Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, August thirteenth, twenty twenty four. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and fifty three,
Speaker 1: powered by NZXT. I have to spray this Japanese cooling miss,
Speaker 1: because this podcast is already way too hot. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Jim oh Shoa, the coolest man in games media co
Speaker 1: captain of the ship, joining me as always Jeff Grubb.
Speaker 2: I am fully lathered in Japanese menthol.
Speaker 1: It's the only way to podcast the bad Menthol of
Speaker 1: games media. Games meets own Mike Mentholminati.
Speaker 3: Save Muppet Vision. Don't let them take it away. They're
Speaker 3: gonna have to rip me off that miss Piggy statue.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be chained to it. Dose through me before
Speaker 3: they take down that theater. Save Muppet Vision.
Speaker 1: So Brave, So Brave. Reporting live from southern California, are
Speaker 1: our Disney correspondent, bringing us the latest and greatest in
Speaker 1: all things uh Disney related. Bailey Myers. Everyone, Hello, show
Speaker 1: me that ducks. But yeah, that ducks.
Speaker 2: But audio lister, she's wearing a Donald Duck hat that
Speaker 2: has a butt.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that's the whole that's the whole thing.
Speaker 4: It's like I described it earlier as a vestigial tail.
Speaker 4: That's what it feels like.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Yeah, the hat has evolved beyond the need
Speaker 2: for a body.
Speaker 1: I think the hat would have been fine without the
Speaker 1: little body.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, exactly, it would have been fine.
Speaker 3: Now it's great, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's true. It did make packing it very awkward. I'm like,
Speaker 1: put the body into the.
Speaker 4: Jane got it for me as a souvenir from Tokyo Disney.
Speaker 4: He was like, what characters do you like? And I
Speaker 4: was like, the duck.
Speaker 2: I can look at him, looking at him. You're waiting
Speaker 2: to ask what you got?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Mike?
Speaker 2: Fuck so much? I was like, oh, this is fine.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for him to do the thing.
Speaker 3: I hate you so much?
Speaker 4: Are you going to take my joy from me because
Speaker 4: you did not get any of your own? That's so selfish.
Speaker 3: I didn't actually ask, but I saw your face I knew.
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure that I have something coming.
Speaker 1: You gotta get yours.
Speaker 4: You gots at Kenny Wood? Was that not plenty?
Speaker 3: Yeah? If that was Kenny Wood and you put yours
Speaker 3: has a butt, doesn't got Kenny Wood that has a butt?
Speaker 4: They had to have stuff there that had butts. They
Speaker 4: were just they inexplicably had an extremely different merch every
Speaker 4: single store we went to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's weird. The regional parks are bad about
Speaker 3: the merch. Sometimes they don't have like the one big
Speaker 3: convenience shop right at the entrance. Like you know, this
Speaker 3: Disney's great because it's a giant store, almost too big,
Speaker 3: and they keep it open like two hours after the
Speaker 3: park closing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I feel quite dumb not getting
Speaker 1: Mike something from Tokyo Disney. But I did get you
Speaker 1: something from the Nintendo store in Japan. Oh that's that
Speaker 1: you can only get there, So don't worry, Mikey, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna Okay, I got I got the crew. Everyone
Speaker 1: on the crew, Nikki Sean. I still need your addresses
Speaker 1: because I just want to mail them all at once
Speaker 1: and figure out how mailing works. I'm like that that
Speaker 1: one tweet going around little hand towels because it gets
Speaker 1: mighty uh muggy in Japan, so you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: wipe the brow. Maybe perhaps you go to a public
Speaker 1: rest room there's no paper towels. You don't want to
Speaker 1: stick your hand in the hand dryers, so you know,
Speaker 1: yeah you dap them off, you dry yourself in with
Speaker 1: Luigi now in towel form, Yeah yeah, maybe maybe perhaps
Speaker 1: eight pick men. The They were also very adamant, like
Speaker 1: we don't have Zelda towels here, we don't carry that, Like,
Speaker 1: why would you wipe that on Princess Zelda?
Speaker 4: Princess, she's realty, she's about.
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true, It's true. What's happening everybody? What's
Speaker 1: going on? How's ever we're doing your.
Speaker 3: Threat about theme parks? No, I'm mostly excited about all
Speaker 3: this stuff they announced, but you know, like the one
Speaker 3: thing I like is maybe going away, so you know,
Speaker 3: I get scared.
Speaker 2: Give us the give us the short version. What happened
Speaker 2: at D twenty three that like, as someone who's going
Speaker 2: like later this year? Actually, I can't remember stuff doing
Speaker 2: all the planning. Who's going soonish? What should that be?
Speaker 1: Excited? Give me the D twenty three in me?
Speaker 3: All right? The big stuff announced. Most of it's Disney
Speaker 3: World Animal Kingdom, The Dinosaur area is going away for
Speaker 3: an Indiana Jones, right, I like Indiaana Jones and an
Speaker 3: Encanto ride, which seems cool. Like that whole Land's gonna
Speaker 3: be kind of a Tropical America's themed frontier Land and
Speaker 3: Magic Kingdom. They're taking Tompsar Island in that river like
Speaker 3: our Rivers of America with the boat getting rid of that.
Speaker 3: I'm sad about losing the boats, but they're gonna put
Speaker 3: in a different kind of cars land there with a
Speaker 3: rally racing themed attraction Jeff Rally Racing. Okay, all right,
Speaker 3: so cars right, we did, but specifically like Sega Rally.
Speaker 3: So like people are also upset about losing that. I
Speaker 3: get it. I'm gonna I'm gonna miss uh the boat
Speaker 3: that one. I can let go a little bit. And
Speaker 3: then later in a frontier land, a villains land. Everyone's
Speaker 3: very excited about that, like specifically a land for villains.
Speaker 3: So that's the thing. Now. They also announced a Monster's
Speaker 3: ink Land for Hollywood Studios. The big thing here is
Speaker 3: that we're finally gonna get like a coaster based off
Speaker 3: the door sequence from that film, right.
Speaker 1: Like the Raptor at point.
Speaker 3: Yes, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we just have that skin of Superstar Limo right
Speaker 4: now for as our only monsters. No that's not true.
Speaker 4: We also have Mike's Mike and Sully's laugh factory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't maybe don't get too attached to those because uh,
Speaker 3: well well so I'll get to that second. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so this Monster's England.
Speaker 1: Verty just Mike Wazowski and Grub is just Sully.
Speaker 3: Yeah, whoa, Yes, I have a huge Mike Wazowski from
Speaker 3: the first movie when he's a schlub, not in the
Speaker 3: weird prequel where he's suddenly a very like go getter,
Speaker 3: like big, like like a plus student or whatever. The
Speaker 3: reconic photos a lot.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: I you're right, uh but yeah, so the Master's Acland
Speaker 3: looks cool. Everyone's just really concern about where it's going,
Speaker 3: and they won't say where it's going, and it's going
Speaker 3: to report. It's because they're heavily considering putting it where
Speaker 3: the Muppet stuff is, even though there's a part of
Speaker 3: the land called Animation Courtyard right now that's nothing. It'll
Speaker 3: be way better to put it there, but it'd be
Speaker 3: cheaper to put it in put it where the Muppets are,
Speaker 3: because there's already like a restaurant there and it already
Speaker 3: kind of looks like a city. So everyone's freaking out
Speaker 3: right now, we're going to see what's what's happening. We're
Speaker 3: going to go through this, Yeah, California Adventure, Bailey in Disneyland.
Speaker 1: I also live in California, Mike, what the hell Bailey?
Speaker 3: Anyways in California?
Speaker 4: Tell me mother stuff is only relevant to me.
Speaker 3: So they're going to put an avatar land in California Adventure.
Speaker 3: It's not going to be a clone of ours. It's
Speaker 3: going to be specifically Way of Water themed. Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: very excited. But we don't know. But this might be
Speaker 3: going where the Hollywood area is, so you know, Mike
Speaker 3: Issowy and similar things.
Speaker 4: That's fine actually, because it is always funny for me
Speaker 4: when I go because I used to live literally like
Speaker 4: in Hollywood, and then I'd go to Hollywood Land and
Speaker 4: be like, look, there's Koway, But I don't need to
Speaker 4: drive an hour to do that. I can do that now.
Speaker 4: I can drive an hour to visit Kouwenga, now the
Speaker 4: real one, not the one that's a two thirds scale.
Speaker 4: So this seems good to me. Actually, can they give
Speaker 4: me a pod to touch? I really want to touch
Speaker 4: the pod so I can better connect to a WAT.
Speaker 3: Well, you'll have to have a pod because there's an
Speaker 3: universe reason for the pod. What allows us to breathe
Speaker 3: on Pandora because it creates oxy?
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Piezo Piezo.
Speaker 3: Coco. Coco is getting a ride in Califoy Adventure. Also,
Speaker 3: Oh cool, I'm into that. That's short version. There's more
Speaker 3: stuff happen. It's a short version.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: I don't know where it's going.
Speaker 4: Probably can I take a guess? Bye by Goofy Sky School.
Speaker 3: I thought, see maybe, I thought maybe somewhere like over
Speaker 3: by Grizzly River Run it can make I.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't mind if they got rid of Grizzly River Run
Speaker 4: due to the inherent danger of all.
Speaker 3: The rat rise.
Speaker 1: What did we expect?
Speaker 2: I know, I don't know why I started this.
Speaker 4: I asked you did ask what did you learn to three?
Speaker 2: I do distinctly remember starting that sentence with the short version.
Speaker 3: This is the short like three hour presentation, really nice
Speaker 3: skins for thirty minutes. At one point, save Muppet Vision, everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right, everyone, I need you to reach out.
Speaker 1: We can only save Muppet Vision if we all touch
Speaker 1: the pot at once. All right, I'm going to touch.
Speaker 3: The pot, and you're trying to save all attractions but
Speaker 3: mostly vision. Exactly exactly, Wow, Wow, that one I did.
Speaker 1: We're all going to touch the pot on three. All right,
Speaker 1: reach out to your phones however you're watching this, and
Speaker 1: then we'll all tap into AWA at once. All right, two,
Speaker 1: I see you? All right? Bro Uh anything else popping off,
Speaker 1: y'all get into anything else.
Speaker 2: Mostly just like starting to feel a little bit of regret.
Speaker 1: That I didn't do much with my summer. I mean,
Speaker 1: I did go up to Michigan.
Speaker 2: We had that little vacation, but summer's kind of like
Speaker 2: ending here pretty soon, like the kids are going back
Speaker 2: to school, Like that is where the mind frame is
Speaker 2: at for me. So so that's like kind of all
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about. Oh, so, like if we wanted to
Speaker 2: do something, we'd have to do it now. And I'm
Speaker 2: busy and I can't do much. So I'm like, I
Speaker 2: think we are going to make a point to go
Speaker 2: to the beach here. Fine, exactly, but one last thing
Speaker 2: right on Lake Erie. So yeah, North Coast.
Speaker 3: Yeah cool.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 4: You were like, I don't want to talk about D
Speaker 4: twenty three anymore. I want to talk about existential sadness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen a more more adults, exactly.
Speaker 1: That's that's the.
Speaker 4: Two are inextricably linked.
Speaker 2: We're slowly marching toward our death, and that's what this
Speaker 2: show is about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty three.
Speaker 3: Also, it's all right, okay, well I didn't know that,
Speaker 3: but it's going to live forever.
Speaker 4: Mumps are going to live forever. Their felt they can't die.
Speaker 1: They can't.
Speaker 4: They couldn't kill them if you wanted to.
Speaker 3: No, you could burd them, I guess.
Speaker 1: But we're not going to Jeff grub, I'm going to
Speaker 1: mandate as someone that has no power over you because
Speaker 1: on whatever corporate ladder, we are holding hands on the rungs,
Speaker 1: holding dangling.
Speaker 2: From from from the Dan Record's Hoka sneakers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, and and we have Mike Minatti, Nikki and and
Speaker 1: Sean in our other hands collectively as Jeff Backlar is like.
Speaker 2: Just flapping his Icarus wings closer and closer to the sun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just grimacing and looking at It's like you guys,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 4: Feels like I'm getting pretty close to the sun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He wouldn't get too close to the sun, Let's
Speaker 1: be real. The pat pat.
Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry, I just got text from Dan saying he's OH'SO.
Speaker 3: I assumed that came it late, but he was not
Speaker 3: enjoying by twenty three recap, He's continued.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you, Jeff Grubb, You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to take a vacation next summer after summer game Fest.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let you work for weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds good. Maybe maybe that could be our
Speaker 2: our Japan trip, Mike.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can go to Disney, go to Japan during
Speaker 1: the summer. Haven't you learned anything from over We're not
Speaker 1: going there? Yeah, all right, all right? Uh, and then
Speaker 1: you're gonna take another two weeks, Jeff, I do.
Speaker 2: Have the I am going to Disney soonish, so that'll
Speaker 2: be a vacation here.
Speaker 1: That'll be like a week. So I'll take I'll take
Speaker 1: a two week vacation next summer. That sounds good, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I like this idea of a dark week, you know,
Speaker 1: you know we do that. What about we just well
Speaker 1: I'll just stream nothing but the Dog that okay, well
Speaker 1: that would.
Speaker 2: Actually do way better than us.
Speaker 3: And yeah, what was.
Speaker 2: That that movie that like the collection of Westerns that
Speaker 2: the Coen Brothers did, And there was that one story
Speaker 2: about like there was this really talented actor guy, but
Speaker 2: he didn't have arms or legs, and the guy that
Speaker 2: was taking care of him had like feed him and
Speaker 2: be responsible for him. And then he discovered like a
Speaker 2: chicken that could do math, and so you.
Speaker 4: Scruggs.
Speaker 1: The ballot of Buster scrugs.
Speaker 2: So so he left the talented actor guy and took
Speaker 2: the chicken that did math instead. And it's like, I'll
Speaker 2: just have this.
Speaker 1: This is cheaper. So what the moral that.
Speaker 2: Story is we can't have Scout replace us is I'm
Speaker 2: very worried about that.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's where we were going with that. Okay, fantastic.
Speaker 3: That's all going on an Alaskan cruise. It's not hot there.
Speaker 1: I would like that quite a.
Speaker 4: Bit of one. They have Disney Marses that got to
Speaker 4: go that way. We can get there with Captain Mickey.
Speaker 4: I know you, I was saying, for the benefit of
Speaker 4: the other two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Can finally take my friend up that moved to Alaska
Speaker 1: to to go fish for salmon, and I haven't seen
Speaker 1: him since I went to the Underground Majong. Then over
Speaker 1: the weekend, I've returned the Grandma songs.
Speaker 2: You returned, but you seem changed.
Speaker 1: I seemed changed for the worst. For sleep deprivation and uh,
Speaker 1: you know. I I'm not gonna say that. I went
Speaker 1: to the bank and asked for a bunch of singles
Speaker 1: to perhaps put on games, only to find out, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're only doing friendly matches and we're not doing anything
Speaker 1: for actual money today. And you have to play nice
Speaker 1: with all these other people because they're just learning how
Speaker 1: to play for the first time, and you want to
Speaker 1: encourage and build a community.
Speaker 3: And as dank as I was expecting, Yeah, underground, it
Speaker 3: just is what it used to be.
Speaker 4: This seems like we're all just hanging out and having
Speaker 4: a good time together where.
Speaker 1: That pravity exactly. So what if I had if there
Speaker 1: was a person in a corner making smash burgers out
Speaker 1: of spam and I the other ship was going on
Speaker 1: and someone was like, hey, bro, you look like you
Speaker 1: could use my tie, And I'm like, you know what, yes, anyway,
Speaker 1: am I going back to the underground Majong Day? Yes?
Speaker 1: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: God do you think you'll corrupt it and make it into.
Speaker 1: A thousand percent because of the first game that I
Speaker 1: have to talk about today.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Oh, I hate that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go home.
Speaker 2: I hate it.
Speaker 3: Yes, shopping girl.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I have found the next bolotro.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, you've for it, even though we've asked you
Speaker 2: to stop.
Speaker 1: Yes, I have found this game. This was putting onto
Speaker 1: my radar. It's called Dungeons and Degenerates Gamblers where.
Speaker 3: I know what word? You got too interested in this one?
Speaker 1: And so this is a a card game where you
Speaker 1: are playing combative blackjack oh shit against in a camp
Speaker 1: a campaign that is very much framed like a Slave
Speaker 1: the Spire esque or like a branching paths where you
Speaker 1: play blackjack and your opponent that you're playing against has
Speaker 1: certain hit points and the difference in your hands. So
Speaker 1: say you draw twenty one, the AI draws twenty, You
Speaker 1: subtract two points and do deal two points of damage
Speaker 1: to the AI. Now there are a bunch of variables
Speaker 1: that enter and go into play like the AI. Sometimes
Speaker 1: your opponent can has to stand at thirteen, so you
Speaker 1: can be you can be a little a little bit spicy.
Speaker 1: You get a fourteen, but you're like, you know what,
Speaker 1: homeboy's gonna stand here at thirteen. Let's try and get
Speaker 1: some more damage going. And then you know, if you
Speaker 1: bust out, you just do zero damage or you do
Speaker 1: zero damag and then your opponent does whatever the difference
Speaker 1: would be. So if they're staying at thirteen, you bust out,
Speaker 1: they do thirteen to you. And I thought that's where
Speaker 1: the fun shenanigans would end. But there is also different
Speaker 1: mechanics for each of these suits, and so if you
Speaker 1: score a winning hand with any heart cards, you restore
Speaker 1: your health because of the hearts. If you do stuff
Speaker 1: with like the Diamond suit, you wind up increasing your
Speaker 1: chip count, and your chip count is used during battles.
Speaker 1: You can steal chips, lose chips, bet, and you use
Speaker 1: the chips to unlock more cards because at the end
Speaker 1: of each battle you similar to like a Slay of
Speaker 1: the Spire, you have the option to choose cards as
Speaker 1: a prize, and at the end of each round you
Speaker 1: can use your chips to unlock a bonus fifth option.
Speaker 1: And I thought, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, this is great.
Speaker 1: This is already a bunch of fun. And then I
Speaker 1: got a stamp card where uh and I filled out
Speaker 1: my stamp card to ten. And then it turns out
Speaker 1: if you properly fill out your stamp card and this
Speaker 1: gets thrown into your regular playing deck, it's just an
Speaker 1: automatic twenty one. So that's it. That's cool. And then
Speaker 1: I started getting more of oddball cards, like there is
Speaker 1: a Gerald of Rivier era he ah.
Speaker 3: God hearing Jeff mispronounced the girl's name in a row
Speaker 3: again this morning yesterday. That was rough, sorry to say, No,
Speaker 3: that's right girl.
Speaker 4: To me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how it's spelled.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And there was a King of the Cosmos card from
Speaker 1: a Katamaria and there was also a Queen Chess piece
Speaker 1: of card. So I'm just assuming that this game is
Speaker 1: just full of a bunch of random, miscllaneous bullshit. And
Speaker 1: somehow I found this game last night. I remote played
Speaker 1: into my computer at home as I was I was
Speaker 1: at the place I needed to be last night. And
Speaker 1: let me tell you, six hours flies by when you're
Speaker 1: just playing a competitive blackjack Oh hell yeah, okay and
Speaker 1: yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Also, you know how Enslaved the spire Monster trained similar games,
Speaker 1: you can upgrade cards and generally it'll be like oh this,
Speaker 1: you get a plus one or a minus one. And
Speaker 1: like in Bilatro, if you upgrade a ten, it'll upgrade
Speaker 1: it to a jack, right, it'll just go the next
Speaker 1: suit up. I upgraded a ten in this game in
Speaker 1: dungeons and degenerates gamblers, and it just made it into
Speaker 1: an eleven instead of a jack. So I am looking
Speaker 1: forward to all of the buffoonery that comes up.
Speaker 4: I think you have said so many words that are
Speaker 4: so intriguing to me. This sounds great. It's blackjack and
Speaker 4: also those other games you listed.
Speaker 1: Oh and the thing is you were only dealing with
Speaker 1: your deck when you were pulling a dealing from from
Speaker 1: the blackjack, so your opponent is dealing with their own,
Speaker 1: separate deck. So it be so much easier if you
Speaker 1: could do that. Yeah, it's like, yeah, I only have
Speaker 1: nothing but aces in this one. And if you're bad
Speaker 1: at math like me, and you take a quick second,
Speaker 1: if not a minute, to add up your cards when
Speaker 1: you're playing proper blackjack, that kills any momentum.
Speaker 2: That you have.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, folks, it does all the math for you.
Speaker 1: It looks really good. It looks it's it's very snappy.
Speaker 1: H Alteno, which was the majong blotcher game I was
Speaker 1: talking about last week. That seems super early in its development,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't quite feel all the way there. The
Speaker 1: Roulette Bolotro like that came out a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago also didn't feel quite there. But Dungeons and Degenerates
Speaker 1: Gamblers it feels like, well it's already out, but it
Speaker 1: has that same uh snappiness that Blotro does right out
Speaker 1: the gate. It's terrible.
Speaker 3: I don't it is acredble Just how much aesthetically it
Speaker 3: looks like balatro So, I mean grated. Of course it's,
Speaker 3: you know, a card game, but still it's like has
Speaker 3: just that right amount of pixelation that you know, we're
Speaker 3: clearly in an era of people specifically making games to
Speaker 3: be like billatro I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah we got we have.
Speaker 2: Like Tennedy's and this one seems to be one of
Speaker 2: the better ones.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, came out August eighth.
Speaker 5: It's how much was it was like fifteen bucks if
Speaker 5: you get Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I just just added
Speaker 5: to my account.
Speaker 3: I will give this a shot out to my account.
Speaker 3: Let's been this. I'll add to my wishless like an
Speaker 3: average Joe.
Speaker 2: I mean you don't have to hate me.
Speaker 1: I mean I do, though better. It's the new gimmick.
Speaker 1: It's the new gimmick. Bailey. We needed a fourth because
Speaker 1: Dan is out in Europe today.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, thank you for considering me.
Speaker 1: Uh, of course, of course. And I thought to myself
Speaker 1: when I saw you pop into the call, thank goodness
Speaker 1: you're here, And that works out because you've also been
Speaker 1: playing Thank Goodness you're here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean in as much, in as much as
Speaker 4: you can have been placed three hours long. But god,
Speaker 4: it's so such a fun three hours. Boy, it's so silly.
Speaker 2: Did you want it to last longer? Because I didn't.
Speaker 1: I was very happy with the lange.
Speaker 4: I thought it was a perfect amount of game.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was just really enjoying it. So I just like
Speaker 4: when experiences continue for me. But no, I think three
Speaker 4: hours is exactly right for that game.
Speaker 2: What's your feelings towards humorous video games in general? Because
Speaker 2: typically I'm like, I don't find most games to be
Speaker 2: too funny. I've definitely laughed a some writing. I have
Speaker 2: a soft spot for stuff like Mario and Luigi because
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, look, there's this is such good writings.
Speaker 2: But I get they're goobers, but I recognize that that's
Speaker 2: not like, oh, that wouldn't work as like a comedy
Speaker 2: film or something that writing this does feel like this
Speaker 2: could on Cartoon Network right there within any of those
Speaker 2: other shows. I was really impressed.
Speaker 1: What'd you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. I think that typically comedy and gaming
Speaker 4: can fall a little bit flat due to the fact
Speaker 4: that nobody in the gaming industry is funny. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a huge problem that we have, Like they have
Speaker 4: that that awful Rick and Morty game that came out
Speaker 4: last year, and it's just where the gun yelled at you.
Speaker 4: No fun. And there can be elements of comedy and
Speaker 4: games that work really well, for sure, but typically games
Speaker 4: that are really focused on comedy as like the main element,
Speaker 4: get very tiresome very quickly, which is why three hours
Speaker 4: is the perfect length through this one. But it did
Speaker 4: feel very like modern in its comedic stylings. I'm always
Speaker 4: glad to hear Matt Berry anywhere. The second he showed up,
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, hell yeah, I'd recognize that weird
Speaker 4: pronunciation anywhere. It's so good. It's you're just a little guy.
Speaker 4: It's it's big, basically untitled goose game, but everyone's excited
Speaker 4: to see you and not showing you out of places,
Speaker 4: and that's great. And there's like a lot of sex stuff,
Speaker 4: which they didn't have an untitled Goose game.
Speaker 2: No, which is a big problem with entitled Goose game.
Speaker 2: Can't believe the one the game Award or whatever.
Speaker 1: It is not enough sex, too much in a little
Speaker 1: kitty big city.
Speaker 2: Though I do have to bring this up every time
Speaker 2: just to throw him under the bus. Dan Reker did
Speaker 2: not really see any of the sex jokes. He's your boy, Yeah, there's.
Speaker 4: Now what no dance.
Speaker 3: Dan's trying to blame it more on his bad memory
Speaker 3: than like being obtuse and not understanding double entendres.
Speaker 1: That's right stuff.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: At one point, Matt Berry's character fucks a pumpkin and
Speaker 4: then a baby comes out, and then he eats the baby.
Speaker 4: What did he think that was?
Speaker 2: He knew that was dark, but I don't I think
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was registering with them.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Well, you know, maybe it's sweet boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe Dan just thought that's what they do across
Speaker 1: the pond, right exactly.
Speaker 3: Instead of using air conditioning, they fuck pumpkins.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's that's what I guess.
Speaker 4: Right, sort of like how pigs roll around in mud.
Speaker 4: It's the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get all that pumpkin goo on you from you
Speaker 3: knows the rigorous pumpkin fucking.
Speaker 4: It's genuinely like. I had such a good time with it. Like,
Speaker 4: I think everyone should play this game. It's it's three
Speaker 4: hours and it's not hard. It's just like a fun
Speaker 4: three hours where you just kind of vibe through it.
Speaker 3: I have it installed. I'm kind of saving it for
Speaker 3: this Europe trip coming up. Like I know at some
Speaker 3: point I'm going to like be sitting somewhere nothing to do,
Speaker 3: and you know, playing through something for three hours sounds lovely. Yeah,
Speaker 3: fun time.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you stream it? Barely? Did you try to do that?
Speaker 1: How did that go? I was curious.
Speaker 2: I was like, this seems like a game that might
Speaker 2: be okay for streaming, but it's all about experiencing it,
Speaker 2: so maybe it wouldn't be. I don't know. It was good.
Speaker 4: Everyone was experiencing it with me. We were all sort
Speaker 4: of baffled by what was happening simultaneously, which is a
Speaker 4: fun vibe. We're all like, hey, what the hell was
Speaker 4: that with the pumpkin baby. I also sort of got
Speaker 4: to comfort each other in the grimness of that moment.
Speaker 4: It was nice. I needed a little emotional support for it,
Speaker 4: and I got I got that emotional support. It was perfect.
Speaker 4: My stream community was lovely for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It seems like the kind of game that like you
Speaker 2: can go and perform it. Kind of similar to untitled
Speaker 2: Goose game. Again, So yeah, interesting cool. I really liked
Speaker 2: that game. I don't not like super in love with it,
Speaker 2: but I'm really glad I didn't miss it. I think
Speaker 2: it's definitely worth playing. Like you said, and again.
Speaker 4: With three hours, I don't think you have to be
Speaker 4: in love with it, like that's the thing exactly. If
Speaker 4: it's a one hundred hour plus game, I better love
Speaker 4: that thing. But three hours, yeah, I'll just have like
Speaker 4: a nice time. I've spent three hours doing worse stuff.
Speaker 1: Ye exactly.
Speaker 4: How Avatar two Way of Water?
Speaker 1: What? Wowait?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Wow? By? What? What? My heart?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: You're not just wait? What what Jesus? What all the
Speaker 1: gifts that got you put him back in the bag?
Speaker 3: Their Emma's now sorry?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 3: You know anything when the son taught the father how
Speaker 3: to breathe and it was like a full circle moment
Speaker 3: and the other son was fucking dead, Bailey.
Speaker 4: I remember that. At what point in the three hour
Speaker 4: run time did that happen?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: What about? What about when the lady in the mech
Speaker 1: suit drank a cup of coffee and then the mech
Speaker 1: also drank a cup.
Speaker 4: Of coffee that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: You remember that? Oh God, you think you know someone?
Speaker 3: Right, you can see fire Nash and yes, all of
Speaker 3: us need to see the guitar three.
Speaker 4: You have to understand. I'm gonna see it. I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna be like, why here's that four hours?
Speaker 3: You're gonna see it and like it.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're gonna make you. We're gonna watch it in
Speaker 1: the back of a taxi on Grub's phone. That's right
Speaker 1: the way it was intended.
Speaker 3: Would your baby have to be made out of for
Speaker 3: you to consider eating it?
Speaker 4: Mmm?
Speaker 1: Pizza immediate.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say it by donut baby eat m
Speaker 3: all right? Uh something you think about that.
Speaker 1: One, Bailey? Well, speaking about fucking pumpkins, I've been playing
Speaker 1: a farming game as well, right Fields of Mystery. I
Speaker 1: don't believe you can bang a pumpkin here.
Speaker 4: Oh I've heard this is very good.
Speaker 1: Uh so I've never played Stardoo Valley. Oh wow, Now
Speaker 1: it's time to disappoint our friends today, Bailey, when.
Speaker 4: You go Friend's hour? Okay, Well, we're on theme.
Speaker 1: At least, I've never played Starduo Valley. The only farming
Speaker 1: game that I got heavily invested in was Disney Dreamlight
Speaker 1: Valley for different reasons. We're not gonna but feels a mystery.
Speaker 1: It's a It is a farming game, except it takes
Speaker 1: what I assume is the Stardoo formula of growing stuff,
Speaker 1: except you add magic into it. I'm only like an
Speaker 1: hour or so into it. Friend of the site Sarah
Speaker 1: Podzorski did work on the game, so shouts out to
Speaker 1: a homegirl. And this is making me think I might
Speaker 1: like farming games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're funny that you should probably play Stardoo Valley.
Speaker 3: I mean, but I am you know, I could like
Speaker 3: always go for another one of those fa Farm happened
Speaker 3: what last year, And that was also just a farming
Speaker 3: game with fantasy magic stuff. So I wonder, like how
Speaker 3: the two of these compare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fay Farm had like the like made it easier,
Speaker 2: like run around and jump around and like get up
Speaker 2: to different level levels and stuff like that, and it
Speaker 2: was like in full three D. This one is much
Speaker 2: more Stardoo Valley coded across like across the board.
Speaker 1: Question for the panel here, Yes, do I just jump
Speaker 1: in blind to stard you at this point?
Speaker 3: Oh? Sure, yeah, it'll be fine. Fine, Well, it's hard
Speaker 3: to say. It's like I jumped in blind. But i'd
Speaker 3: also like played Harvest Moon before and it's very much
Speaker 3: one of those. There's a specific loop to the game
Speaker 3: that I think you'll figure out the game.
Speaker 2: I think you would ask your friends who have played
Speaker 2: High for advice and like, hey, I'm like I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm going to miss this season and not do anything. Well,
Speaker 2: you know what, Actually, if you grow some barley, then
Speaker 2: you'll have something to do in the winter and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. We can give you pointers.
Speaker 1: That's a good way to play.
Speaker 4: I think they have that COPD. I've never done multiplayer
Speaker 4: Starty Valley. How does that work?
Speaker 1: You should find out?
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to do it for a while.
Speaker 6: So all righty oh yeah this week Dan, here's here's
Speaker 6: the only important tip is that the game was going
Speaker 6: to really try to push Penny on you as a
Speaker 6: romantic interest.
Speaker 3: No no, no, not my dog. It's it's a redhead
Speaker 3: lady who's like, she's really nice like kids and like
Speaker 3: her mom's an alcoholic and all, maybe you can save
Speaker 3: her like.
Speaker 4: That only happens if you talk to her.
Speaker 1: I don't talk to any of the women.
Speaker 4: The time I date Abigail, the girl who eats rocks.
Speaker 2: All, I'm married to the land. I would never get a.
Speaker 3: Kind of feel bad about because it was entirely superficial.
Speaker 4: I love Haley. You can change her, actually.
Speaker 3: Do change her, And it's it's almost upsetting how much
Speaker 3: she changes by like dating you. She's kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 3: she's great, I guess, but her whole thing is that
Speaker 3: she's kind of like doesn't want to be there and
Speaker 3: she's kind of like over it. She's kind of got
Speaker 3: like like what am I even doing here that she
Speaker 3: like falls over you. She's like, I love living on
Speaker 3: a farm.
Speaker 1: Actually gonna a tearless for romance game.
Speaker 3: So RS six four is the first like farm game
Speaker 3: I played. But it was also the first game I
Speaker 3: ever played where you could, you know, like date people,
Speaker 3: and I thought that was very exciting as like a
Speaker 3: twelve or thirteen year old boy.
Speaker 1: I got, oh, I know where you're playing?
Speaker 2: Fields of Mystery of jan I just saw a lady
Speaker 2: and overall, look at this it's just it's just like
Speaker 2: value all over again, that there's.
Speaker 3: A lot of those in farming ladies and overalls. Listen, grub,
Speaker 3: we all got a type. Okay, you don't got to
Speaker 3: put me on blast here, all right?
Speaker 1: Uh? Anyway, God if they I'm gonna keep that thought
Speaker 1: inside my head. I'm not gonna share that I thought.
Speaker 1: Joh I did the quick thing of the mental math
Speaker 1: of like, all right, I already put too much out
Speaker 1: on the internet. We're not gonna say that if a no,
Speaker 1: see I almost did it, almost say.
Speaker 2: Step back from the ledge. We'll talk about Muppet Vision
Speaker 2: some more.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that, but Jeff and Dan don't like it.
Speaker 4: I think there should be more Bean Bunny Merch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some people don't like being crazy.
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican rapper.
Speaker 3: No, that's funny.
Speaker 4: Bean Bunny is one of the main characters of Mother
Speaker 4: Vision three D.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you feel about Waldo Bailey? A lot
Speaker 3: of people don't like Waldo.
Speaker 4: You're not supposed to like. He's the spirit of three D.
Speaker 4: He's obnoxious. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It feels like I'm slowly trudging up and I'm doing
Speaker 1: fat roles through this podcast.
Speaker 4: Something true about yourself and instead you listen to more
Speaker 4: muppet vision. Was that a fair trade off.
Speaker 2: Listeners would be a podcast that fat rolls tell us
Speaker 2: about it?
Speaker 1: For sure, I've already decided I'm going to allow myself
Speaker 1: to get real and emotional and it very inebriated only
Speaker 1: one night of games comyn we do care. Yes, of course,
Speaker 1: of course I found three. You already saw my list, Mike.
Speaker 1: I'm going to send you a list just like you
Speaker 1: have been sending people to their death Dark Souls too.
Speaker 3: Maybe more the other way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I finished Dark Souls one, really enjoyed it. I
Speaker 3: felt like I did pretty good too. I was like
Speaker 3: pretty proud of myself. Well, I was doing well, especially
Speaker 3: against the bosses, like except for the gargoyles, which was
Speaker 3: like early on when I wasn't really a built out character.
Speaker 3: I don't think any boss took me more than four tries.
Speaker 3: That was a big boy. Started Dark Souls two finally,
Speaker 3: which you know, like I always just kind of here,
Speaker 3: is like a bit more of a controversial one for
Speaker 3: whatever reasons, Like there's some things about it that are
Speaker 3: just a bit different in terms of game feel or
Speaker 3: game design. I don't really know, but I got a
Speaker 3: sense of that, playing the first few hours and mostly
Speaker 3: getting my butt kicked. Now, it turns out the large
Speaker 3: reason that happened was because in like Dido a cult,
Speaker 3: I joined a cult.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, well fun.
Speaker 3: They call covenants, which is a much nicer way of saying.
Speaker 1: Call sure rights what calts call themselves.
Speaker 3: Yes, I joined a covenant because like in the last
Speaker 3: game and Dark Souls won, there's all these covenants and like,
Speaker 3: I was like, should I join these? And you know,
Speaker 3: I'm streaming and checks like, I gets sure, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: It's usually it was like just a way to get spells,
Speaker 3: and I'm not using spells anyway, So I would just
Speaker 3: join a covenant because it's like not something like, you know,
Speaker 3: stupid little magic user. But uh I found this like
Speaker 3: rock and I was like, do you want to join
Speaker 3: the Covenant of Champions. I was like yeah, sure, and
Speaker 3: I was just kind of clicking and I don't know,
Speaker 3: talking chat and like immediately Chat's like should we tell him?
Speaker 3: I was like, tell me what.
Speaker 2: Was right?
Speaker 3: And I'm trying to do like a pretty blind playthrough.
Speaker 3: So I was like, okay, I'm not going to push
Speaker 3: the point, but you know, then I played for another
Speaker 3: two hours, and it was very difficult and I died
Speaker 3: a lot. It was hard to make any progg easer, right.
Speaker 3: I was really like scratching and clawing, and then finally
Speaker 3: somebody led it stuff that I basically activated hard mode
Speaker 3: by joining that covenant. Yeah, so I kind of freaked out,
Speaker 3: but thankfully there's a cat you can talk to to
Speaker 3: get you out of covenants, so I had to like
Speaker 3: teleport back to town and talk to the cat, and
Speaker 3: the cat really like the way I smell for some reason,
Speaker 3: and like made sure I knew that, and then yeah,
Speaker 3: I was out of there, and I was having a
Speaker 3: much nicer time after that. But there is like some
Speaker 3: of the weirdness that people talk about, like healing works differently,
Speaker 3: the animation for it is slower, but also there's a
Speaker 3: lot more healing consumable items that you're supposed to use.
Speaker 3: There's in general more areas with a lot of enemies,
Speaker 3: so there's more kind of crowd control happening. But you know,
Speaker 3: and like I fought some bosses and stuff that was
Speaker 3: very fun. That still felt very good. So I think
Speaker 3: I'm kind of seeing both sides of the people who
Speaker 3: are like, oh dark Souls too is kind of the
Speaker 3: weird one. Then the defenders like, no, it's still great.
Speaker 3: You know, it's essential, you got to play it. Also,
Speaker 3: I'm having fun. How I'm excited to go through more
Speaker 3: of it, Mike.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for you and your journey. And I also
Speaker 1: want to hear if you were going to stick through
Speaker 1: and continue going through. And you've probably already been this
Speaker 1: several times, but make a Man X five.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that was just kind of like, okay, and
Speaker 3: play something on my switch, And Jeff brought up maybe
Speaker 3: making me play Mega Man X seven has started making
Speaker 3: me think about the X games, which you know, I'm
Speaker 3: more of I'm a big Mega Man fan, but usually
Speaker 3: more classic than X and that kind of back half
Speaker 3: of the X games I have not played nearly as
Speaker 3: much as the front half. Now that's largely because they're
Speaker 3: not as good. And playing X five, you know, I
Speaker 3: had a good time. But X five, which is generally
Speaker 3: considered one of the better ones of five through eight,
Speaker 3: it kind of almost bums me out in some ways.
Speaker 3: Cause so Mega Man X four and Mega Man eight
Speaker 3: were on PlayStation and at eight was even on Saturda y,
Speaker 3: so they were like two d Capcom games with that generation,
Speaker 3: and they were kind of like very high production values.
Speaker 3: They had anime cut scenes. You know, they had bad
Speaker 3: voiceover in the West, but whatever it was cut scenes.
Speaker 3: Everything was very spiffy then, and neither of them so
Speaker 3: particularly well. So then X five is clearly a cheaper production, right,
Speaker 3: Like it's just like still images and the cut scenes
Speaker 3: and you know, the graphics that look quite as polished.
Speaker 3: It's also the first one, at least that I can remember,
Speaker 3: that has the radio buddy, so you like, you know,
Speaker 3: you walk ten feet and then the game just stops
Speaker 3: and there's dialogue options like Mega Man. There's you know,
Speaker 3: a gap there, You're gonna have to jump over it.
Speaker 3: It's like, yes, I know. It just really drives me
Speaker 3: crazy because Mega Man is such a doobie game. It's
Speaker 3: worse than almost anything else to be that game. If
Speaker 3: you just stop and have somebody tell me what to do,
Speaker 3: it drives me absolutely crazy. So it was still fun
Speaker 3: enough to play through. It was kind of on the
Speaker 3: easier side for an X game two, which in some
Speaker 3: ways was nice. It made it a bit more show.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's a reason why I don't think about
Speaker 3: Mega Man X five as much as say X four
Speaker 3: in the first X those are those are kind of
Speaker 3: the my go tos for that series.
Speaker 1: You are just playing on the collections, right, is that
Speaker 1: what you said? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so just was playing on a switch on the
Speaker 3: Mega that's volume two Mega Man X collection.
Speaker 1: Are good, Okay, cool?
Speaker 3: Actually good. In fact, it was actually feels better than
Speaker 3: the first Mega Man Classic collection on switch, which has
Speaker 3: like noticeable input leg for me, not necessarily like playing
Speaker 3: the Mega Man Classic Collection.
Speaker 1: Is a sangwich.
Speaker 2: This switch in general is a lot of the emulated
Speaker 2: eight bit and sixteen big games, so for some reason
Speaker 2: end up with a little bit of input lag and
Speaker 2: work the places.
Speaker 3: Was feel pretty good actually, But yeah, I'm gonna play
Speaker 3: Megma three is my favorite video game ever, right, and
Speaker 3: if I'm going to play that these days, you know,
Speaker 3: I would rather just play a rom on my computer.
Speaker 3: In fact, actually the e Shop Virtual Console version of
Speaker 3: Mega Man three on the three DS was pretty much perfect.
Speaker 3: They got rid of some glitches. I kind of ran better.
Speaker 3: That was my favorite way of playing Mega Man three
Speaker 3: for a long time.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking about checking out older games, Jeff Grubb, you've
Speaker 1: been playing Doom and Doom too, yeah.
Speaker 2: So at Quake Con they announced that Nightdive had actually
Speaker 2: done a little bit of a red dus of Doom
Speaker 2: and Doom two and they put it together into one collection.
Speaker 2: And if you if you own Doom or Doom two,
Speaker 2: like on Steam or I think a lot of the consoles,
Speaker 2: you just get it. You get these for free automatically.
Speaker 2: It's just a free update, but then you can go
Speaker 2: if you don't, you can go get it for ten dollars.
Speaker 2: And it's really well done. For one thing, they do
Speaker 2: an excellent job of I think they kind of did
Speaker 2: a similar thing with that Quake remaster, where they just
Speaker 2: have all the stuff listed over to the side. There's Doom,
Speaker 2: there's Doom too, There's a bunch of other stuff, and
Speaker 2: then there's like a bunch of the sort of I
Speaker 2: guess wads that some people would make later. Machine Games
Speaker 2: just made a new episode that you could play from
Speaker 2: the main menu. But they also have the John Ramera
Speaker 2: one sigil from a few few years back, things like that.
Speaker 1: Pardon my ignorance, please, I've been too scared to ask this. Yep,
Speaker 1: what does WAD mean? What it's? Where's all the stuff?
Speaker 1: It's it's it's like it's just.
Speaker 2: One of their funny terms, but it's it's just like
Speaker 2: when you load in a mod essentially for Doom, where's
Speaker 2: all that where's the where's all the data? Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: what it's called. Uh yeah, so anyway you would, it's
Speaker 2: like it's like one of those. But I started playing
Speaker 2: Doom again just the first episode started playing. It has
Speaker 2: the remix to music, which is just really powerful when
Speaker 2: you're playing that game that just like consumes you and
Speaker 2: like gets you in the mood for Doom. And it
Speaker 2: turns out that game still really fun because it's just
Speaker 2: so fast and action packed, and.
Speaker 1: I love the way it looks. I've always loved the
Speaker 1: way that.
Speaker 2: Those early three D shooters with the two D sprite
Speaker 2: enemies looked. Made me want to go back and play
Speaker 2: even more of the Dark with the Star Wars one
Speaker 2: a Dark Forest Forces. Yes, it's like I just told
Speaker 2: the way that looks as well for the same reason.
Speaker 2: That's a good Doom clone. But yeah, they just I
Speaker 2: think they did a really good job with this, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to stick with it a little bit.
Speaker 2: I will probably at some point skip over some of
Speaker 2: the content and go play what Machine games made because
Speaker 2: I like what they did with the Quake thing. They
Speaker 2: did a similar sort of Oh hey, here's a new
Speaker 2: story for Quake.
Speaker 1: They did that here.
Speaker 2: I hope this is like machine games like getting either
Speaker 2: maybe take over some of these franchises in some way
Speaker 2: and do some new stuff. Clearly dooms still going, so
Speaker 2: maybe they're gonna go back to Quake. But I think
Speaker 2: this is just a neat thing that they do. And
Speaker 2: Night Dive as always like really delivered.
Speaker 3: We still need to play Pod, which was another Night Dive.
Speaker 2: FPS Master played a little bit of that a few
Speaker 2: weeks back, and it's it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That was like a weird three D oero doom, like
Speaker 3: where you plays like a chef angry chef on a
Speaker 3: spaceship and you're.
Speaker 2: Those chopping cleavers and stuff that you can throw. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really weird.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 3: And it's called gome On.
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. Speaking about remasters, hot
Speaker 1: remasters that everyone on the Internet is buzzing about and
Speaker 1: having so much fun, Bailey Myers Luigi's Mansion two HD.
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh so the new Honest game trailer drops in
Speaker 4: seven minutes. Oh my god, I hated this fucking game.
Speaker 3: Did you play these? Mention three D.
Speaker 4: You can't go to the Heights of Guig and then
Speaker 4: take me back to this bullshit. First of all, it's
Speaker 4: a pretty it's it's just a port like it's not.
Speaker 4: They made it look a little nicer. They added literally
Speaker 4: one entire pun. I googled forever to just be like,
Speaker 4: is there anything else that they added to this game? No,
Speaker 4: that a ghost that lives in a piano and his
Speaker 4: name is Behothoven. Is it worth fifty of my dollars?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 3: No, you say while wearing the Donald duck butt hat.
Speaker 4: The Donald duck butt hat was free for me, thank
Speaker 4: you because my friend Jan got it for me. No,
Speaker 4: Luigi's Mansion two HD uh is Oh, it's miserable. First
Speaker 4: of all, Like I played it on the three DS
Speaker 4: and it was fun. Ten years ago. On the three
Speaker 4: DS it was fine, but once having two sticks motion
Speaker 4: sticks instead of one, suddenly he feels like Octodad, Like
Speaker 4: it's he is miserable to control. And then I know
Speaker 4: I'm doing a bad job controlling him, but I'm still
Speaker 4: just sleepwalking through these through these fights, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: this is I know this is a game for babies,
Speaker 4: but my god, like it's so it's boring and Egad
Speaker 4: won't shut up and just let me fight the ghosts. Anyway,
Speaker 4: the trailer drops in five minutes. I called him a
Speaker 4: wailing Italian cuck at least once.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm not gonna make that joke.
Speaker 4: It was like super easy count that for baby people.
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of uh suck jokes because of
Speaker 4: the vacuum mechanic. Of course it's right there. Yeah, uh
Speaker 4: you know classics stuff watch on this game, true ex
Speaker 4: every other Tuesday at am.
Speaker 3: I had a hard time getting excited when they announ
Speaker 3: said because I also likely just mentioned three. But like
Speaker 3: I remember we just match it too, and I remember
Speaker 3: it being like, yeah, it's fine, one of the great things.
Speaker 3: But leg just mention three is that it was such
Speaker 3: a huge improvement over too, to the point where I
Speaker 3: never really had any desire to go back to it,
Speaker 3: even if it got some kind of new port or version.
Speaker 3: I would just go play three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like it looks nice, but so does Luigi's Mansion three,
Speaker 4: and there was way more game there.
Speaker 3: It's just the nicest looking.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Switch Metchay Primary Mastered three looks great.
Speaker 2: The Digital Foundry is like to proclaim that it's the
Speaker 2: best looking Switch game, and I tend to agree in
Speaker 2: terms of, like the visual fidelity of the animations and stuff.
Speaker 2: Next Level is so good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Next Level you just a boring game that you
Speaker 4: can fall asleep playing and still win.
Speaker 2: I think it's worth it just to get an honest
Speaker 2: games trailer about it.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to what you know.
Speaker 4: Now We've switched to every other week for honest game trailers,
Speaker 4: which some viewers have been observant enough to notice, and
Speaker 4: so I'm really better. So I'm really prioritizing the games
Speaker 4: that I'm gonna have to suffer when I play, but
Speaker 4: result in scripts people enjoy because my anger becomes comedy.
Speaker 4: But my god, I was mad playing this because I
Speaker 4: was looking forward to it, and then I played it
Speaker 4: and I was like, what is this? This sucks ass?
Speaker 4: And they charged fifty dollars for it. I'm just trying
Speaker 4: to save everyone fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: How is it more than METROI Primary Master that they
Speaker 3: took those out of their minds fail.
Speaker 2: There was another recent remaster that was also.
Speaker 3: Count Returns is coming out. I think it's going to
Speaker 3: be like fifty or sixty years, so it's like fifty
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, yeah, it's wild, just all right to
Speaker 3: save you a buck, Thank you Bill. Any time.
Speaker 4: It's my it's my duty.
Speaker 1: It's my burden, your journalistic writer duties.
Speaker 2: Just like.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 2: That's the podcast.
Speaker 1: Did Jeff Grubb Journalism Games? Yeah. Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
Speaker 1: covered wars absolutely.
Speaker 2: Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is not out for a while,
Speaker 2: but we got our hands on preview code, and this
Speaker 2: is a Capcom game, and it turns out they're good
Speaker 2: at making games and good at bringing these things back,
Speaker 2: and that this is a very good example of that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't want to break any news or you know,
Speaker 2: step on any toes. I am really enjoying what I've
Speaker 2: played of this. I think what is going to help
Speaker 2: this game a lot is the intervening intervening years in
Speaker 2: which we've gotten so many different kinds of games, especially
Speaker 2: Rogue Lights becoming very popular, giving people maybe the more
Speaker 2: more confident to be like, yeah, it is actually kind
Speaker 2: of cool to start over because I remember that being
Speaker 2: people don't remember there's a time system in Dead Rising.
Speaker 2: In the first game, there's a seventy two hour clock.
Speaker 2: It's not real world, but it's it's a clock that's
Speaker 2: always ticking down. And when you die, you get the
Speaker 2: option to be like, do you want to continue from
Speaker 2: your last save or do you want to restart from
Speaker 2: the beginning with your character at a leveled to where
Speaker 2: they are right now. And I think at the time,
Speaker 2: I remember being like, I'll do that. Maybe this is
Speaker 2: kind of it took me a while to get over
Speaker 2: that hump and realize that here. I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I know from experience now that all that stuff I
Speaker 2: just did that took me an hour. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: do that in five minutes now. And that's exactly how
Speaker 2: it makes the thing right. It's the major's mask thing,
Speaker 2: and yes, exactly, and and all that stuff is here
Speaker 2: and it's even more well explained, and the game just
Speaker 2: looks good, sounds great. They're you know, they're having fun
Speaker 2: in the way the Dead Rising always does. Where one
Speaker 2: of the costumes they gave me was I don't know
Speaker 2: what the character's name for Mega Man Battle Network is
Speaker 2: it just Mega Man, but that Mega Mega Man Dot
Speaker 2: ex suit. So I'm like in these you know, quote
Speaker 2: unquote serious cut scenes where he's like someone's yelling at him,
Speaker 2: and he just looked. Frank West just looks like a
Speaker 2: biggest doof dressed up like he's going to cosplay at
Speaker 2: an anime convention. And I love that stuff. So it's
Speaker 2: hitting all the notes. Okay, it is a really well done,
Speaker 2: like up, you know, graded version. I've not like checked
Speaker 2: on in on every re release of Dead Rising in
Speaker 2: the past, but this one is very good in terms
Speaker 2: of the way it looks. And I think that the
Speaker 2: presentation of here's how this game works, go ahead and
Speaker 2: jump in and mess around with that.
Speaker 1: They do a good job with that as well.
Speaker 2: So I'm enjoying it quite a bit, and I was
Speaker 2: in the mood for Dead Rising, so I'm really glad
Speaker 2: that this is hitting this year.
Speaker 1: Lovely, lovely, great to hear. I'm also excited before we
Speaker 1: go to break some quick quick hits, some quick tidbits
Speaker 1: of games. Bailly Myers. I saw that you originally put
Speaker 1: Marvel Snap on this.
Speaker 4: I decided I didn't want to talk about Marvel Snap.
Speaker 1: No no no no no.
Speaker 3: No no no no no no no no.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to talk about Marvel Snap.
Speaker 4: Fine, I have a really good deck. Finally, and I'm
Speaker 4: really kicking.
Speaker 1: Ass I have. I have not opened this game in months.
Speaker 1: And then when I saw that on the on the
Speaker 1: run of show, I had re downloaded it.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry you hadn't seen it. I was like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to talk about Marvel
Speaker 4: Snap in front of all these people. No, I have
Speaker 4: a mister negative deck now and people are not expecting that.
Speaker 4: And I really kicked their butts. Oh boy, big recommend
Speaker 4: play with that one. That's fun. I'm a big fan
Speaker 4: of Marvel Snap. I didn't want to get into it,
Speaker 4: and now I every night before I go to bed,
Speaker 4: gotta do my dailies.
Speaker 3: Yeah that was me for a while. You know, I
Speaker 3: didn't want to. I wasn't going to bring it up,
Speaker 3: but I didn't know Bailey was gonna be on the show.
Speaker 3: I did. I did buy a Sheer in the Wanderer
Speaker 3: game this week, the.
Speaker 4: New one that's on.
Speaker 3: Sale. Oh, okay, the Tower of Fortune in the Dice
Speaker 3: of Fame.
Speaker 4: Oh, that was my first one of Shearing the sharing
Speaker 4: games that I played too. I love that one. It's
Speaker 4: very fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been fun. I've enjoying it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I I also have no idea what this game. The
Speaker 1: last game you put on this list is Tokyo Zanana
Speaker 1: Do X plus.
Speaker 4: Oh so he's gonna do e x plus? Is it
Speaker 4: originally came out about ten years ago. I want to
Speaker 4: say this is a switchport, an actually successful switch port.
Speaker 4: It's a FALCONm game.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And it's got a brand new real like a brand
Speaker 4: new localization, new playable characters, new content, so it is
Speaker 4: actually worth the like it's a it's a remaster. That's
Speaker 4: a good but it's fun. It's the most jeripyga Jeripeg
Speaker 4: could possibly be. You can immediately tell which the characters
Speaker 4: are gonna be playable because they're the only ones with
Speaker 4: funny hair and all of their parents are missing or
Speaker 4: just gone. Uh, and they just they're just casual about it,
Speaker 4: like yeah, my parents are on a business trip for
Speaker 4: a year. Oh okay, sure, And they're just high schoolers
Speaker 4: who are in Tokyo and all these hellmouths keep opening
Speaker 4: up and they have to like go into these dungeons
Speaker 4: and like fight the greed. And it's like some of
Speaker 4: the best most satisfying like fighting mechanics of pretty much
Speaker 4: any action game I've played recently, Like I forgot how
Speaker 4: fun this fucking game is. It's so satisfying. And they
Speaker 4: have a bunch of cosmetics, so all of my characters
Speaker 4: are wearing matching wizard hats and robes, so that's how
Speaker 4: you know they're the main characters. And every chapter has
Speaker 4: a cool anime rock intro song, and it's the same
Speaker 4: song every time. It's just they're just like, here's the
Speaker 4: intro song again, it's a new chapter. It's great. I
Speaker 4: really recommend it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna just start doing that with the BombCast.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't believe the're making new Zana do games.
Speaker 3: I just remember Fa Zona do for then es.
Speaker 2: Just let them go. It's true, Yeah, Zanna, they're they're
Speaker 2: they're kind of.
Speaker 3: Sorry mister Jerry Riviera, good Jerry.
Speaker 4: The Switchboard's very exciting.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that groaned.
Speaker 2: I was trying to say, let him go.
Speaker 4: It's just there's gonna be a sequel coming out, and
Speaker 4: they've released this switchport and the new logalization is very,
Speaker 4: very good, and I really recommend it. It's classic FOALCM.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of reading, but you can skip all
Speaker 4: of it and just get to the dungeon crawling if
Speaker 4: you want. The main character is a guy named co
Speaker 4: and his major personalituries that he sucks ass it's so good.
Speaker 4: He just like, oh, the most mediocre. Yeah. His cool
Speaker 4: new female friend like teaches him how to do everything,
Speaker 4: and he's like, wow, I wish I was as cool
Speaker 4: as her. And then there's a side story where she's like,
Speaker 4: I don't need him, I can just go into the
Speaker 4: dungeon by myself and do fine, and then she does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It kind of like proves that like like, oh, all
Speaker 2: these games that we're making have to make like a
Speaker 2: billion dollars and Polkems like nah, we're just gonna keep making,
Speaker 2: gonna make Ye's and a million trails games, and they
Speaker 2: all seem to do well, right, Yeah, exactly. So it's
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, I'm still I'm glad that Japan has
Speaker 2: sort of figured this out, and even if we haven't,
Speaker 2: like they have and they're going to keep making games
Speaker 2: at a certain scale that makes games make sense.
Speaker 3: Okay, how do you pronounce the franchise? Why? Capital y
Speaker 3: lowercase It's.
Speaker 4: Easy, it's not yasy, No, it's not it's easy.
Speaker 3: It's east it's easy. I'll ease off the missing pronunciation.
Speaker 1: Then thank you, jefre Yeah resisting. Uh, here's here's the pitch,
Speaker 1: Jeff Beckler. If you're listening, Uh, a new feature. We
Speaker 1: fly me to Japan and I just have a fun
Speaker 1: time in Tokyo and you just call it Tokyo Japan.
Speaker 1: Can we just call it Tokyo Jana do?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 4: I like that a lot that so many people will get.
Speaker 4: It's perfect.
Speaker 3: There something ja jan or is that?
Speaker 1: No? I don't think we have to go to break.
Speaker 4: Now slurs on the podcast.
Speaker 2: You're going so much trouble buddy. There's two other games
Speaker 2: I've been playing, uh that I can't really talk about.
Speaker 2: There's one that like everyone else is playing, right, we're
Speaker 2: all playing it, and that was that's a pretty good
Speaker 2: game that no one else has allowed to say what
Speaker 2: it is talking about?
Speaker 3: Oh this is something? Is this the thing that Tom
Speaker 3: Warren got in trouble for?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone's like all these people like Tom Warren, you're
Speaker 3: sure you shouldn't be.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all those people could like, oh go eat ship, relax, relax.
Speaker 2: They're like you Sonny in Dia, No he didn't. And
Speaker 2: well it's an informal NDA that's not a thing. What
Speaker 2: are you talking about? You sound crazy? God, these people, sorry.
Speaker 3: Eighteen thousand Concurrent players. We're all supposed to pretend like
Speaker 3: it's not like no one knows, like it's a big
Speaker 3: secret because they.
Speaker 2: Won a suing corporate boot lickers.
Speaker 3: Get over yourself, like I wouldn't want I don't want
Speaker 3: to make a valve mad. I'm not like proud of that.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, now I know, thank you.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 4: I didn't know what you guys were talking about because
Speaker 4: I blacked out after the slur.
Speaker 2: I was trying to go to break you go to
Speaker 2: break mean like that.
Speaker 1: We know you never mean to say a slur until
Speaker 1: it comes out of your.
Speaker 2: Mouths thinking we'll we break it back with an emergency apology.
Speaker 1: Right after these messages, I was like, oh it sounds Mike,
Speaker 1: pull out your notes app right now. For a long time,
Speaker 1: because of.
Speaker 2: The space falls, I thought that was a short for
Speaker 2: Jewish American princess.
Speaker 3: Give me that you know what's talking about? No, yeah, lesson,
Speaker 3: I'm not thought that fantation was that fantasy Asian. He
Speaker 3: didn't get a Trump.
Speaker 1: You don't get ungenceled by throwing someone under the bus.
Speaker 3: Was a canceled. I'm just didn't think about what the
Speaker 3: work was as it was coming out of my mouth,
Speaker 3: and I apologized profusely. You know what thinking for?
Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting that both of these two that just
Speaker 1: got canceled doing slurs against Asians? What's your Asian friend? Here?
Speaker 1: On the podcast History?
Speaker 3: Janpan would have been so much better.
Speaker 1: No, we're gonna stop. We're gonna stop, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to black We're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 2: Oh god, we'll be back.
Speaker 4: The news.
Speaker 1: Breaking news New Honest Game Trailers is out. Luigis mentioned
Speaker 1: to HD Breaking News Billy Myers.
Speaker 4: Please watch it. I worked so hard on it and
Speaker 4: suffered so greatly for all of you.
Speaker 1: Fantastic fan tast Bailey. I think, uh, we're gonna put
Speaker 1: this on on the store dot john bomb dot com.
Speaker 1: But I think we should print out all the scripts
Speaker 1: that you write for Honest Game Trailers and just sell
Speaker 1: them in a binder.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, they people really want to see the script notes
Speaker 4: where I'm like really specific about certain clips. I'm like,
Speaker 4: be sure to time it just like this, or else
Speaker 4: it won't be funny. Please do that. They're gonna love
Speaker 4: that they're gonna think, Wow, she is a pain in
Speaker 4: the ass to work away.
Speaker 1: We're gonna attach to those cool clips. I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're called, like the gold one clips. No, I
Speaker 1: know what a paper clip is. God damn it. It's
Speaker 1: like the gold ones. And then you stick them through
Speaker 1: the hole and then you like unfold.
Speaker 3: Them those things.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, no one knows what they're called.
Speaker 3: Huh, They're aren't Frad's, are they Brady?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 3: Sorry to think of a way to make a Peggy's joke,
Speaker 3: And I also thought better of.
Speaker 1: That if you saw the craft process.
Speaker 2: I got news here for everybody. Let's start here with
Speaker 2: this first one. Meta is shutting down Ready at Dawn
Speaker 2: Meda has decided to close its first party game development studio,
Speaker 2: Ready at Dawn. The studio was based in California, was
Speaker 2: found in two thousand and three. Meta acquired it in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Recently it's been focused on VR games, but
Speaker 2: previously it had done really well regarded like PlayStation portable
Speaker 2: and PlayStation Vita games like that well, mostly PSP Daxter,
Speaker 2: godav Or Chains of Olympus. They did eventually make the
Speaker 2: order eighteen eighty six or PS four game I really like,
Speaker 2: but they became VR specialist. They were very good at that. Actually, Oculus, Facebook,
Speaker 2: Slash Meta acquired them and got them to work on
Speaker 2: that stuff. And now they're not spending a lot of
Speaker 2: money on making VR games. It seems like so ready
Speaker 2: at Dawn got the acts. It's a shame because this
Speaker 2: is a studio that had so much talent and you
Speaker 2: could kind of see like this being the way it
Speaker 2: was going to end, because I think we had a
Speaker 2: pretty good sense early on that VR was like it
Speaker 2: could be a thing, but it's not gonna be a
Speaker 2: thing like that where it's gonna be able to support
Speaker 2: a ton of developers. And here we are already At
Speaker 2: Dawn closed down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a pretty bad indictment for like the state
Speaker 3: of the VR Vida games because I think if you
Speaker 3: ask most people, like, hey, try to name five good
Speaker 3: VR games, Loan Echo would probably come up as one
Speaker 3: of them. And now that studio is just gone. It's
Speaker 3: a shame that they had to be gone and they
Speaker 3: can't just, I don't know, go back to making PlayStation
Speaker 3: games or something, you know. I think Order eighteen eighty
Speaker 3: six at the time was received a bet harshly, largely
Speaker 3: for being kind of short. That's a criticism that never
Speaker 3: really I only say age as one in the sense
Speaker 3: like it wasn't a fair criticism. But as time goes
Speaker 3: by and people are thinking as much about, like you know,
Speaker 3: the value proposition, like how much hours of entertainment I'm
Speaker 3: getting per dollar spent, you don't care about that as much.
Speaker 3: I think people were able to enjoy Order eighteen eighty
Speaker 3: six a lot more. Yeah, I mean it is a shame, right. Gosh,
Speaker 3: remember even Insomniac was making a lot of VR games
Speaker 3: at one point, right, they were in a position were
Speaker 3: they able to do that and keep making its normal
Speaker 3: kind of games, so you know, they weren't tied to that.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a scary what if to think about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did point out that it would be nice
Speaker 2: if if they could just be like, Okay, well we
Speaker 2: had our time here at Facebook. Now can we even
Speaker 2: go back and make other games now? But that's not
Speaker 2: the fate for them, at least not yet. That is
Speaker 2: something that did recently happen though to Tank. Oh go ahead, Mike,
Speaker 2: you're gonna say something.
Speaker 3: That's gonna say the same kind of thing. It's like,
Speaker 3: you know, they're just shutting them down. I wonder they
Speaker 3: tried shopping them around.
Speaker 2: I mean VR Studio right in that, but I wonder
Speaker 2: if they like tried being like, well, hey, do is
Speaker 2: any like, you know, Microsoft, do you want this or
Speaker 2: something like that. And I don't know, but a lot
Speaker 2: of pur strings still pulled pretty tightly right now. Even
Speaker 2: though we're getting near the end of inflation and or
Speaker 2: hyperinflation and interest rates are going to start going down
Speaker 2: here pretty soon. No one's spending a lot of money,
Speaker 2: probably because they think interest rates are going to go
Speaker 2: down soon. They could borrow money cheaper here pretty soon.
Speaker 2: But Reddy a Don's not going to find a new
Speaker 2: new owner, at least it doesn't seem that way. And
Speaker 2: it didn't seem that way for Tango Game Works either,
Speaker 2: but that is no longer the case. Hi Fi Rush
Speaker 2: Studio Tango GameWorks has been acquired by Crafton and will
Speaker 2: remain open. Tango Game Works has been acquired by the
Speaker 2: PUBG publisher, ensuring its survival survival after Xbox announced its
Speaker 2: closure in April. The South Korean publisher, which owns PUBG
Speaker 2: Studios and the Clisto Protocol Studio intends to support Tango
Speaker 2: Game Works creative visions and continue working on the High
Speaker 2: Fi Rush IP, which it also acquired. It did not
Speaker 2: acquire the Evil Within or Ghost Wire Tokyo. Those will
Speaker 2: remain with Xbox. But this is amazing, Like they apparently
Speaker 2: they put up the word, hey, if you worked at
Speaker 2: Tango Game Works, you have a job, come back to
Speaker 2: work if you wanted.
Speaker 1: Yes, So that's right.
Speaker 2: So a very interesting sort of uh uh scenario here.
Speaker 2: This is how it's going to end for the studio
Speaker 2: in a somewhat positive way.
Speaker 1: Jeff Gribb. I don't know if this is detailed anywhere,
Speaker 1: but they were technically laid off by Microsoft. Do those
Speaker 1: employees still get like some type of severance package or
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: They probably would be. It would be very bizarre if
Speaker 2: Xbox or if Xbox was like give us that money
Speaker 2: back or something like that.
Speaker 1: Right, So, I just didn't know if, like, if they
Speaker 1: reaccepted their employment, if that'd be invoid or whatever. Right, maybe,
Speaker 1: but probably not, I think.
Speaker 2: And the big thing there is that Microsoft is always
Speaker 2: looking for the positive pr angle. They have enough money,
Speaker 2: and as weird as that is to say about any corporation,
Speaker 2: that They're usually behave in a way that where like,
Speaker 2: we have enough money, we need a positive sentiment because
Speaker 2: that's actually going to pave a road for us to make.
Speaker 1: Even more money down in the long run.
Speaker 2: When we have to explain ourselves to regulators, we can
Speaker 2: always point back and be like, we do the right
Speaker 2: thing when we are in these scenarios. So I imagine that
Speaker 2: they would let those people get keep their money because
Speaker 2: they did lay them off, they did close that studio.
Speaker 2: Someone else bought it and reopened it. That's Microsoft shouldn't
Speaker 2: get their money back. That'd be crazy, right, they got
Speaker 2: money from selling the studio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if someone like stabs me with a knife and
Speaker 4: then someone else takes to the hospital, the person who
Speaker 4: stabs me with a knife does not get off scott
Speaker 4: free from.
Speaker 1: That, I would hope that would not be the case. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: try to fure out. Your friend says a slur doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that you don't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't bring down the whole podcast.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out what exactly did Crafton buy
Speaker 3: from Microsoft then like the name of the studio and
Speaker 3: then the rights to Ifi Rush. But then like they're
Speaker 3: going back and individually re hiring people, right.
Speaker 2: I mean those people are no longer working there, right,
Speaker 2: so I think they do have to rehire them. I
Speaker 2: think that's just how it works. But yeah, they bought,
Speaker 2: they bought the studio, and I guess that just means
Speaker 2: the name and then the IP rights by Rush, which
Speaker 2: would be worth more. That would be worth more. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it has an office space.
Speaker 3: I have no idea you think, I mean the did
Speaker 3: Microsoft try shopping around Tango before closing it? You think
Speaker 3: even bod doing that or is it just kind of
Speaker 3: this weird thing, like no, we're just showing it down.
Speaker 3: Then later you have to be like, actually we'll take that,
Speaker 3: like oh oh you will, Okay, well you kind of can't.
Speaker 3: Now you'd have to go and like hire all these people.
Speaker 3: If I okay, we'll do it, Oh sure, all right,
Speaker 3: then just thumb. It's weird. It's very weird. I'm glad
Speaker 3: it's opening, but I mean it was weird that Microsoft
Speaker 3: ever wanted to tax these people. And pardon me, would
Speaker 3: love to see Tango like make some big new game,
Speaker 3: whether it's Ti Fi Rush two or something else. Have
Speaker 3: it be this giant hit that you know, once came
Speaker 3: to the award and just to kind of see the
Speaker 3: egg on Xbox's face if that happened.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, exactly, And I mean it feels like we're
Speaker 2: destined for that because that just would be so in
Speaker 2: line with what happens with Microsoft and Xbox so many
Speaker 2: times on rakes stepping on rakes, Yes, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: to answer your question about like, do I think Microsoft
Speaker 2: tried to shop them around? Maybe a little bit, but
Speaker 2: it's like all that stuff takes time and money too,
Speaker 2: and if they're like, you know, let's just cut it off,
Speaker 2: and then that just saves us money. Now we don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about it. It's like, you know, when
Speaker 2: you should we have a garage sale or should we
Speaker 2: just throw it all away? And it's like I think
Speaker 2: Microsoft's like, let's just throw it all away. And big
Speaker 2: part of that was in that moment there. There weren't
Speaker 2: a lot of people making big acquisitions at that moment.
Speaker 2: So I I get maybe that thinking to a certain extent,
Speaker 2: but I actually don't get closing the studio in the
Speaker 2: first place, because they made a great game and that's
Speaker 2: what you need.
Speaker 1: I need Tango Game Works to make the Girl Pop
Speaker 1: sequel to high fire Rush. Yeah, I need.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, that would rule one of my big one
Speaker 3: of my few complaints with talk about the Xana Do
Speaker 3: Do game. It's the kind of mediocre male protagonists you
Speaker 3: like kind of thought was a bit too much of
Speaker 3: a bumbling himbo fool.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I I they always do the thing where they
Speaker 2: surround him with people that love him, and so I
Speaker 2: come around to end up loving him because I like
Speaker 2: all those characters. It's the same thing that happened with
Speaker 2: me and Calkestus in the Star Wars game. Everything that
Speaker 2: happens to me in real life, the same thing that
Speaker 2: happens to be in real life exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But I am getting a little bit sick of that too, Mike,
Speaker 2: where it's like, maybe just make the main character one
Speaker 2: of these other interesting characters.
Speaker 1: That'd be cool.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going. Here's the sentiment around Marathon
Speaker 2: at Bunchie is not great. According to Jason Sreyer, he
Speaker 2: went on Lucy's Friends per Second podcast and had a
Speaker 2: conversation over there, and I think Ralph might ask him about, Hey,
Speaker 2: it was a what about Marathon, How how's it looking
Speaker 2: over there? And he expressed concerns based on what he's
Speaker 2: heard from the studio, from people working at the studio
Speaker 2: that yeah, the game did slip from this year to
Speaker 2: next year and now it might not even make twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 1: But who knows. But internally they're kind of worried about it.
Speaker 2: They're particularly they're worried that the people that showed up
Speaker 2: for a Bungee Destiny game will not transfer over to
Speaker 2: an extraction PvP shooter, which is what Marathon is.
Speaker 1: And I get that concern.
Speaker 2: I would if I was making that game and spend
Speaker 2: a lot of money on it and our futures as
Speaker 2: a studio like relied on this thing being very good.
Speaker 2: I would also have those anxieties. But I think that
Speaker 2: a lot of Bunchie fans will kind of follow that studio,
Speaker 2: like especially they're like, here's a new game where you
Speaker 2: could shoot new guns. They're gonna on to see what
Speaker 2: those guns feel like, and if the guns feel good,
Speaker 2: I think that's going to be most of the battle
Speaker 2: won there. Now, getting an extracted shooter to be an
Speaker 2: appealing to a larger audience will still be a challenge,
Speaker 2: but I think they can probably figure it out. But
Speaker 2: who knows. Either way, A lot's riding on Marathon and
Speaker 2: you kind of don't want to hear that it's in
Speaker 2: trouble even a little bit. At this point, that seems
Speaker 2: to be the case. You does have any interest in Marathon,
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Mike, Sorry, I mean.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I haven't hear an interest because what
Speaker 3: you said, I like the way that Bungee games feel.
Speaker 3: I like Destiny for a while, and you know, part
Speaker 3: of it was part of me falling off. It was
Speaker 3: just you know, I fell off at one point and
Speaker 3: just felt hard to get back in. So just the
Speaker 3: idea that there's a new something like Okay, yeah, I
Speaker 3: can get in here. My interest in extraction shooters as
Speaker 3: a genre has pretty much been nilled generally, Like I
Speaker 3: have not even really bothered checking out Escape from Tarkov
Speaker 3: just doesn't really sound like a concept that does a whole.
Speaker 1: Lot for me.
Speaker 3: But you know, like, yeah, a real spiffy one from Bungie.
Speaker 3: I'll give it a shot. But you mean, no matter
Speaker 3: what your life service game is, no matter who's can
Speaker 3: get there's always an inherent risk of whether it's going
Speaker 3: to be accepted, whether it's going to do well. There
Speaker 3: are no guarantees, and like you said, so much as
Speaker 3: riding on this. Even if they thought it was looking good,
Speaker 3: I'd be worried.
Speaker 1: Yeaheah. I don't have any interest cruff, even if the
Speaker 1: guns shoot well. I think my taste when it comes
Speaker 1: to like first person shooters has kind of gone past
Speaker 1: the Halo and Destiny mold, where I do want something
Speaker 1: a little snappier. That being said, I haven't checked out
Speaker 1: Destiny too in years now, but an extraction shooter is
Speaker 1: just not the genre that I'm going for at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh right, once they put Chapel Rowan in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, anything, I am simply going to have to
Speaker 4: play it fortnite skin when what we.
Speaker 2: No, It's okay, this is the whole thing, right. It's like,
Speaker 2: you know, Chaperone's still somewhat you know, she's very popular,
Speaker 2: but he's like still somewhat new and uh, some people
Speaker 2: don't know she's a musician.
Speaker 4: Mike Manatti, I feel like you'd really vibe with her stuff.
Speaker 1: Love her stuff. Yes, yes, Mike Manatti. What is the
Speaker 1: acronym that is on a lot of people's soundboards of
Speaker 1: you saying.
Speaker 3: Oh fat ass white girl said? The acronym not the
Speaker 3: whole thing pog.
Speaker 1: What's the next story? Wait?
Speaker 3: Wait, wait what second? Did anybody else your jad called
Speaker 3: Jeff Gruff?
Speaker 1: I'm pretty gruff, that's sir.
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure it's not a slur though.
Speaker 1: Right now, just speak here.
Speaker 4: Your new technique is say something insane and go quick.
Speaker 4: What's that over there?
Speaker 3: Is that? The name no Griff is the name of
Speaker 3: of Biss like Grandson and Back to the Future Part two?
Speaker 3: Who's gruff?
Speaker 2: Scruff McGruff, gearbox Boss, Randy Pitchford, t'sus Borderlands four?
Speaker 1: And did they book? Put both these together?
Speaker 2: He does that after the Borderlands movie had an embarrassing
Speaker 2: opening weekend.
Speaker 1: It made eight point eight million dollars.
Speaker 2: It had a budget of something like one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty million after marketing and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: It's rough. It's bad.
Speaker 2: It's so bad.
Speaker 1: It's a really bad movie. I can't believe how bad
Speaker 1: it is. Greb. Well, well you and I will since
Speaker 1: you and I are the only ones that have seen
Speaker 1: this movie, we'll find time this week to do a
Speaker 1: BCR which will be Borderlans movie. We will make that happen. Well,
Speaker 1: I got my notes.
Speaker 2: I did record something as soon as I got out
Speaker 2: of there, and uh, I think I yeah, I went
Speaker 2: off a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. I put in our our little Compadre's discord
Speaker 1: chat that I felt nothing after that movie.
Speaker 2: I mean, it just has no there's no foundation to
Speaker 2: feel anything in the first place, like that, they don't
Speaker 2: know why the characters are doing most of what they're doing.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: It's bad movie.
Speaker 2: It's sweet.
Speaker 4: Video game movies are bad again.
Speaker 2: It's like the mid two thous That is the best
Speaker 2: thing I took out of there is I am nostalgic
Speaker 2: for bad video game movies of the past, and this
Speaker 2: movie delivered that.
Speaker 1: It really did. You know, I I did have a
Speaker 1: good time every every time friend of the site Janina
Speaker 1: govon Car popped up, I'm like, Ganina, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: like the haircut Homegirls, get in the bag good yep.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: But my favorite thing about it was when a rady
Speaker 3: picture was like trying to like turn into a posit.
Speaker 3: It was like like when the movie's bombing and nobody
Speaker 3: liked it. He's like, wow, you're all seeing that you
Speaker 3: like what we do better than the like Hollywood's greatest
Speaker 3: writers and producers. As if if this movie wasn't some
Speaker 3: big hit. He wouldn't be out there like we did it, everybody.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we are so proud. Wee wee wee. But
Speaker 3: now what it's like they they they.
Speaker 2: And like you know and Gearbox Publishing like what it
Speaker 2: was in the open everything. Yeah, it's like right, and
Speaker 2: it's like in the opening credits where it's like they're
Speaker 2: responsible for making this movie as well, like so, yeah,
Speaker 2: clearly this is his doing. Uh but whatever, he's gonna
Speaker 2: make Borderlands for to make it up to everybody, which,
Speaker 2: of course they're making a Borderlands Borderlands a very successful game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but part of the I mean, part of the
Speaker 3: problem with the movie is like there it is an
Speaker 3: indictment right in some degree that maybe Borderlands appeal isn't
Speaker 3: as big as we thought it was. Maybe that's a
Speaker 3: bit much, but I mean it's not it's not good
Speaker 3: for the franchise to have a movie come out and
Speaker 3: be a messive bomb. It may and it's not even
Speaker 3: like when that Monster Hunter movie came out and people
Speaker 3: just kind of didn't notice, right, Like there's something about
Speaker 3: this that seems louder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now, yes, yeah, and she's the star. I didn't
Speaker 2: realize that jam going into it. Like I thought she
Speaker 2: would be like one of the like, you know, a
Speaker 2: secondary character that's part of the team, like equivalent to
Speaker 2: like a.
Speaker 3: Drax or something. But you no, she is star Lord
Speaker 3: in this movie. It's crazy. Can I tell can I?
Speaker 3: You could say no? Can I tell people what you mess?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said, nobody can know this. But this is
Speaker 3: the movie I'm going to think about the most when
Speaker 3: Kate Blanchett dies.
Speaker 2: Yes, and.
Speaker 3: You know, hashtag positive like it makes her career more interesting.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Jeff, you should be canceled for sake, Summer.
Speaker 3: It's true, though I would. I would that day comes
Speaker 3: out to be fair. She's probably gonna outlive me. She's
Speaker 3: only fifty five.
Speaker 2: But if she were to die before me, I am
Speaker 2: just gonna not be able to help myself. I will
Speaker 2: be thinking about border Lands.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was, you know, I was looking up
Speaker 1: at her IMDb after this movie. I'm like, man, she
Speaker 1: was amazing and.
Speaker 2: Tar, she just made Tar. She's yeah, speaking of Monster Hunter.
Speaker 2: Honestly though, that is like this movie feels like when
Speaker 2: she at the end of Tar, when she goes to
Speaker 2: spoilers for Tar, didn't just go seeh this is not
Speaker 2: gonna ruin anything when she goes to do a Monster
Speaker 2: Hunter concert. This feels like her like real life career
Speaker 2: echoing that where she's going.
Speaker 1: To do a video game movie.
Speaker 2: It's so weird.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for someone to email the podcast angry list,
Speaker 1: like I've.
Speaker 2: Been waiting to watch Tar and you spoiled her it, googot. Honestly,
Speaker 2: if that didn't make you want to watch it more
Speaker 2: and enjoy it more, whatever.
Speaker 3: I really spoiled a way of water. So Borderlands, for
Speaker 3: I mean, there is also a distaste these days for
Speaker 3: the kind of writing that Borderlands seemed to thrive off
Speaker 3: of for a very long time. Now. Tiny Tina's wonder
Speaker 3: Land seemed to do well pretty recently anyway, so maybe
Speaker 3: it's not a problem, But like, I don't know, do
Speaker 3: you think the writing's going to evolve in Borderlands for?
Speaker 3: You think? So?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I think you know, because it's
Speaker 2: not like Randy's sitting there right in the jokes. He's
Speaker 2: like hiring people that like are good writers and will
Speaker 2: want to evolve. So yeah, and I didn't play Borderlands three.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But in Tiny Teena's Wonderland, people seem to be like, hey,
Speaker 2: it's it's different than it used to be. Clearly it's
Speaker 2: still in a similar tone, but it is somewhat different.
Speaker 3: So the guy who did wanted to his name, I
Speaker 3: can't remember the guy who was from Destructoid right back.
Speaker 3: Yeah day, And I know I heard more completely about
Speaker 3: three than I feel like I heard for Tiny Tinas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean it does need to evolve either way.
Speaker 2: It does need to.
Speaker 1: I do expect it to try to do something new.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll be able to like nail
Speaker 1: it though, who knows.
Speaker 2: I really it comes down to as long as that
Speaker 2: game is you know, Borderlands again and has some jokes
Speaker 2: and doesn't beat you over the head with it, I
Speaker 2: think it'll be fine. People seem to really like that.
Speaker 2: I mean the evidence is, guess what's doing really well
Speaker 2: right now Borderlands three is it has a lot more
Speaker 2: active players than it did a week ago on.
Speaker 3: It was also for like nine bucks or less or something,
Speaker 3: which even I almost picked it I never really played.
Speaker 3: That's kind of may be one time I.
Speaker 1: Will say I did enjoy my time playing Borderlands three
Speaker 1: when I took ben Pack's tip of muting all of
Speaker 1: the voices.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that does make it seems such a good idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, yeah, I play I played
Speaker 2: Borderlands one.
Speaker 1: I never played like, do you think like the uh,
Speaker 1: a person that has gone through the trilogy so far
Speaker 1: of Borderlands and has played it and enjoyed the game
Speaker 1: really remembers a lot of the writing. No.
Speaker 2: I think they remember talking to their friends while playing
Speaker 2: it online.
Speaker 3: They remember Handsome Jack talking about the butt horse or whatever,
Speaker 3: right right.
Speaker 2: Right, then they remember like, I guess Mox or whatever
Speaker 2: her name is, because they're similarly cosplays of her or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, remember cleavage, Uh yeah, Tiny Tino and two
Speaker 3: was bombastic, and remember by some unfavorably, which a fair
Speaker 3: but uh yeah, there's things I remember. I remembers a
Speaker 3: weird tet Ninja Turtles parody quest in Borderland's too. Anyone
Speaker 3: else remember that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Just me?
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, greb, we'll talk about it when we get
Speaker 1: to the spoiler cast. But I didn't piece it together
Speaker 1: in my head that they were trying to go for
Speaker 1: a Guardians of the Galaxy until you said that Kate
Speaker 1: Blanchett was the star Lord.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely what they're going for.
Speaker 1: That's that was because as someone that loves the Guardians
Speaker 1: movies and that game.
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ, how long ago did they pitch this thing?
Speaker 1: Filming for Rest production?
Speaker 3: Hell for like three years?
Speaker 4: That ship tracks this this none of this like you
Speaker 4: can tell it's a bad movie just from that information alone, basically.
Speaker 3: As anything that came out to like that was trying
Speaker 3: to be like Guardians of the Galaxy actually work.
Speaker 2: Mmm, I mean is Guardians of the Galaxy so it
Speaker 2: doesn't count, but that Guardians of the Galaxy game was
Speaker 2: trying to echo the movie and that the only thing.
Speaker 3: That was able to do it was Guardian Right, it
Speaker 3: doesn't almost.
Speaker 4: Feel a little like Guardians of the Galaxy is now
Speaker 4: like like it's such a specific, like dated like inspiration,
Speaker 4: because now people are trying to be a suicide squad
Speaker 4: that's the updated like edgy or cooler version, and that's
Speaker 4: going great, really well for everyone who's tried to emulate
Speaker 4: that too. Like I think basically the thing we should
Speaker 4: all take away from this is you could just do
Speaker 4: your own thing.
Speaker 1: All right, stop trying to turn the website into the
Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 2: That D and D movie did do that, and it succeeded,
Speaker 2: and it's.
Speaker 4: Really movie was primarily just being faithful to like a
Speaker 4: real D and D campaign.
Speaker 2: Right and honestly, that's and I think that's You're right,
Speaker 2: it's coincidence because that Guardians of the Galaxy has that
Speaker 2: same vibe because they they're just being playful.
Speaker 1: But it's they were not one didn't come after the other.
Speaker 3: You're right, what's the newer the newer jumanjis? Are those
Speaker 3: kind of Guardians of the Galaxy?
Speaker 1: A little Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's like, it's not like I want I
Speaker 3: like that. It's not like I'm watching it. I'm like,
Speaker 3: this really brings me back to that.
Speaker 1: It's almost in I'd say it isn't it's definitely.
Speaker 3: It's definitely. It's absolutely classic.
Speaker 1: There we go, grub, we got it.
Speaker 2: We identified one one Sean in.
Speaker 4: Many ways, trap is ani what's that?
Speaker 1: I really want to see it. I really want to
Speaker 1: see it to movie I fucking Borderlands instead of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I was like, I haven't seen Twisters and.
Speaker 3: Twisters is good.
Speaker 4: Twisters is a.
Speaker 1: Ship.
Speaker 2: I can make it.
Speaker 4: I can make it a argument for both of those.
Speaker 3: You're mixing it up with Wizard of Oz because it
Speaker 3: also has Tornado. Okay, you're right, that is what I did.
Speaker 1: While we're on a quick movie tangent, I got suckered
Speaker 1: in to watching a Colleen Hoover adapted movie. It's called
Speaker 1: It Ends with Us. I saw a trailer on Instagram.
Speaker 1: My partner dragged me to see it. The trailer on
Speaker 1: Instagram made it seem like it was a funny gall
Speaker 1: pal movie with uh Love of my Life, Jenny Slate
Speaker 1: and Blake Lively. And then it turns out that uh no,
Speaker 1: it's about domestic violence.
Speaker 2: Oh we made like fifty million dollars. It's like crushed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's huge. It's like a airport bestseller. Is
Speaker 4: the nicest thing I can say about that book. And
Speaker 4: uh it has a very interesting moral lesson about the
Speaker 4: cycle of abuse. But yeah, That Ends with Us is
Speaker 4: the cycle of abuse. It's literally a movie about a
Speaker 4: battered woman.
Speaker 1: And there's a second one in the works.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: She's a florist and her name is Flowers as well,
Speaker 4: so it's fun.
Speaker 1: Lily Bloom.
Speaker 2: Oh no, all right, I'm gonna keep moving ahead here.
Speaker 2: Wait is trap the one where they go to a
Speaker 2: sting concert and then they get not a concert.
Speaker 4: Is a Sting, but the performer is not Sting. The
Speaker 4: performer is m Night Shamalan's real life daughter, and she
Speaker 4: made up of an album for this thing. Oh it's good. Good.
Speaker 3: Do you guys like the movie The Sting?
Speaker 4: I love The Sting? Great play I do.
Speaker 1: That is that's the Paul Newman.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, My high school did that as the stage
Speaker 3: play and my brother played the Irish bad guy in it.
Speaker 3: And you had to be had an Irish accent. We all,
Speaker 3: we all were tickled like crazy watching him.
Speaker 1: Good job, like a year ago.
Speaker 2: That's really good.
Speaker 1: I have to do already, I have to do AJ's
Speaker 1: Irish accent.
Speaker 3: You do, absolutely? You thought that You thought that before
Speaker 3: was bad? You don't want to hear me try to
Speaker 3: do an Irish accent? Absolutely not, alright, there's some bad
Speaker 3: Scooche McDuck and yes, I know he's Scott.
Speaker 1: Perfect.
Speaker 2: Multiple Halloween games are in the works. There's one that's
Speaker 2: a U A five U E five Unreal Engine five
Speaker 2: game that John Carpenter is contributing to, and there's also
Speaker 2: one from way Forward where they're gonna take the Halloween
Speaker 2: game and turning or Halloween movie and turn into like
Speaker 2: a sixteen bit platformer like, uh, you know, you get
Speaker 2: movie tying games back on the Super Nintendo. They're gonna
Speaker 2: do one of those, but for Halloween. They're also doing
Speaker 2: that with Ash versus Evil Dead, so wait for keeping Busy.
Speaker 2: But I hate John Carpenter getting paid to make more
Speaker 2: Halloween stuff. And it's gonna be a big Unreal Engine
Speaker 2: five game.
Speaker 1: That's always cool.
Speaker 2: What do you guys expect from like a horror movie
Speaker 2: tying game these days? Because I just assume that they're
Speaker 2: going to do one of those asymetrical.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Lily.
Speaker 3: Blood, Yeah, and they're never bad as the thing.
Speaker 1: All right, Fine, I spent too much time in that
Speaker 1: Texas Chainsaw miscor.
Speaker 3: Games right to the Grandpa's Blood. There's a killer clowns
Speaker 3: from out of Space. Didn't they add Dracula from Castlevania
Speaker 3: to Dead by Daylight?
Speaker 1: I think recently? May I think they did? Yeah, everything
Speaker 1: in there, Yes, the.
Speaker 4: Addition of Stellar.
Speaker 3: There. Yeah, you could have Nick Cage and Dracula from
Speaker 3: Castlevania in a game together.
Speaker 1: That's my Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Halloween has had a game since the Atari twenties
Speaker 2: six hundred in nineteen eighty three, so that's interesting.
Speaker 3: Because there's a there's like a relatively well known Friday
Speaker 3: the thirteenth in the night Man Nightmare on m Street
Speaker 3: Games for the nessling didn't get one. Okay, nope, all right.
Speaker 2: Red Dead Redemption coming to PC after fourteen years, according
Speaker 2: to store listing. We've heard this one before, but apparently
Speaker 2: there's a new store listing. A PlayStation Network listing this
Speaker 2: time suggests that the original red Dead Redemption is coming
Speaker 2: to PC. The description on PSN for the game now
Speaker 2: includes a reference to a PC version. Rockstar has yet
Speaker 2: to confirm the PC release officially. The PC version will
Speaker 2: likely include Red Dead Redemption, Undead Nightmare DLC as well.
Speaker 2: They did recent release recently release Red Dead Redemption on Switch,
Speaker 2: and then a few months later there was a reference
Speaker 2: to red Dead Redemption I think on the Rockstar launcher
Speaker 2: on PC and people are like, well, it's coming any
Speaker 2: time now, and it still hasn't, but now here's a
Speaker 2: new reference. I mean, if they've done the work, they're
Speaker 2: going to put it out. But any interesting replaying Red
Speaker 2: Dead Redemption on piece?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I loved read their Redemption one back when
Speaker 3: I played on Xbus three sixty. That was I got
Speaker 3: the time. It's kind of my favorite game of that generation.
Speaker 3: I haven't gone back to it since that first playthrough,
Speaker 3: so I'd be curious to do it again and see
Speaker 3: what I think. But I just remember that being a
Speaker 3: super memorable and kind of surprisingly touching experience, a lot
Speaker 3: of great moments. You know, It's fine because like GTA
Speaker 3: doesn't do a whole lot for me. I think read
Speaker 3: their Redemption took itself just a bit more seriously and
Speaker 3: that was kind of the difference for how much I
Speaker 3: got into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need serious entertainment. You're a serious man.
Speaker 3: I'm still horse. I ride. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then last couple of stories here, Warner Brothers is
Speaker 2: looking at licensing its IP to other game studios. I
Speaker 2: can't remember what we talked about this on last week's episode,
Speaker 2: that Warner Brothers is maybe once again looking at selling
Speaker 2: off some studios. In addition to that, publicly in an
Speaker 2: investor call, David Zoslov, the CEO of Warner Brothers and
Speaker 2: a Very Special Boy, said that they are going to
Speaker 2: begin looking to take their IP and offer it to
Speaker 2: people to studios that are not under the Warner Brothers umbrella.
Speaker 2: Currently they have like eleven teams. What they normally do
Speaker 2: is make their games internally. They're not gonna go externally,
Speaker 2: which is seems overdue. Like, well, I've talked about this
Speaker 2: couple times, and it's like every time I read that,
Speaker 2: I'm like, why wouldn't Why weren't you doing that already?
Speaker 2: No one else like does it entirely themselves? Why was
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers the last holdout on that stuff?
Speaker 1: So it makes sense. I don't know any Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2: Eyeps, you guys want to see done by any particular studio, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'd love.
Speaker 4: They just released Coyote versus act Me. I know that's
Speaker 4: not a game, but I'm still cheesed off about it.
Speaker 3: Release.
Speaker 4: It's on site. I'm not even gonna bother saying your
Speaker 4: name correct, Yes you, David's aaslave Re.
Speaker 3: Release The Darkness and instead of like having was it
Speaker 3: of Oz be that movie you can like watch all
Speaker 3: of on the couch, just have it be ac Me
Speaker 3: versus Coyote.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's how we'll finally get that. Uh they
Speaker 3: should Gremlins, that's them, right, remember that good? Yeah, we
Speaker 3: got to get way forward to make a new Gremlins.
Speaker 1: The Prison Simulator Colon the Redemption. Okay, Jesus done, let's go. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They also, I don't know if they have the rights
Speaker 2: to this, but they distributed all of Christopher Nolan's movies.
Speaker 2: So I want a shooter based in the Tenant universe.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that would work.
Speaker 1: I'm always ready for a temporal pincer movement movement. I've
Speaker 1: already started. Actually, it was just like.
Speaker 4: A puzzle game, an inception puzzle game.
Speaker 3: They should do Arapa the Rapper like but with that
Speaker 3: new Weird Joker sequel.
Speaker 1: That's actually a really good idea. I would love that.
Speaker 4: Actually, yes, it would be amazing. Or like a Star
Speaker 4: Wars connect You remember that one yea, everybody the Carbon
Speaker 4: Night's Gone.
Speaker 3: I thought everybody had a big stick up the grass
Speaker 3: over that at the time.
Speaker 4: To be they did, he did. But I find joy
Speaker 4: things and I thought it was great.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny. I think they're in on the joke.
Speaker 3: Everybody like, it's okay, it's the Star Wars Connecticut.
Speaker 2: That was like the early like a canary in the
Speaker 2: coal mine for what Star Wars fans were going to
Speaker 2: be like for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 4: Before we had to end your Capital, B brand, Integrity.
Speaker 1: Dance, damn It.
Speaker 2: Games for Black Club. Eventually, Weisman we will.
Speaker 3: Did you all see the picture of Harrison Ford chicking
Speaker 3: hands with Mickey?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all I could think about.
Speaker 3: It's good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh. Last stoor here.
Speaker 2: There's rumors that an Nintendo director is coming soon for
Speaker 2: me Rooms suggests that Nintendo might host a direct presentation
Speaker 2: this month, or earlier than their typical September schedule. The
Speaker 2: source of the rumor is a family Boards poster named
Speaker 2: Piranha Plant Brazil, who hens at a potential direct focused
Speaker 2: on a single game like Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom, Super
Speaker 2: Mario Party, Janbrie or Mario Luigi Brothership Onlyingteno, as several
Speaker 2: upcoming first party games, and an anticipated successor to the
Speaker 2: Nintendo Switch. With the Switch To, an official announcement for
Speaker 2: the new console is expected before the end of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, So I think the thinking from some people
Speaker 2: is they might do a direct earlier to talk about
Speaker 2: one of these games because maybe some announcement for the
Speaker 2: switch To is coming, which we know it's coming. They
Speaker 2: said it's coming before the end of the fiscal year,
Speaker 2: which is in March, but I don't know. I got
Speaker 2: the sense it probably will. We'll get like the initial
Speaker 2: trailer announcement this year still, so yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could see. I mean, we already had that
Speaker 3: kind of that new trailer just randomly dropped for Echos
Speaker 3: of Wisdom, and I don't know that that kind of
Speaker 3: seeds to be doing the job there. I can see
Speaker 3: maybe like a fifteen minute direct or even like a
Speaker 3: ten minute one on Brothership being a thing. Definitely not
Speaker 3: anything more substantial than that, and definitely not switch to
Speaker 3: news already. I can't imagine getting that in Wellcus or
Speaker 3: even September, maybe September.
Speaker 2: This is the real reason I want to put the
Speaker 2: store here in the first place. When does everyone think
Speaker 2: we will hear about the switch too? Because I was like,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if we don't hear about it
Speaker 2: until December, and of course we can of course, it
Speaker 2: could get into twenty twenty five before they even talk
Speaker 2: about it. But I think they will talk about it
Speaker 2: this year, but I think it'll be December, you.
Speaker 1: Think, so? I was thinking maybe they would do it
Speaker 1: around either September or November specifically, but Nintendo is really
Speaker 1: adamant about trying to sell those existing switches, right, and.
Speaker 2: They do have big games each of those months.
Speaker 1: So, uh, you think, do you think it would screw
Speaker 1: the pooch though grub if they announce it in December
Speaker 1: and there goes a bunch of switches that could be
Speaker 1: stocking stuffers. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean relying that new Mario Party game in October
Speaker 4: Mario Party janbru. I'm not going to pretend I don't
Speaker 4: know the title of it.
Speaker 1: Sorry, where actually going to take a dark month during? Yeah?
Speaker 2: There it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have to I have to beat Dan again.
Speaker 1: You have to.
Speaker 2: We need someone to come in there. Well, he's not
Speaker 2: one in quite some time. But we played these Mario
Speaker 2: Party and the anime Party only counts when I do it,
Speaker 2: of course. Yes, the Yeah, I think that if they
Speaker 2: were to announce it in December. Listen, they got to
Speaker 2: start talking about it at some point. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so at a certain a certain one you are
Speaker 1: going to have to rip.
Speaker 2: Off the band aid, and that will be after their
Speaker 2: biggest games for this year. And then it also is
Speaker 2: early enough that they can get some positive sentiment from
Speaker 2: investors leading into twenty twenty five. All those things sort
Speaker 2: of line up to suggest I think we probably do
Speaker 2: still hear about it this year. Yeah, we'll see though.
Speaker 4: Yeah probably right, they're just not going to release it
Speaker 4: for a while because they need those games to sell to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, the thing could come out
Speaker 2: anytime after March twenty twenty five, but I think at
Speaker 2: this point, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm expecting holiday next year. I don't know.
Speaker 3: See, I don't know. I don't necessarily it could very easily,
Speaker 3: but I think that they're going to win out so
Speaker 3: Senior later. I mean, look, we are seeing a drop off, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's only going to get worse when, like you know,
Speaker 3: like like you know, we have Donkey Kong and Metroid,
Speaker 3: but the next year is going to be even sparser
Speaker 3: than Yeah, well you know, we're getting good games, but
Speaker 3: it's nietch your stuff like the Terrible Championship or stuff
Speaker 3: that's like oh this, I guess, like Ludie's mentioned too,
Speaker 3: if Mario.
Speaker 2: Is ready for the switch To, they'll release, they'll release,
Speaker 2: Like I think that. I think they're just waiting for
Speaker 2: that game to be as good as it possibly can be,
Speaker 2: and if it's ready, they'll release the Switch To and
Speaker 2: if that's in March or April, or if it's the holiday,
Speaker 2: that's when they'll do it.
Speaker 3: So that's the same. And the one I think the
Speaker 3: way we maybe hear about switch to like earlier, like
Speaker 3: in October, is if they're announcing that at the same
Speaker 3: time they're announcing a price cut for the older Switch
Speaker 3: one models, that'll help push those throughout the rest of
Speaker 3: the holiday season. Anyways, it's something like, you know, they're
Speaker 3: expecting to sell so many switches that I think might
Speaker 3: actually be on the table, even though price cuts has
Speaker 3: kind of been a concept allergic to for a while.
Speaker 1: It'll be stealthy price cut.
Speaker 2: It'll be a bundled with a game, right, it'll be
Speaker 2: different like newer games and without other price increas because
Speaker 2: the games in there.
Speaker 3: So your Mario bundle here's three Mario games, is though
Speaker 3: a bundle. Here's exact get aggressive.
Speaker 1: Of Super Mario Party Jamboree. Give the other two of
Speaker 1: your friends there you go, Hey, this is fucked up.
Speaker 1: Why does Super Mario Party Jamboree support twenty players?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did see that. And because it's a jamboree,
Speaker 2: that's what jamboree is. It's twenty people jamboree.
Speaker 4: Oh oh my god.
Speaker 1: No, I don't want to celebrate my birthday with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, happy birth Yeah, here we go. Yeah it is Dan.
Speaker 2: It works pretty good too, Dan, Bailey and Bailey. I
Speaker 2: see what you're going for.
Speaker 3: It's like.
Speaker 4: It is just our names.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not working. Sorry, all right.
Speaker 2: That that's all the headlines I have.
Speaker 1: I'm done with the news.
Speaker 2: I am handing the show back over jan who I
Speaker 2: think is writing down to see if we have twenty people?
Speaker 4: Do we know twenty people?
Speaker 2: I don't know. If we know twenty people.
Speaker 1: How many is this one? Two, three, four? You're like eleven, twelve?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, it feels good. We're bringing some friends and
Speaker 2: nasty boys. Yeah, the Nasty boys. Fuck okay, hold on,
Speaker 2: can we change the name of the Nasty Boys to.
Speaker 1: The coop of kids? Like kids, they're the Nasty Boys,
Speaker 1: the Nasty boy go back?
Speaker 2: God a right, Mike balking at this an hour after
Speaker 2: fucking Mike mana Tai or whatever the fuck you said.
Speaker 3: My tie would have been my tie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, midnight, mid night time, Mike, Mike. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna go. We're gonna favor the black.
Speaker 1: We're gonna cool off. We're gonna cool off, and we'll
Speaker 1: be back with email.
Speaker 3: Email emails, emails, emails.
Speaker 1: These are the emails for the show. Emails.
Speaker 2: So Jane wrote down twenty people or it got close
Speaker 2: to twenty people for Super Mario Party Jamboree and yes,
Speaker 2: Dan Bailey, Mike grab and.
Speaker 1: Then we get to the end and Bailey wrote.
Speaker 2: One more woman.
Speaker 1: I know at least another lady that lives.
Speaker 2: She's just reminding you.
Speaker 1: Happy there my mind, happy, there we go. That's the
Speaker 1: only other lady I know. One in La my cousin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, family members count sure.
Speaker 1: She would not want to Okay, all right? Emails h
Speaker 1: BombCast dot com is the email addressed. I know, Susie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, Yeah, oh my god, that's yeah.
Speaker 3: Kamala hit us up on the press TOURGI.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna play as Wallawig.
Speaker 1: I call Monty Mole because I'm the cute, adorable brown
Speaker 1: one is.
Speaker 3: Dry bones in this one? Can I be dry bones?
Speaker 2: It's the most prosecutorial Mario character, easily Mario himself. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, who the fuck is going to be on
Speaker 2: the roster?
Speaker 1: For this game anyway. Emails mancast Giant Bomb dot com
Speaker 1: is email address to send your emails too. You send
Speaker 1: any and everything. I read every single thing, and I
Speaker 1: should stop saying this every email segment. But for the
Speaker 1: love of God, please stop signing us up for various things.
Speaker 1: There's something about flowers, and now there's one about underwear,
Speaker 1: and now there's one about fishing, and I can't.
Speaker 3: Oh, I bettioned fishing. That's thank you everybody. Well we should.
Speaker 3: I'll go fishing and are in Alaska after our Alaskan
Speaker 3: cruise for salmon. Salmon salmon fishing in Alaska, I went crabbing.
Speaker 1: That was great. It's easy. It's very easy. Anyway. First
Speaker 1: emails about face turns, uh, hello, Giant Bomb crew. After
Speaker 1: watching Dan Reichert in his old footage from Game Informer
Speaker 1: farting next to Ben Hansen's coffee mug, got me thinking
Speaker 1: who else has had a face turn in the gaming industry?
Speaker 1: Thanks for all you do, Tom P from Florida. We've
Speaker 1: had a lot of heel turns, like the.
Speaker 2: Braid guy Diac Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Was he ever a face? Yeah? Darkness? When I didn't
Speaker 3: know who he was, he just told me the guy
Speaker 3: who made it total darkness. I guess I would have
Speaker 3: liked him.
Speaker 2: Uh and General Merrow did a bit of a face
Speaker 2: turn yea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I didn't really know who he was when
Speaker 3: he was just a guy who made dooman quaig Like
Speaker 3: I didn't know then. I only knew him because we
Speaker 3: were making jokes about him because of Dai Katana. And
Speaker 3: now we're kind of over that, right, and it's like, no,
Speaker 3: it's the Dune guy.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's exactly, And like, you know, he's been
Speaker 2: kind of kind and has just been like sort of
Speaker 2: like working on his own projects and keeping to himself
Speaker 2: and oh, I don't know. That's different than what his
Speaker 2: persona was during the Doom days, which was rock Star
Speaker 2: I have three Ferraris or Lamborghini's whatever. It was sort
Speaker 2: of personality that he tried to keep up for a
Speaker 2: lunch time.
Speaker 3: Sean Murray's ago when everybody was really mad at him
Speaker 3: for good there, Yeah, because of No Man Sky and like, oh,
Speaker 3: over promised, Like I guess, but it is just worked.
Speaker 2: Harder on a game than anyone's ever worked in the
Speaker 2: history of mankind. Yeah, and you kind of respect that.
Speaker 3: It's fine. I don't know if he ever really should
Speaker 3: have been a quote unquote here, but people definitely were
Speaker 3: mad at him for a long time.
Speaker 1: Right, he had heat for sure. I don't think Dave
Speaker 1: Lang was ever a shoot heel, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Dave Lang's the best. Yeah, Dave Lang is like the
Speaker 1: Kevin Nash. Yeah, there you go, Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2: Always kind of a tweener.
Speaker 1: Next email comes from Gabe keep up the good work,
Speaker 1: send for my iPhone.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Thanks Gavalve. Sorry I said it was okay for
Speaker 3: for the Verge to write about your super secret game.
Speaker 3: They haven't announced yet. We don't have to pretend we
Speaker 3: don't know it's exists. It's yeah, We'll keep playing along.
Speaker 1: Next email comes from Jared from Eureka. Hi, a BombCast.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite or standout gaming magazine? If so,
Speaker 1: do you have a fond memory of a particular issue.
Speaker 1: Mine was the Tips and Tricks issue with the Chrono
Speaker 1: cross cover and Guy to Get All the Characters? Thanks
Speaker 1: Jared from Eureka.
Speaker 3: I think Jeff and I have the same answer. I
Speaker 3: think it's EGM, and I think it's specifically their big
Speaker 3: Dreamcast issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely that one, definitely stuck out to me. I
Speaker 2: mean that cover was so good. Yep, e GM and
Speaker 2: then game Players for me, e GM was is definitely
Speaker 2: the number one. But there was definitely a game Player.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what issue it was, but I remember
Speaker 2: like we were at McDonald's, my and Mac the night
Speaker 2: was like they were still a statue of him, and
Speaker 2: I was just reading the email section to my dad
Speaker 2: because all these people were writing in with like dumb
Speaker 2: questions and game Players was like the edgy magazine with
Speaker 2: an attitude, and so they would write really funny responses
Speaker 2: and we were all cracking up. And I remember that
Speaker 2: pretty pretty vividly. That was that's a good time. I uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we I am becoming old enough now that
Speaker 2: I can't kind of can't help myself and be like things.
Speaker 1: Were better in the good old days.
Speaker 2: But man, it was better in a lot of ways
Speaker 2: when we had magazines where people got paid real money
Speaker 2: to do this work. It's a real shame. What's happened
Speaker 2: to everybody?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, uh fucking burn games spot spot stop
Speaker 1: spot spot stop stop. We bren game spot. We're going
Speaker 1: to hurt ourselves. Sorry, sorry, sorry, I was trying to
Speaker 1: read something Wow, yeah, you said.
Speaker 4: Something declaring more on one of his own limbs.
Speaker 1: That's right, I'm watch in their mind. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say the things again. Uh God. I remember Game
Speaker 1: Pro very fondly. I loved the stupid review scale of
Speaker 1: the faces.
Speaker 3: Yes, for some reason I did get to put where
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm too mature for a game Pro.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I thought that, but I did.
Speaker 3: I'm a big boy. Now I have to read EGM.
Speaker 1: I remember the God what was it there? I I
Speaker 1: I think April Fool's jokes were okay back in print media.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely they are now say.
Speaker 4: Has really planned for them? Like you had to have that?
Speaker 4: I'm ready to go a months.
Speaker 3: Yeah you did, like good ones. They had the famous
Speaker 3: you know plays, all the old Bond characters and Colan
Speaker 3: and I, Sonic and Tales and Smash Brothers.
Speaker 1: I mean the.
Speaker 2: Fools joke with that being a game coverage.
Speaker 3: Uncarded with that them? Was that a parody thing? I
Speaker 3: can't remember?
Speaker 1: But yeah they did a lot of I remember like
Speaker 1: buying in a scene amount of e GM and then
Speaker 1: figuring out that their office was I in San Francisco
Speaker 1: and I dragged my mom, It's like, hey, can we
Speaker 1: go somewhere? And she was like, why do you want
Speaker 1: to just stare at this building?
Speaker 4: Baby jam?
Speaker 1: And then it was so cool because it was like
Speaker 1: two blocks away from my mom's office, So like I
Speaker 1: go downtown visit my mom, and then I just like
Speaker 1: stand outside like I'm going to work there one day,
Speaker 1: and it never happened.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I did interview for an intern position, but then I
Speaker 1: got turned down.
Speaker 4: Closed.
Speaker 1: That's why they closed. That's right.
Speaker 2: I do remember the Ultra Game Player's Wet and Wild
Speaker 2: Swimsuit Edition Massive Game Girl pictorial begins page twenty.
Speaker 3: Uh, that was the cover. Art's so bad.
Speaker 2: I did put it in chat and it's actually that's
Speaker 2: the whole issue on Internet archive, which is great for
Speaker 2: reading old magazines. It's fantastic at.
Speaker 1: Some of these it's and I think it's one of
Speaker 1: them is the girl from Pandemonium and it's like that's
Speaker 1: been stuck probably from.
Speaker 4: Exactly Maaze cover. Man, I should have realized I was
Speaker 4: into women.
Speaker 1: Way.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Starlett and Nikki, did you get this
Speaker 3: class A five point two blasphemous wow?
Speaker 2: Listen heard me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get I'm gonna get really into Stardow Valley
Speaker 1: and I'm going to make an it, probably with a
Speaker 1: swim suit issue of Stardoo Valley as a magnate.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, might have. They might have beaten you to
Speaker 3: that other people, But sure, you go ahead.
Speaker 1: I'll beat it first.
Speaker 4: Canal about beating it on this podcast? My god?
Speaker 1: Alright, no, we're gonna skip this. Email about valet.
Speaker 2: Game is sister Mary Lass from Lauss Alright.
Speaker 1: Oh god, we're just gonna We're just gonna keep going.
Speaker 1: This one comes from Mike from Loveland. Hello, Bombers. When
Speaker 1: Valvenus entered my life, his gimmick was having just emerged
Speaker 1: from the shower because he was very sexy, perhaps he
Speaker 1: had just recently had relations with the wife or girlfriend
Speaker 1: or whoever he was about to wrestle. But then a
Speaker 1: few years they inverted their gimmick. He cut his long hair,
Speaker 1: enjoyed a standards and practices theme stable of wrestling schools
Speaker 1: called right to Censor. We got squashed repeatedly by DX
Speaker 1: and the Dudley Boys. My question what types of games
Speaker 1: would Shagerumu Moto make if he reversed his gimmick?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 1: Who are other devs or dev teams who you would
Speaker 1: love to see do the opposite of what they do now,
Speaker 1: love the show, Love you all. Mike from Loveland.
Speaker 3: So they make like a Sam Barlow game, right, yes, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: My Miamoto's thing is all about like gameplay, controls interactivity first,
Speaker 2: and then all that other shit is horseshit.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to look at it.
Speaker 2: So all story, like barely even touching anything in the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a David Cage game.
Speaker 2: A David Cage game is a good one.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Apparently this character from a game called Rogue Trip Jeff. Okay,
Speaker 3: sister Mary, All.
Speaker 1: Right, let's get through the rest of emails here, going
Speaker 1: down to the very bottom. This one comes from Joe
Speaker 1: in Michigan. It's the difference between flavored sparkling Water and
Speaker 1: zero Sugar Pop. They're both carbonated water, sweeteners and flavoring.
Speaker 1: Why do so many people hate one and love the
Speaker 1: other much? Love Joe and Michigan ps Espresso Tonic and
Speaker 1: cool Mix. Ju Mix is the best carbonated drink.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna try that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot more ingredients in like zero Sugar Pop, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: Salt caffeine as well, right, caffeine and.
Speaker 2: The sparking waters are mostly water like it's like you know,
Speaker 2: and honestly pop is too, of course, I know, like
Speaker 2: the vast majority of that is.
Speaker 4: Number one water we have that's like a fire.
Speaker 2: That's what makes me just like pop. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 2: it's the way of water.
Speaker 1: That's why we're all.
Speaker 2: Coming up to Bailey. That's come on, get on board.
Speaker 2: What sparkling water is basically just water with a tiny
Speaker 2: little bit of flavoring and people like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, diet has aspertainment. I need that to function.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's a lot of aspertain. Goat Barey because
Speaker 3: people like, you know, definitely like my dad and other
Speaker 3: people are like, that's gonna kill you. And I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if I believe them or not, but I'm definitely
Speaker 3: scared and I feel better.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's going to kill me. At
Speaker 4: this point, I feel like they would have figured out
Speaker 4: what it was gonna do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, cancer is what they say.
Speaker 1: If you like, yeah, you have to have like fourteen days,
Speaker 1: like you're.
Speaker 4: Finean I'm not drinking fourteen days.
Speaker 3: You're fine, then that's fine. I don't actually have ten
Speaker 3: diet cokes. Everybody, calm down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you drink, if you drink like a fuck
Speaker 4: ton of water, you can also get sick that way too.
Speaker 4: All beverages is the same. If you have too much,
Speaker 4: it's bad for you. Spoiler alert, drink.
Speaker 3: Actually, I think people got real carried away about drinking water,
Speaker 3: and I think started drinking maybe too much, and now
Speaker 3: they're having like bladder problems because people like kept carrying
Speaker 3: around the guy like a barrel I would call hit
Speaker 3: like a donkey Kong barrel of water, And is just
Speaker 3: the amount of wire to drink it.
Speaker 1: This is they would just keep in the hill to
Speaker 1: die on guys.
Speaker 2: Let people drink water. Drink water people. I'm not saying anything,
Speaker 2: but I am saying that there is a chance that
Speaker 2: when Donald Trump gets on a stump tomorrow, he's gonna
Speaker 2: say the same slore Mike said, and then he's gonna
Speaker 2: start saying that.
Speaker 1: Water is killing people.
Speaker 2: So Mike, maybe maybe not this one.
Speaker 1: Maybe people should.
Speaker 3: Drink water, of course, but I think some people are
Speaker 3: like show it off with like how much water, Like
Speaker 3: their body tells you like you're thirsty. I don't think
Speaker 3: you keep drinking water you're not even thirsty anymore because
Speaker 3: you think it's like, I.
Speaker 4: Don't know, greasing, because your drink tastes like nothing about
Speaker 4: my Donkey Kong barrel jug of water.
Speaker 2: Mike, I didn't know you were gonna put me on
Speaker 2: blast like this.
Speaker 3: You have one of those, of course, you know, but
Speaker 3: you feel real good because you drink water. You're a hero.
Speaker 2: You make fun of me when they saw it on
Speaker 2: the podcast, so I stopped using it.
Speaker 3: Good. They were right to Water's fine, shoul drink water.
Speaker 4: I just like drink water like you know when when
Speaker 4: you want to, but don't make a big deal about it.
Speaker 3: Now to be fair, like calling me, I'm getting a
Speaker 3: call from Dan Riker.
Speaker 4: Let's he has to say, only from London.
Speaker 3: Wow, Hi Dan, why are you calling me?
Speaker 1: Tell me's on the podcast?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're on speakerphone. What you just said about water
Speaker 3: is as dumb as anything I've ever said.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you have to say more dumb.
Speaker 3: I'm glad he knows I think that. I think you're
Speaker 3: all bad listeners.
Speaker 2: No, Europeans don't drink as much water as we do. Uh,
Speaker 2: and they seem just as healthy or healthier.
Speaker 1: So I.
Speaker 4: Bring a water bottle to games Colm because Europeans don't
Speaker 4: drink water, and I was like, I'll be fine without
Speaker 4: it's it's good. Thank you, though, don't eat.
Speaker 2: It because they are eating well, says Nikky Grayson and chat.
Speaker 2: And that makes sense because water is in like a
Speaker 2: lot of the foods we eat too, so they're probably
Speaker 2: like eating healthier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like my cats, I have to trick them into
Speaker 4: drinking water because they just stick their stupid little paws
Speaker 4: in the bowl instead of actually drinking it.
Speaker 1: They give them food in cats in nature get most
Speaker 1: of their water from killing animals and drinking their blood.
Speaker 1: And going to remind the team while we're in games
Speaker 1: Colm to not only apply sunscreen, but now to drink water.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're the mom you're gonna have I want to
Speaker 2: put a stop to this right now.
Speaker 3: I did not say people shouldn't drink water. I'm saying
Speaker 3: that some people, not all people, not most people, but
Speaker 3: some people out there I think are perhaps overdoing its
Speaker 3: and are like getting up five times a night to
Speaker 3: go pee as a result.
Speaker 2: I basically only drink water at this point, and I
Speaker 2: have a much sturdier bladder than you. Mike Manati. You
Speaker 2: talk you talk about it constantly. How jealous you are
Speaker 2: my very impressive bladder.
Speaker 3: Ye, what did we do? What we did?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 3: Was it summer slam? You just sat there the whole
Speaker 3: time at the pea and at the end was like,
Speaker 3: I feel fine. I was furious that you exactly. So,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Seems to be working out fine for me. Oh my
Speaker 1: tummy hurts. Good show we do. Yeah, it's a great show.
Speaker 1: It legitimately is. And the last email is an update
Speaker 1: last week. Bailey meers Mike, I don't believe you were No, Mike,
Speaker 1: you were there. If someone built a human sized microwave
Speaker 1: and you got ten thousand dollars for every second you
Speaker 1: spent in there, how long would you go inside this?
Speaker 3: Zero?
Speaker 4: What is wrong with you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Zero?
Speaker 4: Blowed like a hamster? What are you fucking back?
Speaker 3: For? Ten? Great second?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, we all said zero.
Speaker 2: We said maybe you would be fine after one second,
Speaker 2: but your eyeballs probably wouldn't be, so I guess you
Speaker 2: wouldn't be fine. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know so much. Mechanized and chat you can survive fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1: I looked it up.
Speaker 3: That's what's fifteen times ten? I could do this one.
Speaker 3: That's one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go all right? That email rights back in.
Speaker 1: Can't believe I went through all the trouble to make
Speaker 1: you guys a human sized microwave, and none of you
Speaker 1: guys are going to go in for at least a second.
Speaker 1: I wanted to.
Speaker 3: They all help me back. I'd be fine because of
Speaker 3: all the water. I don't drinks.
Speaker 4: You're gonna gonna boil. You know we're good, fine microwave.
Speaker 4: You don't trust this source. I'm sorry, mechanized in chat,
Speaker 4: but it's kind of like when online someone tells you
Speaker 4: exactly what human flesh tastes like. You're like, I don't
Speaker 4: know how you know that, but I don't trust you.
Speaker 4: I've seen I've seen it like once or twice for
Speaker 4: someone says with authority what human flesh tastes like, and
Speaker 4: I'm just like, I don't trust you. I don't trust
Speaker 4: this source. I inherently don't trust this source because of
Speaker 4: the information they're telling me. They are not trustworthy.
Speaker 3: You think you think Dan would eat it if we
Speaker 3: got him something that like is a synthetic human flesh
Speaker 3: flavored thing, if it was flavored. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 3: suggesting we get him actual human flesh. That says no, wow.
Speaker 3: I thought Tan was up for it.
Speaker 4: Oh Dan, I thought you were an.
Speaker 2: Is anything involving like foods that aren't meat or cheat, Well,
Speaker 2: I guess it's meat.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's this problem. Never mind.
Speaker 3: How what's this from? Maybe like one of those gross,
Speaker 3: gimmicky jelly belly flavors? Oh wow, so Harry Potter co.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are right, folks, And that about does it for
Speaker 1: the emails. Bombcasta giant bomb dot com is the email
Speaker 1: address to send your emails to. Perhaps next week, I'll
Speaker 1: assemble all the miscellaneous newsletters you fucking signed us up
Speaker 1: for and then, uh, you know, we'll just have a
Speaker 1: little little fun with that.
Speaker 3: But sign us up for all of the same Muppet
Speaker 3: Vision petitions.
Speaker 1: Please, no, there, We're already signed up for like three
Speaker 1: different Disney newsletters that were official Disney related.
Speaker 2: I did eat a salt flavored jelly belly once, and
Speaker 2: I can still remember the time I bet into that
Speaker 2: like it wasn't bad, it.
Speaker 1: Was pretty good.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it might go Jeff, remember remember how
Speaker 3: dehydrated I got when we were hanging around Cleveland and
Speaker 3: how I had the giant headache, so I got like
Speaker 3: the the I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was fine.
Speaker 3: I was striking all day, so I was drinking water
Speaker 3: all day too, but apparently not enough. So I got
Speaker 3: one of those electro like packets. I'm like, okay, next
Speaker 3: time a drink, I think I need to do this.
Speaker 3: I think this allowed for him. Now, what's that a liquid?
Speaker 1: Four? It was?
Speaker 3: I forget it was cold. It's had a stupid name.
Speaker 3: But you know, I got lemon line flavors. I thought
Speaker 3: that'd be good, and I put in water, but it
Speaker 3: was kind of gross because it tastes a lot like
Speaker 3: the prep I had to do for my like colonoscopies,
Speaker 3: So that was kind of gross. But oh oh, I'm
Speaker 3: scheduled for a new KNOSP in January, though, and I
Speaker 3: get to do the pills this time instead. I'm very excited, exciting, exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like some people don't like the pills. And then I
Speaker 3: told my doctor, oh, I'm very good at taking pills.
Speaker 3: And then I got worried that maybe my doctor thought
Speaker 3: I did a lot of drugs.
Speaker 1: I don't think your doctor thought that.
Speaker 3: I don't think so I think I was worried by
Speaker 3: Donald Duck shirt that I was probably Okay.
Speaker 1: Uh we speaking about exciting.
Speaker 2: Probably you were talking about flintstone vitamins. I'm really good
Speaker 2: at taking these.
Speaker 3: I am always thinking about the flintstones.
Speaker 1: Okay, speaking about exciting things, we got an exciting week
Speaker 1: here at giant bomb dot com. Game as morning's popping
Speaker 1: off for the rest of the week. Voicemail dump truck
Speaker 1: on Thursday, either tomorrow or Friday, will be playing Fortnite
Speaker 1: because my boy Cyclops is in there. We're taking applications
Speaker 1: for who wants to join the Uh there we go, uh.
Speaker 4: Minigun and I've been exploding cars with it.
Speaker 1: If I find a cyber truck in that game, it's
Speaker 1: on the site.
Speaker 3: Of course, I saw a cyber truck. I saw a
Speaker 3: cyber truck when I was leaving Cleveland on the road.
Speaker 2: And you were like, okay, And we had this conversation
Speaker 2: right where it's like, if you see one in person,
Speaker 2: you'll feel differently because you esthetically nothing to do with
Speaker 2: Elon Muscular Company or whatever. But esthetically you're like, it's
Speaker 2: interesting and you kind of liked it.
Speaker 3: I don't. It was so shocking to see one. I
Speaker 3: don't know what. I thought. It was like, it's like
Speaker 3: it's like that moment in Jurassic Park where they see
Speaker 3: a dinosaur for the first time, but without maybe the
Speaker 3: wonder but it's like, whoa, here's one of those fucking
Speaker 3: cyber trucks. Just I'm like the Cleveland Highway at three am.
Speaker 3: But it's just me in this car going down the highway.
Speaker 3: Is very it was off putting. I would say, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's right.
Speaker 2: That sounds right.
Speaker 1: No Blight Club this week, but congratulations to Jeff Grubb
Speaker 1: for finishing Grub Grub. Oh. I really do feel lighter.
Speaker 2: I do feel the weight of that game off my shoulders.
Speaker 2: Although I did like get a little hankering to like
Speaker 2: go and mess around with that game a little bit,
Speaker 2: and I don't know what that is. I need to
Speaker 2: look into.
Speaker 1: Maybe for Delight Club, we should check out the GBA
Speaker 1: version or the keyboard version. It's a good idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be fun do that.
Speaker 1: Maybe check out some other genre.
Speaker 2: I'm fine, Dan, No, I didn't actually play it, but
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm out going there and see what.
Speaker 1: It's like to have the fan patch or something. We'll
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: Maybe we post some other Gohn Romero games. Maybe they
Speaker 2: had Doom plus Doom and Do too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Next week is going to be a slightly different week, folks,
Speaker 1: because three people on this cult will be headed to Cologne,
Speaker 1: Germany for Games Calm. We'll be recording a bomb and
Speaker 1: a voicemail dump truck over there, and I promise you
Speaker 1: don't worry. I will record footage that could fit into
Speaker 1: a travelog, and then I will edit set footage in
Speaker 1: a timely manner. Get off my fucking back or else.
Speaker 1: I every day I get closer to deleting all of
Speaker 1: the train flog footage shite. Oh my god, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be all right. Uh. But speaking about the train vlog
Speaker 1: which Tam, Lucy and I took two packs west last year,
Speaker 1: we're also headed to backs West. Not all of us,
Speaker 1: but the Blight Boys for Sureseys and Tam and Lucy
Speaker 1: will be headed to foggy see Attle, Washington. There's talk,
Speaker 1: there's talks about like club panel everybody. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what we'll see.
Speaker 2: Exactly how everything goes down. But that's I'm not supposed
Speaker 2: to say that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you can say you could say, uh,
Speaker 1: all right, I emphatically said I don't want to go
Speaker 1: to packs West, but then I see all my friends
Speaker 1: they're going to Packs West, and I'm like, that's how
Speaker 1: it goes.
Speaker 2: I'm real glad I'm not going to Germany, but then
Speaker 2: I want to be with all you guys and have fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to Germany Impacts, and I have a
Speaker 3: feeling that after packs Mikey need to rest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike Minatti. Where can folks find you on the Internet?
Speaker 3: Go to games Beat GamesBeat dot com. Everybody check out
Speaker 3: everything being written over there by the crew. All good stuff.
Speaker 3: I think I'm doing a new nineties Disney on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: We're actually gonna talk about some some reactions to the
Speaker 3: D twenty three stuff. Also, my older brother AJ was
Speaker 3: just at Disneyland with his family, so we'll hear a
Speaker 3: bit about his very recent trip there. So yep, we'll
Speaker 3: be recording that Wednesday. Probably go up Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 1: Bailey Myers work. Can folks find you on the internet?
Speaker 4: They can watch the newest Honest game trailer which just
Speaker 4: dropped about an hour ago for Luigi's Mansion to HD
Speaker 4: and they all can also find me on Twitch, where
Speaker 4: I stream every day at Bailey and versus Predator.
Speaker 3: Name.
Speaker 1: Folks, go watch The Honest the New Honest game trailers
Speaker 1: and I need you to just type a capital bee.
Speaker 1: All right, just load the comment section with capital bees.
Speaker 1: All right, just do it. Do it.
Speaker 3: For Bailey, I was like, what's the bee for? It's
Speaker 3: not it's not a story.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care. Yeah, that's right, that's right, it's not
Speaker 1: a slur. And speaking about slurs, what we learned today,
Speaker 1: lot We learned then Mike Manati and Jeff Grubb are
Speaker 1: just Mike and Sully from Monsters, Inc. We also learned
Speaker 1: to reach out and touch the pod folks. We learned
Speaker 1: also that the BombCast is just a bat roll of podcasts.
Speaker 1: We also learned too much about slurs and how much
Speaker 1: we accidentally do start saying them. And it's okay, you
Speaker 1: can never get chanceled as long as I jam am
Speaker 1: with you. It's also on site for Dave zaslov Baby,
Speaker 1: we gotta take you down, give me, give me the coyote.
Speaker 1: Uh sorry, Ski. We also learned that it's okay and
Speaker 1: it's also not okay to drink water, and we're going
Speaker 1: to learn soon what human flesh tastes like. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's been the Giant BombCast. She's been bailing, He's been
Speaker 1: Jeff Grubb, I've been Janachoa, and we've been with Mike Manatti. Folks,
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week in Germany. I'm taking any
Speaker 1: and all recommendations. I want to have fun and hey,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be a game's camp, say hi to
Speaker 1: the crew. Can't wait to see some friends, can't wait
Speaker 1: to see LEXI, can't wait to see Jordan Midler, and
Speaker 1: can't wait to see all of you next week for
Speaker 1: Civilization seven. There I want to see that. Well, I'll
Speaker 1: just tape it and then I'll show it to you. Thanks, guys,
Speaker 1: no worries, big dog. I'm panically trying to stop this.
Speaker 1: There we go, okay, and then that's right. God, I
Speaker 1: haven't learned shit. I don't know if I can navigate Germany,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: We'll see next week for another episode of the Giant
Speaker 3: Bombcat Give Bomb on the what oh Canon Bomb.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can't believe we've made it through
Speaker 1: this whole podcast that we're still going without talking about
Speaker 1: the fucking US men's basketball team. That was a couple
Speaker 1: of games. Nice God, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm letting
Speaker 1: my toxic show. It only shows when I play competitive
Speaker 1: sports with friends on the internet in switch sports, and
Speaker 1: I watch basketball. I promise. Don't worry, folks,