Speaker 1: It's just so good. It's the Internet. You're busy, Let's
do this. Welcome to the Game Mesticides podcast. This is
the podcast where we decide everything about the world of
games so you never have to think for yourself. I'm
your host Jeff Grubb, and with me.
Speaker 2: Is Mike NAUGHTI and I'm already laughing at Chris Pratz
super chat.
Speaker 1: In today's episode, Nintendo is really weird and Halo has
an unreal future. But first, Mike, how are you all right? Man?
Speaker 2: I was forgot about the Halo stuff already Halo stuff? Yeah, yeah,
I'm fine. Nintendo decide to do all of its news
on a Wednesday after we do a Nintendo podcast. But
oaks on, we have another podcast, so we'll tip you
a Nintendo in here too. You can't stop us.
Speaker 1: You can run from us, but we arrive all the
same Nintendo. Yeah, absolutely, of course we are. Also, if
you hear any grunts are groaning, we're also watching the
baseball game.
Speaker 2: The bottom of the ninth. It won't last much longer.
It won't last much longer.
Speaker 1: Well, probably it probably won't last much longer, but there
may so also if that's the case, probably will be
another game on Saturday. So fun. Yeah, No, how is
your week going? Are you ready for the weekend? You
keep it up with any games? How's it going for you? Yeah,
I'm very ready for the weekend. There's some chill weather.
I think my brothers and I are going to do
a bonfire on one of these nights. The local like
kind of farm that sells pumpkins. They always do displays.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, yep, hang on, Oh keep running a freaking
double Oh god, no, it's a double I think, okay,
greatly off double fan freaking tasting. But uh yeah, so
this display this year, it's a much are like the
video game characters in haystack form. So they got Mario
and Yoshi and stuff like.
Speaker 1: Fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I.
Speaker 1: Think we we did the pumpkin patch last weekend and
and then we went to another farm to like get
the apple cider and apple cider donuts and all that stuff.
It was a good time. This weekend, we're going to
the cat show at the ic X or the is
i e X So wait, what is the name.
Speaker 2: Of the x i EX Indoor the i X Center. Yeah,
i EX Indoor Music Park used to be there, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna take the kids out to that. Really
looking forward to it. It should be a good time.
Speaker 2: Come on, Parker, damn it fantastic. So the games, I
mean just you know, metaphor is that and started a
sound of to remake, so we'll talk about especially Silent
Hill too, Dragon Ball, Sparking Zero played a bit of that. Yeah,
there's been some stuff that I played that I'm going
to look forward to talking about at the end of
our podcast here.
Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, uh you know what, let's just get into it.
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what happened then?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so a very lazy hit. You got your c
score on home so it's not a one run ball game,
but we got the out on one, so it's one out.
It's nobody on babe. One out favors us right now.
But a solo home run would tie it up. Jeff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a shame because Kerry Carpenter got hurt
earlier in the game. He's the one that hit the
home run last time.
Speaker 2: Rounding the bases there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yep, we'll see, we'll see what happens. Fair enough,
but we got the big topics of the week, Mike,
why don't we just already want to kill time until
this game is over?
Speaker 2: This should be the last that pat we're very very professional.
Tar you a lot of shit about this. But now
that one of my teams.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'll do a special super chat that'll
buy some time. Fifty dollars super chat from KB Esquire.
Thank you so much guys, because of spooky season. What
are each of your top three shit your pants scary
game experiences? My go one, the first act of Resumeable
seven and VR Yeah, that sounds like that would be terrifying,
Condemned on three sixty and Alan Wake two with headphones on.
I could see Alan Wake two a little bit with
headphones on. You think you have to like really juice
the experience there and have to have all the lights
on off they have the headphones on, and then maybe
that game would be pretty scary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not too much in those got me too bad.
And I'm still branching out here, so for me, it's
probably all resident an Evil examples. It's playing I do
only ever played Resnuevil seven in VR at e three
one time and that was terrifying, So that was absolutely
one of them. Then we had to go back to
the first time I watched my brother play Rezuel one
and the dogs happened, and that did, in fact scare
me like crazy. And then in Resuvul Village, the section
with the creepy baby that chases you around the hallways,
that was absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, it's it's hard for me to remember. I
definitely have been scared by some games in the past.
I think I did a little bit of what's that
the Bay of Pigs, No, the Machine for Pigs? What's
that series?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I know, no idea what you're talking about.
Isn't that just a sausage factory?
Speaker 1: That's that's the second game he swung. That's game over.
Speaker 2: But oh let's go okay, Oh, thank god? All right,
CEO Saturday, Jeff, everybody has been a great podcast.
Speaker 1: Terrek Scoble save us please? All right?
Speaker 2: Well may now with dogs barking outside? Very fun, cool,
trying to bring it back to video games.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, the Amnia games, that's what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I played that first Amnesia game when.
Speaker 2: I didn't really play it. Evil with fins or fears?
Are the fear games actually scary?
Speaker 1: I think they're there's like, there's probably some scary parts,
but they're just kind of like you are surrounded by
scary stuff, but you have guns, so it's all good.
Speaker 2: It's more guns.
Speaker 3: To help you make it better than scary.
Speaker 2: I think they're more actiony than anything else. Like I
always assume they're more action based scary game.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's the right wings are playing. So I
just watched that.
Speaker 2: Sound and hill like, I don't think of it. It's
like creepy and moody and atmospheric. I don't know how
like terrifying it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. All right, let's get to the big
topics of the week. He Studios is making multiple Halo
games in Unreal Engine five. Yeah, okay, we kind of
knew a lot of this was going to happen. They've
made it official, I guess by making it a big announcement,
and I think they did this at the Halo World
Championships or whatever that esports event is. By making it
official and announcing it in such a large way, which
to be clear, was done to recruit hires, because they're
trying to hire people for these future games. But again,
I think that's indicative of sure, this is important to them. Still,
Halo still matters to them. They see that as a
main pillar of their gaming future. I don't know, how
do you feel about all of it?
Speaker 2: Oh, you're right, you know, I know there's been missteps,
but they definitely can't afford to give up on Halo. Yeah,
especially since they don't don't have a ton on the
bench really, Jeff right, right, you know you have some
of these things that you've brought in now from Bethes,
the Activision, Blizzard, but you still want some real Xbox
ass Xbox brands and you know you've got gears, You've
got forts. Be Fable is going to be able to
make a comeback here, same thing with Perfect Dark. Those
things haven't happened yet though, so yeah, we all know
if Halo does do well and does hit, it could
hit pretty big. So switching to Unreal it makes sense.
You're going to be able to make a game just
as pretty, if not pretty, as what you were doing
before on your own stuff. It should be easier to
develop for it should be easier to develop content in general,
so you're not going to have the issue in Halo
Infinite where people complaining about they're not being enough content
at a fast enough speed. So yeah, all that's final
makes sense. The name changes a little weird and kind
of like, I don't know, I roll my eyes at
it a little bit. Just Halo Studios very creative, but
you know, I feel like they felt they needed to
change the name more than they wanted to change the
name to Halo Studios, right, They kind of want to rebranch, Yeah,
because people are kind of like, I know, there's a
negativity around three for three right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly they're there to try to signify to people
who are following Halo that this is a full fresh start.
Maybe a lot of the people who were here before
have left, and the way we made games before is
done where you are doing new things across the board.
In fact, that's one of the things they announced there
is this Foundry initiative. I think it's called that it's
going to be the new foundation of how they make
games going forward, and that will involve best practices for
a variety of things, but also best practices for Unreal Engine,
and because they're Unreal Engine now, they also say that
they will work more frequently with the other studios at
Microsoft Game Studios that are experts in Unreal Engine. All
of it makes sense, right, It all just like, yeah,
of course this is what you should be doing. It's like, okay,
so how does this solve what's wrong with Halo? I
guess I don't fully know. I mean, the simple answer
is the last thing they had Halo infinite needed more content.
This should make it easier to make more content faster,
and it's like, okay, well that's really what this all is.
And then the rest is sort of a little bit
of a song and a dance to make feel people
feel better about you know how they dislike three four
three and now it's not three four three anymore. It's
just gonna come down to does the next Halo game
come out and have enough stuff to keep people happy? Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Exactly. And you know, there's some other problems that I've
been playing Halo since the three four three days. The
stories have kind of become a mess and unsatisfying, and
it's just kind of difficult to even think about what
direction you could positively take that in. I think that's
why they're talking about multiple projects here, because remaking a
Halo one again or a Halo three, although it sounds
like a remake of Halo one is what's happening. Yeah,
that's pretty safe, you know, doing a battery O. It
doesn't have a story. That's pretty safe. It is kind
of that Halo seven or whatever they're going to call
a thing that is the big question work.
Speaker 1: Yep, next thing Nintendo is weird that starts with Nintendo.
I don't. I just wrote alarmo. It's officially called a
Nintendo soundclock. Alarmo. That's the full nise. Yeah, of course,
side rolls off the tongue. This is the mystery device
that we may have talked on previous shows, talked about
on previous shows that has a motion detector sensor thing
inside of it that can sense when you move. It
turns on after your alarm goes off, and we'll play
a one of seven songs from five different games. So
Jump Up Superstar from Super Mario Odyssey will start playing,
and then as you begin to stir in bed, the
clock will sense you move and will play Queen sounds
or maybe Jump sounds to encourage you to keep moving,
so you actually stand up, and then I think if
you stand up, it turns off. Whatever it's it's it's weird,
it's stupid. I pre ordered. It's one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got one too, And I feel stupid because
like when I look at it and I see the
way that like there's this rectangle screen that's it's like
kinsually black in another larger black circle. I hate looking
at it. It looks kind of cheap. Yep, yeah, it's
one hundred bucks up. I like to tend no music,
and I tell you why, but I do need help
getting up. You know this about me. Just last night,
in the middle of a dream, I heard my alarm
go off, and in the dream took my phone out
and like turned it off. And that happened in real
life too, So that's a problem. The phone alarm isn't
quite doing it right now, So yeah, maybe this will help.
Speaker 3: There's been studies that if you play these songs as
your alarm you end up hating the song idea, So like,
I don't think.
Speaker 1: That Cruising Blasts theme song is my alarm clock four
years now and I still love that song, so I'll
stand against that study a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'll make a human being, so like,
you don't now that right.
Speaker 1: I was going to say that myself, I am a lunatic,
so that's fair. But I think I'm the right kind
of lunatic for this alarm clock, is what I'm saying,
though everyone else can find for themselves. I'll be happy
with this thing, I guess, until it really annoys my wife,
which will probably be night two. So yeah, it's it's
I imagine I'm probably gonna end up handling this thing
off to the kids pretty quickly. But I have to
be clear, so one said in chat, everyone says they're
buying it for their kids is a coward. I am
buying it for myself, and then I know I'll eventually
probably have to just give it to the kids.
Speaker 2: I don't have any kids. I don't even have that excuse.
I gotta be stuck with this thing. It better be cool.
Speaker 1: It's not good, I mean, okay, it also connects to
Wi Fi. You'll probably update it when new games come
out a little bit.
Speaker 2: So yeah, like this the game selections like Mario and
in the Zeta games, that's fine. But you know, like
Pickman four, Okay, I like pick My four. I don't
know if it's the music necessarily, but toon sure Ring
Fit ad Venture, Like, does that game have good music?
I don't know.
Speaker 1: I U zero, Yeah, that would that'd be. That's a
good thing to wake up too, right there? If zero music,
excuse me. In addition to helping you wake up, there's
also calm down nighttime scenes. That's where the Pickman music
kind of got me. In the video I think they
show uh Pickman kind of chirping and making call me
noises while that end of day music from Pickman plays
that I can't do it, but it's I find that
to be pretty calm, so I'm like, I might use that.
That seems pretty nice either way, though, Like, clearly what's
funny about all this is people are waiting for the
switch to Nintendo announced the clock ha ha ha. Aren't
they strange and weird? And yeah they are. This is
a weird thing to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I never like really thought about
the switch to very much as this thing was announced,
And you know, I don't everybody understands. It's not like
they welcome Blake. You know what, instead of announcing the
switch to today, we're gonna announce the alarm clock thing. Right.
It's kind of a little whatever for me. I get
a great thinking that this doesn't look like an appealing
product and all that stuff. I don't have a whole
lot of anger about it, though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like was trying to like gauge if people
really did have any animosity towards this thing, and some
people definitely do. But some people are strange and most
people are like, no, I just think it's dumb. It's
not for me, And then I maybe I do kind
of want it, but one hundred dollars is insane, and
it's like all that stuff, I completely sympathize.
Speaker 2: I guess we get, yeah, being upset about the price
because it's a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but again, I already have given them my credit
card information and mine should arrive in February when these
things begin shipping.
Speaker 2: When they're coming out, I just might want look at
details like that.
Speaker 1: We've pre ordered a clock. If we really think about
what we've done here.
Speaker 2: I don't feel Look, I don't feel great about it,
all right.
Speaker 1: Other weird stuff, Nintendo yesterday announced a mystery Nintendo Switch
online test of some sort. What exactly it is they
still haven't said, however, I've been selected to participate.
Speaker 2: I missed that again because of said turning my alarm
clock off my dream. I did not get into this test.
Speaker 1: So okay, so we don't really know what it is.
There are some there's some speculation out there. There are
a few more details about what is required to get
into the test, like actually, like once you are selected,
what you need to do to get into the test
and maybe that provides some insight. But Nintendo said nothing
really other than it's a Nintendo Switch Online.
Speaker 2: You need.
Speaker 1: It's a new app you're going to have to download,
and you are you need to be a Nintendo Switch
Online Expansion Pass member, expansion pack whatever they call it.
So it's the fifty dollars per year tier. They launched
the applications this morning at eleven am Eastern, right as
I was starting the show Game Mess Mornings. I just
went in there, I clicked, I was able to get in.
They said selected. So on October twentieth, they said, might
be the twenty first, depending on of time zones, but
October twentieth, it's said on the website. I returned back
to that website. I will get a code that I
put in my switch and then that will get me
a two point two gigabyte download of something. And then
they said that we recommend you use it in TV
mode with a wired connection. Do you think this is
a cloud streaming app of some sort?
Speaker 2: It seems like probably some kind of cloud streaming thing.
I know a lot of people are saying GameCube game
cloud streaming, and one, you know, I don't really like
that and too, I don't know. That seems weird to
me for a multitude of reasons. I know Game two
games are significantly bigger than the ten sixty four games,
but do we really need to cloud stream them? So
many Game two games just get remade or remastered and
get resold and that's worked out well for them. And
I you know, NSO stuff already has a small latency problems.
Sometimes adding in cloud game with that that's gonna suck.
But if you want to have like some kind of
cloud gaming offering as a part of NSO expansion pack
with a select number of maybe older Switch games and
some family friendly games like some Lego hoosy, what's it
there that kids can enjoy? And maybe they're not going
to care so much about some of that stuff. Maybe
that makes sense. I don't know where do you think
this is going?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean so a lot of people in chatter
pointing out rightfully that two point two gigabytes is pretty
large for a cloud streaming app. Typically, Like if you
look at one of the games that is available on
Switch already to stream, like hit Man three, that was
a few hundred megabytes. So you weren't you weren't talking
about even one gigabyte for that maybe after it was
all installed, like a few hundred, like maybe five hundred,
six hundred gigabytes, and that's a lot mega for yeah,
for something like that. So I get that the initial
knew jerk therapy and like, well, it's probably not cloud
cause that's too big. Now, I'm not ready to write
that idea off because we don't we have no idea
how Nintendo's going to do this. Also, if it, like
one of the speculations out there, one of the people
speculating ate the hate is saying that he thinks it's
the GameCube cloud streaming thing. Now, what if it's GameCube
cloud streaming but includes a handful of game Cube games
that just run natively, or maybe just one GameCube game
that runs datively, and then the rest is cloud streaming.
There there could be a weird scenarios that account that
help explain the two point two gigabytes. Now, if we
do say, okay, this is not cloud streaming, maybe it
is like a social platform or a platform or something
along those lines. Maybe it is a Nintendo's own take
on their communications app that they have for mobile, but
now on the actual switch natively there's a lot of
possibilities here, and so maybe it's something very disappointing too.
Maybe it's something that no one could consider because it's
actually gonna suck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you would hope that Nintendo would know to
just tell us what it is now if that's the case,
But Nintendo sometimes doesn't know, Right, that's just gonna do
the kind of weird dumb thing.
Speaker 1: And it's not I mean, it's not gonna hurt them, right, Like,
if it's like something that disappoints a bunch of people,
they don't care. They are actually just trying to test it.
And if people are like I thought this would be cool,
like well, okay, are you still going to buy the
next Mario? Yeah, then shut the fuck up. So yeah,
we'll find out in a handful of days. Imagine. Also,
it's possible that you know, the oatmeal domes of the world,
these data miners get some hands on, get their hands
on something, some update in the back end that they're
able to tell us what it is. But I guess
all that aside, what do you want it to be?
Speaker 2: I don't want it to be cloud streaming GameCube games.
As much as I love gave you what gig is up.
I don't want clouds streaming for that.
Speaker 1: I'd rather pay the forty to fifty to sixty dollars
for each GameCube game to get remastered than have it
cloud streaming.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, look, if like anything that's just a
cloud streaming thing, you know, it's not going to do
anything for me, even though that might be what it is.
If it was just like, hey, yeah, that's the thing. Though,
if it's just here's GameCube games on nso why would
they need to test that? So it can't just be
that if it was some kind of Mever's successor that's
something that you can maybe see why they would have
to test that out, or maybe a whole suite of
social features to get ready for switch to like you
know a little bit of that mever stuff, but also
like voice chat rooms and friends and things like that.
That could be interesting. But yeah, it's it's kind of
hard to grow exactly what could be going on here.
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, I feel like it's easy to start going
down a bunch of these various rabbit holes of like
does this mean this, does them saying or is the
fact that they're not saying this mean this? Other thing.
Speaker 2: And it's the fact that they are recommending that wired
internet connection like that kind of brings it a little
bit back to the cloud streaming thing, or at least
that the site of social features.
Speaker 1: Sure it could be chat GPT, Yes, so the AI
here is here, Yeah, it could. That could also be nothing, Like,
we have no idea, Like they could just be recommending
that because or like they want to make sure that
they have a strong connection for when it reports back
the data and they don't want to lose the data.
Who knows. But overall, just another weird thing, kind of
an odd move from like why not.
Speaker 2: Announce what it is before people have to.
Speaker 1: Sign up for it? I mean maybe they want a
random selection of people and they don't want the kind
of person that is going just to show up for
what this thing might end up being.
Speaker 2: I mean, the seven years we've had to switch, we
have not had something like this, so it is it
does just kind of get the brain spinning a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think there's any chance that it's like
a street pass situation or something like that.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, maybe I guess it could be anything. I
don't know. Yeah, I'm I'm anxious to find out what
it is, and I'm expecting it to be something smaller
than we're expecting.
Speaker 1: Yep, I agree. Last thing here. I wrote this just
because I thought it'd be fun for you. That Shanoby
movie got announced from Sega. And was it universal? I
think a universal. They're making a Shanoby movie. Sure, Hey,
I like Shanoby.
Speaker 2: I mean like you say, you're saying you're making a
Shnoby movie, Like, yes, you are literally making a movie
about a Shnoby Like, like, what what? What storyline are
you following? I never never played that PS two one,
which I know people like I've been need to, and
I assume that has more of a story. I don't
know if it has some beloved story that people are
gonna be excited to see adapted to the big screen. Look,
we know, I'm glad that Sega is investing in this character. Again,
I'm much more excited about that new game that we're
going to beginning that has been looking awesome. But yees
should know, video game it's weird. It's one of those
ones where if it doesn't happen, I would not be
surprised at all. There's there's more interesting Sega properties that
should be turned into movies or make more sense for
movies like jets at Radio or even Echo. Give me
a movie about a dolphin, Come on, that'd be fun.
Speaker 3: Do you know the name of did you know me?
Speaker 1: You? No? I just know this the other day? That's
the guidance, isn't it. That's the other one, Joe Musashi.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: It thinks Joe I forgot Joebi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be about all the others. Should nob
make fun of him because his name.
Speaker 1: Is Joe, just the regular Joe Shinobi. Hey, this is fun.
We'll see if it actually ever gets made. But yeah,
there was like a bunch of people whose names were
connected to it as like writers and directors and stuff
like that. That has also happened for a lot of
these projects in the past. But we know that there's
more of an appetite for these sorts of things than ever.
But that's because like Mario and Sonic have been very successful.
When a couple of these projects come out between this
and Shnoby that don't do as well because they're not
fucking Mario and Sonic, that might cool it off and
we never actually get us a Shanoby movie. Yeah, back
to reality. Real fast back to reality. All right, that
does it for the big topics of the week. We're
gonna take a quick break and then we'll get into
all the super chats and talk about whatever you guys
want to talk about right after this.
Speaker 2: Back to reality, oh the humanity. Oh and we're back.
Speaker 1: And I'm still mad at you about the baseball game, Mike,
So why don't you read some super chats?
Speaker 3: That's okay.
Speaker 2: A lot of people have been mad at me lately. Actually,
we'll get to some of that in the super chat. Sorry, Nerd,
he says. I told my key to shut the fuck
up in Giant bum chat today during the dump truck
because I was heated about die Hard. I'm sorry. Please
forgive me for those who don't know, we're talking about
die Hard. And I said that my ranking of die
Hard is Diehard one, then four, two, three, and five,
And what upsets people the most is my low rinking three,
which I still like. The only bad die Hard movie
is five, and it's terrible. It's more about me liking
four and two more than most people. I think I
haven't seen.
Speaker 1: The last time you've seen with a Vengeance.
Speaker 2: It's been a while. I haven't seen two or three
in a while. I need to watch both of those
again and then I will I'll update you all.
Speaker 1: But look, the important thing to be.
Speaker 2: Really is that Diehard one best, Diehard five worst, and.
Speaker 1: Right right right, okay? I love die Hard with Avengeance.
That's like one of my favorite like go to movie,
like I I from like in the mood to just
watch something I have to think too much about, Like
what I know? I like die with Avengeance. That's just
a fun movie.
Speaker 2: Do you think what was it that termul? I will say,
I did it? I like, for some reason was oddly
upset at the twist that he wasn't actually Hans Gruber's brother,
Like I was like, no, I thought it was deep
that he is his brother. Then he like was is
he not? No, he's not you know, see you don't
even remember this movie.
Speaker 1: Wait, what do you mean? Are you sure?
Speaker 4: You mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he pretends to be his brother. But that was
a lie, right am I making the twist up?
Speaker 1: I don't think that.
Speaker 2: I think that's right. B Maybe he's also.
Speaker 1: Right he pretends to care that is that it's his brother.
He just doesn't care.
Speaker 2: He just doesn't care. That's what it is that though,
so we knew his brother the pit. The twist is
that it wasn't actually about revenge. It's been so long. See,
I don't even know what the fuck happened to the movie,
and then I attacked you for it.
Speaker 1: I think that's it's it's like, and it's like a
good fun twist because it's, uh, it's just a heist
again and heist are more.
Speaker 2: Advance because yeah, I think it's like I think he
was like, no, you stupid idiot, it was actually just
about money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but right for me that I always liked that
because it's like, okay, revenge this person, whatever, heist. I'm
just like, yeah, steal that money. That's fun. Okay, Yeah,
keep reading these super chats, Mike.
Speaker 2: Next one is from Jacob Bench says, I'm currently asleep
to make time pass for Metaphor. I can't wait show.
Does that actually come out tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Alright, that's that's one of those ones that is in
early access though right, No, it doesn't have one hundred
dollars early access version.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I don't think so. Luffy. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say I did actually legit install
that on my on my Steam deck, but I don't.
I have not started yet.
Speaker 2: So we'll see that ever happens, all right, Fuffy cloud
gamer says WE Sports is better than duck Hunt, but
Mike is right that WE Sports Resort is way better
than WE Sports. Yeah, quite a few people very upset
at me, Jeff about like a duck Hunt more than
WE Sports. I'm sorry that you're mad, but I can't
back off from it. I definitely still believe that. I'm sorry.
I have way more fun. Man, is a plague duck
cut that I do with playing WE Sports. It's just
it's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're wrong, not particularly. I like duck Hunt,
but I recognize it's shortcomings. Whereas WE Sports I recognize
its shortcomings and realized it doesn't they don't matter. For
the most part.
Speaker 2: Are duck huts shortcomings.
Speaker 1: It's just it's not fun for very long. It's uh,
the you know, shooting the duck is fine, and then
it's just kind of it ramps up.
Speaker 2: It gets harder and harder.
Speaker 1: I guess, so yeah, a little bit, not that much harder,
and it goes faster.
Speaker 2: And then you can shoot the frisbees. Too, and that's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, the clay pitch whatever they call it, the clay pigeons,
I like that also, yeah, and then I don't know,
I guess I found that more engaging than just waggle
when the ball was near you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but uh, you could put some spin on the
ball and that was fun. But bulling worked, bullying always worked.
Speaker 2: Boweling works, but like not better than like monkey bowling
and monkey ball too.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, now you're gonna bring in a whole third
game here.
Speaker 2: But I could just say, like I think every I
played a lot of VA games that just have bowling
mini games that are better than we bowling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not okay, not better as a party game. Okay,
now that's probably still better as a party game. Super
monkey Ball's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Not with your grandma, though, My grandma died a long
time ago.
Speaker 1: Your grandma.
Speaker 2: You're right, Uh, don't worry. I think there's other people
gonna yoe me about duck coming get back to this.
Andy g says, with the below average reception of the
new Starfield, DALC is a fair common to say the
Bethesda is going down the same path as Ubisoft, but
in slow motion by not evolving their games enough.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I don't know if it's
the exact same thing. Clearly they have lost the thread,
though I wonder if part of it is I'm still
of the opinion that they got distracted by this idea
that their games need to be ten year games. They
talked about that so much before Starfield came out, and
I think because of that, they began working backward from
the wrong idea. And I hope what can happen is
with Elder Scroll six, they're like, let's just make a
good Elder Scrolls game and then the rest will take
care of itself. I feel like, you know, you worry
about the details, you don't need to worry about the
big picture thing. And I think with Starfield, they were
just worried about the big picture and that was something
that they could not get away from. With the Shattered
Space stuff, they're like overcorrected and it kind of just
sucked on both sides.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a touch there space. Are you going
to No? No, I know, it's like it's just hard,
like the something way. I know it sucks, but it's
like I want to like it, give it a shot.
I guess because I have taught a lot of crap.
Speaker 1: And I would I would rather like go install a
bunch of mods into into Starfield proper and just kind
of see if that game could be made different these days, that.
Speaker 2: Boy Jerry says, Mike, you're send dollars to recant. You're insane.
Duck Hunt take not even damn record would say something
so crazy.
Speaker 1: Listen, a quarter of the respondence on my Twitter poll
agreed with you.
Speaker 2: You sound like me. I'm just.
Speaker 1: One out of four people. Is They're not all crazy,
they just like a boomers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guys, I know that games from back then, we're simpler,
didn't have as many mechanics or whatever. Uh we sports better,
right exactly? I can't explain it. Yeah, no, no, no,
I look, I I mean you like tetrips way more
than a lot of games that have more mechanics and
modes and things like that. So right, yeah, exact, curious
right now.
Speaker 1: Yes, comparing duck Hunt, don't get don't be one of
those people.
Speaker 2: Don't be one of those people. You know what the
comparison is for I'm not. I'm not comparing duck Hunt
the tetris in terms of quality. You get the point.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sorry, I do not The point.
The point is that duck Hunt is a game where
you do one thing, just like a game where you
do one things. But it's important that tentriss is infinitely deep,
like you can always get better, like up, you can.
Speaker 2: Get better at duck Hunt. I guess, not infinitely better. Yes, okay,
you can't get infinitely better at duck Hunt.
Speaker 1: Sure, okay, what you're trying to say. I just don't
think it was the best analogy.
Speaker 2: Oh it worked fine, it worked fine. Uh don't you
want me to if you want me to use a
really annoying uh thing myself a really annoying argument here,
But you can't.
Speaker 4: You can.
Speaker 2: Here we go, here we go. I could go bowling,
shoot ducks. No you can't. You don't want to shoot ducks.
I'm not saying to use a gun, but I can.
Speaker 1: I have shot clay pigeons, way more fun than doing
it in that video game.
Speaker 2: I bet you did clay pigeons rules. I'd love to
do that. I don't know how to even get started.
Speaker 1: Almost shot a man doing it because I was a boy,
and like it's fine, handed me a cock shotgun and
then He's like, hang on a second, So what you
need to do is like slowly release the hammer back
on there, and it just slipped out of my thumb
and they just shot right past them. It was crazy
to do like.
Speaker 2: A pall Reker defense here. But he guys have pushed
me too far. And yeah, so thank you that point
Jerry for the top bucks, but I refuse to recant.
Chris Prat says me, A photo gave me one of
these alarm dong things, so I can get up earlier
in on time with this thing. Now, more time to
stomp the tupas.
Speaker 1: Tupas is maybe my favorite one day. Yes, yeah, right,
but I missed tupas. I missed the tupas. More time
to stomp dot Greg says, how does Mike Field knowing
he beat Giant Bob five versus what it works? But
everyone is talking about how he's a turbo boomer with
his duck hunt we sports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, it's funny, isn't it, Greg? It's funny.
Isn't it funny? How that works?
Speaker 1: Mike's such a boomer, he's a he's so old and
he's cheating in the barn. So that said, this was
a boomer take was you as I didn't realize it
was good to become like an issue. It feels like
the quintessential boomer take. Do the quicknessentry. You guys are
saying it it was a game where you had a
gun that wasn't a normal thing back then. I got
to use a gun it shouldn't the screen and it
worked perfectly. It was really well calibrated. It was amazing. Yeah,
I just I don't you guys are like, oh the oh,
this is a gimmick control where you can waggle it
like it knows what it's waggled, and when it's pointed
the screen, that's.
Speaker 2: This is an actual gun. You pulled a trigger and
it clicked. Well.
Speaker 1: We recognized the shortcomings. It just didn't matter and we
Sports at all like it didn't.
Speaker 2: Look I have clearly never been as high on WE
Sports as everybody else has come up multiple times on
various podcasts as we've been doing this, so this shouldn't
been this shocking of development.
Speaker 1: And we just fixed that any s list And you
were insistent by putting Duck on the top ten. No,
I don't think you were hmm, I don't, of.
Speaker 2: Course, not top ten s game the fiftieth best. Any
game is still better than we sports. Probably, Okay, let's
don't have that.
Speaker 1: That's not true. But in your opinion, what are we
going to do here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's not have a tuppy because the puck is
going to be two hours long. But I guess we
didn't need the topic there she's going to argue about
all right, all.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah eat ship. You all suck at worms Tokyo.
Game Life just sent eight hundred yen. Thank you so much. Anyways,
thank you so much. To thank you, they have a.
Speaker 3: Message if you click on the comment. Yeah, they forgot
to write it. I think if you clicked on the comment.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm just looking at I can't I see that?
Speaker 2: I see Okay, Yeah, thank you? We go, he says,
I'm at Nintendo Tokyo now, and alarm was so out
after day. When am we supposed to spend one hundred
bucks on?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: Just get all those gotcha controller things?
Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 2: With that, That's what I would do. Thank you took
a game with though. I think I think you found
out the way to circumvent the limits that you get
right on a super chet there. But I'll allow it
this time. Connor Wood says, shout outs to dog playing
Tetris for reaching rebirth? Is that dog playing Final Fantasy?
Now what they mean by rebirth?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, sure they might. I mean it must the
dog play through?
Speaker 2: How could that dog play through all Final Fantasy seven rebake?
Speaker 1: I mean, is it there a goldfish that beat Pokemon
or something?
Speaker 4: Guys, suck. This is a Tetris player who got the
like reset in Tetris.
Speaker 1: Nah, I'm pretty sure that one those words mean a
dog is playing Tetris.
Speaker 2: Yeah, take away from dog, I get that. But is
there a game called rebirth or that the reset?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm sorry, I'm not up on my Tetris
lingo rebirth.
Speaker 1: There's already a video game called that That was dumb.
Ta coma car disaster says, got hard cam floor seat,
So wrestle dream? Which sign should I bring? I'll tell
you what. I'm just gonna say it. It's not the
answer you want. Don't bring a sign? Yeah, I don't
bring us. So you're gonna have to carry that thing
around all day. You're gonna get people's way in front
of you.
Speaker 2: Look, if you think you have a great idea, it's
real good, then you can go for it. I don't
have I in my brain don't have anything that's gonna
be good enough that's gonna be worth the hassle for
everyone involved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bring times over, bring a giant Dan Reikert face.
Speaker 2: There you go, or you can bring a giant my face,
then I'll allow it.
Speaker 1: But otherwise no, there, Now you have some options. Char
Wolf says, we don't talk enough. How godlike Pickman four
is grub was so base for giving it his Game
of the Year. Do you think we ever get DLC
when we'll Pickment five arrive? It seems like we're past
Pickman four getting a DLC, and I don't need DLC.
I think they just take a few years, let eighteen
come back and make a Pickment five. You know, they
have a really good fundation there. I think, you know,
you just kind of uh make some uh maybe some
challenge levels to like make stuff a little bit more
difficult here or there. Yeah, they kind of nailed it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think I kind of like the idea
of Pickments being one of those one new entry per
console games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, it makes a lot of sense for that. Yes,
we don't we don't need to per console, and we
don't really need that much DLC for it either. It's
it had a ton of content. It had to all
Pickman one in there basically, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly like the Captain almostuff could have been a
DLC campaign and it wasn't there ye Benji bop Uh says,
bought my first ever season ticks for the Utah Hockey
Clubgo game is awesome, so Bolts fan first, but so
nice to see NHL games live again. I'll tell you
what if, Like, if I had a genie, one of
my wishes might be for Cleveland to get a hockey team.
Speaker 1: I would like, Yeah, that that would be fun. That
would be that would be really cool. It could the
city could definitely support it. But you know, Columbus got
it and the league still talks about expansions, so it's possible.
Although they wanted to go to Atlanta, so that's Atlanta's
had like two tries already or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and Alan with their tough super chat says,
do I get for some reason, my YouTube just closed up?
Do I get metaphor? I think is what the first
part I said. Sorry, that's been happening. My YouTube just
like suddenly crashes like mis tab and the refresh it.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Does he say something about like I get metaphor liking
ram or something like that? Is this weird?
Speaker 2: It must be because I've been having weird I must
be having some kind of weird ram leak or something
because I've been having some webcam issues on my Camera's
been on long enough to weird, right, Ali says, do
I get metaphor? Order an Abernick RG three five x
X SP?
Speaker 1: Do I get? Okay? Do I get metaphor? Or order
an Ambernick rgie? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I listen.
Speaker 1: I would. I would just get an SP if you
don't have one. But that's the old game, so I
don't know. Metaphor seems like Game of the year candidate, right, So.
Speaker 2: It depends if you like JERRPG, you should get metaphor REFRONTIZI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that sounds like a reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have any affinity for this genre. I don't
think you're gonna want to miss it, uh, Sir Ammathy
says with their first two, which I think you, Sir Ammathy,
I don't want it to be gank cube NSO through
cloud only. But if that is what it takes to
get me Star Fucks Adventures on Switch. I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Is this Sean's ault, Yeah, Thursday for Crystal.
Speaker 4: It's funy dozens of us.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, And you know, like, do you think
that has to be a solution for game Cube? Like
I know that gank Cube discs hold like one point
five gigabytes, so it would be a lot, like if
you have eight games on there, but that can start
getting big. But still it's not like unreasonably big. Look
we know from experience, it's not. They're gonna get a
lot of third party games on there, and there's a
lot of gains that have already been remade that aren't
gonna show up on there.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's why it's a test, because maybe it's
Nintendo Switch Online game Cube and they're like, you're gonna
have to manage your game files in here step from
out there, and they take up more space. So is
this kind of a pain in the ass? Does it work?
I don't know. I'm getting hopes up that it would
just be a bunch of GameCube games, so and I
know that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, we'll see it'd be so interesting
just to see what their emulator for Gimecube looks. Let
me guess we have seen their GameCube emulator already and
stuff like Super Mario All Stars, but to see more
of it, be able to compare it to dolphin things
like that, right, Big Fresh thirty seven says a lot
of streamers and YouTubers have their own skins in Fortnite.
If the Giant Bomb Crew ever got invited, what would
be your back bling and peck axe? My back bling
would probably be, like I was trying to think of
something Rby's related, just like a big RB's logo that
opens up. Yeah, just an RB's logo, like the sign
on the highways, but just on my back I'm just
advertising Arby's at all times. Then my pick axe, what
would my pick axe be? What's something Disney related? Oh?
I mean yeah, that does make some sense. So though,
it's like, I think Sore is even more associated with
the Keyboy than I am. Maybe if he's lucky.
Speaker 1: My back bling would be the dake Katana, and my
pickaxe would be a living bubbsy on a stick, and
every time you use them to open something and screams
and pain.
Speaker 3: Reverse, you will be like the guy in the bike
and like, no I did.
Speaker 1: I was like, bubbsy backpack, that's cute. And then I
was like, no, I'd.
Speaker 2: Rather hurt him, and your answers are better than I can.
You did it?
Speaker 1: Uh? I know?
Speaker 2: Welcome uh lazy Segasaurus with their first Schoper's assets first
super check in honor of Mike teeing up my wife's
voicemail today. That surprised me with the pregnancy in that Wow,
duck Hunt is a lame tech demo. Oh my god,
I was gonna fake congratulations.
Speaker 1: No, okay, lazy Snega source, that's so you can name
your child cut is the lame tech demo.
Speaker 2: Oh Jeff, you don't believe that.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I just think it's a beautiful name for a child.
I just wanted a milky.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, lazy Stegasaurus. I hope you better stop that laziness.
You have a child coming. Make get more ambitious. Fine
in the boy smail dumb truck.
Speaker 1: It's been some There's been some awesome stuff the last
couple of weeks. Divorces, child birth announcements. It's incredible. You
should go listen today's episode.
Speaker 2: I will give you behind the scenes a little bit.
At one point I got a message from back of
lar discord is like the voicemails and that are all capped.
Those ones need to be read important. That what's funny
because I assume he said the same thing today because
there was still like what ward that was capitalized? It
was dancard. He did not pick that one, so that
was a backward was like, oh what war real quick,
chef before we get to here. I don't know he
just didn't see the message or just forgot about it,
but that'd be funny.
Speaker 1: It could be a combination of both.
Speaker 2: Yep, combo of both things. Thank you and lazy take
a source. Congratulations to both you and your wife.
Speaker 1: Nick says.
Speaker 2: Mike said he would take fifty dollars to confiscate fake Id's.
Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah, he did ark. Yeah, should I disapprove why
they're trying to they know, doing something wrong? Jobs for them?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not getting the police involved. I'm
doing those favor.
Speaker 1: It is uh. And a lot of places is very like, uh, seriously,
you got to make sure you're on top of this
because you get your place shut down, that's fine. Yeah,
if it's gonna shut down, your whole restaurant, your whole bar.
You need to be on top of that stuff. That's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure if I sold alcohol to somebody underage
and then they like gone to a car accident, did
something wrong, I would be liable for that.
Speaker 1: There's there's a chance. That's fine. All that's true.
Speaker 2: Being like I'm make some money getting these kids about it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, honestly, you know me, Jeff, not really about
the money. It is what we're said about the moral superior. Okay, well,
if that's it, that's fine. You know that, you know
that that's true. It was who It was a Dan
that actually did do this, Like.
Speaker 2: No, dad said he would have, but because he worked
at a liquor store, but he was very bad at
knowing a fake ID from a real win, so he
was never able to.
Speaker 1: I never bought alcohol for kids. I did buy vape
for kids once. Oh come on, Nikki helped them get
their jewels.
Speaker 2: Now, Nicki's just sweeting. That duck cut sucks. Oh come on,
You're know a lot of same thing about that game
probably came out fifteen years before you were born. All right,
it's fighting fair, I mean.
Speaker 4: Really not beating the boomer allegations, so that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's literally what boomers say.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do anymore. I can't beat them.
I have to join them. I can't beat it. Jeff, Uh,
that's fine. You guys would never do something like yeo
at a person for for not liking a game because
it was something that they liked a lot in their childhood. Anyway, Jeff,
what did you think of that new Dragon Ball game? Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, it's it's not curt Is a single player game.
But I did have a lot of fun playing against
Sean today. That was a good time. Okay, I got
one more. I forgot one more.
Speaker 2: Mikey olriss Mike. There's a post on threads. You're tagged
and relate to the gamer Rep. Just waiting for you
to see. Jeff can a test. I'm not on threads,
so I don't know what this is.
Speaker 1: I have to go.
Speaker 2: I have to go log into threads.
Speaker 1: Now. Let me see here. You you have threads since
you have Instagram, so it will just.
Speaker 2: Right, so I technically have it. I just haven't looked
on there threads. I don't even know how to go there.
How do I get on threads not net dude, Come on,
it does.
Speaker 1: If I searched Tokota.
Speaker 2: One reason why I hate it on this because I'm
not just Tolkoto. It's like the one time I had
to use numbers for some reason. Don't know why, Like
somebody took Tolkoto, so I'm Mike Tolkoto on there.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what this thing is that I
just retweeted. Oh, I think this is when you uh
uh codecked into the giant to the voicemail dump truck
one time. I just retweeted that because I searched Tokoto
and that was the first thing that came up. All
I'm gonna go to a recent here and Stephen then
comes up. And when I searched tocode, people follow me
on here.
Speaker 2: Even though I don't use this thing that's in, people
just follow people on threads.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: My thread got oh I can't find it. Yeah, you
might say to help, because I can't find it either,
But thank you. We'll find it someday when we are
killing precious podcasting time.
Speaker 1: In Excel Entertainment followed me. Weird.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'll try to look for it during a break,
which might be happening very soon. Jeff yep weymore, the
one tagged Oh Jeff is the one I actively tagged
you in here tagged at it.
Speaker 1: Let me see how he mentions. Okay, let's see. Oh
that's right, I did see this. Okay, actually, let me
I'll just bring it up here and I'll post this
here because everyone's gonna want to see this, and then
let me get the two up and bring up the browser.
U b oh boy, that is that's a good looking
image right there, and then let me share it with
Mikey first before anything else. All right, there you go.
So it's a we moat with a orangish brown stain
along one side. Uh and so insane. Anyone cared to
hazard a guests as to where this has been. Do
you think that they took the game of wraps literally? Literally? Oh?
Speaker 2: Well no, not literally, because I said it due to
the nunchuck. Right, this is the we moat, but it
definitely looks like a ship stain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like it's been at any I'll spread
your butt and shove it, shove it up. That's that's good.
That's good.
Speaker 2: It's a good slant rhymes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I think we are good now for
a break. Okay, let's go ahead and do that now,
and so everyone can clean them clean their minds, all right,
be right back after this with a game. I think
we got a game from beef Hammer, right, so how
it goes, we'll do it right after this. We're back
and it's time for something called totally innocent game. He
he he he. I don't know what this is. So
the man going right now is going to take over
Sean Turboshawan McDowell. The floor is yours.
Speaker 4: You ever notice how Mike never just argues let me
enjoy things? His argument is always why is everyone disagree
with my very correct opinion?
Speaker 2: Good examples of that.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear that.
Speaker 4: By the way, you only wanted worms because you refuse
to play worms, Mike.
Speaker 2: I had the highest damage, don't and the most kills.
Don't want to hear it, don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: And then you stopped playing and then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, he trailed me by a worm, Mike.
I wonder how that happens.
Speaker 2: And nobody in sports ever plays defensively once they have
a lead coming real quick.
Speaker 1: I don't care about any of this. I'm starting to
get a bad feeling about what's about to happen. What
is what is this? Why do people cha it's this about? Like, oh,
can you do you remember that you reviewed this or not?
What this is?
Speaker 2: This is? What? This is?
Speaker 6: It? Jeffrey gros is dual of the beaters. Uh see,
we've hallo saga here on game mess decides where both
of you have terrible memory. So our front beef Hammer,
put together some games to test that out. Shockingly, Jeff's
memory better than Mike's. I realized you guys haven't had
a chance to talk.
Speaker 2: About I have to say, like, yeah, Jeff clearly never
watched the episode. He was it, he never glouted about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so wait in this thing here where I was like.
Speaker 4: So you know, okay, in case anyone has missed it, Uh,
we had a game where the game was here's a
list of games. Did you review this game? Jeff only
got one wrong? I got three wrong.
Speaker 1: Jesus, Mike, be sure it's not four, because when I'm
looking at this list over here in the in the rundown,
I see four red stripes here.
Speaker 4: There's if there was one that was like it was
an incomplete.
Speaker 2: I had a review in progress and.
Speaker 1: That doesn't count. All right, all right?
Speaker 4: Anyways, now we're on part three of the saga, the finale.
Who can say maybe, but Duel of the Beaters, directed
by Beef making these instead of doing his real job
Hammer executive produce and hosted by me Sean not making
these even though it's his real job. So quick explanation
of what we're doing here. Mike wasn't happy about losing
in the one time special.
Speaker 2: But no way, so.
Speaker 4: Beef decide to take on the idea of a duel
instead of doing the reviews. We're going to use your
games Beat article headlines, word for a word, maybe with
a detail admitted to not for reasons you'll see, and
you need to decide. Did Jeff write the headline, did
Mike write the headline or is it a made up
headline that never happened?
Speaker 2: This is rough, This is there's okay, we're talking about
things of stories.
Speaker 1: Guys, come on exactly.
Speaker 4: So whoever you know, you're both gonna be giving your
opinion on each You're both gonna be guessing. I never
saw one, so it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be hard because I wrote so many more stories
than Jeff, especially when you quiet quit that last year.
Speaker 1: Wait is that do you think that's actually true? Because
I have like, how many stories do you have in
the back end? Because I had like four five?
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I wrote a lot of short stories.
Speaker 1: Definitely true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, as always, Christian Track reported me. I'd appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I'll do that, thank you.
Speaker 4: All right. So headline number one, against all odds, Eldon
Ring is a real video game.
Speaker 1: This sucks to me and mic are two similar that
our our headline style got pretty there.
Speaker 4: We could we could go back and forth maybe if
you want to, like we the so the game. So Jeff,
you want to go first on this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say this was me.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what i'd guess. That's what are you both guessing?
That's a Jeff rub headline. Yeah, it is a Jeff
Rub head line. I think this is when everyone was
still bugging you about the game and you were yes,
I hear this right.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, that's something good. That was like the
beginning of this all popping off with people were thinking
Jeffrey elden Ring leaks back in the day, man, yeah a.
Speaker 4: Little bit, yeh, because this started getting traction back to
like twenty twenty. I remember is when I started listening
to you guys.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah right, it was. It was fun to go
to UH Summer game Fest that first time, that first
summer game Fest that I went to UH and talked
to some people who used to work at PR for
Bandy Namco and they're like, it was it was so
weird because you had all this stuff and it was
just like sometimes it'd be like we just changed that.
How does he know? I'm like, oh my god, it's cool,
very fun.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Uh. Speaking of throwbacks, by the way, a
few more game mess all backs in this one, I
like what Beef did here Oarticle number two. Sony's acquisition
of Bungee is a match made in Heaven.
Speaker 2: Mike, I almost feel like this is Jeff again. I
don't think that's me. I don't remember writing about this
and it doesn't super seem like one of my heads.
The other thing is we would sometimes help each other
with headlines too, like true, so sometimes the headline isn't
necessarily something we came up with. But I'm still gonna
guess Jeff on this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I remember, so, I'm like, heaven, I
would never use that word, but it probably was me
because I remember at the time being like, I can
explain why this acquisition makes sense because people aren't thinking
about it very clearly. They're like, oh, the people made
Halo and now they have Destiny and it's Sony. It's like, no,
this is about them being the live service company and
that being very important to Sony in its future. Obviously
we know how that played out, but at the time,
it was like, they're gonna be the live service. Experts
think like this sounds like me writing that story, So
I'm gonna say it was me as well.
Speaker 2: There's a part of me that wants to say it's
a fake just because it is a cliche in the
in the headline, and our editor hated that rightfully, So
you shouldn't use cliches like made in Heaven in your headline.
Speaker 1: I think that's actually maybe just as likely. But I'm
gonna go with me and we'll see what happened.
Speaker 4: We both say, Jeff, are you're both saying, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the cliche thing is a very good point though, Yeah,
it was.
Speaker 4: A good Yeah.
Speaker 2: They should have all my instincts there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I wouldn't write match made in heaven.
I would not have done put that in the headline,
No way.
Speaker 2: I just got tripped. Well that's like I wrote about that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so sheol us to be for keeping this
ancient photoshop I made years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good, all right, told you just bad YouTube
gone on YouTube.
Speaker 4: I've been having crash that on YouTube as well, especially
in Chrome. So anyways, Article number three, the headline is
Activision CEO Bobby Kottak takes pay cut ahead of earnings report.
Jeff's turn.
Speaker 1: Who I don't fucking know. I guess I guess I'll
go with Mike Manatti.
Speaker 2: I hate to be boring, just keep agreeing on these,
but I do think I wrote this one. I would
often help out with Actvision earnings reports. Sometimes I would
write the main story on those, and yeah, so this
might have been one. Although Dean often interviewed Bobby Kottick
ahead of the earnings reports too, so he would know.
So party's like, I want to Dean have just written this,
but he might have had a longer story and then
gave this as a breakout for me. So I'm still
gonna guess me.
Speaker 4: Okay, keep in mind the only three options. Well, there's
no trick here. The only three options are Jeff, Mike,
or made up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, so you're saying it to.
Speaker 2: You, Mike, I think it's me also, and Jeff you're
saying I think it's Mike.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're both agreeing on Mike and actually okay, never mind. Damn,
when was that written. It's not that long ago.
Speaker 1: What the fuck?
Speaker 4: A lot of these are a time Yeah, yep. Article
number four PlayStation five has the best launch line up
this century?
Speaker 2: This one I think is actually I shouldn't say definitely
because the Jeff's gonna agree, But that looks like me.
That's also featured image. I like to stio. I like
to use my headlines a lot. Sometimes I made those
through other people, though, but I was I was pretty
high on the PS five launch without a lineup, but
I was pretty good. So I think I did put
that into words on a story, and that does sound
like a matter of fact headline I would write.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's definitely not me, because again, I don't
think I would say best launch line up this century.
It feels like I don't think I would write that way.
Speaker 2: Why do you think it's bad?
Speaker 1: Yes, No, I don't think it's bad. I just say,
I just know it's not the way I would write.
I'll have to I'll have to go with Mike. He's
too confident. You're right, Mike, you shouldn't have said it
that way.
Speaker 2: I should have. I should have been a goober, been
a little more coy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little more coy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I should have been a little more coy.
Speaker 2: Definitely wrote on YEP twenty twenty baby baby toy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when I came out article number five, RBS will
have sonic kids meal toys. Uh jes pick.
Speaker 1: I don't remember writing this, but I so it's either
And I'm like, maybe Mike would have picked this up
that we have.
Speaker 4: This picture of you guys busted out the meat swetzer
the first time.
Speaker 2: Yes, I used that picture for a long time. I
look so happy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it could be made up or
you know, I'll just say I wrote it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, Mike, Oh, mikey takes the lead, everybody,
I won a million percent wrote this story. I remember
it well because I was just like, uh, fuck you all.
I'm writing this because I think it's funny and yeah,
this is me any way, you know, to look at them.
Speaker 4: What even is this?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's like it's like two uh it's
still is.
Speaker 4: It a disc shooter? And they're just like, no.
Speaker 2: It's just those discs. It looks like the bad pieces
of a lazy board game, right, like the pieces you'd
move around. That's it.
Speaker 1: They definitely had like those disc shooters for other toys that.
Speaker 4: Love the disc I'm saying a little yeah, the extend
a little bit.
Speaker 2: It's like two POGs like glue to each other with
pictures of Sonic fat ass white girls, fat ass white girls.
Speaker 4: Okay, I turned that one off. Sonboard actually need to
make yeah, uh all right, Mike does take the lead.
Then Oracle number six PlayStation owners alone can no longer
satisfy Sony's needs.
Speaker 2: I think that's either made up or Jeff um. I
try to think Jeff would have written about this before
he left, though, is the thing is that really was? That?
Was that as a much of concern in like twenty
twenty two can no longer satisfy Sony's needs. I think
that this is right. I think this is a fake.
I think Beef wants me to think that Jeff wrote this,
But I think it's a big old, fat, fake tied up.
Speaker 1: I definitely wrote this chait.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he definitely wrote this.
Speaker 1: Night's featured image of the days. Gon there ye nice yep,
fat ass white god.
Speaker 4: Right back alright. Article number seven, Your Breath of the
Wild two theories are too interesting to be true?
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Me?
Speaker 4: It's odd? So yeah, it's you, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I'm uh what do you think? Mike?
Speaker 2: Tell me I'm playing the game wrong.
Speaker 1: If I don't tell you, yeah, your wind doesn't matter,
I'm gonna go with made.
Speaker 2: Up Okay, Mike, I one million remember this headline. This
is a real story. So if Jeff doesn't remember it
that badly, I'm gonna guess that I must. I think
I did wreck this one, then, yeah, I think I Yeah,
I think I wrote this one. I think I remember
thinking all the fan theories were stupid and probably not really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you did think that ship and I was right.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought this up because God, I was
so right about all that too. That's nice all right,
So it's mikey uf one, I believe, oh baby.
Speaker 4: Article eight U We Saw promises no more delays for upcoming,
upcoming titles and better launches.
Speaker 2: Processes, no more delays for update sounds, because they delayed
so many things around this time, and we haven't had
a made up one in a while.
Speaker 4: I think that might be the joke beef Hammer is
going for here, Like maybe one of you guys used
in the article, is that were these books or something.
Speaker 2: That might be? But no, I think it's made up.
Speaker 4: You think it's made up? Okay, Jeff, I.
Speaker 1: Think there's a good chance it's made up. But I
do remember like having like like writing about this sort
of thing at the time. But maybe let me let
me think here, you promises no more delays, stroken titles
and better launches. God man, we wrote so many stories
that could just be anything to try to catch up.
I'll say I wrote.
Speaker 4: It, all right, So Mike's saying made up and you
said you wrote it? Yeah, mikey up another point.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it's not that surprise. Yeah, definitely not surprised
that that had the ring of it. But I was
hoping maybe I get lucky.
Speaker 4: I had the ring of beef Hammer writing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely Capcom design.
Speaker 4: Yeah, article number nine quitting Haites Cold Turkey is gonna
be hell. Jeff, Hmmm, it's good headline by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it couldn't have been us.
Speaker 2: Maybe it must have been me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, quintin Hades Cold Turkey is going to be hell.
I mean, I don't know. If I don't, I will
say I'm probably could be wrong. But it doesn't feel
like a Mikey headline. But I don't remember writing this.
Why would anyone have to quit Hades Cold Turkey? I
don't because it was an early access maybe uh, and
I don't. I'm I'm gonna go with made up Okay.
Speaker 2: I am pretty sure Jeff did write this. I remember
him going on about quitting Haites Cold Turkey. It'd be like,
why just play as much as he's like, no, I
have to just stop because something's happening. It's like I
just gotta play other games. It's like, okay, whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this was Jeff. Could very bro well
be true?
Speaker 4: All right, the correct answer is you're both wrong.
Speaker 2: Wait, why did I have to quit It Cold Turkey?
Speaker 4: I remember this? I think I remember this. I think
other stuff was coming out, that's right, because this was
October twenty twenty. Yeah, to lead into like new consoles
and stuff. I think I remember you talking about this
on games.
Speaker 2: I'm so cough shit, I got the I got some
of the details. Right, here's wrong? All right, all right?
Speaker 4: We got oracle number ten, Fox and Friends' host calls
for registry of gamers.
Speaker 2: God, I feel like Jeff would have been waiting. I
don't think I say a chance this one's me. Jeff
was pretty intude of politics at this time. I would
have picked up on this stuff. Uh yeah, I think
he's I think he's distanced himself for but a little bit,
just for mental health reasons. Uh could be made up,
could well be made up. But I think Jeff wrote
this one.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: The pictures throw me off because like, is this this
is this is not related? Yeah yeah, picture of related
right there, you're talking about the sight.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It just throws me off when I kind of pick
it my head. Yeah, I think there's a good chance
I wrote this. Uh so, and I'm afraid to fall
further behind when that, like the odds seems so likely
that I did, so I'll say I wrote it.
Speaker 4: Okay, what did Mike lock in me? I said, Jeff,
are you you're both saying Jeff yeah, sing Jeff? Yeah, yeah,
you're both right?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Back in twenty thirteen, though.
Speaker 1: Baby Okay, Boxing Friends, Holy Shit.
Speaker 4: Article number eleven. Loud Man yells until Bugs snacks studio
as trophies to its DLC.
Speaker 1: Jeff, Uh, I feel like Mike doesn't care about bug snacks.
So it's either me or made up. But what the
hell does any of this mean? I think I'll go
with me. I don't know, Mike.
Speaker 2: I did review Bugs next. I remember this. Yeah, They're
like the DLC just didn't have trophies and somebody on
Twitter complained about it and then they got added. Uh.
I feel like it might be somebody we know. I'm
excited to find out now. But yeah, I think this
was me.
Speaker 4: Okay, So Jeff is saying Jeff, Mike is saying Mike. Correct,
it's finny. I remember very exactly what this is about.
Just when I saw the headline about Greg Miller.
Speaker 2: Greig Miller.
Speaker 4: Face.
Speaker 2: I remember the story so well. I was like, it
must be me fight. Why would I care about Jeff's story?
Are we tied again?
Speaker 1: You want? Okay?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay? Our cole Number twelve. Google has the power
to make Stadia a success.
Speaker 2: Mike, Oh, I would not if I wrote that story.
It was under duress, because God, I never believed in
Stadia Jeff might have though we just had Jeff.
Speaker 1: How many do we have left?
Speaker 4: I remember how many are loved?
Speaker 2: All right, that's good.
Speaker 4: I can pull out.
Speaker 2: It's for it seems so generic that I feel like
it could be made up. I'm gonna say made up shit.
Speaker 1: I was hoping you would say me so I could
say made up because I feel like it's probably made up.
I think you're probably right, but I mean, what choice
do I have because we don't know how many are left,
so I gotta try to catch up. And there was
a chance I wrote this.
Speaker 2: There's a chance I wrote a chance. I was just
a sign Dad, And I was like, all right, whatever,
do my job.
Speaker 1: I feel like you would have been you would have
let more of your skepticism into the headline, I think
than googleised. I mean, I'll say I wrote it, and
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: Okay, you said you wrote.
Speaker 2: It, Yeah, although if I could.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to be clear, I think it's made up,
but I have to say I wrote it for this
point that could try to catch up.
Speaker 4: It's made up. He goes up naro one, he is
up two points. Ye, fuck you Article thirteen A couple more. Uh,
why am I excited for Glover? Jeff?
Speaker 1: When did this happen?
Speaker 2: It's a good headline, wrote, I've big dreams. I want
to read this story.
Speaker 1: Well, if it's a good headline, it was probably me,
then I'm gonna luck in me.
Speaker 4: Okay, Mike, I think it's me.
Speaker 2: I think that they probably announced the remaster or something,
and I'm like, yeah, Glover. Even though I know I
don't really like Clever that much, I still have some
fondness for it.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason.
Speaker 2: I think it was me.
Speaker 4: Okay, it was.
Speaker 2: That's what one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was talking about the Glover back then.
Speaker 2: That's a good picture to look.
Speaker 1: I want to play on Glover right now. Yeah, and
the PlayStation Clever. I played it after this and it
fucking sucks. But the sixty four ones kind of.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is like, it's just like the last story
you wrote. Abs.
Speaker 4: So if I'm not mistaken, that means Mike is right. Yes, shit,
oh we had the final headline. Here are very serious
obituary for Mario. Mike.
Speaker 2: I wish I was if I okay, just Jeff, if
I was going second the time, I just said, what
you said, would that be like the worst thing that
you yell at me?
Speaker 1: Yes, we like what choice because if you know, you know, right,
it's that thing again. Oh here's the thing.
Speaker 4: You don't know.
Speaker 2: You remember this headline? I think, I think I remember
this headline.
Speaker 1: And I.
Speaker 2: Is this a true question? Because you can have co
authors on the word pressing the user games me. We
didn't do it very often, and I feel like this
is one of the times where we actually took like
a segment from the podcast and turned it into a story.
We did that a few times back in the day.
So right, because there's a whole thing where Jeff was
going to kill Mario for some reason, or Mario was
going to die. I was the day that they stopped
selling uh the Mario three D All Stars or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, but I don't know. Jeff might have written it.
I might written I'm gonna be too clever with the
two author things. I'm just gonna say it was me.
Speaker 1: Uh, okay, to have a chance to tie it up,
I'll say it's me. But Mike, if it's both you,
of course you win, and you win by a million points.
That's such an inspired thing. That's a chance if that's true,
you won by a million points. But I'll say it
to me. If it was the podcast, I think I'm
usually one that posts the podcast, so I think that's
probably why it was.
Speaker 4: I see. The correct answer is it was Mikey.
Speaker 2: Wow, I remember making that picture. Now look at that.
Speaker 4: Wow two points.
Speaker 1: Well done.
Speaker 4: Shout out this article of that Jeff wrote, I'll never
forgive whoever killed this zardas video game man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is even later that Glover.
Speaker 1: Was very much in.
Speaker 2: Not beating the quiet quitting gun.
Speaker 4: Absolutely so, yeah, we're gonna only look at the gift
on the left there of the like Winny we well.
Speaker 1: Uh, that was fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at that's us at Dan at Dan Reikerts
for Extra Life.
Speaker 1: That's fun. I don't remember this. I wonder what I
was doing.
Speaker 2: Right, that's gonna fun. We can say that now, I think,
by the way, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be a dance for Extra Life. What's the
dates on that?
Speaker 2: No, remember November second, when we're gonna get in on
the first. Oh yeah, Sewn, are you gonna be there too?
Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone's gonna be at dance this year.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be Yeah, Kayla's going Dan, sister, It's gonna
be great.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna meet you guys in person for them
the wild.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you to sit down the whole time
so you won't be too much top two inches, Yeah,
there's a two You don't want to take any pictures
of me? Yeah, very excited. We're gonna like, we're gonna
have some fun. We're gonna ask people to donate a
lot of money. We are going to have an incentive
that's gonna be a lot of fun. So you're gonna
want to tune in give me. There's gonna be some
good stuff there. Uh So, yeah, definitely, we'll make all
that happen. It will be a good time. All right,
let's take one last quick break. We'll come back, we'll
catch up on any super chats that may have come in,
and we'll talk about what we've been playing. All right, everybody,
game mess decides continues. Let's talk about what we've been playing.
Uh me, Mike, it's the game I've been talking about
a lot recently, Zelda. Still trying to get some momentum
back with that because it's I got busy this week,
had a lot going on, but I did pick up
some more momentum. Last night, got through the dungeon I
had been working on, and now I'm exploring another area
that I actually explored a lot earlier, and so it
was like fun to like go there and be like, Okay,
now I can actually like do some stuff there because
some things have have been have changed, and it was
fun to be like, Okay, well I've been here, I
know how to do this, and I've already unlocked some
fast travel points. It just feels like I am kind
of the master of this world a little bit. And it's,
uh yeah, continues to be a very good game.
Speaker 2: But are you like guaring the end?
Speaker 1: You think I think I'm getting through the next major
section and then I think that will set Like I'm
most of the way through the second segment of the game,
it feels like, and then I think there will be
a finale after that that might be pretty robust.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, I haven't made the play a time.
I hate being in these situations where like I like
to play through games and then move on to the
next one. Yeah, yeah, so like I hate that. I'm
like I got Metaphor and Zelda and it's like I'm
kind of playing more Metaphor than Zelda right now, but
I don't want to be like playing no Zelda, so
like one of these nights this week and I want
to do some Zelda instead of Metaphor again, but just
like pressure to play Metaphor and it. You know, Zelda's great,
but I like Metaphor more so it is what I'd
rather be play playing. So it's a little messy.
Speaker 1: There, yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Silent Hill too. You've been playing that as well
in stream? How's that going?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I started it yesterday. I played like a good
three and a half hour, so really got pretty deep
into it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I played the original Sound Hill two. I played the
Xbox version of It's like in two thousands that I
remember remember Squadron Shame that the one up.
Speaker 1: Radio course group. Oh my god. Really it was one
of our games.
Speaker 2: So that's why that's why I played it back then,
because that's normally, especially then, not my thing, right, But yeah,
I played it then. It was so funny because I
got that Xbox version probably like five bucks at a
game stop at the time when those games were just
old and not collectible whatsoever. I don't remember a ton
about it. But playing through this remake, it is like, yeah,
I remember this stuff. This does feel pretty faithful. It
also just feels good, like it's clear that they did
a good job. The game looks good, it plays well.
It still kind of has that. There's a simplicity to
Silent Hill in some ways. Right, there's not a whole
lot of mechanics per se. You know, when there's enemies
you're kind of beating on them or you're shooting them.
You have limited AMMO for that, of course, and there's
a lot of exploration and puzzle solving. It is almost
more about that mood, that atmosphere, and it seems to
be doing a pretty good job of nailing that. So yeah,
it's been an enjoyable play through so far.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear it. It looked cool when you were
playing it, And I don't know if it looks like
super my thing, but I'm gonna try it, especially since
I hear it runs so well on the Steam deck.
Speaker 2: Right, it's not exactly like a talkie game per se. No,
you are mostly playing the game, but like calling it
a dewey game is also maybe not entirely entirely accurate.
It's not Resident Evil even like the quote unquote like
scary you're slower Resident Evils. There's not it's not as
gameplay involved as that. I would say.
Speaker 1: It seems. Yeah, it seems kind of borderline between dewey
and not talking but not dewey. So right, that's why
I'm That's exactly the feeling I was get was like,
is this something I'm going to enjoy? But everyone seems
to like it so much, and I'm I'm willing to
get myself over to the traumatic horror that it's trying
to convey. So yeah, Maybee, maybe I'll get something out
of it.
Speaker 2: I will say, like I did, like the kind of
iconic like you know, uh the pyramid Head scene they
do stumble up bit there, they kind of do the
thing where it's like, well, now we know that this
moment's famous, so they kind of try to spice it
up a little bit. The ways they did that were
kind of dumb. I think it's a small thing, but yeah,
just work bring me up. Maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gotta be gotta be difficult to be in
charge of, Like how do we like emphasize the gravitas
of the situation without overdoing it? That's got to be
difficult to be in that way.
Speaker 2: You could just be found Fisty seven Rebirth and just say,
oh wait, we got to that moment. Let's just be
fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: I guess, hey, I that's the thing I most respect
about Final Fantasy seven remake and rebirth is let's go
fucking crazy. So nuts, Yes, that's that's very cool. Anything else, Mike,
I did play dragon Ball Sparking zero.
Speaker 2: You know, I kind of joking around a little bit,
but yeah, it didn't super pull me. I don't I
showed up. Do not like the story mode really much
at all, and I maybe need to play more of it.
But it was something in the PS two era that
I was kind of tired of, like all these dragon
Ball Z games where the single player content is just
a kind of bad retelling of dragon Ball sees story.
But with these in game cinematic and sometimes not even that,
sometimes a still picture of the in game character mall
is doing things. So you know, I would have preferred
they did something like Fighter Z or whatever you call
where it's a new story with these characters. Kind Of
hard to do that because the whole thing here is
supposed to be like it's one big dragon Ball party
and there's a million characters, and I do love that stuff.
I love that giant roster. I even like that I
have to unlock some of the characters. I like doing
things like that, you know, even just going through the
list of characters, like there are some deep cuts, like
there's people from the bad Guy from Tree of Might
and the bad guy from World's Strongest, like some of
those movies that aren't Canning and from Before Go can
even turn Super SAand I think only I like, I'm like, oh,
let's seat that they're there. That kind of makes me
want to play the game more to unlock them. I
didn't really get enough time to either grock the fighting
games systems or accept that they are relatively simple, right,
I couldn't tell if I was missing things or if
it really is just kind of what it appears to be.
Probably a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, as Sean was saying that when we
were doing our stream today, it's it's paper rock scissors,
and there is some it's paper rock scissors, and then
like they dress it up a lot, like but it's
not like they're dressing up by giving you a ton
to do within those systems. It's just it's simple. It
is simple. I want once you start like, okay, I'm
going to actually charge up my key and use my
ultimate special power. And it looks super cool and it
does the thing where it's like, okay, it's it's blinding
the screen with this white light and you just see
this black and white etched outline of the character you
attacked as they scream, and all that stuff looks really cool.
And knowing you're doing that to your friend and it's
this cut scene. I think that was fun. But I
think it's very I think it's fun in a party
game or just having a good time, maybe sitting around
fucking around setting. I don't. To me, I have a
hard time understanding people who are like, I'm gonna go
play ranked mode online. But I know there are people
who do, and I know they enjoy it. It's just
hard for me to like link that bridge from where
I'm at to where they're at. And I don't. I
don't begrudge them having their good time.
Speaker 2: And I have not played this with another human yet,
and maybe you know that would be something that would
kind of appeal to me more. But you know, there's
a lot of fighting games that I already like playing
with humans that maybe I would rather do that. But
you know, people are clearly very excited about this game,
and look clear like that's the whole thing of this
game is as a successor to the budakait and Kaichi
series what it was called, which was very much the same.
And I didn't like those games back then. So this
isn't the most shocking thing in the world to me,
that this isn't super up my alley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, little annoyed that you're gonna get the Open Critics
score for it's eight. It's back up to an eighty three.
I think I went eighty one and you went eighty
two and completely forgot I picked this up. Yeah no, no,
not for that though. For the Metacritic guessing game A message,
A guess, A message for that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, right, yeah, you're good, good good.
Speaker 1: Yeah at eighty two and I was at eighty one
and it was it went down eighty two. I'm like,
it might still keep going down because it is kind
of a you know, a high seventies in my opinion.
But I think most like there's so many people who
have been waiting for this game to be exactly what
it is to them. It is everything that these reviews
are saying. It is so sure sure, And there's a
lot of dragon Ball fans or dragon Ball is very
nation these days, so you know, I'm like a lot
of it's like, hey, how much you like dragon Ball?
Speaker 2: Look at how much dragon Ball there is. I don't
like mean that to sound belittling. There's a ton of
things like that for me where I get excited hear
that kind of stuff, So I get it.
Speaker 1: Yep, I get it too. And then you know, and
again going back to it, me and Sean just kind
of were messing around when when we were fighting against
each other, and it was that was just as fun
as if we were like maybe taking it seriously. We
were let's I'll pick these three dumb characters, mister Satan
and let's see what he's like. And I don't like
I might if I were to play this game a bunch,
I might never pick mister Satan again because he can't fly.
He's a joke character. He punches people. He at least
he punched beerus and nothing happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah it wasn't one super literally nothing happened, which is
pretty funny.
Speaker 1: It's funny. Yeah, it's a good time. But it's like, again,
I think it's so fun and you have some dragon
Ball or some friends who are dragon Ball fans come over.
You happen to have this game, you play it for
a few hours before you're going to go out to
the bar or whatever. I gets ideal for that, sure,
absolutely beyond that. I don't know what its legs are,
but there's a ton of modes and a ton of
stuff to them lock your right, so maybe they'll be
happy with it.
Speaker 4: I do think that's that's why people like is because
it's a different kind of fighting game. Sure, but it
represents fighting games from before everyone just cared about ranked mode,
about being e sports and everything. It's just a dumb time.
People just want to like fuck around with their friends.
It's like it's kind of like Smash in that way
where Smash has a highest skills you where you can't
play it competitively, you can't play it by like tournament
rules and everything like that. This game you can as well,
but it's when you play it as it's more intended
to be played, where it is just fucking around with
your friends, maybe getting a couple of beers and you
just play for a couple of hours or whatever. That
I think that's what people want. They just want to
see either the characters they love so much doing dumb
shit on screen and like people can go watch that
stream if they want of us playing and us just
popping off or like, oh that thing is that? Like
that's that's dumb. I love that. Yeah, Hey, I think
we could use a little bit more of that in
a variety of games, like fighting games could could use
a little bit more fun sometimes I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is exactly and you get to play Chauzi
and that's fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's better or worse than duck Hunts.
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, might have to play one of these games.
I think I would have a better time today with
a drag and ball sparking zero. Sure, yeah, all right,
anything else should clean up before we get out of here.
We've got a few more super chests. I know we
have super chests, but I mean.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so we got to clean up
that we mote maybe, but.
Speaker 3: Mike far Into are you so many hours?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm like ten hours. So like I'm doing some
of the calendar stuff. After the first big dungeon and
kind of like, first, what I like here is again
Persona like you could kind of like go back to
the dungeon to maybe clean some stuff up, or in
Persona five, you went to whatever that was called that
other dungeon all the time, and here it was like
some other place. I went to fort Site, So yeah,
that's it, amntos And he was like, go to this
other dungeon if you want to. It's like optional, but
not really like, you know, very important optional. So that
was fun stuff to do in the middle of there,
and I'm I'm walking more jobs and his characters are
really cool and I'm excited to get more of them.
Still just feel you don't need I feel big time.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're kind of the odd one out here, Chris.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm forty hours in and I like it.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: I started liking it like three hours in. It's not
like it's only I got to like whatever people plot
twists talking about. I don't think I got to appload
twist yet, but I started loving it with like now
I like it. I like it a lot now, but
like I wasn't feeling it for like thirty yeah, because
I was talking to you before. You seem not into it.
I've heard some of the people say that I was.
I was into it pretty early on, Like I was
like very into it pretty early on.
Speaker 2: I've heard that people say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I heard people saying that it's like a
plot twism, Like I think I know what I'm talking
about is for like telegraph, but I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was because I don't heard's best.
I don't know if it's a plotchi or just some
sort of mechanic opening up, but something I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something happens, and people it's like when that happens
is like, yeah, I'm like I like it now, So
whatever's happened is about to happen, I'm probably gonna like
it even more so, like I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 2: The party's not even sure if they even mean it's
something big happens. It's just like after thirty hours it
all started clicking. I don't know, Yeah, I don't know.
You are you still in the first town, Mike, the
first city? Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty pretty early, like.
Speaker 4: The thing that happens that is extremely cool, I think, uh,
I don't think this will give anyway anything away by
saying this, there's a thing in this game. There's a
plot point that turns the game into the amazing race,
and it's the coolest fucking thing they could have done
in a fantasy world. Like I'm like, oh, that's really
that's okay, that's an interesting twist on I think that's
very typical of RPG.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm like not shocked it's going there because
i can kind of see how it happens.
Speaker 4: Okay, are you gonna be on that podcast tomorrow, Mike.
Speaker 2: Or I don't know, because, like I said, I'm still
just I'm still just the ten hours in, right, and
I know, like there's so much more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm gonna be the least far into it,
at like a little over twenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I might let you all take care. I'll
hang around Chad. Maybe right, annoying things, but uh oh
they they they people really know is that I think
it's fantastic.
Speaker 4: People are interested in hearing my thoughts on it. Uh yeah,
we'll be on the BombCast tomorrow, me, Jan and some
of the people talking.
Speaker 3: About I still don't like the fucking things you had
to do, like around the fucking ship. I've just got
to say that. Anah right, I just don't like that.
Speaker 2: It's the activities.
Speaker 3: I'm not a fan, but like the people in the writing,
it's really fucking tough nut shit. So like that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Uh all right, Jeff, you ready for the super Chats?
Oh you really have to disassociate that much. Because we
were talking about a j RPG for five minutes.
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything exactly.
Speaker 3: What what game were we watching? Were you watching?
Speaker 1: I was getting I was actually also getting sad about
the Yeah, the Red Wings they're fuck They played well,
but the goaltending sucked real bad. And then I was
also looking to see it's like because Nick and Chat
said his Alarmo just shipped. I guess it comes out
in twenty twenty five for normies, but if you order it,
if you have the Nintendo Expansion Pass, you can order
it now.
Speaker 2: You scared me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I guess ours is coming soon. We'll see Okay?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are you ready for these super Chets?
Speaker 1: I guess so? Or anything about metaphor really, you're really
be a bit Mike.
Speaker 2: It's up.
Speaker 1: No, I'm like thissen you guys talk about it I'm
gonna listen to the podcast.
Speaker 3: I'll let you about this pregnancy. You know I'm not
gonna let you talk shit about this game.
Speaker 2: Okay, you gotta stop.
Speaker 7: Oh now you're a big defender. Fuck off, you were
on my side, Christian. I thought I had an ally.
Speaker 2: I think I don't think it's up ten.
Speaker 3: I think it's a nine.
Speaker 2: You know, but I still.
Speaker 1: No. I want to like this game. I'm still gonna
try it, but uh, you know, it was a little
boring when you guys are talking. Yeah, you're right, we.
Speaker 2: Need to play words again. How did it feel your
fucking Tigers lost? Piece of shit?
Speaker 1: Not great? And then fucking Barret Courtney's giving me ship
on Twitter first time. Now that you guys are somewhat back,
we're all back, baby, We're Trek Scouble is gonna see
to that.
Speaker 2: How Grugg says this duck hut in the game mess
Hall of Fame. No, look, in some ways, this is
more about how I think we Sports is overrated than
how much I like duck Hunt. To be clear, I
know you all don't like hearing that either, right, because.
Speaker 1: It's like it could be overrated and you could still
recognize it's a better game than Duck Hunt.
Speaker 2: Cody Bishop says, do you play costume quests on Giant
Bomb for Halloween?
Speaker 1: That's a I think a pretty good idea. Let me
take a look at the calendar and see if that's possible.
We really are going to try to get more spooky, fun,
scary games on the site in the next week or so.
Speaker 2: You know what, maybe it is that was pretty good
at duck Hunt. I was pretty good at duck Hun. Jess, Yeah,
you're pointing to I mean, I shoot a lot. Oh
you can miss, buddy, They're moving. Those are moving targets.
Speaker 4: Like a light bulb. Is good at duck Hunt was
the point.
Speaker 2: Okay, you guys. Look, if you guys are this upset
about me, we don't even have to talk about it.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I mean, lots of people were good
at duck Hunt. I hate Mike.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: I was very hut. Mike O'Leary says, finally tried Oreo
coke and somehow it just tastes like vanilla coke from
when it launched twenty or two thousand and two. Win. Nonetheless,
it's vanilla coke that old now, I guess that's right.
I guess that's right.
Speaker 1: What year was in two thousand and two? Cheese too?
Speaker 2: Vanilla coke?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Man, you're after I graduated time ago. Okay.
Speaker 2: When I was a little kid, I put the like
g on right to the TV. But eventually I didn't
need to do that anymore. Oh yes, I was a
crack shot.
Speaker 1: Everyone did that. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. You know.
Speaker 2: It's a game you had to play with their hands,
kind of game for babies.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: He has the city's out of the playoffs. I'm afraid
so that Uh that does it for the podcast. Now, job,
I'm good to look. I'm sorry, everyone's real mad at me.
I gotta like, do I gotta some come up ins here?
I don't like being the heel this much. I didn't
mean for this to happen. I was just out here
being myself.
Speaker 1: That the people were saying that that, like, look how
much he enjoys being the heel, And I'm like, you know,
that's not what this is. He likes to win this much,
but he would also want people to recognize how good
he is.
Speaker 2: That's what he cares, that's what he wants. He doesn't
want to be the heel. I don't want to be
the heel. I'm just like, wow, look everybody I want.
Isn't that great? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is this what everybody wanted? Is what he said?
Speaker 2: Look I get it, I understand man. Yeah, I'll get
notes ap apology.
Speaker 1: Ready, divorce Cougar went the forced week. Yeah, we will divorce.
We go ahen divorce Cougar. Don't you worry.
Speaker 2: When a lot of points are divorced.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think we could get out of here. This
show is off the rails enough already. Anything else we
got to catch up on. Those were all the super chats, right,
that's it. I think we're done. Now we can enjoy
that weekend. We got baseball on Saturday, bade on Saturday.
Oh real quick, Let's figure out a bet, all right, yeah,
I don't know, come up with something.
Speaker 2: How about the loser has to buy the other person
that Kansas City brisket things from from dancing.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a fantastic idea. All right, yeah, yeah, deal, deal, deal, deal,
we'll do that. Like we want to set a dollar
amount or just the uh just the burn ends whatever,
that's just then that works for me. All right, great,
that's fantastic Casey Joe's burnends on the line on Saturday,
Tarror schoogle you heard it here.
Speaker 2: Yes, now you gotta, I think your favorite because you
got your sight. You the supposed on winner here.
Speaker 1: It's one game. Anything can happen, right game.
Speaker 2: Anything happened any given Saturday.
Speaker 1: When this game started, your guys picture was throwing everything
except for strikes.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, this is it's all over, And then
I was good for a while there.
Speaker 1: It wasn't looking good and it's like, but you know,
the game has to still be played, and enough things
went wrong that it's we lost it, and you guys
definitely played well. All right, thanks everybody for listening. Me
and Mike will be back next week with last than
Atten Dogs Game Mess decides. Of course, if you're interested
in catchers elsewhere, we will we have Blake Club to
Blake Club tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, when will we doing that? Is it three?
Speaker 1: It's that a lot pretty It's pretty jam packed because
like we're doing uh, they're gonna do BCR right after
game Mess mornings, and then we're doing Blake Club right
after that. So I think, yeah, it's all back to
back to back tomorrow, it'll be a fun day, looking
forward to it. Yeah, clumb Ros is out everybody if
you are, Yeah, it's right for podcast producers, so get
on that. It's in the A cast feed, right, Chris,
And that's how that works.
Speaker 3: Still and on the discord if you remember, right, if
you just.
Speaker 1: Want a Champ three file on the discord, that was
that was a good fun episode. It was Colombo in London.
So if you want to hop in down and get
on an event episode, this was definitely an event episode.
I don't know anything else, Mike. You guys got a
new nineties Disney coming up? Well, you did want earlier
this month? You got want to come out soon?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Riskers down Under came out. We'll do no one
around the fifteenth col Hi.
Speaker 1: Everybody have a good wat to take care of yourself.
Speaker 3: Goodbye fucking dot com, Get the fuck out.
Speaker 1: If you.
Speaker 3: Ever want to duck.
Speaker 8: Hated, oh yeah, go take pictures of the northern lights.
Speaker 1: Aurora Borealis, Yeah, Aurora Barrialice, my Dixie wrecked.
Speaker 2: It's hard, Jeff, it's hard. It's so long trying to
put it in there.
Speaker 4: There's the whole thing down.
Speaker 5: Sorry, thank you to the right there we go to
the the gamer wrap.
Speaker 1: That's right. It was the extraction director and that's I
love extraction.
Speaker 3: All right, it's gonna get a little bit wonky. Let
me see becaues like this cord is sucking up. I'm
gonna change the server, so give me one second, okay, regally, Oh.
Speaker 1: All right, the scord has been fine for me, Christians,
so again, I mean, I hope it fixes it because
like you're I know you're on your side.
Speaker 3: I'm back, and it seems this better now since I
changed the server and.
Speaker 1: You you know, we got the Aurora borealis happened right now?
Maybe that's you.
Speaker 3: Your camera looks kind of blurry on the stream little yeah,
no shifts.
Speaker 4: Its blurry earlier today two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well I could just touch it.
Speaker 3: Usually better, you go, that's better?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, usual when that happened to the screen. Okay,
all right, there we back.
Speaker 3: All right, break while you're setting up, I'm gonna restart
the internet. It's gonna take like a minute.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Okay, do your thing, spread your butt, shove it up.
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 2: Uh, that's the big deal. If you see a pig,
your best.
Speaker 3: Not all right, everybody, I'm restarting the internet. This is
a solo time for me, my own thoughts, waiting until
this catches up a long ass time. Mm hmm. I'm
pretty sure that we're talking about showing nun checks up
their assets, so we're not losing a lot of content.
Don't worry about it. Ummm yeah, still restarting, all right,
I have internet. The Internet is back. That was pretty fast. Actually,
oh no, the internet. Oh my router is back up.
This is This is quality content for everybody who stands
waits until the end to listen to this, I should.
I'll applaud you because, like h I would tune out
by now. All right, I had the internet is not
coming back. Oh it's not. This is not good like
people say, it's no when no but English, Oh that's
not always the best. All right, taking a little bit
longer than I expected. So you know, we could having
dual internet, you have two different connections. Man, that would
be a pro moved. All right, they're coming back. Oh
I think I'm back. Let me see I am back.
There we go some beautiful I just did some beautiful
only audio content for everybody. Check it out on the
podcast on the on the you catch your them. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 4: Here we go?
Speaker 1: Yes, we are set up and ready to go.
Speaker 3: I am ready to It looks like my lace no longer.
There the normal delay.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 4: You are recording again.
Speaker 1: You never stopped. Apparently I never got you just reset
the internet, not as computer. Oh okay, gotcha, Okay, here
we go.
Speaker 3: All right, break.
Speaker 2: Drink?
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: The Player one podcast does this thing where they have
to take their old reviews and then they take out
all the identifying words and that people have to still guess,
like what the review was U. I think that that
could be fun sometime beef Hammer, if you ever get
bored at work and you want to do something like that.
They basically they just take like an excerpt, like the
last paragraph or the first prep paragraph.
Speaker 4: I'd done.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It's really interesting for like the EGM reviews because those
words those reviews were like one hundred words maybe sometimes,
and so it's like it's basically impossible if you take
out anything that identifies the game.
Speaker 4: That's what I did when we had Jordan Minor on
Jeopardy and we did the Game of the Year segment
right because I took a bunch of reviews and then
I just blanked out Dad dat fires.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, that was good stuff. And then I feel
like Dan's got like, what like one thousand reviews, a
couple thousand reviews or something like that. Probably he might
have more than that, a bunch.
Speaker 4: Of like shovel wear reviews from yeah, two thousands.
Speaker 1: Right when he was writing for the paper and doing
multiple reviews a week or whatever. We should do that
to them. Beef Hammersis may have also had that idea. Okay, yeah,
I mean ideas. Absolutely would love to make something like
that happen'd be. I appreciate it, Beef. That stuff is
a really good time. Thanks for doing that, man, yep,
for sure. Man. Okay, let's check in see if the
red Wings are still getting their birds beat? Oh five
three with eleven minutes left, If they're scoring, I guess
they're down. They're down five three.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's how you say. It isn't a bottom of
the eighth.
Speaker 1: Well not in hockey, but yeah, yeah, this is uh
all right? Are you watching?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: Actually, what is happening in the Yankees game?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know how to read the score.
I just know.
Speaker 1: The biggest leftist numbers are the actual runs the leftist numbers. One, yeah,
what is it?
Speaker 3: Three? Yeah? Okay, and then there's an eighth and it's
an arrow down. I think that's the but enough to eight,
I think that's.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, fucking Yankees.
Speaker 4: I watched this on multiple channels, Lucky.
Speaker 3: I don't know when I'm not listening to it, but
when you listen to it, they explain all the stuff
all the time because they know nobody watching the ship
on this laddie, do this understand.
Speaker 4: What the Yeah? Okay, listening to Baseball and the Radio
is so great because it's just a it's podcast for
old people.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, they're just telling stories.
Speaker 2: New York speating Kansas.
Speaker 4: City right now.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that sounded like an apple.
Speaker 2: You should just buy it an it's booberry. It's the opposite,
that's true.
Speaker 3: Sounded like an apple bike.
Speaker 1: Your smacking right in the mic. I'm not. It doesn't
bother me to bother's everyone else. I just want to.
Speaker 4: Smr right there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, if people love it, that's fine. This all right?
There we go. That's a good stuff. Yep. Okay, I
think we are good to get back into it. Yeah,
let's see. That's primed up do we have Yeah, we
do have new super chats right, like two, maybe a couple.
Speaker 2: Why don't we do Why don't we talk about the
games we've been playing, see if any more rolling?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds good to me. I'm bringing it back.
Mhmm