WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:08.000 You're listening to episode sixty eight of game Spot After Dark. 2 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:10.320 This week, we're taking a look at Calli's review of 3 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:12.960 Call of Dooty Black Ops Cold War and to Moore's 4 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.000 review of Demon Souls. On top of that, wrestle buddies 5 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.559 Matt Elfring and Chris Hayner will join me to talk 6 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:31.239 about the new AEW game that just got announced. Hello, 7 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:34.759 and welcome to episode sixty eight of GameSpot After Dark, 8 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.960 GameSpot's official video game podcast. I'm your host, Jake Decker, 9 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:42.320 and joining me this week is Lucy James, Hello, Tomorrow's 10 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:48.560 saying Hi, and Kellie Plagy Hello. This week's episode is 11 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:50.200 going to be a little bit short because we are 12 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:53.200 going to skip what we've been playing, because what we've 13 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:56.679 been playing are games that just got reviewed, and fortunately 14 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:00.359 we've got both the reviewers for said games here, So 15 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:04.079 with that in mind, we're going to move right onto 16 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.239 the topics this week. But before we do that, I 17 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:08.840 do want to shout out. This weekend is our extra 18 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:11.799 live stream. Some things have changed around a little bit. 19 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:13.439 We were going to do a seventy two hour stream, 20 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.319 but we've scaled it back to twenty four hour. We've 21 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:17.040 scaled it back. 22 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:22.920 I think we I think, well, so probably overall, once 23 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:28.560 it's all done, it'll be more like fifty something. This 24 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:30.959 weekend is twelve hours. 25 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:34.200 Yeah yeah, So basically what's going to happen is that 26 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:37.840 we're going to have one twelve hour stream that's planned out, 27 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.840 and that's going to be the main extra live stream. 28 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:43.280 After that, the following week we are going to stream 29 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:47.000 individually after work, during our off time and whatnot through 30 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.640 the game spot Twitch. So if you want to, if 31 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:51.239 you want to donate, if you want to hang out, 32 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.120 be sure to follow game Spot's switch account and just 33 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:55.719 check our social media becuse I'm sure we're going to 34 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:58.719 be tweeting about it. But we have some cool ideas 35 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.000 planned for that initial twelve hour live stream, and then 36 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.159 I think we have some cool ideas for these shorter 37 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:07.719 mini live streams, Like in particular, I think we might 38 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:10.719 stream one of our fas Momphobia sessions because those are 39 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:12.800 always off the rails and a lot of fun. And 40 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:14.759 as well as that, maybe we'll do some demon souls 41 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:16.240 maybe tomorrow, do some metal gear. 42 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:17.919 We should do some overwatch time. 43 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:23.039 Oh yeah, yeah, we should do the bottom of the 44 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:25.240 Losers League crew. 45 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:29.280 We were playing a few nights ago, and we were 46 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:33.759 playing on PC with like Andy Cortez and James Williams 47 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.879 and a couple of others, and we were doing so badly. 48 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.159 That we decided to turn the league upside down. 49 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:43.120 So we were aiming to be at the bottom of 50 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.439 the league as quickly as possible. 51 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:49.280 And it was surprising how much we managed to hit 52 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:49.719 that goal. 53 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:51.120 I think we I think legit. 54 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.080 We won one game and it was the final one 55 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.240 and we all just know we're done, We're out. 56 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:58.560 Well, that sums up my entire experience with Black Ops 57 00:02:58.560 --> 00:02:59.919 called for multiplayers so far. 58 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:00.400 Yep. 59 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:04.240 But that being said, the two games we're going to 60 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.479 talk about this week are, of course Demon Souls two 61 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.360 more you reviewed that and Call of Duty Black Ops 62 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:12.639 Cold War, or as we like to call it, Cod 63 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:18.520 Blops cow Well it is Lucy was only said that 64 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:23.599 and it's Stuck, but Kelly reviewed that. What do you 65 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:25.080 guys want to start with? What do you think we 66 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:25.719 should talk about? 67 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:26.000 First? 68 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:28.199 Yak is a like a dragon. 69 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:29.599 All right, let's start with that. 70 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:32.439 It's a great game. You should all play it. 71 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:34.840 We talked a little bit about it last week. I 72 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:36.840 gotta play more of it. I haven't had time, but yeah, 73 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:38.080 it's it's very good. 74 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.080 Every time I think about yakas I like a dragon, 75 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:44.240 I think about the character's main main characters name Ichipon, 76 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:48.080 and then I think about Joey Tribani's advert for Ichibon 77 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:54.840 lipstick for men from Friends Psycho. So yeah, that's my 78 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:56.879 impression of ya because I like a dragon. 79 00:03:57.560 --> 00:03:57.759 Hic. 80 00:03:58.360 --> 00:03:58.759 There you have. 81 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:03.800 That's the podcast. 82 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:07.479 Why don't we start with Call of Duty? Yeah, Kelly, 83 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:11.240 you're reviewing this game. Technically, your review isn't live yet, 84 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.879 but you have a review in progress and you're actively 85 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:16.680 playing it. However, by the time this goes up, your 86 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:17.519 review should be live. 87 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:25.199 Yeah. Yeah, So the reviewing progress focused heavily on the campaign, 88 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:27.920 which I really enjoyed. I think it's like it's so 89 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:33.600 different from Modern Warfare, which I think is really self serious. 90 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:36.439 And you know, the further away I got from that game, 91 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:41.839 the more I disliked it, whereas I thought Cold War 92 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:45.160 is a lot more fantastical. It's just kind of like 93 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.199 like you're just back on your bullshit. It's what it 94 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:50.000 feels like to me, and you can't really write that 95 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.160 into review. So I wrote a lot of words about 96 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.199 why I had fun with it. There's like a level 97 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:58.240 in particular, I would say it's like halfway through the 98 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.319 campaign that I think is like so cleverly done and 99 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.360 really fun and different from the rest of the levels 100 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:11.439 where you're inside a KGB building and I don't know, 101 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:13.680 there's just a lot of like spy bullshit. That's that's 102 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:17.639 like I just really really enjoyed, even though like, yeah, 103 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:21.519 I think it's funny to goof on Ronald Reagan or whatever. 104 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:26.120 People have been like dunking on the non binary character option, 105 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.000 which I think is just from a place where they 106 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.079 don't understand what it actually does in the game, which 107 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.040 is just make sure they use the right pronouns when 108 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.519 they talk about you in the third person. It's not 109 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.560 like a big deal at all, but like it's so 110 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:41.199 far from reality in my opinion that I just got 111 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:42.639 to have fun with it and it didn't make me 112 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:46.519 think about like sad and bad things. So I appreciated 113 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:52.360 that the bar is so low. But it's actually good multiplayer, 114 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:55.199 you know, like I'm still playing that. I've been having 115 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:58.680 a lot of server issues, so that's been kind of 116 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.439 delaying the review a little bit, which is just you know, 117 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.079 to be expected because obviously this is not just a 118 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:08.879 cross platform game, it's also a cross generation game that 119 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.399 was released during a pandemic. So like, I'm not going 120 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:15.439 to be too upset about some server issues, but I 121 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.800 really liked Combined Arms. Like Combined Arms. 122 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:19.120 As a mode. 123 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:23.120 It's like, I think it does ground war a lot 124 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.360 better than ground War did in modern warfare. Like it's 125 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:30.759 a bigger I think it's twelve y twelve vehicle focused, 126 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:36.319 objective based thing, but I found it a lot snappier 127 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:38.519 than ground War. I didn't care for ground War very much, 128 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:40.680 and so I'm enjoying that a lot. There's one map 129 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:42.439 that I think is so clever where it's just like 130 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.160 a bunch of ships and you can get on like 131 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:48.079 a it's not quite a jet ski, I don't know 132 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:50.319 what you would call it, but some like little speedboat 133 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:54.040 thing and then do yeah, sure, I like the. 134 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:56.560 Way I think that's a ski thing, like a like 135 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:58.079 a jet ski of the snow. 136 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:02.240 They do have that snowmobiles in some levels. 137 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:06.560 A jet ski snow episode title this. 138 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:11.680 Week that's ironically it sounds like a like a Demon 139 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:16.079 Souls character. Hello, it's me, my name is My name 140 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:18.560 is author I am the jet ski of the snow. 141 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:24.240 That's the vehicle I'm taking straight to hell. Yeah, you 142 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:26.000 get on like a speedboat, or you can get in 143 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:29.079 like a boat with a turret, so you can pilot, pilot, 144 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:34.040 captain drive. Do you drive boats. I don't know a 145 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:39.120 lot about maritime anything, maritime law. 146 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:40.800 All I know is you can get away with anything 147 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:41.639 on the open sea. 148 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:43.800 Don't threaten me with a maritime. 149 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:47.120 See the blue pot is the land. 150 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:58.839 Something something because of the implication anyway, so taking a swig. Sorry, absolutely, 151 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.519 we're just this has been a fun train wreck of 152 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:05.160 a minute here. But anyway, Yeah, you can like use 153 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:08.879 the ships like many boat things to get from ship 154 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:13.160 to ship where there's different objectives And my dog is 155 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.800 barking and it's really distracting me. But the point is 156 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.120 it's a clever integration of vehicles that I found really fun. 157 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:22.680 And like I said, I think it just embraces like 158 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.240 the back on our bullshit kind of vibe I'm getting 159 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:28.000 from Cold War where it's just like having a good time. 160 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.879 You know, may or may not be committing war crimes, 161 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:36.000 but if we are, they they didn't exist in real life, 162 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:42.279 so that's nice and there's and there's stiplines. 163 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.639 Man, I ask a question about a character from the 164 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:47.360 campaign because I haven't played it yet. 165 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:49.159 Is that Robert Redfood? 166 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.559 I am not good with actors. 167 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:58.360 It looks so much like Robert Redfood that I was like, 168 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:00.200 this is one way to get me involve. 169 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.919 If you want to know what songs are featured in 170 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.679 the campaign that I'm able to pick out, but not 171 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:13.320 an actor's case. We got the song stroke Me, which 172 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:18.279 was featured on the Blades of Glory soundtrack. Oh nice, 173 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.799 I just dropped an image of potential of actual Robert Redford. Okay, 174 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.840 I'm gonna click on this picture of it looks like him, 175 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:27.720 but it's not him. 176 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:30.360 Okay, definitely looks like Activision. 177 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:31.480 You've lost a customers. 178 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.799 Oh and you got some Steppenwolf in the Vietnam flashback 179 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:41.240 of course, damn game. 180 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:42.919 You know. 181 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:44.720 When I saw that, I was like, because I wrote 182 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:47.200 I had to like write the words Steppenwolf in my 183 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:50.639 review because I didn't know how else to describe that moment. 184 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.360 And then that news came out and I was like, wait, 185 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:55.759 did I get the name of that band wrong? And 186 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:57.399 then I had to like look it up again. 187 00:09:58.320 --> 00:09:59.519 No, was what was the. 188 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.720 Did they use the same song they used in Black Ops? 189 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:08.480 Because I think they used rolling Stones, right, sympathy for 190 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:11.879 the Devil, I want to say, in the Vietnam and 191 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:15.200 they used I don't think there's any rolling Stones. 192 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.879 I always just whenever there's a Vietnam scene, I always 193 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.840 just assume it's going to be Creeden's clear Water, yeah 194 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:25.720 or yeah, like that's always where my brain goes in 195 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:27.360 like ninety five percent of the time. 196 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:28.320 That's right. 197 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:32.399 But yeah, this is this is not them, but Steppenwolf 198 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:36.120 like is almost like they sound very fair and it works. 199 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:40.759 It's in the same family. I also, I was really 200 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.840 worried about the Vietnam flashbacks because that kind of thing 201 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:46.879 gives me a lot of pause. But I think there's 202 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:51.840 once again bullshit Black Ops reasons for it that I 203 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.639 was just like, all right, whatever, I'm on board. 204 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:57.120 So yeah. 205 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.080 And then Zombies, which said about zombies because I've been 206 00:10:59.039 --> 00:10:59.759 playing a lot of that. 207 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:01.480 Yeah, Well, I mean I didn't want to talk a 208 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:04.480 little b about the campaign too, because I did play 209 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.440 through it and I feel the same way. I really 210 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:08.759 enjoyed it. I thought it was a lot of fun. 211 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:14.399 It definitely was more enjoyable than Modern Warfare's campaign. I 212 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:17.360 think Modern Warfare had some standout moments that I preferred, 213 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:20.360 like that part where you're like where you can choose 214 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:22.559 which objective you want to take out at night or 215 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:24.639 which objective you want to do in which order at 216 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:25.639 night with the night vision. 217 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:27.279 Like I thought that mission was cool. 218 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:29.559 Yeah, Like that mission was really cool. But one thing 219 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.559 I really liked about the campaign this time around were 220 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:37.279 the side missions because of how you had to I 221 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:39.840 guess you could run them. You didn't need to, like 222 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.840 there were ways to do them properly. You could just 223 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:45.480 run them and just mess them up, or you could 224 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:49.279 solve these little codes in order to figure out like 225 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.759 what your who your targets are, or what exactly you're 226 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:54.559 going after. And they give you a bunch of evidence 227 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.159 and you have to cross reference the evidence and figure 228 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:01.080 out a pattern that works and like solve passwords and stuff. 229 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:06.120 It feels really cool, like it's simple. But I don't know, 230 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:07.840 I really liked how it worked. It just felt like 231 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:11.159 a neat little wrinkled to the normal call of duty 232 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:14.000 madness that happens. And there is a lot of that. 233 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:16.000 There's a lot of just like running and shooting and 234 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:19.879 blowing things up, but I really like the quiet moments. 235 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:22.320 And there's quite a bit in this game which surprised me. 236 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.480 It's the first Call of Duty game I've ever played 237 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:26.720 where I had to write down clues to a puzzle 238 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.279 in my note Yeah. 239 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:29.720 I had to do that too. 240 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.159 I love the idea of thinking of your notebook and 241 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.440 it's just the word gone fire, question mark. 242 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:41.120 How long are your real last puzzle? How long is 243 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.679 the campaign again? Did you say it's like five hours? 244 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:44.080 Maybe? 245 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:52.200 Music to my ears, I ran it twice because there's two. 246 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:56.519 There's two like main endings, and then there's, like Jake said, 247 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.399 some side stuff where you can do if you do 248 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:00.399 the puzzle and you solve the puzzle correctly, you get 249 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.480 like the true ending of that side story, or you 250 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:06.159 can like just do it and then like it's like, oh, 251 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:09.120 if we don't solve this, the spy ring will stay 252 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:11.440 intact or whatever. And I don't think it actually like 253 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:13.600 does anything to the story, but it's just like another 254 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:16.440 like wrinkle that is kind of laid out for you 255 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.279 at the end, like the things you did or didn't do. 256 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:22.960 I will say that, Yeah, before I know, God, I'm 257 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:24.759 all over the place. Sorry, but I do want to 258 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.720 go back to the campaign to just to say that 259 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:33.360 I do think that one of the endings, like the 260 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:37.759 is like the like ostensibly the bad ending, because it's 261 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:40.320 just like it makes you do some stuff that was 262 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:41.879 like I was like, I don't want to do this. 263 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:43.960 I feel so bad, Like it just makes you be 264 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:46.639 the bad guy. And it's like so over the top 265 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:51.320 and ridiculous that it's like whatever, but it it. The 266 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:57.000 end result of it is that basically America does some 267 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:01.159 bad stuff in the game that it could like it 268 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.759 would be fair if you were another country to be like, wow, America, 269 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.360 you really shit the bed on this one. That was 270 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:12.120 not a cool thing that you did in the fifties. 271 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.600 And then and then, but everybody in your squad is like, 272 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.279 oh my god, if this thing happens, America is gonna 273 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.320 be blamed. And I was like, yeah, I sure hope 274 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:24.399 it does. And but like nobody seemed to nobody in 275 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:27.000 the game seemed to think like, yeah, America really did 276 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:27.519 screw up. 277 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:28.840 This is a bad. 278 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.360 Thing atrocities ahead, Yeah, I sure hope it does. 279 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.320 There would have been such a good opportunity to explore 280 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.360 that because in between missions, you go to your safe 281 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:40.840 house where you talk to your crew members and you 282 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.679 can pick dialogue options and ask them about different things, 283 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.120 and that seems like the perfect place to address that. 284 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.039 You even have someone from six and you'd imagine the 285 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.799 person from Mi Sex would be like, Wow, you guys 286 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:53.600 really mess this up, can't you. 287 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.679 Oh you fucked it in it exactly. 288 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.679 Yeah, But but that just kind of doesn't happen. Everyone 289 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:01.799 just takes it as is. They're like, oh, we gotta 290 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:03.600 stop the bad guy because the bad guy is going 291 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:05.440 to do bad things with the thing we lost. 292 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:09.559 Yeah, So so that that part I was kind of like, ah, 293 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:12.039 you almost had me. It's it's so clear. It's like 294 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.639 so clear that at least one person on that writing 295 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:18.600 team is like really trying their hardest to like examine 296 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:26.320 America's role in the world stage and American military religion 297 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:30.120 as a concept, and like, you know, it's so clear 298 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:32.960 that like and like even the I know, like like 299 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:34.679 I said, I know people are goofing on the non 300 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.879 binary character option, but like I do think that's like, hey, 301 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:40.000 at least you get to like choose the pronouns that 302 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.440 you're referred to, and like I think that can make 303 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:45.879 someone more comfortable if they're listening. Like even like I 304 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:48.960 always hated playing as male characters just because I don't know, 305 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.320 I just wanted to be a girl in the game. 306 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.679 So like I understand what kind of gesture that is. 307 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.639 I So it's like it's like one day you're gonna 308 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:02.200 get it. Man, you almost there. I really trying. 309 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:04.559 When you said one person is trying, I had an 310 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:06.679 image of one person writing and then looking up and 311 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:09.159 then every other member of the writing team like holding 312 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:09.960 fidget spinners. 313 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:16.279 Like one thing I. 314 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:19.759 Did, like two about the creative character sort of thing 315 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:21.679 at the beginning. It's it's not super in depth, but 316 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:25.120 you pick your pronouns, you pick your name. But I 317 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.080 really liked that you were able to pick your name 318 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:29.399 because it was kind of cool to start every Call 319 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.799 of Duty mission where it would show like like it 320 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.679 was like Jake Decker, Jake Bell Decker because that's what 321 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:36.879 the player character's name is, Bell, and then it would 322 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.480 like cross him out like they were they were classified. Yeah, 323 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:41.919 And I don't know, it was just kind of cool 324 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.279 because it's like I have played probably twenty Call of 325 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:46.879 Duty games at this point. I don't know, maybe not 326 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:48.919 that many, but I played lots of Call of Duty games, 327 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:51.679 and there was something cool about just seeing my name 328 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:56.000 show up instead of like soldier Resnov and. 329 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.639 It always, it always gives you the middle name Bell. 330 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:00.600 Yeah, because it's like. 331 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:04.640 My new character Tackle. 332 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:08.480 I was gonna say, I was gonna say, if your 333 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:09.119 surname was. 334 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:16.680 Endle Bell. 335 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:21.319 Is the episode title. I think we figured it. 336 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:25.079 Out quick, quick, tangent. 337 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:29.640 My dad's name is Garrick, and in Modern where is this? 338 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:32.920 In Modern Warfare, one of the characters is named Grek, 339 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:34.559 and he thought that was so freaking cool. 340 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:38.279 So so now we all get to last year. 341 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:40.960 My dad felt my dad, I was like, I could 342 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:43.000 I hate I don't like making it my name. 343 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:43.759 I don't like my name. 344 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:45.680 So I was like, Dad, what's a cool eighties name? 345 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:47.519 And he was like, Agent Orange. 346 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:50.119 So I was Orange. 347 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:57.599 So that's what I went with because I didn't I 348 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:01.440 couldn't think of anything. Yeah, I totally get that, Jake. 349 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.359 I love seeing my own name in video games. 350 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:03.920 I love it. 351 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:07.720 Yeah, well, I mean like it wasn't that, Like I 352 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:09.480 don't know, I've seen my name in plenty of games, right, 353 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:11.039 like Pokemon. I always picked my name, but it was 354 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.559 just need to see that. In Call of Duty, Yeah, totally. 355 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:17.599 It's always like whatever soldier you are, but this time 356 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:19.599 it actually like your name pops up and that kind 357 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:21.440 of took me by surprise. That is kind of cool, 358 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.079 Like I feel a little more connected to what's going 359 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:28.599 on here with the explosions and gunfires gun fighters. But 360 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:31.039 we should probably talk a little bit about zombies before 361 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:35.839 we move on to Demon Souls, because zombies has been 362 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:39.640 pretty fun, even though it has been having the bulk 363 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:41.599 of the issues, at least from my experience. 364 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:46.880 We spend probably no less than fifteen minutes troubleshooting before 365 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.720 we even get into a match, because. 366 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:51.440 And then we'll get into the match and someone will 367 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:53.200 get kicked right at the beginning, and we'll back. 368 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.960 To something well, because half of us are on PS 369 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.279 five and half are on Xbox Series X. And then 370 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:02.240 we were trying to play with Mike Maharty, friend of 371 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:05.319 the show, who is on PS four, and that just 372 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:06.559 never listened to this show. 373 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:08.240 I was not a friend of the show. 374 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:08.720 He's just. 375 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:17.720 Uh, Mike Mahardy is playing on PS four currently, and 376 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:19.839 we couldn't even get in a game with him. I 377 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:21.559 think we spent an hour trying to start a game. 378 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.599 Then eventually we were like, all right, good night, goodbye, Mike. 379 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:26.880 Oh yeah, we're going. 380 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.440 On We're going offline. Uh yeah, I got what Tomas. 381 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.200 Actually see you still online. 382 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:35.440 Because Mike left the call and nobody else left the call, 383 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:37.720 and we were like, so, uh we're gonna try again. 384 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:39.920 And it worked. 385 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:42.880 We love you, Mike, even though you don't listen to 386 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:44.000 the show so you won't hear this. 387 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:45.920 Yeah. 388 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.279 So we would have like a lot of trouble with 389 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:51.359 Zombies two. So I'm framing it kind of like it's 390 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:54.000 a cross play issue, but it's actually not. I had 391 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.839 the same issue when playing with John Luke and Phil 392 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:00.960 Who in the pre release period on PS five, So 393 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:06.200 it's just a matchmaking issues. Basically, it's not matchmaking if 394 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.359 you're solo matchmaking and to multiplayer that works fine in 395 00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:13.559 my experience. It's partying up that is really difficult. Obviously 396 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:16.400 we are because of these difficulties. We've just been using Discord. 397 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:18.480 So I have like one earbut in one ear and 398 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:20.359 then I cover it with my headphones so I can 399 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.960 hear the game, and then my ear hurts. So it's 400 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:26.279 just it's not elegant, but we figured it out mostly, 401 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:29.640