Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Tuesday, January sixth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Giant BombCast. I am your host, jan
O Showa. Welcome to John BombCast, Episode nine hundred and
twenty two. Joining me as always, co captain of the ship,
Jeff gru Hey.
Speaker 1: Happy to be here. Jan twenty twenty six. We did it.
Speaker 2: Nothing hurts to him, whether it's five giga hurts or
two point four giga hurts.
Speaker 3: Damn Rekert.
Speaker 4: There's a six now. I was in my router settings
and they make a six WiFi. Now, yeah, here's this
is six?
Speaker 3: Oh real wi Fi?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is that a match with cat? Wait?
Speaker 6: Wait?
Speaker 3: Wait does this joke work? It's it's it's Wi Fi Balboa?
Speaker 4: No, No, because he's I mean, it's a bad Joey.
It's a bad joke, but you understand where it came from.
I get where you're going with nodding vigorously, but I
think you're.
Speaker 1: Like also, like, are you talking about the six giga
hurts bandwidth or you talk about Wi Fi six two different?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I went in my settings there was two point four
five and six now yeah, so you're.
Speaker 1: Talking about okay, so yeah, you're talking about six Giga hurts, Yes.
Speaker 4: And the sixth Rocky move. Yeah, just keep on stumbling
out of the gates.
Speaker 2: God, I forgot what was going to introduce backlar As,
But Jeff, Backlar's here. Hey, Jeff, I can't blame you, Jan,
that was rough. Really come back from something like that
by saying it was a bad joke. Yeah, but life
tells a bad joke. It's kind of like charming. Still,
you didn't.
Speaker 1: Soften it at all, Dan, It just hurt more.
Speaker 5: Acts.
Speaker 3: I wasn't trying to charm you, Fellas. I was just
trying to say a bad joke. You know what.
Speaker 2: Okay, I should have taken that into consideration, you know, Dan, Uh,
we'll well, we'll start it, we'll start again. Well we're
not gonna start the whole show again, but uh, give me.
Speaker 3: A chance on nothing hurts to him.
Speaker 2: Uh. He loves grafts and scales and stats, Dan, record.
Speaker 1: That's men.
Speaker 3: How's it going? Twenty twenty six? Fellas ready to do
another year of Giant bomb dot Com? Right, folks, that's right.
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the happiest person here.
Speaker 7: Jeff mackalar I am the happiest person in attendance on
this podcast. Thank you for highlighting that.
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Speaker 1: He was pantiless the entire time at Games Done Quick.
He just would he refused, refused.
Speaker 2: That's why he was the lower left corner pants less.
He was without called pants less, okay, asserting dominance dicks
out for speed running. He kept saying it was really awkward.
Speaker 3: Oh okay.
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Speaker 3: Boys, it's Toy Toy six. I haven't seen y'all. I
mean I saw y'all yesterday, but it's been a minute.
Speaker 2: I've been sitting at this desk during the break thinking
like what if?
Speaker 3: What if I I want a podcast? I want to.
Speaker 4: Talk You're not doing You get into this flow doing
it every week, and then all of a sudden games
are coming out. You're not on Zoom calls and Discord
calls and podcasting all the time.
Speaker 3: It is a weird period. It always has been.
Speaker 1: I played old games and then I did. I did
get dressed up in my knuckles costume just to take
a photo.
Speaker 4: Like I was wondering what possible reason. I was like,
is there an ad he was recording? Why would he
need the knuckles?
Speaker 1: I just I was just missing it, just to feel alive,
Just to feel alive. Yeah, I was missing not playing
leisure suit Larry, Like that's what I was missing.
Speaker 5: Don't play les Larry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was not playing exactly. You don't know what
we're doing our free time.
Speaker 5: Mikey I got a rug.
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, very skeptical of the rug, like maybe the
most skeptical anyone's ever been of a problem.
Speaker 5: Mike, tell them, like, tell him the whole arc here
your problems. I get a blank text with my friend
like do you want a rug? And I'm like, boy,
I don't know. I get to see a world where
this becomes a big problem for me, where I don't
like the rug and it's just I have hardwood floors,
hang on, I want to be pepurt here.
Speaker 4: So you said a big problem for you where you
don't like the rug. You could just sell it or
give it away.
Speaker 5: Right exactly. Now that's my problem, se No, it was
my friend's problem. He's responsible for this unwanted rug. And
now I'm just going to claim responsibility for that wills
and everywhere for a reason. It's a whole thing. Plus,
I was like, can I see the rug? And he
said no, I don't wait. That's weird because I don't
want to unfurl it because I don't want to be
world What is that? He had a picture of it
fur old. It was hard to get a good idea there.
Speaker 1: Who is this friend? Is he really your friend?
Speaker 5: Oh, he's been my friends. It's high school. Yeah, his
game weirdly also furl and no, it's not the poop
City slam of jam a guy.
Speaker 3: Friend do you refer to. That's not in the games industry.
It's just poop city.
Speaker 2: That's all of your friends. It wasn't just one person.
It was a collective gym showt.
Speaker 5: So my instinct was to say no. But then I
started having like big rug fomo, like what if this
rug is just beautiful and immaculate and it was free?
And I say no, I'll get the rug. I'll get
the rug. It's like, okay, by the way, there are
two runners, do you want them as well? And I'm like,
I think I got.
Speaker 1: To explain to Mike what a runner.
Speaker 3: Was that was under the rug that keeps it from
like slipping around?
Speaker 5: Right Yeah, no, no, no, it's like in rugs basically
and walk away.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, oh my god, this still keeps getting worse,
right all right? I'm like felt like Lando caw Rizzy
in here. Ah ha, So I was. I was kind
of like worrying.
Speaker 3: There's no place for bad jokes here.
Speaker 5: I was just fretting and worrying about this rug. He's
coming over to hang out. He brought the rug. It's
big thing, unfurled, it perfect size, matches the color room.
It's gorgeous. It has changed everything. This drug is the
best he does.
Speaker 3: Tie the room together.
Speaker 1: Together.
Speaker 5: Your picture of my rug now, like Mike, the public
can never see it.
Speaker 4: This needs to be a giant mystery to everyone except yea,
so good.
Speaker 1: It looks like it like you must have bought the
rugs specifically for your house. Everything. It's great.
Speaker 2: Okay, Mike, I have to ask, did your friend furl
Are these rugs already cleaned?
Speaker 5: It seem pretty clean. They were his parent, so they're
older responsible, right, So yeah, so I I clean the
runners went perfectly down, like the two areas they possibly
could have. I set a picture I put in our
general chat.
Speaker 1: You guys tell me.
Speaker 3: That person.
Speaker 1: It looks so good.
Speaker 5: It really has just tied everything. And like I was
thinking about getting like new wood floors or carpet because
like it was kind of looking crappy in there, and
I'm like, I don't have to do that anymore. Now
I'm room looks delightful.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, it just really all fits now, So I'm like, okay,
bomiton and send him for next year.
Speaker 3: Is we show a picture of the rug.
Speaker 5: This is a bit more resuport that we go at
a cross country road trip.
Speaker 3: Don't tell you that. How hard is it to make
a rug? Can we sell a rug?
Speaker 5: Can we make.
Speaker 1: In the Middle Persian? Like that?
Speaker 3: You're so many for centuries back.
Speaker 7: I know it seems intricate and complicated, but there's so many.
Speaker 2: Rug stores here that are like, maybe front's money laundering.
Speaker 3: Why can't we have a rug.
Speaker 1: And ask we could do mouse pads, which is the
rugs of.
Speaker 3: Nerds that is just based on Mike's rug would be wow?
Speaker 5: Okay, wait you guys. Do you guys get those videos
of people cleaning rugs by the way now on some stuff,
they're very satisfying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I do. Are these like
with the ones where they're like hitting it with a.
Speaker 5: Wire or no, they're like throwing all sorts of different
colored goop on it and like really like grinding the
A couple of those. Yeah, they'll come in like just
pure shit, brown colored. And then they're working for a
while and you see a care bear. All of a sudden, Uh.
Speaker 1: I had my little Columbo mystery happened to me over
the holidays.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: I got like at a point where I'm like, I
was remembering a lot of old friends from high school's
faces and like first names. I've begun. I started forgetting
their last names and stuff like that. These are acquaintances
for the most part, all my close friends. Obviously it's fine.
But I was like, I wish I had my yearbook
and I never I don't think I ever had my
senior yearbook. So I went on eBay and I found one.
I put in little like seventy five books, and I
was like, I'm not picking that up.
Speaker 3: So I put in an offer, you found.
Speaker 1: Your own yearbook on eBay, not my personal yearbook?
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I like your school. That is bright.
I'm looking for myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. It was like, clearly someone who buys
and sells all kinds of books, like dad, that's their
whole account.
Speaker 4: So they have to have one's ninety nine from two
thousand and one. That's strange, right.
Speaker 5: I don't know why.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my brain's not accepting this.
Speaker 1: No, there's a reason. So I got the book and
I'm flipping through it, and I was like, I'm kind
of remembering, Oh yeah, I don't even think I submitted
my like senior pictures to the books. I was kind
of like a little bit rebellious at that point on
kind of a shit. Uh. So they used my my
my photo for my my student ID. And so I'm
flipping to that part of the section where it's the
student ID photos all clumped together, and I found myself
and on the picture was written, Hi Jeff, And I
was like, okay, wait, so I email I like first, like,
let's just do this. Maybe the person who I bought
it from was someone I went to school with. So
I messaged them and I was like, did you write
anything in the book? And the person's like, my people
do not write anything in the book? Like oh you
have people.
Speaker 7: I love that.
Speaker 1: So it's like, all right, we got to I want
to like solve this mystery. Who wrote this? Whose book
was this? How'd this get here? And I'm like kind
of like flipping through and there's a bunch of stuff
written and like most of this stuff was written on
the people from the year before me. So I was
a senior this year, and most of the stuff was
written on like juniors, like oh this guy is hot
and stuff like that, and you know, this guy's a nerd.
A lot of the guys that she thought was hot
were indeed hot. So I'm like, man, I can I
piece this together? Could I maybe start asking around to
some friends and be like, hey, do you like here's
a message? Do you think you recognize this? And as
I'm doing it, like my family's over and I'm flipping
through it and I flipped through to a page randomly
and look at a picture and it just says underneath
the picture, this is me.
Speaker 3: It's like that's so weird.
Speaker 1: And it's like, as we were discussing, like how are
we going to figure this out? And I basically like
turn to the group and I'm like, well, miss three solved,
do you.
Speaker 3: Remember this person?
Speaker 5: That's what they want you to think? Whoever wrote that?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I kind of recognize this girl? I
kind of, yeah, her face is familiar to me. And
then I started like looking at some uh I googled
her and found her Facebook profile and two of her
friends that like were mutuals. Oh yeah, I was close
friends with them, and I bet you like we're in
a circle, and like she was what we were acquaintances
and so I like google it and it's like, yes,
this is a person who did die and she sold
that someone must have sold off all her books, and
so it's like, because that's how this book ends up
on even right, Otherwise it just like wouldn't like we
get thrown away or something like that. And it was like, oh, man,
so I'm like I want to like eventually like reach
out to some of her friends and see if they
want this book. But it was kind of like this
weird like roller coaster of like, oh, this is exciting
what's going on here? And it's like, oh, obviously surely
something like that could have happened.
Speaker 7: But surely you you I mean that must have lost
your mind at some point, right it did.
Speaker 3: Yes, Steph rotted up.
Speaker 1: She was like that could be it, Like you know,
I don't want to you know, someone moved and just
got rid of all their books. Was kind of right,
it was. It was wild to kind of go through
all that. It's like a bummer. Like I was kind
of getting there, like, oh, that'd be awesome to talk
to her or whatever. It's like I'm not gonna have
a chance to do that. But like, like I said,
I was close friends with some of her friends, so
might reach out to them and you fix the ending
of this story.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dan, tell the joke again from the beginning.
Speaker 4: So why if no, no, I'll tell you. I'll tell
you a winter Break story for me here. Uh my
sister Kayla you may know on this website. I go
to her place and we play Little Gears on PlayStation
five and I can't hit a single fucking active reload.
It is like way way off. And remember Kayla's favorite genre.
She is beat securo every why old how good she is.
We've talked about how she beat most of Second Row
on a PlayStation portal. I did like three completely botched
active reloads and I'm usually very good at those, and
I was like, hell, do you have game mode on?
Speaker 3: And she's like, what's game mode?
Speaker 4: And I was like oh, and it was like an
older TV and like she definitely never checks a setting ever. Yeah,
And I went in there and I turned it on
and she's like, oh, this feels way better.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Destroyed like every from game every like Neo, every Soul,
like two with the gravity room.
Speaker 3: Weights on, like.
Speaker 1: That's why she did that fight and one want attempt
at your house because she was had the weights off.
Speaker 4: But she beat all those games with style, without any
like with awful like the worst input LAG I've ever
seen by far.
Speaker 7: That's that. That's not. There's like there's a lot of
memes online of like LAG in real life kind of stuff,
just bumping into doors and whatnot.
Speaker 1: That's not.
Speaker 3: I have evolved into a higher being.
Speaker 1: So when Chet said, tell how Chat solved this, Dan,
is there anything specific there that you that you can
remember or maybe.
Speaker 3: Not Chat solved this?
Speaker 1: She says, tell them how Chat solved this?
Speaker 3: Dan, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's nothing.
Speaker 2: Now stop taking credit for Dan's Yeah, she's nuts.
Speaker 5: Chat looked all up.
Speaker 3: Right, because we couldn't find it because it was like
buried and.
Speaker 1: It was like an older I could not find an
obvious note like a relatively new term in some of
these TV So.
Speaker 4: I did get the model number from the back of
the TV, and Chat looked up that specific cratic Okay, yeah, yeah, insane?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: Any other stories from like the holiday break?
Speaker 1: She's still good?
Speaker 5: You got any I got any more fun ones?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Just think may see I have any more people die? Let
me think that didn't during the break. No, but I
went to about you again. I guys, we gots we
got to do together.
Speaker 2: We have he's two hundred dollars to take a course
at Benny Hannah.
Speaker 4: We have a competition. Let's all go to a hibachi
and let's tell the dude. They're all fun dudes, all
the cooks and so they do the volcano, they do
the train and all that stuff. Just tell them like, hey,
we want five shrimps each and we will score. We'll
have a scoreboard for who catches the most shrimp.
Speaker 3: Yep, I will catch the most shrimp.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I would love to.
Speaker 7: Habachi has lost a lot of it's allure.
Speaker 3: To me, was very upseting.
Speaker 1: Div is very much on the Hibachi wagon these days.
Speaker 3: He believes in magic.
Speaker 7: Still, Well, I don't know if it's magic. I just
think like I don't know. Sometimes I just don't want
to go through the motions.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: They do it every day, literally do zero emotions.
Speaker 3: No, there's there's motions. Okay.
Speaker 7: I I look. I grew up on habachi. Okay, I
got roots deep down in Habachi.
Speaker 3: Family, exactly. The leeds run deep.
Speaker 1: The first Haibachi kitchen was opened in New Jersey. I
made that up. Listen, listen.
Speaker 7: I'm just you know, every time we got to eat,
telling us like, let's go to Habaji, and it's like, buddy,
we can't go four times a month. You can't do that.
Can of course, it's got to be special. It's just
got to be special.
Speaker 3: Right, It's just gotta for my sister's birthday. So yeah,
that was like the regular.
Speaker 1: Right, and you know, look, it's fun. Here's what I'll say.
Speaker 7: I don't like the fact that it's such a roll
of the dice of who you're gonna sit with if
you know, if you're not with a big party, if
you're not with a big party, right, which is why
I will only go to hibachi with at least five
or six people.
Speaker 3: One, two, three, four five.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'll go with you guys for sure.
Speaker 5: Okay, but you get randos.
Speaker 7: But sometimes you get randos and then you get randos
who like bring the vibes down, the vibes up. Some
times they can bring the vibes up.
Speaker 5: I want to.
Speaker 1: I would be like, you're you're like, you're kind of
being oversensitive. But it has happened to me once.
Speaker 3: It happened to me numerous times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was that. It was we went to Mexico
for like a vacation in Mexico. Yes, we went to
Abachi at like an all inclusive resort in Mexico, and uh,
these people that sat with us decided they were our
best friends for the rest.
Speaker 3: Of the vacation.
Speaker 1: We didn't want that, We want to be these are
reasonable qualms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, simp okay.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, I remember going to to
Vegas in my adult life and having a very fun time,
went to like a fancy buffet, and then the couple
next to me and the person I was with at
the time, it was like actively going through a breakup,
and like the waiter was trying to like solve and
soften the impact.
Speaker 3: It was like, is it so much birthday? Do you
guys want mimosas on me?
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, so this guy is like trying to joke around
and laugh and pouring the mimosas. Meanwhile, like these two
people are just staring daggers at each other. Is terrible.
Speaker 3: They did not enjoy the ex benedict that day.
Speaker 1: No I didn't.
Speaker 3: It doesn't.
Speaker 4: I've been to a million about You's the one notable
person that sat with me was I'm sitting there and
probably I'm probably sixteen the year two thousand and this
big guy starts talking. He's across the table and I
heard him talking to his family. He's like, oh yeah.
So when I was teaming with Foley and I was like,
I'm sorry, just like my ears perk up like crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm sorry, what is this?
Speaker 4: And he keeps talking toim like he's clearly talking about
being a pro wrestler and he's a big dude, and
I'm like, who the fuck is this guy. I was
reminded of this a year or two ago a Dark
Side of the Ring episode about herb Abrams UWF. If
you've seen this wild Thing Steve Ray, he has a
Wikipedia article that's who this guy was. He was supposed
to be the Hulk Hogan of the UWF, which was
a haunted promotion if you look that up. And so
he starts talking too, like yay, I'm gonna get back in,
you know, I'm gonna send I gotta send some stuff
to Vince. I gotta And when he said that, I
got up. I'm like sixteen. I walked over and I
was like, I'm sorry. You're a wrestler and he goes, yeah, yeah,
you know you used to be. I used to here's
me with Foley. He had like pictures in his wallut
of him with Poley, you know, before phones and holy
It's like him and Cactus Jack.
Speaker 3: And I was like, that's fucking nuts. And he's like, yeah, yeah,
I'm trying to get back in. I'm trying to get
back in WF. You know, I'm ready to go. I'm
still you know, gas in the tank or whatever.
Speaker 4: And I told him, like, I do video production stuff,
like I would love to put together a sissle real
for you. So for a while I was going back
and forth with this guy on like putting it together
a vignette. I remember it was just like, okay, so
it's gonna be flames, and it's gonna be the text
that says, like wild thing Steve Ray. I probably have
the notebook somewhere with all of these notes. And so
I went back and forth. I made like storyboards and stuff,
and he was all into it, and I was convinced
I was gonna get him back into the WUF.
Speaker 3: And so we were.
Speaker 4: Supposed to meet at a Border's books one night to
We're gonna meet up there, get some coffee or something
and then go like shoot the vignette. And so me
and my friend Charlie, who is going to help me shoot,
We're sitting there waiting for this wrestler. It was before
cell phones, before we had cell phones, and so it's like, Okay,
we're supposed to be here at six or whatever. He's
not showing up. We wait like an hour and a half.
We go home and he told me he emailed me.
Speaker 5: Sorry.
Speaker 4: I was taking my son home from football practice and
he has a cast on and I had my son
try to fill my car with gas and somehow the
spiggott got into his cast and he filled his cast
with gasoline, and so we had to go.
Speaker 3: To the hospital.
Speaker 4: So sorry that we weren't able to make it for
the vignette shoot.
Speaker 3: And then we just flaked on me for the rest
of Like.
Speaker 7: It sounds like does for the best though, right.
Speaker 5: His episode of Dark Side of the Ring was titled
Cocaine and Cowboy Boots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, This and Forever, And then watching the Dark Side
of the Ring and I was like, why does this
kind of look for the Bachi guy.
Speaker 7: I believe I believe the guest story though.
Speaker 5: No, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's too crazy not to have happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, today's episode is also called Coke Canan Cowboy Boots.
Speaker 5: Did I ever tell you all? I thought that Disney
invented hibachi, Yes everything probably YEA like one because the
I went to one was the Japan and Epcot, and like,
I was like, Wow, what a crazy, amazing concept. Only
Disney could come up with this. Then like a few
years later they opened her botch she had our mall,
and I was like.
Speaker 3: Oh, I feel like a damn fool.
Speaker 4: Mike, when you said I was in Japan at asked Epcot,
my first thought was I thought Mike said he hadn't
been to Japan.
Speaker 5: Nay grub and I went to a cheesecake factory the
other day after we were at Games Done. Click for
a brag that.
Speaker 3: Great kiss.
Speaker 5: Yes, uh, Jeff got this like small bites appetizer of
these like honey chicken and biscuits. Those were insanely good.
Speaker 1: They were really good.
Speaker 3: I did choose factory before Avatar three, and that was
quite good. It was.
Speaker 4: I had a good time. Yeah, overall, definitely was not
as good of a time.
Speaker 3: As the last one. I thought, yeah, yeah, it was,
but I enjoyed it. I still enjoyed three. It's weird
how similar it was to two. Kind of the same
movie but with a hot fire lady. Yeah, it's They
should have had more of the hot fire light.
Speaker 5: They should have had more of fire and as Actually
you could have called this movie The Way of Water
as well. The best I don't want to do spoils,
but the best scene by far was the Whale Council.
Speaker 2: Yes, actually, yes, oh yes I would. I would learn
to swim just to witness the whale Council.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think the next movie should just be like a
cord drama with the whales, twelve angry.
Speaker 4: Whales, Jack Lemon as a whale.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, I would love it. I would love it
so much.
Speaker 3: We did our Avatar ritual.
Speaker 4: We went cheesecake factory, bunch of cocktails, bunch of edibles,
and then just like sat down in a recliner watching
for four hours. Bonk said, I got back home and
I've never done this in my life. I got back
home and I just calmly walked up the stairs, fully clothed,
laid down like just like some sleeper agent, like I
got activated laid down, fell asleep, fully clothed, and slept
for thirteen straight hours.
Speaker 7: What because of all the drugs and stuffy Yeah yeah,
the calies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he probably got the chicken carbonare or so. I
think was like three thousand hours. Very sleep, I get it.
It's like that. We had a great time. A game's
done quick though as well.
Speaker 1: Yay.
Speaker 5: Jeff and my brother AJ went up. We got to
see some good speed runs, like a Hollow Night Kingdom Cards.
That one was a ton of fun. We caught the
end of the Mario Sunshine speed run that was super neat.
It's a good time. I'm glad to keep doing those
in Pittsburgh lately. It's really fun to be able to go.
Speaker 1: It's convenient.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: It's great out there though. Yeah, it's it's a good time.
Everyone's so nice and it's cool to be in that environment.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just see this in chat, and I
don't think I've agreed with the sentiment in chat this
strongly in quite a while. Some Epinada eater says that
Dan is the true ton mock Toe and you know what, all.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah is that an avatar? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Watching it, I was like, are these guys brothers. Who
is this? Why is that scorny weaver? Why is she
a kid?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: I just have no idea.
Speaker 4: What dude, I don't remember ship from the second movie
or the first movie, so it's it's a brand new
thing every time I see one.
Speaker 7: That's probably for the best, too, right, you're not there
for the story?
Speaker 1: Come on, no, Mike, did you notice any sense in
the the rhythm arcade room at Awesome Games Done? Yeah?
Awesome Games done quick? Because I noticed human body odor just.
Speaker 5: Look like you kind of like you prepare for the
worst with these things, and generally it's too bad. But
there's two arcade rooms. There's a general arcade room that
had like some fighting games. That's some weird beer pong
like arcade game that was fun, not too bad. But
the rhythm room that's where you know the nerds are
building up the sweat. There's a little rough in there.
Speaker 3: All the rhythm game.
Speaker 7: It's such a stereotype, but it's just like but it
just always it happens.
Speaker 4: But it is such a stereotype that you would think
that it's just people are aware of it at this
point and care about it. Is it that they don't
realize it, or that they don't care about it, I think,
but we all take showers and ship like I don't
I don't well understand how this happens.
Speaker 2: In my head, I'm thinking these people, uh, and I
don't say that in a derogatory way at all.
Speaker 1: But these gamers, these gamers.
Speaker 2: Will will will spend so much time isolated doing their
own thing at home that now that they get to
be in a collective place, in a collective space with
other gamers, they're just so excited to go that they
forget to shower.
Speaker 4: But even like, why I live at home, I'm not
always out among people, but like you still want.
Speaker 3: To shower every day because it feels fucking gross.
Speaker 1: I I feel like being like smelling good is like
top tier three, like one of my three favorite things
in the world. Like I love to smell good and.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, you think there just glows. I think it's
it's a.
Speaker 1: Combination of factors. It's it's going to be people who
are socially awkward for a variety of reasons. People are
nose blind for a variety of reasons. Don't notice, don't care.
It's all kinds of stuff. You know, I'm not going
to pick on any one individual characteristic, but.
Speaker 4: I will say it's not just gamers, like a lot
of it's the same thing.
Speaker 5: If not, it's a lot of things where maybe a
person doesn't go out much, but this one thing is
really excited to them, so they're going out for the
first time ever and they are socially not prepared.
Speaker 3: But even if they're just at home, Like, doesn't it just.
Speaker 5: People three times a day? If I can.
Speaker 7: Really three times, but it's happened, it's happened. I just think, uh, yeah,
I don't know. I don't have an explanation for this,
but I but I don't think people are self aware.
Speaker 1: You're giving people.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's the first time that people are sweating?
I don't know, the first time where I'm not sweating.
Speaker 3: Body crying.
Speaker 2: It's happening, all right, gang, I guess we should talk
about video games.
Speaker 3: Oh oh man.
Speaker 2: During the break, my headphones hit the gogsler and I
cued one of the buttons, and then I to no
one and to myself, I started doing a segue.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: God, Jeff Greb you were talking about being Colombo earlier,
but you were also double O seven because you played
Double O seven everything or nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like thinking, oh my god, I put
that PC to the side that has my save for
that game, and I've been meaning to just play through it.
I wish I would have had that saved just on
the Steam deck. That would make a lot easier for me.
But it's like, Okay, I have it all hooked up
because I was finishing that Cleveland Gaming Classic video edit,
so Mike, I'll just get it set up on there.
It took me a second to actually find the save
file for Dolphins. I updated Dolphin and it was all
upset about that, but I did, thankfully still have it
played through. It got to that motorcycle level where you
drive onto the trains bridge. Yeah, that's really exciting.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's another one not too long after that where Shannon
Elizabeth is that her name, Shannon Elizabeth, the lady from
Maxim magazines back in the day. She falls off a
cliff and you have to like dive after on the
cliff and you have to like dodge these like wooden
planks and other cliff faces, and you have to shoot
guys while you're falling, and that's like pretty intense and cool.
It does it does these scripted moments that are often
like thirty seconds long. Really well, that game's still is
a lot of cool stuff. There is, you know, a
lot of stuff that doesn't age well where it's these
open zones where you're driving around from one point to
another and there's a timer and there's not a lot
going on, and it's kind of like weird because you'll, like,
it won't feel chaotic, it won't feel too exciting, but
there is a timer counting down, so you're supposed to
get to this place fast. So they'll put these segments
where you're clearly clearly supposed to like drive through a
building and drive through this office in all the glass,
and it's all supposed to be breaking but it just
feels like you're breaking the law for no reason because
it's not like anyone's chasing you or you're shooting at anyone.
You just wanted a really short way to go from
one side of the city to another.
Speaker 5: Uh. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it. I'm glad I'm continuing to play it.
I should have that done this week so if we
want to do a new punishment, I'll be ready.
Speaker 4: I'm sure there are things that have aged poorly, but
like keep in mind, like that was over twenty years ago,
and so like that, the like cinematic action scene, specifically
the bridge thing in like two thousand and five. I
was like, You've got fucking flamethrowers coming out of the thing,
You're sliding underneath the truck, you're chasing jaws. Like I
just remember that being like one of the coolest like
set piece moments or sequences i'd seen on that like
the PS two era.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was really cool because it like does
just give you a point you're supposed to go to,
and there's kind of a maze of roads, so it's
up to you to sort of find the fastest route
and it's like, oh, I did spot that shortcut, and
then it has a really cool ramp and you're jumping
off of it and you feel cool. So yeah, the
cinematic stuff is by far the best part about it,
and that stuff does hold up because you don't don't
actually get a ton of that anymore. It's a very
different kind of game.
Speaker 3: And they made like a custom Bond movie for a
game with all the voice actors and stuff.
Speaker 1: It was cool. Yeah, I'm going to meet Maya right
now in New Orleans. So yeah, that's a real video game.
Speaker 2: Cool cool speaking about older video games, I have no
idea what this is the Out Foxies.
Speaker 1: Well, and you're gonna find out what this is very soon.
We're gonna have to do something about this dance.
Speaker 4: This is this is my go to on the I
discovered this on the main cabinet when I was just
like kind of going through everything, I was like, what
the fuck is the Olt Foxies and says nineteen ninety
four and namco on and.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. You knew about it from next I
like it just got released, so I was re released
for them.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: No, we've done this running thing every time, like we
do the fire Escape stuff. Me and Mike, we always
just sit down and play a bunch of Out Foxies.
It is basically like Smash Brothers from.
Speaker 1: Nicha Protos Smash Brothers. Yeah name so.
Speaker 4: And it's like the setup is almost kind of like
a Bond type thing where there's a bunch of like
these kind of like type killers where it's like, oh,
here's this assassin, here's this guy in a wheelchair that
can like, here's here's a.
Speaker 1: Pair of twin. It's a pair of fraternal twins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, here's a monkey named Dweeb that wears a
suit and top hat and uh huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's so you're running around.
Speaker 4: There's just guns and flamethrowers and rocket launchers and there's
like a circus level and a submarine level and like.
Speaker 3: The levels have evolution. Yeah, it's like powerstone stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, where it's like the ship is like, oh, a
window cracks and then it's sinking and then sharks come
in and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And the helicopter like falls through the floor and like crashes. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Cool, cool, it's cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, it's it's genuinely fun and it came out
on it is like eighteen dollars, which is nuts.
Speaker 1: But it's an archive archive release, so like it's just
the release of the arcade game, but you could start
playing immediately. It does like when you're playing single player,
does the arcade thing of wow, this is really easy.
Three fights later, this is literally impossible, Oh my god.
Speaker 5: So in those quarters.
Speaker 4: But it's one of those as Arcade archive things that
they they're good at bringing a lot of like more
obscure stuff to switch and other consoles, so very happy
to have.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, they've done like the five hundred Arcade arc
archive games now or something that's crazy.
Speaker 5: I want they all to do like a big collection
at some point. I don't know, but uh, yeah, I've
heard of this game now. I don't remember the name
of Foxy's what a name. I've heard about this game
for its prototype Smash Brothers elements that I would like
to actually try it so I might get this.
Speaker 3: I don't know the Foxes in the game.
Speaker 5: No, I think they're just like clever, like they out
fox people. They're the out Foxy. Okay, all right, all right,
the out foxers Foxy.
Speaker 1: It almost sounds like a Game Boy Advanced. Look. I
mean it's obviously an arcade game from nineteen nine. Ye oh,
but it's the way that the way that like the
pixels sort of like swim around and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: It's like it's and.
Speaker 1: It's rendering so much because the levels are gigantic. They're enormous,
and the characters can get very small, especially if you're
on the opposite.
Speaker 3: Sides and level it's like super wide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then like the camera does a good job
of like sort of panning and zooming like a Samurai
showdown or something like that. It just feels, i don't know,
exciting and cinematic in a way that it doesn't make
sense necessarily for what's happening because it's so goofy a
lot of times, but it's goofy and it's just a
really good way.
Speaker 2: That sounds great. Okay, yeah we should. We should check
this out on the site. Yeah, le's get out foxing
talking about outsmarting things. Mike Minatti, Jeff Grubb, and myself
have been out smarting Miss three the Exile.
Speaker 3: Take that shit. Yeah, Brad d.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we finally started Miss three for Monday Mornings Missed
with Mitch. I've been excited for this one because I
have so many memories of my brother Agy loving this
game and still being like young enough that I was
intimidated by it, so I would just watch him play
it every now and then. And it's been nice playing
the remakes of Missed and Riven right, and they look
very nice, especially the Riven remake. Beautiful. But there's something
about this game just being run off of scum VM,
so it's like emulation to make it run on new computers.
So just runs really well, but looking the way it did,
it's still just being really impressed by the way this
game presented itself for some Turn of the Centure style
PC game featuring FMB characters and these kind of pre
rendered diorama slideshowed things that you're moving through. It's a
really pretty game. I love the way this thing looks.
Speaker 3: I dig it a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, you did break my brain yesterday during the
stream when you mentioned every time we enter a new
book everything is just batshit insane mouse trap levels of
being set up.
Speaker 3: But you eventually understand it like three minutes later.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're just walking around like, oh, they share a
lot of switches and buttons, levers and sybils and I
don't know what any of the meat and none of
the work. How is this ever gonna make sense? So,
and I heard this one has a bit more that
missed one setup of you're going through these different book
slash islands and each one is going to kind of
have its own self contained puzzles where it's riven. We
were in this like one area. Yeah, but he has
a lot of backward that was really cool as well. Yep,
but I definitely like this setup. And you know, like
having bred Dirt there, he's a really good actor, and
then having the familiar faces, you know, this this family
of a book writing fuck ups that we all love
now uh later, I'm into the lore as it were.
So yeah, I had a really good first stream of
that really felt good, solving lots of puzzles. You two
are just on fire with the backup, just all sorts
of good stuff. You were eagle eyed on those those
spare pages. Jam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said yesterday, it's just gonna be downhill
from here.
Speaker 1: Good starting just a center slows up for failure, is it?
Speaker 3: F and B.
Speaker 4: Brad Duruff like you see him, Man, I can't imagine
another actor in history that in my brain fits an
FMB game more than Brad.
Speaker 5: Durroff, right, like Tim Curry and him.
Speaker 4: The Tim Curry is like a little too well known though,
like you know, Command of Copper is lucky to get him,
you know, like Brd Derham feels like he'd be in
a million games from nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2: Who's the star trek guy that was in the poker game?
Because that's another person.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, John fas Franks Branson freaks Frandi yeah, yeah, freaks.
Speaker 3: Uh well, speaking about.
Speaker 5: Star Trek is a Star Trek voyager. I thought you're
still talking about him for a moment.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I'm I'm sorry. Mikey.
Speaker 5: He played a serial killer crewmate that had to get
put to the brig because he kept killing people.
Speaker 3: Mikey, how do you do an escape rooms? Do you?
Have you ever done any of those?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like you're very sharp when it comes
when we've been playing these MYSS games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've only ever done one. It was at Universal
and it was a Jurassic World themed one and it
was super fun. I would like to do more of them,
but uh, the crews I'm with there, they're not interested.
A lot of times. I don't know. I think some
of them are intimidated by I think some of them
think it'll be lame. I want to do more escape rooms.
There we go. That's a goal for this year. More
escape rooms.
Speaker 2: Him higher, Well, this is attainable, you know, like we
do this for sure. I told me what Disney.
Speaker 5: Disney was gonna build a whole actual Missed Escape island
back in the ninth Really, we're going to just bury
people to an island and miss puzzles, the cup, get
the at the end of the day. See how they did.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, Well maybe you can team up with Jeff
and Dibb because those two boys have been playing Escape Academy.
Speaker 7: It's funny, Like the more I watch contemporary television, I'm like,
this is an escape room video game. This TV show
you know, Mystery Boxes. Yeah, yeah, Like everything is just
sort of formulated around that, Like you have this now
that he did probably the ultimate escape room game.
Speaker 1: By the way, I just heterosexuality.
Speaker 3: You brought it up. I gotta I gotta do.
Speaker 7: A bit of a detour on that if you watched it. No,
I've not watched it, but I'm a big I'm a
big fan of the director creator because he was involved
in Letterkenny, one of my favorite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should watch it and then I should get
you on some grubs next. We should discuss it there.
Speaker 7: I'm happy to watch it. I know I'll enjoy it.
I just it's very funny to me that, like, in
no sort of meaningful way has the NHL sort of
been like this rules you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like it's like they're talking about it, but behind closed
or close closets.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're obviously jazzed about it, but they're probably so
terrified to admit that they're jazzed about it, which busses
me off in a sport that like, look, I don't
I would never accuse any of the big sports in
America to be overly progressive, but like, I don't know,
a part of me is sort of like hockey seems
like it would probably get first place in that category.
Speaker 1: And not that used to help from like a diversity aspect,
because they're not going to get a lot of racial
diversity in hockey. Maybe you could get some other stuff
up in there.
Speaker 4: So context, it sounds like a gay hockey show. Is
that That's exactly what held it. Okay, I got the context.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's it's like it's I'm trying to think of
a hockey player. She will know Wayne Gretzky and Mario U.
Do you know so the two best players if they
were teenagers and gay for each other? Now you know
the show?
Speaker 4: Okay, whole Yeah, I had a threesome with Wayne Gretzky
and Mario Lemu.
Speaker 7: Okay, I understand sure, all right, look the theater of
your mind, whatever you wish Sidney Crosby. There you go.
He's still so yeah, it's it's wild, right, so like
you know, you get like pockets of it, like pockets
of like hockey enthusiasts podcasts and where like the guys
are like super jazz about it. It's really fun, very
funny stuff to watch. Anyway, we'll uh, we'll just leave
it there.
Speaker 3: It's it rules.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to start with.
Speaker 7: Okay, so, uh, I don't know what happened one day.
Uh you know, our break was rough, not rough, but
like people were sick the whole time. I'm the only
one who managed to dodge every bullet. So I escaped it.
I escaped the germs. We were supposed to go away
for a couple of days, we had a camp. We
had a cancel a lot of plans, so we're home
a lot and I don't know what you got any said,
He's like, I want to I want to do.
Speaker 1: Escape room video games. Where are they? And I'm like,
I kind of only.
Speaker 7: Know about one escape academy. Thank you for sponsoring bomba time,
but the sequel rather right. But I didn't know, and
I was looking for a game that had you know,
local couch co Op and DIB and I blasted through
the entirety of Escape Academy, and.
Speaker 3: I gotta say it was great. It was.
Speaker 7: It was a lot of fun. Man, oh man, was
this like such a delight, a surprising delight to go
through really clever puzzles, nothing to you know, when you're
playing a video game, obviously you're just like you could
just you know, you can invent and create rules and
magic and do whatever you want. Obviously some of this
is not based in reality, but logical enough and sort
of loocid enough and have a through point that did
not frustrate us.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: They do let you like grab a hint.
Speaker 7: If you need, which I thought was like a really fun,
you know, little additive and and we had I think
we used once where we were just completely a little
too impatient. But you know, it was about ten hours
all said, Uh, you know, I was really surprised. I
kind of did not know exactly what to expect. I
had seen, I had read some really good stuff. I
know you guys enjoyed what you play of that upcoming sequel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I liked how to Play the first one,
which I never finished. And then that's the sequel was great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and believe it or not, like they are they
they very competently like tell a bit of a fun
narrative story through the entirety of the thing, right where
you basically are like, you know, the game starts off
and you're just doing like a run of the mill
kind of junkie escape room. Lo and behold, it's like this,
you know, audition to become an escape you know, professor
or expert.
Speaker 1: Then you get sort of enrolled in this game. It's
much more about being in this school. In the school right, yeah, yes,
they had a ton of school stuff in there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you you know, you enroll and then you
uncover the the sort of conspiracy about the founder of
the school and someone who was trying to take it over.
And it was a lot of fun, really cool diversity
with puzzles and just really getting you to think. And
I gotta say, like, you know, dim and I just
sitting there with a no pet writing down symbols and
clocks and faces and statues and numbers and colors and
cryptics and all this thing.
Speaker 1: It was it was a lot of fun. It really
got us through this break.
Speaker 7: In a really positive way. And like I said, we
do through it. I think it maybe three days.
Speaker 1: It was awesome.
Speaker 3: It was all we wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now we're jones in for the next one
for sure, but this was great. Highly recommend if you're
looking for a couch co op thing. Would you think
he was like the perfect age to sort of like
grock this or do you think he was like like
a like a year ago. Would would this have been able?
It was something he would have been able to do.
Speaker 7: I think he would have stumbled a little bit more.
That's a good question. I think he is really in
the Goldilock zone for this sort of stuff. I mean,
I know I say that every day, where like he's
just sort of becoming older and more mature. He's doing
this thing now where like he just discovered like, oh,
you can give insults when you cough through them, right.
Speaker 3: So like incredible.
Speaker 7: So he's like so you know, like Stacey couldn't figure
out how to use something on the YouTube TV and
doing it's just like, oh, you just.
Speaker 3: Got to click that boat up there, Boomer.
Speaker 1: Just like this. He's aging.
Speaker 7: So it's funny as hell. But anyway to your to
your question, yes, perfect age for it. I think, you know,
two years in either direction you can get away with it.
But he definitely was driving like he's like, okay, we
know this, we know that, you know, writing down notes
on on the on in the notebook.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was just a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: I I I know this next one's coming on, I
guess sometime this year.
Speaker 1: But I've not seen anything else. I've not seen anything
else at least you know, couch co op split screen
like to me that that that was a big pre
record acape simulator. I have no idea if that's.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think we saw that one, but I don't think
it was couch co op. I could be mistaken, but
I don't think that jumped out as a as a
possibility unfortunately. But I can't recommend Escape Academy. And I
think it was super cheap. I think it was like
five bucks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so escape a simulator says online co op,
does not saying about local co ops.
Speaker 7: So yeah, a lot of games had that online, right,
But yeah, oh thank you Zachi Portal two. We've played
a lot of Portal two together, so that is, like,
I guess, the most escape room adjacent sort of.
Speaker 1: Thing you can do.
Speaker 2: Uh, but yeah, lovely, lovely, Well, we I have on
the list here winter Break games back lar, since you
were just talking about a winter Break game, Dan grub Shall,
what other games y'all dip into during the winter break?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I figure it's like leading up to Game of
the Year stuff. It is just such a mad dash
to play as much of the new stuff as possible
to talk about it, and then like as soon as
that's over in the Game of the Years, like in
the can I just get in the mood to like, Okay,
what is just some straight up backlog stuff that I
have not, you know, played in a while. And an
easy one was Mario Galaxy two because I've been putting
off that Switch two version that came out fairly recently,
and I had not played Mario Galaxy two since it
came out, and I remember playing it and if you remember,
you get one hundred and twenty stars and then it
unlocks all the Green Stars where it like populates all
the old levels of the Green Stars and just like
platforming challenges to get to them, and then there's two
extra stars you can get. And I never got the
last star back in the day because I didn't know
you had to like save up these star bits the
whole game, and I was just kind of spraying them
around willy nilly, and so I was like, I don't
want to grind ten thousand star bits just to get
this last star. So finally I got the final star
I have never gotten in a Mario game this Winter Break,
and it.
Speaker 3: Was fucking hard.
Speaker 4: It's that level, the perfect run if you remember the
super long fucking level you It's like a daredevil run
thing where you have to get hit die so no
checkpoints get hit once you die. It is a nightmare.
Took my die like forty plus times on it. Finally
got it and felt great to finally finish that. And
then the other one was I got the ayn Thor
and I was like, well shit, I mean three yes,
seems like that that would be like the prime use
of something like this. So I just played through Link
between Worlds for the first time. Oh yeah, yeah, man,
I want it just a few nights ago. Fucking great,
still just incredible. And also I mean the.
Speaker 1: Second you start playing it, right, it's like it feels
so good. You're like, oh my god, move around this
game is fantastic. And then it just stays great the
entire time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and just all the things they did with the
format that like, you know, because I remember when they
announced it, I was like, man, Link the Past is
like maybe my favorite game ever, Like do I just
want like is this just gonna be the same thing?
It's the same map, and it's like no, they do
so many clever things, like they've got the wall merged
thing that's a fun gimmick and everything. But then you
remember all the things they do with the rabbit guy,
or like you can rent all the items whenever you
went to instead of finding them in dungeons, or you
can buy them permanently for like eight hundred rupees. You
can do the dungeons and whatever level or whatever order
you want. Like all these things that like would later
go into things like you know, Breath of the Wild,
like a staminameter that that yeah, determined your bow and
bow and arrow and your bombs instead of a finite
amount of stuff that you have to farm and stuff
like that. There's just so many little things in that
game on top of it just looking and playing so
great and what a perfect use of the thor I
had some weirdness I guess, like on the three DS,
it's Azahar, I think is the uh R game that
runs it. I think there's some funkiness with that, like
sometimes when I would do a save state thing, it
would crash, so I would have to rely on like
hard saves. But ultimately, you know, it was an incredible experience.
I remember really liking that final boss too. The final
fight was that's a.
Speaker 3: Really funny one for me, going into the wall and
shooting arrows, and yeah.
Speaker 5: Like because like you can never you go in the
wall the entire game, but you can never attack in
the wall, and all of a sudden you can now
like shoot the arrow and I'm like, whoa, this is
blowing my mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, super super fun. So yeah, both of those were
just fantastic. To go back.
Speaker 1: I was kind of looking, they're doing the same thing
as Dan where it's like the sprang up the game
of the Year, and wanted to kind of go in
a different direction and kind of loaded Star Wars Outlaws
back up on the switch. But then that reminded me
that I never really played much Jedi Survive, So I
went back and played some of that, and I'm continuing
to play that and really enjoying it. It's uh runs
great now on PC with a really good PC obviously,
but yeah, like they really improved the performance now to
the point where it's like, oh, this is fantastic. I'm
getting like two hundred frames per second, so that's great.
And and then like just you, I like the structure. Actually,
I like going back to the bar, the cantina and
meeting all the characters there. They're wild. But I'm still
relatively early because then I did. I'm I played so
much Secretory over the Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was playing it in the car when we were
driving to and back from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I might. I'm trying to get in the I
was playing on my Steam deck Sectory. Uh, spend time
with your friend. Well I was supposed I could do both,
but they were you. The brothers were up front talking
to each other. I was alone in the back. It's
more important to catch up this goddamn Jacob Geller. Uh,
I'm I was I love this one night. It took
like four or five days to get back to a
point where I was getting good runs. So Sectory it's
Geometry Wars. We talked about it during Game of the Year,
but it's a Geometry Wars with like an updated structure,
and it's just really well thought out in every way.
I had like a top seven and my score was
number seventeen in the world, and I did that specifically
to beat Jacob Geller, who is a YouTuber, a great
YouTuber essay Snieze does stuff or at mid max. He's fantastic.
And then a few weeks later he came back and
he's like, oh, I got you a ten million. I
have twelve million. He's basically up in the spot I
was in. I'm down to like number fifty. It took
like four or five days to get back to a
point where my runs were anywhere close to that anymore.
And then I was getting a bunch of runs in
a row where it's like I'm right there. It's late
and my hands are starting to hurt. I'm gonna do
a thing where I'm going to go to bed and
I guarantee i'll wake up tomorrow the synapses will all connected, yeah,
and I'll crush it my first run and it's like, no,
right back in the garbage. Yeah, And I'm like, oh,
this is rough. I'm like, I really and I'm like
looking at the time, getting close to coming back from break.
I spit my whole break playing this goddamn game. Now
what have I done? But it's so good. Every time
I'm in there. It really is just the mind clears.
You're just engaged fully with all the action happening. It's
so good at having those different It sounds like a
small thing, but all the enemies having different attack patterns
or different movement patterns. Once they're all happening at the
same time and you have to consider all of that,
it's so overwhelming to the senses that I find it
very pleasurable. Yeah, so the thing is like a great game.
Speaker 4: You still like, I've played so much of this fucking
game for months now, and I'm still like, in the
last week I realize like, oh, those little purple fuckers,
I keep dying to them because when you kill them,
that's the revenge bulit thing where it comes up. So
like now I know to just get the kind of
way I'm attacking.
Speaker 1: And just keep moving. And it's like God, once you
start like getting in the oh, just keep moving, find
the path in front of you that's clearest, like plow it.
It's like, oh, that's key. I know.
Speaker 7: I'm very late to the party. I do like that
you discover all the personalities of the enemies as you go, yes, right,
where like some are explosive and you can use them
as to your advantage. Some of them are like you know,
editor ones, right, and then it's really amazing. That game
is amazing. I've not I don't know how well I'm
doing with it. I guess like the best run I've
done is like fifteen minutes at this point, because I'm
still kind of early.
Speaker 3: But are you doing it on the the earliest difficulty,
Like there's challenging and there's experience, which one do you
do experience?
Speaker 7: I think I'm doing experience.
Speaker 4: You should definitely do experience first until you've beaten it
times in the movie Challenging because like challenging, I've played
so much of this fucking game, and like, yeah, Boks,
the main one I talked about it is we every
night pretty much played like I played it for like
four hours last night, and we've plateaued at like the
load to mid six millions, which is about.
Speaker 3: What you get if you beat experience.
Speaker 4: And so I am trying to unlock that next level
where you know, grub you and Geller are at and
I'm trying to figure out am I just like prioritizing
the upgrade stack wrong?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, what do you do? Because miss I do.
Speaker 1: Here's like the really discouraging thing. I had a thirty
four minute run, which is I looked at the time,
that's as long. I think it's longer than Geller's run
and I was only at nine million points. So we're
gonna be my best time ever. It's there, I'm it's
it's it's just right. So there's multiple ways to gain
score the score upgrade obvious. I didn't do it once
on that run. I was like, I'll do it when
I get a chance, and then of course I died
before I had like really gotten to that mode where
I'm like, okay, now I'll just keep doing the score
up and they let you do the score as many
times as you Infinitely, it's the one that has the
infinite signed by.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then there's also like the dash multiplier of like if
you keep your dash going and you keep dashing into
the next year striking.
Speaker 4: I think that caps at five on experience and I
just realized nine. I was like seven to eight. I
was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so caps at ten on on challenge, And I'm like,
but but and I feel like I was doing that constantly,
So I'm like, what was I doing different in my
I think it was like a thirty ish minute run
for my ten million points versus my nine million run
in thirty four minutes. And it's like, you know, obviously
I was just like my build wasn't exactly the same,
But I just I thought I was dashing just a much.
So I'm like, I need to like actually go back
in and start engineering this score and understanding what is
really like getting you the most bang for my buck?
Speaker 7: This is this is also a game I cannot play
far away.
Speaker 1: I play it high, but I.
Speaker 7: And I just sort of like, I just sort of
drift off though when i'm you know what I mean,
I'm like, I'm looking through the screen right now.
Speaker 3: Nothing matters.
Speaker 7: I can't play it far away on the couch looking
at the TV. I have to play it in my
hands are on the monitor in front of.
Speaker 1: Me on the I have the I have better luck
playing it on the monitors sometimes big right here.
Speaker 7: Real low input, leg that whole thing, Like, yeah, far away,
your cook, what's the difference between? So I know what
missile is is strike just the intensity of the bullets
you're default firing.
Speaker 3: No is the dash, it's the trigger.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So so strike will get you for a
longer dash, so that's crucial like later on when it's like, man,
there is longer fifty thousand enemies between me and that token.
If I had like a longer dash, it get well,
eventually you're gonna get a dash. It's so long that
you're gonna be able to basically go across most of
the screen and that enables you. Yes, you began strike
a strike multiplying over and over and over again. It's fantastic.
And then also it makes it makes the explosions larger
thing and you can get it a blaster. That's no,
that's the blast of way from doing a strike. God
there is.
Speaker 3: Your standard shot.
Speaker 4: Yes shot, so miss It was better for like crowd
control because that will go home around blaster, I find
better for especially some of the mini boss like taking
out those points away where Yes, mostly, but it's crucial,
which Mary just told me about chaos, which that can
you get that card deck It randomizes your stack upgrade
so suddenly blaster could be your first I didn't know.
Speaker 3: This kind of nuts. Yeah, I like it's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's really really good. I mean, it just is so
immaculately designed. It is someone has thought about this kind
of game their entire life, has made these kinds of
games over and over and over again, and it's just like,
let's use only the shit that works and kind of
feeds into everything else. It's incredible. Glad we got it
on the Game of your list.
Speaker 3: Have no spoilers, very spoiler fantastic.
Speaker 2: Speaking of all the Game of the Year podcasts are
have been out, so I suggest you go listen to them.
Shouts out to Sean for doing the lord's work and
editing all those bad boys speaking about games that kind
of spending maybe arguably too much time in gang I
set out this winter break, I'm gonna go play Ghosts
of Yota. I'm gonna go play Sands of blake manor
gonna catch up in all these things I didn't get
to play.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll get into sectory.
Speaker 1: You can't go into any of those.
Speaker 3: I didn't do this this, believe me. I was smashing
the goons and Di that's a big water bottle. That's
toupid Dan.
Speaker 5: You look like baby Herman from who's a Roger Rabbit.
Speaker 7: Does look like a prop from a cartoon.
Speaker 1: It looks like looks like an entire it looks like
an entire barrel of oil.
Speaker 7: No, but it's like it's like when someone is comically thirsty,
that's what they drink.
Speaker 1: You know, what were you playing?
Speaker 2: I played too much Marvel Rivals over now, character.
Speaker 1: Or skin is it? Is it Loky, Lady Loki or whatever?
Speaker 2: Oh, Lady Loki is blowing up. All these people that
have never played Loki before are now suddenly playing as
Lady Loki. Also, she's taller than regular Loki.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't that make her worse? Like, isn't there more of
her to hit?
Speaker 2: Yes, but because she's hot, people.
Speaker 3: Just want to play as her.
Speaker 5: Manna Rogue recently right.
Speaker 3: Yes, So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Gang in class base shooters like this, Like Overwatch Marvel Rivals,
I only ever play support, I only ever played DPS.
I never played Tank or Vanguard whatever it's called in
Marvel Rivals. But on a whim, I decided, like, you
know what, let me go check out Rogue. I really
like the X Men, so let's try it out.
Speaker 3: And gang. Let me tell y'all.
Speaker 2: I went I went Sicko mode and I don't know
specifically why, but something just clicked about having a little
bit more damage and kind of just being mad, annoying
to everyone and just ISO just straight ISO's zone defense,
getting people out of the way, annoying, being able to
solo three healers and separating them away from the team
and annoying them so much that I get an angry
DM afterwards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's such a great feeling. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I have played a bunch of Marvel rivals at this point,
and I've yet to ever dip into competitive or ranked
because I just remember how I got as a person
when I was doing that with League of Legends. You've
learned to respect yourself more exactly. So I'm just going
into quick match. You know, it's very cash when people
get upset, he spaghetti whatever, it's fine. But Gang, for
whatever reason, I am just clicking as a tank with
Rogue in such a profound way. There was one match Gang.
There's one match, and the game mode was just like
a control point where you're just getting control of his
own right. I don't know how this happened. I got
forty kills. You don't get that many kills in Marvel
Rivals and then like, I shit you not your boy
was getting MVP.
Speaker 3: Pretty cool?
Speaker 2: Nice, And if anyone else plays Marvel Rivals out there,
you know, generally the DPS person or the duelist will
generally get the MVP because they're racking up all of
the kills in that match. But I don't know what
it is gang, it just clicks in here. And also
Gambit is very fun to play.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They got the voice actors from X Men ninety seven
for Gambit and for Rogue.
Speaker 3: It's really good.
Speaker 1: Oh more Marvel Rivals. Yeah, here's the thing though, appealing
to me, like love being annoying in those games.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing like I don't consider myself the best
at video games, but I think I'm very good at this.
Like it's I watched I was watching like a video
with a friend, uh, and he was just watching over
my shoulder, and I was like parsing out all the
information and all the tech they were trying to teach.
Meanwhile he's saying.
Speaker 3: Like, what the fuck are you watching? Dog?
Speaker 2: Like this shit doesn't make sense? What's going on here?
You're counting timers, you're counting cool downs who am I anyway,
it's it's uh. I posted this on Blue Sky. But
Rogue has uh because her ability in the comic books,
if she touches someone, she can steal their ability or
at least like disables them for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: In Rivals, Rogue has a dash forward, which is a
grab and once you if you make contact, you steal
that character's abilities. But the I just made the best
fucking grab because there was There's a character Angela. She's
in the Thor universe, originally from a different one. She
is a flying character. I jumped off of a platform.
She's about to fly and take off, and then I
just grab her mid air and just steal hell from her.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 2: Also, Blade is sick as hell in this game, y'all
place this character added.
Speaker 5: The scheme already has forty five characters they've been Yeah,
I'm still not including Psychclops even even that many people.
And it's impressive and it never will.
Speaker 3: Did I did?
Speaker 2: I corner a dev at the TGAU talking about like,
why would you put my boy slide Colops in?
Speaker 3: I may have. I may have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the response. I need to know what
was the reasoning? Panic?
Speaker 3: Uh? Probably because like you scared of me is what
it is? You know?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Oh you got forty didn't want to get it wrong?
Speaker 3: And then at you Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Uh gig, We're gonna take a quick bricky break and
we'll be back with more games and news right after this. Right, dog,
it's time to start the show. Are you ready to go?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I'm ready.
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Speaker 2: And we have more video games to talk about.
Speaker 3: Oh but one more thing about Marvel Rivals.
Speaker 2: Daredevil is also sick. I think I mentioned this briefly
during the Game of the Year Awards, but like holy
like he's blind in the game too. It's great, it's
super sick.
Speaker 5: It's cool MVP more like MVG Most Valuable Gooner.
Speaker 3: Well, that was quite the leap. What the hell, Mike?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Funny during the break, now here's the thing I saw.
Speaker 4: I saw Mike smirking to himself while Dan was talking,
and I looked in the chat and he gave that
joke to the chat and got nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he also did it to us during the break
and Backlar was like, oh, that's gonna play, and so
for him to immediately throw him under the bus, it's
the funniest thing that's happened so far. I know it.
Thank you very much. That Yes, oh man.
Speaker 3: That was that was quite the leap, Mike.
Speaker 2: Uh, kind of a jump and kind of a big hop,
just like these two have been playing lately. I love
this cute little frog guy. Is how how is the
game though? How's the hops? How's the tie? It is?
Speaker 3: It's real good.
Speaker 1: We could talk about the first half of the game
because the embargo is not up quite yet, and he said, uh,
the developer, so we could talk about the first half
and say that we have the game. It is out
in six days.
Speaker 3: I think I'm just through the desert stuff. We're going
to talk about all that, right, I think so, yes,
I think should I played a few hours? Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Chuck beat it and he said it was
like ten and a half hours, so I think we're
both still in the first half relatively speaking.
Speaker 3: Uh, the the controls.
Speaker 1: The movement are so good, it's so on point. So
this you play as little Frog. You can jump, you
do like the the Mario sixty four style triple jump
sort of thing. I think he's got like a jump
and a dive. Yeah, he's got a wall run. He's
got a tongue that can like use it and be
used as a grappling hook, and you can like swing
and then if you are swinging and you jump off
at like the right tangent and hit the ground, you'll
carry forward a ton of momentum and you can use
that to like jump and dive and carry the momentum
forward even further. It's really really it just feels really good.
And then I think the game around it does a
good job of sort of emphasizing how fun it is
to move around without getting in the way too much.
At least so far.
Speaker 3: I do like the format of it.
Speaker 4: I do, like how you know, you're basically getting these
drips or whatever they're called, like these purple yeah things
like instead of your stars and you know, big open
hub worlds and stuff like the desert and everything. I
think the thing I'm struggling with sometimes is maybe it's
the momentum is a little more loosey goosey than I'm
used to in a three D platformer, because like there
are just times where it's like I will do the
grapple and I'll try to grapple into a wall run,
and sometimes I don't know if it's the momentum or
the angle, but like I'll like cling to the wall
because the game will think I want to do a
wall jump instead of a wall run, and then I'll
just fall to my death. Like I've had a lot
of times where that's happened, like numerous times in a row.
Like when it works, I think it all feels really
good because you get that momentum going, you can do
the jump and dive to the next thing, and once
you're chaining grapples together and all that, it can be great.
But I have had a lot of death that I
kind of felt were just like, oh no, I don't
think the game could tell I was trying to run
here or interesting just misreading stuff and a little bit
of jank. I've gotten caught in some stuff, oh eve,
one of the parts where there's like the hay bales
where they kind of burn and you have to like
follow and wall jump up.
Speaker 1: I don't think so it continued my save from the
demo a long time ago, and I'm not sure. So
I kind of got like a little like how far
into this game am I? Even? So, No, I don't
know if I did that yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it'd be silly to expect like a
Mario level of polish from obviously a smaller team like this,
But as someone who's very, very used to Mario platforming,
I was getting a little frustrated with a lot of
just like oh, I just wanted to do the wall
jump back and forth, but it thought I wanted the backwall,
and then I just jumped to my death or like
lose a ton of progress falling off a thing like.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was bumping into some stuff there, but not enough
to like sour me on the game.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep playing for sure.
Speaker 1: Cool. Yeah, I don't know if I've hit as much
of that stuff, I definitely feel I know what you
mean by the looseness of the physics a little bit.
To me, it's like when you do have that momentum
from like swinging into a run, he just goes to
the point where it's like, oh, I'm sort of just
reacting to what's happening. And I think that there's enough
movement capabilities that no matter what was happening, if I
threw myself off a ledge, I had a really good
chance of consistently saving myself, which is always what I
like in these games, kind of like go too fast
and suddenly you find yourself in a spot of trouble.
Can you get yourself out of it by just like
reacting without thinking? And I've done that a bunch of times,
and that's kind of where I'm really enjoying the game.
Speaker 2: Nice, nice, lovely. Speaking about embargoed games, this one I
believe we can also talk about and I'm excited to
hear about this. Well, Romeo is a dead man.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, yeah, backler, Uh, you know we played up
through a certain amount. Did you get through the mall?
Speaker 3: I got through the mall. Okay, so you're you're probably
passed me.
Speaker 4: I kind of got to the mall and uh started
introducing like the Bastard system stuff like that. But you've
played a bit more if you want to start with
that backler.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, So man, it's been a couple days since
I've touched this game, so I'm gonna have to like
backtrack a little bit. This is a Grasshopper manufacturer Suda
fifty one, uh clusterfuck.
Speaker 5: Of a game.
Speaker 7: I think it's positive, yeah, no parentheses positive. I think
like it's been a minute since we've gotten what I
think is like the pure, uncut, unadulterated sort of like
Suita fifty one experience. It's been a minute. I want
to say. It's what was the last What was the
last game where he was like.
Speaker 3: Let die, Let it die? Was that weird? Like was
it free?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That they have a new one of those coming, don't
they with Uncle Death or whatever? Skateboarding? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So, uh, this is not let It Die. This
is much more in the vein of like a No
More Heroes kind of narrative, uh, action adventure type of game.
It is, I mean, stylized is such a stupid way
to describe it. It is just over the top in
like kind of every way that you could conceive, uh,
to the point where I'm just sort of like overwhelmed
with unpredictable graphical choices, sound choices. Like there's just so
much going on in this thing. So obviously there's no
complaints from like the fidelity point of view. Uh, what
you were actually playing feels very much is a third
person action game that you know, for me, for my
experience so far, as controlled pretty well, I think it's
got a lucy sort of like almost like a Dead
Rising feel to it at times with in terms of
like these whenever I think of like controlling Frank in
Dead Rising, I think of something that's like real slippery,
if that make sense.
Speaker 1: Like there is a bit.
Speaker 7: Of like an ice like you're on ice kind of thing,
and there is a maybe it's that's also like the
sixty frames per second.
Speaker 1: Kind of like.
Speaker 7: Thing that you sort of get a as a as
a byproduct of that, you know, to the point where
you are kind of slashing and hacking zombie enemies where
you kind of can't follow what you're looking at because
there's so much particle effects. There's so much kind of
like anarchy have happening on screen, but you long story, sure,
you are basically someone who has to find your love
interest through time and space, and.
Speaker 3: You're doing it.
Speaker 1: I got that right, and you are.
Speaker 7: Doing it with the help of this like galactic council
called the FBI.
Speaker 4: On a spaceship that you return to and it's all
pixelated like they.
Speaker 1: Are actually the female body inspects this time.
Speaker 7: It's very Yeah, I don't know, I think like there's
just so much and there's like a really I guess
it kind of like surprising amount of variety in the
in the places you'll visit and the sort of modes
you'll you'll encounter. The Upgrade Tree, the Upgrade system rather
is like three different sort of tiers of experiences, where
like one of them is like you're sort of doing
a pac Man style maze crawler where every time where
you spend currency to move, your move an icon through
a maze, and every time you touch like a heart,
you get the help an HP improvement, but you can
only move as far as you're willing to spend of
this currency you have.
Speaker 4: It's like you're buying like the fuel, like the stuff
you get in the main game is basically your fuel
for the mini games to move.
Speaker 1: The guy right. Yeah, it's it's wild.
Speaker 7: I mean I've I've had two bost encounters that I've
felt were pretty satisfying and over the top. I am
enjoying what I am playing so far. I I this
is so fresh and sort of strange, and it's just
the right kind of lunacy for me.
Speaker 4: It's just like the opposite of like you know, all
these games now like Yota and Last of Us where
it's like, oh, there's like no hud, it's super immersive.
It's like, no, this is like the most hud, Like
there's a million so much shit happening on the screen
at all times. And like black Lay said, there's just
times where like the whole like visual style will change it.
Speaker 3: I will say, the moment to moment.
Speaker 4: It feels very three sixty So like back Lar when
you said Dead Rising, It's like, yep, that tracks for me,
Like yeah, it feels like a shadow.
Speaker 5: Of the damn.
Speaker 3: It feels like a you know, Dead Rising style, which
you know, to.
Speaker 1: Be clear, no more heroes, just the is the real
anchor point like Shadows. I love.
Speaker 7: I didn't play the remake of Shadows of the Dam.
But I you know, I know that's like one of
the only games I actually finished twice in its generation
where I.
Speaker 3: Was just fun.
Speaker 7: I love that game. But yeah, there's very much that,
and I don't think, uh yeah, I don't think there
should be an expectation of like an evolution that leaves
that so far in the rear view. Uh. I do
think for all of the complicated systems at play there,
like I've been able to wrap my head around it already,
which I thought was surprising, especially considering how stoned I've
been while playing this game.
Speaker 4: The other one I wasn't able to figure out was
the mini game upgrade thing, where it's like I'm gonna
put the green ingredients in here, and I'm gonna put
the red ingredients in this machine, and like I couldn't
tell what the fuck was going on there. But then
there's a whole like curry making simulator to like make
your health items better and stuff like there's you so.
Speaker 7: Much grow you grow zombies in a spaceship garden and
then you cross breathe those zombies. Me at this game,
this game, this game, I just think this this games
just got so much sort of like I don't know,
it's just got stuff in this one.
Speaker 1: It is weird. It is so strange.
Speaker 7: It is like, you know, you're like, oh, you're doing
like a cool sixteen bit whoa, Okay, now you're doing
like crazy like vapor waves. Like there's just it's all
over the place, and I don't know. For me, I
kind of kind of think it's like a carnival of
fuckery in the best possible way.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: That is where it shines, as like all the suit
of stuff is where all the personality is because like, yeah,
the moment to moment is very like light attack, heavy
attack and then you can aim a gun and shoot,
you know, so it it is the moment to moment
is kind of that just kind of like three sixty
action game thing, but it is all wrapped in so
much suda that you can't help but be kind of
like taken back by it and in a good way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I you know, I do think.
Speaker 7: You know, again, we're only so many hours in and
it's like I do see I do Like you know,
when you grow the bastards and you could use the
bastards at your at your disposal, right, So you're sort
of like saying and they have these cool downs, and
these bastards are just sort of like turrets, right, They're
like they're like zombies that turn into turrets or a
zombie that like blasts a laser beam in five directions
out of their body for a second. So you know,
you do have that layered sort of combat in your
arsenal as well. You can choose between different guns and
different sword slash lightsaber weapons and swap between those. At
the same time, you can upgrade all of those in
their own individual sort of paths as well. There's just
a lot I'm with you, like the moment and on stuff.
You know, definitely feels like that. There's and you're you're
also juggling not just between the spaceship eight bit world,
you're also juggling a sort of like real world and
then an upside down, like a digital upside down right
with the regular world that you have to collect parts
of a key for. It's man, I wouldn't want to
have to explain this to people in a way that
you know, puts them in in in a sort of comforting,
uh position. It's It's it's one of those things where
it's like you have to watch this just to experience it,
to play it. Uh, I'm excited to see see it
all the way through though. I think it's really exciting.
Speaker 3: There's also like a million wrestling references in Wow.
Speaker 4: At one point, the girl Juliette said something about, like
you could call us the n w O and it
does the caps like the.
Speaker 1: In the case in the opposite case, it was like
capital N right.
Speaker 3: In one of the currencies, like the Emerald Flosion, which
is a wrestling movie.
Speaker 7: And I do think they are tipping the hat to
like back to the futures very specifically a lot of
times like you are you're sort of on this quest
with your ghost grandfather helping you, and he is represented
by the patch on the back of your jacket, and
that is like an animated person.
Speaker 1: He is in caps.
Speaker 7: His spirit and personality is alive and well inside your jacket,
which that fucking rules. It's also like it kind of
surprised me with how like wildly gory it is at times, right,
like especially the game over screen is like Raiders of
the Lost Arc melting face stuff where you're just like, wow,
I was expecting that what happened? What's going on?
Speaker 1: But it works.
Speaker 7: Everything works in this, and I think that's it's really cool.
Speaker 3: It's excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad this is the thing.
Speaker 3: I want to see this.
Speaker 5: February.
Speaker 1: I don't know something, it's February.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, February eleventh. There you go coming up.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, just a cyber Valentine's Day. We're gonna
need it the most.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I hope there's a Prince of Cats in this game.
I'm sure, Like it's possible, you know, Yeah, it's possible. Man, Lovely,
Lovely lovely. It sounds like my Jam Just like Mike Manatt,
he's been playing one of the most my Jam games.
Speaker 3: Uh, you've been playing Blood Born?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, this is actually my final incentive when I
did my Kingdom Heart's Marathon stream for our Extra Life
was that I would PLAYCE again because over the last
couple of years I played through all the other uh
from Soft Souls Like Games, the Dark Souls, the Demon Souls,
Secoro of Donown Ring before this was the only one
I actually had played before I played this back when
it came out. I played all the way through it.
I remember I liked it, but I was never one
of those like this is the one of the best
game ever kind of people. So coming back to it
now through I've done all these other ones, it was
a very different experience. Like the first time, I was
struggling so much, right because I just wasn't use these
kind of games. How I played all these other ones,
it's almost bizarre how relatively easy the game. It's like,
I still die, but mostly the stages, Like there were
very few bosses that would be like more than two
maybe three attempts for me anymore. But it didn't mean
like it was like more boring. I just actually really
liked that flow state I was getting into. It was
also the person time I did the DLC, and the
DEALC is the best part of the game, Like all
the bosses in that one, Ludwig the big horse guy
with the giant you know blue blade that's in all
these games, Lady Maria, the the orphan, like, those fights
were all immaculate and they felt good. So it was
worth doing again just to finally play all of that
DLC stuff. Also, thirty freaths per second, I thought that
would really bother me. When you first start the game up.
It bothered me, and then you get used.
Speaker 1: To it very quickly.
Speaker 5: Actually, it's not an issue, like not even like to
the point where like, oh, every time I start the
game up again, a guy get used to it again.
It's like no, I like got used to it kind
of forever with the game. As much as I complained
about thirty frames per second and I do it was like, don't, don't,
don't not play this game because that's a roadblock to
you in your mind, because I'm gonna wait for a
PC port that probably isn't happening for years. Still, just
go find a way to play Bloodborne now. It's fine,
You'll get used to that frame rate. It's still a
very pretty game in a lot of ways. And you know,
the atmosphere, the whole kind of Victorian evil spooky where
wolf vibe of the game still works. Wonder it's probably
it's probably more interesting to me than the usual dark,
mid evil tone of the usual from software stuff.
Speaker 1: I think Andy Cortez bought a like fifteen hundred dollars
PlayStation four to that would like unlock the frame rate
that was hacked or something so you could play it
in sixty frames per second? Are you saying that that
was maybe a misuse of fun? Sorry, I'm sorry he
did what he bought like a very expensive PlayStation that
was so you could sick Well, that's real sicko stuff.
I didn't know he was that.
Speaker 5: Well apparently like just normal PS four emulation is also
just getting there anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah that and like the last year that's it's gotten there.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, so you know you could go you can
look at that avenue as well. Actually, the reason one
of reason why I even like did this was because
I was able to buy a physical copy of the
game for super cheap over the holidays. I was like, ah,
let's plug this.
Speaker 7: At least you got one physical game for cheap.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're still reeling at my Burning Rangers just from
that block.
Speaker 7: No, I just, like I said, I just want you
to haggle. I want you to get these guys down. Man.
Speaker 5: I haggle a little bit because I hate haggling.
Speaker 7: But I know, yeah, but you Disney haggle, which is like,
here's my wallet, give me back what you think I deserve.
Speaker 5: I'm buying like three things you like ten dollars.
Speaker 7: That's my handle bellad parking hate tell me when it's
worth What do you mean you hate haggling?
Speaker 5: I don't negotiat I want to buy.
Speaker 7: You are at a trade show, which is by definition
the the you know, epitome of of of haggling.
Speaker 3: There's there's no rules, Mike, you can make no rules.
Speaker 5: That's a completely different skill set that I have never
invested in or be interested in my life.
Speaker 7: I think, yeah, you're the bad boy, and I think
because of said bad boy a status you could get
away with more, you could charmed.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, man, it's not about charming though. That's
what I don't like about it, because I saw this
the first time I went. I was a guy. I
went to his booth, I bought like three things, pay
normal price. I was very nice and polite guy behind me.
It's like a real big jerk about it. Really like
I'm looking up on this site, taking up too much
time to like this is worth this? But and he
says fifty bucks because of it, it's bullshit. We should
not reward bad behavior and assholary.
Speaker 3: What do virgins.
Speaker 4: It's also like, you know, because sometimes I've been to
a million game stories where it's like, Okay, I know
how much this game is worth and it doesn't have
the case.
Speaker 1: Mike does that. Mike every time Mike checked the price
of the thing.
Speaker 5: If it's not that price, I won't buy it from them.
That's what I do.
Speaker 3: Was it in like pristine condition.
Speaker 5: The Brain Raiders. Yeah, yeah, it's a great condition. Look
at the manuals in there. Okay, okay, Mikey.
Speaker 1: The flip side of that, he's not like like mister
Magoo and this, No, I.
Speaker 2: Will say Mikey. Sometimes also the sellers themselves kind of
dis yeh.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 5: But you don't have to match people's dickery just to
get along in the world.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 7: We're talking right, we're talking about protecting your neck. We're
talking about protecting yourself.
Speaker 1: That there was like guys like this is my son's collection,
and I think the sun is here's another one that died.
I think he said about like his whole family to
sell this stuff, and they were super nice and cool.
And there's another obviously just like a family operation. I
don't know, it's the Midwest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well people, maybe your maybe in your coastal game convention,
elitist game convention. I don't know. That's my resolution is
actually plays some of these games I bought that cost
too much money.
Speaker 2: Mike, And you've been playing a lot of games, and
another one you've been playing is Final Fantasy Tactics the
Evilies Chronicles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is kind of my big holiday game, finally
diving into this. As much as I love Final Fantasy,
I've never played much of Tactics, any version of it.
So really excited that they announced this remake, And then
even when it came out, I didn't quite get to
it right away. It was just busy with other things.
This is a perfect opportunity. After I'd beat Metric Prime four,
I put this in and Yeah, it turns out this
is a fantastic video game. I can see why everybody
has always been really excited about it. And I'm also
like the remake the god the voice acting, it's so good,
and it's just you know, all looking good and running well.
So it just seems like they did a really good
job with all of that stuff. I'm not familiar enough
with the base game to notice like smaller changes or
script changes and things like that, but just what I'm
playing is a fantastic experience. The story is super interesting.
It's always fun when you get to in other chapter.
There's always some some some kind of intrigue happening. I'm
always to get to the next bit of story content,
and I like that. It is a game where I
have to grind a bit. Games with job systems usually
are that. So you have to get those job points
you can level up your jobs. I don't know why,
but getting job points somehow even more exciting than getting
experience points.
Speaker 1: No, we're not wrong, We're not wrong with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you know, I get the point now where
like builds are really coming together, Like I've gotten to
a ninja, so I have a bunch of people that
can dual wield weapons. Now, yeah, I've got summoner, I
got arithmetician, And I know I've been told that that's
maybe good. I look at it and it's scary and
confusing to.
Speaker 1: A new island and mess and this. Eventually you're gonna
get it.
Speaker 2: It's the year of Calculus, guys. We're gonna get really
into math this year.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like it.
Speaker 5: I'm in chapter I just started chapter three now, so
I've been making some pretty good proggies in there. I
think tonight I'm gonna spend a lot of time actually
grinding out some more job points to get there, because
you know what, they're grinding, do like I'll hit some roadblocks.
At the end of chapter two, there were a couple
of Yes, they're pretty therefore. There was one where I
had to fight Goff garyon and then there are also
two like time may just casting slow on people, and
I'm like, Okay, do I need to like take down
Gaff gary in as fastest post because he's so tough
and he can heal himself, Or do I need to
like figure out a way to take out these time
ages right away because if they slow my party, I'm
basically dead. Just figuring out all these little things and
sometimes even changing out my party jobs on the fly
to better suit what a battle's going to be like,
you can't just even like a normal Final Fantasy a
lot too. You can kind of just brute force it.
You could push x a lot right, and then it's
only boss is where you're casting spells and thinking about
things here at every battle, you're making a lot of
meaningful turn by turn choices.
Speaker 1: It's worth it to have like someone who knows the
game really well to like ask them questions. Was just
definitely something I was doing when I was trying to
be like am I supposed to be grinding this much,
I feel like I am, and they're like, yes, that's
totally normal. In fact, you should find a place where
you like grinding and kind of like lean into it.
Them like, okay, great, that's what I was doing. So
it's just like sanity checks every once in a while
is important, and someone who knows the game really well
it can help with that.
Speaker 2: Fan fantastic, But that's not it for games folks. If
you listened to day four of our Game of the
Year deliberations, you may remember that Mike Manatti rode very
hard for two point Museum, so he went back and
played two point Campus. Mikey, yes, it's the verdict.
Speaker 5: Yeah, most not a low two point museum. I'd actually
not played the previous ones. First was two point Hospital,
then was two point Campus, so I thought, I check
out campus. I think running a school would be more
fun than a hospital. Hospitals are sad, you know, this
is what bad things happened there. Nothing bad happens at
a school.
Speaker 3: Hospitals are way better than schools. Better I would live
in before. I hate schools, yes, yep.
Speaker 5: So I was just curious to see, like what the
differences and similarities would be and starting it up like
very similar. You're sort of building rooms for specific needs,
you know here instead of building like you know, an
like research room or a cafeteria or a souvenir room,
build a dormitory, build a lecture hall, build a classroom,
student rec center. So that stuff all felt okay, Oh yeah,
these these systems seemed very similar. First we started feeling
a lot different was when I went to the next campus,
because these games you have multiple maps you go to.
When I went to the next campus, like the first
one was more of a general it was like a
science school than the next one was a culinary school.
I was like, ooh, how is this going to feel different?
And not too different at least, you know, from the
a couple of hours i'd play. Things going to change
up all that much the same when I went to
my third school, which was like a robots school, whereas
a two point museum, Like the different museums I was
building had kind of very different mechanics going on. A
lot of that tied into the expeditions, which is a
whole system not here where you were sending out employees
to go find exhibits or fish for your aquarium. Or
whatever to bring back and then put on display in
your museum.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there's like a lot of that DNA there.
Speaker 5: But somehow it it almost feels like two point Museum
is the game that this was all building up to
in some way, like this was the best use of
the systems that they did develop there, haven't ma said that.
I'm still having a lot of fun with Campus, just
even like doing satisfying things like actually making a copy
paste dorm room like you actually would in real college,
making one dorm room, making as small as possible to
fit in two beds in the desk, right, and then
just copy pasting that. So I had a whole dorm
like row there. I don't know why. Some of that
stuff's just very satisfying. And the whole two point aesthetic
and vibe it's kind of chill. It's trying to be funny,
but not like, you know, obnoxiously, So it's just got
this weird British sense of humor in the background that
is amusing and I enjoy that. So yeah, I think
I might even check out some more of Campus. Kind
of want to go back to Museum because they have
added some stuff to that game since I last played it.
I'm a big fan of this series now I'm very
curious to see what we are going to get next
from them. Two point Maul gets thrown around a lot,
super fun, great especially I think mall and nostalgia is
going to be at all time high. Is more and
more than clothes. So yeah, it's a good.
Speaker 1: Time if they If they do two point theme park,
it has to be like a roller coaster builder first, right,
It can't just be like focusing on the themes and.
Speaker 5: Stuff like that, because like when there was sim theme park,
that one was not as like you made Roy coasters,
but not to the level of a Rocoon or a
Planet Coaster. Now it was much more management stuff really okay,
which it's hard because you know, stuff like Planet Coaster
does just have all that management stuff right, and I
almost feel like you skip theme park. I feel like
Planet Coaster just has that on lockdown on it.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Cemetery there you go, indeed, Yeah, yeah, it's a very quiet,
chill place.
Speaker 3: To hang out at.
Speaker 1: That would get me to play that, Mikey, there you go.
Speaker 5: Okay, we'll get a dark edge.
Speaker 1: I like it right there, hire various goths to do
tasks for you.
Speaker 7: Yes, more goths and dev please get them.
Speaker 5: From the hot topic at two point mall.
Speaker 3: Oh there we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, hot topics are not as scary as they
used to be. I'll say that they used to be
full of goths, but now they're just full of people
wearing anime t shirts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very anime heavy, right, Like you know, first it
was full golf, then you had that Nightmare before Christmas
era and influenced culturey. Now that same brand has opened
up the other store. Guy can't think of the name.
Speaker 8: Lunch box, lunch box box, lunch and that's where like
a lot of that's why they put all of the
Disney and like the Harry Potter and Lord of the
Rings stuff.
Speaker 5: Now, so like last stuff is not.
Speaker 1: In probably the favory stuff has to go to hot topic, okay,
right exactly.
Speaker 5: So hot topic has like chainsaw Man and you know,
the Digital Circus or whatever.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's.
Speaker 7: Still around, Like I can't survive.
Speaker 1: Right, They're like one of the few things that are
in most malls that still exists, Like the Sabarro isn't
even open anymore. But hot topic is Spencer's. There's there's
still a lot of Spencer's topic. Yeah, and I like,
you walk into Spencers and it's I remember having to
walk a few more feet before I got.
Speaker 3: To the dill do.
Speaker 5: Now it's like pretty much it now it's.
Speaker 1: Dil Doo forward at this point.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, it's probably what they're selling most of
is probably the dolls and the sleeves from actual user
for gags. Wait, I think often for gags. I mean,
at least when I was in the first Bill Doos,
people would buy people second toys from Spencer's as a gag.
I don't know people are using them just.
Speaker 1: The way that you lingered on the word sleeves.
Speaker 7: Mike, just yeah, I thought I thought that's what you
keep your dildo in. Yeah, okay, s Spencers every day
coming start. I need to start salting people by calling
my sheep.
Speaker 5: They probably should have shees. It's word that they kind
of just float around.
Speaker 3: Still, we know, as far as we know, who knows.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think people are just raw dogging them
in their sock drawer.
Speaker 3: I think they have like a.
Speaker 1: The iPhone sock, like a velvet velvet casey.
Speaker 5: Repurposing the remote sleeve. All right, I have news.
Speaker 1: Uh ce, yes is happening? There was what are they doing?
I was just activated? Oh my god.
Speaker 2: The funnest thing, the funnest thing I saw is there
is there dildo tech at CES.
Speaker 7: Before before I my departure, that was an emerging category.
Speaker 1: Uh, in more ways than one.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 7: At some point it was the second VR was a thing.
Everyone's like, we're gonna try and funk stuff now, and
CS for like two years in a row was like, yeah,
guess what, you go want to fuck technology as much
as you want to play with it, don't you?
Speaker 1: And that was that was the thing for a while.
The best was c NEET and its hesitation, uh, where it's.
Speaker 3: Like do we cover this? Do we cover the fuckable robot?
Speaker 7: It's like yeah, I mean like people like it's okay
people fuck people do these things like you probably should.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: That was a big kind of scandalous conversation.
Speaker 4: They had a booth at one of the later E threes,
like in the like maybe twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, where
it was like a Naughty America VR booth or something
like on the outskirts of one of the halls, and
it's like they had demos set up and so it's
just like you're looking and it was like busy. There
were like a ton of people all around this headset.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, just right in the middle of a show.
For it was word like whacking off, but like.
Speaker 1: It was like official, like approved butt tumblers right there
in the middle of.
Speaker 3: The exact things exactly. Yea, yeah, yeah, that was a
weird thing to see on a show. Flour something miss
like no pad.
Speaker 5: Indeed this is that is ladies, but hole interesting what
I was at Gaysbeat. I would love I would love
Dean there because like technology is technology. So he just'd
be like, oh, hey, I'm gonna check out. He's like, yes,
I'm Abi Soft and I'm heading over to Vixen and
they've got some uh some VR sex stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I mean, has the Dean has
the energy of you know in Minority Report, the guy
that's like getting the lap dance and the cops break
in and he's like, oh, I didn't do it. He's
got the energy of that. How many rings this Dean Rock?
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: There was a the Third three party that had attendees
including Sasha Gray and Hull Cogan.
Speaker 3: Who's that first one, I'm not familiar. Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twitch streamer, Yeah yeah, Okay. The best thing I
saw was a raiding hat that has a solar panel
on the roof of the hat so you could walk
around and charging your stuff, so it literally harnesses electricity
like raiding but just like just like.
Speaker 5: Bortal Combat branded item.
Speaker 3: No, it's just a hat that looks like it should
be anyway you stuff.
Speaker 1: What's the Lego stuff? Apparently cool, there's they're they're calling
it like smart bricks.
Speaker 7: Uh, there's just bricks, Lego bricks with like chips inside
of them, and uh, they're going to be using anything
called play Engine, And I think it's just like a
what end the same like toys, like Toys to Life
sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: So like, oh, if you like maybe have it like
on a certain like pad, if you had it on
the Scott what's the damn spirro spin off? My Yeah, yeah,
it's just Lego dimensions.
Speaker 7: Okay, I mean it's not it's like sound effects stuff,
lighting effects stuff. I did they they explored some of
this with the man Ario stuff, right, I mean yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: There's a little bit that doesn't seem super.
Speaker 7: I mean I'm keeping CS beyond arms length here, and
I feel like this is the one thing that is
permeated into the normy conversation about what has come out
of that show so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so right when you get to the sick
out stuff, like the PC Harward stuff, it is kind
of grim because of everything that's happening over there. Intel
does have a new PC chip that is Panther Lake.
I think I think it's Panther Lake. And really the
whole thing with this is this is them.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: They name them all after real lakes. There's not a
Panther like we're getting closer to like Brian Fantana made
up colognes and yeah, Intel's architecture sex Panther Lake. Yeah, right,
like definite Intel Core Ultra series three chips that they
are going to plan to use for handheld PCs, So
they're going to try to get into that game alongside
a m D and I guess Nvidia if you count
the switch to and so it's like there's one of
their GPUs, one of their good discrete GPUs is built
into this platform now, and that'll be nice to have
some competition in that space space that I still am
very interested in seeing how it grows in Nvidia had
DLSS four point five, which I think this is like
also indicative of where we're at. Where it's like their
big announcement was an improvement to the technology that you
can get on all of their rtx GPUs that you
already own, because you're probably not going to be buying
a new one. They're going to be insanely expensive. They're
cutting production by thirty percent for this year. They're bringing
back the thirty sixty. Apparently crazy when I saw that.
Why bringing back the thirty sixty. Can you imagine like
what that's going to cost If that thing is like
five hundred to seven hundred dollars in twenty twenty six,
how gross that's going to be to CE. So that's
where we're at, so instead be excited because for a
DLSS four point five, if you have a fifty series,
you get all the bells and whistles, including six X
frame generation, which will play nice. So it's like they
can generate six frames for every one frame. Latency's got
to be bad on that because latency is kind of
noticeable on frame generation already, but I don't know, maybe
in some games that won't matter. But they did also
talk about a g SINC Pulsar, which is the new
new new generation of g SNC where they are using
some strobing back like technology that I didn't understand. Basically,
they're trying to get it to a point where it's
like you're going to have super high fidelity motion clarity
up to one thousand frames or a thousand hertz of
refresh rate so that you can get like awesome experiences
in esports, games and stuff like that. So I want
to see it, But like whenever I've done anything from
sixty to one hundred and twenty and then one hundred
and twenty to two forty, I the the sort of
like return on that is less and less with every
new frame per second. I'm not sure if I'm going
to notice the difference between two forty and one thousand.
Is that and that's going to rec Is that going
to require hardware to play along with that? So I
think if you have I believe you have a newer
GPU from them, you'll be fine. You will need a
new This is a whole new series of monitors and
like Asis and Acer and a handful of others are
going to be making them and like you know, motion clarity,
that is the one place where it's like, oh, we
have a lot of great technology. Oh, let's look so good.
And HDR is really good motion clarity, which like from
frame to frame has actually not been as good as
it's been on the best CRTs at the end of
the CRTs up to this point. This sounds like this
might actually do something about that. But again, I've only
begun to look into this. No one's seen it outside
of their demonstrations at CEES, So let's get some real
world experience and see what happens there. Resident Evil requiems
in Vidia trailer. As part of all this did tease
a big new environment, let's see. Capcom released a new
video Resident Evil Requiem Yes, showcasing the game's path, tracing
visuals within videographics cards, and offering offering a glimpse of
a new city environment. Likely ren Wood in Insider Claims
suggested that the game will feature big open levels. This
might be that part of the game, Like, obviously we've
seen a lot of corridors that are not big and open,
but there were some rumors that they would have big
open areas. Sounds like the city could be something along
those lines, although I would not expect open world. Open
zone is probably what we're talking about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting watching this because, you know, like Rezievil three,
you're in city streets a lot, but it's Raccoon City.
It's mostly deserted, it's all monsters. Here, we're seeing, you know,
people walking through a normal kind of city with actual
people walking around. Yeah, in this trailer at least, it
obviously looks absolutely insanely gorgeous. So hopefully it'll actually look
like that when we're playing the game or The R
engine has felt pretty heavy on games, especially games that
do open up. I'm just hoping we don't really have
those issues with R E nine.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see here, Sony AI patent will see PlayStation
games play themselves. Players are stuck. People are freaking out
about this ghost player AI technology for PlayStation games that
would allow an AI generated version of the player character
to demonstrate solutions to puzzles, called guide mode. People pointed
out this has happened in Nintendo games for years and
years and years and years, called super Guide They I
think they had a patent on this. Maybe it wasn't
the same solution. This is using AI whatever that means.
I think Nintendo just like plays like has like scripting
that just has them do it for you automatically and
shows you what it looks like. So yeah, this kind
of stuff is going to pop up more and more frequently.
But I don't know, I just won't use it. That's
kind of how I feel about it. And I guess
I don't know why people are freaking out necessarily. The
Witcher three is reportedly getting a surprise new expansion this year.
Reports suggest that CD Project Red is working with the
team that is over at Fool's Theory that is remastering
the Witch one or remaking the Witcher one, and that
team is also making an expansion for the Witcher three
that'll be out in May. This is according to some
analysts in Poland and some insiders in Poland who seem
to have like a lot of reporting on on this
game in the studio. To me, this is not that surprising.
Feels like the kind of thing that we're gonna see
more of. If you have a game like the Witcher
three that just sells forever and ever, and you want
to like get people excited about some other things happening
in that series, like the eventual Witcher four, which is
coming in this Witcher one remake. Why wouldn't you do
something like this? Is this something that you guys are
interested in?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean I like Twitcher three a lot. I haven't
even played the other DLC and apparently that Blead and
Wine is like the greatest DLC ever created for a game, right,
people like that a ton, So there'd be a lot
of interest in another one of these. Yeah, especially you
know if it gets received. Well, yeah, it makes I
think it makes a ton of sense. I don't want
to say this is almost like more exciting than a
Witcher four because you know there's a ton of potential there.
But you know, people know, people know Witcher three, they
understand that game's systems. Just giving them some more content
in that world is going to be really appealing to
a ton of people.
Speaker 3: Maybe this is the opportunity I take to dive into
the Witcher three.
Speaker 1: It's good, Joe, Yeah, people and people love those DLCs,
so it's like, if this can keep that going in
any way, people will be very excited, would be my guess.
Monster Hunter Wilds on Nintendo Switch two. Evidence grows, including
a glimpse of how it could run. Data Minors reportedly
found references in a recent PC update for Monster Hunter
Wilds that suggest Capcom maybe planning a release for the
Nintendo Switch two. The uncovered tech strings and graphic presets
point to a potential Switch two port running at thirty
frames per second with d LSS enabled. One reported graphics
option for the docs switch To suggested the game could
run at ten ADP with better fidelity than the PC's
very low preset. This aligns with Capcom's strong support for
the switch to so far. They said as much like, Hey,
we want to put everything on the switch To. I
think this is the one that people are still surprised
by because of its performance on PCs, and so it's
like what is that look like? But of course they're
also trying to update it for PCs still and make
it run better on there. Maybe this is part of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be funny either way. Like this comes
out and is a mess, it's like, Wow, what the
heck are we doing here? If it comes out it
runs great, it's almost like, well, how'd you make that happen?
Why was this such a struggle on high end PCs?
And now it looks pretty good on Switch too. Yeah,
I mean it makes sense to do it. Part of
me almost wishes we would just get a Monster Hunter
rise To, something specifically made for the Switch. I think
that was a bit more straight to the gameplay, like
that one was not a story focus. That was a
bit more my gym.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that, where it's like I
would be more excited if we were talking about it
rise To or you know, the equivalent on Switch. But yeah,
they probably aren't ready for that, and this is they
probably intended to support this game for a very long time,
and this is part of that.
Speaker 5: Even just like a I switch to edition, I would
actually be pretty into that. I'd be pretty excited to
see that game a better frame right on switch.
Speaker 1: To cool over the holidays. Double seven First Light was
delayed by two months. It's now in the timeframe basically
the same day that grant that thought of six was
supposed to come out, really a day later, but they
took that time once that game was delayed to delay
their own game get a little bit of extra time.
This is IO Interactive's first game that's not a hit
Man in quite some time. I think it looks promising,
but I bet they need every day they can get
to sort of polish it and make sure it's as
good as it possibly can be, because my understanding is
make it a game like this is the kind of
thing where like you can get some highs, some high
highs into your game, but not all of it's going
to come together in your first entry. It's always the
sequel that gets all the benefit of learning everything. So
I bet they want to avoid as much of those
low lows as they can, and a few extra months
can probably help with that. So we'll see. And then finally,
Final Fantasy nine character designer Toshiyuki it a Hannah, Yeah,
it a Hanah. There we go quits Square Enix. He
said it was time. He's with the Square Inix for
over thirty years and he basically just said, yeah, now
is the time to go. And that's a long time
to be anywhere. And I'm sure it's like this is
just a normal sort of thing of hey, let's let's
retire or get out of here and move on to
something new. But also probably finally on the call f
in a Final Fantasy nine or doesn't mean anything for
a Final Fantasy I was kinna.
Speaker 3: Say he's leaving because they didn't remake Final Fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, I don't know. Maybe not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if this has much to do like,
I don't think momb Busy nine remake is happening anymore,
to be honest, I don't think. I don't know if
this has too much to do with it Still sad.
I love his art and like the sort of more fanciful,
kind of fun, colorful affect that he brought the foul
Fantasy nine as opposed to you know, No More is
a bit more realistic, darker take. I think that's what
makes nine stand out so much to me. So I
love his art a lot. I hope as a freelancer
he'll get to contribute to other games. He can still
contribute to Square Phoenix games as a freelancer if he
wants to. But yeah, he's done a lot of great work.
He definitely deserves to get to call his own shots.
Speaker 1: Last thing I didn't include there was a canceled Mega
Man golf project from twenty eighteen. They were gonna make
a Mega Man plus Capcom golf What and that sounds awesome?
It sounds it sounds very good. Like it was going
to center on Mega Man, but I guess we have
other Capcom stuff with Phoenix, Like leaked concept art came
out yesterday. I would love to have seen this.
Speaker 5: He would have been a character. Oh this would have
been amazing. Oh oh, here's Frank West using like a
baseball bat with barbire on it as his golf club.
Speaker 1: It's our fault for not doing for Yeah, it's a
two D sort of like desert golf kind of thing.
It's our fault for not having Golf Week back in
twenty eighteen to really show them how important this, because
yeah is what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Honestly, I think I prefer they just made it
more like a real clock gate with that kind of
stuff though.
Speaker 1: Make it Mega Man Legends Golf and go from there.
Speaker 5: Conceptart looks cool though clearly running on the Mega Man
eleven engine. I think it looks like, yeah, they should
have done that.
Speaker 3: That does for the news.
Speaker 1: Back over to you, fan Fantastic gang.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take another quick bricky break and we will
be back with emails and YouTube super chance, have we
got any We'll see you right after this.
Speaker 7: We do.
Speaker 2: Emails BombCast at Giant Bomb dot com is the email
addressed to send your emails to. You can write in
about any and everything. I appreciate every single email that
gets sent in. Thank you for all the kind words.
Thank you for all the happy New Year's and the
happy holidays. Let's get to the first email, and that
comes from Mike from Loveland. Happy New Year to lowis
bombus grandes say that should be Jigantes. New Year has
me thinking about the passage of time.
Speaker 3: What most of the crew falls along.
Speaker 2: The spectrum of millennial except for Backlar, who I think
is a member of the silent generation in a Korean
war bet correct, thank you for your service.
Speaker 1: What does that even fucking mean?
Speaker 5: Really old?
Speaker 3: I'm seven years old.
Speaker 2: Turbo Sean is like Doogie Howser compared to y'all. He
often loves the same series as the rest of the crew,
but finds a different entry to be the iconic one,
sort of like how everyone's favorite SNL cast is the
one they had in high school. What are some examples
of long running series where your favorite entry is based
on the age you played it and not the actual
comparative qualities it possesses. Love you love the show?
Speaker 4: Mike from Loveland is Linked to the Past. I mean,
that's always my go to. But also I was like
the perfect age and it was like the most nostalgic.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, I bet there's not many like Zelda fans
are in their twenties right now who would think Linked
to the Past is the best fair I could probably
it's probably a fair amount, but you're right, the majority
would be other games they play when they were and.
Speaker 3: Even I would probably say Breath of the Wild ultimately,
but like linked to the Past is that choice? You know?
Speaker 5: It's not weird because there's some series like like Mario,
Like I think the best one is Mario Odyssey. I
think it's the last one. Still, not necessarily the ones
like Ooh Laid when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: For me, I probably have more of reverence for Final
or not Final Fantasy. Mega Man Battle Network versus the
regular Mega Man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that one's interesting because like to me, it's
like Mega Man three, Megna two, megahn X, like you
you bring up Bound Network. Sean likes legends, like that's
the one that he's I think is the most nostalgic
for right, So yeah, there's a little bit of a
shift there for sure. I want to a Final Fantasy
because I feel like people around my age usually it's
one of the PS one ones are Superintendo ones that
they think is absolutely, yeah, the best, but like part
of me is like, I mean, you know, they're really
like young twenty year olds are like fifteen, man, that's
the best one. I think comes close to it. I
don't know, I.
Speaker 3: Would say for me, if we're doing Final Fantasy, I
like ten.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ten is also really good, Like that's yeah.
Speaker 3: I wonder if young gamers definitely go to Meddle Year five.
Speaker 1: That's such a weird series because everyone kind of plays
them all and stuff, So I wonder how much how
much do younger gamers like Metal Gear Solid is almost
like there are a lot of twenty something Metal Gear
Solid fans these days.
Speaker 5: I feel like he.
Speaker 3: Gets brought up a lot in terms of just like,
you know, how prescient two was.
Speaker 5: And you know, I bet Resident Evil would be a
good one for this, because a series that has had
like all time entries throughout multiple decades of existing.
Speaker 4: I mean a good example Kayla. Granted she's probably not
the standard anything, but she is younger and she just
played through all of them, and she thought Village was
her favorite.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I I was like, I love Rezu he remake,
but like after that, like the first Residue remake on
the GameCube, I'm like, that is so peak, that's amazing,
And I wonder if the younger people still feel as
much about that or to them, like Rezu wil To
remake or Resil seven is signific.
Speaker 7: I feel that way about four, Mike, I mean, like me,
that's freaking yeah, no or the original when're talking, because
that's the spirit of what this Yes, the most psychotic
emailer wrote, it's like that.
Speaker 1: Playing that on on GameCube for me was just like
I was seared into my memory. I mean that's the
one where it's like I really I'm like, oh, I
love Resident Evil terms yeah right, yeah it zeld Us
the poster child for this question. It's Seldon, Everyone's favorite Seldos,
the one you play when you were twelve. The sentence
that people said for forever. I think that's changed a
little bit recently because of the Breath of the Wild,
but there's a reason that that sentence was always said
about this, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because was my favorite, you know, come to mind immediately,
and I was like what you know, ten and fourteen
when they came out, But then I was.
Speaker 1: Like nine to eleven as I was playing Links Awakening,
and that's like what I was like figuring out video games,
and so that's for me. It's that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's let's ask some uh, some zoomers what their
favorite romance of the Three Kingdoms is.
Speaker 2: Really give it away, like what's your's favorite Italia game?
Speaker 3: Oh Rizza?
Speaker 1: Now, Now for for zoomers, it's what season of Fortnite
was your favorite?
Speaker 4: But they can't even go back and play them because
games don't stay around anymore.
Speaker 5: That's why they're so justaltic. For god, that SIPs and season.
Speaker 3: Was it was great, and I stopped playing immediately after
it was done.
Speaker 5: They played a little bit more because they had some
back to the Future stuff in this season, and I
like back to the future, but not nearly as much
as that.
Speaker 1: It's barely it's barely a seasoning, you know.
Speaker 5: But I bought that dark brown skin because I sure
you like Doc Brown.
Speaker 3: Damn, and thinking about that, and then I don't even
know what that is, but I like that joke.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 5: I have no idea that whole series is bathly because
there's so many of them. They all get like seven
out of Ted's and they just look.
Speaker 3: You're talking about their omnia seas.
Speaker 5: About Dave Hotels, and I just wonder what it's like
to play it a Telly game, But I don't know
if I have the courage to do it.
Speaker 7: Check it out together series, I'd watch that version.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't think they know.
Speaker 2: What is.
Speaker 5: A tellier. A tellier. I'm not pronouncing the R.
Speaker 3: Tell you.
Speaker 2: I cannot pronounce this emailer's name first name, so I'm
just gonna say, uh person. Jorgensen writes in Hello boys, Jam,
I need help. A new restaurant selling Filipino food opened
in my neighborhood in Copenhagen. Hearing you talk so lovingly
about Filipino food makes me want to try out, but
I know nothing about it. Can you give me some recommendations?
They don't have that many items, so I have linked
their menu Google Translate. I'll report back organ Seen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Yo, Yo, Jorgenson,
you gotta go go to Tombayan, all right. Tombayan means
like a place to hang out. Go get yourself some lumpia.
They'll call it spring rolls over there, little egg rolls Delicio,
So get yourself. The okoy okoy is kind of like,
you know, it's it's our version of a lot ca,
but it's a sweet potato instead of a regular potato.
Can't go wrong with thee other of the crispy chicken
or the sweet pork barbecue. I'm looking at their menu here,
but if you want to feel a little frisky, baby,
go with the beef. Got it because that's it. Brased oxtail, peanut,
peanut butter stew. Real delicious.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: When I I went to New York, Bailey and I
had a little bit of a cultural exchange. I had
some Jewish food and I'm like, well, we gotta do
the flip side of this. I'm gonna make you eat
Filipino food. Homegirls Brave. We had the She liked it.
Speaker 3: She was dope.
Speaker 5: Jeny Jen, you're a sweet potato.
Speaker 1: Oh you know you're you're a little egg roll.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: The the other part of that joke would be, if
you're a Filipino sweet potato.
Speaker 3: It's ube because Mikey, you bet you bet.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: Next email comes from Jamie from Colorado. Man, they're really
going to make a strategy football game with xcom elements.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you mean like, do you mean soccer American football?
Speaker 3: They spelled it American football.
Speaker 1: It's got to be American American football is more turn
based based.
Speaker 3: There were some like mutant league football type like inspired
by a game.
Speaker 4: I think this game exists. I think it came out
like ten years ago or something. It was called it
a blood Maybe I'm thinking a blood bowl. That sounds maybe, right.
Speaker 3: Is that kind of what it is? It's turn based, right.
Speaker 4: Because I remember, because I remember being excited about a
game thing like, oh shit, it's it's mutant league football,
and then there were tiles and I was like, ah.
Speaker 1: I think it was.
Speaker 5: But yeah.
Speaker 1: Blood blood Ball two from twenty fifteen is a strategy game,
board game, single player multiplayer fantasy. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Blood Bowls three from twenty twenty three has mostly negative
recent reviews for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: So well, Blood Bowl two's got most very positive.
Speaker 5: So okay, so it is it's best, All right, play two?
There you go?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well maybe about check that out. I
like tiles and football most of the time. Andrew in
Rochester rights in, Hey, duders, what examples do you have
of making your own fun and games. You can basically
be anything you come up with that isn't intended the
intended way to play a game. For example, in the
Seiphen filter to multiplayer, my sister and I would take
turns making a bullet hole design somewhere in the level,
and then the other player had to find it. Anothere
I have would be what I would turn on sheets
in Jedi Outcasts, spun a bunch of enemies and Jedi
and then turning the AI back on and watching them
fight in large battle. W Thank you for the years
of great content and memories.
Speaker 3: Keep up the great work.
Speaker 5: See I'm too lazy for that, sus Ie. Small things
like just making my character dance or like shoot a
gun in rhythm to whatever music's happening, especially in Mega
Man because it's like very rhythmic and melodics. I'll just
go it's like whatever, especially if it's an elevator there's
like some downtime or something. Even when I was playing Bloodborn,
constantly just like shit me my character around to make
it look like he's dancing or doing something that gets
a giggle out of me.
Speaker 4: When we got the first Twisted Metal and we did
a thing where like I would play as Outlaw the
cop car, and I would hide somewhere in the city
level and he would just it was almost like a
roleplay type thing where you he would drive around the
city trying to like avoid me, and as soon as
like I saw him on my split screen, I would
like chase after him and try to kill him and stuff.
Speaker 1: I would just install a random amount of mods into
like Oblivion or Skyrim and then kind of just see
what that would happen. And I would almost invariably end
up with like the sex worker mods and I would
try to use those to like get enough money to
buy a house, and that was always a good time.
I would have sex with any lizard person that wanted to,
and it was they paid well.
Speaker 7: I clipped that, come on, you got that. I spent friends,
spent a lot of time in sandbox stuff, which I
guess is not you know, which is obvious, right, But
like I spent so much time in Tear Down with
the Plasma swords stuff, and then a lot of like
early GTA five of just like you know, bringing in
custom soundtracks and just sort of like driving.
Speaker 1: Around vising it. That kind of thing where you're just
sort of like relaxing. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I think it was also the year Dylan was born,
So I was like a nervous wreck and I need
and I found a lot of like cathartic detox time there.
Speaker 3: I remember Perfect Dark you could do like the Sims
where like not the Sims, but you know the sim
simulant characters, so you could do like one control characters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and now like, okay on the Red Team is
going to be three of this sim and so we
would do rules where it's like we couldn't shoot each other,
and like we had I think like pacifist Sims or whatever,
so they wouldn't like attack directly. So we would put
remote minds on the Sims and then send them after
each other in some way and you'd have to like
detonate them, like that was the only way we were
allowed to kill each other, or something like making our
own loves.
Speaker 1: Like that might per friend. I had a ton of
that stuff for us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my friends thought we did invent like our own
mode and Smash Brothers where you only play as mister Gaman.
Watch you can only do that hammer attack that's like
one through nine and each one of different parts, and
like the nine is the insta kill and sometimes would
do some damage, like one would heal a person. It's funny,
like you play this game, you start creating like your
own vernacular and language around it, because like a six
would kill somebody if like they were at like two
hundred percent. So sometimes we'd be like, oh, good six
will do instead of the nine. But you can still
like do all the dodging and stuff. But it's just
this thing. If you accidentally hit somebody with any other attack,
then it's like this ceremony or all the other player
stop it, dude, the rigging the bell taunt while the
other two players go at the center and then whoever
got hit gets a free hammer strike on the other person.
And like sometimes it's the nine and that's like the
big deciding factors. Yeah, we call it hammer time. It's
a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: You talk about like live matain vernacular grub. Have you
gotten the part in the Mortal Kombat Legacy collection when
they're talking about.
Speaker 3: The origins of Toasty, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: They were playing it was like Dan Ford and the
sound guy, the Toasty Guy, and I think ed Bone
would play play action football against each other frequently, and
like he said, Dan Forden would always say, like as
the characters were like going up with the line of scrimmage,
he'd be like, no, I predict you're about to get toasted.
And then it became a thing where he would just
start going like I predict toasty and then like one
just like, hey, do you want to like put dumb
stuff like that in the games?
Speaker 3: Like all right, and so like the toasting.
Speaker 5: I had a actually the rug guy when he brought
the rugover, I showed him my Analog three D and
we did play some Morecombat trilogy on there and that
was a great time. Yeah, seeing the toasty come up,
it says like.
Speaker 3: A still hits easy later. Man.
Speaker 5: By the way, during the break, I admired the rug
for a bit. It looks fantastic.
Speaker 4: I've been the picture. Yeah, I can't imagine. Don't show
the people, Do not show the people, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Put in our discord Dan, you you are a brilliant
man because you came up with rug mousepads. And I
did see that at a museum over the over the break,
anyone wants to peep that looks fun?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Josh in New York right soon I heard on the
Game of the Year podcast that Dan had never played
Quake and Jane had never played the original Doom, and
it got me thinking, what are the most famous slash
well regarded games that you've never touched? For me, it's
Skyrim in World of Warcraft.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Oh, I guess it's World of Warcraft and I've
never even touched it.
Speaker 5: You've never touched World war Craft? That's interesting. Yeah, huh, gosh,
I'm trying to think, like, not never even touched because
you know, I'm like, oh, I haven't Beaten, Golden and
I and I've touched Golden and I. I've touched it
in all sorts of places. Okay, Oh, I'm sorry, Okay,
I'm sorry, right in the Golden Gun all right.
Speaker 2: I didn't write the emailer down, but this is for Backlar.
They write and just wanted to let you know what
New York has pretty has pretty regular bay Blade tournaments,
and looking at the listing for the latest tournament in
New York City may be discord. So Dylan wants to
go to more events. This is where to look. I'm
relatively active in the Portland scene and we have casual
night at a game store out in the area, so
it's worth looking at the New York City Discord to
see if there are any casual nights there as well.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, uh, in an era of like you know,
preteen screen overload.
Speaker 7: Right, this game this very analog, very hands on games.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, murdered radles. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 5: I forgot I Actually you.
Speaker 3: Look at the anime, The Blade anime.
Speaker 1: Which he's binged all the way through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go, I am this.
Speaker 2: May be one of the older older seasons, but Moses
split the Red Sea using a bay Blade.
Speaker 7: No shit, Okay, I have to go back and find
out which episode that is. I feel like I would
have heard about it. Yeah, Like it's so refreshing to
just like have him have friends over and they just
like battle for an hour.
Speaker 1: Like an hour is a long time, dude.
Speaker 7: I gotta say, like that arena he has with the
teeth around it, with the with the the sort of railing, it.
Speaker 1: Is so sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it will respin them.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 7: It is like you're battling, You're just like and there's scoring.
There's like points scoring that makes sense now and like
you get you know, a blast is not as much
as an extreme takedown like or whatever it is where
you knock the dradle out of the top.
Speaker 1: Out of the way, out of the arena. It's awesome,
it's great. I hope it never goes away.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm well, I mean you got to be do
it in person, like, no, I know, next time we're
in person, could we bring up bring a set like that.
Speaker 1: Someone's got to have something.
Speaker 3: Dude, I totally a right, it's cool. It is very
very cool.
Speaker 7: I I bet, I bet he seems Bay coded right
for sure. You know what's crazy is like, uh so
he he bought a bunch We got a bunch of
them for him, like maybe three years ago. I don't
know if this is just like a fork for for
bay Blades, but whatever it is. Now, the tops of
the they are so much they're better made, they they're
easier to assemble. They're just like stronger units. Their explosions
are more impressive. Like everything about where bay Blades is
at right now rules.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love that he's into it. It's
all he wants to do.
Speaker 3: You've heard the bone Yellow commercial? Right, yes? Okay, want
to make sure I send it to Jan. I don't
know if people. Yes, I had it ready if we
need it. Okay, okay, has anyone here not heard the
bay Blade commercial?
Speaker 1: I heard it, Okay, yep, It's fantastic.
Speaker 3: It's very rips.
Speaker 1: It does yeah letter rip like that's it.
Speaker 7: I mean that was the game of the holiday season
for sure.
Speaker 3: I Okay.
Speaker 2: In in the pockets of time where I wasn't playing
Marvel Rivals, I actually was looking at bay Blade stuff
and I saw someone made a key Blade hilt launcher
and looked.
Speaker 7: And and like we got And then someone was like, yo,
you can three D print your own like attachment to
the ripper. And You're like, oh, okay, there's just a
lot going on here and now, like every now and then,
I'm like, what are the new ones that are coming out?
Speaker 1: Like, I'm just it's fun. There's it's I don't know.
It is a toy that delivers. Like remember you like
remember we were growing up, it was like crossfire with
the ball.
Speaker 7: Right, Like you're like, oh well that game was like
cool for like fourteen minutes and then you're like I
get it. This ship just keeps slapping. It's just you
never know what you're gonna get. The teeth are the
railing is what what an improvement? What a quality of
life upgrade? I can't say enough amazing stuff about it.
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
Speaker 7: Bacca Gun is different, right, No, those are the Yeah,
that kind of sucks because.
Speaker 1: That's dumb and stupid. Okay, it's not dumb and stupid.
Speaker 7: I feel bad to shoot on Baka gun because Dylan
was all about them too when he was really young.
Speaker 3: But they're impossible to fold up, like you they they're
a little.
Speaker 1: Too far. I got a ship on it.
Speaker 7: Like they're balls, right, and then you have like you
need like the dexterity is to to get them back
into their spherical shape is very difficult.
Speaker 1: You never really get back together. What are what are they?
Like the balls and they're like the monsters.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there are these little figures that they they arrived
when you buy them, they're in a ball. It has
the The game is like a card game where you
get like you know, HP attacks and whatever. But when
you throw them out on the ground, they unravel and
they instantly pop into the character they're meant to be.
Speaker 1: But like you can't back together. They're really hard for
and they're for kids, and it's like what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: It's like unfurling a rug. It's the non starter.
Speaker 3: No one can do it.
Speaker 5: No one can do it.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, once unfurled, never furled again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yes, uh.
Speaker 2: Last two emails here, Hey, gang, how many cookies is
too many cookies?
Speaker 3: I'm going through a rough stretch. My girlfriend dumped me,
I got laid off from my job, and my way
to cope is eating sweet treats. Look for me.
Speaker 2: There's a delicious bakery down the street for me that
only sells cookies. So I have been I have been
indulging more often than before. So my question is simple.
How many cookies is too many cookies to eat in
one night? For reference, they aren't huge cookies, but they're
certainly not small either, about the size of two chips
a hoy cookies on top of each other, but pretty
dense impacked with philis.
Speaker 7: Okay, email or I'll say this. I understand you're going
through a moment, and you know sometimes you just got
to eat the whole ice cream. I get it, Like
that's fine. I just think at some point and it's
tough for us to say how many cookies are too many?
Because you're getting it from a bespoke bakery and oftentimes
bespoke bakeries. You're looking at the size of cookie you're
talking about. I feel like you're looking at like two
fishy to three hundred calories of cookie or some extra
butter in there.
Speaker 3: There's no nutrition facts on.
Speaker 1: Those bad boys. It's uncharted territory. It's whatever goes.
Speaker 7: So they're making those taste delicious and amazing, and they
probably have a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: So for this, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I can't put a number on it, but.
Speaker 1: It's not because like if I were to go pick
up some chips ahway, just as an example, I would
probably pick you up three. And then if it's like
if I do that multiple times in a day, suddenly
I've eaten nine twelve cookies in a day and say,
oh my god, that happens so fat.
Speaker 5: You don't want to get to I ate a package
of blank. That's when it's a real Exactly. The thing
with the cookies is that they're going to ultimately make
you feel worse because they're not good for you. You
need to channel that energy, you know. I know it's
like a generic but you know the breakup gym guy,
you know, that's more productive way of channeling someday.
Speaker 3: Okay, actually making you feel.
Speaker 2: Better because I started seeing a trainer over the break
and gang, I think this is the year I'm gonna
get stupid sexy and hot.
Speaker 5: You're alway stupid sexy and hot. I'm not stupid hot sexy.
Speaker 3: But like, yeah, eat the cookies now. But then, like
I don't know, go to the gym. You don't feel
bad after going to the gym.
Speaker 1: You just do both both day.
Speaker 3: Oh here's what you do. Go get a protein shake
that is cookie flavor. Yeah yeah, they'll just sort everything
out or oats even yes, you know it's code though.
Speaker 4: No, Jan do you want to run a marathon with
me in October? I'm on my own fitness journey right now.
Speaker 3: How many miles is a marathon?
Speaker 4: Twenty six point two? Jesus Christ, come to Minnesota run October?
Speaker 3: How cold is it in October? October is fine?
Speaker 4: Although I did do a half marathon in October two
years ago and it was forty degrees when I started it.
Speaker 3: That sounds good, right way? Okay? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah,
all right, I'll think about it. Dan is fine. I'd
love to host.
Speaker 1: Steph did get me a shirt? That has a heater
built into it. So now I have a shirt I
have to charge.
Speaker 3: Hell, that's cool.
Speaker 1: It's got the little it's got the little like glow
up icon on it. Yeah, there's a little but.
Speaker 3: It is that the name of the brand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a big like hockey parent thing. Oh yeah, yeah,
it's got it's got the hoodie he kind of built
into a flannel on the outside. And and then yeah,
I was like, I didn't realize there's a button, so
I kept plugging in him like nothing's happened, like, oh look,
there's a button right there. And then outside a bunch
was doing a bunch of things that kept me more blue.
I's got like three different things you can cycle between. Yes, red, blue,
and white is the every level America. Okay, yeah there
it is so uh it is dumb, though, to have
a shirt you have to charge that. That is it
is fun dumb.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And and of course somewhere somewhere out there, someone
has to be burned.
Speaker 1: Severely by one. Someone's definitely got like the shape of
the grill inside of the shirt on their.
Speaker 7: Back, the coils whatever, the coils, yeah, uh huh cool, okay,
fun stuff.
Speaker 3: My vest has ram in it.
Speaker 1: Now awesome, at least something does Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh all right, final email of the show before we
get to super chats. Uh, Mike, I don't want to
enrage you, Okay, I need you to keep calm during this,
all right, heyo miikey uh tim fromiole. Right, So the
Jabbroni's over at the besties are claiming they are the
baddest boys of games media. Oh no, are you bad enough,
dude to show them who the real bad boy is?
Clip from a statement from Chris plant I'll go ahead
and play this. Oh wait, wait, can anyone hear that?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, okay, one second, let me just do something
at recorded something.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 7: They said that exactly. They said it specifically, where the
bad boys.
Speaker 1: The baddest boys?
Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, hold on, sorry sorry sorry.
Speaker 7: Just got flash there just because that is such a
specific phrasing.
Speaker 1: Fresh Dick didn't give you warning back Large didn't say
he was gonna step on our toes like this. There
was a.
Speaker 7: Smoke signal that I was meant for something else.
Speaker 3: Can you'll hear this? Okay?
Speaker 6: So I went to sleep wondering how we would give
an award to people for the best the best. We
used to give people the Golden Marcus Phoenix. I think
we did that once we did it were actually physically
I don't to anybody, right, and I don't think they
actually accepted it. I think that's the other problems my.
Speaker 5: Understanding the bad boys of games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Then I had this dream last night, and.
Speaker 5: Because they're trying to get people trophies that we.
Speaker 6: Would give people bronzed versions of ourselves. But in my dream,
like we were kind of dipped in bronze.
Speaker 1: It was carbonit han solo kind Yeah.
Speaker 6: And a few questions came to mind. One, how much
would it more like the fucking nerds of games media?
Of the four of us they get well, well, the
w they accept it, you know, yeah, not Walter. Which
ones more valuable ranked? Is it platinum?
Speaker 1: Gold, silver, bronze?
Speaker 5: Is that what we're should do?
Speaker 7: That?
Speaker 6: I think?
Speaker 2: Okay, that was the other of the clip. It doesn't
seem as egregious as the emailer wrote in. Yeah, no,
I was canceled like three times this episode.
Speaker 5: That's bad. That's nothing.
Speaker 3: He called me the most valuable gooner.
Speaker 5: Yes, I did do that, but then I still the
golden I go to dick joke.
Speaker 3: It's let's let's be clear, folks.
Speaker 5: It is a form.
Speaker 7: It is an active aggression, as moderate as it might be,
it is a it is a an.
Speaker 5: Active vice, and it shall not stand. It will be
met with the equal and equivalent force.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: I was thinking asymmetrical crub. Oh yes, I will wipe
them from the face of podcast. Come way over the
top on this, but I'll yield.
Speaker 1: To Manata here. It's your it's your stick.
Speaker 5: They're called the besties because they're the best at being
non controversial and tame, is what I said.
Speaker 1: Oh and then the bad boy would know too, Oh boy.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Uh mister Menotti, the bad beauty, would
you hit me with some YouTube super chats if we
got would love.
Speaker 5: To as soon as I switched my account to the
Giant bomb once I can look at such things. I
was too enraged, enraged in the moment. Yeah, all right,
here we go from uh Migsy says this avatar two
and three good. I found one to be okay, well
the three D I think two is significantly better than one,
and then three is probably closer to one's quote.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I have to see one again. I don't know if
I like one or three more two is the standout
one for sure though.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I'm curious, right because it's like, I don't
we said this last time, right, I don't remember one
almost at all, aside from just like Geo Vini Rabisi.
Speaker 1: Showing up and then unobtainium. Yeah fift I try about scientology.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was weird, right, So regardless of the thing
that I can't remember one, seeing two is fine in
a vacuum, yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they stop recap it. They stopped
talking about unobtainedum real quick. They just want whale juice now, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whale juice Unobtainedum, welcome whale brain.
Speaker 5: Come well. Jake Sally's general thing. He was a dude,
he became he's put in the body of the nave
and he decided to stay as one of them and
help that instead. Right, that's the important remember Avatar.
Speaker 7: Also, before we go to the next super chat, I
do have breaking news out of CS. There is a
five hundred dollars jerk off machine called the Handy that
is getting a lot of a lot of play, a
lot of a lot of a lot of love.
Speaker 3: You get an email I see a video. The first
result is a video from a former coworker of yours.
Speaker 7: Uh, mister Backlar, you remember our buddy here right, Yes,
he's doing this thing jiggle.
Speaker 1: It is jiggling all the way from Vegas handy to
pro is an overclockable sex toy.
Speaker 5: Something you don't want to open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna rip my dick off.
Speaker 3: I don't want that too fast.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we gotta strip all these out for the ram inside.
I think the clear white thing in the thing and
the sleeve.
Speaker 3: Do you know what do you think?
Speaker 1: Buddy?
Speaker 3: That just doesn't We don't put.
Speaker 5: Your penis in the clear part. Still, it can't just
only pee that strap.
Speaker 1: The clear part is the penis sheep.
Speaker 7: We have a hand we have hand ergonomic Yeah, but
not going that.
Speaker 5: I don't like where the guy stretches it.
Speaker 3: I just got to that.
Speaker 1: Oh a video you guys watching.
Speaker 2: Christmas came a little late this year. Boys, you know
the boy is over a c S. I kind of
need like a field report from he would know what.
Speaker 1: To do this thing. Yeah, how many r p ms handle? Okay? Anyway,
that's your industry gooter, Michael Hyam. Sorry, I just don't
know how you use this thing, your mother, you know
what you do? Listen though, Okay, the Jernyov mechanism is
attached to what looks like, you know, a JBL speaker.
Speaker 3: It does speaker respects.
Speaker 4: Okay, So the stroke length is anywhere between zero and
one hundred and twenty five millimeters.
Speaker 3: The American what's that?
Speaker 1: What's that? An American penis sentiz Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 4: The pro model will go up to four hundred and
fifty millimeters a second on the stroke speed.
Speaker 1: I don't My Dick's gonna fucking time travel. I'm not
trying to do that. What's happening? You're getting some real.
Speaker 3: Ship with this thing? Eighty it hurts. Get the flap.
You can't overclock the standard, you can only overclock the pro.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 5: Imagine if we turned the handy into a time.
Speaker 3: Of I just I just don't understand, like you jerk
yourself off into the past.
Speaker 1: Just shows up and range at rome. Who's fais is
that quickly from the future.
Speaker 5: Bathroom?
Speaker 3: You come too hard and there's just a Veloci wrappro
in front of it.
Speaker 1: I just don't like the speed. I feel like friction
is a problem there. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Man, you'm looking at the officials website. Now, it's got
all the specs.
Speaker 1: I don't like it when he stretches it.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: Hey, if it's worth it, I'll pay it.
Speaker 5: I don't think it could be worse this or freaking.
Speaker 1: We can't call this.
Speaker 4: Do you see the fucking gift on the Okay, hang on,
can someone put that back in the chat? It's the
handy dot com slash door and go to the handy tube.
I was wondering why you needed Wi Fi and sure enough,
there is an anime lady that just wax you.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be scripted, right, it's gonna have script thing
and yeah, it's gonna work with anime ladies.
Speaker 4: It is exclusively anime ladies. In this gift, they're showing, hey,
I don't want to one's young go nuts is not
this is not the clip for the episode.
Speaker 1: How you're gonna fuck cartoons?
Speaker 3: Goddamn?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, un next super chet please please tell me,
oh yeah right uh.
Speaker 1: From oh yeah, you're getting your favorite tele deldonics. That
is a great world.
Speaker 5: I had to approve that word like twenty times.
Speaker 3: Chat like wait wait wait, wait wait wait, this is
the handy too. Yeah, it's the secret electric boogaloo.
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, Blade Runner says, Jan, I can't believe
you got excited to watch a.
Speaker 3: Cop oh cyclone. We're not doing this today. Okay, we
are not doing this.
Speaker 1: He's trying to stay positive.
Speaker 5: Then you don't deserve it today, Blade Runner said, smart
bricked up, and then Blade Renner said a live reaction
and if Jan watching the trailer, please, So yeah, what
there's a there's like an X Men Avengers doomsday trailer.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, they're they're they're doing these little teaser things.
Speaker 2: They did one for Chris Evans coming back as Captain America.
They did one for Thorn, the sky Rizzy commercial, Yeah.
Speaker 3: The sky Razy commercial.
Speaker 2: And now they did one with Professor X fuck him,
Magneto great and Cyclops the Best Boy.
Speaker 5: Uh and does James Marson do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It's James Marsen and he's wearing the Cyclops gear from
like the comic books, and it looks like they're kind
of emulating a panel from the comics, which I am
very excited to see, even if he's in this movie
for five minutes, because there's too many people in this
movie as long as I hear a good optic.
Speaker 3: Blast, I'm good.
Speaker 5: Okay, oh god, yeah, oh he looks sweet. Okay a minute, yes, yeah,
but yeah, god, it's funny. How like they were like,
we can't put these people in their original caution the ridiculous,
And now like they've been putting these characters in their
original costumes thirty years later or whatever, and they look awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Right.
Speaker 5: Then the next episode, Antonio Morales, who says, legit hung
out with the girl only because she had resume before
and really stoped hanging out with her once my cousin
had it. I'm sorry if you're listening well, And then
it makes he says Jeff Backlard. Do you get old
keyboards and retro bright them?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm I'm not into that.
Speaker 7: I I know that is that's like they do that
with like ne es, Like it's when plastic yellows, they
like bring them back.
Speaker 4: To yea like a little tub and it's got you
leave it like the sun for a bit, or like
in a like UV strips around it or something.
Speaker 5: It's like a special light thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I've seen people like restore old consoles and they
ture that and it and saying how it gets rid
of the yellowing.
Speaker 3: It's like a lot you have to do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you have to because you have to take
everything out of the console, like every medical component has
to just be that plastic you're putting.
Speaker 1: I just got my Super Nintendo and any A spec
for the first time in twenty years from my childhoods
and yeah they're both hell yellow as crazy, yellow as hell.
And I was thinking about this, but I'm like whatever
at this point. It works, right, it works.
Speaker 7: You can send I mean, I don't know what the
price is like, but for something like that, if you
really cared about the thing, I would almost like send
it off to a professional service that does it.
Speaker 1: Timothy Shalame does it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, on the side, you know, I just yeah
to do that yourself. And it's it's a lot, but
uh yeah. For keyboards, now, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 7: It's funny, keyboard. That color for a keyboard is probably
more sought after than than not want.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, because the first keyboards were
surrounded by so much secondhand cigarette smoke that they all
became that color immediately. It's just nice.
Speaker 1: It's just like that's all it is. Settling on the bless.
Speaker 2: I think if the if Marty Supreme was not coming
out Christmas Day, I think we could have jumped on
the press tour because that boy was everywhere. And can
you imagine an episode of blike Club with Timothy shallow.
Speaker 4: May entrance to a podcast appearance at one point, like
I would get along with Timothy's shallow May.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Just we all have to wear like Knicks jerseys and
it'll be fine.
Speaker 3: That's fine, see your kid.
Speaker 5: That's it for the super chats. Thank you so much,
everybody appreciate it. Boys.
Speaker 2: What do we got going on this week? Game US
Mornings popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, finally on the show tomorrow. It's gonna be a
good one everybody, So, uh.
Speaker 5: Blake Club tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We always do the run tonight today. If you're watching this.
Speaker 1: Lab, we're gonna do run happening today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, voicemail dump truck on Thursday. Unprofessional Friday's plans are
still up in the air. I think we wanted to
try and do Anthem, but it turns out you can't
get it anywhere.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 2: Also, go ahead, if you've missed the Game of the
Year podcast I suggest you go ahead and go get
all of that, consume all of that. Also shouts out
to Sean for for editing all of those bad boys?
Am I missing anything?
Speaker 1: He's working on the music episode still right, Yeah, so
that that's still coming, But he did so much work
editing everything else. It'll come when it comes.
Speaker 3: Everybody speaking about.
Speaker 2: The doing a gurgantuan amount of effort to edit stuff.
Shouts out, as always every damn year, to Marino for
helping put the list together. Also shouts out to for
helping edit them. Got a bunch of lists and actually
I got I just got one yesterday.
Speaker 3: So might have a late one coming into based on
a textile a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Okay, that'd be more.
Speaker 2: It'll be worth it, worth the way. All of them
great this year. Absolutely love all of them. Shouts out
to everyone to also volunteer their time to write a list.
Speaker 1: All our All of our lists are on the site
as well, so if you want to see any of
our like extended thoughts about any of the games we
talked about on the podcast or whatever, people have been
checking those out and really appreciating them. So thanks for
saying the nice tests.
Speaker 2: Go go visit the website. Also, if you have wiki experience,
go help out Chuck. We mentioned at the top of
the show BombCast dot.
Speaker 1: Com PHP if you know anything about it, if you've
ever worked with Wikipedia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's any any of all that stuff. But Gang,
I think of that about does it. For this episode
of the Giant BombCast. He's been Jeff. He's been Jeff,
he's been Mike, he's been Dan. I've been chanting you
at home.
Speaker 5: I've been downs.
Speaker 3: Let's see you next week, Barb. Another episode up. Good
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