name, right,
I'm not upset. I think, look it's good.
Speaker 3: I think maybe uh, leasersuit Mikey might have sounded more
like leisure suit Larry, but laser suit Manati works fine
as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3: As many people are syllable sickos like I am. Ejaculbe says,
I'm intrigued by all the steam machine in the steam frame.
The patroller looks great as well. Yeah, I think, yeah,
it's it's definitely not a bad that they're doing this right,
even if you're not interstated, it's like, this is good.
Put this stuff out there how don't think, Yeah, good,
I was good.
Speaker 2: We didn't talk about it because I don't. I don't
think this is gonna happen. But a lot of the
conversations around yeah, we're Xbox is fucked the next generation.
It's like, why would you get an Xbox? And it's
like it's gonna be in retail all this other stuff,
and this thing probably won't be, and at least not
at first.
Speaker 1: Even if it is, I still.
Speaker 2: Think Xbox will mostly be fine for what they're going for.
I just don't think what they're going for is going
to be all that enticing to a lot of people.
Well how do you feel?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Xbox is already in trouble.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: If this contributes to that or not, I don't know.
I think there's there's both an argument of like, yeah,
this is gonna the Xbox is gonna be in walmarts
and this is it. But also if like the the
Xbox is maybe going to be chasing more of an
enthusiast crowd, and that is also what this stuff is for.
So maybe, but again, like at the end of the day,
Xbox's destiny is kind of its own. Still, yeah, and
I think there's because of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that next will actually be significantly
more powerful than this. Will that matter though, And I
mean if that Xbox is just a PC, I would
I'm gonna probably be in a situation where someone's gonna
come up to me like which one of these should
I get? And I will be like, you know, unless
you need that extra power, just get a Steam machine.
It's better for you because Windows is a pain in
the ass. Still.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like if I to open up Windows Update or
whatever again, right yeah? Uh zerram One says, as a
console player who doesn't want to build a PC doesn't
have the money for a pre built if the Gabe
Cube is reasonable price, this with my policing five is
a perfect scenario for me.
Speaker 2: I think they're so right there in a position where
the Steam sale mythology is also like something that every
gamer knows, even if you aren't someone who's in the
PC gaming and you're you're just like, well, yeah, I
just can't justify the upfront cost. If they can get
around that up upfront cost barrier, if they can't position
this and price it super aggressively, I think a lot
of people will look to look at this thing as
that is how I'm going to get into Steam sales
and start building my digital library on Steam. So yeah,
I think there's probably a lot of people lying in Wait,
maybe not tens of millions, but I think certainly millions.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like, if this thing's reasonably priced, and
you can just imagine, you know, let's assume it's going
to run any game from like twenty nineteen or before
mostly very well, and how all those games, almost every
game from that perier before is eventually for sale for
like five dollars or something. Right, It's going to end
up being very cost effective. Unless you really need to
have the great newest super thing. Maybe that will look
good on here too, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 3: Ali Merrickle says knowing a movie director in the year
twenty twenty five is like knowing a game director nerd shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: Now people have some people have told me this person
is also an actor.
Speaker 2: If you give them that he is recently more of
an actor than a director even, Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: Philip Fortuna says more people know Benny Safty than Mini Mouse.
Speaker 2: That I doubt. I doubt greatly.
Speaker 3: I think I think that's a bait and it's kind
of working.
Speaker 4: It feels like it a little bit.
Speaker 2: Nah. This this is me not falling for bait. This
is him not being put in the news because he
was mad. But you can't put up in the newspaper
for that.
Speaker 3: It was like, he's in Happy Gilmore. Everyone was in
Happy Gilmore too. It was in Happy Gilmore too. Y'all
just didn't notice. It's not that big inde. John Daly's
a household name. So is Bennie Safty taom Moros says.
Is there a punishment for the last place in Fantasy Critic? No,
I don't think so.
Speaker 2: There was supposed to be, but because of happened happenings
and goings on, it might be hard to do that.
I guess there's like there's a real last place, and
then there's the effect of last last place.
Speaker 1: We might come up with something, but nothing major will.
Speaker 2: What's really important is that there's a really good reward
for whoever wins. I don't know about that.
Speaker 3: I think we're talking about getting in the crown. Actually,
I remember this is Dan who lasses are all mad.
He thinks I was like, they're the person who wins
to get a crown.
Speaker 2: I'm Dan. I think he also said money. By the way,
I think he also said the person who went should
get a lot of money.
Speaker 3: I'm Dan. My team is named no RPG's allowed. Even
though the best rated games series on RPG eames, I
tried pride for its not coming out this year. Oh man,
just fucking getting him, damn.
Speaker 2: Me or something. This week day brig is a crown
and money. Oh yeah, never mind.
Speaker 3: I never said a backward about Dan for my life.
Speaker 2: Gim the crowd and buddy, we'll see that trophy. Maybe
her crown. I guess yeah. Uh Aka says uh.
Speaker 3: If Halfway three is announced after Silk Song came out
and GTA six is dated, where the next Unicorn games,
my guess is Blood Born two, Typhle three, and Old
Squl six. I mean like Bloodborn two and Title three
just may not ever happen, is the issue?
Speaker 2: Right? Elder Scroll six will be the next one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Elder Scroll six, I get I guess that is
the next one. Gosh yeah, it's like a lot of
these are just actually happening now.
Speaker 2: Huh wow.
Speaker 3: That like we're not live where we're like Stilke Song
like happened right, that is like almost already a game
from the past.
Speaker 1: Uh right, yeah, that was a game that has had happened.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's happened in the past. Yeah, it's behind us
now very strangely.
Speaker 3: Oh, as He's right, there is still beyond Good and
Evil too, It's okay, sure, yeah, why not a bunch
of weird Ubisoft things like that, and the fucking Prince
of Perga stands a time remake.
Speaker 2: You can forever to Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, fire Hair says, so who buying that?
Speaker 2: You be soft?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we kind of didn't really talk about that
how they were supposed to do their earnings today, Like
we're not doing that. We're not doing that. Nevermind, everyone's
like and you just beally when they do that kind
of thing, it's something BIG's happening, like maybe a sale
or some other news that's going to really impact the stock.
Speaker 1: They didn't just like say, with their post money stuff.
Speaker 2: They had to like delist their their stock from the
stock exchange while that is happening, so its stock is frozen. Yeah,
some big ship might be happening. I don't know, because
Saudia or no, it is a ten cent that is
involved in the trio studio, the one that is like
Assassin's Creed and far Cry and one of the Tom
Clancy things, Rainbow six. Yeah, so who would step in
and buy the rest? I guess it could easily be
Saudi Arabia. It's for sure. Who else is spending money? Yeah.
Speaker 3: Tuber says that the seame Mike's taking this anti Safty stance.
The Safty brothers seemed like they would get along with
Minnaughty's r I P P PO. Never get Look, I
had nothing against the guy personally or anything like that.
Speaker 2: You said you would fucking kill Benny's side things. I
can't believe. No information lies red boxes.
Speaker 3: Can the Steam machine succeed in the console space without
big multiplayer support like Battlefield, Call of Duty and uh Fortnite?
Speaker 2: I mean no, but it will have those things right well, uh,
let's see, oh, call Duties, Call of Duties on Steam.
But the anti piracy stuff might still might not work
with right the anti cheat thank you, anti cheat stuff
might not work with Linux based stuff yet. The same
with Battlefield. But I think Valvet knows that and they're
putting their planting their flag in the ground. It's like
we are focused on Linux, you guys. Should come to
us instead of us trying to figure out you. And
I think they're probably right. In the long run, these
companies will come around to supporting Linux. Arc Raiders does,
and it's doing very it's doing very well. So it's like, Okay,
if Arc Raiders, the new big hot multiplayer game can
do this, why can't fucking Destiny to No?
Speaker 4: So never Bunchie said, if you've tried to put that
game anything in the linuxhit, they're gonna go to your house.
Speaker 2: They're gonna kill your dog, and you exactly what they said.
You're right.
Speaker 3: Oh no, Bungee is threatening me, Like after.
Speaker 2: They're gonna come to your house, it's still your children's
artwork and put it in their game. Better watch out,
Like they're gonna collapse over dead before they make it
to the front. Yeah. Yeah, but he's really thriving right now.
Speaker 3: Taco Bellmont says, do you think it's worth getting a
steam Deck now if you don't have one yet? Or
wait for a Steam Tech do down the road. Oh
I don't think a steam Deck too is gonna happen
anytime soon. There's a lot of people are like, I'm
not getting this oha a second. I be getting steam
Deck mixed up a steam Machine steam Deck too.
Speaker 2: How long do you think that is? Actually, I think
it's still pretty I think that's still a couple of
years off. I think it's twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3: It is kind of like I guess it is pretty
late in the game now to like get a steam
Machine one.
Speaker 2: You get one, get one other refurbished ones when they're
when they're like on a deep discount. Even get like
one of the LCD screens ones if you haven't bought
one by now, just get them when they're like three
hundred dollars. And I think it's probably still worth it
unless you're, like, unless the reason you've been waiting is
you weren't sure if you were into it, and like
cost isn't an issue. In that case, maybe get one
of these newer handhelds that you could just put steam
os on or Bazide or something. Uh.
Speaker 3: Jade Camp says, do you think Xbox will start having
AI pooh pooh kaka?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, probably a little bit. What was who is it?
Disney Plus said they were going to have their short
form video thing with AI video or like AI community
videos or something like that.
Speaker 3: I saw, I saw the headline like tried to read it.
I was just like, uh, it's like gross.
Speaker 1: So yeah, probably.
Speaker 3: Brian Allen with the super chat no message, Thank you, Brian.
Let me see oh here it is. Don't know how
super chat works, but I'll have to say you're in
the right.
Speaker 2: Mic had to get more to and OPI around.
Speaker 3: The only two big things Sati has done as an actor,
uncut Jumps only did fifty million at the box office.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's a yeah yeah nice Niche.
Speaker 3: Last week says which Giant Bond member is the most
likely to appear in an out of Sandler movie?
Speaker 2: Anyone would say it would be true, it would be
it would be Dan. For some reason, it would be Dan,
but we would try to make it Jan, just like
we're still trying to get.
Speaker 1: Mike to be be a.
Speaker 2: Hug Skipper jug word.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you. I'm sorry about that. I don't want
to ruin your chances.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're doing good job. The drum Kid ninety two says,
I know it's a big uptick in a gb community
cross poll nation here since the rise of Definitely Corp.
How do you guys feel about the communities merging? I mean,
it's what's happening anyways. Uh, especially since I've been told
since I've been full tied at Giant Bomb, right, I mean,
you know, it makes sense. There's obviously a lot of
cross sections. Like if you like me and Jeff, you're
probably currently also a fan of Giant Bomb at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: I agree, And you know, it's a great more people here.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic, no complaints. I think it's it's it's been
working you know, there's and we're all kind of pretty
casual about it. There's no reason that it can't be
more more crossover between stuff we're doing and the stuff
in the community. It's been working out really well so far.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of people from here went over
there too, like first when Jeff first started going there
and then when I started shooting off. So it's always
been appreciated.
Speaker 2: Yep. Wel.
Speaker 3: Greg says, if you all do the thing where you
choose your own Blake Club game, you should do a
giant On premium poll for who chose the best slash
worst game winner gets Dan the winner Dan?
Speaker 2: Uh Yeah, the.
Speaker 3: Blight yourself idea, which I think might be interesting. I
kind of I kind of blighted. I did kind of
blight myself with Mortal climet Mythologies. I yee you guys.
I was like, you should have given me that instead
of Special Forces, and then you did, and I was like,
what the hell is wrong with me?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like Dan did blight himself with Sonic, and and
then when he was talking about like when he was
when Sonic and we were talking about first starting Bload
Club in Earnest, it was like, oh, well yeah, and
I'll play Bubbsy three D and stuff like that. So
we've kind of all done it a little Yeah.
Speaker 3: Interesting, interesting, the ones have gone to the Blade ourselves.
Then last Gek says, which Dispatch character would you want
to grab a beer with? I think I only I
think I only know the guys an iromn guy and
the blonde girl.
Speaker 2: There's a bat, there's a bad person. Yeah, bat played
by moist critical. Is that how he say?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 2: I don't really know?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I would. I would definitely get it with water Boy,
he he's homie. And then the jack Septic guy, little
guy character. I like him a lot. And then Alana,
we have a we have a party there party.
Speaker 3: Uh that's it for super excuse me. That's in for
super chats for now. Thank you everybody, all right.
Speaker 2: Thank you everybody, indeed, thank you my thank you for
reading those. We're gonna take another break. We aren't gonna
have a game or a special segment today, just because
again I haven't started packing, and I leave tomorrow and
I don't have to work tomorrow, so I'm not kind
of many time. If I don't do it, I'm sick
and Mikey's sick. So we're gonna take this break. We'll
come back talk about what we've been playing, and then
get out what I'll come up with a game to
play when come back. Don't worry. Oh great, we'll be
right back. Everyone. All right, Mike, we're back. What wait?
Do you want to do the game?
Speaker 1: First?
Speaker 2: You have to game?
Speaker 3: Okay, Kevin, I have a D eight. Do you think
it's gonna be even or odd? I think it's gonna
be odd. It is a six, you idiot.
Speaker 2: You lose I own you now, I'm not wow shit,
oh man, So not only do I not own jan
I don't even have myself.
Speaker 3: No, you're yeah, you're right, Yeah, that's it's worked out
very poorly for you.
Speaker 2: Can't you know, what I deserve that because I also
came up with my own game at the last minute
before the or while we were doing the bonus voicemail
today Mike, and it was an Apple related game.
Speaker 3: So guys kept talking about Apple's NonStop during the podcast today.
Speaker 2: Now this what's what's going on here?
Speaker 3: Even even at least you'd even at least like be like,
uh hahah, Mike would hate this even like say my name,
you know like that.
Speaker 2: You're right. I was gonna say that that's old, but
it's still funny. So I don't know what the point
is of that is. It's still great. You're right, we
should have brought up the fact that you would hate
what we were doing. Whatever.
Speaker 3: Mike's not screwing you guys.
Speaker 2: Where's Mikey? But yeah, do you want to play my
Apple game? I still have it all pulled up here?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, well darn, I asked, all right, everybody, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: By the way, I will absolve you of my ownership
as what if you give me what Coke zero when
I ask you to this weekend?
Speaker 2: Okay, I will, I'll do what I can. Uh, And
I appreciate. Sean said it was a good game. Uh.
I appreciate because I know Sean the whole time was thinking,
oh my god, talking about apple strains again, something he's
heard me do one hundred times. Now, thought Sean met
my game? Oh maybe met your game. I don't know.
Maybe I don't think he. I don't want to assume
anything reminds him too much. A Forest Street from last year.
Oh shit, we should play that again. I'll love that, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Mike, what have you been playing?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Dragon Quest one? Ah G two D still going on
along there? It still is that game. It's just very chill.
It's fun. I enjoy it. And then they have more
Simpson's Fortnite. I got I got sexy ned Flanders, which
means I got out lucky for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got un luck.
Speaker 3: When we're nothing, uh nothing uh like Fortnite simpsified character,
and then I get Homer Simpson. They then add some
new stuff in week two. They're not like doughnut storms,
so sometimes giant donuts fall from the sky. They added
in some more weapons, including the five gun, which actually
seems is it good?
Speaker 2: It seems. I don't know how it works. I'm terrible
at it. Oh I wont with that one.
Speaker 4: I run the entirely to Gundley with that one, and
I won the match with the with the most fly
gun in one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't understand because like I just shoot people
within it, and it seems like I'd be doing better
with any other weapon. There's some other weird ones, like
I got there's some kind of deodorant gun. I didn't
quite understand that reference. It's like a laser gun thing,
so uh. And then there was like a toxic slingshot
thing that like had like a poison effect afterwards. So
that has continued to be, uh, a pretty good time.
And like I said, I started Metroit Prime two with
the Prime HAC thing. I don't feel bad about. That's
the game I have bought on the GameCube, I have
bought on the Prime trilogy. I wanted to buy it
again on the switch and or switch to uh and
then the opportunity to not rise. So yeah, I'm playing
it with the mouse and keyboard stuff there, and it
it was really deap works really well, it turns out,
and it's so as far as much as I love
love love Prime one, it's like wild to me. But
I had not ever played all the way through two
or three.
Speaker 2: Which.
Speaker 3: It's always weird those games, big sin. It's just that
they aren't quite as good as Metro Prime one.
Speaker 2: Right, there's still better than just about any other game
that came out around their time. They're great in all
these other ways. Yeah, I am, I'm the same. Well
I did. I played through two right away, but I
know I've never touched three, like, never once? Why has
it even played through two? Yeah about Super Metro for
four years? Agen't even played Prime two?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, well, I think one of these games
is a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to play three. I should maybe get
that set up to put on the Steam deck or something. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't have time for that. That's crazy. Yeah,
I've been. I've been enjoying it.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a part even as I'm playway this
is quite as good as much a Prime.
Speaker 2: I think the intro is not as interesting with like.
Speaker 3: The space station that you fight, the Paris like Queen
that you're on talent for. It's beautiful and eerie like this,
locations are pretty neat and it still feels great too.
Speaker 2: A B.
Speaker 3: Samus Like the whole light World dark world thing. It somehow, still,
even after all these years, still feels a little bit like, yeah,
you just kind of took that thing from Link to
the past.
Speaker 2: Huh. Yeah, it feels it.
Speaker 3: Kind of made it like not quite as good a
version as that was of exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you can kind of see all the all
the hey, let's do Metro Prime butt, and then all
those butts aren't quite as as good as the thing
that they're taking it from. So still I love the
Metroid Prime two. It's just Metro Prime one is this
holy experienced. It's that's this unassailable thing, and the other
games aren't. Prime two has an incredible soundtrack. My favorite
metriit song ever might be the Metroid Prime two title theme.
It's just all the ambient music, like a lot of
it is from uh Prime one or the series in
Love Srigual. It's just it sounds amazing.
Speaker 3: So it is still it is still very much that
there's no major bag fumbled anything like that. I'm having
a good time with it.
Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, I've been playing Dispatch that's uh. I've been
playing that each morning, played a little bit more this morning,
and continue to really enjoy that that gameplay is still
you know, you get two sessions per episode of actually
dispatching superheroes. And I was talking to Backlar about it
on BombCast and he was like, OK, camera did get
through this so and get back to the story. And
I'm enjoying both aspects equally. I think that there's a
lot of fun character moments in the gameplay. And then,
like I said before, I enjoy any game that like
just gives you a vague concept that they want you
to think about and then apply in your own way,
and and then there's actually a right answer so you
can get to be like, am I on the same
wave link as this game, I really do a free
I think they're like, there's there's not a lot to that,
and yet it still feels very deep. It is what
they have going on there. And then the character in
the writing is so good, and it just it looks phenomenal.
It looks it looks so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the craft most important thing in the world to me.
But like, I just never really liked the way a
lot of tell Telle games look, even the ones that
like were more point click adventure games, like you know,
they did it back to the Future game.
Speaker 2: I think that's so neat, and I do like it,
and it's kind of ugly.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, it doesn't look that great, So
this looking really kind of nifty like that gets me
interested for sure, yep.
Speaker 2: And then beyond that, I played some Highrole Warriors. I've
played some more High Role Warriors since the last time
I talked about it. Still I don't think I'm past
the three hour mark that you mentioned. Like, if I
ever get past three hours, I need to tell you.
That hasn't happened yet. I'll let you know if it does.
But like the hour and a half two hours I've
put into it, it's like I as always see why
people really like these games, and when I'm playing out
and having fun, until I'm not, and then I put
it down, and then the question becomes will I ever
pick it up again? And I don't. I don't know
if I will. Like every time I put it down,
I don't know if I will. Now because it's the
game on my switch. When I turn it on and
it's there, there's a again an increased chance that I will.
But like in that moment when I set the controller down,
I'm just never super compelled to go back to it.
Speaker 1: It is always the most.
Speaker 2: I get this, I already get what this is game
out there for me and and at the same time though,
it is one of the as as always with the series,
and I think may be the most with this one
the best version of one of these games, Like it's
just the best, Like, oh, they have everything working here,
the characters look great, all of the Zelda stuff. It
just it feels so much like a Zelda game in
terms of the way it looks and presents that that
goes a long way. And yeah, I'm enjoying spending time
with these characters. Anything else from you, Mike, That's about it. Jeff,
all right, how.
Speaker 1: About we clean up those super chats.
Speaker 3: I think we have a few more here. Oh, Greg
says Jeff's Apple game for Game Mess Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: It's put it? Has it even been released out? If
you all heard it? I haven't heard it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: How fast did the premium dumps go out? I guess
they might have gone out already.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Shawn's usually on top of those. Yeah, that's right
after the show ends. That makes sense.
Speaker 3: I guess that makes sense. Dunheard says I was super late,
but I want to say, hey, I have a hard
time seeing Steam Machine become truly mainstream unless they address
sports slash online multiplayer.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean I think that we are not
looking at us a Valve that is worried about immediate
mainstream success with this version of this device. This is
them establishing a like. I think they are setting themselves
up for a very strong future, and that if they
can establish Linux and steam Os as a true alternative
to Windows, these companies, like they've had no choice but
to support Steam when they were trying to go on
other stores, will have no choice but to kind of
support Linux and Steam Os because Valve has made it
something you cannot ignore. That might take time, but every
choice they're making feels like it is moving everything in
that direction in a real, real hard way. So in
ten years time, we might be like, remember when these
games weren't on Steam Machine, and now it's like, of
course they're launching on there. I think that's where we're
going to end up, all right, anything else, Mike.
Speaker 3: Oh, Mike Gilirius is Mike. I may be getting myself
in AP for Christmas. RPMI will AP meants annual pass
ah okay for Disney. So yeah, yeah, it's a hey,
you get to go to Disney a lot and you
have one of those.
Speaker 2: It turns out, Yeah, you get to spend a lot
of money at Disney too when you go. So it'll
be good and you'll have super chats for many of
our friends.
Speaker 3: Chris Pratt has been a Lincoln number for five months
as please watch Super Mario Galaxy movie so I can
give you more money.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the Mushroom Kingdom. Here we come.
Speaker 1: All right, Chris Pratt, we will We'll oblige.
Speaker 2: I will watch that movie. No product, I will see
that movie. That's true. Yeah, I guarantee I'll take my
family to go see it. All right, I'm gonna hit
this because it's time to start wrapping things up. Like
you where can people find you on the internet or
what do you want to tell them? I don't know,
tell people whatever you want. This week.
Speaker 3: Oh just you know, watch watch the actual life stream
this Saturday. It's gonna be on Giant Bomb, you know,
Twitch and YouTube, all those usual places. We're going to
start some point in the afternoon. Sounds like a little
bit right, So yeah, we're gonna talk me an twenty
five marathon. Uh, We're gonna go a while we'll go
lay into the night. Still, we're gonna have a good time.
We're gonna raise some money for children's hospital. It's gonna
be it's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. It's
gonna be wacky. I'm going to uh, I'm gonna be tortured.
Speaker 2: Not really though.
Speaker 3: It's all good fun everybody, It'll be great.
Speaker 2: It's fun. Thinks, right, You.
Speaker 3: Won't You won't actually let him hurt me, right, Jeff,
I'm not gonna let him hurt you.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: See absolutely, see gets hurted right there.
Speaker 4: The guy who like completely gives up whenever dances something funny.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean not when Mike. Mike's gonna be hurt
and gives up. More like joins the party. It's usually
pretty good time. I just think if someone can go,
if someone's gonna get hurt, I don't see why it
wouldn't be me because I just don't mind all that. Yeah,
I don't want to be I'm a baby. Yeah, throw
me out in the woods. I don't give a ship,
all right, Mike. One of these is a real apple?
Which one is it?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 2: It? The sugar crunch, the sun blush, the amber sweet,
the Luda Crisp or the bright Crunch.
Speaker 3: What's the first one?
Speaker 2: Crunch? Sugar crunch, Give me sugar crunch. That sounds like
a cereal? Is that your final answer? That's my final answer.
The real apple is the Ludacrisp. I was gonna say that.
That's they sell it on Honeycrisp dot com. You can
get a barrel of fifty Ludacrisp apples for like one
hundred dollars. That's that's not a fair price to you. No,
all right, everybody, thanks for listening. We'll be back back
next week with episodes as normal. What's that? Oh yeah, Chris,
you want to tell you about the community stuff, community
weekly stuff.
Speaker 4: What they're doing it every Friday Friday night. Check the discord,
Come hang out, play games, hang out.
Speaker 2: Everybody had the discord. Thanks everyone, we'll catch you next time. Fine,
we started talk for real. That's a good fister.
Speaker 4: You know the thing? How come I writer? W is
there two riders combining one? That's why it's called double
Speaker 3: I've been juiced in my butt