Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, June second, twenty twenty six. Welcome
to the Giant BombCast. Everybody. I'm your host, jan Oh
choa Happy Pride Month everybody out there, and also happy
Summer Game Fest week to everyone that celebrates Joining me
on the shape. It's the same thing. Just be gay,
do crimes, play video games, and then you're good. Where
Oh Mikey changes malo. That's wow, okay, Jordan.
Speaker 2: Bitch, I thought it was shuffled light.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that's right. SGF actually stands for Summer Gay Fest.
Joining me on the show as always. Co Captain of
the Ship Jeff.
Speaker 3: Gru I'm really worried. Jan I had a headache and
then I drank caffeine and it went away. That seems bad.
Speaker 1: That's right, nothing to worry about. Their Master of all
Things Caffeine. He's our own barista, ready to fire off
all of your orders. The Master of spro Dan Reichert.
Speaker 4: I woke up really lightheaded and I'm trying to fix
it with caffeine. I had a coffee and now I'm
having a Baja Cabo citrus. Oh yeah, I'm having a
crazy thing here. So we'll see if that works.
Speaker 1: Speaking about a crazy thing. The facial hair is going crazy,
the temperament going wild. We've unleashed him from the editing minds.
That's right, Free Will Crosby. Will Crosby's on the show today.
Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I'm here and I'm real, and I'm I'm
bothered by a beaver.
Speaker 1: He's not just bothered by beavers, He's bothered by virtually everything, and.
Speaker 3: We love him for that.
Speaker 5: Still can't find his keys, and he never will. Jeff
Beckler beavers. I love beavers really. Yeah, They're cool as hell.
I've I'm like a big raccoon and beaver enthusiast. I
think they are like cut cuddly little little dorks of
the animal.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is a very like maybe twenty ten's Internet question.
But Jeff Beckler, how do you feel about platy pie.
Speaker 3: Like they're a little they're a little rougher on the eye.
Speaker 1: The guys are going on speaking about on the ear.
Speaker 6: That is a good transition. Yeah, but I embrace all
the furry little freaks, you know, and.
Speaker 1: Our own furry little freak, the bads my LIKENI we like.
Speaker 3: Not got to do that in privately.
Speaker 2: We always do do the other accents from the movie mine.
Speaker 3: No, don't, don't, don't take that fat Oh looks boss,
it's his favorite Star Wars character. Oh wait to see racist.
Speaker 6: I gotta kinda you're kind of the only one who
can claim ignorance, you know. I feel like you're the
only one who could really get away with it.
Speaker 1: Greg Miller has fucking dressed up as Wato. It does
the voice constantly.
Speaker 3: That's worse. Watto is worse, right. I don't contacted by
Apex about that, and everyone's real mad at him before it. So, yeah,
they're gonna do something eventually, you know what to do?
Speaker 1: A bossnash so hard in front of me. I can't
help myself. Did he start it? Don't cancels JAD, that's right,
cancel yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't chance from the boo.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. I can say talk to me about getting
so will you want something you want to say?
Speaker 2: I did some googling over the weekend, and I've rethought
my heroes.
Speaker 1: That's right. Uh, folks, it is. As we mentioned the
hippy top here, it's summer game FESTI week. This is
going to be an odd week for us over here
at g b h Q. We're gonna code down to
l a see each other and put on a bunch
of night shows. Will is printing a tablecloth right now. Printed.
Speaker 2: It's printed backwards too, and Chuck pointed that out and
I was very confused. But it's a heat transfer. It
gets printed on paper and then it heat transfers to uh.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 2: I was exploiting the fact that my wife does this
for work, and I was like, she's printed, She did
custom napkins for our wedding and all this sort of stuff.
And I was like, hey, if I sent you two
logos because you print something tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Uh. So she is.
Speaker 2: Printing an eight foot tablecloth that we need to use
somewhere or else. She'm very angry.
Speaker 1: We will drape it. We will drape it around Mike Manatti.
Oh yeah, he can wear like a cloak.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be like stellin Scar's Guards character in Dune. Right. Yep,
he's like the Golooby boy.
Speaker 3: I liked that silence.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, folks, how's every are you doing thinking about?
Speaker 3: I think about beavers. You know that they think that
the reason beaver's damn rivers is because they don't like
the sound of running water. It gives them anxiety. I'm
just gonna go fuck up this river because it's really
bothering me.
Speaker 6: Oh man, that actually is a knock against them for me.
I think you like a battling brooky.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Like I'm a big sound machine guy, and that's just
compatible with my sleep habits. So uh, I guess beaver's
minus one today?
Speaker 4: Please line up beaver badger otter. Can you all tell
the difference?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, sure, yeah described the beaver.
Speaker 7: Yes, flat tail Beamer's got the flat tail thing for sure.
Speaker 1: Are just obvious. They're so cute.
Speaker 5: The fair.
Speaker 4: Okay otters are spelt yeah.
Speaker 3: And they're swimming even more than the other ones.
Speaker 1: Sure imagine, Yes, mer cats look like tom yep. I don't.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know the differ these. I can only understand
animals as they are represented in the Lion King. Who
have we not pitched?
Speaker 1: Taking Dan to a zoo and then obscuring news but
then obscuring like the name plaque and identify the animal.
Speaker 3: The chocolate museum with him Jan There was so little
information to absorb there.
Speaker 4: It was I know more about animals than I do
about chocolate. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: You say, you're saying you could not tell the difference
between a badger and a beaver and an otter.
Speaker 4: Those specifically, I get mixed up because they're all just
kind of like fuzzy guys. There's a bunch of around here.
Apparently they're just like in rivers and stuff, and I
can't I don't know the difference.
Speaker 3: Tell me more about this lineup. Were they all like
at the same place of a.
Speaker 4: Crime there was a jewelry store heist. Yes, they were
all in a card again, just watching like.
Speaker 1: Had was busy that day, so clearly it wasn't him. Yes, yes,
you were just watching fantastic mister Fox. I saw that one.
Is that good? I like that? Oh, it's very good.
Speaker 3: You're crazy, Yeah, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 4: I used to be a big Wes Anderson guy, like
ten bombs and rushmore than I kind of like didn't
see him for a long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got woke.
Speaker 1: That's right. Bone temple, Bone temple.
Speaker 3: That's the that's a sequel right to some other stuff.
Speaker 4: Twenty eight I've never seen twenty eight days or weeks later,
but really Van Hansen has pestered me for months to
see the bone Temple with him, and I finally did
Last Night, and I'm glad he pestered me because that
movie was good.
Speaker 1: As helly eight years later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did we saw that in the theaters and then
we didn't see this one until now. And it really
is kind of like a Kill Bill Volume one and
two situations where it's like, oh, I think you put
them together and you've got a better overall thing going on.
Speaker 6: I really recommend that from the first one is excellent.
I think the twenty eight Days Later is tremendous.
Speaker 4: Oh, the first first one? Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm in
on it, even the zombie stuff. Yeah, I know this
one was intense to bone Temple, but yeah, I liked
it a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I watched it. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: I'm just gashed. What's this new Spielberg disclosure day? Like
I keep hearing people talk like good things about it,
but I.
Speaker 1: Only blame Season Alien.
Speaker 6: I honestly think the trailer is so the opposite of compelling.
I just yeah, like, man, I don't care. I just
don't care. We just had a box office that shows
that Spielberg has aged out of relevancy forever and ever.
Speaker 4: It was the last good Spielberg Ready Player one.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Ready Player one.
Speaker 1: Everyone like.
Speaker 3: Solid.
Speaker 7: Everyone likes West Side Story though, right it's.
Speaker 3: The family one, the one about the family.
Speaker 4: I like the last one I liked Let Me Duel.
Speaker 6: I just think, like, I don't know this Disclosure Day stuff.
Like I think, uh, there's something that is very sort
of antiquated about the big like event moment in a movie, right, Like, Yeah,
I just think that's a tired genre.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also feel the same way where I'm like, when
I see stuff from it, I am not compelled. Yeah,
I don't think. I'm like, I don't give a ship
what you're doing in this movie.
Speaker 4: Man, I'm just really, I haven't liked the Spielberg movie
since two thousand and two. Didny report and Catch Me
in two thousand and two? Yeah, the World was fine.
Speaker 3: Spies Bridish Spies was good.
Speaker 1: What is that? Okay, so you haven't seen any of it?
Maybe not?
Speaker 3: I want and it looks like I Lincoln.
Speaker 1: Movie like six Timescolcol's great.
Speaker 3: Yes, I just you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's him blowing it. He's the worst. He's the worst.
I do enjoy Tinton.
Speaker 2: Actually, it's so it's a lost Indiana Jones movie. It's
so good.
Speaker 1: I also watched Obsession over the weekend, and hey, gang,
let me tell you that's not a movie to try
and wind down the weekend on. Because I was tense
the whole time. After I left, my feet were cramped.
Speaker 3: Did you think that's what was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I didn't think that's what was going to happen. I
just thought like, oh, I'm I watch horror movies. I
can take this. And let me tell you, your boy
loves it good four by three and a bunch of weirdos,
and that movie's full of it.
Speaker 6: Let me ask you this jan without. You know, everyone
probably understands what that movie did. It earn the four
by three because everyone's doing this ship and I don't
think everyone earns the four by three. Like Saltburn, you
didn't earn that four by three Burn. I like Saalburn
for the most part, you didn't.
Speaker 3: Earn that four.
Speaker 1: But it did not earn the four by three. You
know what I'll say? Obsession did also string budget. They
couldn't afford the rest of the frame. I get it,
it's pixels. That's money on the table.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is very much a dad aspect ratio joke.
Speaker 3: Good job.
Speaker 1: No, like when you go into the editing, if they
do the film, they cut off the rest and then
they just refund that. Right, it's a rebate.
Speaker 3: I could could save you some money if you a
four by three normal film makes sense to me. Thanks mess,
there we go. That's right. I think it takes more
time to render. Maybe, yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: See see it makes sense out there. Anything else, I'll
degree pop it off. A gig that you'd like to
talk about before we move on with the show now.
Speaker 4: I was gonna ask about free will during the mic check,
but I got shut down.
Speaker 3: Oh, very good, I'm not doing good idea, Jan good
idea I was.
Speaker 7: I was worried about saying I wanted to talk about
something because there's one guy who leaves a mean comment
about me in every YouTube video comments thing. But I
think I think Sean bandits. I guess I'm free. I'm
free again now to talk.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there free will to band people, that's right. Yeah,
well not me, I'm afraid, but Sean just did.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: Was like, I was like, don't ban him. I want
to see what me thinking about me next. Sean, No,
he makes our YouTube channel worse. A good point.
Speaker 1: Talk shit, get hit. Uh speaking about free Will, We
freed Will because you and mister Baklar have checked out
a certain game featuring a bunch of woodland creatures. Dan,
real quick, real real test?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: The what animal is falco? Falcon?
Speaker 4: Peppy hair or a rabbit? Slippy frog?
Speaker 1: Toad? Slippy toad? All right? Last one? Fox McLeod, He's
a Fox. Fantastic ten out of ten, Dan, proud of you.
I thought was a Lombardi. He's Italian.
Speaker 3: Oh my lord, how do we transition into this conversation?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: My gosh, But you two checked out Star Fucks last week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: We traveled into New York City and we saw some
Star Fox. Will and I did. We had a lot
of fun playing it. We played it for about an
hour or so.
Speaker 3: What was it?
Speaker 6: Phill's three two different modes. We played a multiplayer, we
played some of the single player, and then I think that, yeah,
that was it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Well I was just gonna say it was. It was
single player, single player, co op, and multiple right, So
I just thinking there's a different mode.
Speaker 1: It was not.
Speaker 6: There's a good portion of this where Will and I,
uh tandem controlled with Will aiming and me flying. We
tried out the mouse controls, which are which is the
aiming for the the you know, the the weapons yet Yeah,
which was an interesting left brain right brain experience.
Speaker 3: I seemed to enjoy it.
Speaker 6: Everyone else watching us seem to enjoy enjoy watching us play.
Speaker 3: When you guys were goofing up and embarrassing the giant
bumb name by making it well, you got it all wrong, grub,
Come on, what do you mean? No, everyone ever, We
we told everyone where we were from, and we said,
you know, we finished first, Yeah, totally no.
Speaker 6: So okay, so I played a good chunk of the
single player in the beginning. I gotta say, like, I
have very you know, loose memories of what that game
that this is sort of a complete remake of star
Fax sixty four, the very loose memories of what the
experience was like this, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: It's great. I loved a lot of what we saw
and played.
Speaker 6: I thought everything really kind of controlled super Well, there's
like this onboarding sort of virtual area that you started
and then we got into like sort of I assume
it was like one of the first missions, not exactly sure,
but it's it's great, it controls great, it looks phenomenal.
It is really one of the first times, I guess
maybe with the exception of the Bonanza, where you're.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, this is not a switch game that I'm
used to looking at. This is on a different sort
of level. It performs really really well. And yeah, I
mean that.
Speaker 6: I think, like, especially coming from sixty four is like
the kind of you know, blueprint for what this experience is.
It's just for all intensive parts. It's like a brand
new thing. I'm not like, oh, you know, I remember this.
I remember that.
Speaker 3: Again. I'm sure people were much more familiar I think
you are will with the game, but like, I really
dug it.
Speaker 6: I think, like, uh, it's super interesting how they you know, well,
there's like a in the multiplayer we we understood like
some of what they're doing with the cameras and the
face tracking and stuff like that, which I think just
goes without saying like, yeah, you're gonna be one of
these characters. You could design your character and like what
you want to look like, what you want to talk like,
and then when you go into that multiplayer mode, you've
got all the tiles of all your falcos and your
slippies and whatever.
Speaker 3: What was the pig? I was the pig?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: That was that was fun. That felt good and normal.
I love that pig. Does he does? He look as
good in the game as he did in the trailers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we we saw he was in the
some of the cut scenes, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: He was in the Yeah, he was in the cutscenes.
And then he was in that multiplayer mode. We chose
him as the face model for those matches.
Speaker 1: Incredible.
Speaker 4: Oh andros Head, I love That's one of my favorite
last bosses ever. Is just the andros Head with the
hands and then turns into the brain with the eyes.
I want to see that now, mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I played it with the pro controller, which felt
really good. It's you know, I don't think you're gonna
get that smooth of an experience using joy Con controllers,
but uh, you know when we had to do the
split controls, that's hot, that's how we were playing the game.
But uh, pro controller feels great with the game, like
super tight. Would would you think your time watching him playing?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: It was it was a lot of fun. I U
I almost said Donkey Kong sixty four Starbucks sixty four
was a friend's house game, so like anytime I went
over his house, it was playing it there, and it
a lot of some a lot of time. You get
these remakes and they still feel like the old game
with just like a code of paint. And this just
felt good for the get go, I mean, other than
changing the way star Fox is and not having you
on a linear path in those levels. Everything feels fantastic
and remade and and put back together. There were like
the interesting tidbits of the you follow Falco one way
and you go off on this mission segment, or you
follow someone else the other way and you go off
and fight all these like monkey guys instead of the
lizard guys is really neat and cool.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The sort of flying around with the mouse control and
having Jeff fly was really confusing at first, and then
you kind of get used to it, but there's still
moments where it's like he's like, oh, get over there
to that thing. I'm like, you're the one flying, you
fly over there. And it was a little backwards, but
it was quite quite fun. The multiplayer, Uh that's not
like linear flying, like you're obviously flying all around doing uh. Yeah,
and that was very fun. Like you're grabbing the pirates
warp in or whatever it is in Star Fox and
they have like a package and you fly in, defeat them,
steal the package, capture the flag sort of thing, and
it went really really well. The other people playing in
the session kept joining the good side, so it was
just us on the other team with the AI and
it it wasn't going super great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: The game chat faces were funny. They're they're still in
that weird with all those things. You think it's gonna
track your face a little bit better, but it was
more like to make a reaction. I was just going like, yeah,
like just just make the mouth go. And that's mostly it.
Everyone else is because we're all playing this game and
just all these faces of star fucks people just like
intensely folk and moving like this and like but all
like three sixty p uh because it's game chat. But
the thing they did have in that which none no
one used because I guess we're all hideous, is you
can have it track your face and put like stuff
on you. Rather than grabbing one of the characters to
be oh right, the men use like avatar settings. It's
like do you want to be one of the characters,
and then below that are all these settings for like
different ears. You can do the little like targeting computer
thing and all that sort of stuff, and then if
you choose the avatar person, it's not until you're in
the multiplayer game when you choose your character that you
get that character's face or whatever. Okay for the for
the multiplayer match.
Speaker 3: I man Nintendo and they're like, let's take something that
was like in snapchat from ten years ago and to
pretend it's a new feature, like tendencies is so incredible.
Speaker 1: I love them for that.
Speaker 6: They're so stupid and weird, and they're totally like una
shame by it. Yeah, they're just like, yeah, this is
just the fully shameless thing. Like I lo it was
right though it's it works as good as I guess
you can sort of hope. I don't know how much
juice you're getting out of that, because, like you said,
you're you're so laser focused on the multiplayer thing that
it's like, oh, this is hilarious, but like I need
to do something separately to enjoy this and not play
it in multiplayer.
Speaker 3: Well, remember you can do that, Like you could take
that those things into a call where someone else is
playing some other game. You could just watch them as
as Pigma, Right, that's the way to do it. That's
the way to do it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my new software app Pigma downloaded trial right now
I think, hell yeah, I'm thinking about more of the
gameplay that I did with Like some of these boss
battles were like Soup, there's that one robot you're taking
down in the earlier section that was super fun. Uh
you know, like I again, I had to kind of
relearn all that stuff with you know, doing like the summersaults,
doing that quick reverse maneuvering, that break steering, you know
how you could like really like bank into a turn
really quickly. All that feels really good. And then the
alternate route we took after we went you know sort
of like followed falco U.
Speaker 3: There was that like.
Speaker 6: Monkey King fight where he was like occupying this like
transforming spaceship that you had to like fly through an
asteroid feel to get to it first, Like fucking cool man,
Like it's it's good. I I'm surprised. I kind of
I went into it just sort of being like oh yeah,
like let's see this thing again.
Speaker 3: But I left it being like, I can't wait to
play this for sure?
Speaker 1: Extremely well yeah, yeah did.
Speaker 2: You kept wanting to say it, but I didn't want
to come across as like bad or anything. But I
kept being like, this is on a switch, Like it
looks this good on a switch.
Speaker 1: It's just it's incredible, nice easily.
Speaker 3: Do you think you can put this in front of
dib and he'll be into it? Like like, they obviously
want to attract new audiences and that means the youth. Yeah,
I was thinking about that. You know, it's a good question.
Speaker 6: Uh, you know, I think, you know, obviously like they
you know, even part of the presentation was just like
and if.
Speaker 3: You've seen the movie, you certainly know that Star Fox
showed up and now Homeboy has a new switch to game.
I don't you know, I think, yeah, I think there
is some of that. I'm starting to think Dibbs like
aging out of some of this stuff where yeah, he's
in the uh, he's in the valley between millennial nostalgia
appreciation and like, you know, alpha this is lame sort
of thing. I don't know. I'm not speaking for all.
Speaker 6: Ten to twelve year olds on in the country, but
I do think like there there will be a bit
of a divided population on the reception of like that character.
Speaker 1: Because you know, like star Fox is not like badass.
Speaker 6: You know, there's like a certain kind of like saccharine
presentation to the interest at best. Yeah, yeah, right, like
and you're looking at all these like you know, Chuck
E Cheese character, there's.
Speaker 7: Probably knocks the cool factor down a little bit for
I'm sorry, I like him.
Speaker 3: I like him. Eventually you get old enough, you start
to appreciate Slippy again. Yeah, Pigma inflates, Slippy deflates, perhaps
is what we're so you're left where you started. Yeah,
don't do that.
Speaker 1: The Wolf guy seems cool, star Wolf stol Yeah, got
a good song.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not completely uh, you know, saccharine like there
are there's some like interesting, you know, characters there. And
I do think that update on the whole, having seen it,
uh in its full final presentation, does look good. I
think there was a hole to do about nothing with
with people's receptions like what these characters look like. I
think it's going to die down, like yeah, yeah, it
barely even like uh occurred to us while we were
going through it. But yeah, I I'm into it. I
I I, I am surprised. Turned me into someone who
has just had a super casual Star Fox relationship.
Speaker 3: And now I'm cool anticipating this in a in a
real positive way.
Speaker 1: Yah. You all gotta be excited for this now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Good, And and we'll have some other footage that we
recorded up later. I'll post out the social and whatnot,
and yeah, it's good stuff.
Speaker 1: Speaking about Nintendo kind of being behind the times with
trends that they are picking up, Jeff Grubb, you have
been playing Peaked Do Nico and Nintendo has figured it
out you can do funny stuff with pictures.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have that Warrior work again that you
kind of maybe did too many releases of on Switch
one and kind of you know, maybe they got a
lot of cool off. So instead take all those ideas,
makeing a mobile game that uses your own photos. And
I've been playing a bit of it. I definitely, you know,
we played some on UPF I'd played some before that,
and then i played some of my family and that's
that's clearly where this game is going to shine. Where
the people who are in these photos you go kind
of sit there and like hold the phone in front
of them, like, look, look at what you're doing, Like
you're you're eating these like I'm making your mouth really
big and you're eating all these vegetables and stuff. Isn't
that silly? And everyone thinks it is. Everyone has a
really good time. Now it's not going to turn into
some like long session, but for me as someone who
likes Warrior, where I'm picking up frequently in between that stuff,
and it's working really well. I am. I'm impressed by it.
Like Kyle, Well, it uses the photos like it kind
of just immediately like knows like what the faces are.
And obviously we've had that tech for a while, but
it's like, yeah, no, it's like going in the background
of some of these photos and even getting some people's
faces in that way. And I'm glad that it can.
Like it makes it easy to sort of manage your
photos in the app. You can say, hey, I want
to make a new folder, and you can like pick
your photos and just kind of make a cordant off
set of photos so it only uses the stuff you
wanted to use. The one issue is you can't use
screenshots even if you like you want to give it
permission to do so, so it's not like you're gonna
be able to screenshot some screenshots some funny stuff from
like a YouTube video and then bringing it. Now, if
that I think of, that photo was already screenshotted somewhere
else and you were to like transfer it to your phone,
then it wouldn't know anymore. It probably wouldn't know, or
you could like download it from so like the Google
image search, those work fine. But yeah, I was kind
of doing a mix of some stuff I got from
the internet in my own photos and it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it worked really well. It's just Warrior Where though
it really is.
Speaker 4: It's a little annoying that, like, at least an iOS,
you can't just pick a folder and your photos app
to like, hey, all of these are fine. You have
like individually select every one of them, which like that
takes forever.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, that on Entreya, there's like gives me
a little.
Speaker 4: There's no select all on iOS that I've seen, So
little annoying as far as that goes. But the warri
where like influences obvious. This is just straight up Warrior
where with your pictures. But the other thing that makes
me think of is I love the game Boy camera
back and it would have those little mini games where
it's like you take like three pictures of your face
and then you have like a juggling minigame when your
face is like reacting to stuff. It's like that. It's
a marriage of Warrior where in like old Game Boy
camera minigames.
Speaker 3: Uh getting like face raiders and stuff like that. They
they have a history of doing stuff like this, and
it's uh yeah, I'm I'm into it. I'm glad they did.
It's you know, it's free to free to start, it's
a shareware game, and then there's two packs that are
like seven to five dollars. Immediately just bought everything and
kind of don't regret it. It's still not a ton
of stuff, but it was enough to justify the price.
To me, probably my favorite thing Nintendo has done on
a phone. It is I think that's my favorite thing
since me Tomo. I like to r.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, this big Dregallia Lost haters.
Speaker 1: No, I have a secret torch for Drigallia Lost, of course.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this is this is neat. I'm I think
if this is the sort of tone Nintendo's coming at
mobile with going forward, I'm I'm interested again. I definitely
was like after the fire emblem stuff, and I just
don't care about the way that they're doing these mobile
games Drigallia lost, But with this it's like, oh, okay, yeah,
if they're just gonna take an idea from one of
their existing games at a fun twist that kind of
only can happen with them right now on mobile, that's
a good fit.
Speaker 1: I think I still would prefer if this game was
on a switch that had a camera and stuff like that,
but whatever, it works well on phone. Well, you can
play this game on your phone and perhaps drive I
don't suggest that, but you can watch a phone and
drive a forkliff around in Crashout Crew, we check this
out during UPF I think we had a ball of
a time here. This comes from the Agrocrab people, who
I think have got this. I don't even want to
say this specific game is friend Slot, but like cooperative
Chaos on lock at this point, it's.
Speaker 4: More like in the Overcooked fash note say, just like
really chaotic yelling at your friends, like figuring out on
the fly whatever one's job is.
Speaker 1: Division of labor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's like, okay, we need to get these
things over here. To these docs over here, and then
figuring out like Okay, Mike, you're gonna get rid of
all these cacti that are pop up grub. You're gonna
be you know, setting up a teleporter to send this
honey and bees over here, and me and Jan's like okay, Jane,
I've got Doc A, You've got Doc B. And a
lot of yelling at each other in between. It's a
they did a great job of this. It's a it's
a cooperative forklift game.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's all about kind of unloading and loading
these packages and there's there's four of you and then
these there's these different obstacles like you were talking about.
Kind of in between sessions, there is a shop you
can buy things to help, like teleporter paths where so
you can put the crates on them. You kind of
don't to go through the difficult obstacle. Course sometimes like
honey or goose on the floor, we can buy these
robot vacuum cleaners that can deal with that. Yeah, it
maybe isn't like maybe like the silliness factor of like, oh,
this person's like talking and it's really funny, like that
aspect isn't there as much, But as a game, like
as a cooperative game, it was working really well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think we kind of got to a point where
we were being pretty cooperative and we were talking a lot.
But I think over time it's like we all kind
of figured out like, oh, we may maybe overthink. It's
some of the stuff we don't need to be like
so precious about, like, oh, what's what you guys? Tell
me what's happening over there. I'll just bring you all
the stuff. Then one person sits over there, and then
like can figure that stuff out between the two of them,
and it's oh, yeah, we kind of very quickly got
into a groove and that that only happens because the
game is so well designed and you kind of can
quickly figure out what is needed and what is necessary
and what is not what's kind of a waste of time.
Speaker 1: And I think we realized go ahead, Jan, oh real quick.
I think the thing that also helps set this apart
from a game like Overcooked a little bit is the
mobility options. Right, you have a boost, you can drift
around corners, and you can also upgrade your forklift. During
that shop phase that Mike mentioned where you can add
get new tires, you can get like a spoiler to
increase your speed and get little clappy hands for your forks,
which is great.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that's good. I like how much we
realize it helping me. Bought shelves. Yes, you can kind
of store some of these things, not just store the blox,
but there are some blocks protect like I want. There's
like wolf blocks that could like run around and muck.
Like you put them in their little shelves. They're happy
and they're not going to move around as much. The
storage was important, Yeah, it was like in like placing
that stuff in a way where it's out of the way,
and then you know there's the crash out crew. The
crash out part is if you crash too many times,
there's a meter that gets filled up, and then once
that's full, you lose control. You spent around wildly, and
if you're near one of your friends, there's a like
a high likelihood. Yeah you will ran into them enough
times to cause them to crash out, and then it's
like it could go back and forth. But there was
definitely a time where I ran into Mic and I
caused myself to crash out, and then I ran into
him enough times so he crashed out, then he made
me crash out again, and we're kind of like dealing
with this quietly while you two were being very responsible
with all the stuff we brought over there, so we
were trying to like be quiet and not annoy you guys.
If this were a problem too, we're gonna be There's
like bulls and vases in the same one, you know. Yeah,
but it's like there's like a part of upgrading your
your thing. It's like, oh, yeah, you can go faster,
but there's also like a fan you can buy to
cool yourself off so you don't crash out as fast
and things like that, And you know, that mechanic was
like something I think we engaged with a bit, but
I think we were also playing well well enough on
these early stages that we didn't encounter it that frequently,
and then it did start to ramp up. That's okay.
I could see how even us playing pretty well are
going to have issues on some of these later levels
where we have to be extremely careful and really be
thinking about this stuff constantly.
Speaker 4: And that one that you learn sorry, no, no, go ahead, dah.
I love how you learn these individual gimmicks each level
because it's like, you know, the first level, Grub was
just coming in like a bat out of hell and
like throwing boxes at us, and it was fine and
everything's fine. But then the second level is like these
like barrels filled with like you know, toxic sludge, and
right away Grub's like peeling into throws it and there's
just green dew everywhere like radio actives.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, I can't do that. Yeah huh. And
on top of that, the different levels, On top of
having those different gimmicks, the maps are all so different,
different from from level to level, like one where they're
going to figure out another one. It was kind of
like a one way so like, uh, Mike and Grub,
you guys had to just like be booming around dropping
stuff off while Dan and I are like sorting out
all the packages. Really fun time. Unfortunately, I don't think
this is a This would be a fun game if
you're playing solo dolo. No, it's like overcooked. Yeah, it's
like overcoat.
Speaker 3: It'd be fine with like one other partner, Like you
want to like try it with one other person, all right.
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to circle back to this one day
to check out the later levels and other ships.
Speaker 3: We should beat it. I think we should play it.
I think we should beat it together. Not like that, guys,
come on.
Speaker 1: Mike, I didn't hear that, Mike, Mike, just get it out.
I did get I just wanted to look at the camera. Well,
I'm glad that we all dig this. Speaking about digging
or more like burrowing, Dan Riker, you have continued to
play Mina the Hollower.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like there's been like four or five
times now. I've just been like, all right, I'm frustrated.
This is like I obviously this is a well made game,
but I find it more frustrating than I find it fun.
And I think I've like broken through to the other
side now where I am admiring this game more than
I'm frustrated by it. Like I am still frustrated by it.
Sure it has helped that the game's out now, so
if it's just like, yeah, okay, I've been walking around
in circles for an hour here, I can't figure out
where the fuck to go.
Speaker 1: There's long plays out there.
Speaker 4: Now I can just go like, oh, I didn't realize
there was a fucking bush on the edge of the screen.
I can cut down and that opens up this whole.
Speaker 1: Other area here.
Speaker 4: It's like some of the stuff really reminds you of
like the first Zelda where it's like, oh yeah, if
you burn this bush in this random part of the
map or whatever, there's some stairs.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: It's like that type of thing, and it seems intentional,
Like the Zelda influences is obvious. But yeah, like the
dungeons are great, like all the like trinkets and everything
I'm finding and upgrading my character. Like I can have
like six different trinkets equipped at any one time, So like, okay,
tough boss, I'm gonna put in this suite of trinkets.
If I'm just exploring and I'm trying to like get
as many bones as possible, I'll put in like kind
of this load out here. It's gotten more flexible, it's
gotten more fun. I've finished four of the six towers
now I'm on the fifth now, and yeah, like I
thought i was gonna bail on this one several times,
and now I'm like, no, I'm in, and it's a
bef game. I mean, I'm like twenty plus hours in
twenty to twenty five somewhere around there, and yeah, I'm
I'm liking it now. I don't think it's going to
be like, you know, top five game of the year
for me or anything, but I am on a thumbs
up the course of this right now.
Speaker 1: All right, that's encouraging.
Speaker 3: I plan. I intend to give it another shot myself.
I never really gave it much of a shot. Initially,
I was like Max handling that review, I'll play some
other stuff. But yeah, I was like, okay, maybe I'm
maybe I'll just put on the back burner. But here
and you get over the hump, there is the one
thing I kind of needed to hear. It's like, I
think that might be the same thing that I go through.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, it's good, even though it is influenced by
links Awakening. So don't worry about that.
Speaker 3: Okay, sure, I was deeply concerned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before we get to the last two games on
the rundown here, will, is there anything that you've been
playing you'd like to talk about.
Speaker 2: Oh, I have been playing that game Double seven First Light.
Oh fantastic, let's get to it. It's quite good. Oh see,
I don't have the rundown, so I had to guess
it is great. It is fun.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this when of use cases for things.
But I bought it on PC because it was on
sale somewhere, and I was like, I most so I
actually over the weekend, I brought my entire computer down
to my living room and plugged it into my TV,
and I was like, Okay, I guess I'm just I'm
gonna leave I don't have to work over the weekend.
I'm just gonna leave it here over the weekend and
play on there. And it actually worked out great. It's
it runs fantastic. I ran into a few issues with
some frame rate stuff, but I just I had it
running at four K and I think it really didn't
like that, so I just dropped it down at twenty
five sixty and I had the whatever fancy graphic stuff
those kids have at now, so it looked good. But yeah,
I did that. That that Chess level that you guys
had talked about touched on last week was super fun.
It felt like it's funny that level you're chasing a guy,
and it almost felt like I was chasing the guy
from Agent forty seven from Hitman, like during the level, Yeah, yeah,
for sure, I was like, because it keeps like pantings
like how does this guy change costumes so fast? And
there's there's justifications for that stuff, but during it you're
just like, is that agent forty seven? Like are they
gonna do like some sort of crossit or something. But
it was really fun. As open as those levels are,
they do such a great job of guiding you through
those levels without feeling like you're being guided. Yeah, but
I kept thinking I was making intentional choices and then
they would be like, no, this is where you're supposed
to be and I'm like, oh, but I could have
gone that way and that, And it was just really
cool how they were kind of figuring all that stuff out.
The beginning was funny because you're assigned on that level.
You're assigned to like watch the car at the car park,
and I was like, what if I just sit here
for a bit.
Speaker 3: But because I was.
Speaker 2: Like, no, I want to listen to the rules, like
I don't want to, of course, it's like, oh, I
should really go check that out, and I'm like, okay,
I guess I'll go check that out. But yeah, it's
it's really fun. I like, I like the guy playing Bond. Yeah,
I think the personality is great. The tutorial section during
like Bond's training was so cool because they're like, hey,
we get it, you know how to play video games.
There's none of that do this three times in the
arena and beat the guy. It's just like it's cutting
through time. You're you're now learning how to like tackle,
you're now learning how to grab. You're now learning and
like some of those you don't necessarily grab right away,
but as the game's going, it's showing you those things
and letting you like it's like, oh, hit X and
A to tackle the guy and do this sort of stuff.
So it was very fun. I think it's it's it's
also fun. I don't know if you guys did this.
But every time you have a new mission and you're
in that q lab, like there's all new vignettes. All yeah,
so you just go to the different people and they're vignettes.
Some of them are like building upon the previous one.
Like there's a phone booth that every time you come
back to the Q Lab, they have like another part
of it open and they're like trying to figure out
and they're like, oh, the gas that was used and
this is and actually disbanded in the Soviet Union or something.
You're like, what are you talking about? And like all
the different stuff, and they have some Bond references, like
in the clothing room they have the knife shoes and
things like that. But overall, I like, I I was
excited for this game as soon as they announced it,
and when it came out, I was like, I don't
know because I was like, do I get this, do
I get Pragmata or do I get Lego Batman? And
I was like really trying to figure out between that,
and then I saw Sale and I was like, I'm
just gonna get Bond, and I'm super happy with the choice.
Like I'm excited to get those two other games, but
it is every time I sit down to play it,
I'm like, yes, like let's see, let's let's continue watching
this movie and like see where that's going next.
Speaker 1: I know that on the Internet a lot of folks
will get really lost in like the immersion with something
like Crimson Desert or Red Dead Redemption too, but I
think this is like the type of game and type
of experience that like I really like to get lost in,
and it's like very easy for me at least to
like lose several hours just getting immersed into a level.
Like I spend way too much time on these levels
because like I'm poking and prodding around, I'm listening to
every NPC. I'm like every time I see a bun prop,
I'm like, let's see what's up. Okay, Yeah, And I'm
really excited to see this game sell very well and
also kind of blow up on social media, Like my
algorithm is just filled with people doing like cool action
montages of the James Bond game and didn't see so
much of that with Hitman. It took a while for
Hitman to kind of like heat up for me at
least and notice it pop up on social media of
people doing like fancy Rube Goldberg style kills and sets,
but with James Bond. Because the action has been ramped
up in such a way, I feel like it lends
itself and there still is that stealth aspect if you
want to engage with it. The four of you Chuckleheads
recorded a review cast of Double O seven First Light.
Any other thoughts that, yeah, you didn't cover there, or
you want to like bring up here.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: So the way I show my wife my gameplay now
is I'm constantly recording through Steam and then I'll like
clip it out and just be like come on, like
I know you're just not. The thrill is gone, the
honeymoon's over. I'm gonna sit here with me as we
play through this game. So I'm just going to show
you selected parts. So I showed her, like, you know,
the part for where like you chase double nine to
the airport?
Speaker 1: Right quick? How does that? How is like the Steam
recording function work? Has it been working well for y'all? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, anybody a shadow play, it's similar to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's pert I sent you Jane. It works
great on Deck, but it works especially good on PC
because it's a you know, you probably have a more
powerful PC. But if you hit this not the Steam
button and up on the dpad, it'll record the last
thirty seconds.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 4: So yeah, does it rise Steam Deck. I'm always been
afraid to turn that on because it just like you know,
you using up.
Speaker 3: To I'd be weary on Steam Deck just because it's
like constantly on Steam decks. If if it's if it
causes problems, it just doesn't work instead of causing problems
with your games. Oh that's okay, it's like, you know what,
we we couldn't even record this, but whatever.
Speaker 6: So yeah, well I export them a ten eightyp There's
a couple like reanimal ones I did at fourteen forty
that I think. I think there is a pretty decent
you know, obviously fidelity upgrade when you higher you capture,
but you know, I was capturing hours and hours. I'm like,
I'm just exporting ten and adp.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: So I showed her that whole scene where like you
chase double nine to the airport, you can jump on
the plane, that whole thing, and she's like, oh wow,
that's really cool. And then I'm like, oh wait, you
gotta see Lenny Gravit coming now. And you know, I
don't know, maybe I just sort of like Glady glossed
over this the first time I was introduced to him.
Speaker 3: Man, it's so bad, Like I don't an It's just like,
first off, I'm supposing, has anyone done? Like the second
he grabs that, like microphone, has anyone done?
Speaker 1: Like America?
Speaker 3: Warm, Like, no one's done. No one's done that, you
don't think, so we'll get the work they should be
doing that.
Speaker 6: He's he's just bad, like he seems like a fine
person stands because every other performance is so good exactly
by comparison, his is just like so underwhelming and so
not like this is the best.
Speaker 3: And don't forget folks, these are the best takes. These
are the They were like.
Speaker 1: The time for Ley's busy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess, I mean, you know, presumably, I don't
if he was there for the mocap stuff too, I
don't know.
Speaker 1: I doubt it.
Speaker 6: I doubt it, right, So like you're like, oh man,
these are just delivered with the same sort of inflection
and the whole thing, and you're just like, oh, this
is almost like ruining it for me. This is almost
you know, watching it again. I guess in the moment,
I was just sort of taken off of like, oh wow,
he's got that sword.
Speaker 1: That's scary, you know whose performance it kind of reminded
me of laying on me Ronda Rousey and that one mortal.
But it was like occasionally a point it's enough to
pull me out a bit because these surrounding actors are
so good that Ronda one is like an all timer
bad performance, Like, oh.
Speaker 6: Man, you know, and it got me thinking and maybe
I was just a little like Stone really started to
overanalyze it, and.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, do you think they were like rewatching this?
And they were just like oh no, I like they
like this is all part of like a bigger marketing plan,
and it's like this is oh ship, this is the
best we're gonna get. But oh no, I'm in there
like this is the thing that makes our game worse
more than anything else.
Speaker 1: It's probably that they had.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, We're like we spent like a quarter of
a billion dollars on this thing and it's just got
this and oh no, oh no, okay, it's fine. We
just won't draw any attention to it. Is he in
the game? Yes, he's in the game, that's all we'll say.
Speaker 4: They like doing the like you know, loocid target stuff
like wet Gary Busey, like wacky like ot A left.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And also that they all have dialogue. Yeah yeah, yeah,
I never checked out like the eminem elusive target stuff.
Hit Man did, like he actually do vo for it
or I think he did. Yes, Yes, interesting? Interesting, Okay, how.
Speaker 3: Do you guys feel about the like the story overall?
I like it too, and you know, even like just
the general plot stuff of oh yeah, hey guy, it's
the bad guy here, and it's like it's the James
Bond fantasy. It's like, what if someone was had like
kind of ultimate secret agent power and used it to
protect us from some stuff that sucks ass? That would
be amazing.
Speaker 1: I would love that.
Speaker 4: And they told an origin story thing, like we've seen
so many prequels and origin stories and they're usually so
boring and it's all right, get to the part where
he gets the Cape or whatever, and they they nailed it.
Like I was really invested in this, like the whole time.
He's not really like fully you know, double O seven
for large majority of this game, and by the end
it's just like, all right, yeah, I fully accept this
guy's Bond, and like I liked watching the process throughout,
you know.
Speaker 1: And I think it's such a challenge to do an
interesting Bond character post like Casino Royale with what's his
face Daniel Craig. Daniel Craig, Guy, I don't know any
movie stars Daniel Craig, because that was such a very
different take on Bond. But also we're in a posts
in Powers world that's kind of made fun of that
whole Man of Mystery thing and Kingsman as well, where
the like kind of adjusting that expectation of what like
a spy movie should be. So yeah, I really enjoy
this interpretation of Bond because he also seems like sure
he does the Playboy stuff and he's like a little
smarmy piece of shit sometimes, but like ultimately it's pretty charming.
I like you you're the press circle to charm me
as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I like that.
Speaker 6: I mean the and overall, like we said it a
million times, the presentation is just untouchable in this game.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Every time that start screen pops up, and it's just
like I'm just like, yeah, mission.
Speaker 7: When that happens, and like when like the action like
really kicks up and then they do the music sting
and I'm like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's go all right, yay to do the like
the Hitman asks like, Okay, here's your target, you know,
forty seven, like that type of thing they're showing the
computer screens and everything. Yeah, Like there's that cool kind
of fade like a car going across the desert and
the titles like, oh this is fucking good.
Speaker 1: I would listen to money Anny explain any and everything. Yes,
I agree, Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: Did anyone think it was going to be Aliens at
the beginning?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes for a second that I.
Speaker 2: Are you doing Kingdom with a Crystal skull here like
like super.
Speaker 3: Right, And I was like, oh, it's Ai, And I'm like, ah,
don't worry, I bet Ai will be bad in a
Bond movie. It's like immediately, Okay, yeah, that's that's how
it goes. That's Bond.
Speaker 4: It is an anti Ai story. I do love the
way that they use a I like the way the
villains are doing, like why they're doing their bad stuff
to kind of catch up for this faulty AI. Like,
I think that's really interesting.
Speaker 3: Yep, very smart.
Speaker 2: Uh uh yes, jan, I would be remiss if I
didn't mention the game. I actually haven't personally been playing,
but my friend has been playing. Okay, I've been watching
him play it.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 2: So it's called Vietnam War, and I bet you guys
can figure out what it's about. It's about the Vietnam War.
It is an open world, single player, first person shooter
set in the Vietnam War, where you are actively fighting
the Vietnam War in whatever branch of the military you'd
like to either side. I'm not here to choose sides.
And you can also the recent DLC. You can go home,
back to the US for a while, and then whether
or not to go back to the war.
Speaker 3: Do you play going back home and like walk into
your family.
Speaker 2: Play going back home and going to your family's house.
That part we didn't get to.
Speaker 1: It is very cool.
Speaker 2: We were playing it. Uh, he was playing it on
stream the other day. And just like you have a
group of guys for you, you go get a mission.
You can go to any of the bases set where
the where like, oh, this is my home base.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: When you get injured, it's like, oh, here's a percentage
chance you survived. You wake up in the hospital, they're like, oh,
you're in a wheelchair now, like because you lost your
legs or something like that. You can call in air strikes,
do all sorts of missions. It's from this developer who
worked on mobile games for a while, so it still
has that sort of mobilish game art style, three D
art style. Sure, he has a previous game that is
The Soviets versus Polish in World War Two, which is
similar vibes. But yes, I just wanted to shout out
Vietnam War because it is is.
Speaker 3: A pond for Vietnam War on this Steam page. Times
New Roman just probably back then, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they couldn't afford other fonts. It's really cool.
It's it's definitely early access there. It seems like the
developer loves to add things and not fully fix up
the things that are already there. But it was just
I we were playing that new hell Le Lose Vietnam
and we were a little iffy on it, and I
was like, I wish there was a Vietnam open world game,
and he was like, dude, this just came out last year.
So we were checking it out and I wanted to
shout out because it is. I love these sorts of
wild experiences in video games, like this is what video
games are about. Uh, And yeah, it's definitely go check
it out. It's only fifteen dollars. So f you're into
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: You hurt it very you're in here. Will's a big
fan of the Vietnam War. Yeah, it's about time that
war got it's uh today, Yeah, I have the fond
fact check you grub sorry please, Yeah, I don't know
my shit Courier. This is Currier.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if anyone to say, yeah, you are piece of
human garbage.
Speaker 1: That exact.
Speaker 6: Hey, we're all found font friends, we're all font pervs here. Nought.
Speaker 1: That is bold of you to say, Jeff Backler, Oh gross,
that's funny. Thank you, thank you. Uh and you're very
good at video games, Mike Manatti, And well.
Speaker 3: Next time, laugh Mike. Let's just laugh. Okay, don't tell them,
it's fine. Just laugh. That's how it.
Speaker 1: Works, you know, Okay for a second response for a second.
Instead of saying oh okay, it sounds like you had
said bouquet, I'm like, oh, okay.
Speaker 3: That's what Mike does. What he sees stand up because
you're funny. You're funny.
Speaker 1: He's a good heckler. Remind me not to invite mikey
to my improv team shows. All right, last game on
the docket here because Mike Manatti is such a pro gamer.
Mike Manatti, I believe I hear the heat on the streets.
You have finished GoldenEye.
Speaker 7: For then, yeah, yes, yes, i'd beat going dance rolling
his eyes as I didn't beat it on double Agent
mode and then finished the secret levels.
Speaker 3: You also have been finish.
Speaker 1: But but there's no way to prove that.
Speaker 7: But yes, yeah, I made way way through the campaign.
Speaker 1: On Secret Agent.
Speaker 7: My chack could never agree if Secret Agent is medium
mode or.
Speaker 3: Literally medium?
Speaker 1: But is it like normal?
Speaker 3: I guess I don't know. That's the mode I played on.
I would tell anyone to play that game for the
first time. Is on the first difficult agent Agent?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I would have had a smoother experience
if I played through Agent first then played through Secret Agents,
for sure, because there are just some really up to
subjectives and some really difficult moments. There are enemies that
just will respond constantly. There's that bullshit area where Natalia
is hacking and you need to protect her, and enemies
are coming in from all these angles, and of course
a frame rate drops to like ten because there's so
many of the enemies and you're looking at one and
some guy goes behind some breaking glass and shoots her
and she dies. So you have to do this twenty
other minutes of this mission, which mostly evolves slowly peeking
around corners and shooting the tip of a turret before
it can see you.
Speaker 1: Like it was turning into like a memory game, kind.
Speaker 3: Of like when we're doing a play club and it's
like this memory bullshit, you're just going through the loop loops.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: The difference is at the end of all of it,
like that night in bed. When I'm thinking about it,
I'm kind of like, that's kind of neat. Yeah, ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was very ahead of its time. It's a well, No,
I disagree with the way that objectives tied to the
difficulty level. Name a game that before that.
Speaker 3: Lots of I think there's like system Shot. I don't
know some other games did that kind of stuff, but like,
the objectives aren't very are usually not very in depth.
It's usually blow up to sing I like them game.
Speaker 1: Where he shoots everything. You can't stop and think for
a second.
Speaker 7: I think the game is of its time. I don't
think it's somehow age sharply. I thought that game was
always that game. It's why I sort of show with
it before. I'm glad that I played through it. There
is a lot of charm there. I actually think the
controls work surprisingly well given what it is. It's a
it's it's often a ugly frustrating video game, but I
don't want to be My main takeaway of it I'm
kind of curious to go and play some more multiplayer.
Would you guys like to play some player?
Speaker 1: I want to a line with you.
Speaker 3: When Donkey Kong sixty four comes out, let's do GoldenEye
and Donkey kongers four multiplayer.
Speaker 1: All over again.
Speaker 4: I think the obvious thing here is that, like the
dividing line between how people feel about GoldenEye is did
you have a gaming PC or not in nineteen ninety seven,
And I super did not, and so it was a
revelation and I didn't know anyone that had a gaming PC.
So all of us were like, Golden this is the
greatest game that's ever been made. It's I didn't own
a sixty four until GoldenEye. You know, even like Mario
six four didn't get me to get a sixty four.
It wasn't until Golden Night. It's like I have to
sell everything I have just to fucking get this game.
Speaker 1: It's that good.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there was something on PC that you know
was running better and more power.
Speaker 7: You know, you know there's quake too, that's happening. And
again the case gameplay right, but you know, in terms
of fidelity, I suppose, and the fidelity ain't everything, and
there are there are things that Golden I is doing
better than a quake too, for sure.
Speaker 3: My all, my strongest Golden Eye memory is my I
was on the football team my friends. My friend kind
of was had his leg planted and got tackled. He
broke his leg, and so we all went over to
his house on the weekend. We were gonna have like
a big long Golden Eye like sleep overhanngout, and we
played it all night and we were getting wild, and
there was one time where I like pulled off a
win and I just slammed my hand down and it
hits the guy right on his broken leg, and I
felt so bad. I was just to be like, let's
just do this and all this all my all of
our other friends are just like pounding me in the arm,
beating me up for hurting our friend. So yeah, that's
a good game, is what I'm trying to say. Golden
Eye rules.
Speaker 1: It's a fantastic The thing that grubbed a non mention
is that he's the one that tackled his friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they'll never know. They could never prove it
was me.
Speaker 1: Folks, any other last minute games you want to talk
about before we take a quick bricky break and get
to the news.
Speaker 3: No, I'm calling it. No more games ever, all.
Speaker 1: Right, no more games ever. Sorry, Jeff Keeley. Well we'll
see you next year. Maybe i'mding what the heck was
that I tried to mute my cough and I swore instead,
and hyeah, Okay, no more swearing, Jeff Grub, you do it.
I'll try not. No more fucking cussing. All right.
Speaker 3: That's such fun though, folks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick bricky break and we will
be back with the news right after this.
Speaker 3: This is Jeb shouts out to Will for joining us
for the first second of the show.
Speaker 1: But now it's time for news with Jeff Grub.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's get into the news. It's you know, a
little bit lower key because I'm not going to go
into all the rumors and stuff that are going to
be happening for over the next few days as we
get into Summer game Fest and all that stuff, because
by the time a lot of people hear this, they'll
know the end, they'll know what's happening, and we'll be behind.
So let's just stick to what we can talk about.
We'll talk about like when some of those things are
going to happen in a bit. Call of Duty Modern
Warfare did get confirmed. It is going to for the
first time since the PS four and Xbox One came out.
It's going to be skipping those systems. It is also
coming to the switch to for the first time, and
war Zone is also leaving the PS four and Xbox One.
Those are kind of the big details here this game.
It's an Infinity Ward game. They're getting help with some
other developers to get the PC and switch to. As always,
they are promising a couple of things. For one, they're
going to try to do another ripped from the headline story,
which is always kind of a crap shoot with it
not so crap, it's always just kind of a step
in it with Call of Duty. And then the other
thing is for the multiplayer they are doing the thing
Call of Duty often does when the last game really sucks.
They're being like, you're right, that Call of Duty fucking sucked.
If we got what if we got more grounded instead,
And everyone goes yay, boots on the ground, no more
clowney skins it wow, no sponge and they're like, everyone's like,
we don't believe you. You're sure you're not gonna do
it for the first season, but like, no, no, no
clowny skins this season or later. So no SpongeBob, no
Beavis and butt Head. Uh they lost their identity. Man, Look,
I am on the record is saying I don't really
get the backlash towards clowny Skins.
Speaker 1: For me, hilarious.
Speaker 3: They're hilarious and stupid, just like Call of Duty is,
like it's an Arcadie running gun game that is about
hanging out with your friends, and I don't need to
be super military. But whenever I say that, I do
get a lot of comments from people telling me I
wanted to be totally consistent. Were dude, Hello, And I'm
not saying anyone's wrong for feeling that way. I'm just
I don't feel that way.
Speaker 1: Not that I not that I love like the war
aesthetic vibe. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I do roll my eyes a little bit when I'm
like running around and there's being this in butt Head in.
Speaker 1: The game Hawkmannati.
Speaker 3: Stupid.
Speaker 7: It's and look, I know cal Duty is already stupid,
but more so even less than that. Honestly, it's just
like here's somebody who's wearing like, I don't know, gaudy
like led lights everywhere, mech suits, I don't know. The
game is hideous. The game has been idious and the
cosmetics and for a long time.
Speaker 3: Yes, well they're promising that tolling that stuff down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I say it's bullshit. Because this game's story mode
is supposed to at least for a couple of chapters.
Maybe the campaign is supposed to take place in Korea.
They're gonna throw those BTS boys in that fucking game.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's zero chance that there's not some
Kpop person in this game. They might get around that
jam by being like, we'll just actually put them in
the game, and so it's not really we're skinned. They're
just like a part of the cast and whatever. But
even then I feel like they'll bring in some more
but uh, yeah, we'll see I guess it. The end
of the day doesn't matter. This is a god call.
Duties are so temporary, like they could say whatever they
want about this one and it could all change with
the next one just a year from now at all times,
but yeah, call Duty Modern Warfare four.
Speaker 1: I am not excited. I just I can't get excited
anymore for these games.
Speaker 7: And it was only a couple of years ago with
Black Ops six that it was the first time I
actually played much of a Call Duty in a long time,
and I wasn't enjoying it, and it was all the multiplayer.
I know some people like that campaign, it didn't do
much for me, so like I was actually like feeling
better about Call Duty than I did for a while,
and then it sounds like last year's one was just
such a mess. I don't think I even bothered touching it,
and it was so easy for me to go back to, yeah,
I don't care about Call of Duty, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's easy to put that back in that bend.
Speaker 3: There's also going to be a new extraction mode, so
you know, they do a different thing other than because
Trey arc is the Zombies people and sometimes those I
think occasionally Zombies has shown up in an Infinity Ward game,
but usually not. They usually try something else. Sounds like
that that this time it'll be an extraction mode. Fable
was delayed to February twenty twenty seven. It was previously
supposed to come out in autumn. Is how they were
phrasing that. Recently, they were telling people, Yeah, no, it's
still autumn. It was really running up against a lot
of other big releases, and that is how Matt Booty said.
He's like, hey, we want to give this game a
chance to be on its own, away from everything else,
and that seems to mean Call of Duty in October
and then obviously Grant Theft Autos six in November. This
game seemed like maybe it was going to come out
in December, but why not just give it a little
bit extra time and really get away from those games
and do something in twenty twenty seven. That seems to
be the plan. They didn't say anything about it needing
extra time for polish or anything like that that we
often get. This is entirely about giving it more time
to get away from Call Call Duty and Grand Theft Auto.
But yeah, I'm not seeing anyone out there on like
social media, on forums on message boards going oh no,
I can't believe this year is going to go by
without Fable. Everyone's like, oh, thank god, I'll just play
that whenever it comes out. I've got so many other
games to play this year that I'm almost grateful. That
seems to be the common response or any of you
guys bummed.
Speaker 7: We've waited so long for Fable already, right, it feels
like they announced that game a decade ago or something. Yeah,
we can handle a little bit longer here.
Speaker 1: Do you think we'll still see any of it at
all during Summer Game Fest?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah. They did say explicitly that it will
be at Summer Gamefest that their showcase. While the follow
up thing is going to be a big blowout for
Gears of War E Day in the main show, this
game will be there. They're going to show more of
it than ever before apparently, So yeah, there you go.
We talked about Double seven First Light in glowing terms.
It's a real hit for Aisle Interactive. The game has
sold one point five million copies in its first twenty
four hours. This is a game that did take a
long time and a lot of money to make, but
it seems like it is hitting in the exact way
they needed it to. Excuse me. People were mentioned in
chat earlier when Will was talking about finding it on
a steamed key reseller, a legitimate one, but like those
places like get keys from the developers themselves and sell them.
Apparently a lot of those places are sold out of
those keys. So that's a pretty good sign for this
game that it is just finding its audience in a
way that like, you know, I like James Bond, but
I don't think about them all that often. You know,
as they were announcing this game and get ready to
release it, it's like, yeah, I'll definitely care. I wonder
if anyone else will. And it seems like it has
hit that mark pretty hard.
Speaker 1: It does remind me of.
Speaker 3: Squore Enix used to own this studio and couldn't figure
out how to make money from them. And look at
them now, pretty cool stuff. Yeah, great for IOI exactly, yes,
And then they're fully independent now and they're making it work.
They got they've been opening studios around the world and
this is the stuff they're producing.
Speaker 1: So hell yeah, Banger after banger, Hitman, Mind's Eye, Double seven,
first Left, that's.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, just a hat trick right there. The Steam
Machine Welcome Tour has been added to Steam. Speculation has
been growing that this stuff could happen soonish, although this
does not necessarily mean that will happen. But Brad Lynch
not that one though, someone who kind of frequently gets
rumors on social media, spotted that the Steam Machine Welcome
Tour has been added to the Steam back end, like
they've done with all of their other stuff recently, where
like the Valve Index or the Steam Deck all have
these things where you can go in there and like
explore them through a series of mini games or just
very light games. Valve likes to do this. So the
fact that it's on the back end and is still
still suggesting that they are moving toward some sort of
release here. But again, this is just all that everyone's
going on, and it might be more hopium than anything else.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you.
Speaker 3: Guys still aching for the Steam Machine in any way
now that we're kind of still on limbo about the price,
and it seems like it could be more expensive than
ever before.
Speaker 4: It's scared personally, I think more than ever because like
I like playing PC games on my TV, but like
I'm running it through a laptop now, and it's like
the amount of times it's like, okay, well I've set
this a million times correctly to like hey, when the
lid is closed, just showing on the TV, and that
doesn't work, but then it strips the ATMOS out if
the HD my handshake, it's like I've just been having
so many issues playing PC games on my TV, and
it seems like this is the thing that it's like, Okay,
just plug it in and then it just works. That's
what I'm looking forward to here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's also a laptop. What do you mean,
what are you doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got the I've got the Razor laptop. It's
like a forty ninety laptop.
Speaker 1: So like it runs.
Speaker 4: I've played all of them on it, like.
Speaker 3: I'm using my I'm using my old desktop with the
fifty eighty in it. And it's God, I said, old
and fifty eighty. Don't everyone, please don't.
Speaker 1: What is it like on your tower up there?
Speaker 3: I think about how it would sound. I have that
plugged into my TV and I've been using that really frequently,
and uh, Windows it's just really bad for this stuff still.
And I got the Steam controller and it's like, oh,
that solves a lot of problems. And it's every time
I run into something, it's like, oh, Windows just doesn't
know how to fucking handle this, even though I've done
a little bit of homework to make sure it was
going to work. So yeah, that's the dream, is like Linux,
Steam os can just be the real solution for games
going forward.
Speaker 1: And if this can work, it could really just open
things up.
Speaker 3: And like for studios that have their online multiplayer games
that don't have their anti cheat setup to work with
Steam Os because they're like, that's a headache, we don't
want to support that. Hopefully this can force the issue
and kind of just make it so any game that
is on PC can on Steam Os and we don't
have to worry about Windows anymore because they're off doing
something else within video.
Speaker 4: Steam Deck's my favorite way to play PC games.
Speaker 1: I use it. I mean, I've only played Mina on it.
Speaker 4: I'm just like that UI is so great not having
to deal with Windows and everything, and if I just
get that on my TV with the Steam Controller, that
is the ideal circumstance for me.
Speaker 3: Yep, all right, let's see here. Donkey Kong sixty four news. Yeah,
something has happened since last week. Donkey Kong sixty four
is finally coming to Switch online plus expansion pack that
will be happening in two days. So this is it
really just required Mike to complete the ritual one hundred
one percent in the game.
Speaker 1: A couple of days later, we're gonna have to put
him on the side of this SGF set.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not like to do anything.
Speaker 1: Zone Yeah, just playing on a switch to right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we'll pump in pineapple smells.
Speaker 1: And actual pineapples just like my gun shoot him up.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Yeah, you're safe this year. Dan, I'm going
after Mike now, Okay. I don't want to hurt.
Speaker 1: You know what, like me too. I also don't want
to hurt man. I don't know pain.
Speaker 3: Don't hurt guys. I don't know what you're talking about. Well,
it hurts me quite a bit, but we yes to me.
The exciting part here is I'm not going to like
replay this game. I'll miss around with it, but I
do that pretty frequently. Docucune sixty four various simulators and
other hardware and so makes it really easy to do
these multiplayer in sixty four games online. And we should
just do that. We should absolutely play some of that.
It's it's that's also not great, but it's.
Speaker 1: It'll make for a fun time.
Speaker 3: I bet a couple more stories here. In Vidia and
Microsoft announced the sequel to the computer We're getting at
everybody Computer to computers. It's the future. So Nvidia and
Microsoft announced RTX Spark, a new Nvidia super chip platform
for Windows PCs that is meant to push laptops and
compact desktops into the personal AI agent era. Nvidia's pitching
this as a reset for the PC, but it's really
just one more way to like make there it's one
more way to get at AI investment by saying, and
now we're doing it with CPUs as well. So the
idea here is they have made an ARM based Windows
like CPU GPU system on a chip, and when you run,
you're running it. You could tell the thing, hey, start
running all these AI agents locally on my machine so
I have full control over them, and then they'll do
all the work for you. Now, when Jensen was talking
about this stuff, the CEO of Nvidia, he said something
along the lines of the reason we're doing this is because, look,
we could sell hardware to people, but why would we
make it for people. We could make it for AI
agents because there could be infinite AI agents that can
use our hardware as opposed to the finite number of humans.
And then my brain leaked out of my ear and
I fell to the ground and convulsed at hearing that
you're wondering in video they make GPUs for video games.
How much of this was about that, guys, maybe a minute,
maybe not even it was. They just don't care to
talk about video games anymore. That's not the business they're in.
You know, this thing, this is a platform that can
run games, they say, a triple A games at fourteen
forty p at frame rates of up to one hundred
frames per second, with ray tracing and I D LSS
and all that stuff in there as well. But yeah,
I this seems like it could compete with Apple Silicon,
which has been very good recently. But I just don't
think that this is going to actually mean good things
for people who want to own their hardware and play
games on a PC. This just feels like a non starter.
It is all about AI.
Speaker 1: Fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if they have anything else to say
about this, about what it will mean for gaming, it's
not gonna happen now.
Speaker 1: They're going to come at it later.
Speaker 3: But I think the MSI clauw got announced to be
using this or something like that, a new version of
the basically their version of a Steam deck. But yeah,
well we'll.
Speaker 1: See if that actually turns into anything. Speaking of we'll
get to that in a second.
Speaker 3: PlayStation has a big state of play today, we're going
to be talking over this thing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: They've told us it's going to be more than sixty minutes,
Like there is like notes from Alamo draft House saying
that they're showing of it is ninety minutes. I think
that will probably include some pre show stuff, but so
it's going between sixty and ninety minutes worth of stuff.
I'm expecting around seventy ish minutes. It's going to open
with Wolverine. And it sounds like that God of War
the raya Fay, who's Fay? Thank you son of Sparta,
Son of Son of Sparta too, they're already doing it
for such a big hit. Yeah, that Fay game, which
sounds like it could be inspired by the original God
of War games or Devil May Cry. That's cover separated.
What is Fay going to be using as pistols? Then?
Speaker 1: What do you guys think right exact?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Angels, wings that like shoot out, like the feathers as
just going that'd be cool.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm excited. I think I think they're gonna have
a lot of stuff at this at this showcase. You
guys have anything that you're holding a torch for flash?
Speaker 1: Sure? As always? Uh, I want it. I want this
every time we have we get to this season for
PlayStation and they never give it to me. I just
want Sly Cooper. No, why, Yeah, that'd be good. Yeah,
it sounds like Infamous could show up, so probably not
cares about Infamous. Dan, hang on, we're talking new Infamous.
Speaker 3: Is that a rumor?
Speaker 1: Not not new?
Speaker 3: Uh No, not not new if if, if anything happens
with Infamous, and the rumor is it's like bringing back
some of the original games and updating them or something remasterable, I.
Speaker 1: Means I might be on modern consoles.
Speaker 7: Replace, that's why it's gonna be modern and better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jan, I would take a Sly Cooper over an
Infamous thing for sure.
Speaker 1: Come on, guys, the Furries can't win that much.
Speaker 3: They're already gained the star fucks saying O wait, the
Friezes are mad about that because they look too much
like a right, so.
Speaker 1: They do need to win. Yeah, it looks too much
like animals that they can't bone.
Speaker 3: Then why does that matter? What are we doing?
Speaker 1: No, that's what That's what I'm assuming they're upset about.
I think there were some people that would proudly bone Starfux. Still,
I would also like a Jack and Daxter trilogy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I want to see some PS one stuff, honestly,
I want to, Like, I love PS two.
Speaker 3: I want to see something.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Wow, a thing from PS one is back.
Speaker 3: That's neat. Uh all right, that'll be at five pm Eastern,
two pm Pacific. We're talking over that, Like I said,
so hang out with us. We're gonna have a good time.
I like, I am looking forward to it. They are
making a big deal out of it. They are positioning
this as as something very important. So yeah, let's see
how that goes down. And then Digital Eclipse reveals Toy
Story Retro Collection and Toy Story three Remastered. They've done
this with various stuff recently, but this collection is going
to be a definitive collection of classic toy story games
from early nineties or from the nineties and early two thousands.
Toy Story from nineteen ninety five, Toy Story to Buzz
Lightyear to the Rescue, Toy Story two, which is actually
a pretty good game, Buzz light Year of Star Command,
Toy Story Racer which No One ever played, and a
Bugs Life because why the hell not.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that Bugs Life game is good. Uh yo, it's
a lot of these, Yeah, a lot of these are good.
So I think the one that's just Toy Story two
is just a game Boy game. Buzz Lightyear to the
Rescue is the three D platform or cock went on.
Yes that was really good. Yeah, yes, yeah, buzz let
your Star Command is Garbo. But in a way that
I don't know, maybe as funny. I think that's Toy
Story game was a kind of a big deal at
the time. It was graphically impressive. They even have kind
of a first person doom esque thing that they pulled
off without the help of any kind of like X
chips or anything like that.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, that's super neat that they're doing this.
Speaker 1: Tell Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So they're doing a lot to these games so
you could play them in their original visuals or with
upgraded resolution and stuff like that. But that's that's how
Digital Clips normally handles these things. And then the next
game is Toy Story three Complete Edition, a remaster of
the cult favorite twenty ten game Let's See a favorite
of Corn. Front man Jonathan Davis says this story incredible.
The game now boasts four K resolution at sixty frames
per second performance. It also includes content previously exclusive to
the PlayStation three version, such as the option to play
as Zerg in the game's toy Box mode Toy Story
three signature Open world Samdbox. Yeah, I let my kids
go loose on that Sandbox mode and they had a
good time with it back when they were super into
toy Story. But yeah, that does it for the headlines.
That's all out until everything breaks switch starting with the
state of play today and we'll popping over. Yeah, we'll
be talking over the Summer Game Fest thing with Keili
on Friday. I think that's at the same time of day,
five pm Eastern, two pm Pacific, and then we'll talk
over the Xbox Show on Sunday. That one's earlier ten
am Pacific, one pm Eastern. And then I'm thinking that
that Nintendo director be Tuesday or Wednesday of next week
and we'll talk over that if it happens.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, fanantastic. Thank you for all of the news,
Jeff Greb folks, and a problem. We're gonna take a
quick breaky break, and we'll be back with some emails.
Grub you you gotta grub guesser this week, or I'll
get one real quick. Yeah, I have one in mind.
I just got to get the file for it, all right, fantastic.
We'll have some emails, grub guesser and YouTube seward chats
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Bomb Crew. I'm writing this to kill some time at work,
but I wore a Giant Bomb shirt to work today
and it got me thinking about how long I've been
listening to the podcast. For reference, I've been listening for
almost ten years. I started listening in the seventh grade,
back when the podcast was on Google Music. Hell yeah,
do you guys ever think about how long the show
slash site has been running and how many people's lives
you've impacted and get freaked out? I feel like I
would PS curse you Jan for suggesting dead luck on
the podcast the video game, not the wrestling podcast. I'm
holding you personally accountable for the four hundred plus hours
I've sank into the game since you guys talked about
it on the podcast. Wish you guys the best. Andrew
from Indiana.
Speaker 7: In my mind, there wasn't a BombCast until about two
thousand and three.
Speaker 3: So why is that Mike you said two thousand and three,
he meant twenty three. Oh, my joke was so funny.
Speaker 1: You kind of fucked it up. What loser is the
yoke I suck?
Speaker 9: Is the joke that you were like on O way, No,
the joke was like and though I was on it,
I didn't care that what he cares about because I'm
an I'm a narcissist who makes everything about himself.
Speaker 3: Apparently, No, you're not, and that's why are you? They're
all along, Mic, it was me, are you altar crunk?
It was, But that's why it doesn't work, because you're
not a selfish guy. Mike, I agree. I agree. I
think it's an absurd thing that these people say.
Speaker 1: I try not to think about it too much because
then I get into my own head and then I
uh just think about the odd weight and influence that
the show may have on people's lives.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't seem as long to me because it
like it feels like I've had three different, you know,
entire existences here between West Coast, East Coast and remote
coming back. So it's me, it just feels like, you know, oh,
a few years here, a few years here, a few
years here, but like ultimately it's like, well shit, I
started hearing like summer of twenty fourteen, so it's like,
I guess that has been a long fucking time.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 1: It's one of the more I think about it, the
more deeper into a whole fall into because like, email
are here. I started listening to the BombCast when I
was in high school, and I'm here now.
Speaker 3: Which is weird. Oh yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 1: Uh. Do you guys ever have an existential crisis about
your presence on the Internet and how it affects other people?
Speaker 3: M Occasionally I think it's neat right now attitude mikey
for sure.
Speaker 1: Mike. Do you think there are people out there that
also share your fear of apples that now feel represented?
Speaker 7: I think it's come up at least one, maybe only
one time, which is like man only once. Uh yeah, tracks, Yeah,
I might still be a little bit of a lonely,
freaking outlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I had a crazy realization that, like with moving around
so much for GB stuff over the years, I'm coming
up on three years of living in this house and
that will be the longest I have lived in any
one spot since high school living in my parents' house.
Wowin like two thousand two. I have never lived in
any place for years. It has been non stop moving.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'd hate that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like not just like down the road or different
places in town, but like different states and city.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so they stay here for a while. Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I know where to find you. Yeah. That Mikey is
like slowly putting his Grimace costume back on. It's it's
it's like venom just taking over, coming out of a
really good bit. Mike.
Speaker 4: Somehow you made it so it comes out of this
door right now.
Speaker 1: Grimace comes surprise, all right, Moving on along, Travis and
Fargo rights in with five questions. I choose one of them.
If you, you know, want to get your emails right
on the show, come up with a fun, uh little gimmick.
Travis writes in I got my kids a switch to
as he started the summer break gift, and I'm giving
them this Friday. What are your current feelings about the
switch to and any advice for a new switch to owner?
Do you have any tips or tricks on gaming with
both a switch one into in the household?
Speaker 4: Gratzi, gotta get those kids started unwelcome tour.
Speaker 3: They can't touch anything on there until they get they
pass all the test. And well, I mean you may
as well it must come for free with that console, right,
Oh yeah, I'm sure, right, yeah, Oh boy, that stupid thing. Hey,
I kind of like it. My thing with the with
the kids and switch to and managing multiple systems is
it did get a little bit easier and a little
bit more annoying with the sharing virtual games. If you
if you that's the way you're doing. I guess a
lot of people still do physical games, but if you
have any digital games that you're trying to lend to someone,
it is so annoying when you go to play your
own game and because they have the switch lost somewhere
in the house, turned off, not connected to the internet,
They're like, well, we just can't contact that thing and
get your game back from them. So just make sure
that you have a spot where they know they have
to return it to so that it's well taken care
of and you can get to that thing when you
need it, because it is super annoying and not being
able to play your own game because of that.
Speaker 4: So few hardware, so few companies like have that figured
out as far as like sharing within a household. So
it's like, if you don't want to buy two copies
like double seven is a great example. Me and both
just played through it and we're playing like around the
same time. So it's like, okay, so she's logged into
my Steam account upstairs, but she has to after she
launches it and make sure that computer never touches the internet. Yes,
so if it touches the internet at all, then it's
like always save file thing. One of us loses our
save file and so like you always have to think
about that. No one's ever made it seamless.
Speaker 1: Sucks, fantastic. Any other switch to like any have y'all
picked up any like accessories you like or like not
an accessories.
Speaker 7: I have to have a little charging station thing or
like a charging dock, not a dot for capturing it,
but just something to put on my nightstand where it's charging.
And that official Nintendo one I think I got or
whatever is beefy enough. I bought a really cheap one
at first, thinking why spend money on this, and then
it was like so unstable and when it like stands
still that it was basically worthless.
Speaker 4: Okay, multiple knocks, multiple docks is good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Like they do make those third party like
you know, small one.
Speaker 4: I like the Ginky covert docks. They got one for
a switch to now. I use that when I traveled, certainly,
but also yeah, right up to the gym.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sometimes I have to like update those in a
weird way, like you update the farmware of a donal.
Speaker 3: From the switch one to switch to. A lot of
those things need to be updated, but once they were updated,
they work pretty well. I had to do that with
the capture cart dock that I got right works well now,
but it was a headache to sort of get that
in that state in the first place. That's probably too
much for this person who's writing in the capture doc anyhow.
But yeah, look around, shop around. There's a lot of.
Speaker 1: Good advice from people who are trying to get multiple
in their home if they don't want to spend all
the money on the official Nintendo One. But it is handy.
Speaker 3: I agree with Dan that like having that option in
your house is really nice. And then I still do
the thing where I pop out the kickstand and rust
my fingers on there just to make it a little
bit easier to grip when I'm playing it.
Speaker 1: Yep, fantastic. Thank you for all the tips, boys, Travis
Son Fargo. I hope that helps you out. You know, also,
if you're giving it to a little gimmicks, maybe grab
a screen protector just just in case.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is there's Ginky makes a good one of those,
makes it really easy to apply. I bet all of
them are like that. But that's the first time I've
ever really put on a screen protector and it worked well.
Speaker 4: The Ganky want Worth It's got like like a handles
that you put it on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's perfect and it was applied perfectly, And I'm like,
so I hate the idea of like air bubbles and
all that stuff, and none of that happens. So I
was pretty impressed.
Speaker 4: I've always liked ganky stuff for switch that make really
solid stuff, Like did they have capture cards now that
are like really lightweight?
Speaker 1: Oh cool?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the cover dock stuff, It's yeah, they're great.
Speaker 1: I might check the capt Andrew in Rochester, Minnesota rites
in Hey bomb crew. This question might be specifically for Dan. Recently,
you guys talked about California accents send it, and I
started thinking about Minnesota accents. Since I've lived here my
whole life, I'm sure that i have some sort of accent,
but I never noticed it. However, when traveling people have
told me they notice an accent. There are also times
where I will hear local radio ads and the person
talking sounds like they have a very recognizable accent. To
meet that said, it made me wonder. I know Dan
has previously lived in Minnesota, but now that he has
planted his roots a bit more firmly, has he picked
up any sort of Minnesota accent or did someone tell
him that he does from the places in Minnesota he's
been to, does Dan notice a lot more stereotypical Minnesota
accents like having the long o's. Thanks for the memories
and happy Malee Choutsat's giant bomb Facebook group Best Bushes
Continued success Andrew Rochester, Minnesota.
Speaker 4: The most I noticed it was when I first came
up to Game Informer, because it's like a lot of
people like came from elsewhere to move here for a
Game Informer. But then you had guys like Tim Turry
and Ben Hansen who were like died in the wold
of Minnesota. Guy, especially Tim Terry might be the most
Minnesota man ever. And so it's like the double O thing.
It's broom, it's room, it's roof. It's never like I say, broom,
room roof, you know, like it's the room here. So yeah,
I definitely noticed it. I'm more used to it now,
But I don't think I picked up any even I
don't know, don't.
Speaker 3: I think you still have a very faint lingering Southern thing.
Speaker 1: Is not the South?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I okay, fine, sure. The Civil War that's fine. Cool,
you have a Kansas.
Speaker 1: Is cool.
Speaker 4: I'm like, it's cool that we fought for the North.
Speaker 3: I guess why people are not Whenever people say South,
they don't go exclusively the Civil War. That's what we're
always talking about.
Speaker 5: Kansas.
Speaker 4: No one can Kansas is That's something like some of
the calls this like flyover States would say, like anyone
from the like grub you're from the Midwest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would never teensiest bit.
Speaker 7: Maybe I don't know, it don't matter.
Speaker 3: It's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about your accent.
I'm not talking North. I think the North. How's the North?
But there are a lot of people with Southern accents
at Ohio and yeah, I think you yeah, yeah, it's
that sort of thing where yes, but maybe I don't.
I don't really notice in Dan, like you have an
example backler of like Dan's like lingering southern stuff, because
that would.
Speaker 6: No, I feel again if we want to just call
it like a Kansas. I just hear that a little
bit obviously more than I hear.
Speaker 3: And it's the way darling all the time, darling, And
he's always passing me sweet tea when I see papers. Yeah, yeah,
I think it's that, like papers. Did you get over
getting the consumption? Yeah, you can constantly worried about the
peach crop.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 6: I just hear that, But it's not prominent by any stretch. Like,
I don't think it's it's the I don't think it's
like the hallmark of your dialect for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I never considered myself having any kind of like strong accenter.
My voice has changed dramatically. I mean, look up the
Twisted from twenty ten since the surgery.
Speaker 3: Seriously, a dead serious man.
Speaker 1: I said it.
Speaker 3: I said it at the time.
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, yes, two years ago. So yeah, they changed
the holes. They did change my hole.
Speaker 3: Put another hole in a flute, it's gonna sound differently.
Put another hole sounds very different. His boice get higher
or lower. I can maybe use some holes. I think
it got a little gruffer. I think it got a
little really yeah, I could see it a little bit.
Speaker 1: I might get the summer.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is such an easy experiment to do
for yourself at home. Go listen to a thing from
like five years ago and listen to it now. It's
not better, it's not worse. It's just different interesting.
Speaker 4: So like when I yeah, so like a twenty twenty
three or early here you go, early twenty twenty four
BombCast versus late twenty twenty four, Well, I.
Speaker 1: Would do five years ago before to really have a yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the early like Game in Former stuff. If those
early replays, I'm just a different human being there. It's insane.
Speaker 6: I think for the most part, you do have like
a non regional dialect I think, but I do hear
like what I consider whatever in my theater of my
mind as a Kansas accent, I think comes out very
very rarely, and again not in like a prominent way.
Speaker 4: I think certain words I've seen people talk about how
I say like multiplayer, Like I say multiplayer and yeah,
I think some people say multiplayer, which makes sense, it's
an eye, but also like oh yeah, when you're playing multiplayer.
Speaker 1: Multi certain I never noticed that. Yeah. I've seen people
in like commons mentioned that before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, or like a four f R also for
like almost like an feerh I use that for this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh I'm learning a lot, right, it's just common. Yeah,
it's not like our job is talking to each other
for a living, you know, for the birds. Oh right,
two more emails and then we'll uh give the podcast
will become another podcast.
Speaker 6: Wait real quick, I want I want to hear if
Dan can do can you do a Minnesota can you
do like a don't you know kind of thing that's like.
Speaker 4: A Fargo that's more like a North like I just
think like Minnesota, you know, oh yeah yeah, it's like
oh yeah yeah sure yeah yeah the real yeah guy
slept with the broom you know, sure critters get in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
Speaker 4: Like man, I always thought he's crazy that. Tim would
always say like, oh yeah, I'll borrow that to you.
I'll borrow that to you, borrowing it. You guys have
a US regional accent, you do enjoy hearing. I like
hearing Memphis accents.
Speaker 3: Anyone who sounds different than me is awful. No, Yeah,
I like New York accents in Southern accent I like
them all. They're fun. I think I know you. I
mind them, they're fine. Boston pisses me off, but other
than that, I think fine. Yeah, I think I got
there's nothing more exotic than a pretty lady with a
really strong Boston accent. Just brain a little bit right,
something just not matching there.
Speaker 7: I like Chicago accents just because of the super Friends
on sn NOL, right like not.
Speaker 3: Bad, Yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 1: One of those guys.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, just like sitting at some dark bar talking
about the locals, a lot of Miller lights that.
Speaker 4: Oh, somebody photoshop Manati into the super Friends, you know,
super fans, super fans.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 6: The Newfoundland Canadian accent is oh yeah, wild, how's that going.
Speaker 3: It's kind of almost Irish sounding Scottish. It's like, it's
really bizarre that that's what it's I mean, I guess,
not bizarre, it's just different. Uh, that's yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'sok, straight up Irish.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I alluded to this at the beginning of the email segment,
but mister Backlar made Steve from Saratoga feel bad. This
email is addressed to keyboard Daddy Jeff Backlar. Last week,
he snickered when Mike mentioned using a desk with a
pull out keyboard tray. I suppose I am ashamed to
admit that I, for one, still buy them and add
them to any new desk I purchase. I actually I
recently bought a seventy inch desk to start playing PC
games side by side with my wife. The desk is
an ugly behemoth that costs two hundred dollars. Two keyboard
trays combined for two hundred and fifty. I don't understand
how people can function without these things. If jeffor was
a real gamer who played real video games, he surely
would have noticed the sharp corners of the desktop surface
digging into his pasty wrists, or the fact that his
elbows are the suboptimal angle for extended game accessions. What
perhaps if Jeff knew that keyboards could be used as
input devices for video games, he would realize how high
he has to raise his chair to correct his ergonomics
and scorched hear. Holy, even raising the chair presents the
problem of lowering the screens relatively to your field of view,
and not all monitors are alien wearers with adjustable heights.
So please, I really want to know what the solution
for this is, because although Treys solve the positioning issues,
they were pain in the ass to install and expensive.
Thanks for reading, Thanks for the content, and chame on
Jeff for treating Mikey that way. Yeah, how dare you
miss installing trays?
Speaker 3: What a loser? I mean, he's on my side. I
was joking, Steve, Steve, you're fucking man like Steve you're
talking about there. First of all, it's about time someone
really gave it to me. You know, it feels it
feels good to be alive. I forgot what that feeling is.
Speaker 1: Like. Oh, I protect you guys from some emails.
Speaker 6: It's fucking insane that you think adding a keyboard tray
is less convenient than lowering the monitor with like, you know,
a stand Like that's insane to me.
Speaker 3: I think I should all set up like the way
I would want, Like when i'm when it's time to game,
when it's game time. Yeah, And when it's game time,
my arms go like to my side, ninety degree angle.
They're right on the keyboard, right on the mouse, and
then my eye is aligned with the very top monitor,
which is what I want. And I'm sure I'm good,
no tree, no tray.
Speaker 7: I mean also like, oh, your eye, you guys are
way higher than my My my eyes are like at
the middle of my monitor because.
Speaker 1: Of the tray.
Speaker 3: It's called a preference, it's yeah. And also the tree
you like.
Speaker 7: Have you considered that my preferences are better than your better?
Speaker 3: Yes, I have considered that. I have considered it, and
it's wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Generally they do suggest to have the top of
the monitor kind of level with your eyes on the
kind of the top of the monitor with us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the very tippy top, but like, yeah,
the top coller than average, right, like yeah, yeah, I
mean also this comment about what my desk looks like, sure,
my wrists are pasty, you've you've gotten there email or Steve,
But I don't have any sharp corners, and I certainly
don't have a tray hitting me in the crotch every
time I pull it out when I want to type something,
get in the tie.
Speaker 1: Of my legs.
Speaker 6: I mean, what like nineteen eighties basement am I going
into where I find one of these trays?
Speaker 3: Anyway, I may be hateful, but what was that?
Speaker 6: I don't I don't know, Uh, yeah, I just I
mean from start to finish, Steve, I gotta disagree with
everything you said.
Speaker 3: No point for you, whatsoever do.
Speaker 1: You use like a wrist guard at all for like
your keyboard and mouse? Like I feel like that helps
out with sharp edges. I do need the risk guard.
I have a little tiny one, and it's like stuck
in place where I like it. So I won't list
it up to show you guys, but I need that desperately.
Speaker 3: Explain the sharp edges to me because I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I don't forget, I don't are there are corners on
a desk right mine around you know, mine around edges
on your desk?
Speaker 6: I do, Yeah, it's like a standing desk is It's
it's almost like a yeah, there's nothing, there's nothing.
Speaker 3: Have right angles.
Speaker 7: I realize that, Yeah, mine are extra sharp because of
the little latches that click onto the tray.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's the.
Speaker 1: Maybe only has sharp edges because he keeps installing lap
or keyboard trays.
Speaker 6: Exactly, nothing bad can happen there with all that hardware
machinery that flaps for things to get caught in its knocking.
Speaker 3: But I could have just installed a keyboard tray on
that desk that I gave away because that didn't have
a keyboard, true one that you didn't want to build,
and so you definitely would have installed a keyboard. Trade
that sounds hard, I might so or something. I don't know.
I'm joking everyone.
Speaker 1: I know. I don't need a solder or something.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 6: The only the only thing Steve has said here with
any value, aside from the wrisk thing which you got me,
you got me, uh, is that I'm a bad gamer.
Speaker 3: I'm not a real gamer that you got me good jow.
Speaker 1: Don't make that that's bad for our brand.
Speaker 3: You're better than anyone.
Speaker 1: Kind of funny.
Speaker 3: That's all that matters, that saying.
Speaker 6: And I'm saying that with the caveat of there's places
I excel greatly. You gotta under you gotta under under
promise and over deliver here.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's that's what I'm going for.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we gotta take them up on that Forts of
Horizon competition thing.
Speaker 1: I would love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's all done and dusted.
Speaker 1: I feel like they never go to ye.
Speaker 3: On the couch.
Speaker 1: I think I'm tickled by this, like heated rivalry between
between us and kind of funny where a game will
be out and we'll think, like, how can we beat
them in this?
Speaker 3: But I'm some of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm only going to kiss some of them, yeah,
on the mouth. And you at home, I have to
wonder who Mike gets tongue.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, French Canadian kissing is what that's called.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I just need to reset myself. There be last
email of the show comes from BH. This this hurt
my mouth to read earlier. Clipboard is typically typically pronounced
clipboard unless you're jam but clapboard is pronounced clapbird. Does
Jan pronounce it clapboard? Bh? I think this is just
further proof that my methodology is correct. All right. You
know the thing that happens when you like introduce yourself
to a new group of people and then they start
to learn the intricacies and like the oddities of how
you approached the English language. That is fluid enough, So
why bend myself to any rules of it. I'm going
to keep practicing elasticity in my command over the English language.
So I dropped the whole clipbird thing to them, and
you know, met with stunt silence, and then someone legitimately said,
you are so brave, You are jan.
Speaker 3: This is proof of free will.
Speaker 7: Know if you want to be talked to you like
you're anna make a wish kid, you're sore.
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take any type of afform.
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, whatever, any sort of pity give it to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go, folks does it for emails? BombCast
Join bomb dot com is the email adress into your
emails to thank you for everyone sending emails. And people
are actively sending emails right now, trying to solve Dan's
TV laptop issue right now. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: I'll get it fixed.
Speaker 1: It's a whole deal.
Speaker 4: It's HGMI handshakes. It's but once the steam machines out,
everything's good.
Speaker 1: Uh, Jeff Grub, I think it's time for the podcast
within a podcast.
Speaker 3: It's it's time for grub Guesser. Everybody, let me actually
upload these photos to you guys right now. Greb Guesser
is the game where I'm gonna share video game or
video game related magazine ads with the folks on the podcast,
and then they have got to guess what it is
an advertisement for. We got our first one here for
you guys.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Actually, make sure I'm recording you as well. Uh yeah,
turn off chat and all that stuff. Okay, so your
first ad here is an old timey sort of like
throwback looking archie style, uh drawing illustration here that has
a girl talking to a guy in a car. He's like,
come with me, let's go for a drive. I have
a blank and then she's excited he's got a blank.
And there's more to it than that. But why don't
you guys go ahead and start guessing advertisement before Outrun?
This is an advertising for the Atari Links Sam what links? Yeah?
Speaker 4: It's portable, Like, yeah, okaya.
Speaker 3: What what? What video game is this paired up with?
Speaker 1: This? One's a little bit harder, I thought, it's not outruns?
Speaker 3: His clas that's wow, just lost.
Speaker 1: Two guys.
Speaker 3: See the Japanese dialogue before it, where the words leaks
and clacks. I don't see that.
Speaker 1: Really impressed.
Speaker 3: I didn't know. I didn't know it was among a
cheater like clac sins.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't know, she says to Cla really
connected with that claes ad.
Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, wow, is that all right? Well?
Speaker 3: I do have a second one for you to hang on.
Speaker 1: Let me.
Speaker 3: I hope I did a better job blocking this one out.
Let's be obs man. You spent so much work, all
this other stuff, so much getting there. I'll get you
guys the full one here in a second. All right, here,
let's see this is the other one. I did have
to block a lot of a blackout a lot on
this one as well. But go ahead take a look there.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: So for audio listeners, yeah, there is a big scary
alien and he says, grab your blank and blank. Oh
that's all they can see. Run like advertise before, Run
like this was a snake. This is an advertisement for
the video game Run Like Hell.
Speaker 1: Wow does it say somewhere there? Did Jane read it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: But it's yeah, but it got to keep just use
context and grab your blank and what and run like hell?
What is the balls?
Speaker 1: Dick? It's an advertisement for Balls the drinks.
Speaker 3: Oh really, Jade? Did I not black out something here
as well?
Speaker 1: No? I that's one. I remember thinking this ad was
so hilarious as a kid because they wrote balls, What Balls?
It was a drink in the late nineties early two thousands,
and they paired it with the game Run Like.
Speaker 3: Hell for several magazines.
Speaker 1: Yep, what Balls? I don't have good institutional foundational knowledge
of games, except for the balls ads and run like
Hell was like an alien game.
Speaker 8: It was yeah, monsters, Yeah, I don't remember it, but
I got the full ads there.
Speaker 3: If you want to show anyone at home, I just
put them in our chat here. Yeah, there you go those.
There's the Atari links ad which just says links and
Atarian clacs all the funk over it. And then I
missed the two where it was amongst the Japanese, get
you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Play that off? And we would have been so impressed.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, you should have had us going for a
little longer.
Speaker 1: Not the record show.
Speaker 3: Ay have a bad liars right, which is sometimes useful
because if people accuse me of lying, I'm like, I
don't think so. Balls was balls, like I remember balls
was it? It was like an energy drink.
Speaker 4: It was like around time, like everything was like, oh,
it's got gink go blow. But and then like balls
grana you know, yeah, like yeah, the Frutopia era.
Speaker 1: My mom did let me have it because I thought
it was inappropriate because it said balls.
Speaker 3: Right, she was right, She's right. Now that's grub guesser.
A short episode this week. Let's get back to another podcast.
Speaker 1: And we're back with the Giant BombCast. Mike Manada hit
me with some YouTube super.
Speaker 7: Chats if we have any Yeah, Nemo f says, can
I wait for GB at night? Looking forward to singles
on couch? Grab your activation? Where's confetti? Finally goes to
the back rooms?
Speaker 1: Very good?
Speaker 3: Horror?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I don't know anything. Just spark inside of me.
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3: Tony moere Ross says, I bought a fifty dollars and
sixty four controre just to play the new Starbucks.
Speaker 7: Can't wait to play the way God Miyamoto intended be next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can you just use it on sixty four coture
for the star Tacks room make I think they said
exactly that you could.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I would not want to do that. I
think you're broken.
Speaker 3: No, I just like I played it with the pro
controller and I'm like, there's no way.
Speaker 1: Of sixty four controller is going to be better than
this beautiful right?
Speaker 3: Who could grab an N sixty four controller right now?
It's Oh, it's dance looking dance. Mike Scott one, I've
been in the room. I've been holding an sixty four
co tour more this past month than I think I've
had at any points.
Speaker 6: It's like, I gotta be right, that's gotta be true. Yeah,
I'm just you play it with the freaking pro. I mean,
come on, oh, that's a game A GameCube controller will
give you no points.
Speaker 4: It's one generation away.
Speaker 3: I didn't talk about it anymore, but I like, I'm
still playing Citing Punishment on nso. Oh that game is good.
Speaker 1: I want to play through that again. I like that.
Speaker 3: Man. I want to actually play it with an sixty
four because that's a weird one where you have to
I think you hold it right hand in the middle
and left hand on the DM. Yeah. Yeah, and it
feels is kind of like Naughty is.
Speaker 4: I think within twenty five feet of here, I could
produce at least a dozen and sixty four controllers. At
least a dozen, yeah, maybe fifteen plus. Yeah, I mean
we're kind of the but that ones. Maybe twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I gotta get all the fun tasks. I have all
the fantastic ones. I think I have all the colors
that I have, the gold one. Yeah, I just got
the gold Classic controller that came with Golden Eye double
oh seven. I just bought that a toy Fair this weekend.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I had that one with the and I
got a matching gold rumble pack.
Speaker 5: Shit.
Speaker 3: M hmm, alright. Don Bey Poren says, could twenty twenty
six back of Our beat GoldenEye on Secret Agents. Oh
that was the difficulty I did, as opposed to like
nineteen ninety seven backlar Is that? Yeah? Yeah? Exercise? Yeah?
I mean did you have you played much of the
Golden Eye? Can't multiplayer?
Speaker 5: I never?
Speaker 3: I never played the single player.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: It will take me a while. Yeah, like I eventually
I could. I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1: You know, if your life depended on you had, you know,
like a month to do.
Speaker 3: It, I'm sure you would. I'm sure I could. Uh, Mike, Mike.
Speaker 7: EM's bought Army says Dan will never beat space A.
Speaker 3: So thank you Mike for doing Blake Club on your
time code. And I really like shit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of my viewers, I think, ended up
thinking less of Golden I than even I did.
Speaker 1: Right by the time, Mike, did you find some of
the people watching your streams had they also played GoldenEye
in the past or just didn't have any experience with it?
Speaker 7: They a lot of them had some experience with it.
There weren't There weren't a ton of defenders in my.
Speaker 3: Chat, Dan was the big one.
Speaker 4: I watched all of that and I kept thinking like, Okay,
do I really believe this or am I just saying
this to get Mike worked up?
Speaker 3: And I was like, no, I do think it's the
best FBS of all time. That part is still wild,
Like there's clearly a few Sure it's caused marital strife.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, how can you actually think it's better
than Titan Fall two?
Speaker 1: Come on? It is?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: No, it was doing it was just doing more at
the time. Yeah, put yourself in nineteen ninety seven. Stop
stop putting myself in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 4: It's twenty I'm always putting myself in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3: I can sell it's Alex and go go come Tutor.
It's worse now.
Speaker 1: This is about the new AI computer sequel Tutor two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I like computer too. Viva tong Gus says,
off Wark today, thanks to bad constipation, what a day
for Mikey's face and not be on my bum One
three to sixty five days is still good odds for
merch ideas to work out. I am all right, who like,
I get it?
Speaker 1: You want like a merch thing, you want my face
on your butt?
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 7: I was just looking at some more shorts to buy
from Roosevelts because I bought I got Tailspin shorts from
them because they did a Disney afternon collection.
Speaker 3: You're pretty comfortable, so I was thinking about buying some more.
And they have some Lamb Before Time shorts and I
might buy Lamb Before Time shorts and wear them. It's
about myself. Do they have tree stars on them? I
think they do have quite a lot of tree stars
on them. Actually, yeah, there's that. There's a Sonic there's
a bunch of Sonic ones, like all sorts of sonic ones.
And then and an Admiral Akbar comic book style one
of like different things of him saying it's a trap.
I might get that one as well. Can we just
do that with you your face instead? And it's just
Mike saying it's a trap, a bunch of yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but it should say doggy style though, let's be honest, Yeah,
I guess it should.
Speaker 1: It should just be a blank speech bubble, and you
the folks at home can write in what you want. Yeah, yeah,
I like that.
Speaker 3: Uh miggs, He says, A Bully episode a day keeps
bored them at Bay. That's why everybody make sure you're
watching the Bully and Endurance run. I know a lot
of you are, and you've been saying nice thing, so
appreciate that. But it's a very every weekday. It's a
very very fun fun episode after episode. Great job, guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I know, like you know, a couple
of days here that's gonna be a little weird with
us traveling, But Bully Durance Run still happening. So and
then Ma says, well s, you have twenty twenty six
the continuation of the damn food discovery that will annoy
Mark even more, annoy Mike even more than he usually is.
How did I say my name? I said, Morc.
Speaker 3: Mike here more. You are fucking more.
Speaker 4: We're going to retire the Mitch jersey. You're now more
after great?
Speaker 3: Great, I'm an alien? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But what was last was mustard? Last time?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Pretty normal?
Speaker 3: Now there's dare you say hi? Get on the phone?
Speaker 1: What's left food? Now? There's there's a whole salt thing.
Last week, Yeah, there's there's a different thing here. We're talking.
Speaker 4: There's there's meat tasting and trying foods and me understanding foods.
These are two different conversations. We're talking me trying foods
pretty much all of the things, catching mustard, onion salads,
you know, all.
Speaker 1: This ship may are you still in a fermentation.
Speaker 4: In the don't understand bucket, but you wouldn't eat it
either though, Right, it's fine. Don't worry about fermented stuff
all the time without knowing not really, yeah, fermented stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know that. So look like we were, you know,
we look at us a year removed from the mustard scandal,
and we're like, it'll never happen again. We're fucking idiots.
If history is any indicator, O, yes, something happening. I'm
that mushirt on.
Speaker 1: A Costco dog last week. I'm proud of you, Dan,
thank you. I just I remember uh that being the
talk of the town in this little tent at SGF.
I now associate that place with mustard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, strangers applauding him. It was tremendous.
Speaker 1: Other people in games, media, people and development, the day
workers at SGF.
Speaker 3: Peely himself came over and graced you it was really
did come and he did? What that Grandpa Simpson like, well,
I'm out of here. Oh the GB guys are here.
Fuck never mind?
Speaker 7: All right, that boy Jerry says, need a feature of
jam playing run like hell asap jan like hell we well.
Speaker 3: Consuming nine balls per like every nine minutes.
Speaker 1: Let's get me a walking pad also, so I have
to be walking the whole time.
Speaker 2: I like it?
Speaker 3: Okay, what is that game?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: I feel like I don't know much about it.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of m d K in my head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my mind goes to Apocalypse, Bruce Willis, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like it was more like PS two era, right, yeah, yeah,
kind of like m d K.
Speaker 3: M d K two is okay, Yeah, very weird, best game?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah. Tomy Morawa says the war was on fire, jurf,
let me have this? What do you mean? Yeah, I'm
trying to remember Antonio the keyboard tray guy.
Speaker 3: No way, could I wrote that person's email down?
Speaker 1: That wasn't Then.
Speaker 3: You're gonna find a journal with that guy's email just
written over and over and over again. Know what what
is it about? See?
Speaker 7: Maybe maybe Antonio can very far for us. In the
YouTube life chat of one of you can keep an
eye on that anytime. Zombie Porn says also, I'm not
sure if you all know who Lace Claypool is Less?
Speaker 3: Is that Less?
Speaker 1: It's bless me.
Speaker 3: Bass player?
Speaker 1: But is that Will's father could Will play the bass guitar.
Speaker 6: I don't think in a million years he could name
the band that Less Claypool is from.
Speaker 4: I bet well, he's definitely heard a song of theirs.
Speaker 1: He heard heard.
Speaker 3: You think he's heard of.
Speaker 4: The heard only in the context of that one song
that ever won Tony Hawks. No, I don't know any
such bands. He knows the theme song.
Speaker 3: That Will song.
Speaker 1: Will is typing in chat the Beatles. Yep, the Beatles
band is like they pulled from Jesus. I don't know.
Speaker 3: You don't worry Prime. I'm like, I'm prim people. Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 7: I have a friend who likes Prime miss a lot,
so I know a little bit about Primate.
Speaker 3: Okay, and Tony Morales was talking about the N sixty
four controller and using it for star Fox. He's child
like you, Oh, Antonio, you're you still have agency, like
you're allowed to you to do what we say. He
says that, but when I try back of our shows
up my house and slaps me on the wrist right
out of his stop that you dumb ass.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's costing us the fortune Antonio Police, by all
means use the worst controller.
Speaker 3: I don't you know, live your life, you guys.
Speaker 7: You guys are read that thing where like Rare wanted
the reload and go to work by actually taking out
the rumble cart.
Speaker 1: I love that so much.
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, probably would have been impractical and probably would
have been.
Speaker 3: Again yeah. Uh. Next up is from Jim round Sounds
to shout to my friends and colleagues at dark Horse
Comics for unionizing dark Horse workers.
Speaker 1: You know it's really good.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, always like dark Horse.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, then.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: It's even funnier knowing that he's from Primus. That's that's
not very French, unless you my French.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha. Not Branch, I don't know. I don't
know about more. It's like you jumped onto a rake
and then like jumped back on it or something.
Speaker 3: Uh not brand and nine Night says, how can go
and I be the best FBS of all time? When
Agent under Fire and night Fire exist?
Speaker 4: I don't think I've played through those two. I do
want to play them.
Speaker 3: You should probably knight Fire, Yeah, j under Fire is
almost just kind of proto night Fire in some ways.
It's good first night Fire is just the better version
of that. And then Missy Mabel says, would Dan be
open to doing a salt tasting table sea pink et, cetera.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love salt.
Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, yeah, of course I would.
Speaker 1: I would say I'm very pro salt. Yeah. I like
salt too. Mikey, can you hit me with annan well question?
Just say it like it's just say it is that
it's from Mark and Mindy.
Speaker 3: Oh god, Mark and mint Man now brook at Mindy
wasn't even on like Nick at Night very much. I
feel like it was when I was a kid, like
probably like watching Nick at Night, like and then you
got like by the time you were watching it, You're right,
it wasn't on there. It was because we had I mean,
I had Happy Days constantly, and it's a Happy Day's
spin off. But somehow, Yeah, I didn't see much more
than Mindy on there.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Migsy says super did tomorrow. Hussein also quit Game Spot.
I don't think so, I have phone.
Speaker 1: We we don't report on our friends business. Yeah, but
he'll be on the couch, you know. Yeah, all right,
then we are caught up on super chat. Thank you everybody,
Thank you Mike Minati and thank Did.
Speaker 3: You think I can play star Fox with the Jaguar controller?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 1: I hate that. I hate that control.
Speaker 3: Television. Look at this fucking thing. It was supposed to
be there. It was like the oldIt targe controls where
you would put like paper over weird other like phone.
You know, yeah, what cames even?
Speaker 1: That's so many extra inputs. Great simulators like.
Speaker 3: What the five did Alien versus Predator use it in
some way? I want to say with you that would
make some sense.
Speaker 1: I yes, boys, we got an interesting week ahead of us.
Your normal programming is going to be a little bit
on hold. We're traveling tomorrow, on Wednesday and Thursday. We're
setting up because this is SGF week. We got a
bunch of talkovers starting today. We are talking over the
state of Play, like Greb mentioned, We're going to be
talking over the Summer game Fest, talkover the show with Keeley,
the Xbox Showcase. We'll figure out a way to talk
over the Nintendo One once that is in our line
of sight, but also Gang Friday and Saturday, we have
the couch. Jeff Grub is convinced a bunch of people
to talk on it. That's right. GB at Night returns
six pm to twelve midnight Pacific time. Jeff Grubb has
lovingly assembled and crafted a bunch of segments for you
folks at home. And we promised we won't shoot Dan
with a confetti gun this year. Thank you.
Speaker 3: It's more promise. Oh man, Okay, that's right, it's it's fun.
I keep looking at the schedule. There is one where
I literally don't know anyone who's gonna be well, I
know Mike Manati is gonna be on there, but I
don't know who the other guests are, and I won't
until later this week. And that's like, oh guy, I
won't know what that's all about. Tune in and find
out for yourselves, everybody. A lot of fun stuff happening
on that couch.
Speaker 1: A lot a lot of fun stuff, A lot of
hard work is going into this, Jimmy jam we hope
you folks enjoyed. And since you know programming this week
is going to be a little bit funky, I suggest
you go back to last week where we had the
finale two finales.
Speaker 3: Of No, No, No, it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: That did not happen. That I had the Portal Piles
finale where Mike and Mary Kish played through the co
op campaign of Portal two. If you guys just want
to hear a lot of random sentences that have never
been uttered by another human being except Chaos and Karnate
Mary Kish, go watch that series. But also we had
the series finale of Mary Mee Tomo dacci Uh with
our dear friend Abby Russell out of this world. Good
to have you back, Joy, Good to have you back. Ye.
Speaker 6: Wow, I'm off, I'm four seconds younger now wow, wow,
you're interstellared cool.
Speaker 3: I'm inside your bookcase.
Speaker 1: Ye maybe that's where his keys are. Folks, boys, did
I miss anything else.
Speaker 3: That we are doing this week? Now you got?
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that New Nine Lives, Yes, oh yes, yes,
New nine Lives for all the pre members out there. Also,
if you're a Premium member and a YouTube member, you
get all of the Bully Endurance Run episodes a week early. Uh,
those are all locked and loaded. While we are away,
we might have a couple more surprises in Hidden in
the Chamber. We do have a double O seven review
discussion roundtable that it should be going up tomorrow. Gang,
can't wait to see y'all in Los Angeles. Hell yeah, yeah,
save the travels.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Friends of the show, friends of the website can't wait
to see y'all as well.
Speaker 3: Gang.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week for another episode the Giant BombCast.
Until then, we'll see you at Summer Gay Best. He's
but Jeffy's, But Jeffy's been my He's been Dan, I've
been jammed. Shouts out to Will, shouts out to Shuck,
Shouts out to Sean, sorry about Shawn, Sean McDowell for
Aaron Dan. We'll see you next before another episode of
the Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: Until that, good
Speaker 1: Happy,