Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, August twelve, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Happy belated birthday, Mom.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred and three.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, jan Oh Trola. That's right.
Speaker 3: I'm actually part Irish and I've never told anyone. I
Speaker 3: want to welcome everyone in a good old Irish manner,
Speaker 3: have a good old Irish morning. Top of the morning
Speaker 3: to you, and Top of the morning to co Captain
Speaker 3: of the ship, Jeff Crub.
Speaker 2: You want to like, you want to lift your back
Speaker 2: leg back, or your left leg back, and your right
Speaker 2: arm up and you want to get that cross body movement,
Speaker 2: and that's how you wake up. That's how you get
Speaker 2: right a podcast. Now do it for the other leg
Speaker 2: and the other arm. Oh yeah, that's the good stuff.
Speaker 3: Speaking about the good stuff, he's always basking in it.
Speaker 3: He's sharing the good stuff with it because that's just
Speaker 3: him as a person.
Speaker 2: Damn record.
Speaker 4: If you do that horizontal style, that's a that's a
Speaker 4: broken table pose, right, Okay, yeah, yeah, you do it
Speaker 4: down like get down a yoga mat.
Speaker 5: Get down.
Speaker 2: Those are the muscles that I need to stretch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, getting the cat cow position. Then the yeah, the
Speaker 4: arms and legs gonna make.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, making people uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Being about making people uncomfortable. He doesn't do that because
Speaker 3: he massages everything, he juges everything. He's a little bit.
Speaker 3: He's a scoch that makes us go. That's right, he's
Speaker 3: still going because he's going so fast. Back on the
Speaker 3: podcast Turbo Sean Sean McDowell, is.
Speaker 7: That like a cross breeze there going for there, Jeff,
Speaker 7: when you get get the cross wave.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, when you open the window on one
Speaker 2: side of the house and the others doing that for
Speaker 2: my entire human body existence. See, you're very dad. So
Speaker 2: I was just checking if you need like that spoke
Speaker 2: my language, Sean, I got to say, really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe this speaks to the size of TikTok that
Speaker 3: I wind up on. But I see a lot of
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is hokey stuff, So forgive
Speaker 3: me folks somatic therapy and then people talking about how
Speaker 3: doing the frog pose stretch makes them emotional, and then
Speaker 3: I just want to do a frog post stretch with
Speaker 3: you and get emotional with you.
Speaker 2: Guys being about we describe the frog post just real
Speaker 2: quick before we do do the grand finale've introductions here?
Speaker 3: Uh okay, let me just google what a frog? Frog's
Speaker 3: gonna do it again?
Speaker 2: Wait, I don't remember dead bab what he said? No, No,
Speaker 2: that's like a butterfly.
Speaker 6: I think he said he knew dead baby. We got
Speaker 6: to move on.
Speaker 4: No, dead bug. They're they're happy baby and there's dead bug.
Speaker 4: That's two different ones. Child's pose, No, I know child's
Speaker 4: that's a fucking starter pose.
Speaker 5: That's a that's a j BRONI pose. Actually feel.
Speaker 3: Is like I mean, like my camera won't show me there,
Speaker 3: and then Dan look up a picture of frog pos
Speaker 3: and then can you do it in the back please?
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me see.
Speaker 4: You know you need pigeon pose. That's my favorite pose.
Speaker 4: Uh frog pose? Let me see.
Speaker 3: No, the longer we go without introducing him, the more that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, frog pos. This fucks me up. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: try it. I'm probably gonna fuck up my thighs.
Speaker 2: Bad.
Speaker 5: Okay, here we go, my gimmicks off.
Speaker 7: I wonder if Dan actually knows anything about yoga, if
Speaker 7: he's just sp.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, he does a lot of yoga.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Dan is even a bit aware that he hasn't floor.
Speaker 3: Now Dan is unrolling a yoga matt, but he's not
Speaker 3: on it at all anymore because of the frog pose.
Speaker 2: Mike won't even laugh until he's introduced. He's such a professional.
Speaker 2: Oh fuck that.
Speaker 4: You gotta go forward to get out of the frog pose.
Speaker 4: It's really gonna fuck Like my knees are bad. That
Speaker 4: that hurt because the knees go wide on the frog pos.
Speaker 7: Yeah, audio listeners, that was Dan ensuring he never has children.
Speaker 6: A top tier bellow. Dan just one of the best
Speaker 6: bellows I've ever heard. Speaking about top tier bellows. We've
Speaker 6: got this fellow on the podcast, Jeff Grub Let's go back.
Speaker 2: Around, run it back all right? The ship jam bro
Speaker 2: and we we we.
Speaker 3: He's jumpy, he's froggy. He's the five star podcaster record.
Speaker 3: Hey Mabe, let's go let's podcast fellows. How's it going?
Speaker 3: That's right, wars we we Sean, I'm going to convince
Speaker 3: you how much do I have to pay you to
Speaker 3: get a mullet and grow mustache?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Not possible, Jan not not chance on.
Speaker 3: There's got to be a number, because Sean, you like
Speaker 3: chicken tends right?
Speaker 2: Sure, as much as they want. Yeah, well, have you
Speaker 2: ever been to jail? Not? Okay?
Speaker 3: All right, all right, well.
Speaker 2: Bring it around, all right, all right. We we got
Speaker 2: head of the table.
Speaker 1: That's right. I don't know what's going on in the
Speaker 1: w W. Right now, we got.
Speaker 2: Jeff grumb acknowledge me woo.
Speaker 3: Cashing in the heightst of a lifetime.
Speaker 2: It's dad Riker's me. Look out, Grub, I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he's gonna get your way forms and make
Speaker 1: him smell, but then make them big turbosh on the down.
Speaker 7: Have you guys eard a thought about how the brand
Speaker 7: of Scooby Snacks came about? Like was it just like
Speaker 7: Nabisco dog treats? And they're just like man that a
Speaker 7: dog by so damn much. We just got to like
Speaker 7: rebrand the whole.
Speaker 4: Thing, the actual things you can buy at one Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: what do we talking questions?
Speaker 2: Scooby sneaking about dog treats? He's playing, Yeah, play the
Speaker 2: game music. I don't have that loaded speaking about dogs.
Speaker 2: He's got that dog in him.
Speaker 1: That's right, everybody start start having up your dogs. He's
Speaker 1: a bad boy and a bad dog.
Speaker 2: He's our own snack. Mike Manati Hi, Mike. I was
Speaker 2: just like, Jena hasn't had time. He's had a busy morning.
Speaker 2: So I was looking at some of the emails and
Speaker 2: there was a nice long email from a fellow from
Speaker 2: Finland and he talked about that time you yodled on
Speaker 2: the voicemail dump truck. Do you remember what the yodel
Speaker 2: sounded like? Yeah, it still hits.
Speaker 4: I had to ask, Mike, I'm assuming you're basing that
Speaker 4: on something you saw in a Disney thing.
Speaker 2: I'm on the range the bad Guy song. It's great
Speaker 2: a bad guy song.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's really the only good part of that movie
Speaker 6: was the is the Yoda lady Like.
Speaker 3: Now, now don't take offense to this because you are Italian,
Speaker 3: but you sounded like spaghetti spaghetti yodling.
Speaker 2: You sounded like the sound effect that would happen in
Speaker 2: a cartoon when someone twists spaghetti into a fork. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: Don't ever use scissors around me when you're throwing spaghetti.
Speaker 6: By the way, I'll get really upset.
Speaker 2: Everyone cocked their head at you, like, what the fuck
Speaker 2: are you talking about?
Speaker 3: I know what he's talking about.
Speaker 6: Scissors When they do that, like it's like like the
Speaker 6: sense like, oh, my spaghetti, I just scissors.
Speaker 2: I just break the spaghetti noodles. What what Wait, I'm
Speaker 2: the weird guy.
Speaker 5: Because I have my syrup in the fridge.
Speaker 6: To be clear, I'm saying it's a bad thing. No
Speaker 6: one should do that, but some people do.
Speaker 2: Who's even this. It's the thing that people do.
Speaker 3: This happens a lot with Asian suits because Asian noodles
Speaker 3: are very long.
Speaker 2: You seen the suit jam spaghetti.
Speaker 5: You've seen this jam.
Speaker 2: Don't be mad at me. I'm just the messenger. Okay,
Speaker 2: he's on your side.
Speaker 7: Okay, wait wait, so the spaghetti is so long they
Speaker 7: need to cut it on the fork.
Speaker 2: You have teeth. I know. It's dumb to range behavior,
Speaker 2: even the nature betides.
Speaker 6: I know. I think the spoon is completely unnecessary. You
Speaker 6: already have a plate. No wayo twirling in the spoon unnecessary.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, it's wasteful. What is happening You already have
Speaker 2: a plate exactly?
Speaker 6: I don't Yes, I don't understand why people need the
Speaker 6: spoon for their twirling.
Speaker 2: You need a plate to swirl in the air. It's yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: show off a little Just shovel it in your mouth.
Speaker 3: That's what I do with a big bullspication.
Speaker 2: Show it you're galling and shut up. Just loose to
Speaker 2: the jaw and go to town on that plate. How's
Speaker 2: everyone doing? O? Great? Yeah? Good?
Speaker 4: Yeah cool. Two normal nights of sleep and I'm just
Speaker 4: good to go now. It's great.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, Penny's been explain.
Speaker 6: It's getting up to peel a lot and it's disrupting
Speaker 6: my sleep. And it's like the thing I can do
Speaker 6: about it. I can't reason with her. I can't ask
Speaker 6: her to pee less in the moon.
Speaker 2: She's just old.
Speaker 6: And like every time she gets off the bed, do
Speaker 6: you have to come back up the bed?
Speaker 2: And I know one who can make that happened? Oh okay.
Speaker 4: Does she do the thing where it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: waiting on the side and like when bring until you
Speaker 4: help her.
Speaker 6: Up exactly she'll claude and you know I have the
Speaker 6: peak pad, so it's not like she's making a mess anywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 6: at some point I gotta get up and let her up,
Speaker 6: and then it's just sometimes I'll fall right back asleep.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's a thirty minute thing. You know, it's just
Speaker 6: I'm not getting uninterrupted sleep. So it's it's it's not
Speaker 6: great for an already not a good morning person Mikey
Speaker 6: lifestyle many staircase, she does not like it. I had
Speaker 6: the staircase out for five years.
Speaker 2: Chat she'dn't trust it, want nothing to do with it.
Speaker 6: For a while, I was like doing sessions, kind of
Speaker 6: pushing her up and giving her a treat. She would
Speaker 6: like be really hesitant. Then finally like at once like stumble.
Speaker 6: The entire time, I felt like I was torturing her.
Speaker 2: Hated it. So yeah, it wasn't working.
Speaker 4: You know, for all I've heard about Mike, you know
Speaker 4: you yourself have said that you're you know, like a loud sleeper,
Speaker 4: hard to room with and stuff. You know, our our
Speaker 4: San Francisco time I had no we shared a room
Speaker 4: and no issues, no issues at all.
Speaker 2: Two things about that.
Speaker 6: One, I got the sea pap now, so it's pretty good,
Speaker 6: you don't hear ch. Two maybe exaggerating to make sure
Speaker 6: I got my own room in the past.
Speaker 5: That makes sense, Okay, okay, my god.
Speaker 4: But now we're all co owners and no one's second
Speaker 4: food off families, so we're sweating rooms.
Speaker 6: So I want to take food off of families.
Speaker 2: That is, yes, for sure.
Speaker 3: Fantastic, fantastic John, you went to my favorite place in
Speaker 3: the United States.
Speaker 7: That's bad, Jana. I'm gonna maintain that's still bad.
Speaker 3: Why is it bad you There's lots of food, there's fun.
Speaker 2: Experience a lot.
Speaker 5: Most cities have food, Yes, cities tend to have food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's be Vegas has really good food like that, Like,
Speaker 2: what's not underplay that Vegas does have very good food.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of is Like if you want to
Speaker 7: spend like two hundred dollars though, man, no.
Speaker 2: Yes, but you can go to the Thai restaurants, you
Speaker 2: can find some which we did, which we did. Yees yes,
Speaker 2: So I'll say right.
Speaker 7: Wasn't impressed by a lot of them, Like some of
Speaker 7: the places that people recommended.
Speaker 2: It's like it's just more expensive virgins of stuff that
Speaker 2: I have in the Midwest, you know, like.
Speaker 4: I've never been Vegas food, but like I feel like
Speaker 4: if I've been in Vegas twelve times, I'd say like
Speaker 4: nine of them was when I was like poor and
Speaker 4: twenty in a dirt bag and was just eating like
Speaker 4: you know, shitty buffets and.
Speaker 2: Stuff like that.
Speaker 6: That's different.
Speaker 4: But for the wedding, part of the prize package was
Speaker 4: they sent us to the Gordon Ramsey restaurant and stuff
Speaker 4: like that, and your beef Wellington gimmicks and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: And like we'll say, it was.
Speaker 4: Pretty good, but I'm sure if we had to pay
Speaker 4: for it wouldn't be worth it.
Speaker 6: I was, you know, such a Food Network guy that
Speaker 6: every Food Network seventy chef has a restaurant there.
Speaker 2: So that part was one of.
Speaker 6: The best feodles of my life. Was that Bobby Flay's
Speaker 6: restaurant there, that Mesa Grill. I think it was so,
Speaker 6: but again maybe I was hyped up. I was just
Speaker 6: so excited to be eating Bobby Flay food after seeing
Speaker 6: him be dominant on Iron Chef for so long.
Speaker 3: He is the brock Lessner of the Food Network. I'll
Speaker 3: say it, wow, buddy.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: The extra well is that? Okay?
Speaker 3: Anyway, Sean, you the best.
Speaker 7: Food, best food I've ever had, is in Vegas, though,
Speaker 7: I'll give you that, Okay, The chili pork soup dumplings
Speaker 7: at Shell Loong Dumplings off the Strip over in little Chinatown.
Speaker 2: Best who I've ever had period compete.
Speaker 3: It's a real Las Vegas has a really good China town.
Speaker 3: As a Chinatown enthusiast.
Speaker 2: That's where.
Speaker 7: That's where the new Pink Gorilla is that I got
Speaker 7: to check out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a small little one. It's just a tiny
Speaker 7: low one.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, it was.
Speaker 7: Fun to go in there and they up some imports
Speaker 7: and stuff. Yeah, nice whole place there.
Speaker 6: I uh, Mike, Yes, I was gonna say shouts the
Speaker 6: Pink Gorilla because I was taking a bunch of stickers
Speaker 6: off of games I had bought before, and they're always
Speaker 6: it's you know, they're always annoying, and I'll call off
Speaker 6: easy the pink.
Speaker 2: I got to the game I got from Pink.
Speaker 6: Gorilla, and they deliberately use like very unsticky stickers and
Speaker 6: it cut off really easily right away.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yes, I just saw Kelsey Lewin at them and mixed
Speaker 4: meet up this last weekend.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was great, great turnout, great folks.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Sean, you went to Las Vegas, not just
Speaker 3: to go to Las Vegas, but you went.
Speaker 2: For EVO, that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he stand for something like every evolution violent.
Speaker 2: The evolution of fighting games. EVO.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Uh yeah, I went for quite a bit too.
Speaker 7: I went for like five whole days almost a week
Speaker 7: in Vegas, which that's too long to be in Vegas
Speaker 7: if you're on the strip at least I've heard, you know,
Speaker 7: off strip, it's like, it's fine, it's whatever. It's like
Speaker 7: a are city. But on the strip, that's too much
Speaker 7: Vegas for me. Jan I'm sorry, guys.
Speaker 3: Multiple times in the past two three years, I've thought
Speaker 3: I could live in Vegas.
Speaker 4: I am again, like, offstrip maybe, but yeah, you're insane.
Speaker 5: The weather situation, you'd be okay with that.
Speaker 2: I'd just be inside. He's from the Caribbean. He's a
Speaker 2: tropical people grub.
Speaker 5: You sound ignorant.
Speaker 2: Well here.
Speaker 7: Oh by the way, pro tip before I go any further,
Speaker 7: I just want to remember sneath this in if you
Speaker 7: ever do go to an event on the strip, or
Speaker 7: you know, like if you're going with something else like
Speaker 7: the final Fantasy fourteen conventions, there once ces is still
Speaker 7: in Vegas right somewhere on the strip.
Speaker 2: I think I think they're at the convention Center.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you're intending to stay on the strip the
Speaker 7: whole time, get yourself a model rail pass because those
Speaker 7: get deep if you get on multi day passes. We
Speaker 7: got the five day pass because we were there that
Speaker 7: long came out to like eight bucks a day, and
Speaker 7: just you know, you just go to the station, get
Speaker 7: get a nice air conditioned ride both ways deeper than
Speaker 7: ubering all up and down the strip or like walking
Speaker 7: especially that was really nice, and then go to the
Speaker 7: target that's on the strip because the target is like
Speaker 7: price like any of our target dock up on like water, snacks, toiletries.
Speaker 7: I think you need there right back to your hotel.
Speaker 7: And it's actually like a reasonable state here. I've I've
Speaker 7: been been to three evos now I'm starting to get
Speaker 7: the strats of I survive on the strip.
Speaker 4: Did you see the weird or use the weird loop
Speaker 4: that you lay down in and shoots around the city
Speaker 4: underground or whatever Mary was telling me about that.
Speaker 6: Okay, so that's not what it is. Elon Musk's hyper
Speaker 6: loop is that it?
Speaker 2: Yeah loop? The Vegas Loop is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a it's an underground track that runs around
Speaker 7: the convention center then get from one end to the other.
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's all Tesla's, but it's like
Speaker 7: all at least electric cars that they just running around
Speaker 7: a track underground. I got to use that last year
Speaker 7: and it was helpful because I didn't know how to
Speaker 7: get around as much last year. But this year it
Speaker 7: was down because it was there's construction going on, so
Speaker 7: I didn't get do it. But that is convenient. Uh yeah,
Speaker 7: the event itself, it's it's still a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: I put out that video a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 7: You know what it's like to be at EVO, and
Speaker 7: it's it just keeps growing and getting better under you know,
Speaker 7: the new I guess it would be new owners. I
Speaker 7: don't know if it's new ownership, but at least under
Speaker 7: new management. The guy who runs Combo Breaker now runs
Speaker 7: EVO and a lot of his teams by Sony. Right, yeah,
Speaker 7: it's owned by Sony. It's a hokey Maine's in there
Speaker 7: somewhere out and I don't remember the full details, but
Speaker 7: but yeah, it's they learn from every event and that's
Speaker 7: great because last year there were some issues with like
Speaker 7: lines being everywhere and getting into Sunday Finals was a nightmare.
Speaker 7: It fixed a lot of that this year. It's great
Speaker 7: because now that's bigger than ever. This year had more
Speaker 7: attendees than ever. It's just a big old convention. Even
Speaker 7: if you're not duper into fighting games. It's still a
Speaker 7: great convention to go to if it's like a reasonable
Speaker 7: amount of travel and like you have somewhere staying or
Speaker 7: anything like that. If you can just if you're in
Speaker 7: Vegas or you can easily get there and just like
Speaker 7: hang out with friends like split a room or they
Speaker 7: with someone who lives there. It's a great time because
Speaker 7: you can do other things like go to the Massive
Speaker 7: Arcade and stuff. That arcade they advertise as being the
Speaker 7: second biggest in the US. The arcade at that they
Speaker 7: bring to EVO, which is very funny.
Speaker 5: Galloping Ghost number one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I assume they're just saying because yeah, Galloping Ghost
Speaker 7: is the biggest. Hilariously, though, I probably have a bad
Speaker 7: time just playing at the arcade at EVO because the
Speaker 7: machines aren't all broken like they are a calping Ghost.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, they they're getting a little bit with
Speaker 7: the maintenance over there.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately. It's a lot of machines.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but yeah, they have a bunch of cool things,
Speaker 7: a bunch of machines that you wouldn't normally get to play.
Speaker 2: There's like this.
Speaker 7: Mech game where you like get in a pilot's seat
Speaker 7: and it's like jerking you around like Amusement Park Ryan stuff.
Speaker 7: There's all kinds of rhythm games like if you see
Speaker 7: them on stream at GDQ and stuff. That's that's a
Speaker 7: great way to spare time at EVO. I like, I
Speaker 7: spent most of the weekend not playing fighting games because
Speaker 7: they didn't compete this year.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: I was doing a little bit of work, got interviews
Speaker 7: going up on the channel on the site, and so
Speaker 7: I just watched like Top twenty four and some Top
Speaker 7: eights on Sunday, and that's how I interacted with fighting
Speaker 7: games for most of the weekend, outside of previewing a
Speaker 7: couple of games, which I'll talk about in a little
Speaker 7: bit here. Yeah, it was a really fun time. Got
Speaker 7: to meet some people I've always wanted to meet. Always
Speaker 7: Be Clothing and Marino were out there, so I finally
Speaker 7: got to meet up with those guys. Got to meet Susie,
Speaker 7: his spear hunter who's hanging out at a friend's booth
Speaker 7: in the artist ally. He was great talking to her
Speaker 7: for a while. Got just I'll be yeah, Jane, I
Speaker 7: heard the story of you helping her survive E three
Speaker 7: twenty nineteen. That was a I want to repeat it,
Speaker 7: but that our boy Chance just always helping people out,
Speaker 7: isn't he. Oh yeah, Yeah, it's just a fantastic place
Speaker 7: to be. I can't emphasize this enough that it keeps
Speaker 7: getting better. And Marino knows. He was there last year
Speaker 7: as well, and we were talking about it a little
Speaker 7: bit of Yeah, they really did fix a lot of
Speaker 7: the issues we had with last year, and that's good
Speaker 7: to see how they are improving, even if it's getting expensive.
Speaker 7: Evo's not The convention itself isn't cheap. That's why I say, like,
Speaker 7: find a cheap way to get there if you want
Speaker 7: to go, and like stay in everything, because the event
Speaker 7: itself is now to like two hundred dollars to tend
Speaker 7: for the three day pass, which is not cheap. There's
Speaker 7: a lot to do. There's certainly a lot to do,
Speaker 7: a lot of freebies, a lot of giveaways and stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, do you feel like you see that money
Speaker 2: when you're walking around, like you see where that money
Speaker 2: is going?
Speaker 6: Or does it feel like most of it's going toward management?
Speaker 7: It's going to being in Vegas. Frankly, like being I mean,
Speaker 7: Vegas has.
Speaker 6: Got to be cheap relative to a lot of other cities.
Speaker 2: For oh Man, like, like what would where would be
Speaker 2: cheaper because like the Vegas convention centers like pretty affordable.
Speaker 7: Anywhere in the Middlewest. Frankly, that's why still like that's
Speaker 7: going up. That's only like.
Speaker 2: One to one Cleveland. Yeah, Okay, Cleveland would be cheaper.
Speaker 2: I would bet you're probably right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I think at this point it's just in
Speaker 7: Vegas for the historical significance. At this point is where
Speaker 7: it's been for the longest time, so that's where they're keeping.
Speaker 7: But yeah, they are improving it each year. You do
Speaker 7: see that things like the stage, the final Sunday stage
Speaker 7: they have they scaled back the bleachers that they had
Speaker 7: last year in order to get just more chairs in there.
Speaker 2: And that's the compromise.
Speaker 7: Hey, not as like comfy or exciting seating, but everybody
Speaker 7: gets to watch if they want to be in the arena.
Speaker 7: It was a ticket event, so they made sure that
Speaker 7: like there's a right number of people in there and everything.
Speaker 7: They get these big, beautiful screens that you would see
Speaker 7: at a concert or whatever. It's awesome. It's just fun
Speaker 7: to watch the hype moments in the top eight happen
Speaker 7: on gigantic screens.
Speaker 2: And everything. People've been off and running up and down.
Speaker 2: What was the best top eight you saw?
Speaker 7: You know, the funny thing is best top a saw
Speaker 7: might not have been on the Grand Stage. It might
Speaker 7: have been the Killer Instinct one. Yeah, that was just
Speaker 7: so it's always a fun game to watch. There were
Speaker 7: some fun moments in the Grand Blue One as well. Unfortunately,
Speaker 7: a lot of the games right now are kind of
Speaker 7: dominated by like the best players and the best characters.
Speaker 7: So that was a lot of what we saw on Sunday,
Speaker 7: Like if anyone watched Street Fighter, just watching Meta just
Speaker 7: absolutely destroy that.
Speaker 2: Yeah stage with Bloka that was very dominant.
Speaker 7: Pekan was Arcela and Nash versus Active just you know,
Speaker 7: Pakistan being incredible at the game, which is great, Like
Speaker 7: it's cool to see that they're so dedicated to it,
Speaker 7: but they're also a little boring to watch because they
Speaker 7: play it so well in that game.
Speaker 2: Right, It's like when I when I go to watch
Speaker 2: minor league baseball, it's like, oh, baseball could be super
Speaker 2: entertaining when they're not quite as good at it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like going to high school football for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: That was like, I don't think you meant to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like when we compete against other video game webs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if everyone's so bored with users were so perfect.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, for some games it's a little Yeah, it's
Speaker 7: not so to watch a Guilty gear chat. Also Guilty
Speaker 7: Gear Top. It was pretty fun to watch. I like
Speaker 7: to see that in the arena.
Speaker 6: I thought I really enjoyed the cap converce Kate to
Speaker 6: Top eight on the not on the main stage, but
Speaker 6: I thought that was great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was one of them on side stage. I
Speaker 7: wish I just knch more.
Speaker 2: For that and Killer Instinct. Sean, you were talking about
Speaker 2: that'd being fun. Were those ones also dominated, Like would
Speaker 2: I expect to see Justin Wong still like crushing it
Speaker 2: at Killer Instinct or see like folks are like a player?
Speaker 7: No CVS two was I believe players that were either
Speaker 7: new or we haven't seen it. While those cool see
Speaker 7: them come back. I know, I caught the Grand Finals
Speaker 7: of Marvel two, which was like, you know, players from
Speaker 7: back in the day being really good at just coming
Speaker 7: back coming on to the EVO stage and just playing
Speaker 7: the game like back in the day, and that was
Speaker 7: really cool to see.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, man, it.
Speaker 7: Was just it's always such a fun time to be
Speaker 7: in the room as people are popping off for those
Speaker 7: hype moments to happen.
Speaker 2: I just like, it doesn't have to be an EVO
Speaker 2: moment thirty seven or thirty eight for it to be fun.
Speaker 6: It's like the.
Speaker 2: Possibility of being there for like one of those historical
Speaker 2: moments probably is always like enticing one of the reasons
Speaker 2: to go. But you don't like if you didn't have
Speaker 2: one of those, like I heard, you know, the top
Speaker 2: eights were good, but none of them are like were
Speaker 2: super great, but it was still a good time for you.
Speaker 2: It sounds like it was fun anyhow Is that your
Speaker 2: opinion of it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, And if nothing else, like I said, the event itself,
Speaker 7: there's so much stuff to do, whether you're competing or not,
Speaker 7: especially if you're competing though, you know, playing in pools.
Speaker 7: My friend almost finally got out pools, but he was
Speaker 7: one win shy this year unfortunately. But it's just always
Speaker 7: fun to cheer on your friends, then go get some food,
Speaker 7: come back, playing the arcade, chop around the artist alley,
Speaker 7: spend way too much goddamn money in the artist Ali,
Speaker 7: sure some.
Speaker 2: Of the stuff you got, I'm sure it's appropriate for stream.
Speaker 7: We'll seem like Waygan's scrout jump after the break. But yeah,
Speaker 7: it was. It was a fun time. I had a
Speaker 7: lot of fun. Like I said, Dill Lobo work, so
Speaker 7: I brought some stuff back with me that's slowly going
Speaker 7: up on a channel.
Speaker 3: I had an interview, good interview, Sean, really good interview, Thank.
Speaker 7: You Jan and awesome work. An interview with it's a
Speaker 7: returo Yamada, who is the producer of the new Virtual
Speaker 7: Fire game, and so I got to pick his brain
Speaker 7: a little bit. Maybe you get some answers to stuff,
Speaker 7: you know, as much as we wanted, but some answers.
Speaker 7: That's up on YouTube and giant bomb dot com now,
Speaker 7: and we have more stuff going out throughout the week
Speaker 7: as I get that edited.
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Speaker 3: No, I think Sean, you may have this same problem
Speaker 3: that I was having, where it turns out I never
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Speaker 7: Yeah, curly, yeah yeah yeah, oh you I've never bought premium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I think it's the sight might be.
Speaker 2: I think it's a little overloaded at them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody, chuck up, chuck just throw it out, just
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Speaker 3: We're we're all rubbing your back right now. You hear this,
Speaker 3: I'm holding your hair back. Yeah, that's rub your Oh
Speaker 3: did you say this, mister Mick because I'm Asian Mike.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we have an ranger. Come on, got the
Speaker 2: fire palms.
Speaker 4: If you want to see a thirty two minute travelog
Speaker 4: of Mike being mostly not racist, that'll be after this podcast,
Speaker 4: will doubt.
Speaker 2: God? Yeah, just be the judge.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you were.
Speaker 3: Again a premium member and also on the ibomb discord,
Speaker 3: you should go behind the scenes channel. Uh. I was
Speaker 3: scrubbing through the timeline and the first place I stopped
Speaker 3: was just Mike going to town on a donut.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I I initially I edited the travelog, and
Speaker 5: I initially had the cold open before the stinger be
Speaker 5: Mike drunk in a robot car, orgasming over a donut.
Speaker 2: The point of the donut eating experience for other people
Speaker 2: maybe the best point for him. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I one of the if you feedback edit requests
Speaker 4: I got was, that's a lot to start with you.
Speaker 5: You didn't do something different for the cold open.
Speaker 6: It was we're really throwing it in the deep pendal with
Speaker 6: that kind of filled up to that moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some there's some fun, a lot a lot
Speaker 3: of fun things in the travelog. Very good job, Dan.
Speaker 3: I didn't touch up too many things. Yeah, yeah, Sean,
Speaker 3: he went to EVO. We just chatted about that. In
Speaker 3: one of the games. You got to check out a
Speaker 3: few games. You played Invincible, Victoria's Secret.
Speaker 7: That's what versus VS stands for, Yes, exactly, Whattory see
Speaker 7: your chat for Versus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got.
Speaker 5: I was suddenly interested in Invincible.
Speaker 7: I went to the booth and I got an appointment
Speaker 7: for this one. So I did get to sit down
Speaker 7: and play with the games director and we just chatted
Speaker 7: about the game and played for about an hour. So
Speaker 7: I got a lot of footage we could like turn
Speaker 7: into something I'd like to turn to something we'll see
Speaker 7: what happens there. But this game is very interesting. It's
Speaker 7: kind of everything and the kitchen sink, the tag team
Speaker 7: fighting game where if you can think of a fighting game,
Speaker 7: mechanic boy, it's in there somewhere in some form. Basically
Speaker 7: everything except I was very excited to hear this, except
Speaker 7: for Comeback mechanics. That's the one thing that putting in.
Speaker 7: So no x fector no sparking, all that stuff.
Speaker 4: Does it have the thing from Time Killers where you
Speaker 4: can cut off their arm and leg and they keep fighting.
Speaker 7: I know they don't keep fighting, but it is invincible.
Speaker 7: So people blow up a lot. Dan from a punch the.
Speaker 4: Blade thing where you can hit him in the head
Speaker 4: with the weapon and the die immediately.
Speaker 7: Oh if you end the round with that, yes, their
Speaker 7: head will explode, yes, okay, okay, So yeah, I don't
Speaker 7: know if this is the official term they're gonna use,
Speaker 7: but because innvincible, it's a very bloody game. Blood accumulates
Speaker 7: both on offense and defense. He says that the fist
Speaker 7: they call him the blood gauntlets because as you punch someone,
Speaker 7: the blood stays on their hands as the fight goes on,
Speaker 7: and then like blood splatters, will stay on the opponent
Speaker 7: and the ground and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It is in motion.
Speaker 7: I don't think streams like the trailer they showed at
Speaker 7: what would have been Summer Game Fest or whatever, the
Speaker 7: Xbox showcase something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, its xbox X. I played at Xbox. I played
Speaker 2: at Xbox's installation at SGF.
Speaker 7: Okay, I don't think that shows off the game in
Speaker 7: motion as well as when you're actually playing it, because
Speaker 7: there's a lot going on the back. Not great for
Speaker 7: bitray and everything. It looks very clean, it looks really
Speaker 7: nice in person. And also if everything I just mentioned
Speaker 7: about the blood and everything doesn't do it for you,
Speaker 7: because it's invincible, it's going to be there. They did
Speaker 7: announce that there is a like a streamer mode where
Speaker 7: you can turn like that stuff off and have a
Speaker 7: less gory experience.
Speaker 5: Wait, that falls under streamer mode. Why would that be?
Speaker 7: Well, because people get demonetized constantly on YouTube for showing
Speaker 7: excessive gore and like Mortal Kombat and stuff. Really, yeah,
Speaker 7: you can't show a fatality in MK anymore, even the
Speaker 7: x rays anymore, because the yeah YouTube's good enough at
Speaker 7: detecting like, oh, there's blood on the screen. Demonetized and
Speaker 7: maybe even age restricted to eighteen plus.
Speaker 4: Though, is it getting caught thinking it's like actual violence stuff,
Speaker 4: or is it specifically trying to like crack down like MK.
Speaker 7: In particular, like has gotten good enough that Yeah, the
Speaker 7: algorithm thinks you're showing actual, actual gore.
Speaker 2: That sucks. Yeah, but the game is fun. It is
Speaker 2: very much.
Speaker 7: Three mixed with Killer Instinct at its core, which makes
Speaker 7: sense because quarter up, quarters Up, I forget what it
Speaker 7: is is the developer on this, and a lot of
Speaker 7: them are from the former Killer Well Helix back today
Speaker 7: before even Iron Galaxy took over, so a lot of
Speaker 7: them they just were like, hey, let's get the band
Speaker 7: back together. Let's make a tag team game, because that's
Speaker 7: what we want to make a lot of those right now,
Speaker 7: so we'll see how that pans out. But this one
Speaker 7: was fun once I started learning all the mechanics, learning
Speaker 7: how everything works together, because it does feel like they
Speaker 7: are just taking elements all these little things you know
Speaker 7: from different games from the Marvel versus cafcom series, from
Speaker 7: their own work on Killer Instinct, as the combo meter
Speaker 7: where you can do anything you want, like moves just
Speaker 7: link into other moves until that meter fills up. And
Speaker 7: then you know they'll pop out the combo if you
Speaker 7: fill that meter up, or you can like end the
Speaker 7: combo early with a super or the right heavy move
Speaker 7: or something. It's very fun and they do a bunch
Speaker 7: of cool little things I think will get people in
Speaker 7: the door with First of all, the gameplay. It does
Speaker 7: have like auto combos a little bit. They're not like
Speaker 7: great auto combos how should be. We can kind of
Speaker 7: just mash buns. Cool things will happen. You get to
Speaker 7: see them each use their supers. The characters are all
Speaker 7: interacting with each other. A lot of voices from the
Speaker 7: show and everything are back in. They have one of
Speaker 7: the artists, I don't know where he's from, but he's
Speaker 7: worked on series before. It's like consulting on all the
Speaker 7: art and everything like that. I believe the creator is
Speaker 7: consulting as well, and so it's just very authentic. A
Speaker 7: lot of fans aers there for people who want and
Speaker 7: then they do cool things like age transitions. If you're familiar,
Speaker 7: A lot of fighting games have this where like you
Speaker 7: knock them into the wall and they'll go to like
Speaker 7: the different pars stage. Guilty Gear has it where that
Speaker 7: you go to like a really different parts of stage.
Speaker 7: This has it where it makes sense because it's invincible.
Speaker 7: When you punch them through the stage transition, they go
Speaker 7: to a different stage like like you know, stage select
Speaker 7: on the stage seleg screen a different stage. Wow, okay cool,
Speaker 7: which makes sense because yeah, they're like it's it's invincible.
Speaker 7: They're like fighting around the world and everything like that
Speaker 7: because they're superheroes.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's into.
Speaker 7: Space like that, like that's on the stage is yeah,
Speaker 7: So like I think I think it's like randomly picked.
Speaker 7: But you'll, yeah, you'll just go to like the space
Speaker 7: stage or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think i'd die.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think of any of us, you'd
Speaker 6: have the best chance of surviving being punched into space.
Speaker 3: Well that means a lot, thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah you got it.
Speaker 2: Sean.
Speaker 3: While we're talking about versus games, you might as well
Speaker 3: get this out of the way as well. I'm excited
Speaker 3: to hear about Marvel Pocon Fighting Souls because this is
Speaker 3: four v four.
Speaker 7: Yeah, four v four tag fighting game that weirdly doesn't
Speaker 7: much feel like a fourty four tag fighting game. This
Speaker 7: was a very strange one to play, like after my
Speaker 7: Invincible appointment, because Invincible is very much what you would
Speaker 7: think like a three v three tag fighting game is.
Speaker 7: I say, it's very Marvel versus cap I'm inspired. This one,
Speaker 7: despite being a Marvel fighting game, is not very Marvel
Speaker 7: versus Capcom inspired because there's an emphasis on the two
Speaker 7: characters on the screen fighting each other, and then you
Speaker 7: tag in assists. You don't like you can switch to
Speaker 7: other characters, but so far it doesn't feel like that's
Speaker 7: the focus of the game necessarily. It's almost more like
Speaker 7: I can see Chad already says it may like Mortal
Speaker 7: Kombat one, where you know, like that has an assist
Speaker 7: character that you bring in, right, but that's not a
Speaker 7: tag game.
Speaker 2: You're not switching me for your entire team.
Speaker 6: So yeah, the other iron Man gets killed and now
Speaker 6: Captain America comes in.
Speaker 7: Yes, exactly, it's one one bar for one health gauge
Speaker 7: for your entire team. But if you are switching between them,
Speaker 7: you're kind of just getting access to different different move
Speaker 7: sets and everything. You're not specifically switching to more characters,
Speaker 7: and the gameian starts. I didn't know this was the
Speaker 7: case until I played it. You only start with two characters,
Speaker 7: like it's just you and your first support character, which,
Speaker 7: by the way, the order in which you select your
Speaker 7: team determines what assist they will use when you call them, oh, weird,
Speaker 7: interesting thing that they're doing there. But yeah, when a
Speaker 7: big moment happens, which as far as we know, is
Speaker 7: grabbing or doing that stage transition, like I mentioned that
Speaker 7: they have stage transitions in here too, you knock them
Speaker 7: through the wall, then you get an additional character. You'll
Speaker 7: get an additional pip of meter, a little bit of
Speaker 7: extra health, but you're not gaining an entirely new character
Speaker 7: like entirely new health, bower or anything. You just basically
Speaker 7: unlock another assist and the ability to do a little
Speaker 7: bit more. So it feels more like a traditional one
Speaker 7: v one fighting game. Even in movement, which concerns me
Speaker 7: a little bit. It feels a little slow. It's a
Speaker 7: little guilty your strive, and that's you're not dashing all
Speaker 7: over the goddamn place, which is what you expect on
Speaker 7: Marvel Fighting games. So yeah, it felt very different.
Speaker 2: I feel like, does I feel like a deliberate choice
Speaker 2: like they are. They don't want to be one to
Speaker 2: one compared to the previous Marvel games, so they're going
Speaker 2: for the slower style on purpose. Yeah.
Speaker 7: They said in that trailer that they want to do
Speaker 7: their version of a fighting game, their version of a
Speaker 7: tag team fighter. And that's what it feels like here
Speaker 7: that they are intentionally going out of their way to
Speaker 7: try new things, to bring something new to tag team
Speaker 7: fighting games. And we'll see how it plays out, because
Speaker 7: I think if nothing else, people are going to get
Speaker 7: in the door because this game looks incredible. Yeah, you do,
Speaker 7: our system works. That's all I do nowadays is make
Speaker 7: gorgeous fighting choice showcases.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess when they announces I assumed, oh, this
Speaker 6: is going to be kind of like their fall up
Speaker 6: the Dragon Ball Fighters, because that was very Marvel versus
Speaker 6: Capcom code.
Speaker 7: Right, But yeah, it seems a little more in the
Speaker 7: vein of their other games like Guilty Gear and then
Speaker 7: you know, Guilty Gear even had like an experimental like
Speaker 7: THREEB three mode recently, it seems like maybe they were
Speaker 7: trying some stuff out there to see if they want
Speaker 7: to implement them in Token, but it was still it
Speaker 7: was still fun. It maybe it sounds like I'm being
Speaker 7: a little like apprehensive, like I don't know about this one.
Speaker 7: This seems a little this seems like a little off.
Speaker 7: It's very fun. It's just so different than what I
Speaker 7: think all of us were expecting. It's just it's gonna
Speaker 7: take time to accept that the next Marvel Tag Team
Speaker 7: Fighting game does not play like Marl versus cafcom, which
Speaker 7: for you know, years at this point.
Speaker 2: It's funny as you were describing picking up new characters
Speaker 2: for your little roster, it starts sounding like Mario Party
Speaker 2: for a second, and then I got scared. A party
Speaker 2: of all things. Huh yeah, you know, you get the
Speaker 2: opportunity to pick up another do that? That's right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Super Mario Party, the first one on Switch. Yeah,
Speaker 5: absolutly great one.
Speaker 3: How do you do you select a specific character when
Speaker 3: you get to one of those instances?
Speaker 2: I know in order?
Speaker 7: So on the character select, yeah, you you you select
Speaker 7: your point character.
Speaker 2: Waiting in the wing right, they're like waiting after the
Speaker 2: side and it is in the.
Speaker 7: You pick them on character select, So you pick your
Speaker 7: point character. Like let's say you pick Captain America. He's
Speaker 7: your point character, he's who you start with, and you
Speaker 7: pick Iron Man as I forget what the order is,
Speaker 7: but it's like it's like a projectile assist, and then
Speaker 7: it's launcher assist and then other assist and the other
Speaker 7: characters you pick like Iron Man and Miss Marvel and whoever.
Speaker 2: Last one, well, letting assess you get to go to
Speaker 2: a home. Wow, okay, nice, I thought I'm here for everyone.
Speaker 2: That's why we took so long too.
Speaker 6: We knew that he was charging.
Speaker 2: Before we move on from it, which I think that
Speaker 2: sounds cool actually being like selecting an order and being
Speaker 2: the assist that they're going to do, because that makes
Speaker 2: it very simple for me to think about, Like I
Speaker 2: completely understand, like, Okay, I could build a team in
Speaker 2: this way, and whoever I put in the slot when
Speaker 2: I hit that button to bring them out, we're going
Speaker 2: to do that thing.
Speaker 6: And so I can use all these characters that are
Speaker 6: disparate in play style or whatever in effectively the same
Speaker 6: way no matter how I select them.
Speaker 2: That's helpful to me. Yeah. I bet that's what they're thinking,
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 7: So what happens is, like I said, you can tag
Speaker 7: between characters during the match. It's like not emphasized, but
Speaker 7: you can. So you might think, well, wait, what happens
Speaker 7: if I like switch, yeah, this character down to that slot,
Speaker 7: do they do that assist. I believe, yes, the assists
Speaker 7: are always bound to the bun like, even if the
Speaker 7: person who starts as your projectalysis gets like shuffled around
Speaker 7: because you're you are switching characters. I believe that anytime
Speaker 7: you press that butun whoever is in that slot will
Speaker 7: do a projectalysis. So the assists are a little more
Speaker 7: generic than Marl versus capcom as well. Sure, yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 7: I didn't have an appointment. So if it sounds like,
Speaker 7: you know, I'm a little scattered brain ey, it's because
Speaker 7: I am. I only got to like go through the
Speaker 7: line each time. It wasn't very long. It was like
Speaker 7: a twenty minute wait.
Speaker 2: It was oh good, that was doable.
Speaker 7: So I didn't get to play with the developers or anything,
Speaker 7: understand it quite as much. Hilariously, though, I did get
Speaker 7: to play next to a developer. Herado was playing next
Speaker 7: to me while I was at the station one time.
Speaker 2: You just whisper waffle how to them the whole time.
Speaker 7: As much as I would like to no, it's it's
Speaker 7: a very fun game. I'm interested to see how people
Speaker 7: react to it. It's all the controller soup. I'm curious
Speaker 7: how casuals react to that because it is like a
Speaker 7: I guess technically seven bun fighting game. I mean right,
Speaker 7: it's a little deceptive at first that they've simplified things,
Speaker 7: but it also got some depths to it.
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see how it pans out for them.
Speaker 3: Nice, nice, glad to hear that you got to check
Speaker 3: out some neat stuff at EVO, Sean something that we've
Speaker 3: been meaning to check out or actually check in is
Speaker 3: our punishment check in. And if folks remember, Dan Reichert
Speaker 3: handily destroyed all all of us.
Speaker 2: In our Tony Hawk Cruise Challenge where to get to
Speaker 2: the cruise level first time score play it the real way.
Speaker 5: Mike was supposed to be the best gamer.
Speaker 6: Giant bomb weird what I deal with a shotgun and
Speaker 6: bataffeled six.
Speaker 2: It was bad.
Speaker 6: Tried to embarrass me by posting that clip, but motherfucker,
Speaker 6: I should add that to the listener for it.
Speaker 2: But yes, go on.
Speaker 3: But our punishments and Jeff Grubby for with yours is
Speaker 3: Mike Manata. Yours was outer wilds.
Speaker 2: I beat mine. Mine was the longest and I finished
Speaker 2: it first. You're a good boy, mikey very boy. You
Speaker 2: get points. Do you want to wants head pats? Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm glad.
Speaker 5: I'm glad he did. You know, punishments are are serious.
Speaker 5: And he took it seriously and and he went through
Speaker 5: the long good game, and and he thought.
Speaker 2: What about it? It's amazing an all timer? Of course. Oh,
Speaker 2: I love hearing it's an all timer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm so lucky that somehow I had very little
Speaker 6: that game spoiled to me.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know it was a loop. You definitely wow,
Speaker 2: because I'm sure I told you about it. It's the
Speaker 2: kind of game. No, it just doesn't register if you
Speaker 2: don't know what's going on. Yeah, what does any of
Speaker 2: this mean? It's so hard to explain to other people,
Speaker 2: even if they're interested in it. Totally, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's fantastic. I absolutely loved it on such
Speaker 6: a twenty nineteen apology towards that and something else that
Speaker 6: I'll be playing. I can't believe I didn't check this
Speaker 6: out at the time. I don't know what's wrong with me.
Speaker 6: So thank you Dan for forcing me to finally get it.
Speaker 6: Thank you Dan.
Speaker 4: It's a good one to force people, because, like you know,
Speaker 4: Maharty did that to me. We got beers after GB
Speaker 4: East once and he was like, Dan, I know this
Speaker 4: probably wouldn't be a thing that you would play normally,
Speaker 4: but you really need to try. And he gave me
Speaker 4: like a couple little teases of like, oh, it's a
Speaker 4: planet where it's like based on you go this time
Speaker 4: of day, the sand is like this, and when you
Speaker 4: go like it's like the loop factor and everything.
Speaker 5: So like he gave me the hard sell and it
Speaker 5: became one of my favorite games ever.
Speaker 6: So each planet has something weird and different going on
Speaker 6: there that's even weirder and more different than it appears
Speaker 6: to do it than you could ever expect looking at it.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, God, I need to go to the DLC
Speaker 2: and finally check that out. I still wants me to
Speaker 2: play the DLC.
Speaker 5: I fell right off.
Speaker 4: Really it was too I had no I spent hours
Speaker 4: and I was like, I don't understand what the like
Speaker 4: And that's the point, Like I enjoyed that part of
Speaker 4: the original game of like I'm going to figure this
Speaker 4: out by just you know, walking around, not gonna look
Speaker 4: anything up. Tried the exact same approach to the DLC,
Speaker 4: and I was like, I'm getting zero anywhere with this,
Speaker 4: so yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's because like I had a couple times in
Speaker 6: a game where I was feeling like that, I was
Speaker 6: getting frustrated. I was like, I'm not I don't know
Speaker 6: what he wants me to do. I'm not figuring it out.
Speaker 6: It's never gonna happen. I don't want to look it
Speaker 6: up Because'm subborn. But now I'm starting to feel bad.
Speaker 6: And then eventually it did just click, and when it did,
Speaker 6: it was such this like this relief and this satisfaction
Speaker 6: felt amazing.
Speaker 4: I'll try it at some point again, because yeah, everyone
Speaker 4: says it's great. Jan, Your punishment was one that I
Speaker 4: loaded up actually recently Yo Yoshi's Island. I was messed
Speaker 4: around to CRT and also testing the CRT filter on
Speaker 4: the S and S and switched to which I heard
Speaker 4: is pretty good, and it is pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's really good. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 4: Yes, So I've been playing a little bit of Yoshi's Island,
Speaker 4: but I've talked plenty about it.
Speaker 5: So, Jan, what are your thoughts.
Speaker 3: If there has ever been anything to make me not
Speaker 3: want to have a child? Old he is Yoshi's Island.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty accurate to the experience.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone complains. Are you talking about the crying the baby?
Speaker 3: I just fucking hate baby Mario. I would have I
Speaker 3: would have dropped Dan. I would have dropped him off
Speaker 3: at like a fire fire station.
Speaker 4: Well, here's the thing, He's not a problem if you're
Speaker 4: playing right, you know, Like I almost never I almost
Speaker 4: never hear that fucking baby cry.
Speaker 5: So it's like, and you know, I hate babies, but
Speaker 5: like in that game, I don't have a.
Speaker 2: Problem with them. Yes, this is one of the things
Speaker 2: we say about you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Children of Men feel good movie of the year.
Speaker 2: That's all of the best comedies I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: Oh god, it's just a delight.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, after I finally got my my sea legs on
Speaker 3: me and and kind of acclivated myself to the flow
Speaker 3: of the game, I'm kind of like kicking myself for
Speaker 3: not checking this out sooner. Yes, very first thing that
Speaker 3: sticks out. I fucking love the color palette in the.
Speaker 2: Look of this game.
Speaker 5: It's incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like what you could do.
Speaker 3: Like I remember when we went to the Nintendo Park
Speaker 3: at Universal and there was that small section that was
Speaker 3: a Yoshi's Island themed and Dany were like going Google
Speaker 3: Gaga over it. I didn't quite have the same reverence.
Speaker 3: But now seeing and playing through Yoshi's Island, I'm like, oh, ship,
Speaker 3: this looks great. I want to live in this world
Speaker 3: more and with like the rumors that grub you you
Speaker 3: talked about on game as Mornings of a new Super
Speaker 3: Mario Brothers collection, I don't want that at.
Speaker 2: All, all right, what they might do a new capital, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have the same reaction dance.
Speaker 5: I mean they're good games subjectively, Yeah, they're good.
Speaker 6: Ones, very good, are they?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Game the we one, I'll give you the games. The
Speaker 5: one's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, But I just want I just want this world.
Speaker 3: I just want this color palette. Yes, and I funny enough,
Speaker 3: I never checked out Yoshi's Island, but I did check
Speaker 3: out uh Wooly World or Yoshi's Wooly World.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great, look for that. Keep imitations.
Speaker 3: But like even this, just thinking about when this game
Speaker 3: came out, and like all the small little details. I
Speaker 3: love the little like dopey flowers and everything.
Speaker 5: The boss have you gotten the boss fights with that
Speaker 5: can be coming? All the warping and stuff.
Speaker 3: Great, It's it's just so good and it's just like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I can put up with this child when I get hit,
Speaker 3: and then Yoshi's just kind of.
Speaker 2: Like a g just like shooting things and like quarterback.
Speaker 5: Really you go from one Yoshi who just like tosses
Speaker 5: the baby to the next one.
Speaker 7: I love that.
Speaker 6: I'm like at different Yoshi in different levels. I don't
Speaker 6: know why, like this is a team at first.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: As I played for the first time ever, I'm playing
Speaker 4: it to try to get all of the red coins
Speaker 4: and flowers and every.
Speaker 2: Time, and as soon as I beat that the first time,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I am going back. I I was like,
Speaker 2: that's maybe the first game I really remember one.
Speaker 5: See I never did that, And I know, aren't there
Speaker 5: like two levels in each world that are just like
Speaker 5: exclusive to like if you get all over.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, totally.
Speaker 4: And I realize there's like a bunch of levels of
Speaker 4: Yoshi's Island, one of my favorite games that like I
Speaker 4: just haven't played, so like I'm actually going through it
Speaker 4: now and it's.
Speaker 6: It's a great yeah, good good. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's just like it just says so much to like
Speaker 3: little character details that I feel like not necessarily missing
Speaker 3: from the mainline Mario games, but like little touches I
Speaker 3: I love like when you get to like the stage
Speaker 3: complete section and it's like that chalkboard that like framing
Speaker 3: animation of switching between like the fonts kind of jittering around,
Speaker 3: Like I love that very cute.
Speaker 2: Everything's so good.
Speaker 3: It makes me think that it's kind of Nintendo has
Speaker 3: been sitting on so many things for like forever, right,
Speaker 3: it could easily pull the Yoshi trigger and capitalize the
Speaker 3: shit off of that dinosaur like in the next Mario
Speaker 3: movie or whatever he's gonna be in the movie.
Speaker 6: That was a postcrit stinger in the last one spoiler,
Speaker 6: you know when we had them in the end of
Speaker 6: Mario Odyssey, Right, we beat the game, you can cappy
Speaker 6: a Yoshi and it's like, oh, this is just a
Speaker 6: three D Yoshi move set.
Speaker 2: Now, this is amazing. I want one of these.
Speaker 6: I really hope we get a three D Yoshi game,
Speaker 6: kind of like how we finally got a three D
Speaker 6: Kirby game another three D Donkey Kunk game. I think
Speaker 6: they're a little I think they're really beholding to the
Speaker 6: idea of Yoshi is their entry level series, and it's
Speaker 6: like kind of.
Speaker 2: Which is what Kirby was supposed to be. It was
Speaker 2: literally made to be the entry level series.
Speaker 5: And you look at everything they've done with Yoshi since
Speaker 5: Yoshi's Island. You're starting with Yoshi's story, and they've all
Speaker 5: just been like man like Yosha's Islanders is the fact that.
Speaker 2: Like, babies love Yoshi, kids love Yoshi all right, but.
Speaker 5: Too damn it, what about all of us adult men.
Speaker 2: Something for me for once? It's very much what they
Speaker 2: think of the forty year old men. It's filling the
Speaker 2: role for them, right. They need some game in that role,
Speaker 2: and they've decided that Kirby and Yoshi, let's get in.
Speaker 2: Kirby's kind of graduating all of that, but they're leaving Yo.
Speaker 2: At least we got Yoshi's.
Speaker 6: Island, like it can be multi fascinating because you know,
Speaker 6: a Kirby, we did get Star Allies is the baby
Speaker 6: one and it was really bad, but you know, maybe
Speaker 6: the babies liked it.
Speaker 2: But then we also got Forgotten Land.
Speaker 6: On Switch and it was still it wasn't some super
Speaker 6: difficult game, but it was satisfying for everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was more like a Mario. Everyone could enjoy that.
Speaker 6: So you know, if you want to make some two
Speaker 6: D Yoshi gave her babies again, that's fine, but.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, give me a big three D Yoshi game,
Speaker 2: it'd be amazing.
Speaker 3: Like it seems like a missed opportunity. I know, the
Speaker 3: Nintendo Land in Universal Studios La or Hollywood is pretty small,
Speaker 3: but yo, you could have like a carousel and it's
Speaker 3: all just Yoshi's.
Speaker 6: Well, so yeah, the one and you know the one
Speaker 6: in Orlando has a Yoshi ride. Yeah, the Japan and
Speaker 6: Orlando had. That's so that the line for Mario Kart,
Speaker 6: that line is the line for I think Yoshi in
Speaker 6: uh in the Okay, so they wanted to bring some
Speaker 6: of that here.
Speaker 7: That's why we want Yeah, Japan, it would now be
Speaker 7: the Donkey Kong ride, right, because they have that one
Speaker 7: over there too.
Speaker 6: So okay, Orlando and Japan they have the whole Nintendo
Speaker 6: World experience with the Mario cut right, the Yoshi right,
Speaker 6: and the Donkey Kong stuff. It's very short and it's
Speaker 6: definitely it's the kids ride for sure. It's very slow,
Speaker 6: but it's neat and it's very Yoshi's Island themed, so
Speaker 6: you can see some of that stuff in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really enjoy this punishment. I do kind of
Speaker 3: want to just beat it. Yeah, just finish it.
Speaker 5: Well, that's part of the punishment.
Speaker 6: It's as far as the best final bosses in Nintendo history, Yes.
Speaker 5: It is one I think about.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that'll be worth it, Jane to see that
Speaker 2: final boss and because it's like especially if you put
Speaker 2: your mindset or put your hand in the mindset of
Speaker 2: this happened on the Super Nintendo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I don't need to buy a PlayStation.
Speaker 2: This can do it. Just lie baha.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm thinking about that a lot of like, wow,
Speaker 3: this is on the Super Nintendo.
Speaker 6: Holy Donkey Kong has advanced computer modeling a CM. You
Speaker 6: want to talk to me about a CM, I'll talk
Speaker 6: you about a CM.
Speaker 5: I never have to get anything but a Super Nintendo.
Speaker 5: I'm set forever.
Speaker 2: Had some great late games, like that's a good one,
Speaker 2: which which just to man the best like life probably
Speaker 2: sick there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I gotta ask since I I we talked
Speaker 3: about the post credit stinger in the Mario Brothers movie.
Speaker 3: Do you think they either a redesigned Yoshi or b
Speaker 3: give Yoshi like a voice, or Yoshi kind of be
Speaker 3: like Star Wars he can't talk.
Speaker 7: Oh no, he'll be like he'll be like the minions,
Speaker 7: you know, just like gibberish. Yeah, but everyone noises.
Speaker 4: Like when he does the butt stop in Yoshi's islands.
Speaker 4: Probably like that little thing like you can make those
Speaker 4: noises and stuff. That's fine. Don't talk, no, it.
Speaker 2: Can be like R two D two just squeaks and squawks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, it doesn't need to be.
Speaker 4: I don't know who's popular.
Speaker 6: Travis Kelcey, Yeah, Travis Kelcey as yo, Travis kel baby Yoshi.
Speaker 2: I love how stupid baby Yoshi looks. By the way.
Speaker 6: You don't get that an island that's Mario World, But
Speaker 6: I love that stupid tiny yes, blubber baby, you know what.
Speaker 2: I love Aquafina, but it's gonna be Yoshi's.
Speaker 3: To be voiced bio.
Speaker 2: From being in too many any animated movies. I don't
Speaker 2: love her. I'm very tired. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: You have a double Everything or Nothing? Yeah, Double seven
Speaker 2: Everything or Nothing, which I played through, uh, probably about
Speaker 2: a third of on stream, and then that was on
Speaker 2: the computer, and I since restarted it on steam Deck
Speaker 2: so I could play it more conveniently and I got
Speaker 2: up to the same point. Uh, and I am enjoying
Speaker 2: that game.
Speaker 6: Quite a bit.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 2: You know, you always have to reacclimate yourself to third
Speaker 2: person shooters before, you know, Resident Evil uh two or
Speaker 2: for and a bunch of other stuff kind of like
Speaker 2: really solidified solidified what that genre was going to be.
Speaker 2: But once you do, it's like, oh no, a lot
Speaker 2: of that stuff was already here. Uh and they have.
Speaker 2: It's just a really good series of set pieces where
Speaker 2: James Bond's doing very James Bond stuff. And even though
Speaker 2: the product placement, like the Porsche Cayenne, like when it
Speaker 2: was first coming out, that's his car in this game,
Speaker 2: then like kind of putting that front and center, it's
Speaker 2: hokey in the way you want James Bond to be hokey.
Speaker 2: And I've been enjoying that. And you know, there's the
Speaker 2: occasional like, what is this game trying to get me
Speaker 2: to do? Okay, all right, I'll guess I'll try to
Speaker 2: make see if that works, and then it does, it's
Speaker 2: like okay, they were still trying to figure out how
Speaker 2: to exactly convey to the player like Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 2: get you to this point and then we're gonna take
Speaker 2: over control so we could do our fun big splashy sequence,
Speaker 2: but you know, that's only happened a couple times where
Speaker 2: I kind of felt lost.
Speaker 6: About what it wanted from me.
Speaker 2: The rest of the time, I'm like kind of blasting
Speaker 2: my way through levels. The gun play is actually pretty fun.
Speaker 2: The game looks fantastic. I've been I did play it
Speaker 2: some on the Shoot hardware. Obviously it looks good on
Speaker 2: Dolphin because of the upres, but like the underlying character
Speaker 2: model for Puerrece Brosnan that's his name, right, looks so good,
Speaker 2: Like his face model looks so realistic that it's still
Speaker 2: really impressive. And then the rest of the time, it's
Speaker 2: just like it really has a nice realistic setting to
Speaker 2: it where I really feel like, oh yeah, they kind
Speaker 2: of got the cinematic quality that they were going for,
Speaker 2: even on the GameCube. That is the generation we're graphics,
Speaker 2: so like real ready graphics really got figured out.
Speaker 4: But I'll say it does a couple of things that
Speaker 4: I remember, like that came out in four and like,
Speaker 4: you know, it does a couple of things that I
Speaker 4: remember experiencing kind of for the first time with that
Speaker 4: game that I think other games kind of get credit for,
Speaker 4: like the cover base shooting. You know, there's you know,
Speaker 4: you can like Middle Year two, you could do the
Speaker 4: thing where you go against the wall and just kind
Speaker 4: of pop out and shoot, but like this, you could
Speaker 4: like target stuff a lot better. It had kind of
Speaker 4: that Hitman vision thing if I remember right where you
Speaker 4: can kind of see Bond vision. Yeah, it's like that
Speaker 4: type of stuff that like I remember for the first time,
Speaker 4: like that really good third person you know, cover based
Speaker 4: stuff and the Bond vision.
Speaker 2: I've been surprised by how many of those things are there. Yes,
Speaker 2: like it really they really did figure out a lot.
Speaker 2: I mean, this was it make a They made a
Speaker 2: lot of these Bond games. Was this the third one
Speaker 2: or the second one? Was the third one? Yeah? Third ones? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Aged under Fire, Night Fire Fire, and then the Rush Rush. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this does feel like the third one where back then
Speaker 2: that would have been the first two were really successful.
Speaker 2: They keep making more money, so we could put more,
Speaker 2: even more money into this one, and they probably got
Speaker 2: the minish were turn starting around here and then going
Speaker 2: into the fourth one. But that meant that they could
Speaker 2: put a lot of effort in there, and it shows
Speaker 2: like it really does show up in the game where
Speaker 2: they believed that they could. They had also like figured
Speaker 2: out a lot of the problems that might have happened
Speaker 2: in the first game, so so yeah, yeah, just really
Speaker 2: enjoying it.
Speaker 5: And last like really cool idea that it's like it's
Speaker 5: not based on a movie. They just made a hole.
Speaker 4: They got Won de Faux and Heidi Klum and Shannon
Speaker 4: Elizabeth and you know, like a whole new Smigny Maya
Speaker 4: does the song you Got Jaws coming Back and stuff.
Speaker 4: It's just like it was a very ambitious, cool thing
Speaker 4: at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like one Planet and I'm like, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure this wasn't a movie, but it just feels
Speaker 2: like this guest that's Willem Dafoe, Like how is he
Speaker 2: in here?
Speaker 6: It's just is kind of amazing.
Speaker 7: Speaking of the other games, I was curious why you
Speaker 7: recommend this one specifically, Dan, because the other ones are
Speaker 7: like pretty solid games too, and pretty well regard for
Speaker 7: people who played them. Like I's Underfire, I remember being
Speaker 7: like dolid but kind of alright, But night Fire, I
Speaker 7: think is the one that like everyone really likes, including myself.
Speaker 6: People like night Fire.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember I tried.
Speaker 4: I was so hot on Golden Eye obviously, but then
Speaker 4: like you know, when they switched developed and stuff like
Speaker 4: World's Not Enough and tur I Never dies, I didn't
Speaker 4: love so I kind of fell off Bond until when
Speaker 4: I was in college. I was in college from two
Speaker 4: to seven, and so this is right in the heart
Speaker 4: of that where EA would come to my campus and
Speaker 4: to our dorms. Oh and they would set up little
Speaker 4: kiosk and they would just like in the lobby of
Speaker 4: the dorm and it'd be like, oh, here's you know.
Speaker 4: My first time playing Burnout was at one of these things,
Speaker 4: you know, so it's like these it was actually very effective.
Speaker 4: It was like several games like this was one of them,
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh shit, this game is actually great.
Speaker 4: I'm going to games Stop right now and buying this thing.
Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, the man EA was like pretty good
Speaker 2: at Movie License games back in that time that the
Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings games were actually really good in them,
Speaker 2: was really good. The thirty eight they did the same
Speaker 2: thing there where they like made another one after that that,
Speaker 2: the first batch of three. It's just so wild.
Speaker 6: That was like a five maybe six year console generation.
Speaker 6: There was four James Bond games. They're all pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not like that anymore. Oh no, no.
Speaker 3: Semi related question. I guess I've always been curious about this.
Speaker 3: How was Pierce Brosnan received as Bond, Because when I
Speaker 3: was growing up.
Speaker 2: He was just Bond for me.
Speaker 5: Oh see, I was.
Speaker 4: I remember when it was like, oh my god, Bond's back,
Speaker 4: because Golden Eye was like ninety six, I want to say,
Speaker 4: and at that point it had been like a while,
Speaker 4: because like, they did a couple of Dalton ones and
Speaker 4: then as a kid, I always thought Bond was like
Speaker 4: an old movie for old movies, Like I didn't know
Speaker 4: it was a current thing that they were still so like.
Speaker 4: To me, it's like it almost felt like a legacy
Speaker 4: sequel before that was a.
Speaker 6: Term, especially because you know, we're all older and we
Speaker 6: grew up with that. He's looked back on favorably, even
Speaker 6: though I think most people were like, yeah, the first
Speaker 6: movie was great, and there's other ones.
Speaker 5: Golden is great.
Speaker 4: Some people stand by Tom I never dies, World's done
Speaker 4: enough has the Christmas only comes once a year line,
Speaker 4: which is great, and then die another day is unbelievably
Speaker 4: fucking stupid but kind of fun.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of It's so dumb It is kind
Speaker 6: of fun it it was so obviously, all right, we've
Speaker 6: got too far of this direction. You can see why
Speaker 6: we got a casine, you know, roy alle after totally
Speaker 6: it was necessary that, Yes, but what's.
Speaker 2: Kind of fun to see how stupid it got.
Speaker 3: Yes, folks, we've been going for a little bit. We're
Speaker 3: gonna take a quick breaky break, and we'll continue talking
Speaker 3: about video games, and maybe we'll take another break and
Speaker 3: then talk about the news we'll see on the other
Speaker 3: side of this, and we're back. We're still talking about
Speaker 3: video games. Here's a little bit of that music.
Speaker 2: There was. That was a little bit of that music. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this as you.
Speaker 3: Were talking about your punishment Grub and Mike you were
Speaker 3: talking about getting a three D Yoshi. But like all
Speaker 3: these indie games that I've been enjoying, like Big Hops,
Speaker 3: Grub and all this other stuff, this could just be
Speaker 3: a Yoshi game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yoshi got not wrong. God, Big Hops really could be.
Speaker 2: Yoshi got that tongue. Yoshi got an arm on him.
Speaker 2: You know, he got what that tongue do for sure.
Speaker 2: You don't have to say it like that, well you can.
Speaker 2: That's what's fun about podcasting, Like, I.
Speaker 3: Don't you know, if I had a tongue, I was
Speaker 3: like one of those sticky hands that you like throw.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those are great.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I would do with it, but
Speaker 2: I do stuff with it.
Speaker 5: Trick thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: While we're checking in about games Grub, you have another
Speaker 3: check in from Donkey Kong Bonanza.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I've decided I don't like the term postgame
Speaker 2: content because you can put the credits wherever you want,
Speaker 2: right they like they just fuck like we're gonna put
Speaker 2: in the middle.
Speaker 6: Of our game and don't tell anybody. But it keeps
Speaker 6: going after that.
Speaker 2: It's still really good and it's still that video game,
Speaker 2: and it actually like kind of gets interesting in some
Speaker 2: different like I don't know, the challenges are more in
Speaker 2: line with the yeah, more challenging, the letting you use
Speaker 2: your powers in ways that are like cool and uh
Speaker 2: yeah and fresh. So I've been enjoying experiencing that, and
Speaker 2: it's like it did remind me. It's like, yeah, they
Speaker 2: maybe Nintendo does that a little bit now. Every once
Speaker 2: in a while, there's been some other games where they
Speaker 2: kind of just have the credits here and then you
Speaker 2: can kind of keep playing the game. It's it's in
Speaker 2: game stuff, I guess, but yeah, I've been continuing to
Speaker 2: play that and kind of figuring out what it wants
Speaker 2: me to do. After the credits was fun, and now
Speaker 2: it's like, okayeah, these challenges are very good, and then
Speaker 2: that gives me an excuse to keep exploring, and then
Speaker 2: I am still one hundred percent in some levels. I
Speaker 2: am at a point now where it's like, this is
Speaker 2: a lot. There's so much in this game, like this
Speaker 2: might be something I slowly do over the next year
Speaker 2: or something like that and not try to force it
Speaker 2: all right now because that would take up all my time.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's like pretty interesting to see them be like, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: you beat the game, sure, and then if you want
Speaker 2: to keep playing, there's more there, and it's like, no,
Speaker 2: everyone should probably keep playing the game at least a
Speaker 2: little bit, because they really did save some of their
Speaker 2: best stuff for after those credits.
Speaker 5: How many banana do you have?
Speaker 2: I am at like around I'm almost at six hundred,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm in like the high fives. Okay, so we're
Speaker 4: probably around the same spot and Gruby we haven't even
Speaker 4: talked about this, but I have the exact same thought
Speaker 4: of like, you know, I spent a lot of time
Speaker 4: playing this game. It's been my main game for a
Speaker 4: few weeks, and now it's like, I don't think it's
Speaker 4: gonna be one that's hard to pick up again. No,
Speaker 4: you know, I think it's gonna be one that like
Speaker 4: if I'm on a flight a month from now, I'd be, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: don't count, let's get a few bananas, you know. So
Speaker 4: like that is exactly how I'm viewing it. I'm moving
Speaker 4: on to other things right now. But it's gonna be
Speaker 4: nice to have that in the back pocket because exactly
Speaker 4: that team's like post game quote unquote stuff like you know,
Speaker 4: Odyssey and all that stuff, Like I always love that ship.
Speaker 2: So I did see chat here.
Speaker 4: Say that Pickman four gets amazing after the credits, and
Speaker 4: I do remember that because one hundred percent Pickman four,
Speaker 4: I forgot what it specifically did. If it like let
Speaker 4: you do it again with like a time limit on
Speaker 4: the days or was.
Speaker 2: That when the you know, the the all of our
Speaker 2: stuff happened with that postred before credit. I think I
Speaker 2: can't remember. I do remember one percent in that game.
Speaker 2: I think we all did the ones was that played it,
Speaker 2: and I think we all really liked that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I remember telling Kayla because yeah, I remember Kayla got
Speaker 4: to like credits and I was.
Speaker 5: Like, all right, now you get now the real stuff
Speaker 5: it is starting. But I forgot how it does that?
Speaker 2: You know? Man?
Speaker 5: Pick four kicked ass good.
Speaker 2: I got a Pickment, penn At and the Teto Star.
Speaker 6: It was about that pen yesterday. It's a lot of
Speaker 6: great writing, uten so, but pray so.
Speaker 3: The main thing it is four, not that great shut
Speaker 3: up jam.
Speaker 2: The mame thing is looking cute.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Like, yeah, you guys got anything about my
Speaker 7: banana account? And I was like, where the hell do
Speaker 7: I even find that? And then okay, I just found
Speaker 7: the menu to give you idea of how I'm playing
Speaker 7: the game. I'm at five hundred and forty six and
Speaker 7: I'm on sub level fourteen hundred.
Speaker 2: You got to stop. That's wild.
Speaker 7: Wow, play these games, man. I just see a thing,
Speaker 7: I gotta go do the thing.
Speaker 5: And you know a lot of things.
Speaker 7: The complaint that many things though, the complaint that I
Speaker 7: had when we first talked about this, of they separate
Speaker 7: out the the destruction and the platforming too much for
Speaker 7: my taste. It gets better about that as the game
Speaker 7: is up right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think they trust you more as you play the game longer,
Speaker 2: and that continues after the credits, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7: So they that's kind of like you guys were getting
Speaker 7: at the Nintendo thing that they do nowadays. They know
Speaker 7: freaks like us will just play like all that this
Speaker 7: game has to offer, so they do lock a lot
Speaker 7: of that harder stuff behind the like, and I.
Speaker 2: Think people also feel better if they feel like, oh,
Speaker 2: I beat a game, so I feel better about this thing.
Speaker 2: I think it's a mental trick that they're playing bactly
Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's always kind of been the case though,
Speaker 4: Like like think of like Mario sixty four or even
Speaker 4: Super Mario World, Like you can beat that game and
Speaker 4: doing like less than half the levels and then if
Speaker 4: you're a sicko, you can go back and you know,
Speaker 4: do all of them, like literally Mario World had that,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: Yep, good point, which I like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh it's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, while we're checking in about Nintendo games, Dan, this
Speaker 3: is a surprising thing to see on the list. But
Speaker 3: you put on Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm at the spot where it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm doing what I'm doing with Bonanza, but I do
Speaker 4: want to move on to something else right now as
Speaker 4: my main thing, and it's like what is coming out soon.
Speaker 4: It's like, I know Borderlines four is coming out. I
Speaker 4: beat Snaky, but I can't talk about that for a
Speaker 4: little bit. So I decided, like I've been wanting to
Speaker 4: check out either Breath of the Wild or Tiers the
Speaker 4: Kingdom since the Switch two came out, and I was
Speaker 4: going back and forth forever, and I landed on Breath
Speaker 4: the Wild. And now that I'm I'm playing it and
Speaker 4: enjoying it more than I expected in the last few days.
Speaker 4: I think I am confident now in my thought that
Speaker 4: I do prefer this over Tiers of the Kingdom. And
Speaker 4: I do think Tiers of the Kingdom is a incredible
Speaker 4: like one of the best games of all time. I
Speaker 4: think it has better abilities overall, like you know, the
Speaker 4: ruins and stuff like that. But as I play Breath
Speaker 4: of the Wild, I'm really appreciating kind of how focused
Speaker 4: it is, because like Tiers the Kingdom, lets you do
Speaker 4: a lot of stuff, but it also is stuff that
Speaker 4: kind of slows things down, like it's a lot of
Speaker 4: fiddling with stuff, you know, creating the things, going through menus,
Speaker 4: attaching items to arrows, and like, there's so much you
Speaker 4: can do. It's incredibly impressive. But the Breath of the Wild,
Speaker 4: as I'm playing it, it is just kind of like
Speaker 4: beautifully like simple is not the word, but it's just focused.
Speaker 4: It's just like, Okay, I'm just like, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: getting to the top of a new tower. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: I see those shrines over there. Like it's like there's
Speaker 4: less stuff you can do, but it does feel like
Speaker 4: more of a kind of straightforward adventure. And I thought that, like,
Speaker 4: because I play the shit out of it one hundred
Speaker 4: percent of the Originally I thought that it would just
Speaker 4: be like kind of retreading that and I wouldn't have
Speaker 4: that sense of discovery. But it's such a big world
Speaker 4: and there's so much shit in it that I am
Speaker 4: finding that, like, oh, even my path here is different
Speaker 4: than it was the first time, you know, Like I like,
Speaker 4: as I'm just stumbling upon different parts of the world
Speaker 4: and deciding what order to do things in, it is
Speaker 4: feeling fresher than I expected it to be.
Speaker 5: But I guess it's been eight years or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does the Seldon notes app work do anything
Speaker 2: in Breadth of the Wild.
Speaker 4: Yes, it does. So it doesn't do anything like obviously
Speaker 4: like tiers. You can do the QR code like bringing
Speaker 4: the constructions and stuff, but you can do all the
Speaker 4: like GPS stuff, And I haven't really messed with it.
Speaker 4: I've looked at the navigation map and it is cool.
Speaker 4: You can kind of filter, like, oh, if I just
Speaker 4: need to beat a high Knox or something, I can
Speaker 4: just kind of tap that, or if I'm looking for
Speaker 4: core ox seeds in the area, i can just you know,
Speaker 4: pop all that up.
Speaker 2: On that school. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't done the like turn by turn direction
Speaker 4: type stuff or anything yet. I'm kind of just doing
Speaker 4: it in game like normal. But yeah, I've kind of
Speaker 4: fiddled with it, and it does seem like a cool
Speaker 4: little If there's the.
Speaker 2: Zelda commentary stuff where she like talks about stuff in
Speaker 2: the world, is that.
Speaker 6: Just Tears the King, I bet it's.
Speaker 4: I think it's it's got the like Zelda memories thing
Speaker 4: or something. I don't really care about that. I remember
Speaker 4: seeing it in Tears the gad to be like, all right,
Speaker 4: that's this is so weird.
Speaker 6: I have this director's commentary from a fictional character talking
Speaker 6: about their cafabe.
Speaker 4: It was just yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah. It's like
Speaker 4: I'm not really using the notes app, but it is there.
Speaker 4: There's like a weird like I don't understand the point
Speaker 4: of this. It seems like there's like an item box
Speaker 4: type thing where you can like put things in an
Speaker 4: item box and retrieve it later or something, but I
Speaker 4: don't know why I would need to do that. Like
Speaker 4: most of the items you can just kind of have
Speaker 4: infinite maybe weapons and stuff where you're more limited initially.
Speaker 4: But no, it's all to say that, like I am
Speaker 4: liking it a lot more than I expected. I thought
Speaker 4: I might just mess around with it for a little
Speaker 4: bit to see how you know runs on switch to which,
Speaker 4: by the way, it is, Oh my god, it runs
Speaker 4: so much better.
Speaker 5: I'm playing one hundred inch.
Speaker 4: So like the fucking resolution boost and the fucking frame
Speaker 4: rate and like that game is beautiful on a big
Speaker 4: ass screen. I am loving it, loving it so like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm more into it than I thought. Second, yeah, I
Speaker 4: was like, you're.
Speaker 7: Definitely among friends here, Dan, because me and Grubb have
Speaker 7: always felt this way where Breatha Wild, it's kind of
Speaker 7: more of a focused puzzle game in a lot of ways,
Speaker 7: whereas Tears of the Kingdom is that more like free
Speaker 7: open minecrafty.
Speaker 5: Sandbox, a little bit like a toy you can FID like.
Speaker 7: Both are very very good, and it's more it's just
Speaker 7: a preference thing. I don't think one invalidates the other.
Speaker 7: I like going back to Breath of Wild, which I
Speaker 7: have done a couple of times, just because I do
Speaker 7: like solving the shrines with constraints. I think it they
Speaker 7: were very smart about that. I always think about I
Speaker 7: brought it up before, but listening to Nintendo Voice Chat
Speaker 7: back in the day and hearing Jose talk about how
Speaker 7: he thought, wait, there's an electricity puzzle and you're supposed
Speaker 7: to move metal blocks, but I have a ton of
Speaker 7: Clay moares in my inventory. Well, if I just line
Speaker 7: these suckers up and it works. I think that type
Speaker 7: of revelation is still so much fun in Breatha Wild,
Speaker 7: whereas Tears you can you can really like cheessee the
Speaker 7: system allaways, which is certainly fun. I just prefer the
Speaker 7: constraints that they were working with Breath the Wild.
Speaker 5: YEP totally agreed.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, not no shade on Tiers the
Speaker 4: Kingdom one of the best games of all time. But
Speaker 4: like I think I definitively now think I prefer Breath
Speaker 4: the Wild.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, that's where I've been in Tiers of the Kingdom.
Speaker 2: I has a better like story.
Speaker 7: And like, oh an ending is incredible and like thee
Speaker 7: better than the Divine Beasts, for sure, I'll give that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and ever in the way the Breath of Wild
Speaker 2: doesn't so like that, But but I still prefer Breath
Speaker 2: with the Wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And I think when it came out, I
Speaker 4: think I did say, like, oh, if you're playing for
Speaker 4: the first time, you know, this does everything Breath the
Speaker 4: Wild did, and more and better. It's like, but more
Speaker 4: isn't necessarily better now, so I am kind of like
Speaker 4: backtracking a bit.
Speaker 2: It's better because we still have Breath of the Wild, right, Like,
Speaker 2: this is what Tears of the Kingdom should have been.
Speaker 6: It should not have tried to like recreate the exact
Speaker 6: magic magic of Breath the Wild. It should do its
Speaker 6: own thing, and it did.
Speaker 2: It's just this can exist because I already have Breath
Speaker 2: with the Wild, and I don't need them to necessarily
Speaker 2: do that exactly again.
Speaker 6: So it's kind of this awesome best of both.
Speaker 2: Worlds, a survival game versus an open world sandbox in
Speaker 2: traditional sense, I like both.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I might still be teamed to is
Speaker 6: the King now, I don't know, it's very close.
Speaker 3: I'm with you. I think for me, it's the story
Speaker 3: that edges it over.
Speaker 2: And here's just I think there's just like really good
Speaker 2: at like giving you fun stuff to do. And if
Speaker 2: you're like trying to find the fun stuff, here's the
Speaker 2: King's gonna throw that in your game. It's a great geology, yep.
Speaker 4: And I'm just I'm seeing all these little moments that
Speaker 4: I remember. It's like, oh, I'm just trying to like
Speaker 4: sneak by like a Bocabblin camp and a tree and
Speaker 4: they see me and I'm like, oh ship. But then
Speaker 4: one of them fucking throws an exploding barrel in the
Speaker 4: wrong way, and I just see like four flaming Bocobblin
Speaker 4: corpses flying over a hill and it's so funny. And
Speaker 4: it's just even like big things like that happen now
Speaker 4: it's like perfect frame rate and everything. It's just like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is actually that.
Speaker 2: Was supposed to be a weak game.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, it like it's some soyp doesn't maintain the
Speaker 7: frame weight, but it works.
Speaker 5: Yeah wow yep.
Speaker 3: Moving on to some newer games, Dan and Grub you
Speaker 3: two have been checking out Ninja Guiddn't Rage Bound.
Speaker 2: Dan, I talked about this a little bit last week's
Speaker 2: I'm curious to hear your opinion on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a I'm on like act four, so I'm
Speaker 5: not sure where you're at around there.
Speaker 6: I'm thinking about the end of Act four.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think it's it's very, very good.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised by how much it is not playing on nostalgia,
Speaker 4: I guess because like at times it reminds me more
Speaker 4: of like a Strider than Yeah, doesn't have to go back.
Speaker 4: It's got the music and everything. It's got a few
Speaker 4: of the callback weapons and things like.
Speaker 2: That, and it's not like the music isn't isn't exactly
Speaker 2: the same.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's more like in between the like that type,
Speaker 5: like in between levels.
Speaker 2: Like that, right, and it's like it's familiar, but it's
Speaker 2: not the exactly doesn't sound exactly the same. So I'm
Speaker 2: almost it's not even playing on nostalgia. In all the
Speaker 2: ways it could be.
Speaker 7: It's funny in the quick look when the second that
Speaker 7: Jeff says, yeah, the music's not that great. This like
Speaker 7: sick guitar riff starts.
Speaker 4: Idiots like a lot of like throwbacks to like you
Speaker 4: know when you talk about like the make a man nine,
Speaker 4: make a man ten type approach of like this is
Speaker 4: just like the ones you remember.
Speaker 5: This does not look anything like in any s game.
Speaker 4: It looks like, you know, if you made badass you know,
Speaker 4: two D sprite based games on like if the PlayStation
Speaker 4: in Saturday and saturdayay, you know, yeah, and it looks
Speaker 4: fucking gorgeous. Like that's it kind of fixes all this
Speaker 4: stuff about like blasphemous. I enjoyed the art style a lot.
Speaker 4: I thought it was gorgeous, but like I'm not big
Speaker 4: on the like kind of Perry from type stuff all
Speaker 4: the time, and I didn't necessarily want that in that game. Here,
Speaker 4: it's like, okay, fast paced, challenging any style action game
Speaker 4: with that incredible like you know, sprite graphics and stuff.
Speaker 4: So and then you got the messenger stuff where you're
Speaker 4: kind of do the guillotine booze hopping off projectiles and stuff.
Speaker 3: Like that.
Speaker 4: It's a very very cool. So I am enjoy it
Speaker 4: quite a bit. I will probably finish it, I think, Greb,
Speaker 4: how are you.
Speaker 2: Feeling, Yeah, I'm I'm good to finish it. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: I was like I had the X four Boss last night,
Speaker 2: the last one of that. It was pretty tough, like
Speaker 2: probably like five tries and most are like in the
Speaker 2: two to three range, and so it's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: this one, I'm really gonna have to like buck down
Speaker 2: here and like really figure out its patterns and that
Speaker 2: is that still continues to be so fun every time
Speaker 2: I do it, and I'm like, oh, I kind of
Speaker 2: can't wait to see the next. So that's where I'm
Speaker 2: at with the game right now, where it's like it's
Speaker 2: got me and it's it's grasp with just the way
Speaker 2: it's presenting itself. And then you know, the levels are long,
Speaker 2: and yet it's like usually that bothers me. I'm like,
Speaker 2: come on, get in there, get in get out it.
Speaker 2: Brevity's the soul of wit and all that stuff, and
Speaker 2: it's like, no, these levels have a good pacing to them,
Speaker 2: even despite being I don't know, twenty minutes long sometimes,
Speaker 2: which is a long time for a two D running
Speaker 2: gun run and slash platformer. But yeah, they do a
Speaker 2: good job of like having a lot of different things
Speaker 2: in there. There was a train level that I thought
Speaker 2: was just so good. They really made that feel level
Speaker 2: and I'm playing, I'm like, I tell Mike about this,
Speaker 2: I bet he'll be into it. And it's like it's
Speaker 2: not just there for the setting or the look, like
Speaker 2: plays into the style of play, but not in a
Speaker 2: way that's annoying the way some like moving levels can be.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't know, they made everything fun and
Speaker 2: made everything at the right level of challenge so that
Speaker 2: I always feel like I'm accomplishing something and then I
Speaker 2: look cool the entire time i'm doing it. So yeah,
Speaker 2: just still super into Rage Bound.
Speaker 4: Also, I think it's maybe the first game after many,
Speaker 4: many many years of CRT filters or I've gone back
Speaker 4: and forth a bunch of times and then been like, no,
Speaker 4: I think the CRT filter makes us look better.
Speaker 2: ERRQ filters are improving like constantly and there is good Yeah,
Speaker 2: and the Ninja guid in one is good too, So
Speaker 2: like the people are looking at these studios now understand
Speaker 2: that there's people that they probably hire that, like, get
Speaker 2: these things right.
Speaker 7: You can't just learn labot damn lines on and call
Speaker 7: it day you got. You gotta go a little bit further,
Speaker 7: and they're getting better at doing that.
Speaker 2: It's hard to like show it off because it never
Speaker 2: looks right on strings and people never gonna believe until
Speaker 2: they see themselves.
Speaker 7: You did bring up challenge. I'm curious. Did you have
Speaker 7: a chance to play hard mode at all yet?
Speaker 6: No, I've not.
Speaker 7: Okay, so on the standard, I've still only played the
Speaker 7: demo because I haven't I haven't gone around to the
Speaker 7: full game. I picked it up, but I've been playing
Speaker 7: so much Donkey Kong. But when the demo came out,
Speaker 7: I replayed the demo on hard mode because it has
Speaker 7: a really cool hard mode where they genuinely like add
Speaker 7: unique enemies and enemy patterns and actually make you think
Speaker 7: about the level a bit differently and getting around the
Speaker 7: enemies a different way, which I appreciate so much more
Speaker 7: than so many games, just you know, adding extra health, deal,
Speaker 7: extra damage and stuff. At least from the demo, it
Speaker 7: seemed like they were really putting thought into the hard mode,
Speaker 7: which I think for something like Ninja Guiden goes a
Speaker 7: long way, because people playing that kind of game want
Speaker 7: that challenge, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you could kind of see how it would
Speaker 2: make a lot of sense with the way that they
Speaker 2: do the hyper charge attack, where it's like a little
Speaker 2: bit of a puzzle in every encounter and you got
Speaker 2: to make sure you like, oh, the one back there's
Speaker 2: got the energy inside them. If I slash him, I'll
Speaker 2: be able to get the big sword attack, so I
Speaker 2: could take out the big enemy in one hit, right,
Speaker 2: and just kind of always being able to think about that.
Speaker 2: It's like if they could just add one more layer
Speaker 2: of complication on top of that, that would be a
Speaker 2: good heart. Yeah, and that's what they do.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like what Donkey Kong Country, having the
Speaker 7: Kremlins be the green guys by default and as what
Speaker 7: the red guys are more difficult ones. They kind of
Speaker 7: do something like that where they just like make get
Speaker 7: co version of the enemy. It's pretty neat.
Speaker 2: Six six sick uh.
Speaker 3: Going from Ninja Guided Rage Bound to well back to
Speaker 3: Mike's tour of older games Control.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is the twenty nineteen apology tour continued. We're
Speaker 2: rephrasing it revenge Tour. Mic oh my revenge. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I need to apologeteen's getting revenge on Mikey.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because gosh, with the time we did Game of
Speaker 6: the Year twenty nineteen, I had not played Resident Evil
Speaker 6: to remake, I had n't played Secero, I had it
Speaker 6: played the Outer Wilds, and I hadn't actually played through Control.
Speaker 2: What did you play this year? Never down?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm mike you with this asshole, Mike Minatti. What
Speaker 3: was your game of the year?
Speaker 2: It was Fire on Them three Houses, which was.
Speaker 5: Damn the Jewish in between the missions.
Speaker 2: What was your number two game? A great question, you
Speaker 2: know what? Maybe it was Kingdom Hearts three. I'm on
Speaker 2: your side again. I'm it's on the top ten when
Speaker 2: you're done with.
Speaker 7: This game's hate Kingdom Hearts. This man's top two. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Oh he is really fun. I like that a lot.
Speaker 6: That just like even I know it's kind of more
Speaker 6: about the setting and the the kind of weirdness, but
Speaker 6: just that mechanics feel really good.
Speaker 2: It's really nice shooting.
Speaker 6: I love the way that that gun looks, the way
Speaker 6: it's always kind of shifting around and looking weird. The
Speaker 6: Metroy Vigne aspects of it of getting these new powers
Speaker 6: and abilities.
Speaker 2: Its cool.
Speaker 6: Back in the day, I did bounce off it because
Speaker 6: I actually didn't love the kind of Twilight zoniness of
Speaker 6: all of it.
Speaker 2: I think I'm a bit more hear.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm like, I'm not a big like Twin Peaks
Speaker 6: or guy. I think I'm more receptive to that now.
Speaker 6: I think at the time I was kind of like, well,
Speaker 6: if anything can happen, I guess you can just do anything.
Speaker 6: And that's a little lazy and lame. And now I'm like,
Speaker 6: I guess that's also kind of fun. So I'm just
Speaker 6: trying to open up my heart to that stuff a
Speaker 6: bit more and I am enjoying it.
Speaker 2: Was that a criticism of the entirety of fiction.
Speaker 6: I was like, I think I do like my fiction
Speaker 6: and even my like kind of more fantasy stuff to
Speaker 6: kind of have a code of rules, right, there should
Speaker 6: be a logic to its. Right, It's some of that
Speaker 6: lore stuff, and you know, in control, it's like, ah,
Speaker 6: it's shit's weird and yeah, but there's rules that you'll
Speaker 6: learn to it like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it gets there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think that's why FBC Firebreak was a little bit disappointing.
Speaker 3: To me, because like, this is certain the control universe.
Speaker 3: But it was just kind of it felt like it
Speaker 3: was being weird for the sake of being weird, rather
Speaker 3: than like, oh, this ties into a bigger thing that
Speaker 3: we're trying to keep under control.
Speaker 6: And this is all yeah, funky, and I think that's
Speaker 6: like that was the stick up my ass the first time.
Speaker 6: I was like, I think this game is just being weird,
Speaker 6: and now I'm like, yeah, I don't know why. I
Speaker 6: was like that, it's weird and interesting and fun. Ways,
Speaker 6: every time I found out what a new object of
Speaker 6: power was, I was like, hell, yeah, yes, you know me.
Speaker 1: You know me.
Speaker 2: Though, I'm like, look at all these dead people. That's sad.
Speaker 6: It's just like ifice workers, like corpses, like hanging up
Speaker 6: in this and I'm like, well, no one seems even
Speaker 6: very bothered by this.
Speaker 2: This is kind of sad.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you have too much empathy, Mike Monadic.
Speaker 6: Too much empathy for vegan characters who don't have real souls.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm having a very good time with the game.
Speaker 6: It's like pretty breezy to play through. Uh, it does
Speaker 6: have very good collectibles and things to read. I don't
Speaker 6: dive super deep in that stuff, but I like it
Speaker 6: in the weird TV stuff. Remedy is so good at that.
Speaker 6: There's like those weird scary puppets which I will remind
Speaker 6: me of their name, but I love whenever I see
Speaker 6: those guys in There's Waldorf.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Sard Waldorf.
Speaker 6: There's the kind of like science guy who haven't actually
Speaker 6: met yet in all of his little videos. And the
Speaker 6: Threshold Kids. Threshold Kids, that's the puppets. Yeah, the setting,
Speaker 6: gay play, it's all very good stuff. I am enjoying it.
Speaker 6: And you know Audie Audi Audi's a bro.
Speaker 2: We love Audie, Yeah, we do. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I never speak about DLC again. I never checked out
Speaker 3: the dl C for Control. Yeah, it's supposed to be good.
Speaker 6: I know Alan Wake shows up in one of them
Speaker 6: rights and it was kind of like a he has
Speaker 6: like the teaser for Allen Wake two. So that's interesting.
Speaker 6: I've done the way to DALC either. Not much of
Speaker 6: a DLC guy. That's why one thing we're like playing
Speaker 6: this and Outer Wilds. It's like, you know, people are
Speaker 6: always like, you know what I mean, you gotta play
Speaker 6: the d l C.
Speaker 2: I could. I kind of like, look, I'll play it
Speaker 2: if I want to you leave me alone. I'm with you.
Speaker 5: I don't really do deal do it.
Speaker 2: I very rarely do it.
Speaker 5: It's you know, like Broad the Wild and every.
Speaker 7: Keep the motorcyclescle I never did this pretty soon.
Speaker 2: The Motorcycle and Preth of the Wild. It's a few
Speaker 2: degrees away from Losso random Fuddy Douddy mechanical elephant. That's cool. Motorcycle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lame speaking about people with no souls. Mike Manatti,
Speaker 3: you have also been playing.
Speaker 2: Heretic, Heretic and Hexa.
Speaker 6: This is the new night Dive remaster joint that they
Speaker 6: announced at Quake Con. I have loved what they are
Speaker 6: doing with all of these classic shooters. That's why I
Speaker 6: ago I played through their Doom one and two remasters
Speaker 6: that they did, I believe last year. I've gone on
Speaker 6: about how amazing I think Power Slave Exhoomed is. Heretic
Speaker 6: was kind of like the first Great Doom Clown. It's
Speaker 6: basically just Doom, but with more of a medieval kind
Speaker 6: of fantasy section setting, but like a dark fantasy. It's
Speaker 6: not that removed from what Doom is doing, honestly, but
Speaker 6: it definitely has a bit more of that dirty fantasy flavor.
Speaker 6: But you know, ste have a shotgun, you have like
Speaker 6: a cross and it shoots like a bunch of green
Speaker 6: arrows out. And you even have an inventory of items
Speaker 6: that you can select from to restore health or buff
Speaker 6: all your weapons or make you invulnerable for a little bit.
Speaker 6: So Heretic is just a really fun, mild twist on
Speaker 6: Doom and somebody who's really been enjoying playing those old
Speaker 6: school shooters, that's great. Hexan is interesting even today. It's
Speaker 6: just a little bit later, and it has so much
Speaker 6: of the bones of Heretic in it, but there's kind
Speaker 6: of a lot.
Speaker 2: More going on. You switch.
Speaker 6: You can choose between three different characters that have access
Speaker 6: to different weapons here, just like the Fighter, they're doing
Speaker 6: a lot of melee stuff. The Mage and they have
Speaker 6: a lot more magic and range things, and the Cleric
Speaker 6: is sort of in between there. Even the level structure
Speaker 6: is different. It's not just episodes and levels. There's kind
Speaker 6: of hub worlds and things like that. The presentations even
Speaker 6: kicked up a not there's a CG intro to Hexan, right,
Speaker 6: oh yeah, And they also had some neat stuff in
Speaker 6: this collection, like all the quality of life stuff. Sure,
Speaker 6: but like in Hexan, I don't think this is an
Speaker 6: original game. You can switch between characters a certain kind
Speaker 6: of podiums in the levels, whereas before you kind of
Speaker 6: picked one, I think you.
Speaker 2: Were stuck with it.
Speaker 6: The map DK sixty four, like DK sixty.
Speaker 8: Four likes just getting ready, like the in game map
Speaker 8: will like have like markers on to kind of show you,
Speaker 8: I guess where you should go, because sometimes it's a
Speaker 8: little up to use before things like that.
Speaker 6: So I've been just checking out all the old content
Speaker 6: because there are also some new levels added in here
Speaker 6: from Night five that then they always do that sort
Speaker 6: of stuff. I think that's fantastic as well. But yeah,
Speaker 6: just another great one of these. I've been playing it
Speaker 6: on my switch to it's a fantastic way to play
Speaker 6: these were I'm pretty sure both of them were originally
Speaker 6: not vertical look up and down.
Speaker 2: You can do that in these.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's the Doom one Doom two style of thing,
Speaker 6: so you don't really need mouse a keyboard to be
Speaker 6: super efficient in this. So yeah, I actually it feels good.
Speaker 6: I was I played some Heritic with mouse and keyboard
Speaker 6: and I was like, this still just feels so good. Honestly,
Speaker 6: it feels better now Night Dive. Night Dive does great work,
Speaker 6: and every time they do any thing, I'm just going
Speaker 6: to be all over that.
Speaker 2: For sure. I know, I know this is but that's
Speaker 2: the Microsoft, But I think about it as like a
Speaker 2: night Dive game, and you know Microsoft BDS movement.
Speaker 6: They're complicit in that, of course, but boy, it's like
Speaker 6: I can't help but be excited about anything Night Dive touches. Yeah,
Speaker 6: they touched more things. I want to see them get
Speaker 6: on even more Raven games.
Speaker 2: This is Raven. Raby did so many other good games
Speaker 2: with Cast and start. Star Trek E. Lead Force is
Speaker 2: my dream one. I love Star Trek A Lead Force,
Speaker 2: So I pop off.
Speaker 5: Raven top five Wisconsin based development.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, okay, but yeah, I'm familiar with, like the
Speaker 3: societal blowback from Doom when that came out, just hearing
Speaker 3: that after Will while I was growing up, did Harotick
Speaker 3: and Hexton? Did that have anything like me? Mix?
Speaker 4: The Doom was so much bigger though it was due
Speaker 4: Doom already had it, and then Columbine and the like
Speaker 4: media misreporting like blew that stuff out of proportion, specifically
Speaker 4: for Doom.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, and tast gang.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to talk about this earlier when
Speaker 3: Sean was talking about Vegas, but I've been playing another
Speaker 3: game as Thankfully it's.
Speaker 2: Just a demo.
Speaker 3: But last time I got really invested in a demo
Speaker 3: and put like maybe twenty plus hours, it turned out
Speaker 3: turned into Bolotron.
Speaker 6: Add to my fantasy critic.
Speaker 2: Oh you son of a bitch.
Speaker 5: I've been checking that.
Speaker 2: How can we check it?
Speaker 3: I think the league is done this year because we
Speaker 3: have two players that can't participate.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 5: Sometimes Metroi's not coming out.
Speaker 3: So but Dice a million. There is a demo for
Speaker 3: this now, and I think I talked about this very
Speaker 3: briefly on Game This Mornings. But if there's any game
Speaker 3: that has pulled stuff from Bollatro, it is this game
Speaker 3: because it has the warbly background that Blotro has, like
Speaker 3: the title menu.
Speaker 5: I like Warbly.
Speaker 3: But your general goal is to get to a certain
Speaker 3: amount in a certain number of dice rolls. So let's
Speaker 3: say you have to get to the number forty given
Speaker 3: and you're using five dice and you have three rolls
Speaker 3: to get there, and of course, in Bolotro fashion, you're
Speaker 3: as you go through each round, you're picking up new
Speaker 3: different kinds of dice, so maybe it looks like a
Speaker 3: D twenty, it looks like a D six or whatever
Speaker 3: type of dice, And then it gets really really funky
Speaker 3: from there because like, hey, this dice, if you roll
Speaker 3: it one way, it's just two dice stuck together, and
Speaker 3: then it adds up the value. So if it lands
Speaker 3: on like a two to three, it's actually a twenty
Speaker 3: three instead of like, uh.
Speaker 2: Okay or whatever.
Speaker 3: That sounds fine, I like that, And it quickly starts
Speaker 3: ramping up in like the these zaniness, and you know
Speaker 3: how like in a bullet hell shooter or a schmup,
Speaker 3: you get to that point near the end where it
Speaker 3: just like it's just numbers and it just sprites everywhere.
Speaker 3: Late game in Dice a million from the demo, of course,
Speaker 3: still limited, it got to a point where it was
Speaker 3: just numbers, like jumping up at me at the end
Speaker 3: of my roles. The thing in that kind of replaces
Speaker 3: the joker mechanic in bolotro is you have these different
Speaker 3: rings and these rings will do similar stuff as like
Speaker 3: jokers do in bolotro where okay, this is a multiply
Speaker 3: multiplier or even numbers, get bonuses or whatever. Dice a million,
Speaker 3: very very lovely demo because you can fucking lose yourself
Speaker 3: in it. Like I have no release day just yet,
Speaker 3: but plan for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: I am interested in everything you're saying. And as you
Speaker 4: were describing this, I realized, like, wait a minute. I've
Speaker 4: talked so much about how I don't like dice in
Speaker 4: video games and I get angry as soon as I
Speaker 4: see a dice show up. But I just realized I
Speaker 4: don't like it, and like a Balder's gate or something
Speaker 4: where it's like, these are dudes fighting with swords, why
Speaker 4: would dice show up? But I like it in like
Speaker 4: a Mario party board game thing or a casino theme thing.
Speaker 4: So I think I only like it, and it's diegetic
Speaker 4: dice agetic bastard. What the fuck's wrong with you?
Speaker 5: Die is the plural grab?
Speaker 2: It worked?
Speaker 7: Oh okay, god die is singular dice plural christ.
Speaker 2: Jam, but it annoys me so much. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: No, I like it when dice should be there. It
Speaker 5: should be there, and gambling it should.
Speaker 2: Be there in a board game medieval war? Yeah? Yeah, no?
Speaker 6: How long ago did you think of that joke? It
Speaker 6: felt like five minutes.
Speaker 3: Halfway through, Jane describe, I saw the lights clicking, the
Speaker 3: wheels were turling.
Speaker 2: These dice are messed up. Man, there's like a giraffe die,
Speaker 2: Like how does that?
Speaker 3: I saw a peanut? Yeah, there's I haven't gotten to
Speaker 3: all like the funky ones. But god, what's the uh jack?
Speaker 3: You get a jack as like you like.
Speaker 2: The jacks?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and oh it you go through like a tree
Speaker 3: kind of like a slave the spire of like oh,
Speaker 3: do I go do this next round of rolling for
Speaker 3: dice or do I go for like an artifact? And
Speaker 3: an artifact is like a you know, uh you can
Speaker 3: get another bonus card or another ring for.
Speaker 2: Your fingies, all right, did you mention that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: The rings are kind of like your jokers in Blatro.
Speaker 3: They just like the different die or like how the
Speaker 3: dice add up to each other. God, this is gonna
Speaker 3: be terrible for me. Yeah, this is a good look like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it looks slick. It would be really cool on mobile
Speaker 3: if you just shake your phone to throw dice.
Speaker 2: Of course there you go, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: My my biggest complaint about blatro on you can keep
Speaker 3: going mikey, Uh the biggest complaint for Blatro on phones
Speaker 3: is I wish they did have like a vertical mode
Speaker 3: versus just always playing in.
Speaker 5: Horror added, right, what I could see that being added.
Speaker 2: I could see them doing that. Yeah, yeah, uh, all right.
Speaker 2: He doesn't make the game, he just promotes it. I
Speaker 2: call guy Jeff Grubb.
Speaker 3: You did a stream of this game last week and
Speaker 3: you didn't get to any of the actual criming around
Speaker 3: because you played Mafia the Old Country and it looked
Speaker 3: like you were just dig You were in a mine
Speaker 3: or a cave the whole time.
Speaker 2: It's a Minecraft.
Speaker 3: Like Yeah, I'm sorry, Mike.
Speaker 1: Uh it is.
Speaker 2: I think I played like the first ninety minutes or something,
Speaker 2: maybe even like I got around like two hours, and yeah,
Speaker 2: it was all set up. You start off in your
Speaker 2: working in a in a mine and you're very low
Speaker 2: on the totem pole in this mining operation, and so
Speaker 2: they tell you to go in there even though it's
Speaker 2: obviously going to collapse and like release gas, and it
Speaker 2: does that and you escape and then you get in
Speaker 2: a fight with the big mean BA tries to get
Speaker 2: you to work in the dangerous cave and you slice
Speaker 2: them in the face and then you run away, they
Speaker 2: find you, and then a mafia family takes you in
Speaker 2: and then you start at the bottom. And that's where
Speaker 2: I kind of stopped the game, where like I'm beginning
Speaker 2: my ascent in the ranks of this mafia cartel. The
Speaker 2: first thing I was doing there was going into a
Speaker 2: wine cellar, getting crates of wine and putting on a truck.
Speaker 2: And it feels like one of those games where it's
Speaker 2: like we are going to just be like trying to
Speaker 2: set the tone through small little gameplay touches throughout. There
Speaker 2: was a lot of that stuff in the cave segment
Speaker 2: and then it becomes a big action game. But it's
Speaker 2: never an open world action game. It is always we
Speaker 2: have set up an obstacle chorus for you with that's
Speaker 2: gonna have a lot of fun mafia stuff happening off
Speaker 2: to the side. There's gonna be you know, goons with
Speaker 2: with their guns chasing you and you just got to
Speaker 2: have to try to just outrun them. And it's all
Speaker 2: working for me. I thought it was completely fine. Now
Speaker 2: it's not a game that I was I ever had
Speaker 2: high expectations for because I knew what it was and
Speaker 2: then it was like I also has a reduced scope
Speaker 2: compared to the previous Mafia games. That is helping being
Speaker 2: able to set those expectations low and being like, this
Speaker 2: is not going to try to do a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be good at it's just going
Speaker 2: to stick to telling the story, having like, you know,
Speaker 2: it's interesting cast of characters, be in a pretty decent
Speaker 2: looking game.
Speaker 6: I think it looks really nice. A lot a lot
Speaker 6: of that is the tech, but most of it is
Speaker 6: the art style. And then all right, we're just going
Speaker 6: to let you go through that story. And I think
Speaker 6: that's probably the right choice for a game like this.
Speaker 2: Does that work? Does that?
Speaker 6: Do players want that beyond? You know? At all?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I was pretty happy with it.
Speaker 2: I think this is a good direction for this series.
Speaker 2: I don't know they're gonna be able to support it
Speaker 2: for future games, but for this one, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is he said. I'm not like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't even know if I would like recommend it
Speaker 2: to any of you. It's like, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: if you're in the mood for this or not.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess I'm most surprised to hear that you're
Speaker 6: liking because what you're describing almost sounds like Read Their Redemption.
Speaker 2: Two, but only the story mission. No, So it's it
Speaker 2: is like the Order eighteen eighty. You not like horses? Me, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I love Read Their Redemption two. No no, no, not
Speaker 2: you grosses now, I know. I mean I don't trust them.
Speaker 2: There their legs.
Speaker 6: Listen.
Speaker 2: I love a talking horse because I can reason with it. Now, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know. I think it's it's not like Red red
Speaker 2: Redemption Too at all, because Red Renemption two promises the
Speaker 2: world right, and then it's like sometimes it's like, no,
Speaker 2: you can't do that. This is like from the beginning,
Speaker 2: it's like, no, we're setting up the boundaries. We're not
Speaker 2: ever going to suggest to you that you have the
Speaker 2: ability to like take control and go do whatever you want.
Speaker 2: And it's not like, oh, i can go off the
Speaker 2: beaten path here and I'm going to fail the mission
Speaker 2: because there's no reason to want to do that. Where
Speaker 2: that does exist in Red Ded Reredomtion too, where I'm
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna try this, and the games like we're
Speaker 2: not happy with you. So it's like by having the
Speaker 2: understood boundaries between me and the game, I can just
Speaker 2: mess around with what's in front of me, and then
Speaker 2: what's in front of me is you know, decent to good,
Speaker 2: and then it looks nice. It's it's hard to explain,
Speaker 2: like like like, like I said, I think it's the expectation. Well,
Speaker 2: you're not expecting.
Speaker 6: Tons of this game, and they're delivering on what they
Speaker 6: said they would.
Speaker 7: Do before release. You were saying that you expect it
Speaker 7: to be like an uncharted game. Is that like, at
Speaker 7: least in terms of scope. Is that kind of like
Speaker 7: while we're looking at here.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'm like the original Charted games. Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: like before trying to be a PS three game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, before flour you know, added a more open area
Speaker 7: and everything, but just sort of the classic action adventurous style.
Speaker 7: You go through what is essentially a level. It's a
Speaker 7: little more narrow than games are nowadays, but it's like
Speaker 7: you have the cinemac moments and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yes, I think that's it does. Like we
Speaker 2: commented this several times. Chat said this as well. When
Speaker 2: I was playing, it feels like a PS three game,
Speaker 2: and I think it's specifically those kinds of games. And yeah,
Speaker 2: just good set pieces can go a long way if
Speaker 2: that's the kind of kind of game you're trying to make.
Speaker 2: And I think they're decent here, Like it's not it's
Speaker 2: not like an awesome eight out of ten. It's like
Speaker 2: a pretty good seven out of ten. We need those. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm very happy with that now, Grub.
Speaker 3: As far as I have been able to gleam from
Speaker 3: from watching you play through that, you're just a normal dude.
Speaker 6: Right, I'm not yet not a super human.
Speaker 2: That's not normal. I understand.
Speaker 3: I understand how being an Italian staling gives you like
Speaker 3: a plus five to strength. Of course, why do you
Speaker 3: have Italian vision?
Speaker 6: Well you can smell about the Italian vision.
Speaker 2: A secret. Yeah, you can smell the olive oil waves
Speaker 2: in the air. Oh no, yeah, it's it's just you know,
Speaker 2: it comes with these games now. It's like pre baked
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 6: That's just how it goes.
Speaker 2: I I.
Speaker 3: Video game developers. Unless your main character is like Batman
Speaker 3: and you have technology, stop this Bond vision, Bond hit
Speaker 3: Man vision. Hit he's a trained hitman. Yeah, okay, you're
Speaker 3: running the mill, dude, what's he gonna do? Like I
Speaker 3: can't stand here now, just like think really hard and like, oh,
Speaker 3: there's someone on the second floor of this building.
Speaker 2: I can't get it. I kind of can hear something.
Speaker 6: I feel like I can hear people upstairs like move
Speaker 6: and like know what room they're in right, Like that
Speaker 6: is a little bit like.
Speaker 2: The vision vision.
Speaker 6: I might be damaged. I'm like, oh, they're gonna break.
Speaker 2: That's mental illness. It's neuro divergency.
Speaker 3: That's mental illness. Uh, folks. The last game of the
Speaker 3: what You've been playing segment is a game that we'll
Speaker 3: talk about in the news, I believe, because it's been
Speaker 3: blowing up, and not just the buildings, but in the
Speaker 3: player account. Mike Manatti, you wrote this here by I
Speaker 3: think everyone here has gotten a chance to dip into
Speaker 3: Battlefield six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that mountain in the middle of that stage where
Speaker 2: all the snipers go now, and it just becomes impossible play,
Speaker 2: impossible play. It was fun when I like I figured
Speaker 2: it out and I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna go
Speaker 2: ruin their day. And I just ran in there over and.
Speaker 7: Over and killed because they got no hiding spots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the move actually, clearly, it's just like we
Speaker 2: got to play it more and figure out the obvious.
Speaker 6: That's why, you know, I think everybody pits Battlefield and
Speaker 6: Call of Duty against each other, but boy, those are
Speaker 6: very different kind of games that you need to be playing.
Speaker 2: Although you know, I do get why people are saying
Speaker 2: this one feels a little bit more like call of duty.
Speaker 2: In some other battlefields, the time to kill is very
Speaker 2: call of duty.
Speaker 6: Like I, yeah, I guess, but I feel like I
Speaker 6: was getting pretty good at call of Duty from playing
Speaker 6: Black Op six last year, and I liked Battlefield very
Speaker 6: early on. I played a lot of Battlefield nineteen forty
Speaker 6: two in Battlefield Vietnam, and then kind of checked out.
Speaker 6: I didn't even play that much of three and four,
Speaker 6: but I've been creating Battlefield a bit, so I was
Speaker 6: excited to play this, and I was enjoying that. Like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm glad that this is basically just battlefield something too crazy.
Speaker 6: I am really bad at it. It should be called
Speaker 6: the battlefield because I'm so god awful at its.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what it is, like dia Jenic's
Speaker 2: not so bad. Now, I'll give me a second, Dan,
Speaker 2: I'll come up with something more.
Speaker 6: I don't know why I'm so bad, because, like you know,
Speaker 6: Amy and shooting things I did other games.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I just can't.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty rough at it, but still just aside from
Speaker 6: my skill issue, Yeah, I think they have something here.
Speaker 6: The game looks really good. It seems to run pretty well,
Speaker 6: even in this beta format. I do like these maps,
Speaker 6: you know, something flashy, but they generally seem to make sense.
Speaker 6: I haven't been able to like get in an airplane,
Speaker 6: even piloting tanks. I'm usually like the second guy in
Speaker 6: the tanks. I'm just using that kind of gun thing whatever.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it seems like they made a really good
Speaker 6: one of those, and people are responding to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of like right there with you where
Speaker 2: I played a lot of nineteen forty three when it
Speaker 2: came on Xbox.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, when I played Yeah to the Island, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: ye Wake Island.
Speaker 2: Ton of that. That was a good time. And then
Speaker 2: I played some three and some four but not much,
Speaker 2: and it really my battlefield experiences. I kind of try
Speaker 2: to play it like Call of Duty because I played
Speaker 2: a lot of Call of Duty, so I'd kind of
Speaker 2: run right at the action, get the idea of like,
Speaker 2: oh I'm going to be able to flank this and
Speaker 2: do something here, and just get demolished over and over again,
Speaker 2: and then eventually I'll sit on the ah right, let's
Speaker 2: start some of these mid range skirmishes and see if
Speaker 2: I can figure that out. And once I get on
Speaker 2: its wavelength, it's a little bit better and it's a
Speaker 2: good time. I like the Battlefield games. This one it's
Speaker 2: just like everything else is hitting really well that I
Speaker 2: kind of want to get on that learning curve and
Speaker 2: relearn Battlefield once again because it just feels good to
Speaker 2: play and it looks fantastic, you know, It's it is
Speaker 2: still that game like it. If you're going to run
Speaker 2: in there and try to be an a hole and
Speaker 2: lone wolf it, you're going to get hurt. So okay,
Speaker 2: I got to not play that way, and I'm okay
Speaker 2: to not play that way again because it's working so
Speaker 2: well on all the other factors.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm kind of on the opposite side of things
Speaker 7: from you guys where I got into Battlefield. With Battlefield too,
Speaker 7: my stepbrother was really big into it, and when we've
Speaker 7: first getting to know each other, we played that a lot,
Speaker 7: and I played that and then three and four were
Speaker 7: when I was like in college, like laid high school
Speaker 7: and college, so I got really into those games for
Speaker 7: a while there, and I so I do really like
Speaker 7: the modern like modern day sort of battlefield rare than
Speaker 7: the World War one or two stuff that you know,
Speaker 7: they also went back to for a while there, and
Speaker 7: so playing this one, it's like, yeah, I'm back, Like
Speaker 7: we're back into what battlefield as I know it is,
Speaker 7: I think where the Heidle series for a lot of.
Speaker 2: People will be.
Speaker 7: It's kind of weird to think that this is kind
Speaker 7: of just more of that we haven't had it in
Speaker 7: a while, but the continuations kind of the uh, like
Speaker 7: we call it duty the modern Warfare twenty nineteen thing,
Speaker 7: where oh yeah, this is just like the best version
Speaker 7: of this that they've done in a while, And it's
Speaker 7: weird to think that, Wow, it's been like twelve years
Speaker 7: since we've done that. It's also weird thing that they
Speaker 7: have kind of just you know, we were like, where's
Speaker 7: battlefield gone? They have put out a game roughly every
Speaker 7: three years since then, which is what most companies are
Speaker 7: going to do. Uh, but yeah, it's fun to be
Speaker 7: back into that style of battlefield, not going way back
Speaker 7: to World War one or two, not try to do
Speaker 7: near future stuff with twenty forty two. It is just
Speaker 7: the more traditional battlefield experience. Maybe some call duty isms
Speaker 7: in there, like you said, with the time to kill
Speaker 7: and everything. But yeah, I didn't play much more than
Speaker 7: what we played on stream the r day, but I
Speaker 7: had a blast with that and then a few matches
Speaker 7: I played after that. It's just fun to be back
Speaker 7: playing battlefield again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I normally get super overwhelmed anytime I've checked out a battlefield,
Speaker 3: so I've generally bounced off of them and the only
Speaker 3: but I've been having an actually good time at this one.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's because, like I've never really caught Call of
Speaker 3: Duty has never really clicked with me, and I really
Speaker 3: enjoyed gosh, the finals from a couple of years ago. Right, yeah,
Speaker 3: so very similar DNA here U battlefield people.
Speaker 2: Worked on that Battlefield six.
Speaker 3: Why don't you just give me a grappling hook and
Speaker 3: like an air dash. Just do that and then I'll
Speaker 3: fucking like it's on the for that. Okay, Okay, but yeah,
Speaker 3: this is this has been Have you all had any
Speaker 3: like trouble connecting since like the beta like became open
Speaker 3: or whatever. I know we had some like initial like
Speaker 3: funky business on top of that screen.
Speaker 6: These cross play things want up, but now no things
Speaker 6: are going bro. So there was some weirdness with people
Speaker 6: joining my party in a game and then like not
Speaker 6: being put into the game with me. I happened with
Speaker 6: Jeff and Christian when I was playing, So I don't know,
Speaker 6: maybe just a just a thing there, but it was
Speaker 6: running well.
Speaker 3: All right, Gang, that about does it for video games.
Speaker 3: We're going to take another quick breaking break and then
Speaker 3: we will get to the news. But before we get
Speaker 3: to the news and take a quick breaking break, yo,
Speaker 3: I I uh, I've been keeping this under raps.
Speaker 2: Gang.
Speaker 3: I haven't been talking about this a lot, but like
Speaker 3: I've been, I've been really deep into the Magic the
Speaker 3: Gathering minds, and I'm in that phase of phase of
Speaker 3: like learning and playing where like I'm still a little
Speaker 3: too shy to play with actual shoot people. So I've
Speaker 3: been kind of like slowly grinding my way through a re.
Speaker 2: Hot.
Speaker 3: Dang, they're showing off the Avatar the Last Airbender cards,
Speaker 3: and that's my main motivation for getting into Magic the Gathering, Yo.
Speaker 2: That so is in card. Gonna do numbers, Gang, and
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that eventually. Did you did you see
Speaker 2: how much money the Final Fantasy thing made the for
Speaker 2: Metric Gathering in like a week or whatever.
Speaker 6: Two hundred million dollars. Oh yeah, Yeah, they're gonna be
Speaker 6: doing a lot more of these, and like, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: it's kind of the fortnitifacation of everything. But you know
Speaker 6: it's like and I I always like shake disapproving at
Speaker 6: it at too. It's a franchise. I like, like Final Fantasy,
Speaker 6: and I'm like it was one day. Two hundred million
Speaker 6: dollars in one day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get money off of Final Fantasy.
Speaker 3: But Square Enix, Yeah, they should figure that out. Final
Speaker 3: Fantasy had their own TCG and it feels like that disappeared.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I almost gonna play more Fumes and I'll talk about
Speaker 6: that next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh Fumes Gang. We're gonna take quick breaking break.
Speaker 2: We'll see. On the other side, this is Jeff Crobb
Speaker 2: with the news. Grubb, Hey, howdy, Hello, got some headlines
Speaker 2: here for everybody. Let's get into the news. Microsoft has
Speaker 2: stopped development on Avalanche Studios contraband another game that they've canceled.
Speaker 2: This is one that we didn't see much of. They
Speaker 2: showed it off four years ago at a summer game
Speaker 2: Fest like one of their summer showcases. It just had
Speaker 2: a teaser trailer Avalanche Studio that did Just Cause and
Speaker 2: they are now canceling that game as well. This comes
Speaker 2: in the way of them canceling Perfect Dark as well
Speaker 2: as being part of the nine thousand people layoff at
Speaker 2: all of Microsoft. Not all those Rexbox, but a lot were.
Speaker 2: And that's on top of the many layoffs that have
Speaker 2: happened over the years, tens of thousands.
Speaker 6: You know, we said it earlier.
Speaker 2: Once again, Microsoft under a BDS Movement boycott for, as
Speaker 2: they say here, perhaps being the most complicit tech company
Speaker 2: in Israel's illegal occupation Aparthdy regime and ongoing genocide. Uh
Speaker 2: and Xbox specifically is the target of that boycott. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Contraband's game. I was interested because the trailer had a
Speaker 2: steely dance song in it, and that's say it was
Speaker 2: gonna be something like a heist game.
Speaker 6: Was it?
Speaker 2: Was it Peg? It might have been Peg? Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't I can't remember.
Speaker 6: It was a while ago. Yeah, you know, Pegging.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it is a Contraband. I did anyone have any
Speaker 2: like hopes or dreams for this game?
Speaker 6: I like just Cause games, So you know, just the
Speaker 6: idea of like just Cause kind of on a different name,
Speaker 6: maybe with co op in it, maybe doing some of
Speaker 6: that height stuff from GTA five or a payday.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess I just had faith in
Speaker 2: the developer.
Speaker 6: Right yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Did we really know what this was or kind
Speaker 2: of just buzzwords at this point. I think we had buzzwords. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think you're right. We never saw anything else from it,
Speaker 2: not a single second. I never talked about it.
Speaker 3: I kept getting sorry, go ahead, je oh, I kept
Speaker 3: getting this game confused with uh condemned, and I was
Speaker 3: excited we were making another condemn we condemned back?
Speaker 7: Yeah, cool, mixed up with Concord at the end there,
Speaker 7: that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah. I had to make a headline for
Speaker 2: uh the Game of Show. I was like, Concord canceled.
Speaker 2: That turns out, yeah it was.
Speaker 3: Now that's a market of video game podcast just reporting
Speaker 3: on the news like a year and a half too late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're good. Yeah, it's a it's a shame. Uh.
Speaker 2: Microsoft seems bad. It seems bad right now. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 6: Not interested in making games.
Speaker 2: And I mentioned this elsewhere when we talked about this before.
Speaker 2: You get the sense that like a lot of studios
Speaker 2: that they were once going to work with are gonna
Speaker 2: like publish their project externally. Kind of got burned by
Speaker 2: Microsoft over the last several years. But that like really
Speaker 2: culminated during these last layoffs, where that sounds like they
Speaker 2: just canceled a ton of projects. So the cancelations go
Speaker 2: deeper than just the ones we heard of about from
Speaker 2: Xbox publishing themselves. But this is this is one of
Speaker 2: the one of the bigger ones, even though again it
Speaker 2: just was.
Speaker 6: Just buzzwords as far as we could tell.
Speaker 3: Then why did they buy all those studios?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Avalanche is not one that they bought,
Speaker 2: but yes, they like they did buy a bunch of studios.
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like for any good reason now, Jan
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it feels like there's a lot of like internal
Speaker 7: I'm trying to think the right word, but like conflict
Speaker 7: kind of like a water and oil thing happening here
Speaker 7: where there's people who want to make the cool stuff.
Speaker 7: But then there's still the fact that it's Microsoft, which
Speaker 7: from always, always, for history has been one of the
Speaker 7: most cutthroat companies on the planet. You know, that's why
Speaker 7: we're all running Windows. It's not because we want to,
Speaker 7: because they like paid to have deals with companies. Right
Speaker 7: became the de facto work operating system. So now that's
Speaker 7: what people put on their work laptops and now just
Speaker 7: on their home computers and stuff. It's how they do everything.
Speaker 7: And it felt like Xbox in the early days. Like
Speaker 7: you hear people talk about it. It doesn't sound too
Speaker 7: different from like PlayStation of like this, you know, sort
Speaker 7: of scrappy, upstart team within this like you know, gigantic,
Speaker 7: bloodthirsty corporation, but like a team that really want to
Speaker 7: do something cool. And as they become more and more Microsoft,
Speaker 7: that's how we see more and more things happen, like
Speaker 7: mass layoffs and like buying a bunch of studios and
Speaker 7: doing nothing effective with them, and then all these games
Speaker 7: getting canceled. Not to mention everything else that Microsoft does
Speaker 7: as a company, it just feels like the Microsoft of
Speaker 7: it all is just like slowly killing what Xbox is
Speaker 7: or could have been.
Speaker 2: At this point, I think that's exactly it. And like,
Speaker 2: I bet the Mike keeps recommending these books. Now I'm
Speaker 2: reading one about the history of electricity, and it's like
Speaker 2: all these early companies that were like Westinghouse and and
Speaker 2: you know ge all these companies that were everywhere. Semens
Speaker 2: it's like some of them were able to like take
Speaker 2: their their early wins and turn that into perpetual wins
Speaker 2: where they are still around today. Semens is still like
Speaker 2: the company that to this day that's like making uh
Speaker 2: mono rails and stuff.
Speaker 6: Yes, Semens, everybody what they were a sponsor for Spaceship
Speaker 6: Earth at one point. See they're they're cleaning up for Disney,
Speaker 6: They're cleaning up for the Giant bomb cast.
Speaker 2: Semens. Anyway, the Microsoft is like I think looks at
Speaker 2: the history of corporations, it's like, if we want to
Speaker 2: be relevant, we have to be cutthroat to ourselves and
Speaker 2: like kind of like lop off anything that's not working
Speaker 2: or really reduce it. And we know that we got
Speaker 2: to like position ourselves to be behind the next thing.
Speaker 2: And we know the next thing is AI and they're
Speaker 2: in the middle of that right now. And whether it
Speaker 2: is or isn't, whether it can be the thing that
Speaker 2: makes the money in the future, it very well could
Speaker 2: turn out to be the case, but it will be
Speaker 2: because if they are able to capture that, it will
Speaker 2: be because they gave up on several other things that
Speaker 2: were working just fine, but they weren't working as well
Speaker 2: as AI maybe might for them one day. It's frustrating
Speaker 2: to see. All right, let's keep going here. Former Buy
Speaker 2: where executive producer says EA pitched multiple times to remaster
Speaker 2: the first three Dragon Age games. Mark Dara was on
Speaker 2: Mister Maddy Play's podcast or in a video kind of
Speaker 2: just did an interview with them and they talked about
Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff. One of the tidbits that came
Speaker 2: out of there, though, is several times Bywear was like,
Speaker 2: we would do this, and EA had a couple of
Speaker 2: reasons why they didn't want it. I think the biggest
Speaker 2: reason it's like, you know, mass effect was more important.
Speaker 2: They did that first, and it's like, well, maybe look
Speaker 2: at the dragon Aage one day. But also dragon Age
Speaker 2: is not all just one engine like the third games
Speaker 2: on Frostbite. Can't remember what the engine was called before that,
Speaker 2: but it was a different engine. None of them are
Speaker 2: on Unreal where it's like for mass effect, they were
Speaker 2: all on Unreal, and Mark Dara pointed out, like when
Speaker 2: you do when that happens, first of all, you can
Speaker 2: make improvements to one game, and a lot of them
Speaker 2: will carry over. But also you can work with outsource
Speaker 2: companies because they all know unreal and so you could
Speaker 2: just contract someone to do most of the work, which
Speaker 2: is what they did with Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Also,
Speaker 2: the stories are not like linear, that's not like a
Speaker 2: Mass Effect where one is a direct sequel to the
Speaker 2: one before it. So they just feel like the juice
Speaker 2: isn't quite there. Now. Dragon Age fans are crazy. They
Speaker 2: probably will get around to doing this one day, very
Speaker 2: long time from now, but it's like, you know, dragon
Speaker 2: Age is at a low point, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Mean I don't know why he didn't at least just
Speaker 6: do it with dragon Age origins one, but yeah, right.
Speaker 6: It is weird though, because they don't even really like
Speaker 6: to remaster games that much in general. Legendary that Legendary
Speaker 6: addition is a bit of an outlier for that. I
Speaker 6: think that a couple of remix like Dead Space and
Speaker 6: even then there wasn't that much use there. But there's
Speaker 6: all sorts of games that they could be remastering that
Speaker 6: you know, our beloved, like you know, Burnout, and people
Speaker 6: bring up a bad company all the time, right, like, oh,
Speaker 6: we want bad Company. They're not going to remaster an
Speaker 6: old battlefield game?
Speaker 2: Are you crazy?
Speaker 6: So yeah, it seems like a misopportunity, especially because Dragon
Speaker 6: Age four could have used a little bit juice going
Speaker 6: into their think. Just counting on people still caring about
Speaker 6: that franchise as much as they did when Inquisition came
Speaker 6: out was a pretty big ask, So something some kind
Speaker 6: of again that was be the whole trilogy. Doing something
Speaker 6: with Dragon Age one in that meantime could have helped.
Speaker 2: And again, the Master.
Speaker 6: Effect question was a huge hit that did very well.
Speaker 2: Yep, very and it's you know, and people could still
Speaker 2: play that now get it for like five bucks.
Speaker 6: At any moment. It's gonna sell for forever.
Speaker 2: Okay. Night Dive and ID Software have released definitive remasters
Speaker 2: of first person classics Hairtic and Hexson. We talked about
Speaker 2: those games, so we don't have to go on too much.
Speaker 2: But they did shadow drop it for fifteen dollars. It's
Speaker 2: on Xbox and PC. I think it's on switch. I'm
Speaker 2: playing it on switches right there? Yeah, right, so that
Speaker 2: now so freaking cool? Yeah, oh yeah, that it was cool.
Speaker 6: I love yeah, we we love you.
Speaker 2: Night dive and they they did tease that at when
Speaker 2: we had them on our show, We're gonna have something
Speaker 2: at Quake Quake Con, and that was it. I can't
Speaker 2: wait to see what they do next, like you know,
Speaker 2: next year's Quake Con, while they have something else, like
Speaker 2: could they do some of the like later Wolfenstein games.
Speaker 2: Even even that would be return to Castle Wolf and
Speaker 2: you know Wolfen's signed three D. It doesn't actually have
Speaker 2: a great remeister. I think, oh yeah, yeah Wolfstein.
Speaker 6: Yeah that'd be great.
Speaker 2: Okay, new Hell Divers to Xbox trailer. Xbox trailer seemingly
Speaker 2: teases a Halo crossover. Uh they played the saxophone part
Speaker 2: from Halo ods T in the trailer. Do you guys
Speaker 2: think that means we get some like some skins that
Speaker 2: are Halo crossovers for this game.
Speaker 3: Sure, that would make a lot of sign I think
Speaker 3: it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 3: the Spartans are dumb and they would fit in well
Speaker 3: with Hell Divers.
Speaker 6: Now, wait, in a second, odst there were Spartans. Well
Speaker 6: I'm general, I'm stupid, but those characters are also dummy.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they said Philly was in that man.
Speaker 3: For sure, they are the odst Crew or the Himbos.
Speaker 2: They're definitely somewhere in between. Yeah, I think the pavilion
Speaker 2: is always playing Himbos, right, that's kind of his that's stick.
Speaker 6: Pokemon.
Speaker 2: McDonald's promo ends early in Japan due to extreme demand
Speaker 2: and wasted food. Sure this sounds like the McDonald's away. Yes,
Speaker 2: they were taking the cards out and there was like
Speaker 2: like giant piles of McDonald's in.
Speaker 5: The corner of I'm gonna make stand against this. This
Speaker 5: is unacceptable.
Speaker 3: It was very upsetting because they were just happy meals
Speaker 3: around garbage cans, and garbage cans, as people know, very
Speaker 3: hard to come by in Japan.
Speaker 2: Right, all those.
Speaker 6: Friends, I thought they were well behaved in Japan, Like
Speaker 6: we handled Beanie babies better than this beanies.
Speaker 3: We were mildly respectful about Sean, like you're more up
Speaker 3: to date on the Pokemon TCG right now, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What what collection or like was this a McDonald's specific one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Every time that they basically do it every year at
Speaker 7: this point, there's just a set of McDonald's stamped cards
Speaker 7: that they do with the happy meals, and it's not
Speaker 7: like actual fans doing this. I want to make this
Speaker 7: very clear. It's the scalpers. Yeah, because they think they
Speaker 7: can turn all yeah. Yeah, it's because they think they
Speaker 7: can turn a buck because there's like artificial demand for
Speaker 7: It's the same thing that's going out with used video
Speaker 7: games of someone thinking that they, in case Super Mario
Speaker 7: sixty four, it's worth a million dollars. It's fucking not.
Speaker 7: Everyone has Mario sixty four. Don't be stupid. But that's
Speaker 7: going on here is that the scalpers come in, they
Speaker 7: buy up all this stuff. They're incredibly disrespectful to wherever
Speaker 7: they may be while they're doing this. That's how we
Speaker 7: get stuff like, yeah, people wasting food because they wanted
Speaker 7: to get the Pikachu.
Speaker 6: Part or whatever.
Speaker 2: It sucks. I like this comment from sad Bastard Pochey Club.
Speaker 2: I feel like this is one of those things that
Speaker 2: would have made God destroy a city in the Bible. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Gomorra has happening.
Speaker 7: I'll say, at least, like you know, I've heard that
Speaker 7: in the US, some people were like, if you're McDonald's,
Speaker 7: didn't let you just buy the toy individually, which I've
Speaker 7: found a lot of them just do that. Now they
Speaker 7: would at least like give the happy meals to like
Speaker 7: homeless shelters and stuff. I'm like, okay, well, if you're
Speaker 7: gonna be weird about this whole collection thing, at least
Speaker 7: that's a.
Speaker 2: Better way to go about it.
Speaker 6: The thing was gonna last for three days. They ended
Speaker 6: it after one day.
Speaker 2: So it's like that sauce from a Rick and Morty.
Speaker 2: It's another McDonald's sauce.
Speaker 5: I protested that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty good sauce. Uh, okay, we're gonna keep
Speaker 2: going here. Weapons directors. Who is apparently just the guy
Speaker 2: from Whitest Kids. You know you didn't know this girl had? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: So there's him, and there's the guy from Nirvana, the
Speaker 2: band the show. Yeah yeah. Eric Wareham is a great director.
Speaker 2: Apparently this is the move now is you go direct
Speaker 2: sketch shows for a while and it gets ready for it.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen either of his movies, Barbarian. I did
Speaker 2: watch it's on YouTube. Their first movie. His first movie
Speaker 2: was The Whitest Kids, you know, spin off the Civil
Speaker 2: War on drugs, and that movie is like a modern
Speaker 2: Monty Python. It's so funny.
Speaker 6: So I'm going to watch that.
Speaker 2: Then I'll be ready for Barbarian which I'm sure it
Speaker 2: is very similar in tone.
Speaker 4: Grub Mary gave me the hard cell on Barbarian, saying
Speaker 4: that like, don't look up a single thing about it,
Speaker 4: like do you know anything about it?
Speaker 6: No, I heard the same spiel.
Speaker 2: This is where I learned last night I was listening
Speaker 2: to your Guys show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okain, I was very very thankful.
Speaker 2: That is it not about Barbarians.
Speaker 5: I would suggest you both just watched that.
Speaker 3: Watch like it. Mikey, you may not like it, knowing
Speaker 3: your tastes.
Speaker 2: Why does kids?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 6: It's so good?
Speaker 2: So I love all of those those comedians and Trevor died.
Speaker 2: But getting in a chance to keep up with this guy,
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna do it. I will watch
Speaker 2: Barbarian and I'll report back said that I will not
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: He directed Weapons and now his next movie is the
Speaker 2: untitled Resident Evil movie, and they're not going to use
Speaker 2: existing characters because people can quote can play the games
Speaker 2: for those stories. Okay, I kind of get I'm good
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, I don't know. It's like I get that,
Speaker 6: but it's also like, I don't know if I'm saying
Speaker 6: the Resident Evil movie. I think I want to see
Speaker 6: a Joe Valentine or you know, he may be a
Speaker 6: Chris Redfield, like even one of the smaller characters like
Speaker 6: gave me have a Rebecca Chambers.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I like it when those characters like show up in
Speaker 7: the plot, but they are not the main characters. Like
Speaker 7: the story follows a different story that's happening at the
Speaker 7: same time as like Raccoon City events or something like that,
Speaker 7: So nothing else. Everyone's gonna just compare it to Resident.
Speaker 2: Evil one or two or whatever you're making an adaptation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, remember the OC we got well first off in
Speaker 6: the other Middle El movies, but also in Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 2: Right, I was just thinking of the same thing. I
Speaker 2: didn't really didn't like that. Yeah, it's funny the Mortal
Speaker 2: Kombat two trailer, which which I saw him front something.
Speaker 6: It's like that I did not that guy might have
Speaker 6: been that trailer. They sure weren't talking about my background.
Speaker 6: That's a Johnny Cage move. Yeah, you know what, it's better,
Speaker 6: And I think I think a lot of people are
Speaker 6: gonna applaud this decision that we're gonna see this movie
Speaker 6: and maybe like, oh just said that OC.
Speaker 2: It was Leon Kennedy, I don't know. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: there's a way to pull it off. But Mike, I
Speaker 2: think you're probably right. I think that this is gonna
Speaker 2: be a thing where, uh, you know, it's that was
Speaker 2: an okay movie, but it didn't feel like a Resident
Speaker 2: Evil movie or I didn't get a chance to spend
Speaker 2: time with those characters I really like, which can go
Speaker 2: a long way. But we'll see.
Speaker 6: I bet, I say Christians people like you know, it's
Speaker 6: because these are zombie movies, not character based things as
Speaker 6: much as more comp I think.
Speaker 2: There's a difference. I don't know if I agree.
Speaker 6: I think Resident Evil A large part of that is
Speaker 6: I liked those characters a lot, and.
Speaker 4: I kind of get but you can even like Seven
Speaker 4: was like not even really like imagine seven everyone seemed
Speaker 4: to love and that doesn't really have anyone outside of
Speaker 4: a cameo or so, you know, it's a your original
Speaker 4: set of characters.
Speaker 7: Also like a fighting game movie where fighting games are
Speaker 7: just the characters yea combat, you know, like there's Laura
Speaker 7: in everything that they have like established over the years,
Speaker 7: but those keys are just about the characters. So that's
Speaker 7: what we're in the middle.
Speaker 2: But like I get somewhere in the middle, like like
Speaker 2: both of these things can be true where it's like, yes,
Speaker 2: the Residevil games are capable of introducing new characters, and
Speaker 2: if it feels like that, if it feels like a
Speaker 2: succession to just like the storytelling, then that would be good.
Speaker 6: But I think that at the same time, I missed it.
Speaker 4: I think the problem from a real quick comment from
Speaker 4: samo Nis in the chat, Mike has seen like two
Speaker 4: non animated movies every movies, I don't see very many.
Speaker 2: Does live action now come on, guys?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, though just about rising seven to eight? Though, yeah,
Speaker 6: you're right, those are great. But like, what's everybody's usually
Speaker 6: least favorite part about it? It's Ethan Winter's right, it
Speaker 6: is that main character.
Speaker 7: But like, I think the problem here is that so often,
Speaker 7: like with Resident Evil itself, they haven't pulled off doing
Speaker 7: their own things. So people just look at that and say, oh,
Speaker 7: well that's bad, because it's bad.
Speaker 2: Are the time to do it?
Speaker 7: What if the movies just didn't suck? What they just
Speaker 7: made a good movie?
Speaker 2: There were like seven or whatever The Evil and already
Speaker 2: a reboot that happened.
Speaker 3: No, you know I love those good No, No, Danny,
Speaker 3: you first, please, we love those characters obviously, but they
Speaker 3: work in a video game, like they're not exactly like
Speaker 3: masterpieces of writing or story, and and they've done some
Speaker 3: of the like fan service, like I me and Tim
Speaker 3: Terry watched one of the recent resumes very much like
Speaker 3: a fan service, you like, remember when this happened in
Speaker 3: the games, and like it sucked, you know, like I
Speaker 3: find with to make a real movie, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was going to talk about that movie. It's a
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City. Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, That's one of the only movies I've ever
Speaker 3: walked out of such dog shit. It was just so
Speaker 3: bad and so so trying so hard to do what
Speaker 3: you said, Dan of like, hey, this is from the games,
Speaker 3: you know what this is, right, It's like no original
Speaker 3: idea at all, and just felt like they were trying
Speaker 3: to hampst every single thread from like one and two
Speaker 3: into the movie.
Speaker 5: It's why I don't need a Metal movie.
Speaker 4: I don't need now, Yeah, huge metal fan, I don't
Speaker 4: need Oscar Isaac looking at the camera and saying, oh
Speaker 4: kept you waiting, hut, Like I don't need that, you know,
Speaker 4: I've got the games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this new game should try our new movies should
Speaker 2: try to do things where it's like, well, we'll start
Speaker 2: with a familiar character, but we'll kill him early and
Speaker 2: should be Chris Redfield and he tries to punch a boulder.
Speaker 6: And it just runs him over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say it sounds like this.
Speaker 6: Uh, this director's made good movies.
Speaker 3: I bet that there will. Probably I trust this guy
Speaker 3: more so than the last direct.
Speaker 2: He was also the whitest kid you know, So there
Speaker 2: you go, all right. Nintendo Indie World Showcase happened last week.
Speaker 2: UFO fifties out on Switch Now a bunch of other
Speaker 2: stuff worth calling out. Mina The dwell or me know,
Speaker 2: the Hollower. Dweller is a different game, that's well, Dweller,
Speaker 2: is this seat taken? Little Kiddy? Big Cities getting a
Speaker 2: free update? Ultimate Sheep Raccoon, Oh right, yeah, so much one. Yes,
Speaker 2: the Hurdling game, Yes, hurt Hurdling. Yeah, Ballpit and Go
Speaker 2: Go Town, which just looks like a straight up animal cross.
Speaker 2: So it was number the kind of creepy looking stard
Speaker 2: you like, I think, so yes, yeah, yes, yeah that's
Speaker 2: the one that yeah, you probably popped for that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought that one looked the neat Yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: playing interesting games here.
Speaker 2: I think if you were, if you were, if.
Speaker 6: You thought this is where we were going to get
Speaker 6: soak song, you're probably you're horribly mistaken.
Speaker 2: For sure, I thought it was a good little showcase. Yep,
Speaker 2: I definitely. I thought they did a pretty good job.
Speaker 2: And I have meant to go back to UFO fifty.
Speaker 2: You may be able to do it on the switch.
Speaker 4: I downloaded on the switch and I started it again,
Speaker 4: and it's like, oh, yep, this will be a nice
Speaker 4: thing to have on the switch on the go.
Speaker 6: Excellent.
Speaker 2: Nintendo announces My Mario, a range of products for young children,
Speaker 2: including Ambo building blocks. Nintendo has unveiled My Marios. It
Speaker 2: is for very young kids, toddlers and maybe even younger.
Speaker 2: It's launching in Japan this month on the twenty sixth,
Speaker 2: with a select few items going internationally next year. The
Speaker 2: collection includes a Super Mario woodblock set with characters of
Speaker 2: blocks like Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi. They all also
Speaker 2: function as amba, so it's like start when you're young,
Speaker 2: get them, and then you have them when you start
Speaker 2: playing games, and you can slap on your games do
Speaker 2: you think of being like bespoke stuff. I guess there
Speaker 2: is also the it's me Mario, not even it's me,
Speaker 2: It's me Mario, like uh, stop motion animation stuff, and
Speaker 2: then a Helo Mario game where you can kind of
Speaker 2: poking product Mario's face, and that's gonna be on the
Speaker 2: switch as well as on mobile. Maybe the Ambo blocks
Speaker 2: do something on there. I don't. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: I think this is neat but also a very transparent
Speaker 2: get them while they're young tactic faces? Dan, are you
Speaker 2: upset about it?
Speaker 5: Was like a weird yawn, but I was trying not
Speaker 5: to make it seem like I was yawning.
Speaker 2: Attention to it. You don't know, kids, come on, it's okay, Mario.
Speaker 5: I like the idea of monetizing the kids early.
Speaker 2: Oh that's why we got to get our plus she's
Speaker 2: going right, yeah, extract.
Speaker 6: Value from the children.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 7: Well you say something bespoke, do you mean like a
Speaker 7: game in this line? Is that what you're looking for?
Speaker 2: Just a game that like recognizes that you are putting
Speaker 2: the building block Ambo on there. It's like, oh, that's
Speaker 2: the building block Ambo, and we're acknowledging that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Mario Maker for kids.
Speaker 2: Okay, actually I would. I'll give my kids. That'd be fantastic.
Speaker 2: Last couple of stories here, Sony CFO says it's live
Speaker 2: service shift is not entirely going smoothly. I think I
Speaker 2: could be a CFO then so too. Yeah, as we
Speaker 2: could have told you that. They also pledged to carry
Speaker 2: on and learn from mistakes. They pointed out they have
Speaker 2: had successes despite you know, problems like Ben Studios game
Speaker 2: getting canceled, Bluepoint Games apparently God of War Live service
Speaker 2: game getting canceled, Concord launching and then getting canceled, the
Speaker 2: Destiny or Not Destiny to a marathon getting delayed till
Speaker 2: next year. But despite all that, they point to stuff
Speaker 2: like Grant Toresmos seven MLB, the show helldivers To, and
Speaker 2: Destiny To as successes. And the fact that apparently now
Speaker 2: live service spending from their first party game accounts for
Speaker 2: something like forty percent of the money they make. Most
Speaker 2: that's got to be destiny.
Speaker 7: Now, hang on, because three of those four things just
Speaker 7: existed before this big push.
Speaker 2: You can't take credit for that, no, right, That's why
Speaker 2: it's the CFO saying and be like, look, I don't
Speaker 2: know where the money comes from. That the money's coming from,
Speaker 2: so where it comes from, well, I mean she doesn't
Speaker 2: know like the fact that like, are they responsible for
Speaker 2: generating the value in the first place? No, but are
Speaker 2: they getting that money now? Yes.
Speaker 7: That's the reason that they would do a health divers is. Basically,
Speaker 7: what they're pulling towards is like, hey, live service is
Speaker 7: where a lot of our money comes from.
Speaker 2: Let's lean into that. They're trying to justify it. Yep,
Speaker 2: So they're gonna keep doing this stuff, and uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess maybe it's like a hard to turn a
Speaker 2: ship around sort of situation where they have continued funding
Speaker 2: their first party traditional style games at the same rate
Speaker 2: that they had been so we can kind of just
Speaker 2: keep expecting that, And maybe they're not ready to be like, okay,
Speaker 2: we're going completely back in that direction because that's expensive
Speaker 2: to like start up a new studio or to take
Speaker 2: a naughty dog and be like hey, spin up a
Speaker 2: new team. You can't just do that overnight. So I
Speaker 2: think this is then being like, look, let's just try
Speaker 2: to stick it out with Live Service. Maybe we had
Speaker 2: a couple of strikes in a row, but it's fun
Speaker 2: because fair Games is coming soon. Fair Games also a
Speaker 2: problem Jade Raymond has left the studio responsible for that company.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I go back to my default
Speaker 2: stance on live service games, which is no one ever
Speaker 2: learns from mistakes, and you have to go through it yourself.
Speaker 2: That's the only mistake you ever learned from is that
Speaker 2: the team did it themselves, and now they know not
Speaker 2: to do that anymore.
Speaker 6: They found out the stove is hot, So yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, Marathon is still coming this fiscal year, though
Speaker 2: got delayed till next year. It's still going to come
Speaker 2: out before March, according to that CFO, So yeah, not
Speaker 2: a ton of time to like change up what that
Speaker 2: game is so expected to still be the extraction shooter
Speaker 2: they always promised to be, which they never said they
Speaker 2: were going to change, but I think I had hopes
Speaker 2: that they would try to do something more. An extra
Speaker 2: six months probably isn't enough time to do that. Some
Speaker 2: enough time to erase all of the art you stole.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe, Yeah, it's just gonna be one of the
Speaker 2: most interesting games to watch, because what happens if it's
Speaker 2: not a hit and it just like you know, you
Speaker 2: don't discount it entirely. Yet it's not like a fair
Speaker 2: Games thing where I'm going to be shocked if that thing's.
Speaker 6: Lance Marathon still has a shot. But boy, there seems
Speaker 6: like there is very much a world where this doesn't
Speaker 6: find an audience at all.
Speaker 2: And then what yep, all right? That is going to
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Speaker 6: I liked when Chuck asked for help finding another accent
Speaker 6: color besides just the the you know, the the white
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Speaker 6: as always I just default to pick a color from
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Speaker 2: These do purpose. Maybe maybe this, uh was this indigo?
Speaker 6: Is this indigo?
Speaker 2: Purple? This?
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is their end to goo. All the GameCube
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, jam We're gonna give Mike some alone
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Speaker 3: First email comes from Andrew in North Carolina. Dan has
Speaker 3: mentioned several times in the past that Pizza Hut is
Speaker 3: the number one pizza in America, as if it is
Speaker 3: common knowledge. Is Dan three point zero ready to accept
Speaker 3: that this isn't true. It is Domino's by a large margin.
Speaker 2: He can look it up. It's not an opinion, it's fact.
Speaker 4: Yes, m you know, growing up in Kansas City, I've
Speaker 4: seemed like Pizza Hut was the most you know, visible
Speaker 4: and heavily marketed and eaten. Like it was the default
Speaker 4: if you're saying, hey, let's order a pizza. Whether it's
Speaker 4: my house, of friend's house, or anything, it was always
Speaker 4: Pizza Hut six four eight eight eight eight.
Speaker 5: That was the number. Like that was the thing.
Speaker 4: Like I don't ever remember getting Dominoes as a kid,
Speaker 4: even though it was around. It always seemed like a
Speaker 4: distant number two, like a Arci Cola to Pizza Hut's
Speaker 4: Coca Cola.
Speaker 2: As I have.
Speaker 4: Gotten older and I've now lived in a lot of
Speaker 4: different areas, I do find that there is a much
Speaker 4: bigger prevalence of Dominoes. And I'll say it, I prefer it.
Speaker 4: I you know I am within a Pizza Hut delivery zone.
Speaker 4: Now I have not ordered it once. I've had Dominoes
Speaker 4: twenty times since I've been back.
Speaker 2: So Dominoes is like you shouldn't eat pizza ever day,
Speaker 2: but it's in everyday pizza. Pizza Hut is like, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go get Pizza Hut, Like that is where I
Speaker 2: put it where I'm like, I have to decide I'm
Speaker 2: in the mood for pizza. If I do just say
Speaker 2: pizza and someone's like, well, we're getting Dominoes all it, Yep,
Speaker 2: makes perfect sense. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4: I think Pizza Hut was ahead on the gimmick game
Speaker 4: in the nineties. I think between the Bigfoot and the
Speaker 4: Triple Decker and like they still try, but it's like
Speaker 4: what if the crust was like toes And it's like,
Speaker 4: what that's weird.
Speaker 2: If I don't care for that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you guys, you know, being just a little bit older,
Speaker 7: you have more vivid memories of this time period. Help
Speaker 7: me out here, because this is how I think of it.
Speaker 7: Pizza Hut deemed to be better back then, and maybe
Speaker 7: that's just my memory because I.
Speaker 2: Was say if it was better, but it definitely seemed
Speaker 2: like the most prominent. Yeah, I got my free pizza
Speaker 2: every month.
Speaker 5: It's the thing where you pretend to read books and
Speaker 5: you get free.
Speaker 2: Pizza, you know. Yeah, I like Papa John's, Papa Johnson,
Speaker 2: the farmer owner, shack guy. Yeah, that's actually the great
Speaker 2: things for pizza or Papa John's, y'all. You'll have round
Speaker 2: tables where you're at right.
Speaker 5: I've had it before.
Speaker 2: Not the crossest one to me is in Chicago. Never
Speaker 2: heard of tables.
Speaker 4: I am going to get Jets though, I'm getting I'm
Speaker 4: getting turbo crust the next week.
Speaker 2: That goes through everybody. Try Jets, get that the eight corner,
Speaker 2: get the or Hungry hoighways if you have one of those.
Speaker 6: It was basically like a Papa John's, but with a
Speaker 6: lot of flavored crust options.
Speaker 2: It was a pretty good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Hungry I was off there. Also not started in Detroit.
Speaker 6: I think I'm not about this guy. We had a
Speaker 6: Romeos for a hot moment here and it was way
Speaker 6: too sweet the sauce.
Speaker 2: I didn't like romeoce Jah decided we're going to franchise
Speaker 2: a Jets all right?
Speaker 4: Can we Giant bomb a fast food franchise of some
Speaker 4: sort that would be great, Okay, I like it.
Speaker 7: Jan Round Table is the one that's only in California.
Speaker 7: I've always heard about it from yeah, people living in like, uh,
Speaker 7: I think so.
Speaker 5: And stuffing UPCs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I used to go to SECS a lot in college.
Speaker 4: It was Dollar ninety nine, Pizza Buffet, Mondays, and Lace
Speaker 4: Kansas until I almost puked every day.
Speaker 6: I definitely told you all that I got kicked out
Speaker 6: of the cecis right. We but we knew, but just
Speaker 6: why looking at you whipped it out right? That's why
Speaker 6: this thes energy. It's like it's like me and my
Speaker 6: friends like graduation thing, like we were going to go
Speaker 6: to a se season. We're just we were like we're
Speaker 6: it's all you can eat. We're gonna just stay there
Speaker 6: all day.
Speaker 5: It's literally a Simpsons.
Speaker 2: There's literally assimstance things.
Speaker 5: We just gets kicked out.
Speaker 6: They got their eight hours. They like, if you guys
Speaker 6: want to stay, you have to You paid for lunch
Speaker 6: and they have to pay for dinner. And I was
Speaker 6: just like, all right, I'm out. But like some of
Speaker 6: my friends are trying to put up a fight, like.
Speaker 2: So I says, all you can eat and I haven't
Speaker 2: had enough.
Speaker 6: Although by what what Fred did have like a grit bit.
Speaker 6: As we were getting kicked out and out of the door,
Speaker 6: he turned around was.
Speaker 2: Like, ce see you later.
Speaker 5: You were out of the Mikey hates breaking the law.
Speaker 5: I think I do have footage.
Speaker 2: It's true. I felt like.
Speaker 6: A person in authority, even if that authority is assistant
Speaker 6: manager at a CCS.
Speaker 2: Was upset at me.
Speaker 3: Man, okay, so okay. Roundtable is a regional chain, I
Speaker 3: guess in California. But they have a lunch buffet and
Speaker 3: I've told all of my friends, I've told every romantic
Speaker 3: partner that I've had in the past twenty years. All
Speaker 3: I want for my birthday is to go to the
Speaker 3: lunch buffet at a Round Table so I can have
Speaker 3: a bunch of salad in pizza.
Speaker 2: That's all I want. I don't want many things in life,
Speaker 2: and no one takes me fucking seriously.
Speaker 3: Now everyone's like, huh, funny, goof and then like we'll
Speaker 3: have birthday plans and it's not what I fucking want.
Speaker 6: Sorry, I really I think we have one of those
Speaker 6: nostalgia pizza HUDs nearer me.
Speaker 2: I gotta go to it.
Speaker 3: Next email comes from Jazz from Western Australia Kangaroo emoji.
Speaker 3: Greetings to the duders. I really recently started the Metal
Speaker 3: Gear series, playing through both metal Gear Solid one and
Speaker 3: two over the last two weekends on my switch to
Speaker 3: and Man, what incredible games. Thank you to Dan for
Speaker 3: his diehard love of the series and finally motivating me
Speaker 3: to start them. My question is should I start Snake
Speaker 3: Eater on my switch to or wait for Delta and Bonus.
Speaker 3: What's everyone's favorite stupid name for Kojima's entire ooh parentheses
Speaker 3: got to give it to Vamp, who is named Vamp
Speaker 3: only because he's bisexual. Nothing to do with blood drinking
Speaker 3: or supernatural powers.
Speaker 4: That is true, it is canonical. It is said in
Speaker 4: the game Vamp is bisexual. That's why his name is Vamp.
Speaker 4: I believe he had a relationship with the army guy
Speaker 4: Scott Dolf that's on the tanker who is I think
Speaker 4: also Fortune's dad maybe right, and.
Speaker 6: They seem like very different people, those two, I have
Speaker 6: to say, very different folks.
Speaker 5: But yes, that is why why yes, Grub, what's up
Speaker 5: you guys keep.
Speaker 2: Saying he's by That's why he's named Vam.
Speaker 5: He is also a vampire.
Speaker 2: But that's a question.
Speaker 6: What is the word vamp have to do with bisexuality?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I also to understand when people say bisexual lighting or
Speaker 4: when they call Damian priests bisexual undertaker.
Speaker 5: I don't really know what that means. I just not.
Speaker 6: This person should just probably wait for Delta. It's coming
Speaker 6: out very soon.
Speaker 2: Is a one to one remake. Uh so you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would I would say just wait at this well.
Speaker 4: Based solely on what I played at the preview event
Speaker 4: last year, I would say just go ahead and wait
Speaker 4: for Delta.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of bisexual lighting in Donkey Kong Bonanza.
Speaker 2: What is bisexual?
Speaker 5: Is it just two different colors?
Speaker 3: Blue?
Speaker 2: Is your lighting bisexual? I've read there's probably some bisexual
Speaker 2: lighting in here. Yeah, okay, yeah, the sunlight and red,
Speaker 2: that's different. That's not why I wish that was bisexual lighting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I see, I see, Okay, this isn't a koch
Speaker 6: of thing. I did have to stop and roll my
Speaker 6: eyes pretty hard when I was playing Control when like
Speaker 6: the main character I was like, yeah from a town
Speaker 6: was called ordinary. I literally had to pause the.
Speaker 2: Game and be like, Okay, look he's finished, all right.
Speaker 6: He's got his way of telling stories and we love
Speaker 6: him for Yeah, because you know it's interesting, Jeff, because
Speaker 6: I bet the.
Speaker 2: Town was an ordinary go I'll do it. I'll do it.
Speaker 2: Brop Fuddy Duddy, thank you. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Die hard Man is just sounds hilarious, and that's the
Speaker 3: regima person.
Speaker 6: I I don't know what is.
Speaker 2: The question is like, what the name stupid name?
Speaker 5: I mean, hot cold man. Hot cold Man might be.
Speaker 2: From Yeah, you guys, it is that die hard Man
Speaker 2: is the best. It's the answer for this because the
Speaker 2: character's actual name is fucking John McClain die hard Man,
Speaker 2: whose real name is John McClain. Die hard Man, whose
Speaker 2: name is John McClain. But do you get it? I
Speaker 2: don't know if you get I do get it. It's
Speaker 2: just stupid. I don't think it's any.
Speaker 5: Let's just say big Boss also a stupid name.
Speaker 2: It sounds good though everyone off the tongue. It's awesome.
Speaker 5: I love it, but it's like it is objectively stupid.
Speaker 2: When Lyndon B.
Speaker 5: Johnson is like, I hereby give you the title of
Speaker 5: Big it's a question.
Speaker 2: Is this an honorary title?
Speaker 6: Like what do you mean, what are my responsibilities and
Speaker 6: duties as I mean big Boss.
Speaker 4: I mean he graduated from naked snake to big Boss
Speaker 4: killed a person, boss.
Speaker 7: Spoiler, snake eater, right, Dan, where that happens? Okay, that's
Speaker 7: that's where the series jumped the shark. For me, when
Speaker 7: they start really really taking this stuff seriously, I think,
Speaker 7: like storytellings.
Speaker 5: When I started loving it more, it really does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I posted this on Blue Sky. My favorite Koach
Speaker 2: of the thing ever, is when he put the olive
Speaker 2: wreaths around the DL order bonuses for the PC version
Speaker 2: of of of what you call it the Frauilding Bridges
Speaker 2: game test stranding.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is an.
Speaker 2: Congredulations you for giving me money. I guess like the
Speaker 2: thought press process of that is just so mesmerizing to me.
Speaker 2: He's got a beautiful break Clere. It's very fun.
Speaker 6: Honeythy is negative for coach Jima.
Speaker 4: Sign genius on party is positive. Solidus Snake. The former
Speaker 4: president of the United States has two katanas and their
Speaker 4: named Republican and Democratic.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I like that.
Speaker 5: Grenade launcher Nator the Green Party.
Speaker 2: Calling your newtube Ralph would be really good.
Speaker 6: Actually, Mike.
Speaker 2: For me, I think it's like, sometimes it's negative, sometimes
Speaker 2: it's positive. The overwhelming emotion is though, that's like that
Speaker 2: could never be me. I could never do coach does.
Speaker 2: I would never want to. I would be too ashamed
Speaker 2: or embarrassed. So I'm glad he exists and it's out
Speaker 2: there saying if I never could.
Speaker 6: If Reddy Pittsford had the freaking like all of tree
Speaker 6: things around a pre order but we.
Speaker 2: Would run a lot, I would be what a dumb ass?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Norman Redis sounds like a Kojima character,
Speaker 2: but that's the guy.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: He's a porter that brings things across bridges. So his
Speaker 5: name is Sam Porter.
Speaker 3: Hey, I wonder what gun Revolver Oslot uses a lot.
Speaker 3: That's the spoiler too.
Speaker 2: Does Revolver Oslot have any cat like features?
Speaker 1: He does? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean three what he thought it was as much?
Speaker 2: I like, like, I thought that was really stupid.
Speaker 4: Yes, but that's one of the most amazing things about
Speaker 4: Oslot and three is like he's like the ultimate badass
Speaker 4: Levan Cleeve Cowboy in the later games, which are earlier,
Speaker 4: that came out earlier, so to see him as like
Speaker 4: a shithead little twenty year old that's like try and
Speaker 4: ship out. He's like trying to figure out his gimmicks,
Speaker 4: and he's like, I'm an oslot and he summons his dudes,
Speaker 4: but he's just a fucking door. He has a revolver,
Speaker 4: and I was like a cat revolver does at first
Speaker 4: until Boss is like, hey, pussy, you should get a revolver.
Speaker 4: And the next time you see him.
Speaker 5: He's like, I got a revolver.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to play this.
Speaker 3: It's awes yeah and grew up. I think you need
Speaker 3: to play through all of it. Yeah, well I will, Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right. Next email comes from Ken from upstate New York. Uh, Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I went to a rainforest cafe for the first time.
Speaker 2: Did you jerk off in it?
Speaker 3: This is what greeted me in the bathroom. I don't
Speaker 3: get it, but I understand now. Also when you did
Speaker 3: was it during one of the thunderstorms so everyone was
Speaker 3: distracted for the other dudes? What was one of the
Speaker 3: most inappropriate things you've seen or experience at a chain restaurant?
Speaker 3: Let me go find his image and never.
Speaker 2: Did that.
Speaker 6: I can't even saying more. I don't want to edit it.
Speaker 6: To be clear, it's a joke. Everyone understand.
Speaker 4: When I was fourteen and my first job was at
Speaker 4: a McDonald's, we had a guy there named Oph and
Speaker 4: I remember, on at least one occasion, because I remember,
Speaker 4: we're all pretty horrified. He was in the bathroom for
Speaker 4: a long time, like during a rush, and we're like,
Speaker 4: where the fuck is over? And then he comes out
Speaker 4: and he was like he was a real character and
Speaker 4: he goes like I was just jacking off, and then
Speaker 4: he rubbed his hands all over all the fries.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: I guess could have been even worse than that, but man.
Speaker 5: And then we don't think he was joking about the
Speaker 5: whacking off.
Speaker 6: Joke about such a thing.
Speaker 5: That was a real over move.
Speaker 3: Yeah, classic, yeah, maybe, Oh God. Anyway, the picture in question,
Speaker 3: I'm still trying to look for it, but it was
Speaker 3: you could see the nipples on a monkey. Yeah that's fine,
Speaker 3: But for that to be the first thing to greet you.
Speaker 2: Get you going like, what's what's what they're saying? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I get it. I get while you jerked up in
Speaker 2: Rainforce Cafe because I saw this.
Speaker 3: If you guys go look at the email doc or
Speaker 3: the run of show doc. I've just pasted the picture
Speaker 3: there very bosomy monkey.
Speaker 2: Let's see all right, Oh come on now, Yeah, they're stacked.
Speaker 6: It's more, Yeah, it's it's more than I was expecting.
Speaker 6: I don't know, because I was thinking more what I'm thought? Sure,
Speaker 6: just more, just more, okay, all right. Next one comes
Speaker 6: from Pope High Bombers love listening to the podcast while
Speaker 6: working in the lab and commuting. I'm interested in getting
Speaker 6: your advice on what to do at games Com. Me
Speaker 6: and my friend are going and it will be my
Speaker 6: first con of any type. What do you suggest we
Speaker 6: get up to Is it just a lot of entertaining
Speaker 6: yourself in long lines for things. Unfortunately, the only day
Speaker 6: we're able to be in Germany is Wednesday, when the
Speaker 6: con is more expensive for non industry people, so I
Speaker 6: want to make sure we get the most out of
Speaker 6: it or things typically more busy for non press on
Speaker 6: that Wednesday. Thank you, and I hope any of you
Speaker 6: going to games Com have a great time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hope.
Speaker 6: It's it's going to be very busy. I like incoms,
Speaker 6: but it's one. It's a very very big conference, and
Speaker 6: it's a very crowded.
Speaker 2: Confidence a lot of those crowds are going to be
Speaker 2: concentrated in.
Speaker 6: Those big boosts where like your CAPCOMs are, and so
Speaker 6: you know, if there's some big game you really want
Speaker 6: to play, you know that might take up a big
Speaker 6: chunk of your time. You're gonna have to decide how
Speaker 6: much you really want to do that it might be
Speaker 6: worth it. I actually thought a lot of the vendor
Speaker 6: booth areas were pretty.
Speaker 2: Cool, though I bought a lot of vinyls.
Speaker 6: Like Disney Orcana had a booth there that wasn't crazy crowded,
Speaker 6: so that was neat for me. So it is so
Speaker 6: big that you're going to still be able to find
Speaker 6: some areas that aren't super crazy crowded or wild. But
Speaker 6: just factor in the time. If you do want to
Speaker 6: go to one of those big boots, in factor in
Speaker 6: the time, the things you want to do are very
Speaker 6: far apart from each other. Just look at the maps,
Speaker 6: because you always get crowded and it can be difficult
Speaker 6: just navigating.
Speaker 3: Also, there's multiple floors for some of like the buildings
Speaker 3: where there's like Capcom will have a booth up top,
Speaker 3: but if you go down below, there's like a bunch
Speaker 3: of indie games or different like activations for stuff.
Speaker 5: See if DJ astids is playing.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, I was just going to google it
Speaker 2: to see if dj Astis was playing. Maybe.
Speaker 3: If you go into a bar, don't yell englishish, uh
Speaker 3: forget these jokers.
Speaker 2: Actual tips.
Speaker 6: Try to eat your lunch and dinners at off hours
Speaker 6: because all those food trucks and what not are gonna
Speaker 6: be real busy right at noon. That's that's a theme
Speaker 6: park tip. Also, by the way, try to fuck up
Speaker 6: your body to avoid lining. Help you fin go that cheese.
Speaker 5: That cheese shop is great. They give you all sorts
Speaker 5: of samples.
Speaker 2: Go watch learn about World War Two before you go
Speaker 2: to the chocolate museums.
Speaker 3: Perhaps, yes, go to the go watch the Germany travelog.
Speaker 2: We did.
Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun. I would love to
Speaker 3: go back to games a year a wonderful time.
Speaker 5: It's from beans chocolate, yes, yes, they make it from beans.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: If you're at a restaurant or a bar and you're
Speaker 3: ordering coolst the little Little Dude beers so good and refreshing.
Speaker 3: If you put your coaster over the beer, that is
Speaker 3: a sign that you're you're done, You don't want anymore.
Speaker 2: You want to do that, because otherwise I'll just keep
Speaker 2: giving you a closer and charging you for it until
Speaker 2: you do that.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it is not like, hey, we're gonna kindly
Speaker 3: refill it for you. We're going to refill it for
Speaker 3: you and charge you. Okay, last two emails here, Uh,
Speaker 3: she says they'll be there, say how to her and
Speaker 3: ask her for help on her discord. Yes, yes, go
Speaker 3: reach out to Lexi. LEXI will be there at games Com.
Speaker 3: This second and last email comes from Travis and Fargo,
Speaker 3: and they've written in five questions. We're going to speed
Speaker 3: through them. Number one, have you ever been genuinely addicted
Speaker 3: to a video game to the extent you had to
Speaker 3: delete it or don't let yourself play it so you
Speaker 3: don't get sucked in again?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: I mean I played MMOs, but and I probably played
Speaker 6: I played a lot of them. I don't know if
Speaker 6: fuck this is too much, this is a problem. I
Speaker 6: have not ever unsold a game to kick a habit
Speaker 6: or something like that. Marvel Snap, I had to delete it.
Speaker 6: Fair Two, what's the Godfather of video games? And should
Speaker 6: I see the Godfather?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Meddle your Solid three snake Eater? And yes, watch what about?
Speaker 2: What about?
Speaker 6: In the sense of it insists upon itself.
Speaker 2: What if that's what we mean?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah, red dead Yeah, metal ear earns it Okay.
Speaker 2: Three.
Speaker 3: I'm a firm believer that we need more edible food
Speaker 3: and drink containers like the Humble bread Buwl. My top
Speaker 3: idea is a leakproof waffle cone cup for hot beverages.
Speaker 3: What would you want?
Speaker 4: I've always wanted the I thought this was a real
Speaker 4: thing because the Simpsons and I've always tried to find it.
Speaker 4: It's just when Homer had the tortilla hat where it
Speaker 4: had the notcho cheese bowl in the break it off
Speaker 4: and dip it, and like I always assumed that was
Speaker 4: just the thing you could order, and it's just never
Speaker 4: on a menu.
Speaker 3: I think edible straws, like like red vines, we should
Speaker 3: just have those be.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, I mean the bread bull is kind of perfect,
Speaker 2: Like it doesn't get better than that. So I don't know,
Speaker 2: just variations on the bread ball give me more fun?
Speaker 6: Versions?
Speaker 5: Is the Incredible Panties reel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just like, you're just like a bad foot
Speaker 2: roll up?
Speaker 5: Are they like bad? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Disney invented the handwitch at Epcot and that's just kind
Speaker 6: of a bread cone thing. The hand witch so like
Speaker 6: a rap kind of but it looks more like a cone.
Speaker 2: You kind of hold it.
Speaker 6: And they kind of brought it back for cars Land
Speaker 6: in California Venture and cheese in it in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cultural appropriation, got it, God got it? Uh?
Speaker 3: Number four, will we ever get another Star Fox two
Speaker 3: situation meaning an old, finished but unreleased game from a
Speaker 3: major publisher they decide to drop several years slash console generations.
Speaker 2: We just got another one.
Speaker 6: Chante Advance is happening or happened, so yeah, we actually
Speaker 6: just got that one, and there'll be some other reason
Speaker 6: one day or another. I hope there will be an
Speaker 6: uh because Herada just said this this in the story.
Speaker 6: I don't know why is his game Tech and Cross
Speaker 6: Street Fighter. I thought that was the Capcom one.
Speaker 7: But no, whichever first is who it is? So like
Speaker 7: Street Fight Across Teching came out, Tech and Cross Street
Speaker 7: Fight did not.
Speaker 2: Okay, so right, this was his game then, and Herda
Speaker 2: said he would like to show off the thirty percent
Speaker 2: completed game one day. I put that in a collection
Speaker 2: one day, like they were.
Speaker 4: Like two screen chets. I feel like I've seen like
Speaker 4: reu and like a tech An engine or.
Speaker 7: Something they did that they showed that off. Yeah, collection
Speaker 7: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: An tech a collection and add that in there as
Speaker 2: a bonus, Like, yeah, I asked about that last.
Speaker 7: Year, by the way, when I got to talk to them,
Speaker 7: and they're just like, huh, maybe we should do that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, you really should. Yeah.
Speaker 6: People brought up StarCraft Ghosts and that's interesting. But Blizzard,
Speaker 6: like they actually had a completed Warcraft Adventures that point
Speaker 6: Colik Atvench game. You can't just find it and play it.
Speaker 6: It's basically a full game. But ayy someday they'll just
Speaker 6: actually release it themselves too.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: And last question from Travis and Fargo, what movie have
Speaker 3: you seen the most times in your life.
Speaker 5: By a very large margin? Mcgerber ring.
Speaker 2: Surf Surf, Ninja's or T M n T two Secret
Speaker 2: of the Use There?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I might be like Ghostbusters or something something like that.
Speaker 2: What do you think is high up there for me?
Speaker 2: For sure?
Speaker 3: What do you think Backlar's most watched movie is Oh
Speaker 3: these are genuine answers? Okay, cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, he's a great movie.
Speaker 3: He's a big Sean William Scott fan. Who is I mean,
Speaker 3: who amongst us right role models.
Speaker 2: Green Hornet because its seth Rogen.
Speaker 6: There we go.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Last email of the show comes from Luke in New Market, England.
Speaker 3: It's sent from Outlook for Android. Hey Bombers, I found
Speaker 3: a VHS tape in my attic labeled The Smallest Man.
Speaker 3: No idea what is on this tape and who left
Speaker 3: it there? The previous tenant was my mom and she
Speaker 3: has no idea what this is. There's no movie or
Speaker 3: TV show that I could find called the Smallest Man?
Speaker 3: So what do you think is on the tape? I
Speaker 3: get to find a VHS player to check regards Luke, Newmarket, England, Luke.
Speaker 5: Luke, I have a VCR and a c R T
Speaker 5: right there. We can do a live Why well we
Speaker 5: will not?
Speaker 2: I could do I could do a very quick VET.
Speaker 2: Then we can do first or something. Yeah. I regret
Speaker 2: to inform you you just found your mom's porn if you.
Speaker 6: Want you, but I, Luke, I think what this is
Speaker 6: is like uh an episode of Sally Jesse Raphael.
Speaker 2: The World's Smallest Man. And for some reason someone got
Speaker 2: like just really captivated about this and wanted to record
Speaker 2: it so they could watch when they got home from
Speaker 2: working at Domino's.
Speaker 3: I think Sean's right, it's a dude with a small
Speaker 3: dick that.
Speaker 4: Too, wouldn't just be called the smallest dick wellness? Okay, sure, sure, okay, no, Louke,
Speaker 4: seriously send it. I'll check it out. I'll vetit and
Speaker 4: er it on the site if need be.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, sign an NDA in case it's porn
Speaker 2: of your mom. Yeah, we won't, we won't show that.
Speaker 5: We probably want to see that, but journalists.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: That does it for emails once again. BombCast at Giant
Speaker 3: Bob dot com is email addressed to send your emails.
Speaker 3: To thank you for every one for sending your emails.
Speaker 3: We've been getting a lot, so it's been hard to
Speaker 3: include all of them in the show, but I do
Speaker 3: appreciate you all for writing in. Mike Minatti, please hit
Speaker 3: me with some super chats if we got any.
Speaker 6: We got quite a bunch of, thank you everybody. First off,
Speaker 6: from Idiot box Fire Escape was on the background at
Speaker 6: work and someone heard Dance screaming about musicals. She said, Man,
Speaker 6: someone getting angry about something they don't understand is the
Speaker 6: whitest thing ever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that was Mike.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you might have been married because she was a
Speaker 4: coward and would not admit that. She also did not
Speaker 4: like Hamilton. But yeah, oh you guys are cool.
Speaker 6: Williamler says, enjoyed that Thunderfolk stream. You have things Dan
Speaker 6: likes and appreciate what they're just number one. Well, you
Speaker 6: guys continue it. There's a lot more you all haven't seen,
Speaker 6: including some found family for Jan. I was enjoying the game.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, you know, maybe maybe should do one more
Speaker 2: stream of it?
Speaker 6: Kind I have one more go, yeah, because you know,
Speaker 6: maybe some more complexities there.
Speaker 2: We were doing pretty good. I liked being my giant
Speaker 2: polar bear tank guy fyronized. Maybe Jan was so strong
Speaker 2: as that fire hazard It was wow, the one that
Speaker 2: came up from from Dan.
Speaker 6: Dan, you could have been a strong fire lizard, but
Speaker 6: you were scared because of fantasy or something. It was
Speaker 6: a lot of things that you know Jakeson's Jan check
Speaker 6: Venmo memos. Super Chet isn't sending uh yeah in a
Speaker 6: super Chet doesn't get right here. Well, I think it's
Speaker 6: because of their original message. But Jake wrote on Saturday
Speaker 6: eight sixteen, ten am Eastern, I'll be streaming Clone Hero
Speaker 6: for twenty four hours to raise money for Gaza through
Speaker 6: pc r F tiny, earl dot com slash Woke Gaza
Speaker 6: ghoul Boy. I'll drop those links in a second. Folks
Speaker 6: in a Twitch stream is at twitch dot tv slash
Speaker 6: Pseudo space j L.
Speaker 2: I wonder which love in their YouTube didn't like.
Speaker 3: Much loss Jake from Boston aka Woke Gabba, ghoul Boy,
Speaker 3: Gaza cool is funny, that's good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's good stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Zombie Porn says, does Jance still call Turbo Shan old? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 2: what the hell? I still never went back? What you
Speaker 2: what you're doing here? And he pounced?
Speaker 6: He pounced, Sean, I want to that's not very nice.
Speaker 6: Sean still younger than you. Actually, he's like right and
Speaker 6: he grabbed her. Was like chance stopped months and he
Speaker 6: just would stopped.
Speaker 5: Classic classic rude.
Speaker 2: Can't believe it.
Speaker 3: And then and then Dan like uh Neil did the
Speaker 3: frog pose behind Mike and then the school boyed him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I hope that was in good like HD on
Speaker 7: the stream because I just need to like cut that
Speaker 7: down and put that everywhere. I don't know where I'm
Speaker 7: gonna put I just Dan doing that everywhere.
Speaker 6: Egan says, Hey, thanks for doing the BombCast on my birthday,
Speaker 6: Happy birthday, Hello again hbd yep, and then dumb dumb
Speaker 6: Banjo says by culture mentioned here you go, Here we go,
Speaker 6: hearts for all of our bye friends.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, there we go. That's right, get it away before
Speaker 2: Mike sees did it? Lie? Dan, that's not even the
Speaker 2: young way to do heart, Now you gotta do it
Speaker 2: like that, No way to hard, This is the young way.
Speaker 3: But me anyhow, I tried to get Vinnie to do
Speaker 3: this and he thought it was like a racist thing
Speaker 3: and he didn't want to partake.
Speaker 5: Ye, that's the heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: We did get a rate from Mixlander earlier and right
Speaker 6: after they finished watching I'm in Love with your dead grandmothers.
Speaker 3: So are we still friends?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 6: But I wonder if any of the broke as hard
Speaker 6: as I did when the grandmother came back to life.
Speaker 2: Only he gets shot right. The funniest thing I've ever
Speaker 2: seen is that it for super chests, my dad, It
Speaker 2: for super chests. Thank you so much, everybody, Back to you, Jan,
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Everyone.
Speaker 3: We got a stacked and packed week. We got game.
Speaker 3: This morning's popping off for the rest of the week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 3: Today we got a bunch of stuff going on because
Speaker 3: the SF travelogue is dropping fairly soon right after this podcast.
Speaker 3: My slow pipes gonna take a hot second to upload that,
Speaker 3: but we'll do it as a premiere so we can
Speaker 3: all hang out in the YouTube chat comment and laugh
Speaker 3: and cry at the oars in hilarity.
Speaker 5: I got to find out, uh.
Speaker 4: Chuck Towski said that someone in Discord reach out to him,
Speaker 4: saying that they might have been directly responsible for us
Speaker 4: almost dying in the Weymo during part.
Speaker 5: With the fire truck. Yeah, so curious if you're listening,
Speaker 5: love to hear what happened there.
Speaker 6: A lot of the waybow uh in almost killing us,
Speaker 6: a lot of a lot of highs and lows.
Speaker 2: Uh. Interesting because you're going to see me drunkard that
Speaker 2: I've ever been on content for sure, talks to the
Speaker 2: Weimo like a dog, and you're all going to be
Speaker 2: very upset by it. Like, just just get used to
Speaker 2: it now. Yeah, Mike's definitely worst here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has a very fantastic cold open. Not saying
Speaker 3: that the first cold open was going to be bad.
Speaker 2: It just was a lot. It was the most It's
Speaker 2: still in there.
Speaker 6: It's you included all that, all the footage from the
Speaker 6: Disney Museum that I sent you, right, it's in there.
Speaker 2: Excited for people to see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and after that, we also have shouts out to
Speaker 3: Derek Stone. Derek put together the best of for Pimp
Speaker 3: My Reker, which wrapped last week, leading into Grubs shift
Speaker 3: on Black Club.
Speaker 2: It's Trespasser, Eve, Jeff, that's gonna be.
Speaker 5: That's he has no idea, he doesn't done.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: I know that game.
Speaker 5: I know that well, yes, Jeff just found out that
Speaker 5: it's first person. There's so much more to learn.
Speaker 2: Ready for what night of game that is? I think, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Don't think this game existed before or after? Oh no, yeah,
Speaker 4: like it was type of game like Jeff, I think
Speaker 4: I said it was to you.
Speaker 7: It's the kind of game that could have been really
Speaker 7: cool if they didn't completely bungle it.
Speaker 2: So there's ideas, all right, Okay, I like ideas, but
Speaker 2: Diana also had ideas exactly.
Speaker 4: I don't look anything up to look at the chap,
Speaker 4: but Grub, do you even know about like the health system.
Speaker 6: Mount in the game. I don't know what health bar like.
Speaker 2: Literally, what I thought it was was like an interactive
Speaker 2: CD ROM like point and click like.
Speaker 6: Virtual say a CD Jurassic Park game.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's probably what I was thinking of them.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so so excited about tomorrow. I've been thinking
Speaker 4: about tomorrow for a long time and I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: All right, health bar? What is this game? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know what the health bar is. The dumb thing
Speaker 2: is that's a grub game. That's a bad game. So
Speaker 2: that's a bad grub. Yeahs, pay for my cents.
Speaker 3: Okay, so folks tune in live for that new season
Speaker 3: of Light Club Jurassic Grub Jeff Passer.
Speaker 4: The game doesn't even actually technically have Jurassic Park in
Speaker 4: the title. It's just called Trespassers the Jurassic Park Game.
Speaker 4: Why didn't they put that in the title?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Weird? Right? Great?
Speaker 3: Uh Thursday game of Mornings as well as an episode
Speaker 3: of Voicemail Dump Truck Dumpers, Go get your calls in.
Speaker 3: Friday is going to be another pack day because we
Speaker 3: were going to be doing uh game as Mornings as well.
Speaker 3: Is a license to thrill some fast food games yum
Speaker 3: me yes, and then upf we're going to try and
Speaker 3: do drag and drive, try our hardest for that A
Speaker 3: bunch of other stuff popping up on the website. Yesterday,
Speaker 3: Sean dropped an EVO interview for the new Virtual Fighter project.
Speaker 3: Shawn's got a bunch more loaded up ready to drop
Speaker 3: throughout the week. You boys, the Blight crew did some
Speaker 3: guest commentary over Evil Who Know is Wrestling, comedy wrestling,
Speaker 3: mystery wrestling stuff yesterday.
Speaker 6: That was a lot of fun, getting even more fun
Speaker 6: after we left. They in the middle of the match,
Speaker 6: they like had like a poker segment. They're just playing
Speaker 6: poker for a long time. It was great seminar.
Speaker 2: I get that, I get that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Perhaps a hare tic hex and quick look later
Speaker 3: this week as well.
Speaker 6: If Jeff are going to record that, it gets a
Speaker 6: food to this, Jeff.
Speaker 2: But then we can maybe record meeting all.
Speaker 3: Right, uh yeah, And a lot of a lot of
Speaker 3: busy stuff popping off. It's another busy week again. If
Speaker 3: you are a premium member, we haven't you haven't heard
Speaker 3: this yet. We're having a premium beta of the new website.
Speaker 3: Shouts out to Chuck. We fuck with Chuck Enormous Explosive
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Speaker 3: you have on the current website that'll carry over. You
Speaker 3: can test all the things. Admittedly, there are a couple
Speaker 3: videos that are missing from the library. I'm working with
Speaker 3: my slow pipes to go ahead and get those uploaded.
Speaker 3: But garin anything else before we get out of here.
Speaker 2: Jeff Jeff, Jeff, Yeah, what can I do for you? Bude?
Speaker 2: You're a premium beta. All right, let's let's.
Speaker 6: End the podcast.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: That about does it for the Giant BombCast. I guess
Speaker 2: we'll be back next week. Somehow got Sean.
Speaker 3: She's been Jeff, he's been White us with Dan, I
Speaker 3: have the chant to.
Speaker 2: Fuck with Chuck.
Speaker 3: Let me see some f dubsus. We'll see next week
Speaker 3: for another episode he the Tied BombCast. Until then, I
Speaker 3: love you, good bye, Happy lay there, get mom.
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 3: I better be your favorite child because I'm the only one.