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Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I put this movie on because you guys forced.
Speaker 1: Me to us.
Speaker 2: All we all got together in the last few days
Speaker 2: and we all separately or actually Mike kind of watch
Speaker 2: with me, uh, the.
Speaker 5: Same time as you guys. But I was on my
Speaker 5: phone in bed, so I couldn't like actually watch you
Speaker 5: stream it, So I was watching in spirit.
Speaker 2: Do you have headphones in or you just are you
Speaker 2: disrupting the sleep of others in your household?
Speaker 5: I had headphones in, yes, no, yeah, I was like,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna try. I couldn't put it down.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 2: It is uh well, yeah, I did send letterboxed grub.
Speaker 2: You gave it five stars. I gave it the lowest
Speaker 2: possible score, a half star.
Speaker 1: I did not. I did not rate it zero stars.
Speaker 2: I think you just said this is insulting.
Speaker 3: I just stars.
Speaker 2: And meanwhile, Mike Manatti calls me at two in the morning, uh,
Speaker 2: and defending the film. No, yeah, no, I was.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I was ever more upset at
Speaker 3: a poll than when you asked your chat if this
Speaker 3: movie was worse than Love on a Leash and like
Speaker 3: it was almost a landslide saying that War the World's
Speaker 3: was worse than Loving the Leash.
Speaker 5: Something that's a skill issue. You guys are bad at
Speaker 5: watching bad movie. Wait, I've never respected Jeff Grubb more
Speaker 5: like over a decade.
Speaker 3: I've noted that when he came out and gave this
Speaker 3: movie five stars.
Speaker 2: I love this movie exists, you know, but I maybe
Speaker 2: the worst thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: No, you know, I think it's amazing it exists. Actually, no,
Speaker 1: I I don't think this movie does not deserve the ironic.
Speaker 5: No, it's so good at like being a bad movie.
Speaker 1: Think it qualified. I don't think it qualified. I I'm
Speaker 1: I don't want this made me want to destroy beautiful things.
Speaker 1: That's art, baby, hurt you the most, beler, I it is.
Speaker 1: It is insulting on a level that I'm that. I'm
Speaker 1: I don't like it's propaganda. Let's be clear, like it's
Speaker 1: straight up propaganda. I guess, I mean, I don't even
Speaker 1: it's a pro surveillance state.
Speaker 2: And pro Amazon movie.
Speaker 5: It's actively pro Amazon, and it definitely says like, look,
Speaker 5: the problem isn't the surveillance state, it's the wrong people
Speaker 5: are using it because the government had you were giving
Speaker 5: to be amazed, you were.
Speaker 1: Giving it so much credit. You are ingucting a level
Speaker 1: of cerebral consciousness. Note of these are good. That's not
Speaker 1: a good point.
Speaker 5: That's a terrible thing to say, Like.
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand, Like at the same time, we
Speaker 1: deserve this movie, okay, Like we deserve this, like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like things are where they're at,
Speaker 1: where this should be what is good for you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like I like that's I think the
Speaker 1: thing that I the conclusion I drew at the end
Speaker 1: of this was like, oh, we're getting this because it's
Speaker 1: what we deserve. It's as a society. For me, it's
Speaker 1: a bad movie.
Speaker 5: Enables you to like see the seams, so you can
Speaker 5: kind of stick your head in and like take a
Speaker 5: peek around it, Like there should be something here, right,
Speaker 5: they should have built something good here, and instead there's.
Speaker 1: Just nothing, and so he kind of like invites you
Speaker 1: to like look around.
Speaker 5: So the fact that it's propaganda is like kind of
Speaker 5: a good thing because then you get to like see
Speaker 5: how propaganda works because it's because it's so bad at
Speaker 5: everything it's doing. And then every line ice Cube says,
Speaker 5: it's the funniest thing I've ever heard, because I can't
Speaker 5: believe they forced him to look at a camera lens.
Speaker 1: It's for ninety minutes, insane.
Speaker 5: And then when god, when he gets in the ship
Speaker 5: or whatever he's in at the end of the movie
Speaker 5: like Independence Day, I like, couldn't it down do.
Speaker 3: Microwave crawl when he says, move, bitch, get out the way.
Speaker 1: Is not even his.
Speaker 5: And you can tell that that was like a pickup
Speaker 5: line because like they don't have him actually say it
Speaker 5: in the movie, so it's like happening like when you
Speaker 5: can't see his mouth. They're like, this is a good one.
Speaker 5: We got one here, guys.
Speaker 2: Wait, does he go on to an alien ship?
Speaker 1: No, he goes into like a data center whatever.
Speaker 5: But yeah, he's like sitting in the like a seat though,
Speaker 5: and he looked looks like he's like piloting something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually took real footage of catastrophes and stuff,
Speaker 2: and he was like, does at this.
Speaker 1: Point you're gonna be mad at that, at least films
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be mad at that. I can't even
Speaker 1: like process that like A supposed to be upset that
Speaker 1: they like licensed someone's disaster footage. I don't know, am
Speaker 1: I supposed to be mad at that? I have no
Speaker 1: idea at this point? Well, like I what.
Speaker 4: Jan, there's a lot of like pro Amazon proper paganda,
Speaker 4: and I may I may catch some heat for this.
Speaker 4: This this what I'm about to say. But Yo, if
Speaker 4: my daughter is an award winning scientist that creates like
Speaker 4: a viral code to hack DNA, i'd be upset if
Speaker 4: she was dating and had a baby daddy that was
Speaker 4: an Amazon delivery driver.
Speaker 2: Important thing by this movie in twenty twenty five is
Speaker 2: would you accept his Facebook friend request?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Look, that actually doesn't even bother me all that much
Speaker 5: because like this a lot of a social network.
Speaker 1: This movie is so.
Speaker 5: Like made for millennial like dads that have no taste.
Speaker 1: Oh is this a dad movie? Is this a dad movie?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 5: Trey wants to be really bad. It's like, like, what
Speaker 5: are they gonna do there? They're gonna use like tiktosk
Speaker 5: like the dad like Paul Riker might understand Facebook, like
Speaker 5: you would hate this movie. I get that you would
Speaker 5: hate it, but but he might understand like Facebook versus
Speaker 5: like any other social network they would have used there.
Speaker 1: So I can't I get that. You know, when you
Speaker 1: when you when you grub, you might be able to
Speaker 1: speak to this more than anyone else. You know, when
Speaker 1: you like meet a bunch of dads and they're all
Speaker 1: just like, just see this new movie and you know
Speaker 1: it's slop, and they're all like, and they're all like.
Speaker 5: Gonna get talked about when I dropped the kids off
Speaker 5: at school. Yeah, And they're all like, I thought it
Speaker 5: was pretty good. And then you're sitting there saying like
Speaker 5: it's something that did you have a brain injury?
Speaker 1: That you eat some bad Like what what do you mean?
Speaker 1: I don't even think this is going to clear that bar,
Speaker 1: Like I don't. I don't meant for that audience for sure,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. It's top ten on Amazon. Baby,
Speaker 1: I can't believe they put credits on the Like, could
Speaker 1: you imagine you want to be credited on this?
Speaker 5: The nerve?
Speaker 1: How dare you put HG. Fucking Wells's name on this?
Speaker 3: What do you mean, it's based off of.
Speaker 1: This fucking what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: How dare you? I think I think that this is
Speaker 3: a movie for people who can kind of hate movies now,
Speaker 3: which is maybe a big part of why I like
Speaker 3: to like. Yeah, I think it's what This sucks in
Speaker 3: a lot of ways. Yeah, I think about a lot
Speaker 3: of movies people also like these days suck in similar ways.
Speaker 3: They're bits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what movies.
Speaker 2: Some people like are similar to that?
Speaker 5: To me, spair it has the plot structure and like
Speaker 5: the character characterization of all the characters around the main character.
Speaker 5: The fact that it's propaganda. All that stuff is like
Speaker 5: just most Hollywood blockbuster pictures.
Speaker 1: I can't believe how much you're using that propaganda word
Speaker 1: by you.
Speaker 5: So blatantly propaganda.
Speaker 1: But but I think you're giving it an undeserved sort of.
Speaker 3: Like it's like a new Jurassic World movie came out
Speaker 3: and made a billion dollars, right, that was okay?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if you can convinced me that's
Speaker 3: better than this, jan I don't know, Wait.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about movie these days? Like?
Speaker 3: I just saw weapons and I thought that was okay.
Speaker 3: Think let me say this is a mething. I have
Speaker 3: not see weapons. I will never see weapons. I don't
Speaker 3: know what it's about. I promise you that if I
Speaker 3: saw weapons, I would not enjoy it as much as.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed war propaganda. You know, chat is right, propaganda
Speaker 1: is too high of praise for them, like you're talking
Speaker 1: about this is this movie is great, abysmal in a
Speaker 1: way that is used as torture. This could be used
Speaker 1: as torture in certain circums.
Speaker 2: When I think of propaganda, I think of actual like
Speaker 2: you know, war stuff and new stuff, but like consumerism, yes,
Speaker 2: but it's it's.
Speaker 5: Right, but it's a Corporaterism repeats the propaganda that's been
Speaker 5: fed to it. So like that that's what this is.
Speaker 5: This is part of the propaganda machine. But like so
Speaker 5: is every Hollywood movie that's not some like weird, like
Speaker 5: it just happens because someone's like I'm gonna write this.
Speaker 5: Who should be the bad guy? I don't know the government?
Speaker 5: But like what we really trying to say here? I'm
Speaker 5: going to say something.
Speaker 1: It's it's base. It does feel like you gave it
Speaker 1: ai a prompt and was like movie.
Speaker 3: Right, Like I'm pretty sure aif the script for.
Speaker 4: This h ice Cube's boss in the movie, like the
Speaker 4: DHS dude that is really running when he's first introduced
Speaker 4: into the film, he's sweating. It looks like he just
Speaker 4: finished having a little j O session by himself.
Speaker 5: The weird corners and replied that he's like just from
Speaker 5: the gym and like immediately came to the snow.
Speaker 1: I like the part where it's like they were.
Speaker 4: Clear so much surveillance that dude is getting fucking freaky.
Speaker 1: All right, oh so much ship.
Speaker 5: You're right, I'm on board now. I like the part
Speaker 5: where it's like clearly that they needed and to say
Speaker 5: something different, but they didn't want to get him back
Speaker 5: that would they have to pay him money, So they
Speaker 5: just had the buffer of the video be really bad
Speaker 5: so that the lips didn't have to sync up to
Speaker 5: what he was saying. It's like, oh my god, there's
Speaker 5: so much in this movie.
Speaker 2: The people that don't know what this is and just
Speaker 2: hear us ranting about this immiately. Keep in mind this
Speaker 2: is all a movie on zoom calls and just face
Speaker 2: the windows and Google Maps and Amazon.
Speaker 6: Com people have made good versions of that was very good,
Speaker 6: Like it's like a it's a small genre, but like
Speaker 6: it has been done effectively.
Speaker 1: Yes, this movie is beneath everything it is. It is,
Speaker 1: it is insanely on a level.
Speaker 3: I think it's the movie we deserve. I think it's
Speaker 3: the movie I just said that.
Speaker 1: I said that a few minutes ago. We absolutely deserve.
Speaker 1: I also don't understand how like every brand was like yep,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Spotify. I know, but I think at some
Speaker 1: level they do because you still want to align and
Speaker 1: you still want to like license out your thing up
Speaker 1: against something that you don't have to have nightmares about
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life. I just think there's
Speaker 1: certain there's a certain threshold that you're willing to accept,
Speaker 1: and I am kind of maybe because Amazon was like
Speaker 1: sort of the driving forces the thing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just find that crazy. I can't tell if this
Speaker 1: movie costs forty dollars or a million dollars, like I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I saw Fantastic Four like the other weekend, and I thought, yeah,
Speaker 3: that was that was good. That was fine. I think
Speaker 3: there's I think there's so much more. Maybe is not
Speaker 3: the word. I'm much happier this movie exists. That EBCU
Speaker 3: movie number forty seven or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that. Mic, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's necessarily No, I'm not a brave take,
Speaker 1: but I read it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't be watching this and talking about
Speaker 2: it than I have literally any Marvel movies. So I
Speaker 2: am with you on that.
Speaker 1: Stacey said this last night after I was I came
Speaker 1: back to the bed and I was visibly shaking, and
Speaker 1: she's like, what happened? What happened to you? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I've had to watch that War the World movie that
Speaker 1: and I hoped I was hoping you made her watch
Speaker 1: it too. Come on, I'm a good husband. And she's like,
Speaker 1: she's like, wow, really makes you appreciate something like a
Speaker 1: Sharknado where you're like, wow, yeah, you're kind of right,
Speaker 1: like this is beneath any sci fi movie, sci fi
Speaker 1: channel movie, Like you look at a Sharknoon and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Sharknado is kind of a Picasso
Speaker 1: I guess if you're directly comparing it to what this
Speaker 1: film at least, and.
Speaker 5: I don't know, that makes Sharknado kind of cynical and
Speaker 5: like hard to watch for me. Because it's like no.
Speaker 1: One's actually far gone. Yeah, like no.
Speaker 5: One's like really trying here, like yeah yeah yeah, that
Speaker 5: real aspect there has to be like a.
Speaker 2: Legitimate there has to be earnest and that's why the
Speaker 2: room stuff.
Speaker 1: Renew the room.
Speaker 5: Yes, that is.
Speaker 3: That is that's my actually like strongest dance there is.
Speaker 3: The people think that this movie isn't so bad, it's good.
Speaker 3: Oh come on, this is so and that that.
Speaker 5: Is literally, I mean it's a skill issue, like you're
Speaker 5: bad at watching bad movies.
Speaker 1: You gotta come on down on our level and enjoy this.
Speaker 5: Shit because it's I don't precious. I don't want that skill.
Speaker 1: I don't think I want that skill.
Speaker 5: I don't feel good. It's so much fun.
Speaker 3: Oh man.
Speaker 2: Well, I think even though we are on the polar
Speaker 2: opposites of our letterbox ratings, I think we are coming
Speaker 2: at it from the same spot. We both think it's
Speaker 2: a bad movie, and I rated it as a movie
Speaker 2: being bad. But I love that it exists and it
Speaker 2: was very fun to watch and talk about.
Speaker 5: In some ways, a five stars closer to a half
Speaker 5: star than it is to like it just sort of
Speaker 5: start against like wrap around, right, I'm enjoying it so
Speaker 5: much because it's bad, and yeah, like your assessment is
Speaker 5: like objectively fair. I enjoyed it five stars worth, and
Speaker 5: you're going to probably watch this movie again another fifteen times.
Speaker 1: On the parties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for really, I think not too long about how
Speaker 2: like Netflix or like the streamers were like intentionally trying
Speaker 2: to start making creative that would be good for second
Speaker 2: screen viewing, like stuff that you just don't even have
Speaker 2: to pay attention to and it just exists in the
Speaker 2: background while you're on your phone or whatever. And like
Speaker 2: this almost feels like something like that, where it's like
Speaker 2: it would just exist in the background. People like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know, there's aliens in ice Cube and whatever
Speaker 2: feel terrible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I uh, the whole time I was watching this.
Speaker 4: I put this movie on last night, and my partner
Speaker 4: just goes, why the fuck are you watching this? I
Speaker 4: thought you said this was supposed to be terrible. I
Speaker 4: just quietly look over her and just say Dan told
Speaker 4: me to. She just nodded her head and.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, okay, sure, but there's a crime. I
Speaker 1: just say it was like an actual illegal crime and
Speaker 1: people should be made to pay for it. One hundred
Speaker 1: percent I think that we could do this movie.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well right, and it is public domain right
Speaker 2: the world, Like we could just shoot a thing and
Speaker 2: put it on YouTube and call it War of the World's.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's here's what we do, all right. We just
Speaker 4: go for like half of a regular bomb cast. So
Speaker 4: that's like ninety minutes already. We'll just improv the whole thing, right,
Speaker 4: and then we'll go in later and edit it.
Speaker 2: Okay, can you put some aliens in there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's afterwards, So steal seeds.
Speaker 3: From the movie Wore the World recording one?
Speaker 2: Right now? Can we all just get some quick pickups
Speaker 2: of Jane can use you.
Speaker 3: Surprising?
Speaker 1: Okay? Dan, Dan, I need you to take that again.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna type ready, so damn Oh
Speaker 2: that's crazy, no.
Speaker 3: Man, okay, all right, I can I do the right clicks?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Ah, go to hell alien, all.
Speaker 2: Right, that's what I got, all right, Give Jane more
Speaker 2: to work with. Come on, Mike, give him some stuff
Speaker 2: I want.
Speaker 3: To do, mostly like concerned looks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he touches his glasses for forty minutes.
Speaker 3: This is an audio podcast it sounds of concern.
Speaker 1: Ah, there was one realistic thing in this movie.
Speaker 4: Wow, okay, okay, now we need a little bit of
Speaker 4: diversity here. Jeff Backler in a in like a foghorn
Speaker 4: leghorn accent.
Speaker 1: Can you say, baby, don't do it.
Speaker 7: Don't go, oh baby, baby don't I said, bravery, don't
Speaker 7: go baby, this.
Speaker 4: All of this, yeah, yeah, this is great.
Speaker 2: Put yourself in. Put yourself in.
Speaker 1: I'll just quote Ice Craber.
Speaker 4: No, take your intergalactic gases back home.
Speaker 3: There you got.
Speaker 2: Okay, move, bitch, get out the way.
Speaker 1: Back. Can I have you take that? But in a
Speaker 1: in the foghorn leg horn, please move, bitch, get off
Speaker 1: the way. Now.
Speaker 4: Now, Mike, I need you to do like a very
Speaker 4: quiet like take your glasses off and.
Speaker 1: Go move bitch, get out the way. Okay, but sad.
Speaker 3: Move bitch, get out of the way.
Speaker 2: Get out of the way.
Speaker 3: We are now all involved in this.
Speaker 1: The war of the world.
Speaker 4: He said, I hate this War of the World's Okay,
Speaker 4: Actually I need you to say a war of the world's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the War of the world's.
Speaker 4: Heckler, Oh man, it's the war. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: you're breaking character. Come on, you want.
Speaker 1: I suppose this is the war of the World's.
Speaker 3: More harry carry than.
Speaker 2: The data is training drained.
Speaker 5: I'm sure that scene is what actually sealed it for Yes,
Speaker 5: you scene your memories are deleting was sick. It was
Speaker 5: so sick like Starfire. No, it's like this weird white
Speaker 5: guy right it away from the camera. Man, this movie owns.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that is the only believable thing I'll say
Speaker 1: is that the government would use teams. That's boy.
Speaker 3: Chat really didn't like it. What I said that I
Speaker 3: will never see weapons. I have already decided I like
Speaker 3: this movie more than insane.
Speaker 4: Who directed the last thing? Who directed this movie?
Speaker 1: I think it's Rich Lee is the criminal? Now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Facing twenty five to Life. Yeah, he's got the Steve
Speaker 1: Bushimi mask on from conn Air.
Speaker 2: Just google this guy and right away, just.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, thanks, Okay, all right, well, this is a
Speaker 4: video game podcast.
Speaker 2: He's a Michael Bublay music video director. Music videos for
Speaker 2: Michael Boo Blay, Maroon five, and The Black Eyed Bes.
Speaker 1: Oh, he did the eminem video for Venom.
Speaker 4: I just oh, christ all right, well hey video games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeff, you know that I probably look. I know
Speaker 3: it's a filing. You know that I probably wouldn't like.
Speaker 5: Weapons, right you, Mike wouldn't like Weapons.
Speaker 1: You would have about it?
Speaker 3: Have you seen it?
Speaker 2: Has anyone seen it?
Speaker 1: I'd like to, I'd like to.
Speaker 5: I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Yah.
Speaker 2: It was tremendous.
Speaker 3: It's a very well made movie.
Speaker 1: I like Zach Krieger a lot. He's he's very good.
Speaker 2: I like this betteran Barbarian, I love.
Speaker 3: Dan, you know how you like you? You left Hambletonny
Speaker 3: or like, well, they're all very good their jobs. That
Speaker 3: would be my if I left the weapons or.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, totally the same as weapons. Mike Manatti, yesterday
Speaker 4: on the website, you played SpongeBob SquarePants the Cosmic Shake.
Speaker 3: See here, I can't be watched weapons or Sinners or Barbarian.
Speaker 3: I gotta play SpongeBob SquarePants games.
Speaker 5: You would like sers?
Speaker 1: Did you see Naked Gun?
Speaker 2: You had Sinners kicks ass too? Oh Naked was amazing?
Speaker 2: Oh you did?
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, okay, you're not that far gone. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I trust me.
Speaker 3: I look, I played, I'm playing it up. Something was
Speaker 3: the Actually I don't know singlely, but I guess I
Speaker 3: just assume Weapons is going to be violent and weird.
Speaker 1: From the trailers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, this is not gonna be my thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah you see that. It's about kids disappearing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, basically just the premise, this is no spoilers,
Speaker 2: it's literally it's on the poster is at two seventeen
Speaker 2: in the morning, there's a classroom of eighteen kids, seventeen
Speaker 2: of them and just run out of their house and
Speaker 2: they're never seen again. They're like running out and they
Speaker 2: have this creepy run with their arts I got Neruda
Speaker 2: run type thing, and there's all these like ring cameras
Speaker 2: and stuff, and at the exact same time, seventeen out
Speaker 2: of eighteen of these kids, in the middle of the
Speaker 2: night left their house in the Potamas and just sprinted
Speaker 2: into the night, and the whole town is like, what
Speaker 2: the fuck happened?
Speaker 3: And it's a very setup.
Speaker 2: It pays off in an incredible like I thought like, oh,
Speaker 2: is this gonna be some weird, stupid payoff or confusing thing. No,
Speaker 2: it all the payoff is awesome. The movie is excellent.
Speaker 3: They're all going to play City Trials.
Speaker 4: Also based on a true story, right, oh yeah, who
Speaker 4: is it?
Speaker 3: A pineup under the sea? It's like, so I played
Speaker 3: that remake of Battle for Bikini Bottom not too long ago.
Speaker 3: I like that a lot. That is just a very good,
Speaker 3: sort of slightly simplified Mario sixty four, like right where
Speaker 3: you have these worlds and they're relatively nonlinear. It's like
Speaker 3: collect as many gold spatulas as you need to unlock
Speaker 3: the next area and stuff like that. I just like
Speaker 3: that sort of setup. Thought it did a good job
Speaker 3: with the SpongeBob license. It was a beloved game for
Speaker 3: that game cube. And then the remake happened, and I
Speaker 3: thought the remake looked really good. So I enjoyed that
Speaker 3: quite a bit. That remake was such a success that
Speaker 3: they made just a new SpongeBob squerpans three D platformer,
Speaker 3: the Cosmic Shake, that came out a few years ago,
Speaker 3: and I hadn't touch that. I've been meeting to. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I played some of that on a Mega Man Monday
Speaker 3: evening gaming at Mike at night, and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's as good as Battle for Bikini Bottom.
Speaker 3: They make the structure, you know, at least in the
Speaker 3: two hours I played much more linear. You know, there
Speaker 3: were collectibles, but it seems like it was much more
Speaker 3: do the goal of the level and then go to
Speaker 3: next level, unless like you know, get this many thingy
Speaker 3: so you can unlock the next thing.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 3: So structure wise, not as but there's also I don't
Speaker 3: want to complain about talking at SpongeBob Squaerpants games, like
Speaker 3: there's an insane amount, but there was too much. There's
Speaker 3: like every ten minutes they're interrupting the gameplays just so
Speaker 3: I could talk to a character and hear a joke
Speaker 3: that maybe will land, maybe won't. But it still felt
Speaker 3: pretty good. For one of these. It looked great. I
Speaker 3: thought I captured the look of the shows and the
Speaker 3: even especially those more three Dy movies really well. You know,
Speaker 3: it did a good job of being a licensed game, right.
Speaker 3: I was like, ah, yeah, I'm just surround by the
Speaker 3: SpongeBob stuff that even I somebody who hasn't watched it
Speaker 3: really in fifteen years or whatever, getting you know, getting
Speaker 3: decent chuckles and doing the Leonardo pointing thing because I
Speaker 3: understood that reference sort of stuff. So yeah, I was adoying.
Speaker 3: I think if you haven't played any of these, you
Speaker 3: should just get rehydrated first, for sure. But I like it,
Speaker 3: and they're making another one that they announced a bit ago,
Speaker 3: so I'm curious to see what they do with that.
Speaker 5: And they've been kind of like consistently making various games.
Speaker 5: They have the Patrick Star game, which a little bit
Speaker 5: more goat simulator that that was a lot of fun too,
Speaker 5: So they're doing right by this series.
Speaker 4: They're also putting out a like Haites like in the
Speaker 4: near future I believe, really Nicholas.
Speaker 3: The whole Nickelodeon thing, right thing Yeah, rightob like dice
Speaker 3: something I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, But Mike, if you could spoil a little
Speaker 4: bit of this story destiny, why is Patrick Starr a
Speaker 4: little balloon guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you find some like you find like a fortune
Speaker 3: tower lady and you buy special bubbles from her that
Speaker 3: like make your wishes come true, and you blow too
Speaker 3: many of them and you alter the fabric of reality
Speaker 3: and a bunch of people disappearing at to find them
Speaker 3: and opens portals other worlds. Right, so that's you know
Speaker 3: why you have the levels. But yeah, Patrick's also just
Speaker 3: turned to a balloon. It's just that he can kind
Speaker 3: of be a navvy.
Speaker 1: He's just a luma.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's just like he's your side character there I
Speaker 4: love that voice.
Speaker 1: Actor, I love his voice. I forget the name.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's been on a few things. He was like,
Speaker 5: what's his name's dad? On How I Met Your Mother?
Speaker 3: He was a Jason Siegal's dad, and yeah, I popularly
Speaker 3: hard and hunchback of Not Your Dog because he has
Speaker 3: a very small part as just one of like the
Speaker 3: Dofiss Soldiers early and he just is exactly doing the
Speaker 3: Patrick Square voice for it.
Speaker 2: Before that, I just googled him. Is this dabber from Coach?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, from Coach? Yeah.
Speaker 5: I forgot about him being on Coach, which is where
Speaker 5: I actually know him from.
Speaker 1: You all remember Coach, right, you know I do a
Speaker 1: bad Patrick start to annoy my kids. Hey how you doing? Oh?
Speaker 5: She immediately looks at me so mad. Yeah, basically, yes.
Speaker 4: I remember last Comic Con we had the at our
Speaker 4: little booth. We had the SpongeBob cast come in and
Speaker 4: it was just amazing see them all just like snap
Speaker 4: into character and just starts singing out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: His name is Bill uh a group donkey. He's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: When I think of Coach, I also think of the
Speaker 4: Great Pantheon of shows like Coach Becker.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 8: Court at least twenty years later than That's why it's
Speaker 8: a great pantheon, is why you know the brushmore of
Speaker 8: just those two Murphy Brown Yeah.
Speaker 2: What was Wings?
Speaker 3: Did they work at an airport or were they they
Speaker 3: worked at a small say the Cheers universe?
Speaker 1: Do you okay?
Speaker 4: You know I don't mean to bring this back to
Speaker 4: War the World?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 4: Do you think we could make slash fake a sitcom
Speaker 4: that is all in that style?
Speaker 1: Easy? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You just literally have three cameras, that's it?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 1: Three? Yeah? No, no, no, no, no no, we don't
Speaker 1: even need three cameras. We we have I wanted screen style.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, okay, we're gonna do War the worlds for
Speaker 5: for Wings for everybody had to just.
Speaker 3: Make a sitcom like that during the pandemic, right they
Speaker 3: tried to get.
Speaker 2: From Yeah, it was mostly horror movies, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna do a say once over Zoom and then
Speaker 2: a creepy guys showed.
Speaker 4: Up as an snl apologist though that was a rough season.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't watch that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't Dan, you don't need to go back.
Speaker 4: Speaking about platformers and beloved characters. Jeff Grubb, I'm sorry
Speaker 4: you're doing this to yourself. Yeah, you checked out Bubbsy
Speaker 4: in the Perfect Collection, Yeah I got.
Speaker 5: I got a little preview to check it out. Audio
Speaker 5: handed it to me, said it's good to talk about.
Speaker 1: So here we are.
Speaker 5: It's this is the one that has Bubbs three D.
Speaker 5: But it has Bubbs three D refurbished as well as
Speaker 5: a separate entry in there, and it now has analog controls,
Speaker 5: and it's still a really bad game. It's still it
Speaker 5: doesn't fix it, I mean, does it just listen. It
Speaker 5: fixes a lot, like the game is now playable. I
Speaker 5: expect people to now go play Bubbs three D come
Speaker 5: to me and be like that game wasn't that bad,
Speaker 5: and me to have to like hold back a dial situation. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be even worse now because this is like
Speaker 5: significantly better. It's still a bad game. The controls are, yes,
Speaker 5: you are. You do move around now with the stick
Speaker 5: in the way that you would expect a three D
Speaker 5: platform or to move. But Bubbsy's still underneath all that
Speaker 5: still kind of has the same jittery movement, and so
Speaker 5: it's it's tough to dial in and do specific precision platforming,
Speaker 5: which that game always required even when it had the
Speaker 5: insane digital controls.
Speaker 2: Now the new controls do they would you say, we're
Speaker 2: getting closer to like a Crock or gets level.
Speaker 5: I played Croc recently when they just re released that,
Speaker 5: and you know, I think it controls a little bit
Speaker 5: better than Krock even you just have more at least
Speaker 5: you have more freedom. Like it's just you feel like
Speaker 5: you can run around a little bit better. It's just
Speaker 5: still not great, But that game always had a look
Speaker 5: and like I was just like, man, this has a
Speaker 5: like they weren't going to do games like this for
Speaker 5: a very long time. Because they are, We're going to
Speaker 5: get more effects in here and be able to do
Speaker 5: a lot more. So them kind of just like working
Speaker 5: what they had and kind of putting a flat colored
Speaker 5: texture on everything. It just has a kind of a
Speaker 5: stunning style still, So I like enjoyed going back in
Speaker 5: there and trying things down, and they beat that first
Speaker 5: level in like a minute. So it's like, I bet
Speaker 5: people are, oh, it has like rewind and all this
Speaker 5: other stuff that you would expect from a modern collection.
Speaker 5: So I do think a lot of people are now
Speaker 5: going to finally beat this game, and this is the
Speaker 5: way to play it. I guess I don't recommend going
Speaker 5: back and playing in the original Blake Club way.
Speaker 2: Now, Gun to your head. Gun to your Head is
Speaker 2: Bubbsy three D refurbished a better game than a Rascal
Speaker 2: for the PlayStation one.
Speaker 1: Oh wow? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Probably, Yeah, I mean, I like, I think having analog
Speaker 5: movement in a three D platform or is just like
Speaker 5: I think every single one of those is better than
Speaker 5: any of the ones with pad controls. And that would
Speaker 5: include they're.
Speaker 3: Gonna fix Rascal next to be amazing.
Speaker 5: I would love to see it. But yeah, I love
Speaker 5: when they take these old games and like apply modern controls.
Speaker 5: So I just want to see what it's like. This
Speaker 5: is a really good use of that so cool cool.
Speaker 1: Stuff from the women to run.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it can be really eye opening too, because I think,
Speaker 2: like twenty fifteen or so, they put out they re
Speaker 2: released the Ari one remake and they added it so
Speaker 2: you could do analog controls. Yeah, and I played through
Speaker 2: it and I switched to the analog controls and it's like, no,
Speaker 2: I think I think the tank controls were the way
Speaker 2: to go with this, and I was always a tank
Speaker 2: control Defender, but it was so interesting to play it
Speaker 2: with new analog controls, being like I don't think this
Speaker 2: feels is good, you know, yep?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's again here it's like, well, clearly this
Speaker 5: is the right answer and they just didn't know any better.
Speaker 5: It's like, well, what would the world have been like
Speaker 5: had they figured this out in time to put it
Speaker 5: into the to the actual game. So yeah, informative it
Speaker 5: Like again, it's like one of those things where I
Speaker 5: like having something that's bad enables you to kind of
Speaker 5: go in there and see where things are missing. And
Speaker 5: this was just so obviously bad in terms of the
Speaker 5: controls that getting the stark reality of what it could
Speaker 5: have been is really eye opening as well.
Speaker 4: Speaking about furry creatures as main characters in video games, Yang,
Speaker 4: I I'm I'm gonna report cyberbullying right now. I think
Speaker 4: I think that the team at Playstack Oh yeah, uh
Speaker 4: has it has it out for me? Because coming for you.
Speaker 4: Not only did they publish Bloatro last year, but now
Speaker 4: they're publishing a game called rack Cooin Pusher And uh,
Speaker 4: y'all know me, I chase Chase a little dopamine. I've
Speaker 4: been compared to a Raccoon a couple of times, several
Speaker 4: times on this website.
Speaker 1: Uh so rack cooin Pusher.
Speaker 4: It is a coin pusher game with Bolottro like elements,
Speaker 4: and it is going to destroy my life because I
Speaker 4: am just sitting here at the screen tapping at both
Speaker 4: mouse buttons, just like trying to get these coins to
Speaker 4: go and push the other coins in. Like the terrible
Speaker 4: thing is you get special coins. They are special tokens, right, like, hey,
Speaker 4: here's a Bunny token. If this Bunny token touches another
Speaker 4: Bunny token, they'll multiply because they're they're they're doing it.
Speaker 4: Coins are doing it. They're banging, They're banging. Yes, they're
Speaker 4: banging and banging. And there will be other special coins
Speaker 4: that synergize with other ones. There's like a bomb one
Speaker 4: and the whole point of the game, similar to Blatchro,
Speaker 4: you have a target goal of a score to get
Speaker 4: to and you get to that by pushing coins in.
Speaker 4: And you are just launching coins from a left lane
Speaker 4: and a right lane. If you launch them both at
Speaker 4: the same time, you can kind of like bank them
Speaker 4: off each other so they get stuck in the middle
Speaker 4: and push coins that way. There's power ups where you
Speaker 4: can drop like a tower of coins somewhere on your board.
Speaker 1: Which is sick as hell. I fucking love seeing a
Speaker 1: tower of coins.
Speaker 4: There's a black hole power up where everything in the
Speaker 4: vicinity will get sucked up, a ufl one where a
Speaker 4: UFO will just come on screen after a certain amount
Speaker 4: of time and turns. It's a good like turn your
Speaker 4: brain off and just like you know, much like the
Speaker 4: aliens in War of the Worlds where they were just
Speaker 4: like seeking data. This is me saying dopamine and like
Speaker 4: number go up, meaning no, I just.
Speaker 1: Don't want to make these shorthand I just can't. I
Speaker 1: can't laugh.
Speaker 5: Everyone want everyone will understand what we're trying to get it.
Speaker 5: We'll use War of the World is our reference. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we're done doing wrestling lingo.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I'm back on.
Speaker 3: You need to do this. It's like you need to
Speaker 3: write click this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna call backler every morning. A muffin Are
Speaker 5: you serious? You're eating a muffin protein baby?
Speaker 3: Uh? Like records.
Speaker 1: It's really cute.
Speaker 4: It's in early access right now, and I can easily
Speaker 4: see myself much like a week or two ago, I
Speaker 4: could easily see myself losing too much time and Merge Maestro.
Speaker 4: This is just a bad year for me, Gang because
Speaker 4: the Horse Game came out and then Merge My Stroke
Speaker 4: came out.
Speaker 1: This is coming out? When is this coming out? Do
Speaker 1: we have a sense of like that they like che.
Speaker 2: The time prase or is it October? It's like in
Speaker 2: the next couple of months.
Speaker 1: I thought relatively soon. They're like on Steam it says
Speaker 1: it says to be announced for release dates.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So I'm just watched in the trailer. It
Speaker 2: was doing things to my brain, both in terms of
Speaker 2: just like the stuff that's activating jan and also just
Speaker 2: the physicsness of it all, like seeing the big tower
Speaker 2: drop down and you can tell every coin has its
Speaker 2: own like physics. Like oh, and also maybe cathartic, because
Speaker 2: I spend a lot of time in arcades as a kid,
Speaker 2: and I probably put a billion coins into those fucking
Speaker 2: things because it's so tempting. It's like, oh man, you're
Speaker 2: about to fall. I mean it's been then. I've never
Speaker 2: won a single coin from it, So this should be cathartic.
Speaker 4: Yes, And the boards or I guess your playfield. It
Speaker 4: feels weird to say playfield or board.
Speaker 1: Your your push.
Speaker 4: Area persists as you keep going. So say you had
Speaker 4: something set up, but like you know, uh, these bonus
Speaker 4: coins or these special tokens didn't quite fall into the it.
Speaker 4: But you reach the goal, you can still hit those
Speaker 4: and get those in on the next level as you
Speaker 4: go through. When y'all have played a coin pusher game, right,
Speaker 4: like a real life coin pusher game, is there like
Speaker 4: a roulette wheel or like a special like wheel.
Speaker 3: On the side, It depends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a lot of them, I know, for like
Speaker 1: the kid arcade casino ones. It usually varies where it's
Speaker 1: like a Plinko board with the pegs, right. Some of
Speaker 1: them have like complications where it'll be like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: like a roller coaster and if you slide it down
Speaker 1: that peg, it bypasses the pusher and goes right into
Speaker 1: the redemption slot. So yeah, there's all these different kinds
Speaker 1: of variations, but it's all like the ticket based stuff, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's your Like I've never seen this in a
Speaker 1: real life casino.
Speaker 2: No, I see bonus hole. Bonus hole is hot now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Vegas Lounge got a new bonus hole I've been
Speaker 2: enamored with so.
Speaker 1: I feel like you couldn't put this in a real casino.
Speaker 5: Is a bonus hole, kind of the barren one, the
Speaker 5: one I was like, there's nothing else going on there
Speaker 5: except for the coins.
Speaker 2: It's just the bonus hole. Yeah, you guys got a
Speaker 2: bonus I literally just and hit images without even thinking
Speaker 2: about it. But it is just the arcade machine.
Speaker 1: You know, you know you're getting what you need out
Speaker 1: of that phrase, Mike, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Well, I just googled it and I didn't get what
Speaker 4: you were talking about at all. Dan, Wait, we got
Speaker 4: different results? Yes, yeah, personalized?
Speaker 1: Does that do you mean? What do you mean?
Speaker 5: What are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 1: That's that Stuff's been personalized for like twenty years now.
Speaker 5: But even just like an image search result, like I know,
Speaker 5: every every search. This is why it's bad that the
Speaker 5: government is tracking us search. I get bonus hole.
Speaker 2: I searched a bonus hole and it's nothing but bonus
Speaker 2: hole the arcade coin pusher.
Speaker 4: Yes, but I'm I'm in all and then I just
Speaker 4: see a bunch of miscllaneous, different articles not talking about
Speaker 4: the game bonus.
Speaker 2: If I'm in ALL, I get a lot that is different. Yeah, Vagina,
Speaker 2: rebranded as bonus Hole by Cervical Cancer Charity. That's from
Speaker 2: the Telegraph UK. Snopes or Helm professionals urged to call
Speaker 2: vaginas a lot of vagina stuff here, but if you
Speaker 2: do images, it's not vaginas. It's just the bonus hole game.
Speaker 4: Okay, fantastic. There's a whole ticket mechanic and rack coin
Speaker 4: pusher as well. Like you are allotted twenty coins when
Speaker 4: you begin a level, and you're accumulating tickets as you
Speaker 4: as you play the game, but you would exchange those
Speaker 4: tickets for more coins and.
Speaker 1: That's enough for you. Yeah, that's that's enough for your
Speaker 1: to scratch that itch that you're you're fulfilled as a
Speaker 1: human human being. Yes, your cup, your cup has been
Speaker 1: filled with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean my my cup has like a hole in it.
Speaker 4: So like I just need whatever. I can't get a
Speaker 4: bonus hole. I need whatever, a little itch I can scratch,
Speaker 4: you know. Just hey, it does not help that I
Speaker 4: really enjoyed train spotting and then I'm thinking about meth.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't scratch your bonus hole. Don't do meth. Like
Speaker 1: just these two things are so important.
Speaker 4: Jane, Okay, okay, sorry, I'm just running on a little
Speaker 4: bit of Fumes here, just like Jeff Grubb has been
Speaker 4: playing Fumes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we we tried this on upf was that
Speaker 5: last week two weeks ago. I played a little bit
Speaker 5: more last week and a few other times here and there,
Speaker 5: and kind of put p start piece together like how
Speaker 5: the game works and the progression there, and it's it.
Speaker 1: It holds up to like extended play.
Speaker 5: It is still I do believe it's early access, but yes,
Speaker 5: and so like you could see where they're like sort
Speaker 5: of developing the structure around all the cool stuff, and
Speaker 5: you can also see how like the UX is a
Speaker 5: little bit confusing. There's parts where it's like, wait, my
Speaker 5: gun just just won't work. It took me a while
Speaker 5: to fix that, but I got everything figured out and
Speaker 5: was just racing around and going from like one cloud,
Speaker 5: like these dark clouds that hover on the map and
Speaker 5: you drive into them and they start an instance where
Speaker 5: you now you're taking on a boss in their minions,
Speaker 5: and so you just got to shoot all the minions
Speaker 5: and then take out the boss, and then when you
Speaker 5: get down with that instance, they drop a bunch of
Speaker 5: goodies and then you could take those goodies to the
Speaker 5: Spy Hunter truck, drive up into the back of the truck,
Speaker 5: apply those goodies or maybe or like there's an upgrade
Speaker 5: system where it's like you have six of these, you
Speaker 5: want to combine them all and like slowly increase their
Speaker 5: letter grades so they work even better the one that
Speaker 5: you actually have equipped to your car. It's like, yes,
Speaker 5: I do want to do that, and then I'm going
Speaker 5: to go back out there and find another one of
Speaker 5: these clouds and find another thing. And there's like other
Speaker 5: distractions on the map or other like sort of ways
Speaker 5: of interacting with the world, like with like small like
Speaker 5: puzzle like things where it's like you got to find
Speaker 5: something before timer goes out or something like that, but
Speaker 5: that you could tell like they're just kind of picking
Speaker 5: at that see if that's something that's gonna work. The
Speaker 5: main thing of just driving around this world and shooting things,
Speaker 5: especially with like actually mouse and keyboard, having the mouse
Speaker 5: to aim while you're driving around is super handy. It
Speaker 5: feels really good because I can just like precision target
Speaker 5: these things without having to worry about trying to you know,
Speaker 5: way the analog it's going to be fine.
Speaker 1: But the mouse controls were really good. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm into this and I'm gonna.
Speaker 5: This is definitely one where I'm going to keep checking
Speaker 5: in every once in a while, kind of like I
Speaker 5: did with Dead Cells. They're like, I want to see,
Speaker 5: like how this thing evolves. I'm very curious about that.
Speaker 2: So I'm very curious too, And I think I am
Speaker 2: going to the opposite approach because I always like, I
Speaker 2: don't really play early access. Yeah it's like done done
Speaker 2: and so like, but I've seen this and it does
Speaker 2: seem very like, you know, I wanted to see that
Speaker 2: kind of twisted the Medal of the Spirit and that
Speaker 2: car combat genre be a thing in some form since
Speaker 2: the late nineties, and it hasn't really been. And this
Speaker 2: does seem to be hitting all. Like the aesthetics of
Speaker 2: it look awesome, and I do think that that genre
Speaker 2: has needed some sort of shift up, because like that
Speaker 2: twenty twelve Twist Medal was kind of just you know,
Speaker 2: playing the hits a little bit of just like oh,
Speaker 2: Arena car combat, And I remember feeling like maybe this
Speaker 2: maybe this genre kind of died out because it's just
Speaker 2: a little too little, too simple, a little too stale
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 5: And like just what the beat him up thing did
Speaker 5: where it's just like, yeah, they're kind of doing the
Speaker 5: same thing over and they're not really look like pushing
Speaker 5: it forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so like when I see something like fumes
Speaker 2: definitely has a different control scheme in different objectives than
Speaker 2: just like killed these eight other cars or whatever, I
Speaker 2: think that excites me because I do think that that's
Speaker 2: what car combat would need to be relevant and make
Speaker 2: some sort of comeback. So like, I very much have
Speaker 2: my eye on this one, and.
Speaker 5: Really I think the thing that really sets it apart
Speaker 5: is the physics system, where it's like, okay, so now
Speaker 5: I put on a different suspension onto this vehicle, so
Speaker 5: I have big tires in the back, little tires in
Speaker 5: the front, and now it like feels very different when
Speaker 5: I'm turning and you could just see every single like
Speaker 5: gram of mass being like shoved into the front right
Speaker 5: tire when you do a fast left turn.
Speaker 1: And it just looks good and feels good, and like
Speaker 1: you really.
Speaker 5: See the tires dig into the dirt and that's super satisfying.
Speaker 5: It just makes it feel like at any second you
Speaker 5: could flip your car because you're going so fast you
Speaker 5: got to turn around and shoot these guys, so it
Speaker 5: makes everything feel very hectic and harrowing.
Speaker 1: Is there multiplayer in fumes Grub.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. Yeah, oh yeah not yet. That
Speaker 5: definitely seems like the one where like eventually they could
Speaker 5: do a co op mode or something like that. Obviously
Speaker 5: could be competitive multiplayer obviously, but.
Speaker 1: I think you can make it.
Speaker 5: It would makes sense to let you get in there
Speaker 5: with your buddies and drive around and you know, take
Speaker 5: on these missions.
Speaker 1: It could totally work.
Speaker 4: It's got a really cool look to it, very blocky,
Speaker 4: just like Vauxhall Gram two looks very blocky.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's got blocks. If you're like me and you've
Speaker 2: wanted up Across three D forever, Nintendo doesn't seem to
Speaker 2: be wanting to make it, but the folks van vauxal
Speaker 2: Graham they did it with the first one, and the
Speaker 2: second one is out now, and it kind of does
Speaker 2: follow the same thing that Across three D did from
Speaker 2: round one to round two in that it's got a
Speaker 2: two color system now, so it's got blue and green,
Speaker 2: so you know, you will see you know, you're you're
Speaker 2: painting blocks like in Pacross and rotating everything, but you'll
Speaker 2: get blue ones and green ones definitely adds a certain
Speaker 2: level of complexity.
Speaker 1: To it that I like.
Speaker 2: And it also if you own the first Vauxal Graham,
Speaker 2: it has all like two hundred and fifty puzzles from that,
Speaker 2: but they've added the two color system to it, so
Speaker 2: oh cool. I will say the uh I use. An
Speaker 2: issue I had with the first vox Pagram too is
Speaker 2: that like if you're playing with you know, analog sticks
Speaker 2: and everything, it's just like it just takes some real
Speaker 2: getting used to, like you know, the rotating and deciding
Speaker 2: like what you're actually interacting with. But I'm playing on
Speaker 2: switch to and I am finding that the touch controls
Speaker 2: are actually very good. So I basically feel like I'm
Speaker 2: playing a pacrosse around two and like you're kind of
Speaker 2: filling out a diorama. So like each like world or
Speaker 2: whatever is like Okay, you've finished twelve fifteen puzzles or something,
Speaker 2: and you fill that room with all the little puzzle
Speaker 2: things you're putting together.
Speaker 1: So very very good.
Speaker 2: If if you're into Pacross stuff, and I don't know,
Speaker 2: Nintendo is gonna keep doing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at this.
Speaker 5: I love Pacrosse, am pit Across three D and I'm
Speaker 5: also I've also been waiting.
Speaker 1: Don't expect Nintendo to do it.
Speaker 5: These little dioramas are very cute, like this looks really nice.
Speaker 5: And then you said you're playing on a touch screen
Speaker 5: on on switch.
Speaker 1: I wonder.
Speaker 5: I bet the Steam Deck has the exact same control.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna try right on there and see and
Speaker 5: if not, then I'll try to get it on.
Speaker 1: Switch to Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I don't think it's impossible to, you know, get
Speaker 2: used to the standard like analog control. Beyond Yeah is
Speaker 2: playing on Steam Deck and she is doing the analog stuff,
Speaker 2: but she's like, I just got used to it, so.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, cool, all right, Yeah, I've got love
Speaker 5: love of these kinds of games for sure, me too.
Speaker 4: Sticking to the puzzle game theme, Dan, you've been playing
Speaker 4: is this seat taken? And I've been really curious about this,
Speaker 4: Jimmy jam.
Speaker 2: Very different type of puzzle. This is, you know, logic puzzles.
Speaker 2: So if you remember in school all those logic puzzles,
Speaker 2: you know, just like oh, this person you know will
Speaker 2: only do this and but won't sit next to this
Speaker 2: person and this person like this is just that with
Speaker 2: a really kind of cute aesthetic. It is just you know,
Speaker 2: it'll be a movie theater or a diner or a
Speaker 2: concert or a boat, and you have all these little
Speaker 2: cartoon characters to pop up and you hover over them
Speaker 2: and it'll say, like I need to sit next to
Speaker 2: my daughter, but I don't want to be next to
Speaker 2: anyone smelly. And so you got to figure out like, okay,
Speaker 2: there's these like twenty thirty seats or whatever, and like
Speaker 2: they're just the visual language of it. Like they're just
Speaker 2: these little cartoon characters with legs, and some of them
Speaker 2: will have little you know, linus or pigpen whatever stink
Speaker 2: clouds over them, and so it's like, okay, that's a
Speaker 2: smelly one. And then you got the ones that want
Speaker 2: to party, and they'll have a little party hat and
Speaker 2: when you put them down, there's like music and stuff,
Speaker 2: and it's like, okay, these four people want to party,
Speaker 2: So I'll put them in the back of the bus
Speaker 2: here where they can not bother the people. Where it's
Speaker 2: like I wanted to relax or I want to read
Speaker 2: on the bus, you put them in the front. I
Speaker 2: want to be alone. I don't want to be next
Speaker 2: to kids. And so it's just a lot of like
Speaker 2: putting people in place, and you can tell if they're
Speaker 2: in the right spot because they'll be like smiling. And
Speaker 2: then so you put everyone in there and it'll say like, oh,
Speaker 2: you're not done, and you're looking around like, oh, that
Speaker 2: guy's frowning. Oh shit, he's too close to a stinky person.
Speaker 2: Oh this person separated from their date or whatever.
Speaker 3: You wants to sit next to a stinky person.
Speaker 5: I only want to sit next to smelly people.
Speaker 1: Please that I've seen another stinky person. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But it's like they're movie theater ones where it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, there's a guy with a big hat and
Speaker 2: or there's people that like need to sit closer to
Speaker 2: the screen. There's people that want to steal popcorn, so
Speaker 2: you got to put them next as popcorn people that
Speaker 2: can't sit in a dirty seat, so you know, if
Speaker 2: you see popcorn on a seat, you can't put them there.
Speaker 2: So it's just a lot of just like you know,
Speaker 2: just single screen just taking in you know, the seat structure,
Speaker 2: and then like where you can put these people and
Speaker 2: super super like really, for someone like me that loves
Speaker 2: logic puzzles, this is a really fun way to gamify
Speaker 2: it and put it in like a real nice aesthetic package.
Speaker 5: It also just looks really nice, does Like So from
Speaker 5: like one level to the next, is it the way
Speaker 5: that they're making it more complicated by changing up like
Speaker 5: the possibility of the seating or are they introducing like
Speaker 5: new complications Like I'm seeing some here in the video.
Speaker 1: It looks like you've got to put food down, is ye.
Speaker 2: So there's like there's like fast food restaurants and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like, okay, I want to sit by myself and
Speaker 2: I'll eat anything, and so you can put burger fries
Speaker 2: whatever you want. And then there's people that are just like, oh,
Speaker 2: I just want some coffee and I need to sit
Speaker 2: with this person, so you can put a cup of
Speaker 2: coffee between the two. So yeah, there's a decent amount
Speaker 2: of variety. I've probably done fifteen levels. And you know,
Speaker 2: there's like a dinner where it's like I don't want
Speaker 2: to be next to any snoody people, and so like
Speaker 2: there's like a bunch of people that are wearing like
Speaker 2: fancy hats and stuff. All right, so I'll put them
Speaker 2: all on their own thing here. But oh but these
Speaker 2: people can't sit next to kids. So they'll sit over here.
Speaker 2: They got to sit next to the newly weeds of
Speaker 2: this thing. So here's the wedding table and all these
Speaker 2: people got to sit with the bride and groom. And
Speaker 2: it's yeah, it shakes it up enough to worry. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just from bus to restaurant to concerts, when.
Speaker 5: You feel like there's a natural progression, like you could
Speaker 5: see how it's like getting more complicated as you're playing,
Speaker 5: Like they're introducing new ideas at a good cup I
Speaker 5: mean fifteen levels and maybe you don't know yet.
Speaker 2: I mean more complicated.
Speaker 5: It's more.
Speaker 2: It's just there's more variety than complications. It's not like
Speaker 2: a maba as you where it's like, you know, it
Speaker 2: gets point. It's like this is overwhelming. Like when they've
Speaker 2: added stuff, it's just been like little tweaks on you know,
Speaker 2: like people partying on a boat versus people wanting to
Speaker 2: eat fish versus cheese or whatever at okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just it's just variety more than okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got just like a ten dollars game right now,
Speaker 3: it's on sale for nine dollars. It just you know,
Speaker 3: it's like I almost wasn't like too interested in it.
Speaker 3: Then I saw that price, I'm like, oh, fro what
Speaker 3: nine bucks? Maybe I'll have fun here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really really cute yep.
Speaker 4: Speaking about synergy amongst a bunch of people that's very
Speaker 4: important in the JRPG party, specifically in Clerbecure Expedition thirty three,
Speaker 4: which Jeff Grubb says, you've been playing it here on
Speaker 4: this document.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm doing it. I was gonna come to this
Speaker 5: podcast with a beret and everything and let me make
Speaker 5: you guys guess what game I was playing. But I
Speaker 5: so I picked up my Steam Save again and I
Speaker 5: looked at it and I was about five and a
Speaker 5: half hours in, and that was like a couple of
Speaker 5: days ago, and now I'm like thirteen hours in. Its
Speaker 5: kind of I've doubled it and it is.
Speaker 1: All on plan right now.
Speaker 5: Basically it's really all I have time for it because
Speaker 5: it's it is like I think that's the way we
Speaker 5: describe it, very playable. It is a game where it's
Speaker 5: like once you're in me and you you are just
Speaker 5: kind of like you get down with a battle, You're like, man,
Speaker 5: that's those synergies I just kind of was like working
Speaker 5: with are really working now. I can't wait to just
Speaker 5: kind of do that again, maybe throwing some other ideas.
Speaker 5: It's a battlesystem where you can have ideas and like
Speaker 5: try things and see, hey, is this going to work
Speaker 5: if I do this one thing with this character and
Speaker 5: it'll make it easier for this other character to do
Speaker 5: that thing. And it's fun to experiment with that to
Speaker 5: the point where I am excited to get into every
Speaker 5: single battle. My only complain about the game really is
Speaker 5: French the clearly god that goes without saying though it's
Speaker 5: beneath complaints. I am definitely a person that wouldn't need
Speaker 5: a map in a game like this, Like I'm able
Speaker 5: to get through these areas eventually, like I will get
Speaker 5: but I get lost at least like once per area.
Speaker 1: There's something there is an unspoken kind of like directional
Speaker 1: language that those levels.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think they break down occasionally, but I've definitely
Speaker 5: five that backle are you.
Speaker 1: Which is like kind of I was actually like pleasantly surprised,
Speaker 1: maybe more impress than anything else of like oh wow,
Speaker 1: like I'm being an idiot and still finding my way
Speaker 1: through you know, the midlands or whatever.
Speaker 3: I like, Yeah, I agree Jeff that it kind of
Speaker 3: worked without it, But part of me is also like,
Speaker 3: why isn't there a map, Like I don't think it
Speaker 3: would have bothered anything.
Speaker 5: Way, I would take a waypoint, like just a little
Speaker 5: bit of direction, like, hey, go in this general area
Speaker 5: so you know where to look. There was definitely this
Speaker 5: one in there's a place called the Forgotten Battlefield, and
Speaker 5: I got lost in here for a while because it
Speaker 5: was kind of funneling me to this one bridge that
Speaker 5: was made by a giant like fallen cannon, and it
Speaker 5: just looked like part of the background because a lot
Speaker 5: of the other parts of the background looked similar to that,
Speaker 5: So I didn't even try to walk on it until
Speaker 5: eventually that's the one time I've had to look up.
Speaker 1: Where am I supposed to go?
Speaker 5: But I do feel like that's a relatively minor complaint
Speaker 5: because I have been able to find my way through
Speaker 5: most things. And then what I consider to be the
Speaker 5: core of the game, which is these characters interacting with
Speaker 5: one another, and then the battle system.
Speaker 1: I am enamored.
Speaker 5: Just I'm really kind of getting into the story. I
Speaker 5: just recently got verso a little.
Speaker 1: Bit past that.
Speaker 5: Now we'll say you're after act one, Yes, I am
Speaker 5: a little bit in Dack too, yes, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 5: all right, things are happening, and now I'm like very
Speaker 5: curious to see how these characters deal.
Speaker 1: With these problems. It's yeah, it's really well done.
Speaker 5: And I think my initial sort of like play of
Speaker 5: the game where I'm like, oh, I think this is
Speaker 5: something that people are going to be into, it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: I guess I didn't realize just how much it was
Speaker 5: going to be for me.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty happy for that.
Speaker 4: You know, you know, you know what, Let's go, let's
Speaker 4: save that game for last Dan Riker. You have been
Speaker 4: playing Sword of the Seas.
Speaker 1: Oh, how's that, Danny Boyd.
Speaker 2: Here is a lot of fun I love to give
Speaker 2: last night. I think came out today. It is by
Speaker 2: Giant Squid, who made Absu in the path list, and
Speaker 2: I believe there's some lineage going back to Journey and
Speaker 2: you can super see the Journey in this game. It
Speaker 2: is a lot of surfing around sand and seeing beautiful
Speaker 2: stuff in the background. It's it's really cool because like
Speaker 2: basically like there's almost no like talking and stuff like this.
Speaker 2: There's some like little like you know, tablets you can
Speaker 2: read and stuff. But the gist of it what I've
Speaker 2: played so far, which maybe like an hour and a
Speaker 2: half or so, is that like there's just this big
Speaker 2: desert and you're basically bringing water and life to it.
Speaker 2: And so this is one of those very uh, you know,
Speaker 2: no HUD games. So it's the visual language is great
Speaker 2: where it's like there are no there's no map, there
Speaker 2: is no objective marker. You can just look around and
Speaker 2: be like if there's a huge swath of sand and
Speaker 2: desert or you know, other areas and just dry land,
Speaker 2: basically you know that like, Okay, there's got to be
Speaker 2: something around here I can do to bring water to it.
Speaker 2: And it's usually just like, Okay, there's this big pillar
Speaker 2: rock pillar in the middle of the desert, and there's
Speaker 2: a bunch of lanterns and stuff surrounding it. So you
Speaker 2: just kind of like surf around and light all the
Speaker 2: candles and then all of a sudden you'll you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's just very elegant in how it lets you
Speaker 2: know that there's something to do in an area. There's
Speaker 2: never an arrow, there's never an objective marker, and just
Speaker 2: the moment to moment moving around this world is so satisfying.
Speaker 5: Grub.
Speaker 2: I thought about you a lot playing this. It is
Speaker 2: you're you're on a sword, the Sword of the Sea
Speaker 2: and yours. It's it's you're surfing. There's like skateboarding, like
Speaker 2: do there's grinding at times. He's riding on a wall,
Speaker 2: so there's wall riding. There's half pipes, there's it is
Speaker 2: just funny. You're just immediately in this game just surfing around,
Speaker 2: skating around sand water. There's boosts and ramps and things
Speaker 2: like that, and it's just this beautiful world to just explore.
Speaker 2: And there's never there's no health bar, there's no real
Speaker 2: penalty if you go off the edge and die in
Speaker 2: a hole or something. There's no combat that I've seen
Speaker 2: yet or anything. And then there are just kind of
Speaker 2: those fun surprises like in Journey where it's like whoa, Okay,
Speaker 2: I guess I'm doing this now.
Speaker 1: This is interesting space Dolphins. Yeah, yeah, I got.
Speaker 2: A Dolphins situation going on now and that's been pretty fun.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just it's absolutely beautiful. It is just
Speaker 2: really good just zone out and surf around and not
Speaker 2: super stressful by any means.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you said, there's so there's no combat, like what
Speaker 5: is the like surfing around does seem to be the
Speaker 5: main thing you're doing, is it, like okay, solving puzzles,
Speaker 5: like finding things, hitting switch like.
Speaker 2: So like since you know, there are some areas where
Speaker 2: it's like, okay, this door is locked and there's an
Speaker 2: eagle statue and it's got a big open mouth, and
Speaker 2: then you learn that like, oh okay, if I can
Speaker 2: skate over to this water orb, all suddenly have a
Speaker 2: water orb around me. And then if I can just
Speaker 2: skate myself to this thing, the water will go into
Speaker 2: the eagle's mouth and it'll unlock a thing or whatever.
Speaker 2: And there are like you know, as you destroy things
Speaker 2: or explore, you'll find these little kind of like triangles,
Speaker 2: and there's there's a merchant type guy that like, you know,
Speaker 2: you'll cash into him, like like Luna's or Luma's in
Speaker 2: the Mario Galaxy. He's like, all right, give him fifty,
Speaker 2: you give him two hundred. And it's like now I
Speaker 2: can do tricks in the air, and now I can
Speaker 2: do spin tricks, and now I can do you know,
Speaker 2: like while you're you meet have a double jump and
Speaker 2: it's almost like kind of a triple jump situation. So
Speaker 2: it's just the mobility situation is just like you're just
Speaker 2: flying around, skin around, jumping, doing tricks and stuff like.
Speaker 2: And it's not in the effort of like getting a
Speaker 2: high score or some sex situation. You're just it's just
Speaker 2: you're just kind of doing style tricks and stuff just
Speaker 2: to pop yourself.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: God, I would love to ride a long board or
Speaker 4: a skateboard down or a hill or whatever, but the
Speaker 4: fear of getting shoot hurt terrified.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm at a point where it's like breaking a
Speaker 5: hip is a very real possibility.
Speaker 1: I don't want to.
Speaker 5: I don't want to deal with that. And Dan, is
Speaker 5: there any of the online like sort of multiplayer stuff
Speaker 5: from Journey?
Speaker 2: Okay no, And I was thinking about that because it's
Speaker 2: like I think that is the main like Journey obviously
Speaker 2: unbelievably gorgeous game.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: I think those moments of you know, the interaction and
Speaker 2: connection with other players that really elevated Journey to something
Speaker 2: super special. This does not have that. This is a
Speaker 2: much just kind of lighter like you know, if you
Speaker 2: played the but the Pathless or ab Zoo and stuff.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It's just a visual treat. It's like a really beautiful
Speaker 2: interactive screensaver.
Speaker 5: You know, it's like, yeah, but maybe the straight up
Speaker 5: halfpipe this in this trailer that's just a half pipe.
Speaker 5: It really does just look like a skateboarding or snowboarding game, yeah,
Speaker 5: but with awesome visuals.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And actually I think calling an interactive screensaver is probably
Speaker 2: reductive because like there is like you know, light puzzle
Speaker 2: solving and platforming going on here. You know, you'll like
Speaker 2: light some lanterns, then a bunch of jellyfish will show
Speaker 2: up in the air and you're kind of like like
Speaker 2: very very satisfying platforming. It's not super demanding. Yeah, Like
Speaker 2: the grinding and stuff is really fun. Just the world
Speaker 2: is beautiful. It's yeah, just a just a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: This this is definitely definitely what I'm gonna try, all right.
Speaker 4: Cool And to wrap up the game segment, Gang perhaps
Speaker 4: the war of the worlds of video games right now, absolutely,
Speaker 4: and how polarizing people's time it are. Last week we
Speaker 4: played Drag Drive on UPF and well, some of us
Speaker 4: had fun.
Speaker 2: You know, everything I said about how good it feels
Speaker 2: is floating around, flying around. It's like imagine the polar
Speaker 2: opposite event of every motion was the most laborious and
Speaker 2: frustrating and annoying that you've ever done.
Speaker 1: Do you like it?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's awesome, Yes, Nintendo, I heard I like everything Nintendo.
Speaker 2: Yeah that is mostly true.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it is a game where it's like it
Speaker 5: has so many things going against it, like it is
Speaker 5: the fact that the control system is cumbersome, Like you're
Speaker 5: gonna need to get the joy cons out either use
Speaker 5: your legs, but that's probably not good enough. You're gonna
Speaker 5: want to sert like a table surface to actually play
Speaker 5: the game. And then the online multiplayer is so fundamentally
Speaker 5: broken that even when we did the three of us
Speaker 5: get into the same room together, there was no way
Speaker 5: for us to tell the game, hey, put us on
Speaker 5: a team. The next time you start up a game.
Speaker 5: It just randomly selected people from this room that didn't
Speaker 5: just have us in it. It had other people in
Speaker 5: this public matchmaking room and just threw us in like
Speaker 5: in the random pickup games. It's insane, and there was
Speaker 5: no way around that.
Speaker 3: As far as as far as we could tell. There's
Speaker 3: no way for us to make a group of three
Speaker 3: people who can then fight another random group of three people.
Speaker 3: We could fight another group of like three friends if
Speaker 3: we had six total friends around. But that's just wild
Speaker 3: that they didn't care to consider that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like even remove all of the very frustrating motion
Speaker 2: control elements of this, which is I think the first
Speaker 2: thing that drove me nuts about this game. Imagine it
Speaker 2: was just a functioning arcade sports game type thing, like
Speaker 2: what's use that down a rocket league with two friends
Speaker 2: and you couldn't party up like.
Speaker 5: Done exactly, Like, yes, this game is even for this
Speaker 5: game being twenty dollars, completely unacceptable. It is wild.
Speaker 1: I just don't get it.
Speaker 3: I always wonder like, is it because they somehow just
Speaker 3: did think of that or somebody vehemently against it.
Speaker 1: They're against it? Yeah, Like that's not the pure experience
Speaker 1: that we want people to have.
Speaker 3: What do they want?
Speaker 2: What is the period?
Speaker 1: I think they wanted to feel like you're at a
Speaker 1: gym and just like like happening.
Speaker 3: I think, but even then I could be like, well,
Speaker 3: with my friends, I know, yeah it's now, well, we
Speaker 3: were playing the game actually was having fun. I kind
Speaker 3: of like the stupid b as.
Speaker 5: I think the haptics really sold me on it really
Speaker 5: felt it really felt like I was rolling those wheels
Speaker 5: I also just like the idea of like shoot tank
Speaker 5: controls like two treads or two tires on the ground
Speaker 5: and where it's like, yeah, you can move left and
Speaker 5: right or move back with the right one, move forward
Speaker 5: with the left one, and so you're gonna spin in place.
Speaker 5: I always have liked that since I was a kid,
Speaker 5: and this game like really nails that, and like I
Speaker 5: was doing dunks and stuff and feeling pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a certain amount of like actual like depth
Speaker 2: to the controls that I think is like I was
Speaker 2: learning and doing the tutorial that like if you hit
Speaker 2: the brakes and then you pull back on one side,
Speaker 2: you can do like a real like hairpin turn.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like it's like there was like a surprising amount of
Speaker 2: depth to the control Like they thought they were making
Speaker 2: like an esport, but then they like everything around the
Speaker 2: game is like, well, you literally just can't play this
Speaker 2: online any way you went to And I.
Speaker 5: Always like one of these games that is like skill
Speaker 5: based inputs instead of like there's a button you press
Speaker 5: to do the hop It's like no, you need to
Speaker 5: like get going and then stop with one wheel, lift
Speaker 5: that mouse off the thing and then immediately like lift
Speaker 5: the other one and you'll do kind of a bunny hop.
Speaker 1: It's like, what are you talking about. I couldn't even
Speaker 1: get it to work.
Speaker 2: It's an insane thing.
Speaker 5: I think I did it once. Yeah, I could like
Speaker 5: pass the tutorial. It's it's insane. I could never get
Speaker 5: it to like work in an actual game. Or there
Speaker 5: are like these challenges around the perimeter of the room
Speaker 5: in between matches, and there's one where it's like, try
Speaker 5: to like do the one the one wheel ride through
Speaker 5: this area because if you get one wheel over here,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be insand so it'd be really slow when
Speaker 5: you go up against everyone else. Couldn't get that the work.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, I'm glad that they have made it
Speaker 5: weird with in terms of the controls. It's just everything
Speaker 5: else as weird as well, and that sucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it looks like a very dour looking game too,
Speaker 4: like everything is so dark.
Speaker 1: Get him Dan, Oh that's pretty good, drab.
Speaker 3: That's nice.
Speaker 4: I would you like to write the sequel to War
Speaker 4: of the World, ju Dan, you could knock get the
Speaker 4: sequel to War of the World. It's in like twenty minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can do that in afternoon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, gang, we're gonna go take a quick
Speaker 4: bricky break and after that we'll hit you with some
Speaker 4: Disney World mug backler.
Speaker 1: You're goddamn right.
Speaker 3: It is much Yea, that's the retro logo too. That's ship.
Speaker 1: I know my roots commit.
Speaker 2: I'm the only adult of this company.
Speaker 3: All right, see you guys, jam.
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Speaker 1: Mobo.
Speaker 4: This is Jeff Grobb with a news. He's gonna read
Speaker 4: story for you.
Speaker 3: Jeff Crab lyrics.
Speaker 5: Nice, that's right, Yeah, John Bomb has lyrics.
Speaker 1: Now I have the news.
Speaker 5: Let's start here with a couple of stories that.
Speaker 1: Mikey helped me out with.
Speaker 5: Here Hollow Nights Silk Song Special announcement set for Thursday,
Speaker 5: the twenty first of August at seven thirty am Pacific time.
Speaker 5: That's this week, that's in two days. Uh do we
Speaker 5: have to burn the clown makeup?
Speaker 4: Is this? Is it?
Speaker 3: Right? Yeah? It's I mean it's a little weird because
Speaker 3: we have Opening Night Live today.
Speaker 1: We think it's gonna be in both right yea.
Speaker 5: I think we get the teaser in Opening Night Live
Speaker 5: and they say come check out our equivalent of a
Speaker 5: direct for this game or whatever they end up doing.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's just a bunch info on a blog or something.
Speaker 5: But I think we still see it at Opening That
Speaker 5: Live today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it certainly feels like we're not getting through
Speaker 3: this week without actually getting a release date for this
Speaker 3: video game.
Speaker 1: Will this also be forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: Shorter?
Speaker 2: I bet he just uses one button.
Speaker 5: Maybe they're just gonna announce that they're canceling it so
Speaker 5: they're still a champions. Apparently a Sure is going to
Speaker 5: have a story about this on what did he say
Speaker 5: it was on Thursday as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said he's going to release a story on
Speaker 3: Thursday about this lengthy seven year development process for this game.
Speaker 3: So it seems like they also just like reach out
Speaker 3: to them to give him access for this sort of
Speaker 3: thing too. If it's timed up with this video like
Speaker 3: they're starting, they're they're starting their marketing blitz here. This
Speaker 3: is a very real video game we're going to be
Speaker 3: seeing actual info about. I'm guessing we're going to be
Speaker 3: playing it this year. They might say twenty twenty six
Speaker 3: after all, I don't know. Boy, Yeah, after all the
Speaker 3: years of cloud makeup and jokes and memes, this is
Speaker 3: going to be a real video game we can look
Speaker 3: forward to.
Speaker 5: If they do not make a reference to spoon heaven.
Speaker 1: I am boycotting this game.
Speaker 2: I got smart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's probably the movie. Cancel this game. Thank you, Jim,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Speaking of Shreyer who said, by the way, said that
Speaker 5: story was very fun, I bet the reason it took
Speaker 5: so long is they just wanted to make a very
Speaker 5: good game.
Speaker 1: And now I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like I said, Tryer had another thing here breaking BioShock
Speaker 5: four developer Cloud Chamber is laying off an unspecified number
Speaker 5: of staff and then so this is like a follow
Speaker 5: up to kind of what we were hearing from him
Speaker 5: a little bit ago about BioShock four.
Speaker 1: Being in a weird state.
Speaker 5: They delayed the game because it didn't meet a certain
Speaker 5: internal check, and I guess the main reason for that
Speaker 5: was the story. According to the reporting, although the leadership
Speaker 5: of the team was basically removed from the project and
Speaker 5: now it has new leadership. But when I talked about
Speaker 5: when he left, where was he at before? He was
Speaker 5: at working on Diablo Blizzard. He was at Blizzard. Rod
Speaker 5: ferguson Industry Closer, he's the guy you bring in when
Speaker 5: you want to get a game finished. Well, now he
Speaker 5: is working on BioShock form. Former Diablo boss Rod Ferguson
Speaker 5: is taking over as Cloud Chambers new studio head. More
Speaker 5: than a decade ago, he joined the troubled BioShock Infinite
Speaker 5: and helped salvage that game's production as well.
Speaker 1: So that's this is what he's known for.
Speaker 5: This makes it clear like they know they're serious about
Speaker 5: getting Bioshocked four done and out, which is something they.
Speaker 1: Said recently in an earnings call.
Speaker 5: But it'd be like, well, you know, I guess it's
Speaker 5: been a long time, you're really going to do this thing.
Speaker 5: I guess, so, uh, I guess. Then the question is,
Speaker 5: Jeff Backlar, what do you want from a BioShock for.
Speaker 1: At this point.
Speaker 3: It'll be okay, buddy, you don't forget. Don't forget.
Speaker 1: I do, And I guess I have a topic heart
Speaker 1: the sequel. Yeah, the the the presequel, I think is
Speaker 1: what that one's be out before BioShock for at this rate?
Speaker 1: Uh huh uh, I don't know. I kind of I
Speaker 1: don't know, And you know, I guess the question is like,
Speaker 1: are there people like me still?
Speaker 3: I like BioShock. I still carry a towice for BioShock.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of old people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Like, is that what it is? Person? I'm
Speaker 1: with you, backler, Like that game is important.
Speaker 5: No, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of people out there who
Speaker 5: think BioShock is important. Still, Yes, I like when you say, hey,
Speaker 5: what is like a really good game? I think BioShock
Speaker 5: comes up pretty quickly when you ask people that.
Speaker 3: Where was it in our where was it in our
Speaker 3: century pole thing? I'm gonna oh, it wasn't mine. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you not like that game?
Speaker 2: Dan?
Speaker 5: Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1: A game? Very very strong favor I don't think I.
Speaker 5: Don't dislike it. It's just I just it didn't hook me,
Speaker 5: and so I never really I played like probably like.
Speaker 1: Five hours and stuff.
Speaker 3: Isn't it about how capitalism is bad? I thought you
Speaker 3: would love it? Yeah, but I already know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but BioShock, and only BioShock taught me.
Speaker 3: That and teach the normies like us this back Or
Speaker 3: do you want it to just be another let's return
Speaker 3: to rapture thing or do you want another super new,
Speaker 3: weird location.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I think Infinite has aged like a
Speaker 1: diaper baking in the sun. Yes, Okay, So I don't
Speaker 1: want that. Yeah, go ahead, Jim, what's the diaper?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I'm well aware.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: I loved one and two, love the DLC for two.
Speaker 1: But I never is like, I'm sorry to interrupt, but
Speaker 1: I think two is like that is aging in the
Speaker 1: exact opposite way to be like you, Yeah, go ahead, Sorry, But.
Speaker 4: I never checked out Infinite and I'm loosely aware of
Speaker 4: like the story beats in it.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you the first thing, the first choice
Speaker 1: it gives you in the game, jan sure it?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: It hands you a baseball and asks you do you
Speaker 5: want to throw this at this interracial couple we have
Speaker 5: up tied up on the stage like and not that
Speaker 5: the games like no matter what you choose, the game
Speaker 5: sort of like kind of whisks you away. It's just like,
Speaker 5: I don't know, it's so edgy edge lord, horseshit. I
Speaker 5: never really love that game. Maybe I don't have to
Speaker 5: check it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I honestly don't think it's worth your time.
Speaker 5: You know, right what you disagree Mikey, No, I agree
Speaker 5: with you. Okay, absolutely has a lot of problems. It
Speaker 5: feels good to play, I guess, but just a lot
Speaker 5: of other problems.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I also and I also have like I have
Speaker 1: a weird, unique sort of personal POV on it, just
Speaker 1: because it's like I spent like a like a like
Speaker 1: ninety minutes interviewing Ken Levine about Bioshok Infinite on a
Speaker 1: podcast I did, and like the falloff from that was
Speaker 1: really weird. I just didn't like anything like anything that,
Speaker 1: like it just sort of rubbed me the wrong way
Speaker 1: and left the bad taste in my mouth. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, I think, like I'm I'm perfectly happy with
Speaker 1: just erasing that from my memory. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of discourse about like, oh, how can anyone possibly
Speaker 1: make a bioshot game and not be you know, a
Speaker 1: rational right, And in that whole thing, it's like, no,
Speaker 1: I think you can do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like that's it's not exclusive.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, one person the.
Speaker 3: Whole bones of Irrational was that they made System Shock
Speaker 3: two and they weren't the people who made System Shock one,
Speaker 3: right right, right exactly. It's completely fine. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So but but and I do I do have a
Speaker 1: fondness for the on paper the concept of like a
Speaker 1: magic you know, uh utopian hellscape city thing, Like I
Speaker 1: think that is a cool idea. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're going to just sort of I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know how they do want to redeem themselves, redeem that franchise.
Speaker 3: I hope it's it should not be a direct sequentefit it.
Speaker 3: I don't want to see any of that multiverse crap. No,
Speaker 3: but yeah, you know, if it's just another weird human
Speaker 3: enclave city thing, like underground, right, like it's caves now, sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it's space, I don't know, like whatever.
Speaker 1: I love mole People. Yeah, yeah, okay, so we'll do
Speaker 1: like a Taco Bell Dennis Leary thing if you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the best.
Speaker 1: Mole a People.
Speaker 3: But by the way, it was number forty three in
Speaker 3: the one hundred Best Games of the twenty first Century poll.
Speaker 2: No, it's actually number sixty eight of the The Center.
Speaker 5: That's Dan, that's Dan's oh.
Speaker 1: Weird so oh that's the and that's BioShock one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's the only one that.
Speaker 3: Which is fair.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the storytelling in that first game
Speaker 1: is really strong. It's really good, present, incredibly compelling first
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: Peters out of it by the end, But that for
Speaker 2: that opening is like an game.
Speaker 3: Oh that that demo came out and it was just
Speaker 3: the opening. This is the greatest game game I've ever played.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've started a game more than I've
Speaker 1: started about just like show somebody you know.
Speaker 4: Grub you you were talking about this a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks ago on game mes Mornings. But do you think
Speaker 4: we can't get a BioShock four because people would say
Speaker 4: it's two ooke?
Speaker 5: Well that that was my suspicion here was when So
Speaker 5: the way it went down was this game was getting
Speaker 5: going through an internal check, they delayed it, and they
Speaker 5: said that apparently in the reporting, that the reason was
Speaker 5: the story. And I just can't in my brain rationalize
Speaker 5: any executive at a gaming company being like, this story
Speaker 5: is not good enough, because I don't think they know
Speaker 5: what a good video game story is, especially straus Zeldenk
Speaker 5: who doesn't fucking play games. So my guess here was,
Speaker 5: and this was just a guess that the game was
Speaker 5: maybe critical of the kinds of people that are in
Speaker 5: the current administration, and the people who are paying for
Speaker 5: this game don't want to step into that, and so
Speaker 5: they are trying to back off now bringing in Rod
Speaker 5: Ferguson firing the directors makes it sound like, no, the
Speaker 5: game's just not getting finished up. So I don't know
Speaker 5: how much of the of the problem was the story, really.
Speaker 3: Okay, I would be amazing if Rod Ferguson like raps
Speaker 3: this game up then immediately goes over to Judas and
Speaker 3: what comes out first? This or Judas Judas? I think
Speaker 3: I think before Judas.
Speaker 1: Does Judas have like a generalized release date? I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I thought it was next year, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: People played Judas and say it was like relatives.
Speaker 3: And I played Silksong in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, now that silk Song is real, Mike, so
Speaker 1: Judas is real. I see no time I agree with mechanize.
Speaker 1: I want to play Judas more than I want to
Speaker 1: play Bioshop for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Judas has absolutely no release window from it, Okay,
Speaker 3: I can see, all right, fair enough, all right?
Speaker 5: Either way, Cloud Chamber going to keep making BioShock four, Rod.
Speaker 1: Ferguson helping out, We'll see what happens there. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you making me the fact though. BioShock Roving Reporter, Yeah.
Speaker 3: We have here a man on the street happy to
Speaker 3: own that happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Appreciate that. All right, let's get on with it.
Speaker 5: PlayStation is officially getting Halo content in the form of
Speaker 5: Hell Divers collaboration. All those teases did lead to something.
Speaker 5: PlayStation users will receive Halo content in the form of
Speaker 5: Crossover DLC for Hell Divers two, launching on August twenty sixth.
Speaker 5: This ODST war bond will include new equipment and weapons.
Speaker 5: Hell Divers two, which was recently announced for Xbox, will
Speaker 5: also release on the same day. Game director Mikhail Ericsson
Speaker 5: expressed excitement about bringing more players into the game, highlighting
Speaker 5: the ongoing fight.
Speaker 1: For Super Earth blah blah blah, all this stuff. Yep.
Speaker 5: So we knew that this something was happening here because
Speaker 5: they were playing ODST music in the trailer and saying
Speaker 5: this PlayStation five. Uh, yep, hell Divers two is getting
Speaker 5: Halo stuff. This is probably more about the fact that
Speaker 5: Halo Hell Divers two is going to Xbox. Still weird
Speaker 5: to see anything Halo on PlayStation, Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna get used to that real fast.
Speaker 3: I remember how hard it was when Sonic Advance came out.
Speaker 3: I was like, what a Sonic game on a G
Speaker 3: Nintendo and that would be weird if the new Sonic
Speaker 3: game doesn't come out on the Nanto system.
Speaker 2: Right to have a Marcus Phoenix's Do Rag on our
Speaker 2: PlayStation five's that's right. Yeah, it's all happening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is all happening yet, and I'm used to
Speaker 5: it already.
Speaker 1: You're right, yep?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know is a it's saying choice here.
Speaker 3: People still like that expand alone quite a bit.
Speaker 5: You could take a lot of that fun stuff about
Speaker 5: those ODST characters and make it map really easy to
Speaker 5: uh the hell Divers, so makes it makes some sense.
Speaker 4: Is Red Versus Blue still a thing? Because I feel
Speaker 4: like that would lend itself well to Hell Divers.
Speaker 1: I think they finished that, but I guess I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's got to be a boomer thing now, right, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean what's Red versus Blue?
Speaker 1: I've never heard that.
Speaker 2: It's a Roadblocks thing?
Speaker 1: Jen, Oh okay, cool, cool, cool. It's like Dressed to impress?
Speaker 3: Right, yes, all my niece wants to talk about is
Speaker 3: Dressed to Impress? What the really, it's a Roblox game.
Speaker 3: It's the game in Rodblocks, like freaking out about the
Speaker 3: summer update all summer like they delayed it.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh no, oh no, sorry, all right,
Speaker 5: there was that Kirby Air Riders direct this morning forty
Speaker 5: five minutes, so Sacharai explaining just that it just a
Speaker 5: mer a mere forty five minutes. If by actually back, I.
Speaker 2: Was parking out the whole time, the time probably flew
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 1: That's right, baby.
Speaker 5: The game's out November twentieth for the Nintendo Switch to Yeah,
Speaker 5: it looks seventy dollars.
Speaker 3: By the way, they got seventy seventy dollars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, same price as Donkey counpany.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: It looked more substantial than I was expecting I got.
Speaker 5: I guess I don't know what I was expecting, but
Speaker 5: it wasn't all of this, and that City Trial does
Speaker 5: look fun, especially like now that it's online and be
Speaker 5: easy to find.
Speaker 1: People to play with.
Speaker 5: That's probably something we'll spend some time with for sure.
Speaker 5: So yeah, everyone for the most part was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: this looks okay.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, it looks great.
Speaker 1: Actually, all jokes aside. I'm like, oh yeah, I'm I
Speaker 1: I'd like to play this now, right, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a really pretty looking game. I think
Speaker 3: the courses especially, they're really cool. That one track he
Speaker 3: showed with a Moses level. Right, you're parting the season
Speaker 3: then riding on ways, that.
Speaker 1: Was the Moses level. Jan don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: Thank god Kirby fan service. He got Gooey as a
Speaker 3: playoff character. I went vertical for Gooey. Oh you know
Speaker 3: what your cara? Yes, I.
Speaker 4: Caught a little bit of the talkover y'all did. And
Speaker 4: the thing that instantly made me turn it off is
Speaker 4: Mike's terrible take that the Kirby anime was bad.
Speaker 1: He was banger after banger.
Speaker 2: That theme song is great, right back at you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: mic takes Mike. I did just realize from your shirt
Speaker 2: if I can sell you on weapons. Mickey and Minnie
Speaker 2: Mouse both appear on screen and weapons.
Speaker 3: Wow, it must be really.
Speaker 2: Trying to get him in the theater.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's an s cargo called s Cargoon in the anime.
Speaker 5: Mic and that's that's good stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, agooner, Well that didn't like that. Never mind.
Speaker 5: Tails of Zilly a remaster announced, Uh this is coming
Speaker 5: to switch p S five, xbox X and S and
Speaker 5: Steam on October thirty. First, what the fuck is a Zilia.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I like the Tales series. They've been remastering a
Speaker 3: lot of them. This is one of the PS three games,
Speaker 3: of which there were quite a few from that era.
Speaker 3: It's not one that I usually hear the most praise for,
Speaker 3: so I'm kind of wondering if I'm gonna check this
Speaker 3: one out. The last one they did with was Tales
Speaker 3: of Grace's f which was originally a wee game that
Speaker 3: then got poured over to PS three and then got remastered.
Speaker 3: And I played through that one, and then by the
Speaker 3: time I was done with it, I was like, I
Speaker 3: don't think that was really worth my time. I was
Speaker 3: only okay on that one. But some of these games,
Speaker 3: like Simponia, I think it's great. Uh, Dasperia Tales of Asparia,
Speaker 3: which was remastered on on Ago, I think that one
Speaker 3: is fantastic. That's the one I would recommend the most. Soazily,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. Also Tells of Sily was one of
Speaker 3: the few ones I had direct sequel, and I think
Speaker 3: a lot of people are weirdered out we're not just
Speaker 3: getting Tals of Zilia and Tales of Zilia two remastered
Speaker 3: together because it is a bit of a duology, So yeah,
Speaker 3: I was kind of hoping for maybe them to do
Speaker 3: Tales of the Abyss, which is a p S two
Speaker 3: game that people love that got a three D s
Speaker 3: port that's not available on modern platforms, or even Bursaria.
Speaker 3: I believe I hear more about, generally than the Zilly games.
Speaker 3: So you know, I'm glad they're continued to remaster these,
Speaker 3: but Zilia isn't exactly the one. I'm going to go
Speaker 3: vertical for.
Speaker 1: These? Are these? Namco tells Namco.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is kind of their big j RPG series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's certainly a lot. How many are there?
Speaker 3: There's what Tells, Tales of Fantasia, Tales of Destiny, Tales
Speaker 3: of uh Eternia, Tales of Simponia, Tales of Legendia, Tales
Speaker 3: of the Abyss, Tells of Tales of Bursaria, Tales of
Speaker 3: the Abyss, Tales.
Speaker 1: Of Hearts is one of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a bunch of these things.
Speaker 1: That's twelve alone right there.
Speaker 3: All right, well, shit, oh is a rise in this
Speaker 3: Rise was the last brand new one we got.
Speaker 1: I like the Rise? Yeah, people like that? Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Microsoft hints at a more affordable Xbox Cloud Gaming plan
Speaker 1: just what everyone was craving.
Speaker 5: Microsoft is exploring more affordable and accessible options for Xbox
Speaker 5: cloud gaming, potentially including new pricing tiers or regions, as
Speaker 5: hinted by Microsoft Gaming CFO Tim Stewart and Vice president
Speaker 5: of Next Generation Jason Ronald. Currently, Xbox cloud gaming is
Speaker 5: exclusive to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers, who have to
Speaker 5: pay twenty dollars a month for all of those benefits.
Speaker 5: Microsoft is also working with AMD on dedicated Silicon for
Speaker 5: the next generation of Xbox hardware, focusing on advanced rendering
Speaker 5: technologies like neural rendering and AI capabilities just like everyone's
Speaker 5: always been craving as well, some of which will be
Speaker 5: tested on the upcoming Xbox ally X device. These developments
Speaker 5: suggested a future where Xbox and Windows are more integrated.
Speaker 1: Blah blah.
Speaker 5: It's a reminder Microsoft is under well. Xbox specifically is
Speaker 5: under a BDS boycott call because of their support for
Speaker 5: the ethnic linsing in Gaza, which they.
Speaker 1: Are very much a part of. Yeah, boy, I just
Speaker 1: the cloud gaming thing is just not.
Speaker 5: Really moving the needle at all anymore. Right, Like, even
Speaker 5: like you know, I was like, yeah, I might get
Speaker 5: it eventually, we'll I'll be playing that way, but I
Speaker 5: don't know what that timeline looks like.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I believe that anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean storage space is just so much more
Speaker 3: readily available now. I don't even know what we need
Speaker 3: the cloud for, you know, obviously some stuff. I've always
Speaker 3: been a cloud gaming hater. I've never liked that.
Speaker 4: I always thought it was a bad experience. I think
Speaker 4: it should always like eight better, right, you like squall more.
Speaker 3: There's the day and I'm just taking a guy, give
Speaker 3: me that Monkey Tale.
Speaker 1: Gee it.
Speaker 5: And the reality is the Xbox cloud gaming is pretty bad.
Speaker 5: Like it's like they kind of like launched in beta
Speaker 5: and never did much more to it. It's visual quality,
Speaker 5: image quality is pretty low. It also takes every time
Speaker 5: I've done it, like when you try to start up
Speaker 5: a game, it takes like five minutes for to like
Speaker 5: start like spinning up a server somewhere or a blade
Speaker 5: on a server and then finally get the game going.
Speaker 5: It's infuriating, like.
Speaker 1: If this is to put them, is anyone doing it?
Speaker 1: I guess the G four stuff is pretty good, right,
Speaker 1: and Vidio g.
Speaker 5: Force now is definitely much better in every regard, even
Speaker 5: the PlayStation cloud stuff got an upgrade in the last
Speaker 5: year or two to kind of make it quite a
Speaker 5: bit better as well. But and g Force now is
Speaker 5: the one that I would recommend.
Speaker 3: Some Luna completely dead or what.
Speaker 5: I have a Luna controller in this room with me
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 3: They should have used that to control the drone and
Speaker 3: War of the.
Speaker 2: World the future delivery.
Speaker 1: Amazon.
Speaker 5: You know what, I'm just gonna say, we don't have
Speaker 5: actually look at it. I still have my Google what
Speaker 5: was that. You have until the end of this year
Speaker 5: to update those controllers to work as regular Bluetooth controllers
Speaker 5: on your PC. Yeah, and it's real simple. I did
Speaker 5: this over the weekend. Actually, I just had it like
Speaker 5: plugged into my computer for some reason, and I like
Speaker 5: went to the website. It's just a web app and
Speaker 5: you just got to go through the settings real quick,
Speaker 5: hit a couple buttons and it'll update it. And that
Speaker 5: they're decent controllers. I didn't I never hated the stadium controllers. Y.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Stadia is also a good alternative sweetener.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right. Pokemon Legends is the Pokemons mode the
Speaker 1: Pokemon Company.
Speaker 5: Z A Battle Club, a new four player online battle
Speaker 5: game mode for Za it basically just who can kill
Speaker 5: the most Pokemon in a certain amount of time.
Speaker 3: Finally, what's up? Can I help you?
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. Pokemon World is coming to where I live.
Speaker 4: Next to you is coming to San Francisco. If I
Speaker 4: do not get in, I'm going to open up my
Speaker 4: own gym next door. Out on the we'll have Pokemon
Speaker 4: battles on the streets. But legitimately, the actual really big
Speaker 4: news for the VGC community is that Scarlett and Violet
Speaker 4: is going to be replaced with Pokemon Champions, which is
Speaker 4: the VGC based game that they've been showing teasing, which
Speaker 4: is it's huge because for the last X amount of
Speaker 4: years it's been a mainline Pokemon game to do the
Speaker 4: VGC stuff.
Speaker 1: So this is wild. Wow. Yes, So, like I like
Speaker 1: to break that down.
Speaker 5: When they have these tournaments, people have to play the
Speaker 5: most recent game to do the battle mode for the
Speaker 5: video game tournaments at Pokemon Champions A Championships. Now they
Speaker 5: have Pokemon Champions which is a specific like like containerized
Speaker 5: version of the ballto mode that people could just access
Speaker 5: directly right and that is going to be on both
Speaker 5: switch and phone or Switch and mobile.
Speaker 4: It's not out yet. Okay, otherwise that would have been
Speaker 4: the game this week that takes over my life.
Speaker 5: But they did promise that that will be the way
Speaker 5: that they do the battle mode, at least for Pokemon
Speaker 5: Champion Ships twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Six in SF.
Speaker 4: So I'm hoping and I'm wondering if there is going
Speaker 4: to be an actual, like organized spectator mode, because that
Speaker 4: has always been lacking in the actual games. If you're
Speaker 4: trying to if you're trying to do a tournament, you
Speaker 4: have to show someone unless you are Nintendo or Pokemon proper,
Speaker 4: you have to show someone's gameplay. And in that process, uh,
Speaker 4: there is the likelihood that you're showing off this person's
Speaker 4: decision making process in what moves they're making. And I'm
Speaker 4: going to trust some VGC players that they don't haven't like,
Speaker 4: looked at the other person's screen while this is happening,
Speaker 4: But big news for people like Seawan and I. Also,
Speaker 4: I want Sean and I to take replays of VGC
Speaker 4: matches and commentate over them. I want to be the Yeah,
Speaker 4: we could SHOUTcast that. I want to be there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I digress, cleft key Jones over here. All right, Well,
Speaker 4: so you're back in Huh, you just know you're back
Speaker 4: again yet? Okay, all right, I wouldn't say I thought
Speaker 4: you were out.
Speaker 1: That sounded it's when I when you know Ken want
Speaker 1: and Abe let them fight. I'm in.
Speaker 2: But I.
Speaker 4: Have like ten percent interest in Pokemon LEGENDSZA like I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't care for it. I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't need to roam around fake Paris. I've already
Speaker 4: done that in Expedition thirty.
Speaker 5: Three PlayStation will reportedly hold its regular September state of
Speaker 5: play this year.
Speaker 3: US said that why Moron would suggest such a thing?
Speaker 5: Uh, that's according to Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Gramo. Well shit,
Speaker 5: God damn it. I didn't know that was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: They've had a state of play every September for like
Speaker 5: the last six years or something like that. I forgot that.
Speaker 5: So when I heard, like, yeah, that sounds right, but yes,
Speaker 5: it does sound right, I I think, like, how do
Speaker 5: I set expectations for this? I don't know everything that's
Speaker 5: going to be in there, I think, but like, like,
Speaker 5: to me, it feels like the biggest game could be
Speaker 5: in there from Sony itself. It's maybe that God of
Speaker 5: War spin off that was supposed to come out this year.
Speaker 5: That's not next year on the two D Metroid Vanua one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now there there always could be the Corey Barlog game
Speaker 5: that could that could show up here.
Speaker 1: It feels too early.
Speaker 5: There could be a bunch of other like, Uhny Sony
Speaker 5: Santa Monica's game probably is gonna be like the next
Speaker 5: really really big one if it's not U Wolverine. The
Speaker 5: Wolverine also feels like it's way too early. The second
Speaker 5: maybe maybe next year, maybe the year after that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: what would so in Somniak would be Wolverine.
Speaker 3: Right, unless they're doing that Venom thing. I mean, we
Speaker 3: got to see more about Heretic.
Speaker 1: Yeah so Venom.
Speaker 5: I I just don't. I don't think Venom's like not happening,
Speaker 5: but I don't know if it's happening next Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't. I just don't. It's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be a stay to play.
Speaker 3: I don't know how excited people the big Fair Games showcase, right, Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: That's I didn't include that news. Oh no, I didn't
Speaker 1: include that news.
Speaker 5: Fair Games is now the latest live service shooter cancelation.
Speaker 5: If Michael Pactor is to be believed.
Speaker 3: I didn't actually even know. I was not trying to
Speaker 3: do the seguay.
Speaker 1: Below this to compile the news you liear, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Michael Pactor is not to be believed.
Speaker 1: The game is not canceled yet.
Speaker 5: But when I ask about this game, there's definitely like
Speaker 5: a sort of like, yeah, man, I don't know why
Speaker 5: it's canceled or not canceled yet either, like sort of thing. Uh,
Speaker 5: there's definitely a suggestion I think that had this game
Speaker 5: not been publicly announced, they probably would have scrapped it
Speaker 5: by now. It's that embarrassment that I think it might
Speaker 5: just be embarrassment that's keeping them going. I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's for sure. I really have no clue if
Speaker 5: that's exactly what's going on, but it's definitely the sense
Speaker 5: I get when I when I ask around about it.
Speaker 1: We'll see does fair Games show up at any like?
Speaker 5: I don't think they show because their Fair Games is
Speaker 5: one that just got new leadership as well, like Jade
Speaker 5: Raymonds left. They probably want to let that cook for.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 2: All yeah, bringing the closer quick update on a game
Speaker 2: I talked about earlier. Sort of the c I just
Speaker 2: realize is on ps plus today.
Speaker 5: Oh cool, okay, all right, yead.
Speaker 2: Check it out on pslus.
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing that, Dan Mark.
Speaker 2: Also all right, I got your codes too, so oh
Speaker 2: you're sit.
Speaker 5: Wow wow, all right, last handful of stories here. The
Speaker 5: next Resident Evil remakes are, according to a rumor, code
Speaker 5: Veronica and zero, and they'll come out in twenty twenty
Speaker 5: seven and twenty twenty eight. Although the person who had
Speaker 5: the rumor, who is that dust skullen person who has
Speaker 5: had accurate Capcom information before also had some stuff wrong before,
Speaker 5: who knows? This sounds right to me? I would certainly
Speaker 5: hope that's the case, and I hope it would be
Speaker 5: code Veronica in twenty twenty seven and then zero in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Uh. I'm we probably don't get these get news about
Speaker 1: this for a little bit.
Speaker 5: They're still get focused on nine. But nine is like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's the thirtieth anniversary. Yes, the thirtieth anniversary of Resident Evil. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so I think I think they'll want to like carry
Speaker 5: that momentum forward and be like, Okay, nine's here and
Speaker 5: this is still the dirtith anniversary. Here's other reasons to
Speaker 5: be excited for what's happening next year. And maybe they
Speaker 5: start talking about these games, but you guys can't think
Speaker 5: of any other resiing over games that should be remade
Speaker 5: before this, right, you shouldn't be five.
Speaker 3: And zero more.
Speaker 5: I break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, They're going to do a remake of one
Speaker 3: again at some point, sure, but I kind of want
Speaker 3: them to do that after they have exhausted all the
Speaker 3: other ones.
Speaker 2: Yes, I want Code Veronica and then like zero. If
Speaker 2: they can make zero good, yeah, I think is the
Speaker 2: reason to do this. If they give remake treatment like
Speaker 2: that could be awesome.
Speaker 1: Fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah co Veronica though, because they they've technically already skipped
Speaker 3: over that one when they went from three to four,
Speaker 3: because Coverroonica did happen in between those, So I think
Speaker 3: going back to that right now would be great. And
Speaker 3: that's a game that you know, was really like well
Speaker 3: like at the time. I think some people say it's
Speaker 3: aged a bit because that was the first one that
Speaker 3: didn't have the pre rendered backgrounds, least of the main
Speaker 3: line games. So some of that looks kind of a
Speaker 3: little maybe a little ugly now, especially if you compair
Speaker 3: from other games of that quote unquote generation, like the
Speaker 3: look of Coveronica compared to that Resuval one remake is
Speaker 3: kind of a difference of leagues.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think with both of these they can do a
Speaker 3: ton and I would love to get both of them.
Speaker 1: Uh and then and I please. I talked to someone
Speaker 1: last night actually about how the RI four remake was
Speaker 1: their first experience with Residue before cool and because they're
Speaker 1: because they're twenty years old, right right, Uh. And I
Speaker 1: just found that to be amazing. And I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know what, Like that's it's just great. It's great you
Speaker 1: can talk about the same kind of experience with that game.
Speaker 1: I think that's the magic is that all those moments
Speaker 1: are like magically carried over, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And I think, uh, And it's like, yeah, there's really
Speaker 1: no reason for this person. They're like the two thousand
Speaker 1: and fours.
Speaker 5: Play the Wei versions.
Speaker 4: Yeah you think so, Jen, maybe the Wei version or
Speaker 4: if like they have a VR helmet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. It's like, especially answer just recently
Speaker 1: finishing it. It's like tough to crack. But I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if the appetite is there, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it needs to be. I think that's just
Speaker 1: kind of so special about these remakes and just uh,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Great because they don't necessarily replace the originals because they
Speaker 3: are so different. But also they kind of, you know,
Speaker 3: they can I'm not going to I think they can. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like like for me, it's like, yeah, I think you
Speaker 3: can still play Resident Evil too on the PlayStation one.
Speaker 3: That's still a really interesting, a cool experience, but it's
Speaker 3: Notbody was twenty. I would you have to play both
Speaker 3: of them? No, play for remake. You'll have a great time.
Speaker 1: And it also be like, how am I meant to
Speaker 1: even do that? Old man?
Speaker 3: Like, have you heard of retro archy? Install a Yahoo searching?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, you know, look like go steal a
Speaker 1: game cube. I don't know, like get the game. Like no,
Speaker 1: that that's just not a realistic or reasonable thing to
Speaker 1: ask of someone who's.
Speaker 3: Uh plus a streams so freaking Resilo Remake is one
Speaker 3: of the best games I have a resuble to. Remake
Speaker 3: is one of the best games ever. They've been doing
Speaker 3: such a good job with them.
Speaker 2: I can finally finish the story with Code Veronica because
Speaker 2: I did the thing where I hard locked myself out
Speaker 2: of progressing. Oh really, that is the reason that I
Speaker 2: have like nine hundred save files every time I play
Speaker 2: a game. Now, oh now I can finally beat it.
Speaker 1: Do you learn something real that's taught you something?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What do you think Resident Evil seven is going to
Speaker 4: look like down the line when it gets remastered? Because
Speaker 4: way down the line, right, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Guess it's twenty years away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at the least, like games from what what's the
Speaker 3: year we have to have? Twenty sixteen and forward? Is
Speaker 3: this kind of like games don't actually look.
Speaker 1: That much better that I always point.
Speaker 3: I think that's you know, seven is a little bit
Speaker 3: past that. So I'm sure there's things they can do.
Speaker 5: Well, we already had last of us. It's not always
Speaker 5: about like what can they do? It's about can they
Speaker 5: make more money by reselling it? So they'll come up
Speaker 5: with something to do.
Speaker 4: Now, Capcom get ready to cut the check here, d makes.
Speaker 2: Okay, sure didn't that with Dark Void?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 1: Do that?
Speaker 4: Ye?
Speaker 1: Make a PS one version of Red seven? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, that's incredible.
Speaker 3: Do that for Resident Evil six? Right, just take a
Speaker 3: contra like.
Speaker 1: Actually on board. My gut tells me the audience for
Speaker 1: that is not as large as you. But yeah, the resid.
Speaker 5: Evil audience though, is big enough to like justify that
Speaker 5: a couple of times. It can't be like it's not
Speaker 5: gonna sell it res evil fucking four No, no way,
Speaker 5: all right, Jeff, back of our's most anticipated game, that
Speaker 5: new Jurassic Park Survival. Uh that that your es Uh
Speaker 5: it's a survival here? I think, yes, Trespasser too.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: They did it behind the scenes on this just kind
Speaker 5: of confirming that game is still happening. They're pretty excited
Speaker 5: about it from all the way that they're talking in there.
Speaker 1: They had people from.
Speaker 5: Universal being like, this is this is it? This is
Speaker 5: the real Jurassic Park game. It takes place a day
Speaker 5: after the first Jurassic Park movie. You play as a
Speaker 5: scientist and you're trying to escape, and it just it
Speaker 5: looks pretty promising.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 5: It's called survival. I apologize, Jeff, it happens. I was
Speaker 5: like not sure as well as I was saying it
Speaker 5: and reading it here on my screen.
Speaker 1: Wait, why is this my anticipator?
Speaker 3: You were you were a funny guddy when they revealed
Speaker 3: this game.
Speaker 1: You were like we were all like that looks pretty cool,
Speaker 1: and Becker was like it was kind of har I'm
Speaker 1: the Jurassic Park guy, right, but the frame rate wasn't
Speaker 1: up to your seat.
Speaker 5: It was like and they got like dropped in a
Speaker 5: couple of things. You're like, Nope, that's trash, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: I mean look, it didn't look great. Hopefully they'll be
Speaker 5: able to pull it up, pull together. This is another
Speaker 5: Saber joint. They're doing a ton stuff. We talked about
Speaker 5: that every time I bring this up. But they're doing
Speaker 5: tur Rock, They're doing that that new game that I'm
Speaker 5: excited about about about Docking where you're yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know that kind that kind too, Mike, Yeah, sure,
Speaker 5: doing the Nights, the Old Republic remake they're doing. Yes,
Speaker 5: they're the ones that took that over. There's a bunch
Speaker 5: of others as well.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: So they're doing that Hell Razor game that's not an
Speaker 5: asymmetrical multiplayer game. It is a straight up like survival
Speaker 5: action horror game.
Speaker 1: Uh. And they're doing the same thing with drask Park.
Speaker 1: I hope it's good. This seems I'm excited for it.
Speaker 3: I think it looks really neat.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: Last thing here, as we get done, games Com will
Speaker 5: just be going on Opening Night Live is gonna get start.
Speaker 5: We're going to talk over that, so I'm not I'm
Speaker 5: not sure like we should be doing any sort of
Speaker 5: predictions or whatever. Let's do like one last like, hey,
Speaker 5: do you have any hopes or dreams for what you
Speaker 5: want to see from games Com? And then we'll get
Speaker 5: to see really fast if it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: I hope a game comes out on Mikey's birthday and
Speaker 4: he can task that.
Speaker 5: That'd be sure. Yeah, I just turned to some I'd
Speaker 5: be like, that's my birthday.
Speaker 3: This is and I'm not expecting it, but this is
Speaker 3: kind of my almost my last hope for foun Fantasy
Speaker 3: nine remake. We'll see.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm pulling for you, rooting for you, Randy,
Speaker 1: legitimate thing, Randy Pitchford will show up. I think you're right.
Speaker 3: You had the freaking yeah with the Peter maulin New
Speaker 3: Jump Scare last year.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, God, all right, I hope he's back with Gottess two,
Speaker 5: Curious thank you, Yes, Curiosity Cube, Curiosity Tube. There we go,
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Speaker 1: All right, Jan that it for that line. I'm handing
Speaker 1: it over to you and yours fantastic. We're going to
Speaker 1: take a quick bricky break and we will be back
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Speaker 4: First email of the show alla gbzibotsu. In line of
Speaker 4: recent and upcoming video game to movie adaptations, a movie
Speaker 4: podcaster I follow declared he was going to make his
Speaker 4: own return to video games after twenty five years away
Speaker 4: by playing to completion Death Stranding and Elden Ring, which
Speaker 4: are are, obviously and hilariously two of the worst games
Speaker 4: to pick up to try and get back into video
Speaker 4: games after a long time away. What are other terrible
Speaker 4: ways are there to get back into the passion of yours?
Speaker 4: Jan worst way to get into coffee Minati, worst theme
Speaker 4: park rider attraction backalar Are there any experts only pinball
Speaker 4: experts only pinball table? Other examples of hobbies? Love the show,
Speaker 4: Love you all, Mike from Loveland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the worst uh traction you can do
Speaker 3: to get back into theme parks is that Spider Man
Speaker 3: ride in California Adventures. So bad he just kind of
Speaker 3: move in front of screens and you're forced to do
Speaker 3: like this motion over and over.
Speaker 5: Wow, too much happens on the screen. I did that
Speaker 5: and it just made me mad. That ride I just
Speaker 5: had was having a bad time on there. I woul
Speaker 5: say real quick. I don't think Alden Ring is a
Speaker 5: bad choice for someone to get back into games. There
Speaker 5: are enough people that are like, again, I don't ever
Speaker 5: use this pejoratively, that are casual about games that just
Speaker 5: have spent like five thousand hours in Elder Ring. It's
Speaker 5: all they do, and they're like and there're people are
Speaker 5: just like, this is I don't know, that's the one
Speaker 5: game I play that it's video games to me, there's
Speaker 5: something about it that I think would be a really
Speaker 5: good thing for like to teach someone like this is
Speaker 5: what video games can be now and you can get
Speaker 5: completely lost in there, which I think what people want
Speaker 5: when they come to games after a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like souls games have become like a subset of
Speaker 4: streamers as well. Yeah, and just content creators of like
Speaker 4: no I only specifically do games of this style.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the chat's got Yeah, Tarkoff. Tarkoff would be a
Speaker 5: bad one to try if you were trying to get
Speaker 5: back in the game.
Speaker 1: Daisy, Daisy, Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The worst way to get into coffee is used just
Speaker 4: start by roasting your own straight off the bat, and
Speaker 4: you don't know what flavors to look for or how
Speaker 4: to you know, uh, properly extract a good.
Speaker 1: Roast, or or just putting the whole beans in the filter. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be the worst possible way.
Speaker 2: And a bad way to get back into running after
Speaker 2: taking a winter off is yeah, to run to just
Speaker 2: start marathon training after not running for several months. That's
Speaker 2: a great way to get injured and not be able
Speaker 2: to run, So don't do that.
Speaker 5: The worst way to get into Star Wars is to
Speaker 5: watch any Star Wars content right now. It's mostly pretty bad,
Speaker 5: so yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, feels like people mostly agree that like pinball in
Speaker 1: the seventies was bad. You know, I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but I guess there's really nothing that's sort of like
Speaker 1: with the test of time there eighties is eighties. You know,
Speaker 1: a really bad game is the is the Mario Brothers
Speaker 1: pinball game. That game sucks. The game sucks. But no,
Speaker 1: it's like it's generalized.
Speaker 3: Yellow.
Speaker 1: Now I think it's a green and blue.
Speaker 3: There is a yellow one, I remember, Jans.
Speaker 1: I want to say it's got like mostly a super
Speaker 1: Mario world sort of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, backler, I'll see it on Facebook Marketplace every once
Speaker 2: in a while and be tempted just because oh man,
Speaker 2: that'd be a cool thing to have, and then like
Speaker 2: it's no.
Speaker 1: That's just the slanted coffee table for you, buddy.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's this blue one looks like it's based
Speaker 5: on three Yeah yeah around then I always whenever I
Speaker 5: see that in the wild, I'm just oh no, now
Speaker 5: I see the one with Yoshi Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Whenever I see in the wild, I'm just like fuck that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that for me. You know, there's there's just
Speaker 1: just because it has a good theme doesn't mean it's
Speaker 1: a good game. Yep, all right.
Speaker 4: Next email comes from Jeff in Quebec. Hey, gang, why
Speaker 4: is there so many games featuring spooky skeletons rolling around
Speaker 4: a giant wooden wheel like Axle from Twisted Metal?
Speaker 2: That is so that's not right.
Speaker 4: That is so fucking specific, not really mentioned another media yet.
Speaker 4: I oh there, Dan goes and bam there they are.
Speaker 4: What other common enemy types? Would you ban from any
Speaker 4: and all future games? Because I mean we've seen it
Speaker 4: all by enough by now, Jeff from Quebec.
Speaker 1: Dam are you just trying to prove to us that
Speaker 1: Axl's wheel is not wooden?
Speaker 5: We know that's not.
Speaker 2: Wooden and he's not a skeleton.
Speaker 3: Were talking that's under all that flesh or that's not
Speaker 3: that's a man, that's not a skeleton.
Speaker 4: Well, also in Dan's defense, Axel has two keys an axle, right,
Speaker 4: and he has two wheels versus the one skeleton wheel.
Speaker 1: That's just doing like weird cartwheels.
Speaker 3: Okay, now wait a second, I think what I think
Speaker 3: we're misreading here? Why do so many games features speak
Speaker 3: skeletons rolling around a giant wooden wheel. We're rowing around
Speaker 3: in the style of actual Axel is not an example
Speaker 3: the enemy type here from Dark Souls.
Speaker 1: You know, the real question is are Axel's hands not
Speaker 1: inside the wheels?
Speaker 2: No twitch, meddle two ending. You gotta be careful what
Speaker 2: you ask Clipso for.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, okay, never mind, so be careful.
Speaker 3: I think it's just don't ask him for anything because
Speaker 3: they'll always just make it a bad thing.
Speaker 2: I just don't enter the Twist Metal tournament.
Speaker 3: It's a bad idea. Yeah. Enemy archetypes just like a
Speaker 3: ball that every once in a while it has spikes
Speaker 3: come out of it, So like, be careful when the
Speaker 3: spikes come out. There's always those guys they get a
Speaker 3: wreck with spikes the skeleton now great, Oh no, what
Speaker 3: do you mean me talking about that's very kid.
Speaker 2: I stopped myself from saying this earlier. I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: say it. I did not realize the actual thing was
Speaker 2: a play on a wheel act. Oh, like the vehicle
Speaker 2: star was like Axe Rose his name is that?
Speaker 3: Sure? Doesn't?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: That's okay, Yeah, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 2: You were like seven, But I don't think about cars ever.
Speaker 3: So it's better than during the War of the World's
Speaker 3: watch along thing when you were like, how are they
Speaker 3: able to just do this? That that Tom Cruise movie
Speaker 3: wasn't that long ago? They could just make another one.
Speaker 2: You were confused about the fair side public domain?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very public domain.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I look forward to Giant Bomb's take on War of
Speaker 4: the World's coming to a streaming service that is our own.
Speaker 3: On Baby, I'll call you back. I got on a
Speaker 3: Zoom call, I got a Microsoft team's call with the president.
Speaker 3: Can you enjoy that.
Speaker 4: Quick show like going around the table? Where's the last
Speaker 4: time you like? Facetimed or video called a friend or
Speaker 4: a relative?
Speaker 3: A lot of holidays, Yeah, I was doing a lot
Speaker 3: of them during the zoom or the pandemic. My friends,
Speaker 3: they're even more boomers than me. They were doing Skype
Speaker 3: calls during.
Speaker 1: All of that.
Speaker 3: Sleep is still around, it's not anymore, it's what are
Speaker 3: we gone? They're all like, what do you mean skype Scott?
Speaker 3: When I told them and I tried to explain discord
Speaker 3: to them, I don't know if it's really gone.
Speaker 1: I think Skype turned into teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's gone.
Speaker 5: Man really knows what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Huh h Yeah, every my every Sunday, my life, you know,
Speaker 1: face times with her mom. Okay, that's how people talk.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, Jan, I'm just not a facetimer.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't want to that is a phone talker.
Speaker 1: I think that's the dominating sort of way that people communicate.
Speaker 4: Now, Like I'll chatting like I love a good phone call,
Speaker 4: you know, but like I just don't want to look
Speaker 4: at someone's face.
Speaker 1: I hear you.
Speaker 4: Also, like I get self conscious of like am I
Speaker 4: holding the phone too low that it looks unflattering for me?
Speaker 4: So then I have to like hold it up like that.
Speaker 4: I don't want to think about that all.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Next email comes from let's skip around here, so we
Speaker 4: have some time before games come. Evie May writes in
Speaker 4: Hey Duders, my girlfriend and I watched a really interesting
Speaker 4: movie tonight called Under the Silver Lake. It's David Robert
Speaker 4: Mitchell's blank Check follow up to it follows it flopped
Speaker 4: and it reviewed incredibly mixed.
Speaker 1: So why should you watch it?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: Giant bomb?
Speaker 4: It's because it features a Nintendo Power magazine as a
Speaker 4: plot point, has Disasterpiece as the composer, and if that
Speaker 4: connection to FES wasn't enough, features tons of cryptography. Also,
Speaker 4: it is heavily inspired by David Lynch. If that's not enough,
Speaker 4: Andrew Garfield is pretty hot in it, despite playing kind
Speaker 4: of a sleezeball check it out. If you do, I'd
Speaker 4: love to hear your thoughts. Would make for a great
Speaker 4: discussion too, if you need a content justification.
Speaker 1: Love y'all. May I've heard of it? Sil is that?
Speaker 1: Is that the movie Under the Silver Lake? Under this?
Speaker 1: Under under the Silver Lake? Okay, uh, okay, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: check that out. Uh.
Speaker 4: We only review terrible movies on this God.
Speaker 3: You're what I like about War of the Worlds?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 3: Surprisingly not a very violent movie. Did any of the
Speaker 3: face and does any character of lines die in. Yes.
Speaker 5: So here's the thing about that, Mike, is when I
Speaker 5: was watching that movie, I might have been a little high.
Speaker 5: And and so the night a minute movie felt like
Speaker 5: five hours. And it's still a good way. And so
Speaker 5: as the movie's progressing, if I'm like with you, Mike,
Speaker 5: I'm like, this is not too like in your face
Speaker 5: or anything.
Speaker 1: And then there's the scene where the pregnant lady is
Speaker 1: bleeding out.
Speaker 5: It's so visceral and and insane and they're just showing
Speaker 5: it all and I'm like, I can't handle this.
Speaker 1: I don't even real I don't even think it's like rated.
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's like I'm rating.
Speaker 5: Doesn't know about this one.
Speaker 3: There is just the one non sexual fuck right. That's
Speaker 3: how I think I know the rating.
Speaker 5: Those action scenes him just move bitsch get out the way,
Speaker 5: and I'm kind of like tumbling over.
Speaker 1: It's so incredible.
Speaker 2: The dolly zoom on a zoom call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was.
Speaker 3: God uh like when was it?
Speaker 1: Hold on? One second?
Speaker 4: Okay, two years ago, in my email box, I got
Speaker 4: a film premiere invitation that we we should have just done.
Speaker 4: I should have just shared it with a gang at
Speaker 4: the time, but it was for eighty for Brady.
Speaker 3: Oh you mentioned this before?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we man, we should have gone to that
Speaker 4: great was.
Speaker 1: That where people were like all the old Grandma's tom
Speaker 1: rita Moreno, not y Ripley.
Speaker 2: Who's the.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah yeah right from Cheers? No, yeah, yes, Danny
Speaker 5: DeVito's yeah, okay cool?
Speaker 4: But god, how hilarious would have been if like the
Speaker 4: five of us showed up to a red carpet thing.
Speaker 4: You know, We've talked about movies a bunch, but the
Speaker 4: premiere we get to go to is for eighty for Brady.
Speaker 3: I would love that Mouse is here, John Mouse. I'd
Speaker 3: make him a big fan. Said it home Fire, which
Speaker 3: part specifically Mickey, I'll do anything for you, the one
Speaker 3: with the children, Mike, all right, Mickey, I'll burn them all.
Speaker 5: Just let me thank you.
Speaker 1: You know, opens part of this is a joke, but
Speaker 1: sometimes I think it's real.
Speaker 10: Is that the amount of weapons I think, I think
Speaker 10: when Mike, I think when Mike like interacts with something
Speaker 10: Mickey adjacent or Mickey, I think we're getting raw uncut Manati.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Place I'm steamboat Willy.
Speaker 3: Just to let you know it's okay, it's sorry, that's public.
Speaker 1: We're tapping a vain with him, and we put Willy
Speaker 1: in our war of the world do whatever we want
Speaker 1: to say. That's how we infect the Mother.
Speaker 2: The Pooh and Popeye.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's all these characters on zoom calls about aliens.
Speaker 1: Can be in there as well, and were a few
Speaker 1: years for the original back. Yeah, I called you, Jesus, Jesus,
Speaker 1: we can't.
Speaker 2: We need to kill Warren Batty if we want to
Speaker 2: get Dick Tracy rights.
Speaker 1: If I'm not sure the murderer of Warren Baby inherits
Speaker 1: his will. That's exactly how it works. Of the Dick
Speaker 1: Tracy eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Let's just wait it out. He's eighty eight.
Speaker 1: He again again upon his death the rights that Dick
Speaker 1: Tracy do not transfer. That's not anything.
Speaker 3: There can't possibly be a movie or character franchise that
Speaker 3: Zoomers care less about than Dick.
Speaker 1: If they watched it, they would Baldwin's The Shadow.
Speaker 2: They love that Tracy is fucking awesome about the Phantom.
Speaker 1: I love that movie. Im same for the saying, is
Speaker 1: what I say insane in the membrane Neurosis. You're right,
Speaker 1: Dick Tracy should be in Fortnite.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna say, look, I think it'd be deep,
Speaker 3: but you know they're at the tail end of characters
Speaker 3: that they haven't put in Fortnite yet.
Speaker 1: True, Mikey there, I don't know the cast of Cheers
Speaker 1: remains outside of the Fortnite.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we still need a sitcom pac right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It'll be friends.
Speaker 4: Seld Alf's not in fort like uh, Elaine's Little Kicks
Speaker 4: dance as an emo.
Speaker 3: Awful dance, right, that'd be so good.
Speaker 1: Just just Larry David as himself.
Speaker 4: Thinking you can't pick up a gun as Larry David,
Speaker 4: you just sort of do that faint is that face?
Speaker 2: The suspicious face?
Speaker 3: Like you know, I was thinking about you, and I
Speaker 3: saw the clip from Seinfeld where Putty was raw dogging
Speaker 3: an airplane and a lane broke up with him over it.
Speaker 3: It's good.
Speaker 4: Oh God, just give me the Putty pack. Every character
Speaker 4: that guy's ever played what's his name again, Patrick?
Speaker 3: I won him as the flight attendant who does the
Speaker 3: safety spiel for Soren.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, that character and Kroc and Kronk yes uh,
Speaker 4: and Lemony Snicket in a series of unfortunate events all right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I get rkle in there.
Speaker 3: The Ninetiesle would have been like number three.
Speaker 2: Bel Johnson in any form, No Reginald Bell Johnson always
Speaker 2: just a cop.
Speaker 3: Though you'll see that Erkle Saves Christmas came out like
Speaker 3: last year. What it's an animated special. I think no
Speaker 3: other Family Matters characters are in it. It's just about
Speaker 3: Steve Rkle saving Christmas. And I've gotta know what that is.
Speaker 2: Like hear me out Fortnite character Ernest.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, he would have been number five.
Speaker 1: This was the coach.
Speaker 4: It was maybe a little hell yeah, I was maybe
Speaker 4: a little young at the time when the show was
Speaker 4: actually airing, but was like Screech from Saved by the
Speaker 4: Bell a beloved character.
Speaker 2: Was circle uh like like yeah, he was must be
Speaker 2: more annoying. Ercle was more lovable. I think Dustin Diamond
Speaker 2: just put a little stink on screen.
Speaker 4: Was after the.
Speaker 3: What about Juughhead? What can we get some archie characters?
Speaker 4: Archerdale, Mike, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: None of this edgy reboot stuff where freaking Mindy dies
Speaker 3: at the end of season two. I want like good
Speaker 3: old fashion going down to the soda shop. Veronica, who
Speaker 3: knows was better for you? It's it's Betty, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I want.
Speaker 2: That always a Veronica guy aunt Becky from full House
Speaker 2: in Fortnite, go to jail.
Speaker 1: You could use the money, yeah, oh no, yes, yeah
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 3: Don't feel too bad, just for a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a little time.
Speaker 1: A fraud too, was just a little jail was fraud?
Speaker 3: Or she was bribing people to get her kids into
Speaker 3: good school.
Speaker 1: It was that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically it was whose.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Last crush ever, the last two emails of the show.
Speaker 4: This one comes from Rock from Spokane, I know it's
Speaker 4: Spokane to the bomb Boobers. I have a story of
Speaker 4: a video game helping me get a job. I applied
Speaker 4: to be a box truck driver for the local newspaper.
Speaker 4: This was in twenty nineteen, and yes, I was also
Speaker 4: surprised they were still around anyway. When I first drove
Speaker 4: the truck with my boss, he was telling me to
Speaker 4: break a turn wide while I was already in the
Speaker 4: middle of said wide turn. He was surprised at how
Speaker 4: fast I picked it up and told him that I
Speaker 4: played a lot of your truck simulator too. He was
Speaker 4: impressed with the entire drive and I got the job
Speaker 4: despite running a forklift into a wall later that day.
Speaker 1: My question is the opposite.
Speaker 4: Is there anything you experienced in a video game that
Speaker 4: was totally different in real life. I just got a
Speaker 4: beginner's lock picking set, and it's very different from Skyrim, obviously,
Speaker 4: but there's lots of different types of walks, and it
Speaker 4: seems insane that an area the size of a video
Speaker 4: game would all have the same size, same blocks, and
Speaker 4: he would use the same technique for each one. Cheers
Speaker 4: Rock from Spokane.
Speaker 5: I had a friend when I worked at Subway when
Speaker 5: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was huge, as like when it
Speaker 5: was first huge, and he because everyone was like so
Speaker 5: into skateboarding because Tony Hawk, he wanted to learn how
Speaker 5: to skateboard and he was trying to do like he
Speaker 5: was trying, like he got pretty okay, but he like
Speaker 5: never shook the Tony Hawk like foundation to the point
Speaker 5: where even when he was doing kickflips, you could still
Speaker 5: see his hand doing the the input motion for the controller,
Speaker 5: Like he was in his brain like still doing kickflips
Speaker 5: and how does that even work? They're so unrelated, but
Speaker 5: he just like that's that, yeah, he did. I think
Speaker 5: he just connected these motions in his head, and that's
Speaker 5: how he learned how.
Speaker 2: To skateboard, trying to flip into manuals.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't think this is helping, but uh yeah he
Speaker 5: kept doing it all sports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I played a billion games of NBA
Speaker 2: jan before I joined like a basketball team, and it's
Speaker 2: just it's.
Speaker 4: Not like that.
Speaker 1: But you got handles we saw in the travel, Yeah
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Grinding is not the same like it is in video games,
Speaker 4: specifically with your shoes or feet. I remember buying soap
Speaker 4: shoes as a kid, thinking like, I'm just gonna be
Speaker 4: like Sonic a ratchet and clank. No, I fucking ate
Speaker 4: it big time on a curb.
Speaker 1: I mean, not to blow everyone's mind, but uh, pretty
Speaker 1: much everything Yeah, everything, okay, Like nothing translates aside from
Speaker 1: like sudoku and maybe poker, and it's just like like
Speaker 1: it is in Final Fantasy.
Speaker 3: I had a casino game for the nes. It turns
Speaker 3: out slot machines do just work.
Speaker 1: Like that, you know, Like what is There's nothing easy
Speaker 1: in real life? Nothing is easy.
Speaker 3: Fishing is both a lot like actual fishing and not
Speaker 3: like it at all. Right, video games the real fishing.
Speaker 2: Powerwash, so sure, pretty close.
Speaker 1: Way easier in game.
Speaker 2: What Yeah, yeah, no, I bought a powerwasher after getting
Speaker 2: into that game and used it one time and fucked
Speaker 2: up my driveway and then sold it.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, you're fucking destroyed your driving.
Speaker 2: And sold the house. Well, the driveways.
Speaker 1: Destroyed, vi as, we'll sell the house. No way to
Speaker 1: fix that.
Speaker 4: A game about digging a hole. Digging a hole is
Speaker 4: actually very hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can can't buy a jetpack very easily. It
Speaker 3: turns out grade one.
Speaker 1: You know, being a mosquito in a game easier than
Speaker 1: being one in real life.
Speaker 5: Lord knows, we've tried.
Speaker 3: Oh, you know, playing ye playing a guitar, right, there's
Speaker 3: a guitar hero than you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the drum stuff translates somewhat, yeah,
Speaker 1: rhythm borrow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: Last email of the show before we get the super
Speaker 4: chats comes from Andreas from Speed and High BombCast. Due
Speaker 4: to time zones, I'm rarely awake to watch and comment live,
Speaker 4: but this is something I thought you absolutely needed to
Speaker 4: be aware of after I heard you talking about how
Speaker 4: there should be a third person mode for Trespaster. The
Speaker 4: player model is actually just what you see in the game.
Speaker 4: A pair of breasts and an arm, and it's attached
Speaker 4: to a wheel hit box that is that basically rides
Speaker 4: on to make you move because of how the engine works.
Speaker 4: This is also why going upstairs feels weird. You're basically
Speaker 4: riding a unicycle. Hope this sound likes Andreas from Sweden.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dan, Dan sent me video of so I'm going
Speaker 5: to third person mode and having the character fall down
Speaker 5: a hill and it's just a two D plane of
Speaker 5: boobs and an arm, like just tumbling over for five
Speaker 5: minutes straight.
Speaker 1: It ruled my dream.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm that what we all.
Speaker 3: Want so excited for you to play more of than tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You gotta fight.
Speaker 3: You're looking for a key now hours.
Speaker 5: See I'm looking for a blue key and people are like,
Speaker 5: this could take five minutes or five hours, Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I guess I didn't think about the fact that we
Speaker 5: didn't not have any idea where that key was.
Speaker 3: You're like the whole abandoned town, right, it'll.
Speaker 2: Be easier to defend it.
Speaker 5: That's right. I know where a turd is now. Man,
Speaker 5: that is a weird game.
Speaker 4: All right, Mike Minatti, do we have any YouTube super chests?
Speaker 3: Do have super chests?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 3: So much everybody. Avid Demon says Love Want a Leash
Speaker 3: is so much better than War of the World's isn't
Speaker 3: even close. Love Want a Leash has hearts. War the
Speaker 3: World's has bez. I don't know how to say his names.
Speaker 3: Money Lady had to pay her actors with want thoughts. Look,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't want to have to play this card,
Speaker 3: but like, Love Want a Leash has as a gay
Speaker 3: joke in the first two minutes, right, one of the
Speaker 3: first jokes is that, no, it's just that the dogs
Speaker 3: being picked by a guy and the dogs like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, not you, I'm not gay.
Speaker 5: Come on.
Speaker 3: A lot of things there.
Speaker 2: Watch when that joke happens, and he just screamed.
Speaker 3: That's right. I think that was the most Jeff grub
Speaker 3: I ever found. Actually, just three after that lie, I
Speaker 3: think that Love Out a Lash's is actually a I
Speaker 3: think they're both so bad that they're fun to watch. Well,
Speaker 3: Alsh is a grosser movie than what was even with
Speaker 3: all the Amazon bullshit, which is gross and bad. Sure
Speaker 3: Side from Saskatchewan says is Mike taking food off your
Speaker 3: families with his draconian mug policy. Thoughts on Flyback Lar
Speaker 3: in the latest Pickle Draft All Timer Pickle Draft episode.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry what you should watch that?
Speaker 1: It's really really really good?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah they could pick the draft. Shout out for
Speaker 3: the amazing work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike's sucking us on this.
Speaker 5: This is our money that he's Yeah, like I still
Speaker 5: direct family next time he's out of town.
Speaker 1: We are just gonna go in that store and put
Speaker 1: a mug up and make don't you dare?
Speaker 4: I don't know how hard this is to do, but
Speaker 4: a big thing in a bunch of different groups of
Speaker 4: fans lately are picture cards, right, not trading cards, but
Speaker 4: picture cards. The kpop people love this, Mike, Is it
Speaker 4: possible to have like a little wallet sized photo a
Speaker 4: randomized photo of one of us in each order?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Interesting? Sting?
Speaker 1: No? Oh well?
Speaker 3: Next up here is from Simon Again. It says you
Speaker 3: should make sitcom intro videos from seventies and nineties songs.
Speaker 3: I think it should just still be that last action,
Speaker 3: the Great American hero song right walking on?
Speaker 4: Eh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that one that's so good, the one that George
Speaker 3: stands and made is is a Machine?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I only know it from the believe it or not.
Speaker 1: George isn't at home.
Speaker 3: I think I told you guys that I record a
Speaker 3: version of that from my family. That was our answering
Speaker 3: machine thing for like my entire life.
Speaker 4: I need to hear you say that to know that
Speaker 4: that's absolutely Next time all of us are in San Francisco,
Speaker 4: we should remake the Full House opening.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah's gone.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's the one.
Speaker 3: Wait. Was there was that Family Matters show? Yeah, to
Speaker 3: realize you said predictability there, I thought it was just
Speaker 3: kind of mumbling.
Speaker 5: There's no lyrics. That's what Lyn though.
Speaker 3: You know what if you ever seen because when they
Speaker 3: did Full House, they shot Upontot with a different person
Speaker 3: being Danny Tanner, and they filmed the intro to and
Speaker 3: that's the weird part to see. It's like there's the
Speaker 3: intro literally the car and the zoom out on the
Speaker 3: going and gate bridge and it's just some other guys.
Speaker 1: Like it. Yeah, who is it Barack Obama? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they call him black Danny Tanner.
Speaker 3: It's very uncomfortable, right, yeah, but it's it's like it's
Speaker 3: literally if you woke up with somebody else was pretend
Speaker 3: to be your mom and like try to give you
Speaker 3: a kiss. It's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I don't like seeing it.
Speaker 5: I do feel the same way about Bob Saggat that
Speaker 5: I feel about my mother.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're right, I agree.
Speaker 3: Next up is from Beard Beardsley says instant early Access
Speaker 3: for racoin What have you done to me?
Speaker 1: Jan? I'm sorry, I gotta take everyone else down with me.
Speaker 3: I want to downloaded it. I'm really into it.
Speaker 1: I like wet.
Speaker 5: We had that fun coin pusher like arcade like you know,
Speaker 5: asset flip game that was a lot of fun. We
Speaker 5: should go check and see how they've been done on
Speaker 5: that because they keep updating it.
Speaker 3: A p FuG Or Fugue says, I want steep to
Speaker 3: what impossible sequel?
Speaker 1: Do you want? Kirby's Dream Course Too is the only
Speaker 1: one that I would love that.
Speaker 5: It's not impossible, but it seems impossible.
Speaker 4: Final Fantasy two.
Speaker 3: I want to Star Tropics three. I want a very
Speaker 3: modern triple a Star Tropic like a Breath of the wildlike,
Speaker 3: but with Star Tropics. It will never happen, but it
Speaker 3: would rule anyone else. Dan the possible sequel, Yeah, not
Speaker 3: gonna happen, but you would love it.
Speaker 2: I say, whatever you're thinking, I was thinking twisted Metal.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not impossible, but it was rumored and
Speaker 2: like indevelopment, it just got canceled.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this show's doing well. I think I gotta be
Speaker 3: trying again right now with that show.
Speaker 1: Doing Yeah, yeah, isn't general like yes, really well, yeah
Speaker 1: there's a chance.
Speaker 2: Joe, Hell yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: But backwards you say it one? Are you you passing here?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I think the impossible one. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: have been impossible, and I do in the spirit of Steep,
Speaker 1: I do want like an S S X tricky two.
Speaker 3: That's so impossible, a big two, the whole new line. Yeah,
Speaker 3: how about that? Yeah, that's that's a good one.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with these companies?
Speaker 5: That's like, I know what, I know it's boomer and
Speaker 5: I know it's it's like cook to say it, but
Speaker 5: it's also true. It used to be better, Like it
Speaker 5: honestly used to be better. Yeah, we got games and
Speaker 5: like that's just monstrably better than what we get today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Next up here is from Grant and p We better
Speaker 3: get be Week again soon.
Speaker 5: Potato wearing the B Week shirt during the pizza. What
Speaker 5: was the name of the I'm sorry pizza, Pizza pizza.
Speaker 2: Watch go to kind of Funnies YouTube and watch us
Speaker 2: and Drew Scanlon and Rory and Pugtato and me and
Speaker 2: Mike take on kind of funny and make some I.
Speaker 5: Won't spoil anything, but I really enjoyed that video.
Speaker 1: It's really good.
Speaker 5: Well, i'll spoil that that was too much parmesan, Dan,
Speaker 5: but I'm just glad that you lived your truth.
Speaker 2: I just realized I thought it was just like the
Speaker 2: bass cheese and we.
Speaker 3: We can tell you're just like telling you and you
Speaker 3: weren't having your just like he's like, oh, that's not
Speaker 3: the right's like I like cheese.
Speaker 2: I thought he was telling me it was too much,
Speaker 2: and I was about to go into I'll tell you
Speaker 2: when I've had too.
Speaker 3: Much the wronges.
Speaker 1: Now it's Dan palmersan. I'm sorry, but yeah, yeah's awesome.
Speaker 2: It's weird.
Speaker 3: I think the Premier League started up again.
Speaker 5: Damn.
Speaker 3: We got to see how our Brentford Bees are doing.
Speaker 4: Beheads. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna have a golf Week soon.
Speaker 4: You will have the return of b Week either later
Speaker 4: this year or next year.
Speaker 3: Next up is from the McClain. He says eighty for
Speaker 3: Brady is a surprisingly fun They didn't specify a surprisingly
Speaker 3: fun what, but I'm gonna assume movie or time probably yeah,
Speaker 3: uh yeah, I put that movie is a nice watch, sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ten minutes of it or so. I like.
Speaker 3: I do like the genre of like old people having fun.
Speaker 1: Old old people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the genre and wild Hogs, guy, I kind of
Speaker 5: I kind of or Our Space Cowboys the Service.
Speaker 3: It makes me feel better about my own mortality.
Speaker 1: The geriatric cinema.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, Signs of Skatchewan's Backs, This Jan's right, Phantoms
Speaker 3: aged surprisingly well.
Speaker 5: Okay, wait, Phantoms, Phantom, the Phantom okay, the game of that. Yes,
Speaker 5: I feel like they did something like a cartoon like
Speaker 5: The Phantom twenty ninety nine.
Speaker 2: I'm just kind of picturing one of us on Blake
Speaker 2: Club wearing the Phantom suit and it's pretty fun.
Speaker 5: That's a funny and yeah okay.
Speaker 3: Next up here is from the Dubious Food. Hello, g unit,
Speaker 3: have any you've been watching the Twist and l TV show?
Speaker 3: I saw David Jaffi reference yesterday and went t he
Speaker 3: what was the reference? I wondered, did they just swear on?
Speaker 1: Oh god?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'll get to it eventually. I really like
Speaker 4: everyone on that show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard people like season two, maybe even more
Speaker 3: than that first one, which people were kind of surprised
Speaker 3: by how relatively good it was. And you here, people
Speaker 3: are seemed to be having a good time with it,
Speaker 3: which is shocking to me. Right when we were seeing
Speaker 3: the trailers for that, I think we were all dug
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: Trailers even on paper. It's a franchise that you just
Speaker 1: don't wouldn't think would work.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, yeah, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I love the characters in the story of the game,
Speaker 2: but I don't know just a I just experienced in
Speaker 2: the game pretty much. But it sounds good.
Speaker 3: Spencer Nations said, I learned how to play shoot drums
Speaker 3: from playing Rock Bitch. Yeah, I think you said it back.
Speaker 3: That is the one that is the one instrument in
Speaker 3: those games. Rock Band three added like a keyboard thing
Speaker 3: and that right, and then there's rock Smith from Ubisoft,
Speaker 3: the actual learning guitar, actual guitar.
Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, that's I think that's still a going
Speaker 5: concern they made long ago, because that's what I said,
Speaker 5: it was a new one that a guitar like really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, do you have a guitar to preview
Speaker 3: rocks Like, no, it was like, we'll send you.
Speaker 4: H DJ Hero was not a good Oh god, Mike,
Speaker 4: stop waving that around.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: DJ Hero is not a good way to actually learn
Speaker 4: how to DJ. But I think fuser can actually teach
Speaker 4: you some good fundamentals.
Speaker 3: Right, Oh sure, yeah, but boy, DJ Hero ruled got
Speaker 3: a fun game. And then uh, Tristan k W says,
Speaker 3: the demo for hellos Us came out big recommend Yeah.
Speaker 1: Starting again soon as well. We should probably be on
Speaker 1: top of that. But I'm gonna tricker this hell is
Speaker 1: Us is That was that you game back of our
Speaker 1: hell is Us? It is a me game? And then
Speaker 1: Dan told me He's like, I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: U game. And then I was like, oh shit, maybe
Speaker 1: it isn't a me game. And then I tried the
Speaker 1: demo something I played and I seemed to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: It's down twelve days for the early accents. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got it on Fantasy Critics. I'm crossing my fingers here.
Speaker 2: I don't think I can sign into my Fantasy Critics anymore. Oh,
Speaker 2: I think that was a wild fandom address.
Speaker 5: Oh you could probably we could probably reach out to
Speaker 5: the person that sight and get that fix.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know Sean could reset something, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: He is the commissioner. Yeah, we can maybe check that.
Speaker 5: Maybe we can re send the email.
Speaker 1: That's a good point, all right, Mike.
Speaker 5: There's a Phantom twenty forty cartoon series, a game for
Speaker 5: that for the Super Nintendo that was generally positively reviewed.
Speaker 1: So not a Blight Club game, unfortunately.
Speaker 4: I'll dress up in a purple suit and play it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe we could just do it that way.
Speaker 1: It could be a license to thrill.
Speaker 4: Yeah, mikey anymore super chats? No, it just seems a
Speaker 4: good don't meet yourself?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh I go where does the sneeze go?
Speaker 1: Right, Mike? Where does it go?
Speaker 5: I think it like goes into your heart valves and
Speaker 5: like them right like, yeah, always.
Speaker 2: Want and die?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it contains sneezes and blood? Right Oki Doki Gang?
Speaker 4: What do we got going on for the rest of
Speaker 4: this week?
Speaker 1: Games? Morning's popping? I'll Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, right grub that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll be back all week. Looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: Uh, definitely too beautiful beautiful. Blake Club continues tomorrow with
Speaker 4: Jurassic Grub Jeffer.
Speaker 3: This game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5: I Actually that's the This is why I kind of
Speaker 5: feel responsibility to give you guys so bad they're.
Speaker 1: Good games for your guys. This next game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they think I am legitimately falling in love with
Speaker 5: more of.
Speaker 1: The world's equivalent games. Yeah, yeah, yes, it's very similar.
Speaker 5: Like because it's so bad, you can look at the
Speaker 5: seams and look around and be like, there should be
Speaker 5: something here. Why didn't they think of that? Like, this
Speaker 5: is what a normal game would have. It's instructional, informative.
Speaker 4: This Thursday, we've got a very special kiss on the
Speaker 4: voicemail dumb Truck. Danny O'Dwyer is joining us. Uh Bender
Speaker 4: calls in now seven to seven exit flew to the dancers, questions,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, get your dancers in you will, Well, you
Speaker 4: have like a mini dancers, like a rapid fire one.
Speaker 4: This Friday, on unprofessional Fridays, we're playing Bubbsy Robo. No,
Speaker 4: that's not a Bobsy mod. We were playing the new
Speaker 4: Bubbsy remaster, The Perfect Collection as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Perfect the Perfect Collection as she b robo.
Speaker 1: Uh Dan's going to try that for the first time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna enjoy it.
Speaker 2: I think I am too.
Speaker 4: We may, if there's time, we may throw in some
Speaker 4: rack coin push her into there as well. Maybe I'll
Speaker 4: just want to finish sometime on the website Thursday.
Speaker 5: We're gonna do abyss us. Abyssus right? That four player
Speaker 5: a rogue light cooperative game.
Speaker 1: It's a shooter.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's abyss with us at the end of its weird.
Speaker 2: I hear you, and you're right, all of you. I
Speaker 2: should be a team player in games.
Speaker 1: See now, this is the problem.
Speaker 5: He's going to overcompensate and become so cooperative that it's
Speaker 5: also going to be a problem seeing.
Speaker 3: A fucker be so cooperative.
Speaker 2: No, I'm going to be a team player. No horsing around,
Speaker 2: no troll, and I'm just going to be a good teammate.
Speaker 1: You want you to change, Dan, You can't. You don't
Speaker 1: possessed the ability to do that. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I can turn it on.
Speaker 1: I can turn it off. You watch you, watch me?
Speaker 4: You see now this feels competitive in a way that
Speaker 4: it isn't cooperative.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I just broken.
Speaker 2: I can turn it on. I can turn it off.
Speaker 1: The problem I see Dan set the evil okay, exactly.
Speaker 1: The factory setting okay gang, and we were just talking
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 4: But please go check out on kind of Funnies YouTube,
Speaker 4: the Pizza Bandit video that we did with them. A
Speaker 4: lot of fun times. Once again, shouts out to pug Tato,
Speaker 4: Matthew Rory, and Drew Scanland for popping on Team GP
Speaker 4: and going against the kind of funny gang. No spoilers,
Speaker 4: but hey, it's a very good time, very good time.
Speaker 1: Indeed. MSI thanks, ms I thank your support. Once again.
Speaker 1: The Giant BombCast is presented by MSI.
Speaker 4: If you were going to pass West next week and
Speaker 4: go ahead and stop by the m s I booth,
Speaker 4: tell them that we sent you.
Speaker 3: You don't have to.
Speaker 1: Don't be shy, don't don't be shy.
Speaker 5: Also, don't be creepy and whisper it. Just tell them, yeah,
Speaker 5: saying Giant Bomb sent me. And because I went, one
Speaker 5: of you guys to win when the stuff that they're
Speaker 5: giving away and send it to me, yeah, and give
Speaker 5: it to Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I want one of you guys out there to win
Speaker 4: a mobo. All right, we can need some hot MOBOs.
Speaker 4: They're good for jippoo's and all sorts of things.
Speaker 3: What for, they're good for what MS and ps are
Speaker 3: good for jips collectibles to say words properly.
Speaker 5: I also don't expect you to change.
Speaker 1: You're good for your rams. I'm gonna keep shortening words
Speaker 1: and swords a gang. I think that about does it
Speaker 1: for the Giant bomb, cast Under and the Raid.
Speaker 5: When Jan read MOBOs, I could tell he was delighted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mobo, I'm always delighted to say something with hella
Speaker 4: syllables or just fun words in it.
Speaker 9: Anything that ends in an oh sound, bongstid does it,
Speaker 9: John bobcast. He's been Jeff, he's been Jeff, he's been Mike,
Speaker 9: he's been Dan, I've been Jan. We're presented by MSI.
Speaker 9: We'll see you next week for another episode of the show.
Speaker 9: I love you, good Bye, Happy birthday, Dad.
Speaker 1: Love you