Speaker 1: Hello, one, Welcome to the episode one hundred and nineteen
Speaker 1: of the Game Spot After that podcast, I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Marrow saying, and I'm joined as always by Jean Luke Psyke.
Speaker 2: How do you do? Gamer?
Speaker 1: I want to I want you to know that, for
Speaker 1: some reason, the way my mouth works, it always wants
Speaker 1: to replace the C in your first name with the P.
Speaker 1: For somebody I want, my brain always goes John Luke,
Speaker 1: John Luki. I have to slow down when I say
Speaker 1: your full name, and it only happens when I have
Speaker 1: When I say your surname as well, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: John Luke, It's all good. But when I say PSYCHEKEI
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, this is John Loop.
Speaker 2: That's a new one. That's a new one for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also joining us is Lucy James.
Speaker 3: Hello, I was waiting much energy for a Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep it on please, And of course, as always
Speaker 1: we have Jordan Remy.
Speaker 4: What you know. The reason we have more energy, Lucy, well,
Speaker 4: at least for John Luke and I is because we're
Speaker 4: recording this at ten am as opposed to like thirty am.
Speaker 3: I also have more energy because I fell asleep last
Speaker 3: night at ten thirty and I woke up at like
Speaker 3: eight fifteen. I don't know why so much, but it
Speaker 3: was good.
Speaker 4: Face sleep.
Speaker 3: Sleep.
Speaker 2: I did that on was it Monday? Because the internet
Speaker 2: Comcast went out in the entire Bay Area at like
Speaker 2: o'clock except for Internet. Who's laughing now, but it went.
Speaker 2: The Internet was all gone. We're like, that's ten, it's ten.
Speaker 2: What do we do. We're like, let's just go to sleep.
Speaker 2: We just go to bed, and it was great.
Speaker 4: I love that the entirety of like gaming Twitter in
Speaker 4: the Bay Area specifically was like online being like, man,
Speaker 4: maybe I should like read a book or something like
Speaker 4: this is what finally convinces us to stop playing video
Speaker 4: games and like do something.
Speaker 3: Like So my entire life is just moved in the
Speaker 3: middle of getting furniture. And on Monday, my TV unit
Speaker 3: arrived and I went to Japantown. I went for dinner,
Speaker 3: I picked up a couple of things, and I came
Speaker 3: back and I was like, Okay, it's a Monday night.
Speaker 3: I'm going to build this TV unit and sort of
Speaker 3: like settle in. And it took me a while because
Speaker 3: I also got my booster, and my booster meant that
Speaker 3: my arm was pretty dead. So I basically built it
Speaker 3: one armed and I was quite proud of it. About
Speaker 3: ten o'clock, I was hooking my consoles up and I
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I'm gonna finally finish Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 3: And I plugged it in and no shit, that's when
Speaker 3: all the Internet died, and I was like, well, I
Speaker 3: guess I'll go to bed in like just pure spite.
Speaker 3: I went to bed and I was like, I because
Speaker 3: I was going to like just hook them up, leave
Speaker 3: everything updating and stuff overnight. No, and then yeah, because
Speaker 3: it was out for a good hour.
Speaker 2: Longer, yeah, like two hours.
Speaker 1: Having sonic internet pays off. You get dogshit speeds. But
Speaker 1: when the rest of the city is done, I was.
Speaker 1: I was streaming at the time. I got like, I
Speaker 1: got like three messages from people being like, how are
Speaker 1: you still streaming? I'm like I was playing, like like
Speaker 1: the thing is.
Speaker 3: As well as like being back in the UK for
Speaker 3: six months, I didn't bother to get a new phone.
Speaker 3: I've been I've been using like my American phone, but
Speaker 3: I had I had this travel booster, but it meant
Speaker 3: that I had to be really careful with the amount
Speaker 3: of data that I used, so I turned off mobile
Speaker 3: data for like everything video. And then I got here
Speaker 3: and it was Monday night, and I was like, well, oh,
Speaker 3: I actually have mobile data in this country. That's not
Speaker 3: going to cost me like an arm and a leg.
Speaker 3: So I guess I could just watch something. But then
Speaker 3: it was just it was just on the tiny screen,
Speaker 3: and I was like, no, I'm just gonna I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna read. And then I got depressed, because that's what
Speaker 3: our life is now. It's required, it requires an depression.
Speaker 4: Damn, oh god, it's so tile.
Speaker 1: You have it. I mean, like I think, I think
Speaker 1: it's fine. Just just need to let us live. Let's
Speaker 1: let us live our online lives. That's what we're all about.
Speaker 3: I mean the worst, the worst thing for me is
Speaker 3: the fact that, like, when you think about it, really
Speaker 3: like the fact that everyone has a kindle and it's oh,
Speaker 3: I could just read something, but I have to recharge
Speaker 3: my book. Just is if you had to explain that
Speaker 3: to me when I was a kid, I'd be like
Speaker 3: that just sounds like a terrifying existence.
Speaker 4: The future sucks.
Speaker 3: Future sucks.
Speaker 1: You know what doesn't suck video games? And we have
Speaker 1: been playing hello video games. So Jean Luke, what we've
Speaker 1: been up to. It seems like you've got You've got
Speaker 1: a few games.
Speaker 2: Here, although two of them, so I've been messing around with.
Speaker 2: I played fort stuff for like an hour last night,
Speaker 2: not really that much into it. It's also my first
Speaker 2: Fortsa game, so maybe everything I'm about to say is
Speaker 2: like obvious to forts to fans. But I was just
Speaker 2: that game's just fun. That game just wants you to
Speaker 2: have a fun time. Like you load it up and
Speaker 2: immediately it's just a cut scene where your car fault
Speaker 2: like drops out of a plane and then you lay
Speaker 2: on the road, and then it's just like you're driving
Speaker 2: now and you just go and then you're like this
Speaker 2: is great. And then it's like all right, now you're
Speaker 2: driving a different car, and now you're in a sandstorm,
Speaker 2: and now you're in like a super cool race and
Speaker 2: the plane is like flying above you as you're racing
Speaker 2: super fast and you're gonna hit the finish line and
Speaker 2: you're like, oh man, this it just is like have
Speaker 2: have fun. Hey, remember when video games are about fun?
Speaker 2: Here you go, here's some here's some fun.
Speaker 3: He's just some fun.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I've always really wanted to play more Forts
Speaker 3: of Horizon because every time I have, I've just had
Speaker 3: like such a good time with it. It's always just
Speaker 3: so colorful and the music is always great and for me,
Speaker 3: who I can't drive in real life, so the like
Speaker 3: the mainline Forts series has never appealed to me, but
Speaker 3: this one is just like it just always seems like
Speaker 3: such a unabashedly just bloody fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ironically it's it's it's a lot like Mario Car
Speaker 1: for people who don't like it gives me the same
Speaker 1: energy as Meraca. It's like I don't have to I
Speaker 1: don't have to mess around with trying to try of
Speaker 1: be like simulation. I'm just gonna drive.
Speaker 4: You want like you can actually go in and tune
Speaker 4: the car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we found the I'm still learning the menus,
Speaker 2: and we like found like the tuning menu and we're like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're not supposed to be here because it had like
Speaker 2: different what like mechanic settings and you can like save
Speaker 2: mechanical loadouts for individual cartoonings. And I'm like, hold on, game,
Speaker 2: this is not I shouldn't know. I shouldn't be here.
Speaker 2: I was just trying to apply a meku Vinyl to
Speaker 2: my car, let me go back.
Speaker 1: I'm just a wee.
Speaker 4: I'm not a driver.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to just drive around in
Speaker 1: anime cars because I you can do that. Post a
Speaker 1: picture of like a new car that he got and
Speaker 1: he like it's this tiny, little pink car and then
Speaker 1: he like swung the camera around and it was just
Speaker 1: Kirby and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, okay, now, I mean, yeah, I've.
Speaker 1: Like dipped in and out of like the older Horizon games.
Speaker 1: I thought the one that I would like is the
Speaker 1: one set in you know, the UK. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is very dreary. I'm okay, but.
Speaker 3: Like my secret cat for the UK is dreary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm excited to check out this new one
Speaker 1: car on.
Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, I mean I was just gonna say,
Speaker 2: like kind of leading into that what I've seen so far,
Speaker 2: Like I really like the setting of Mexico, Like, I mean,
Speaker 2: it looks absolutely beautiful, and like I'm still because I
Speaker 2: only played in an hour. I'm stuck in that like
Speaker 2: starter area where it's like, you know, just kind of desert.
Speaker 2: But I've like I was watching videos and I've seen
Speaker 2: all the different like biomes they offered. It just looks
Speaker 2: like there's a.
Speaker 4: A lot of variety.
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, I'm I am pumped to play more,
Speaker 2: play more Horizon. Has anyone else been playing it?
Speaker 1: Oh I've been.
Speaker 4: I've been losing my shit with Horizon. I love. I
Speaker 4: didn't really like Horizon for the UK one for reasons
Speaker 4: that you just said. It was just one of those
Speaker 4: where I'm like, Horison is like super exciting and vibrant
Speaker 4: and colorful and like everyone's screaming all the time, Like
Speaker 4: that's just not what the UK was in comparison to
Speaker 4: a place like Australia or Mexico. So I'm I'm enjoying
Speaker 4: Horizon five, especially just because like they've constructed each one
Speaker 4: of their quote unquote campaigns in a way where it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: if you just want to focus on dirt racing, you
Speaker 4: can just focus on dirt racing. Do you just want
Speaker 4: to do street racing? Do you just want to do
Speaker 4: road racing? Do you just want to do cross country?
Speaker 4: And you can just like do whatever you want to do,
Speaker 4: And if you just keep doing that, you'll keep unlocking
Speaker 4: more races like that, and you'll be able to just
Speaker 4: keep doing that. So I can just ignore street races,
Speaker 4: which are my least favorite competition, just because I'm not
Speaker 4: good at drift turning at all. But it's like, you
Speaker 4: don't have to drift on dirt because dirt slows down
Speaker 4: your car and it makes turning so much easier. And
Speaker 4: I'm like, and I can just keep doing this endlessly
Speaker 4: forever and the game will just keep giving me races.
Speaker 4: I'm sure at some point I'll cap off, but until
Speaker 4: that point, I can just have the time of my life.
Speaker 4: Wish the soundtrack was a little bit better. It gets
Speaker 4: a little bit repetitive after three ish hours with the game.
Speaker 4: But your own soundtrack, yeah, Like I'm just now at
Speaker 4: the point where I'm like just listening to my own
Speaker 4: music playing the game. But I was kind of hoping
Speaker 4: that Xbox would have just like Dug Deep, and it's like, Yo,
Speaker 4: let's get a lot of Mexican artists on here to
Speaker 4: record a bunch of original music. And there is like
Speaker 4: some of that there, it's just not enough to I
Speaker 4: think support Like, if you're going to plan on playing
Speaker 4: this game for like fifteen hours, you'll hear like the
Speaker 4: same songs like each fifty times.
Speaker 3: So wait, so how are you playing your own music.
Speaker 3: You like, you've got Spotify or something going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just have a Spotify going. I heard that
Speaker 4: there is a way to have the Spotify app going
Speaker 4: in the game at the same time, if you just
Speaker 4: wanted to play the music over it. I have not
Speaker 4: investigated this, though, so do not quote me on this.
Speaker 4: This is just something that I've heard. I've just been
Speaker 4: like playing it on my own speakers while I am
Speaker 4: playing the game. But I have heard that this is
Speaker 4: something that you can do.
Speaker 3: I get because I feel like you can, at least
Speaker 3: at least on PlayStation. I remember PS four you could
Speaker 3: do that with some stuff, and so I if I
Speaker 3: made this up, I remember Xbox three sixty I would
Speaker 3: plug my iPod in and I feel like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember doing that. Oh that's cool. I might, you know,
Speaker 3: slowed dot today. I might make some playlists. That's all
Speaker 3: the energy of Patrick Bateman returning some fucking videotapes.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm gonna I'm gonna jump into Foes Horizon
Speaker 5: and then fire up a true crime podcast in the
Speaker 5: Shadows they Killer.
Speaker 4: Although can I also like just add and like this
Speaker 4: is a weird, weird thing for as a Horizon five
Speaker 4: if the load screens are like three three and a
Speaker 4: half seconds long, and so every time it happens, I'm like,
Speaker 4: this is way too fucking long. Why is this taking
Speaker 4: such a long time? Like, of all the games I've
Speaker 4: played on Xbox, I think Forza is like the longest
Speaker 4: that I've had load screens in the past year. But
Speaker 4: it's still like so short, but it's not so short
Speaker 4: that I'm noticing it, And I'm like, this is how
Speaker 4: spoiled past year has made me that a three and
Speaker 4: a half second load screen is like, this is way
Speaker 4: too long.
Speaker 2: Just be thankful you're not on past gen. I was
Speaker 2: watching a Digital Foundry video and like the opening of
Speaker 2: the game will like I said, when when it has
Speaker 2: the thing where you jump out of the plane into
Speaker 2: the road, it seamlessly transitions between the video of like
Speaker 2: your car falling from the plane and the gameplay. That's
Speaker 2: what happens when you play it on the current gen.
Speaker 2: When you play it on an Xbox One, there's a
Speaker 2: thirty second black screen loading time in between those like, oh,
Speaker 2: like just that that seamless thing they were trying to
Speaker 2: set up gone so better than that.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the soundtrack Buffalos and the Horizon five
Speaker 1: and this company is on.
Speaker 4: Huh, there's some good music on there. There's just like
Speaker 4: not enough to satisfy like fifteen hours with this game.
Speaker 1: See. The thing that I'm seeing is like there's a
Speaker 1: couple of songs in each radio station that I'd like,
Speaker 1: can you like bind them into like, oh, I'll just
Speaker 1: all of these.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like a good question that I do not know
Speaker 4: the answer to.
Speaker 2: I love when games that you should do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't seem like it. Yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 1: play that. I'm definitely gonna play that once I've unpacked
Speaker 1: my Xbox down my new apartment. Very excited. Well, el
Speaker 1: so have you been checking out?
Speaker 2: I have briefly also been playing a little bit of
Speaker 2: Call of Duty. However, I've only been playing the multiplayer
Speaker 2: because I've been playing with a friend of the show,
Speaker 2: Matt Paget. I don't really know if I have anything
Speaker 2: to say about it. It's call it's call of duty.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like me and everyone else
Speaker 2: on their net is just kind of given call of
Speaker 2: duty this year a big old shrug. You know. It's
Speaker 2: there's just not it doesn't seem to be much to it.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard anyone talk about that campaign, which I
Speaker 2: still want to check out. I do.
Speaker 3: I really want to check out the campaign, yeah.
Speaker 2: Because I'm curious how they handle it. But it Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just kind of a weird one. It's world War two,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't feel world War two at all in
Speaker 2: the way, like the guns feel like everything feels very modern,
Speaker 2: which I understand why they went that route, but I
Speaker 2: think as someone who like likes, like, like, if I'm
Speaker 2: playing a World War two game, I want to play
Speaker 2: it like a World War two game. Like I got
Speaker 2: the M one Grand because I'm like, ah, yeah, like
Speaker 2: I want to hear that ping and I want to
Speaker 2: you know, like, but it's a shit weapon to use
Speaker 2: in this game, because it's just like you're just like, well,
Speaker 2: this weapon is like a single fire rifle. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna go pick the the SMG and I'm gonna put
Speaker 2: like an AID cog scope on it because realism, and
Speaker 2: then I'm just gonna shoot everyone. And again I don't like,
Speaker 2: I don't care about the realism like that. I want
Speaker 2: to Wow. My issue isn't like, oh, they're not being
Speaker 2: realistic to the setting, like whatever, who cares but it's
Speaker 2: more that it's just like, why nothing about this feels
Speaker 2: World War two to outside of like purely the the
Speaker 2: window dressing, Like nothing about the actual gun play feels
Speaker 2: like a World War two games, So it's a few
Speaker 2: it's kind of weird. It feels more just like a
Speaker 2: modern warfare skin right now.
Speaker 1: It's really interesting that that franchise has gone from a
Speaker 1: thing that you know, it was, uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: hardcore gamers paid attention to it, and the the kind
Speaker 1: of like the normies paid attention to it because yeah,
Speaker 1: the call of duty, Andy's they're called. But like now
Speaker 1: we've reached the point where the hardcore gamers are like,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, and the normal but the normies are
Speaker 1: still all over it. So it's like, I think it's
Speaker 1: like moved beyond, like we have stopped paying attention to
Speaker 1: it at this point, and like the general gaming audience
Speaker 1: is like, yep, that's just background noise to the gaming
Speaker 1: world at this point. But like the people who like
Speaker 1: the mainstream that the last the vast majority of people
Speaker 1: who you know, the FIFA players and the they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: the there's new card out, sick and they'll play it.
Speaker 1: And though they're the kind of ones that are kind
Speaker 1: of keeping the call of the ecosystem going right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I imagine so because also, like everything about that game,
Speaker 2: like they have just doubled down on the like progression
Speaker 2: where there's so much progression now and again, I don't
Speaker 2: think there's anything new for anyone who's played called the
Speaker 2: last couple of Call of Duties. But it's like, not
Speaker 2: only do you have like the weapon progression, but you
Speaker 2: have like individual character level progression. And then they have
Speaker 2: a battle pass and the battle pass is whack because
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, battle pass, let me look at this,
Speaker 2: and it was like all right, even pay your ten
Speaker 2: dollars and get the battle pass. Most of the things
Speaker 2: in the battle pass don't even unlock stuff in Vanguard.
Speaker 2: It was like every like five things was like a
Speaker 2: Vanguard thing, but most of it was like oh this
Speaker 2: unlocks in war Zone or this unlocks in Black Ops.
Speaker 2: So to get the most use out of the Battle Pass,
Speaker 2: you have to be the kind of person who just
Speaker 2: only plays every Call of Duty. And I'm like, who
Speaker 2: who is who does this? This is like bizarre?
Speaker 4: So I an activision Blizzard is like, what isn't everyone
Speaker 4: playing war Z out, it must.
Speaker 2: Do something, because I can't imagine Activision Blizzard wouldn't like
Speaker 2: that feels like something you you would want to try
Speaker 2: and like get as many people as possible to get
Speaker 2: the battle Pass. But for whatever reason, that's the route
Speaker 2: they go with. It must work for that audience. But
Speaker 2: I I was just so turned off by all of
Speaker 2: that stuff where I was like, I none of this
Speaker 2: is appealing to me in the slightest so and I'm
Speaker 2: can you like, can you imagine someone who just like
Speaker 2: buys the new Call of Duty this year and there's like, oh,
Speaker 2: battle Pass, I get that, and then they're like what
Speaker 2: it unlocks stuff complete game that I had to uninstall
Speaker 2: to fit room for the new one because they take
Speaker 2: up so much goddamn space, Like what like like if
Speaker 2: I want to use that battle Pass, I literally have
Speaker 2: to uninstall everything my PlayStation five and only have Call
Speaker 2: of Duty on there.
Speaker 4: So an Activision Blizzard is like, yes, yes, that is
Speaker 4: exactly only Call of Duty. That's why we're having all
Speaker 4: of our studios now working on Call of Duty.
Speaker 3: Lisa needs braces. All I have going in my that's
Speaker 3: what you're saying, Lisa needs braces that shame.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like, I still want to go and
Speaker 1: play it. I think I'll probably check out at the
Speaker 1: end of the year when there's less stuff to do.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've heard decent things about the campaign.
Speaker 2: That's the thing that's only to check out. I'm very
Speaker 2: curious about it.
Speaker 3: If it's that's the only thing I care about in
Speaker 3: this one, because I'm The thing is is that I've
Speaker 3: every time I've played Bollzone, I've had a good time
Speaker 3: because I've been playing with my friends. But then ultimately
Speaker 3: I'm bad at it. So I have a bad time
Speaker 3: and it doesn't it doesn't give me the encouragement I
Speaker 3: guess to keep persevering, and so I just fall off
Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, no, guys, can we go back
Speaker 3: to Overwatch? But then Overwatch hasn't had any meaningful content
Speaker 3: updates in over a year, so I guess I just
Speaker 3: need any multiple.
Speaker 4: Get that Overwatch too?
Speaker 2: In three No, I got.
Speaker 1: We haven't played Overwatch in so long. It feels really weird.
Speaker 3: It feels so so weird. Yeah, like we did. We
Speaker 3: did a bunch of Back for Blood, which was fun,
Speaker 3: but again, like Back for Blood is another one where
Speaker 3: I just feel like people have just dropped off.
Speaker 2: It's like not a game. I feel like Overwatch too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I googled Overwatch too, and you know Google has that
Speaker 1: people also ask and it gives you like questions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the top one is is overwatched too ever coming out?
Speaker 2: I mean, it isn't that long sinthing an outside game.
Speaker 3: They're using it in Overwatch League early next year. Like yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's so they're basically going to be having it
Speaker 3: in the pros will be using it for like a
Speaker 3: year before.
Speaker 2: Anyone else does them.
Speaker 1: That's such a weird place to be where everyone's going
Speaker 1: to look thinking like, if you pay attention to the
Speaker 1: Overwatch League, you're going to get overwatched too fatigue before
Speaker 1: you've even touched it.
Speaker 3: You're going to be I mean, but the thing is
Speaker 3: as well as like over Watch League was hemorrhaging sponsors,
Speaker 3: understandably due to the Activision Blizzard stuff, and so I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe that'll draw more people in. However, at
Speaker 3: the same time, Activision Blizzard need.
Speaker 1: To, you know, sort.
Speaker 6: Out.
Speaker 4: I also still don't understand because they announced Overwatch you
Speaker 4: and they're like, oh, don't worry, Overwatch players will be
Speaker 4: able to connect with Overwatch two players and they'll play
Speaker 4: on like the same.
Speaker 2: Match and everything transfer.
Speaker 4: But Overwatch now, I was coming out so far from
Speaker 4: when Overwatch one originally came out, and I'm like, why
Speaker 4: is this just not a clean cut? It's whatever, It's fine, Like,
Speaker 4: I'm sure they're trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Hmm, anything else.
Speaker 2: Luke, Yes, I have been devoting the vast majority of
Speaker 2: my time to Animal Crossing. It sucked me back in
Speaker 2: the two.
Speaker 3: Pull you back.
Speaker 4: In for one more adventure.
Speaker 2: It's so good. It's so good. I'm I'm fully back
Speaker 2: in the So there's the the two point zero update,
Speaker 2: which came out a whole day early thanks to Nintendo
Speaker 2: Stealth dropping that on a on a Wednesday night, which
Speaker 2: was great. That that expansion just adds like or that
Speaker 2: update adds just a lot of really nice quality life stuff.
Speaker 2: They have cooking now, which is fantastic. I love nothing.
Speaker 2: If you tell me there is a cooking mechanic in
Speaker 2: your video game, I will buy it and I will
Speaker 2: play it because I like to fake cook in video games.
Speaker 2: It's highly entertaining.
Speaker 4: So much less mess than real cooking.
Speaker 2: I do wish it had because it's basically just a
Speaker 2: new slot in the recipes that you can like, you know, find.
Speaker 2: I do wish they had a like a collection tab,
Speaker 2: so I kind of knew how many there were total,
Speaker 2: because my I would my personal goals to try and
Speaker 2: find and you know, cook one of every recipe. But
Speaker 2: I have no idea how many there are. So that's
Speaker 2: we'll see if I actually end up doing that. But
Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun. So I just talked to Cali.
Speaker 2: In a few weeks, you know, she'll have it all.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, she'll she'll have it all for me.
Speaker 2: Although right now I don't have wheat, which is like
Speaker 2: the main thing you need in almost every recipe, and
Speaker 2: I keep checking, No, I have plenty of no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I have plenty of weed and I used it to
Speaker 2: make a lovely z bass with herbs meal. It was
Speaker 2: very delicious, But no wheat. I don't have enough wheat
Speaker 2: to make flour, which I need for every goddamn recipe
Speaker 2: in that game. And every time I go to Leaf
Speaker 2: every day and I'm like, you got wheat, and he's like, nope.
Speaker 3: You go to Leaf in your list and you have
Speaker 3: got any wheat, because.
Speaker 2: Actually, no, you sell you sell leaf your weed is
Speaker 2: what you do in that game, So you're the deal
Speaker 2: You're you're the dealer.
Speaker 4: This is like not a Nintendo's thing, but I was
Speaker 4: willing to bet money when Animal Crossing New Horizons came
Speaker 4: out that like this was going to be the game
Speaker 4: that got Nintendo into live service games, and they were
Speaker 4: going to keep adding to it like over like a
Speaker 4: two to two and.
Speaker 2: A half, and it's now. I do wish they they
Speaker 2: kept updating it because this update has this update is
Speaker 2: like fantastic. That is I feel like it's breathed so
Speaker 2: much life into the game, and I'm like, but can
Speaker 2: you can you keep doing that every year? Just once
Speaker 2: a year, just keep adding some more stuff moves.
Speaker 4: They only Smash only Smash gets updates.
Speaker 2: They have added I want to say, over nine thousand
Speaker 2: new items. Granted that is accounting for color variations, so
Speaker 2: it's not actually nine thousand, it's.
Speaker 1: Over nine.
Speaker 2: I forgot about that. I forgot that existed. Sorry anyway, Yes,
Speaker 2: over nine thousand items.
Speaker 4: You've just completely derailed him.
Speaker 2: But it's really cool because they've added a lot of
Speaker 2: items that clearly they've clearly been looking at the community
Speaker 2: and what the community has been making so like I
Speaker 2: think you go to like, you know, TikTok or Instagram,
Speaker 2: and it's like people have been making their own like
Speaker 2: Japanese towns or you know, like urban kind of environments,
Speaker 2: and people use a lot of tricks to sort of
Speaker 2: like make like, oh, I'm going to make like a
Speaker 2: I'm going to use this pattern and put it on
Speaker 2: the back of this crate to make it look like
Speaker 2: a like a food crate or something. And I think
Speaker 2: Nintendo just looked at all that and said, all right,
Speaker 2: you guys just want that, We'll just give that to you.
Speaker 2: So they've added like, you know, stop signs. They've added
Speaker 2: just a ton of like the variety of like shops
Speaker 2: and stalls and different appliances, like you can get just
Speaker 2: like a crate of like fish and you can make
Speaker 2: your own little fish market if you want. Like it's
Speaker 2: so cool, like how much they've added. I'm so excited
Speaker 2: to dive in. And then as part of that is
Speaker 2: the big DLC expansion, the Happy Home Designer, which is
Speaker 2: just the most lovely time because basically you get to
Speaker 2: you get whisked off to this like archipelago of islands
Speaker 2: where know it's a job you go you're going to work.
Speaker 2: Now your villager gets to go to work, and you
Speaker 2: uh have to design vacation homes for villagers. And it's
Speaker 2: really cute. In this economy, I have vacation homes. I
Speaker 2: don't know what's going on in the Animal Crossing economy,
Speaker 2: but I'm just like, Oh, y'all just can afford vacation
Speaker 2: homes and just live on islands and just collect through
Speaker 2: all day. It sounds lovely.
Speaker 4: I love what Animal Crossing teaches kids about capitalism.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what that entire game is about.
Speaker 2: So, but the homes are a lot of fun. It's
Speaker 2: it's super relaxing. It does the it's so something that
Speaker 2: I didn't like as much about the base animal Crossing
Speaker 2: is when you really want to get like deep into
Speaker 2: designing your island or designing your house, you're limited by
Speaker 2: the items you've found, so you you can never really
Speaker 2: like do your vision that you want. You're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I have this like amazing vision for this like entertainment
Speaker 2: room I build, and then you're like, I don't have
Speaker 2: half of the items I need and it's like the
Speaker 2: effort you'd have to go in to get the items.
Speaker 2: You're like I don't care enough, and then you kind
Speaker 2: of just give up with the With the vacation homes,
Speaker 2: you are given a sort of like a theme. They'll
Speaker 2: be like, oh, I love pink, that's my theme, and
Speaker 2: then you are just given access to a massive catalog
Speaker 2: of items that are all pink. And then you can
Speaker 2: just build that and so like you don't you aren't restricted,
Speaker 2: and they, you know, add a lot of tools where
Speaker 2: you can easily apply like pathing, and you can like
Speaker 2: duplicate items, so it's really easy to just build the
Speaker 2: house exactly the way you want it and then kind
Speaker 2: of like keep layering it over time, where it's like
Speaker 2: every time you you have to you have to make
Speaker 2: sure you use specific items because they'll like it more,
Speaker 2: but you can also use other items as well, and
Speaker 2: as you go through, you keep the items you get
Speaker 2: from each older place and like just so it's like
Speaker 2: it's it's constantly expanding your catalog of items. Uh, and
Speaker 2: then eventually you do weird stuff, like some of them
Speaker 2: are are like cute and simple where it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I want a I want my place to look like
Speaker 2: fall or I want like a winter vacation home, and
Speaker 2: then this one guy was just like, Oh, I just
Speaker 2: want I just want a good place, uh for my toilets.
Speaker 2: And and then he my my order is that.
Speaker 4: Where all the Twitter images come toilets toilets, and it's.
Speaker 2: Just this guy who's like, yeah, I just want I
Speaker 2: just want a nice cozy place for my toilets. And
Speaker 2: then you are just given a massive catalog of different
Speaker 2: toilets and bathroom items and they're like, gonuts, do whatever
Speaker 2: you want. And I'm like, okay, so I built this
Speaker 2: house of I wanted to like house of toilets. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I use like wall dividers because I wanted to
Speaker 2: give I was like, okay, I'll kind of like separate
Speaker 2: the house into different sections. Each section is like a
Speaker 2: different style of toilet and like a different style of bathroom,
Speaker 2: and so I kind of tried to create like Okay,
Speaker 2: this one's you know, like very like homely. This one's
Speaker 2: kind of like a little bit richer. This one's a
Speaker 2: bunch of urinals. This one is just a toilet facing
Speaker 2: a window because someone's gonna be into that, so gotta
Speaker 2: have that, of course. So it's just it's just really
Speaker 2: fun and relaxing, like it it scratches that same itch
Speaker 2: that you get from like when you play the SIMS
Speaker 2: and you're like, I'm just gonna spend three hours building
Speaker 2: a house and not actually play the game afterwards. Like
Speaker 2: that's kind of the whole thing is like you're just
Speaker 2: building houses for people and you get to decorate them
Speaker 2: and it's it's a lot of fun. And then even
Speaker 2: get to eventually build facilities like on the island. So
Speaker 2: I got to build a school, I built a restaurant.
Speaker 2: I built a cafe which I themed to look like
Speaker 2: LeBlanc from Percon of five. And I would say I
Speaker 2: actually did a pretty good bang up job. I posted
Speaker 2: on Twitter if anyone's interested in what that looked like.
Speaker 2: I thought I actually did a pretty good job of that.
Speaker 2: I was pretty excited.
Speaker 4: So yeah, John Luke a designer in his off hours.
Speaker 2: It's it's really fun. If you're just looking for some good,
Speaker 2: wholesome time, I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1: I'm always looking for a good whole sometimes you know that.
Speaker 1: But I've got no way to go from there.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, we really you were just lining
Speaker 3: yourself up and then yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I can't wait to see what he's gonna
Speaker 4: I was like.
Speaker 1: Scanning the list of games that people were playing, and
Speaker 1: I was like, nothing fits in I'm always looking for
Speaker 1: a good, wholesome time, John Luke, you know that. And
Speaker 1: speaking of good sometimes, Lucy, you've been playing Alan Wake.
Speaker 4: Sure, I think, no, don't give it to him.
Speaker 3: No, my life, My life right now is boring, Like
Speaker 3: I am moving. The only thing I'm excited about is,
Speaker 3: like you know, I'm buying curtains and stuff. I'm doing
Speaker 3: like grown up things. Yeah, I mean genuinely, I got
Speaker 3: excited because my couch is arriving tomorrow ahead of schedule,
Speaker 3: and I honestly couldn't be happier. However, it meant that
Speaker 3: I haven't really played many games in the last week,
Speaker 3: but on stream I've started playing Alan Wake. I did
Speaker 3: the first episode last night. I have completely forgotten everything
Speaker 3: that happens in Alan Wake. I forgot like it has
Speaker 3: a very specific twenty ten and you know, early early
Speaker 3: twenty ten's kind of and late naughties thing where every
Speaker 3: time you go to a new area, the camera will
Speaker 3: just swing to a point of interest. And so even
Speaker 3: in the remastered version, the camera just has a life
Speaker 3: of its own because it wants to show me some
Speaker 3: crazy ex guy who's about to try and come and
Speaker 3: kill me. But now I'm enjoying it. It feels, it
Speaker 3: looks nice. I'm just having a fun time playing it
Speaker 3: on stream, but I'm not really I've not really decided
Speaker 3: what the next thing I'm gonna play is. You know,
Speaker 3: it is in my quote unquote off time that I'm
Speaker 3: not on stream. I want to finish Guardians. I do
Speaker 3: have Wilder myth An inscription downloaded. But also because the
Speaker 3: only piece of furniture that I've had has been my
Speaker 3: gaming chair, I've been quite hesitant to play PC games
Speaker 3: because I'm sat in this chair all day for work,
Speaker 3: and then you know, I don't get any kind of
Speaker 3: respite from it, and my ass needs a different chair
Speaker 3: to sit on for a bit. And so yeah, so
Speaker 3: just a bit of Alan Wake. Really, I haven't. Oh,
Speaker 3: the only thing I've been watching has been Succession, which
Speaker 3: I think I mentioned like last week, but it is
Speaker 3: probably it's like, it's one of the best shows I've
Speaker 3: ever seen. It's so so good, fully obsessed with it.
Speaker 3: Next week's episode episode It's going to be five. Just
Speaker 3: looks like the anti has been up again and again. Also,
Speaker 3: Adrian Brody is in it now, and he is someone
Speaker 3: like an actor who I love, but I haven't really
Speaker 3: seen in anything for a long time. He was amazing,
Speaker 3: So get on succession. I guess that's it. I haven't
Speaker 3: been doing a lot.
Speaker 1: Is everyone still a terrible human being in that show?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're all awful. And the thing is is, like
Speaker 3: I was explaining this on stream yesterday, it's like you
Speaker 3: don't root for any of them, but you're also not
Speaker 3: rooting against any of them, if that makes sense. It's
Speaker 3: such a fine line that they've balanced because they're all
Speaker 3: such awful, you know, rich people who don't care about anyone,
Speaker 3: Like the way they talk about the big scandal that
Speaker 3: they're trying to cover up at Wastear. Roiko is just
Speaker 3: like abparrent. It's awful. The way they talk about like
Speaker 3: just other human beings, and the fact that they're all
Speaker 3: battling for control and there's all these mind games. It's
Speaker 3: very very good. I would say. I would say, like,
Speaker 3: my favorite actor in it right now is Kieran Culkin.
Speaker 3: For sure. He just plays this little little rat boy perfectly,
Speaker 3: little rat boy, absolutely perfectly. It's so good. There's like
Speaker 3: I you know what, I'm just gonna fucking say, I
Speaker 3: fucking love HBO.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 3: I love HBO. It's it's giving me no.
Speaker 2: I find out.
Speaker 3: I wish HBO get me in. Look, I I want
Speaker 3: to you know, I'm talking about the sopranos all the
Speaker 3: bloody time. Uh No, I'm just everything there was just
Speaker 3: really really good. And I'm I really want to watch
Speaker 3: White Lotus next because I've managed to keep spoiler free
Speaker 3: on that. The only thing I know is that Jennifer
Speaker 3: Coolidge is in it, and I love Jennifer Coolidge. And
Speaker 3: it was made by the guy who played Ned Sneebley
Speaker 3: in School of Rock. Oh really, yeah, yeah, well a
Speaker 3: weird good, yeah, weird thing. Also, my bakeoff minute returns. Basically,
Speaker 3: if you're not Jurgen or Joseppe, what even what you
Speaker 3: even do? I love him so much. I'm not going to.
Speaker 7: Do any spoils at all. But I think it's been
Speaker 7: it's been a really weirdly there's been such a gulf
Speaker 7: in talent between the best people and usually and kind
Speaker 7: of like not even the worst people in the ten
Speaker 7: because they all great bakers. But yeah, I feel like
Speaker 7: Jogen and Giuseppe just outpaced everyone else by such a
Speaker 7: degree that's not even really a fair fight.
Speaker 1: Here's my prediction. I think Chrystal is going to take it.
Speaker 3: Because they'll do they'll do the bullshit where they don't
Speaker 3: take previous weeks into account, and it will all be
Speaker 3: about whatever happens in that final.
Speaker 2: Which I don't think we got. Last season's awful awful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited though we're coming up on the end.
Speaker 1: Not not many episodes left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's only three left.
Speaker 2: I want to say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my favorite is the grumpy lover Pudlian Lizzie. It's
Speaker 3: just human, she's just like.
Speaker 1: So furness fesses.
Speaker 3: Also, I don't think I mentioned it last week, but
Speaker 3: my final bit on bake Off minute, I find myself
Speaker 3: warming lesson less. I'm thoughting about Prue. I don't think
Speaker 3: she was ever my face was, but she only she
Speaker 3: only ever says flavors are great. That's her only piece
Speaker 3: of critique. But also her mouth. It's she makes such
Speaker 3: specific mouth noises that my mesophonia gets so activated by them,
Speaker 3: and I think that's maybe why I don't like her
Speaker 3: as much. But also, did everyone see the clip of
Speaker 3: the innuendo she made and she didn't understand what she
Speaker 3: was saying, just obligate, Like what is it needs to
Speaker 3: get squirted and you need to get in jet like
Speaker 3: filled filled in both holes otherwise you're squirt or something.
Speaker 1: It was like she says she needs to fill in
Speaker 1: holes if you've gone too far. It is like, well,
Speaker 1: she's a tory in it. So she's never had a
Speaker 1: good sexual feeling in.
Speaker 3: Tamam speaking of elden Rings.
Speaker 1: That is a fantastic segue.
Speaker 2: My god.
Speaker 1: So yes, I have been playing elden Ring, and yes
Speaker 1: it has made me square. Uh.
Speaker 4: Cops are still here.
Speaker 1: They're just circling. They're like, what's going on? Back and
Speaker 1: hair podcast? Crimes are being committed around around these pipes,
Speaker 1: around these parts.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So by now you you will likely have seen that
Speaker 1: elden Ring previews have been up. I had access to
Speaker 1: what is the closed network test in Advanced and I've
Speaker 1: put up a written preview on the number one video
Speaker 1: game website on the Internet GameSpot dot com. You can
Speaker 1: see a video version of that preview and it together
Speaker 1: by the wonderful Jean loop side Key on on YouTube
Speaker 1: dot com forward slash game Spot. It's an excellent video
Speaker 1: get really well done. Jean Luke, John Luke got intimately
Speaker 1: familiar with.
Speaker 2: Ours at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and yeah, he's he was all over it
Speaker 1: and put together just an incredible little video. So I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. And then yeah, that's that's where you can
Speaker 1: find my thoughts primarily if you want even more, like
Speaker 1: I chatted to Andy and Blessing over it. Kind of funny,
Speaker 1: so they have a games cast about it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's it's really really good from what I've played. It's
Speaker 1: I everyone keeps going, this is a Breath of the World,
Speaker 1: and and and like, I understand why people would make
Speaker 1: that point of comparison. I think is completely valid. I
Speaker 1: think that it's also for me, it's like it seems
Speaker 1: like they're making Skyrim. They're trying to make their Skyrim,
Speaker 1: which it definitely feels like that it has the same
Speaker 1: kind of like sense of adventure in it that that
Speaker 1: those games do. I think the thing that is majorly
Speaker 1: different for me is I will caveat this by saying
Speaker 1: I've not played all of Breath Breath of the World.
Speaker 1: I bounced off Breath on multiple times. There's a sense
Speaker 1: of aimlessness that doesn't work for me. In that game,
Speaker 1: which is ironic because that same sense of aimlessness is
Speaker 1: present in uh, well, some of it is present in
Speaker 1: Elder Ring. It's a little more guided. It like has
Speaker 1: these things called like guidance of grace, which is like
Speaker 1: when you find certain areas, usually the sites of Grace,
Speaker 1: which is like the bonfire, they'll be like a golden
Speaker 1: trail telling you, hey, go this way, you know, and
Speaker 1: there's a very clearly of focused path to the main quest.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't gamify the open world where it's like
Speaker 1: Sidequest side Quest, side Quest main Quest main Quest. Main
Speaker 1: Quest is just very emergent and very natural, like you're
Speaker 1: walking around and you might speak to someone who's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I used to be in this cave and then some
Speaker 1: bad shit happened there and now I can't get back
Speaker 1: into that cave and they've ostracized me. Were this sucks man?
Speaker 1: And then at that point the game doesn't be like
Speaker 1: side Quest Activated, go to the cave and figure out
Speaker 1: what the delio is with this dude. There's been outcast.
Speaker 4: It's just like that's it.
Speaker 1: And then you could be like, oh, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go find that cave and see what the deal is
Speaker 1: with it, and that's how because of that, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm enjoying it way more. It doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: I'm being forced to do things. I'm just kind of
Speaker 1: like experiencing it in the same way that Bromsoft's games
Speaker 1: are right, like very natural, very not pushy, and rewarding
Speaker 1: your curiosity and rewarding your your kind of like initiative,
Speaker 1: and I love that feeling behind it. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: that that kind of like the other thing is like,
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna upset a lot of fans of
Speaker 1: Breath the World is a lot of the stuff that
Speaker 1: you do in the open world are the shrines, And
Speaker 1: after like two of two or three other shrines, I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, so is this.
Speaker 2: Two or three?
Speaker 4: There's like two hundred in that game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, but like I know I did more. I
Speaker 1: did more than that, But after like two or three,
Speaker 1: I was like wondering, Oh, are these shrines? Just is
Speaker 1: this is this the bulk of the game, which kind
Speaker 1: of is like, I know, that's like being reductive to.
Speaker 4: That people wanted actual dungeons in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like and that's the thing that I've got more
Speaker 1: confidence in for for Eldon Ring, it's like it has
Speaker 1: that open world where it's very free form, and but
Speaker 1: it also has those classically Dark Souls Demon Souls areas
Speaker 1: where it's like, oh, you've just walked into like a
Speaker 1: Dark Soul's ass area and it's a big old dungeon
Speaker 1: you're walking through like storm Wind Castle, and like there's
Speaker 1: a chunk of it there and it feels like I'm
Speaker 1: playing an old Dark Souls game. And then but after that,
Speaker 1: I'm like out in an open world where there's smaller
Speaker 1: dungeons and they're not like it's based on the few
Speaker 1: that I found. It's not like they have a certain
Speaker 1: group of assets that are like side dungeon assets and
Speaker 1: let's reuse these over and over again in the same
Speaker 1: way that like even the Chalice dungeons in Bloodborne, where
Speaker 1: where it's like you start to get tiresome over like
Speaker 1: after a few Chalice dungeons, where you're like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is they've got a palette set and a kind of
Speaker 1: like set of assets that they shuffle around and that's
Speaker 1: how they're finding variety. It didn't feel like that, like
Speaker 1: some of it was just very natural cave. Some of
Speaker 1: it was very short, like you've killed an enemy, go
Speaker 1: down into this area, open the door, open the chest,
Speaker 1: get out. But I think there's going to be a
Speaker 1: little more variety in the open world, which is something
Speaker 1: it has over Zelda and is closer to Skyrim, I think,
Speaker 1: where like, you know, a lot of the caves in Skyrim,
Speaker 1: they did feel similar, but they it wasn't overwhelming. You
Speaker 1: went in there being like, this feels just like that
Speaker 1: last cave that I was in. They kind of at
Speaker 1: least furnish it and dress it up so it looks
Speaker 1: a bit more unique. And that's what that's the vibe
Speaker 1: I'm getting out of it. And because of that, it
Speaker 1: feels a little closer to Skyrim than to Zelder for me.
Speaker 1: I guess the Zelda part of it is it is
Speaker 1: that kind of like you can jump around, you can't climb,
Speaker 1: thank god, I don't want stamina management on literally everything,
Speaker 1: and and and like it feels like that kind of
Speaker 1: world where it's like, yeah, poke around in the corner,
Speaker 1: like follow your follow your what piques your interest. And
Speaker 1: there were a bunch of things that yeah, poke around,
Speaker 1: find out and like that. That was a lot of
Speaker 1: what I did. I didn't like. I spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time just walking around, and there were mysteries that
Speaker 1: I found, Like there was this beach where there was
Speaker 1: like glyphs appearing on the floor and I couldn't figure
Speaker 1: out what was going on there. And I found like,
Speaker 1: you know, references to to the narrative stuff where it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, we worshiped this. I found a church which
Speaker 1: was like clearly some sort of dragon church that had
Speaker 1: been destroyed, and like all the statues had fallen over,
Speaker 1: but there was one statue, one big statue that had
Speaker 1: been toppled over in the middle, but like the dragon
Speaker 1: still had a flame in its mouth that was like burning.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what is this all about? And
Speaker 1: how do I make something happen with it? And I
Speaker 1: couldn't figure it out. And now I'm like, huh, on
Speaker 1: my in my map, I now have to mark that
Speaker 1: as we're dragon churches here, remember to come back to
Speaker 1: this and once you have a little more contact, or
Speaker 1: someone mentions I used to be an acolyte of the
Speaker 1: dragon church or something like that. So it's like a
Speaker 1: lot of mysteries that are there, but in that from
Speaker 1: software way where it's like we're just going to drop
Speaker 1: half of this half of the information you need here
Speaker 1: and then put the other half somewhere in this world
Speaker 1: and hopefully you make the connection when the time is right,
Speaker 1: instead of being like remember the Dragon Church in like
Speaker 1: the you know ui. Yeah, and it's in all other
Speaker 1: respects like for better for worse. It feels like an
Speaker 1: evolution of Dark Souls, like combat Wise and various other things,
Speaker 1: and it like it doesn't feel like it's making a
Speaker 1: massive kind of line in the sand in the same
Speaker 1: way that Bloodborne and Securo did where it's like we're
Speaker 1: going to pivot into a side side kind of like
Speaker 1: thing style of gaming that's completely different. It feels like Souls.
Speaker 1: It feels like Dark Souls. It's got a few more mechanics,
Speaker 1: which is like the guard break and you can jump
Speaker 1: attack now to crush things. But yeah, it's otherwise, it
Speaker 1: feels like that kind of game. I guess. Yeah, ask
Speaker 1: me some questions if you want to know you want
Speaker 1: to know more about it. I've been talking about it
Speaker 1: NonStop so for a lot of few days, so I
Speaker 1: don't know what's like relevant at this point. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to play it, is what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm excited it feels like it's gonna be familiar, but
Speaker 1: not familiar enough to be like, oh, yep, this is
Speaker 1: just that game again.
Speaker 4: I say, everything you said sounds really cool, Like I
Speaker 4: don't want to speak for like every Zelda fan, but
Speaker 4: I know for me specifically, I was like, Oh, it
Speaker 4: wasn't so much that I loved Breath of the Wild specifically,
Speaker 4: it was more so I'm like, oh, I really like
Speaker 4: what they've done here, and I can't wait to see
Speaker 4: what other developers take with these concepts and ideas and
Speaker 4: evolve on it. And so All the Ring seems like
Speaker 4: it's taking some of those concepts and involving on it.
Speaker 4: You said it maybe is a bit more skyrimy, but like,
Speaker 4: I'm thrilled, I'm excited to try this.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: I yeah, I was gonna feel like it feels more
Speaker 1: welcoming as well, because because you're not being funneled down
Speaker 1: a path in a lot of these areas, like the
Speaker 1: Dog Seals games are open, all of their games are
Speaker 1: open to a degree, but fundamentally you are being funneled
Speaker 1: down a path once you leave Filing Shrine or Madula
Speaker 1: or The Hunters Dream Dilapidaite Temple. You're being pushed into
Speaker 1: a path. You know, there's only really one way through
Speaker 1: Sens Fortress, there's only one way through black Town. And
Speaker 1: because of that, they control the difficulty a lot more
Speaker 1: like you. They're able to orchestrate that difficulty a lot
Speaker 1: more because that is the challenge, and that's it. In
Speaker 1: an open world, you're not really able to push the
Speaker 1: player into a certain direction up until they reach a
Speaker 1: point where you have that curated experience like storm Vale Castle.
Speaker 1: So because of that, in the open world, you often
Speaker 1: encounter I often encountered fights that were like trivial, like
Speaker 1: one enemy one's one or two attacks and then I
Speaker 1: moved on. But like, that's really good for building confidence,
Speaker 1: and I feel like for people who might have struggled
Speaker 1: with previous from stuff games, this might be one that
Speaker 1: really helps them because it's easy to like that there's
Speaker 1: there's some really low stakes encounters, and when you die,
Speaker 1: you don't just like, uh, spawn and have to do
Speaker 1: that stuff over and over again. You can choose to
Speaker 1: be like, all right, I know that I'm not doing
Speaker 1: too good in that direction. I can just go the
Speaker 1: other way. It's not like beating up your head against
Speaker 1: the wall. And then they also have like a new
Speaker 1: system where it's like you can respawn out of sight
Speaker 1: of Grace, which is basically like the bonfire. But they
Speaker 1: also have these things called the Stakes of America, which
Speaker 1: is like a checkpoint before before a main or checkpoint
Speaker 1: before like a notable encounter. So if you can't come
Speaker 1: across like an encampment, there chances are there's the Stakes
Speaker 1: of America nearby, so that if you die in that encampment,
Speaker 1: instead of kicking you all the way back to the
Speaker 1: site of grace the bonfire you just saw outside of
Speaker 1: that encampment, which is like a concession made to open
Speaker 1: world design, that is going to make it better for
Speaker 1: a lot of people who aren't as accustomed to that
Speaker 1: grind to get back to where you started so that
Speaker 1: you can try again. So I feel like this is
Speaker 1: going to be one of those games where a lot
Speaker 1: of people will be able to have some fun just
Speaker 1: you know, getting cut in the teeth in the open
Speaker 1: wall and then build up the confidence to go back
Speaker 1: into the into the more dark souls. Sty will look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe like alleviate some of that frustration just because
Speaker 2: you don't have to like you'll hit a point in
Speaker 2: a Soul's game where you get stuck on a boss
Speaker 2: and it's like, well, I don't have anything else to do.
Speaker 2: I have to go through and fight this boss. Like
Speaker 2: this game, you could be like, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go leave and do a bunch of stuff in the
Speaker 2: open world and maybe boost up my character or at
Speaker 2: least just like get a breather and like do something
Speaker 2: else for a little bit, and or you know, try
Speaker 2: to find something and then you can come back to
Speaker 2: that challenge later. I yeah, I think that dynamic could
Speaker 2: kind of, like uh yeah, alleviate a lot of frustration
Speaker 2: on some players.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, in terms of the difficulty, like as
Speaker 4: you were exploring, did it feel like, oh, like just
Speaker 4: the further out I go in any direction, like everything's
Speaker 4: kind of growing equally in strength, or there like some
Speaker 4: ways where it's like, oh, if I go specifically this way,
Speaker 4: the enemies are a lot harder than if I decided
Speaker 4: to go this way.
Speaker 1: No, there were points where I was like walking and
Speaker 1: I'd stumble across an enemy which was clearly like very powerful.
Speaker 1: My only option was like to back out and come
Speaker 1: back later when I had a little more levels accrued
Speaker 1: and I had some more like skill points invested. But
Speaker 1: they also do this thing where they create enemy mobs,
Speaker 1: so you're not always just finding like single enemies were
Speaker 1: wandering around or single very powerful enemies. You have like
Speaker 1: this mid tier which is enemy mobs, and like some
Speaker 1: of them are like three or four enemies. Like you
Speaker 1: get these vampire bat like creatures, which are like anthropomorphic bats,
Speaker 1: and they're often just hanging around on rocks and when
Speaker 1: they see you, they'll just start attacking. And there's usually
Speaker 1: about three and they're pretty easy to beat. Like, but
Speaker 1: what happens is you just need to kind of manage
Speaker 1: your stamina a bit more and also have some awareness
Speaker 1: of your surroundings because they are flying enemies, so one
Speaker 1: could get behind you and like try and get in
Speaker 1: while you're fighting another one. Say, it does require some strategy,
Speaker 1: but the interesting thing or the cool thing they do
Speaker 1: is like you go into that fight, you fight them.
Speaker 1: Once you've killed let's say this four of them, once
Speaker 1: you've killed that fourth one, it rewards you for defeating
Speaker 1: a mob by replenishing your your ESTES flask and your
Speaker 1: or your HP and FP flask, and it's like good
Speaker 1: job you took on this mob and you want and
Speaker 1: now you have like the ability to carry on going
Speaker 1: instead of being like, well, I got a run back
Speaker 1: to to the Sight of Grace to replenish all my
Speaker 1: stuff now, and they.
Speaker 4: Also have a lot of wonder like well improvement over
Speaker 4: Dark Souls three just randomly kidding an Estes Flask. Yeah,
Speaker 4: some enemies.
Speaker 1: They also have these enemies which are kind of like
Speaker 1: the crystal lizards in previous games, but instead of giving
Speaker 1: you like a material, they're just like these ball like enemies.
Speaker 1: They're just like wandering around and if you kill them,
Speaker 1: some of them are ready orange, some of them are blue,
Speaker 1: So if you kill them, they will just replenish your
Speaker 1: your your resources as well. If you just they just
Speaker 1: run away in the same way that crystal lizard does,
Speaker 1: so you might spot one and be like, oh, I
Speaker 1: need to quickly chase that down and kill it, so
Speaker 1: that happens, and then some enemy mobs are even harder,
Speaker 1: where it's like the soldier mobs can be tricky because
Speaker 1: there's usually like I found, you find like three or
Speaker 1: four of them together, and then one of them usually
Speaker 1: has the horn which they blow and it brings in
Speaker 1: like seven other people and you're like, oh shit, that
Speaker 1: went from like above fight against three people versus now
Speaker 1: there's eight of them after me and I need to
Speaker 1: run away. So there's still that kind of like unexpected
Speaker 1: turn the corner and stuff is real hard over here,
Speaker 1: but you have the freedom to like run away and
Speaker 1: jump on your like spectral Steed or whatever it's called.
Speaker 1: It's called Torrent and which you saw someone using the
Speaker 1: item and it'll just pop up and then you can
Speaker 1: run away and it double jumps and it's got like
Speaker 1: a boost, so you can very quickly break agro range
Speaker 1: and just get around like that.
Speaker 4: God bless from Software, Like I saw in like the
Speaker 4: comments for like the impressions that you put up, one
Speaker 4: person being like, oh, if the combats so much like
Speaker 4: Dark Souls, why didn't from Software just call this Dark
Speaker 4: Souls four? And I'm like, and you could have made
Speaker 4: the argument that like Bloodborne, Securo and elden Ring, like
Speaker 4: they're close enough to like Souls in a way that
Speaker 4: they could have taken the Call of Duty Assassin's Creed
Speaker 4: forma and just been like, oh, yeah, they're just all
Speaker 4: in the same franchise. But you got to like respected
Speaker 4: developer that's like, yeah, it's similar ideas, but we're just
Speaker 4: moving This is like brand new. We're like cutting it
Speaker 4: off and trying something else. And I wish so many
Speaker 4: other devs would do it. From software is like and
Speaker 4: just yeah, it's similar ideas, it's kind of like a
Speaker 4: quasi sequel, but it's it's brand new. We're going in
Speaker 4: a different direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like it gives them narrative freedom, right, like
Speaker 1: that whole the stuff out they're leaning towards with the
Speaker 1: kind of like Ellin Ring being shattered and the Earth Tree,
Speaker 1: and there's still like allusions to like the the different
Speaker 1: factions and the lords that have been corrupted, and there's
Speaker 1: so much more like texture to the world that they've
Speaker 1: already created. Like this this is again the old the
Speaker 1: older games are you you experience the core of the story,
Speaker 1: right like you experience a location from the inside, and
Speaker 1: then you you get allusions to what has happened before
Speaker 1: and the world around you ultimately or like stuck in
Speaker 1: this one city or this one kingdom or this one area.
Speaker 1: This is the other way around where you're they've not
Speaker 1: they've filled out the entire kind of like pie if
Speaker 1: you get what I mean like they've colored it all in.
Speaker 1: You're starting from the outside and then coming in and
Speaker 1: you're not wondering about, oh, I'm in, you know, Bolletaria,
Speaker 1: but the stuff beyond Bolletaria that I'm not aware of
Speaker 1: or I'm not sure what's going on. It's the other
Speaker 1: way around, where it's like you are in the lands between,
Speaker 1: which is the overworld, the entire world, and then within
Speaker 1: that you will find kingdoms and locations that are like
Speaker 1: placed within it, and then so you get a more
Speaker 1: you get a richer kind of like grasp of the world.
Speaker 1: And I don't think I think that they wanted to
Speaker 1: do that, and they wanted to take a to come
Speaker 1: at it with an entirely new kind of like world
Speaker 1: for them to build instead of leaning on the kind
Speaker 1: of Dark Souls world, because by the end of Dark
Speaker 1: Souls three there were some kind of like indications that
Speaker 1: you know, the three games are connected, and you know
Speaker 1: the place are built on top of each other, and
Speaker 1: the tiny Winminess is in play and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But like giving them they wanted like this is a
Speaker 1: smart decision because they can create that break and they
Speaker 1: can make something new and show that they have the
Speaker 1: storytelling and characterization chops to build a whole world instead
Speaker 1: of the pieces of one.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, I'm very poritary.
Speaker 3: Review next year, hopefully they give you more than just like,
Speaker 3: how what was the thing for Sakra? It was like
Speaker 3: five days or something.
Speaker 1: Less than that. I think, yeah, maybe like five just
Speaker 1: not enough time enough. I mean Demons was one day?
Speaker 1: Two days?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, God bless you for having already beaten Demons enough.
Speaker 1: That would have been impossible to review that quickly. But
Speaker 1: damn I got lucky. But yeah, Jordan, before we move on,
Speaker 1: is there anything that you wanted else? Because you've been
Speaker 1: playing World also, I've been. I've been. I'd got my
Speaker 1: booster jab go out there, get vaccinated, welcome to open boosters.
Speaker 1: And it is like I've got an absolutely pathetic immune system,
Speaker 1: and like I've been like sick for the last few
Speaker 1: days because of it. And yesterday I was just laying
Speaker 1: in bed, unable to sleep, and I was like what
Speaker 1: do I do. I'm like, I can't, I'm incapable of moving.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be sitting here staring at the ceiling
Speaker 1: for like nine hours now. So what I did is
Speaker 1: I pulled out my I forgot that. I bought a
Speaker 1: little stand for my iPad and like I it is
Speaker 1: like a proper lazy person stand where you just like
Speaker 1: mount it, and like I put it on the table
Speaker 1: next to me and I was in bed and like
Speaker 1: the screen was just hovering in front of my face.
Speaker 6: He sent me a picture of this, and honestly, it
Speaker 6: was like like like your robot, like your robot on wheels,
Speaker 6: where someone's face is supposed to be and it instead
Speaker 6: it was you watching I come on what you were
Speaker 6: watching a twitch or something.
Speaker 1: But I was like, kind of what, it's really good
Speaker 1: I start. Originally I got it so I could like
Speaker 1: sit on a couch and have that. Iyp had it
Speaker 1: from me, But I started watching a Gintama, which is
Speaker 1: a show that I've seen a lot of in pieces,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, I'm going to
Speaker 1: start watching Gintama from the beginning. Gintama is an amazing
Speaker 1: like a comedy anime series which like it takes place
Speaker 1: in a futuristic Japan, a time when aliens have invaded
Speaker 1: and Samurais have been basically outlawed, and the main main character,
Speaker 1: Gintoki is like this layser about good for nothing samurai
Speaker 1: who just takes on odd jobs and just does ship
Speaker 1: around around like the city, but always gets himself into trouble.
Speaker 1: And it's a very self aware. It knows it's an
Speaker 1: anime and constantly references the fact that it's an anime.
Speaker 1: So they like make jokes about, you know, fight sequences
Speaker 1: being far too long because they to fill twenty three
Speaker 1: episode and stuff like that. It's like really really stupid
Speaker 1: and self referential and also referential of other anime. It's
Speaker 1: been going for years and years and years, and it's
Speaker 1: like always held up to be like one of the
Speaker 1: funniest shows in like anime history. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I've always watched pieces of it, and my younger brother
Speaker 1: is a huge fan of it. So I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch this. This has got one trillion
Speaker 1: episodes for me to watch. I'll never get mad at this.
Speaker 1: So I started watching that and it's fantastic. I've been
Speaker 1: loving it. Good show anyway. Yeah, Jordan Wilder Myth and Arcane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say I'll start with Arcane. Speaking of things
Speaker 4: that we've been watching, So Netflix is now four for
Speaker 4: four on animated shows based on video games that I
Speaker 4: have never played that, I'm like, oh, this show is
Speaker 4: really good. It doesn't make me I actually want to
Speaker 4: go out and play the.
Speaker 1: Game before but really yea before Cava Dragons Dogma, I
Speaker 1: liked it.
Speaker 8: Oh interesting, interesting, I played. I watched that, and I
Speaker 8: was like, Okay.
Speaker 3: So Arcane, Dragon's Dogma Castlevania.
Speaker 4: In San Diego.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a show of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but how is Acane good?
Speaker 4: Arcane's really good or good for someone who has like
Speaker 4: not touched League of Legends in like any real way
Speaker 4: other than the fact that like I can look at
Speaker 4: this show and be like, oh, that's Vie, Oh that's Jinx,
Speaker 4: Like oh, I know who these people are going to be,
Speaker 4: but I I can't tell you, like really anything about them.
Speaker 4: I can't tell you what type of characters they are.
Speaker 4: But it's it's a really good story, well paced, well animated.
Speaker 4: The action is really really good. Yeah, like it's it's
Speaker 4: just definitely something. It's three episodes now, and then there's
Speaker 4: another three on the twelve, I think, and then another
Speaker 4: arc at some other point. But yeah, they're like releasing
Speaker 4: it in chunks I think, so that they can do
Speaker 4: that whole Like, oh, the show can keep showing up
Speaker 4: and your recommended Q repeatedly because they're adding new episodes,
Speaker 4: but there's like enough each time that you could binge
Speaker 4: because each episode's forty to forty five minutes long, so
Speaker 4: it's like two hour. Yeah, it's like a two hour
Speaker 4: like experience. I watched the first three episodes last night.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, okay, I like this. This is good.
Speaker 4: I am ready to watch the next three episodes whenever
Speaker 4: they come out.
Speaker 3: That's good. Yeah, I'm kind of intrue it and like,
Speaker 3: similar to you, I don't really have I remember playing
Speaker 3: some league. I do names like Jinks. I know Seraphine,
Speaker 3: the weird vtubeer ish virtual influencer one they had, but
Speaker 3: I've never felt any call to it. But I've seen
Speaker 3: so many tweets and stuff about the fact that Arcane
Speaker 3: is genuinely good. Like I'm tempted. I'm tempted.
Speaker 1: Tempted. Yeah, I think I'm gonna watch it. I've heard
Speaker 1: a lot of good about it, so I think I
Speaker 1: want to check it out. Why not? You know, why not?
Speaker 1: Why not? And then you've got wilder Myth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been playing Wildermeth at the behest of what
Speaker 4: feels like half the staff at Polygon and half the
Speaker 4: staff at fanbyte dot com who have just been like
Speaker 4: talking about this game seemingly all year. It's like, just
Speaker 4: if you like D and D, like this is just
Speaker 4: kind of like playing D and D by yourself, where
Speaker 4: you're the entire uh and you're recruiting new members and
Speaker 4: you're building them out and like they forge relationships with
Speaker 4: each other and they evolve over time. You're making different choices,
Speaker 4: you're making skill checks, you're failing skill checks. Characters can
Speaker 4: die and their legacy is remembered by future generations. Some
Speaker 4: characters that they fall in love, they can have kids.
Speaker 4: There's also queer romances as well, if you want to
Speaker 4: make your character gay, lesbian, or pan sexual. And yeah,
Speaker 4: like I'm enjoying it. I've only spent I don't know,
Speaker 4: threeish hours in the first campaign. There's multiple campaigns from
Speaker 4: the start, and you can only pick the first one
Speaker 4: from the beginning because they use it as like a
Speaker 4: teaching tool. But I think there's like six or seven
Speaker 4: different campaigns of various lengths and difficulties. There's a multiplayer
Speaker 4: component if you do actually want to play the game
Speaker 4: with other people and you're like dungeons and Dragons. Isn't
Speaker 4: that fun alone? I would like to play this with
Speaker 4: other human beings. But yeah, Like, I can definitely see
Speaker 4: why so many people are like this is my game
Speaker 4: of the year for twenty twenty one. I'm not saying that,
Speaker 4: but it's something I'm like, I could see like after
Speaker 4: playing like a few more hours of this, this like
Speaker 4: sneaking into my top ten, Like at the end of
Speaker 4: the year. I think Forgotten City is still holding the
Speaker 4: locking down the number one spot for me, but I'm
Speaker 4: enjoying my time with Wildermith.
Speaker 3: Nice. Yeah, it's on my list too. I really want
Speaker 3: to play it.
Speaker 1: Nice. All Right, that was a lot of chat about
Speaker 1: the stuff that we've done, So let's kick out games
Speaker 1: to listen to questions. If you would like to send
Speaker 1: us a listener question, you can email us the Dark
Speaker 1: Podcast at GameSpot dot com or join our discord DM
Speaker 1: me or Lucy and we will do our best to
Speaker 1: get you access to the discord. Might be slightly behind
Speaker 1: currently because of all the moving stuff and etcetera, etcetera,
Speaker 1: so but I will get to you eventually, trust us.
Speaker 1: First question comes from Kevin from West Half is at
Speaker 1: West Harford.
Speaker 3: That's heart for Virginia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, it just says Kevin from wh
Speaker 1: So I think I.
Speaker 2: Think Connecticut West Hart for Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's fine, you're from the UK.
Speaker 1: Please come on, Kevin says, Hey, Lucy James and GameSpot's
Speaker 1: other claims to fames. Wow, the newest estimates say the
Speaker 1: click the chip shortage will be over first half of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. With that in mind, do you think
Speaker 1: the average consumer should just wait until whatever half step
Speaker 1: console gets announced? But do you think that consoles will
Speaker 1: still be hard to get? One supply improves. The parallels
Speaker 1: between consoles and the long terrible sneaker scene have me
Speaker 1: a bit worried. What do you reckon? Folks?
Speaker 2: I imagine if they were planning any sort of half
Speaker 2: stuff console, that in itself would probably get delayed because
Speaker 2: there's just so many people like I just imagine everything's
Speaker 2: been shifted by a couple of years, right, Because it's like,
Speaker 2: I doubt buy twenty twenty three. These consoles are going
Speaker 2: to feel old. I feel like they will just finally
Speaker 2: start to feel like they're being fully taken advantage of
Speaker 2: because so many developers are like just kidding. Our game
Speaker 2: also works on PlayStation four an Xbox One. Please still
Speaker 2: you can still buy it, because like you don't want
Speaker 2: to like sell it next Gen only or current Gen
Speaker 2: only exclusive when so many people still don't have one.
Speaker 2: I feel like that would be a death sentence.
Speaker 3: I mean, when did the Xbox one X come out?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of, like when came out seven.
Speaker 4: Because it's usually three to four years. Yeah, after it
Speaker 4: comes out, like we just got the O lead, I
Speaker 4: mean we got the.
Speaker 2: Other one was twenty fourteen, and I think X was
Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Twenty it was twenty seventeen, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: Three years so I mean yeah, I guess like twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three would be around the time they would do it.
Speaker 4: If they did do it, that's when they would announce it.
Speaker 2: But I bet they will not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one S was twenty sixteen, and then the
Speaker 3: one NEX was twenty seventeen, and the SAD the Sad
Speaker 3: console was twenty nineteen. I also favorite name.
Speaker 2: I also don't think these just in general, even without
Speaker 2: the chip shortage, I don't think these systems quite need
Speaker 2: the half step to happen as soon as as like
Speaker 2: the other ones did like those other ones like started
Speaker 2: to kind of age out very rapidly. I feel like
Speaker 2: these consoles are a little more future proofs with sort
Speaker 2: of you know, like bexter horse power in the you know,
Speaker 2: fast SSD, Like it's not gonna I don't think we're
Speaker 2: gonna have quite the situation we had last gen, where
Speaker 2: like by the end these consoles are going to be
Speaker 2: struggling to run these games at least I hope not,
Speaker 2: but I could be wrong.
Speaker 4: You even argue that Xbox launched with its half step,
Speaker 4: like the serious S was the new one and the
Speaker 4: x was like, here's the stronger version of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's that is on the money, like
Speaker 1: they they are figuring out ways to make less powerful
Speaker 1: hardware run more taxing games instead of the other way around.
Speaker 1: Like so, I think if you buy a current gen console,
Speaker 1: the ones that are available, you should be set for
Speaker 1: the entirety of this generation. I'd be very surprised if
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, no, we've got a new version
Speaker 1: of console, the old ones kind of obsolete. That doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like that's it's in the plans for anyone. So
Speaker 1: you should definitely.
Speaker 2: Don't think they have a big hook as much because
Speaker 2: the whole thing with the Pro and the X was like, ah,
Speaker 2: I can do four K, and like these consoles can
Speaker 2: tech like the PFI can technically do a K, although
Speaker 2: not like really but even then, like AK is like
Speaker 2: such a far off pipe dream, like to become like
Speaker 2: a consumer reality. Also like you don't need it. You
Speaker 2: do not need AK, Like I'm gonna tell you right now,
Speaker 2: like four K is like the limit, Like you like
Speaker 2: four K is the limit. I want to say, there's
Speaker 2: been a study about how like past six k most
Speaker 2: human eyes can't even tell the difference anyway, So like,
Speaker 2: you do not need AK. AK is like insane. You
Speaker 2: don't need games to run at eight K. That's insane.
Speaker 2: Games don't even need to run at four k. Really,
Speaker 2: they run checkerboarded and they look great. You don't need it.
Speaker 2: It's fine, everyone relaxed and relax you're the higher resolution.
Speaker 1: Next question comes from rocket Scientists who says a lot
Speaker 1: of creatures of the night. I have three maybe four
Speaker 1: things I watch when I'm in a funk or having
Speaker 1: the worst day. What are your bad day? Vibe killer escapes?
Speaker 1: Good question.
Speaker 4: I like to go for a walk, I say, I
Speaker 4: feel like this has changed over COVID times because there
Speaker 4: were a lot of things that I used to do
Speaker 4: that I just don't do anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think going for a walk is the one
Speaker 1: that I try and do as much as possible. Or
Speaker 1: let's just go go outside, catch some rays, touch some grass,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, touch grace, Yeah, touch grace.
Speaker 1: I like we have a Sean Luck and I live
Speaker 1: in the same building. We have that area outside, which
Speaker 1: is like the the common courtyard area that I usually
Speaker 1: will if I need to all go outside and pace
Speaker 1: around there for a bit and then not anymore. Now
Speaker 1: we'll be we'll be moving. Sadly I missed that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to miss that area. It's very useful
Speaker 1: for me. Like I spent a lot of time, especially
Speaker 1: before going back to the UK, Like was I was
Speaker 1: in there a lot, just walking around trying to get expent.
Speaker 1: Every night. I'd go there every night at the very
Speaker 1: least and just walk up and down for about forty
Speaker 1: five minutes. And Yeah, in my new apartment, I won't
Speaker 1: have that because I will be just on the streets
Speaker 1: of San Francisco where wild shit is happening constantly. But yeah,
Speaker 1: other than that, like there's certain like music that I
Speaker 1: will listen to. I like to listen to a lot
Speaker 1: of anime soundtracks to like help me get in there
Speaker 1: and the kind of like get out of the space
Speaker 1: that I'm in to be somewhere more like uplifting and empowering,
Speaker 1: I guess. And then if I want to like just
Speaker 1: exit the world entirely, I'll like chuck on a game
Speaker 1: like blood Borne or something like that that I know
Speaker 1: well enough, but also yeah, feels like home.
Speaker 4: I will usually put on a video game that I'm
Speaker 4: like good enough at that it makes me feel much
Speaker 4: better at myself. Like if I'm just dominating at Apex,
Speaker 4: I'm like I'm better than all these people and it
Speaker 4: makes me feel a lot better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just stick on Lord of the Rings if
Speaker 3: I'm like in a full funk, because it's just like
Speaker 3: a film that I can or at least whichever one I watch,
Speaker 3: it's like I can dip in and be engaged with
Speaker 3: if I want to. But if I just need to
Speaker 3: zone out and go to sleep or something, I could
Speaker 3: just I Also, I also like rkgs. They play through
Speaker 3: some stuff. They're very very chill. I'm watching the Resident
Speaker 3: Evil eight one at the moment, which is very very
Speaker 3: fun and like entertaining, but also just something to get
Speaker 3: lost in a little bit, and thever and their fun lads,
Speaker 3: so definitely get out of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been watching a lot of twitch teams are
Speaker 2: good for that. I've been watching a lot of Next Lander.
Speaker 2: I really like their full motion Vinie series where Vinnie
Speaker 2: just plays fm V games. It's my favorite things that
Speaker 2: he did when the Red Giant bomb, so I'm really
Speaker 2: glad they're just still doing that. I also like watching
Speaker 2: the tubers. I'll just put on some some Corone and
Speaker 2: just listen to her play Mario Party or something.
Speaker 1: I'm Team Miko always.
Speaker 2: Good too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twitch streams have been massive. Like I've rarely gotten
Speaker 1: into twitcham. I think I also kind of coincides with
Speaker 1: actually starting to stream myself. I've been like, I've always
Speaker 1: watched twys streams, but now I'm like I usually will
Speaker 1: have some sort of twitch stream on in the background.
Speaker 1: Usually it usually it's a Hassan paiker, but like I
Speaker 1: also have I mean, yesterday I was watching three streams
Speaker 1: at once, so.
Speaker 3: What Well, to be fair, I appreciate you, like.
Speaker 1: Everyone decried to stream at the exact same time, so
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, okay, but yeah, those those helped
Speaker 1: me escape, you know, into the lives of others for
Speaker 1: a little while. You go with me, not their specific
Speaker 1: lives or whatever they're doing, you know, in their in
Speaker 1: their moment. Yeah, how about you, Jordan? Oh anything else say?
Speaker 4: I think the only other thing and it kind of
Speaker 4: like goes with your whole Twitch streaming thing. It's like
Speaker 4: I'll watch like episodes of Dimension twenty that I haven't
Speaker 4: that I've already seen, and I'm like just watching them
Speaker 4: over again because I'm like, I was just always really
Speaker 4: fun to watch people play D and D and make
Speaker 4: really silly decisions and choices and laugh at their misfortune.
Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, that's like the common theme for how
Speaker 4: I feel better is like putting others around me. If
Speaker 4: I'm like, no matter how low I am, if other
Speaker 4: people are lower, then I'm still pretty high.
Speaker 1: Lovely. It's a very healthy way to live. Final question
Speaker 1: comes from Skywitch, who says, Hey, everyone, I'm sure this
Speaker 1: is an as at some point, but what are your
Speaker 1: favorite game soundtracks for work? I like to have Fallout,
Speaker 1: Elis Bros. Online or Assassin's create soundtracks on in the back,
Speaker 1: so the bug is also awesome to drive to dragon
Speaker 1: As Inquisition. It's just epic. So what stands out for you?
Speaker 2: So many, so many many. I pretty much was only
Speaker 2: exclusively listening to video game soundtracks, like a fucking loser.
Speaker 2: I mean I, I literally in high school would put
Speaker 2: on the Persona three and four soundtrack and I would
Speaker 2: change it to fit what was happening. So I would
Speaker 2: be like, I'm walking a class, time to put on
Speaker 2: the walking to Class music from Persona four. Oh, I'm
Speaker 2: mentoring my dorm room to switch over to time it
Speaker 2: in my pocket like I would know. Yeah, such a loser.
Speaker 2: Holy shit, I'm just I'm just looking.
Speaker 3: I'm looking. I'm looking. I have a big playlist that
Speaker 3: I follow that is called I think it's called like
Speaker 3: it's all caps, just all games, all day three. Oh god,
Speaker 3: it's good.
Speaker 2: Things to just sort of like relax and decompressed to.
Speaker 2: I love listening to like nighttime ambient music in video games,
Speaker 2: so like Skyrim, Oblivion, like Breath of the Wild, like
Speaker 2: those soundtracks you just put them on, especially when somebody
Speaker 2: does a mix where they add rain sound effects on
Speaker 2: top of the music and you're like, ooh, it's like
Speaker 2: so it'll be You'll be like a rainy day beneath
Speaker 2: the mask ten hour loop and you're like, all right,
Speaker 2: time to just sit here in the dark and listen
Speaker 2: to this. Relax, just relax.
Speaker 3: So one thing I'll say is like, in terms of
Speaker 3: actual soundtracks, I listened to Mass Effect Trilogy all the time,
Speaker 3: Red Dead one and two. However, I want to give
Speaker 3: a shout out to Lo Fi Lea on Spotify, who
Speaker 3: does low fi remixes of a lot of songs and
Speaker 3: there's a lot of animal crossing Zelda Persona in there,
Speaker 3: and they are very very good. And if you put
Speaker 3: like a rainy mood on in.
Speaker 7: The background, maybe even a crackling fireplace YouTube video.
Speaker 3: As well, they go together very very well. But in
Speaker 3: terms of like I also I also have a big
Speaker 3: playlist called GTA Nice City, which is a kind of
Speaker 3: mashup of the Vice City soundtrack with Guardians of the
Speaker 3: Galaxy Volume one and two, and so it's just this
Speaker 3: It's basically an eighties mega mash but I call it
Speaker 3: Nice City and it's a very good playlist. I'm happy
Speaker 3: to share if people want it to sounds excellent.
Speaker 4: I'd say holl of Night and Assassin's Creed are my
Speaker 4: big ones. Some over the past few months, I've done
Speaker 4: Life Is Strange True Colors a few times, just because
Speaker 4: that soundtrack is awesome. If I'm just don't know what
Speaker 4: I'm in.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know because the stream and get any music
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 2: It's good music.
Speaker 4: Just trust me on this. It's an excellent soundtrack. But
Speaker 4: if I just like have no idea what type of
Speaker 4: mood I'm in and I'm just going like buck Wild,
Speaker 4: I'll do the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. So it's just
Speaker 4: like a mixture of a bunch of different franchises just
Speaker 4: mixed together.
Speaker 1: That's a great show. I usually do. I listen to
Speaker 1: a lot of fine games soundtracks, so like Marvel Versus
Speaker 1: Capcom CAPCOMs and K two, Street Fire three, like Street
Speaker 1: Fire four, three five, And then like I just do
Speaker 1: the souls Borne soundtracks a lot as well, and the
Speaker 1: Witchers soundtracks which.
Speaker 3: Is which is a good shot, wh which is.
Speaker 1: Three has got a great soundtrack. But yeah, and then
Speaker 1: like I will dip into like those those like low
Speaker 1: fi versions like Lucy sends me a bunch of them.
Speaker 1: As well. So I do listen to File a lot
Speaker 1: and yeah, just general like rain sounds as well on
Speaker 1: their own, Like I listened to that, That's that's really good.
Speaker 1: The app, I think Headspace has has a lot of
Speaker 1: options for that where you can just select a different
Speaker 1: ambiance and.
Speaker 3: Wait, we get we get calm through work as well. Yeah,
Speaker 3: calm and Calm is also the only thing I like
Speaker 3: about Calm is the or the thing that I like
Speaker 3: it about it is the they get celebrities in to
Speaker 3: read sleep stories. I have never managed to make it
Speaker 3: through the Laura Dern one because it just I don't
Speaker 3: know what it is about Laura Dern, but she just
Speaker 3: sends me to sleep. But I want that to have
Speaker 3: Like I noticed that I rely on having to listen
Speaker 3: to something to go to sleep quite a lot, and
Speaker 3: I would love to be able to train myself to
Speaker 3: not do that because it feels like I've listened to
Speaker 3: audiobooks and whatever to sleep since I was a kid,
Speaker 3: like since I had the original Harry Potters on cassette
Speaker 3: tape and Lord of the Rings as well, and so
Speaker 3: I don't know, I need to scale back from that.
Speaker 1: I think h I have been enjoying a lot of
Speaker 1: audio books as well.
Speaker 3: So I got Dune. I did get Dune because I
Speaker 3: loved the film so much and I've tried to read
Speaker 3: the book before, but it's it's quite hefty for someone
Speaker 3: with a very terrible attention span like me. But the
Speaker 3: Sandman one is great on Audible and the Dune one
Speaker 3: is apparently like a full cast as well, so I
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, this could be it.
Speaker 4: How that thing is exactly.
Speaker 3: And I also did the thing where I signed up
Speaker 3: for Audible for one month, used my token to bye tune,
Speaker 3: and then canceled it. So mark game the system baby.
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