Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, July fourteenth, twenty twenty six. Welcome
to the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred and forty nine.
I'm your host, back from god knows where. Jan Oh
Shoah joining me as always, he's.
Speaker 2: Been kissed by the sun.
Speaker 1: I could feel the relaxation quickly melting off of him
in the stress building backup co Captain of the ship
Jeff Grube.
Speaker 3: I'm still on island time, Janet Schoa, So you gotta
let me get into this at my own pace.
Speaker 1: About his own pace, well, he's he's setting the pace.
He's hitting the ground running folks at home, Dan Riker.
Speaker 4: When you're talking about being back from being kissed by
the sun and everything, I thought you were talking about
where we went, jan But well that's that's I know
where you've been. Yes, I was there.
Speaker 2: You were assaulted by the sun. Where you guys went,
that's not kissed.
Speaker 1: It was quite hot and I did run quite yes,
quite oppressive. A lot of leathery skin out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a lot of big personalities, a lot of sweat. Yeah,
it's gonna be a good video.
Speaker 1: A lot of questions. We'll the last member, No, I
know what.
Speaker 4: They told me things in response to my questions. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think when Dan and I were shooting, like
a little wrap up bit, I think we just had
more questions if any. Yeah, Oh, it's.
Speaker 4: A good time. It is an interesting time.
Speaker 1: Yes, speaking about interesting time, it's always going to be
an interesting time when the Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Stream Are is around.
Speaker 1: That's right. The Bado games media like Man Naughty.
Speaker 2: Really gonna make that a thing.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, the whole thing? It's been a thing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's chanting, chanting Yeahland all right, all right, look,
it was either you or me, and I had to
throw you under the bus as quickly as possible. They're
much closer to Cleveland. Friends, I'm not going to steal
the Cleveland Streamer from you.
Speaker 1: Come on, you could be it could be a fun shirt, Mike.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The one thing I need is more nicknames.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I agreed.
Speaker 1: You have the two.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: What else do you got?
Speaker 4: Austin Walker out of Ton? Yeah, President he did AK.
Speaker 1: That's cool.
Speaker 3: That recently learned that AK means also known as it
took me. I did not know that you what did
you think it meant?
Speaker 2: I just didn't think about it.
Speaker 1: I did all right.
Speaker 4: I guess I can't what it feels.
Speaker 2: Annoying.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the you didn't think about it?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: I just think? Google it? No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean not like in like the last five years.
But I am forty three, so yeah, that's not good. Yeah,
I had that this morning.
Speaker 4: Harris Foster posted a thing about crustables and was like,
what are your thoughts on this? And I was like, oh,
I didn't try them until my forties, and it's like,
I guess on crestable is probably not a thing you
find out no forties.
Speaker 1: No, true, not true. Dan, I uh, I want to
talk about it a little bit later if I want
to ask you boys how you doing? First, real quick,
folks at home, I want you to list as many
nicknames for the crew as possible. I think I have
the least amount of nicknames because I think jan just
being a short name and Dan. I don't think Dan
has a lot of nicknames.
Speaker 2: But there's Bajanza yea name that's a greeting. Yeah, now,
fuck you that's a name. No no, no, that's not I
don't know. I don't call no no, but Janza. I'm
not saying you are, but Janza I'm saying, what's up, jan.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like Hakuna Matata.
Speaker 4: Rights are their namesna Matata?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, it's in the movie. No, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with that when I watched movies for adults.
Speaker 4: Okay, run Run Bogonia down for us again.
Speaker 2: Yes, a movie about she's a business lady and she's
she's kind of like pretty well for her. But there's
two guys and they're crazy, or so it seems, and
they think she's an alien, so they abduct her and
they shave her head. She's like, why did you do that?
They're like that you can't talk to your mother ship
and she's like, oh no, they're crazy. Now I don't
want to start they did. I know it's rude. Uh Now,
I don't want to give any spoilers deeper into the movie,
so I'll stop there.
Speaker 1: I remember that Wikipedia very well. Wow, this is how
Bogonia get spoiled for me. I haven't seen it yet,
but thanks Michael. Okay, all right, all right, uh boys,
how y'all doing good?
Speaker 2: Pretty good? I I rated uh my fellow portal pal,
my fellow peep, Mary Kish last night after I was
doing all rade It's really funny because of course she
was playing a game called like like Cat post Office, right,
and she's like was Raptorships, like, oh well, we got
to do one more of this. I'm like, all right, yeah,
go play your cozy game. And I'm just like shouting
stuff down, getting ready, and she's just screaming at this
cat post Literally, it was weird. I'm trying to get
right for bet and I just like hear her still
screaming about this cat post office. She was so mad
she was she met at the cat or the post
office or boat or the game. I think it was
weird because like I could barely face touched. She was
very upset.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I thought these were supposed to be cozy game,
not how Mary plays it Mary style.
Speaker 1: That's good. I like that a lot. They could be.
Thanks Mary, thanks for chiming in actually real quick, Jeff Grub,
How could folks support us at who?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
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you premium exclusive shows. Jan just like, just like the
newest season of This is the Run Sewer Shark.
Speaker 1: That's right, he's going up Tuesdays and Saturdays. The boys
recorded another block of programming and guys, we're almost at
the end. Right the time is done.
Speaker 4: To stage two of five of the five stages of grief.
Speaker 2: Touched one. We touched on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, perfect.
Speaker 4: We repurpose it to the five stages of blight and
he is actually like to the letter following the five
stages of grief where it was like first one was denial,
where he's denying this is a blight, and then it's
a bargaining. No bargaining was three. Anger was number two.
You got definitely got into number two, and now he's
starting to use in three.
Speaker 1: This should be But.
Speaker 2: I love Sewers sharklow would I be mad?
Speaker 1: Oh? My folks, You can tune in and see the
progress of that season of This Is the Run as
well as all of the previous seasons of This is
the Run, including Absolom who Wants to Be a Millionaire,
several other seasons in the vault. Also speaking about Mary
kish or dear portal Pal, you can watch all of
portal Pals on the website here. Mary say numerous things
that will make a question if that was okay to
say on the Internet and especially behind a paywall, but
she does it anyway. You could also watch the internet's
favorite dating show, Mary me Tomadacci and just like Jeff
Grubb said, ad free pods, ad free videos on the
website and if you're a YouTube Premium member. We also
got a bunch of stuff cooking behind the scenes. We're
were kind on a lot of stuff still. Yeah, a
lot of the burners are on, the plates are going.
It's like a little it's like a little lime kitchen
in the back going on.
Speaker 3: So folks please, and we'll not staying mysterium. We're gonna
be a mysterium. Yes, yes, right, that's coming up shockingly soon.
Actually right, July twenty fifth is when we are at
the Missed Fan convention and Portland.
Speaker 1: Should we say the other thing about probably yeah, we
have not because also joining us at the Mysterium convention
and he may not be in the panel, but he'll
be around Dan Riker, you're joining us.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 4: Look, I've loved missed for a long time, and for
the long like I mean, made a lot of discords
and Reddit and stuff I missed. But I want to
be surrounded by missed people in the flesh. So I
have to come to Mysterium.
Speaker 2: You don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1: You have to come. And you know what, I think
we should have a little bit of team building amongst
the four of us, right.
Speaker 4: So yeah, why why don't you spend enough time with
each other? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Especially Dan and I, we don't spend enough time together.
Speaker 4: Traveled with you?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. Yeah, So what if the
three of you fly to San Francisco, right, and then
what if we have ourselves a little giant bomb.
Speaker 5: Road trip all the way to Portland, Oregon, up the
West coast, the Pacific Coast Highway that's in songs, that's
right from the Bay Area to the p N Dubs gang.
Speaker 2: Okay, in Portland.
Speaker 1: I wonder who else might show up if we did
a community meet up. Good for you, that's right, folks.
The great Giant bomb road trip, which was a Bombaiton incentive,
is happening on the way to Mysterium. Uh So the
four of us will pile into a car drive up
to the Mysterium Convention. We'll have panel on July twenty fifth,
and I think we've been trying to organize a little
local meetup and those deets will be available to premium
people in the Portland, Oregon area. So if your premium get.
Speaker 4: A reasonable sized space. This is not gonna be like
a huge, crazy ole we took over this whole place
or anything. But after the convention, yes, we would like
to meet up with some folks, so we'll get the
details out to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, If you're a Premium member, keep your eyes
peeled to the Premium channels on the discord and other
ways we communicate with y'all.
Speaker 2: Gang.
Speaker 1: I think that's it for the housekeeping plugs. I gotta say. So,
we've all had a couple of assignments and traveling right
and generally beforehand you want to like take it easy,
you know, keep it chill, have a quiet night at
home and have you guys. Do you guys know what
a swag gap is.
Speaker 4: Yes, I believe I have seen this in regards to
is it the Beebers have a swag gap? I believe
I've seen pictures and I think I have. This concept
was illustrated to me by a picture of Justin Bieber
looking real schlubby and then his wife looking very dressed
up and nice.
Speaker 1: Sure, that's that's kind of a swag gap. Yeah, okay,
And I like to think of myself as like, you know,
a little swag individual put together a person. But I
decided with my person to go to a party before
I left for all my assignments last week. And let
me tell y'all, the swag gap has never been greater
with a bunch of cool bartenders at a cool bartender party,
because people with all sorts of cameras, people with tooth gems, grills,
fun piercings. Meanwhile, I look like Doug Funny from the
show Doug. So you were the one that had the swag? No, no, no,
they all had the swag, and then I was a
your head. Yeah it was a quail man because they're
out of nowhere, you know, I'm dapping up everyone. And then,
of course, since there's a bunch of bartenders They've made
a lot of like little cheeky's everywhere, and everyone's looking
at me like, hey, you know what time is it,
jan I've heard this thing about you. I'm like, all right, okay,
But instead of pouring into shot cups, because everyone is
so acclimated to fluid being poured out of a bottle,
they're just saying, open wide, let me baby bird you
with a craft cocktail. And I was like, wow, who
am I to say no? And then as you.
Speaker 2: Could say no, whatever you want, you just don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: And then out of nowhere, I'm like, you know what's
what's that smell?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: This smells really good in here? Is there a barbecue
place nearby? And then the host of the party, God
bless him. Coolest guy in the world, I hazard to say,
cooler than me, looks at me and goes like, brother,
look over here. And then he unveils a smoker that
I had not seen in the backyard hard and then
the fattest brisket I have ever seen.
Speaker 4: Wow, man, he was going to open up a trench
coat and he was gonna have a bunch of like
briskets in the coolest.
Speaker 2: But this is one step down. Oh my gosh, it
was so crazy.
Speaker 1: People are inebriated. It's eleven PM and there's a fresh brisket. Fantastic.
It's just said it.
Speaker 4: I don't understand.
Speaker 2: I won't explain it in detail.
Speaker 1: Don't worry. That's five you know, Mike, I'm actually proud
of you for not bringing him the lot of growth here, right, Yes,
we've moved on. We've moved on, uh and moving on
from that gang. If you're in the Bay Area, I
highly suggest going to Last Resort or Trick Dog. Tell
them I sent you, and they won't know who the
fuck you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dick's Last Resort right the gum.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, Yes, that's where they make fun of me
for being a virgin when I was like fourteen.
Speaker 4: God, I want to do just a video where I
talked to Dick's Lash resort and I talk him into
this where we're gonna for one night, Mike is gonna
be a waiter and Mike has to try his hardest
to be super mean to everyone serves.
Speaker 2: I want to be clear, I didn't tell him I
was a virtue. They somehow guessed.
Speaker 1: I mean fourteen. I'm just gonna assume right.
Speaker 3: I think I don't think anyone was wondering how they
knew fifteen pastyr.
Speaker 4: Were you at the time dressed up like Peter Jackson
as you were wont to do?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure I was wearing something with Mickey Mouse
on it.
Speaker 1: No, the well, your eyes opened up. It's like you
had like a flashback or something.
Speaker 2: It was terrif. I hated it. I was very like
it was like a trush trip. Believe it or not.
It was like a whole class trip. I was in
the speech team and they took us there, so they
were like there were girls there, you know, there were
girls there. I didn't like it. I did it like
this public humiliation ritual at all.
Speaker 4: We have to takee and be like, really, that's your guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: When people being rude to me recently, I'll take it
out on them. I don't care.
Speaker 4: To be able to go into that. Let's wait a week,
for a week, a week still hot.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'd be remiss if I didn't say this as well.
Circling back to Premium nine Lives of Mister Mestapha, please,
I'm on an emotional journey with that show.
Speaker 2: It's intense it's intense.
Speaker 3: A lot's happening us.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say goodbye. Sometimes it's hard to uh.
But that also is up on premium YouTube members. Go
hit that up. Jeff Grebb, how do you feel you
were on vacation?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Good, it was nice. It was a fun man up
North Michigan's real great. We just spent a lot of
time at the at the beach and then at the
Great Wolf Lodge, which was an I was expecting it
to be. That's like the theme park, hotel, indoor water park,
indoor water park. Yes, it's a lot of great water slides,
you know, Lazy River, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Was there a swum up baru?
Speaker 3: I think there was, but I did not partake, just
because Wow, I'm taking care of the kids.
Speaker 2: And when I got to Kalahari, I'm basically at the
swim up bar. The entire I did look up.
Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, now we've got to try Kalahari next time,
which I thinkuess it sounds slightly different vibe, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was great, very relaxing, very good time.
Saw some fireworks all that stuff. So yeah, glad to
be home though. Hell yeah, nice, nice.
Speaker 1: Mikey Dan, how you'll feel and how you'll do it?
Speaker 4: Oh, Jane, I saw some fireworks with you until you
made us leave so you could be traffic.
Speaker 1: Well, Dan, I wanted to take you to a bar
that you really wanted to go to that I thought
you'd be happy about.
Speaker 4: But then we saw it and neither of us are happy.
Speaker 1: Oh, can we talk about the place that is perfect
for you and I? Let's can we talk about that
place that was closed? I mean everywhere was closed, but
I mean people would look it up and you're right,
you're right, you're right. Surprised, but get the surprise and
not the name of our new upcoming shows. Yes, yes,
our rival news show that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a good gimmick where we're going to
rival your news show.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: It's a good name, but we can't say it. Yeah, right, right,
right right. I didn't think it could be a chain,
but I don't want to risk him. I had to say.
I think I immediately saw with Dan.
Speaker 2: I think I'm some of the most mad I would
get at my dad growing up was when he did
that we have to beat traffic thing. I'd be like,
I don't really care about the trades. Fine, I'll spend
another ten minutes of the car to do the thing
we came here to do.
Speaker 1: Yes, But then as the driver, you got to deal
with all the traffic and then sitting there, and then
what if you start to get upsetti spaghetti?
Speaker 2: Mike, what met? I won't if I ever been upsetti spaghetti?
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right? Yeah, famously, chill famously chill uh
oh right, gang, let's talk about video games. I forgot
we do that, yeah, Beast of Reincarnation, gang, how is it?
I checked this out last week? This was one of
my assignments. I need to get this out of the way,
all right, Okay, I think Dan's millipede. Man, isn't the building? Okay?
All right, I gotta get this out of the way.
All right. I've been very, very vocal about my displeasure
of a lot of the recent Pokemon games, right right.
I think Scarlett and Violet really did a number on
me and my feelings towards the series and those games.
Those those mainline games are developed by game Freak, and
game Freak develops Beast of Reincarnation, all right, And some
of those problems are the lack of voice acting, the
graphics looking like mud lazy animations with the Pokemon, and
the game generally feeling like poop to control as you're
like even just walking around navigating the world, right right, right,
It is baffling to me how none of those issues
are present in Beasts of Reincarnation. It's probably a bigger
conversation for another time. But I don't mean Pokemon games
being stuck in quality is on game Freak. Uh it
may be.
Speaker 2: He's always a time and money thing, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And like a Beast of Reincarnation they're making
that with uh, is that the one they're making with
Omega Force or they're like working with another team on that, right,
Like there's a lot of they're the ones paying for it,
so it makes sense that they are into it. But yeah,
game Freak can make great games that feel great and
look great. Those just ones are just often not called
Pokemon And it does see like those are limited in
terms of how they how much money they want to
spend on.
Speaker 1: Non.
Speaker 2: I see Seana chat now saying, well, gif Freak is
it even maybe really the fouping this game? It's mostly outsourced?
Speaker 1: What? Yeah, I know, the direct picture of Beast of Reincarnation, though,
has history working on the Pokemon games, like he's been
a system.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the design and stuff like that. Yes, game freak
is definitely heavily involved.
Speaker 1: Yes, But anyway, I was very pleasantly surprised playing through
Beasts of Reincarnation. I played the first ninety minutes of
it from the from the very beginning, and it reminds
me of Stellar Blade, Final Fantasy sixteen, and the movie Annihilation,
and these are all positive associations. It's definitely a game
that I feel like is gonna open up and maybe
be more gets hooks in you the further you get
into the game, just because with any type of character
action game, you know your abilities are kind of limited
to those those base just attacks and mobility options from
the jump. But this has a very gigantic skill tree
and root system because nature is a big part of
the game. It's a big part of the look, hence
the Annihilation comparison. So you play as Emma, and I
love let me just say I love in a post
apocalyptic game the normal ass names for characters. Because your
main character is Emma, there's someone driving your mech named
Brad and he's like Brad, just Brad, and he's covered
in like a gas mask and like a like a
Raiden style hat.
Speaker 3: It's it's really funny. It sounds like briand Brad bught
weed from Yeah. Yeah, I think I got to be honest.
In a real apocalypse, I think the Brads are going
out first. Yeah, the Brads aren't gonna last. I like
that Quest sixty four. The main character's name was just Brian.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel right, but yeah, I think why, Oh, okay, okay,
Brian sixty four. I think so in the combat you
do have a parry and like a perfect dodge thing
if you dodge at the right time. But Gang, let
me tell you, I think game Freak knows a thing
or two about elemental affinities and elemental weaknesses when it
comes to attacks, as well as knowing how to make
an okay to fun furry companion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the name of the what's the name of
the dog?
Speaker 1: It's just like me, Gang, You know, I'm the CEO
Chief of operations over here, so I'm cool and this
dog's name is cool.
Speaker 2: It's that that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yes, Mikey, you're gonna say, oh, I just.
Speaker 2: Wanted to ask how does the pairing feel like? How
how Secoro esque is this?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say super Securo like. That's why I bring
up a game like Stellar Blade, maybe more like a
Bayonetta as well. The combat does feel more akin to
a Soul's game, but there's something like the gravity feels
a little bit different when it comes to the perry
timing versus how I expect it to feel in a
game like like Securo or Liza p. That being said,
you eventually get used to the timing. They do a
good job at like projecting and telegraphing that The difficulty
doesn't feel like a Soul's game, but the enemies do
hit hard, but it doesn't, at least in that early bit,
it doesn't seem like there's a big penalty for dying.
I only died once, and I like didn't lose any
of my currency or any of my pickups. It just
kind of reset me to the closest checkpoint. It seems
like it's an open world game, or at least an
open zone game, because I was having to navigate through
like a little base camp and then find a specific waypoint.
And amongst that world there are the blighted animals that
pop up.
Speaker 2: They have to play virtuoso.
Speaker 1: Also, it's funny because in the demo, as soon as
like blighted animals or blight came up in like the subtitles,
I pointed out the screen and laughed and looked around,
and no one understood what I was laughing about. It's
a I I also want to highlight the Annihilation comparison
because in a lot of character action games sometimes the
worlds can be a little bit brown and muddy, looking
a little drab. But here because everything is just covered
in like lush forests, like I think the blight just
like Annihilation is like nature fighting back and taking over,
animals taking over the environment. So it's just lush green
forest flowers and roots popping off of everything. Speaking about roots,
Coop and Emma are blighted, so they kind of have
plant adjacent powers. So Who's tail is like a bunch
of roots and vines. And then Emma you can quickly
unlock this ability, but she can use her hair as
a root system to attack enemies. And then her hair
also acts as mobility because you can use it as
a grappling hook and then use it to extend out
like a bridge for like a horizontal platform to navigate
to help with platforming. And then I don't know if
I've seen this, but her double jump isn't necessarily a
double jump. When you hit a that second time and
you hold it, it's like an ascend ability because she's
stepping on vines to go up, and it's it's cool trailers.
Speaker 3: I remember, Yeah, yeah, Isaac, Mario's flood.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like Mario's flood. Now that you mentioned it,
I couldn't think about too many options, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, influential game of all time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's f F sixteen and Mario Sunshine, it
turns out. But I really enjoy the combat. And the
thing I was most surprised by is how pretty the
game looks, because even the cinematics are framed in a
very nice way. I actually got attached at least to
the dog coup.
Speaker 3: With in those ninety minutes, and that is that because
it's a big dog, or because it was doing things
that were new and you I'm obviously it's a big dog,
You're going to be attached, but.
Speaker 1: It's on top of dog. Yeah, it's a it's a
big dog. And then like there's like a at least
where I was getting to in the story. There's like
a little chapter where you learn more about Emma and
KU's history together, and then a little bit of Coup's history.
KU's also essential to the combat you have.
Speaker 2: Like how much control do you feel like you have over.
Speaker 3: Coup and Emma simultaneously, Like when you're activating KU's abilities,
is it sort of like an interrupt or is it like,
oh no, I'm continuing my combo and I still.
Speaker 2: Have a lot of control over this dog and Emma.
Speaker 1: Yea, I think it's more so the latter grub where
you can be hacking and slashing away as Emma and
then like running around is her and then interrupt the
combat because it brings up like a little sub menu
to pick between three different attacks, and Ku has like
a little manimeter in the bottom, and those different attacks
will have different elemental affinities that can hurt or stun
or root so lock an enemy down so Emma can
take care of them. And also a lot of the
healing of the game is through Coup as well, where
Kup's abilities will heal Emma. There's a lot of all
of the mini or all of the abilities end with
like a mini game, so you just have to hit
like a or a different bun prompt and like the
act of reload timer to get the maximum efficiency out
of it. And based off off of these skill tree
because each character Emma and Ku have their own individual
skill tree in set of abilities, it feels like you
could get a little bit very involved with both of
them to fire off a bunch of abilities and combos
as you're going back and forth. Okay, yeah yeah, but
like overall the whole time, I'm just like, all right,
I okay, game freak, let's let's do this thing. I
didn't get a sense of how long the game is
supposed to be, but that being said, I did enjoy it.
It also reminded me a lot of near automatics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the people first as are here are
Near Final Fantasy seven remake, and then maybe some other
character action games, and then people do mention souls likes,
but it is that question of like, how much of
a soul's like is it?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't get the vibe that the game was
supposed to be particularly punishing at all. An interesting bit
is that there's also I think some light stealth mechanics,
because as you come across like an encampment of enemies,
you're not just fighting blighted animals. You are also fighting
these robots, these golams that have been I guess repurposed
or now defunct. So there's like a backstab you can
do in the game that's pretty powerful, similar to like
a secu row or a Soul's game. When you come
across an encampment, there may be a tougher enemy that
won't die from one backstab, so you may have to
get in there with a combat. But yeah, so far
that nine minutes, I enjoyed my time with it. I
do think I maybe it would open up exponentially the
further you get into that game and the more you
can explore that skill tree. Okay, all right, gang, that
was Beast of Reincarnation coming out. I think in next month,
y'all August fourth.
Speaker 3: It is releasing August fourth, and you are more excited
less excited now that you've played it.
Speaker 1: I was a little bit in the middle, to be honest,
just because, unfortunately, because of the association with game Freak.
After checking this out and after playing it and then
just seeing how they're doing a good job from the
jump of nailing interesting characters to sink your teeth into
and then like a curious world like I'm interested in
the story, I'm interested in see where the combat goes.
So definitely up up, great, awesome. Yes, speaking about U,
some of you boys have been dealing with gravity and
gravity so superfluous and up there that we couldn't talk
about it last week on the podcast, but now we can.
Dan Mike Orbitals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the longest uh embargo ever summer calling it after
a video game event.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't help that we you bargo did totally
go up early last Tuesday and then by that point
we forgot. But yeah, Carpital we.
Speaker 4: Played it had Summer Game Fest. It's fun. Nintendo had
a like hut basically, Uh, it's the hut where I
tried Mustard. That's what the musha the mustard. Yeah, and
they had like, you know, twelve games there or something
like that, roughly maybe maybe fourteen. It's some decent stuff
we played, you know, uh, trying forty six.
Speaker 2: And Trying six. Yeah, there was that game that was
like win Wager Jonathan blows thing was there, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but everyone, like you know, they had all these
different rooms and stuff set up, and everyone just blned
to oritals, so like we were standing there for a while.
It's like I don't want to look at the screen, don't
want to get the spoiled. But we eventually did get
in there, and we have to play over twenty minutes
of co op.
Speaker 2: Yeah from the beginning of the game really, so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think my worry, or I guess my
one concern after seeing the reveal would be like, oh,
I hope this isn't like a style over substance thing,
and it's not. It's like all of the charm of
the visuals and everything, Like I remember, I immediately realized
how much care and love went into these visuals when
I forget the actual frames per second. But they said that, like, okay,
so like in a lot of like eighties anime or whatever,
the main characters would be at a certain like you know,
twenty four or whatever frames per second, and then background
characters would be at like five or something like that.
So a guy would like have a hammer and it
would just be like up down or whatever. And they
did that with this, so like NBC's in the background
are running at a different frame rate than your main characters.
It's like, oh okay, there was a lot of like
craft and love put into this, and then the actual
gameplay what you're doing is super duper clea. It's a
lot of like I mean, I guess you could put
it in the same conversation as like an it takes
two or a split fition or something like that.
Speaker 3: It's like entirely co op, right, that's the whole idea, right, Well, yeah,
it's very.
Speaker 2: Much like the you know, the hammer and nail thing,
Like one person's gonna be the hammer, the one's gonna
be the nail. And it's like, you know, it's like
there's a puzzle, like you take care of the horzonal stuff,
you take the vertical stuff. We're in. We're piloting the ship,
so some person one person steering the ship, someone else
is doing the turret. It's all things of that. Ilk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot a lot of puzzles, a lot of
like I mean, there are some basic ones where it's
all right, I'm flying the ship, he's the gunner seat,
and then there's like really like interesting puzzles like I
don't even know how to explain the one mic where
it's like you had blue and I had red, and
the symbols and they kept swapping like one of the
things would swap who are what colors?
Speaker 2: You feel it's like it's like we're basically putting in
like our past where and they even found a way
to make that like start off simple and interesting. Then
they're like reverse commands like all of a sudden, now
you're up is down and things like that, and it
was just, you know, it's it's one of those things
where you're playing it, you're kind of giggling with each
other the entire time over how kind of like silly
and how it kind of like keeps getting harder and weirder,
and gosh, it really is. Maybe I don't know if
I've ever liked looking at a game more than this. Wow,
it is just it just looks so freaking cool all
the time. Like the style that they decide to go
for with retro sci fi anime looks great, and then
the way they are delivering on it is phenomenal.
Speaker 4: And you super don't need a nostlider for it, because,
believe or not, I wasn't watching a lot of anime
in the eighties and I still look at this and
I'm with Mike. Where's like, Oh, this is one of
the coolest looking games I've ever seen in my entire life.
And the gameplay is there too. Is this a switch
exclusy which is exclusive? Yeah, if it's online only co
op or local only, or if it has online I
forget I have.
Speaker 2: Game share, right, Like, yeah, I guess I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: But yeah it kicks ass. Like I'm instantly saying, yep, okay.
Any concerns I had about it are out the window.
This is going to be a great game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no difference betwe between the two characters, right, and
the character control identically. It's all just like I mean
the moment of the situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for this puzzle, you're controlling this laser and I
have to like flip this panel around and we have
to time it together. Like you'll have different jobs basically
depending on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it takes two still, right, like in like the
moment to moment running around jumping, those two are the same.
But yeah, it's like in each little game it got
even just like running around like before we even could
do anything. We can kind of explore a space station
and a ship. There's just weird little nooks and crannies,
Like there's a drum set, so of course you can
go tinker with that and go like, look into the character.
There's a room. It's just filled with detail everywhere.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a much more charming.
Speaker 1: It takes too, yeah, kind of dancing around that where
like it takes two dives into some serious subject matter
that some people may not be expecting just from trailering
the game. Right, but Orbitals looks like, you know, a
pleasant eighties anime ROMP.
Speaker 2: I like it takes too and with fiction, I think
they play great. I think the characters in those games
are generally not very likable, and the characters in this
game are incredibly likable.
Speaker 4: We did have to torture an elephant in space at
one point, Oh right, do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic. Very excited for that. Quick question for you boys. Uh,
you know, what would y'all suggest if someone does not
have another friend to play a game like Orbital's, like,
what do you do?
Speaker 2: Get one?
Speaker 4: Get some friends? Nerd?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I definitely think about this because it's
like when we play those co op like prox chat
games always run off because I just like to be autonomous,
like do my own thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yes, and so I've not played many of these co
op games because it's like I have to be there
for another person.
Speaker 2: That doesn't sound like a great time.
Speaker 3: But this game will. It looks so good like I
should get over that. That's a personal problem.
Speaker 1: Speaking about Jeff Grubb running off in a prox Chat
co op game, part one of Escape the back Rooms,
our dear friend Lucy James is out now. Let me
tell y'all. Adobe Premiere is trying its hardest to make
me want to punt that software into the stratosphere because
how it cannot handle editing video. But very fun times
it's job, very fun. I got it, I got.
Speaker 2: Good gig. Don't forget to get to subscription you need it.
Speaker 1: Oh of course, of course, yes, we had a fun
time escaping the back Rooms with our dear friend Lucy James.
Also very fun to have to balance audio when it's
PROCs chat when Jeff Grubb runs off in a completely
different direction and also does not spawn with everyone else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't spawn with everyone else. Also, like and
sometimes I wasn't running off. Sometimes I was the only
one that could do the platforming challenge and got on
the other side and everyone fell down a hole. So
that's not on me, that's on Chuck and Lucy. And
I think Jeff got disconnected, disconnected, Actually, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah he got. He definitely got disconnected. That game did
not like Jeff backlar at all. And I see Sean
saying this before y'all get mad at Sean and I.
We are learning Resolve. I bought this little thing. I
want to talk about it real quick. It's a little
plugging yet I have I've spun this wheel around, you know,
so for audio listeners, I'm holding the black Magic Design
Video speed Editor. It seems like a better deal because
this comes with a full license for Da Vinci Resolve,
and it's got a bunch of little clickety buttons. You
can switch between different cameras if you're doing multiicam editing
a fun jog wheel. It's very smooth. I thought there'd
be a little bit more give, but you just watch
that thing go like it's a ww spinner belt and yeah,
you can handle the trimming and everything. Very excited. I
think I want to edit all of catch me if
you dan too on Resolve, just as like a trial
by fire to just learn it. Hard because it's it's
it's great.
Speaker 2: It actually is.
Speaker 1: It is much better. Rodo in Resolve is insane.
Speaker 2: It is Resolve is so much easier. It's so simple.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, fantastic. All right, boys speaking about tech
and everything and learning new things, Dan Reikert, You've been
learning some new things about old things with retro achievements.
Speaker 4: This has been around, obviously for a very long time,
like retro arts, and most emulators have had support for
it for a long time, but I have not really
dove into it, even though it seems extremely my shit.
Like I was very into achievements during the three sixty
era and I love playing old games, and one of
my favorite things about achievements was how it has you
playing old games or playing games in general in a
different way than you normally would like. Even like nowadays,
I don't pay attention to trophies or achievements unless it's
a game that I'm so deeply into, and so like
Astrobots one of the more it's like I'm gonna get
the platinum here because I want to have every excuse
to play this in every way I can, and it's
like I can't. It took me this long to realize
how much fun that could be with retro games. And
the extra element is Sean convinced me to do it
on hardcore mode, which means you can't saves gum, you
can't use the like. You can do things like you
can speed up so you can speed through cut scenes
and stuff like that, but you can't do save states.
It's basically just like what's on the like you know,
if it's a PS one game, you have to manually
save to the virtual memory card and things like that,
Like you're doing Mario one, Mario three or something, you're
not like you basically just have to do a run
from the start. You know, you're not loading save states
or anything. But that's what I'm loving, is like Mario one,
Mario three are great examples because I've beatn these games
and played them, you know, several times a year my
entire life. And now it's like I'm doing things where
I'm looking at the achievement list, I'm like, Okay, i
gotta beat the first level of Mario three, and I
have to hold in right the entire time. It's like,
as so, I've never tried it like that, or like
Mario it's like beat World one Pacifist run where you
don't hurt any enemy or get a fireflower. It's oh fun. Okay.
So it's just all these great lists curated by the
retro Achievements community and everything that are me. They like
they're getting me to like discover parts of games. I
didn't really realize we're there. Like, I've always loved Puzzle Fighter,
and but I typically play the arcade version. I mean,
I think I played the PlayStation version back in the day,
but I was looking at the achievements list and it
was like, get all the Stars and Reus and Kens,
and every character is like puzzle set or something. I
was like, what the fuck is the puzzle set? And
I realized there's a whole like single player thing you
can do that unlocks different costumes and characters and stuff.
If you go in, it's like, oh, here's the six
Reu challenges or whatever. So I've never played these before.
So last night I was just playing a bunch of
Puzzle Fighter unlocking different achievements for LA. It's like modes
in games I've been playing forever that I didn't even
realize we're there. So god damn it. It's just so
much fun. But yeah, this is all going into like
just the Steam Machine. Like that's been my whole deal
for the last several weeks of like I'm just adding,
I'm actually right now transferring a x Men Children of
the Atom for Saturn is transferring to a two terabyte
play Yeah, because two terabyte Steam Machine. I got a
five twelve gigabyte Pardener. So the five twelve card was
my retro stuff. The two terabyte is for new stuff.
But I just want to have everything on this thing,
and so I'm going to get an external, this two
terabyte where I'm putting all of the like basically disc
based and beyond systems onto that, and then I'll have
all the cartridge based systems and everything on the SD card.
It's just so much fun just messing around with the
like Emmy Deck and Steam roun Manager stuff and setting
favorites in a way where it's like, here is a
page where it is I'm looking at every one of
my favorite games of all time, and I can choose like, Okay,
well here I want the Devil May Cry HD collection,
and here instead of the individual PlayStation two ISOs or whatever.
So just this the curation aspect of it is just
so much fun. Like I know, Grub's got the same
sickness where it's we're constantly buying these devices and just curating.
We have all these different external drives and stuff, and
the Steam Machine is like the ultimate device for me
for doing that stuff on. So I'm really making it
perfect and getting into the retro achievements at the same time.
Speaker 1: Awesome, lovely, lovely speaking about old things that are new.
I see here on the dock here Magic PlayStation two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I finally got I finally got mine set up.
Speaker 3: I kind of did a little thing on Etsy because
I didn't have the time to set up another thing
and do curation on yet another platform, so I kind
of ordered something. It came in the hard drive wasn't working,
and I sent it back and to the guy in
that scene, and he sent to me. They sent me
a new one with a message being like, this is
the last time I'm replacing it for free. I'm like, man,
you sent me something broken. Why are you mad at me?
She's but I plugged it in and got it working,
and it's like the first thing I tried to boot
up was Jack and it wasn't working. I'm a great
Oh no, this is a known issue. Just kind of
have to go in here game by game occasionally, and
there's all these different modes you can set up to
make sure that they will boot correctly. And did the work,
and it was It's fantastic. I got that going through
a retro tank. Now to the computer, and I think
I'm gonna start playing a lot of PS two games
that I missed. I was definitely playing a lot of
GameCube at that time, and then I played some Xbox
and I had PS two until it got stolen like
a year later, So I there's a lot of PS
two games that I missed, and I'm like, oh, I
gotta sort of fix that. And this has been a
really great way to do it. Now, you know, the
dual shock I have is a bit rickety and stuff
like that. It's like, okay, it's time to maybe improve
those things. Go out and find some nice ones. But
uh yeah, man, PS two it turns out it has
some video games on there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the one I'm debating here because it's like
I've got the two Terribile driving. I'm like, should that
just be my PS two drivers? Because I put every
PS two game on there. That's a fucking time. That's
like my biggest collection probably.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think that the drive I have here sixteen terabytes
or something like that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's nuts.
Speaker 1: That'll be all right, Yeah, holy yeah, holy all right.
Continuing on, I see a couple old games here as well.
Don't worry, folks, we're playing. We're playing new things. There
are new things to be playing. We're not old. Also, no,
I'm not old. I can say that we are not.
Speaker 2: Dyed gray hair.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I died this too, sure and lost and shaved.
This is a shaved fun purpose yes, yes.
Speaker 6: Same uh we uh GBHQ have been actually answering an
email that someone that is well acquainted with Sin and
Punishment but not the game, just the concept of it.
Speaker 1: But also we've been playing or one of us has
been playing Sin and Punishment.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This was my vacation game. Last year. I did Raigar.
Speaker 3: This year, I did Sin and Punishment, which I've played before,
but I don't know if I ever beat it. So
I was like determined to see it through this time,
and I'm glad I did. And I'm glad I kind
of played it all in like one.
Speaker 2: Quick go over the course of like two days.
Speaker 3: So it was like two sittings or whatever, and that
game's got so much style and and just like it's
so slick, and you would think like a game where
it's you know, it's an on rail shooter for the
most part, not all of it, but a big part
of it is on rails shooter. You think of that
as being so limiting. But it's a treasure game. So
they make you feel you were doing so much cool
stuff because you are You're in control of moving the
character around on the screen and aiming the radical, and
you have a side dash you can do that has
ie frames in it, and you have a jump and
a double jump, and you can use all these movement
tools to get around the screen and dodge these enemy attacks.
And it feels very a kind of to like a
some like from Soft Bosses where it's like I'm I'm
I'm dodging and kind of parying sometimes a little bit
and uh and just trying to get out of the way.
And it it looks so amazing for an N sixty
four game that I'm like, man, they're like when a
developer really knew what they were doing, they could really
get a lot out of that hardware, but yeah, it's treasure.
Speaker 2: It feels so cool.
Speaker 3: It's like a spiritual successor to Gunstar Heroes in a
lot of ways. And uh yeah, I'm just I was
super into it. I'm I cannot wait to go play
Star success video game video.
Speaker 1: Game games used to be so fucking sick. Imagine like
seeing on a shelf.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I just put this for the first
time out too long ago too, and I was I've
always heard good things about it, but I was absolutely
floored by it. I don't know if you, like, just
did the one play through on that that first difficulty.
Speaker 3: I think they did normal difficulty and normal.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so I did easy first time I did normal. Yeah,
I definitely was rewarding to do normal because normal was
a you're you're you're forced to engage more with laws mechanics,
especially the perry, which is very important for both protecting
you and doing a lot of damage. Just uh, And
it's those treasure games. They're almost they're basically almost always
boss brushes with some stuff in between. I just love
that style. Again, the gun Star Heroes, uh, is exactly
like that. Another game, Dynamite Heady is like that as well.
And this one. Gosh, it is among the best. And
also like the story is just such nonsense and it's
like it's voice acted in English, but what's going on?
Who's this talking cat? What is this? It's like a
really long sequence where you're just attacking like uh a
navy army right on, like a floating piece of metal.
It is such a cool ass video game. I've been
thinking about it constant. Lisa's playing it.
Speaker 4: Well, have you d decapit I think Dynamite Hetty and
decap Attack I always I can't think of one with
that thing together. I think I rinted them both the
same weekend in like nineteen ninety three, and to me,
they are always linked.
Speaker 2: I need to play to Capitack because I did you
throw my head? He's Betterty's better?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never heard of this well, jumping the gun Mike,
I do see that. The final game I have listed
here is Dynamite Hetty.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So after I beat Sin in Punishment, I was like,
I should play some other treasure games and it's like, oh, yeah,
Dynamite Hetty. Like I kind of didn't even really know
what Dynamite Hetty was. I knew it was, I guess
I knew it was a platformer, like almost a mascot platformer. Sure,
Like it's a treasure game, So is it like that
Ronald McDonald game? And it's like it defies description. You
throw your own head, but it is so much cool
nonsense happening constantly in that game. You you're fighting in
a robot cat and then you're doing like an auto
runner sort of level where you just got to keep up.
And then in the background it's like advertisements for the
game itself and Sega and Treasure in like this magical
theme park world that you exist in. And it's also
like you're on a stage, so sometimes you'll go in
the backstage areas and have fights back there. It is
such a weird game with so much style. Again, uh,
I kind of couldn't believe it. Like it's it's like
a NonStop so yeah, it's a boss rush with some
stuff in between.
Speaker 2: Cool. Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 4: I love when games have advertisements for either like the publisher,
developer or other games and its city level. Yeah, we
had a bunch of Sega ads and brons like, oh hell, yes,
this feels so appropriate.
Speaker 2: Don My Heady was the one that I had as
a kid, probably because like it did have that mascot
platform revive. So I had this game as a child
and I adored it. Back then, everyone you know, go
to a playground, everybody would be talking about you know,
Sonic Vector Man and even Donkey Kong. I'd be like,
what about Dynamite Heady. They look at me like I
was crazy?
Speaker 4: Were you a wrist Star kid?
Speaker 2: Not really, I didn't get into Ristar to Layer. That
game's very good also, but we're.
Speaker 4: Sparks because Mike is basically Tim Turry, and Tim Turry
loves that. Okay, yes, I knew you.
Speaker 2: Computer Rocket Knight Figure, Rocket Knight Adventure is. I knew
it very That is like making a Treasure King because
that's also basically a boss rush with some stuff in between.
Rocket Night is. Did you ever get Sparkster back from AJ?
Did he ever give it back to you? And who knows?
Speaker 3: Probably had a reminder of my Google for like seven
years of like remind Mike get Sparkster back from AJ?
Speaker 1: Question for y'all. I feel like a lot of games
around this era had ghostly disembodied appendages. What was up
with that?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, the treasure like that was like almost
their house style was like they had like this.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Their characters were often made out of these like balls
that would be spherical balls that would like connect to
one another, but they can also separate like that is
like Gunstar Heroes, and they kind of just carry that
over to all of their other character designs. I thinking
ruined it for everyone. Raymond ruined it for everyone by
being a weird little freak.
Speaker 1: Ray Man ruined it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he sucks and he ruined it, and then we
lost a good thing.
Speaker 2: That was before rayven A decap attacks. Interesting because that's
a case of a like a Japanese game just being
completely reskinned here, Like in Japan, you're just a kid
with a turbin and he kind of throws like something
out of the turbine I think, and it's very colorful
and bright. Then they brought to it was like what
if you were a corpse you shut your head out
and it just has like all the Halloween colors and
stuff instead.
Speaker 1: It's wild.
Speaker 4: One of these things we're gonna have to do. Never
did for Black Club, and the costume is one of
us just gonna take our head off and stick it on.
Speaker 1: Like exactly. I was gonna say, a green screen like
neckdator and then we just separate the head of our bodies.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I don't have a neck.
Speaker 1: Well, it's okay, mikey well.
Speaker 2: Somewhere down here, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Boys.
Speaker 1: That about does it for the first segment of the podcast.
That about does it. For games, folks at home, we
do have a bunch of stuff we're playing, and we'll
talk about that when we can. Because games they slowed
down a little bit. But the flood is coming and
I don't know how we're gonna handle it, but we will,
and we're gonna take a quick brickie break and we'll
be back with the.
Speaker 2: News right after this joke Rob with.
Speaker 3: Hey, hih, Yes, I have news for you. Let's start
here with god if or Laufe will have a disc
that probably meets it's coming out before twenty twenty or
before the end of twenty twenty seven. Sony Santa Monica
Studio explicitly confirmed that God of War Lawfe will be
available on a disc. The only way that is going
to be possible is if the game launches before January
twenty twenty eight, because, as we all know, PlayStation plans
to stop making discs of any kind for first party,
third party period for any game after January twenty twenty eight.
This is not too surprising in terms of the timing
for God of Oil Law fe because we were kind
of here in twenty twenty seven. The game is maybe
not as far off as you might expect. But yeah, also,
you know, then conference on confirming it's on a disc
because they think that will get people excited kind of
flies in the face of this whole Hey, we're getting
rid of disks thing. It does seem like that. There
was like some movement over the last week guys. While
I was on vacation of people like organizing and getting
a bunch of signature signed, there was this you know,
I don't know, I don't know if it's a change
dot org petition, but there is a petition that has
like two hundred and eighty five thousand six natures. Do
you guys get the sense there's any chance Sony goes
back on this by January twenty twenty eight, because I
just don't have high hopes.
Speaker 1: I don't have high hopes either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, going back when it's difficult. Some of the things
are in motion, including like the plants that make the
CDs that they have. I definitely think there's probably more
blowback than they were even expecting, and things like this
God of War thing. It's weird for their own companies
kind of be like, don't worry everyone, right, Like what
a good thing that there's gonna be disc So it's like, so,
so you admit that discs are good, right, Yeah, but
I still kind of expect them to barrel through with it.
I don't know how much worse would have to get.
I don't know how much excitement Xbox would have to
generate if it sort of comes out as the opposing
view of all this, even though again like there are
thing's gonna just be well, we're gonna like help you
convert those digitally and maybe we'll have a disc option.
But I can don't see them being super fool on
like where the disc console, where the disc company, and
like that's our point of differentiation. I just don't know.
I think Gontegrid and Barrett still for a while.
Speaker 3: Seems like yeah, I think that it would be nice
if this Xbox that seems desperate for positive pr would
come out and be like, yeah, we promised the sport
discs as long as possible, but I don't think they're
going to do that, but we'll see Upsidian cancels an
a vowed sequel and moves Josh Sawyer on to Fallout.
So as part of all this like crazy like we
found out over like the last week, a little bit
more detail us about Oh yeah, it got hit pretty hard.
I know you guys talked about some of this and
one of the things that happened there was Obsidian canceled
an avowed sequel apparently. And now Josh Sawyer, who was
the director on Fallout New Vegas, now is kind of
shifting from a game he was working on that apparently
was pretty similar to Fallout but not Fallout. Well, now
he is making a Fallout game, and this is supposed
to be sort of like, hey, look we're working on
the big stuff. But uh, of course, coming in the
wake of didn't you lay off a bunch of the
people who would have been responsible for making this and
of course that's the case.
Speaker 2: Do you think this fault this? Do you think this
new fall game is like, all right, we're sitting on
scratch from that. Do you think they are converting that
game that was already very much like Fallout into just
being an actual fall game.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to take some of that work, yeah,
I think so. Yeah, it also feels like just weird
timing of them. I don't know. I guess the motion
of a Fallout game getting like properly started happening now
when that show was popping off a couple of years ago.
At that point, at this point.
Speaker 2: It is like the weird thing was like, well, we
either do it now or we're gonna have to wait
even longer. If it is actually Bethesta doing it, it's
it's weird. This whole thing is grab I think we
and you like talked our bunks ourselves for a while,
like up Cidy, you should make the fall of the
Fallout game. Because we were conversations about that. Bethesta is
just not going to be able to get to it
for a while. Of course, we had to kind of
get there in the shittiest way imaginable. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3: And this does feel like that one time Xbox policy
of We're gonna let these studios who have their own
identity continue to establish their own identity and come up
with their own ideas and work on stuff the way
they want. Obviously that's so far out the window now,
and these teams are being told, hey, this is a
top down structure, now we need games in this franchise,
and you're available. You're doing it. It you know obviously
fits on paper. Josh Stewyer working on a follout game
does get some people excited, but I think anyone who's
pretty savvy to this stuff and does know how volatile
the situation was, and that's probably not gonna lead to
great circumstances of France games going moral at an all
time high. Chris Hossbox Studios and be the everyone's real happy,
and please there's no strikes, there's no unions.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like you already had a fair number
of people working at Xbox that you could have done
this already on top of making more games.
Speaker 2: They just don't get it. Jan If they just did
their jobs and made good games that sold, well, wait
what happened to you? Be Soft Barcelona? Well, oh those
people got fired.
Speaker 3: Assassin's Creed Black Flag is a massive hit, so you'd
be soft laid off dozens of.
Speaker 2: People who make it.
Speaker 3: Assassins Cray, Black Flagg or He Sink sold two million
copies on its first day according to you be soft,
like they came out and trumpeted that after they were
already doing these layffs, which is.
Speaker 2: Just fucking at least five more Assassin's Creed remakes that
could be greenlit right now, yeah, black Flag that are
about as beloved or maybe like gout to miss an
audience because it was at that down period like Syndicate,
But just do Assassins Creed two or Brotherhood.
Speaker 3: Right now, right now. But no making and selling more
games not the answer. Laying people off continues to be
their number one answer free for how they're going to
make more money.
Speaker 1: Like I saw that this was reviewed very well and
was selling pretty well, and I was kind of five, yeah,
but after seeing this news, fuck them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like very deflating. It became the number
one game on Twitch for a little while on July ninth.
It was really had ninety and fifty one concurrent Steam
players in its first twenty four hours. You know, that
was at its top most point. That is the largest
Steam peak in Assassin's Creed history. Obviously some games haven't
launched on Steam, but that's this is a very strong
launch for this game. Point being but yeah, they have
laid off fifty one people at Ubisoft Barcelona who supported
on the game.
Speaker 2: As soon it was as soon as it was out,
basically they released it.
Speaker 3: And that's there was a time when that was just
standard practice. That is how the industry would work. They
would release a game and then lay a bunch of
people off in release month because they're like, Okay, well
we will maybe hire you back one day.
Speaker 2: When we need you for the next week. I feel
like that that practice has been so detrimental to the industry. Yes,
retention is so important, so important to have people who
are ingrained in your studio in these franchises, and it
could develop an actual team. It's at this weird, this
weird idea of we're going to build a tower, then
notck it down each time and build the tower again.
Speaker 1: I would have to assume that this is kind of what, like,
this exact practice that you just outlined, Mike, is what
led to Ubisoft being not pleased with the Prince of
Persia remake.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh, things like that, I mean, you know this,
it's I think it's a part of the reason and
there's other reason, of course, that video games take eight
years to make. Now right when you used to take
a couple, Yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 3: Ubisoft continues just to be a mess, Like every time
we talk about them. We say that for a reason
because even when things seem to be like, Okay, they
figured something out, that doesn't mean that they have figured
it all out.
Speaker 2: They figured out in a way make some money right now.
Speaker 3: Their situation so fucked up that they don't think that
that is going to be a long term solution, and
that thing being having successful video games.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: GDQ raised two point four million dollars, and then it
had its S and K kerfuffle sponsorship, but the first
of all two point four million dollars for Doctors without Borders,
a bunch of really great speed runs, yeah, really well done,
like always, and then they they did kind of step
in it with an S in case sponsored speed running
showcase right afterward. The community immediately object objected because S
and K is majority owned through Saudi Arabia's MISK Foundation
and an electronic like gaming foundation which is wholly owned
by the Crown Prince Mohammed's Ben Salmon, and so a
lot of people in that speed running community are are
very strong advocates for all kinds of progressive causes, but
especially LGBTQ I A plus stuff and seeing a Saudi
prince who has stood in the way of those things
kind of being able to spend his money, throw his
money around and get some airtime was very frustrating to people.
But GDQ said, hey, we didn't realize who the owner was.
We immediately pulled it, as like during the stream they
pulled it, they stopped it, and it apologized. Seems like
they were able to like sort of have some saving
grace here.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I wasn't I was like driving when all this was happening.
What was the temperature like in the room when you
guys getting the sense of it.
Speaker 1: I wasn't actively watching games then quick when the run
had started, but I saw it promoted that they were
going to do a metal slug run, and then my
immediate reaction was like, oh, well, that kind of stinks.
But then I saw the reaction online afterwards, like fairly
soon afterwards, being like no, no, we kicked it out.
Speaker 2: We eighty six that yeah, I think, you know, people
were upset, and then there's a little bit of like, oh,
if we're talking about some chat they're like, they're banning us,
and then it did turn pretty quickly into we're gonna
we're ending the stream in the middle of it. You know,
it was definitely not a great look. They pivoted very quickly.
I think if if anybody out there has deserved a
little bit of grace for all the good things that
they have done in the gaming space, it is probably games.
It's done quick. Doesn't mean that they are above any
criticism or anything like that, but you know, you can
make the case like how could they not know? And
I do get that. You can also see how maybe
the vetting wasn't as strong as it could be when
this was probably all happening during the week of summer.
Games done quick, and I think to us, it's like, well,
this is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia owns S and K.
It might not be quite as common knowledge as as
we sometimes think it is in our little bubble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're organizing a live event that people are attending,
people are going to. I can see some things falling
through the cracks also, especially when they set up several
shell companies to hide the fact.
Speaker 2: Right, It's not exactly it's not like you like you
look up who's the owner Bessika and it says Saudi Arabia, right,
like they, Yeah, they deliberately make it sort of hard
to know what's going on at the same time, like yeah,
they This is part of their campaign to make their
brand seem more palatable to a lot of audiences, including
Western ones, Western ones, and you kind of have to
be careful about you don't sort of get sucked into
that unwittingly. Yep.
Speaker 3: But two point four million dollars raised a lot of
good and of course the good of just like providing
awesome sort of infrastructure for the people in the speed
running community to show off their skills, which continues to
be a huge part of what makes GDQU so cool.
Last couple of stories here, Rhythm Heaven Groove delivers gigantic
original switch launch in Japan. This game is a massive
hit in Japan. Rhythm Heaven Groove sold three hundred ninety
three three hundred and seventy eight physical copies basically four
hundred thousand physical copies in its first week. That's just physical,
that's just Japan. So just huge for kind of any
game period, but really huge for a rhythm game. And
you know, it's it's switched one, so as the benefit
of that massive audience, of course. But yeah, like the
next closest game was a namigim On game. I've sold
sixty thousand copies.
Speaker 1: Have you all seen people doing the uh rhythm heave
and groove minigames in real life?
Speaker 2: Nice?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I saw some lifeguards like they were like
throwing like balls and the like. I was just hitting
it with like a raft or something on beat.
Speaker 1: It was great fun. It's really fun. I gotta I
gotta circle back to this. Gre you you reviewed this
for folks that may.
Speaker 3: Like this game a lot. Yeah, the reviews on the website,
it's it's it's really good. I don't know if it's
my favorite rhythm heaven, but it's it's still really good.
I think that you guys just think of it like
snack size warrior wear style rhythm games. Like it's not
not in that it's going to take five seconds, but
in that it's like it's one rhythm concept done a
couple of different ways over the course of a song,
and you really hone in on that. So it's the
rhythm game that anyone can sort of play, I think,
But it gets very complicated and getting perfect scores and
stuff like that is very challenging but rewarding. Uh yeah,
I'm really glad that this game is doing well, and
now that it's like clearly a massive hit in Japan.
Speaker 2: I almost guarantees we will get more. That's how it
goes with Nintendo.
Speaker 3: And then last stoor here, Mario Kart Tour and Final
Fantasy Ever Crisis are both being shut down. Nintendo will
shut down Mario Kart Tour on ten fifty nine pm
Pacific on September twenty ninth, twenty twenty six. Ruby purchas
and Gold Pass renewals have already been disabled. Nintendo says
it has no plans to release an offline version that
is unlike what it did with Animal Crossing Pocket Camp.
And then Square Enix is terminating Final Fantasy seven Ever
Crisis on October sixth at eleven pm Pacific. Let's see,
premium currency sales have stopped, although events will continue until closure.
Square Enix set has likewise also not announced any permanent
offline edition, which is frustrating in this case, but apparently
because this is that sort of like yeah, yeah, it's
like yeah, GB remake retelling of Final Fantasy seven and
it had like so unique story elements that were only
available in this version of the game, and so that
stuff will be just going away unless people find a
way to preserve it, which I bet they have.
Speaker 2: But you know, this is a.
Speaker 3: Online game where you get currencies and stuff like that,
so some of those features might not work. I never
know how that preservation actually goes into effect, but yeah,
it's it's a reminder that mobile continues to be the worst.
Speaker 2: Place for preservation.
Speaker 3: Like it's just that there's huge swaths of games that
never got updated to run on sixty four bit OS's
and stuff like that, and they just will never come back.
And then there's games like this where they require a
server and they go away and no one seems. No
one at these companies seem to care, which was why
it was so notable when Pocketcamp did get its offline version, right,
But that's not a trend from Nintendo. It was a
one time thing. They're not doing it for Mario Kart too.
Speaker 2: And like Squaring, it's also kind of like they can
do this because they XPS is getting the fum fancy
resonance coming out what people are excited for, so they
are capable of the things. I guess in both cases
they didn't say we are never going to make offline versions,
there's no plan things, but there seems like there's no plan,
it seems like for Mario Kart especially, And it's just
it's just weird because they were the ones who are
all like, this is a mainline Mario Kart game. Now
it's like, well that's that's Mario Kart nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm like, so, oh, we can't ever play that again?
Speaker 1: Just bizarre.
Speaker 2: Just also seems it's just a weird reminder of that
whole Nintendo Mobile effort and the fact that the Mario
Kart game even couldn't really make it happen. It's like, boy,
then what can Yeah? That does it for the Oh yeah,
go ahead?
Speaker 1: Well I was gonna ask, is that a Final Fantasy
Ever Crisis game? Is that only on mobile? Or did
that ever get.
Speaker 2: Like a p there might be a Steam version of it? Okay,
the Gloss Squaring Games due, but yeah, Fanta eventually got
that PC port.
Speaker 1: So I wonder if like, I don't know it's on
making as saying.
Speaker 2: It's still on Steam someone, I I mean, I stum.
It's also gonna get Yeah, yeah, when I try to,
when I try.
Speaker 3: To search for it, it doesn't come up ever. Crisis Yeah, weird,
Okay there maybe it's in here somewhere. No, that's crisis course.
So yeah, it's not coming up when I search.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's already delisted on Steam all right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, that does it for the news headlines. Jan,
I'm handing the show back over to.
Speaker 1: You fantastic boys. We're gonna take a quick bricky break
and we'll be back with the emails on YouTube super
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Speaker 1: Fantastic BombCast giant bomb dot com is email a dress
send your emails to gentlemen. I have pasted an image
here in the document, Chuck writes in not our Chuck,
A different Chuck saw these a Walmart. I just wanted
to pass along, Love you duders And it is a
picture of a package of Wieners Wieners and the brand
is Bacolars. Do you think this is why he doesn't
like hot dogs?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's traumatic.
Speaker 3: He's too close. He's seen how the backlars Wieners are made.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because like he's seen how the sausage gets made
and everything. It's like the family business, the family legacy,
and he doesn't want to associate with hot dogs.
Speaker 2: It don't ship where you eat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it all right,
moving on a long.
Speaker 4: Phrase mean like I hear it all the time. I
know what it means conceptually, but don't ship like what
on your plate in your kitchen? Like is there more
to it than where you Like, who's.
Speaker 3: If you have a campsite outside and you're eating somewhere,
don't ship like right there.
Speaker 4: Like this isn't a concern who's doing this?
Speaker 1: Well? Also, it's it's there of speech. It's a figure
of speech. Like also like you know, don't date a
coworker or the metaphorical what the phrase means. I just
feel like it should come from.
Speaker 3: A you understand that that like like metaphorically, like is
that the that's the important part, and that it's uh
the part.
Speaker 2: The literal part doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: I think a good saying makes sense literally and uh
and metaphorically.
Speaker 3: So like do you feel that way about like what
is it I can't kill two double.
Speaker 4: Short you gotta be careful with their stew edges on it,
So that works.
Speaker 2: Literally by handle that one actually doesn't make sense because
it just seems extra dangerous to take extra precaution. But
you do hate kill a bert kill two birds with
one stone, because you would never do that, right, because
like no one's really doing when they came up with
that phrase, they probably had to do that to like eat.
Speaker 3: That's where like don't ship where you eat is probably
from a time where it's maybe back then people were
shitting more often when they were where they're eating, all right,
that's fair.
Speaker 1: I think people still got there also sanitary purposes.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, it's not bad advice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I definitely follow it personally, me too, yet
tell me what to do, And I think I think
for the back of ars Wieners, I was I was.
The saying I was actually looking for is don't get
high on your own supply, And that one we all
just agree with like that.
Speaker 2: One's just good advice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, re commandments, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Thank you? All right, moving on along. God, I was
listening to Mike, we need to sit you down and
make you listen to like just so much rap and
so much hip hop.
Speaker 4: And we're talking about this on our track where it's
like that.
Speaker 2: You talk about me when I'm not there.
Speaker 1: We were also talking about that also about how much
you invaded my brain. I like that. Matthew from the
Greater Walt Disney World area of Florida. All right, sin,
hello bomb casters. With the current landscape of video games,
I'm considering getting into emulation. So many of the GB
crew have lovely looking emulation setups. What he need to
know is if there are any of these amazing emulation
platforms on Mac. My only personal computer is an M
one MacBook Air that I hook up to a TV.
The little I have dabbled with emulation hasn't had the
best performance, and the dashboard looks nothing like dance sleek
steam machine setup. Any pointers would be appreciated. Matthew from
the Greater Walt Disney World area of Florida, sent from
my iPhone.
Speaker 4: Don't have a Mac. Is my advice. I assume it's
harder on there. I don't know. I didn't really know
they were still making straight up computers.
Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, wow, that's insane and stuff. No, no, no,
definitely not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the MacBook is like one of the best selling
like laptops and stuff, and the one them one would
be very good for emulation. You'll want to like, I
think emulation station might be on Mac. I don't know
if it is, but if it's not, it has its equivalent.
So yeah, just that that's what Dan's using, right, Your
usually elation emulation station for that.
Speaker 4: Uh, I use for for the machine stuff and for
the steam deck I do. I just run emmu deck,
which makes it just idiot prove right where set up
emulation station and then you got to use steam ra
Manager which comes with m you deck to kind of
like add it to the steam y Right, if you
don't want to launch it their emulation station. There's a
lot of different options based on how you like to
put it together.
Speaker 1: We did get old.
Speaker 4: Is that crazy that I'm looking at the change? It's
that crazy?
Speaker 1: Ideers actually insane, Dan.
Speaker 4: I don't think I doubt I've been in the room
with an Apple computer, and you were ten years in
our hotel.
Speaker 2: Every time I'm with you, I have my MacBook with
me and you're.
Speaker 1: In our hotel room. I was editing this is the
run on it, I thought.
Speaker 3: Distinct looking, I just assume with Apple on the back,
you haven't seen that.
Speaker 4: Don't you have an iPad? Ever, back in the day,
they were very you know, that's that's what I thought.
They were like just phone tablet.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they make one of the that that new
little laptop that makes like super popular, the Neo right.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 2: The Neo does have phone hardware inside of it, but
it is a laptop.
Speaker 4: That's the last I was still computer components going into
the iPad and iPhone. I understand that they're still a
computer company. I just didn't know they made lap and
desktops two yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: Mac mini's and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, mainly for like old people. No, no, no,
student everyone.
Speaker 3: There's actually no excuse for this, Dan, you could try
to flock one.
Speaker 4: I mean, the last time I remember them being popular
was like in high school, the production labs, because they
had the clear ones on second ago, final cut or anything. Anymore.
Speaker 1: People still do It's people have actually gone back to
final cut because premiere sucks. Now.
Speaker 4: Holy yeah.
Speaker 2: Is it possible, Dan, that you are out of touch.
Speaker 4: In this very particular in the world of Mac computers.
Speaker 2: Yes, an expert on what kids are into, though, don't worry.
Speaker 4: Our kids in the Mac computers. I assume there's not,
as they are super intent.
Speaker 1: The Mac Mannie was also one of the most popular
computers to be sold.
Speaker 4: Looking the sucker up Mac Manie. Yes, you're that is
tiny as fuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're as.
Speaker 3: Small now yeah, really small people, because yeah, basically fun,
that's a whole computer.
Speaker 1: The whole computer.
Speaker 4: I kind of like how that looks like this motherfucker.
Speaker 1: I love you looking. Uh. I think I shared with
y'all during a meeting that people have been using a
Mac Mini as like a portable computer, which sounds insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you did talk about that in a meeting.
We were all in Dan. That's remember that, Dan.
Speaker 1: I think you even reacted to the video I shared
as well. Anyway, a lot of people have been writing
in about emulation. Actually, folks, John and.
Speaker 2: Jettison, Fuck you.
Speaker 4: Wait, I recommend to you that Kayla should buy a
Mac Menu when you were asking about it. Oh, I've
guess I forgot about it.
Speaker 1: No, I remember that conversation too too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guarantee. I was like, there's no fucking way
she would know it because I wouldn't how to use it.
I remember the one time I tried to get a MacBook,
like in two thousand and nine. It's like all the
buttons are different and yeah.
Speaker 2: Fuckary only one, only one mouse buttons fucked up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did not like it.
Speaker 2: I like their phones.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have been writing in about emulation
because of the Delight Club from last week, as well
as the handheld stream that y'all did a couple of
weeks ago, So a lot of folks have been asking
and writing about emulation stuff. Further questions come from Antony. Hey, guys,
I watched the handheld stream and loved it. The conversation
about what play while on the toilet paraphrase reignited my
love for the playdate, and I wanted to let Grubb
know that if he got one back after he broke it,
it's worth having a look.
Speaker 2: Not only another one.
Speaker 1: Yes, not only does it have an amazing game Boy emulation,
but the community games are super fun. Slash Arcadie short
games with leaderboards. There's one where you just have to
cut things in half, a beer pouring one and definitely
a phishing one. Definitely worth using it. I for one,
love playing links Awakening on that thing. Keep up the
awesome work, Anthony. Moving on with the emulation talk, High
BombCast crew. Watching Dan and Mike's Delight Club, I was
blown away by dan Steam machine setup for emulation. It's
pretty much exactly what I'd love to have in my
living room. A lot of my favorite childhood memories are
sitting around with friends playing PlayStation and Nintendo games, and
I'd love to recreate that. The problem is that here
in Australia, a Steam machine costs anywhere from about sixteen
hundred to twenty three hundred dollars, which is a lot
to spend for what I'd mainly use as an emulation box.
If all I want is something connected to my TV
using a wireless controller that can comfortably handle emulating a
wide range of older consoles, what's the easy solution. Not
especially tech savvy and don't want to spend hours tinkering
with settings and software is very simple, just works option
these days where he's tinkering still part of the hobby
Tony from Sydney, Australia, sent from my iPhone. Perhaps Tony
a Mac Minnie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mac would be very would be like very good.
It would be like you'd be able to do anything
with a Mac Mini.
Speaker 4: The thing that got me started on my like, you know,
I had done like in college and stuff you got
like Nesticle and I would get like standalone emulators and
stuff like that and that works fine, But like I
never messed with like RetroArch or anything like that until
I think it was the Beast Cast. We had Ron
Funches on and he told me he had a Nvidia
Shield TV Pro yeah, and it was just this tiny
little guy that he traveled with, you know, when he
was on tour, and he just turned it into his
like emulation box. And so I bought one of those.
I'm looking at it nowlet's get They're like two hundred
bucks on Amazon and you can set up retro arts
pretty easily on it. There are here's the thing, there
are a million very good guides on YouTube for this stuff.
I would never have any idea how to do this
stuff naturally, not really inclined towards knowing how to do
any of this type of stuff, but you find a
good like retro game or video or like Joey's handhelds,
there's really good, like just search for like shield TV
Pro retro arch setup or something, and then like there
is a lot of tinkering. Like tinkering I think is
maybe more than half of the hobby, at least the
way I do it, where it's like I'm just constantly
buying these new devices getting them set up. It's like, Okay,
well I think this device is good for everything up
to this system, or this one would be particularly good
at like game Boy stuff or you know, oh the
odin this can do PS two, So this is gonna
be my PS two handheld. But it's all tinkering, it's
all file management, it's all you know, making sure you
get everything you want. Like I'm pretty completionist about everything.
But if you just want to like get your favorite games,
have them running on, like get like a sixteen Gigabye card.
If you're just doing like retro, there's lots of different
ways you can do it, depending on what you want
to accomplish. I would say that shield TV Pro thing,
there's probably a better option. Now, I mean I bought
that back in twenty two or whatever.
Speaker 3: I mean, not really, that's the thing is like, not
on the higher end. The shield TV pro still really good. Yeah,
I had one for a long time. I think maybe
now it's like you might you might be better off
going even cheaper. And just like there's a Walmart has
an O n N brand, it's Electronics brand, and they
have the new sixty dollars four K streaming device. It's
just a little Android like puck and so you can
have all of the Android emulation stuff on there. And
the new one has like three gigs a RAM, which
is quite a bit for most emulation, has a pretty
good new chip in there, and there's some awesome emulation
front ends launching on Android right now. I think is
Su or something like that is the new one that
everyone's talking about. And you kind of, yeah, just follow
the guides for setting that up. And you know, it's
like sixty bucks for.
Speaker 2: This for this one.
Speaker 3: It was there was one for thirty dollars, but apparently
the sixty dollars one's the one to get now, and
sixty bucks for a little puck you put behind your
TV with Android on it that you set up. It's
like a good like gateway into this at a not
super in affordable price, Like that is something that I
think people can feel comfortable just like seeing if it's
even for you at sixty bucks, and if it is,
then you could step up. And if it's not, well,
you could sell a sixty bucks emulation thing on Craigslist
or whatever, probably pretty easily.
Speaker 4: And there's something so powerful about when you first get
it set up, and it's like I remember getting that
Shield TV set up and like having it all launched
from the same kind of retro arch front end and everything,
and then you download all the thumbnails and you get
kind of the UI situation you want. You can download
themes and the stuff. Like there's just something about like,
oh my god, like this would have been the ultimate thing.
If I could go back in time and give this
to my angers, I'll be like, look at this magic
box that has every fucking game. You can make them
look better, you can make them play better, you can
you know, fast forward stuff, you can save state. It's
just it's that's the addictive part to me, and that's
why I think the Steam machine has really got me.
It's just because you can really go nuts with it.
Thanks to all the stuff that they've already learned through
the Steam deck. Now we're just applying it to a
thing that plugs into your TV grub.
Speaker 1: You mentioned you got the magic PS two from Etsy, right, Yeah,
yeah too.
Speaker 3: So there's all kinds of like like bespoke vendors that
will make like the stuff that will do a lot
of the work for you. I'm like, I am kind
of getting over the the curation stuff to an extent
of like, I just want to play the games now,
and I've I've done the curation so many times it's
like I don't want to start.
Speaker 2: From scratch anymore.
Speaker 3: So Yeah, there's people that will kind of do a
lot of that work for you, and I think it's
usually pretty cost effective in terms of the amount of
time it can save you. And now, yeah, this PS
two is just fully set up. I just plugged it
in and it's got all the games on there, and
that's that's really cool. But you know that can get
expensive because that's used the original hardware and it's I'm
using a fat PS two. Like, you got to make
sure you have all this stuff, and if you do,
maybe that is the route to go. If you don't
have that stuff, tracking it all down can get kind
of expensive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sean's in the chat saying like, yeah, part of
the beauty of is like use whatever hardware you have.
Speaker 3: Likes what you have, That's that's the way to go. Yes,
if you have an old computer an old Android phone, like,
that's that might be worth looking into seeing how easy
that is to like connect to your TV or whatever.
Speaker 4: Uh, that's a great place to start.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, uh, correct me if I'm wrong. But with
those like mini consoles that came out a couple of
years ago, can you bust into those?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That's that was actually that actually maybe predates me doing
the N Video Shield thing, because like that was my
first experience where it's like, okay, well this thing has
thirty or whatever any s games on it, And it
became like immediately there were guides on like all right,
if you have the ROMs, this is how you just
do one simple thing and then throw them all on
there and you can even get the box out and everything.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was even doing that.
Speaker 1: It was fun. Then.
Speaker 4: Those communities are insanely detailed and obsessive, and there are
just a million different ways to present these and download them,
Like the emulation scene is fucking hostile.
Speaker 1: We should like maybe pick up that Walmart device you
mentioned grub and then.
Speaker 2: Just playing there a video about that. This is this
is why you can do it.
Speaker 3: So the plan right now is like I have a
bunch of old am D hardware, not old, but it's
like older am D hardware sitting over here that I've
never put in anything.
Speaker 2: So I want to do a stream where we or
a video that we.
Speaker 3: Get that Walmart box and mess around, get that set
up as best we can and see what it's really
capable of.
Speaker 2: And then I want to build a steam box, a
steam machine out here, so we'll do that as well.
Speaker 1: Let's do that. That sounds yeah, that sounds a bunch of fun.
Oh right, let's see.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Chris from Michigan rights in. Hey dudes, Chris from Michigan here,
writing to you guys. While experiencing this explosive diarrhea thing
that's going on around these parts. I'm playing Taro Tech
Legion right now, wondering why there hasn't been a BattleBots game.
Can you imagine that there was?
Speaker 2: Isn't there?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Payload Studios taking what they have in
Tarotech and making a BattleBots game. Shit would slap love
you homies.
Speaker 2: Immediately found a BattleBots game for game Boy Advance the
battle Box. Yeah, BattleBots, Design and Destroy is the name
of this GBA game I have discovered, maybe by Majesco,
so you know, it's good.
Speaker 4: Gosh, there's a THHQ one that you can play in
Dolphin because it leaked, it did not get released.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, yea, okay.
Speaker 2: It should definitely be some kind of like modern I
know there's some stuff like there's something called robot Arena
three on PC. I bet there are things similar, but
it feels like there should be an amazing one of
those that has taken off and we all know about
it and it's the coolest thing ever. I don't know
if that's happened.
Speaker 1: Now, we should uh, we should sponsor a battle bots
team because I know some people that are in the
scene actively, so oh hell yeah, you know, next time
we go to Vegas, if all of us are ever
in Vegas at the same time, we should go to
the battle bots. Is it a pyramid right now? A
warehouse thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, it's not. They took the robot.
Speaker 1: It's funny because it was either they go to Vegas
or my career could have been different and I don't
enjoy GB and I instead joined the BattleBots revamp. Happening
a trus driver.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like right off the strip because it's like,
you know, when I got to Vegas musically walking up
and down the strip a lot, and then you just
go like two blocks off and you're like, what the
fuck they do battle bots here?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh right? Travis and Fargo rights in. Travis rights
in with five questions, I choose one of them. Travis
rights in what's cooler? Parkoer skills or Yo Yo skills?
Speaker 2: Easy Yo Yo easy A sorry Parker?
Speaker 4: Yeah no, hang on. I think if I could matrix
one of these skills in my brain, I would do
parkour because I think that'd be a more fun one
to just show off, you know, like it's more useful.
Speaker 2: For sure, but it's not cooler.
Speaker 3: I think it's I think if I saw someone doing
the coolest yo yo stuff, I would still.
Speaker 2: Assume that guy is kind of a nerd, Like I'm.
Speaker 1: Not buying them.
Speaker 2: I see a guy, I see a guy like doing
the little bunny hop over an air conditioning, you know,
on a if I think they're kind of a nerd too.
I don't think they look doing that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you did describe the worst case scenario,
and I was saying the best case scenario for yoyo
or but.
Speaker 2: Chick mat sir yo U.
Speaker 1: There are people that, uh do yoyo tricks without the
yoyo attached to a string. It's crazy. I want to
be one of those people that's.
Speaker 2: With their mind. No.
Speaker 1: No, it's like they will like be still doing the
string stuff with their hands, uh, and then like catching
the yo yo and still managing to get friction on
it to like put it to sleep, and then like
whipping the string background. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: I'll be clear.
Speaker 3: There's I can't I'm not I'm not biased or I'm yeah,
I'm biased here because the devil Sticks community has a
beef with the yo yo ki. All right, I shouldn't
speak on this. I'll recuse myself.
Speaker 2: All right. Give us a year.
Speaker 1: Mike and I are team yo Yo will become very
good at Yoyo's within a year from today. And then
grubbing Dan, you have to get good parkour.
Speaker 4: Okay, We're gonna be the John Morrisons of Giant Bomb
sounds good.
Speaker 1: God, what was this fucking thing? He came back and
he loved Parkoura.
Speaker 4: Skirting right right?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Remember the squirtstick?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do? What a what an individual? Huh?
Speaker 4: Be sure?
Speaker 1: What a person? George from Bristol right sin speaking about wrestling,
High Bomb Crew. I've just bought tickets to aw all
in at Wembley and it will be my first ever
wrestling show. I've been a big concerts before, but nothing
that has this long of a run time. What advice
have you got to manage food, drink, pea breaks while
still seeing as much wrestling as possible. Do I get
there for the pre show, arrive when the real event starts,
so I'm not trapped there all day. Thanks at advance.
George from Bristol.
Speaker 4: Go in through the outdoor when you pee? Well wait,
don't that's my gimmick. That'll make it worse for me
if you do that. Get there early, Get there early.
I mean some people tailgate. I don't know if it's
the thing in the UK. I will be at Wimbley.
If you see me, come say hi, so what will Crosby?
I will put you in a social clip. Yeah, get
there early, I mean especially with AW. The pre show
is gonna be good, Like that whole show is gonna
be fucking good. If this is your first wrestling show,
Omega and Osprey, it's just gonna make a day out
of it, make a whole plan out of it. Get
there early, don't miss any of it.
Speaker 1: Please wear deodorant, Please be clean. Don't be like some terrible,
heinous wrestling fans out there that just piss and shit themselves.
But the problem, though is you will have to miss
some wrestling because generally when AW has a pay per
view front to back, that whole show banger after banger,
so like there generally isn't a piss break match.
Speaker 4: One thing you can do is like if there is
a like let's say there I don't know what the
card is yet in full, but let's say there's like
a six or eight man ladder match, like a big
multimn thing where you know there's gonna be a million entrances.
That is a good time once those start, or like
if it's a video pasure, if not worried about knowing
the exact story of this match going in. There's not
really come down matches in AW the way there are
in wit dot which right, by the way, Jesus Christ, like,
I have not been watching de wit are you this year?
But I was in the gym last night and I
was like, Okay, it's Monday night. I'll just put w
A you on the background, see what's going on. And
every time I caught something, I was thinking to myself, like, God,
do I just have I lost interest in wrestling? And
then every time I watch an AW show, I'm like,
wrestling kicks ass. I love wrestling. It's like AW is
super fucking killing it right now. So in WT holy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh you mentioned game there early no tail game probably,
but like Wembley had like basically a whole tound of
just restaurants and bars within walking distance of it. So yeah,
you're you're we'll find things to do beforehand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where me and Willer say, I got me
and will a because Mike and I took a train. No,
we took an uber to Wembley from our Brentford airbnb. Yeah,
this time, I just found a hotel for me and
will that is next to Wembley Stadium.
Speaker 2: So that's because we could not get out of.
Speaker 4: Yes, we use the tube system to get back to Brentford,
which is not near a tube stop, so that was
a whole deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, but now you can't. You're not going to
be amongst your fellow bees this time. I love those bees.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I will say emailer, be aware that it
can be a full, full day experience, because getting out
of those things can be a little bit tricky. Uh,
even if you're doing public transportation, just because that's like
a huge group of people.
Speaker 4: And also even like a standard AW pay per view,
Tony Kahn likes to load it up with like four
hundred matches and put on an eight hour show. This
is all in. This will be in a special, biggest.
Speaker 2: Version of that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I went to that Twins game with the AW show. Afterwards,
we're walking around the the truly deck, the truly hard
Seltzer Deck, trying to find a spot to watch the
show from. And I'm in some like back hallway or whatever,
trying to figure out where to go, and just Tony
Kahan walks and like, why are you here? This isn't
even like a televised thing. Like Tony Kahan does.
Speaker 1: Not need to be love of the game.
Speaker 4: He really has the love of the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Okay, moving on along, I emailer, I hope
you enjoy your time. It's gonna be a great show.
Get there for the pre show. It's gonna have amazing
five star matches just because they don't know how to
not put on a good show.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be going for a big time in that show.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh god. I don't know if you'll see Hangman's promo,
but him going and trying to collect all the mid
card belts, I'm all for it.
Speaker 2: Collect it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he's like calling everyone out. It's great. Also, okay,
all right, we'll well, we'll put the kybosh on wrestling
in a little bit. Don't worry folks at home. But
I was never the biggest fan of Leo Rush until
this current gimmick where he is just gullum from Lord and.
Speaker 4: I was ready to fuckingt it at first, because it's like,
I don't know spooky stuff and wrestling is always so lame, like, okay,
so you have magic powers, but you also like want
to win a championship belt. It was always weird to.
Speaker 2: Me, but he was weird that.
Speaker 4: Oh no, he's a weird little goober now who like
lives in sacks and he talks to an invisible man
and he like bleeds black stuff out of his mouth
and he's just like gallops like a horse, and it's
just it's great.
Speaker 2: Like a parlapsed sack. He just comes out of it
for the match though.
Speaker 1: Like a duffel bag. He came out of a match
rules and then they put a black to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you like a black heart Leo Rush, I'm
sure he looks like he's out. It's weird context.
Speaker 1: He's just going, it's fine.
Speaker 2: That sounds like Jeff Grubb. It's fine. Actually, actually it's
more like it is more like jan It's fine, burning down.
Speaker 1: Yes, I get ready for my Leo Rush black heart
gimmick turn.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I would love that.
Speaker 1: I just saw in contact and bleeding from the mouth.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The other bit that I suggest folks check out. If
you're familiar with Leo Rush and Bobby Lashley's relationship from
the WWE, go watch the latest Stadium Stampede because Bobby
Lashley is in the background getting into a scuffle with
someone and then out of nowhere, he summons Leo Rush
to attack someone and then Leo Rush gallops like a
monster horse thing from a video game it's great. It's
really stupid. Yeah, all right. Last two emails from the show.
This one comes from Kevin from Tennessee. Hello, Jeters, I
was excited to hear Piggly Wiggly on last week's podcast
and wanted follow up with some cool information. Did y'all
talk about Piggly Wiggly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the grocery store, Yeah, we did, all right, Piggly
Kroger's acquiring Giant Eagle. That is why. Yeah, grocery discussion
going on. That's true.
Speaker 1: Phiggly Wiggly is a Southern staple founded in Tennessee back
in nineteen sixteen. It was the first self service grocery
store and revolutionize the way we shop for groceries. It's
rad as fuck. Pig mascot might look like a Porky pig,
but predates Porky by about twenty years. Mostly centered in
small towns and communities, they were only they were the
only grocery store lots of us had to access to
you growing up. Turbo Shannon had was correct in It's
still so late eighties and early nineties. Codd It scratches
all the nostalgia. Itch, go to Pigley Wiggly. They fuck
hard Love Kevin from Tennessee, sent from my iPhone not
purchased in a Pigley Wiggly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, trust me, if I had access to
a Pigley Wiggly, that would be my go to grocery store.
I had to admit, I am, I'm a little bit
lazy with this and that I'm going to go to
the closest grocery store, even if that's probably human best one. Yeah,
I know that's what I do. I mean, who doesn't. Yeah, yeah,
I guess.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Like you know, I'm lucky, like I have the Giant
Eagle by me, and right next to that is the
Aldi and I also right next to as the Dollar General.
So it's like, oh, if any of the clicking, dirty
stuff got the door General, but he kind of more
like nicer stuff and as many things to go to
the Aldie. If this is a big grocery trip, then
I'll go to the Giant Eagle. I'm all set up,
you guys.
Speaker 4: Ever hear about Jerry's foods? Are there Jerry's food locations
around here?
Speaker 3: Are there any fun like grocery stores or gas station
chains that we're gonna see on our road trip?
Speaker 1: Jam I Man no, not really. Gas station culture isn't
super a big thing on the West Coast.
Speaker 2: No BUCkies, Yeah, no BUCkies. My brother was just at
a grocery store that had a tiki bar, and he's
on a road trip right now. Why can't we have that? Yeah,
why can't we have that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see a bunch of cool trees where the
Ewoks came from. What about let.
Speaker 2: Me go to the Walt Disney Family Museum, the Computers Museum.
I want to go to.
Speaker 4: Massive computer museum. Is there from the past?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, the ABC's right. There are a lot of
Love's truck stops fun.
Speaker 2: I love loves Man. That is like sometimes I will
just wait to get gas until I know I'm gonna
be close to the Loves and go there and go.
Speaker 3: To which kind of slaps always like the Hearty's inside
of loves is good?
Speaker 1: There? Great. There is a Peanuts museum in Santa Rosa
that is very fun. If I don't know if you'll
have what like Charlie Brown Peanuts. Yes, it's actually Mikey.
It's one of it's one of the best niche museums
I've ever been to. And also the place where what's
his face? Charles Schultz.
Speaker 2: Charles Schultz friends called him Sparky.
Speaker 1: The place where he.
Speaker 2: Wrote and they have the museum with us in the car.
Speaker 1: So the place where he wrote and illustrated and hung
out a lot, uh like a little ice skating rink
cafe is still around and honestly it has one of
the best grilled cheeses I've ever had.
Speaker 2: You like cheese, Dan, I do? Like he did.
Speaker 3: Maybe go to the Studebaker Museum so we could see
one car that was in a Muppet movie.
Speaker 2: You okay, yeah, hey, hey, we donated to restore you
see that car did get restored? It did?
Speaker 1: Oh good?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, key chain. Now I still
use from that store. Hell yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Well, folks at home, now that the news is out
of our general plans of going from point A to
point B, if you have anything that you think we
should check out, please send it our way.
Speaker 2: J Are there traffic circles slash roundabouts on the West coast?
Speaker 1: Yes, there's a couple of those on the way to Oregon. Yeah, good,
because I will.
Speaker 3: I'll have something to say in the video about the
people in America do not know how to use them.
Speaker 4: No, I avoid them because every single time I'm like,
I'm deafin getting in a wreck because I'm not supposed
to be in this lane or I'm not supposed to
be exciting here. It is a bad time every time. Yes,
you are my nightmare.
Speaker 3: It's so you just like drive in and you just
keep going and as long as there's not a car
right in front of you, I promise you'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Up or left and it's like okay, wait, so can
I cross over? Like I will just go through lens
if this doesn't feel right at all, Like like how
do I get right? Like it's it's bad.
Speaker 3: You just you just don't hit another car and you'll
be fine.
Speaker 2: Uh it is Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: People will see a car on the other side of
the roundabout and be like, well, I gotta stop here
and just wait for five minutes. It's crazy how people
just don't get it at all. It's so frustrating. That's
the thing that got me the the hottest on my vacation.
Speaker 4: I take a rout when I go to the grocery store.
It takes like five minutes longer, just so I can
avoid the roundabouts, because every time I do it, either
almost getting a wreck or I wind up on the
freeway almost. It's bad. It's really bad.
Speaker 3: Remembering the time you got really mad at back our
from Bacar, being like, did you every time you talk
about driving game, you talk about how you must get
in a wreck, and then you're like, why don't want
you driving my car?
Speaker 4: Somebody's misremembering this, you.
Speaker 2: Like, since Petendant said, it's like, I won't ever drive
on the road that they made for idiots to get
in less car accidents because it scares me.
Speaker 4: It's like a it's a flip a coin. I'm either
gonna total my car or kind of get where I'm
going by taking all.
Speaker 1: Right, you're you're staying in the back seat then during
this Yeah, yeah, I grub I would like to drive
some of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sure, it's chance Like that was the most
catholic I ever felt in safety for you. No, No,
the thing.
Speaker 4: Was he thought I had a weird thing about cars now,
like I didn't like being in cars because there's too
many screens. And we figured out that that was like
jan you said that right, none of this cruising. I've
never said that I want more screens in my car
because that helps me and see where I'm going. And
he's like, no, you got some weird thing about screens
where you couldn't be in cars with too many screens.
I have never said that. That was the thing.
Speaker 1: I think My preference I said was I just don't
like a big screen in a car.
Speaker 4: Right, And he somehow took that as me saying I
freak out about current cars because they have too many screens.
That was the part that was the crossed wires there.
But it sounds a terrible fucking driver, all right. I'm
not denying that, but he's I'm terrible in like the
nice way where it's like I'm like Grandma driving too
slow and too conscious.
Speaker 2: More dangerous.
Speaker 1: That's more dangerous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is that is going in the outdoor of driving.
So yeah, yeah, I'm bad at that.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, okay. Last email comes from Lydia
from Liverpool, Hi to the BombCast. I recently purchased a
glorious sweatshirt from your fine emporium. You can This is
not Lydia's email, but stort at GiantBomb dot com. Look
at these Fishing Weeks shirts you can get grab an
eye rock at them. Going bomb dot com. The one
with giant Bomb written boldly across the front. I'm obviously
in love with my new purchase, but now I face
some awkward conversations explaining to normies what is giant bomb
is a thirty nine year old woman, I find myself
mumbling it's a video games website thing. Occasionally I throw
the words journalism and content, in which somehow makes it
seem even less convincing. It got me thinking, have you
ever embellished or given elaborate explanations or even slightly fibbed
with describing your chosen professions? How do you explain this
dirty business to people completely unfamiliar with the world of
video games, let alone video game journalism. Finally, you guys
are absolutely smashing it. I'm thrilled with my premium subscription.
Lots of love from Liverpool, UK Lydia from Liverpool.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for getting our merch. The easiest
way to distill for me these days is to say
I'm a video game podcaster. People kind of know what
everyone knows a podcast are better for worse because the
third peace. Sure they kind of understand that, and I
think even most people understand that that can be a job. Now, Yeah,
I feel.
Speaker 4: Like whenever I talk about like any kind of YouTube
component or videos, I think people just assume it's like
a beautie pie thing or something because that's the only
one people seem to know. So it's like I just
feel like I don't say that YouTube as much. I mean,
he's like the biggest one, right that, like Norman.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it was like five years ago?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Well, I mean I think people assume it's like, oh,
I'm playing games and screaming into a microphone. Well I
guess I kind of am, but.
Speaker 1: Not me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like there's ways you can like say, like if
you're trying to talk to an adult and stuff, you
can be like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm co owning
a company. It's like a video game on my network.
Speaker 2: Depends on the person, because if it's like if it's
like a childing person, I will say I'm a YouTuber
and they think it's very cool, but they have a
lot of questions for me. Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say like, oh, I own a media company.
Speaker 4: Oh and that were a video game media company.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's it's funny when like people will ask, like, oh,
what's the name of the company, and then I will
have a little bit of hesitation because like, I don't
want them to associate me with any funky activities of
saying giant bomb. But sometimes I'm surprised by this. More
often than not, I'll say giant bomb to someone and
they will be like, oh shit, word, that's you too.
Speaker 3: I have a virtual office thing where that's where my
peel box basically, and the guy that runs it like
like he's like, man, every time I get a package
for giant Bomb or whatever, that's the coolest.
Speaker 2: Name, I'm like, yeah, so just regular people really like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, yep, yep. And that about does it for emails,
bombcasts a giant bomb dot com. Mike Manatti hit me
with some super chats if we have any we.
Speaker 2: Have put his glasses on again. I need to see shit.
Migsy says, welcome back, Grub. Did you go to Phil's
heretic Land.
Speaker 3: I did not go to Phil's heretic Land. I went
to Tim Allen heretic Lando, which was Traverse City. Uh,
he's got a place up there. Uh yeah, No, vacation
was awesome. It was great up there.
Speaker 2: I and it's just like I look at pictures and
like it looks like a beautiful Croatian beach and it's like, no,
that's just lake Michigan makes says snap a Jan, breathless, grub,
faulty Dan, Minnie Mickey, and then another one. These are
these are nicknames. So the nicknames snap Jan makes me,
says Mike manaughty. Since you saw Mary does this means
she recovered from the Mina assault during the summer James games,
uh fest.
Speaker 1: I assume her neck feels better, that's the assumption. I
hope she's doing. Maybe that's why she's so.
Speaker 4: Angry Mena assault, She remembers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember she was playing me in the Hollower
and her neck got.
Speaker 4: Hurt on a bench. She got on an assault. You
know I haven't heard her complain about that. In a
bit you go.
Speaker 2: Big, Frustrating, sim says Power one point Oh has a
new power named Gloopy Primo. Is he Italian?
Speaker 1: He could be Mexican.
Speaker 2: Gloop Yeah? I got good bo go both ways. Linton
Pete Johnson says, who was me to you? Bikey?
Speaker 1: I what names?
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe next week we'll do't worry. I want to
this could be a premium dumb.
Speaker 4: Monetize thing multiple award winning, biggest podcasts in the universe.
Speaker 2: Mike that hosting game this morning. Fix your sleep schedule? No,
it may be more sleepy.
Speaker 3: So we were driving back and stuff's like you shoid
Mic on Monday to to uh like fill.
Speaker 2: You in on what you missed.
Speaker 3: I would never want to keep Mike up any longer
than I already have.
Speaker 2: I already feel bad. Turns out it's hard to just
like suddenly go to bed earlier. I was just going
to bed at the same time but then getting up earlier.
So's just kid, It's fine, makes it, says Jeff Grubb.
Can other people make PlayStation discs and pay Sony a
license to do it?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: So, like the way the discs work, like there's a
lot of d r M stuff on there that Sony
would want to control. So probably the answers No, The
answer is probably just know. Could that change? Maybe, But
like that that would be such a niche market that
it probably would not be economically feasible.
Speaker 2: So no. Zobbie Porn says Dan should do more late
night grab bag streams. And I'm not saying this just
because censored. Censored died during the last one. All right,
thanks Dan, I meaning have to say thanks for that.
Speaker 4: By the way, Yeah, yeah, I know that retro achievement
triggered that.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 2: I'm signing up because he says, Jeff Grubb, did you
watch Mike MANAUGHTI Game mess Mornings on the Beach? I
would like tune in here and there for a couple
of them. Yes, and I was on the beach for
at least one of them. Then makes he says, no
Mario Kart Tour. When green Day wakes up is green
Day and stas that's what happened to green Day. Yeah, yeah,
they're They're in the new Phantom Zone. I'm here pretty soon.
I have pictured them in the Alien Pods. The tender
e says, I just wanted to let Mike know that
they are currently the currently revealing the Star Trek magic
the Gathering cards Devin of nine has a great effect. Yeah, yeah,
I did take a look at some of these. Actually,
I think Finelle did a story on game Spot and
he actually just shot me over some of it. And yeah,
these cards, they are looking pretty cool. I like Star
Trek quite a lot, especially that the nineties era Star
Trek stuff, So I will be getting into this set apparently. Yeah,
there's even some autograph cards in there. You can get
a William Shattner autograph in your packages. Oh man, they
even have like a CON card, but it's the Star
Trek gets a darkness version of Con, which I would say,
I don't hate that movie. I don't hate that movie.
I don't hate it, but it's you know, it's not great.
Speaker 1: That's your favorite.
Speaker 2: Uh, if there's a Garrick card you all though, let
me know, I fucking love Garrick from Star Trek D's
Space and I want to I want a real cool
Is he the one that doesn't have a neck. No,
the Cardassians, well they have like the ridge on the
next so they have like strange necks their next are
there you say they may have more neck than any
of us two? Okay, too much neck? All right? Yeah, no,
I don't think it's great. How much neck they had
to be clear? Alright? And then we have sevs Savoy
material says Shameless. Oh yes, normally we don't allow cell promos,
but this one absolutely will. I turned Dance Space Ace
into an f MV quick time event game. I post
on an r slash Giant Bomb and the giant Bump discord. Yes,
go to the go to the reddit. Look this up. Uh.
They turned literally the winning run of and Superintendo into
an actual quick time event where you have to push
like up, down, left, right at certain points. It is incredible.
So they turned the Dan playing Space Ace into like
original Space Ace. It's really incredible. You have to check
that out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll have a retro achievement said, it doesn't have one.
I really do want it.
Speaker 1: I'll link it in in the show notes for this episode, folks,
I gotta find a space Ace machine on the West
coast that we could stop at.
Speaker 2: Space Ace wasn't on your rundown, Dan, You keep playing it.
Speaker 4: I do keep playing it. I played it off content
as well.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's a couple of big arcades on
the way to Portland that we could Yeah, we'll find it, Okay.
Speaker 2: All right. Next up is from Mix against Dan record.
Have you been in contact with the Space Ace fan kid?
You know a Space Ace fan kid?
Speaker 1: Dan? We signed his cartridge. We signed his cartridge, Oh
the kid.
Speaker 4: No, I've not been in contact with him, but that
one was dedicated to him.
Speaker 2: That's right, makes he says, Will you guys go to
Vegas for casino week I feel like I'd rather go
to like Atlantic City and you're like they're like Jurf
and some of the other West Coast people and hang
out there it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When I went to Lake City as a kid, it
was great. We bought a Jaguar for very cheap because
they were it was a dead console.
Speaker 1: Oh that and I'm like, wow, doctor Manatti rolled.
Speaker 2: Yeah to get me to Atlantic City. Ship and Bridges says,
Lake City is sadder Vegas Great, That's exactly the vibe
I'm looking for, right, Vegas is not sad enough for
me anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so much worse.
Speaker 2: And Reno's probably too sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, yeah, You've got no Actually, I'm gonna
go to Reno for a day this weekend and I
just want to basket it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of has a I haven't been there in
ten years, but like I kind of had a charm.
Speaker 1: It's like small what is it like the smallest big town, biggest.
Speaker 4: Town, little city in America or something.
Speaker 2: Yes, I just like a good boardwalk, all right, Bard
Walk Tyler, James Bassis, Tara Tech Legions, Ticula over my life.
You had to be clear I've been playing a ton
of it still, I didn't like bring it up the
rundown because I don't know what else to say about it.
But I think Taro Tech Legion is great. I've been said,
I finish all the two star missions. Now I need
to unlock the three star ones. I'm going to work
my way through those.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm doing all the characters specific stars right now.
Like that is the main new game. I'm still playing constantly.
Speaker 2: And then Jad Kipsons go to the olive pit on
your trip. Dan loves all of I bet you don't
actually love all of his Dan.
Speaker 4: No, and like, even though I'm more open minded about
food now, I still just like I'm fine just waving
the flag and just being like, like Bonk had me try
these like quest Dill pickle protein chips yesterday, and I
was like, I just don't think I like pickle flavor,
you know. I think that's I tried them now, I'm
not averse to it. I just don't think I like pickles.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't I'm a fan. I don't like
I don't like all of either. I don't want to
go to an olive pit. I love olives though, yeah,
you can go in your own time, then, buddy.
Speaker 1: We will pass by Weed, California. We should at least
stop by this now, the town of Weed.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: While I was in La, I hung out with our
dear friend Nicki Grayson. We went to dinner and it
was one of those Jimmy jams where you order at
the bar and Nikki just yells you like olives. I'm like, yeah,
I love olives. So they wind up adding an order
of olives to our little selection of foods. Bull of
olives comes out and I asked them like, oh, I
didn't know you like olives, and they just look at
me like I don't. I ordered this for you, and
then like they had one, and then it looked like
they were gonna throw up, but they still enjoyed it.
They tried it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I am in general just not seeing
enough D. S Bas nine stuff from these revealed cards.
So I'm seeing more Enterprise and Voyager stuff than D
Space nine. What the actual hell.
Speaker 4: Do they have the Rock from the time he was
on that one.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen him yet. Plenty of seven of nine?
What chef? That makes sense? Funny of Jane Way?
Speaker 1: All right, Janey all right, Mikey, anymore super chats that
is it.
Speaker 2: I'll do a refresh to make sure, but I'm pretty
sure we did catch up with all of those. Thank
you all so much.
Speaker 1: For folks wondering where grub Guesser is. We've spun it
out into its own little program just because play play
is better when we have a little bit more time
to spread out and guess and guesstimate. So don't worry, folks,
those will still be hitting your socials as we do them. Boys,
what do we got going on the rest of this week.
It's a busy week. It's a big meaty week because
on the dump Truck everybody, we got Big e E
tour Ewan on the show seven oh seven Exit flu
get your big meaty calls in not wrestling related, folks,
have him.
Speaker 2: Be fucking dumb.
Speaker 4: Trust me. As much as we talk about rest like,
he doesn't want to talk wrestling, he wants to like
as a man who made a podcast with this man
for a long time, he's never better than when he's
just talking about dumb bullshaping. So get your goofy ass
calls in. Uh, we don't need to talk about w
Doe wrestling, anything injury, New Day, any of that stuff.
Just get your dumb shit in. He will love to
have fun with those.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes that is happening this Thursday. But before then tomorrow,
on Wednesday, folks, a new season of Blike Club starts.
The Blakening ground is done. It only took, however, fucking long,
well close to a here.
Speaker 2: Damn, we never picked Mike's game.
Speaker 4: It's his turn, right, Oh no, Jeff Grevy. Actually, if
I'm looking at the official Blight Club or the unofficial
Blake Club Blight Club Unauthorized, which is Blake Club dot games,
check it out. Let me look at the stats here.
So cumulative time, I have been the one who has
been the most blighted, and I can say that non jokingly. Now,
the time wise space Ace, I think is objectively the
worst game we have ever played on this fucking website.
So I have played eighty nine hours and twenty minutes
of blights. Mike Manatti Wait, Mike Natty's okay, Mike Natty
has done eighty five hours and nineteen minutes. Jeff Grubb
is at eighty hours and fifty four minutes. I think
Jeff Grubb needs to get properly blighted.
Speaker 2: It's even better than that.
Speaker 3: Of the three members of Blake Club, I've played the
fourth most this year.
Speaker 4: July, and it had been a couple more weeks, you
might be fifth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, actually Jesus close.
Speaker 4: Actually it would have been a few days from now
where you would have been fifth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could still be close.
Speaker 4: Actually, I hope, I hope this is as bad as
I think it might be. I played a bit of
his game, which we will revealed tomorrow. I think it's
especially going to be bad for Grubb's brain.
Speaker 2: Is it like? I'm gonna all right? You were guys
ready to tell me that the platformers, it's still just
the do what to get? Ready? You know what I
want to it's Neo Geo, cd I, Jaguar and three
d oh get.
Speaker 4: The PS two for funds of Googles, all right, cd I,
three d Oh, Jaguar and then Sega c D.
Speaker 2: You're forgetting what the officer went is. It's not gonna
be great. I already said them. Why did you say
it again?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll get them. I'm gonna get all the ones
you guys have said. And there's just confusing you think
at what point you said, Virtual Boy, that one's gone.
So that's that's interesting that I can't remember these things.
They already told you once. It should have been good enough.
There Hillbrie game consoles where you know what they are.
Speaker 4: There is a bit of the other one Tarmac Beauty
to what's going on with this game as well that
I'm just very very excited about. And Grub. Yeah, I
think you're gonna be really fucking bad at this.
Speaker 2: No, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna be as bad as Space Ace.
I don't think it's gonna take nearly as long. But
I hope it's a bad time.
Speaker 1: You hope it's a bad time.
Speaker 4: That's what the show is.
Speaker 2: I do like looking at the like the the graph
for the point time you see that this one giant
spike for Grub when it was Dakatana, then the other
giant spike for Dan. Just recently because of the Space Ace.
Speaker 4: I still can't believe I beat that game.
Speaker 2: You had your touts for a while, right, was ever
a moment we thought never happened.
Speaker 4: I never considered seriously quitting, but there were moments where
I was like, man, it might get to a bad
point here where this is the only thing we play
in Blake Club for like five months. But I'm proud
it's happenying.
Speaker 2: You always worry people are gonna poured to turn against it,
which it's never happened. People still miss it, people want
it back.
Speaker 4: That's fucking nuts. What did I ever do to deserve you?
Speaker 2: You keep wanting it back to you?
Speaker 1: Keep playing it, Dad, Like the stats don't lie, I
think out of all of our programming, yeah, Like, that's
the most super jets we ever get per stream, most
people tuning in, even most vawdviews too.
Speaker 4: That's fucking nuts because I didn't like it.
Speaker 2: Oh weird.
Speaker 1: Uh. But something we did like is visiting our dear
friend Andrew from North Carolina. That vlog is up now,
Dan and myself are in your home.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: We documented that very fun at times. Still think about
those wings.
Speaker 4: I was just thinking about those wings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and those Cheesus Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: I brought it back home. Yeah, there were some leftovers.
I brought the back home and went nuts on it.
Speaker 1: Folks at home, do me a favor, even if you
normally only consume Giant Bomb through podcasts. Go to YouTube,
Go click on that video, give it a thumbs up.
It would make my day. Here's all I want, all
I want. I just want to hit fifteen k all right.
I know in regards to some numbers that may be
a lot, maybe not too little or too little for
some folks. I just want to hit fifteen k in
that one.
Speaker 2: I think you do it.
Speaker 1: That's all I want.
Speaker 2: People get in there. Just do that for me, please.
Speaker 1: I don't ask for a lot anyway. On top of that,
part one of Escape the back Rooms with Lucy James
is up now a lot of fun Shenanigans. There's a
particular moment where the game kind of broke with the
monster chasing and maybe getting a little too close to
our own Chuck zimmer Held and little Shenanigan's over there.
Anything else I'm missing bores.
Speaker 2: Makes the second when we're super chests as rest in Peace,
Sam Neil.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, boy. It's been like yeah, watching all the
clips and stuff people have been posting it like he
just seemed like a genuinely good dude too.
Speaker 2: He awesome.
Speaker 4: He always did what a model weight like to like
kind of semi retire as an actor to where it's
like just kind of I'm gonna go do my own.
I'm gonna go to New Zealand. I have a farm,
have all these animals, and just be a good guy
like I've always loved his works.
Speaker 3: Gonna go to Montana and marry a big beautiful American
woman or whatever he said, and run the hunt for
the Red October.
Speaker 2: You could do that in heaven.
Speaker 1: Now. Uh, this this Friday for UPF we're also finally
checking out and playing Mecha Chameleon. Fun times will be
had and Mecha camell. Thank you, Mike Manati. I think
that might be it. So I think that wraps up
the show, folks. We'll see you next week for another
episode of the Giant Bobcast. He's been Jeff, He's been Dad,
He's been Mike.
Speaker 6: Shouts out to Jeff, back all our shouts out at
Travis shawn Ton, vicdeal for producing and editing the show.
Speaker 2: Shots out the well, hope you're enjoying your vacante. Shut
what's up? Dog? We'll see you next week for another episode.
Speaker 1: That was a Giant Bobcast until then? Good Oh yeah,
I'm here, Pussie.
Speaker 2: Why