Speaker 1: It's the Internet. You're busy, Let's do this. Welcome to
Speaker 1: Game mess Decides podcast. It's the podcast where we decide
Speaker 1: everything about the world of game so you never have
Speaker 1: to think for yourself. I'm your host, Jeff Grebbin with
Speaker 1: me is Mike Manatti. In today's episode, Netflix GTA six
Speaker 1: presentation reveal. That's bizarre and we got some more casting
Speaker 1: news for the Zelda movie. But first, Mike Manati, how
Speaker 1: are you doing?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm doing. Ready for the weekend once again. I
Speaker 2: want to play some video games. I started a little
Speaker 2: bit of that token. I want to do some more
Speaker 2: of that. I got the found Facy fourteen running on
Speaker 2: my switch to So now I'm now I'm questioning in bed,
Speaker 2: which is just the place I always wanted to bed
Speaker 2: quest at bad question?
Speaker 3: Yes, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Todd, Like if I could be an adventure and someone
Speaker 1: who went on quests but also stay in bed at
Speaker 1: the same time, perfect life, Like that's yeah, I would
Speaker 1: have everything. But yeah, I I am a god. I
Speaker 1: have a sort of laundry list of things I need God,
Speaker 1: And that's sort of like ominous when I put it
Speaker 1: as a laundry list, because the thing at the top
Speaker 1: of the laundry list is finished. The laundry room renovation,
Speaker 1: I'm getting there last weekend. Last week I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there are like three tools that I guess I should
Speaker 1: go rent. And then I looked at the renting prices,
Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe if I just bought them, that would
Speaker 1: be pretty close to kind of the same price. So
Speaker 1: I bought a bunch of tools and now I have
Speaker 1: them all. I got a nail gun. I got a
Speaker 1: an oscillating multi tool, which I just thought was for
Speaker 1: mass effect, but apparently that's real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, like I said, ceiling stembolt, that was for you,
Speaker 2: my star Trek fans.
Speaker 1: All right, it's uh like basically just goes back forth
Speaker 1: real fast and can kind of like cut through things
Speaker 1: very accurately. So I'm got to cut out the countertop
Speaker 1: for the sink, and I gotta put all the shit.
Speaker 1: I gotta make it look a little table. I want
Speaker 1: to get that done because I keep thinking about this office.
Speaker 1: I think I want to redo this office. I just
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff I want to do. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: kind of want to move things around, and then then
Speaker 1: it's like probably a bad time to start doing that
Speaker 1: because I did like look up and I saw John
Speaker 1: Madden and I was like, oh, yeah, that means it's
Speaker 1: time for game reviews to return, like review sees that
Speaker 1: I think Alex Davorro would always be like John Mannon
Speaker 1: saw his Shadow, and that means six more weeks of
Speaker 1: NonStop game reviews. And that was just like twenty four
Speaker 1: weeks NonStop. It's here. There's a lot of games happening.
Speaker 2: It's a big one September. It's so there's a lot
Speaker 2: going on there. You know, I'm excited for some video games,
Speaker 2: but also yep, yep, work work work, yep.
Speaker 3: Work work work.
Speaker 1: It's uh, I do have like a concern like that,
Speaker 1: Like we're all so excited for a bunch of games
Speaker 1: coming out, and I think we should be, but it's, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a chance that like three or four of these
Speaker 1: could have like big like sort of backlashes as people
Speaker 1: find out like what they used AI on in a
Speaker 1: way that we weren't expecting. I'm just worried, like we're
Speaker 1: gonna get away from all this bad news and all
Speaker 1: these games are gonna come out, and the bad news
Speaker 1: is just gonna keep following us one way or another.
Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, I don't think that's going nowhere. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: let's see. We'll see who else the a Trump family
Speaker 2: member owns in the video game world in a few months,
Speaker 2: right exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I'll not let that get me down too far.
Speaker 1: There's there's too many games to choose from. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I'll be able to find the ones that I'm really into. Uh,
Speaker 1: but yeah, this is a We're gonna have a big
Speaker 1: episode just talking about all the all the news and stuff,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna do what we say. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do that mount rushmore of game announcements or game review.
Speaker 2: Reviews because this thing's happening.
Speaker 1: So sure, yes, all right, that sounds good. We'll figure
Speaker 1: that out. But first, thank you everybody for joining us.
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Speaker 1: With all that out of the way, some big news
Speaker 1: to talk about. Let's take a quick break and then
Speaker 1: we'll get into it. Can't stop talking about tools, Mike,
Speaker 1: because you're here.
Speaker 3: I got a new beer, new beer alert. Look at this?
Speaker 1: Is that an? Is that a Star Trek themed beer?
Speaker 3: No? No, no way, I thought it like.
Speaker 1: Something about yeah, something about the font treatment. And then
Speaker 1: I thought, like the name of the beer was like
Speaker 1: a Star Trek character for a second. But it says Dort.
Speaker 1: That's a Dort.
Speaker 3: It's so close a door flight great, says Dort monder Gold.
Speaker 2: They made a light version of it two point nine
Speaker 2: percentically nothing, this is watically water. This is a healthy Yeah,
Speaker 2: you were man, your health nut dark man exactly. I bet,
Speaker 2: I bet it's gonna paste reinvigorating.
Speaker 1: That sounds so goddamn good. A dortmunder light that sounds amazing.
Speaker 2: Guess what chip pretty damn good, Pretty damn good. That
Speaker 2: is refreshing.
Speaker 1: I don't drink much beer, but like, yeah that's these days,
Speaker 1: but that sounds like it would hit the spot on
Speaker 1: a hot evening.
Speaker 2: It's like definitely like has like a light your quality,
Speaker 2: but definitely like has that maultiness that I like in
Speaker 2: the Dort under gold regular Dort heavy.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna call it, and that's so heavy.
Speaker 1: The Dort diesel is what we call it here, all right,
Speaker 1: let's see here. GT six is next presentation, which I
Speaker 1: think they did actually in the headline say an extended
Speaker 1: look is gonna happen on Netflix as a timed exclusive,
Speaker 1: very timed, like six hours later, it'll be on YouTube.
Speaker 1: But people are gonna want to watch this thing right away,
Speaker 1: and the way to do that, I guess is only
Speaker 1: on Netflix. Although is that going to be the case,
Speaker 1: because are we gonna be able to like co stream it?
Speaker 1: I mean, they're probably gonna say no, but can they
Speaker 1: stop us? I don't know.
Speaker 4: I heard that they are are allowing people to react
Speaker 4: to it and make content out.
Speaker 1: Of it, So then what's the point. But whatever, this
Speaker 1: is going to be like, right, I assume that this
Speaker 1: is like some previous Rockstar trailers or presentations that have
Speaker 1: gone into more detail about what the game is. That
Speaker 1: sounds like what this is and Netflix being the home
Speaker 1: of that. I don't know. It feels both new and old.
Speaker 1: It feels like it hearkens back to the days of
Speaker 1: like big media events for big big properties launching excuse me,
Speaker 1: in video games. But it happening on Netflix is the
Speaker 1: new part where it's like, oh, that's that's weird.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is just a quick moment in time. It's gonna
Speaker 1: fly by. We're probably never gonna think about it again.
Speaker 1: But for now, Mike, what he it?
Speaker 2: I make enough of these jerk off hand motions to
Speaker 2: destroy the joints in my skeleton. I can't do this enough.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm just getting so over it. I'm not
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't even like stop anymore. I just
Speaker 2: I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I just
Speaker 2: I resent your Grand Theft Auto six. I resent that
Speaker 2: this is, for some reason, five times bigger than any big,
Speaker 2: big video game that's ever happened before, and we kind
Speaker 2: of like treat it like that. We treat it like
Speaker 2: Princess hoot shit constantly where it's too good to have
Speaker 2: a fucking game. Triller just had some show or just
Speaker 2: put it on YouTube. It's gotta be on Netflix. Now
Speaker 2: what the hell are we talking about? I just I
Speaker 2: can't roll my eyes enough at it. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 2: just I just I can't stands it no more. It's
Speaker 2: a fucking driving shooting game. Gray, will you you pupee?
Speaker 2: Oh god, there's gonna be a billboard that has the
Speaker 2: word hits in it.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 1: Oh really that's edgy. It's yeah, it's it is going
Speaker 1: to be another Grand Theft Auto game that at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. That's it's I don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be all that different, but you know, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: have something to show off.
Speaker 2: Here have a lot of minigames, so it'll it'll have
Speaker 2: like a plut put mining game. They'll be I'll get
Speaker 2: it a lot of it's going to be good. Of course,
Speaker 2: there's lots of good video games.
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 2: Loser goddamn mind's over it all the time, like this,
Speaker 2: Netflix isn't have to.
Speaker 3: Get involved, Netflix, but then just get involved.
Speaker 1: They backed up the money truck they had to have
Speaker 1: paid for this six hours of exclusivity that we've established
Speaker 1: is not going to be that exclusive. Like, I guess
Speaker 1: people will rush to Netflix. They will, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: like what is long term? Do people associate Netflix with
Speaker 1: grand theft auto going? I don't know what this accomplishes
Speaker 1: for anybody, but uh yeah, I'm I'm like, I'm mostly
Speaker 1: just curious about how this came about and now here
Speaker 1: we are when kind of like, all right, Netflix.
Speaker 3: Good for you.
Speaker 2: I really should to pick the time when I wasn't
Speaker 2: swinging back beer for the first time in this show
Speaker 2: in a while to go on a rant.
Speaker 1: On the door clearly the dort's gone to his head. Everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: although it is ye this someone said Jeff Keilly, it's
Speaker 1: very funny to me like that we ever thought that
Speaker 1: this game could appear at like a Jeff Keeley show
Speaker 1: or something like. He he was never gonna pay to
Speaker 1: get it, Like that's absurd, what's smart?
Speaker 3: Don't pay for it? No, God, Like, we're not gonna
Speaker 3: pay for it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a lot of like traction from this
Speaker 1: just reacting to whatever this bullshit is, Like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gosh, I almost want to tell you all, don't
Speaker 2: watch it. Don't watch us react to it.
Speaker 3: You told him that over it. I am God.
Speaker 1: It's uh, that's not gonna be the case. People are
Speaker 1: gonna show up for this mic. They're just gonna watch it.
Speaker 1: It's like it is a cultural vent in video games
Speaker 1: unlike we've seen in a while.
Speaker 3: I think I grew with that. It's like the way we.
Speaker 1: Treat it as if like we've never seen something this
Speaker 1: big before. We don't get the cyber consoles coming out, God,
Speaker 1: and we just know very little about it at this time.
Speaker 1: And God, Okay, so if it does come out and
Speaker 1: it like stumbles out of the gate. If there's like
Speaker 1: some sort of maybe not cyberpunk level of backlash, but
Speaker 1: like something close to that, are you going.
Speaker 3: To revel in it or what?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: I don't think I should say that. You think it'll
Speaker 2: be very interesting what it is? Yeah, I think that
Speaker 2: would be to observe that and commentate on it as
Speaker 2: a professional's you know, he won those like Red Dead
Speaker 2: Redemption to all right, you do. Yeah, it's not about
Speaker 2: Rockstar game. It's about this one game. They're getting fucking
Speaker 2: like like they're they're getting a fucking metal of freedom
Speaker 2: for taking fifteen years to make a sequel.
Speaker 3: Great god ja, yeah, well done. It took too fucking long.
Speaker 1: And but but people didn't forget about it. They're still
Speaker 1: this is somehow it's it feels like it only made
Speaker 1: it's uh yeah, it's it rise in at the estimation
Speaker 1: of like a lot of people. And now I do
Speaker 1: wonder if it's going to be able to live up
Speaker 1: to the hype. It feels like people won't be able
Speaker 1: to tell themselves it well, they've been waiting too long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, no chat, I'm getting a cute. This
Speaker 2: is the first beer I had.
Speaker 1: Very chat. It's very funny, so keep doing it, like clear,
Speaker 1: Oh god, uncle Mikey's on on the sauce again.
Speaker 4: It's yelling so much that Mike is like cutting out
Speaker 4: sometimes it's funny.
Speaker 3: It's even funnier when that happened. I can't lower that
Speaker 3: gate anymore.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, yeah, yeah, sure it's graand so I hope,
Speaker 2: I hope it's everything that everybody wants it to be.
Speaker 3: I hope that you all have a great time with it.
Speaker 2: It's not even launching with that the like the online
Speaker 2: multiplayer mode that actually made GTA five the generational giant hit.
Speaker 3: It was, right, yep. Yeah, though, I.
Speaker 1: Mean although you know, millions people show up just to
Speaker 1: play that single player.
Speaker 2: As well, So yeah, obviously still a big deal. Look,
Speaker 2: I've said before like I've never been that into it,
Speaker 2: even when it was saying PS two era, when it
Speaker 2: was you know, also the biggest thing word. I would
Speaker 2: play those games a bit and then kind of pretty
Speaker 2: quickly go back to playing counter Strike or World A
Speaker 2: Worldcraft or whatever I was doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely had my time with Grand Theft Auto
Speaker 1: three at friend's house and we just play it NonStop.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Grand theft out of five. I just goofed
Speaker 1: around for some time, installed a bunch of ods. I
Speaker 1: had my time with him, but it was not Honestly,
Speaker 1: rock Stars game design had very little to do with
Speaker 1: the enjoyment I got out of that. So when they're
Speaker 1: gonna like, here's a big presentation to talk about our
Speaker 1: game design, I like, that doesn't mean a lot to me.
Speaker 1: I just don't think you guys are going to change
Speaker 1: much when it comes to that. It is going to
Speaker 1: be go here, do that thing, and it's going to
Speaker 1: kind of control all right, ish is my And then
Speaker 1: there I think all the like exciting stuff will be
Speaker 1: like it will be like the physics and the rag
Speaker 1: doll stuff and how they've improved that and how that
Speaker 1: leads to emerging gameplay for when I install the mods
Speaker 1: on PC thirty five years from now or whatever.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean I do wonder, like, what are
Speaker 2: they going to do with this presentation?
Speaker 3: Like you can't is it? I hope? I hope.
Speaker 2: So I want to see the first ever perfect dark
Speaker 2: multiplayer match.
Speaker 3: So much during that thing. You know what vibes, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what vibes. It gives.
Speaker 4: It gives like clueless gamer we call on O'Brien, you know,
Speaker 4: or like when we follow on, how they will switch
Speaker 4: or whatever? You know that like definitely saying your real
Speaker 4: TV type type.
Speaker 1: Shit, Yeah, I do, right. I do wonder, like who's
Speaker 1: going to be the host of this thing? Like if
Speaker 1: it was something like a Universal project, I would be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon could easily be there. It's not gonna be
Speaker 1: the case, but I do wonder it's gonna be James Cordenhit,
Speaker 1: like Jimmy foul would be perfect.
Speaker 2: He is like right, somehow, he's the avatar for the
Speaker 2: people who are just inconsolably excited about this game. Man,
Speaker 2: I can't help but find it as an object of curiosity,
Speaker 2: and when something like this happens, it's like, huh okay,
Speaker 2: my guest here is in a couple of years we
Speaker 2: will look back and be like, remember when I was
Speaker 2: on Netflix?
Speaker 1: Isn't that kind of stupid and funny? Although I guess
Speaker 1: we already feel that way.
Speaker 2: So here we are, all right, there's somebody I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: and so much chat is just like I was like,
Speaker 2: it's just an ad?
Speaker 3: Why you mad? Bro? I don't understand It's an ad
Speaker 3: that's on Netflix. It's not one of the ads. You
Speaker 3: get that, right, It's a show. It's a present behind
Speaker 3: a pen.
Speaker 1: Oh you have to pay a subscription to get it.
Speaker 1: It's just it's like just stupid, Like just look at it.
Speaker 1: It's a stupid thing that has happened.
Speaker 2: This is clearly extraordinary, right, and I think it's worth ridicule,
Speaker 2: And I will go ahead and ridicule.
Speaker 1: And then at least like again that same day, like
Speaker 1: people are going to get home from work and be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's happening, and then just watch it on YouTube. Like
Speaker 1: that is like that is the timeline here. By the
Speaker 1: time like a lot of other people realize it's happening,
Speaker 1: they will just it'll be available on YouTube and they'll
Speaker 1: never even know it was on Netflix. So it's just
Speaker 1: a weird thing all around.
Speaker 2: All right. Sorry, Like that's like that, like the person
Speaker 2: jest said, I pay for no ads Netflix, so I
Speaker 2: can't watch it.
Speaker 1: Switch to remains Nintendo's fastest selling system. They sold another
Speaker 1: three point eight two million Switch two systems during the
Speaker 1: April of June quarter, brings it to a total of
Speaker 1: twenty three point sixty eight million after thirteen months. That
Speaker 1: is a head of both the Wii's twenty point one
Speaker 1: three million and the original switches one of seventeen point
Speaker 1: seven to nine million in the same amount of time.
Speaker 1: Nintendo maintained its forecast of sixteen point five million switch
Speaker 1: to systems for the full fiscal year. Nintendo's quarterly revenue
Speaker 1: fell nine point five percent year over year, but it's
Speaker 1: operating profit, so it's making more money from everything. A
Speaker 1: rose one hundred and fifty point five percent. A big
Speaker 1: part of that is they got a huge return of
Speaker 1: tariff money that they that they paid and that got Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went right back to them. So all those price
Speaker 1: increases they did to pay for the tariffs went right
Speaker 1: back in their pocket. So they made less revenue, made
Speaker 1: much more profit, netted out a lot better. Uh, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna see any of that money though. That's so
Speaker 1: free price increases for all these companies, including Nintendo.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, but do you do Yes, that's such
Speaker 2: an eye. There's there's as always interesting stuff when these
Speaker 2: things happened. I always find the software sales interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like Kirby Air Riders doing one point nine millions.
Speaker 3: That seems really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that game right, Like God there's no way that
Speaker 2: first Curber writer or whatever.
Speaker 3: Did anything close to that.
Speaker 2: No, that it's like interesting that like Yoshie isn't on
Speaker 2: there yet, right, so that means probably hasn't sold a
Speaker 2: million copies yet. Still no sign metrad Prime four, which
Speaker 2: is split across two platforms, but still you think maybe
Speaker 2: would sell one million copies on one of those platforms,
Speaker 2: maybe switched to but you know, the both the Pokemon
Speaker 2: games doing very Oh Domodoch you like doing incredibly well.
Speaker 1: Yep, exactly eight million copies sold for that and that's
Speaker 1: like sold through two consumers.
Speaker 3: It's insane.
Speaker 1: The original game through its entire lifetime was around six
Speaker 1: and a half not the original game, the three DS
Speaker 1: game that's the first one we really got here, but
Speaker 1: that's not the first game. I did about six and
Speaker 1: a half million lifetime. It's been four months since this
Speaker 1: game came out. It has not had a holiday, and
Speaker 1: it does seem like one of those ones that is
Speaker 1: in the not just Animal Crossing, but in that Nintendo
Speaker 1: zone of games that sell one hundred thousand to five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand copies every quarter throughout the entire life cycle
Speaker 1: of the console. And really now for a lot of
Speaker 1: these Switch one games that has continued from Switch one
Speaker 1: to Switch two because backward compatibility is so like ever
Speaker 1: present that those games are just continue to sell and
Speaker 1: it's not like they're discounted most of the time. So
Speaker 1: those sixty dollars games from the Switch one are still
Speaker 1: out there, still doing exactly that. Tomadacci Life could sell
Speaker 1: for a very long time and kind of get up
Speaker 1: to twenty million copies at some point. Maybe it won't,
Speaker 1: but eight million alone is saying creditable. That is a
Speaker 1: blockbuster hit. It's a smash hit, mega hit. Most first
Speaker 1: party games from PlayStation in Xbox never sell eight million copies.
Speaker 1: Most of them don't sniff eight million copies, So that's
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 2: I see a game fire asking about star Fox. Starf
Speaker 2: Fox is pretty recent before this quarter, so hard to
Speaker 2: gleam anything from that. With tun Raiders obviously not part
Speaker 2: of this, but Jesse and I've actually bought a couple
Speaker 2: copies of that game for my nephew. They both had
Speaker 2: birthdays recently, and like when I went, yeah, last week,
Speaker 2: when I went out, just impossible to find a physical copy,
Speaker 2: just sold out, yeah everywhere.
Speaker 3: It's actually well, I bet that game is going to
Speaker 3: do very well also, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know, it's weird because again, you look
Speaker 2: at like the software lineup in some ways are kind
Speaker 2: of like, ah, this is not the sexiest year for
Speaker 2: Nintendo software. But I don't know, you kind of look
Speaker 2: at it all together, it's actually really solid and selling
Speaker 2: quite well still, and I think there's a chance firing
Speaker 2: them is going to also be a pretty big hit.
Speaker 2: An okran a Time remake also obviously going to do
Speaker 2: very well.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's see, your pcopy is at five million, and
Speaker 1: that's just outside of Japan, and I think that game
Speaker 1: is like at like a million physical sold in Japan alone,
Speaker 1: So I mean you just double that that that game,
Speaker 1: that which is a switch to only game, probably around
Speaker 1: seven to eight million. Now at this point. That's really good.
Speaker 1: That's like, yeah, okay, clearly that game is broken through
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: The switch to as as momentum though, and obviously a
Speaker 1: part of the sales of the console being strong is
Speaker 1: due to the fact that people are rushing out to
Speaker 1: get it before the price increase happens, which is not
Speaker 1: happened happened yet, that happens September first, But then I
Speaker 1: think I think the expectation should be around the time
Speaker 1: that that price increase really does go really does go
Speaker 1: into effect. That is when I would really also expect
Speaker 1: Nintendo to say, and here's why you will, you should
Speaker 1: forget about that because here's Zelda Okerna of Time and
Speaker 1: they will just kind of hicck it up from there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I alost wonder if like there's a director around that
Speaker 2: time too, to finally, like they show off one of
Speaker 2: the big games coming in.
Speaker 3: Okay, Smash Brothers is coming. Everybody right here.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's possible for them right when we
Speaker 1: we know like how these things go, like getting the
Speaker 1: assets ready all that stuff. It's it's hard to do that.
Speaker 1: It's it kind of it's tough. But if they do
Speaker 1: have a three D Mario and this Zelda Ocera of
Speaker 1: Time remake and a Smash and a Luigi's Mansion, for like,
Speaker 1: if they were saving up stuff to have like a
Speaker 1: Mega direct, that would be the time to do it right,
Speaker 1: just make people forget about the pricing increase olk although
Speaker 1: you know, they might have another price increase next year,
Speaker 1: so they might still want to spread.
Speaker 3: That stuff out.
Speaker 2: So if they never felt the pressure to kind of
Speaker 2: go back to the old bad habit of announcing a
Speaker 2: game way too early or they have done before, like
Speaker 2: what's the Breath of the Wild and Metrod Prime four
Speaker 2: of course, like maybe this would be it. Maybe this
Speaker 2: is when you're like, there is a new Mario game
Speaker 2: and here's the name of it, and that's all you're
Speaker 2: gonna see. Yep, exactly three years, four years, five years.
Speaker 1: We talked about the EA deal closing with Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: last week that really it did close. It is now
Speaker 1: a privately owned institution under Saudi Arabia's Private Investment Fund,
Speaker 1: which is argued with the Sovereign Wealth Fund PIFF. Jared
Speaker 1: Kushner's Difinity Partners is part of that as well. Silver
Speaker 1: Lake is a part of that, but huge leverage buyout.
Speaker 3: We also talked about that aspect of it.
Speaker 1: Around eighteen billion dollars in debt that they will have
Speaker 1: to service about so about each year, they'll have one
Speaker 1: point eight million or billion excuse me in interest payments
Speaker 1: that they'll have to make, and they have an operating
Speaker 1: revenue of around one point five million. Their earnings before
Speaker 1: income tax, you know, the deficits in appreciation or whatever,
Speaker 1: amateurization whatever that is. EBITA is one point five billion,
Speaker 1: so they can get close to servicing that debt. And basically,
Speaker 1: if they paid all that one point five billion to
Speaker 1: their payment, they would be able to pay the interest maybe,
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't be able to pay down the principle,
Speaker 1: so they would continue to own eighteen billion in perpetuity.
Speaker 1: So their answer to that is to set seven hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars in annual costing cost cuts, with one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy million of those being organizational efficiencies, which means
Speaker 1: you translate that to job cuts, which I think a
Speaker 1: lot of Yeah, yeah, Like that's they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pay fewer people because what else can he do to
Speaker 1: like grow and make more money. They've already squeezed every
Speaker 1: stone of all blood available, so this is kind of
Speaker 1: all they have left to them. And it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's so it's gonna be more miserable, which is what
Speaker 1: we were predicting last week. But it's already seeming to
Speaker 1: come seemingly coming to fruition here.
Speaker 2: Right, And you know, I think the worry is, well,
Speaker 2: is it like layoffs across the studios or is it
Speaker 2: just like we're gonna close down the studio, and what
Speaker 2: studio would that be? Can they afford to do it,
Speaker 2: to support studios even for these big, super money making franchises,
Speaker 2: or is it just gonna be bioers time to finally
Speaker 2: go away?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: That's sort of the nightmare here, because you can maybe
Speaker 2: see them being like, well, dragon Age didn't hit. We
Speaker 2: know people care about mass effect, but do they it's
Speaker 2: a mass effecta wash, Halo's washed.
Speaker 3: Maybe mass effects washed too. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be If there were decent stewards of franchises
Speaker 2: at all, that would never possibly be the case, and
Speaker 2: a next mass effect would be a giant hit. But
Speaker 2: I bet they can talk themselves into into saying, well,
Speaker 2: maybe we'll at least get that out and then probably
Speaker 2: just shut it down, or who knows, worst case scenario,
Speaker 2: just shut it down now.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It seems like they've AA has always been merciless with
Speaker 2: closing down studios. It's always feel like even they have
Speaker 2: had a sense of shame when it comes to closing
Speaker 2: down freaking BioWare.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that can survive this transition here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems very unlikely uh, because it's like that's
Speaker 1: like the easy one here for them to close down
Speaker 1: and then deeper cuts at studios like Respawn which have
Speaker 1: already had cuts. That seems like that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: To the Criterion has just been a support studio for Battlefield,
Speaker 2: right like right right, maybe they could probably outsource that
Speaker 2: I elsewhere.
Speaker 4: AI.
Speaker 3: What would it what we know these people are working
Speaker 3: for if the AI will do it for us.
Speaker 1: Right and and you know what they'll do is like
Speaker 1: they'll close down the Criterion and these in like a
Speaker 1: motive and stuff like, okay, they don't need to support it.
Speaker 1: We will contract out these like AI specialist studios and
Speaker 1: that will secretly actually just be human beings in other
Speaker 1: countries actually doing any of the work that gets approved
Speaker 1: that's actually any good or whatever. So but that will
Speaker 1: still be will be paying less money, and that that
Speaker 1: would be the idea here, just worse games from a
Speaker 1: company that we I think everyone's already feeling for a
Speaker 1: long time now lost.
Speaker 3: In the woods and their ability to deliver exciting new stuff.
Speaker 1: God, I never thought I would just be so desperate
Speaker 1: for the John Ricotello years to come back, but right
Speaker 1: I would takes.
Speaker 2: I would take a Mirrors Edge catalyst right now, so
Speaker 2: fucking hard. That sounds good and like the weird Medal
Speaker 2: of Honor reboot. Yeah, oh baby, they tried at least
Speaker 2: the need for speed game.
Speaker 1: That was story okay, yeah, sure, cuts like fu cutes maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God just so far away from SSS tricky and
Speaker 2: God's true light exactly.
Speaker 1: We have Uh, we've just steered away from it in
Speaker 1: a really bad way.
Speaker 3: I saw that.
Speaker 4: I saw the EA f f C Club whatever trailer
Speaker 4: for it, and there's just there's there's like a like
Speaker 4: an Argentinian fake city on it, and he looks.
Speaker 3: So AI everything, like the streets and everything.
Speaker 4: I had no I had to prove that it is,
Speaker 4: but it looks so like the paintings look like, you know,
Speaker 4: AI is love, He's we're cook.
Speaker 3: That's we're so cook.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm definitely like seeing it everywhere, whether or
Speaker 1: not it's like really AI or not, It's it's definitely
Speaker 1: poisoned the well for me in a way that I'm
Speaker 1: really disappointed about because I'm seeing it in every game
Speaker 1: I'm playing, and I just don't know if it's real
Speaker 1: or not. And I could just go back to old
Speaker 1: games where I know that's not the case, and that's
Speaker 1: real nice. Uh Beasts of Reincarnation reviews happened. Uh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna play this game, Mike. It's got like a seventy
Speaker 1: five is it's in that range?
Speaker 2: Like it's always like, because I completely understand the argument
Speaker 2: of like seven out of ten games, those are good,
Speaker 2: and like sometimes those are completely fine. There are a
Speaker 2: lot of video games past than presence, and there are
Speaker 2: a lot of games that I think are an eight
Speaker 2: or above for me that I haven't gotten to have
Speaker 2: it right. That's why sometimes it's hard to be like, well,
Speaker 2: let's take time to try out this seven out of ten,
Speaker 2: even though it's like, you know, it's a difficult situation,
Speaker 2: like how could how could game do much better than that?
Speaker 2: With this first swing here of something very different from them,
Speaker 2: very ambitious, even though it seems like some of the
Speaker 2: some of the mistakes maybe they could have done better,
Speaker 2: like story pacing things right, which something they traditionally have
Speaker 2: not been great with.
Speaker 1: Anyways, Yep, yeah, they're they're promising to make those updates,
Speaker 1: those improvements to the game. I bet by the time
Speaker 1: this game is twenty five dollars or you know, it's
Speaker 1: going to get a discount this holiday, for sure, but
Speaker 1: like when it's like really deeply discounted, I bet it'll
Speaker 1: be you know, close to an eight at that point,
Speaker 1: like a seven point nine or something. They're going to
Speaker 1: make some improvements here and make it a better game.
Speaker 1: And I do think they'll be able to do that.
Speaker 1: Well they make it a great game, I'll probably not
Speaker 1: we'll be able to stand up to other games in
Speaker 1: in the genre. I think it'll stand alongside many of
Speaker 1: them at that point. But in this moment, why pay
Speaker 1: full price for a game that they've already said that
Speaker 1: they are going to make better eventually, Like we know
Speaker 1: it'll get this time, just wait to buy it then.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what a lot of people are.
Speaker 1: That's the move for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: And there are so many games coming out obviously, right
Speaker 2: there's that too, So it's a rough should be a
Speaker 2: seven Onnie Musha, which.
Speaker 3: Is like sem similar but probably going to be better.
Speaker 1: It's bom yep exactly, Like just play that instead now
Speaker 1: and then pick this up in a Steam cell a
Speaker 1: year and a half from now. And that's again that's
Speaker 1: the move. Sam Neil is in the Zelda movie, according
Speaker 1: to reports from I Think Deadline for this one. Deadline
Speaker 1: reports that Sam Neil filmed a role in Nintendo and
Speaker 1: Sony's live action The Legend of Zelda Movie before his
Speaker 1: death on July thirteenth at age seventy eight. The movie
Speaker 1: finished principal photography in photography in April, meaning Neil had
Speaker 1: already completed his work. His character has not been identify.
Speaker 1: Deadline says this could wind up being his final screen performance.
Speaker 1: If you're thinking that he is Gannendorf, he is not.
Speaker 1: That is people are saying the guy who played Young
Speaker 1: Rock on the.
Speaker 2: Table, the twenty one year old version of Young Rock,
Speaker 2: it's Uli La to Kefu. Yeah Australian. I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so I've looked up the pronunciation on that one. So yes, uh,
Speaker 2: that's the Gannendorf. I think that's more reported than announced,
Speaker 2: but seems like, yeah, that's the case. Other actresses reported
Speaker 2: as well. We don't know who they are, but it
Speaker 2: could be like, you know, I would guess Sam Neil
Speaker 2: maybe the King of Hiary, right, I.
Speaker 1: Will tell you I know exactly who Dyke and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if I'm saying her name, right, but deishen
Speaker 1: Lachman think that's Empa.
Speaker 3: One have you seen her? You should look at an
Speaker 3: image of her and tell me she's not Empa.
Speaker 1: People are got one hundred years from now, and people
Speaker 1: give to be like, oh, it's cool that they, you know,
Speaker 1: made the character in the video game The Legends still
Speaker 1: to Okerate time look just like the actress in the movie,
Speaker 1: because it's like they're gonna get it backward.
Speaker 3: It looks exactly. It just looks so impa.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. And then Yvonne Starkowsky from The Handmaid's Tale
Speaker 1: and a bunch of other stuff is playing an unspecified
Speaker 1: queen character.
Speaker 2: So well, we don't usually see the Queen of high
Speaker 2: roll in these games. Huh right, Yeah, maybe she could
Speaker 2: be the Queen of high Rule. She could be like
Speaker 2: an evil queen or something like that.
Speaker 3: But maybe she's gonna be the goron queen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it's gonna be in it, right, if it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be one species quote unquote in here, Yeah, rons.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's say, uh, Zelda does like have to
Speaker 1: go on her own and kind of deal with the
Speaker 1: stuff on her own, but mostly she is a damsel
Speaker 1: in distress or whatever. I don't think she can go
Speaker 1: fully be That's that's not the style of storytelling at
Speaker 1: the moment. But Link is going on in an adventure
Speaker 1: and he has to team up with like a charc
Speaker 1: like what is most likely to be in his sort
Speaker 1: of posse, his sidekick posse. Do you think a gorn
Speaker 1: could make that cut?
Speaker 2: I think gorons can make the cut. I think bird
Speaker 2: people out, Yes, not opening in the movie. It's gonna
Speaker 2: work too much, right, I think that the fish people
Speaker 2: might make an appearance, right, like, yes, they be question
Speaker 2: the fish people. Yeah, I don't think they're gonna be
Speaker 2: like part of the crew. You're gonna like go to
Speaker 2: fish town for a for a scene in the movie.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, boy, I wonder if he's gonna he's
Speaker 2: gotta have a crew, he's gonna if he's gonna talk,
Speaker 2: he's gonna have that people to talk to.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly is gonna be people to talk to. So
Speaker 1: I I think a goron is kind of perfect. Actually,
Speaker 1: make you ceg that up.
Speaker 2: You can kind of make them look like the Thing
Speaker 2: or something like Rocky in uh yeah yeah, not not
Speaker 2: the Boxer but the Alien and Hill Mary kill Mary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that could be uh a fun
Speaker 1: sort of tough character that is also good for comedic relief.
Speaker 1: I think that would be fantastic. I hope.
Speaker 2: Wait, I just don't want it to be all like
Speaker 2: humans or humans with ear prosthetics.
Speaker 3: Give me a little bit of something here.
Speaker 1: Also yes, also Dyke and Lockman already has the ears
Speaker 1: as well. She just alright out, it's crazy coming.
Speaker 3: It's next year. Next year is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's close enough that people are shocked we haven't
Speaker 1: had a trailer yet.
Speaker 3: It's specifically April thirtieth.
Speaker 2: I think it is April thirtieth, so like not even
Speaker 2: second half of next year, which is like, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's a little surprise.
Speaker 3: We have not had a trailer yet. It's good. It's
Speaker 3: coming down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, we we we'll get that. Uh, we'll get
Speaker 1: that real soon. We'll get a teaser or more in
Speaker 1: the next couple of months. For sure.
Speaker 3: We're not going to get to the end of this
Speaker 3: year without seeing Yeah, it's got to have at some
Speaker 3: point before Christmas.
Speaker 1: You would think, yep, exactly, all right, that doesn't for
Speaker 1: the big headlines I wanted to talk about, let's take
Speaker 1: a break and then we'll talk about what the chat has.
Speaker 3: To say with the super chats. We'll do that right
Speaker 3: after this.
Speaker 1: All right, it's the sides Jeff Grubb, that's Mike mine,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do some super chats. Now, go ahead,
Speaker 1: Mike Lexa.
Speaker 2: He says lots of love to Giant Bomb and Games
Speaker 2: commediately Unity Lately. I want to say lots of love
Speaker 2: to you. Le absolutely very sorry for your loss. I
Speaker 2: hope you're doing well to let us know if you
Speaker 2: need anything.
Speaker 1: Love you. Sure you think a lot about.
Speaker 2: It, Bob as Me says all a while ago, I
Speaker 2: asked if I should get a Steam Machine. I appreciate
Speaker 2: the device, but I opted to ignore it and talk
Speaker 2: myself into needing it. So got it, very cool, I'll
Speaker 2: be a way too expensive toy. So long and thanks
Speaker 2: for all the dish.
Speaker 3: Yeah I have. I can finally talk myself into I
Speaker 3: don't need this thing. I'm not doing it. I was like,
Speaker 3: I had to see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: In a moment, I knew I could buy one, see
Speaker 2: if I could really resist the call of saar on.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, I just know, I'm it's neat.
Speaker 2: I know it's neat and I would love to mess
Speaker 2: around with one, but I just know I'm not really
Speaker 2: gonna use.
Speaker 1: It that much.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: I just say I would have advised it against it
Speaker 1: for you. You just would not have gotten that much
Speaker 1: use out of it.
Speaker 3: Yes, just not for my keys.
Speaker 2: Uh Zorry Matt says, thank you Jeff and Mike for
Speaker 2: the content. What was is your favorite actual in arcade cabinet?
Speaker 2: I always thought the Tron's looked great, both Tron Tron
Speaker 2: Disc of Tron. It's the light and the grid stuff
Speaker 2: on it. I always thought Tron looked It was an
Speaker 2: awesome looking arcade cabinet.
Speaker 3: Big fan of that one.
Speaker 1: Uh God, I can never remember the name of it,
Speaker 1: but whenever I would go past, Okay, I think it's
Speaker 1: just Time Traveler, which is the sort of hologram one
Speaker 1: that cabinet would always like catch my eye at tilt
Speaker 1: in the mall that I grew up next to.
Speaker 3: I think it was Sega. Might have been Sega maybe
Speaker 3: maybe not, but just like Traveler, Sega published it at
Speaker 3: least somewhere, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's definitely similar, similar to Dragon's Layer, but
Speaker 1: like it used just like a mirror to make it
Speaker 1: look like there's these solid brands sort of popping out
Speaker 1: and whatever, and I like, but the whole like, the
Speaker 1: whole thing looked like it would have been in Star
Speaker 1: Trek the Next Generation.
Speaker 2: So I like this, Yeah, yeah, it looks like that
Speaker 2: episode where they're all getting addicted to that weird advisory.
Speaker 3: Jud and Wesley crusher slist. Next up is Epic Open World.
Speaker 2: Video games are gone forever unless Mike, let's say, chicken
Speaker 2: sit on his shoulder for an hour or eat and
Speaker 2: digest one apple.
Speaker 3: What's one will make do? Oh easily the chicken to
Speaker 3: the chicken.
Speaker 1: I think he would like, I think through like like
Speaker 1: the just being exposed, the exposure therapy aspect of it.
Speaker 1: He would get over the chicken by like a minute
Speaker 1: thirty seven or so. Yeah, Like look, guys, I laughed
Speaker 1: after the chicken thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like immediately there'd be no no one would be laughing.
Speaker 3: Omni Slasher says, I got a job.
Speaker 2: Here's some money pee ns uh the Slasher, although I
Speaker 2: doubt that's half of your paycheck, which we.
Speaker 3: All know is when you're supposed to that's this is
Speaker 3: an unacceptable tithing. Uh things.
Speaker 2: Good berry godfather says my son's name is also Doris,
Speaker 2: also named.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: Zombie Porn says, you know, Mike is old when he's
Speaker 2: drinking two percent beer. Mike used to drinking menscow and
Speaker 2: advanced slurs. Has been fifty five for the past ten years.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, man, I don't look a day over
Speaker 1: fifty five either, that's for sure. Uh yeah, yeah, two percent.
Speaker 1: Like I think they could sell that beer without modification
Speaker 1: in in Utah.
Speaker 3: So that's that's when.
Speaker 2: You know. That used to be a thing when like
Speaker 2: my mom was younger. She'd be like, if when you
Speaker 2: were eighteen, you were allowed to have like weak beer.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, the beer beer or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I honestly, I've never seen like
Speaker 2: a commercial beer this low. Really, I don't know that's
Speaker 2: a good idea to me.
Speaker 3: You ain't Latino.
Speaker 4: We can tell we got like here down here, we're fourteen,
Speaker 4: we're drinking of fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know. It's the whole meme of like
Speaker 1: I saw it recently, of like one person on one
Speaker 1: subway and another person on the other subway and they're
Speaker 1: going in a different direction, and it's like twenty one
Speaker 1: year old European deciding to quit drinking twenty one year
Speaker 1: old American being like just getting into drinking and they're
Speaker 1: no different.
Speaker 3: That's like, yeah, that's probably very true. That's so true
Speaker 3: because I quit smoking at twenty two. I'm like, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Bryce W.
Speaker 2: Gilbert says, chance that GTA six has some Mari Largo
Speaker 2: Mario Lago equivalent controversial thing in it, which causes you
Speaker 2: know who to attack the game and alienate night the
Speaker 2: youth more. That's like I almost don't know, and I
Speaker 2: don't I don't envy them this one where I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: you just really ignore that part of Florida if you're
Speaker 2: doing the Big Florida game, and part of me is
Speaker 2: like do I want to see it?
Speaker 3: Oh though, So I don't know what they're gonna do
Speaker 3: or what's the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: And how do you lampoon it because it is already
Speaker 1: so absurd. So if you put it in your game
Speaker 1: and you come up short, it's not gonna look like,
Speaker 1: oh Trump should be mad about this. It's gonna become
Speaker 1: like sort of magnet for people to be on, like
Speaker 1: for Maga to do dumb stuff in there. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, with you, Mike, I do not envy that
Speaker 1: being in that position, although they could just try to
Speaker 1: do something different, and I don't know if they're gonna do.
Speaker 3: That either, right, but like.
Speaker 2: It's like based off past grandthap out of humor. I
Speaker 2: just would be shocked that there isn't some kind of
Speaker 2: make blank great again joke, right.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong, but I think that'll be in there.
Speaker 2: Maybe the backlash of that guy with the hat scared
Speaker 2: them away from it.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know if they're paying attention
Speaker 3: to anything else.
Speaker 1: They don't pay attention to other thing. Yeah, the other
Speaker 1: things sadly, and they were like that couldn't happen to us.
Speaker 2: M uh but here now pop it three two says
Speaker 2: Door on Golf is my favorite series on VHS. Uh
Speaker 2: Toy Moros says Mike should drink on every podcast, But
Speaker 2: it was like pandemic.
Speaker 3: I used to more often. I used to more often.
Speaker 3: I was like, eh, we stopped doing that.
Speaker 2: But it's like, you know, I got those six backs,
Speaker 2: haven't had one, and I'm like two percent beer, Come on, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's h Chris Pratt while he says, Mike commit dort e.
Speaker 3: I can tell you all these super chants were rolling in.
Speaker 3: That was the Morales says, just bought a six pack.
Speaker 2: Dort couldn't have paid for a better ad peenish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great, like sponsored us, that'd be great.
Speaker 2: Damn has like a weird beer sponsor of some kinds
Speaker 2: sort of it just goes. It's like, hey, give me
Speaker 2: free beer, and they're like, okay, that's what he does.
Speaker 2: So like we should haven't done that. I guess try
Speaker 2: uh jed Nintendo specifically comment and the fiscal report that
Speaker 2: Yoshi and star Fox are selling steadily.
Speaker 3: All right, So there you go.
Speaker 2: It makes sense. I suppose and say anything about Metroid though,
Speaker 2: did they I don't know now, No, no, they won't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Genitre says, I already installed the EA app from my
Speaker 2: PC years back, but definitely not allowing a Saudi slash
Speaker 2: cushion her own app to be running on my PC.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Origin God remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just so much extra money from not being on Steam.
Speaker 1: They got all those that thirty percent was back in
Speaker 1: their pocket.
Speaker 2: Man, big is real smart. That's a real smart thing
Speaker 2: that they did. I bet none of this debt is
Speaker 2: related to that.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. Yep, exactly.
Speaker 4: Now, if we want to play tight on Fall two,
Speaker 4: I want to have to launch this year. That's gonna
Speaker 4: be they taint they tied the Fall two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I mean even if you're launching on Steam,
Speaker 1: you stuff to launch it still.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see her now to anywhere Else says, you
Speaker 2: guys take time out of your lives to play three
Speaker 2: out of tens? You guys are fine skipping seven out
Speaker 2: of tens? Yeah, I'm I'll tell you what. Three out
Speaker 2: of ten sometimes more interesting, you know, yeah, three out
Speaker 2: of ten if they pay the bills.
Speaker 1: A lot of times people like that show a ton.
Speaker 1: We made a whole show about playing seven out of ten,
Speaker 1: So I don't think it would be is as popular.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, Seven to Heaven. Yeah, that'd be
Speaker 3: funny though.
Speaker 2: Speaking of speaking of sevens Uhlan America says f Facing
Speaker 2: fourteen eating a fin Fantasy seven remake themed gold sausa
Speaker 2: area with a new typing of the dead like mini game.
Speaker 2: What other franchises should teach you to type?
Speaker 3: Goodder?
Speaker 1: I think Ali miracles at ten, so I disagree with
Speaker 1: your assessment of you, said, speaking to Seven's and then
Speaker 1: said Alma was a.
Speaker 3: Final Fantasy seven. I was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't throw you under the wow.
Speaker 4: This to me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't end I'm going to talk about what
Speaker 2: she asked because that's how much respect I have for.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 2: I think all other like, haha, typing games are just
Speaker 2: screwed because no idea was funnier than Typing of the Dead.
Speaker 3: That was so good. Yeah, I mean brilliant.
Speaker 1: The last couple that we played. I enjoyed them. But typing, though,
Speaker 1: that is the like platonic ideal of that of that
Speaker 1: concept for sure. Yeah, I mean if you had to
Speaker 1: do it to something else.
Speaker 2: There was a Mario typing game actually right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: honeypop typing.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 2: Zombie Porn says when Chuck was playing x Com, he
Speaker 2: named the characters after the duders and Mike killed Jan
Speaker 2: as he misshooting an alien.
Speaker 3: How could you do that, Mike?
Speaker 1: Look, that's on Chuck for naming the first round of
Speaker 1: characters after us in an x Calm game, especially in
Speaker 1: early XCOM game, Like, there was no way we were
Speaker 1: going to survive that wit and we did it.
Speaker 3: Apparently, No, that wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 2: Brockness monster sent a super chat without a message is
Speaker 2: most recent chat after it, though, says man, I don't
Speaker 2: think we sell two percent beer here. Haven't seen a
Speaker 2: zema in like ten plus years, so there you go.
Speaker 2: Like I think the first time I like sipped a zema,
Speaker 2: it was like instant heartburn. That's what I remember of zema.
Speaker 3: Chris, Chris brat, screaky chat, get him off the board
Speaker 3: and what I do.
Speaker 2: That's all the super chats are now, think everybody if
Speaker 2: you want to send any more super chats and we
Speaker 2: will read them before the end of the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Thank you Mike for reading the
Speaker 1: super chats. We are going to take another break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we're going to do Mount Rushmore of
Speaker 1: game reveals right after this. All right, Mount Rushmore game reveals, Mike,
Speaker 1: what do you do you like any sort of caveats, definitions?
Speaker 1: How do you want to like?
Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't necessarily to be like the first
Speaker 2: time a game was revealed, which obviously isn't the case
Speaker 2: with this GTA six thing, right, you know, more exciting than.
Speaker 3: It is like a trailer per se, but like a
Speaker 3: reveal of some kind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know, we could we could do it
Speaker 2: off five, so we can throw suggestions out out there
Speaker 2: and get the idea for sure.
Speaker 1: Can I say what your first one probably would or
Speaker 1: should be. I would like to hear that Smash Brothers
Speaker 1: Ultimate twenty eighteen e like Nintendo Direct reveal sort of thing,
Speaker 1: you know what's interesting, even like more than that, specifically
Speaker 1: the Banjo KAZUOI reveal living Sure, Yeah, I like that's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite, like watching a crowd of people
Speaker 1: pop off, even though like I'm not even like the
Speaker 1: biggest binge of Gazuli guy, but that to me was like,
Speaker 1: that's cool that they're finally in there, even more so
Speaker 1: than SOA for me, I thought the Benjo Kazuo is
Speaker 1: just a really neat trailer, a big surprise, super fun.
Speaker 1: They got a lot of great like reveal trailers for
Speaker 1: Smash Brothers.
Speaker 2: I mean, for me, the Mega Man and Smash Brothers
Speaker 2: for We You was the most I ever freaked out
Speaker 2: personally for one.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I could take the greatest ever
Speaker 3: case for that one.
Speaker 2: There sure even bral when because Bral had the revealed
Speaker 2: trailer Smashs Brawl and the end of it during the
Speaker 2: real cho they're showing new characters. You have Pitt, you
Speaker 2: have Warrio, but then at the end was Solid Snake.
Speaker 2: That might be the one actually brawl.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, do you remember like the the the Tender
Speaker 1: Direct twenty eighteen, Like, do you remember how that went down?
Speaker 3: The one that was basically patch notes that you all
Speaker 3: hated but I love.
Speaker 1: No, no, no no.
Speaker 3: So it was every every one is here one right
Speaker 3: right right right. But but it was like it started,
Speaker 3: I realized.
Speaker 1: And it's the Inklings. It looks like a Splatoon game.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: The smash Logola in their eye and everyone pissed their pants,
Speaker 1: like it was was amazing. That what I think, that's
Speaker 1: kind of amazing.
Speaker 3: They are so good. Holy shit, that one, right, Sacer,
Speaker 3: I was like, I think sack Rice behind all that.
Speaker 1: I really do. I think, like, oh, you know, Nintendo
Speaker 1: was involved in every decision.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think Zach makes the call on all that ship,
Speaker 2: all his idea and that is such a good time.
Speaker 2: That one was incredible because I was so freaking excited.
Speaker 2: Huh Okay, maybe put like maybe put that one in
Speaker 2: Brawl and we'll figure out because those are both huge.
Speaker 3: Those are both huge.
Speaker 1: All right, Oh, you know, hang on, let me just
Speaker 1: do this Super Smash people so people could see it
Speaker 1: and me do this. Yeah, Super Smash Brothers ball okay,
Speaker 1: all right and Super Smash Brothers all right?
Speaker 3: What else?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about this, but and I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's a good way, but that weird Spike TV
Speaker 2: Xbox three sixty reveal event man, uh huh. That thing
Speaker 2: is so of its time. It's hosted by Elijah Wood.
Speaker 2: They are pushing Perfect Dark zero hard. You know, it
Speaker 2: is a launch for this great console too. And I
Speaker 2: was you know, it was very It was very exciting.
Speaker 2: We've kind of knew then that the three sixty, but
Speaker 2: that felt like a very next show because there was
Speaker 2: obviously so many things lining up with online play in HD,
Speaker 2: so just like having a new console that was going
Speaker 2: to take advantage of those things in and of itself
Speaker 2: was super interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was like we just knew to be excited and
Speaker 1: we were like justified in doing so in hindsight.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then this like silly media way too much money
Speaker 2: event uh felt like it felt like old school video
Speaker 2: game like hype excitement, like, oh, we have all the
Speaker 2: money in the world to do this, and then also
Speaker 2: it was a really good console on top of that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, uh all right, I have that here. So
Speaker 1: Just Metal Gear Solid two at E three two thousand,
Speaker 1: Like just the fact that.
Speaker 2: That one up to that was that if you guys
Speaker 2: weren't there, that was the most just GoGG go nuts
Speaker 2: trailer of all time. Everybody's losing their goddamn minds over
Speaker 2: that Metal Just Solid two trailer at E three that year.
Speaker 1: It played on a loop and people like the line
Speaker 1: to watch it would be I think these are stories
Speaker 1: I heard. I wasn't at E three, but it was
Speaker 1: like the line would be around the block to watch that,
Speaker 1: and people would stop it like when and just watch
Speaker 1: it over and over again and sit in the hallway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's to me, it's like when I think of the
Speaker 1: biggest trailers, that nothing's bigger than that.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's the one Super Mario Brothers three in the Wizard. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: that's a good one, Mike.
Speaker 2: God to find out that's that's how a lot of
Speaker 2: us found out that game existed and was coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gosh, I don't know if I knew about it before,
Speaker 1: and like I'm sure like I was aware that it
Speaker 1: was like maybe even gonna be in the movie, but
Speaker 1: that still counts. Like seeing that and like making my
Speaker 1: family go to the movies to watch that movie so
Speaker 1: I could see more of it. It was incredible. It
Speaker 1: was like this, uh sure the whole movie was a
Speaker 1: commercial and I didn't care, and then I ended up
Speaker 1: actually quite liking the movie as a kid, for sure. Yeah, okay, so, uh,
Speaker 1: I do think the Twilight Princess reveal in at E
Speaker 1: three two thousand and four, following all the wind Waker stuff, well,
Speaker 1: I disagree with all the wind Waker backlash, that Twilight
Speaker 1: Princess reveal at E three two thousand and four was
Speaker 1: still like pretty big.
Speaker 3: That was like up there with a metal Gearsalad two
Speaker 3: for me for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like that's the iconic, Like that's the picture of
Speaker 2: Shiggy comes my mind first, the same in that blazer
Speaker 2: and that green mushroom shirt with the Master's in the
Speaker 2: shield just posing right after that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was kind of an amazing moment there, for sure.
Speaker 2: That's a huge but probably the best of the Zelda ones,
Speaker 2: like some of them are weird, Like the first look
Speaker 2: they ever got a Breath of the Wild was very
Speaker 2: short I never for Guy Awards Sword that they just
Speaker 2: showed us like a picture of Fee and Link and
Speaker 2: like this is from the next Zeuda game.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but this was right. This is one that
Speaker 1: had like the most showmanship and really seemed to like
Speaker 1: get the crowd hyped and everyone watching was hyped. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even even the freaking like the Years of the
Speaker 2: Kingdom kind of like it was exciting, like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: they're making a sequel to Breath of the Wow. But
Speaker 2: that trailer itself, like the Great Showers for those games
Speaker 2: came much much not as reveals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely much later.
Speaker 1: M I have like at least one more for sure
Speaker 1: that I like that. I was in the crowd for
Speaker 1: at E three, I think it was two thousand, twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen God of War. That trailer for, Oh God, mind blowing.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, I didn't know we could do
Speaker 1: this and to show like it was gameplay, but it
Speaker 1: was so cinematic and it had everything right in that
Speaker 1: moment of creatos, like being an old man and having
Speaker 1: a kid and the zero cuts of the camera so
Speaker 1: it's just following behind the character for this entire fifteen
Speaker 1: sixteen minute demonstration and being in the theater, especially because
Speaker 1: I kind of remember it was like this almost old
Speaker 1: school opera style theater and I was in the upper
Speaker 1: level and you look down, and I want to say
Speaker 1: they had either like a live music playing along with it,
Speaker 1: but then the floor was animated or they had like
Speaker 1: projections on it to sort of expand what was happening
Speaker 1: on the screen. And then there was like actual practical
Speaker 1: effects as well.
Speaker 3: That blew me away and.
Speaker 1: Still is like to me the high bar for what
Speaker 1: happened at E three in terms of a game reveal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that's that's a that's a very good one there.
Speaker 2: How about the uh, the Resident Evil seven one, because
Speaker 2: that one was kind of like just the first person
Speaker 2: spooky thing. Everyone's like, well, what is this exactly? Was
Speaker 2: it kind of till the end when you have the
Speaker 2: reveal of the logo that you realize those Resident Evil
Speaker 2: a franchise that at that time kind of seemed cooked
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you know how Halo right now seems a
Speaker 3: bit cooked.
Speaker 2: Uh. Even God of Wars like, oh maybe that's done, Resival,
Speaker 2: maybe that's done. And then yeah, both of those kind
Speaker 2: of had these big resurgences because of those right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I like the good fake.
Speaker 3: Out once too.
Speaker 2: Bega Slid five had the fun fake out, even Residvoll
Speaker 2: nine recently right where they're like, someday we might talk
Speaker 2: to you about the next Resident Evil.
Speaker 1: That day is today. Yeah, that's that's fantastic. All right,
Speaker 1: we gonna hop over to the.
Speaker 3: The Let's let's take a look.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at some of the there give
Speaker 2: me six yes, yeah, although I might throw in if
Speaker 2: they've done, I might throw in, uh one or two.
Speaker 2: Oh look at that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're number one. Joy Z saying the E three
Speaker 1: two thousand and four reveal of Twilight Princess.
Speaker 3: I think that was back when they used that one
Speaker 3: track from Conan the Barbarian and like all the Zelda
Speaker 3: teasers and that always hit so hard, love that song.
Speaker 1: Let's see Mitchie poo. Just my hoping that it's still
Speaker 1: a real game that will come out. That Jurassic Park
Speaker 1: trailer that we got from Saber, Yeah that looks sad.
Speaker 1: I hope we get more anything of it since Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess there could happen at any moment, or could
Speaker 1: take several more years. We'll see input name here Ac
Speaker 1: New Horizons fake out followed by announcements that she's in
Speaker 1: Smash Brothers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for a little bit further down there. Yeah, oh
Speaker 3: we have got it. There we go, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's right, that's right. That was a fun again Smash
Speaker 3: pres announcement so freaking good.
Speaker 2: Even like even like it was awesome that we got
Speaker 2: the tea announcement in Street Fighter.
Speaker 3: They aren't as good at that as Smash Brothers was, right, Yep.
Speaker 1: Yep, definitely not. I mean Scott Smash brother that like
Speaker 1: half of the appeal of Smash Brothers was just getting
Speaker 1: excited about new character announcements.
Speaker 3: Yeah for a while earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of better than anything's ever been at that chance,
Speaker 1: says this maybe cry at the time it's the Street
Speaker 1: Fighter five announcement. I do remember this being a big deal,
Speaker 1: right of.
Speaker 2: Course, ultimately people are a little disappointed and when it launched,
Speaker 2: but yeah, there's a lot of excitement at the time.
Speaker 4: The only other funny games like characters I can remember
Speaker 4: they were like Super High were like a Cooman Taken
Speaker 4: and also Geese and Taken and that's pretty much like
Speaker 4: there are all the High moment but that's kind of
Speaker 4: the biggest.
Speaker 3: One for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was like the big sort of revealed that
Speaker 1: Grand Theft Auto four was going to be multi platform
Speaker 1: in a big way. Digital Firefly has Peter Moore revealing
Speaker 1: the Grand Theft Auto four tattoo on his arm, uh
Speaker 1: to reveal that it was also going.
Speaker 3: To be on Xbox three sixty. Right, that was a
Speaker 3: big deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably like the one Graft Theft Bottle game. I
Speaker 2: associate with Xbox more than the PlayStation. Still really right,
Speaker 2: Like everyone I knew played that on Xbox three six
Speaker 2: Still have that too?
Speaker 3: Supermanent? Yeah, of course I was.
Speaker 1: I think we were both in the theater for this
Speaker 1: as well. Mike fire Harris's the music alongside the reveal
Speaker 1: Grim Fandango remastered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember being absolutely shocked that that was happening.
Speaker 2: That was super exciting for.
Speaker 1: Me, for sure. Infinity does mention. I think the God
Speaker 1: of War twenty sixteen Revealdas says the first cam footage
Speaker 1: of the E three two thousand and three demo, I
Speaker 1: know it wasn't real, but it was.
Speaker 2: How I found out was the reveal this is Half
Speaker 2: Life two. This was the physics kind of demo demonstration.
Speaker 2: I think I also watch it on GameSpy. I see
Speaker 2: that little tag down there. Yep, yep, God.
Speaker 3: That thing was.
Speaker 2: That was an amazing, like just demonstration that probably didn't
Speaker 2: more work than any cinematic tri because they were doing
Speaker 2: things like, look, we threw a box in the water,
Speaker 2: now we're gonna throw a mattress in and they react differently.
Speaker 3: It's crazy Trespusser did it before.
Speaker 1: So of course halfway foe is everything to trust. Uh
Speaker 1: screaming Madden says the reveal for Mario Odyssey.
Speaker 2: I was gonna bring this one up actually because it's
Speaker 2: a great one. We just saw the real city. I
Speaker 2: was like, what the heck's going on here? And then
Speaker 2: he Mario popped out of that great like, oh okay, I.
Speaker 3: Get that one is great.
Speaker 1: That was fantastic, man, all of that one the game, damn.
Speaker 1: Doctor Lynch says the Final Fantasy Vin remake. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was actually a really huge reveal when that happened.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was kind of that that E three Pressor
Speaker 2: of Dreams were through twenty four, Last Last Guardian and.
Speaker 3: The SHEDVY three stuff is happening there as well.
Speaker 2: I think Resie Will I think Bompas remake was definitely
Speaker 2: like the one who that turned out the best of
Speaker 2: all of those.
Speaker 3: It's quite anice kind of ruined this for me. I
Speaker 3: remember seeing it and I was like.
Speaker 4: He said, for Reellow remake because they were doing a
Speaker 4: year after year, like we final Fanta seven is here,
Speaker 4: and he was like the port to PC of the
Speaker 4: original one or like remaster of the original is like
Speaker 4: get the hell out of here.
Speaker 1: It is like interesting, like, oh yeah, we're going to
Speaker 1: be reaching the end of that E three of Dreams
Speaker 1: sort of promise. Finally at this point when the final
Speaker 1: when the third game comes out here, it would be
Speaker 1: fun to like like look back on the effect that
Speaker 1: that had that three announcement season. Uh, Bob a reincarnation
Speaker 1: says the real winner here peg.
Speaker 3: Two smash that jumping smash off to the stage floor.
Speaker 3: It's very good. I do like that. What would that guys?
Speaker 3: For real? Right?
Speaker 1: For people that don't remember this or maybe didn't see it. Uh,
Speaker 1: they announced the sequel to PEGGL, which is just like
Speaker 1: a Pachinko style adventure game from pop Cap that was
Speaker 1: owned by e A. And they finally came out with
Speaker 1: the sequel and the guy does it on the Xbox stage,
Speaker 1: just gets up, jumps up with his fist and then
Speaker 1: like brings his fist down and like almost a hero
Speaker 1: style like landing.
Speaker 3: But doesn't complete it, and then he just walks off stage.
Speaker 3: It's great. It's so funny. Why they probably like, oh.
Speaker 2: We're gonna reveal this, guys, like I'm just gonna go out, guys.
Speaker 2: I got yeah, hell yeah, the hero.
Speaker 3: Love it absolutely.
Speaker 1: Tommy Pencil says the Ghost recon breakpoint stage presentation that
Speaker 1: had the good dog in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh right, that dog. Okay, what we.
Speaker 1: Could do the mount rushmore of like video game dogs
Speaker 1: that were in trailers, like.
Speaker 3: The Call of Duty one called Ghost Jesus.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Lowell also mentions Final Fantasy seven remake. H James Pye
Speaker 1: says kill Zone two. This is the real. This is
Speaker 1: real gameplay. We swear.
Speaker 3: Oh god, I mean that was that's infamous. Really, yeah,
Speaker 3: they just I do look at it.
Speaker 2: You just I remember at the time you could just
Speaker 2: tell it that's not how these things move in video games. Like,
Speaker 2: I know, you put a gun in the bottom right corner,
Speaker 2: but that's that's clearly not game.
Speaker 3: I ate this ship up. That was like, this game
Speaker 3: is crazy.
Speaker 1: I remember at the time being like there's just no way.
Speaker 1: Ali Miracle says, for some reason, I recall the hype
Speaker 1: of the reveal being explosive and then you know, and
Speaker 1: that is Metroid other m.
Speaker 3: People were very excited.
Speaker 2: People are super stoked, like whoa team Ninja's gonna make
Speaker 2: a Metro game? Ali, Yeah, everyone was stoked out of
Speaker 2: their mind.
Speaker 1: For people that didn't know what the Wizard was referring to,
Speaker 1: here's a picture of it from Easy to Use. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, a secret new game that he wasn't
Speaker 1: able to practice. But don't worry, you still knew where
Speaker 1: the whistle was.
Speaker 2: If we ever have a Giant Bop convention, we need
Speaker 2: to pay like somebody to just recreate the stage rret
Speaker 2: so people can play Mario three like the in the Wizard.
Speaker 3: Yes, and we'll have.
Speaker 1: Chuck make the tool to like track the scoring as
Speaker 1: if that matters or whatever. And the last running across
Speaker 1: the Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: How did he know where the flute was?
Speaker 1: I know, fifty thousand points in Double Dragon Guys of
Speaker 1: Savant Uh Jamie H. Christmas Eve says, Yes, the legend
Speaker 1: of Zelda is this is this Breath of the wild.
Speaker 3: That's breath for the wild.
Speaker 2: That's the one where I asked the Numa like, hey,
Speaker 2: Link looks a little different, and then he was like,
Speaker 2: who said that was Link?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: I said, I wrote that story like Numa says it
Speaker 2: might not be Link, and everyone lost their mind. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it wasn't much of a trailer really, it really like
Speaker 2: you didn't get a sense of the big open world
Speaker 2: and like the physics and like the chemistry and what
Speaker 2: the game was actually gonna be from that trailer.
Speaker 3: He was he should like reading the horse and then
Speaker 3: jumping out of it and like fighting a cordon. Yep uh.
Speaker 1: Zeel thirty four says E three two thousand and six
Speaker 1: could could almost fill the whole list between middle Gear,
Speaker 1: Solid four, Halo three and Brawl And that's the reference
Speaker 1: to like Snake at the end of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, credible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't had a Halo yet, shockingly, but there's
Speaker 2: a there's been some that Halo three one honestly is
Speaker 2: kind of insane. If if it's not on there, we
Speaker 2: got to include it.
Speaker 1: We can. We can include that for sure. Yeah, JD
Speaker 1: Camp includes deep Down.
Speaker 2: Any day, they should just release it. They should just
Speaker 2: start working on a deep Down again and release it.
Speaker 2: And it's enough it'll be great.
Speaker 1: Ye speak down too, villain Mack there it is Halo
Speaker 1: three first trailer E three two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: Even even I thought that was I didn't even care
Speaker 2: that much about Halo, and I was like, dang, he's
Speaker 2: wearing like a little cloky thing.
Speaker 3: That music that pis like boo boo. That's like, that's
Speaker 3: the best Halo music. Dang.
Speaker 1: Yep, that was definitely very very exciting when that happened,
Speaker 1: even for me as well, and I was never a
Speaker 1: huge Halo guy at that time. Blazon Noah Final Fantasy
Speaker 1: seven remake trailer ros Rocks Feather says, is this brawl
Speaker 1: as well?
Speaker 3: It's the same brawl trailer? Yep, that's the same one.
Speaker 3: All the stars are here.
Speaker 1: Lenny Cool, Dick Denversa is me. We might get skins
Speaker 1: for the fifth time on a voicemail dumb trug uh.
Speaker 1: And it's the inkling looking up at the Smash logo
Speaker 1: and it's yeah, in their eye.
Speaker 3: But that's maybe one.
Speaker 2: How are they going to announce the next one, because like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if they have an inkling style. Well,
Speaker 2: we all knew the inklings are gonna become part of that, right,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, they got a new franchise for the
Speaker 2: first time in a good while.
Speaker 3: Here really really going.
Speaker 2: I mean there's characters like I want to be shocked
Speaker 2: if Dedo is a character and smash right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah that good point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like from a franchise. Yeah, they're gonnadd the
Speaker 2: Witcher people.
Speaker 3: They wheelchair people from drag Extray. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, good, good good.
Speaker 1: It's just there all of the characters are in the
Speaker 1: wheelchairs from Drag ex Drive instead. Uh, Adam asleep says
Speaker 1: the Gears of War Mad World trailer.
Speaker 2: This was interesting because this one's more just the commercial
Speaker 2: slazed trailer than a reveal to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's very good. Yeah, it's obviously amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: definitely stuck with me.
Speaker 1: But you're right, uh okay, Clink says, don't you guys
Speaker 1: have phones?
Speaker 2: I was there, Ganda, that's the one I was there
Speaker 2: for that when that where I interviewed that guy that
Speaker 2: same Bliss called that poor guy.
Speaker 3: I still feel bad for him.
Speaker 1: I think this guy does like social media contest.
Speaker 4: He also where he took He's awesome. He talks about
Speaker 4: the mechanics of games and how he designed an.
Speaker 1: Bosses he designed for World of Warcraft and stuff, and
Speaker 1: like very specific problems down then solved.
Speaker 3: It's really good.
Speaker 1: Always be clothing. Slash Corgi says that star Fox is
Speaker 1: this star Fox zero right with Starfax.
Speaker 3: Zero with the puppets. Yeah, good times, good time.
Speaker 1: Big Tony says, welcome to High Guard Man.
Speaker 2: That was that was just while that that went last.
Speaker 2: I know, we talked about it at nauseum. That's those
Speaker 2: crazy call man.
Speaker 3: Guy liked the video game and he was like, oh,
Speaker 3: let's put it at the end. That's the thing. It
Speaker 3: needs more than that, you know.
Speaker 2: Nope, yeah, definitely not five six years ago, right, that
Speaker 2: was the last game of Award.
Speaker 3: That's what the last game of war Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, within the last twelve months.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: First X Adventure has that time that uh you stabbed
Speaker 1: Mario just he killed him, killed him.
Speaker 3: That was incredible. Jesus. Those trailers, man, they're just on
Speaker 3: a different plane of existence.
Speaker 1: Christian has the Final Fantasy thirteen two and six trailer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, quite a bit of bullshotting going on in that
Speaker 2: one as well, to be honest, but it was pretty
Speaker 2: frigging So the game kind of loosely.
Speaker 3: Then it kind of looks like but it's like.
Speaker 2: More specn't quite look like, Yeah, that's time they put
Speaker 2: what the UI would kind of look like over a
Speaker 2: movie in that trailer for like running around and like
Speaker 2: shooting people and swing your sword in a train while
Speaker 2: the camera cuts a bunch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, more spec the game loose like.
Speaker 1: We're people excited when the Final Fantasy fifteen got revealed
Speaker 1: and that was like, no, it picked up the mantle
Speaker 1: from Final Fantasy thirteen versus something went disappointed.
Speaker 2: There was a little bit of a splits. I was
Speaker 2: some people were disappointed, like, oh I wanted versus thirteen.
Speaker 3: I thought it was cool. That's me get into thirteen.
Speaker 3: Now can the hearts four right?
Speaker 1: Grant mp here has the Revolution trailer from E three
Speaker 1: two thousand and five.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I remember, yeah.
Speaker 2: I remember us all going around my computer like I'm
Speaker 2: going to finally see what the hell this thing is
Speaker 2: because there's so many we were Everyone was really freaking
Speaker 2: out trying to figure out what's going to go on,
Speaker 2: what's happening there?
Speaker 1: What's the revolution?
Speaker 3: Brother?
Speaker 2: There was I remember for a while, the theory was
Speaker 2: like the buttons were gonna like pop up off the controler.
Speaker 3: I remember that they were liquid metal. Yeah, every way
Speaker 3: there was the liquid metal thing had traction, and believe
Speaker 3: it or not.
Speaker 1: I remember those those illustrations on like Neo gaff and shit,
Speaker 1: uh the cat has a middle gear solid five round
Speaker 1: if I can get this up here, the phantoms came
Speaker 1: there we go round zero, yes, and then uh a more. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This actually was a big one. The Fallout four presentation
Speaker 1: apathets the three showcase because they revealed it and then
Speaker 1: they oh, man, I just covered us all up and
Speaker 1: then they, uh, we're gonna like release it not even
Speaker 1: like six months later.
Speaker 2: And that would be cool about it, Like yeah, like hey,
Speaker 2: here it is and you're going to play it soon. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So that was that was definitely one of their but
Speaker 2: was I think the Skyrim reveal was cool though the
Speaker 2: much better trailer was the second one.
Speaker 1: For that.
Speaker 3: The reveal was mostly just looking at that wall with
Speaker 3: the stuff on it, so yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then like it was so exciting, like even
Speaker 1: the Fallout Shelter, which came out the same same day
Speaker 1: as this reveal, it got a huge pop off because
Speaker 1: people were just so exciting. The next Fallout yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's see here, Mike. Anything we should add
Speaker 1: to the short list.
Speaker 2: Over here, Halo three and Mario Odyssey if we haven't, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: make sure the shortlist of physical by.
Speaker 1: The way, Yeah, let me fix that real quick.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's a good ease. Well, that's a good ease. There
Speaker 3: we go.
Speaker 1: Nope, still kind of on us. Been there, it's all fixed,
Speaker 1: all right? Anything else you said Biohazard?
Speaker 3: I added that, Yeah, I think we're I think it's
Speaker 3: I think it's here.
Speaker 1: BioShock Beyond the Sea. Was that a reveal?
Speaker 2: I mean, I forget what the reveal looked like for
Speaker 2: bosh What I remember. I remember the reveal being a
Speaker 2: pretty good deal.
Speaker 3: I remember the demo being amazing, Like best demos ever. Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I really really really love the r Greater reveal.
Speaker 3: I'll talk. I would like it so much. It got
Speaker 3: me hooked for years. It's so good.
Speaker 1: Uh Okay, So our short list is Super Smash Brothers
Speaker 1: Brawl and Ultimate Xbox three sixty Reveal featuring Elijah Wood,
Speaker 1: Metal Gear Solid two E three two thousand, Super Mario
Speaker 1: Brothers three in the Wizard Twilight Princess E three two thousand,
Speaker 1: for God of War E three, twenty sixteen, Resident Evil seven, Biohazard,
Speaker 1: Halo three, and Super Mario Odyssey. Uh, all right, what
Speaker 1: do you think in Mike, hmm.
Speaker 3: There's a lot that could.
Speaker 2: I don't know if like there's like a one big,
Speaker 2: super obvious one per se, I definitely like i'd be
Speaker 2: I'd be surprised if.
Speaker 3: We didn't do like God of War and maybe Twilight Princess.
Speaker 1: I suppose yeah, yeah, probably, Yeah, those ones, you do
Speaker 1: feel like they have a really good chance of being
Speaker 1: up there.
Speaker 3: Okay, Like is the thing with the Wizard great our
Speaker 3: little gimmicky?
Speaker 1: I mean it's definitely gimmicky, but I almost want to
Speaker 1: put it on there in like defiance to grant theft
Speaker 1: auto of Like if you were actually hot shit, there'd
Speaker 1: be a whole movie I'd have to go see to.
Speaker 2: See why Why? Yeah, why weren't you just in Spider Man?
Speaker 2: If you're so freaking cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're so good, why wasn't Spider Man playing
Speaker 1: you in there? And that was like a key plot point.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think the Wizard's fun. It's gimmicky,
Speaker 1: but I still think it's it has a chance. But
Speaker 1: some of these other ones do as well. I do,
Speaker 1: I mean, I do think the Ultimate reveal was so.
Speaker 3: Like ultimately, and I think Brawl was even better at
Speaker 3: least I'll leave that up to you.
Speaker 1: Yes, Brawl was amazing. I mean the Snake, I do
Speaker 1: remember Snake at the NBA, Like, holy shit, that was crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was insane. It would be Brawl. Yeah, three
Speaker 3: was great.
Speaker 1: Halo three, yes, that's true, and the Halo three kind
Speaker 1: of just got everyone excited and like at the height
Speaker 1: of Halo's power.
Speaker 3: Really man, maybe it is Halo three all right?
Speaker 1: And Halo three up?
Speaker 3: You scrolled up? I don't think we can see your
Speaker 3: short list?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, let me fix that. Okay, what else do
Speaker 1: you thinking, Mike.
Speaker 2: Well to take a look, so try to put the
Speaker 2: Scott of War Halo three then like that last slot,
Speaker 2: I think I I think it would go to either
Speaker 2: Mash Brothers Brawl.
Speaker 3: Or My Brothers three.
Speaker 2: Something about Medical Solid two is almost like again best
Speaker 2: trailer instead of best revealed to me, I know, I
Speaker 2: guess it's vibes.
Speaker 3: It's vibes, but right right.
Speaker 1: I mean, and like you know, this one's hard to define,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna be illed at no matter what we
Speaker 1: do on this one. I feel like we'll just we
Speaker 1: got to go with it. But I think I agree
Speaker 1: with you on Mili Yoursela two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so maybe not that. Yeah, gosh, gosh, I really
Speaker 3: would like to do one of the smashes. But I
Speaker 3: do like the idea of doing the Wizard as well.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if I can managed something. It
Speaker 3: probably is the Wizard.
Speaker 1: We can let's move the Wizard up and then if
Speaker 1: we want to get rid of something else, maybe we
Speaker 1: could put a smash.
Speaker 3: Up there, because that's like, I don't know, we're not.
Speaker 1: Getting rid of Twilight Princess.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're gonad. I don't think we're gona
Speaker 2: trap it. I don't think we're getting rid of God
Speaker 2: of Warri. I don't think we're getting rid of God
Speaker 2: of Warrior. And I don't know, like it would be
Speaker 2: three and I don't know. I think Halo three belongs there,
Speaker 2: and it's like I know, I don't want to do
Speaker 2: three Nintendo things on the list, So I think it's
Speaker 2: maybe good like this is that a is that called
Speaker 2: Starry Night?
Speaker 3: I don't remember. I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I remember finished the fight, I remember the one the
Speaker 2: trailer with talking like the vets and stuff.
Speaker 3: They show like that dior rama with the piano.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good, su Yeah, they do it. Uh you
Speaker 1: know ken Burn's Civil War style.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shit, that's always a good bit for me.
Speaker 3: All right? Do we think this is it?
Speaker 1: Twilight, Princess e three two thousand and four, God of
Speaker 1: War e three twenty sixteen, Halo three, Starry Night two
Speaker 1: thousand and six, and Super Mario Brothers three in the Wizard.
Speaker 3: Looks good to me.
Speaker 1: All right, fantastic, great.
Speaker 3: Work, Mike.
Speaker 1: I'll get this post on social media so everyone can
Speaker 1: yell at us. Oh Storry Night hosts the super Bowl
Speaker 1: coming commercial?
Speaker 3: Okay, cool.
Speaker 2: I would make sure whatever the Halo thing was, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll make sure you that bad.
Speaker 3: All right, we're taking a break. Everybody will be right
Speaker 3: back after this. We're back. It's the decides.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about what we've been playing, starting with
Speaker 1: Mike Bnatti, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: Doing pretty good?
Speaker 2: I have played a smidge of token uh really really
Speaker 2: just kind of messing around with training and things like that.
Speaker 2: Earlier today. Yeah, came out here today. I did like
Speaker 2: the basic tutorial. I did like the character tutorial four
Speaker 2: Captain America kind of like Beda like Team on the
Speaker 2: Spot just messed around in in the like practice, right,
Speaker 2: So haven't like done arcade or story.
Speaker 3: Mode or even gone online. Yeah, game feels good though,
Speaker 3: game looks super good.
Speaker 2: There's you know, it has like a mix of the
Speaker 2: intuitiveness with h you got auto combos and like there's
Speaker 2: you know, things that make sense with a lot of
Speaker 2: complexity of like hey, there's you know a lot of
Speaker 2: things you can do with the tagging in of characters
Speaker 2: and you have these defensive options and you can augment
Speaker 2: things like this.
Speaker 3: So uh yeah, there's there's definitely a lot of deft there.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably gonna be a pretty good time,
Speaker 2: I said, excited to play.
Speaker 3: Some more of it.
Speaker 2: Certainly looks spippy, very very colorful game, like a good
Speaker 2: color palette too, Like there's something it's almost pastel about it,
Speaker 2: a little bit like just a little bit on that.
Speaker 3: It really pops.
Speaker 2: Looks great, lots of fun character interactions, just like the
Speaker 2: voice lines. Deadpool has got like a bunch of just
Speaker 2: fighting game Easter eggs. I saw this great clip of
Speaker 2: if Deadpool was killed like in the like from like
Speaker 2: a smash down to the ground, move like his like
Speaker 2: desk screen will show him falling like Geese Howard.
Speaker 3: Did in Final Fight.
Speaker 2: That's incredible. Just yeah, like stuff like that. So uh
Speaker 2: pretty neat. Uh yeah, I'll be I'll try this for
Speaker 2: a little bit tonight.
Speaker 1: I think I'll just I want to play through this
Speaker 1: single player, maybe even get it on a see what
Speaker 1: it's like on the Steam Deck. But I got it
Speaker 1: installed on this computer ready to go, and I should
Speaker 1: I a fighting You got a bunch of you here?
Speaker 1: Should I be playing with the pad? Or should I
Speaker 1: get the level? Or whatever?
Speaker 5: You or most can come with anything, always like what
Speaker 5: you are most comfortable with, anything under play with the level,
Speaker 5: play with whether you are most comfortable with. And if
Speaker 5: I camember and you cannot play on the Steam Deck
Speaker 5: it does not run Linux. Oh yeah right yeah PlayStation.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1: That's so stupid. Uh, it's just comfortable when we find out.
Speaker 2: I've seen some people grumbling about the PC version like
Speaker 2: I have on my pretty nice PC. I any problems yet,
Speaker 2: but it's jank I think for a lot of people problem, right.
Speaker 1: And then the Linux problem, and then yeah, the Linux issue.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work at all.
Speaker 3: So it seems like everything is tied to the aggressive
Speaker 3: anti cheat. Yes, yeah, is it.
Speaker 4: It seems like it because I have a pretty EUK
Speaker 4: PC and it runs well online. And the thing is,
Speaker 4: I have a bunch of security things turn on on
Speaker 4: my computer because of two x KO and apparently the
Speaker 4: anti cheat. If you don't have that on, you will
Speaker 4: like constantly check for it or something, and that's tanking
Speaker 4: like performance. So that's a problem. And another problem is
Speaker 4: there's some people that can run the game and when
Speaker 4: you're playing online, because this game doesn't have like a
Speaker 4: thing to test if you can run the game to
Speaker 4: play online, so the people that runs the game, like, shit,
Speaker 4: you're ruining the game for the people that can run
Speaker 4: the game. So it's the whole thing.
Speaker 5: Every fighting game should have that, and basically none early
Speaker 5: PC ports did. But yeah, nobody does the benchmarks to
Speaker 5: see if you can actually run the game well, not
Speaker 5: to play online more.
Speaker 3: And it's kind of a problem.
Speaker 4: I think MS does and like, yeah, yeah, it tells you.
Speaker 4: It little tells you if you can't run the game.
Speaker 4: They're like, you're not allowed to play online because you're
Speaker 4: not ruinning for everywhere else, it's word that this game
Speaker 4: doesn't have it.
Speaker 1: What else you've been playing?
Speaker 2: Mike A guy found Fantasy fourteen up when going on
Speaker 2: the switch to kind of like like the first part
Speaker 2: of that game is kind of figuring out how to
Speaker 2: bind everything and kind of mess with the UI bets.
Speaker 2: You can read things here liking figuring out how to
Speaker 2: possibly get the thirty buttons I use in that game,
Speaker 2: working on the control what it does.
Speaker 3: They are smart about how that works. Now, it's never.
Speaker 2: Going to feel as good as I'm using a mouse
Speaker 2: a keyboard, and I don't think I would ever want
Speaker 2: to play like this if I was going to do
Speaker 2: like New Raids or PvP even things like that. But
Speaker 2: going through the story quest right, and and that stuff's good.
Speaker 2: Like last time, I was playing for a while until
Speaker 2: I unlocked a new dungeon, and even then I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll stop here and I'll do the dungeon tomorrow on
Speaker 2: my PC.
Speaker 3: That can kind of go back to just going around
Speaker 3: and doing the bit more story.
Speaker 2: Focus stuff on there, and it's great being able to
Speaker 2: do that stuff in bed, very comfy.
Speaker 1: So like in that mathematical equation of all right, now
Speaker 1: you're paying for this Are you paying for this game twice?
Speaker 1: You have to play for this game twice in that situation, right,
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 2: I thought so, But like I have a code and
Speaker 2: I just put the code in and at no point
Speaker 2: was like I ever charged anything else.
Speaker 3: So I'm a little confee. I'm still confused.
Speaker 1: Slit free first month for everybody or something if you
Speaker 1: buy maybe something like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, there's like there's there's weirdness about like what
Speaker 2: things carry over from your PC client to your console one.
Speaker 2: Like you know, Triple Try ads a game, and like
Speaker 2: when you play Triple tryed, you have decks. I want
Speaker 2: to go play Triple Try get somebody, and like my
Speaker 2: preset decks didn't carry over, so I just like got
Speaker 2: to use like a recommended thing.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: It's I even try to set my controller bindings on
Speaker 2: my PC because it'd be easier. Dude, then like start
Speaker 2: playing in bed, but like that didn't transfer over. Maybe
Speaker 2: there's some way too. It's a it's a little bit confusing,
Speaker 2: but I got it running. It feels good, it.
Speaker 3: Looks pretty good.
Speaker 2: It obviously does not look nearly as good as it
Speaker 2: does on my fifty eighty GC, but it looks good enough.
Speaker 2: Did you have any issues of the little times? I'm
Speaker 2: sorry you might have said so, but I know, okay,
Speaker 2: lot times I have been. I haven't really thought about that.
Speaker 2: Relatively easy to start up to, like I don't you.
Speaker 3: Know, uh, having like to open up the launcher not
Speaker 3: an issue I get in their rowally quickly.
Speaker 1: Some people were having like long load times after deaths
Speaker 1: and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and eight man content okay, specifically just that okay, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: which again I I personally would not be doing my
Speaker 2: man content just on a coature vacant. But there's some
Speaker 2: people who they've been playing there for like ten years,
Speaker 2: so it's second nature does them.
Speaker 3: It's completely fine.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I've been playing a game called bang on Balls. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you heard of Have you ever heard of bang on balls?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Bang on ball is?
Speaker 1: This is?
Speaker 2: This is if I look this up on Steam balls
Speaker 2: definitely looking up balls chronicle.
Speaker 3: How many of these are there?
Speaker 1: Well, I've only been playing bang on Balls chronicles, which, uh,
Speaker 1: I guess man, I'm trying to figure out the way
Speaker 1: to describe this. It's almost like in an I want
Speaker 1: to say, like Eldon Ring for kids, but it's probably
Speaker 1: more accuracy is like it's not alert like no, no,
Speaker 1: it's it is like a world exploration like it's open
Speaker 1: world local co op sort of going there with your
Speaker 1: friends and explore and take on enemies and you play
Speaker 1: as a little ball and you can color your ball
Speaker 1: or make it a flag of a country or whatever.
Speaker 1: And there's a bunch of its like endless quests. It's
Speaker 1: it's everywhere. Apparently it's big with kids.
Speaker 3: It's I can show you this is that how you
Speaker 3: learned about it?
Speaker 1: They they asked me about it, and so I went
Speaker 1: to go get it, and then we started playing together
Speaker 1: a little bit, and it's it's like surprisingly well done.
Speaker 1: It's it's you know, you roll around as the ball,
Speaker 1: you hold down the like the right trigger to like
Speaker 1: speed ahead, and it's almost like sonic speeding around in
Speaker 1: a three D world, and that feels good. And then
Speaker 1: you do that until you get to like an enclave
Speaker 1: of enemies, and then you'll take on a quest usually
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, knock down the mast of these
Speaker 1: three ships in this area, and to do that you
Speaker 1: have to fight three a bunch of enemies, and then
Speaker 1: you run like you bash the ball into the mast
Speaker 1: and you knock it down and it feels physics y
Speaker 1: and fun and it looks really nice because it's just
Speaker 1: this simple world, but there's a not just it's not
Speaker 1: like detailed, but there's a ton of shit in there,
Speaker 1: so it feels super detailed, like, oh my god, there's
Speaker 1: all this.
Speaker 3: Stuff everywhere I look.
Speaker 1: It was. It's definitely been a fun one to like
Speaker 1: set up with the kids where it's like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is a thing they have not experienced too much of.
Speaker 1: Just a straight up like open world game, like a
Speaker 1: game that would qualify as an open world from any
Speaker 1: of the big publishers, but really boiled down to its
Speaker 1: base components and made a little bit simpler hero the
Speaker 1: area this is, this is It is from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: It's from October fifth, twenty twenty three, according to the
Speaker 1: Steam page here. But uh yeah, it's just a sandbox
Speaker 1: sort of game that has enough of a quest system
Speaker 1: that it also has a it can keep you motivated
Speaker 1: and keep you moving forward. But yeah, I'm I don't
Speaker 1: think it's like I said, I don't think this is
Speaker 1: one of those ones that is, Oh, go ask your
Speaker 1: nephew and he definitely knows about it. But I think
Speaker 1: that's one of those ones that's like, it's cool with
Speaker 1: the people who have played, who are into real video
Speaker 1: games and not just roadblocks, which is kind of where
Speaker 1: my kid's find himself. So uh, I've been enjoying that.
Speaker 1: Other than that, it's been keeping myself busy with games
Speaker 1: for work that we'll be able to talk about at
Speaker 1: some point, but but not yet, so hopefully i'll have
Speaker 1: more to talk about soon. But yeah, it's been all
Speaker 1: bang on balls. Otherwise it's been nothing but bang on
Speaker 1: balls for you. That's interesting. Huh yeah, I never heard
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 3: Never heard of that. Yeah, sure, maybe we should all
Speaker 3: bang on balls together.
Speaker 1: Obviously, you know what I think, Maybe we should. I
Speaker 1: think it'd be a fun stream, like a fun upf
Speaker 1: at some point. Uh yeah, maybe we could throw that
Speaker 1: onto the list. Uh all right, anything else, Mike, That's
Speaker 1: that's that's it for now.
Speaker 2: I'll talk about my own rings more once I finish it.
Speaker 2: But I'm on the on the DLC now. He wrapped
Speaker 2: up the Bass game and so having a great time
Speaker 2: with that for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, excellent, Well then in that case, uh oh,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean, which I talked about in the BombCast,
Speaker 2: but yeah, yeah, you're thinking me to play that.
Speaker 3: You told me to play that. I'm glad you date this.
Speaker 2: This weird, kind of creepy, pointedly adventure game with like
Speaker 2: kind of the aesthetic of early PC almost edutainment stuff.
Speaker 2: It's it's, it's it's very interesting. Sometimes it's like so
Speaker 2: weird that I think it's kind of just whatever nonsense?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Is it ever Bacon Narwal? Excuse me, Bacon Narwal? Yeah,
Speaker 2: like Reddit humor?
Speaker 1: Is it ever? Like, oh man, Like, because I get
Speaker 1: the sense maybe it might be occasionally, but not like overwhelmingly,
Speaker 1: So I.
Speaker 3: Want to call it Reddit humor. I would call it.
Speaker 2: I know this is like not everybody's comptee, but it
Speaker 2: definitely reminds me more like flash cartoon humor. It's a
Speaker 2: little holy start to it, a little salad fingers, and
Speaker 2: I am not above that stuff, right right, I kind
Speaker 2: of sometimes that stuff hits with me just fine for me.
Speaker 1: It's it's really just the aesthetic of early CD ROM games,
Speaker 1: early games where it would be like, this is an
Speaker 1: interactive CD ROHM game and they do the visual style
Speaker 1: of bo It's it's it's like multifaceted. It is the
Speaker 1: mini games look like they're from that time. The pointing
Speaker 1: click aspect of the number of pixels and colors looks
Speaker 1: very like, oh, this is an EVGA game. Maybe make
Speaker 1: sure you have your two D accelerator card and.
Speaker 2: Then the uh style sound blaster installed. Yeah, sound sound
Speaker 2: blaster installed.
Speaker 1: And then occasionally you'll get like three D like very
Speaker 1: early looking three D rendered graphics, right, and all of
Speaker 1: it is like like era appropriate. It looks I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's something about it. I'm really into on that side
Speaker 1: of things. And then it does seem to be it
Speaker 1: seems like one of those ones like it's tapping into
Speaker 1: that what I am hearing is very popular with the kids,
Speaker 1: which is just creepy pasta, like creepy pasta sort of
Speaker 1: four games, and I think it's pulling that off in
Speaker 1: a smart way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that absolutely, that is part of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I definitely could see my nephews, and he says, some
Speaker 3: of them being very much into this. How did you
Speaker 3: hear about it?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Why is this?
Speaker 2: Is this game doing pretty well? Like are two thousand
Speaker 2: reviews overwhelmingly positive on Steam? Like people have found this game?
Speaker 2: How did you hear about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So this was just like happenstance. It's serendipity. I was.
Speaker 1: I will occasionally use the magic Steam profile to go
Speaker 1: on on the Steam and like see what's new, and
Speaker 1: I'll just sort by the newest games, and usually it's
Speaker 1: like junk junk junk. But if I click on one,
Speaker 1: I'm like this all right, point and click adventure, And
Speaker 1: I will almost always click on the point click point
Speaker 1: click adventures because I'm like, I wonder if Michael care
Speaker 1: about this, or like I want to try these are
Speaker 1: every once in a while. And then I clicked on
Speaker 1: it and saw overwhelmingly positive with quite a few reviews.
Speaker 1: And that's always on Steam. That's one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: the time. That's worth like telling somebody about, hey check
Speaker 1: this out, let's see what this is, what's going on here?
Speaker 1: And this one seems like it might have been a
Speaker 1: winner on that front at least, So yeah, are you
Speaker 1: like seeing it through? Like are you gonna keep playing.
Speaker 2: It or what? I wonder I'm not sure yet it
Speaker 2: maybe maybe because I did stream when I started that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: kind of like a break from out in Ring. So
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to like keep taking
Speaker 2: a break from ring or I don't know, but like ilso,
Speaker 2: I don't want to be too far.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll just finish up on my own. I'm not sure,
Speaker 3: we'll see Okay, very cool?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Alright, yeah, super chats Mike, alright.
Speaker 2: Zac's ac Acy says, we know who's making the operatd
Speaker 2: Time remake? Yet is it Grezo? The tapestries from the
Speaker 2: trailer make me think so. I don't think we we know,
Speaker 2: we know for sure.
Speaker 1: But what was Grosso's last one? It was? Did they
Speaker 1: did they work on echoes of wisdom?
Speaker 3: I think they were echoes of wisdom?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Do to look that up? I thought, so, I can't remember.
Speaker 3: I think that is correct, aso last game was Legendsuda
Speaker 3: echoes of Wisdom.
Speaker 1: There you go, Okay, maybe not, but maybe so well.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out two twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Who knows?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Next up here is from Zakoul, who says, how does
Speaker 2: Nintendo even announce Smash now that they don't announce games early?
Speaker 2: I mean they'll announce it early enough that they can
Speaker 2: give us six months of character reveals and things like that.
Speaker 2: You'll you'll be fine. It won't be like last time,
Speaker 2: where I kind of felt like we were getting those
Speaker 2: for a year or something.
Speaker 3: Whatever that was, right, We're still just still condens it.
Speaker 3: We still don't really know what it is.
Speaker 2: If it's like Smash Brothers six or if it's Smash
Speaker 2: Brother's Ultimate Plus Deluxe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean the reason why I always why I think
Speaker 2: it could be Smash six is because last time I
Speaker 2: was convinced it was going to be Smash Brothers four
Speaker 2: plus and then Ultimate kind of ended up being more
Speaker 2: than that. Matt Rare Monkey says game nights Big Walk
Speaker 2: on Friday and Mecha Chameleon Saturday. All right, everyone, game
Speaker 2: mess Game Nights for the community. There were playing Big
Speaker 2: Walk on Friday Mecha Chameleons Saturday, both very fun games.
Speaker 2: It turns out, I know some people have like Friends
Speaker 2: slop fatigue, maybe because I have this perfect mechanism of
Speaker 2: playing them for a couple of hours every couple of Fridays.
Speaker 3: But I still always have a good time with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah I do too. I'm I kind of can't get
Speaker 1: enough of them. I saw like a new one on
Speaker 1: Steam of like Emergency Buddies, where like you play as
Speaker 1: paramedics and one person has to drive the ambulance and
Speaker 1: the other guys are in the back doing the first
Speaker 1: aid on the person, and then you kind of like
Speaker 1: take them into the hospital and maybe do even some
Speaker 1: more stuff in there. So there's like different settings and like, yep,
Speaker 1: that looks fantastic. I want to play that for a
Speaker 1: couple hours at least, So just give me endless ones
Speaker 1: of these. I'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Next up is JD KMPS is driving from Portland to
Speaker 2: San Francisco tomorrow and he stops Worth going to already
Speaker 2: have a biscuits and gravy stop planned mayor eh, I
Speaker 2: mean yeah, if you if you're buy the trees and mystery.
Speaker 2: Really did enjoy that quite a lot, very nice walking trail.
Speaker 2: There's a price of admission for that one, but I
Speaker 2: thought it was I thought it was worth it.
Speaker 3: There's a there was like a.
Speaker 2: Sky bucket thing you can even go on and goes
Speaker 2: over the trees. There's this weird like up walking canopy
Speaker 2: that makes you feel like an e walk. So yeah,
Speaker 2: good stuff. Like to that quite a bit. And like
Speaker 2: when you get into San Francisco, celebrate by going to
Speaker 2: the pacifica Taco Bell canteena and get yourself a alcoholic
Speaker 2: Baja Blast Frozy.
Speaker 1: The last gas station uh in Oregon. It will be
Speaker 1: the last week. It was the first gas station for us,
Speaker 1: but the last, the last gas station before you get
Speaker 1: into California, and you'll kind of know like the area
Speaker 1: because it's the area that was hit very hard by
Speaker 1: the fire. So you'll look around and see all the
Speaker 1: trees that kind of burned out. They're building it back up.
Speaker 1: It looks like they're figuring stuff out there, which is
Speaker 1: really nice. It was kind of devastating to see all
Speaker 1: that fire damage. But there's a giant ant on the toilet,
Speaker 1: the external toilet that you can go to at this
Speaker 1: gas station. You just just stop there and maybe look
Speaker 1: on the wall, and so you see grub was here.
Speaker 1: I didn't actually write that, but maybe you could for me.
Speaker 1: I'd appreciate that we had.
Speaker 2: We had a disagreement there because there's a group of
Speaker 2: bikers there, and you and Dan were team. They are Nazis,
Speaker 2: and Chuck and meet Chuck and I were team. Come on, guys,
Speaker 2: they're probably just bikers.
Speaker 1: I just I will use the context of where we were,
Speaker 1: which is that part of Oregon's that definitely colored things
Speaker 1: for me for sure.
Speaker 4: The Nazi bikers are really overt on their Nazism, so
Speaker 4: you will realize right away it's just looking.
Speaker 1: I don't think the thing is none of us like
Speaker 1: really looked directly at them because they were the only
Speaker 1: other people there and we didn't want to get We
Speaker 1: didn't want to get.
Speaker 3: What didn't you just walk up to them and ask him,
Speaker 3: are you nuts?
Speaker 1: Are you not?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: And me excuse me fellas, Yes, sir, we are Nazis.
Speaker 2: Thank you for asking, all right?
Speaker 3: Uh ah and that's it. Thank you. Everybody appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Almost forgot jas me came out. I'm three far six
Speaker 4: you're speaking of just.
Speaker 2: I saw I saw somebody complaining that she's half baked.
Speaker 2: What do you think she's half baked? Well, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: She's cool as fun, she's so much fun. Like that's
Speaker 2: she a little bit you know, she's a little bit simpler.
Speaker 4: On the sash down characters. Yeah, rush down character. She
Speaker 4: has a demon fleep. They can either land on the
Speaker 4: front or on the back. It's like it's kind of
Speaker 4: naughty on that prossups.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 4: Whole parody because this game has a parody in the
Speaker 4: party blows both the ways. But yeah, you can do
Speaker 4: an empty one and throw throw the people. That's but yeah, no,
Speaker 4: she's fun. She's shot straight up a fun game. They
Speaker 4: the fun character they captain. She's got the formula down
Speaker 4: for these new characters. They are all fun. This they
Speaker 4: haven't released like a not cool characters. It it's like
Speaker 4: ever this game is like the best characters are the
Speaker 4: DALC characters. So yeah, that's she just check her out.
Speaker 4: She's she's already. She came out Tuesday, I think, which
Speaker 4: sucks because I wanted to use in the tournament that
Speaker 4: I have this this Sunday and you can't use characters.
Speaker 3: They're like, yeah, like a week, so you're gonna rock
Speaker 3: at the tournament then.
Speaker 4: Aki, she's just gonna do we go back to Aki
Speaker 4: or Honda? They both hound us somehow. Yeah, they didn't
Speaker 4: know whenever like this this is a new season. Yet, No,
Speaker 4: they didn't do anything to they change every character and Lily,
Speaker 4: I think they didn't change anything, like great, all right,
Speaker 4: the character the character decided to learn.
Speaker 3: She's no, you can change character if you want to be.
Speaker 3: She's it was fun.
Speaker 2: Just like that because her her doubt her one attack
Speaker 2: that I could confirm into twopers had.
Speaker 3: Like a huge window to do it. So for my
Speaker 3: old man brain it was helpful.
Speaker 4: Sure, whatever, whatever helped you. Brother, Now she's not Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a new season. The thing is this game nothing happened.
Speaker 4: It's a new season eventually. Usually when a new season
Speaker 4: happened in a fighting game is that they switch it
Speaker 4: up the sound bugs, the change mechanics in the game.
Speaker 4: And the problem with Trade for three Fighter six is like,
Speaker 4: for a while it's been perfect, so there's not a
Speaker 4: lot of changes in the character balancing, so it feels
Speaker 4: a little bit tale in I fear for what's.
Speaker 3: Going to happen this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of interesting because like the game has
Speaker 2: been really good, so it's a problem they don't you
Speaker 2: can't change it up too much, even though I know
Speaker 2: a lot of people want them to just for the
Speaker 2: sake of it. Yeah, so it's like, wow, Street Fighter
Speaker 2: six is so good, so we should just keep adding
Speaker 2: characters to it, or well, strict Fire six is so good,
Speaker 2: we can't change Let's just make Street Fighters seven.
Speaker 1: Wait, is there a Bully like coming out soon? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Bully Like hang on, let me sit here, baby, I
Speaker 2: just I just put it in chat you guys, look
Speaker 2: at this.
Speaker 1: I just I just glanced at it for five seconds.
Speaker 3: But it h field High Rock to School. I mean
Speaker 3: it's one million percent of Bully Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's adventure, open World, third person co oh, it's
Speaker 1: a bullylike.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is out next week. Look at this.
Speaker 1: Let's wait, wait, wait to the part of the trailer
Speaker 1: where you get to the like the bicycle ride and
Speaker 1: it's very.
Speaker 5: Radar.
Speaker 4: Alright, instead of having gas, we should allow Bully to
Speaker 4: the war.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unfair dark timeline.
Speaker 1: All right, man, I was just like peeking at Steam
Speaker 1: while you guys were having your conversation there. That Agent
Speaker 1: sixty four Spies Never Die game is out on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: Check that?
Speaker 4: Do you check that Monkey game where you had to
Speaker 4: you had to disarm a bomb. But one monkey is blind,
Speaker 4: one monkey is the other one monkey you can't talk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very and my sister played that ship all
Speaker 3: the time. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's like keep talking notice flow, but the three monkeys,
Speaker 4: it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: You need to other two switches, you know, let's uh,
Speaker 3: let's wrap this up there we go.
Speaker 1: We could do that and then then you should just
Speaker 1: have to end at that point. All right, everybody, thank
Speaker 1: you for tuning in. We really appreciate it. We have
Speaker 1: a we have an episode of Nintendog's happening next Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We'll have another episode of the show next Thursday. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much for hanging out with us at
Speaker 1: all times. Thank you for anyone who supports us. And
Speaker 1: if you can't afford to sports, we get that too.
Speaker 1: Just thanks for being here and being in the audience
Speaker 1: and being a member of the community.
Speaker 3: It means the world to us.
Speaker 1: We get all the nice comments and stuff like that
Speaker 1: is very cool. Mike, what you got planned for the weekend?
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? What's going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna be streaming uh more, uh more, Elden
Speaker 2: Ring Shadow of the Air Tree. I'm gonna I did
Speaker 2: a little prep. We're gonna start taking down bosses, probably
Speaker 2: tomorrow evening, so I want to watch me do that.
Speaker 2: No summons. Just rolling around at the speed of sound
Speaker 2: and taking people out gonna be fun time.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm maye.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll do a little token on the stream as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I just keep that off. Fine, we'll see,
Speaker 2: we'll see. But I'm definitely gonna be playing some to
Speaker 2: con this weekend for sure.
Speaker 1: James Milkie uh points out one that we did not
Speaker 1: even mention for our our Mount Rushmore game reviews. Uh,
Speaker 1: Beatles Rock Band. Oh that was huge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a big one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Paul McCartney came out that that, like multiple
Speaker 1: people have now mentioned that. It's like, oh, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't believe we never even mentioned.
Speaker 3: My brother Chris gonna be pissed at me.
Speaker 1: Uh huh man. There was time, but that was just
Speaker 1: the biggest thing in the world rock It was, yeah,
Speaker 1: rock band like but even like even by the when
Speaker 1: that game came out, I felt like it sold Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I wonder what the sales numbers were
Speaker 1: for Beatles Rock Band, right, because like part of me
Speaker 1: is like, why didn't that sell ten million copies?
Speaker 3: I probably didn't, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think probably it was probably was it the best
Speaker 1: selling rock band though it could have been. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if it wasn't even maybe it was.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't.
Speaker 3: And I got Beatles Rock Band, I remember you couldn't
Speaker 3: get the instruments. I do remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I have a copy of full box
Speaker 1: copy of Beatles rock band in that back room right
Speaker 1: there for PS. Two or whatever it was PS three.
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching, everybody. We'll be back next time. I
Speaker 1: told them, have a good one. Take care of yourself
Speaker 1: and John Drake what they tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Grabitz Josephinelle days right, you're gonna be good. Sean, how
Speaker 3: do we bringage DCP on on Netflix?
Speaker 4: You don't fuck man, Just point the camera at this screen, motherfucker,
Speaker 4: like the old kids.
Speaker 3: Spuel all right, we're out.