Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, March eighteenth, twenty twenty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight hundred and eighty two.
Speaker 1: I'm your host jan at Choa, joining me co captain
Speaker 1: of the ship Chef Crub.
Speaker 2: I just looked at my own camera feed on the
Speaker 2: website we use, and I got upset at my own
Speaker 2: resting dick face. So I'm like, man, you look like
Speaker 2: kind of an ahole, all right, speaking about a holes.
Speaker 1: He's the opposite of one because he's our local anarchist,
Speaker 1: the bad boy. You have games media, the pugs. My like,
Speaker 1: MANAUGHTI well, I.
Speaker 3: Got introduced before Dan, look at me, go it's me.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh I see.
Speaker 5: I was like this must be Dan when you talked
Speaker 5: about a holes. But all right, sure, yeah doing here?
Speaker 2: Why are we turning on each other here?
Speaker 5: Now I'm looking at the feet, I'm like, yep, still
Speaker 5: pretty pale. That one weekend in Florida didn't didn't do enough.
Speaker 1: So I still think you may have residual fester makeup on.
Speaker 1: That's what people.
Speaker 2: It comes. I'm just imagine. I imagine your flight crossed
Speaker 2: the border, the invisible border of Ohio and the Tan
Speaker 2: like broke off like eggshell and just fell to the frind.
Speaker 4: It's like when Homer shaves and then it immediately just
Speaker 4: grows back.
Speaker 5: I was picturing like the snap, but like it's you know,
Speaker 5: it turns the leaves, but I'm behind.
Speaker 4: It's just this pale husky.
Speaker 1: Speaking about husks and eggs. He's patrolling all all of
Speaker 1: your local grocery stores trying to figure out just what
Speaker 1: a beat it looks like or is Dan Rikert.
Speaker 4: I did get an update from my father. He texted
Speaker 4: me back saying he has definitely never bought a radish
Speaker 4: or a turnip.
Speaker 2: Yeah. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 4: Vindicated?
Speaker 2: That's a very strong word. I know a thing that
Speaker 2: can happen.
Speaker 1: Vindicated not only a quality that Paul Reker can give you,
Speaker 1: but also a dashboard confessional song from Spider Man two.
Speaker 2: He's just the boy.
Speaker 4: I was never an emo guy. That's what dashboard confessional is, right, Sure,
Speaker 4: I might have to be because I got a little
Speaker 4: personal update if I see him a little off. Going
Speaker 4: through a bit of a breakup right now? Got one
Speaker 4: going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, me too? At your too, jan Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: also going through a breakup, are you go.
Speaker 2: It's okay, I'm the same things happened to me. Oh no, wow,
Speaker 2: me too.
Speaker 1: Wow, the four of us bring it up.
Speaker 2: It's not with the same person, is it?
Speaker 1: Well wait?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: Who Dan?
Speaker 2: Who did you get broken up with?
Speaker 4: The doctor of phuconomics?
Speaker 5: Chan?
Speaker 2: Me too, he did it to me, joke.
Speaker 4: God damn it, Sina. He was seeing all of you
Speaker 4: at the same time too.
Speaker 2: He broke up with me yesterday.
Speaker 5: It wasn't even in the same goddamn county.
Speaker 2: He did it over television. Yeah, from Brussels.
Speaker 1: I don't even know where Brussels is.
Speaker 2: European Union. I thought.
Speaker 4: I thought he's going to the home of my ancestors
Speaker 4: to break up with me, to like rup it in.
Speaker 4: God damn, what a jerk.
Speaker 2: He's not.
Speaker 1: He's not a heel, he's not a baby face. He
Speaker 1: just broke up with us.
Speaker 4: They cut to that fucking kid with all the Scena
Speaker 4: stuff on, just staring at the camera seeing it pointed
Speaker 4: them out specifically, and they cut to him. It's the
Speaker 4: funniest ship. I was cackling out loud to myself.
Speaker 2: Oh, especially because you know that kid is sad in French, so.
Speaker 4: They had a good chance they had a really good chance.
Speaker 2: European wrestling audiences are maybe the top.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah he was oh man, him pointing out
Speaker 1: and singling out every other like adult man wearing full
Speaker 1: John Cena gear, like.
Speaker 2: You like you you just drink or drake or drake.
Speaker 1: Wow Sina, Oh my god, such an asshole.
Speaker 4: Like it's exactly like I don't even think I knew
Speaker 4: I wanted this version of the heel. I thought I
Speaker 4: was gonna be like, oh, he's got yeah, the new gear,
Speaker 4: the new music, and then he specifically knew everyone wanted
Speaker 4: that and use that as part of being here, like no,
Speaker 4: you don't get that, you don't. Oh fuck, this is good.
Speaker 4: This guy is really good at this. He should stick around.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I I've never bought a Scena shirt because I thought
Speaker 1: they were always cheesy. But I kind of like that
Speaker 1: rally video game one.
Speaker 4: I got that video game one it pro.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: Hey, we know he was one of us. He loves
Speaker 4: cran of Conker, he loves two D Metroid. We can
Speaker 4: thank him for Metroid dread.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's been inside the Nintendo Prison Cube
Speaker 2: before playing The Switch. God, I love too.
Speaker 5: There's maybe only like six things I like more than
Speaker 5: two D Metroid, and I won't say what they are
Speaker 5: because people feel left out.
Speaker 4: But I love two D Metroid. I played a little
Speaker 4: super Metroid this weekend on the new Trantron and let
Speaker 4: me tell you that's that's pretty fun.
Speaker 2: Still don't like me as much as t D Metro.
Speaker 2: Definitely not. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm like totally. I want
Speaker 2: to make it clear. Yeah, no, I wouldn't expect to,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Jan twenty bucks for that thing. Was was a steel
Speaker 4: absolutely like if you have to look at my blue
Speaker 4: sky folks and just it's perfect. It's like an old
Speaker 4: couple that bought it new, they were the original owners.
Speaker 4: It's sat in a room they said they barely ever
Speaker 4: used it. It looks like I just grabbed it from Kmart.
Speaker 2: At least the smokers. So there's something bad about it.
Speaker 4: Well, it was in like a like SHEHD like a
Speaker 4: WORKSHD and so it's good smells like sawdust, which I
Speaker 4: kind of.
Speaker 2: Like, that's kind of nice. So that's a good smell.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's just really fucking nice. That's fun. Link
Speaker 4: of the Past and Supermantor. I went right to U
Speaker 4: S and E s I feel like that's like the
Speaker 4: best for the spell. I had sixty four on it,
Speaker 4: like Maris, sixty four looks incredible. Oh shit, twenty dollars
Speaker 4: and for like the ideal.
Speaker 2: C R two. I wanted it.
Speaker 4: Oh nice, didn't get myself bring it down the stairs either,
Speaker 4: that's great.
Speaker 1: That's especially important. We have an email about an injury actually,
Speaker 1: and oh we'll get to that. How's everyone else doing
Speaker 1: other than getting their heart broken by John Cena?
Speaker 4: That was pretty I had a good weekend.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you you had a little trippy trip.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know how much you can share about it.
Speaker 2: I don't want talk about quite a bit.
Speaker 5: She was like, like, I was never made me signything orthing,
Speaker 5: but yeah, I was at Epic Universe, the U, the
Speaker 5: very new the part that Universal has opened in Orlando.
Speaker 5: It's not really opening for their two months. This wasn't
Speaker 5: even media previews or anything like that. It was employee previews.
Speaker 5: A friend invited me to join the group. They can
Speaker 5: thank you, they can thank you. So it was this
Speaker 5: incredible experience. I got to go on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 5: This is the park that has the very big super
Speaker 5: and tended the World so been the one in Hollywood.
Speaker 5: It's just you know, much bigger in scale. And you
Speaker 5: know they have the Mario Kart ride. It's it's better
Speaker 5: there too. The field of view on the ar.
Speaker 2: Okay O cool.
Speaker 4: So they're still like almost like the Tiger r Zone
Speaker 4: you guys that Hollywood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's better there.
Speaker 5: There's like an extra gift shop, there's more of those
Speaker 5: little games to play.
Speaker 4: But you have two other rides here.
Speaker 5: You have the Yoshi Ride, which is this cute little
Speaker 5: thing where you board these Yoshi's and I'm Dan you
Speaker 5: would love just going into the line is like so cool,
Speaker 5: all these references to Yoshi's Island, walking in there, immediately
Speaker 5: playing the the stage like song, you know.
Speaker 4: I was like this is good.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 5: What Yeah, yeah, Yoshi's all like Yoshi's and there's it's
Speaker 5: a cute little ride with all these little like it's
Speaker 5: even in the interactive element there is like it's a
Speaker 5: little bit like Disney Junior, like can you find the eggs?
Speaker 5: I click the button on your car because it's you know,
Speaker 5: it is a kid's ride, but lots of Yoshi's Island
Speaker 5: references and I was on a green one Hero Yoshi.
Speaker 1: Of of course, Yeah, mikey did you get to try any
Speaker 1: of like the the new foods they were teasing, like
Speaker 1: that that weird hot dog.
Speaker 5: With Dorito's, so like, you know, very early previous, so
Speaker 5: a lot of food stands weren't open yet. I did
Speaker 5: pop into their Told Sou Cafe. Even that's bigger, a
Speaker 5: lot more seating in there. The highlight is the whole
Speaker 5: Donkey Kong Country section.
Speaker 2: Not just the The whole section is the whole.
Speaker 5: You go through this tunnel and you were just suddenly
Speaker 5: in Donkey Kong Country. Monkey's playing is to the rights,
Speaker 5: and that's where the merch is.
Speaker 2: Is there?
Speaker 4: Any is funky there?
Speaker 2: H walking around will be baby? No baby not there?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, sorry, I think just DK is going
Speaker 3: to be a walk.
Speaker 5: Rammy's there. There's a game you can play with some
Speaker 5: bongos to summon Rammy. The rhinoceris, which is fine. You
Speaker 5: can collect the Kong leaders with your power up band
Speaker 5: they have for the four letters hit around the park.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But then the ride is this mike cart ride and
Speaker 5: just the facade of it is so cool because there's
Speaker 5: this giant waterfall. You see the mine carts like the
Speaker 5: ride going through one of those giant barrels and shooting
Speaker 5: over the top of it, and like the whole ride system.
Speaker 5: If you haven't looked into this, it has a kind
Speaker 5: of fake rail that it looks like the cars are on,
Speaker 5: but the rail is actually much lower than that.
Speaker 3: So when you're on the right, does all this neat
Speaker 3: stuff with misdirects, like.
Speaker 5: Oh, you're almost like it looks like you're gonna hit something,
Speaker 5: looks like the track's gonna go this way, but actually
Speaker 5: you're gonna jump the track.
Speaker 3: And things like that.
Speaker 2: Really cool. The line has a Krikey Kong animatronic. Oh cool,
Speaker 2: talks to you and he's talking to squawks the whole
Speaker 2: time too. What what's what's the accent they went for?
Speaker 5: He does not sound like the movie version, just kind
Speaker 5: of sounds like an old man. And I think it's
Speaker 5: a better sound for it, Okay for sure. Yeah, So,
Speaker 5: but just like just standing around there and vibing and
Speaker 5: Donkey Kong country was so so amazing being on the
Speaker 5: ride and when you're outside just get these great views
Speaker 5: and it has synced audio on the ride and it's
Speaker 5: just playing Donkey Kong country music that sounds so freaking good.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I loved the Donkey Kong Country coaster, and
Speaker 5: I'm a bit of a wimp with coasters. This was
Speaker 5: definitely a mighty size coaster was still pretty good for
Speaker 5: me to do. But there's just so many elements and
Speaker 5: thematic things to it. I won't get, you know, any
Speaker 5: big spoilers about those moments, but yeah, that ride ruled.
Speaker 2: But then god, there's three other lands.
Speaker 5: There's a dark Dark Universe is the classic Universal Monsters.
Speaker 2: It looks so cool and pictures so cool.
Speaker 5: The ride there is kind of like the Harry Potter
Speaker 5: and Forbidding Journey ride. It's that seem system, but just
Speaker 5: on crack and way. It like way more animatronics and
Speaker 5: less screens, so it's just so freaking.
Speaker 2: Amerse cool and cool.
Speaker 5: How to Train Your Dragons section that is like the
Speaker 5: big Sleeper hit, so beautiful, so pretty. There's a there's
Speaker 5: another coaster there. It's a bit more intense, but still
Speaker 5: relatively family friendly. There's like a Broadway style thirty minute
Speaker 5: show thing, all sorts of beating greets. They got a
Speaker 5: guy who sounds so much like Hiccup that I think
Speaker 5: it's just Hiccup. I think they they found the computers
Speaker 5: to just make cartoon characters reel or something.
Speaker 4: He's done a fantastic job.
Speaker 5: There's another Harry Potter section, of course, and this it's
Speaker 5: funny because it's Paris. It's seemed around that one movie
Speaker 5: nobody's saw. But of course they did a very very
Speaker 5: very good job with that. That was the one ride
Speaker 5: that wasn't open, but we walked through the queues.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 5: But yeah, not to pimp another podcast, but I go
Speaker 5: into a lot of detail on this on a new
Speaker 5: nineties Disney that should be going up today.
Speaker 3: So uh but yeah, look, incredible time.
Speaker 4: There were a Harry Potter movie that people didn't see.
Speaker 5: Beast movies, No, there you got damn Yeah. They made
Speaker 5: they made like new ones that were prequels.
Speaker 2: That's when where they explained why the Wizards didn't help
Speaker 2: defeat Hitler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they had their own Hitler that smoked out
Speaker 1: of a skull hookah, right.
Speaker 2: And it would have been worse if they had stopped Hitler. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Shoot, Hitler exists in Harry Potter.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and shoot Rolling wants to tell you why
Speaker 2: it's okay that he was around.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good movies, Bobbies in the one. Yeah they do. Yeah, there,
Speaker 2: they're a hell of a thing. Five minutes ago on
Speaker 2: this podcast, Dan said the Tiger R Zone and we
Speaker 2: were all just like, yes, we know that thing. We're
Speaker 2: all very old men, and I just no, no.
Speaker 4: Let me guess something. Grub you instantly knew. Instantly, Jan,
Speaker 4: you don't, but you were just letting it go and
Speaker 4: Mike with some jostling, you remember it is that correct? No,
Speaker 4: I immediately knew what you were talking about. Oh okay, okay, Jan,
Speaker 4: do you know the Tiger R Zone?
Speaker 2: Tiger R Zone? It sounds familiar.
Speaker 4: I had the Virtual Fighter one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've seen this, but I'm not old.
Speaker 4: I for Christmas once. It was the main thing I
Speaker 4: wanted because I thought it was gonna beam just like
Speaker 4: I thought it because in the pictures you would see
Speaker 4: somebody every kid looked so jazz to be playing in
Speaker 4: the magazine and they would have like lasers shooting into
Speaker 4: your eyes, and but you especially wouldn't really see a
Speaker 4: lot of gameplay stuff in these ads. So I just
Speaker 4: assumed it'd be like I'm in Virtual Fighter if I
Speaker 4: get this thing, And then I got it for Christmas,
Speaker 4: I demanded on the way home from my grandma's house
Speaker 4: that my mom stopped at like a Walgreen so I
Speaker 4: can get a billion AA batteries and I can set
Speaker 4: it up. And it is a little handheld like licensed
Speaker 4: Tiger things that are just like there's like two buttons
Speaker 4: and it just sucks ass. It's that, but it's red
Speaker 4: wireframes projected on glass in front of your face and
Speaker 4: you look.
Speaker 1: Like a little dragon ball scouter. Almost.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is the most dragon ball scouter thing.
Speaker 4: I kind of I guess I didn't appreciate that back then. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it sucked it.
Speaker 1: Speaking about getting old gents, Oh yeah, we'll get into
Speaker 1: the podcast. Why the fuck did I wake up this
Speaker 1: morning with intense lower back pain? And then it took
Speaker 1: me like an extended amount of time to roll out
Speaker 1: of bed and think.
Speaker 2: Maybe I can't go to work my back hurts.
Speaker 4: If there's any solace I can give you about this,
Speaker 4: it's just the fact that at some point, sooner than
Speaker 4: you'd like, it's not going to surprise you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it just becomes a friend. You can
Speaker 2: name the pain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your day, Oh it's not a hand lower back day.
Speaker 5: I talk to you guys about how I need to
Speaker 5: get to like Disney shape or theme park shape, like
Speaker 5: I have like a regiment two months out like this.
Speaker 5: This trip came together very fast. It was like, oh, right,
Speaker 5: I got to be there this weekend. I did not
Speaker 5: get to get into the.
Speaker 2: Parking ranke right.
Speaker 5: Some might say I am in the worst shape of
Speaker 5: my life.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Was hurting black bloh bah by the time I got home.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my let's ankle just left ankle hurts so much,
Speaker 5: Like I should get that looked at.
Speaker 2: You gotta get back on the roids. I think, no help.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because y'all were talking about during records Roulette yesterday
Speaker 1: about deadlifting.
Speaker 2: Was that yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I was seeing like, yeah, I can deadlift
Speaker 1: a lot. My lower back is super strong. And then
Speaker 1: this morning Karma fucking yeah punched me in the lower
Speaker 1: back and was like, no, no, no, you're old now.
Speaker 4: And then the frustrating thing I'm getting older too, is
Speaker 4: there's a lot but it's like I'm training for a
Speaker 4: marathon this year, and it's like as I'm starting the
Speaker 4: training recently and stuff, and I'm just like, why the
Speaker 4: fuck did I wait until I was forty to start
Speaker 4: training for marathons like I was twenty once I came back.
Speaker 4: Then I was not working out at all. I was
Speaker 4: just drinking and eating garage when my body was at
Speaker 4: the most ready for this type of stuff. Now I'm
Speaker 4: fucking forty and I really have to take precautions.
Speaker 2: And it was really training to be old and out
Speaker 2: of shape back in the twenties. Now I'm training to
Speaker 2: be kind of like I was twenty maybe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Hey, if you're twenty something out there, take
Speaker 4: take advantage of becuse that's the most old guy thing ever,
Speaker 4: like you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm only I'm only
Speaker 1: twenty five, so I got a long way yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh no, now I'm lying about my age.
Speaker 2: I have old.
Speaker 4: You should get a see her t Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Do really want to see her. My problem is I
Speaker 1: want a CRT vc R combo.
Speaker 5: I want to Yeah, I have one of those. It's
Speaker 5: my childhood one. I don't know how great it's running
Speaker 5: these days.
Speaker 4: I still have it.
Speaker 1: I just because I just want to pop some tapes
Speaker 1: into it and just you know, do you.
Speaker 5: Shared all these VHS tapes you got Dan And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: he's leaving. But I'm like, that's that's the one road
Speaker 5: I cannot possibly travel. I can't get into VHS collecting now,
Speaker 5: that is just so much space taken up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to have like twenty five of them
Speaker 2: in like a box in my closet or something like that.
Speaker 2: I don't need more than that. Damn what he got there?
Speaker 4: But so well I did. Also when I bought the TV,
Speaker 4: they had a billion great VHS tapes from the nineties
Speaker 4: that were a dollar apiece from there. But no, it's
Speaker 4: not the best. These are ones I bought separately. I
Speaker 4: forgot what show it was on where somebody told me
Speaker 4: about the existence of these. But this is the very
Speaker 4: best of two Time, which is eighty four minutes of
Speaker 4: just tool Time episodes with on the back it's just
Speaker 4: Tim Tim Tim Allen's mugshot from selling coke at airport.
Speaker 4: Then I also got every Mortal Kombat fatality, every fatality,
Speaker 4: every animaloty, every friendship, every stage fatality. Uh, just in
Speaker 4: a row. So I can just start nice looking boxes
Speaker 4: like these are just like the right, These are new,
Speaker 4: these are custom made. Yeah, these aren't official products. No, No,
Speaker 4: that's that's yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I can't I can't venture down bespoke. I know,
Speaker 2: I'm like VHS to see what happens.
Speaker 4: I should put over the actual store because it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they do good work for sure.
Speaker 2: That's really cool.
Speaker 6: All right, everyone else is doing okay, everyone else is fine.
Speaker 2: Before we get into the.
Speaker 4: Pod, No Good Tapes is the name of the Etsy story.
Speaker 2: No good Good.
Speaker 4: They do a ton of and they also take like
Speaker 4: modern like alien romulus on VHS, like that type of stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. Probably deeply illegal, but very cool. So
Speaker 1: check it out, oh real quick. Before we get into
Speaker 1: the actual pod, shouts out to no Jason Finelli Joey
Speaker 1: Famelli from testa dot com names are too close to
Speaker 1: each other forgiving for sharing his pizza dough recipe with me.
Speaker 1: I made a pizza over the weekend. Ovens are weird,
Speaker 1: huh Yeah. Yeah, Like I'm just putting a baking steal
Speaker 1: into it.
Speaker 4: I was literally think of this yesterday too, because I
Speaker 4: realized I'm now at the point where I do definitely
Speaker 4: know the difference between a stove and an oven. But
Speaker 4: I still was troubleshooting my stove yesterday and typed in oven,
Speaker 4: so I'm still working on it.
Speaker 2: Look, my opinion is it's weird that there's a box
Speaker 2: in your house that can get up to hundreds of degrees. Like,
Speaker 2: if I think about it that way, yes, ovens are weird.
Speaker 2: How did you mean it, Jana Choa?
Speaker 1: I meant it as in using a baking steel, which
Speaker 1: is pretty much a sheet of metal. No st Okay, Yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't, yes anyway, and then.
Speaker 4: You up.
Speaker 3: I went off kilter from that.
Speaker 1: The age is catching up to me.
Speaker 7: The first thing to go, Yeah, I'm Benjamin Buttoning through
Speaker 7: this podcast, and the instructions on the baking steel were
Speaker 7: crank your oven up hella hot hot as it can go,
Speaker 7: and leave that ship in there for an hour.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, all right. And then the instructions
Speaker 1: were when I'm ready to go, when I'm ready for pizza,
Speaker 1: time to throw the pizza onto there, but switch to
Speaker 1: the broiler because the pizza steel is so hot at
Speaker 1: this point that it'll cook the bottom with the residual heat.
Speaker 1: And that's insane, that's scary, that's crazy, scary.
Speaker 4: Just throw them out, dynamics it.
Speaker 1: Just like, I, why is there on top of this
Speaker 1: hot box in my house that can reach hundreds of degrees.
Speaker 1: Like Grub said, now there's a sheet of metal in
Speaker 1: there that's like terrifyingly hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's scary. And like I don't know if
Speaker 4: you're this might just be like an ADHD thing or something.
Speaker 4: But like when my head is just always in a
Speaker 4: like I can see myself and I've done it before,
Speaker 4: just thinking of something else and like grabbing the pan
Speaker 4: out of the oven or grabbing out the stovetop when
Speaker 4: it's like I don't even think about the fact that
Speaker 4: it's unbelievably hot.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm usually not in that situation, but I
Speaker 2: definitely am in the situation where I might left the
Speaker 2: oven on. That oven's been on for two and a
Speaker 2: half hours.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I yeahing with that.
Speaker 5: There's definitely Thanksgiving that I went to where I had
Speaker 5: to cook the rolls and I got to like the how,
Speaker 5: and I was like, I am pretty sure I did
Speaker 5: turn the oven off.
Speaker 4: Was like even go back, Like yep, sure enough, man,
Speaker 4: I impressed the ship out of myself yesterday. I hungry, Yeah,
Speaker 4: because it's like I just I threw a chicken in
Speaker 4: the souvid and I'll do that and then I'll like
Speaker 4: see what I have around and what I could do
Speaker 4: with it, Like I'll make some potatoes or carrots or whatever.
Speaker 4: I took the chicken out, I seared the chicken I threw.
Speaker 4: I chopped up some onions and roasted some onions in
Speaker 4: there with some canola oil. I put some avocado in there,
Speaker 4: some greens I made. I made a couple of cups
Speaker 4: of quenoa uh, and then cheese tortilla strips, some avocado
Speaker 4: ranch sauce. I made this fucking like Southwestern bowl with
Speaker 4: chicken and quinoa and roasted onions and ship and it
Speaker 4: was good as hell. And it wasn't like recipe. I'm
Speaker 4: just like learning how to do this stuff.
Speaker 2: You're just jazzing over the styling.
Speaker 4: It was so good.
Speaker 2: Sometime I was like, I made this.
Speaker 4: I just came up with this. This is great.
Speaker 2: Now. Do you think turnips would have improved it?
Speaker 4: It's impossible to know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, one, No, it could for sure, that's true. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, Well, we're gonna switch things up on the podcast
Speaker 1: today and we're gonna star ared with the news Dar.
Speaker 2: I wasn't torn about this, I said right before we
Speaker 2: went up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was been distracted as okay, Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, fair enough. I can read the news, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do so right now, let's get through some
Speaker 2: of these headlines. But as does Oblivion, Unreal Engine five
Speaker 2: remake could be releasing sooner than you think. Rumors and
Speaker 2: have been, and a bunch of corroborated reports suggest a
Speaker 2: fully remade Elder Schools five Oblivion by Virtuous, which is
Speaker 2: the same team that is doing that Metal Gear remake
Speaker 2: Meddle Gear Solid three Delta. Uh, they're doing it unreliged five.
Speaker 2: That could release as soon as May or maybe through
Speaker 2: the end of June, so we'd probably have to hear
Speaker 2: about it soon and then this thing could pop off
Speaker 2: like a month later, maybe two months after that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, this rumor has been going around for a
Speaker 2: while that this game existed. It's kind of been an
Speaker 2: open secret. Every once like, yeah, that's that's happening, that's real.
Speaker 2: They still not ever acknowledged it publicly, so we're kind
Speaker 2: of waiting for that to see what it even looks like.
Speaker 2: But at this point, just get announced the next couple
Speaker 2: of weeks and then launch right after that. You guys
Speaker 2: looking forward to an Oblivion remake in Unreal Engine five.
Speaker 1: I never played Oblivion, so I feel like this would
Speaker 1: be a good way to finally check that out.
Speaker 4: It's really good. It's maybe my favorite one of those
Speaker 4: for its time, I think.
Speaker 2: So, Mikaia.
Speaker 5: You know, it's it's pretty equivalent to Skyrim in a
Speaker 5: lot of ways. It's an uglier game than Scarram for sure,
Speaker 5: and this will hopefully help with that. But the quest
Speaker 5: design is really really cool. I think, you know Skyrim
Speaker 5: and it works. It is a lot of snow, right,
Speaker 5: there's a bit more biodiversity here for you know, if
Speaker 5: it's not biodiversity, but to look at one landscape constantly,
Speaker 5: I'd rather look at grassy fields than jef snow. But yeah,
Speaker 5: things like the Thieves Guild quest whatnot or very memorable here.
Speaker 5: The expansion for it, Shivering Aisles, was very very good,
Speaker 5: So that content will be amazing to see. Had Patrick
Speaker 5: Stewart in the beginning that was yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 5: remember looking this game quite a lot. I think it'll
Speaker 5: be really neat to see what's a remake of it
Speaker 5: can look like. It'll just you know, it'll be interesting
Speaker 5: to see a Bethesda game running in Unreal How does
Speaker 5: that work?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think that's kind of there's more to that, right.
Speaker 2: They're probably not just doing this because this is the
Speaker 2: way this one study wants to do things. They probably
Speaker 2: are considering the future of Bethesda Games and maybe should
Speaker 2: we be making these games and Unreal Engine five? Is
Speaker 2: that even possible with that translate? So they're probably gonna
Speaker 2: figure out some of that together with their work with
Speaker 2: Virtue Virtuos. Yeah, well, I believe it's the game for
Speaker 2: me where it like I'm like, oh, I really just
Speaker 2: like the sandbox stuff. I'm never gonna play this campaign.
Speaker 2: I don't care, and I'm gonna I'm still gonna spend
Speaker 2: one thousand en hoors in here. And the game really
Speaker 2: kind of came together for me and revealed them like oh,
Speaker 2: I just like goofing off in these games. It was.
Speaker 4: It was a really good time for it to come
Speaker 4: out to because I remember like, oh, we have the
Speaker 4: three sixty and it had a pretty good launch. I
Speaker 4: know everyone played a lot of like Call of Duty
Speaker 4: two and stuff like that, but everybody was waiting for
Speaker 4: that that big game, and I remember everyone saying like, oh,
Speaker 4: wait for like March or whenever it came out, be
Speaker 4: like Oblivion's coming in. That's what the fuck is Oblivion?
Speaker 4: And you know, I'd heard Moro win before, but I
Speaker 4: also heard all the complaints about it, and they're like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be like that, but way better. And it
Speaker 4: was my first dive into one of those big kind
Speaker 4: of like Western RPGs, and I one hundred percent of
Speaker 4: that game got ever achievement, like love love, love of Oblivion.
Speaker 4: So I'll play that again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, looking forward to it. Apparently March twentieth, two thousand
Speaker 2: and six is the release dates.
Speaker 5: I remember because it was like this, It was very
Speaker 5: close to what kedom Arts two came out, and I
Speaker 5: was very much looking for to Keeno Arts two and
Speaker 5: my brother Adri was very much looking forward to Oblivion.
Speaker 5: And actually it was years later when I finally did
Speaker 5: play Oblivion. I was too fulk I had years to
Speaker 5: worry about Kingdom Warts two instead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it took you that long to decode the story
Speaker 2: at that point. That back then the story was the
Speaker 2: no never.
Speaker 3: Mind just starting to go up. The rail was a
Speaker 3: bit with ude is starting.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Uh, Chat reminds me, says that March with Oblivion
Speaker 4: Fight Night Round three and Gras was so awesome. Man,
Speaker 4: that here are those three back to back to back.
Speaker 4: It's like, yep, I remember that. That month was just like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is the three sixty, like the face ship on
Speaker 4: Fight Night Round three, the just egregious. It was so good.
Speaker 2: And also it's like it was much more video game
Speaker 2: monoculture back then, because I would like listen to one
Speaker 2: up yours and maybe so they would talk about all
Speaker 2: those games. Then I would go turn on the Xbox
Speaker 2: three sixty and every single person on my friends list, yeah,
Speaker 2: forty to fifty people. Everyone would go from the one
Speaker 2: game to the next game together. Yeah. Everyone was just
Speaker 2: going from like grawl into oblivion and it was like, okay,
Speaker 2: so we're all just gonna go talk about this now.
Speaker 5: And then there were gas that were like that, like
Speaker 5: Prey was one of those. The first Lost Planet was
Speaker 5: one of those. For maybe even the first Dead Rising.
Speaker 4: Yeah Rising was huge. Yeah. I never got in the
Speaker 4: Lost Planet.
Speaker 2: It did either. Actually me, I tried a couple of times.
Speaker 2: I thought it was weird becase I'm like, this doesn't
Speaker 2: do anything for me.
Speaker 1: I liked it a bunch. I liked running around in
Speaker 1: the snow, and I do I did.
Speaker 2: Get like I was looking into it the other day.
Speaker 2: I'm like, could we play a cooperative lost planet uh
Speaker 2: today and see what that looks like. I'd be curious
Speaker 2: just to check it out.
Speaker 4: Are we all collectively just entering the age of three
Speaker 4: sixty nostalgia? Because like, between all these lists we've all
Speaker 4: been making lately and now we're all getting jazz. I'm
Speaker 4: just talking about memories of three sixty?
Speaker 5: Is that the star spot for There wasn't a time
Speaker 5: where it was like, considering the Xbox three sixty a
Speaker 5: retro console is crazy, yeah.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, that's not crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, twenty
Speaker 4: years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean I think it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. You know, we're GameCube? Was it
Speaker 2: like the black hole of like a retro game nostalgia
Speaker 2: for a long long time? And I think we're just
Speaker 2: getting over the hump of like that. It's taking up
Speaker 2: all the oxygen out of it.
Speaker 5: It's interesting though, because like I don't think there's gonna
Speaker 5: be a giant xboxery sixty collecting scene because one of
Speaker 5: consoles signed Portley and Break a Lot and you know,
Speaker 5: like you get Xbox three sixty, what does that look like?
Speaker 4: What do you want?
Speaker 3: You want blades right, and you're gonna plug it in.
Speaker 5: Maybe you're gonna get avatars and that's super clean, white
Speaker 5: and all. So pretty much all of those games are
Speaker 5: just on PC and are cheaper and look better. So
Speaker 5: it's you know, collecting for three sixties kind of weird.
Speaker 4: That's funny. Like I always found the like Nostalia sweet
Speaker 4: Spot with the audience and just us is like always
Speaker 4: about you know, fifteen to twenty years behind, because I
Speaker 4: remember when I started the game and Former in nine.
Speaker 4: You know, it was like all the retro stuff I
Speaker 4: was doing on replay to start was like S and
Speaker 4: E S stuff. You know, it was like a lot
Speaker 4: of links to the past and things like that. In
Speaker 4: a couple of years, then I start realizing that, like
Speaker 4: oh man, when I started doing like Mario Party videos
Speaker 4: and like in sixty four stuff like those are really
Speaker 4: blowing up. Those are doing great, and like five years ago,
Speaker 4: you're right, GameCube was definitely a big thing, and now
Speaker 4: it's like I do kind of feel like we're moving
Speaker 4: into that three sixty era, you know.
Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely, I mean I think we could uh do
Speaker 2: like an Xbox Live Summer of Arcade stream, like play
Speaker 2: a bunch of those games, and I bet that would hit.
Speaker 4: Those for a lot of time. Write that down. I
Speaker 4: got on Misplosion man.
Speaker 5: Okay, hey yeah, oh he's going to play on a
Speaker 5: Commando rearm Oh good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not the hot one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We should do Love More Trials Trials too, Yes, and
Speaker 1: plus I love plus plus.
Speaker 2: Yep. We could do a pac Man Championship Edition DX
Speaker 2: and just tournament or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 4: People won't shut up about Wick in the Fable of Souls.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, I can't well walk five steps out
Speaker 2: of my house without being assaulted about that.
Speaker 4: Game Shadow Complex. Oh yeah, we have to do it. Yes,
Speaker 4: let's do maybe Okay, yes, yes, yes, I'm writing that down.
Speaker 2: To appreciate that summer, our summer of summer.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'll do that for records. Let the money, I'll
Speaker 4: take a look at that would be okay.
Speaker 2: The first portable Xbox could reportedly hit shelves this year.
Speaker 2: Microsoft has uh reportedly worked with a sus on a
Speaker 2: project called Project Canaan. I'm gonna say Canaan. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if that's exactly how to say. It's not Keenan.
Speaker 2: Apparently there's no there, uh Canaan aimy for a unified
Speaker 2: library of Xbox and PC games. Uh, basically is gonna
Speaker 2: do the hardware. Microsoft is going to tell them what
Speaker 2: they need from the hardware and then do the soft
Speaker 2: for environments, so the OS, the interface, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: They're bringing back Blades hopefully for this. But yeah, this
Speaker 2: is the kind of thing where it's like, I think
Speaker 2: they might still make their own hardware separate from this.
Speaker 2: This is the quickest way to just like get something
Speaker 2: out there and solve the biggest problem with PC handhelds,
Speaker 2: which is the interface can be cumbersome sometimes, and Microsoft's
Speaker 2: acknowledged that. Phil Spencer's talked about that repeatedly, So them like,
Speaker 2: you know that they have a team inside they're trying
Speaker 2: to make a UX experience that actually is fun to
Speaker 2: use and easy to use on a PC handheld and
Speaker 2: sounds like they're going to launch a product focused on
Speaker 2: that this year. You guys, like, how are you feeling
Speaker 2: about your handheld PCs right now? And do you need
Speaker 2: an Xbox one.
Speaker 5: It's a little bit weird, Like I'd like my Asis
Speaker 5: rog Lax quite a bit still, but I also am like, Okay,
Speaker 5: let's see what the switch to can do. And let's
Speaker 5: see just how many things get poored. They're including Xbox
Speaker 5: games anyways, right right, very luckily just show up on
Speaker 5: the switch to But you know, I'm still gonna be
Speaker 5: curious what the Xbox thing looks like, even though I
Speaker 5: kind of expect it to be very similar to a
Speaker 5: rog ally X yeah.
Speaker 2: And similar and interface to the way the Xbox works,
Speaker 2: which is, you know, I'm used to that these days,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm okay with it. I think it's
Speaker 2: pretty good, but it's not gonna blow anyone socks off
Speaker 2: to be like, yeah, okay, Xbox UI on a handheld PC.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe they have other ideas, but I
Speaker 2: don't know what kind.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is gonna be black black somewhere
Speaker 1: on it? In my head, I feel like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be sand Camo.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just think it's gonna be Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be sand Camo.
Speaker 2: It's gonna just have like a big X on it.
Speaker 2: I've been I've been playing Donkey Kong sixty four, so
Speaker 2: now every time I think about I don't because I
Speaker 2: got the N sixty four over here hooked up and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I I'm like, I hate that game, I think,
Speaker 2: but I'm I bet it's better than I remember. I
Speaker 2: just really, you know, there's a hacked version of the
Speaker 2: of that rom where you could switch the characters out
Speaker 2: on the fly. He fixes a lot. Huh yeah, and
Speaker 2: I'm like that. I haven't played that, bink. If I
Speaker 2: had that, I bet that would fix just about most
Speaker 2: of my problems with that game.
Speaker 4: It's the backtracking, and yeah, that's the worst part. It's
Speaker 4: I kind of like to back then. But as someone
Speaker 4: who has many times in his life been like, I
Speaker 4: bet it's better than we think it is, and gone
Speaker 4: back and done a whole series based on it. No,
Speaker 4: it's got the right reputation.
Speaker 2: That That's kind of where I'm settling in at least
Speaker 2: like it looks all right. But yeah, Funky Kong and
Speaker 2: his fatigues in that game always sends me. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what are you doing?
Speaker 4: I hope everyone at that Antarctic research station is enjoying
Speaker 4: the copy.
Speaker 2: Multiple times now.
Speaker 4: I'm sure, I dream if.
Speaker 5: They haven't had things yet, Wow, yeah, we don't know.
Speaker 5: We haven't checked in on one.
Speaker 4: Bottom came out.
Speaker 2: Apple Arcade is getting a brand new Katamari Debossi game,
Speaker 2: as well as a Space Invaders game next month. This
Speaker 2: this Katamarry Demassi Rolling Live, as it's called, uh, looks
Speaker 2: like a full on katamor Katemory game. But it's gonna
Speaker 2: be locked to Apple Arcade at least for some time.
Speaker 2: But because it's Apple Arcade, I mean, so it won't
Speaker 2: have micro transactions. It's gonna be a real video game,
Speaker 2: like a lot of the Apple Arcade stuff we've gotten before.
Speaker 2: And I'm okay with this. You know, I have Apple devices.
Speaker 2: I will probably try to play this on there. But
Speaker 2: even if I have to wait for it to get
Speaker 2: on switch to or or PC six to six months
Speaker 2: to a year later, I'm okay with that. Just happy
Speaker 2: that Katamari is still rolling along.
Speaker 1: I wonder how they're gonna make the levels given that
Speaker 1: the King of the Cosmos is now a hit streamer.
Speaker 2: Yes he's a Yes, he's a live streamer. He's a
Speaker 2: press record with uh yeah live on TV. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: a streamer in this game, now, Dan, Yes.
Speaker 4: That's good. I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So it's it's a great point of shame of me
Speaker 5: that I've actually ever really played any of these games.
Speaker 2: Somehow.
Speaker 5: I don't know how that happened. It looks like something
Speaker 5: I would like quite a bit. I think you would played.
Speaker 5: There's got to be a delight club where we make
Speaker 5: you play this. Oh yeah, yeah, I think it's like.
Speaker 2: The game I got it was PS two, right, I
Speaker 2: think I got my PS two for this with the
Speaker 2: hope of like okay, and then I'll get Shadow of
Speaker 2: the Classes like so yeah, as soon as it was
Speaker 2: available in the United States.
Speaker 5: That's the best one to play these days. Is they're
Speaker 5: like a good remaster of like one of them. So
Speaker 5: I just played it rich.
Speaker 4: The re roll on switch is good. That's all. The
Speaker 4: first one, which the first one'still my favorite beautiful Katemary
Speaker 4: is really good too, but.
Speaker 5: About always remember we love katamar we heart Katamorus like
Speaker 5: that's a neat title.
Speaker 4: The second one on PS two, I was the second okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's first few. We're all good.
Speaker 2: You should play it, Mike, because the soundtrack is crucial. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you have to have that as a part. King of
Speaker 2: All Too Cosmas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you got it, you got it. Good one
Speaker 4: there Mental Thank.
Speaker 2: You PlayStation is partnering with people can Fly on a
Speaker 2: mystery game franchise. People can Fly, the team that did
Speaker 2: Outriders and Bullet Storm. They put out a thing for
Speaker 2: their investors saying, we're working with Sony on as a
Speaker 2: contract studio on an IP that they own. So it
Speaker 2: could be an existing IP, it could be a new
Speaker 2: IP that Sony owns in some way, but we don't
Speaker 2: know what it is. People can Fly though there's done
Speaker 2: a lot of contract work on stuff like Years of War,
Speaker 2: so they you know, they're associated with being the shooter
Speaker 2: people to make games, you know, the shooting games. What
Speaker 2: do you guys want them to be working on? Jumping?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it out of the way now, so calm.
Speaker 2: I think that's more likely than jumping Flashy.
Speaker 4: But he's an astrobot.
Speaker 2: How many socoms were an astrobot?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 2: Everyone's a so calm if you try hard enough, Like
Speaker 2: come on, what if?
Speaker 1: And I still haven't played the game, even though I
Speaker 1: kind of want to. We get a sequel to the
Speaker 1: Order eighteen eighty six.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I.
Speaker 2: Like that game. I do. I like it.
Speaker 5: I am trying to figure out like what it could
Speaker 5: possibly be. You know, we're talking about three sixteen nostalgia
Speaker 5: so you assume PS three nostalgia is probably equally a thing.
Speaker 1: Lair not there.
Speaker 5: But I never cared for Resistance that much or even
Speaker 5: kills them, to be honest. But you know, maybe those
Speaker 5: and those are ones where I don't think those original
Speaker 5: studios are going back to those franchise. They both moved
Speaker 5: on to kind of bigger, better things. But Mabe, people
Speaker 5: can fly. I can do something with like a remake
Speaker 5: of Resistance. I don't know when I say that it
Speaker 5: doesn't have very much appeal to me, but maybe that's
Speaker 5: triggering some other people.
Speaker 2: Siphon filter.
Speaker 5: I have a lot of value these days, right, That's
Speaker 5: the thing. It's like, look you lad of Meal Jumping Flash.
Speaker 5: But it's like all of these things are almost starting
Speaker 5: back from zero. So maybe just look at the one
Speaker 5: that's kind of the is it interesting? Maybe I'm being
Speaker 5: optimistic there.
Speaker 2: But I mean a little bit, because you know, the
Speaker 2: pessimistic pessimistic version of this is that they are making
Speaker 2: a single player campaign for one of these live service
Speaker 2: games that got green lighted in the last Sure, some
Speaker 2: bullshit we've never heard of before that we actually wouldn't
Speaker 2: care about. Like maybe if we put a single player
Speaker 2: campaign in there. People will care about it, and it's
Speaker 2: people could fly. They could just do that as a
Speaker 2: contract job. So I got it. I got to crack
Speaker 2: the code. Concord.
Speaker 1: That's concord with a campaign. Sure, bring it back, everybody.
Speaker 4: Quick update here as I have been putting together a
Speaker 4: list of potential xbo A games for a stream on Monday. Okay,
Speaker 4: here's here's the Murderer's Row. Okay, yeah, I gotta start
Speaker 4: with Hexakhd the first one. Sure, Dorito's Crash Course, Misplosion
Speaker 4: Man Trials. I would love to see if we could
Speaker 4: play that multiplayer Castlevania Harmony of Despair. We can play that,
Speaker 4: still possible?
Speaker 2: Me and Sean will look into that. Yeah, okay, well
Speaker 2: maybe Parsec.
Speaker 4: That okay, Geometry Wars, Shrek and Roll Cloning, Clyde Wick,
Speaker 4: Fable of Souls and Mad Balls and Babo Invasion, Mad
Speaker 4: all the Stars.
Speaker 5: God, yeah, got a lot of those things were triggering,
Speaker 5: that's for sure. Miss Explosion Man. Yeah uh yeah, I'm okay,
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a good time. I liked mister splosh Man.
Speaker 2: I played some misplosh Man. I didn't play all of that.
Speaker 2: All those.
Speaker 4: And Misplosion Man, right, exactly, that's right.
Speaker 1: I can't believe the credits theme they had for mister
Speaker 1: Splosion Man is part of the reason why I bought
Speaker 1: a ukulele. Really, yeah, I can't believe the craziest sence
Speaker 1: you've ever said.
Speaker 2: No, that makes a lot of sense. Actually, all right,
Speaker 2: AI upscaling on Nintato switch to is basically confirmed thanks
Speaker 2: to an updated patent. Really, we we know, we know
Speaker 2: this thing's going to happen, but there is a new
Speaker 2: patent that just talks about the AI up scaling solution
Speaker 2: for the upcoming switch to. The AI upscaling will allow
Speaker 2: a native five forty P image to output at ten ADP,
Speaker 2: saving storage space for games. That's not really how that works. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's going to make it so that you can run faster,
Speaker 2: becau it's easier to render out five hundred and forty
Speaker 2: you know, pixels horizontally than it is or vertically than
Speaker 2: it is to do ten adp. They're using DLSS. We
Speaker 2: should see this here pretty soon because that April second
Speaker 2: reveal is just closer and closer every day. That is
Speaker 2: how linear time works.
Speaker 4: That is so close.
Speaker 5: I am very excited for that Yeah, I'm curious to
Speaker 5: see what this looks like, if it's going to somehow
Speaker 5: apply to like Switch one backwards compatibility or anything like that. Well,
Speaker 5: I just want to see you. You're saying on Game
Speaker 5: Miss Mornings on Game Breaking News the other day, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that you think there's a good possibility Metro Prime Forest
Speaker 5: talked about quite a bit the switch to Direct.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what the reporting says now, and also
Speaker 2: when the hell else would they talk about it.
Speaker 4: I'm coming out this year? That was so good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, because we're two weeks away, less
Speaker 2: than two weeks away from that April second event, and
Speaker 2: they have to tell us what's going on with that
Speaker 2: game that they've already told investors multiple times this year
Speaker 2: is a Switch one game? Still? So yeah?
Speaker 5: Right, And I mean, look, you guys are trying to
Speaker 5: dunk on me a lot, like, Oh, Mike was gonna
Speaker 5: come out Switch one originally? Yes, but the argument did
Speaker 5: change to what is it going to be mostly positioned
Speaker 5: as a Switch one game or a Switch two game?
Speaker 3: And I think jury still out on that one.
Speaker 2: It feels like if it's a big part of this
Speaker 2: April second event, it's mostly going to be considered a
Speaker 2: switch to game widely. Silent Hill f's release date may
Speaker 2: be sooner than expected. It got rated by the SRB.
Speaker 2: That's that's the story here. This is a thing that
Speaker 2: happens when a game is about eight to you know,
Speaker 2: twelve weeks out, you know, not always it could take
Speaker 2: longer than that. But this is the kind of thing
Speaker 2: that happens when it's you know, not actually that far
Speaker 2: away from release. So Silent Hill F could release this year.
Speaker 2: Did you guys all watch the trailer? I caught up
Speaker 2: on it. I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 5: It was it was good, but yeah, it did not
Speaker 5: have a date, didn't even have a year, So usually
Speaker 5: I take that as a sign of oh, not anytime soon,
Speaker 5: even though there was a lot that they showed in
Speaker 5: that trailer, right, so yes, yeah, maybe they're just being
Speaker 5: kloyd because they want to save that reveal for the
Speaker 5: next showing of this, maybe in some larger showcase or
Speaker 5: just another big drop.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but yeah, it was a good looking trailer.
Speaker 2: Great that the trailer did pop off at like it
Speaker 2: was a Silent Hill like event, right, like a little
Speaker 2: show for Silent Hill news. I like, we'll save the
Speaker 2: date for something else.
Speaker 1: I love how they've been running those events where the
Speaker 1: producers and whoever's talking about the game is obviously on
Speaker 1: a set, but they just add so much CGI fog
Speaker 1: to everything.
Speaker 2: Right, PlayStation has formed a new studio called Dark Outlaw
Speaker 2: Games with Call of Duty Zombies lead Jason Blundell. Sony
Speaker 2: has launched a new first party studio with Jason formerly
Speaker 2: of Treearch and Deviation Games. Deviation was that other studio
Speaker 2: that Sony was working with, I think closed down after
Speaker 2: like the game got canceled. I can't remember the exact
Speaker 2: history there, you know me, I can only think about
Speaker 2: Concord and then Fair Games. Yeah, the studio is working
Speaker 2: in secrecy for now. By Bloondale emphasized the privilege of
Speaker 2: establishing a new studio working with Sony. You know, probably
Speaker 2: probably a shooter game. I don't know. I guess I
Speaker 2: don't know what to expect from from these kind of
Speaker 2: partnerships anymore. On the service, right, come on, probably probably,
Speaker 2: But I mean this is a new studio they're starting
Speaker 2: right now after the last live service thing didn't work
Speaker 2: with Deviation, right, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean yeah, they say they're still committed
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 5: Though, and I bet a lot of them are like,
Speaker 5: we have to make it work still somehow.
Speaker 2: You're right, it's probably hybrid with like, well, it's a
Speaker 2: trojan horse to get to something that is live service.
Speaker 2: But maybe that's not so be so brazen about we're
Speaker 2: making a live service game. For all those live service
Speaker 2: game fans out there, they will probably position at publicly
Speaker 2: a little bit differently, I would imagine, all right, and
Speaker 2: then just a little roundup of Star Wars stuff. Response.
Speaker 2: Next Star Wars game is going to be revealed at
Speaker 2: Star Wars celebration in Tokyo on April nineteenth. That is
Speaker 2: the one that they're working on with bit Reactor, which
Speaker 2: is a studio of former Xcom and Civilization veterans from
Speaker 2: for Axis. It's a strategy tactics game. We haven't seen
Speaker 2: it before. They haven't really actually even said the name
Speaker 2: or anything like that other than just confirmed this is happening.
Speaker 2: So we will get the details about that next month.
Speaker 2: And then Kotor remake is still in the works at Saber.
Speaker 2: They've once again reconfirmed that, although you know, Sony has
Speaker 2: not said anything about it other than taking that trailer
Speaker 2: off of its YouTube page a long time long time ago.
Speaker 2: It's the last thing that happened with that, So definitely
Speaker 2: still some weirdness around there, but chugging along apparently. And
Speaker 2: then Star Wars Hunters is shutting down in October, and
Speaker 2: I know you guys were sad about this one. Oh
Speaker 2: you big Star Wars Hunter's heads.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's us. We were the hunter Heads, the hun guys.
Speaker 2: Just like any Zinga game is what it is, of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what was the fucking Zinga game. It was around
Speaker 4: the time of like some convention, because I remember it
Speaker 4: was one of the things where like a game came
Speaker 4: out for phones everybody in the universe was playing. I
Speaker 4: remember there was one convention or DC or something where
Speaker 4: it's like nobody could stop playing it. You get to
Speaker 4: draw stuff, and it was like it was a two
Speaker 4: player thing, so on a farmville, no.
Speaker 2: Words with friends or something.
Speaker 4: No, No, it's like and I think Zinga bought the
Speaker 4: studio that made draw something. It was to draw something,
Speaker 4: that's what it is. I remember that being the biggest
Speaker 4: thing in the world for like two weeks and then
Speaker 4: like they got bought off of all that hype and
Speaker 4: then no one ever talked about it again.
Speaker 2: We should play draws.
Speaker 4: We're being really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, based on the Breu game draw my thing.
Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, well I'm sure to wonder what a
Speaker 5: Code to or remake looks like, right, because I feel
Speaker 5: like just a few years ago it would have been like, yeah,
Speaker 5: let's make it way more like real time combat and
Speaker 5: things like that. But now we're in a post Bordersgate
Speaker 5: three world.
Speaker 2: Right, and this is a game code Or was a
Speaker 2: game based on D and D rules, so yes.
Speaker 5: It was also bio or just like the first two
Speaker 5: Boulders Gates were. So yeah, you know, it's doing stuff
Speaker 5: like the invisible dice rolls and and things like that,
Speaker 5: and it was great and it's still great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Still I still love playing Codeors.
Speaker 5: So I feel like you go in there now and
Speaker 5: try to you know, Dragon Age, Veilguard or something like
Speaker 5: that that might be received pretty poorly. Like it's one
Speaker 5: of those things where I would be pretty happy just
Speaker 5: to have a relatively one to one remake with just
Speaker 5: some extra juice on the graphics. I don't know if
Speaker 5: that's the scale that they're thinking of. Boy, yeah, that's
Speaker 5: that seems like a very difficult project.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I Code Tour is another series that escaped me as
Speaker 1: a youth, and I'd love to circle back and check
Speaker 1: Tour Jan Tour jantor Code.
Speaker 4: Nights, Knights of the Ochoe of Public.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, I love saying code.
Speaker 4: But it's good. It's a good, very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Although I think a few episodes ago we changed
Speaker 2: it to no. Yes, I was not.
Speaker 4: I was not okay with that.
Speaker 1: The majority, you know, well, sorry, here that's how it goes.
Speaker 2: But a couple other things that I did not put
Speaker 2: his headlines here. The Analog three D has been delayed.
Speaker 2: I've been told repeatedly, well, I guess it's coming out
Speaker 2: in July. Now. I have not actually like tracked down
Speaker 2: the announcement here, Dan, what did it say?
Speaker 4: I just saw people in the chat saying it.
Speaker 2: That's what all else?
Speaker 4: Am I going to play Nintendo sixty four games?
Speaker 2: I know, right, it's impossible.
Speaker 4: I don't have forty devices in this house that I'm
Speaker 4: including numerous Nintendo sixty fours.
Speaker 2: Uh? Dan, say, did your four K CE arrive from retro?
Speaker 4: I've been watching. I've got a tap open with the
Speaker 4: fucking tracking and it's in here. Did you get proved
Speaker 4: through customs?
Speaker 2: And now?
Speaker 4: Which is a labels rated and it's it's.
Speaker 2: In this country. Yes, it's yes, that's all DHL has it.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, I think DHL is pretty quick. I'm
Speaker 2: expecting to get it soon. But I broke down and
Speaker 2: got this thing. I was like talking myself out of
Speaker 2: it all day when they went up for sale, and
Speaker 2: then I think Sean was like, did you get one?
Speaker 2: I'm like no, And then as soon as I said
Speaker 2: I wrote no, I think I went and bought it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They're strong men with good self control. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The iron Will is how they described me. Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 2: This the the Analog three D is in the TENO
Speaker 2: sixty four using the FPGA stuff that they do. Uh.
Speaker 2: And it's supposed to come out early this year. Now
Speaker 2: it's coming out in July and it still says out
Speaker 2: of stock. So if you want to buy one and
Speaker 2: you were like hoping the first run would come out
Speaker 2: so you can get into that second wave, well that's
Speaker 2: probably gonna be much later as well. I wonder if
Speaker 2: they're like gonna get hit with tariffs if they keep
Speaker 2: delaying this thing.
Speaker 4: That would be well, they can't have charge this at
Speaker 4: this point, can.
Speaker 2: They can't charge? Yeah? They can't charge it's more. No,
Speaker 2: that's right now, but they could charge even more to
Speaker 2: that second round of people to like get it back
Speaker 2: on the back end, so they all have to pay
Speaker 2: our taxes for oh jeez. And then the other thing here.
Speaker 2: Warrior sixty four posted that Kroc Legends of are you?
Speaker 5: I thought we were doing such a good chack chack
Speaker 5: cat bussing this one.
Speaker 2: I want to be like, stop telling us about Kroc.
Speaker 2: We're not talking about Kroc on this show. You came in,
Speaker 2: you cowered. Kroc Legends of the Gobbos releases April second.
Speaker 2: I could I mean honestly that this could overshadow the
Speaker 2: switch to announcement Mike.
Speaker 4: We have to talk about it.
Speaker 1: What if it's a launch g Yeah, right, but they
Speaker 1: make it a yosh again?
Speaker 2: Do it arguing on? All right, there you go, everybody.
Speaker 2: Now that we've talked about Kroc, we get in the
Speaker 2: news segment. I can hand it back over to Giannachoa.
Speaker 1: I understand that there is a palpable yearning for Kroc.
Speaker 1: Everyone for the Crocs, yearn for the Crocs. We yearned
Speaker 1: for the Crocs, but please please keep it down, keep
Speaker 1: it satiated. Who is you keep calm.
Speaker 2: Who was telling us about the plot of Minecraft? Where
Speaker 2: was that happening? Did you hear about the child Minecraft
Speaker 2: in the Minecraft movie? The Minecraft movie movie.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume it was NICKI is it Nikki if
Speaker 1: someone explained like the children literally yearned or there's like
Speaker 1: Jack Black's character as a child.
Speaker 5: In the movie, you're literally yearns for the mind. He
Speaker 5: says that in the trailer. That's how the trailer. Don't
Speaker 5: as a child, I yearned for the You saw Sonic three.
Speaker 5: There's no way you didn't see the Minecraft movie trailer
Speaker 5: of those Sonic three is incredible.
Speaker 2: That movie. I've watched Reily three times. That the Dragon Ball.
Speaker 2: It's so nuts, Like there's and there's like chow jokes
Speaker 2: and stuff. Yeah, it's a good time, Okay, fair enough
Speaker 2: from the mines whatever.
Speaker 1: Hey, they've been yearning and we've been keeping them away.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's time to throw them into the mines. Folks.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Have you seen like just the like the toys for
Speaker 3: the Micrap movie And it's a.
Speaker 1: Really weird Jack's kind of an old dad now, like
Speaker 1: it's like kids are what it's my Steve, I kind
Speaker 1: of wanted just so I have like a Jack Black
Speaker 1: action figure because that's fun. Yeah, I'll put him in
Speaker 1: like a little Loocha door mask for not your leap.
Speaker 2: I'll give my little guitar.
Speaker 4: Hey, Mike not eve groaning about this neck like he's
Speaker 4: above it. Meanwhile, if someone, if Jack Specific came to
Speaker 4: you and said we want to make a mitcht Tookto
Speaker 4: action figure, you wouldn't have the greatest fucking thing that's
Speaker 4: ever happened.
Speaker 2: All the kids would love that, man, that'd be you know.
Speaker 5: It comes with costumes of you put me in my
Speaker 5: Roebook co Ops ship, Mike mcquanchi ship. He's already talking
Speaker 5: about all the customization. You can make it your own.
Speaker 4: You can wind it up for raincour Rainforest Cafe action.
Speaker 2: The Kung Fu grip.
Speaker 4: It comes.
Speaker 1: It comes with one of like the little squeezy tube things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I went to Etsy and I typed in
Speaker 2: Jack Black Action figure expecting to find a bunch of
Speaker 2: like custom made ones, and there's just one of Eddie
Speaker 2: Riggs from Brutal Legends that's been three D printed and
Speaker 2: that's it. Wow. Cool.
Speaker 1: I guess all right, all right, folks, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: uh it, look in depth into action figures and see
Speaker 1: how we can mass produce our own Mike Tolkoto figure.
Speaker 1: So look forward to store do Giant bomb dot com
Speaker 1: soon and will be back with some games talk right
Speaker 1: after this quick shirt. Ooh dogs video games.
Speaker 6: It's almost like we strategically planned doing the game segment
Speaker 6: second to meet an embargo on time. Specifically, Assassin's Creed
Speaker 6: Shadows is now out.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have been playing this quite.
Speaker 2: A bit, And okay, Dan, we don't. You don't have
Speaker 2: to immediately jump into hit. We know you hate Assassin's Creed.
Speaker 2: Say that you just said that you you never liked
Speaker 2: an Assassin's Crew. I listened to you, like to you
Speaker 2: like two right?
Speaker 4: Two was fine? I played it. It's the only one
Speaker 4: I beat. I feel like I've started almost all of
Speaker 4: them and immediately gotten bored. This one I expected to
Speaker 4: be the same. But here's the thing, Like the last few,
Speaker 4: I just didn't even really try because it's like, first
Speaker 4: of all, I've always thought just the story and the
Speaker 4: setting were boring, and especially the last one, it's just
Speaker 4: like that's like or Viking and grease stuff or whatever
Speaker 4: just looked especially boring, even for Assassin's Creed and then
Speaker 4: this one. I think it was the setting was kind
Speaker 4: of like, Okay, I haven't really played one of these
Speaker 4: in a while, and a lot of the complaints I had,
Speaker 4: not all of them, but a lot of complaints I
Speaker 4: had about the series are you know, mine were based
Speaker 4: on the old old games and now it's moving around
Speaker 4: the climbing and all this stuff. Like the control scheme
Speaker 4: is a lot better now, and I'm sure that's something
Speaker 4: that's like gotten better over the last few games. The
Speaker 4: setting's cool. The two protagonist things I haven't really run
Speaker 4: into yet because I've just been the woman so far,
Speaker 4: and she's great, Like she's just like really just snappy,
Speaker 4: Like there's something about just like that kind of like
Speaker 4: almost like Ninja style running around like this is like
Speaker 4: what I wanted you to feel.
Speaker 2: Like it'ses where I keep going back to with her
Speaker 2: and with a now a she's very much Tenshue coated.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 4: And also, you know I always hated in the old
Speaker 4: Assassin's Creeds where it's like, Okay, there's a stealth mission
Speaker 4: and install fail if you get caught and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: or you know, it's just like this one. You can
Speaker 4: definitely do stealth, and I have done a lot, and
Speaker 4: it's fun. It's hell to jump off roofs and stab
Speaker 4: guys and stuff like that, but there's not a lot
Speaker 4: of like, oh I got caught, everything's fucked. I mean,
Speaker 4: you can just fight your way out of everything. And
Speaker 4: because I do like the combat in this, you can
Speaker 4: change I know it's not the first game to do this,
Speaker 4: but you can change the combat options and the stealth options,
Speaker 4: so you can basically just dumb down the guards and
Speaker 4: just make it so they're like slower to react to
Speaker 4: things and everything. So it's like I kind of can
Speaker 4: feel like I'm having more fun with the stealth because
Speaker 4: it's not so strict with it. Yeah, it's uh, it's
Speaker 4: got that whole hideout thing grub. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you've gotten to that yet or you're kind of like
Speaker 4: building out your hideout and like kind of your stuff.
Speaker 2: They've just they've done it before. But it's like it
Speaker 2: really works because the Japanese setting, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, if there's a complaint I have that I've
Speaker 4: always had by the series is I've always just found
Speaker 4: it dry and boring in terms of like not having
Speaker 4: much of a personality, and like, I know they were
Speaker 4: always trying that old stuff at the Animus and all
Speaker 4: that shit. I always thought that was just convoluted and boring,
Speaker 4: and now it's just like, yeah, the cut scenes are
Speaker 4: just kind of like I don't give a shit about
Speaker 4: the story at all. They do some like interesting things
Speaker 4: that aren't just like traditional combat things where it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: you have to go to this like tea ceremony and
Speaker 4: you got to like, you know, get a costume that'll
Speaker 4: fit in with and you've got to learn the different
Speaker 4: rituals like how to rotate your cup during the tea thing.
Speaker 4: And it actually has implementations during the scenes and stuff.
Speaker 4: So I haven't been like skipping all the cut scenes
Speaker 4: or anything, but like I mainly like running around stabbing
Speaker 4: people and jumping off buildings and climbing buildings and so
Speaker 4: it's good, and it's like I've been doing it as
Speaker 4: a podcast game because again, the story is very boring,
Speaker 4: so I have not minded at all just running around
Speaker 4: finding stuff and killing dudes.
Speaker 2: So my and I think I'm in a similar about
Speaker 2: you in in terms of how I feel about the
Speaker 2: presentation and the story. I think there's a there's just
Speaker 2: kind of a gap between this game and some other
Speaker 2: open world games. This one clearly is inspired by mostly
Speaker 2: Breath of the Wild and a few a few others,
Speaker 2: but you know, ghost of what's the not Sushima, thank you? Uh?
Speaker 2: And Ghost of Sushima is is very close because yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a similar setting. Of course, ghost Sushima I think
Speaker 2: does a little bit better of just looking beautiful at
Speaker 2: all times, and this one looks very video gaming, which
Speaker 2: I'm okay with, Like it's not like a huge negative,
Speaker 2: but it's like it's just not as etheroroughly beautiful as
Speaker 2: a Ghost was. And then same with Breath the Wild.
Speaker 2: Breath the Wild is a real good job of like
Speaker 2: if you kind of get into a flow state with
Speaker 2: that game and you're just kind of walking around exploring
Speaker 2: at your own pace, it could just wash over you
Speaker 2: with its its presentational beauty. Breath of the Wild this
Speaker 2: game doesn't quite get there. So and the story, as
Speaker 2: Dan said, you know, the game does a lot of
Speaker 2: now a upfront where I've not gone back to play
Speaker 2: the Samurai since the very beginning introduction of him Yas
Speaker 2: I think is his name. Yeah, So okay, so how
Speaker 2: many because I'm like five six hours and I and
Speaker 2: I think that was a deliberate choice to be like,
Speaker 2: we're going to force you to play as you want
Speaker 2: the Japanese character. Here's the Japanese character. Go ahead and complaining,
Speaker 2: because if you can start complaining, it's a one. But whatever,
Speaker 2: we don't have to worry about those chuds it. I
Speaker 2: started playing this game as a the tourism simulator, the
Speaker 2: thing that they've been doing the last couple of games.
Speaker 2: You could walk around the world and there will be
Speaker 2: these animous sort of shiny, shimmery objects that if you
Speaker 2: focus on by holding down the left trigger, it'll be Okay,
Speaker 2: We've add a new thing to your codex. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: well cool, I'm never going to read that, but one time, like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm in this neat like shrine, let's
Speaker 2: see what it has to say. I opened it up.
Speaker 2: It gave me the history of the shrine, of how
Speaker 2: people would go up to this this you know, this temple,
Speaker 2: and they would do this exact thing about Okay, they
Speaker 2: would bow once and then they would walk a little
Speaker 2: bit closer than they bow twice even deeper. They would
Speaker 2: do two claps. They get down on the ground and
Speaker 2: they're described this thing, and as they're describing, like, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's that's pretty pretty interesting. I unpause, and then the
Speaker 2: characters start talking about, Oh, these people are here and
Speaker 2: they're so disrespectful. They go up there, they don't even bow,
Speaker 2: they walk on the cinder path like their gods. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I understand that now because I just read about it,
Speaker 2: and it may be like get into this loop of
Speaker 2: I want to learn more about this world because they've
Speaker 2: clearly just recreated a bunch of things in Japan, the
Speaker 2: historical settings, and I got like off of the story beat.
Speaker 2: I was for a while there. I was just going
Speaker 2: from one point White waypoint to the next doing fun stuff.
Speaker 2: The stealth gameplay is fun when you, like Dan said,
Speaker 2: when you get into a combat after the stealth fails,
Speaker 2: that is also fun and cool. You feel like a badass.
Speaker 2: But once I kind of like decide I'm going to
Speaker 2: have my own fun over here, the game was like
Speaker 2: ready to catch me with something interesting to do. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I really appreciate this, And now I'm like exploring at
Speaker 2: my own pace and moving around. And again it's not
Speaker 2: as like, oh, you're gonna look at the screen and
Speaker 2: just be transported to this other world the way Ghost
Speaker 2: and Breath of the Wild does, but the game differently
Speaker 2: still has its aspect of kind of capturing my interest.
Speaker 2: One other quick thing it does the memory thing from
Speaker 2: a Tiers of the Kingdom. There's like little oh, there's
Speaker 2: like little pads you go to where it's like and
Speaker 2: now he's going to have her flashbacks and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and it's like, Okay, someone clearly was like, well, can
Speaker 2: we take from Tiers of the Kingdom anything? And it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can take that. You're not quite hitting quite as
Speaker 2: hard as that did, but all right, I appreciate you trying.
Speaker 4: A thing that really got me the other day I
Speaker 4: was playing was that, like I was just kind of
Speaker 4: like going off the beaten path messing around, and I saw,
Speaker 4: like there were some dudes fighting and it's like, I
Speaker 4: don't know what's going on over here, but I'm just
Speaker 4: to see who my camera locks onto and kill them.
Speaker 4: I did, and then I killed one and it did
Speaker 4: the like dramatic like does this like effect on the
Speaker 4: screen and stuff, And it took me to my like,
Speaker 4: there is a thing if you go into the objectives
Speaker 4: where it's like there's basically a group of people that
Speaker 4: you need to kill everyone in a circle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very Quentin Tarantino, you know, very yeah, kill Bill
Speaker 2: style and grindhouse sort of thing. Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 4: It like crossed out and I was like, what the
Speaker 4: fuck like that, I wasn't on a mission. I literally
Speaker 4: just stumbled into a guy that I didn't even realize
Speaker 4: who he was. And he was one of the like,
Speaker 4: you know, they're like fifteen to twenty of these people
Speaker 4: you're supposed to kill as a main objective. And it
Speaker 4: reminded me of like mercenaries. Remember the mercenaries the Deck
Speaker 4: of fifty two. Yeah, and you'd just be like on
Speaker 4: the mountain somewhere and you kill a dude. It's like,
Speaker 4: oh shit, that was the Jack of Hearts or something
Speaker 4: that made me think of that, and I was like,
Speaker 4: oh shit, okay, that's cool. I didn't realize these dudes
Speaker 4: would just be around the world and like, I didn't
Speaker 4: know a story would take me there at some point.
Speaker 4: But I just killed this dude. I was like, oh shit,
Speaker 4: objective complete, dude's dead, you know.
Speaker 2: And that's really cool.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing some really good things because I did not
Speaker 1: click with Odyssey at all.
Speaker 2: ADUs is the one that did click with me. I
Speaker 2: did not click with Valhalla or Origins. Odist is the
Speaker 2: one I played quite a bit.
Speaker 4: Of people just people kind of forgotten that Mirage happened. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know, this is is a.
Speaker 2: Side thing, right, Mirage goes back to the original Assassin's
Speaker 2: Creed style of doing things, Like I did play some miarage,
Speaker 2: but this is in line with those other three games
Speaker 2: that would Is it as RPG as those ones? You're
Speaker 2: a bit hot, Mike, Uh yeah, yeah, it's uh it
Speaker 2: is very RPGE. Yes, but it's not at am I Dan.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's colored loot, like there's definitely like
Speaker 2: late like yeah there is, Okay, okay, there is sorry, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: well then yeah, so very RPGE.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it has a lot of different loot and
Speaker 4: I think it all looks pretty cool. So like when
Speaker 4: you get something new, it's not just the stat boost
Speaker 4: and everything, like it reflects on your character. One thing
Speaker 4: I would suggest if you're playing it is I didn't
Speaker 4: love the English voice acting. They have a mode called
Speaker 4: Immersive Mode.
Speaker 2: That's what I've been playing as.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a mix of like Portuguese and Japanese and
Speaker 4: so it's just like, you know whatever they would have
Speaker 4: been speaking in those areas. Now, I found that to
Speaker 4: be a lot more immerciful than yeah, English.
Speaker 2: That's how I've been playing. It works really well. I
Speaker 2: will you brought the Portuguese. That just reminds me like
Speaker 2: Shogun deals with similar things that the FX show and
Speaker 2: that's like, you can't compare this game to like something
Speaker 2: like Shogun, where it's like, oh, this is a let's
Speaker 2: take this familiar setting of people in Japan and kind
Speaker 2: of do something more with it. I mean Shogun, the
Speaker 2: book is quite old, and there was previous shows or whatever,
Speaker 2: but it just like does a really job of exploring
Speaker 2: topics of Japanese culture in a way that we don't
Speaker 2: typically see in Western representations of it. And this game
Speaker 2: is very much like now a story is just a
Speaker 2: revenge story at least so far. Maybe that changes a
Speaker 2: little bit, but it's so far it's just been all revenge,
Speaker 2: revenge story, and it's just.
Speaker 5: Not much to that happen anymore. Yeah, please please do
Speaker 5: something more interesting, and.
Speaker 4: Yes, just do those That's what movies and games are.
Speaker 2: Im like, an exploration of like the Japanese political system
Speaker 2: and things like that that does happen on Showgain that
Speaker 2: would be way more interesting to me.
Speaker 4: Oh no, just give me kill Bill every time.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 4: Give me Zillah so bad because I hate kill Bill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, terrible. The Rogues gallery that you're described in those
Speaker 2: like those the badass bosses and stuff like that, that
Speaker 2: is pretty good. Like them, get like here's a bunch
Speaker 2: of like very strong characters that you're going to get
Speaker 2: to kill later in this game. I'm like, okay, that
Speaker 2: is a pretty good motivator for me as someone playing
Speaker 2: this video game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, middle Gear Solids Starts, Vulcan Raven Giants and Shame
Speaker 4: and Psycho Manas I'm gonna kill all you motherfuckers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I basically have all of those in here. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I've really liked it, although I don't have
Speaker 4: any illusions about like, look, this is the thing I'm
Speaker 4: playing right now, and I'm sure something's gonna come out
Speaker 4: in a week or two and that's gonna take all
Speaker 4: my Actually, I am already playing something that's got my
Speaker 4: attention more than Asasses, and but I it's all to
Speaker 4: say I I have liked this. I've enjoyed this. I
Speaker 4: it's the most time I put into Assassin's Creed since too,
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'll probably keep messing around with them.
Speaker 2: Yep. I'm I'm gonna keep playing for it for a
Speaker 2: while now as well. I've been streaming it to the
Speaker 2: steam Deck. That's been working. They say it's going to
Speaker 2: be steam Deck verified, but we'll see.
Speaker 4: The US have Connect plus stuff is fantastic with this, yes,
Speaker 4: because yeah, sometimes I play in here on the computer
Speaker 4: and you know that runs it and it looks a
Speaker 4: little better. But then if I go one hundred inch,
Speaker 4: I just have the PlayStation there and it's been working
Speaker 4: great there too, So yeah, seamless with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I jump from one PC to the other to
Speaker 2: be able to play on this this TV. And it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, it gives you your latest save, right, It
Speaker 2: doesn't give you like if you have like ten saves,
Speaker 2: it doesn't do all those, but it gives you your
Speaker 2: latest one, which is all you want. So I just
Speaker 2: loaded that up and I hopped right in. You're right,
Speaker 2: completely painless. It's like, man, Ubi stuff did a lot
Speaker 2: of work on Ubi soft Connect, this thing that no
Speaker 2: one ever wants to use except for when it's handy
Speaker 2: for these cloud saves.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember Prince Persia worked great. I went back
Speaker 4: and forth all the time, like, yeah, it's great. Also,
Speaker 4: cutting bamboo in this game is awesome, and there's like
Speaker 4: big defences and if you roll into it, they all
Speaker 4: fall down. The physics are really good on watching bamboo
Speaker 4: fall down. I'm into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not you know, it's not like maybe ubi
Speaker 2: Soft's like most interactive game like a far Cry too,
Speaker 2: but it is definitely like much more alive in terms
Speaker 2: of its physical interactions than a lot of recent Assassin's
Speaker 2: creating Ubisoft games, which I'm like, okay, yeah, can we
Speaker 2: veer back in that direction? That would be great? Yeah,
Speaker 2: good for you be Soft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like they desperately needed this.
Speaker 5: See, I mean it's what the mediccork. If you care
Speaker 5: about such things, an open curs like at eighty two
Speaker 5: and eighty one's that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Actually, I guess I don't know what previous Assassin's creeds
Speaker 2: off the top of my head, but that's.
Speaker 5: Not like you know about how I got an eighty
Speaker 5: so actually yeah, or is eighty one so actually yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, seems that certainly in line. But those other recent
Speaker 3: very very big ones.
Speaker 1: Yep, fantastic. Speaking about other big ones and big releases
Speaker 1: that everyone is so hyped for. I've been playing another
Speaker 1: one of those folks, Nubbies. Number Factory is now number Factory,
Speaker 1: Nubbies Nubbies, what number factory?
Speaker 4: I like her name of this.
Speaker 1: I think the look of this game is incredibly up
Speaker 1: our alley. It is a pegg like all right, So
Speaker 1: how it works is initially your board is filled with
Speaker 1: different little let's just call them pegs.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is nuts.
Speaker 4: This is threes as well.
Speaker 1: Not quite to look at us a lot. It's it's
Speaker 1: really good. It's only four ninety nine on Steam right now.
Speaker 5: It's early like like flash junk, yes, the good way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very gripping story of if you set a revench story,
Speaker 1: it's not a revenge story. It's sorry man, I'll then
Speaker 1: it's a majora's mask story. But instead of the moon,
Speaker 1: it's the sun. Does it will explode? It does have
Speaker 1: a face? Actually, yes, okay man. So unlike PEG, where
Speaker 1: you're just clearing the board, you have a target number
Speaker 1: and that'll arrange from like all right, you got to
Speaker 1: get up to forty points or five hundred and as
Speaker 1: you hit the pegs, you clear the pegs, and you
Speaker 1: they start with like just the number one on them,
Speaker 1: so if you pass through them, you clear them. And
Speaker 1: as you clear the pegs, more pegs get onto your
Speaker 1: board and they increase exponentially. So if you hit a
Speaker 1: peg that has the number two on it, it takes
Speaker 1: two hits to clear, and then as you are progressing
Speaker 1: through and doing that, more and more the numbers start
Speaker 1: to combine and increase on top of each other. So
Speaker 1: say you clear a specific set of pegs eight or
Speaker 1: so times, it'll eventually add up to sixty four, and
Speaker 1: then it just keeps going up, and then your target
Speaker 1: number also keeps going up, and then you have different
Speaker 1: You have a set amount of lives for Nubby, who
Speaker 1: you are shooting at the board, and in that same
Speaker 1: pegal vein you were just aiming and shooting and you
Speaker 1: were just trying to go for that big, big number.
Speaker 1: In between some of the rounds, it does introduce roguelike
Speaker 1: elements where you get to buy an eye him, get
Speaker 1: to visit a shop, or you have a boss battle
Speaker 1: that affects the pegs and everything. It's a very interesting
Speaker 1: look to the game. Like Mike said, it's like kind
Speaker 1: of hard grunge flash game to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of that, Jan Chad did just point out
Speaker 4: check out the website of the developer. I would highly
Speaker 4: recommend everyone go to mog dog blog dot com. This
Speaker 4: is perfect.
Speaker 5: What mog dog blog.
Speaker 4: Mog dogs Okay, mog dog blog. This is good mog.
Speaker 1: Dog at least the gentleman on the top banner there
Speaker 1: he guides you through the tutorial. It's very good stuff.
Speaker 4: About page. There's mog Dog's personal Gmail address.
Speaker 2: Shouts out cool a mog dog play hyper like hyper
Speaker 2: Light Drifter, hypnop space outli you guys all play a
Speaker 2: little bit. I never checked it out, checking out if
Speaker 2: you guys are into this style at all. They just
Speaker 2: crushed that.
Speaker 1: We need we need a tab on the website now
Speaker 1: of just fan art.
Speaker 4: Just make our website look like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah for Realsh, yes please, uh it's it's fantastic. I
Speaker 1: I highly suggest it. If you don't want to partake
Speaker 1: in a long, big game like Assassin's Creature.
Speaker 4: I want to play. It might be number Machine that
Speaker 4: gets me off Assassins.
Speaker 5: There's this art gallery page or is this is this
Speaker 5: what piece of art that's titled p G seems to
Speaker 5: just be nonsense like it's.
Speaker 1: Almost nice p G.
Speaker 2: There's it's it's p G like a PNG.
Speaker 5: Other piece of artists titled computer game a Man mostly
Speaker 5: dirty wiring and discernible.
Speaker 2: It's a hole in the wall with wire.
Speaker 4: The options and quit on it.
Speaker 2: That goes into a crawl space.
Speaker 1: That this is good game.
Speaker 4: This is good.
Speaker 1: I think this is one of my favorite recent pegal likes.
Speaker 1: So Nubby's Number Factory, go check it out, y'all.
Speaker 2: This is a deck game. I'm doing this. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: getting this right now.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what this is, Michael Minatti, but
Speaker 1: you put onto the list here little Nemo the dream Master.
Speaker 1: Wow you are that's impressive. Little Nemo kicks ass.
Speaker 5: So after the satisfaction of beating Festor's Quest on the
Speaker 5: Bike Club, satisfaction, well, you know, there was a little
Speaker 5: bit of it because it was this game I actually
Speaker 5: had for the NES back then, and you know a
Speaker 5: lot of MYNS games I didn't beat. I was pretty
Speaker 5: young at that point, and yes, games can be usually
Speaker 5: are pretty difficult, but you know I did that. I
Speaker 5: had this NES out and I had a bunch of
Speaker 5: other games that I found from my storage that I
Speaker 5: brought up and I was like, okay, I really liked
Speaker 5: Little Nimo the Dream Messer when I was a kid,
Speaker 5: but never got very far in it. It's difficult. It's
Speaker 5: a capcom game, so you know, it's good. It's based
Speaker 5: off this animated movie that came out around that time,
Speaker 5: which itself is based off of a very old comic
Speaker 5: strip about this kid who goes to sleep and he
Speaker 5: answers this dream world. Yeah, it's just really fun two
Speaker 5: D platformer where there's a bit of a kind of
Speaker 5: Kirby element to it, where you find some enemies, you
Speaker 5: can feed them candy and then you jump on them
Speaker 5: and you start riding them or you turn into them,
Speaker 5: so you see a b and all of a sudden
Speaker 5: you can fly, or there's this kind of chameleon thing
Speaker 5: and you can walk.
Speaker 4: Up walls, that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I just took like three and a half
Speaker 5: hours managed to play through the whole thing. You know,
Speaker 5: it's difficult, but there are continues. The last level is
Speaker 5: very long, and there's multiple bosses. When you die, you
Speaker 5: go back to the beginning. So that one took a
Speaker 5: little bit of doing, but still just really fun good
Speaker 5: boss fights at the thing because like at the very end,
Speaker 5: you finally get a weapon to attack with. Otherwise they're
Speaker 5: mostly avoiding things or maybe some of those animal abilities
Speaker 5: let you attack. Then like towards the very end, you
Speaker 5: finally get this staff that you charge up and it
Speaker 5: only shoots like diagonally, but you know, the bosses are
Speaker 5: kind of set up for that.
Speaker 4: So it's just.
Speaker 5: Really really good encounters, great music of course because it's Capcom. Yeah,
Speaker 5: just felt good beating another one of those childhood NYS games.
Speaker 4: I never got to go all the way if you
Speaker 4: feel like for me, it was always a rent in
Speaker 4: game genie game, you know, yeah, like I really loved it.
Speaker 4: I love the world of writing the little like a
Speaker 4: feeding candy to the dinosaurs or whatever. But way too hard,
Speaker 4: but uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess, yeah, it's pretty difficult, but it was,
Speaker 5: you know, so it was satisfying to go through it,
Speaker 5: and there was something satisfying about going through it on
Speaker 5: the shoot hardware and not you know, even when I
Speaker 5: plan a rom and I don't use the same states,
Speaker 5: it's always something about the possibility of them somehow taints
Speaker 5: the experience. It's mind you that you got your.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, no problem.
Speaker 2: Thanks sorry for sending out the twenty six hundred plus.
Speaker 3: I hope that was one of the ones that had
Speaker 3: to be dug out of the lane fill.
Speaker 4: Sure, pretty good condition, Thanks for that.
Speaker 2: Damn it.
Speaker 4: Buried in my backyard until tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Oh god, but yeah, it was all fun. There's so
Speaker 5: a couple of other childhood any yes games I maybe
Speaker 5: want to play through?
Speaker 2: Yo nooy? Is that the yeah.
Speaker 5: Nooyd never finished it For kids who don't know, Capcom
Speaker 5: had a completely different side scroller that when they brought
Speaker 5: to the US, they rethed it to the mascot of Domino.
Speaker 4: Of course it was a better time. It was a
Speaker 4: better time.
Speaker 2: Yeah everything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, it's this game you play is
Speaker 5: the noise. He's got a He's got a yo yo
Speaker 5: of course, which is making me think of the mount
Speaker 5: rushmore of characters who attack with yo yo's because the.
Speaker 1: One guys, God bless the Ring Star.
Speaker 5: Topics, uh huh Star Tropics and uh earth Bound for
Speaker 5: for sure that that Penny's Big Breakaway came out.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, big.
Speaker 2: Yi yo, big yill yo. There's a new one that
Speaker 2: just got announced, the two D game that had a
Speaker 2: yo yo and I can't remember what it was, though.
Speaker 5: Yo fun to with techniques of Yoyo's apparently very true.
Speaker 5: I got decent with a yoyo one plan in my life.
Speaker 5: I need to get a yoyo in like nineteen ninety
Speaker 5: eight where they were kind of big again. Yea the
Speaker 5: spring right, yeah, walk, I could do the Eiffel Tower
Speaker 5: gimmick and all a yeah, yeah, got.
Speaker 2: Okay, And then I don't have any of that knowledge anymore.
Speaker 1: I I traveled in some hot yo yo circles for
Speaker 1: a minute.
Speaker 4: Oh hell yeah, uh it is.
Speaker 1: It came back in such a way where like just
Speaker 1: hipster people doing having like yo yo dance circle equivalents
Speaker 1: on on subway cars was a.
Speaker 2: Thing in college. It was wild. Oh yeah, wow, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna buy devil sticks right now. Oh no, one's they're
Speaker 2: forty five dollars.
Speaker 4: What about the David Bowie ball from Labyrinth? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I always conflate those two words.
Speaker 2: GATSI. We should we.
Speaker 1: Should have a power block segment where we just play
Speaker 1: around with like those things like devil sticks, balls and
Speaker 1: yo yo.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with devil sticks. I'm sorry, I upset the
Speaker 2: Catholic boy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't that just the thing that they were smoking?
Speaker 3: And attack of a clone.
Speaker 2: Sticks? Jesus, stop embarrassing yourself.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Dan have a set of devil sticks in his.
Speaker 2: I hope. So maybe it has death sticks. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: he's shaking his head.
Speaker 4: No, all right, there's a new well, there's a new
Speaker 4: thing that I haven't been able to do because my
Speaker 4: fingers keep breaking. It's the like cut it. It looks
Speaker 4: like a cup and ball, but it's like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: think that's it. I bought one of those like a
Speaker 4: year and a half ago. My fingers have been in
Speaker 4: various sticks are broken since then.
Speaker 2: You don't touch that. You have et tomorrow, all right,
Speaker 2: you keep those fingers safe.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure this knuckle is currently broken from when
Speaker 4: I smashed it in a veggie slicer. I think it's
Speaker 4: been broken for months without me attending to it.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, fantastic, uh Dan, Right now, you've also been playing
Speaker 1: Star of Providence and you played this for a little
Speaker 1: bit yesterday on the website a little bit.
Speaker 4: I want to show it off because I think it's
Speaker 4: pretty cool, confusing history to it, because I just started
Speaker 4: hearing about it like now and then you look it
Speaker 4: up and it says twenty seventeen it came out, but no,
Speaker 4: it came out of a game called not Mortimer. What
Speaker 4: do I want to say, Mortimer? What's the game studio
Speaker 4: that just shut down Lionsoth. The's a lot of yeah,
Speaker 4: Monolith Monolith. Yes, it used to be called Monolith, and
Speaker 4: then like Donkey's big Mode publishing thing picked it up
Speaker 4: and is like bringing it switch and like there's updates
Speaker 4: and stuff. So I think he basically revived it and
Speaker 4: the name has changed because of like legal Monolith stuff
Speaker 4: or whatever. But anyway, it's a Rogue Light twin stick
Speaker 4: shooter or Each level of the like Rogue Light that
Speaker 4: you're going through is kind of like a Zelda dungeon
Speaker 4: where it's like you're kind of going around, you have
Speaker 4: to destroy these enemies that will unlock the boss door.
Speaker 4: Going to the bust room, you're you're getting a lot
Speaker 4: of weapons with different alterations and stuff that are called keywords,
Speaker 4: and uh, it's it's pretty simple just looking at it,
Speaker 4: but every room you go into is like a really
Speaker 4: fun little combat encounter. It's all just really good meaty
Speaker 4: shots and everything. It's and it works as a rogue light. It'sn't.
Speaker 4: I've only liked maybe four or five runs in right now,
Speaker 4: so I don't know exactly all the stuff what's unlocking
Speaker 4: outside of just the like you got this gun, you
Speaker 4: got this gun. So as far as persistent stuff, I'm
Speaker 4: not really sure yet. But it just immediately passes that
Speaker 4: test of like, oh this this feels good immediately, like
Speaker 4: like many shoot adventures did to me.
Speaker 2: And it looked impactful, like what everything you were doing
Speaker 2: in that game? Just like, oh that that looks like
Speaker 2: it feels good to play. Which, yep, click me over.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I have it on the Steam deck now.
Speaker 2: Got to start it probably tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's a real solid one. I'll probably play
Speaker 4: more of that.
Speaker 1: Exciting, exciting. I like the look of it. We need
Speaker 1: more schmups.
Speaker 4: I like schups? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is Itooter come Back should just be a genre that
Speaker 2: everyone has one of. Every company should make a dual
Speaker 2: stick shooter. All right?
Speaker 4: Yea, you you heard Jeff Grubb chet says, what if
Speaker 4: there's a power Block show where Dan went to the doctor,
Speaker 4: can we expense Like I hear about this medical tourism
Speaker 4: stuff and it's like, I love the idea of like,
Speaker 4: just send me to Turkey and then not for the
Speaker 4: hair gimmick, but for like then you just go into
Speaker 4: a building and they just put you in a bunch
Speaker 4: of machines and scanning and everything. They got all sorts
Speaker 4: of different doctors and stuff, and it's like cheap and
Speaker 4: good and they just tell you all the things that
Speaker 4: are wrong with you. Is that a good idea?
Speaker 5: Well, if you find out those things that are wrong
Speaker 5: with you, then they'll treat them. That's just going to
Speaker 5: give you stress and anxiety.
Speaker 4: But I want to get treated.
Speaker 5: Oh that yeah, But are they going to do that
Speaker 5: in Turkey too? Or how are you gonna handle that?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 4: What is turkey teeth? People are telling me to google
Speaker 4: turkey teeth. I don't don't want turkey teeth.
Speaker 2: I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Is it just veneers? Sounded like he said like frot
Speaker 1: he'll take the ring there? So how that was the
Speaker 1: energy I'm going for? Don't google turkey teeth?
Speaker 4: Are they bad?
Speaker 2: It's the you know, have you ever seen like what
Speaker 2: the teeth look like before you get the Veneers actually applied?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I know. I don't want I have
Speaker 4: always wanted all my teeth to just be pulled and
Speaker 4: just give me fake ship.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, well yes, and then you want turkey
Speaker 2: teth okay, all right, yeah, the Roman one I have.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna like, I say, I have one turkey tooth
Speaker 5: because I chipped this one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I got I have one too.
Speaker 4: It's so much cheaper.
Speaker 3: Much she checked this one. Yeah, but a little nub.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel myself rapidly aging as we
Speaker 1: were talking about this. Jeff bro Rogue Squadron two Rogue Leader.
Speaker 2: I bought it. I bought a game cube. I've been
Speaker 2: putting off getting all the real hardware stuff for a
Speaker 2: real long time, trying to be like I am happy
Speaker 2: with emulation. I love emulation. I'm not gonna be like
Speaker 2: like the Steam deck. Having just everything on there, playing
Speaker 2: games on there is great. But I did get a
Speaker 2: retro tink four ksesee, and once that kind of clicked over,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I have the N sixty four and a
Speaker 2: handful of other things, like a plug in there, a
Speaker 2: PlayStation one like, but I would probably like to plug
Speaker 2: a GameCube in there. So I just hopped over to
Speaker 2: a local use game store got it for about one
Speaker 2: hundred bucks and picked up a rogue squadron. I did
Speaker 2: also buy the Flippy drive, which should come next month.
Speaker 2: Have you guys seen this then? Is that the thing
Speaker 2: that you're going to remove the optical drive, and so
Speaker 2: this is the one that it basically does that, but
Speaker 2: without removing the optical drive can still It's the Flippy drive.
Speaker 2: It's forty five bucks. It is solderless, so you just
Speaker 2: all you need to install it is a screwdriver and
Speaker 2: then you know the special video games the Gamesman screwdriver
Speaker 2: to get the GameCube open. But you just screw it in.
Speaker 2: You pull like one ribbon, You put the ribbon in there,
Speaker 2: and then the ribbon also kind of has another part
Speaker 2: of it that goes back off to the the optical drive,
Speaker 2: so that you just like hit one button when you
Speaker 2: want to use your disk drive. Still, so I'm going
Speaker 2: to have a fully like kitted out and this thing.
Speaker 2: It has a wireless chip in there so you can
Speaker 2: use Bluetooth controllers. They're constantly updating it. They also did
Speaker 2: a new version of the like, uh, what's the one
Speaker 2: like swan, what's the one that everyone uses like to
Speaker 2: like load your games or some whatever.
Speaker 4: That Oh, oh, Swiss, Yeah, Swiss, Swiss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have their like own I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's a FOURK of that. It's an alternative that uses
Speaker 2: all of the assets that were built into the GameCube
Speaker 2: for its menu systems. So it looks like a Nintendo
Speaker 2: built menu system to get to your video games that
Speaker 2: are loaded on an SD card. So I'm like, this
Speaker 2: looks like they really have come a long way with
Speaker 2: this stuff. So I was pretty happy to be, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm getting that, and I will install that on a
Speaker 2: grubs gimmicks and we'll hang out.
Speaker 4: Whoa I need to be on that, just like I
Speaker 4: would buy another game keep and do that, because like
Speaker 4: it's rare that I actually want to use a disc,
Speaker 4: but I would like the ability to exactly Swiss was
Speaker 4: come for some of a way that like I got
Speaker 4: it working, but it's like like a lot of these things,
Speaker 4: you get it working, and then it's like if you
Speaker 4: want to add a game or take something off or something,
Speaker 4: it's like, I'm not going to touch this because everything's
Speaker 4: gonna break if I do that.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm very curious to see how that goes,
Speaker 5: because I mean, I have three game cubes here, I
Speaker 5: should definitely try to install this on one of them. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: I want to see that process, see how that all goes. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's you know, I've played a bunch of these consoles
Speaker 5: into these retro tinks or whatever else or guns, bespoke
Speaker 5: Hdmi converters for them, But there's still something about the GameCube.
Speaker 4: For some reason.
Speaker 5: I think there was a bit of a reason why
Speaker 5: that became a bit of a black hole for the
Speaker 5: retro market.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, cub is still very satisfying to play. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, it was just this perfect storm of it
Speaker 2: was Nintendo. Some of the best games from that time
Speaker 2: all happened on that console. So people who do have
Speaker 2: a lot of nostalgia. Everyone at least played Smash Brothers
Speaker 2: at their friend's house, and there was only like twenty
Speaker 2: five million of them, So if you wanted to start collecting,
Speaker 2: you had to get serious because there just wasn't a
Speaker 2: lot of those games out there. So I got one
Speaker 2: game with it, Rogue Squadron two Rogue Leader, and I've
Speaker 2: been playing through that again. That was such a good
Speaker 2: launch game of the game.
Speaker 4: Incredible, Like that looks incredible. That is the trench run
Speaker 4: in it, doesn't It.
Speaker 2: As the trench. It's the and that was like the
Speaker 2: demo that I think you could get for the game
Speaker 2: cube early on if you didn't get the game right away.
Speaker 2: And I played that over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: I think it was the first one where they really
Speaker 2: like went into ILM and got the movie assets that
Speaker 2: they were using for like the special additions. So they
Speaker 2: just had the X wing model from the movie and
Speaker 2: they just reported it into the game. You know, obviously
Speaker 2: had to simplify it a lot, but they just had
Speaker 2: the data to work from. So it just looks astounding
Speaker 2: to this day. A twenty six year old game or
Speaker 2: whatever his twenty five year old game, and it's it's
Speaker 2: still like really fun. It gets kind of punishing occasionally,
Speaker 2: but like you just like look up one trick. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: don't worry about the tie fighters here, just fly to
Speaker 2: those guns, take those guns out, and you can actually
Speaker 2: beat this level in two and a half minutes. I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: so I've been doing that and having a good time.
Speaker 2: I just I really like all these Factor five games
Speaker 2: and really happy to kind of be playing this one
Speaker 2: again on shoot hardware because this is one of those
Speaker 2: games doesn't actually still run great on Dolphin you can
Speaker 2: get it, oh running okay, But all Factor five games
Speaker 2: they were like wizards. They always had their own technology,
Speaker 2: like Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine on N sixty
Speaker 2: four is another one that isn't great on emulator things
Speaker 2: like that. So yeah, I'm like, I'm glad to have
Speaker 2: Shoot hardware again, and especially when the retro tink gets here,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be popping this thing in four K on
Speaker 2: the TV and I cannot wait for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. This weekend I played a Twist Middle Black to
Speaker 4: Completion on Shoot hardware and it's like that still looks
Speaker 4: really good. That's you know, sixty frames a second feels
Speaker 4: great like that game is. It's similarly punishing but has
Speaker 4: held upgrade. So yeah, yeah, old games, huh yeah, I
Speaker 4: like them quite a bit. Yeah they're good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I may or may not have been looking at
Speaker 1: Facebook marketplace postings for a CRT this whole time. And
Speaker 1: let me tell you, maybe it's because of the Bay
Speaker 1: area and then thrifting culture here, but.
Speaker 2: It is obscenely expensive to get a CRT.
Speaker 4: Well, Jan, if you want to drive out to Minnesota,
Speaker 4: I've got the nineteen intes trend front here and I
Speaker 4: don't quite know what to do with that.
Speaker 2: And don't don't search for CRT, search for old TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, because if somebody says or do they know
Speaker 4: what they're selling?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yeah, I've had mostly bad experiences with Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker 4: I have to say I did so much.
Speaker 2: God, I miss the heyday of Craigslist.
Speaker 1: Now I feel like it's it's just like a sketchy thing,
Speaker 1: every single thing of it. I'm just trying to buy
Speaker 1: a tripod or a c stand. Last game for today, folks.
Speaker 1: We play this on upf and boy howdy was it
Speaker 1: a probably one of the funniest streams I've I've witnessed
Speaker 1: from this website in a very long time, and we're
Speaker 1: nothing but funny.
Speaker 2: So this is up there.
Speaker 1: Repo r E p O, Jeff Grubb, Dan Reikert, Uh
Speaker 1: play this along with Turbo Sean, Nikky, Tam and Lucy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We had a full six member crew go out
Speaker 2: in Repo, which is a lethal company like. It is
Speaker 2: one of these company games where you are sent out
Speaker 2: to collect goods that you return to meet a threshold
Speaker 2: once you have enough money, and then you can return
Speaker 2: to the base, buy some stuff, and go back out. Uh.
Speaker 2: It is a spooky version of one of these. Most
Speaker 2: of them are pretty spooky ones. Got you know a
Speaker 2: lot of different monsters that have their own gimmick. Like
Speaker 2: one was a blind shotgun guy that uses a shotgun
Speaker 2: as a cane and if he hears you or discovers you,
Speaker 2: then he shoots in that direction. So it seemed like
Speaker 2: he was paired up with like a a ghost lady
Speaker 2: that could see you, and then she would like throw
Speaker 2: you across the room like you're being pulled like a
Speaker 2: clay pigeon, and then the shotgun guy, I would bless
Speaker 2: you out of the air. It was. It's neat really though.
Speaker 2: It's just all these emergent moments as we try to
Speaker 2: like figure out, Okay, I'm going to go out here
Speaker 2: with you and we are going to try to get
Speaker 2: enough goods so we can go back to the smasher
Speaker 2: and cash in. At the extraction point, we need a
Speaker 2: couple of things. They're like, we haven't seen anything, so
Speaker 2: let's kind of go a little bit further than we've
Speaker 2: gone than we've gone before. And when we find something,
Speaker 2: you just don't know what's gonna happen. Is it a moth, Reagan?
Speaker 2: Is it like a little is it a doll that
Speaker 2: is going to freak out when you pick it up
Speaker 2: and start attacking you? And if it does, can you
Speaker 2: figure out how to get that maybe into the cart
Speaker 2: that you have with you with your friends, And we
Speaker 2: came up with a plan. Now, in the process of
Speaker 2: putting in the cart, she did get like whacked on
Speaker 2: the ground several times and exploded and wasn't worth anything anymore,
Speaker 2: so she just went away. But then one time I
Speaker 2: picked up a music box. I'm like, okay, this is
Speaker 2: worth like three thousand, this is going to get us
Speaker 2: work good. But as soon as I picked it up,
Speaker 2: it opened up started playing music, which would attract let's say,
Speaker 2: a blind monster with a shotgun. And because it's a
Speaker 2: music box with like a little spinny ballery on a
Speaker 2: ballerina on the top, it made it so I could
Speaker 2: not stop spinning like a crow cura coroa. And so
Speaker 2: I like try to maneuver my way through the doors,
Speaker 2: and I passed it off to Sean as he like
Speaker 2: was going through the door, which actually was pretty slick.
Speaker 2: That worked really well. Then we got to the next
Speaker 2: door and it just kept whacking on the doorframe and
Speaker 2: we couldn't get through, and then finally we did, but
Speaker 2: by that point the monster came and shot me with
Speaker 2: a shotgun. It's just a really good time. I think,
Speaker 2: maybe a really good one of these.
Speaker 4: The thing that killed me immediately was the way the
Speaker 4: characters look. They're just old Terence and Phillips guys with
Speaker 4: like flappy heads and like as you talk, the head
Speaker 4: flaps and like the eyes, like the big googly eyes
Speaker 4: that look at each other, and it adds so much
Speaker 4: to the humor.
Speaker 2: The positional audio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Mike, I don't know if you saw what
Speaker 4: I did. I saw you dead that objectively one of Mike. Yeah,
Speaker 4: already quiet and I hit him with a.
Speaker 2: Jack pop and a right forest and.
Speaker 4: My little guys flappy head go with that. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: it's so fucking funny.
Speaker 2: TAM's reactions to it with my favorite part, especially when
Speaker 2: like the flappy head Dan with the mic voice would
Speaker 2: be in one room and then Tam would be in another,
Speaker 2: and so the position audio would just be this muffled
Speaker 2: through the other room, coming through the wall. Shut up.
Speaker 2: It was just very good.
Speaker 1: One of the early moments in that stream is y'all
Speaker 1: figured out you could hide underneath beds, uh huh, And
Speaker 1: then grub you telling Nikki and Sean to hide underneath
Speaker 1: a bed, and both of them just talking to each
Speaker 1: other and looking at you and just like nodding along.
Speaker 2: It's just so good. Yeah, like we were coming up
Speaker 2: with a plan. And again, the positional audio is like
Speaker 2: very good in this game. They do it like a
Speaker 2: lot of great tech with like making the audio bounce
Speaker 2: around the rooms and have like a really feel like
Speaker 2: it's in that place. You know. We get in under
Speaker 2: the bed and we're whispering to each other and I'm like, listen,
Speaker 2: you know, Tam and Lucy, you're kind of running for
Speaker 2: their lives right now. They're probably screwed, so we just
Speaker 2: should just go now and let them deal with the
Speaker 2: monster and then we'll be able to survive. And then
Speaker 2: they were like, Okay, maybe they're dead, So here's the
Speaker 2: new plan. All three of us are gonna have to
Speaker 2: go out there and whoever's the slowest is just gonna die.
Speaker 2: And Nicky's like character making their character nod along to me.
Speaker 2: It was like, like Jane, you said you would watch
Speaker 2: an animated show like this. Yeah, it was cartoonish. It
Speaker 2: was It had the qualities of an animated television show,
Speaker 2: but one that you were performing live. It was really
Speaker 2: well done.
Speaker 1: There was another moment where Nicki popped into a cauldron
Speaker 1: and then the cauldron exploded, shooting Nikki off into the
Speaker 1: sky on the grub. You just found them like laying
Speaker 1: in a corner, just like smiling, giggling. Yes, it's just
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 2: And the giggle like we'd also mix the head flaps,
Speaker 2: so you're like like that and like that. Dan did
Speaker 2: it as well, and I'm like every time they would
Speaker 2: explode into the sky and I'd look around for them
Speaker 2: and then I'd hear them off to like the right laughing.
Speaker 2: I look over and what But Dan was basically alone
Speaker 2: in the room just laughing to himself. And you just
Speaker 2: see this little character all like on their side, just
Speaker 2: going and it's just a very funny.
Speaker 1: I know that the style of games has become very popular,
Speaker 1: especially with streamers, but I need a Muppet version of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good call. That would be fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like seeing Kermit's head flapping or like miss Piggy.
Speaker 2: One of these games does have to sort of get
Speaker 2: on that Fortnite treadmill of a lot of parts ships,
Speaker 2: because you know, these little robot guys are are perfect
Speaker 2: I think in terms of like going like going for
Speaker 2: a certain style of it's always funny no matter what
Speaker 2: they're doing, because they just look funny and then their
Speaker 2: heads flapping and all that works. You start putting hats
Speaker 2: and skins on that, and I think you can maintain
Speaker 2: a lot of that while also having like, yeah, a
Speaker 2: bunch of Muppets skins on there would be fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Uh, what about the fucking Looney Tunes guy. There's
Speaker 4: the big fuzzy red monster. Was that a Marvin the
Speaker 4: Martian thing? Yeah, it'd be good. An alien Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he'd be good stomping around hiding the bedroom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just sweet them bring sweetems in there from Buck
Speaker 2: the Muppets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, stars immediately, what movie is this movie that came out?
Speaker 2: There's a new Looning Tunes movie.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, yeah, Porky Pig and Baffy Duck, The End
Speaker 5: of the World or something very good.
Speaker 3: Okay, animated see the animated.
Speaker 1: Oh right, folks, we're gonna take another quick pricky break
Speaker 1: and we'll be back with the emails.
Speaker 2: Up for this.
Speaker 1: Emails. Bombcastagiant bomb dot com is the email address to
Speaker 1: send your emails too, right in about any and everything
Speaker 1: you want to avoid an awkward social interaction. You're standing
Speaker 1: in line somewhere you want to ask us a question
Speaker 1: you thought of, a fun quiz or whatever else have
Speaker 1: you Please send it to BombCast at GiantBomb dot com.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of lovely emails today this week
Speaker 1: from the folks at home. The first is a quiz uh.
Speaker 1: This is pitting Dan and Minati against each other.
Speaker 4: Excellent.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hey Jan, I tried sending you guys a Dan
Speaker 1: versus my quiz that I made recently, but I sent
Speaker 1: it the first week Gmail started marking all your emails
Speaker 1: a spam. So here it is again. Dan has to
Speaker 1: tell us which characters is from the Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings in my cast to tell us who is a
Speaker 1: member of Wu Tang clan. Seven questions each. Perhaps a
Speaker 1: punishment could be on the line, might be.
Speaker 4: Kind of busy for fun. Yeah, we can't even throw
Speaker 4: punishments out willy nilly, Okay.
Speaker 2: They're like a really short game that would be fun.
Speaker 2: Let me think what you guys.
Speaker 4: Blues Brothers two thousand.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, that's one of the shortest games I ever played.
Speaker 1: All right, do we want to go back and forth?
Speaker 1: Or do we want to go dan Dan's full seven?
Speaker 4: Are you gonna give me like a character and you
Speaker 4: ask me if they're from this or that? Mm hm
Speaker 4: oh that'll be easy. Okay, Okay, yeah, we go back
Speaker 4: and forth.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think Dan, you might have this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, We're gonna go back and forth and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna present two characters or two names, and you
Speaker 1: tell me which is the real either Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings character or Wu Tang clan member. Okay, all right, Dan, Yes,
Speaker 1: is it fro Do or Freedo.
Speaker 4: Fro Do is from Lord of the Rings. Freedo is
Speaker 4: from the Godfather?
Speaker 2: Okay, you got that correct?
Speaker 1: One of Mikenati Uh Inspect the Deck or Inspector Gadget.
Speaker 5: Oh I watched Inspector Gadget as a kid, so uh
Speaker 5: Inspect the Deck.
Speaker 2: There's no way that.
Speaker 5: There's a Wo Tong song better than the Inspector Gadget
Speaker 5: theme song. By the way, come on, ah, Mikey, please
Speaker 5: make that.
Speaker 2: Joke several times and it still upsets my stomach. You please, no,
Speaker 2: you please? Uh, all right, okay, Dan Yeh Gollum or Golum.
Speaker 4: Gollum is the little grimlin guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is correct. Mike Manatti. Yeah, who is a
Speaker 1: member of the Wu Tang clan. Capa Cola or Cappa Donna.
Speaker 3: Capa Cola is a kind of deli meat. What was
Speaker 3: the second one again?
Speaker 2: Donna?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Capa Donna must be a member of the Wutan group.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we're two for two.
Speaker 1: I feel like deducting a point from Mike Manatti for
Speaker 1: continuously saying Wu Tang clan Wutan group was incorrect.
Speaker 4: He said, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Number three for Dan Aragon, Eric Gorn, Eric Gorn. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I see what they're doing there. Uh, because Eric
Speaker 1: Gorn I've seen in the subtitle of some like PS
Speaker 1: two games. Aragon is a three six year was a
Speaker 1: PS two It was like the same basious thing that
Speaker 1: did not do well.
Speaker 4: So Eric Gorn is the Viagle Mortenson gimmick.
Speaker 2: Isn't ericon like that Dragon book or whatever?
Speaker 4: I have some weird it was? Was it a movie
Speaker 4: made one? Did they make the game based on I
Speaker 4: can basically see the poster. It was very dark and
Speaker 4: like greenish and black and yeah.
Speaker 2: I thought Aragon was the homeschool Dragon book, but I
Speaker 2: don't know. Okay, No, I think you're right. It was
Speaker 2: like purple or something. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Next for Mike Manah, Obi Trice or O D B.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, I see what they're doing here. O D
Speaker 4: B was a t and a restauran. I don't think
Speaker 4: anybody else remember real name, no gimmicks. Yeah, what was
Speaker 4: that first thing?
Speaker 2: Obi Trice?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think there is a woot Tongue
Speaker 5: member named O B D. Also, Actually that sounds familiar.
Speaker 5: I'm going to go with O B D.
Speaker 4: Level bastard.
Speaker 1: Dirty Mike, you, I guess you kind of you still
Speaker 1: got it right, but it is O d B.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got it dB. Though they're all yelling technically
Speaker 2: get it very wrong because I'm upset.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Number four for Dan tree Beard or buck Beat.
Speaker 4: I know there's a bunch of tree Ship in that series.
Speaker 4: I'll go with three Beard.
Speaker 2: That is correct.
Speaker 1: Mike Manati, this one's a tough who is a member
Speaker 1: of the Wu Tang clan. Red Man or Method man Ah.
Speaker 4: That's a good one.
Speaker 5: I've heard of somebody called Method Man before. I've never
Speaker 5: heard of a red Man, so I believe the answer
Speaker 5: has got to be method Man.
Speaker 1: You were correct, Mike Manatti. You are the Red Man
Speaker 1: to Jeff Grubbs method Man. Yeah, oh my god, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Manati was in the Christina aguilara dirty video.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, there is a red Man. You're both now, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: red Man. He's but he's not a part of the group.
Speaker 4: No, he's just like affiliated, Like I mean, he knows
Speaker 4: them and.
Speaker 2: Their friends.
Speaker 4: Was Redman that had the MTB Cribs were like like
Speaker 4: use his doorbell, you had to put the wires together,
Speaker 4: and he had like golden iceed strategy guides on the ground.
Speaker 4: I remember watching that and being like, I like this guy.
Speaker 1: We should watch that on a ups Oh god, yo, No,
Speaker 1: just old Cribs episode.
Speaker 8: Yeah, my god, that'd be the Timey Tall Rico one.
Speaker 8: Of course, he's there twice a bunch. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 8: Mom is proud Dan. This one is harder. Two of
Speaker 8: these Two of these three characters are from Lord of
Speaker 8: the Rings. First one, Elf Barra, e Owen, Eomer.
Speaker 4: I think e Owen is either like Kate Blanchett or
Speaker 4: liv Tyler in the movie so let's go with e
Speaker 4: Owen and what was the first one.
Speaker 2: The last remaining two elf Barra and.
Speaker 4: Eomer elf Barra and Eoman.
Speaker 2: Partially correct, Dan elf Barra is is not from Lord
Speaker 2: of the Rings.
Speaker 4: Those last who sounded similar their brother and sister.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, also neither of those actresses that you listed
Speaker 5: player oh okay.
Speaker 2: From that serious?
Speaker 1: All right, Mike Minatti similar. You get three options, but
Speaker 1: this time one of them is in the Wu Tang clan.
Speaker 1: All right, your options are ghost Face, ghost Dog, ghost
Speaker 1: Face Killer.
Speaker 5: Well, ghost Face is the bad guy from Scream. Uh ghosts.
Speaker 5: Where are the other two?
Speaker 1: Ghost Dog and ghost Face Killer?
Speaker 2: Boy that that stink on killer? Right? That's uh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: If I said ghost Dog, would that be different?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now I'm like, now they both sound good.
Speaker 4: They got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, somehow this is racist?
Speaker 5: Now ghost Dog or ghost Face Killer. I think it's
Speaker 5: ghost Face Killer.
Speaker 2: That is correct, Mike Manadi. Ghost Dog is Forrest Whittaker. Yeah,
Speaker 2: ghost Dog, Black Saburai movie. It's pretty good. I'm winning, you.
Speaker 4: Said ob D from the Wotan group.
Speaker 2: You're definitely not.
Speaker 5: What I'm winning for sure. I haven't said a wrong answer.
Speaker 5: Yet I have not picked a wrong answer yet. Fine,
Speaker 5: I hazard that ob D was a wrong answer, but now.
Speaker 1: It was technically all right, Dan, you have three options again.
Speaker 1: Two of these characters are in Lord of the Rings options.
Speaker 1: Your options are Samuel Charley, sam Wise Gamgee, oh, Fatty Bulger.
Speaker 4: Okay. I think there's a trick thing going on here
Speaker 4: because Samuel Charlie in Samuel Gange. One of them, sam
Speaker 4: Wise Gamgee, sam Wise Gangie. One of those I think
Speaker 4: is the fat kid from Game of Thrones, and the
Speaker 4: other one is the idiot that was Unlost. Right, I
Speaker 4: can't help you say, Let's say the three again, Samuel Tarley,
Speaker 4: I think sam Wise Gamgee okay, In Fatty Bulger, sam
Speaker 4: Wise Gangie is the annoying guy from Lost and Fatty Bulger.
Speaker 2: That is correct? Incorrect about the annoying guy from Lost?
Speaker 2: Now it's Rudy.
Speaker 4: Oh well, isn't the annoying guy from Lost one of
Speaker 4: the Hobbits?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, they all suck, but you know they're all interchangeable anyway.
Speaker 2: I kind of like Bilbo. I thought Fatty Bulger was
Speaker 2: a gangster. I did not know he was a hobbit.
Speaker 2: What if I said what if.
Speaker 1: I said, ghost dog, ghost face kill a fatty bulger.
Speaker 2: Okay, so much.
Speaker 3: Better if it was just about some some dude with
Speaker 3: muscles who had to kill somebody, you.
Speaker 4: Know, you know'd be better if Lord of the Rings
Speaker 4: was just the Wu Tang clan doing because people are
Speaker 4: cruel and I want to get behind man.
Speaker 1: That game number six for Mike Manatti. Two of these
Speaker 1: are members of the Wu Tang clan. One is not
Speaker 1: three options. You have Rizza, Sizza, and Gizza or Jizz.
Speaker 5: There's Gizza, Jizz was named Gizz, Gizz. It's the other two,
Speaker 5: not Jizz.
Speaker 1: Mike Manatti incorrect. Is like a lady singer, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: Sizza is a modern lady singer. Yes, there are both,
Speaker 1: and there is is a film director, Mike.
Speaker 2: Yeah, worked on the soundtrack to one of your favorite movies, Mike,
Speaker 2: Which one is that Kill Bill?
Speaker 1: It's Killed Bill?
Speaker 5: A woman gets killed in it. I mean a lot
Speaker 5: multiple It's not it's nothing. It's I don't it's not
Speaker 5: fairly a movie like that, all right, it's nonsense, just
Speaker 5: as a shoot brother. Yeah, So I think both of
Speaker 5: you are kind of tied right now.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, if I i'd be curious if Mike just
Speaker 4: watched like the gravel Pit video. I wonder if, like,
Speaker 4: how could you watch that and not be like, these
Speaker 4: guys seem like they're having fun and that's a cat
Speaker 4: you too.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's at.
Speaker 2: Them.
Speaker 5: I just have It's not like you where you watch
Speaker 5: one of the reason dismissed it. I have zero exposure
Speaker 5: to this.
Speaker 4: I don't think you should just watch the gravel Pit
Speaker 4: video and I think you would like it.
Speaker 1: Uh maybe, Oh, that's that's also true. The Rizza is
Speaker 1: on lin Manuel Miranda's new musical soundtrack. Mikey, Yeah, very cool. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right? Last question is a shoot brother dot m
Speaker 1: P three Okay, no, not move FASA all right, okay, Dan, Yes,
Speaker 1: which of these three are a Lord of the Rings character?
Speaker 2: Sharky Bill, the Pony Pippin.
Speaker 4: Pippin sounds lame, so that's probably one of them, unless
Speaker 4: it Scotty Pippins. Scotty Pippen's cool. What are the first two?
Speaker 2: Sharky Bill, the pony.
Speaker 4: Bill the pony also sounds lame, so I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: with that. Sharky sounds too cool to being Lord of
Speaker 4: the Rings.
Speaker 1: Trick question, Dan, all three of them are lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: So does he get a point? What the heck? You
Speaker 2: could have messed that up. He got like two and
Speaker 2: a half or two points?
Speaker 4: Scott, what's Scottie Pippen up?
Speaker 1: Do?
Speaker 4: Now? I just know him from like NBA Jam.
Speaker 2: I think, isn't Pippin the annoying hobbit from Laws? No,
Speaker 2: he's my favorite character. That's Mary Mary. No, Pippin's great.
Speaker 2: We love Mike. I think you should take this up
Speaker 2: with the commissioner. You have been screwed here for sure.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, buddy.
Speaker 4: What is this?
Speaker 2: Mike?
Speaker 1: Your last question? Which of these are in? Who of
Speaker 1: these people are in the Wu Tang clan?
Speaker 2: The better be all of them.
Speaker 5: Let's see too short riff raff, mister f a b
Speaker 5: riff raff street rats? Don't bye that if only they
Speaker 5: look closer?
Speaker 1: Ra poor boy? No? Which of these three? Say those again?
Speaker 3: Riff raff?
Speaker 2: And who else?
Speaker 1: Too short and miss the f a bar?
Speaker 4: Okay, the ass is a dollar sign, though too short?
Speaker 2: So dance was all them?
Speaker 3: I bet mine is none of them?
Speaker 2: That is correct, Mike manaia.
Speaker 1: All right, uh Jerry who wrote this kid who wrote
Speaker 1: this quiz also adds, in the event of a tie,
Speaker 1: please ask Dan what is the name of the land
Speaker 1: of the Hobbits of the land Hobbits live.
Speaker 4: In the Shire?
Speaker 2: That is correct?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: And ask Mitch what cream stands for? C R E
Speaker 2: A M. His was so much easier U c R
Speaker 2: E A M. Yes, creams it's not healthy. R stands
Speaker 2: for rap no no.
Speaker 1: Then I guess.
Speaker 4: Okay, the C is cash. Does that help cash?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: So what's something that starts with R that is desirable?
Speaker 5: It is it?
Speaker 2: It's a statement about cash cash. They I think they're
Speaker 2: pro cash.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I'll give you the R movie.
Speaker 2: I will give you the R Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cash rules Yeah.
Speaker 2: I told you it would rules everyone everyone everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cash rules.
Speaker 2: Everything, and.
Speaker 5: Cash rules everything around Yes, cash rules everything around me.
Speaker 4: Remember of the mark at the end of Cash rules everything.
Speaker 2: Around me, everything around me? Y'all, y'all shocked?
Speaker 4: I got the.
Speaker 1: Pro cat definitely bro cash.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Fantastic email. Jerry also adds push GB kids Jerry in Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Jerry. Uh, next email, I forgot their
Speaker 1: name here High High Bombers. So if all through a
Speaker 1: friend's porch last week and blew my knee out. Because
Speaker 1: of the way my home is set up, gaming has
Speaker 1: been pretty difficult. So do I buy a PlayStation portal
Speaker 1: a Steam Deck? Do I suck it up and wait
Speaker 1: for the switch too? I have some rch or handhelds,
Speaker 1: but I'm starting to think I'm missing out on the
Speaker 1: modern market.
Speaker 2: Ps. Please check out your flimsy porch boards for me,
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, Steam deck or a sus Roger ally,
Speaker 2: which everyone like, fits better with your library. If you
Speaker 2: have a lot of like game pass games and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, you want to do that than the Roger
Speaker 2: if you want to do a lot of emulation. I
Speaker 2: think it's just so easy to set up on the
Speaker 2: Steam Deck that I would probably go in that direction,
Speaker 2: and then you could stream stuff to CHIACKI from your PlayStation,
Speaker 2: so you don't need a portal. That oled screen looks
Speaker 2: so good. Yeah I would. I would. I would hop
Speaker 2: on this. See they're gonna have a new steam Deck
Speaker 2: probably next year maybe, but your Steam Deck's still going
Speaker 2: to be great. You'll get a lot of value out
Speaker 2: of that over the next year or so. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I would get that. I do too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I saw someone Chad say, don't get the
Speaker 4: PlayStation portal as your only handheld. I agree with that.
Speaker 4: That's gonna limit you in a way the others won't. Also,
Speaker 4: the switch to will but if you're a big Nintendo fan,
Speaker 4: that might, you know, override the rest. But the Steam
Speaker 4: decads is the most versatile.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Yep, agreed, Agreed, all right. Next email comes from Brock
Speaker 1: from Toronto, Ontario. They write in about best co op games. Hey,
Speaker 1: Bomber's longtime listener. After listening to the Revengeance on Friday
Speaker 1: of the Mount rushmore of co op, I would like
Speaker 1: to add one of my favorite co op games, Gauntlet
Speaker 1: Dark Legacy for the original Xbox featured four player cop
Speaker 1: in which each player chose a different class to play as.
Speaker 1: My question is, have any of you played it or
Speaker 1: remember playing this? Do you think it should make the
Speaker 1: Mount rushmore?
Speaker 4: Wouldn't just it was an update of Gauntlet Legacy, right.
Speaker 2: For our Legacy or Gauntlet Legends. What was the name
Speaker 2: of that one?
Speaker 4: Legends? Yeah, expansion of Gauntlet Legends, which that one was
Speaker 4: honestly for cast.
Speaker 2: It was great, It was great. It's so so much time, right, that.
Speaker 4: Did that come out around the same time as the
Speaker 4: first Tony Hawk, because I remember debating, like, you know,
Speaker 4: I had enough money to buy one game, and I
Speaker 4: was like, all right, do I want to get Gauntlet
Speaker 4: or do I want to get Tony Hawk? And I
Speaker 4: remember thinking, like, four player Gauntlet sounds great, and then
Speaker 4: I just got bored of it quick and returned it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a rental game. Right at the
Speaker 2: Gaunton Legends was always let's rent this, have a weekend
Speaker 2: where we just crush it, pizza, Coca cola, and then
Speaker 2: return out and then you write it again, you know,
Speaker 2: a year later.
Speaker 4: Yep ye.
Speaker 5: Speaking of like early three sixty games gating very similar
Speaker 5: to this that I liked a lot. Was that first
Speaker 5: Marvel Ultimate Line.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Actually, Legends one and two were on the original Xbox,
Speaker 4: and three sixty was Ultimate Alliance, Aultman Alliance two. Suck
Speaker 4: to ask for That first one was fun?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the second one just didn't hit as much,
Speaker 5: but the first one was super fun and just very
Speaker 5: easy pick up.
Speaker 2: And everyone loves Ultimate Alliance three on the Nintendo Switch.
Speaker 4: I forgot that. I forgot three. Yeah, it looked like shit.
Speaker 4: I remember like fine, but it it's all right, okay,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: Next email comes from Willow in This is about Mike
Speaker 1: Manatti and the tuba lore. Hey there, Willow from Cleveland here.
Speaker 1: I heard on the last BombCast that Mike played tuba
Speaker 1: in high school. I also played tuba in school for
Speaker 1: seven years. I played that monstrosity in marching band and
Speaker 1: regular band. However, I also made sure to branch out
Speaker 1: by playing upright bass in jazz jazz band plus electric
Speaker 1: bass and pet band in show choir. I even did
Speaker 1: some singing in regular choir. What musical extracurricular talents did
Speaker 1: y'all get up to in middle school? In a high
Speaker 1: school Love you all, ps. I really tried to get
Speaker 1: my band director to let me play the Moog synthesizer
Speaker 1: in pet band. He refused vehemently.
Speaker 2: Alto saxophone.
Speaker 4: I've talked about it before, Sambademigo, that's it for me.
Speaker 5: My brother who also did tubea and my one friend
Speaker 5: who did to did the whole. Hey, I was gonna
Speaker 5: do jazz band and play bass in that because he
Speaker 5: kind of transferred in certain ways.
Speaker 4: I never I was never going to the guitar like instruments.
Speaker 4: Never could really get a handle on any of that stuff.
Speaker 5: So our marching band program was very big where I
Speaker 5: was at that time, Like we had like the school
Speaker 5: was maybe six hundred kids, but the marching band was
Speaker 5: somehow three hundreds. So it was just this massive percentage
Speaker 5: of people were in the marching band with this big deal.
Speaker 5: It was a cultural thing there. So that alone was
Speaker 5: took up a lot of time doing all the marching
Speaker 5: and the console stuff and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I like I mentioned earlier on this podcast, I picked
Speaker 1: up a ukulele because of Explosion Man. I also learned
Speaker 1: to play the banjo and I would still be playing
Speaker 1: the banjo if my friend did not sit on the
Speaker 1: banjo and break the neck of it. He never he
Speaker 1: never offered to pay pay me back for it to
Speaker 1: replace the banjo.
Speaker 2: What the hell, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Oh, all right, let's go with three more emails. Happy
Speaker 1: GDC week to those that celebrate. Thank you for visiting
Speaker 1: my city. This email is about GDC. Comes from Sean
Speaker 1: from Philly. Hello, Bombers. I'm going to my first GDC
Speaker 1: this week, and I was wondering if you have any
Speaker 1: advice for a first timer. I can only make the
Speaker 1: career Day on Friday, and as crazy as it may sound,
Speaker 1: I truly do want to work in this industry parentheses,
Speaker 1: even with everything the past few years have been any
Speaker 1: general advice, is it weird to be networking there? Should?
Speaker 1: I just go with the flow, have fun, visit booths
Speaker 1: that interest me. I've got a few speaker sessions scheduled
Speaker 1: and speed networking, but was also hoping for any perspective
Speaker 1: you guys can give thanks and hope you all have
Speaker 1: a great week. Sean for Philly ps go birds.
Speaker 5: It's the most networking of these conference. Yeah, don't feel
Speaker 5: bad about networking there at all. That's kind of the
Speaker 5: whole point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And like you know, I think the way you
Speaker 2: make that happen is people do have booths, and so
Speaker 2: go talk to them and get them some of your time,
Speaker 2: and then once they like it's okay to be transactional
Speaker 2: at a thing like GDC, everyone's pain to be there.
Speaker 2: They know what the score is. So if you go
Speaker 2: there and like listen to their pitch for their thing
Speaker 2: and be like, that's really cool. I think that's really fascinating.
Speaker 2: I have some questions. Here's my angle of trying to
Speaker 2: get into this industry, Do you have any recommendations for me?
Speaker 2: And they'll want to talk about their experience because they
Speaker 2: know why you're there and they want to help it.
Speaker 2: That's the whole point. So don't be shy about that stuff.
Speaker 2: Try to look for some mixers. If there's people you
Speaker 2: only recognize from you know, being online or from podcasts
Speaker 2: or from Twitter or from videos, go say hi, I
Speaker 2: tell them you like their stuff, and see if they're
Speaker 2: willing to give you some of their time. Maybe they are,
Speaker 2: maybe they aren't. But everyone knows the whole point of
Speaker 2: being there, so it's okay to try to network.
Speaker 4: I always thought so weird of GDC, even when I
Speaker 4: went to lived in San Francisco, I never went to
Speaker 4: It's not it's not our thing. That's the thing that
Speaker 4: I never understood, like media people going out there, because
Speaker 4: it's like this isn't for us, this is for developers.
Speaker 2: Like I wanted to developers like networking, even even with media.
Speaker 2: But I definitely had that same sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like I was encroaching, and I I
Speaker 4: just never wanted to go again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there would be some good retro game like retrospectives
Speaker 5: or panels like that.
Speaker 4: I want to enjoy some of the talks. But yeah,
Speaker 4: personally it was never mye I.
Speaker 2: Was kind of wis was going this year? MVG is
Speaker 2: like if we're showing off the stuff with with Kroc
Speaker 2: and a bunch of with the Bubbsy stuff, and then
Speaker 2: he's like, I'll show it to you ready to go?
Speaker 2: I know you're the Bubbsy guy, like.
Speaker 4: All the grateful dead around, You're gonna be like that
Speaker 4: for Bubbsy.
Speaker 2: It seems like that. Yeah, And now I'm like, I
Speaker 2: would love to see MVG, but I just passed it
Speaker 2: off to Tam and hopefully Tam gets to see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Grev said, if you recognize anyone walking around,
Speaker 1: perhaps you listen to a podcast of sorts that they do.
Speaker 1: Go If they're not, If they don't look like they're
Speaker 1: rushing to a meeting, yes, maybe stop them chat whatever.
Speaker 1: If they do look like they are sweating bullets trying
Speaker 1: to speed walk to a meeting, yeah, you can just
Speaker 1: wave high or whatever and that should be fine. Also,
Speaker 1: as a as a local here, do not hang around
Speaker 1: the Moscone Center if you want cool SF stuff, because
Speaker 1: it's not cool SF stuff over there. It's real tourist trappy,
Speaker 1: hop on bart or hop in away Mo, the cars
Speaker 1: that drive themselves. Go over to Valencia Street and have
Speaker 1: the time of your life.
Speaker 2: I say, just stay in that park outside the Mosconey
Speaker 2: Center and wait for Jonathan Blow to start doing taichi.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a real good time.
Speaker 1: All right, We have a last We have a last
Speaker 1: minute email here. Okay, all right, should Nicky and Jen
Speaker 1: do a GDC meetup? NICKI say, yes, that ain't my time.
Speaker 1: I this Oh god, with the power block, I don't
Speaker 1: have time for anything. But yeah we could put that together.
Speaker 1: That'd be fun. Yeah yeah, maybe we'll just have to
Speaker 1: get together outside of my apartment.
Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah the taco truck.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah you know, yeah, that'd be great. All right,
Speaker 1: last two emails here. Nikki is now saying no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know, we.
Speaker 2: Can't maybe no, we can't do it at your house.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, fine, fine, I'll just drop some GPS
Speaker 1: coordinates and throw it into your Google Mac maps. Folks,
Speaker 1: also avoid the Marina. The Marina is fucking trash, all right,
Speaker 1: It's just nothing but the worst people go there. Go
Speaker 1: to Valencia, go to the dog patch, say hi to
Speaker 1: barber Jan for me.
Speaker 2: It'll be great.
Speaker 4: Last time the family Museum in the that's yes.
Speaker 1: Avoid the marina, but go there to the presidio. Oh right.
Speaker 1: Last two emails of the show. This one comes from
Speaker 1: Travis in Fargo. What would you do for real if
Speaker 1: there was a snake in your boot that boots so
Speaker 1: far away?
Speaker 2: I would retrieve the snake and put the boot on.
Speaker 4: Retrieve the snake. No, I'm with Mike. I would just
Speaker 4: throw it off a cliff.
Speaker 2: Retrieve the snake.
Speaker 4: I don't like snakes. Yeah, no, thanks. Sometimes crazy ever,
Speaker 4: like you're walking on a path or something and you
Speaker 4: just see a snake and like there was a thing
Speaker 4: of where your brain is just like it's some primal things,
Speaker 4: Like you just feel it shivered throughout your body and
Speaker 4: just like you know, jolt away, Like I'll do that
Speaker 4: sometimes in a running.
Speaker 2: I'm that way with spiders. Yes, spiders are like my
Speaker 2: primal brain. It's like, hey, these things killed one of
Speaker 2: your ancestors, and your fear kept them lie at.
Speaker 5: Our ancestors die from this that we have been selected
Speaker 5: to be afraid of listening to those instincts exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes, I had a fraid of Costa Rica, who was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's a colorful snake and picked it up. It's like,
Speaker 2: oh no, that's those are the ones you're supposed to avoid.
Speaker 2: The more colorful means the more dangerous because they don't
Speaker 2: need camouflage for some reason. I wonder what that reason
Speaker 2: could be. And so yeah, she got bit and got
Speaker 2: poisoned and had to like go and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're lucky you didn't like leave the country because we
Speaker 2: only had the antidote here.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus. I had to run in with a snake
Speaker 1: one time in the Mojave Desert. The snake lost.
Speaker 2: I won. I'll just leave it at that. Okay.
Speaker 4: My grandma used to cut their heads off with a shovel. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 4: I saw grandma going in the backyard of the shovel.
Speaker 4: I kne there's gonna be headless snake soon.
Speaker 2: Yes, snake wackon day.
Speaker 4: Yeah for a snakehead No, just killing the snake. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you don't do it the head. I'm making a necklace
Speaker 4: out of it, so I don't know you just like
Speaker 4: the neighbor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Last email of the show comes from Rebecca in the UK.
Speaker 1: Dear Bomb Petty and The Heartbreakers. I recently started following
Speaker 1: many of the crew on the Letterbox because I just
Speaker 1: can't get enough of y'all's opinions. And this got me
Speaker 1: thinking about what else the letterbox format could be turned too.
Speaker 1: If you could create your own version of logging other activities,
Speaker 1: what would it be? Theme park rides, cigarette brands. Personally,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see more art Mona, Lisa Michaelangelo's David
Speaker 1: on My Watch List, brands, The night Watch, four Stars,
Speaker 1: Death Triangle, Rebecca from the UK.
Speaker 4: There's already a theme park version.
Speaker 5: It's called log Ride, So like, yeah, almost anything you
Speaker 5: can imagine, there's some variation of this at this point.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I would. I would do it for gas
Speaker 2: stations and gas station food that's good, yeah, or the
Speaker 2: the Costanza app where I would do it for public bathrooms. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would like rate every public bathroom I was in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have ones like that for like cocktails and
Speaker 4: stuff like as you try ones and rank them and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. Sure, I mean there's a ton for
Speaker 4: beer app or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do have one for coffee as well, just.
Speaker 4: A soda one. There must be that. I think that'd
Speaker 4: be fun to soda influencer.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, you might give her a cheer wine.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I see it all over the place, Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'd rather have a good like root beer. If you're
Speaker 5: going to get a somewhat crafty soda thing.
Speaker 2: Sure we have a root beer from a keg like
Speaker 2: tap tap keg is very good.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh yeah that or even like a like you know,
Speaker 4: what's what's your local grape soda?
Speaker 2: That's sure? Yeah, give me that.
Speaker 1: Al right, folks. That about does it for emails this week.
Speaker 2: Wait real quick, the purple stuff in the sunny D commercial, right,
Speaker 2: the purple stuff that.
Speaker 5: Was just grape soda, right, yeah, pretty much, or some
Speaker 5: kind of grape drink. It might not have been so
Speaker 5: because uh.
Speaker 2: It was like a jug. Okay, just a grape drink.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's carbonated. It's just grape.
Speaker 5: Could have been purple drinks way better than Sunny D.
Speaker 4: I want the purple stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me the purple stuff fan test stick.
Speaker 1: All right, folks. That does it for emails, and that
Speaker 1: does for the show. We got a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: popping off on the power Block this week. After the
Speaker 1: BombCast wraps around twelve noon Pacific, time. Sean will be
Speaker 1: streaming Assassin's Creed Shadows tomorrow through Friday, game break news
Speaker 1: popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday tomorrow. We're actually pushing back
Speaker 1: game breaking news by an hour.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so sorry, Dan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just hoping it's short.
Speaker 2: It's a high possibility.
Speaker 4: Controller it could be just eight days. Jeff could be
Speaker 4: playing a Blake.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't. I don't think it's more than one episode.
Speaker 2: He's ready, Yeah, I have my stuff, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I know the game what it is.
Speaker 1: Really, it's like a huh okay as well grubs gimmicks.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we're gonna thirty three Immortals, thirty three player cooperative
Speaker 1: Rogue Light.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna play it for only only about an hour tomorrow,
Speaker 2: so like, let's get going right away. If anyone wants
Speaker 2: to hop in, just hop in. I'll try to get
Speaker 2: some people from the crew, but we'll have spaces left
Speaker 2: over if anyone else is going to get that game.
Speaker 2: I think it's on game Pass, although I think I'll
Speaker 2: be playing the Epic Games version, although I hope it
Speaker 2: has crossplave. It's gonna have thirty three player multiplayer, so yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll try that out.
Speaker 4: John says, you do, I have a party of four?
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, Well we'll have our party of four. And whoever,
Speaker 2: if there's a way to like to like join us
Speaker 2: with your party of four, I have no idea. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna play it some today and find out.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, fantastic, And as Dan was eluding, his turn at
Speaker 1: the Blightening Round starts tomorrow. Gosh, I just now, I'm
Speaker 1: just craving some Reese's pieces. All of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: think I don't.
Speaker 4: Know anyone to fix that craving for myself.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow Thursday, the Game spot Show continues, as well as
Speaker 1: a voicemail dump truck. This Friday, we have a special
Speaker 1: guest joining us for BombCast for Vengeance to chat about
Speaker 1: his new book. Mike Drucker is hitting the pod.
Speaker 4: I can't say I am about halfway through that book
Speaker 4: right now. It's the funniest shit. I'm just like, it
Speaker 4: is the most relatable shit ever is if you grew
Speaker 4: up loving video games as a kid. And he's just
Speaker 4: an incredible comedy writer. I cannot say enough about this book.
Speaker 2: It's fantas I preordered it right away. I got the
Speaker 2: hardcover version coming my way once. It's SARTs ship and
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: I was reading or I was playing Mortal Kombat for
Speaker 4: the game Boy last night because he talked about how
Speaker 4: terrible it was, and I had no idea how bad
Speaker 4: that first.
Speaker 2: It sucks? Ass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, Friday, you do Mount rushmore of first levels?
Speaker 2: Do that? Sure? I love that? Sure, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah upf This week will be Thug Pro.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get the skating as well as a game
Speaker 1: Spot after dark to close off the week. Nicky is
Speaker 1: gonna be in town for GDC, and I live here
Speaker 1: and I have a pass to GDC. Maybe Nicky and
Speaker 1: I will get down to something. Who knows what I
Speaker 1: get to figure out. I could barely walk today. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take an obscene amount of Advil and tigerbaumb for
Speaker 1: my back. But tomorrow, folks.
Speaker 2: Case making those illegals, So do it now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh god, I don't want to go to the
Speaker 1: farm yet. Tomorrow at nine am, the Game Spot team
Speaker 1: is dropping the Stalker to documentary. A lot of time
Speaker 1: has gone into this. Uh, the team has been working
Speaker 1: obscenely hard. I suggest you go check it out. It
Speaker 1: is good stuff. Roughly about like forty or so minutes.
Speaker 1: So that's why we are pushing back game breaking news
Speaker 1: to give that some time to breathe, folks. Anything else
Speaker 1: popping off this week, I think that's it.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's everything.
Speaker 1: Yeahjo next week, Smojo next week.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned, you know Seawann's doing Assasin's Creed here
Speaker 2: in a little bit, we're gonna be doing that. I
Speaker 2: think the top of the hour. You said, top of
Speaker 2: the hour. There you go.
Speaker 1: So uh, folks will just have to hang out for
Speaker 1: about thirty or so minutes after this wraps, and then
Speaker 1: Sean is going to guide you through Assassin's Creed Shadows. Folks.
Speaker 1: He's been Mike, he's been Dan, He he has been
Speaker 1: Jeff Grubb, I've been Jane, and you have been doing great.
Speaker 1: Make sure to go water your plants. Go shift them
Speaker 1: to the east side window of your house so that
Speaker 1: gets a little bit more sun today. We love you.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week for or another shautions Creed
Speaker 1: ashautis Creed and Beautiful. We'll see next week for another
Speaker 1: episode of the Time podcast. Be