Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday. I forgot how to do the show.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, everything is falling off the rails. If
Speaker 1: you're watching the video, I'm turning pink. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one, December seventeen, twenty twenty four. This
Speaker 1: might be the last live BombCast of the year. Actually,
Speaker 1: now that I think about it, after I'm going through
Speaker 1: the schedule in my head, Welcome to the Giant BombCast.
Speaker 1: As I said, we are powered by the holiday spirit,
Speaker 1: and that holiday spirit is compelling me to tell you that.
Speaker 1: My name is Jana cho Joined as always co captain
Speaker 1: of the Ship. He's he's he's got a list and
Speaker 1: he's checking it twice, and he doesn't care if you're
Speaker 1: naughty or nice. He's still gonna give you a bag
Speaker 1: of bricks. Jeff Grus, that's right, how to everybody? The
Speaker 1: pink is coming for me now, Jan I'm getting pretty scared.
Speaker 1: I was looking at the live feed. It's come for
Speaker 1: me in Ohio. It's happening. The pink is coming for you.
Speaker 1: I I uh, I watched I listened to like a
Speaker 1: couple eighties songs on the flight home and now I'm
Speaker 1: just just feeling it and everything. Yeah, speaking about feeling it,
Speaker 1: he's always feeling it because he's he's a man of
Speaker 1: the people. He's he is soft and hard at the
Speaker 1: same time. Dan, record, that's correct s a w ft.
Speaker 1: But how much of the old Enzo intro could you do? Uh?
Speaker 2: It's funny because I was doing for some reason, I
Speaker 2: had it stuck in my head this morning a little bit.
Speaker 3: What a weird coincidence, Like I just need to do a.
Speaker 2: Bit with that today and now then I'd be like, No,
Speaker 2: people don't like Enzo rightfully, so I just like.
Speaker 4: The first word, bona fides ud. You can't teach that.
Speaker 4: This is a big cast. He's seven feet tall and
Speaker 4: you can't bottom of the boom.
Speaker 1: Really, the guys in the room, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: We should we should start doing that, Dan.
Speaker 5: That's that's take it for Menzo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, walk into the JW and do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the samewich, the sandwich is seven feet tall.
Speaker 5: UK, we're right it down for next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, And I joining us as
Speaker 1: halfways the baddest boy in games. Media from Games Beat
Speaker 1: Mike Manati.
Speaker 2: Hello, it's me Mike MANAUGHTI and I'm I'm mad that
Speaker 2: you guys wasted food, and now I'm mad that people
Speaker 2: ate the food, and now I'm mad at just the
Speaker 2: idea that no, that you disrespected people.
Speaker 3: I love the one two three there. I saw that
Speaker 3: to where it's like, yeah.
Speaker 4: They were poisoned people with food because they ate it,
Speaker 4: but also they didn't eat it, So we wasted food,
Speaker 4: and we did it because we hate developers and want
Speaker 4: to make them look like cools. They must have heard
Speaker 4: our meeting about the sandwich.
Speaker 3: Bit there seemed to like it all. Everybody was real
Speaker 3: happy about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also not like we supported a local business
Speaker 1: and probably like maybe fun to them for the rest
Speaker 1: of the week.
Speaker 3: Assholes when you think about it, Yeah.
Speaker 1: What a bunch of jerks. Anyway, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a very good bit. We should go bigger next year.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah absolutely. Uh do you think people would
Speaker 1: have been less mad if it wasn't just turkey subs?
Speaker 4: They were because I ate a good chunk of bit
Speaker 4: during our watch along or before it, and it was dry.
Speaker 4: But that was a decision, I said, just meat, cheese
Speaker 4: and lettuce because being considered of those developers, I was like,
Speaker 4: they're gonna be wearing suits, They're gonna be walking into
Speaker 4: a awards show. I don't want a bunch of sauce
Speaker 4: and shit leaking out and getting on their their fancy clothes.
Speaker 4: So that's why they were pretty dry.
Speaker 1: We were so considerate.
Speaker 5: We were absolutely.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I found a baggy full of chopped
Speaker 1: up tomatoes and a giant vat of mustard afterwards, and
Speaker 1: we're like, who brought this to the JW, only to realize, oh,
Speaker 1: this was meant for the sandwiches.
Speaker 3: It was on the side in case people wanted to
Speaker 3: indulge there.
Speaker 1: We should have started giving those away as well.
Speaker 4: M hm oh yeah, that was just up in our room, folks.
Speaker 1: This is where we're back. We did the Game Awards,
Speaker 1: the countdown to the Game Awards pre show stream last
Speaker 1: last week. We also did a GB at Night last week.
Speaker 1: Fantastic job hosting as always, grow up, thank you, and
Speaker 1: we also did some other things. We recorded some pods,
Speaker 1: some Game of the Year podcast deliberations that will go
Speaker 1: up over the holiday bricking break.
Speaker 5: HI thought they went great.
Speaker 6: Yes, me too.
Speaker 4: I was very happy. With all four days of that
Speaker 4: podcast that was. I think people are going to enjoy
Speaker 4: listening to those.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to it and people like
Speaker 6: look getting a chance to listen to it hang out
Speaker 6: with us. Yeah, it was a good time.
Speaker 1: It's uh, you know, we we have found a way
Speaker 1: to make remote podcasting really work and keep the dynamic
Speaker 1: nice and tight even when we throw everyone in there
Speaker 1: when we have like a gigantic pod for like a
Speaker 1: special a cage. But it's nice to see and feel
Speaker 1: that that whole dynamic carries over almost tenfold in person
Speaker 1: where it's a bunch of idiots together.
Speaker 4: Well, and I think the really remarkable thing is we
Speaker 4: went back to the old styles. So Eurovision played well
Speaker 4: for the you know, the visual of the graph and
Speaker 4: everything for the live shows, but we went back to
Speaker 4: like just the arguments of the debates and things like
Speaker 4: that that we used to do.
Speaker 5: And goddamn if there weren't nine.
Speaker 4: Of us and we all, uh, I think we did
Speaker 4: a fantastic job, everyone getting their shit in. Wasn't a
Speaker 4: lot of talking over each other or anything, not a
Speaker 4: arguments or anything. This is this is a crue that
Speaker 4: this is a well oiled machine here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3: I was a little surprised Skull and Bones one. But
Speaker 3: otherwise when.
Speaker 1: What what the damn?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I mean only two people will und up
Speaker 1: crying after their courting, so that's better than normal, right.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, huge improvement.
Speaker 1: Any other standouts or highlights fun memes from the trip.
Speaker 3: Jeff Seawan and I went to Universal.
Speaker 1: I really regretted not going with y'all. It was fun.
Speaker 2: You know, we got that bonus pass you get there
Speaker 2: an hour early so you can do the Nintendo stuff
Speaker 2: before the people. So like with that, we were able
Speaker 2: to knock all of that stuff out and get our
Speaker 2: Told Stool Cafe reservation.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: I was able to even do like, you know, I
Speaker 2: didn't do toldst do before. I didn't do like the
Speaker 2: Bowser Junior Challenging before because usually in the middle of
Speaker 2: the day that stuff even has a line and it's
Speaker 2: just like, you know, bump a block and you know,
Speaker 2: get a key and then you go inside a tunnel
Speaker 2: you play a connect game. Yeah, but it was fun
Speaker 2: to just do without a line. But yeah, like that,
Speaker 2: those first two hours are so important. You get so
Speaker 2: much stuff done. We got everything in that lower lot, Transformers,
Speaker 2: Jurassic World, Mummy, and then throughout the day we did
Speaker 2: basically everything in that park and including out some special
Speaker 2: Christmas stuff that's going on, like a Hogwarts kind of
Speaker 2: light show, and they had a Grinch little stage show
Speaker 2: thing too.
Speaker 3: All a lot of fun. It was a great time, lovely.
Speaker 1: I was going to go.
Speaker 4: I was going to change my flight and go, and
Speaker 4: the night before I was like, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: decide how I feel tomorrow. He has been a long week.
Speaker 4: If I feel like I have the energy, I will
Speaker 4: meet them at the hotel at like six thirty or
Speaker 4: whatever to go to Universal. But if I'm not feeling
Speaker 4: up for it, man Beckler will go to the pantry
Speaker 4: and get some breakfast. I woke up and felt like
Speaker 4: such shit. I was like, I am sleeping in until
Speaker 4: the second I have to go to Lax.
Speaker 5: He blew home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's in fun. I was jealous of the photos
Speaker 4: and stuff, but I've been there before. Yeah again, Dan,
Speaker 4: don't worry.
Speaker 5: I want to go again next time. But this was
Speaker 5: like look back.
Speaker 4: It was like the craziest week in terms of like
Speaker 4: busyness and shows. It Giant Bomb has get her done
Speaker 4: in terms of doing like oh yeah, basically the whole
Speaker 4: Game of the which every year that was always the
Speaker 4: biggest thing we had to do.
Speaker 5: It was you know, E three and then Game.
Speaker 1: Of the Year.
Speaker 4: But we basically did like all of this and more
Speaker 4: like that. Fucking like the pre show was the biggest
Speaker 4: production we've ever been involved with, totally.
Speaker 3: You know, this crew previous screw like that. I've never seen.
Speaker 1: Anything like real quick Dan to like talk about production wise,
Speaker 1: the control room was forty minutes away in Culver City,
Speaker 1: so we were like beaming from the cameras straight to
Speaker 1: an actual control room where John Luke was helping them
Speaker 1: switch in TD everything wild shit.
Speaker 4: Greb and I had a couple producers, like you know,
Speaker 4: I had one producer and Greb had another, you know,
Speaker 4: Greb his man on the streets mine for my game
Speaker 4: show bits. And we got lunch with them and we're
Speaker 4: talking with the producers. They were the fucking producers that
Speaker 4: did the YouTube pre show with Norm the fucking big
Speaker 4: the atarger here.
Speaker 1: They were the.
Speaker 4: Ones who did that and we got to talk to
Speaker 4: I just talked Norm stories with them the whole lunch
Speaker 4: and further like they were awesome. There was somebody and
Speaker 4: they also were the producers on Norms YouTube show. So
Speaker 4: it's just like non stoping arm talk and everything was
Speaker 4: just fantastic.
Speaker 6: That's cool. It was amazing because like Dan's like, hey,
Speaker 6: have you ever seen it? And they're both like, yeah,
Speaker 6: we produced the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you fucking kidding me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: My producer was the one that bought him the sweatpants
Speaker 6: that looked like jeans. He's like, yeah, I went to
Speaker 6: the store and bought those for him. I'm like, this
Speaker 6: is incredible, that's cool.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that I want to make there's no
Speaker 3: stolen valor or anything.
Speaker 2: I had nothing to do with that pre show, but
Speaker 2: I want to say that you all did a fantastic
Speaker 2: job with that.
Speaker 1: It was really fun just to watch you all. Thanks Mikey,
Speaker 1: Thanks Mikey.
Speaker 5: Than Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was just the craziest week I've ever seen, a
Speaker 4: giant bomb in terms of just sheer amount of shit
Speaker 4: we were doing and it all went great.
Speaker 1: Yea yeah, So again for folks that were able to
Speaker 1: cash it, I suggest you go back and watch it
Speaker 1: as well. The slot car bit was not working at
Speaker 1: all during any of the tests I know.
Speaker 4: Which doesn't know the track was falling apart, cars are
Speaker 4: falling off the loopy loop all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like in the actual run of it, I
Speaker 1: just reame remember just standing there with Nikki just looking
Speaker 1: in awe of like it's working.
Speaker 6: Work. Yeah, both cars are working. Neither one fell off
Speaker 6: a single time. It was crazy.
Speaker 4: We had wardrobe and make up people like you know,
Speaker 4: my god, Yeah, me and Mike had go in there
Speaker 4: at one point before the GB and Night show and
Speaker 4: I'm just like, like, we don't need to humor us here,
Speaker 4: It's fine. It just like put some stuff on her
Speaker 4: head to like make it not shiny or whatever they.
Speaker 2: Like, Like Tam was over on the side getting like
Speaker 2: his hair tight and like rubber bands. Like yeah, I
Speaker 2: think I think I got a placebo makeup put on
Speaker 2: me as well.
Speaker 1: Uh shouts out to like our I guess, like our
Speaker 1: our costume person, because she said I looked great when
Speaker 1: I came in, and then she was like, well, let
Speaker 1: me go steam your jacket. And then she looks at
Speaker 1: my pants and the hem was a little too long
Speaker 1: because I just got it off the rack. And then
Speaker 1: she's like, hey, here, let me go hem your pants.
Speaker 1: And I thought like, oh, do you. Wow, you need
Speaker 1: me to take my pants off for like you're gonna
Speaker 1: you have like a small sewing machine. And then she
Speaker 1: pulls out like a little looks like a little staple gun,
Speaker 1: and then she just like folds my pants and then
Speaker 1: she goes and then they're instantly hammed. Oh no fucking
Speaker 1: clue how she did that? Amazing?
Speaker 6: Yeah, they were all very impressive.
Speaker 1: Everyone's super amazing.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: It's cool when you work with cool people. Huh.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you really really know what they're doing and and
Speaker 4: and make you look like like you know what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and now we can phone it in for
Speaker 2: the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I never want to press the button again. Also,
Speaker 1: Special shouts out to like a little turbo baby Sean
Speaker 1: uh again and shine on asking some cues to a
Speaker 1: bunch of fine folks out on the La Live streets and.
Speaker 2: Everything's like first time at like when these industry events
Speaker 2: and really got thrown into the deep end there and fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's right, that's right, that's right. Uh gosh, and
Speaker 1: it's always fun, say a bunch of people. I never
Speaker 1: stay out. I generally go to sleep around like ten
Speaker 1: or eleven eleven is the latest, will stay up. I
Speaker 1: think I only got cumulatively, like maybe ten hours of
Speaker 1: sleep the whole time over the week.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, everyone slept for like twelve hours.
Speaker 1: We got back.
Speaker 4: I slept for twelve hours that first night and then
Speaker 4: was up for a few hours and took a three
Speaker 4: hour nap after that.
Speaker 1: It was hell, yeah, me too.
Speaker 6: I'm definitely still catching up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 2: I got home on Monday, I was like, I'm going
Speaker 2: to stream tonight, it's been a while. And then like
Speaker 2: it was like seven p I'm like, now I.
Speaker 1: Go to bed my very last day because I think
Speaker 1: I was also supposed to go to the pantry with
Speaker 1: back Lark, but then I woke up. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm dead, okay, cool. I look over to my side
Speaker 1: and Michael Him's there, perfect, and I forgot that. I like,
Speaker 1: Michael Heim needed a place to stay. I'm like, just
Speaker 1: stay in my room and spile like I'm just so.
Speaker 1: I was really scared at first, but then it's funny.
Speaker 1: He was sleeping like an angel. He was sleeping looking
Speaker 1: like he was mid DAP because it was just.
Speaker 3: Like its default, like idle sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great. It was great.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I left a couple of candy bars and a sugar
Speaker 1: free red Bull for the boy for when he woke up.
Speaker 1: It was great. Nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was on two flights with Jeff and I was
Speaker 2: hoping that he would have the opportunity to do the
Speaker 2: right thing and wait for me hunting out the plane.
Speaker 2: But fortunately, I think he might have done this if
Speaker 2: I designed He was like always in the back row
Speaker 2: or second a back row, so I always got out
Speaker 2: first and I was the one waiting for him.
Speaker 6: But you did wait for me each time. So yeah,
Speaker 6: grub your back right right there.
Speaker 3: I'm a back row guy on the plane. You too.
Speaker 6: If like I can't get like relatively close to the front,
Speaker 6: then yeah, I'm just gonna go all the way to
Speaker 6: the back them right there by the bathroom and not.
Speaker 1: When I had to go.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I feel like you kind of got it
Speaker 4: to yourself. A more chance of like open rows and stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm always bad.
Speaker 6: You have more chance to be able to put the
Speaker 6: suitcase up in case it's like there's a bunch of
Speaker 6: people there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want back of the bus, back of the plane.
Speaker 4: I do, like I always like to be way back
Speaker 4: there for.
Speaker 2: All those other things. I agree, but plane I don't
Speaker 2: like being very back for some reason. I don't know why,
Speaker 2: like closer to the front. Maybe it's because, like in
Speaker 2: my stupid head, I'm like, well, they put first class
Speaker 2: in the front, so even though I'm not first class,
Speaker 2: they closer.
Speaker 1: I get.
Speaker 2: Part of it is like I do get antsy wants
Speaker 2: the plane lands that I do want to get out
Speaker 2: of the plane, even though like I'm just gonna wait
Speaker 2: for my luggage if everybody else right, like, the sooner
Speaker 2: I get off the plane, the better.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, sure, I always hate the weird dosy dough
Speaker 1: where when you have a later boarding group you got
Speaker 1: to stuff your bags further back in the plane and
Speaker 1: then you got to walk back to your seat, and
Speaker 1: then you do you're part of like the jumble of
Speaker 1: everyone standing up as soon as you land, and no
Speaker 1: one needs to fucking stand up as soon as you
Speaker 1: land because we're all gonna get off the plane a bench.
Speaker 2: Yeah I'm kind of that person too, because again I'm
Speaker 2: just get antsy. There was a new thing on the
Speaker 2: planes this time, or you know, I have my backpack,
Speaker 2: I don't have a roller on for it, but I
Speaker 2: don't want to put my backpack under my seat because
Speaker 2: then I have nowhere to put my feet, so I
Speaker 2: put it in the overhead bins. This is the first
Speaker 2: time I heard them say like, only the roller bag
Speaker 2: going the overhead bins. If you have anything else, it's
Speaker 2: got to go under the seat. And you know me,
Speaker 2: I love the follow rules, right, get very interest when
Speaker 2: I don't even I was like fuck that.
Speaker 4: It was the thing that Manati got really uh, somebody's
Speaker 4: breaking a rule, and he got very nervous about Oh
Speaker 4: the thing you said you would.
Speaker 1: Have died at? Was NICKI?
Speaker 3: Can I you're in the chat, Nikki, can I talk
Speaker 3: about the bar?
Speaker 4: Technical okay? Nicky says yes, sorry. Manatti says he would
Speaker 4: have died if he was here. When Nicki did this,
Speaker 4: we was acting like for some reason, our bar closed
Speaker 4: at like eight pm on Fridays and Saturday nights, and
Speaker 4: every night it was never ever open. We get back
Speaker 4: to our hotel after the marryout one night and we
Speaker 4: all still want to have another drink and everything. Go
Speaker 4: back to the hotel bar. It's all dark, there's literally
Speaker 4: no one there. We sit down. Nikki just walks behind
Speaker 4: the bar and it's like, oh, the taps still on
Speaker 4: and Nikki just pours a beer and brings it back,
Speaker 4: and I was like, hell, yeah, that's how you do it.
Speaker 4: If Mike heard the stories of my I would have died.
Speaker 4: I would have had to leave the room. You yelled
Speaker 4: at me once, right, Mike for we jay walking or something,
Speaker 4: And well, I joke a little bit, but I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't want a j walk. That's against the rules.
Speaker 3: People and chat are.
Speaker 2: Actually mad at me for putting my backpack in the overhead.
Speaker 1: You are crazy. No, no, no, no, that's weird. That's
Speaker 1: that's your bag. You're allowed to put something up there.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets to put one thing up there. That's what
Speaker 2: it is. I don't care what it is. You can
Speaker 2: all put.
Speaker 3: If I put a roar back in my backpack up there,
Speaker 3: yes they'd be mad at me.
Speaker 4: But don't you have, Like I have a bag full
Speaker 4: of things I want to use on the plate. You
Speaker 4: don't want to I.
Speaker 3: Have stuff in that. But guess what, I just sleep.
Speaker 3: I just sleep on the plane.
Speaker 2: It turns out all I really need is my iPhone
Speaker 2: so I can start listening to a podcast for fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes before I fall asleep.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: Yeah. The whole thing is just just do it quickly.
Speaker 6: Whatever you do, do it quickly, because that's the only
Speaker 6: thing that matters is these people are just trying to
Speaker 6: get everyone on the plane. So if you want to
Speaker 6: put your stuff out and do it, just make a decision.
Speaker 3: Again, so people of there's just some people chatter upside
Speaker 3: of me.
Speaker 2: So if I had the same exact stuff, but I
Speaker 2: put it in a roller pack instead of a backpack
Speaker 2: and put it up there, took up more space than
Speaker 2: it would have been fine.
Speaker 6: But it's just like you know, the roller bags have
Speaker 6: to go up there, they have to go somewhere. They
Speaker 6: those can't fit under this the seasons.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Mike, don't worry. You're not weird for
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: I gotta put my feet somewhere right and the back
Speaker 2: all that space down there, absolutely know it.
Speaker 1: There's no way.
Speaker 4: I spent my pre flight time at Ludacris's airport restaurant
Speaker 4: Chicken and Beer, and I had my second meal of
Speaker 4: chicken and waffles of the week, and they had ludicrous
Speaker 4: themed cocktails like splash water poles and a bunch of beer,
Speaker 4: and so that got me all the set for the
Speaker 4: flight and then I just played Vampire Survivors.
Speaker 1: I did the Lucy James Special because I went to
Speaker 1: the Burbank airport and I visited Guy Fieri's airport grill.
Speaker 6: Nice.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's exactly what you'd expect. Did you have to
Speaker 1: do Burbank?
Speaker 3: Oh well, I guess you're just flying to California. That's
Speaker 3: probably easier.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was so easy to get in and
Speaker 1: out of Burbank. Oh my god. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: deal with Lax because I did the right thing this time,
Speaker 1: and I did in book a stupid early flight where
Speaker 1: that would involve me sleeping at Lax for a portion
Speaker 1: of it. Fantastic times. I think, Uh, I think I've
Speaker 1: drank enough alcohol for the year. Yeah, yeah, I pretty
Speaker 1: covered on that.
Speaker 6: Yeah. It's like we were at we were at Universal
Speaker 6: and I needed a drink. It's like, well, Moses right
Speaker 6: here and I needed like water or something. It's like, no,
Speaker 6: I'll just go get a toff light from Mose instead.
Speaker 6: I'm like, all right, this is gonna do the job
Speaker 6: a little bit. But Jesus.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, great times, great times. Love hanging out
Speaker 1: with y'all. Uh, it's funny. I was thinking, like, why
Speaker 1: does my voice hurt? It's probably because of all the
Speaker 1: podcasting and the yelling and yeah, other debauchery.
Speaker 3: Every time I started talking on here, like about two
Speaker 3: seconds in, some kind of flem goes up and for
Speaker 3: a second then I can started talking like normal again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're all wondering if we were sick.
Speaker 4: I don't know if anyone's been confirmed sick since we
Speaker 4: got back, or if we all just feel like shit
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 3: I'm just tired. I there's a little bit of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a cough, but that's about it. I
Speaker 1: feel the energy as soon as I got into this
Speaker 1: virtual room with you boys.
Speaker 2: Though I never ate any of the you know, disease
Speaker 2: riddled sandwiches, eating them because the wasted food.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I got this. This is something that's been
Speaker 1: bothering me since I've seen pictures of our sandwich is
Speaker 1: floating around. Yea, why is everyone starting from the middle?
Speaker 4: That was well, I guess because it was a really
Speaker 4: bretty sandwich. They all were because I had an end
Speaker 4: piece and it was like a lot of bread. So
Speaker 4: I think if you start in the middle, then you
Speaker 4: can kind of get around that end piece nonsense.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, it's like it just rugged me the
Speaker 1: wrong way, and all right.
Speaker 4: We'll hear stories of entire development teams coming back to
Speaker 4: rooms late at night and uh starving and just being like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, like seeing mystery sandwiches pop up in
Speaker 4: dev team's rooms and its just like saving them.
Speaker 6: Getting passed from one team to another, and like this
Speaker 6: game of telephone happening. I'm like, did this come from
Speaker 6: It came from developers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, most of the people who actually handed those two
Speaker 2: during the pre show did return them, right well, Dave
Speaker 2: oshri Ate some that was posted a video.
Speaker 5: I was like, Okay, I'm gonna go down there.
Speaker 4: I'm sure i'll see someone I know very quickly and
Speaker 4: I can just hand it off for them. First person
Speaker 4: I see is Dave ashri CEO of New Blood, and
Speaker 4: I just put them in his hands and walk the
Speaker 4: fuck away. And then I think you actually came right
Speaker 4: on my heels and put another one on top.
Speaker 1: Of right on top of that.
Speaker 6: When you go, he goes giant bomb.
Speaker 4: May shouldn't yell giant bomb in the middle of a
Speaker 4: very crowded hotel lobby.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I haven't seen him since so that's what happened
Speaker 6: to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think no, yeah, we Yeah. For folks that
Speaker 1: don't know we had, it wasn't one sandwich, it was
Speaker 1: six sandwiches that all gotten Yeah.
Speaker 2: A lot of people I saw thought that it was
Speaker 2: the same sandwich over and over. Now I was in
Speaker 2: product all those pre production meetings and stuff. I was
Speaker 2: talking to like producers and stuff, and they were like, well,
Speaker 2: we probably do a thing where it was like we
Speaker 2: just get like a big styrofoam tube and we could
Speaker 2: wrap it to look like a sandwich. And I was
Speaker 2: at him and I was like, no, these need to
Speaker 2: be shoot sandwiches, and we need a bunch of them.
Speaker 4: They were using all the logistics that made sense. Sounds
Speaker 4: like no, it absolutely has to be the real deal.
Speaker 1: They also barely fit in the Honda Civic that got.
Speaker 4: Put the seeds down. The pictures that we're getting sent
Speaker 4: were just killing me. Oh that made me so fucking happy.
Speaker 1: Great, great time, great time. I think we put smiles
Speaker 1: on faces. Yes.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The poor voice actors for Final seven Rebirth that you
Speaker 7: gave the sandwiches too, it just looks so like upset,
Speaker 7: But they were so polite because they did want to
Speaker 7: say anything.
Speaker 4: People like Zach from war Fram I gave it to
Speaker 4: him and once the cameras off rolling, He's like, okay,
Speaker 4: so do I like give this back to you.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, this is yours.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We saw like Vin sam Pella holding it at one point,
Speaker 3: just randomly.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Jake Decker sent me a picture of like a
Speaker 1: sandwich being balanced on two planters outside of the j W. Yep,
Speaker 1: and then apparently a group of like dude bros like
Speaker 1: started taking pictures with it and just took it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I get went to McNamara as he was walking into
Speaker 4: the thing and he just started yelling at me.
Speaker 3: Like fuck you, Dan buck you I'm gonna throw this away.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna throw it away.
Speaker 5: Just set it down to the ground and walked away,
Speaker 5: and I had to go save it.
Speaker 1: I saw another picture of it, like not behind the
Speaker 1: bar the JW, but to the side of the bar,
Speaker 1: t away.
Speaker 6: Like in the penalty box. Is what it looks like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is how we strike back against the JW.
Speaker 1: You you don't give food, you charged too much for drinks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be giving yeah, yep, yep. Oh all right,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll talk about video games.
Speaker 3: Wow, a thousand dollars worth of sandwiches.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, that's that was one hundred and fifty five
Speaker 1: dollars each.
Speaker 4: Every one of those was one hundred fifty five dollars
Speaker 4: with tax. It was like a thousand dollars. I did
Speaker 4: not expect them to approve that.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, thank you Digital Extremes.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well and Monster Hunter in Capcom.
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Speaker 3: I love security that doesn't pay attention to things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great, it's great. Okay, all right, video games.
Speaker 1: So what do we have here? What are we talking about?
Speaker 1: Dragon Quest Mike?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is like the one game I played
Speaker 2: during the week. This is the first time I traveled
Speaker 2: without my switch since the switch came out. I think
Speaker 2: because I was like no, turns out. The only game
Speaker 2: I really want to be playing all traveling at the
Speaker 2: moment is dragon Quest three.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And even then, I didn't play a ton When I
Speaker 2: was playing it. It was mostly just grinding. And dragon
Speaker 2: Quest three is one It's like the Mount rushmore of
Speaker 2: fun games to grind in because of the way the
Speaker 2: job system works in that where when you reach a
Speaker 2: certain level, you can change the character's job, but when
Speaker 2: you do, all their stats get haveved, but it could
Speaker 2: still be gains depending on kind of you know, the
Speaker 2: way you do it, and what's the character gets level one,
Speaker 2: I go grind to get him kind of back up
Speaker 2: a bit, and there are a couple of rare monsters
Speaker 2: with like rare little you know, spawn percentages, but there's
Speaker 2: spots where they spawn more often, so you go there.
Speaker 1: You hope you kill them because they give you a
Speaker 1: ton of XP.
Speaker 3: So yeah, during some of the longer nights, but I
Speaker 3: still wasn't quite tired of sitting in the bed playing
Speaker 3: some Dragon Quest three and hunting metal slimes while watching
Speaker 3: something stupid on YouTube. Was a very cozy time. Indeed, lovely, lovely, lovely.
Speaker 1: I am debating with myself whether or not I want
Speaker 1: to try and finish off Dragon Quest three HD two D.
Speaker 1: But I spent too much time in RPGs this year.
Speaker 1: It was a huge year for it.
Speaker 2: Right, Like I'm an RP jerpg sicco It's like, I'm okay,
Speaker 2: but even even me like a little bit an. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a couple I missed out on. Still, I did
Speaker 2: not get to play in fin in Wealth. I did
Speaker 2: not touch Brothership. There's a lot going on there.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't touch Brothership at all.
Speaker 6: Have you played all the other Mario Luigi RPG's.
Speaker 1: The Mario Luigi Onan's, yes, the paper Mario Ones. I
Speaker 1: haven't checked out all those.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's all right, Like the more I played,
Speaker 6: the more I do get into it. Although I've put
Speaker 6: it down for other games, it's not I mean, it's
Speaker 6: just not as good as some other Mario Luigi games,
Speaker 6: not really close in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: That's so weird year for it tough.
Speaker 2: So I remember at the beginning, I was like, they're
Speaker 2: not gonna have much this year, and then they had
Speaker 2: that one direct where they announced a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, they are gonna have a great
Speaker 3: year after all.
Speaker 2: And at the end of the year, I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: that' stuff didn't hit actually, or they hit as much
Speaker 2: as I wanted it too. So yeah, I'm definitely Nintendo's
Speaker 2: weakest year during the Switch era.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm a big Mario and Luigi guy. I've
Speaker 4: liked them all, at least even the ones that didn't
Speaker 4: love like Dream Team, this one, I just like it.
Speaker 4: I played like maybe an hour plus of it or something,
Speaker 4: and it just never sew about the writing and the
Speaker 4: personality wasn't quite there.
Speaker 3: I thought it kind of.
Speaker 6: Looked like shit, it doesn't look good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just I couldn't get into it.
Speaker 1: And bummer yep. I have been checking out Bollionaire. Ballionaire
Speaker 1: talked about this a couple of weeks ago when I
Speaker 1: came up with the Steam next Fest demo fully out. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the pachinko adjacent game where you are instead
Speaker 1: of controlling where the ball goes, you are just launching
Speaker 1: the ball. But what you are in control of is
Speaker 1: the different pegs that you place on the board, and
Speaker 1: these pegs have different synergies with each other. Some of
Speaker 1: them are super simple where you'll get like one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars if you boop it on your way down to
Speaker 1: exit the board, and some of them you will launch
Speaker 1: like another different type of ball once you boop it,
Speaker 1: and it quickly quickly gets very zany because you will
Speaker 1: have like food based builds or water based builds or
Speaker 1: coin based builds where if you boop a cash register
Speaker 1: or you boop a brick from the bottom, it'll launch
Speaker 1: a coin and if those coins enter in a cash
Speaker 1: register peg, that'll it'll just consume the coin ball, but
Speaker 1: it'll start granting like a passive coin or money bonus
Speaker 1: per launch that you do, and it can quickly get
Speaker 1: out of control. There have been multiple times where there's
Speaker 1: a lot of experimentation going on in like the early game,
Speaker 1: figuring out how these different pegs synergize with each other.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of movement based ones as well, so
Speaker 1: like if you wind up launching a ball and it
Speaker 1: completely whiffs and misses everything, there are different pegs or
Speaker 1: passive abilities that will just launch your ball straight back
Speaker 1: up through the map so you can potentially hit more
Speaker 1: things on the way out. Really fun game. The round
Speaker 1: to round different objectives you have is or not objectives,
Speaker 1: but little bonuses you get. You can choose another set
Speaker 1: of pegs, you can choose to reroll your different set
Speaker 1: of bonuses you get, or you have the ability to
Speaker 1: remove some pegs that aren't working out. It's a really
Speaker 1: fun game. In the full game so far, what I've
Speaker 1: been able to tells different. It's just like a different
Speaker 1: set of maps versus the one pyramid like one that
Speaker 1: you got in the demo. Really neat game. I think
Speaker 1: the only the only delta for me is that it
Speaker 1: just makes me think of Pegel and I just want Peggle.
Speaker 6: Yeah that was gonna be My question is, like would
Speaker 6: That's how I felt about a lot of these games
Speaker 6: so far, where I'm like, this is pretty good, but
Speaker 6: I think I'd rather be playing Pegl.
Speaker 1: So I think I just need to like condition my
Speaker 1: mind to like steer away from Pegle because it hasn't
Speaker 1: really said or tried to message that this is like
Speaker 1: a pegl like because it is Pachinko right where the
Speaker 1: ball is just falling straight down. I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: like later play in the game where if there are
Speaker 1: different types of tiles or pegs that get unlocked that
Speaker 1: synergize better with each other. So far, I've been going
Speaker 1: with food based builds where like all right, I got
Speaker 1: some cheese, I got some meat, I got some lettuce,
Speaker 1: and then I hit an oven and like, all right,
Speaker 1: now we got a pizza.
Speaker 3: I really thought you gotta say big sandwich.
Speaker 1: They haven't unlocked the big sandwich meta in this game.
Speaker 1: Yet they shouldn't really put the big sandwich in games, Yes,
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. Yeah, Vampire Survivors Dan, is it
Speaker 1: still good? Uh? Yeah.
Speaker 4: In fact, I after a lot of talks about games
Speaker 4: and stuff while I was in LA, I was like,
Speaker 4: all right, I'm downloaded some games for the flight back,
Speaker 4: and I downloaded Bowie and Air and I downloaded the
Speaker 4: Legacy of Caine Remastered and I started Bowionaire and I
Speaker 4: was ooh, I like.
Speaker 1: This aesthetic quite a bit.
Speaker 4: I like the idea of this kind of like weirded
Speaker 4: me out that I couldn't control, like I am used
Speaker 4: to peggle, like you know, aiming and stuff. And it
Speaker 4: was like, okay, this seems cool, but I don't want
Speaker 4: to learn anything right now. I'm you know, drunk off
Speaker 4: ludicrous cocktails, and you know, I just want to chill
Speaker 4: out here. So I loaded up Legacy of Caine. Oh,
Speaker 4: this is pretty cool, played like, you know, maybe a
Speaker 4: half hour. Legacy of Caine. Was pretty pretty impressed by
Speaker 4: what I saw, and I could definitely see, like in.
Speaker 3: The day how that was probably really really awesome.
Speaker 4: But then I was like, Nope, still don't want to
Speaker 4: be thinking don't want to be doing anything new, So
Speaker 4: I loaded up Vampire Survivors and I beat it.
Speaker 3: I got a oh, Mike did the face. I was
Speaker 3: waiting for it.
Speaker 4: So I did everything I've done every single unlocked in
Speaker 4: the Caslvania DLC.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: It took me over fifty hours and I fucking loved it.
Speaker 4: And there is just so much I say it every time.
Speaker 4: There's just so much content in that DLC. I cannot
Speaker 4: say enough. If you haven't Playedvampire Strivers, get it and
Speaker 4: all the DLC for like ten to twelve bucks, whatever
Speaker 4: the fuck it is, it is just it never gets old.
Speaker 4: I could play like I'm still going I'm unlocking like
Speaker 4: because I'm on a new account now and I'm playing
Speaker 4: like all the like among us in Contra and the
Speaker 4: moon spelled stuff all again, and it's just it's I
Speaker 4: don't think I could ever get tired of playing Ampire Survivors.
Speaker 2: So it's like I never quite loved Vampire Survibers as
Speaker 2: much as you are. I definitely enjoyed it, But I
Speaker 2: love Castlevania, right, so I should probably pick this up
Speaker 2: just to play that. And I know there's like a
Speaker 2: ton of Caslvania content and there are two. A ton
Speaker 2: of characters is not just a couple.
Speaker 4: It's so much too, because it's like, you know, I
Speaker 4: love Castlevania. I played pretty much all of them, but
Speaker 4: it's like there's so many characters and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I remember like Hallu card and the Bellmont, some Dracula
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. But there's just like forty characters
Speaker 4: or something nuts in there, and it's like I forget
Speaker 4: which one this guy is from. I'm googling them, remembering like,
Speaker 4: oh right, portrait of Ruin guy or whatever.
Speaker 3: There's there's so much doing on there.
Speaker 4: Yeah I did remember. Wait, I don't know, jan I
Speaker 4: just wrote something down. I don't want to take your segue.
Speaker 3: If you have a segue.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no no, please please please?
Speaker 5: Okay, astrobout Christmas?
Speaker 3: Any of you guys play it?
Speaker 6: Chance? Yeah I should have played that, almost like I
Speaker 6: might like save it for Christmas.
Speaker 5: It's really good.
Speaker 4: It's it's not it's it's bigger than the speed run
Speaker 4: level for sure. There's like fifteen presents to open and
Speaker 4: seven bots and then like a bunch of ship stuff
Speaker 4: and outfits and stuff like that. It's delightful. It's just
Speaker 4: a full on Christmas Wonderland level, big tree with eyeballs,
Speaker 4: talk of the end shit. I won't spoil anything, but
Speaker 4: it utilizes all of the different suits and stuff, so like,
Speaker 4: you know, you'll be able to pick them up in
Speaker 4: the level and get a bunch of fun presents and stuff.
Speaker 4: And it's just full of whimsy each year, all the good
Speaker 4: stuff you want from Astrobot.
Speaker 3: It's really really great. It doesn't have Christmas Nights vibes.
Speaker 4: I didn't play Christmas Nights, but we'll say yes, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I really like the idea of saving it for Christmas.
Speaker 6: Someone trying to see if I can get away with
Speaker 6: my kids not knowing about it until then, and then that.
Speaker 1: Could just TV that day. I think the gimmicks were
Speaker 1: really really low. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We had talked
Speaker 1: about this during the Game of the Year deliberations. This
Speaker 1: isn't spoilers at all. But hey, did you know Rise
Speaker 1: of the Golden Idol is just on Netflix Games on
Speaker 1: you that's smart. Uh. I had the same thing as
Speaker 1: Dan of like, oh yeah, I'm just gonna check this
Speaker 1: out as I'm at the Guy Fieri restaurant, and then
Speaker 1: I realized I don't want to think today. No, that's a.
Speaker 6: Rough one for that. That would be a bad time
Speaker 6: to start. You gotta be have all the time in
Speaker 6: the world and have not done anything else.
Speaker 1: It's super thinky.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's a thinky game.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how Netflix Games works because there are
Speaker 1: several games there, not just games that seem like are
Speaker 1: published by Netflix, like Point B or gosh, there was
Speaker 1: another Grand Monument Monument Valley, but like, yeah, Grand Theft
Speaker 1: Autos on there and Rise and Case of the Golden
Speaker 1: Idol are over there that you just get along with
Speaker 1: your Netflix subscription. I have no I don't understand business.
Speaker 1: I see winning Universal here on the doc.
Speaker 6: What Yeah, I think it. It had to be said
Speaker 6: that we did the Mario Kart ride twice and I
Speaker 6: won both times. Okay, I got the most coins, I
Speaker 6: was the best at that. And then when we fought
Speaker 6: Bowser Junior, I had like the fifth best well for
Speaker 6: like a couple hours earlier in the morning, on the
Speaker 6: fifth best score of the day. And then but I
Speaker 6: also did better than Seawan and Mike, which is more important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, beat them, So that's important.
Speaker 4: How are the lines because when we when I went
Speaker 4: with the we couldn't even do the bowser thing because
Speaker 4: the Yeah, they were insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because like that that was great about getting that
Speaker 2: hour early in there. There weren't lines for that, so
Speaker 2: for the like are very small lines, like much better
Speaker 2: then than Jeff and sewn at the thing where he
Speaker 2: had to time the pile blocks to hit a shell
Speaker 2: into a koopa and they I did. I did it
Speaker 2: first try, and they both just straight up field at it,
Speaker 2: and then later like, oh it turned out it was broken,
Speaker 2: got back, I.
Speaker 6: Got back in line to do it again, and she's like,
Speaker 6: this is not working because Mike did it. Then a
Speaker 6: little kid did it, and I was right up after
Speaker 6: that little kid, and the little kid did it when
Speaker 6: the shell was still outside of the pipe. It was
Speaker 6: not in the middle at all. And so I'm like,
Speaker 6: I hope to do it, all right, I'm gonna do
Speaker 6: try it like Mike did. I did exactly when he
Speaker 6: did it, and I have.
Speaker 2: Video footage if Jeff trying it, you can all judge
Speaker 2: for yourself. I'll get his timing is later.
Speaker 6: They shut it down right after that because no one
Speaker 6: it would after me. It stopped working completely, so they
Speaker 6: shut down the whole thing. So me and Sean had
Speaker 6: to sneak in with the two keys using Mike's three
Speaker 6: keys so that we could actually play a bassrodcue.
Speaker 3: So yeah, your high.
Speaker 2: Score and Bowser Junior was once again stolen Vale exactly
Speaker 2: the park I believe. Yeah, we did probably got the
Speaker 2: lines of general the one time, the one longish line
Speaker 2: we had to wait for was the Secret Life of
Speaker 2: Pets lines, and that was maybe largely because of some
Speaker 2: angry boomers.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: We were in the line and like first there was
Speaker 2: like one couple people who uh did the whole like,
Speaker 2: oh excuse me, just like you know, going past you
Speaker 2: in the line thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah okay, And then like ten minutes later.
Speaker 2: Another whole group oh excuse me, excuse me, so clearly
Speaker 2: just you know kind of line they know that we
Speaker 2: don't like want to bother having to argue with them
Speaker 2: to get back in the lines or whatever. But then
Speaker 2: shortly after the line sapp for a while and I
Speaker 2: got what's going on. Then we moved forward, we saw
Speaker 2: you know, four boomers like talking to park security trying
Speaker 2: to identify the line cutters, right, and they looked like
Speaker 2: they were so happy that they got to do that
Speaker 2: out and stopped.
Speaker 6: For a very long time, like ten fifteen minutes of
Speaker 6: us kind of being like, what is going on? We're
Speaker 6: not and at all. So they definitely made it worse
Speaker 6: for everybody by tattling on these people. I was like that,
Speaker 6: this is why we didn't do it. No one actually
Speaker 6: cares that much. So yeah, but they had a good
Speaker 6: time yet telling on someone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, best guess what best attraction at Universal Hollywood still
Speaker 2: water World?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do they change it for the holidays at all?
Speaker 3: No, a holiday overly for water World would be kind
Speaker 3: of incredible, now that you're saying, people like they got me, yes,
Speaker 3: no mercy.
Speaker 1: That was wold.
Speaker 6: It ruled. It was very funny. I was I was wondering,
Speaker 6: They're like, no, if you're in these green seats, fuck you,
Speaker 6: and then they just sprayed them.
Speaker 1: It was great. I loved it. Oh god, I think
Speaker 1: they I think they do reskin it ever so slightly
Speaker 1: for Halloween, but during the evening shows, but it could
Speaker 1: be mistaken.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they weren't doing some night shows and apartments like, oh,
Speaker 3: I kind of wish I could see water World at night.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's a different vibe. I gotta say that.
Speaker 1: For the next time, we all go there together. You know,
Speaker 1: we got to we'll plant it out as a family
Speaker 1: vacation and there a that.
Speaker 6: Tramped to a was Also it's the first time I've
Speaker 6: done that since I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Jo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, attacking Jaws nice, did Norman bade Chase?
Speaker 6: We did see Jaws? Yeah, yeah, jows Jaws explodes or
Speaker 6: he attacks the boat, that's right, and then uh yeah
Speaker 6: all the other stuff was very cool.
Speaker 3: Or the World's Plane. Is that still part of yeah?
Speaker 1: Everyone?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we was doing no planned Uh, there's the
Speaker 2: three D tunnels for Kong and Fast and the Furious. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the flash flood earthquake, the big one, like that's like
Speaker 2: one of the order ones now, but I still love that.
Speaker 3: You just go in to a fake subway tunnel.
Speaker 6: I look anytime where I was just sitting there and
Speaker 6: then a flood happened. That was like just seeing that
Speaker 6: much water rushing towards you was neat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why California isn't a drought because of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sarlotte. Jeff marked out for Hill Valley, which was Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love that to the future.
Speaker 3: Also, I'm desensitize the seating Hill Valley now, so it's
Speaker 3: fun to be like, oh my gosh, thing from that.
Speaker 6: Need something stronger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I need a bigger hit, right, She'll be
Speaker 2: something from freaking Last star Fighter to make me feel
Speaker 2: anything anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. Uh. When I was getting onto my flight,
Speaker 1: I was like, what if I just don't What if
Speaker 1: I just stay here? What if I just stay in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles? Well, there's like nicer than it is back home.
Speaker 1: There's a hell of food.
Speaker 4: Oh, a bunch of people in La talking about how
Speaker 4: freezing it was when it was like what fifty four
Speaker 4: degrees or something, getting text from bonk being like it's
Speaker 4: negative twenty right now.
Speaker 3: Back home, I wore just a T shirt the entire time.
Speaker 2: The one time I did get a sweater was at
Speaker 2: Universal while Sean and Jeffer doing Mummy, because the Natia
Speaker 2: Star had this amazing Mario themed Christmas sweater. I think
Speaker 2: it's a little nippy, and this thing looks amazing.
Speaker 1: So I was very happy to pick that. Look very
Speaker 1: sharp in that sweater.
Speaker 5: Do you buy the Risk immicks?
Speaker 6: Yeah, because we got a chance to do those short
Speaker 6: lines about the junior thing where like we might as
Speaker 6: well just get them, and they had a new one
Speaker 6: a gold Mario one.
Speaker 3: We all got there, yes, okay, for all the new
Speaker 3: Super Mario Brothers two fans out there, yeah, one of
Speaker 3: course not but yeah, well, kids can't stop talking about
Speaker 3: New Super Mario Brothers too though.
Speaker 1: No, never, they coins a lot of coins. Uh well, gents,
Speaker 1: I think that does it for the first segment. That
Speaker 1: does it for games and general bance folks. It's gonna
Speaker 1: it's a weird one, all right. It's the last live
Speaker 1: one of the year. It's okay, we're all a little
Speaker 1: bit ti TI just like take a nap with us,
Speaker 1: and we're all gonna take a collective, quick, quick, quick
Speaker 1: quick nap during this brickey break, and we'll be back
Speaker 1: with maybe news. Maybe we'll just keep talking about random stuff.
Speaker 1: Who knows. That was a lovely nap. And then I
Speaker 1: couldn't help. But here, Dan, you were talking in your
Speaker 1: dreams about another game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I forgot to mention.
Speaker 4: Another one I played on the plane was Caslvania Dominus
Speaker 4: Collection Love. And you know, I messed around with the
Speaker 4: GBA stuff because you know, those are all great, and
Speaker 4: it's been a while since I've even touched the DS ones.
Speaker 4: Because it turns out those don't emulate that well because
Speaker 4: it was the DS. Uh and god damn, I started
Speaker 4: Don of Sorrow and it's just they just made a
Speaker 4: bunch more symphony the Knights and that's a good thing.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, very good.
Speaker 4: Oh and oh my god, there's something too I didn't
Speaker 4: even think about. Like, obviously the Dominant collection be great
Speaker 4: to like all the touch screen stuff you could just do,
Speaker 4: you know, through other means. You know, you can do
Speaker 4: the buttons to do the seals and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: But I didn't realize how great it would be to
Speaker 3: have like the DS screens are over on the right
Speaker 3: on this at all times, so like the map, you
Speaker 3: never have to hit select or anything to go to
Speaker 3: the map.
Speaker 4: It's just at all times you know exactly where you're going.
Speaker 4: And ah, man, those caslvanias, the portable ones where it's
Speaker 4: like you're killing the enemies and you get their souls,
Speaker 4: where it's like, oh, I kill the skeleton, now I
Speaker 4: can throw skeleton bones. I killed this guy, and now
Speaker 4: I can float slower, and now I can spend this
Speaker 4: spear around. There's so many fucking weapons and everything. I
Speaker 4: forgot how great those games are, and I just want
Speaker 4: to play through them all again right now, because Dono
Speaker 4: of Sorrow has been awesome.
Speaker 6: Yep, great.
Speaker 2: I had so much fun playing through all of those. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when the Dominus collection came out. Yeah, Like, they're all
Speaker 2: definitely Sympathy of the Night coded, especially don of Sorrow,
Speaker 2: but they're also all different in interesting way, so playing
Speaker 2: through all three of them, like in a row, is
Speaker 2: still very interesting. They're also very good grinding games because
Speaker 2: you could just go through whatever souls.
Speaker 1: Or abilities you happen to get.
Speaker 2: That's fine, but sometimes like I know this guy's got
Speaker 2: something I want and you're just gonna go back and
Speaker 2: forth those screens for an hour so you get the
Speaker 2: one that you want, and that stuff tickles my brain
Speaker 2: probably sounds like how to some people. I love it
Speaker 2: through all three of them. Yeah, wow, nice, They're great.
Speaker 6: They're all great.
Speaker 2: They're all super fun, and they have different kind of
Speaker 2: quirks and they have different levels of sort of betroidvana ness.
Speaker 2: The last one, Ord of Eclesia, it's kind of more
Speaker 2: linear until the very end, yet it is definitely more
Speaker 2: difficult too. Then at the end of that's when you
Speaker 2: get to a more open ended castle, so that's super neat.
Speaker 3: Gosh, I just love that we have all six of
Speaker 3: those on switch. We don't we don't have stiffaning of
Speaker 3: the night on switch, and that's wild.
Speaker 1: You fix that.
Speaker 3: But it's great having these six there.
Speaker 1: They need the power of the switch to that's that's
Speaker 1: that's really what it is. Yeah. Actually, boys, before we
Speaker 1: get to the news, Jeff Grubb, if you can spare
Speaker 1: me any anything, you'll are excited to play during the
Speaker 1: holiday break, Indiana Jones.
Speaker 2: Everybody was talking so much about how great Indiana Jones
Speaker 2: is throughout the entire week there, and I just I
Speaker 2: was holding off because I knew I had the big
Speaker 2: trip coming, so I didn't want to start it and
Speaker 2: then have a week off from it. I'm also probably
Speaker 2: gonna stream my weight through it. But boy, am I excited.
Speaker 2: I like Indiana Jones as a character a good bit,
Speaker 2: and this game sounds like it's gonna very much be
Speaker 2: something I enjoyed.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I got back to it last night, Grub, but played
Speaker 4: through the stuff you were talking about as being like
Speaker 4: one of your favorite set piece things in a while,
Speaker 4: and I was like, Yep, this.
Speaker 3: Is really fucking cool. Okay, I'm glad to in a
Speaker 3: new area Now.
Speaker 4: I looked at a long plan and I think, I'm like,
Speaker 4: it looks like it's like twelve hours long, and I'm
Speaker 4: probably about eight hours into it, so I think I'm
Speaker 4: kind of getting near the back.
Speaker 1: Part of it.
Speaker 5: I think it was during our podcast or something we.
Speaker 4: Realized you could actually just travel back to any of
Speaker 4: those locations at any time, and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: what do you know, there's a whole travels tab right
Speaker 4: here and you can just warp back because I knew
Speaker 4: I had some like medicine bottles that I didn't cash in,
Speaker 4: and so I went back to Giza and stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 4: that game. That game is great. It's really really fun.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna beat it soon.
Speaker 6: Yep. There's a whole bunch of games like that that
Speaker 6: I want to clean up over the next week or so.
Speaker 6: I want to finish that. I want to finish Rise
Speaker 6: with the Golden Idol and make more time for Star
Speaker 6: Wars Outlaws. We're gonna do that, especially as we get
Speaker 6: into twenty twenty five and a million more games will
Speaker 6: start coming out again.
Speaker 3: Weren't you supposed to finish a thousand year door before
Speaker 3: the game?
Speaker 6: Or I said that was number one on my list.
Speaker 6: I might I spoke fast. You probably just didn't hear me.
Speaker 3: My bad, bad, thank you, gubb.
Speaker 4: Are you still gonna beat my accumulative time on astro
Speaker 4: of by the time the clock strikes midnight on New
Speaker 4: Year's Eve?
Speaker 3: You and Betelli talking big?
Speaker 6: Yes, Yes, I'm going to do that.
Speaker 1: Okay. I kind of want to check out Stalker two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the same most holiday based game, but uh, a lot
Speaker 1: of positive buzz. I kind of want to go back
Speaker 1: and just tie off Space Marine two.
Speaker 6: Also, yeah, man, I wis had time for more streams
Speaker 6: for that. That was a really good time.
Speaker 1: I would love if we could squeeze in a Marvel
Speaker 1: Rivals stream this week. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know what I think we are squeezing in this
Speaker 4: week is some Terminator three. Yes, yeah, yeah, you said
Speaker 4: the last part.
Speaker 6: I think they should all be in Thursday.
Speaker 4: Okay, I have I have a lot. Some of it
Speaker 4: arrived just in a clear bag and I was like,
Speaker 4: what is it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I think I see that we're going here.
Speaker 6: Pretty good idea where we're going with?
Speaker 3: Yeah in the film call that Recordinator three? Oh, that's
Speaker 3: you got to figure it out? Oh are you working
Speaker 3: with We've got to get the layout and stuff too.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh yeah, we need to re up that.
Speaker 4: And I figure we don't need the box and this
Speaker 4: is some behind the scenes, so we don't need the
Speaker 4: hidden one because I know what the game is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, you know what the next two are. Wow.
Speaker 6: I'll talk talk to Jerrem about that. See if we
Speaker 6: can get something happening.
Speaker 1: The Germans always all right, Jeff grub News, mister Jeff
Speaker 1: Rubb with a.
Speaker 6: New Yeah, I got a big list of all the
Speaker 6: stuff that was announced that the Game Awards last week.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you guys saw that, but they
Speaker 6: did the Game Awards last week in Los Angeles. We
Speaker 6: talked over that was a good time. There were lots
Speaker 6: of announcements. It was a very good show overall. This
Speaker 6: is kind of in no real sense or order, so
Speaker 6: we'll just start with this big one here at the top.
Speaker 6: Naughty Dog's next game, Intergalactic the Heretic Profit, has been announced.
Speaker 6: No date on that. I believe they didn't say a
Speaker 6: year or anything, but yet I thought that game looked
Speaker 6: pretty neat based on what we saw in terms of
Speaker 6: them setting a tone. How about you all, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I really like that kind of eighties maybe early nineties.
Speaker 2: Vibe with the Spaceship stands out a little bit to
Speaker 2: some of the more familiar aesthetics we've beginning with sci
Speaker 2: fi lately. And also, like, you know, you're kind of
Speaker 2: wondering what game it is. We don't have a great
Speaker 2: sense of that, but at the very end we got
Speaker 2: Melee Combat. I'm like, oh, I'm glad it's that and
Speaker 2: not another shooting based Naughty Dog game. We've gotten so
Speaker 2: many of those recently.
Speaker 4: Yeah, agreed, I can't imagine how complicated the brand deals
Speaker 4: must have been for that, because like Porsche, but they
Speaker 4: designed like a Porsche spaceship, and there's no way Porsche
Speaker 4: was just like, yeah, go to town. I bet like the
Speaker 4: brand people at Porsche had to like either design or
Speaker 4: approve a million things and back and forth.
Speaker 1: You know, it'd be cool if there was like some
Speaker 1: mock up like spaceship Porsche car designs from the eighties
Speaker 1: that they were able to use or whatever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Nicky says, Porsche designed it themselves.
Speaker 4: Oh that surprised me, But I just can't there were
Speaker 4: so many like giant brands there. They're like, that must
Speaker 4: have been a nightmare getting that all together.
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure what the tone of
Speaker 1: the game is going to be, because like that cinematic they
Speaker 1: had at the tippy top was like that kind of
Speaker 1: like tongue cheeky fun yeah, and then like the small
Speaker 1: gameplay bit they showed at the end was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take down this mech with his sword.
Speaker 4: Well, and then wasn't Drugman saying stuff but like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's about the perils of religion, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: like I'm looking.
Speaker 6: A bit rough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's his favorite thing to do. That's fun.
Speaker 2: There was a bit where I was like, oh, this
Speaker 2: this is probably the game that Truckman's not making.
Speaker 3: Uh, another team is doing it. It's like, oh, this
Speaker 3: is Truckman's game. A little yep, cautious, and then we'll
Speaker 3: see Kamailman.
Speaker 1: Johnny was like in like one of those like little
Speaker 1: wanted posters. Oh yeah, yeah, who knows.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah. There was a yeah, I think it's a
Speaker 6: bunch of real actors and so yeah, they'll bring in
Speaker 6: Kamail Johnny's. It was I think the brand deals were
Speaker 6: surprising to see. It's like, oh, that will wonder how
Speaker 6: they're gonna be able to pull that off. But I
Speaker 6: thought it was all pretty well integrated, Like I was
Speaker 6: into the vibe it was putting down at very least.
Speaker 6: So yep, Hedeki Kamia's new studio, Clovers with an S
Speaker 6: is working with Capcom on in a comedy sequel.
Speaker 1: That was a pretty shocking thing to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, comedy sequel, Like.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 6: That's where we're at with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's just I just love the circle, right, Like,
Speaker 2: you leave Capcom to have creative freedom, start your own
Speaker 2: studio that's still gets bought by Tenson, You leave that stude,
Speaker 2: you go back to Capcom to have more creative freedom.
Speaker 1: Mm hm.
Speaker 4: This may be a surprising coming from an old man,
Speaker 4: but I like the fact that Capcom and Sega appear
Speaker 4: to be going, like, hey, remember all these old franchises
Speaker 4: we did.
Speaker 5: What if we kept doing those?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, Beautiful Joe is so on the table. I'll
Speaker 2: be shocked if we don't get a new Beautiful Joe.
Speaker 3: Think about that.
Speaker 1: Holy yeah it beautiful Joe. We need a mega man.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, they're gonna Mega man.
Speaker 2: No, So I'm not even like I joke like, oh
Speaker 2: they're not instead of a Mega Man, I'm so not
Speaker 2: worried about a new Mega Man happening.
Speaker 3: It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I need my Mega Man, Mike, You and I could
Speaker 1: a Mega Man for different ones. I just I'm just
Speaker 1: ready to jack in.
Speaker 6: I want.
Speaker 3: So you got your collection and it did very well.
Speaker 6: There's also like a very good chance we'll get another
Speaker 6: one of those Mafia. The Old Country had a trailer
Speaker 6: really a protagonist, and I forgot that too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm getting drinks at that time or something.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe I don't remember. Uh, Sonic Racing Crossworlds. Do
Speaker 6: we think the Crossworlds means they're going back to Hey,
Speaker 6: we're going to all these different video games at Sega,
Speaker 6: say better case.
Speaker 2: Sonic Team Racing was just so much less interesting than
Speaker 2: the Transformed games, which, yeah, it was like a big
Speaker 2: hodgepodge of Sonic and Sega ips, and it was just
Speaker 2: really fun to do things like the after Burner level
Speaker 2: with the Shanobee character racing through it.
Speaker 1: Especially.
Speaker 2: You know, if they are so adaman about bringing all
Speaker 2: these franchises back, it'd be weird if at this point
Speaker 2: they didn't go that direction. Again, I really do, because yeah,
Speaker 2: Sonic Sonic and Sega Racing Transformed whatever it's called, is
Speaker 2: one of the best cart racers.
Speaker 3: I like it more than even a lot of the
Speaker 3: Mario carts.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic.
Speaker 6: Yep, let's see. The last one was part two remasters
Speaker 6: coming to PC in April Overcook Studios. Next game is
Speaker 6: Stage Fright, published by Hello Games. That looked interesting. Annie
Speaker 6: Musha way up the Sword in twenty twenty six, so
Speaker 6: that does have a year on it.
Speaker 3: You can have cak on bringing back what I pee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, excite.
Speaker 3: Never was much of an omnie Musha guy too. I'd
Speaker 3: love to dive Vanalyze.
Speaker 4: That's what's I hadn't thought of this until right now,
Speaker 4: but I was so excited for the only Muscha reveal,
Speaker 4: and then I am now thinking, like, I actually wasn't
Speaker 4: a big one.
Speaker 3: Musha gay either.
Speaker 4: I think I would just pop because I saw something
Speaker 4: old that I remember.
Speaker 5: Musha game. But I was like, fuck out of Mosha's back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, weird things that are around when I was young irrelevant again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I didn't particularly love back then, but now.
Speaker 1: Back yes, some of them really seems less severe. I
Speaker 1: like those games back back in the day, So don't
Speaker 1: worry boys, okay orbs. I like games with orbs or
Speaker 1: tonsors tons of things to suck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no genre though, Sword Controller Jon Renaud war Frame
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety nine is out this week. A new third
Speaker 6: person t rock game, Truck Origin development that was actually
Speaker 6: one of my favorite announcements.
Speaker 3: It's Cybern and they've been doing they did good stuff.
Speaker 2: They did Space Marine too, and it looks like they're
Speaker 2: kind of going for a similar vibe with this.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah, I'm actually more just in one
Speaker 3: of those that's tar rock themed. To be honest, that
Speaker 3: sounds fantastic.
Speaker 6: That is completely insane. You go go to co reveals
Speaker 6: its latest game, Project Century.
Speaker 1: This is RGG awesome.
Speaker 6: It looked very cool underline tech in the beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: you're right, strangleholding and you could see the underlying technology
Speaker 6: be like, I'm pretty sure this is RGG and I
Speaker 6: was pretty like, look excited based on that, and then
Speaker 6: it's like, well, this doesn't look like one of those
Speaker 6: games necessarily keeps getting bigger and bigger. It's like, oh no,
Speaker 6: because they are going all out with this one. Very exciting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, looks awesome.
Speaker 6: See like a Dragon Studio RGG is making a new
Speaker 6: Virtual Fighter as well. They're making Virtual Fighter six.
Speaker 2: Essentially, this is definitely shot and I popped the hardest
Speaker 2: for this one. That's my favorite announcement of probably the
Speaker 2: whole evening. So nostalgic for Virtue A Fighter, just back
Speaker 2: when it was one of the first big three D games.
Speaker 2: It was the game I played on my Saturn a
Speaker 2: bunch just felt, you know, it seems so advanced at
Speaker 2: that time, but also just felt so good and still
Speaker 2: feels good every time I go back to it.
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see what that looks like today.
Speaker 4: That is the number one game I think of when
Speaker 4: I think of the era when like arcades are where
Speaker 4: like the real tech was, and so like at home
Speaker 4: you to have the you know you shitty like Genesis
Speaker 4: versions or whatever fighting games, but then you go to
Speaker 4: the arcade and you look at virtual fighting like before Teching,
Speaker 4: before any of that. I'm a Virtual Fighter being the
Speaker 4: like future video games for me.
Speaker 3: Like Virtual Fighter came out like ninety four, maybe ninety three.
Speaker 2: It was really early for that stuff when it was
Speaker 2: in the arcades, and like seeing it actually the arcades
Speaker 2: at that time.
Speaker 3: It just stood out like crazy yep, oh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a huge deal. It was like a
Speaker 6: reason to go to the mall, yes where where my
Speaker 6: arcade was. Let's see here. Wargaming announced a mech game
Speaker 6: called Steel Hunters Orderlands four trailer gameplay got shown. There
Speaker 6: was the Outer World's two gameplay also debuted.
Speaker 2: It's wild that that is also coming out next year
Speaker 2: when they already have a vowed coming out next year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so, like, like I said during the stream, apparently
Speaker 6: whatever what I heard is apparently this game got moved
Speaker 6: into twenty twenty five because it was getting already faster
Speaker 6: and a game that they were originally planning for twenty
Speaker 6: twenty five. I don't think they ever announced it for
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five, but they were planning to put out
Speaker 6: that year is getting bumped, so they're like, we'll just
Speaker 6: kind of swap things around a little bit. It doesn't
Speaker 6: always work out that way, but it seemed like it
Speaker 6: worked out this way for this.
Speaker 3: Time that our game's got to either be fable or
Speaker 3: perfect dark, right.
Speaker 6: Maybe I will see Yeah, I like I was not
Speaker 6: able to confirm exactly what it was, but it was
Speaker 6: just like some game that didn't have a date for
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five got moved out and it was a
Speaker 6: bigger game, all right. It Takes two. Studio Hayes Light's
Speaker 6: latest co op game, Split Fiction, has officially been revealed,
Speaker 6: and that looked very awesome.
Speaker 3: Actually looks super fun.
Speaker 2: It takes two as great Like downside it takes two
Speaker 2: is some of the characters story is an amazing in it.
Speaker 2: H So playing It takes Two without the divorce, I
Speaker 2: think that sounds like a nice thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's uh, it looked like like it takes two,
Speaker 6: as if they had dozens of ideas for everything just
Speaker 6: all thrown in there. And like the way the gameplays
Speaker 6: a co op split was working every thirty seconds was
Speaker 6: very different. So yeah, pretty excited about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm curious because that. My one bigger complain about
Speaker 4: It Takes Two is that it was too long.
Speaker 3: And it's like.
Speaker 4: Seeing like every time it showed like and then there's this,
Speaker 4: and then there's this. Yeah, this all looks really good.
Speaker 4: I hope it's not twenty hours long.
Speaker 6: Looks like it could stretch on and on for sure.
Speaker 6: Uh Eco and chat up the Colossus creator for Ueida
Speaker 6: reveals his next game, project Robot, which was one of
Speaker 6: these little fellas climbing a big mech and getting in
Speaker 6: its head and then the head blasting off of the
Speaker 6: mech body.
Speaker 1: It looked awesome, really cool cool.
Speaker 3: I love Shallow the Colossus so much, and like it
Speaker 3: seems like it has more of that energy than any
Speaker 3: of the other three even, right, so super excited for
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 1: I've already seen people picking apart the trailers saying like
Speaker 1: this Robot looks just like this clause is such your
Speaker 1: first right here? Oh my god? Oh for sure you
Speaker 1: actively saw that.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I'm just excited that is still doing things
Speaker 6: working with Epic on this one. Epic is publishing the game.
Speaker 6: Is my understanding?
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: Final Fantasy seven Rebirth is coming to PC next month.
Speaker 6: Co Op standalone game elden Ring night Rain announced a game.
Speaker 5: That's a lot Look did they say co op er?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: Just like it's obviously there was always like four people
Speaker 3: they separately together.
Speaker 6: I have the story here. I'll just read this so
Speaker 6: we can know what this is. Eldering night Ring can
Speaker 6: be played in three player co op or single player,
Speaker 6: but not as a duo. So it's like some weirdness, alright,
Speaker 6: so right, yeah one or two?
Speaker 1: Two?
Speaker 5: Interesting?
Speaker 1: Is that's strange? All right?
Speaker 6: All right, well you know the modell fix that pretty fast.
Speaker 6: Elder Ring Knight Rain announced that the game awards will
Speaker 6: allow for single player and three player co op gameplay,
Speaker 6: but not two player. Game director Ishizaki confirmed this, stating
Speaker 6: that the game was designed for a three person team
Speaker 6: to provide a new sense of accomplishment. Enemy health will
Speaker 6: scale depending on the number of players. A network test
Speaker 6: will be held in February. In other news, there has
Speaker 6: been outside interest in Eldering adaptation blah blah blah things.
Speaker 2: Now did you come down this a little bit when
Speaker 2: at first you're like, oh wow, outon Ring two and
Speaker 2: now it's it's kind of more of an expand alone
Speaker 2: experimental thing.
Speaker 1: That's that's so great.
Speaker 6: But part of me is like, well, I'm glad it's
Speaker 6: not alter Ring too already. What would that look like?
Speaker 6: That's insane. Why would they be promising that. So this
Speaker 6: being an expand alone having a focus on co op,
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, that that sounds like a very interesting idea.
Speaker 6: So I'm pretty I'm still very excited. All right, Let's
Speaker 6: see here the wire War was unveiled at the Game Award.
Speaker 6: It's gonna star serie, as anyone could have predicted because
Speaker 6: he played Witcher three, which or three literally starts with
Speaker 6: her getting ready to be a Witcher, Like that's how
Speaker 6: you leave the intro to that game.
Speaker 1: So and it ends.
Speaker 2: I guess it's possible, and at least in my ending
Speaker 2: was very much girl passing the torch to her. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is exciting, you know, even when it's a really
Speaker 2: well done one of these, the whole really long mini
Speaker 2: movie CG trailer thing still grapes me a little bit.
Speaker 3: But I liked Witcher three a ton. I'm sure I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be into this.
Speaker 4: I just always go back to Kill Zone two and
Speaker 4: that E three trailer whenever, you know.
Speaker 2: That's why of the things that that stick with me,
Speaker 2: Kills one two that was the ultimate bullshot trailer.
Speaker 4: Because I remember showing people in some college, look what
Speaker 4: this is going to look like.
Speaker 5: It's like bullshit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that that happened on the playground.
Speaker 4: For sure, or yeah, playground, that's when I saw it,
Speaker 4: not the dorm.
Speaker 6: There were some other announcements I think before or in
Speaker 6: the pre show while we were getting set up, so
Speaker 6: I don't remember seeing all these when we were talking
Speaker 6: over everything. Seafood Studio Slow Clap announced Rematch, a five
Speaker 6: v five online football game. I heard good things about
Speaker 6: this or soccer soccer. I think, I think, I think
Speaker 6: it's gonna be soccer. Yeah, I've heard good things about it.
Speaker 6: But again I did not actually track this one down
Speaker 6: to take a look at it. So that sounds very
Speaker 6: interesting from that gang too. Yeah, sure, yeah, exactly. You
Speaker 6: could see how their animation priority stuff would be a
Speaker 6: cool thing to mess around with that if that's how
Speaker 6: they're going to approach it. Thicket Thieves is the next
Speaker 6: game from Deus X and Thief Lead leads studio other side.
Speaker 6: The other side has been doing this stuff for a while. Yep,
Speaker 6: that looked interesting. Ninja Gaiden Ninja Guid excuse me, Rage
Speaker 6: Bound announced for summer twenty twenty five. When this one
Speaker 6: in the show in between our countdown and the actual show.
Speaker 3: What the fuck was Ninja Gaiden Rage Bound?
Speaker 6: It's from dot Emu that Tina did Streets of Rage
Speaker 6: four right. They were side scroller, yes, and it looks awesome.
Speaker 1: Is it like any style like the old ones?
Speaker 6: Yeah? But I mean that the visuals are gonna be
Speaker 6: that dot Emu sort of colorful cartoons.
Speaker 3: It's more than like the Xbox original style Ninja guidance. Interesting.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay they're working with it's gonna be sweet.
Speaker 1: Very cool.
Speaker 6: Let's see here. There was a new pac Man game.
Speaker 6: Shadow Labyrinth is a sci fi two D action platformer.
Speaker 6: Uh is this a metroid Vanya?
Speaker 1: I think it's a metro Vana.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Does a Bomberman Act zero.
Speaker 6: Look maybe some of those vibes, Yeah, but like the
Speaker 6: way we always wanted Bomber zero to be. Yeah, shoot
Speaker 6: pac Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, oh yeah, this is like yeah, I
Speaker 2: haven't actually been able to watch this trill. You're like
Speaker 2: a guy in a cloak who has a pac Man
Speaker 2: following you.
Speaker 5: Kind of like a change.
Speaker 1: This looks good. This thing is weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of looks the pack Man in this.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but anybody play a pack in Time,
Speaker 2: the weird euro platformer for sn e s pack Man.
Speaker 3: I have some of that pie here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 6: This was a really weird one. But I always like
Speaker 6: the weird pac Man games. Sure, and then some weird
Speaker 6: ai can game Dying Light the Beast will be released
Speaker 6: in summer. Midnight Murder Club is coming to PS five
Speaker 6: as well, Steaming early twenty twenty five. Netflix's squid game
Speaker 6: Unleashed will be free for every Helly launch. Helldivers too
Speaker 6: received a major update and a special edition dual Sense
Speaker 6: controller coming soon, and then the First Berserker Kazan, ben
Speaker 6: Star's other other other game is coming March twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I think was having some kind of wild like Satan
Speaker 2: summoning activation by my hotel after the game awards, with
Speaker 2: a lot of much dry ice, especially showing up there
Speaker 2: smoke and like pa like dystopian loudspeaker announcement's happening point
Speaker 2: of my career. I may have rushed over there see
Speaker 2: what was happening, but like at the gable wards, I
Speaker 2: was just walking back.
Speaker 3: I just kind of heard it next to.
Speaker 1: My Yeah, we were, I think Bailey and I saw,
Speaker 1: and we were hoping that it would continue going on
Speaker 1: it uh to the we wei hours of.
Speaker 6: The Yeah, I was hoping it would be outside his
Speaker 6: window all up here ben Star chanting right, just forty
Speaker 6: story ben Star, yeah, bet Star saying tech and also
Speaker 6: now that's right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: What is the image I've been seeing of him as
Speaker 3: the blotro joker.
Speaker 1: That's probably just one of his bits.
Speaker 4: Okay, but he had like well make up and everything.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the hell he was doing.
Speaker 1: Oh, we never know.
Speaker 4: We should say on here that we were talking to
Speaker 4: Ben Starr and the is Dan or Mike weirder debate
Speaker 4: came up and we asked Ben Starr and he didn't
Speaker 4: even look at me. He looked at Mike, pointed at
Speaker 4: Mike and said he is weirder. He is one of
Speaker 4: the weirdest human beings I have ever met. So Ben
Speaker 4: Star is on the mic side.
Speaker 3: I don't think Ben knows you very very well. Dan.
Speaker 1: I mean we're on the same shows.
Speaker 2: You said something during this trip that had Jeff reach
Speaker 2: out to me grab my arm and say, never let
Speaker 2: me say I think that you're weirder again?
Speaker 1: Oh it was? It was.
Speaker 5: I mean you want to or is it something we
Speaker 5: can say?
Speaker 6: I mean I think it's this is one. Yeah, this
Speaker 6: is something we could say because it's it's here stuff
Speaker 6: you talked about before Triple Digits. Does that ring a bell?
Speaker 1: Dan? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't think that's crazy.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Dan was like, how often do you guys clog
Speaker 2: a toilet? I think I'm in the triple digits.
Speaker 3: For right time.
Speaker 5: I'm also forty.
Speaker 3: That's a lot, way too many, there's my question. Because
Speaker 3: triple digits could be one hundred. It can also be
Speaker 3: nine hundred and ninety nine.
Speaker 5: It's a few times a year, that's not crazy.
Speaker 1: Yes it is, Yeah, a few times a year.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't remember when the last time I
Speaker 5: did it was.
Speaker 4: But like, I'm not talking about crazy, it's spurting out
Speaker 4: on the ceiling. I'm talking about like, oh, it's just
Speaker 4: rising and you got to turn off the water and
Speaker 4: plunge it. Yes, write a few times at this house,
Speaker 4: and that is too.
Speaker 1: Much, Dan, But don't you have a bidet?
Speaker 3: I got several bidays. Why are you using that much
Speaker 3: toilet paper? Then, I'm a thorough man. I don't like
Speaker 3: to be I don't want to be a skid marks Paul.
Speaker 6: I've met like five lifetime five lifetime, Yeah, clogging a
Speaker 6: toilet like five in this house?
Speaker 5: Ah, okay, thorough I'm not shy with the bdet.
Speaker 6: I go full blast and then and then you sure
Speaker 6: I know that that's a spoiler for the game of
Speaker 6: your podcast, so I won't mention the other thing you
Speaker 6: were extremely weird about, but yes.
Speaker 5: You want a hant on that. I can't remember what
Speaker 5: that was.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you were just saying, I am not taking part
Speaker 6: of this bit.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it would be I thought it
Speaker 1: would be illegal.
Speaker 3: I just lay for Game of the Year.
Speaker 6: Just wait, wait, we'll talk about it afterward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will talk about posting schedule of later, folks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, all right. Yeah, I mentioned ben Star's game
Speaker 6: capcom since it's working on reactivating other dormant ips like
Speaker 6: Annie Musha and Okami activating, and I think that's a
Speaker 6: fantastic strategy. Please do more of that. They been saying
Speaker 6: this for a while and it keeps working, and people
Speaker 6: get really excited about Annie Musha, and well of course
Speaker 6: they get excited about Okami. But really everyone just like
Speaker 6: like what you did, Dan, Like, oh my god, it's old.
Speaker 6: I love this. I think they're like, hey, this is
Speaker 6: working for us. We're gonna keep doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do what else?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: So beautiful Joey thinks a big one mega man obvious,
Speaker 2: so many could.
Speaker 3: Kill her seven come back. I love it, right, Dark Sector,
Speaker 3: dark Void, whatever is called piano three.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, yeah, well, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I wonder like, is this by on a Commando
Speaker 2: really something that they're going to think about again? Right,
Speaker 2: Lost Goblins? Oh, dark Stalkers's right, they definitely bring back
Speaker 2: dark stocks.
Speaker 6: I Darkstalkers will be the other fighting game revival they
Speaker 6: get to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh I won a new final fight very badly.
Speaker 2: But no, but somebody, well, one of these days or
Speaker 2: some reason of that caliber, Yes, is that bombermang zero?
Speaker 3: I reviewed that.
Speaker 6: Either way, Hey, yeah, this is both Sega and Capcom
Speaker 6: are now doing this, and uh and you know, I
Speaker 6: think they are going to probably do this for several years.
Speaker 6: This doesn't feel like a strategy that's going to blow
Speaker 6: up in their faces anytime soon. Maybe it fizzles out,
Speaker 6: but I think in the meantime we're probably gonna get
Speaker 6: a lot of cool old game revivals.
Speaker 2: So I love that they're doing this. And meanwhile, Square
Speaker 2: Enix is just like, what's a Corona trigger or.
Speaker 6: Even what is this final fantasy series that we keep
Speaker 6: making where we can't quite figure it out? All?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 6: Last couple of stories here, Sony confirms its interest in
Speaker 6: acquiring from software parent company Katakawa that was like, shit,
Speaker 6: that was kind of happening last week. It continues to
Speaker 6: be something that they are exploring. Basically, they'd be acquiring
Speaker 6: it for all the anime. We talked about this at
Speaker 6: some point on the show, but that is it just
Speaker 6: seems like they put a deal forward. This could really happen.
Speaker 6: So at that point, Sony would controlled the Frum software
Speaker 6: team in some way, and then all of anime in
Speaker 6: the entire world apparently, so all the other could still
Speaker 6: go through all the anime and then last thing, Xbox
Speaker 6: won't have exclusives going forward is a quote that has
Speaker 6: been a pushed forward in this last week. Jess Corden
Speaker 6: claims that Xbox will not have exclusives going forward and
Speaker 6: that everything will be a timed exclusive at most. So
Speaker 6: look at Indiana Jones. They might do that with everything
Speaker 6: going forward, and it feels like that's the way they've
Speaker 6: been trending. So yeah, not too surprising.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we'll see what happens with Gears, Immergent
Speaker 2: Stay and that'll be big scient Like once it happens
Speaker 2: with Halo, I think then everybody will really accept that
Speaker 2: that is just every single thing now.
Speaker 6: Yep. Satianna Della was just out doing interviews this week,
Speaker 6: still talk about it. Everything's an Xbox like they're really
Speaker 6: pushing this so yeah, commercial, yep, it's it's a commercial
Speaker 6: marketing strategy that has seemed to catch on for all
Speaker 6: the wrong ways for them. But but yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 6: keep pushing it. I don't think they have a choice
Speaker 6: that does it for the news though, Jan I think
Speaker 6: I'm gonna hand the show back over to you.
Speaker 1: Holy smokes, I'm not ready to take it yet, so
Speaker 1: I'm just Goetna, no potato. I'm gonna need to take
Speaker 1: quick break break and we'll be back with some emails
Speaker 1: right after this emails. BombCast at giant bomb dot com
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Speaker 1: those two. First email the show comes from Jerry in Wisconsin. Hey, Bombers.
Speaker 1: So apparently the Plucky Squire added a streamline mode that
Speaker 1: cuts down some of the overt hints, dialogue, and camera
Speaker 1: pans that slowed down the pacing and made the game uninteresting.
Speaker 1: I haven't yet try this mode, but between the Plucky
Speaker 1: Square Outright changing a large portion of their game in
Speaker 1: Star Wars Outlaws completely redesigning their stealth in early game,
Speaker 1: are we fully in the age of a game never
Speaker 1: actually being finished. I get the idea of wanting to
Speaker 1: balance gameplay or whatever, but games like Plucky and Outlaws
Speaker 1: completely revamping major portions of the game after negative feedback
Speaker 1: feels strange. Combining that with many games launching in a
Speaker 1: buggy or downright broken state. Is there even a point
Speaker 1: to playing games at launch these days? Anyways? I'll probably
Speaker 1: still check back in on both titles at some point,
Speaker 1: but it seems like part of a trend that I
Speaker 1: don't know how to feel about. Love the program and
Speaker 1: Happy Holidays Jerry and Wisconsin, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3: Late, we've been there for a bit.
Speaker 2: I think about in Mass Effect three in the Ending
Speaker 2: Fiasco right and all that getting patched that lay now
Speaker 2: is you know, Xbox three sixty era. Still, it would
Speaker 2: logically be better to play every video game a year
Speaker 2: after it comes out, right, Like, if you could just
Speaker 2: kind of set yourself on that schedule, that would in
Speaker 2: theory be better in terms of the experience you are
Speaker 2: going to get with each game. But I think for
Speaker 2: us and for people listening, we also enjoy being part
Speaker 2: of that zeitgeist. We like playing the game that everybody
Speaker 2: is talking about at the moments. You know, for us,
Speaker 2: it's also part of our jobs. We just have to
Speaker 2: do that anyways. But even if it wasn't my job,
Speaker 2: I would always want to play the new thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I think a big part of it is if
Speaker 6: you are someone that enjoys having like this ownership over
Speaker 6: a game of like, oh no, I was there when
Speaker 6: it was like that, and now they've improved it made
Speaker 6: it even better and I got to be there for
Speaker 6: that as well, that can be fun. But if that's
Speaker 6: if you are like a lot of people like I
Speaker 6: just want to play it once and have the best experience, Yeah,
Speaker 6: it probably does make a lot of sense to wait
Speaker 6: most of the time, and that there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 6: either way.
Speaker 4: I think it would drive me insane to wait until
Speaker 4: launch or like I'm used to pre launch or launch.
Speaker 4: I remember like a Karina I wanted so bad and
Speaker 4: it came out in November nineteen ninety eight, and I
Speaker 4: was asking my grandma for it for Christmas and I
Speaker 4: was like, all right, probably get it for Christmas.
Speaker 1: I just gotta wait like five weeks.
Speaker 4: And that five weeks of hearing people at school say
Speaker 4: they were playing and I'm like, ah.
Speaker 3: They're playing the new Zelda and I can't, Like no,
Speaker 3: I got to play right away.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm yeah, and the like so what you get
Speaker 6: a slightly imperfect experience, it's more yours. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I that with Indiana Jones, right, everyone's talking about it
Speaker 3: and like I was like, I hate that I haven't
Speaker 3: played it.
Speaker 4: But on the flip side, I don't do early access,
Speaker 4: you know. So it's like Haiti two. Everyone talks about
Speaker 4: it and it's just like I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna wait.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't know. I want the one point
Speaker 4: zero release basically.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, next email comes from Valerie. Look, I'll admit it.
Speaker 1: I was firmly on Mike's side for the whole Liquid
Speaker 1: Death Debacle parentheses. Sorry to dredge this up again. By
Speaker 1: the way, I still think it's extremely ed, hardy coated
Speaker 1: and a little cringey. But they just released a dead
Speaker 1: billionaire armless palmer iced tea, and I can't express how
Speaker 1: much that fucking rocks. I don't y'all, but I'm definitely
Speaker 1: gonna go pick me up some dead billy iced tea later.
Speaker 1: Love you all, even you Dan Valerie.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of people uh tagging me.
Speaker 2: I think they also created some kind of adult diaper
Speaker 2: situation for which people people were saying to me, like, yes, you, Mike,
Speaker 2: You're right, it's stupid.
Speaker 3: I'm like yeah.
Speaker 1: But my real.
Speaker 2: Debate was that they they're not treating as a joke,
Speaker 2: and this seems to really be them leaning in to
Speaker 2: treating their whole brand as a joke.
Speaker 4: I don't even know if Mike is ever on Instagram,
Speaker 4: but every time I see some stupid stunt from Liquid Death,
Speaker 4: I always just damn it to him on Instagram.
Speaker 3: So you might have like twenty things sent for me.
Speaker 2: I think I have a lot of Apparently my brothers
Speaker 2: have a whole group where they'll show you stuff on
Speaker 2: Instagram and have been for years and I've never opened it.
Speaker 2: So someday I'm just gonna scroll through.
Speaker 1: That entire thing. You never see the fun memes I
Speaker 1: send you, Mike, you never answered on me.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I don't know why not. Instagram seems way better
Speaker 3: than a lot of.
Speaker 4: Other Yes, friend Mike Mahardy, so he can send you
Speaker 4: all of his wine memes.
Speaker 1: I actually wouldn't mind that. I might. I might try
Speaker 1: to get that from a hardy All right, we have
Speaker 1: a fun quiz drawn up by an emailer. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Steven hey Bombers. I feel Dan's recent discovery that Jesus
Speaker 1: never had corn is only the tip of the iceberg
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Colombian exchange that happened between
Speaker 1: the Old and New worlds. Perhaps he'd like a hazard
Speaker 1: a guess at which side of the Atlantic the following originated.
Speaker 1: All the best, Steven, Now we have an item, and
Speaker 1: there will be the origin, So Old World or New World?
Speaker 6: Dan?
Speaker 3: And then the Old world is like Europe in Asia.
Speaker 1: Old world is like old It's like Europe.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll be like your eure Asia, Africa, eur Asia
Speaker 6: across the Atlantic from US, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, right apples. Oh and then uh, Stephen also has
Speaker 1: how many years ago they were domesticated? What does that mean?
Speaker 5: They're not dogs?
Speaker 3: You get domesticated plants, but they don't run away, they
Speaker 3: don't eat you like wolves.
Speaker 1: But you can grow them in a specific area. Yes,
Speaker 1: like the.
Speaker 6: Corn, like corn used to be maize and which was
Speaker 6: and then early maize was very rocky and human teeth
Speaker 6: could not eat it, and we had to you know.
Speaker 3: Corn was rocky, like like nervous.
Speaker 6: The kernels used to be.
Speaker 3: Rock hard, so we domesticated it by favoring to plant.
Speaker 1: The softer kernels. Can't be the word. Okay, now we
Speaker 1: have when they were invented, yes, okay, now we have
Speaker 1: the Atlantic are important. That's what old world, New world?
Speaker 1: Ok yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: Apples, Like first I heard of him was Johnny Apple Seeds.
Speaker 4: So we'll say new world eighteen hundreds, Old.
Speaker 1: World Central Asia domesticated four to ten thousand years.
Speaker 3: In the Bible, apples are in the Bible, Adam an eve.
Speaker 3: Oh but the first thing, yeah, the first things forgot
Speaker 3: about that. It's like the first object.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like snakes and apples where all we had
Speaker 4: and like big leaves put on your dick.
Speaker 1: We should have kept them there. We shouldn't have brought
Speaker 1: those up.
Speaker 3: The leaves, yeah, big leaves for your dick in vagina,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: And boobs. No, that was the arm covering for your boobs.
Speaker 1: Oh raight, chickens, Cavemen, New World, Old World, Southeast Asia
Speaker 1: domesticated eight thousand years ago.
Speaker 4: I was think because like when I think of caveman,
Speaker 4: I think in North America, because you always hear like
Speaker 4: when you're in like growing up in Kanser, Oh, they
Speaker 4: used to find t rex fossil, certain stuff.
Speaker 3: There's a lot to impack there. Do you think that
Speaker 3: cavemen and dinosaurs lived with you?
Speaker 1: No, I know that.
Speaker 4: I know that didn't happen. I know that, Yes, that
Speaker 4: did not happen. Like Joan Mack was not a shoot.
Speaker 6: Okay, you feel like you're not unders Okay. The New
Speaker 6: World just means after the like the United States.
Speaker 5: Existed even if we didn't come over.
Speaker 6: Yeah right right, So, but we're talking about Old World.
Speaker 6: New World is just from the perspective of the people
Speaker 6: that lived in Europe and and so was it before
Speaker 6: they have discovered America or not. You can't say caveman
Speaker 6: and New World. That's not what but there were cavemen
Speaker 6: in the New World. Yes, but what does that have
Speaker 6: to do with what we're.
Speaker 3: Talking Because what if they found chickens, then it would.
Speaker 6: Have been Old World because those Okay, I see what
Speaker 6: you're saying. But but that's not like we're just talking
Speaker 6: about from the perspective of Europeans.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Dad, those cave men.
Speaker 5: Weren't thinking about Europe. They were just like, holy shit, chickens.
Speaker 2: I still associate cavemen because that's usually like Neanderthals, that
Speaker 2: that's you more of a europe thing.
Speaker 5: Yeahga, Now.
Speaker 1: Africa and your Asian.
Speaker 3: Yeah, most of those cave paintings you see are from Europe.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Dan keeping my New World refers to North America,
Speaker 1: South America and the Caribbean. Okay, okay, all right, Chili peppers.
Speaker 3: Old World.
Speaker 1: Twelve hundred, New World to modern day Peru and Bolivia
Speaker 1: ninety five hundred years ago, Coco cocoa leaves, cocoa beans, bean,
Speaker 1: coco beans, Germany nineteen thirty five. Dad, if you paid
Speaker 1: attention to that museum, he would have said New World,
Speaker 1: modern day Ecuador fifty three hundred years ago.
Speaker 3: And then we just sent them back to the chocolate,
Speaker 3: is it Jesus never had chocolate?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 5: Is that buy that more than him never eating corn?
Speaker 1: Wow? They're both true.
Speaker 4: What about the buddy like one of those like you
Speaker 4: know those like Instagram people that are all about just
Speaker 4: like eating like raw stuff and geese and things. I
Speaker 4: think Jesus is like one of those, And so I
Speaker 4: bet he was like chocolates unhealthy and he's just like
Speaker 4: eating fish and bread.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was an Instagram influencer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, Yeah, he had a sour dough starter and everything.
Speaker 3: If he came back, he would he would have a
Speaker 3: very popular account probably.
Speaker 6: Oh sure with Jordan Peterson, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Speaking to her together with.
Speaker 6: The all the diet and Jesus loves it.
Speaker 1: The Jesus Christ Experience Number five coffee.
Speaker 3: That's cocoa beans.
Speaker 1: No, coffee is no like coffee beans coffee.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I thought from the Wait Chocolate
Speaker 3: Museum was not talking about.
Speaker 5: Coffee at all.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: No, it's different beans.
Speaker 1: Different beans, yes, but they look similar process different beans.
Speaker 4: So it's not a thing where it's like beans triple.
Speaker 4: It's not a thing where like beans are up here
Speaker 4: in a seconduerello thing where's like if you do this
Speaker 4: to the beans, it's chocolate. If you do this means
Speaker 4: it's pento. If you do this to the beans, it's coco.
Speaker 4: They're different, different, different, different beans. There's a different like
Speaker 4: different phylums.
Speaker 1: Genius perhaps, Yeah, the wait, what are we talking about?
Speaker 6: New World?
Speaker 5: Coffee?
Speaker 6: Is coffee? Old World? Old World or New World?
Speaker 3: Do you think Jesus had coffee? No, he's probably like
Speaker 3: anti caffeine.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean Jehovahs. When it's sure Old World two hundred,
Speaker 1: then you don't have to say the years. You could
Speaker 1: just say old World or New World.
Speaker 5: Oh, I thought there were two things.
Speaker 3: I was to say.
Speaker 1: No, Stephen just provided the years.
Speaker 3: I see, we'll say old World.
Speaker 1: You're correct, Old World found in Yemen the fifteenth century,
Speaker 1: number six. I might have guessed New World on that one.
Speaker 1: I would do. Let me tell you, I think I
Speaker 1: would have. I would have said New World as well. Horses.
Speaker 3: We'll always had horses. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Old World?
Speaker 5: Old World? All the roars were on horses.
Speaker 1: You're yes, you're right, Yeah, all right, Eurasian fifty five
Speaker 1: hundred years ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we domesticated them on on ye then brought them.
Speaker 1: Everywhere that's crazy.
Speaker 4: I thought the first horses were so pissed when we
Speaker 4: were trying to ride them, very pissed.
Speaker 1: Oats.
Speaker 3: Oats is just ground and seeds, like.
Speaker 1: Old like ground. What do you mean by ground?
Speaker 4: There's not like an oat plant. It's just like sandy
Speaker 4: weedy ground.
Speaker 1: Right, all right, you're right old world. The Jordan Valley
Speaker 1: was right about the let.
Speaker 6: It just like it's careful you.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of short there's a couple more here, folks.
Speaker 1: I don't would have be here all day. Dan. Any
Speaker 1: any guesstimation as to how many years ago oats? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a thousands range, and it.
Speaker 4: Just doesn't seem like there's a lot of technology involved
Speaker 4: with oats. I'll say ten thousand years.
Speaker 1: Ago, eleven thousand not bad.
Speaker 2: Can't be real proud of yourself for this whole oats segments, Dan, Potatoes.
Speaker 5: That had to be like the first food.
Speaker 4: It's like saber two tigers and potatoes as a side
Speaker 4: had to be like the first dinner.
Speaker 1: I'll have a number one. Please, No is new world. Dan,
Speaker 1: ship around and I'm gonna I'm gonna judge everyone on
Speaker 1: this podcast if they laugh at this found around Lake yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: sweet Peru and Bolivia did my cicated seven to ten
Speaker 1: thousand years ago.
Speaker 3: Domesticate a potato? Can't you fucking can't it? I love
Speaker 3: that Planet Earth episode where all those potatoes in the
Speaker 3: wild are hunting elk or whatever they do. Domesticating doesn't mean,
Speaker 3: like you know, taming an animal in a video game.
Speaker 1: You go and go sh for a.
Speaker 6: While, wol.
Speaker 3: The arms out thing to process of selective breeding.
Speaker 4: You take a wolf, the snarling at chen wants to
Speaker 4: kill you, and then he turned into gizmo.
Speaker 2: So the way we domessic Yeah, we did that by
Speaker 2: picking the wolves that weren't snarling at us and encouraging
Speaker 2: them to breed and keeping those ones ouver.
Speaker 6: We picked the potatoes that were edible and wouldn't poison us.
Speaker 6: It's the same time and poison you, fool.
Speaker 1: They use the more they used to be poisoned. All right?
Speaker 1: Two more to more.
Speaker 5: Tobacco.
Speaker 1: Tobacco.
Speaker 4: What's the first person I ever saw smoking? Like James
Speaker 4: Dean New World nineteen thirties.
Speaker 1: I mean New World thirty four hundred.
Speaker 3: Years ago, mostly right, was the first milker?
Speaker 1: Liam?
Speaker 5: I couldn't think of someone before James.
Speaker 1: And smoking and last one tomatoes.
Speaker 5: Old World Spain, New.
Speaker 1: World, South America seven thousand years ago. Okay, thank you
Speaker 1: Steven for this lovely quiz. Thank you for doing all
Speaker 1: this work. We got one more email and the year boys.
Speaker 3: Butt Tomatoes came to Spain.
Speaker 1: Well, they eventually went to Europe. Yes, yes, not really,
Speaker 1: but no. Matt writes in I'm sending this because I
Speaker 1: feel the BombCast is a safe space for people to share.
Speaker 1: I was super duper high watching you guys TGA talk
Speaker 1: over stream, and when they play the Ballotra music and
Speaker 1: the Orchestral tribute, I cried like Matthew McConaughey. And that's
Speaker 1: scene at Interstellar where he gets thirty years of messages
Speaker 1: from his kids. Love you, Matt. Yeah, I get it,
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. And folks, that does
Speaker 1: it for this week's and the rest of this year's
Speaker 1: Giant BombCast. Holy smokes, what a fucking year's been.
Speaker 6: Boys. Yeah, good job.
Speaker 1: I have a good job all around. Wow, just happy memories.
Speaker 1: I get sad when I wake up on a Tuesday
Speaker 1: and I can't podcast with you boys. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a very good time. Yeah. I have fun chatting with
Speaker 1: y'all and chatting with these people watching at home.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a good year of podcasts. And uh,
Speaker 6: you know that doesn't mean there's nothing coming out in
Speaker 6: the feed, right, Do you want to talk about that now?
Speaker 6: Are we saving that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So for folks that may have missed Giant Bomb
Speaker 1: at night, we're gonna cut those out. We're gonna put
Speaker 1: those on the GB Presents feed. We're also gonna put
Speaker 1: them here on the Giant BombCast feed as well. And also, folks,
Speaker 1: get your peepers peeped. We're gonna to be releasing day one, two, three,
Speaker 1: and four of our Game of the Year deliberations this
Speaker 1: year over the holiday break, grub you and I have
Speaker 1: been loosely talking about starting the rollout next Tuesday, Yeah,
Speaker 1: December twenty fourth, and then Day two dropping on December
Speaker 1: twenty sixth, Day three on December thirty first, and then
Speaker 1: the final day Day four on January second.
Speaker 6: Yep, So Tuesday and Thursday for the next two weeks
Speaker 6: we'll have the Game of the Year podcast all four days. Yeah,
Speaker 6: a lot. It's their beefy episodes. There's a lot there everybody,
Speaker 6: so enjoy that. Over the two holiday weeks.
Speaker 1: We also shouts out to Marino and Grub for coordinating
Speaker 1: this effort. But we will also have guest lists popping
Speaker 1: out as well as staff lists popping out over the
Speaker 1: holiday break as well. Look forward to your usual fare
Speaker 1: and some new faces writing list for the website. It's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things we do over the year. Also,
Speaker 1: we're going to start a blike club, hopefully right this week.
Speaker 4: I said five items? Is it five clothing items or
Speaker 4: five including the game?
Speaker 6: Okay, there'll be that. I think it's five including the game,
Speaker 6: because there should be that, There should be this, there
Speaker 6: should be that, and then yes, there should be four
Speaker 6: clothing items.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got a prediction one for the one I'm
Speaker 4: missing is based on the the clear bags they sent me.
Speaker 4: I was like, I think I know where they're going,
Speaker 4: and I think I know what the last little piece
Speaker 4: of the puzzle might be.
Speaker 6: That's the most exciting part. Then, yeah, I'm looking forward
Speaker 6: to this.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Someone at chat said term Dan Nator and that's so terrible.
Speaker 5: So I'm telling you, oh man, okay, d.
Speaker 1: D Dana Nator.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, per day.
Speaker 4: Tuned because it might be a Friday Blake club situation,
Speaker 4: because I gotta wait on the game and the last
Speaker 4: piece of the outfit and uh then we'll get all
Speaker 4: set of I'll get the you need to get the
Speaker 4: art and everything. So almost certainly not tomorrow, but maybe
Speaker 4: by Friday we could do that as a as a
Speaker 4: final thing for me here.
Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe we'll we'll have time to shoot and
Speaker 1: cut together a fun stupid little intro as well.
Speaker 3: You need anything for me, I got a green screen.
Speaker 1: Once you get those items in Danny Boy. Uh well,
Speaker 1: let's let's do the first episode and then the subsequent episodes.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll figure out.
Speaker 4: Well, ye, because I guess it doesn't matter if I
Speaker 4: see the stuff, because this is a rare time where
Speaker 4: I know what the game is because of Alex and
Speaker 4: nemar A. Going in pieces are fun at least sure, sure, yeah,
Speaker 4: if you want me to shoot something like do it.
Speaker 4: If you'll me to wait to put it on, I
Speaker 4: can right of the machines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh grub. Do you think game mess for the
Speaker 1: rest of this week at least?
Speaker 6: All right? Yep, that's right for the rest of this week.
Speaker 6: So coming out with us for game Mess or Wednesday,
Speaker 6: Thursday and.
Speaker 1: Friday, we'll have a voicemail dump truck for sure, popping
Speaker 1: off on Thursday looks like a Friday block if the
Speaker 1: forecast looks right. And perhaps we'll squeeze in another stream tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get some Marvel rivals. Maybe we'll squeeze in
Speaker 1: some other things. But folks, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us this week on the episode of the Giant BombCast.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us if you tuned in for
Speaker 1: Giant Bomb at Night and the countdown to the game
Speaker 1: Awards stream lost and lots of fun. We love the support.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for showing up for us. We
Speaker 1: love you at home. Thank you everyone for a lovely hear,
Speaker 1: so much love all around the room, so much friendship.
Speaker 1: He's been Mike, he's been Dan, he's been Grub, I've
Speaker 1: been jan. You have been absolutely lovely. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for letting us into your ear holes consensually letting
Speaker 1: us bless you with video game knowledge darts straight into
Speaker 1: your prad. I'm gonna go lose my voice now good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fate the black now