Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Friday, April fourth, twenty twenty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Giant BombCast Revengeance, Episode something. It's a number out there.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. There's too many things happening right now
Speaker 1: in the world, in the world of video games, on
Speaker 1: this website, but joining me to keep me grounded an anchor,
Speaker 1: but he's called captain of the ship, so he's threw
Speaker 1: the anchor off the ship.
Speaker 2: Jeff grub Yeah, if you heard about smugglers run in
Speaker 2: totow switch to edition it's not a video game.
Speaker 1: Oh well, it makes sense. Why you haven't heard of that.
Speaker 1: We have the new leading authority on all things Bagel,
Speaker 1: Dan Record.
Speaker 3: I smuggled a bagel to Minnesota from New York City
Speaker 3: yesterday and it made just fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I bunk ate it and it was all good.
Speaker 1: Speaking about all good things. Stay all good in the
Speaker 1: hood because of him. Sewn Tbo Sean McDowell.
Speaker 5: Welcome to Giant BombCast eight eight four Revengeance. Everybody glad
Speaker 5: to be here eight eight four.
Speaker 1: And you know we couldn't do this with just four people,
Speaker 1: so we need the bad boy of games media.
Speaker 6: My NAUGHTI why do we have to talk about political
Speaker 6: video game show. Wait what happened?
Speaker 3: I know I'm not known for my political hot takes,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to be a firebrand here.
Speaker 4: You ready. Oh no, okay, I don't much care for
Speaker 4: what's going on out there.
Speaker 7: Damn Dan, Yeah, I know you.
Speaker 5: Need to.
Speaker 7: I was right off.
Speaker 1: You might have to cut that out. You make the
Speaker 1: Actually I kind of just want you to beat that
Speaker 1: whole portion.
Speaker 5: Better.
Speaker 7: That's better what he said.
Speaker 1: Hey, gang, it's a it's a lovely Friday afternoon. Nothing
Speaker 1: uh hectic is happening right, No, nothing is on side.
Speaker 4: I watched GBN. Seems like everything's great.
Speaker 7: It was just super chill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely all good. Well, other than the world, how
Speaker 1: was how's everyone doing? Dan? How are you feeling after
Speaker 1: the travel?
Speaker 4: I slept for like twelve hours. That was great.
Speaker 3: You have long fucked up dreams when we sleep that long,
Speaker 3: but it was still it's worth it. I am missing
Speaker 3: the We're only there for like two days, and oh
Speaker 3: my god. I know they talk about it all the time,
Speaker 3: but the bagel situation there, I literally had the best
Speaker 3: bagel I've ever had my life, two mornings in a
Speaker 3: row from the same place. Shout out to Mad Man
Speaker 3: Espresso next to Grand Central Station. And then the reason
Speaker 3: I got to smuggle one back is I ordered one
Speaker 3: yesterday before my flight.
Speaker 4: I take it back to eat it at the hotel.
Speaker 3: Open it up and it's a crazy egg and cheese
Speaker 3: sandwich and I just wanted to sess me a bagel
Speaker 3: with cream cheese. So I walk all the way back.
Speaker 3: I think I grabbed the wrong I thought they said Dan,
Speaker 3: but it's a jack on the bag.
Speaker 7: No way.
Speaker 4: That might have been because they had jack cheese on it.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but it was the wrong thing nevertheless,
Speaker 3: And so I handed them the back and I was like, oh, sorry,
Speaker 3: I want to sends me with cream cheese, and they
Speaker 3: made it for me, and they're like, you can also
Speaker 3: keep that egg and cheese sandwich if you want, And
Speaker 3: so you know, I got bonk on the horn. She
Speaker 3: loves the good egg and cheese sandwich. And I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: if I wrap it up double tight and put it
Speaker 3: in my baggage, would you have it? And she said yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 3: I smuggled it over here, got it through. I guess
Speaker 3: there's no customs in Minnesota from New York, but yeah,
Speaker 3: but I got it in there. And it held up
Speaker 3: very well. But no, man, I did New York. I got,
Speaker 3: I got two bagels, We got pizza, which was amazing.
Speaker 3: Jan I went to an Italian restaurant and I had
Speaker 3: pasta and I had a street hot dog all in
Speaker 3: two days.
Speaker 4: Like that's everything. New York was just like Janet, You
Speaker 4: and I.
Speaker 3: Left that buffet thing at the switch event that did
Speaker 3: not look great and I saw I asked Paris say
Speaker 3: that it was just hot garbage, and we left and
Speaker 3: we went right to irregular pizza across the street and
Speaker 3: oh oh, we shared some garlic squares. We got some
Speaker 3: square pizza that was delicious.
Speaker 1: Square.
Speaker 4: Very very happy with the New York food situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I I'm very thankful to live in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: where like food diversity is very much a thing. But
Speaker 1: I need myself some street meat. Only New York can
Speaker 1: provide me with some street meat.
Speaker 3: Best street meat in at least the country, I would
Speaker 3: I would say it's probably up there in the world too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because like I had tried before, I had to
Speaker 1: go back and edit the game spot video. I had
Speaker 1: dinner with some friends, but I had a little bit
Speaker 1: of room in the tum tum and I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know what, maybe I will get that questionable slice of
Speaker 1: pizza for ninety nine cents, and you know what, tasted
Speaker 1: like car hard.
Speaker 7: Board really right in New York.
Speaker 4: Costco peace in New York, and Sians good New York.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I find that even like the cheap o
Speaker 3: pizza in New York tends to be like pretty good.
Speaker 1: But then I got some uh some milk tea at
Speaker 1: a fancy place that looked like it was one of
Speaker 1: those fancy soap stores, and I'm like, wow, it is
Speaker 1: like I'm drinking mango sticky rice.
Speaker 7: How did y'all pull off this sorcery in this cup?
Speaker 3: It's a good city. I like New York City a lot.
Speaker 3: I was definitely brought.
Speaker 1: Another hot day from Dan.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, New York City.
Speaker 3: He's doing a good job. Walked by the old GB
Speaker 3: East office. Looks very different, the lobby and stuff.
Speaker 2: What's that you never complained about living there? Like you
Speaker 2: you lived there for a minute, right and.
Speaker 4: You twenty seventeen to twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I remember like listening to you like talk
Speaker 2: about SF before that, and not so many kind of
Speaker 2: things for you personally, not your city New York, and
Speaker 2: it seemed like you liked it quite a bit.
Speaker 4: I love New York.
Speaker 3: New York City is i'd say three best cities in America.
Speaker 3: New York City, Minneapolis, Newlands those Hey, Cleveland's really nice too.
Speaker 3: I like Cleveland a lot. But yeah, New York, New Orleans,
Speaker 3: and Minneapolis are my three favorite cities.
Speaker 7: I'd probably throw Chicago in there, but yes, Chicago school
Speaker 7: love Chicago.
Speaker 1: You know what, I really like Philly when we were
Speaker 1: there for WrestleMania Philly exactly. That's totally the thing they
Speaker 1: say there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's there's definitely things to complain about
Speaker 3: with New York, Like I mean, God, you're living in
Speaker 3: a matchbox apartment and spending more than I've ever spent
Speaker 3: my life, you know, like, but you're paying for like
Speaker 3: living in New York City and everything.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like there's there's a lot of things that that
Speaker 3: city affords you and at the cost of like, well,
Speaker 3: you're gonna live in a very small place that doesn't
Speaker 3: have a kitchen, and if you want to get a microwave,
Speaker 3: you have to get a separate little cart to wheel
Speaker 3: it around on because there's no counter space.
Speaker 7: You know, but no, I love New York.
Speaker 1: So folks, that's what we're doing today. We're ranking US cities.
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, are Mountmore today?
Speaker 7: And your city listener whatever it is is last happens
Speaker 7: to the loser.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're in Missouri, we're finally taking advantage of
Speaker 1: the name of this website. No just kidding, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: allegedly allegedly jkjkjk everyone else to do it.
Speaker 7: Okay, everyone's fine.
Speaker 6: I had to go see the Minecraft movie tomorrow.
Speaker 7: You have, I've heard It's okay, why my I.
Speaker 6: Never Seenieces asked me too, and I like them, so.
Speaker 7: I don't do that.
Speaker 3: When you have kids and stuff, you probably have to
Speaker 3: like see a bunch of bullshit.
Speaker 2: They haven't mentioned it to me yet, although they have
Speaker 2: been talking about Minecraft more frequently. My daughter came up
Speaker 2: to me yesterday and said.
Speaker 6: Do you like Steve.
Speaker 2: Like I took me a Borden Steve like Steve Steve
Speaker 2: Bordon like a big fan of Steve Steve. Ho, wow,
Speaker 2: it's like Steve Minecraft. And she just like she does
Speaker 2: this big cheesy grin. I'm like, yeah, I love Steve
Speaker 2: Minecraft to your kid, like he's one of the worst
Speaker 2: smash characters.
Speaker 7: How dare you bring him up in this house?
Speaker 1: Okay? Anyone else intending to see the Minecraft movie? I
Speaker 1: saw a big ass board for it in time.
Speaker 2: I do kind of want to just go to a movie,
Speaker 2: So maybe I'll ask them if they want to go,
Speaker 2: especially if Mikey comes back and says he likes it.
Speaker 7: See, because people do seem to think it's okay.
Speaker 6: I'll give you a big report on Tuesday.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 6: I think this is that like sometimes I'm not getting
Speaker 6: the big drink in the popcorns. My bladder's so small,
Speaker 6: and I'm going to miss on the movie. This is
Speaker 6: why we're like, I think I'm mostly here for the
Speaker 6: popcorn and Giant Coke zero, so I'm not gonna worry
Speaker 6: it to get up and go to the bathroom and
Speaker 6: miss important Minecraft plot details.
Speaker 2: I did have a crazy thought that it's like I
Speaker 2: have not heard a single opinion from a child about
Speaker 2: that Snow White movie. A lot of people have opinions,
Speaker 2: and it's all been adults, And I'm like, I kind
Speaker 2: of want to take my kids to go see it
Speaker 2: just to see, like what they think, just to see
Speaker 2: what a kid actually like has when they watch that movie.
Speaker 6: I'm curious that's a Disney right, yeah, but I'm not
Speaker 6: gonna go see that live action garbage now, Oh okay,
Speaker 6: don't like that either, Dan. We're most of the political though,
Speaker 6: right Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why you only hear That's why you only
Speaker 5: hear adults talking about because it's some boomer ship that
Speaker 5: people are offended that they made a different version of
Speaker 5: it to kids. It's like, this is my first time
Speaker 5: seeing this.
Speaker 6: I don't give So you're defending the snow White remake.
Speaker 7: I'm kind of him like, like, I bet my kids
Speaker 7: are gonna like it.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what, I'll defend Rachel Ziggler till the
Speaker 1: day I fu.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure. Anyway, uh, gang.
Speaker 3: Your fans, how dare you?
Speaker 1: It's a good dot or whatever I said?
Speaker 7: Thought last time? I was like I think I said that. No, Like,
Speaker 7: it's good.
Speaker 1: It's all right. You can disrespect her name all you want.
Speaker 1: We don't give a ship, all right, thanks sommy.
Speaker 6: People get what I do that.
Speaker 1: I have not pulled up the run show a grub
Speaker 1: in one of the many Discord channels. We have positive
Speaker 1: that we could do a little New York City trip
Speaker 1: report because Dana and I checked out the switch to
Speaker 1: But does anyone have a game they're dying to talk
Speaker 1: about right now?
Speaker 2: I mean, Sean, Mike me, Do you guys have anything
Speaker 2: that should preempt us just talking about them?
Speaker 3: You guys can ask questions, and Jan and I can, well,
Speaker 3: I think allowed to play specifically given a bread pass
Speaker 3: that says anti passed. That's crazy. I've literally never seen
Speaker 3: that before. Like there's like a thing sometimes where it's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: sometimes you know, cameramen come along our producers and it's
Speaker 3: just kind of like implied like the other and.
Speaker 2: You could like pass off the controller, but you can't
Speaker 2: play at the same time because someone else needs.
Speaker 7: That happens all the time, Like for sure, I get that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen someone like, what's that thing around someone's
Speaker 3: next game?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's so weird.
Speaker 5: Second class s m badge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remarked, Yeah, okay, here's my media badge from to
Speaker 1: See right, Like okay, says game spot media.
Speaker 7: Cool, all right.
Speaker 1: And then I noticed mine had a second piece of
Speaker 1: paper and this one he's not laminated.
Speaker 4: And it says streaky brown stuff on it.
Speaker 1: Companion pass.
Speaker 4: But what's it say on the other side, thank.
Speaker 1: You for joining us at the Nintendo Switch to experience
Speaker 1: as a companion. And then in smaller text it says
Speaker 1: not eligible for gameplay your bio on.
Speaker 5: So does that mean that Dan had one that says
Speaker 5: he can play games?
Speaker 4: No, I just didn't have the bad.
Speaker 1: One, you know what, Like it's that's funny while I
Speaker 1: Dan have to use the restroom and then my companion
Speaker 1: pass fell off and I just made a new hole I.
Speaker 7: Could have just reason, You're like, I like this whole
Speaker 7: I like being down here. Nobody brands themselves. Jane's a
Speaker 7: good boy, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Scooby dude himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Jeff, that's right, Lexie, Jeff Backlar coworker,
Speaker 1: me companion, companion.
Speaker 6: I felt like that everybody.
Speaker 1: Jesse Vittelli had posted this on Blue Sky. But my
Speaker 1: favorite thing from the whole day, Dan, you can attest
Speaker 1: to this is in the lobby where the registration area was,
Speaker 1: there was any small TV there a monitor, and I
Speaker 1: thought like, oh, they're going to display some relevant information,
Speaker 1: perhaps a QRTES scans only the registration propum, Yes, the
Speaker 1: only TV in the room.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And there was like.
Speaker 1: A weird, very small square photo of Mario and it
Speaker 1: wasn't even high resolution.
Speaker 3: Three hundred by three hundred, and it looked kind of
Speaker 3: like he had some pixels on his hat that were
Speaker 3: fucked up. Like that was the only thing misplayed on
Speaker 3: the only TV in the one room everyone had to
Speaker 3: wait in for a while.
Speaker 5: It was like cap Mario from the sixty four or something.
Speaker 6: It's like like four eighty p Yeah, I think a
Speaker 6: bench situation from you know that movie. They wrote that
Speaker 6: dimensions on the napkin.
Speaker 5: And yes, yeah, everyone want to speculate. I think I
Speaker 5: saw Eric fan Allen call it the load bearing Mario PNG.
Speaker 5: We can't some for some reason, we moved this. I
Speaker 5: think it's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 7: We were like it's like a virgin Mary candle, like
Speaker 7: you never like it.
Speaker 4: I never use it.
Speaker 7: You have to keep it there.
Speaker 3: I had a moment when I was walking in there
Speaker 3: on the first day and it was Garrett from Pace
Speaker 3: but I haven't seen it in a while. I ran
Speaker 3: in him on the sidewalk and he was going in
Speaker 3: the right entrance and I told him like, oh, I
Speaker 3: don't think that'shere we're supposed to go. I looked at
Speaker 3: Google Maps. I think we're supposed to go over here,
Speaker 3: and he's like, I thought I was here, was like,
Speaker 3: I think it's rare. We walk in definitely the employee entrance,
Speaker 3: and so I was completely wrong. And so we walk
Speaker 3: in and it was just this huge room and there
Speaker 3: were like I want to say, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: people there in different like switch gear like a tire,
Speaker 3: and I was like, what is this event going to be?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 7: This is what?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Was it like when at Stamikina's Doughnuts and Wayne's Worldway
Speaker 2: opens up the rooms full of ninjas?
Speaker 4: It was like that, Yeah, it's like what the fuck?
Speaker 4: What is going on here?
Speaker 3: And I did not anticipate it being I thought it
Speaker 3: was gonna be like like I've been to the three
Speaker 3: DS reveal event like fifteen years ago, and it was
Speaker 3: like usually smaller things like Reggie does a lot of that,
Speaker 3: and it's like, no, this was like one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifteen Nintendo people there. I went into the line room
Speaker 3: and I Kleppik was behind me in the line. Got
Speaker 3: talked him for a while, so it got to see
Speaker 3: like it was kind of really nice looking around and
Speaker 3: seeing like, oh man, I guess there are You tend
Speaker 3: to think that there's just like no games media jobs
Speaker 3: anymore because everything shuts down. But looking around, say, ah shit,
Speaker 3: here's like everyone I've known and worked with for the
Speaker 3: last forever years and also people on the roads now.
Speaker 7: But yeah they're still making it happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it was almost kind of nice to see
Speaker 3: everyone back in the place, and like it was weird too,
Speaker 3: because after the event, I still had a night there
Speaker 3: and I was like looking to grab a beer with someone.
Speaker 3: I was messaging some friends and everyone's like, I got to.
Speaker 7: Write all night.
Speaker 3: This embargoes tomorrow is like oh writing, Yeah, Chan's editing
Speaker 3: all these people like Brian Shaane and these people like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, and I got to write all night.
Speaker 4: Oh right, right, yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 6: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: Tryers driving back the podcast and Okay, well my work's done.
Speaker 3: I guess I'll just walk around for a few hours
Speaker 3: and meet John Vignaki at a bar.
Speaker 2: What was the setup like when you actually were in
Speaker 2: there and you saw the systems all laid out. Did
Speaker 2: they have like just a ton of stations for each
Speaker 2: game or were there big lines to like play Donkey.
Speaker 4: Kong like they all watch.
Speaker 3: She did a really good job of kind of like this,
Speaker 3: like people had like a red, an orange, or a
Speaker 3: yellow wristband to determine like the timing of when you
Speaker 3: go in, which, by the way, they were all very
Speaker 3: close in color, and I'm not color blind. It was difficult,
Speaker 3: like there's so much because this orange or yellow from everyone.
Speaker 3: And then also it's a bunch of colorblind journalists just
Speaker 3: being like I have no idea what any of this is.
Speaker 4: So that power was a little weird.
Speaker 2: But it sucks at accessibility confirmed, Yes, even as they
Speaker 2: make the wheelchair basketball game.
Speaker 6: I'm just so pretty bad at it.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 1: The other aspect is that Dan and I had different
Speaker 1: colored wristbands.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that makes sense. Okay, just got fixed.
Speaker 4: We do have someone in the chat saying, did they
Speaker 4: clap for you?
Speaker 1: Boy?
Speaker 7: Did they?
Speaker 5: Jan?
Speaker 3: Okay, So this was a weird thing. There's the entrance
Speaker 3: to the main first thing where you go into play
Speaker 3: Mario Kart, Like the first room is Mario Kart, and
Speaker 3: it was also like the main room that you have
Speaker 3: to go in and out of if you're like leaving
Speaker 3: the building, and like Jane and I left to get
Speaker 3: lunch and we came back and stuff, and every time
Speaker 3: you leave there was like six on one side and
Speaker 3: six on the other, like a hallway of Nintendo people
Speaker 3: and every time you walk past them, they all clap. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you will see this in the video jan is gonna
Speaker 3: put up. So we as people who had to leave
Speaker 3: and go back, Like every time I go to if
Speaker 3: I go take a shit, it's just I have like
Speaker 3: twelve Yeah.
Speaker 4: I kind of like that, but I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Tiers thing was like, okay, so the
Speaker 3: first room you go into is Mario Kart and that
Speaker 3: was the Grand pre mode and so each one of
Speaker 3: those stations you could play two players. So I raced
Speaker 3: against Alex Perry from Mashville. Very easy to just walk
Speaker 3: up there. There was no lines. I mean, they had
Speaker 3: tons and tons of kios. It's the same room that's
Speaker 3: going to host that Nintendo Experience thing, so it's a
Speaker 3: lot of people are gonna be going in there. And
Speaker 3: then they take you up to another room which is
Speaker 3: like all the third party stuff and Metroid and like
Speaker 3: the Zelda stuff, Mario Party, like everything that wasn't Donkey
Speaker 3: Kong or Mario Kart was in this one other area.
Speaker 3: And then there was another Mario Kart room that was
Speaker 3: just for the Knockout Cout and so that was twenty
Speaker 3: four kios and it was kind of great because like
Speaker 3: it doesn't start until everyone's ready up, and there was
Speaker 3: like one person who took like ten minutes to ready up.
Speaker 3: So it's just like you're seeing all the other people
Speaker 3: are like ready and then one empty spot. But it
Speaker 3: puts you into the free roam mode if someone's not ready,
Speaker 3: So instead of just like Mario Kart, Yeah, like Mario Kart,
Speaker 3: you're just sitting at that one screen watching a bunch
Speaker 3: of bees stand on the earth. No, you get to
Speaker 3: just drive around Mario Kart World.
Speaker 7: And it's just boring or is it funks? It looks fun.
Speaker 7: I hope it's not boring. It's fun.
Speaker 3: Somebody found a fucking a UFO that abducted them and
Speaker 3: then they were piloting the UFO around.
Speaker 1: That was our dear friend Jesse Vittelli. Yes, and and Dan,
Speaker 1: you found like these princess coins.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there were like weird princess coins that were like
Speaker 3: on top of like power line, so like if you
Speaker 3: like grind up there. I don't know, I didn't get
Speaker 3: to any ofm I just kept seeing them. I was
Speaker 3: like what is this Princess coin thing? But then there's
Speaker 3: stuff like you know, the like green like binocular things
Speaker 3: from three Land that like shoot into the sky and
Speaker 3: you can look around. I found those at different places
Speaker 3: and if you run into it, you can like just
Speaker 3: like kind of binocular all around the world. And like
Speaker 3: there's at least it's not just empty fields. It is
Speaker 3: like there is a bunch of Nintendo shit everywhere.
Speaker 6: Were you getting like Burnout Paradise vibes or Forts of
Speaker 6: Horizon vibes or was it much more its own thing?
Speaker 3: There are elements of both certainly. And SSX three also,
Speaker 3: I think by how Sex three was that one big
Speaker 3: mountain and you could chain together multiple legs and that's
Speaker 3: kind of how this works, Like the Knockout mode changed
Speaker 3: together all these things, and I think as a result
Speaker 3: of that, you know, I probably raced on four or
Speaker 3: five Grand Prix tracks and also the big Knockout mode thing.
Speaker 3: All the tracks I saw were more of that like
Speaker 3: Mount Warrior kind of new Rainbow Road thing where it's
Speaker 3: different legs instead of laps, because you know, they all connect,
Speaker 3: so it's not like, you know, three laps around. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that's the case with every track in
Speaker 3: the game, but like that's really good for variety because
Speaker 3: the first track I did was like, okay, it was
Speaker 3: a bunch of like dirt paths and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And then and like the second leg there's just a
Speaker 3: bunch of dinosaurs everywhere, like huge you know, Bronsaurus and stuff,
Speaker 3: stomping all around. And then the third lap or leg
Speaker 3: was this big facility where they're like keeping all the
Speaker 3: dinosaurs and stuff, and I realized, like, oh shit, this
Speaker 3: is a Jurassic Park track. This is like one like
Speaker 3: a Jurassic Park reference, and like it's so much more
Speaker 3: fun than just doing the same thing three times in
Speaker 3: a row.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, that that was super cool.
Speaker 5: I thought, was that in still the knockout mode or
Speaker 5: were you talking about Grand Prix?
Speaker 4: That was Grand Prix? Okay, Knockout mode has to be
Speaker 4: that way because it has to like chain to.
Speaker 7: The right level.
Speaker 5: They did show in one of the videos that there's
Speaker 5: at least one of them more like the simple Oval
Speaker 5: track whatever it might be. It kind of looked like
Speaker 5: the excite By track or whatever. It like they're one
Speaker 5: of the walls like opens up at the end and
Speaker 5: everyone drives to the next course and you just start
Speaker 5: racing on the next course.
Speaker 3: So it's interesting, okay, okay, So maybe that's the case
Speaker 3: with some of them, is that it's.
Speaker 6: Just like, yeah a pat Man, Yeah, I have always
Speaker 6: been a little hard on Mario Kart, and I am
Speaker 6: so excited for this. It's so neat that they actually
Speaker 6: are taking a bigger swing here and they actually are
Speaker 6: changing things up. They aren't just doing Mario Kart nine
Speaker 6: or ten or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the idea of exploring a world in
Speaker 2: the cars, because the cars look really fun to drive.
Speaker 2: They like the big wheels and going off roading and
Speaker 2: the way they change vehicles to go across water or
Speaker 2: to turning the planes. It all looked really fantastic. And
Speaker 2: like hearing that there's just stuff to find everywhere, it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: that is something I want to spend time doing in
Speaker 2: this open world. Mario parts and then occasionally setting like
Speaker 2: a high speed thing on a road. It looked like
Speaker 2: had some of that stuff in there too. I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's perfect.
Speaker 5: That's something I was curious about, Dan, when you talked
Speaker 5: about exploring and going out of your way a little
Speaker 5: bit to f something were you doing that during the
Speaker 5: knockout mode or during free.
Speaker 4: Roam that was free rome.
Speaker 3: I feel like you did that during knockout Like I mean,
Speaker 3: maybe there's some opportunity for shortcuts and stuff, but I
Speaker 3: was just sticking to the court.
Speaker 5: That's what I was curious about, because they did show
Speaker 5: it seemed in the knockout mode I think was when
Speaker 5: like you could get inside the giant truck and drive
Speaker 5: the truck for a little bit. I think it would
Speaker 5: be really cool if there are reasons to go out
Speaker 5: of your way and may if you find something in
Speaker 5: free roalm you and take that knowledge into the race
Speaker 5: and so then try to go out your way. If
Speaker 5: you successfully do something, you get something that might end
Speaker 5: up putting you ahead in the race. Oh sure, yeah,
Speaker 5: Because like Mark always like you know, blasted for being
Speaker 5: so rubber bandy and so like trying to keep everyone close.
Speaker 5: If they could have something that is more skill oriented
Speaker 5: that gives you incentive to learn the map and then
Speaker 5: try for this thing in the middle of race, I
Speaker 5: think that would be cool for people who are playing
Speaker 5: like a higher skill level, Like when being rubbed, we
Speaker 5: basically go back and forth until someone gets blueeshelled. When
Speaker 5: we raise, but we have reason to make go on
Speaker 5: a different path and find something different. I think that
Speaker 5: would be really fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan, you during the free roam section. This didn't
Speaker 1: get put into the video, but you were just having
Speaker 1: fun grinding on some railroads and then eventually mission impossible,
Speaker 1: like start riding on top of a train.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just saw train tracks and it was very much
Speaker 3: like that old sixty four. I forget the desert level
Speaker 3: with the train, but like kind of looked like that desert.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I kind of just like did a U
Speaker 3: turn and I found like a ramp or something to
Speaker 3: ramp on top of the train. I'm driving on top
Speaker 3: of the train and stuff, and like this was not
Speaker 3: part of the course necessarily, but like just messing around
Speaker 3: it was super fun.
Speaker 4: Another thing that I think is just real.
Speaker 2: Quick on the how did the grinding feel? Because the
Speaker 2: looks awesome. It really looked awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because like there there was a part where it's
Speaker 3: like railroad tracks and so it'd be like grinding on
Speaker 3: one and it's not like Tony Hawk where you're gonna
Speaker 3: easily fall off or something like that. Like I went
Speaker 3: hard right and like you couldn't fall off with just
Speaker 3: like analog stick, and so you have to like intentionally
Speaker 3: like hop off, and I would hop from like one
Speaker 3: rail and try to like grind on the other and
Speaker 3: then try to get up on the power line and
Speaker 3: felt great, felt awesome. Guys might not like hearing this,
Speaker 3: but it's sonic rail keeps you locked, Okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it feels it feels awesome. It feels great and like
Speaker 3: a smaller thing that isn't as a parent, and they
Speaker 3: didn't really talk about that. I really like is Mario
Speaker 3: Karty is such a game that is you know, like
Speaker 3: casual gamers will play, like I'll go home, and like
Speaker 3: my sister Katie doesn't play a lot of games, and
Speaker 3: so if me, her and Kayla are playing, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like okay, I gotta explain, like okay, turn off
Speaker 3: this thing that's like bumper bowling, turn off the auto accelerate,
Speaker 3: and then like don't worry about about the wheels or
Speaker 3: the glider. Like it's just like there's those barriers when
Speaker 3: you're picking your car and stuff, and this one is
Speaker 3: just like pick a character, pick do you want a
Speaker 3: car or a bike?
Speaker 1: What do you want?
Speaker 3: And then it's like not like I don't know if
Speaker 3: there's like weight stats or anything like if you pick
Speaker 3: bowser versus toad or something like that, but it's more straightforward.
Speaker 1: I think stuff has come out since in one of
Speaker 1: the Treehouse Treehouse uh streams that there may be a
Speaker 1: stats still, but I don't.
Speaker 7: Like underlying stats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, is that bumper bowling thing in there, because
Speaker 2: my kids use that and it's been fantastic.
Speaker 7: Maybe.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not like you know, on the old
Speaker 4: one on eight it was like those three things that were.
Speaker 2: Very apparently it's the bumper bowling which steers for you,
Speaker 2: it's auto accelerate, and it was motion controls.
Speaker 7: Okay, things.
Speaker 3: I wonder if I, well, we know that there's going
Speaker 3: to be some similarce in motion controls because they show
Speaker 3: those wheels. So it wouldn't surprise me if it's like
Speaker 3: inn a pause menu or some other way of accessing
Speaker 3: it versus having to pick it every time and default
Speaker 3: into sort of things.
Speaker 7: God sounds good.
Speaker 5: We were speculating about speaking of stats, which, by the way,
Speaker 5: Chat says that stats are seems like now associates specifically
Speaker 5: with vehicles, not with the character necessarily. We were also
Speaker 5: wondering the outfits the costumes. Did you guys figure out
Speaker 5: what that was all about?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it looks neat when you could pick them, but
Speaker 6: I was confused about what the mechanic is for when
Speaker 6: you switch them in the middle of a ring.
Speaker 5: Yeah. We thought that might be like playing into the
Speaker 5: stats and affects your stats based to like make it
Speaker 5: more appropriate for the course you were on or something.
Speaker 1: So Dan was originally in a racer suit for Wallawigi,
Speaker 1: and then when we switched to the next level or
Speaker 1: the next world or stage, Wallawigi became like mad Max Wallawigi.
Speaker 1: So I think it may just be a visual thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like there wasn't any like discernible feel right.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, unlocking cosmetics is something you would want
Speaker 2: to in an open world game like that.
Speaker 3: But things do seem like it triggers it where it's
Speaker 3: like I actually started a Mariachi Wallowigi.
Speaker 7: You can't do that.
Speaker 4: Racing suit thing is not like a selectable thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I went to the Yoshi drive through fast food places.
Speaker 3: I ate like a big stack of pancakes, and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, Wallowigi was wearing like a skin
Speaker 3: tight racing suit. And then I crossed over into this
Speaker 3: like kind of more Southwestern style like desert area, and
Speaker 3: then Wallowegi's got a purple mohawk and like spiky shoulder
Speaker 3: road warrior stuff. And so I wonder if it is
Speaker 3: going to be like on those longer races, like as
Speaker 3: you cross the barrier into a certain thing. But those
Speaker 3: costumes are incredible. Alex Ferry raced as what was the
Speaker 3: was it Aristocrat King Boo or something.
Speaker 4: Woo with a fancy coach.
Speaker 3: And fucking funny. There's Burger Bud Toad who has like
Speaker 3: a hamburger head.
Speaker 1: There there were some costumes for Daisy that I had
Speaker 1: to omit from the video because I was worried about
Speaker 1: Mike Manatti there.
Speaker 7: Send those directly to Mike.
Speaker 4: There's a there was a bikini Daisy. He knows, Mike,
Speaker 4: you just smiles to me.
Speaker 7: He's told me fifteen times.
Speaker 1: There was one where she had an outfit similar to
Speaker 1: a princess Jasmine as well. Oh there was ye.
Speaker 2: Apparently they on the treeout stream they were avoiding getting
Speaker 2: the costumes as the cow.
Speaker 7: What won't they show us? What won't they show us?
Speaker 3: It's so fucking funny because everyone else is like more
Speaker 3: words adedwards, mariachi wa, laugi yoshi and cow cow.
Speaker 5: Okay hang I have before anyone says anything else. Jan
Speaker 5: and Dan, how do you feel about just like random
Speaker 5: like mumomeus, cows and stuff being racers?
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: There's the fucking dolphin with goggles. There's a fucking penguin
Speaker 3: from sixty four. Give me all of those weirdos.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 5: Who was being a funny duddy about it? Mike?
Speaker 7: Is he attractive? Is literally floating above a motors like?
Speaker 4: Well, it's not realistic enough for you?
Speaker 7: Don't play? This was this was what I was in
Speaker 7: real history. Guy here, Mike, is it for you? Now?
Speaker 4: That's it?
Speaker 6: That's the problem the enemy.
Speaker 7: Look, we're in a post Star Souls world with everybody. Jesus,
Speaker 7: what what is your what's your problem with that? Mike?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 7: They're just not real people.
Speaker 4: Like there's a dinosaur.
Speaker 6: I didn't I don't know.
Speaker 7: It's just like it's just like I didn't look at
Speaker 7: a Mario Price.
Speaker 6: I think just a goomba? Is it the same as
Speaker 6: donkey Kong rights?
Speaker 1: We know what you mean?
Speaker 6: I can't vote.
Speaker 7: Look, this is a.
Speaker 6: Big hang up, but I'm not gonna prop be playing
Speaker 6: as you know, a delfino or whatever.
Speaker 7: I I play as a penguin.
Speaker 3: I go.
Speaker 4: Flip you up in the air and the watermelon level the.
Speaker 6: Look and then like I'm being one back to I
Speaker 6: can't believe that's the one they picked. They are picking
Speaker 6: weird random ones. Almost the weirder the better in my opinion. Yes,
Speaker 6: I've even seen dry bones yet, though I think which
Speaker 6: bones is in there? He's then okay, everyone me then cool,
Speaker 6: try not to swear as much.
Speaker 7: I said.
Speaker 3: F means that it's funnier, it's it's incredible, It's it's
Speaker 3: like there's no denying that big that. I think they
Speaker 3: have knocked it out of the park with.
Speaker 6: The always this open world thing, like is there remotes
Speaker 6: just to like play through a series of tracks?
Speaker 4: Will be that?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 7: Like is that where old tracks could show up?
Speaker 3: I would I would imagine, I mean they didn't know
Speaker 3: that available here? But uh yeah, did they say in
Speaker 3: the trailer or something like the most tracks ever most something?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: I think, well, you'll be definitely less than the end
Speaker 5: of ninety six. But it looked I'm trying to do
Speaker 5: the math on it because it was two rows, so
Speaker 5: I think it's ten Grand Prixs. So like praise standard
Speaker 5: Mario Kart stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm interested to just like drive with you all
Speaker 1: across that map. Yeah, just like find I want to
Speaker 1: hang out in this.
Speaker 8: Game a hangout games, Isn't that like something that's almost
Speaker 8: built in, like a race across the map or whatever.
Speaker 7: Could you do like one of those elimination things, but
Speaker 7: have it being across all of the tracks.
Speaker 3: I bet they will have some mode it's like unlockable
Speaker 3: to get all golds and win FIFTCC where it's like,
Speaker 3: oh the Grand Prix, Grand Tour or whatever.
Speaker 6: Too old Mario Kart. It's a mad mad mad mad world.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go, Mario Kart, mad man, mad man.
Speaker 7: Oh we could do a cannon ball run. Yeah yeah
Speaker 7: yeah Dan.
Speaker 1: We also played the additional mode that they added to
Speaker 1: Mario Party. Yes, we did the Bowser TV show thing. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Connect game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I've been so excited about this. I don't know what
Speaker 7: it is.
Speaker 2: I'm like every time I see it, I'm like, it
Speaker 2: looks it looks like good stupid, especially because it's like
Speaker 2: it'll work fun online and we'd like all this is
Speaker 2: like just one one to one ee toy ripoff stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and yet somehow, somehow it being Mario party and online.
Speaker 2: So it'll be good for streaming, good for us to
Speaker 2: do content, but also just like good for a Friday
Speaker 2: night with the family or whatever across the country.
Speaker 7: I'm like, this seems like such a good time. I
Speaker 7: can't wait. It's like a killer app for me.
Speaker 3: I'm holding out hope that because at one point in
Speaker 3: one of the presentations they said like, oh, yeah, you
Speaker 3: can plug in a USBC camera to the top part,
Speaker 3: and they didn't like they are so specific with their
Speaker 3: branding and stuff like that that I think by them
Speaker 3: not specifying like you could plug in the Nintendo to
Speaker 3: switch camera to the top board, they said USBC. So
Speaker 3: it makes me think that, oh, you can just throw
Speaker 3: a Logitech in there or something like that.
Speaker 2: So Tory has announced a third party one that is
Speaker 2: a different camera, but it actually looks like a Piranha plant.
Speaker 7: Wonderful, it's less it's less money than the official one.
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be a b better quality because we're
Speaker 2: apparently makes very good stuff. Yeah and that, but that yes,
Speaker 2: what we're assuming here is you're gonna be able to
Speaker 2: plug in just about any USB C camp.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's something any USB camera with an adapt They got.
Speaker 5: Pretty good about that with the switch, where you can
Speaker 5: kind of just use most USB controllers. You can use
Speaker 5: pretty much a USB headset, so presumably, yeah, you'll just
Speaker 5: be able to plug in by are USB c webcam
Speaker 5: to the top and then maybe even whatever into the dock.
Speaker 3: Quick aside, I learned last weekend that I was played
Speaker 3: Metrod Primary Master, and I was curious, like what I
Speaker 3: played in a shoot GameCube controller through the switch adapter,
Speaker 3: And it did and it automatically just swapped all the
Speaker 3: controls to the original right primes.
Speaker 5: Well fun, yeah, because I think everything's mapped already and
Speaker 5: when you plug a GameCube controller into a switch, it
Speaker 5: just reads as a pro controller.
Speaker 4: So oh but I mean yeah, every button was exactly
Speaker 4: what it should have been.
Speaker 1: That was cool.
Speaker 7: Anyway.
Speaker 4: I was thinking, sorr, I'm getting all over the place.
Speaker 3: But I was at the airport bar yesterday wait in
Speaker 3: front flight, and I was playing uh Metroid, and I
Speaker 3: did the I needed to charge it and so I
Speaker 3: did only have to charge it from the bottom one
Speaker 3: and so maybe it really like awkward to like stand up, like, huh,
Speaker 3: that'll be good having that top port. And I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there with the joy cons disconnected, playing like this, and
Speaker 3: I had at this point played Metrod Prime four with
Speaker 3: the mouse mode, and it's like mouse mode would be
Speaker 3: really good right now?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Can I quickly share my airport debacle from yesterday?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 7: Get it all right?
Speaker 1: So my I had an early flight to leave eight am,
Speaker 1: supposed to board at seven thirty. I was roughly last.
Speaker 1: When I checked Google the night before, it said it
Speaker 1: would take about thirty minutes to get to the airport.
Speaker 1: I woke up at five am, and then I looked
Speaker 1: at Google Maps five thirty am and it said, yah,
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna take thirty minutes. I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: let me just double check I got everything before I go.
Speaker 1: Rushing out of the hotel six o'clock, I jump in
Speaker 1: the Uber. It suddenly says it's now going to take
Speaker 1: fifty minutes to get to the airport. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's cut it a little bit of close, that's that's fine,
Speaker 1: that's okay, And then Uber driver drops me off at
Speaker 1: the wrong terminal. No, he dropped me off at terminal one.
Speaker 1: I had to be a terminal eight, so I quickly
Speaker 1: run over to the air train. AirTrain says like, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be ten minutes until the next shuttle. I'm like, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine. This fine's fine. Skeep calms okay, and then
Speaker 1: I get I finally get to the right terminal and
Speaker 1: then I jump into the security line, and this lovely
Speaker 1: TSA person keeps changing the line dividers on me, like
Speaker 1: just as I'm about to proceed to the next section, he's.
Speaker 7: Like, no, you gotta go over that way, son.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, okay, and then it happens not once,
Speaker 1: not twice, but four times where I am now being
Speaker 1: corralled intol like the furthest possible TSA line. I get
Speaker 1: through that fine. They check my passport, my boarding past,
Speaker 1: no proper, and then there's only a handful of folks
Speaker 1: in front of me for the X ray machine. And
Speaker 1: I was a little bit worried because I'm carrying a
Speaker 1: bunch of camera gear. Oh no, They're gonna be confused
Speaker 1: that some of the cables in my bag or whatever
Speaker 1: camera bag goes in Fine, comes out fine. My luggage
Speaker 1: which had my seapap machine in it gets flagged. The
Speaker 1: lady is taking her sweet time to unzip my bag
Speaker 1: and tell me what's wrong with it. And she's like,
Speaker 1: and I have to run this through the X ray
Speaker 1: machine again. And I'm like, you have to run both,
Speaker 1: gotta run both. You're just one. I gotta run both,
Speaker 1: runs both through. And I'm like, okay, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: it's still oh god, okay, we're kind of close.
Speaker 7: But it's fine. It's fine.
Speaker 1: Boarding takes a while, right, I'm the last boarding group.
Speaker 1: And then but my seapap machine goes through my luggage,
Speaker 1: gets through, no problem. Throw my seapap machine back into
Speaker 1: my luggage. I run all the way to where my
Speaker 1: gate was, and that involved going down two different flights
Speaker 1: of stairs via escalator and then up another flight of stairs,
Speaker 1: and of course there are people in front of me.
Speaker 1: That's not fucking stick to the right and let me
Speaker 1: move from the left.
Speaker 7: I hate that.
Speaker 1: And earlier in the day, I just opened up my
Speaker 1: Apple wallet. I looked at where the boarding gate was.
Speaker 1: I run all the way and it is virtually on
Speaker 1: the end of the wing of the part of the
Speaker 1: airport I'm in and I get there, no one is there.
Speaker 1: There's no sign, there's no agent there. I'm like, what, No,
Speaker 1: they normally hang out if I missed it.
Speaker 7: I didn't miss it yet, what's going on?
Speaker 1: I open up my America Airlines app and I see
Speaker 1: that the gate had changed. And then, because it was
Speaker 1: so early in the morning, my phone was still on
Speaker 1: do not Disturb, and I did not check the texts
Speaker 1: to see that it had updated and that I had
Speaker 1: gotten that text at seven am. So then I am
Speaker 1: like looking around and I just start bolting. I at
Speaker 1: this point take my care my ROLLI bag. I put
Speaker 1: it on my shoulder like a big ass boombox, and
Speaker 1: I'm bolting down JFK, trying to get which is now
Speaker 1: the opposite side of this wing, the furthest fucking gait possible?
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I get to the gate and then like
Speaker 1: the oldest man new York in New York is working
Speaker 1: at an American Airlines.
Speaker 7: It's like, what's your rush, buddy, you got one minute
Speaker 7: left before we taking over.
Speaker 1: I'm like, very funny. Uh. And then I get in
Speaker 1: and then I gotta do the dance now of like
Speaker 1: there's no space to put my bag in like economy,
Speaker 1: and I go back to like first class. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: got you put my bag up here, and the guy
Speaker 1: goes like, no, you gotta go over there, and no
Speaker 1: one wants to help me say that, tell me that
Speaker 1: there's a free section or whatever free space up top.
Speaker 1: I eventually throw my bags in, I said. And then
Speaker 1: the worst part of it at a middle seat.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, all that for a middle seat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then like I'm just sweating buckets trying to
Speaker 1: calm down, and uh, the guy next to me kept sneezing.
Speaker 7: Oh so you got the twelve monkeys disease.
Speaker 1: On top of it.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: Anyway, sorry about that.
Speaker 3: Quick bad because they offered seven hundred dollars to someone
Speaker 3: to take the next flight and I didn't take it,
Speaker 3: and I regret of it.
Speaker 7: Oh man, yeah, I know, so feel bad for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah I do.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 7: Get Yeah, that's a retort.
Speaker 1: You have to go through that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a retro. I realized I did divert from
Speaker 3: a grub. You're talking about the camera stuff for Maria Party.
Speaker 3: You'd being super excited about that, so yeah, so what
Speaker 3: is is it the Bowser game show thing that you're
Speaker 3: particularly excited about?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I just like the idea of even when I'm miserable,
Speaker 2: now you will be able to see my misery on
Speaker 2: the screen, and something about like my face being right
Speaker 2: next to my character and me just being in such
Speaker 2: like pain, Like that's funnier to me is anything else.
Speaker 7: That's the thing.
Speaker 3: I didn't play the actual Maria party mode. We just
Speaker 3: did kind of the Bowser game show thing.
Speaker 7: Which that stuff looks great too, looks fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I do think that Warrio with like a
Speaker 3: glittery Bobby Heen and Jackie would make for a better
Speaker 3: game to a host than Bowser, but hey, maybe he's here.
Speaker 4: It was very fun.
Speaker 3: It's just there's something very funny about like it just
Speaker 3: taking this It's not like some crazy advanced three D camera.
Speaker 3: It's just taking the flat image of me and Jan
Speaker 3: and having us come out of a pipe, and it's
Speaker 3: like we're PaRappa characters.
Speaker 7: It was one in videos, just like we're pretty good
Speaker 7: at like tracking bodies. Now you want to do something
Speaker 7: with this. Nintendo's like, sure, this is a.
Speaker 5: Party of broadcast stuff, and it was.
Speaker 3: It was fine and like cropping out like it does.
Speaker 3: It's kind of that zoom thing where it's like mostly
Speaker 3: taxed out the background, but every once in a while whatever.
Speaker 3: And then like there was the Goomba game thing where
Speaker 3: it's like it'sos to like put them on your head,
Speaker 3: and it was definitely just like fucking up the tracking
Speaker 3: on my head and things like that.
Speaker 7: Kind of chancy to do just fine in the video
Speaker 7: shiny heads.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's you need to wear a banie or something,
Speaker 3: but it did kind of remind me of like that
Speaker 3: first meeting I had with the Xbox One Connect stuff
Speaker 3: when I'm sitting on a couch with Phil Spencer and
Speaker 3: Don Mattrick and they're like in a room that is
Speaker 3: like designed to be perfect for the Connect and it
Speaker 3: still didn't work. It's like, well, okay, well this is
Speaker 3: clearly supposed to be a good space for this camera thing,
Speaker 3: and it was kind of being a little funky, but
Speaker 3: ultimately it's a goofy, silly like Mario Party side mode
Speaker 3: that I'll probably laugh a lot playing on a stream
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 2: So we'll do it like once or twice, and that's
Speaker 2: kind of all I need to get out of it,
Speaker 2: and just I'm excited about it.
Speaker 7: I think it'll be good.
Speaker 5: Something I've been noticing with swisshe is that it's pretty
Speaker 5: clear that Nintendo learned what a zoom call is during
Speaker 5: the pandemic while they were designing the system, and a
Speaker 5: lot of that is in the system with game chat
Speaker 5: and everything. But also I feel like they're trying to
Speaker 5: bring like stream or culture to the individual and just
Speaker 5: hanging out hang out like on a Discord call with
Speaker 5: your friends and everything people do they'll all already, but
Speaker 5: also bringing the concept of putting yourself in the game,
Speaker 5: seeing yourself on a screen, and sharing that with your friends.
Speaker 5: They're trying to make the very Nintendo family friendly version that.
Speaker 1: When my stuff they're doing, I can't even get my
Speaker 1: own friends to watch any of the things I do
Speaker 1: on the real now they're not going to pick up
Speaker 1: my game check calls.
Speaker 3: I do think it's just smart having like you know,
Speaker 3: even if I saw a lot of people being like
Speaker 3: no Discord exists, it's like yeah, but like you think about,
Speaker 3: like again, the casual gamer, Like I think about my
Speaker 3: sister Katie, who will get a switch and just Mario
Speaker 3: Kart and that'll be all she plays. And now it's like,
Speaker 3: oh if I play with her, like she doesn't have
Speaker 3: USB microphones and a Discord account, or anything like if
Speaker 3: it's just like, yeah, use the one on the controller
Speaker 3: and then we can just kind of chat and play
Speaker 3: Mario Kart like that.
Speaker 4: Will I think people will use that, even if it's
Speaker 4: not like as good as the stuff that we use,
Speaker 4: you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Yea yeah, I per to have the option, Like I'm
Speaker 2: glad that the Steam deck has built in microphone things
Speaker 2: like that for like the one once or twice I've
Speaker 2: used it.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I'll use it a couple of times.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 7: I'm glad it's there though, for when I need it. Okay,
Speaker 7: So what are you wanna talk about next? Or can
Speaker 7: we get to.
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong or maybe Metroid Prime. Yeah, it's because lightly
Speaker 1: Ian showed off a really really neat thing with the
Speaker 1: joy Con stuff there, because I was worried that like,
Speaker 1: are they going to limit this to like the mouse
Speaker 1: function or if you split it off, or if you're
Speaker 1: playing it docked versus like handheld, but Dan please Yeah, So.
Speaker 3: They definitely were showing off the mouse stuff, and again
Speaker 3: it was one of those perfect scenarios where it's like
Speaker 3: you have a giant flat surface that's covered in mousepad
Speaker 3: material that's not at all going to be how you
Speaker 3: play at home, And that was a concern of mine,
Speaker 3: was that, like I played my switch mostly on a
Speaker 3: couch or in a recliner, and if I'm not, I'm
Speaker 3: like holding it in my hand, So like I wondered
Speaker 3: how often I'd be in a situation for the mouse stuff.
Speaker 3: But playing it like this, I think it was the
Speaker 3: best way to play it was with the mouse. It
Speaker 3: took a little bit of getting used to because it
Speaker 3: is skinny and so like you're holding you know, like
Speaker 3: this thing here. You used to like, I'm sure there's
Speaker 3: gonna be third party shells and stuff that you can
Speaker 3: just like shove it into it. That makes sense, But
Speaker 3: it takes a little getting used to the way you
Speaker 3: gotta hold it. And at first, when I was holding
Speaker 3: it like a normal mouse, it would like turn to
Speaker 3: the left and right like flip down sometimes and I'd
Speaker 3: have to write it up. But then I learned you
Speaker 3: kind of have to pinch it as you're like, it's
Speaker 3: just it feels different than normal mouse. But it took
Speaker 3: a few minutes for me to get used to it.
Speaker 3: And you do also have to hit the side like
Speaker 3: the face button. It's like you're jumping a lot in
Speaker 3: Metroid Prime, so like you do have to treat it
Speaker 3: like side buttons on a gaming mouse, you know, but
Speaker 3: again get used to it's super quick. But the thing
Speaker 3: Jan's referring to is I was wondering, if, like I
Speaker 3: got to a specific point where I wanted to like
Speaker 3: just hold it in separated joycon mode, if it would
Speaker 3: like you know, pause into a pop up being like
Speaker 3: do you want to change to this control mode.
Speaker 4: No, it didn't do that.
Speaker 3: I went straight from mouse to like just picking it up,
Speaker 3: and it instantly knew what I was doing, didn't even
Speaker 3: say anything on the screen. Then I'm just playing with
Speaker 3: dually analyg sticks perfectly. And if I went into like
Speaker 3: the aim mode, I could like, you know, do the
Speaker 3: point you know, the we Metroid Prime three style if
Speaker 3: you want to. But it just went between these three
Speaker 3: modes so seamlessly, And I have no doubt that if
Speaker 3: you were able to just put them back into the system,
Speaker 3: then you're just playing, you know, like it's it's seamless,
Speaker 3: and I could see situations where I'm going from.
Speaker 4: Mouse to dual stick on the fly picks it up immediately.
Speaker 7: So did you did you have an opportunity to try
Speaker 7: the mouse on your leg.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't know, no, because we weren't sitting down, right.
Speaker 2: I figured, Yeah, that's why I'm like, you're almost certain
Speaker 2: certainly standing up at one of those stations. That's how
Speaker 2: these things always work. I'm curious about that. Like, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm maybe every once in a while I want to like.
Speaker 7: Use the mouse for a little bit.
Speaker 2: I'll just like, I'm not going to go to a table.
Speaker 2: Can I make this work on my leg for like
Speaker 2: the next ten minutes? Maybe I'm curious to see I need.
Speaker 6: A table anyways to prop up the switch at that point?
Speaker 7: Then, right, well you be playing on the TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah, doc, Yeah, I don't see myself getting like a
Speaker 3: lap board or anything. But like I can plug in
Speaker 3: my switch to this at the computer desk and just
Speaker 3: you know, play here. If I'm doing like if Mario
Speaker 3: Maker gets the update that lets you do it with
Speaker 3: the mouse, like, yeah, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 7: Sit down and do it that way, which they have
Speaker 7: not announced, by the way, which is insane.
Speaker 3: But it was in the like it showed the kind
Speaker 3: of scrolling background of games that are getting switched to upgrades,
Speaker 3: and it did show the icon for Mariomaker two.
Speaker 1: It did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it didn't say mouse stuff or anything, but it
Speaker 3: did say like there is a thing where was like
Speaker 3: and more games are coming, you know, switch to stuff.
Speaker 3: And there was like a scrolling three tiered background thing,
Speaker 3: and they showed Marimaker two.
Speaker 7: All right, let's go I'm hopeful.
Speaker 4: Oh I'll go nuts on it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that'd be great mode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, But no, it felt really good and just
Speaker 3: you know, removed from the hardware part of it. Metroid
Speaker 3: Prime four, Oh, it's so great. It's the It was
Speaker 3: interesting because Metrod is such like an isolated, like lonely
Speaker 3: you know game, you know by its whole history, and
Speaker 3: this demo was very do you remember that Halo two
Speaker 3: demo that New Mombasa one where it's just like all
Speaker 3: those ships and expressions troops died and so it felt
Speaker 3: like that, which is not what it feels like.
Speaker 6: It's kind of cinematic three did a similar thing a bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it kind of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think I think we saw what you
Speaker 5: saw Dan on Tree high House the next day. And
Speaker 5: first of all, they did a four K stream, which
Speaker 5: is still just a weird thing for Nintendo due that
Speaker 5: I need to get used to it looked.
Speaker 7: Yeah, four K streams are weird for anybody, like a
Speaker 7: lot of.
Speaker 5: It's hard to stream at four K, but yeah, it
Speaker 5: looked fantastic on that stream, and it is I was
Speaker 5: getting big like metroy Prime three in that era sort
Speaker 5: of like visually Halo four vibes from the visuals and
Speaker 5: everything like that, but does kind of open Metro Prime
Speaker 5: three a little bit where you know, Samus is coming
Speaker 5: into hot like the battles going on and she has
Speaker 5: to talk to the Federation troopers and everything like that.
Speaker 5: But it seems like that could just be like the
Speaker 5: sort of cold open to the game.
Speaker 3: I'm expecting that, and then they take your abilities away
Speaker 3: and stuff, because like I did have you know, the
Speaker 3: more fall and missiles and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so like I'm sure it's.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you got that way. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: don't know if you got this. But at the end,
Speaker 5: like she has a confrontation with Silux, he like shoots
Speaker 5: the artifact that's the logo for the game, and then
Speaker 5: gets like teleported. Probably it seems like I'd assume that's
Speaker 5: where you like end up on whatever planet she's on
Speaker 5: and then loses the abilities and Earth that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's going to be a game
Speaker 3: that's like stocked with like friendly NBC's and the war scenes,
Speaker 3: which is a metrod Prime it's good because.
Speaker 5: Three had too much of that, and so I think
Speaker 5: that's them going, Okay, we can use this for like
Speaker 5: a cool intro batter that it's like more prime one,
Speaker 5: you know, just go explore.
Speaker 3: No, I feel very very strongly about the game, like
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be great, and the look
Speaker 3: of it too, like it's just man four K.
Speaker 4: Metroid or one hundred and twenty frames a second like
Speaker 4: that is so wild.
Speaker 7: Did you get a chance to play both?
Speaker 4: They didn't know.
Speaker 3: They didn't touch on that with the demo four K
Speaker 3: sixty the way you were playing it, I would imagine,
Speaker 3: but yeah, they didn't confirm or have anything on the
Speaker 3: stringy Yeah okay, yeah.
Speaker 7: But yeah. Boss fight was great.
Speaker 6: Sharp looks sharp.
Speaker 3: I mean the boss fight thing was there was like
Speaker 3: a very the boss fight was specifically like a weak
Speaker 3: point thing where it's a lot of like you know,
Speaker 3: lost Planet week points popping up all over his body
Speaker 3: and so it's doing the mouse mode and it was
Speaker 3: so good at just dialing in on exactly where I
Speaker 3: wanted to go.
Speaker 2: Jan did you see Dan maybe like westperndonny Nintendo employees
Speaker 2: about delaying Metroit Prime for year.
Speaker 1: Dan dan get In did get into a little bit
Speaker 1: of a sticky situation after he was done with the
Speaker 1: Metroid Prime.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Oh tell us more than the video that's
Speaker 4: coming up right.
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, I have been. I'm sorry I've been telling
Speaker 7: people this story because damn what happened here? All I
Speaker 7: know is you got stuck.
Speaker 3: It was an mcsher joy Con wrist trap situation where
Speaker 3: I finished just playing in mouse mode and then I
Speaker 3: was like great, and I got up to walk away
Speaker 3: and I couldn't.
Speaker 4: And was it because I had a wrist band for
Speaker 4: the sweat thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had like a festival style wrist band, and
Speaker 1: then you had the safety strap of the joy con on.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: And somehow in the process of using the mouse or
Speaker 1: the joy con as a mouse and then flipping it
Speaker 1: up to use it as a joy con and a pointer,
Speaker 1: you you tangled yourself into it in a way that
Speaker 1: we needed two different people to help.
Speaker 7: It was like quantity more than a minute long, right,
Speaker 7: It's like almost two minutes. I had to cut out
Speaker 7: another minute.
Speaker 3: Oh my, and I need two Nintendo employees to come
Speaker 3: try to figure it out.
Speaker 4: And they were looking at it like what, how did
Speaker 4: this happen? We've never seen such a thing.
Speaker 2: And you're facing the video are like, well, shucks, yeah,
Speaker 2: this switch to cancel.
Speaker 7: We see how you take your phone out of your pockets.
Speaker 7: A lot of wrangling can go on there.
Speaker 3: M m yeah, that'll be in the longer video we've
Speaker 3: got coming up. Yeah, but yeah, that's that's Metroid.
Speaker 5: So exciting for that.
Speaker 7: Oh my god. GameCube.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I played some soul Caliber too against after as.
Speaker 6: I think I popped the hardest during the entire presentation
Speaker 6: when I sold Sol Covert.
Speaker 4: I went back and I watched it. I saw I'm
Speaker 4: like freak out about it, like you know what.
Speaker 3: I They announced the GameCube thing and I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be sunshine, you know, maybe f zero, like
Speaker 3: just thinking to the obvious first party Nintendo stuff and
Speaker 3: so yeah, whening Soul Caliber tupop. It was like, oh ship,
Speaker 3: I didn't even consider that, and that sounds incredible to me.
Speaker 3: They did say also, you would be able to switch
Speaker 3: it from four x three to sixteen by nine and
Speaker 3: I am curious if it is the like using the
Speaker 3: actual like GameCube progressive scan thing or if it is
Speaker 3: like that. I hope it is not just stretching it
Speaker 3: out Nintendo. Yeah, probably is like in supportive games that
Speaker 3: do this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the way it was with GameCube.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it won't use like a wide screen hack dolphin style.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, it had probably you got to use the
Speaker 6: new gamekey controller that they're gonna.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so until we got the weird fucked up little
Speaker 4: dpad and all that, they just got.
Speaker 7: The game Boy Advance dpad like this, we're already making these.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but no, I was thrilled to see GameCube
Speaker 4: on there.
Speaker 5: That was great.
Speaker 4: Then yeah, Donkey Kong.
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
Speaker 4: It had a subtitle.
Speaker 7: What was it but Danza?
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: Janza. Yeah yeah, I just have to say again Bonanza.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: When that word popped up on screen, it was just like, oh.
Speaker 7: Oh, like, how did we?
Speaker 1: How did we?
Speaker 4: How humans take this long.
Speaker 7: To get here?
Speaker 1: Ba?
Speaker 3: That series is lousy with bananas. And we've had a
Speaker 3: bunch of great subtitles. We've had our barrel blasts and
Speaker 3: our jungle beats and all that stuff. But Bonanza, here
Speaker 3: we go. It was right there, Like who whoever came
Speaker 3: up with that? Just make the president of Nintendo. Well,
Speaker 3: we already have Doug Bowser, which is a pretty good
Speaker 3: name for Yeah, great name, and that game like it's
Speaker 3: you know, they didn't say it at the thing or anything,
Speaker 3: but like playing it, you can see the Odyssey in
Speaker 3: there for sure, right, just the way.
Speaker 6: You get those crystal bananas, and it like the camera
Speaker 6: does the same thing as when Mario gets a moon, right,
Speaker 6: it's yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And the moon thing is exactly how it felt getting
Speaker 3: the bananas, because like you they had one kind of
Speaker 3: open area that you could play in, like think of
Speaker 3: like a New Donk City or something, so and you're
Speaker 3: just kind of exploring around at your leisure and like
Speaker 3: occasionally you'll find like a weird thing and oh that's
Speaker 3: a moon, and occasionally there's a bigger fight or objective
Speaker 3: and it's like, oh, you got a bunch of bananas,
Speaker 3: that's three moons. Basically, Like it's very much that style,
Speaker 3: and just the way when you watch DK's face doing
Speaker 3: anything when he's coming out of the water and taking
Speaker 3: a breath, when he's taking damage and he's like kind
Speaker 3: of doing doom guy damage face, you know, like it
Speaker 3: is all animated in a way that's like, yeah, this
Speaker 3: feels like the Odyssey Team for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really cool.
Speaker 3: Like just I said it on Blue Sky, but like
Speaker 3: three of the four face buttons are just fuck shit
Speaker 3: up buttons. Yeah, and you are just encouraged to run around.
Speaker 3: You're like just fucking everything. It is so fucking cool.
Speaker 3: And then like you check the like the map mode
Speaker 3: where it zooms out, and like all the destruction is
Speaker 3: in real time. So if you like destroy a mountain
Speaker 3: and you look at the map, that mountain's gone. And
Speaker 3: then if you fuck something up in a way where
Speaker 3: you can't get to another part of the island, there's
Speaker 3: like a reset terrain button and it just takes you
Speaker 3: back to last time and it rebuilds all this stuff
Speaker 3: you fucked up. And there's just so many times where
Speaker 3: it's like it wouldn't be like some super obvious blinking
Speaker 3: arrow pointing out a thing. I would just see the
Speaker 3: side of a mountain ra just fuck it up. And
Speaker 3: then it's like, oh shit, there's like a river inside
Speaker 3: this mountain.
Speaker 7: And there's a bunch of awesome Oh it is it is.
Speaker 3: I've played a lot of three D platformers, I have
Speaker 3: never had the feeling this one has of just like
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna run around and just go no pun
Speaker 3: intended ape shit shit.
Speaker 4: Just and stumble into cool stuff.
Speaker 3: It is, And like there's a the ZR button is
Speaker 3: basically just a button from control that lets you like
Speaker 3: pick up a chunk of something nearby and throw it.
Speaker 3: You know, you're just but you're ripping up the train
Speaker 3: and holding boulders and just chucking boulders at everything.
Speaker 7: It is so fucking cool.
Speaker 6: The impression I always kind of got because you can,
Speaker 6: like you can run up walls and everything like that.
Speaker 6: It's like, maybe not as a much of an emphasis
Speaker 6: on platforming as honesty, but more so on that sandboxiness.
Speaker 3: And just the pure exploration, the whole ultimate destruction stuff
Speaker 3: of like just the way you get sprint up a
Speaker 3: skyscraper and that like this this isn't preth the wild.
Speaker 3: There's not a stamina meter where you have to be
Speaker 3: really you know, careful with it. You were just sprinting
Speaker 3: up mountains and sucking them up.
Speaker 5: This is awesome.
Speaker 7: Is this so fun?
Speaker 5: Do you know at this point is it theoretically possible
Speaker 5: to like lock yourself out of a collectible or something
Speaker 5: by doing that, and that's why there's the research rain.
Speaker 4: But I didn't see that specific scenario happened.
Speaker 7: But that could be the case if you like destroyed
Speaker 7: the pathway to another island.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well you brought that up. That's what made
Speaker 5: me think, like, is it possible that like, like, uh,
Speaker 5: would something be floating and then we'll like crash down
Speaker 5: if you like break off enough terrain.
Speaker 3: Do you know if that has That's a good question,
Speaker 3: Like if there was something high up and you destroyed
Speaker 3: the land leading up to it, maybe something like that
Speaker 3: could happen.
Speaker 4: Okay, we didn't see that specifically.
Speaker 1: Which a dig down ability that you can also do
Speaker 1: when you're just punching straight down. I could imagine you
Speaker 1: kind of get yourself into a bind where you just
Speaker 1: are stuck in a pit in such an awkward way.
Speaker 3: Where it's a game about digging a hole and you
Speaker 3: don't have enough jetpack juice exactly. But the thing is
Speaker 3: the ca can just bound up the sides of stuff.
Speaker 5: That's true.
Speaker 6: The year just got real the game about holes.
Speaker 3: Yeah sometimes, yes, gub I think you specific I think
Speaker 3: we're all gonna like this game a lot. I think
Speaker 3: most people will probably like this game a lot, but
Speaker 3: I think like you and I are going to really
Speaker 3: just thrive on it.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like Honestly, as soon as I was like
Speaker 2: I it was about deforming terrain, I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: they put mud Runner in my Donkey car.
Speaker 7: But what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Uh So I'm like, yeah, I want to destroy stuff
Speaker 2: and it's and then it all turns into BIPs and
Speaker 2: bobs like from an astrobot, and.
Speaker 7: It all looks just as good. Let's go.
Speaker 1: It's incredible, July, this is out. In the whole time
Speaker 1: I was a cost I was just thinking of Hulk
Speaker 1: Ultimate Destruction the whole time. Watching Dan play, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do this.
Speaker 3: I want to be able to take a car, rip
Speaker 3: it in half and make gloves of it so bad
Speaker 3: it with a mine card. This is a small thing, Dan.
Speaker 7: But like, what one Nintendo trope I don't love is
Speaker 7: the Navvy character?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: One of those?
Speaker 6: It seems like there's another one of those here. Was
Speaker 6: that little geo dude annoying at all?
Speaker 4: Deady tendency? My goodness, good one, good one, you know, Mike.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I played my whole like demo, which I probably
Speaker 3: played what fifteen twenty minutes or something of it, and uh,
Speaker 3: it wasn't until later when I was like going back
Speaker 3: and no, you know, it was at the end of
Speaker 3: my thing Jane, and I remember I was just like
Speaker 3: moving the camera around to look really close up at
Speaker 3: DK's face because it was so expressive and stuff, and
Speaker 3: I was like, what the fuck is that.
Speaker 4: Little guy there?
Speaker 3: And I noticed a little like ingod with the face
Speaker 3: and so like he didn't say anything, like It's definitely
Speaker 3: not like a Skywards Sword situation where it's like do
Speaker 3: you know what money is?
Speaker 6: Like, it's even try was kind of annoying it because
Speaker 6: of wisdom, like Cappy was okay.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they did not even notice it until I
Speaker 3: like zoomed the camera and it's like, oh shit, okay,
Speaker 3: there's a little good.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's uh.
Speaker 3: The fact that that's a month after releasing, in fact,
Speaker 3: this is really smart, like Mario Kurt launching with it
Speaker 3: that is, you know, to use the old term the
Speaker 3: killer app that is a system seller, and then a
Speaker 3: month later this killer fucking Donkey Kong game comes out,
Speaker 3: and then they got all the stuff in their pockets
Speaker 3: from you know, the next actual like Mario game to
Speaker 3: Animal Crossing that are probably you know, a year later.
Speaker 3: Year one, it could be holiday, could be year two.
Speaker 3: I could see Metric Prime being the holiday thing this year,
Speaker 3: So maybe next year it's Mario and Animal Crossing. But
Speaker 3: pretty smart the way they've laid out this. These are like, yeah,
Speaker 3: Pokemon legend z A right right in.
Speaker 7: That Musso game. That's this altle Mouse game. I keep
Speaker 7: forgetting the announced.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah Warriors.
Speaker 4: I'm sure my sister was.
Speaker 5: Jail.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, so the hardware itself, did you get it?
Speaker 2: Were you always playing on TVs? Or did you get
Speaker 2: a chance to really look at that LCD screen?
Speaker 1: We did both.
Speaker 3: In fact, the first room with the Mario Kart stuff,
Speaker 3: they they encourage you to play on the TV first
Speaker 3: and then do it on the on the switch itself
Speaker 3: looked awesome on both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 7: HDR where you like noticing like colors really popping and
Speaker 7: stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I I wasn't thinking about HDR when I was playing it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can say it just looked really good.
Speaker 3: So like I can't say I always get into the
Speaker 3: nitty ready, like you knowial trends type you know, HDR
Speaker 3: stuff or knits or anything like that. But it looked
Speaker 3: fucking good. As far as the hardware itself and the
Speaker 3: way it feels, I cannot oversell or undersell. I cannot
Speaker 3: under sell. No, I can't overstate how good it feels
Speaker 3: to remove those joy cons and how good they feel
Speaker 3: when they are connected. Like there is just like, you know,
Speaker 3: there's the obvious you know, l n R and z
Speaker 3: R and zl up there kind of in the normal spots,
Speaker 3: and then there's this thing that you would never accidentally hit.
Speaker 3: I don't think that is like you kind of have
Speaker 3: to curve your finger around and touch on the inside
Speaker 3: there and then it just just comes right off. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then you just and it just snapped right on
Speaker 3: and there's no rattle, there's no like gap between the planet.
Speaker 3: It's just like it feels incredibly sturdy and you press
Speaker 3: this one little thing over here and comes right off.
Speaker 3: It is so satisfying because like I love the switch,
Speaker 3: but every fucking time I especially when I'm like taking
Speaker 3: off those little side gimmicks and stuff. You know, if
Speaker 3: you're playing like Mario Carter or Mario Party, it always
Speaker 3: just feels like am I cracking plastic here?
Speaker 4: Like this feels fucked up? This it just felt world's
Speaker 4: world's better.
Speaker 7: It looked good, it looked like it looked more premium.
Speaker 7: The whole thing looks more premium compared to the switch.
Speaker 2: Is that the sense you got, like you can talk
Speaker 2: about some of the material inside was like metal and
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 7: Did you just feel like a more expensive device?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It's metal on those Like it's fucked up now because
Speaker 3: you got R z R. You're flipping around on the
Speaker 3: side thing and you've got s R and then the
Speaker 3: grip button is g r R. You got the gurgle
Speaker 3: buttons button and that's even on the Joycon grip. But yeah,
Speaker 3: you got the metal SR and they're bigger. So it's
Speaker 3: gonna be so much better if you're playing with the
Speaker 3: joy Cons for like Mario Carter, Mario Party or something
Speaker 3: like that. But yeah, the very first thing I noticed
Speaker 3: when I picked it up was like, it really is
Speaker 3: like the difference between holding the controller that your Xbox
Speaker 3: came with and holding an elite controller where it's just like, oh,
Speaker 3: this feels more like a nice piece of electronics versus
Speaker 3: is kind of a toy, you know, like a plastic and.
Speaker 2: You were like noticing the difference the size difference between
Speaker 2: Joycon one and Joycon two. These ones are a little
Speaker 2: bit bigger. Do they feel better in your hand or
Speaker 2: anything like that? Or does that not something you noticed
Speaker 2: right away?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: The only time I was really playing with just the
Speaker 3: joy Cons in my hand was with Metroid, and that
Speaker 3: was mostly in mouse mode, which is a specific thing.
Speaker 3: I can't say, I really I didn't play a lot
Speaker 3: in like Joycon mode, you know, but the whole thing
Speaker 3: just does look and feel a lot better, even like
Speaker 3: the Joycon grip, like the material feels quite a bit better.
Speaker 3: So overall upgrades across the world, I wish. I do
Speaker 3: kind of hate the like separated dpad on the left
Speaker 3: Joycon and that is the same way now, so but
Speaker 3: I understand why they do it.
Speaker 4: I still just don't like to feel of it.
Speaker 2: I'll get a third party Joycon that sure changes that
Speaker 2: if I feel the need to.
Speaker 7: I didn't. I didn't hate the separated ones, but I
Speaker 7: definitely prefer to connect joy Con for sure.
Speaker 6: Pat should say, did you play the wheelchair game at all?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: We went up to play it and it was a
Speaker 3: thing where it was like four or six people they
Speaker 3: needed to like start the game, and it's just I
Speaker 3: didn't want to wait around for you know.
Speaker 7: If only Jan could play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, rules or rules Mike, you know.
Speaker 1: I tried sitting down, and then the attendant slapped my hands. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: get out of your companion or what it's worth. I
Speaker 1: don't remember seeing anyone else with a companion pass.
Speaker 7: You're in the companion class, all right, class of one.
Speaker 3: I did play with the pro controller, and that felt
Speaker 3: significantly better. I think, yeah, I like this, which one
Speaker 3: pro controller, but this this did feel a lot better.
Speaker 1: Day.
Speaker 6: Let's say for some reason, you can only you can
Speaker 6: only ever have one game that you played from there, right,
Speaker 6: all the other ones are going to go into the ether.
Speaker 6: What was your favorite game? What's the one game that
Speaker 6: you have to have?
Speaker 3: I mean, in that desert Island scenario, I think you
Speaker 3: almost have to go with Mario Kart just because of
Speaker 3: the like breadth of content and assuming the desert island
Speaker 3: has an Internet connection, obviously there's a lot going on there.
Speaker 3: But Donkey Kong seems exceptional as well, So it really
Speaker 3: is a toss up between.
Speaker 1: Mario Kart and Donkey Kong. I will says right else zone,
Speaker 1: but yeah, uh. The attendant working the booth said that
Speaker 1: Dan was the only person to find Cranky Kong that day.
Speaker 7: That's right, really, I mean that they always lied to
Speaker 7: us to make us feel better, but I believe this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe that Cranky looks like old Cranky, which
Speaker 3: thought that was fun that, like everything else is few
Speaker 3: art style and then it's just that's Cranky Kong from
Speaker 3: Super Nintendo, you know.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, speaking of did you see the uh dk
Speaker 5: C level that's in there at all? Did that in
Speaker 5: any way play into what you.
Speaker 4: Oh, the two D thing?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I did not see that ship. They just
Speaker 3: had this one kind of hub or not hub, but
Speaker 3: with this one world open doors.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we were kind of wondering if that would
Speaker 5: be like the like the ape and Mario stuff in
Speaker 5: Odyssey or something where you just like, you know, go
Speaker 5: to a war pipe or something similar and play it
Speaker 5: for a little bit.
Speaker 3: But because that being it seems like that makes sense
Speaker 3: for that to pop up occasionally, like like you said,
Speaker 3: Mario Odyssey.
Speaker 7: Yeah, break up the pacene a little bit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, did you get to try any of the like
Speaker 6: the third party ports I don't know if Hitman was there.
Speaker 6: I saw that Hogwarts Legacy was I don't know if
Speaker 6: he went up.
Speaker 4: I did not see person. That's no line the entire
Speaker 4: day interesting.
Speaker 3: I felt awkward walking through that aisle every time because
Speaker 3: there's like every station has someone standing on it.
Speaker 1: They're all like looking at it. You like, hey, you
Speaker 1: want to play Dan? Did you notice there was someone
Speaker 1: dressed up as a wizard there?
Speaker 4: I did not notice that.
Speaker 1: No, Okay, it even worse, Doug Bowser.
Speaker 5: What else?
Speaker 4: They did not have hip Man.
Speaker 3: They did have the Breath of Wild and Tears updates,
Speaker 3: which I just kind of looked over his shoulder a
Speaker 3: little bit and watched some of that, and like, it
Speaker 3: looks a lot better. I think I will finally play
Speaker 3: through Breath the Wild again. It seems like a way
Speaker 3: to do it.
Speaker 1: Vitelli did check out Cyberpunk, and he did. He said,
Speaker 1: like it felt good, uh via handheld right?
Speaker 3: Like yeah, he said, once it gets blown up, that's
Speaker 3: when you can kind of tell a little of the
Speaker 3: jig the opposite.
Speaker 7: Okay, I was confused by that. I bet, I bet
Speaker 7: the Telly's right and what I heard was wrong, so okay.
Speaker 1: Also, he was also very high in Yaku's zero.
Speaker 6: So that but about bravely default. Anyone check that it's
Speaker 6: probably not a Dan game?
Speaker 7: Have that?
Speaker 1: No? I don't think that was there.
Speaker 7: No, there was the demo game the wait did you
Speaker 7: get to do guess the guess the frame rate?
Speaker 3: I guess I'm gonna do that where it shows the
Speaker 3: like basketball or whatever and it's like, how many frames
Speaker 3: is is that?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Like most people when they showed that, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: this seems fun, this seems cool, and they said.
Speaker 7: Paid, and what are you doing there?
Speaker 4: Incredible?
Speaker 3: Uh nikky post on Blue Sky of the domino meme
Speaker 3: and the little one is Obama making fun of Trump
Speaker 3: at the dinner and the video Nintendo charges for the
Speaker 3: tutorial game.
Speaker 7: Okay, there's so many more dominoes after that.
Speaker 4: Yes, but I mean that looks fun.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I'll get a code for it and enjoy it,
Speaker 3: but I'm not going to defend them charging for the
Speaker 3: like here's what the joy cuns do, Here's what a
Speaker 3: frame rate is game?
Speaker 7: You know? Did you see the cool thing?
Speaker 2: I like the four K Super Mario one one where
Speaker 2: like the level stretches across all that it.
Speaker 3: Looks met I like those things, those like gimmick things
Speaker 3: to come like face raiders. You remember on this shows
Speaker 3: off the ar thing put your face in the little
Speaker 3: thing like in then there's done that stuff in the past,
Speaker 3: and I was hoping for like something like this sports
Speaker 3: Like yeah, Wi Sports is a full on pack on
Speaker 3: Mario World was a pack in mar you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it seems like there's cool ideas there.
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna have fun with it, but turn.
Speaker 1: For it is I just thought of the dumbest idea
Speaker 1: that I want with the mouse functionality, I just want
Speaker 1: air hockey.
Speaker 7: Oh they have air hockey in Mario Party.
Speaker 2: I saw that on Treehouse Live with the There was
Speaker 2: there's a bunch of mice game in Mario Party Live
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: I think dragging the like bowser emails to the trash can,
Speaker 3: stuff like that exactly.
Speaker 5: And one of them was air hot Clubhouse fifty two
Speaker 5: is gonna pop off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna move a stuff that sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: Use my trigger buns to move my chest pieces across
Speaker 1: the board would be great, all right?
Speaker 5: Gang?
Speaker 1: That was mostly Dan's fun times checking out the switch.
Speaker 7: You saw there was a picture of you with three
Speaker 7: cameras in front of you. What was going on there?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you know, I gotta I gotta be the
Speaker 1: ultimate companion here. I gotta get them on every single angle.
Speaker 1: I gotta do one for social on the phone, I
Speaker 1: gotta get more additional b roll on the OSMO, and
Speaker 1: then the main camera right in front of me, and
Speaker 1: then all together two videos for Embarrio that lifts the
Speaker 1: next morning. Yeah, yeah, thanks, thanks you guys. Actually I
Speaker 1: have some I talk amongst yourselves while I get something
Speaker 1: that I want to talk about that frustrates the shit
Speaker 1: out of me.
Speaker 2: Like Dan, you mentioned this a little bit, but the
Speaker 2: vibes were like E three kind of right like it
Speaker 2: it felt like a nice cool event, like actually like
Speaker 2: Nintendo's back doing these kinds of things and that was
Speaker 2: nice to go to.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it felt like a big deal.
Speaker 3: And like I said, you know, just seeing a bunch
Speaker 3: of like you know, the game, like the amount of
Speaker 3: media people that were there and the excitement over this,
Speaker 3: it really did kind of feel like like you knew
Speaker 3: this was a big one and this was probably like
Speaker 3: the biggest one of these sents, maybe the last time
Speaker 3: they showed up the switch because I went to the
Speaker 3: Switch one reveal event in New York with Gersman and
Speaker 3: like that that felt big.
Speaker 4: But it was like, you know, like one to switch with.
Speaker 3: One of the headliners, and likely like zelden And and
Speaker 3: Mario Kart at the time, wasn't the biggest news because
Speaker 3: it was it was the last one, you know, like
Speaker 3: this felt a lot, a lot bigger than the Switch
Speaker 3: reveal or the three DS reveal or the ones I've
Speaker 3: done in the past, you know, certainly the way you reveal.
Speaker 1: Okay, speaking about having three cameras, I borrowed the game
Speaker 1: spot a kit for for going out on the road
Speaker 1: and filming events, and I think I took this Peak
Speaker 1: design tripod on its maiden voyage. And Dan gives the
Speaker 1: price of this correctly, grub Sean Minati. This is a
Speaker 1: carbon fiber tripod. This unfolds to like maybe.
Speaker 7: A little bit shorter than me. How much do you
Speaker 7: think this, Jimmy jam goes for. I couldn't fiber.
Speaker 2: That's the stuff that navvy bones are made out of
Speaker 2: in the movie Avatar, So it's gotta be worth quite
Speaker 2: a lot. No, No, I'm always talking about the Avatar Navi.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say because the way you're presenting. I'm gonna say, uh,
Speaker 2: I almost say two fifty three hundred, Sean five hundred.
Speaker 7: Uh, pretty close.
Speaker 1: It is four hundred. Smackeroos.
Speaker 6: I got it on the dot.
Speaker 7: Sean and I tied Jan.
Speaker 5: You know, I spent thirty dollars for one for an
Speaker 5: Amazon knockoff, right, and they were.
Speaker 6: Sure I have a correction I won. Sean went over.
Speaker 7: Rules.
Speaker 5: You can't retro actually prices as right rules.
Speaker 7: That's the default rules all the time, you know, and
Speaker 7: and so like.
Speaker 1: For folks that don't know, Peak Design has like kind
Speaker 1: of a rep in the game for bags and camera
Speaker 1: gear for being pretty pretty pricey. But this stuff is
Speaker 1: pretty well engineered and it feels nice. This is very like,
Speaker 1: this is super tall. It's a nice, very light.
Speaker 5: Yeah. The angle is you can put it very high. Okay.
Speaker 6: So yeah, so it costs one hundred dollars, then I
Speaker 6: wonder what it's gonna cost it a month.
Speaker 7: Four hundred. You lost down because you got a price
Speaker 7: wrong after he told you what it was.
Speaker 6: Shit.
Speaker 1: But let me tell y'all. As a as a camera person,
Speaker 1: an important part of a tripod is a fluid head mount,
Speaker 1: where you can like you know, point up, point down
Speaker 1: to get angles.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this looks kind of cramped and it's up.
Speaker 1: The head here doesn't go up or down. It doesn't
Speaker 1: even pan what So what are the fuck what am
Speaker 1: I gonna spend I didn't have.
Speaker 9: To spend this four hundred dollars on a fucking tripod
Speaker 9: that can only just point forward and like I have
Speaker 9: to haphazardly like squeeze the legs together to make it
Speaker 9: kind of go up more down more.
Speaker 7: You can probably bring your.
Speaker 2: Own like like resistance, like a swivel thing or whatever.
Speaker 2: Then that kind of defeats the point of this.
Speaker 1: That's not the point, grub. This is gonna fold down
Speaker 1: super small. Give me some good head ship, give me
Speaker 1: like a flexible fluid ball head. Sorry, just like with
Speaker 1: camera gear, I get very work side. Anyway, If Pete
Speaker 1: Design wants to send me one, though, like hey, I'll
Speaker 1: take it, and then I'll go buy my own tripod
Speaker 1: head and it'll be fine anyway, gang, anyone else got
Speaker 1: a game they want to talk about now?
Speaker 6: I talk about tariffs.
Speaker 7: Dan, you take the floor.
Speaker 3: Okay, I got a fun announcement here. I accidentally wore
Speaker 3: the shirt today. I got on the pre call and
Speaker 3: Sean was like, oh, oh, good choice the shirt. I
Speaker 3: was like, oh yeah, I live Sunshine forgetting that. Today
Speaker 3: was the day that months ago I reached out to
Speaker 3: Sean being like, hey, they're probably gonna announce a new
Speaker 3: Mario that switched to Thing, and you know, we put
Speaker 3: up all of Middle Year Scanlon, we put up all
Speaker 3: of Mario Party Party.
Speaker 4: Maybe if the day after they announced the.
Speaker 3: New Mario, we put up every episode of steal My
Speaker 3: Sunshine on YouTube, and uh, Mario didn't get announced, but
Speaker 3: Sean had all that work done and they are ready
Speaker 3: to go. So I believe Sean, is it tonight. We've
Speaker 3: got eighteen episodes, fortyish hours of steal My Sunshine going out.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So after the power block is done today and
Speaker 5: everything else is posted for the day, I'm just gonna
Speaker 5: drop all of those into your YouTube feeds in order.
Speaker 5: There will be a playlist where you watch them all
Speaker 5: in order if you want, and just revisit another you know,
Speaker 5: classic Giant Bomb series that we're busting out of the
Speaker 5: Premium vault.
Speaker 7: You're really messed up by not doing bananas.
Speaker 4: Sean just got that plane? Can you really quick get
Speaker 4: those already? By tonight a.
Speaker 1: Little bit sean over the local files for that. It's
Speaker 1: on your local personal drive, not on drive. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: because I was thinking, what if we just let the
Speaker 1: power block keep running.
Speaker 7: Oh shit, I can't.
Speaker 4: Run eighteen hours to steal my sunshine.
Speaker 1: Yeah we might, We might be able to do that.
Speaker 1: We can make that, you know what shot. I'll download
Speaker 1: the videos from YouTube and then put them in a
Speaker 1: playlist on the v mix machine. Okay, just just so
Speaker 1: you don't got to clog up your pipes.
Speaker 5: My pipes aren't big enough for that anyways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hell yeah, But that'll be on YouTube as long
Speaker 3: as we have a YouTube channel. And so check out
Speaker 3: there and check out Mario Party Party, check out middle
Speaker 3: of your Scanling. I really like the idea of just
Speaker 3: letting all these things out of the old paywall vault.
Speaker 3: So Sadwich Sunshine is the new one.
Speaker 7: Fantastic.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna watch that.
Speaker 7: That's exciting.
Speaker 4: That was one of my favorites. Sever I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you haven't seen it, I did a bunch
Speaker 3: of game show bullshit to Mario Sunshine and it was
Speaker 3: very fun.
Speaker 7: And everyone else is not having as much fun.
Speaker 5: As he is.
Speaker 7: I don't know Appy he was into it.
Speaker 1: Well, Abby is a good sport, is why?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Alex might have had some grumbling. I
Speaker 3: think many many sees the pauseverything we've.
Speaker 5: Seen thumb Nails. I'm not sure I Vinnie is still
Speaker 5: feeling that way by the end.
Speaker 4: There d sixty four in the game Anarctica at the
Speaker 4: end of this thing.
Speaker 7: That's true?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yes, uh, alright, Gang, I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: wind down for BCR. We're gonna take a little bit
Speaker 1: of a break before we get the pipes back up
Speaker 1: and running for unprofessional Fridays. But Gang Twitch two is
Speaker 1: coming out maybe.
Speaker 7: Maybe who doesn't want to pro order it now? Who
Speaker 7: knows how much is actually gonna cost? Oh my god,
Speaker 7: I know when I'm going to I'm just gonna make
Speaker 7: a quick trip up the windsor.
Speaker 1: There we go. Uh, We're all going to take a
Speaker 1: family road trip to Canada, and we're all gonna get
Speaker 1: together and camp outside Best Buy Canada. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they have Best Buys in Canada and buy one,
Speaker 1: buy one for each other, and then get back and
Speaker 1: then have to avoid the border police. Different reasons than
Speaker 1: uh than usual than usual.
Speaker 3: By the way, thinking back to Alex crumbling, I forgot
Speaker 3: that Alex sunshine so much that he refused to be on.
Speaker 6: In there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny alright, gang, If you're watching live, stay tuned.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with Unprofessional Fridays and then Game Spot
Speaker 1: after dark. Uh but until next week, we'll see for
Speaker 1: another episode of BombCast Revenge.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna rainforse.
Speaker 7: He's been b he's been shot, he's been day's been
Speaker 7: I've been dead. Say next week