Speaker 1: Hey, everybody's Tuesday, March twenty fourth. Welcome to the Giant BombCast,
Episode nine one hundred and thirty three. I'm your host,
Jan Ohoa joining me COO Captain of the ship. That's right,
he's got his esports jersey on for the only sport
that actually matters, pod racing.
Speaker 2: Co Captain of the Ship, Jeff gra I'm happy to
be here, Jan, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. We have the man out on the streets. He's
leading parades, stealing toilet seats, stealing all of our hearts.
Speaker 2: Dan reichert, you.
Speaker 3: Gotta get me if I pass tragically and young, you
gotta give me a as funeral.
Speaker 2: Okay, I would do.
Speaker 1: I would give you all sorts of funerals, especially a
jazz funeral.
Speaker 2: Uh, thank you, I want that.
Speaker 1: Speaking speaking about funerals, he is there to usher you
across the river sticks and he's he doesn't have any ores.
He just got hockey sticks. Jeff Beckler.
Speaker 4: Oh, nothing like being introduced with the word funeral. He
called Karen, you were lining there, can't find it. Nevertheless,
happy to be here?
Speaker 2: Uh, speaking about happy to be here, he's not because
he's the bird boy of my This is my angry guy,
unhappy face.
Speaker 5: I'm man, it's too crowded in an Epcot today? Does
that bug you even if you're not there? I mean,
I mean that was I was projecting, you see. It
was a method acting in.
Speaker 2: The shoes of himself.
Speaker 1: When I got lost in the scene. Wow, oh my god.
Speaker 4: When you're not there to see what the lines are like.
Speaker 2: No, there's people sell things like that.
Speaker 5: Actually, that will just like like a clock you can
put in your robe, but instead of telling you the time,
it just tells you the wait times for the theme
park rides that you're why, I'm just like, he's just
heard a psychopath and to be a serial killer.
Speaker 2: But I find it intriguing.
Speaker 5: I was, I was just gonna say, you know, sorry, y.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you find out answers uh to questions
you didn't know you had. But hey, I'm happy for everyone.
Speaker 2: Boys. How's it going? How are thanks monitoring the situation?
You know?
Speaker 6: I'm just out here kind of arms folded, just looking around,
seeing what's going around in the world.
Speaker 5: Don't like it?
Speaker 2: Not a fan?
Speaker 1: Are you talking about the lines at Epcot or a
different Disney, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Don't worry.
Speaker 2: They're gonna send an ice to help with this.
Speaker 5: Flying this week, let's go.
Speaker 3: I was, I was at the airport yesterday. Oh boy, Yeah,
there's some stuff going on.
Speaker 2: There, especially, I guess that is what I'm hearing.
Speaker 3: The cool New Orleans was four hour lines right before
I went. I guess, uh, yeah, it got better. They
opened up pre check again and all that. It so
so I got pretty lucky there with with the people
I went with, But it was real bad the day before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 4: I can't say I disagree with you. It appears to
me that we are getting the bad ending, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we made some choices early on, and someone remembered
those choices, and now we're paying the price.
Speaker 4: You know, maybe it wasn't our choices directly, but it
does seem like the world is receiving the bad ending.
Maybe we restart a different save and kind of load
that ship up, and yeah, you can get.
Speaker 5: I mean, the bad ending is how we got a
link to the past.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 6: That's true, right, we know you the hero to die,
m what that's the that's the link storyline where you
guys read your high role historia.
Speaker 2: You guys are embarrassing. I look at the pictures. I
look at the pictures.
Speaker 3: I own it. I own all those eld very nice illustrations. Yeah, yeah,
the LD the Lord does not matter at all.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, other than the state of the country
and the overall world burning around us. I'm happy to
be here talking with you gents. Absolutely, Yeah, I look
forward to it. I was on the plane Monday and
I was like brimming with excitement of like, oh this
stuff to talk about, games, to talk about stuff. I
want to talk about Gang. I know that I personally
may have somewhat of a Bay Area accent, and I
may bend the English language to my own uses.
Speaker 2: Sure, for sure you use that. You know I had
to get involved with that, to get involved with Gang.
Speaker 1: Yan Kugler has an interesting regional Bay Area accent that
I'm not one hundred percent where it comes from. I
know where he comes from, right, but in my friends
also from the same area in Oakland, I'm like, huh, interesting.
Speaker 6: J And you guys are delivering some pretty cool people.
Ryan Kugler. I've been telling you, I've been texting. I
can't stop doing impressions of Ryan Kugler to myself around
my house.
Speaker 2: That's my new book.
Speaker 5: To get that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, got a shan which I had to bring
it to a theater.
Speaker 6: And then Alyssa Liu at the same time as just
the best person to ever live. It's like you guys
are delivering out there. So thank you Bay Area.
Speaker 1: For these people we appreciate exactly and I'm hoping to
leach off of that energy. And because I'm on the
other side of the Bay of like, please give me
that I need it. But I bring all this up
to say and that I don't think in my head
the Southern California skater surfer drawl or accent. I always
thought it was dramaticized and over exaggerated in media.
Speaker 2: No, I am dead wrong.
Speaker 1: We were invited to Kaso Fest and that was held
in Long Beach last weekend. And for folks that don't
know Kaso Kasso, it's made by the same company that
originated Ninja Warrior, so it's Ninja Warrior with skateboards. It's
really fucking sick. They've been doing in Japan for a
couple of years and this is like the first event
they had in the States. There was a game that
they showed off, which is why we were there, or
I was there we'll talk about that video coming out
this week.
Speaker 2: It's really fucking shuke.
Speaker 5: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: But they had announcers going off because you know, when
you're watching Ninja Warrior or MXC Tokeshi's Castle, the commentators
are big part of it. And I was surprised that
they just had the commentators yelling the whole time and
blasting it out to the whole festival because it was
two dudes, two skaters, and man just loved how they
spoke because it was like, yo, JB, big Boyfly is
grinding the rail.
Speaker 5: He's good.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: And then the number one thing they kept saying is like, yo, bro,
I hope he sends it.
Speaker 2: Send it, brother, send it? Send that.
Speaker 5: Can you give me?
Speaker 2: Can you look? I'm old?
Speaker 6: Can you help me really understand when I'm supposed to
be saying send it?
Speaker 2: Like? Is it when I want someone to do something cool? Yeah? Yeah,
when someone's going for it? Yeah yeah, when someone's going
for it. I hope he sends it all right, yeah,
like I'm not gonna be able to pull this off?
No no, no, no, no, he sends it that sentence.
Speaker 4: I think you'll you'll know when the time is right
to say it. I think from the depths like it.
Speaker 1: Like if Dan or Mike is playing a soul's game
and like you you they're in the zone. Okay, and
you think this is or if you are running and
this is the run, you would say you send it,
finish it off, you got it.
Speaker 2: When I'm beating up Crimson Desert, I'm about to send it.
Here we go, Well, perhaps just understanding it, but you'll
get there. Yeah, yeah, you'll get there. Okay.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 3: Speaking of this of the Run, people should watch the
most recent episode.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: Really really a lot of things coalesced at certain points,
heightened drama in different forms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was very happy.
Speaker 3: Good phone of friends, Oh.
Speaker 2: Good Yeah, good is of many definitions.
Speaker 5: Got Yeah, that was not sending it.
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right, No he doesn't. But yes, definitely
please check out This is the Run. Who wants to
Bill a Millionaire? Last Saturday? But yeah, video coming out
of my time at Caso, Oh man, it was just
a fucking love skating gang. They gave me a skateboard
and I was like, can I get grip tape or
trucks anywhere here? And they were like, plately, no, We're
only giving you the board. You figure everything else out, idiot, Like, that's.
Speaker 5: Half the battle.
Speaker 2: But i just want to.
Speaker 1: Fucking shred But I'm I'm gonna send it. I'm scared
my ankles are going to turn into dust.
Speaker 3: Jane, this sounds like a recipe for ending your running dreams.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds like up an ankle and not being
able to run.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Are you a skater in another life?
Speaker 2: Have you?
Speaker 4: Did you come up two streets?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Among us, I guess, I'm sorry. I think between you
and Jan, you guys are the most skater coated among us.
Speaker 4: Between Sure, I did that for a little bit, and
then I did, like the inline with the plates on
the inline. That's fun, and now it's just uh, you
know ice.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: With the original giant bomb skate deck that we sold,
I took the one that we in the office, and
I thought, oh, this would be fun to take a
picture of as doing a kickflip. So I stayed way
too long at the CBS Old CBS office after hours
trying to nail a kickflip without trucks. So just the
flat skate deck, no grip tape, and take a picture
of it and nailed it. I still had it then.
I don't think I have it anymore. Okay, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Boys tricky with it.
Speaker 1: I I sent it as a skater say.
Speaker 4: Sorry to interject one more scathing Uh. Nick Henry from
c NET producer fame Tremendous Skateboarder.
Speaker 2: Do you remember him? You might have?
Speaker 4: He was in long haired dude looks like looks like
the Jason Uh not sure, it looks like the guy
from Days and Confused, the dude who gets paddled like.
Speaker 5: That guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course all the time. Yeah, of course it's
a great film.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Nick, tremendous skateboarder would really it was very shy
about it, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 5: You would just like, hey watch this and just like
tear it up.
Speaker 4: You know, like Tim Robinson who's just like shadily a
great skill.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's like a skateboarder. He's nasty. Dan.
Speaker 1: You will understand this because when you and guy no,
not the popcorn guy, when you and I were understanding
I don't understand popcorn when we were at WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: Was it two years ago?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just remember the different wrestle media people just being
a culture shock because of like I'm just used to
games media and seeing the film.
Speaker 3: Because they're very serious journalistsos and video gun off versus
those guys that come from Columbia.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, totally not objectifying any female wrestlers there.
Speaker 2: They have a chance press no press.
Speaker 1: Uh interesting group of dudes there, right, uh lady, yeah
yeah uh, but but skater media people are fucking punks.
Parentheses positive because everyone is kind of like shoving everyone
else to get out of the way so they can
get their shot, and everyone's nick It's like supreme stickers.
Speaker 3: It's great, yeah, jan, but is it like a mosh
pit unwritten you know code where it's like if one
of them got knocked down or drop their camera and
be like, who whoa we got to pick this up?
We got you know, we gotta make.
Speaker 1: Sure totally yeah yeah, but I will move you out
of the way or get in the way of your
shot to get sure to get mine.
Speaker 2: Very sick.
Speaker 1: Also, skaters, it's just so funny to talk to them.
Everyone's so oddly friendly. As soon as I told some
dudes I was next to, it's.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, you're from the Bay, you ever bomb a hill.
Speaker 1: Brother, No, I don't bomb hills because that's too scary.
Oh Ship, do you know Steven no last name? No
illusion that steven S. I have to explain. The payer
is kind of big dude. It's like, oh Ship, I
mean like he bombs hills all the fucking time.
Speaker 2: Have you ever met him?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: I haven't. Oh fuck anyway, anyone else.
Speaker 4: Have you ever see uh you ever see that movie Airborne?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, right back, yeah that one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, with what's his name, Seth Seth Green?
Speaker 2: Yeah right yeah Green Black is in it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think we had a little hill in our
neighborhood that we also called Devil's Back, but rode our
bikes out at it partecularly that it was cool.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 4: It is seemingly like inaccessible, Like I think I have
like a four eighty copy of Oh Buddy, I got
it on.
Speaker 5: My my Plex server.
Speaker 2: I'll hook you up, don't worry. I need that. I
need that.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, you get my hands on that video. It
was definitely like a Hollywood video movie for me or something.
Man just rented that all the time.
Speaker 2: Watched it all the time on TV. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's a big hockey part of it too,
that I always found ridiculous. Uh huh uh tremendous move.
Speaker 1: Also, there was a mosh pit, of course, because it
was kind of a music mini music festival. Uh. And
there were children in the mosh pit too, and uh.
All the adults were respectful of the children, but the
kids were not. Because I didn't get this on camera,
but a kid just was saw everyone moshing and thrashing
and thought, oh, I can actually hit hit people.
Speaker 3: And then Mike NAUGHTI have you ever been in the
mosh pit?
Speaker 5: No, I see them, man, I'm like, where do you
see them? Bud concert? Yeah, I'm a concert. Have you
seen a moshpit? Iron Maiden? There was one the one time.
It was not the strongest one.
Speaker 2: You're the youngest guy there. You could kick some ass. Yeah, right, Mike,
I can relate.
Speaker 3: I go to some concerts ocasionally with like you know, Bancos,
to a lot of metal shows and stuff. And I
found myself in the crowd of a knocked loose concert
them and the guy was very clearly he was bigging,
like saying like.
Speaker 2: I want a mosh pit starting. I want a circle
pit starting right here.
Speaker 3: And this guy was very aggressive and very angry and
I definitely am of the age.
Speaker 2: Was like, well, I'll just show myself to go to
the bathroom.
Speaker 4: They did that wall of death thing, right, don't they
do that thing where they like split the things.
Speaker 2: I got the fuck out of there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I went back and I was talking to a security
guard and a Meddle year shirt about Metal year for.
Speaker 2: That old so much better. Yeah. So did this kid die?
Speaker 1: No, this kid did a full on haymaker to a
dude's nuts and.
Speaker 2: Then he died.
Speaker 5: Died.
Speaker 1: The parent look mortified and then like lifted his child out. Meanwhile,
the guy's keeled over, but he's still trying to He's
like still like, no, it's cool.
Speaker 2: But school was trying to mosh. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you see like other humans do things and it's like, man,
it's wild. We're like the same thing.
Speaker 1: I think that every day totally boys. Uh, everyone else
doing well. I guess it was someone's birthday over the weekend.
It's someone's birthday right now. I talk about the weekend,
and then we're getting to today.
Speaker 2: Grub.
Speaker 6: Come on, I spent my birthday, So I spent all
Saturday painting the bedroom and then we woke up on Sunday,
and I'm using the word we loosely didn't like the
color of the bedroom, So then I spent all my
birthday and changing into a different color. You could do
that now, Yeah, it turns out like because there's primer
built in it was shine. It was like actually a
really because we were going to do a secon layer anyhow,
and that just turned out to be the second but
you know, the second layer.
Speaker 4: But did you go from dark to light or light
to dark?
Speaker 6: It was it was kind of a tannish brown and
we kind of went to an equivalent dark green and
it worked fine, Like it's you can't tell it. Yeah,
we should have pushed charter for gray. Yes, listen, I
made my voice in my opinion clear.
Speaker 5: I was not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no one.
Speaker 5: I in the kind of person who has to be
deeply unsatisfied with the current state of a room to
be a time to paint its.
Speaker 2: I just almost never going to want to care that much.
I don't know.
Speaker 3: I meanwhile, I don't if you quizzed me on like
ten rooms in my house and what color the walls are,
I would fail.
Speaker 2: That quizz Yeah, I get I get that.
Speaker 3: Actually I don't know what color they're like, here, green,
I'm looking at him. Do you ask me right now
what color the bedroom wall is?
Speaker 6: You know it's uh. Steph's love language is acts of service.
I'll just say that I considered this an act of service.
Speaker 2: I was really nice girl.
Speaker 6: I was doing my part to contribute to making the
house feel more home home Homie for her part. And
then I was happy with the color. I think it
looks great, So it was. I felt pretty satisfied.
Speaker 2: When we're done.
Speaker 6: We still got to put all the furniture back and
peel down some tape and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, that was That was good.
Speaker 6: And then I had a chicky biscuit. She made me
a chicken biscuit, which is like one of my favorite
homemade meals. And then and then you know, I got
a She got me a metal detector for when we
go to the beach. I can bring it to the bar.
I can try to bring it to Boston. That'll be fun.
I'm gonna carry it through and.
Speaker 2: Just see what Ice thinks. Let's just do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, what kind of beach are you metal detecting?
And Boston, Mikey, what do you.
Speaker 3: Mean find your key back Alar're gonna grass, ye, hold on,
grab something tight back, Alar.
Speaker 2: We'll find that yet.
Speaker 5: We're going and brace. We'll give you that boat to
clamp bat like they did what they had the amputate
people of the Civil War.
Speaker 4: All right, okay, nice visual, thank you anyway, I'm forty.
Speaker 2: It was nice. Happy birthday, Happy birthday, thanks guys. Today
to other Jeff as well, you have to say fail,
thank you. Oh sick one of those in a minute. Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, getting old sucks, man. I don't know what else
there's to say now. A metal detector though, So that's
that's okay. Kind of mixed up for it a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm very difficult to buy stuff for. I realized that same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, same.
Speaker 4: I just got some new hockey equipment for myself and
I called it a birthday.
Speaker 2: Hey go here we go, get the rolls. What's up.
We'll get lobster rolls this week.
Speaker 5: Ever, and you wanted to buy this Kingdom Weight time
sign for one hundred dollars, you could get a real
time look at the wait times of the park. Keep
in mind you also need a five dollar a must
subscription to keep that going.
Speaker 4: That's insane that you need a description for the waytime.
Speaker 5: I just want, I want.
Speaker 6: To like when you're just doesn't the Disney app just
tell you yeah, like but it's not fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, but the app follows you around though, versus a
stationary clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this, I guess just cycles. Okay, okay, all right?
Speaker 4: Yeah by that this morning, you know, I get text
from the papoule who normally text me, and now people
are just like writing the number.
Speaker 5: They're not even saying happy birthday. They're just like forty four.
Speaker 4: Down?
Speaker 5: Is there?
Speaker 1: Like so?
Speaker 4: And I just like hearted it, you know, what do
you do? And they're like and I just thumbs down?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Are they doing like a like any punctuation with it,
like forty four, like an emoji.
Speaker 4: Like plain text, not even like a gift of a
forty four doing some sort of animal It's sick. I
have the coolest, most interesting friends.
Speaker 1: Imagine you know what, everyone listening and watching live throw
some forty four's in whatever chat you're.
Speaker 2: Forty fours?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 4: Yeah, more companies automatically wish me a happy birthday now
than actually humans.
Speaker 5: The best.
Speaker 4: It's fine, though, because that's actually a clear indication of
who I should unsubscribe from right now.
Speaker 2: Helpful reminder.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh cool this eye center that I went
to eleven years ago, goodbye.
Speaker 5: I don't need your emails. Yeah, man, speaking of eye centers,
Like I was going to go to the dentist this
week and they're like, oh, hey, do you have a
nu strenth card. I'm like yeah, it's it's this like
oh we don't take them. Oh, I'm like so like
yet goodbye forever. I guess I just like new dentists.
You know how many years I've cultivated that one dentist relationship.
He listens to my Disney podcast You Grow, and I
was just like, on my own again, you know what
you gotta do.
Speaker 3: You can't just like out of network, like there's like
a networking out in work, Like you can't dustry.
Speaker 5: It gets weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think? What is it? My? Those
were those words scare me?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Well you could barely make a sentence out there.
Speaker 5: Listen. I think like.
Speaker 2: VS Delta, like what do you have? I have? Should
I say? What my insurance is?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 2: Okay cares? Yeah that's dock sing. But you're.
Speaker 4: Uh, I I think you should call your dentist friend,
and you should collude, you should figure out a thing.
That's how it works. That's the Americana is crime. So
I endorse your colluding with your dentist and be like,
come on, doc, let's work something out. Come on, I'm
good for it.
Speaker 5: Do that. I may have already gone off on the
wrong foot on that call because I was also called
that was calling because I missed my appointment because I
thought it was today, and then we're doing our meeting yesterday.
And then I got think like, oh, you missed your
appointment like that appointments tomorrow. Then I'm like, oh, no,
it's not remember I remember you last week, Like, oh, guys,
I might miss the BombCast. Well that I didn't. You're
here here, here, I am, so I think they are.
I think part of them was like, good Lee, we
don't want you anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you might have used up all those favors there,
Mike can blind.
Speaker 5: They know about my like they know about the like
he put this crown here recently. He knows about it.
He knows about my teeth situation. I got to explain
this alter new guy. You gotta talk to him talk.
Speaker 3: They do a new extra. I'm in between Dennis right
now too. You just got to get the new comprehensive
extra thing. You gotta put your head in the thing
and bite the little guy, and then you gotta do
the bite wings like.
Speaker 7: The way to invest I just I had a good
I mean, I already lost one dentance because he like
accidentally broke his note compete and wasn't allowed to practice.
Speaker 5: For a few years. So I had to like go
somewhere else. Yeah, he like broke off from like a
dentist syndicate and his new office was nine miles away
instead of ten.
Speaker 2: The cartels are very violent. You gotta watch that right
right right, Yeah, Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Didn't need
to get all up about tennis stuff.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's okay. This This is the band section
is where we not but talk about miscllaneous.
Speaker 4: There's that there's something I know Larry David did this bit,
and I do find myself aligning with him ninety nine
percent of the time. What, No, I know, weird, but
the birthday call, Like, I'm I'm sure that is the
thing most people agree with. Like, I'm sorry, I just
don't want to talk to anybody today. I'll answer call.
Speaker 6: Back of our I agree, but I don't. I disagree
that ever, most people agree with that. I think that
we might be on a little bit of an island
and like we have a plenty of people that agree
with us. I think a lot of people are like,
I want to get mine on my birthday.
Speaker 4: Yes, I would rather impress me for sure, Like give
me a text that that's great because the text is
the thought, right, and that's all that matters. It's just
the thought you called me. We're both wasting seventeen minutes.
Speaker 6: Which think about people posted on your Facebook happy birthday
and even.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean that's yeah, but you know what, it's
just such a it's so it begs you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it tells you to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Right. When I had.
Speaker 4: Facebook, that felt like such a shallow gesture.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I used to do a fun Facebook gimmick where I
would just change every day. I would change my birthday
to the current day and see how many days in
a row the same people would earn it wish me
happy birthday before they figured it out. And most people
just wouldn't figure it out. I think that twenty times
in a row, done this every day of the week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was like getting birthday calls here. Yeah, you
might believe it or not. It's just me, Well today's
my day, motherfucker.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Some people too who frankly, like you know, they moved
out of town, and I'm probably not going to get
a call from him on any day but by birthday anymore.
Speaker 2: So I'll take it.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, you know I will call
call my sisters and my parents on their birthday.
Speaker 2: Is that not enough? That's good? That's good. Okay, okay,
that's good.
Speaker 3: It was it was your friend of mine, Mary Kisch's
birthday also, yeah right, goaty. So it's celebrating with her
and a bunch of a bunch of old game spot
friends in New Orleans. And it was great. Had a
good time there. Uh yeah, nothing nothing too crazy. I mean,
just kind of bumming around New Orleans for a weekend
in a bunch of spots. It's interesting because I I
kind of took the lead because it was my sixth
time there, so I kind of like put together the
whole plan and like I like to like mix it
up where it's like, okay, we'll do some fancy dinners
and some kind of like dive places. And stuff, and
it was another great reminder that like fancy doesn't always
equal better.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: The first night we went to this place, Brennan's in
the French Quarter that you know very it's been around forever.
They like invented the bananas foster and they'll tell you
the whole story while they're making it and all this stuff.
And it was very expensive, very expensive, and it was
like it was objectively like good food for sure. But
we went to a few places and it seemed like
the universal favorite was this place I always go to
go to called Coops un Decatur, and it is just
a divey place. It doesn't take reservations. Our waiter was
like this, you felt like David tel Like he talked
like it. He yelled at us if any of us
brought our phones out, he like berated us and things
like that. He was like a And it was just
gumbo and jambalaya, and it was like a fifth of
the price of the fancier places, and it seemed to
be the like runaway favorite from everyone. So it's like yeah,
it's yeah, it's gonna try a variety of things, but
sometimes you know, just go with like the little dive place.
Speaker 2: They'll be the best one.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh special shouts out to a GB member
l Paolo Loco for a long list of Long Beach recommendations.
Long Beach is cute, y'all. It's a nice little beach town.
But he recommended this very grungy dive bar that's sold
very fantastic pizza. And then I didn't because my brain
is poisoned by San Francisco prices. I thought twenty dollars, Oh,
that's gonna be a small pizza for one person.
Speaker 2: No, it was.
Speaker 1: It was like a medium sized pizza that I felt
judged for eating by myself.
Speaker 2: Dude, Hell yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, beaches have sand, and you know what
else has sand? Deserts and a game that has occupied
a lot of time on the internet, brow One Crimson Dessert,
everyone's favorite game.
Speaker 5: We're all clamoring to talk about it today.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to hear what everyone thinks. Uh, what's
up to all my CDs out there?
Speaker 5: First, I just want to make clear that if you
like this game and we don't, are not liking it
is as you suspected, a personal attack on you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want you to feel bad. That is what
I'm going for.
Speaker 1: Especially if you have an anime avatar photo. Okay, of course, yes,
definitely person it's bullying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's everyone's investment profile at the banks in Crimson Desert.
That's a real thing, Yes it is.
Speaker 6: It's kind of thing that would get me excited, but
but it just doesn't function the way I wanted to know.
Speaker 2: Whatever. That's the story of this game.
Speaker 5: Boy. Yeah, I played three hours of this game Friday evening,
which pretty short as far as launcho thingies go. Bad name,
But anyway, go ahead, we'll try something else next time.
Speaker 2: We'll just keep cycling. Well.
Speaker 5: You know, there are so many things that I could
get over or could be generous about.
Speaker 2: Like the heavy movement that you guys have talked.
Speaker 5: About before is absolutely there. Yeah, and it's even heavier
than the games I equate that to, like some like
like Assassin's Cree three or Red Dead Redemption two, and
I can kind of get over that stuff I played
games like that.
Speaker 6: They're also updating and changing this stuff constantly, so it
feels a little bit different than it didn't even win.
Speaker 5: You played, Okay, Yeah, so that part's wild. The game does,
in fact look really pretty sometimes I actually thought the
combat felt pretty good and visceral.
Speaker 2: When I was doing that, it was kind of just.
Speaker 5: Quest design was a big thing that was really throwing
me off. I even like in an MMO right, which
is a very kind of like request kind of just hey,
go talk to this person. I'll go kill this wreck,
go talk to this person. Usually like a person would
tell me to do that. It was really weird in
this game, especially one of these games, to just kind
of be in a town and just have the UY
say go over there, someone's in trouble. I'm like, how
do I know that? Okay, go there, like go talk
to this kid now over there? Why am I doing that?
Speaker 2: Because kid game told me to? What game?
Speaker 5: Right? Then all this happened. Suddenly I'm in this you know,
so it's doing all this and it kind of feels
like a Skyrimore Witcher. Suddenly I'm in the sky and
the Sweating Islands and they give me the god handability
from Tears of the Kingdom and have me jump off
and then for just like fifteen minut and it's kind
of like Tears of the Kingdom except now I'm back
on the ground. I don't know how to go up again.
I could turn to a crow for three seconds. I
have the god hand. It doesn't interact with anything. So
you know, I'm going through the main quest and I'm like, yeah, like,
this is obviously not doing a ton for me. The
story is nothing. I don't even really know what's happening.
I'm like a mercenary or I'm in a group. Most
of my group's dead. And then a wizard summoned me
to his library to be like, oh, there's many worlds.
I'm like, oh, no, I'm multiverse and he's like, yep,
in your world's in trouble anyways.
Speaker 2: Bye for now.
Speaker 5: A bird turn it to a hot lady, of course,
and she said basically the same thing or I don't know.
Speaker 2: She was real cryptic and weird. Go ahead, Jan Mike.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're describing a different type of ad
for a game that I come across on mobile and
a year whatever, like like a fake game of like,
hey here's this bird, lady, you could do that thing
that rips off this many things.
Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like a real game, was it. How
did you do with the chimney sweeping combo? Do you
nail it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean that's the other thing too, Like the the
controls are ridiculous, right, the UI the controls are bizarre,
And again like I can kind of I can brute
force that stuff. I could sweep the chimney, what have you.
Even when I was like chopping down trees because I
got an axe for me, He's like, Okay, this is
maybe kind of neat. But then I was like, Okay,
I'm gonna try to not do the main quest for
a bit. I'm going to see if I can skyrim
this just golf in direction. There's I saw a point
of interest. I saw like this watch tower. So I
go over to this watch tower. I climb up there,
and there's all these people kind of like standing around
and looking at it. You try to talk to them
and they just give you a generic NPC dialogue, So
I don't know what they're doing there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and not just that, it's like you do
generic NBC's and then it'll pop up things like oh
plus five trust gained with this guy and what does
that do?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: And then then like there's literally a pillar on this
town with yellow paint on it. I'm like, well, what
am I supposed to do with this. I try pushing
it again, I try tacking, I try using my god
hand or whatever on it, and nothing happens.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, okay, I guess then, and it's not
to be here.
Speaker 6: And then it's not like someone tells you like, oh man,
it looks like you don't have the thing, and the
games UI that tells you where to go all the
time doesn't pop it.
Speaker 5: Being like you do. You don't have the thing to
do this. It's just dead.
Speaker 6: It's unreactive in a way that is bizarre for a
game like this, right, and it.
Speaker 3: Is weird, like when you go to the tutorial section
of the thing, where it's like it's literally like implied
that there's a thousand pages of tutorials.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's applied.
Speaker 6: I think I looked it really, I think it really
is around one thousand pages.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be like section three hundred is about life,
section two hundred is about control, section four hundred and
like there is page two twelve, two thirteen, two fourteen
within that, you know.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 5: At this point, I'm like, okay, maybe it's you know,
because there's all these question marks in the map, there's
these side missions, so I'm like, okay, maybe it's a
what's your three? Like the side missions are really detailed
and good. So I get this wanted poster and I'm
getting kind of excited. It's like, Oh, there's this lady
who hangs around the church. She pretends to be in
trouble and then she murders you. I'm like, okay, I'm
gonna go like investigate the church, look for some clues.
Maybe like she's what she sees me. She's gonna pretend
she's hurt and lure me in. So I'm wondering around
the church looking for her. Then I just go into
the basement and I go at basement and there's a
lady there and she just immediately starts running. I'm like,
I guess that's her. So I just run after her
and eventually like yes, I contact sensitive like grap order
of the ground. And then now my she's just like
ah minacit And now my only interactions are let her
go or beat her.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh this, like I don't.
Speaker 5: Want to let her go. I guess she's probably guilty
at least in this game's logic, right, doesn't seem like
there's a ace attorney style kind of investigation mechanic here.
So I guess I was gonna start punching her in
the face until she lets me carry her to jai. So,
you know, aside from the ick factor of that, I'm like,
what did this have to do with? Why did he
give me this information about her? It made it seem
like I was going at like, you know, figure out
who this lady was, when it just immediately was walk
it to her vicinity and then chase her down and
punch her in the face and take her to jail.
So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Just a three hours in, my impression was not good.
It was not good.
Speaker 5: I'm a bit baffled. I'm a bit baffled, Fellas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I saw someone in the chat to say
that they are fifty five hours in and still getting tutorials.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course with this much stuff in here. Yes,
so I want jen, you were going to say something, okay,
I often.
Speaker 1: Well, I was gonna ask Dan Grebb, I want to
know how much playtime y'all have. I have about the
same as Mikey, and it just definitely is not for
me because of how heavy and.
Speaker 2: Clunky it is.
Speaker 1: It feels like what my experiences of playing an MMO
is if there is absolutely no one else around.
Speaker 6: And to be clear, the update does address some of that.
I don't think it changes enough to change your opinion
on that. I think it's gonna change change some people's opinion.
I think the way you're talking about it is how
I feel.
Speaker 5: I don't think the update would affect you.
Speaker 2: Sure, Okay.
Speaker 3: To me, it's a lot of like everything I complained
about with Red Dead two is here times ten in
this game. But even at my most or I hate
Red Dead two, I did acknowledge there were really great
things about it.
Speaker 2: It's craft story and things like that.
Speaker 3: It's a crafted work like it's it just was not
for me at the time, and I did kind of
come around on some of that, and I definitely don't
hate that game now. But this is like all the
worst parts or the parts that I hated the most
initially about Red Dead two without any of the redeeming
qualities of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: To me, it's like, you know, you'll occasionally see those
clips of like some really shitty looking things that's not
even really a game where it's like, hey, I made
this entire game, oh man toast. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's
just and it's like some GTA looking thing that doesn't
even look like a playable game or anything, but it's
oh graphically well, look at this, it felt like it
was made by AI. Like every element of it just
seem like a bunch of standard off corners, a bunch
of ideas that we're just kind of thrown in in
no quality. I mean, it's not like it's poor. If
it works, the game works, not like the big jankie
glitchy mess or anything like that. It's just it's slighty
quantity over quality for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you guys have touched it on, like
a lot of the things that have Like, as I've
played twelve to fifteen ish hours now, I'm trying to
like I'm like in I think I'm at the beginning
of chapter four. It's starting to open up more. I
think the big thing for me is every single thing
I've done up to this point has felt so thoroughly
thoughtless from the developer side, so undesigned, never considering what
it's like to actually be the person playing this, because
they just want to add that thing from the game
they just played.
Speaker 5: They just played Zelda.
Speaker 6: They're gonna add that thing. They just played Red Dead,
They're gonna add that thing. They just play Assassin Screen,
They're gonna add that thing. It's that over and over
and so even once I do start like getting off
the Beaten pat that main quest is garbage trash.
Speaker 2: It's really very, very bad.
Speaker 6: Like it hasn't gotten better at one point, Like like
you get to a boss fight eventually. The bosses are
frustrating because they'll attack you and you'll try to dodge roll.
Speaker 2: Like in any game, and.
Speaker 6: You have to like preload the role because if you
don't preload before he attacks, you're not gonna be able
to roll out of the way in time because the
game just is bad to play. And then the thing
you learned from that boss fight is one of the
most insulting upgrades I got in a game where it's like, hey,
if you get hit, now you can do a roll
away after taking damage. It's like that was the big
thing here that I want you to know game that
feels terrible to be like, hey, take some damage and
then roll away. Make it easier for me to avoid
damage video game, that's what feels good. Yeah, And it's
just that that's like I'm like, okay, I'm at this
boss fight. Now I'm still feeling this way. I need
to probably get off the speeding path, let me go
try some other stuff. And then I'm like, okay, let
me go cause some mayhem in this world. And then
so oh, this crime and punishment system is also just
it's broken in terms of being an enjoyable thing to
interact with. Where the way it works is you could
do crimes, you could bump into two guards, getting scrapes
with them, just you know, pick up someone else's belongings
or whatever. Actually I've only been able to do that
recently because you can't steal in this game unless you're
wearing a specific item of clothing a bandana, so that's
also strange. Whatever, But so you cause mayhem, and the
game's just like, okay, well we're gonna you did something illegal.
We're just gonna charge you a fine, and that means
the money is gonna get deducted from your in game
account over here, and it's gonna like go into the negative.
So if you want to buy something or purchase something,
which eventually I really needed to because I need to
get into this place that had if you go inside
you're going to get attacked unless you go buy a
ten silver piece of clothing or buy a ten silver
like sort of note from the governor saying you're allowed
to be here. And I'm like, okay, well I have
four right, let me go and do that. And I'm like, wait,
what is that negative sign? And it's just like the
game thinks, here's a good idea. No matter what you're
doing across the entire world, once you go to a
vendor to sell something, they're gonna know you owe money
to the government for breaking the rules somewhere else four
hours ago. That that creates such a putative cycle of
why would I try to do anything fun in this
game because it might punish me and I all it
does is sort of curb my desire to try different things.
There is no like upside of like, okay, I got punished,
let me see if I can maybe get arrested and
then infiltrate the jail get my stuff back. The game
doesn't have any of that. It is so thoroughly thoughtless
that when I do get to the point now where
I'm at where I'm like, I need to go explore
this world and see what's around the corner. My faith
that what's going to be around the corner is like
that is going to that it's going to be worth
it is so low that it's sort of it's broken.
The magic of the game that might have might exist
for other people.
Speaker 1: Have there been any interesting like plot points or quest
lines grub that I hold you through at all?
Speaker 2: I mean, the plot might be the worst thing.
Speaker 5: I mean the main character Cliff clearly, Yeah, he's part
of me. These guys saw Clyde, they thought that was
something I did. Yeah, boy, And I mean, you know
a lot of people say, oh, stick with it, it
gets you know, you'll like it more. And I'm sure
the game maybe gets more interesting after a while. And
every time people do that line, oh, the game really
picks up at their so and so hours, especially when
it's ten or something. I have I have personally never
played a game that I didn't like at all, and
then if they're playing for a while, I was like, oh,
I now I see it. I played games that I've
liked the bit and then have gotten better for sure,
Like Foul Fantasy thirteen gets thrown around a lot like
that game doesn't really start till twenty hours in Yeah,
I mean a lot of that game is still there
in the beginning, and you get it. So I bet
the people who there's a lot of people in chattyman like, oh,
stick with it, it gets so much better. I bet
you liked the game at hour three to some degree
as well more than I did.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, yeah, in a different way. And I did.
Speaker 5: But you know, you know, even just aside from the
kind of absurdity of being like fifteen hours and it
gets good, I just don't think I am at a
level where it could get much better. I don't know,
there's there's just a it's difficult because when you find
a game as somewhat repulsive as this and I don't know,
like like, oh, I just don't get this at all,
it is sometimes hard to like almost come to grasses.
Speaker 2: Like, man, why why are people really like right? What
kind of about that? What is the grace? This game
has gotten some grace?
Speaker 5: And there's a part of it's like, boy, I live
in an era where I'm defending Mario sixty four. It
feels like sometimes this game has just given this a
lot of grace for just a I don't know, a
mountain of flaws that to me are difficult to see pass.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that like, I'm like going into this conversation
recognizing that people have are pretty sensitive around this game
for whatever reason, and people are allowed to be. I
have definitely been sensitive around games that I've really enjoyed
that I feel people didn't get, so I understand that.
At the same time, this is a podcast where we
come in and talk about video games and it's not
just us pland around being chuckle Fox being like, let's
entertain you with the game I'm playing. Sometimes we're gonna
be critics and say this game is bad. I think
this is a bad a poorly made video game. I
think it's a bad video game. But I you know, again,
twelve fifteen hours in somewhere in there, my time run
Steam is kind of all over the place because I
left it on one night, but twelve to fifteen hours
in and it's, yeah, I might like a two out
of five right now. I strongly dislike what I've played,
and it like, I've seen some stuff and I've done
a few things like you ride on horseback and then
if you jump off the horse off a cliff and
then jump well the horses in the air, you get
a huge amount of height and it looks cool, it
still doesn't feel good. I've seen people fling the tree,
do the tree flinging thing where you get the you know,
the wrappling hook hand thing that Mike was talking about.
You go to the top of certain trees and you
can sort of wind this thing up, pull back, and
it flings you in the air. I've not done that yet,
but I had the same sensation of looking and I'd
be like, it looks cool, but it looks like it
feels kind of like the way the floating feels and
the rest of the game, which is sort of stunted
and not as fun as you would expect it to feel.
It's just kind of across the board. I think this
game doesn't quite understand why it's doing the things it's doing,
and that has led to a soup, a sloppy mess,
that is I would call just straight up back and.
Speaker 4: So I'm sorry to cut you off, mikey. I So
I don't I've not played this game. I've seen a
lot of it, and I and I've really just been
watching from the outside looking in right and I and
I what I've seen fidelity wise, right, production value wise,
I'm like, oh wow, this game like looks kind of tremendous,
but I do feel like, like my gut tells me
like it sits in this weird sort of space of
like having such a strong uh you know, optics and
fidelity on one side, and then the other element of
all the other elements that you look for in a
comminent game are just not there, Like how did this?
How do you think this happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this game right, and that's what those are.
Speaker 6: Just the tools are there now, Like this thing is
all the sliders maxed out, even the visuals, Like, yes,
technologically it's impressive. I think from a visual sort of
aesthetic point of view. It is also really difficult to
look at the lamp. If you ever have the lamp
turn on your on your hip and you're running, the
shadows from that are flicking around in a way that
I'm like, is this not causing problems for people? Like
this is make I'm having a hard time looking at
the screw without my eyes hurting. There's ten thousand leaves
blowing across the screen as particle effects. It's like you,
I get it, but the effect is sort of beating
me over the head to the point where it's maybe
not having the intended effect. If there was an intended
effect that you come across fields of bushes sort of
whipping in the wind, and I can, like, if I
look at them pro second too long, I could see
that they're all synced up and animating the exact same
way that gives it the super artificial feel it is.
Speaker 5: John.
Speaker 2: I just I just think it's like because they could.
Speaker 6: I don't ever think they consider whether or not they
should on any choice in this game at any point.
Speaker 3: And to the point of the graphics, I feel like
if there was an award we gave out for most graphics,
most graphics.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, without a doubt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's it's interesting to see because, like I feel
like a game that came from a similar region, like
Stellar Blade or Lies of P is like aping off
of a specific type of game, but it's doing it
very well. Like Stellar Blade had a very deep combat
system the further you went in, and you know, scantily
clad ladies. For sure, Lies of P Fantastic Souls game.
I put it up there with uh the other ones.
This feels like one of those Mark gimmick Bloody Mary's
that you order at a restaurant that are like stacked high,
like a.
Speaker 3: There's milkshakes with fourteen gram crackers.
Speaker 1: Like this totally appeals to someone, but sometimes I just
want the milkshake or I just want the bloody Mary.
Speaker 6: One last point for me, and this is my positive moment.
I did have a cool, like open world, weird moment
where I am traveling by horseback over kind of the
top of a hill and my little mini map pops
up with like fifteen red dots.
Speaker 5: Being like there's enemies all over the place.
Speaker 6: I'm like, no, I don't see anything that's weird, and
I'm gonna just keep going, like I wanna is this
a bug? Let me turn around? Turn around, like looking
to see if I could see anything. And I'm kind
of waiting there for a second, and then I started
to notice. I'm like, wait, are those like five bushes
crawling at me? And it was the bushes came to
life and started attacking me, and it's like, okay, they
were kind of moving like the guys in Princess Mininoki
that have the kind of the bushes on top of
them when they're going to kill the pig got or whatever.
It's like that was a cool effect that was actually
pretty neat and I just stumbled across that.
Speaker 2: I don't know what those guys were, if there's a
quest ever.
Speaker 6: Involving them, but it's like that was a neat thing
to just sort of see in the open world as happenstance,
and I could see if people are finding more of
those than I am, Like if they're rolling the dice
by playing this game and their dice are coming up
better of like finding the kind of good stuff that
might be hidden in there, They're probably gonna end up
having a better time than I did. But for me,
that was like one moment out of twenty five that
I thought were really bad.
Speaker 1: Well, going from a game that has perhaps too much
to another game that has an obscene amount of things
going on in it. Poh Kopia, this is still the
game I'm playing a bunch that I'm.
Speaker 5: Going back to now that I'm kind of putting Crimson
Desert down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if anyone has any more
expanded thoughts. I just continue to have a pleasant time
with this. We'll get to some Pokemon news later that
has kind of like made me sad about Pokemon again.
But this for the meantime at least is preserving those
positive Pokemon vibes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's for this one.
Speaker 6: It's like, you know, the exact opposite of my experience
with that other game, where it's like, oh, you could
just tell that they thought about every decision and how
this is going, how the player can get the most
enjoyment out of it, and what about what about when
a person was in the middle of something then they
had to put the game down and they took longer
to come back than you thought that were going to
and they forgot what they were doing. What can we
do to make sure that they remember, Well, let's just
have all those cute Pokemon that they're looking forward to
seeing again come up and remind them right away and
point things out in a way that's like cute and
not quite annoying, but it's also like a kind of
an urgent reminder. It's like, oh, yeah, great, you're keeping
me on top of these tasks that I definitely still
cared about.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Game.
Speaker 6: That's very thoughtful, and that's how I feel about everything
in that game. It's like, that was very thoughtful.
Speaker 2: I wrote credits on this one, actually, Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 6: A fourth, the fourth biome you were done or five
four or five biomes, it's it's uh yeah, that's play
four or four four is the last.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: It took me I think twenty five hours to go
through the campaign like that, and it was it felt
breezy as hell for that kind of a thing. Man,
Like the setup of it again, each of these biomes
kind of having like the base stuff of like you know,
get the habits at level, what build that Pokemon center,
but then each one also kind of revolves around you
gameplay thing like you're gonna learn how to cook and
throw a party, or you know, you're gonna have to
learn about electricity and bright lighting up the town.
Speaker 2: And that all felt really good and you.
Speaker 5: Know, I love that. You know, I could see myself
maybe something really getting into like I'm going to really
build up these towns and really get into the nitty
gritty here, but just sort of completing these objectives, building
up the towns enough, somewhat sloppily just to kind of
meet the objectives. Yeah, building bridges kind of haphazzoly where
I need to go. That was still good enough, and
that got me through the game into a sort of
satisfying conclusion and kind of just again put me on
that really good loop or like you know, I do
all this stuff and then like right before I turn off,
I set up some of my bigger construction projects. Then
when I get back to that next day, those are
done and WHENNY for me, so gosh, yeah, it was
really good for that campaign experience, and in some ways
that campaign it almost is like this jactatorial for setting
me loose. If I wanted to go back to these
zones or go to that big open area and just
really build things up from scratch, like I really think
I understand basically everything I really need to about this game.
Speaker 2: Now. I wish I was wired to like build an
island or design an island elaborately and nicely, because I'll see,
you know, friends across games media making really cute islands.
And then I am literally in a din of iniquity
where there's mud on the floor that I've yet to
clean up even though I know how to, and I
just keep jumping over it and holes in the ground
because I wanted to get an item that he never.
Speaker 6: TV with where the g's giant bomb for at stream
when you come back from packs at some point, Okay,
we'll do a multiplayer stream where we maybe have each
of us with a mesh cast and he's sending like
us working on our own houses, and then we'll have
chat vote for who has the best house at the end.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do Yeah, I've just learned about the mouse
mode recently, Dan.
Speaker 3: It's awesome circumstances when you're in a certain mode with
that game, it's like, all right, this is mouse time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seeing the mouse stuff work well here is just
got me hankering gang for like maker, Yeah of course, yeah, yeah,
that'd be great someday, someday, someday, some day you're all
in trouble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm not ones. Yeah, just go get good
to Patrick again. Leave us out of it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: By the way, like this is a game that, like,
you know, I do not have any expectations for the story,
and I'm not going to be like wow, like this
is some really deep super juice stuff. But it did
for what this is, they made, They made a lot
out of it. They got they got a lot of
value out of storytelling in this Pokemon Minecraft, Like just
the kind of decisions that they made with what is
going on in this world and why things are the
way they are, even some of the like you know,
oh you found a note, you're learning things. It has
some of the best note storytelling since Resident Evil.
Speaker 3: It's also a great entry point to someone who doesn't
really know a lot about Pokemon, where it's like, I
don't really know I've seen a slow poke. I could
point him out in a police line up, but like,
I don't really know his gimmick or anything. Yeah, and
now it's like his personality.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: Now it's like, Okay, he's oh, he's very tired all
the time, and for some reason, if he yawns big,
it rains. And so now I got to figure out
how to make this guy get a hundred point yawn
and he's right.
Speaker 2: It's all very charming to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm now just walking around to friends in real
life just staring at them dead in the eyes.
Speaker 2: Like yawn for me. Yeah, that was a thirteen.
Speaker 1: Damn well, Mike, speaking about Resident Evil, you've been playing
Resident Evil zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Resident Evil mood, and you know, I bet
you wore.
Speaker 5: There's a handful of them I haven't played yet, and
I would really like to play all of them.
Speaker 2: So, uh, I was just like, which one do I
want to play?
Speaker 5: I'm always curious about Zero because whenever people talk about
that game, I feel like all I ever hear is, well,
the inventory management is tough because you know, you don't
have the item boxes and you just drop the items
and you have the two people.
Speaker 2: So it's like, Okay, I get that, what else about
the game? There's a whole game here? What else is
going on?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: The game I was always looked like it's a sister
game to the Resumee one remake, and I like that
game a ton, So just something in that style I
thought would be would be fun. So yeah, I've I'm
like seven hours into this now, so pretty deep. And
it starts in the train, and like the whole the
train section is pretty cool because at first show like
a train, How does that work for res Eevil? Somehow
they managed to make it not super backtrack even though
you are going kind of back and forth this train,
but it's like an upper level and they do some
fun stuff with like oh, this character's trapped in this room,
but he's gonna use like the surface elevator to send
the key down to the other character.
Speaker 2: So you know that's like just a couple hours, and
then I was in.
Speaker 5: This training facility that basically looks a lot like the
Spencer mansion, so then suddenly very similar. But you know,
the big gimmick of this one is that you do
have the two characters at all times. You can make
them follow each other, or you can keep one in
one place. Sometime you kind of have to have them
separate places for puzzles, right, So it's it's both interesting
because like, the other one can't help you shoot enemies,
and that can help, but it also really does make
it more difficult because you are managing the inventory, the health,
uh right, and all this side of stuff for this
other character, and sometimes it's kind of dangerous to just
have them follow you to a dangerous place. So you
go through this dangerous section trying not to shoot everything
because you're gonna way sorry, Ammo. And you switch to
that other character you kind of have to kind of
get them into that same location as well. And on
top of that, this game has some of the some
of the harder enemies I see in Resime. Well, there's
this leech zombie specifically that is just this bullitz sponge,
like the best way to kill them is throwing these
Molotov cocktails, which are not easy to come by. You
got to like throw three of those things at them,
and they don't even necessarily damage, uh stun him so
you can get back at you. So it's so kind
of like lining up with what I heard about the game,
where like, oh, it's kind of it's it's a it's
a bit more embrace.
Speaker 2: It's kind of difficult, and it's probably might be the
hardest resudual I played, but like it's still so freaking
gorgeous because it has that amazing pre rendered back. Yeah,
that's your pre.
Speaker 5: Rendered artist at that time, we're working on those games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I started already one remake on steam Deck and
it's still like, how the funck was this? I know
it's the like remaster of the remake, but it's still
like it. That was one of those games that you
would see screenshots of like a candle in the GM
and be like, how the fuck are they making it
look like that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks so freaking good. You know, it still
plays like that game as well, So it's still a
ton of fun kind of crawling, you know, scratching and
clawing your way through this mansion, like, oh, I can
go into this room and there's like a tough zombie there,
but also the item I need. It's, you know, just
that basic resident evil loop is so really good. It's
sometimes the two character stuff it is neat, like, you
know again with that kind of dumb waiter moment, stuff
like that, Rebecca Chambers is cool bad Chris and Rebecca Chambers. No,
it's Billy, Billy the fuck is Billy. He's an original
character in this one. He's got a tribal tattoo and he's, oh,
maybe he's killed twenty three people. They're very specific about
the number. There was a funny moment where like this
number every time. It's not just he's killed people's he's
killed twenty three people. At what point, like after a
sober moment, Rebecca's like, Billy, I have to ask you something.
Speaker 2: I promise I won't judge you. Is it true that
you killed twenty three people?
Speaker 3: So, Mike, I feel like you and I have talked
about this were you know you we've played Residue Wove
been a fan for a long time. But it's like
Rebecca Chambers specifically is a character that I've heard about
since the first fucking game. I don't think I've ever
seen her in the game, like you never played.
Speaker 5: As Chris, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, because she's she's the
Barry of the Chris campaign residue the.
Speaker 3: Very eight hundred times I've never seen Rebecca.
Speaker 5: There's that in like the weird picture of her playing
basketball you find in the in the two games and
in nine.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, I've seen the live action her putting on
a headband and smiling from the intros a bunch of times.
Speaker 2: The other funny thing is like the villaid of this game,
it's he they plucked.
Speaker 5: It feels like they plucked him from another gabe, Like
he looks like a villain from one of those PS
two Castle Vadia games, so amazing crazy.
Speaker 2: It looks like a fucking like Alu card. There's something.
He's the bad guy.
Speaker 5: It's so weird, Like the cuts, you know, Rebecca, this
billy guy doing Residevil stuff. There's this vampire looking dude
standing on a cliff with like is it.
Speaker 6: The guy in the white robes that also kind of
has a tribal like a Cyan travel trouble tattoo in
the arms or is that someone else?
Speaker 2: Does he looked like Alou Card.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it might be him. I don't remember his
tattoos situation. I think he's wearing a last cooat though. Sure, yeah, okay, yeah,
but yeah. So I'm still actually having a really good
time with it. Definitely been some difficulty, spikes, tough enemies.
There's like now there's like baboons who are have zombie
viruses around, and you know you gotta shuck in them
and face a few times to take care of that.
And now I know I'm close to the end because
I've I'm going into an underground facility of some kind
right last I'm going to course. So now we're almost
at the end, folks, We're gonna take a quick bricky break.
We still got more games to talk about, and we
got the news on the other side of this.
Speaker 2: We'll see you right after quick break.
Speaker 1: I'm sending at the break, and we still have plenty
of games to talk about. Going from Resident Evil zero,
which isn't actually a co op game, to a game
that surprisingly does slay the Spire too. Grub, Chuck, Mikey,
and our dear friend Bailey check this out last Friday
on UPF. What would you guys think.
Speaker 5: Care's what Jeff thinks, because Jeff, you've not really spent
much time with single players late as fire.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, I kind of wish someone would have told
me about this game. And here's the thing. It's like
something what about when I was like, hey, should I
just learn on the multiplayer stream? And I'm glad I
didn't because we were it was so fast paced. I'm
glad I had the foundation.
Speaker 2: But the game is so easy to learn, it's so playable,
it's so like, oh I get this.
Speaker 6: If you've played any sort of card game, any sort
of rogue Light, you're gonna get it very fast.
Speaker 2: And then it's just very.
Speaker 6: Satisfying to do the like can I optimize this turn?
Which is one of the key elements of a very
good turn based rogue Light. So I do think of
like into the breach, very different like fundamental genre, but
the idea is you have a certain amount of like energy,
a certain amount of things you could do on this turn.
Can you manipulate things in such a way so that
you are taking zero damage and doing maximum damage? And
that's what Slaves Spier is, I guess at its core
as well, at least as far as I played it
so far, and I thought it was really satisfying.
Speaker 2: And it's like, you know that there's a game optimized
a way of playing these.
Speaker 6: Cards in front of you, and when you feel like
I think I might have got at that turn, I
feel like I did the best I possibly could have done.
That's a super satisfying thing. And it's so rapid pace
that you're gonna get to that moment pretty frequently. And
then when you make mistakes, it's it's great because you're
going to learn from them. You're like, oh, I should
have done it that way, and then you just add
that to your base of knowledge and go on. It's
like you could just see why this game is so
revered because it's so refined in the things it does well,
and those things are.
Speaker 2: Very just make for a very good video game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that was my first time doing the co op,
which is new and Slave aspired too, and that was
that was fun and I like that there both was
some synergies we could do, but largely we were kind
of able to just sort of do our thing and
not have to like stop consider what the other person
was doing.
Speaker 2: Yes all times, and like I.
Speaker 6: Could do I did like the tank thing the tank
thing was like it was one of those ones where
it's like that was a brief moment where it's I
could consider like what you guys were dealing with and
what I was dealing with, and it's like I tried
it at first, and it kind of like wrecked me
because it was doubling the damage I was taking and
having the damage you.
Speaker 5: All were taking.
Speaker 6: And it's like, okay, that's pretty good math, right, because
it's half damage for three people double damage for one person,
you usually gonna be a pretty good exchange.
Speaker 5: But I like to play the game.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be dead.
Speaker 6: So then I got one that's like it doubled my
the defensive stuff that I was doing, so everything that
I was laying down that's defensive was being doubled. So like,
all right, in this moment, now it's the time to tank,
and it's like, okay, all these things I'm synergizing with
myself and then giving you guys a slight buff and
that felt pretty good without me having to be like,
you guys think I should do this. It's like no,
I know this is the right move, and I could
just do it and give you guys a boost there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, I like the different characters and
they all kind of feel different. It was fun that
we were each one of them. And I'm the guy
who kind of as a pet and you can sort
of play cards through buff that pet, and I kind
of got into this build that I really like where
I also can get these soul cards in my deck,
and the soul cards are just like, oh, you draw
this card, will now play that and draw two more cards.
And I kind of got into this rhythm of I'm
making a lot of these soul cards, and I have
a card that each time I use a soul card,
my pet gets more health, and then I have another
car that turns that health in the damage. So just
you know, I had this really good build with a
lot of synergies going, and it just felt good playing that,
seeing what you all were up to, occasionally peaking your characters,
and you know, even when we kind of did this
stuff in between fights, like okay, there's four relics. Everybody
pick a relic and there's two people with the same rocks.
They're gonna literally pay per scissors rock for it.
Speaker 2: Good stuff. It's well considered.
Speaker 1: Uh, slay this fire for as much as I enjoy
the game. I do think parts of it are kind
of ugly, and looking at this next game we're about
to talk about, this game is very ugly. Mister Grebb,
tell me about Mister Sleepy Man.
Speaker 2: I uh, okay, one, Dan and Mike should go play
mister Sleepy Man. Right, a Western sleepy Man. I think
all you guys will probably enjoy it.
Speaker 6: This is a three D platformer where you play as
a little sleepy guy who is to sleep the entire
time you're playing, but he runs around. Uh he could
talk to characters, they talk to him. He just makes
snoring noises. That's what the talking button does.
Speaker 5: That's fun.
Speaker 2: You you get like a pillow and stuff and that's
your your attack.
Speaker 6: It has it's a very dreamlike quality game. There's two
feet two Fee is a character who is just a
big head with big teeth and he hangs over you
while whilst mister sleeping man is sleeping, and the twof
he just talks.
Speaker 2: He just won't stop, he won't shut up.
Speaker 6: Uh, And you kind of like, all right, you'll deal
with that, and you run away from because you don't
want to have him talk anymore. But he's still talking
back in that room you left him in. It is
it has that dreamlike quality of like weird stuff is happening.
Speaker 4: Yeah what Yeah, I was gonna say this is like
a rug Rats like and character design looks like guitar room.
Speaker 2: Man. I'm looking at the images, so.
Speaker 6: It definitely is like, this feels like a weird PlayStation
one game. And I kind of can't give a higher
compliment in this moment my life where I am like
so desperately missing those games and like we are we
are in a worse place as a society.
Speaker 5: Because we didn't get those games anymore. This is like, oh,
it delivers.
Speaker 6: One of the first things I did was is laid
down a banana po on trip someone cool. You can
do that in a lot of games. Glad that's here.
But then it's like you could pick up anything. Well,
can I pick up.
Speaker 2: This cash register?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: I committed a felony. I should get I should start
running the games like, okay, yeah, get out here. You
did a felony, check mark, You're gonna get that.
Speaker 2: It's cool.
Speaker 5: There's a VHS filter.
Speaker 6: That kind of applies an even like even more dream
like quality to the visuals that I thought was really
well done. Yeah, I'm just I'm really into what this
is doing. You get the Pellow case and that works
as like a little hover thing like Zelda and stuff.
It feels good to play, It's got like a good
movement set, and then it has ideas. It's not just
a three D collector like collectithon platformer. It is that,
but then it's like, you know, go mess around in
the world and accomplish some objectives on this list as well.
So I think it's gonna have kind of a little
bit of something for everybody. I like this playing it
on steam Deck. I think you guys would all really
enjoy it.
Speaker 3: And I want that too, because I feel like a
couple times in recent months I've thought that like there
is a new kind of indie three. It's like Big
Hobs a Demon Tides were ones that like I was like, ooh,
this seems up my alley, but just got things were
kind of off on them that made me not love them. Sure,
I'm in the mood for this. I'm looking for this,
and like, I like everything I'm seeing and hearing about this.
Speaker 6: I think that yes, like you start the game by
you got to go get the controller, you have to
pick up the cartridge, put it in the N sixty
four like thing, hit the button, turn on the TV,
and that's fun, and then the game really starts.
Speaker 5: They know what they're making.
Speaker 2: I think, Dan.
Speaker 6: The thing I'm always worried about with those games, yeah,
is it's trying to be that is it getting just
close enough and then coming up short so that I
can't help but making the comparison, and that's not what
not really what this one's doing. It is like suggesting
all those things and then kind of being its own
game in a lot of different ways that are key
to making it feel like this is just going to
stand on its own and be its own thing.
Speaker 2: So I think it delivered. Hey did we say pillow
weird in the Midwest?
Speaker 5: Apparently?
Speaker 2: Yeah, pillow?
Speaker 3: Whatever every wanted to say said and say the word,
here we go. I'm gonna say pillow.
Speaker 2: Pillow, Pello what he pillow?
Speaker 5: Wait again?
Speaker 3: Wait, this is an Ohio thing?
Speaker 2: Then this this was Michigan for me, Pellow.
Speaker 5: Okay, that you're I still uh still understand what you mean, Chuck.
Did you have other people say pillow uh in Michigan
when you were there?
Speaker 2: Am I doing that too? Pillow? Yeah? I mean, do again, Mike.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 1: You're you're splitting the Let me please read Pillow. I
feel like now you're you're on top of it. Is
why I like chimneys.
Speaker 5: Milk milk, I say, milk.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're doing this weird stuff. You're putting ease where
there should be eyes. Yeah, okay, okay, I like it,
Like you say, Michigan, come on here, Yeah, come on the.
Speaker 2: This game has a bingo Papadopolis looking dude in it. Yeah,
you leave him out of that. You know, this is good.
This is good. He's like floating in the sky. He's
got a top hat. It's a good look.
Speaker 4: There is a Nickelodeon element to this too. Yeah, I'm
very much into.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's legitimately funny.
Speaker 2: It's so yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's there's a lot of good stuff in this.
So people should go check out this Pillow game.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. Last game we have here on the docket is
another visually distinct game, and I've been seeing this tear
up the streets and the internet streets.
Speaker 2: Screamer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so this is an anime arcade style racing game,
and I've like started to realize after we were talking
about Captain Subaso a little bit, a little bit of
jan but we could be in a world where we
get that, you know, the predator handshake of anime and
arcade games sort of like, hey, we can bring these
things back in a way. So the controls are the
real star here, the way that you can actually control
the game. Have you got any of you guys played
it other than me?
Speaker 5: I'm interested though, yeah, I mean the actual release date
is still a couple of days.
Speaker 2: Oh way, there's an advanced version that that I got
on Steam. So it's a dual stick racer.
Speaker 6: So you basically steer the front part of the car
with the left stick and you can drift the back
part of those car with the right stick, so like
it kind of like careams, oh ever so lightly to
the left when you use the left part of the stick.
But if you kind of you know, pair that up
with a little bit of braking, a little bit letting
off the gas, and then the right stick, you can
really slide into these turns to the point where it's like, oh,
I am always actively engaged and thinking about the best
way to control this car around corners. Then there's a
boost system where you're like shifting gears upward. You're not
really shifting gears for the car, but you're like building
up this boost meter by shifting higher and that's like
hitting L one and you can do that at certain
times when you reach certain speeds until you get to
the high high gear. You spend a certain amount of
time in that highest gear and now you have a boost,
and then that boost sets off a QTE where if
you can triangle shrinks and if you get it in
the green before the yellow part, you get a boost
that lasts twice as long. So there's all these elements
working in conjunction with one another, and it creates this like, Oh,
I am on the edge of my seat just trying
to make like handle this car because there's so much
going on, and I really like that element. I'm not
loving the anime style of this one. I think, you know,
as someone who finds this particular kind of anime to
be a little bit generic, not super generic. It has
some characters that stand out, for sure, but it's like
I would like, you know, seventies or eighties style or something,
this just looks like any other video game to me
in a lot of ways. I'm skipping a lot of
the story because it's kind of getting the way of
what I'm enjoying from this game. But I can, like,
I think the presentation is good enough, especially for anyone
who might be into these characters or this storyline that
they do have going on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's kind of my Yeah, I love arcade
racers and I'm you know, desperate to see a big
one pop off again, you know, the anime aesthetic. I
think it's fine, but I don't know how much storyline
cut scenes I need in my racing game. A little
bit of it is fine, Like I like a Ridge
Racer type four where you have like the weird talking
head guy giving you like a pep talk or like
being pessimistic about your chances before and after every race.
I don't know if I need like to feel like
I'm watching a TV show before and after every rate,
and it is.
Speaker 6: Like I do think that that's kind of the side
of the line it falls on where it's the presentation
is a little bit overbearing. It's a little bit too much.
Like you skip a cut scene and then there's another
cut scene you need to skip like right after that.
It's one of those. But I'm not holding that against
it all that much. I'm into what's happening here. It
definitely feels like they had an idea, Like it's it
doesn't feel like they had the biggest budget in the world,
but they made the most with the budget that they
do have.
Speaker 2: And you can kind of see through that.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 6: You could see the seams here and there, but again
not to the point where I thought it was detrimental
to my experience. I'm you know, I'm not going to
say I'm over the moon about the skin the way
some people are, but it definitely has it's worth trying,
except for maybe that that price. I think I think
it's like it might be sixty dollars and seventy hours.
Speaker 3: Was this advanced access thing was like seventy Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Think it was seventy for this advanced access one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So like that price is a bit much, And
that's where I think the presentation sort of like tries
to justify that to people, like you're getting this big,
cool story, and some people think will be won over
by that. But if it's if it does get in
the way for you like it did for me, I
do wonder if that price maybe should come down before
you check it out.
Speaker 1: Listen, I see a Corgie and some of these screenshots,
I'm game. Also know we need more action Arcadie sports
games across.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, and if their anime, so be it.
At this point, it's kind of how I feel. Definitely,
that's the deal with the Devil, So it couldn't be
it very much.
Speaker 3: Like I know, it's always hard to do re releases
of like NBA Jam and Blitz and all that stuff
because of like all the players association stuff and everything.
But like, could you do it with like, let's say
it's not current NBA stars, but could you just like
get Muggsy Bogues and spud Web and fucking John.
Speaker 2: And everything just their likeness and stuff. Yeah, you just
couldn't get team.
Speaker 3: It's like when they got Lawrence Taylor for Blitz League, right,
you just get teams and stuff because yeah, okay, the
teams are important. Even not as a sports guy, I
do kind of like it helps the actual teams. It
feels real, you know, sure, and then they go up
against my Yetti and the Beastie Boys, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh of course. Yeah, yeah, folks, that does it for
video game talk. We're gonna go straight into the new
This is Jeff Like, you sound like we're gonna jump
in there. Yeah, as I sought myself, I was like,
I was gonna like be allowed to asshole. I'm like,
you know what it was? It is I felt that
coming a little bit of Yeah what he said during
the break.
Speaker 5: Come on, I'm fucking pissed off about diet my Diet
Green Tea changing his thing to zero sugar green tea.
Speaker 1: You know that.
Speaker 2: I like the zero sugar stuff. It's just a branding change.
It's meaningless. Like what, like, whose job had to be.
Speaker 5: Justified by being like, we're changing the name of the
diet green tea lipped in?
Speaker 2: I bet those actually do sell better right now? You
know what, let's take that again.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 2: This is Jeff rub with the news and Jeff Grub. Yeah,
I have some news here. Let's get into it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: Nintendo is reportedly cutting switch to production this quarter as
US demand dips. This is reporting from uh Bloomberg Muchizuki
over there, who's uh often has stories like this.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: Nintendo is reportedly cutting its plan and switch to production
for the current quarter from six million to four million
consoles due to lower than expected demand in the US,
a trend expected to continue into April.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 6: The console is still extremely popular in Japan. US sales
have slowed significantly down about thirty five percent compared to
the original switches first Christmas. Now, real quick, it is
worth pointing out that that number does it really line
up to all that well with the data that we
do have from Circana. Matt Piscateel came out and so
he laid out, like when you line up the launches
through for the first nine months, the switch To has
sold faster than everything except for the Game Boy Advance.
It's twenty nine percent faster than the PS five, it
is forty five percent faster than the switch it is,
let's see here a thirty percent faster in the PS four,
thirty four percent faster than the Wii.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 2: It has sold extremely well.
Speaker 6: So one of the problems seems to be a lot
of the people who wanted to buy this thing have
already purchased it, and now now maybe they are struggling
to to that next group of people. And then that
is also reflected in the Circanda report where in January
and February the switch To sold less both in terms
of dollars and units than the PS five, but that
was that was before Pocopia, so Pacopia could sort of
be like, oh, now we are seeing that switches are
selling out at stores switch tos that is.
Speaker 5: So things could change at the same time.
Speaker 6: I bet they have a lot of switch tos in
the supply chain and cutting this is probably smart for them,
because you know, let it sell first.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the timing is a little bit weird because
you know, I almost expected the leaner times to be
in December when you're only really big games less say
Prime four and Pokemon Za were also switch one games. Yeah,
January February, not much, what's happened. That's when a lot
of the grumbling was going on, like, ah, switch to
really slow. But you know, now Pocopya has happened. It's
a switch to exclusive and it seems really popular and
it's got all this buzz. You think that would help.
There's other circumstances in the US right out right everybody,
you know, luxury products or maybe not a priority for people,
you know, software wise, beyond Potopia, it's going to be
probably a little slow.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 5: I bet that they're not expecting huge US sales for
Tomadacci Life, that Yoshi and the Mysterious Book game is
not going to be something that's going to do gangbusters.
Speaker 2: We don't know when fire Emblem is, but you know,
we don't have.
Speaker 5: The big Mario game or a big Zelda game or
Smash Bars or anything like that announced or on the horizon.
Even the mainline Pokemon is not this year, so you know,
maybe they're kind of looking ahead and they're looking at
their software lineup, and I don't know, do you think
this is an indication Jeff, that that big Mario game
everybody's hoping is coming last year still isn't.
Speaker 6: Maybe that's reading too much into it. You're right, it's
probably that would probably be us reading too much into it.
But you got like, you're right late late at the timeline.
I bet this decision was made before all the Pocopia
data came in, and I bet they had their expectations
from for Pacopia and that's what factored into this decision,
and that probably is way less. Excuse me, In fact,
we know that's way less than what that game actually
did because the games sold out physically, they didn't print
enough copies of that, so now they weren't expecting it
to do as well as it did. But then you would, yeah,
you would say, okay, if they have something coming up,
you know, after the Mario movie to sort of answer, hey,
what can Mario fans get after that Mario movie when
they're really excited. To me, this says they're gonna say, hey,
go get Super Mario or yeah, Super Mario Brothers. Wonder
you know, switch to edition and all this other stuff
that we're kind of updating for you instead.
Speaker 5: Right, gets the Galaxy one and two button, Like you know,
I went to best Buy and like that's the thing
like outside like a sign for is Galaxy one plus
two Bundle? Like in their mind they have released the
movie tie in game already.
Speaker 2: It was that thing. Yep.
Speaker 6: I think you know, this is the kind of thing
where you pull back by two million from six million
to four million, and you could ramp things back up
eventually if you need to. But they are their trend
is so far ahead already that it's like if they
kind of just ride and sell the same amount that
they have been, they're gonna they're gonna be mostly fine.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: And they have not pulled the Zelda and the Mario
levers yet they'll get to their Super Smash Brothers Lever,
they'll get to all those eventually, and that sort of
you know, uh makes them will have them reassess everything.
But in the meantime that this is saying that they
are probably the games that they've announced are probably the
ones they're going to have for the next little bit
next quarter. At least, it says Mario Tennis Fever's fault
is that the name of that game, Mario Mario Tennis Fever,
is definitely I think indicative of kind of like a mistake.
Like I think that that shows that Nintendo kind of
didn't really get like the best way to reach out
to the audience and put out something exciting. That game
was the one of the worst selling Mario Tennis games
in Japan, ever, I.
Speaker 5: Think, if not the worst, Like I think, like, help, no,
it doesn't seem like that really made it, you know,
again to be to give us some slacke. There's also
a switch one game, so people who really want to
play that game, they need to upgrade.
Speaker 3: So everyone loved it, it just they didn't need to
switch to for it.
Speaker 2: That's after what.
Speaker 6: I heard Mike say, Verbato say, uh, we'll see I
think that Pacopeia sircount of report will probably tell a
different story, and then maybe things move.
Speaker 2: From there, all right.
Speaker 6: Epic Games is laying off over one thousand employees due
to quote Fortnite downturn. Epic Games is laying off over
one thousand employees, about twenty three percent of its workforce,
due to a downturn in Fortnite engagement. According to CEO
Tim Sweeney, the company is shutting down Fortnite's rocket racing,
ballistic and festival battle stage modes. Sweeney stated that despite
Fortnite still being successful, inconsistent engagement and the cost of
being quote the industry's vanguard. Which what do you guys
think that means?
Speaker 5: Yeah, do they get billed by the industry for their
fan carpets or was.
Speaker 4: That me that that's imploying that there's some sort of
like tax it makes It's like a very specific here,
I'll tell you guys, machines. It means that they were
suing people on behalf of everyone in the industry for
their hero work.
Speaker 2: Is what they think they were heroes.
Speaker 6: So all the work that they did to sue Google
and Apple cost them a ton of money, and they
did that for everyone.
Speaker 2: And they did that for everyone. They say they're the
good guys.
Speaker 5: Of course it's tim Sweeney's up in that tree.
Speaker 2: See they bought them all. Yeah, did tim sweeney take
a pay cut? Tim Sweeney's worth nine point three billion dollars.
Speaker 5: No, And like you know, they're also this is also a.
Speaker 6: Company that spent tons of money trying to make the
Epic Game Store compete with with Steam. And that meant
spending a bunch of money, not not just on like
giving away free games, which has seemed to work somewhat,
but publishing a bunch of stuff exclusively to the Epic
Game Store that actually didn't move.
Speaker 2: The needle at all. That they you know what, I
would describe what.
Speaker 6: Has happened over there as poor management, making a lot
of big bets, spreading out that money away from Fortnite,
the Fortnite money kind of away from Fortnite, and that
money not getting any return on investment.
Speaker 2: And now the people who make the game are paying
the price that we're for this industry. But they increased
the price of e books so we could all help
keep the lights on, pay the bills. We're to pay
their bills.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's got to be some sort of money
in the bank when it comes to Epic Games and
the billions and billions and billions that they made. The
racing thing said they close. Is that the stuff that
the Rocket League people made.
Speaker 3: That's been in there question and the festival stuff? Is
that the harmonic stuff?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Is that like all they've a big stuff alongside the
lego stuff like Lego, the racing and the music stuff.
So is it like they're keeping the Lego and getting
rid of the other stuff.
Speaker 2: That's all?
Speaker 5: It sounds like latform it's been so weird there, like
because yeah, it seems like none of that really took off.
I don't know how many people are playing that Lego
thing and they're either the Disney billion dollar investment thing
is still coming. They're weird in Fortnite and Metaverse. I
bet that's gonna do fantastic. I bet everyone's gonna be
really happy at the before I.
Speaker 2: Mean that thing.
Speaker 6: I bet what they like use that they leveraged that
deal to put stuff like the Simpsons back and Fortnite.
Speaker 5: It will make a lot of money.
Speaker 6: Whatever they're supposed to be making, as like the Bespoke
deliverable for this massive.
Speaker 2: Investment that, Yeah, what what does that look like? Does
anyone care? And you know, I think.
Speaker 6: At a certain point games weren't meant to last forever
like this, Wait, like what are we building towards? Like
what do we think we're still going to be playing
Fortnite in twenty years?
Speaker 5: Like what?
Speaker 2: Like? What are we doing exactly?
Speaker 3: Well, the League did say that Stunkle Steve Austin is
about to be in there, so that could turn it around.
Speaker 5: Finally, that Millennial group, yeah they did, March six did. Yeah,
So apparently the the rock band thing in there, like
that's the way one part of it. Other rock band
esque things are still there. It's all confusing. What's going
on in there? Still I still play? Well, yeah, I guess.
I mean you'll still play Roadblocks?
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: Roadblocks is from two thousand and six. It's a year
old game. Literally. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's out of the question to assume
that it could be around.
Speaker 2: They would.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's a good thing necessarily, Okay.
Speaker 4: I guess what I want to say is that this
comes at a cost of like the industry pointing its
finger at this company, saying like they this is the
monolithic sort of success story that you want to emulate.
And now because of I think you've nailed a mismanagement.
I don't think they get that anymore, right. I think
right now a part of a club that you don't
want to be a member of.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know a lot of those big bets
that they're making. The mismanagement comes from looking at the
chart two years ago, scene line go up and be like, well,
the line keeps going up, right, and so we're going
to be at this data point right up there up
into the right here in a couple of years. And
then engagement has dropped off because of course course it
is has it's an older game, and the things that
they put in there to get people excited to actually
spend money on the game is targeted at a very
specific millennial audience most of the time, not always, but
most of the time, because those are the people that
spend money. And so it's like kind of like the
young audience is moving on to other things, different things.
Also video games is so much about novelty, of course
they're moving to onto other things. So engagement has dropped.
So now they're like looking at a different trajectory and
they're like Oh, the data point is now same. We're
going to kind of be making the same amount of
money next year, and the same amount of money might
as well be fucking death because we have to grow.
So that's it's a scary proposition when you start talking
about the billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars.
So this game is making and that not being enough.
But well, of course it would be if they were
trying to do it in a sustainable way, but that
is not the business model, and that's never never been
Tim sweeney'smo. It seems like an unreal engine. By the way,
every fucking game of the world being made on unreal engine.
Speaker 4: Don't forget about that little more soul, Like every time
a game's sneak is they got a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so just a weird thing.
Speaker 5: People a thousand people, that's a quarter of the company.
It's on God the Murder Jesus.
Speaker 2: Getting a pretty decent severance.
Speaker 6: Relatively speaking, like even people in the United States where
there are not those labor laws, like four months worth
of severance. But I was thinking this and I saw
Shreyer saying this on Blue Sky's Well, it's like man.
That would have been a lot a couple of years ago,
but this year where now there's a thousand people who
are experts or many of whom are going to be
experts in unreal engine, all looking for the same jobs
at these companies that aren't really hiring. And that's on
top of all the other people in this industry that
have already been looking for a job for a while.
The expectation is, on average, it's going to take a
person that just got laid off from Epic about one
calendar year twelve entire months to find a new job.
Speaker 1: It's not like anyone that's gotten laid off from any
of the other companies has been able to find a
job or a steady, reliable any like that. Talent pool
is so crowded at this point.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it flips so flipped on its head from a
couple of remember during the pandemic it was and any
anyone can go anywhere and demand any amount of money.
Speaker 2: Start up a million news studios get funding right away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yep, it's such a yo yo.
Speaker 6: And uh you know, of course the macroeconomic situation is
not helping, and that's only looking gloomier by the day.
Speaker 5: So yeah, things are going to be rough.
Speaker 2: I say, hope a lot of these people are able
to make.
Speaker 6: Their like their own studios and put out some cool
friends Slop stuff and have huge success stories.
Speaker 5: That would be you know.
Speaker 1: But the worst part of that, though, Grub, is that
then Fortnite will sell a skin of that friend slop
game that is more than the Actually still.
Speaker 6: They'll they'll steal the ideas, right and just put it
into Fortnite. That's what they've always done.
Speaker 2: Lord developers, you have the opportunity the funniest thing ever
right now. Yeah, welcome to lot Nite. All right.
Speaker 6: Pokemon Champions gets confirmed release date and Switch to launch update.
Speaker 5: There's there's a lot going on with this one. I
will need help Jan, but yeah.
Speaker 6: Pokemon Champions, a competitive battling game for Nintendo Switch and Mobile,
is coming April eighth. It features the familiar Pokemon battle mechanics, online, ranked,
casual and private battles, and in game competitions. It's going
to become the new not the facto, but that's the
standard for the platform. Four The competitive scene adopted by
the Pokemon company itself and will be used at the
Championships this year. It shouldn't matter too much to most people.
But there's yea again the luck going on with this.
Players can you get like thirty free Pokemon or thirty
free Pokemon slots unless you subscribe to something and then
you've got to then you can bring in your own
Pokemon from all this other stuff. Jan I kind of
lost the threat pretty quickly on this. I think I'm
getting the sense though that people are like, oh, this
isn't exactly what I thought it was going to be,
down to the way, like the way the battles work,
where like they are getting rid of ivs and like
individual values and they're getting like everything's going to be
sort of flattened and be kind of similar.
Speaker 5: So I don't know, what do you think when you
hear this stuff.
Speaker 1: So the losing of the ivy's part, I don't necessarily
mind too much. And for the folks out there, ivs
have always been this kind of hidden stat with all
of your Pokemon. So people that go crazy for breeding
Pokemon or shiny hunting, they would specifically seek individual values
or stats that a Pokemon has that you kind of
got to do some backdoor math. Now they've totally made
it a little bit easier to track that with the
most recent games. But the parts that are kind of
bugging me a lot is the you are able to
transfer Pokemon from Pokemon Home into the game, and so
you could transfer theoretically Pokemon from Scarlet Violet, Sword and
Shield Legends Archaeus into Pokemon Home and then and bring
them into Pokemon Champions. But if you don't have the
means to do that, you can go I forget what
it's called scavenge for Pokemon or something and something like that. Yeah,
this is where it starts to get scummy in terms
of micro transactions, because you can you'll get one free
Pokemon that you can scavenge for and look for, but
it's under a very limited time that you can actually
use them. So, say you really want a cyther, you
can pick to get that cyther, but it's there isn't
define language as to how long you will have that cyther,
so it could just be a week, could just be
a season, or maybe a couple of days even But
if you have victory points, you can choose that you
can keep that cyther on your roster in your Pokemon
storage box in Pokemon Champions for forever. But victory points
are associated you win those from winning Pokemon matches, but
it also seems like you also get those from spending money, yes,
and so.
Speaker 6: That like what you're getting at here is pay to win, yes,
or at the very least pay to win faster than
a free to play a free to play player, And
the question is how much faster it could be significant?
Speaker 1: It could be significant because victory points are look like
they're going to be used not only to acquire Pokemon,
but also to specifically train them in a specific way,
like you want your Dragonite they show this in the
trailer here to have higher special attack values or attack values.
You can train them a certain way, but that takes
victory points to do. The most messed up part of it, though,
is to switch up their moves, which is a very
integral part of battling, because sometimes you'll have a specific
Pokemon have a more defensive move set, or a move
set that really compliments other Pokemon on your party, or
you're stalling a different team in some times you got
to switch up the moves on the fly. To switch
up moves, they also take victory points, and from the
way from the subredits that I peruse, it looks like
you're going to get two hundred victory points if you
win a match, but it also may cost upwards to
one hundred plus to two hundred to change a move.
So if you just need to do like a small
little adjustment to your team or your party, it's going
to quickly add up. Yes, and this like thing of
you know, getting different items, the different ways you recruit Pokemon,
they all take and use victory points. So greb, it
is going to be that thing where you if you
were not using this premium battle pass or this premium
membership they're talking about, you were going to have a
little bit slower of a time to pick it.
Speaker 5: Up, Jean has said. In the chat, they stated explosively
you can't buy VP, only earnt it. But there are
other good transactions that they haven't detailed.
Speaker 6: Okay, and yes, they're like there was like a list
of concerns I saw people have about pay to win,
and I think it's fair to point out, like, you know,
you do need to purchase the video games that people
were talking about to like go get those Pokemon and
the DLC. So there's a cost associated with just playing
those games to get those Pokemon, but you do get
a video game. When you do that, it's not just
sort of access to these limited battles. I don't know,
it's it's hard for.
Speaker 5: Me to get my mind around that. But yeah, this
is all weird to me.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll ever you'll have seen the
Fourth Matrix movie. Yeah, yeah, I remember little about it,
but I did see it. You know when like Neo
is like in the coffee shop and he's kind of
like clicking back into the Matrix though of like, oh wait, no,
I kind of see the code.
Speaker 2: Oh I remember everything. Yeah, right now, Yes, that's.
Speaker 5: Me right now, because I don't remember that scene. Damn.
Speaker 2: Because I.
Speaker 1: Even though there are these things that I don't like,
there are plenty of things I started to see. I'm like,
oh oh wait, well then let me ask you, Jane,
how do you think this thing's gonna do. I think
it's gonna do okay, uh Competitive Pokemon The VGC is
a very niche scene, as is this, though could open
it up more. It's gonna be on this switch one
switch to it's eventually gonna be mobile, So I think
it could do Gangbusters. It has the potential to do Gangbusters.
I do need to mention though, Mikey, I know you
don't like Mega evolutions. Okay, I know you don't as
to why.
Speaker 2: I kind of forget, but they're adding new abilities for
Mega for Alligator and Mega Meaganium that are gonna go
crazy town bananas because.
Speaker 1: Yo Meganium gets Mega Soul, which means it can fire
off solar beam in one turn.
Speaker 8: You don't gotta charge your turn, y'all, weather is gonna
go crazy. I forget why you don't like Mega. I
think it's self evident.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just keep talking.
Speaker 5: You'll get it eventually.
Speaker 2: Joll Meca for Ralligators gonna get dragonized.
Speaker 6: Y'all, Dan, you sound you sound like one of those
clovicular or whatever he talks about bone smashing.
Speaker 5: Oh all right, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: That being said, I mean it was a bombiton incentive
to bring back Pokemonday Night Combat. Sure, this is what
Seawn and I were waiting for, because this is going
to be the means that the Pokemon Company is going
to be eighth.
Speaker 5: Isn't that that's a couple of weeks son like.
Speaker 1: A look, so yeah, Seawann and I got to bring
the the dust pans out the brooms. We're gonna sweep
up the gym, get it all nice and tidy, paint
several shades of different paint across the walls, and we'll
be ready to fight y'all at home.
Speaker 6: All right, let's keep going your sega. Stranger than Heaven
will headline an Xbox Partner event this week. They can
feel like they just did one right and they're doing
another one. Uh, last one was pretty good, and they're
promising some cool stuff for this one. That's happening on
Thursday at ten am Pacific one pm Easter, and it
will have Stranger than Heaven from Rio Go Go to
Go to Koo.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, of course I stumble on it.
Speaker 6: RGG Studio their next game, which was previously known as
Project Century if you remember that. There will be an
update for Stalker two, Heart of Chernobyl probably DLC if
they're bringing it to this thing, and a new look
at the expanse Osyrus Reborn, which is from Alcat, which
is a like Beau is Outcat, the ones that did
the Bulder's Gate enhanced editions.
Speaker 2: That sounds yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's them out Cat.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, they're doing this and and people are starting
to get pretty hyped up for this Expanse game because
it looks mass effect to a certain degree.
Speaker 2: And uh yeah, I'm gonna be able to prove I
said that question fiction and now actually I'm not sure. Okay,
never mind. I don't know why. You know, it's just
because he said, I'm like, that sounds right.
Speaker 5: They did Okay Trader, which people liked, and apparently the
Path Fighter games as well.
Speaker 6: So okay, well, there seems like they're kind of upping
their production value for this and they'll be able to
kind of maybe prove it a little bit at this
uh this you know, Developer director whatever they're calling it,
Xbox Partner event. Yeah, there might be some surprises, but
those are the three big things that will be there.
They've done a good job with these.
Speaker 2: Beam Dog did the Dog. That's what it was.
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, there's an animal name in that.
People exact same thing.
Speaker 2: I gonna take my RPG card away.
Speaker 6: Now, Great Square Inox's partner at Google to put an
AI chat in Dragon Quest ten.
Speaker 2: Let's go. Why what's happy? They never look eli Dragon
Quest ten, I guest.
Speaker 6: Chatty Slimy as the AI companions in christ It is
a slimy that will like pop up and like talk
to you, like as you do things, and maybe give
you suggestions about what you should be doing. And you
can ask it questions, try to try to get it
to say a slur. Everyone loves that. It's a good time. Yeah,
they're they're partnering with Google on this. Uh, it's going
to be in there.
Speaker 3: Can you all talked about the talking flower here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me the talking flower over there.
Speaker 5: I see he's ducked. He's ducked his responsibilities today. It's
not even on the show.
Speaker 2: What was he doing? Yeah, he didn't put on the calendar.
What the fuck?
Speaker 5: The chen shit boy? I just I hope this isn't
coming from Fun Fantasy fourteen. Gosh about that. Yeah, it's
They've had similar stuff in other games.
Speaker 6: Most famously, I think that Darth Vader Ai chappot in
Fortnite that they did have to turn off.
Speaker 5: Because it was saying slurs.
Speaker 2: And we all see how great Fortnite's doing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, huh yeah, I mean this honestly, this one to
me feels like square x people went to GDC. Google
was there and they made the steal a couple of
weeks ago, and it was happening.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I forget if we brought it
up grub, but there was so much fucking AI.
Speaker 6: I definitely mentioned that that Google a I like, make
a game with AI. Thing was jam packed, it was
filled to the brand with developers there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, this is a it's it's it's dumb.
Speaker 6: I hope that like that, Like, I hope that they
just make a better game instead of just saying, hey,
talk to a chat out when you want to learn
how to play our game.
Speaker 2: That's a dumb idea. I think, like, what what do
you need to like parse out in a dragon Quest game?
So Dragua soon is the MMO. That's the MMO one, Oh,
that's the MMO. So like, yeah, like there's usually.
Speaker 5: A lot of things in these games, but I don't
like you kind of you can explain how that works
inside of your game.
Speaker 2: You can have tool tips, you can have a good yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this game's old exactly, it's I think it's
getting its last major update soon, really, like last significant
one I think I saw that was announced. Maybe, well,
you know, you know what we used to do back
in the day is we would ask the other people
we were playing the game with because it's an MMO,
I would be like, hey, friend, how do I turn
off this thing? And then they would tell me, and
then I would do it. I don't want to ask
a fucking Slimy or whatever his name is and probably
have him tell me the wrong thing. Anyways, Well, maybe
you can get Chatty Slimmy to help you make some
placeholder art for Crimson Desert.
Speaker 6: Like those developers did. They apologize for quote accidental inclusion
of AI art and they promise a comprehensive audit.
Speaker 5: Basically, per Abyss.
Speaker 6: Left in some AI artwork that was very obvious. It
looked like old AI art works. There was a horse
with too many legs. Stuff that just doesn't happen on
the stuff anymore. But then they came out they're like, oh,
just snap, yeah, we didn't mean.
Speaker 2: To do that, was just placeholder, which no one really believes.
Speaker 5: We all mean that.
Speaker 2: Next thing, it's easy, yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5: I'm willing to like, I'm willing to give him a
little bit of some good faith and be like, okay,
you forgot to take it out, but this is why
your temp art should just be a fusia and lime
green checker box.
Speaker 2: So that it's obvious it's the temporary thing.
Speaker 6: So I don't believe him because it's like, if you
intend to take something, you got to make it obvious,
because yeah, hundreds of people work on a game, right,
you've got to make it obvious to anyone who picks
it up in a second that hey, this needs to
be filled in eventually, so we don't forget.
Speaker 2: But Practice Sandfall had this same pitfall and it's again
Expedition thirty three.
Speaker 5: Did the exec sampa, Yeah, Larryan was very excited about
this possibility of doing this until everyone's like, don't we
don't want this. I don't understand this obsession that somehow
this is a big time saver or is going to
make like the pre production of a game easier putting
in the AI slop because yeah, like you said, Jeff,
it was weird how early AI slap it was. But
if it's better, that's bad because then it's really going
to just.
Speaker 2: Stay in there.
Speaker 5: It's going to be in there, right, and then you
know it puts me in the position again with this game.
We're now like everything I'm lit, like even the music right,
which like maybe sounds good, but now I'm like this
sounds kind of generic?
Speaker 2: Is the music in this game?
Speaker 5: AI? What is AI?
Speaker 2: Is that? AI?
Speaker 5: Is this?
Speaker 2: AI?
Speaker 5: The how?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: It sucks? Everything is question mark now and it's it's
no way to live and.
Speaker 2: I can't have Mikey experiencing that. I don't want I
don't want to live like that.
Speaker 6: Minecraft Dungeons is getting a sequel this year and it's
coming to PS five and switched to mo Yang and
Microsoft have announced Minecraft Dungeons to a full sequel to
the game, like you do a new settings and stuff
like that, but it's mostly gonna play like the first one,
which was, as a reminder, a diabolo like it was
a new venture RPG or action RPG that very well.
Speaker 2: I apparently it did. Of the spinoffs, apparently this is
the one that did.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's like extraordinarily well, but it
did well, and then its fan base seem to really
really like it, so I think they're kind of trying
to play to them again and it's like, oh, I'm
excited about this. I know I forgot to play this
with my kids now that they're into Minecraft, So go
play that first one and see if they're into it.
Speaker 5: Maybe get this one. I bet that was in a
huge investment to have to make it, and making a
sequel presumably be even easier.
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, go ahead and make a second one, yep.
Speaker 6: And then which are four? And and new IP at
CD project get fresh updates. Basically, they're just kind of
saying they're a publicly traded company in Poland, they have
to give updates to their investors about what's going on,
how many employees they have, who's working on What's pretty transparent.
Cyberpunk two has one hundred and forty nine people working
on it, but there's almost I think four hundred or
four hundred and fifty, maybe almost five hundred people working
on which are four? Yeah, it's almost five hundred people
working on which is.
Speaker 2: Their next haalf of a epic games layoff?
Speaker 5: Yeah right, Jesus, So.
Speaker 2: That which are four coming along pretty fast. They are
super invested in.
Speaker 6: They've hired up recently where I think they've added like
fifty people or something like that.
Speaker 2: And then they have a new IP code named hat Are.
Speaker 6: Which has twenty six people sort of kind of chipping
away at that as well. So yeah, things happening over
at CD project read They definitely kind of pulled out
of the nose dive that was the launch of Cyberpunk,
completely turned things around. Now they seem to be set
up for the future, you know, once they shed stuff
like that we're gonna do a multiplayer cyberpunk game or whatever,
and they're not doing any of that stuff anymore. Instead,
it let's focus on what you're let's get into what
Cyberpunk's set up, and then we'll try one other new
thing that's kind of where they're at.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm curious to see what the new thing is,
you know, because they have fantasy, they have sci fi,
so you know, I hope you see something like a
bit more interesting or offbeat. You know, we've done the
two video game genres now, although you could do more
sci fi than just the cyberpunk things. I hope it's
not just you know, like when Night Dogs like, here's
our big new IP sci fi. All right, great, fantastic.
Well we're doing a brand new IP spaceship sci fi. Huh,
like I forgot this is just spaceship sci fi?
Speaker 2: Is there new IP? I'm gonna lose my mind a bit.
I agree it's coming.
Speaker 4: Uh Uh.
Speaker 6: There was one other thing, Yeah, Red Storm Ubisoft studio.
I think there was rumors they were closing down. Yeah,
they have officially, like I don't know if it's official,
but the more reporting that they are not working on anything.
They were helping out on a bunch of stuff, including
Siege and Brahalla and Beyond Good and Evil too. They
have shut down almost entirely, and sounds like more than
one hundred jobs.
Speaker 5: Will be lost. So cool things still happening.
Speaker 1: Over again, someone in Chad is saying PlayStation is shutting down.
Dark outlag Games, the Jason Blundell studio.
Speaker 2: I'm not familiar.
Speaker 6: I guess I remember Jason Blendell starting up something. I
don't remember what it was going to do though, interesting, Okay,
dark outlag Games is a new first party PlayStation.
Speaker 2: And they ever published anything even, I don't think.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was announced in March of last year, and
it was you know, Jason Blendell was the Call of
Duty zombies guy.
Speaker 2: So interest weird, weird, weird, weird, weird, weird man. I
was Fair Games still not like I mean fair being
put out of its.
Speaker 6: Misery Fair Games and Beyond Good and Evil too, right, Yeah,
zombie games that just you know, stumble through the night.
Speaker 2: It's weird.
Speaker 5: Jan that does it for the news. I'm handling the
show back over to you. Thank you, folks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go take a quick bricky break and be
back with emails and YouTube super chats read after.
Speaker 5: The is.
Speaker 1: These are the emails for the emails shine bomb or
send send emails us at BombCast shine bomb dot com. Uh,
send it or you can write in about any and everything.
We appreciate it. And as I've been saying for the
last what you know what a couple months, been getting
a lot of emails in the inbox that we can't
nearly read everything. So I appreciate all of them. If
someone says a very nice thing, I try and pass
that along.
Speaker 2: To the crew.
Speaker 1: We have so many emails that we don't get to
all of them, even the ones that I've highlighted here
in this doc. Once again, BombCast johnbomb dot com. If
you you know, if you wanna, if you need a
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send an email in all right. First email comes from
Matt from Essex, Connecticut sub dudes. Recently, Grubb has made
several references to Dusty Baker creating the high five. Well,
this is generally believed to be true. The history of
the high five is actually more nuanced than that, and
I'd like to shed some light on it. All right,
not quite a correction, but let's learn. There reports that
the high five was a popular greeting Amongst American gis
in post World War two Japan, although it shouldn't be
noted here that there are only anecdotal reports of this.
It's hard to substantiate. The high five gesture can be
seen in Jean Luke Gooddard's movie Breathless, where two characters
high five each other in one screen. The low five
or give me some skin, was a popular greeting Amongst
African Americans dating back to the nineteen twenties. Given Burks's
involvement in sports, it's hard to imagine he was not
aware of that gesture. Or Dusty Baker, I think they,
I'd say, I also want to call out the man
Baker gave his high fives to Glenn Burke. Burke was
a gay man playing baseball in the nineteen seventies. It
wasn't out, He wasn't out, but he didn't hide it.
He received this from This led to his early retirement
from baseball in nineteen eighty. He suffered from health problems
and eventually died from complications from AIDS in nineteen ninety five.
Just want to shed some light on the cool history
of the high five and the often overlooked Glenn Burke
Matt from Essex, Connecticut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Sounds like a bunch of cool people doing cool stuff.
Speaker 2: That's what I like. That's a good high five. I
love high five this weekend. I can't wait, it can't wait.
Speaker 1: Last time we did it, we cause an explosion, that
is true, and then we died. I think, yeah, we're
not actually here, Dad, Yeah, yeah, all right. The podcast
another Matt writes in Hey gang, I've been fortunate enough
in my life to live in two of the best
areas in the country for consuming hot dogs. That would
be New Jersey and Chicago. Growing up in New Jersey,
we had good Old Nathan's. I would get them spicy
brown mustard and sauerkraut. And for everyone in Jersey who
really knows, there's Rut's Hut in Clifton Holma the Ripper.
It's a deep fried hot dog that bursts open when cooked.
Thus it's signature name the Ripper. Yeah, they have their
own to.
Speaker 4: You from your family thirty years before you're supposed to die.
Speaker 2: I had been there and it was awesome. I remember that. Yeah,
hell yah.
Speaker 1: And they have their own homemade signature relish which is
unlike anything you've ever had.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 1: Living in Chicago, we have the world of famous Chicago dog. Yes,
all those toppings are necessary and the relish must be
Neon green Well. I could never pick a favorite. I
would pose this question to you, what's your favorite style
of hot dog? And if you had to pick a
side to go with a dog, which a pickin? And
why is it a kinish fuck ice Matt Costco style?
Speaker 3: Nothing on it?
Speaker 2: I'm the same, nothing, nothing, dang. I not a damn thing,
not a damn thing.
Speaker 5: I just like a baseball park hot dog, steamed ones,
really soft soft bun, and I just get the the
Cleveland has a kind of spicy brown mustard that we
use here. That's all I want on it. It's just
that spicy brown mustard.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's perfection to me.
Speaker 3: At a ballpark, you buy the extra cheese that comes
with the nachos, and the extra like little pouch and
then you dip the hot dog just full like it
really fits in there.
Speaker 2: It's good. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, give me a Coney Island hot dog when I'm
in Michigan, which is kind of looks like a staring
hot dog, has some chili on there, some onions. Skyline
chili dog is also very good. Chicago dogs are good.
A foot long chili dog from Sonic is really good.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good hot dogs.
Speaker 5: I don't know what if I get for a side
for I think the side I would want for my
hot dog is another hot dog.
Speaker 2: Honestly, yes, yeah, is that.
Speaker 5: On it?
Speaker 2: And on the side's great with the hot dog.
Speaker 5: Just like a bag of late like I would never
forget Plaine lace chips, but that's what I would want,
I think is with my hot dog, just plain lays.
Speaker 3: Yeay, guys are about to see each other in uh
in Boston, and I think you all, in the various
times you've known me, have seen me grow a lot
in terms of food items and things like that. If
any of you confront me with Sauer Kraut in Boston,
I will try it. Okay, it's time and.
Speaker 2: That's what it was, right. That's not like anyone watching now,
you some.
Speaker 3: Some Mirando can't show up on a show floor with
a handful of sour crowd, except it's got to be
vetted sour crowd.
Speaker 2: You fellas. Do you remember trauma? Dude?
Speaker 5: You had souer Kraut in Germany with us?
Speaker 2: I did? Yes, Oh that's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The restaurant, the pork Knuckle. Did I like it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: The one with the weird waiter. Oh yeah, the one
that weird.
Speaker 5: It was really weird.
Speaker 2: Wait did I like it? I think you liked it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well then yeah, confront me with it. Still it's mustard too, remember,
big no, no, no no, And I am promised. I
had mustard in New Orleans on the a on a
fried Maloney's sandwhich, oh hell, it was good. I'm fine
with mustard. I still just like like when I get
a quarter pounder, when I got shake check at the
airport yesterday. I just get a plane. I just I
really do like meat and cheese. There's a simplicity to it.
If it if it has ketchup mustard on it, Sure,
I'm not gonna balk at it, but I do like
a plane will balking. I mean, I won't throw it
away like I would at any point in the first,
you know, forty one years of my life.
Speaker 4: I got a question is are we are we counting
sausages as hot dogs?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It's got to be in a bun oh like yeah, yeah,
if it's.
Speaker 5: I had a chicken sausage the other day, just like.
Speaker 2: Though, was it? If it was a knife and fork situation?
It doesn't count? Well never mind?
Speaker 6: I mean, so, I think what we're saying is should
account for our hot dog count in our discord?
Speaker 2: Is what you're I think for everything? Should okay, shouldn't
count in life?
Speaker 5: And should it count?
Speaker 2: All right? I'm gonna I'm gonna make a pulse, so
we'll just get a chat. I don't think you can.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. And don't you know, I know it's
my birthday on the fucking pander.
Speaker 2: Just just be honest. Yeah, it should should have worked.
I did everything right. I don't know I did everything right.
I did everything right? All right?
Speaker 1: Gang James Wright Sin asking about something that I feel
like we could.
Speaker 2: All attest to. What up bombers? How do y'all deal
with burnout? Playing games?
Speaker 1: I have been playing games for thirty years, since I
was like four more and more of these days I
sit and can't find anything I feel like playing these days?
What does the team here do to get over these days?
Love y'all kisses on the cheek, I mean, James.
Speaker 3: On the rare oc currency, Like there's not new stuff
out that I'm actively playing. Like, I think that's a
great time to just be like, you know what, I'm
not gonna start going through that Caslvania Dominans collection or
I'm gonna go back to an old favorite. Should I
haven't played O Karina in a while, you know, Like
that's I love retro games, like they are perfect for
when you don't have a new thing you're actively working on.
Speaker 4: I think this is I can sympathize that can relate James.
I also am going through it a little bit with
did where he's where like this kid plays so much
Minecraft in Fortnite, and I'm like, you gotta do you
gotta play something else every now and then, right, And
he was sick over the weekend and I was like, oh, dude,
you never played Ratcheting Clank Riffed Apart And the kid
fucking tore through it in two days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it awesome game. So for it is underrated people. Yeah,
it's star. I think it's four and a half star.
You can't just throw out five stars.
Speaker 4: No, No, were not animals. I think, like, you know,
he it came out in twenty twenty one, which I thought,
which I was just sort.
Speaker 5: Of like possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god that's and and he just like he
just like broke his brain. He was just like, how
is this so good? How's this amazing?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: It's like because you're looking at Minecraft all day, butt head.
Speaker 5: Like what do you think?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: It's like, I mean, I get it's I get why
they stick with these forever games. But god, I wish
I could shake him loose a little bit.
Speaker 4: How I mean, he's he played through Odyssey, He's like
he's he's up for it. I think he just needs
to be like distracted.
Speaker 2: Enough, you know.
Speaker 4: And then it got me think, sorry jan question First.
Speaker 1: Well, backler, I'm curious, because I'm always curious with younger
gamers and gimmicks and everything, how they feel about like
two D games or do you does that like rank
lower for them?
Speaker 2: For some reason?
Speaker 4: I think it's hitter miss. He loves Geometry Dash, which
is like the one of the most popular mobile games
around and quite honestly, there's a there's like a community
that makes custom levels for that game. And there's this
one game called Abduct, a one level called Abduction, and
it is like wildly impressive.
Speaker 2: Just so you want to play that on the site.
Speaker 5: We should do a string where we play some of
these mobile games.
Speaker 4: I mean, and he's filthy, he will, he is, he
plays stuff. I'm just like, oh, how are you not
flopping around on the floor. He there's one it's called Abduction.
It was it was made by some creator. It's striking
and unbelievable to the point where it's like, how did
one person do this?
Speaker 5: It's amazing. I don't know.
Speaker 4: You know, he also came across anime titties in one
of them, So wow, you know I told you guys
that story, right yeah, yeah, yeah, so you know that
was an interesting weekend. But yeah, but I think it's
like distracting him from so oh So to answer your question,
so John Trudash is definitely a.
Speaker 5: Two D thing.
Speaker 4: He liked wonder. Yeah, he's not against it, he's not
above it. I don't think he's look anyone under twenty.
I don't think puts stuff into genres and is like, well,
I only play this, and I think they're just like
is that you know what I mean. I don't think
there's that kind of like, uh compartmentalization that maybe we
do as we are so kind.
Speaker 2: Of yeas from everything, I think a bit not for me,
you know, Like, yeah, I think I'm surprised.
Speaker 6: My kids have mostly been like no, no, if that's
just another video game, then you know that they're not
like blown away by Super Mario Brothers Story the way
I still am, of course. But they play plenty of
two D games, you know. ADDIE's One of ADDIE's favorite
games is that Peak Unique Oo game, which just a
two D exploration game stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna give him this sleepy person game.
I think that's got interest uh maybe Peak for him
a little bit there, But.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know, you know, I I do struggle
with it. I do.
Speaker 4: I'm always trying to find like the like Astrobot is
like the Peak, right. Sure he still plays that every
now and then where he's just like, man, this is
so Ratchet and Clank did it for him?
Speaker 2: For sure? He just blew through it in two days.
I wonder what he would take it.
Speaker 5: I wonder what he would think of Demon Tides, that
new indie three D platformer.
Speaker 2: It's really good. It's good.
Speaker 5: I know you don't like probably the art style and
the characters in that one, Dan, right, but he's played
so good.
Speaker 4: He's probably two years away from me letting him just
blow through all the uncharted.
Speaker 2: Sure, that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 6: Narrative dissonance conversation, ready to go. He's doing a lot
of people on screen.
Speaker 4: But it's just paintball, right, It's just a paintball game,
lovely murder, just like you know the fun Mark simply has.
Speaker 5: Has dib checked out Psychonauts at all?
Speaker 2: Oh he did? He watched me play two?
Speaker 5: Is great?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he watched me play most of that game. But
I don't know, you know, yeah, that that would be
an interesting like I would really have to force him
to stick with it for a.
Speaker 2: Little bit, you know, right right, More narrative happening there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot more going on. I think that,
you know, I think maybe a couple more years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, well we'll see anyway to answer, uh,
let's see who's whose email is this? H James James
go check out a game that you used to really
like or I don't know. The back catalog of stuff
is insane.
Speaker 2: Right to take the time back and be like, okay,
I'm not into games right in this moment. Now the
you know, I'll go read a book. I've been putting
this book off or forever. Go do that.
Speaker 6: And then once you get halfway through the book and
realize you hate reading, go You'll be like, oh.
Speaker 2: It's time to go back to video games.
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll maybe it'll remember you don't know how to read,
and then like, oh games, I can press a button
all right. Kyle from Scotland right say, hey, guys, I've
never played a Castlevania or Metro game before. As leading
world experts, where would you all start with both series?
Speaker 2: Thanks Call from Scotland.
Speaker 3: Simply The Night and Metroid Prime one or Super Metroid.
Speaker 2: Is pretty good. Maybe zero mission zero mission.
Speaker 5: Zero mission is good and it's like it's a bit
more it guides the player a bit more. So it's
good starting there. It's on Nso the thing was simply
The Night is that it's not easy to play that
everywhere right now you want to get into uh, you know,
other things like there's that they made that one collection
for PlayStation right with Rondo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, still it still baffles me.
Speaker 5: You can't play simply the Night on like Steam or
Switch right now, but if thought that one, you could
get that advanced collection and play like Ario Sorrow first
and that'll still do you really well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of like advanced ones.
Speaker 3: Are like up there, like Symphony is my favorite, but
like that dominant collection in the advanced collection, Like, yeah,
I played through those recently and it's like these are
right up there.
Speaker 2: They're all good. They're all good for sure. Yeah. I
think Simp that would be the one there. If not that,
maybe Aria Metroid.
Speaker 5: You have some options if you want to do two
D yeah, I think Zero Mission is a good place, sorry,
or Super Metroid. And if you want to do the
newest one, you can do Dread and that work. You
can just do Dread.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just get Dread.
Speaker 1: Dread that it's very slick, uh fantastic. All right, last
email here, we got a little quiz and this is
specifically a quiz for Dan. I guess you guys can
chime in. Hey, I put together a little name quiz
for Dan. You know a man who clearly has this
whole last name thing figured out now, smiley face emoji
rules are simple. Guess the country from the last name.
Oh god, Okay, all right, we'll just rapid fire through these. Dan,
there's ten of these, okay, okay, O'Connor, Ireland, Yes, Kim.
Speaker 2: Korea? Yes?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Which one.
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 2: I think this? Uh Muller, Muller. This is Robert Mueller.
And with that the two dots about the U Germany.
That's that's cheating, all.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean okay, three for three so far, Dan
Kowalski or the fanatics here Kowalski.
Speaker 2: Poland yes, this this we.
Speaker 5: Are peaking behind the curtain.
Speaker 6: Okay, Like he does know these things, he just like
won't activate his brain when Italians, I.
Speaker 3: Told you my goal this year is to get on
a game show. I need to stay sharp with this stuff.
Speaker 2: There we go, what's it's a game show? I've a
nova spell it, I V A O v A.
Speaker 3: I've things I'm gonna go with Italy Russia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Now.
Speaker 5: The BWEL thing, it's wrong all the time, be clear,
not even closes sounding like an Italian surname.
Speaker 2: It's aowel.
Speaker 3: The last Letterwel it's gotta be Italian.
Speaker 2: It's not an absolute rule, but the Russian name sound Russian,
and that was obviously I don't know what Russian last
names are. Yeah, but like Autoshian last name always has
the off in it, like yeah.
Speaker 5: Back when it happened to val has the vowels. It's
a good chance to tell you're like all the time.
And we said no, no.
Speaker 3: Advice, just like wow, it was just bad advice. You
steered me wrong. That's why I had a perfect recording here.
Speaker 5: First name Vladimir?
Speaker 2: What could it be? What could it be?
Speaker 1: There was only a last name here, I know, uh okay,
continue on Nakajima Japanese.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was a vowel Italian.
Speaker 1: You're the one who took that rule and ran to
the moon with it. Jesus Christ, that's my friends. Papadopolis Greek. Yes, wow,
uh ver tin ver Tanin oh oh oh, these last
three I I.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be able to do it.
Speaker 3: Sounds like Nordic, Denmark, Finland. Okay, I'm given points.
Speaker 5: That's that's yeah, better than.
Speaker 2: Uh Popescu Popescu, I wouldn't know this, dam Well, that's
the vows that's got to be Italian.
Speaker 1: Uh, Austria, Romania, Okay, okay, okay, last one here uh
Yawn's daughter, Yon's daughter.
Speaker 3: Nordic Finland, Iceland. Okay, I've been to Iceland.
Speaker 2: Okay, there we go.
Speaker 5: Very good, damn very good or close except for that
it's Italy. One man, you just you just heard. I
think he he took it in a way that was
like the Italian blind. Yeah, I think he just doesn't
see DAWs.
Speaker 2: Where's my wife? I'm married into an extremely Italian. They're
so Italian, worse closely with the Vinty Caravella for.
Speaker 5: So long.
Speaker 2: Family.
Speaker 3: I go over there frequently.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's the most.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: We're here glazing you like, oh you're not as you know,
brain dead as we thought, and then you just walk
it back.
Speaker 2: Can I I have a quick game show as well,
real quick. You guys can work together on this.
Speaker 6: I posted a an image into all the Stars are
Here and our discord. I'm going to describe it for
the audio listeners while you guys look at it. There
is a lady with cutoff sleeves.
Speaker 2: This is an ad from a magazine, and I want
you just to tell me what the ad is for
oh you post it. Yes, it's a lady.
Speaker 6: This is a slightly different one. It's a lady in
a magazine. She's got cut off sort of leather thing.
She looks like, you know, maybe mad Maxie. Her hair
is all like blowing back and she's looking down on
the ground at something, and the background is kind of.
Speaker 2: A yellowish, deserty cloudy.
Speaker 3: Background I've seen a million times.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, uh, Mike, you're asking is it a video game? Yeah? Okay, okay,
it's for hardware. Okay, what I think this is a
late game gear? Ad? Okay, I'll say any other guesses,
all right, any other guess is from surf or for
jan I was gonna say Ball's garana.
Speaker 4: Wait what it's for hardware?
Speaker 5: Yeah, for a piece of hardware. Like, yes, hardware is
probably the best way to put it.
Speaker 2: It is now up on the screen for people watching
the pod.
Speaker 5: It says we slammed when suddenly, my this.
Speaker 2: Is like that Yosi's Island. Fake at it? Are you
like stupid?
Speaker 5: Is it like a like a what was that handheld
game game?
Speaker 4: Dot?
Speaker 1: The engage engages at the end, Gage you guys like
you guys are all like on like a pretty.
Speaker 2: No, it's a pretty virtual boy.
Speaker 5: It's virtual boy. Yeah, God, what can you see it?
Speaker 2: All right? Glare shitting it a little boy?
Speaker 3: I do think my favorite just aesthetic tone. Everything is
like mid to late nineties e gm ads. Every time,
every time I work with an artist and they're like,
what what are you going for? I just like I
send him an issue of game players in EGM like
make it look like this, yeah, just everything to still
be like that.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, this is like a turtle Beach
sound card, yeah, or one of those magnifying lenses over
a game boy, the game boy, the big ass.
Speaker 4: I can't believe it was a virtual boy. That makes
no sense.
Speaker 5: Makes sense?
Speaker 2: Man, You'll remember where were they called? Like earthworm lights,
like the little quiggly one. Got a couple of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are so cool anyways, happening. That does it
for emails BombCast giant bomb dot com. Thank you to
everyone for sending your emails in apologies if we don't
get to them. Uh, there is no favoritism happening.
Speaker 2: I promise you. I magic living in a wasteland and
you come across a virtual boy like, so.
Speaker 5: What, I haven't had water in two woods.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna work. I tell you what.
Speaker 4: I would still be pretty excited a virtual boy here
of all places.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 2: I could just plug it in.
Speaker 1: You could use it as like a cool like visor
and maybe that's your new wasteland names like.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's allies that are left on Earth. Yeah, it
also looks a virtual point now.
Speaker 4: The person was wearing sort of like a Mortal Combat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like sub Zero mixed with the kid from
Mad Max two.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, wow, I know what.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good thing.
Speaker 4: Magazines are dead right. No, No, I'm kiddingding.
Speaker 1: Folks at home, the show's not done yet. Because mister
Manati hit me with some YouTube super chats if we
have any.
Speaker 5: We do have some from randomly ROSSI. Mikey is the
only one doing launch looks anyways. Why does anyone else
even get us? Say?
Speaker 2: Look, these are my great great I don't think interest.
I think we're a team. But we should come to
decisions together, is what I guess.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm my big My big worry now is that
Dan's gonna think lesson. Dan's gonna think that I'm like
unleashing my army to get my way with Launch looks Now.
Speaker 3: No, no, it's a group thing.
Speaker 2: I support you, Mike. Look, Lonchiton didn't take either.
Speaker 3: Between the two, I don't know, they're both pretty rough.
I don't think we need the word launch. I think
we move away from launch. WHOA really release? There's new,
there's other words we can play with. Oh okay, well
let's see what else we can cook with the next
one release. What's like the next game that this might
happen for Pragmata.
Speaker 2: I mean I can't Pragmata. Maybe Pragmata soon. Yeah, yeah,
we'll see.
Speaker 5: Slain MC also says only two hundred and fifty nine
days until Mike Mnoni's birthday. Happy early birthday, buddy, thank
you Slam.
Speaker 2: I thought it was weird. Nobody said it yet some
of the bitch tick wid said, actual, happy birthday. JURF
also forty four.
Speaker 5: Oh nice, is that this person's birthdays?
Speaker 2: Well? Cool, let's see some forty four is in chat again?
Speaker 5: Everybody four untim moral says when gunplus stream, I'll send
him if I have to.
Speaker 2: This is like the Gundam's model kids, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What what were we doing recently?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: The keyword stream and then people thought, oh I'd also
watch a gunplug building stream.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, why not both? Why not both? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Just Rex says, I can't believe people are shocked this
game the savage at best with time of Crimson Dessert.
You could see for trailers that had no solar sauce.
Looks like it was made in a lab. Uh yeah,
I mean asked against, Like I want to give some
benefit of doubt. I'm sure people were like I'm sure
people were passionate and or do you know, trying to
do good work. It looks some people like it, right, sure,
so it's in. Hey it has sold well, Okay, you
gotta get I'll give it that somehow.
Speaker 2: It's the marketing team. Whatever they did was an excellent job.
Speaker 1: You know what the motive for the marketing side. I
like that they're also rolling with all the seven out
of ten's on, like their ad campaigns on top of it,
like the nine and like eight.
Speaker 2: Migsy says is Jeff Beckler the Gloomy Boy Games Media.
Would you like that?
Speaker 1: Okay, it's fair, it's fair uh practice, Okay, Cocha chev Alway,
Jeff grab blah blah blah, Dan Record and.
Speaker 2: The Gloomy by.
Speaker 5: The Skipper it just feels normal.
Speaker 2: Is that.
Speaker 5: Feels right? Like putting on a pair of jeans that
have been broken in?
Speaker 2: Okay, chief, your officer.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good. Let's not press our luck here.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 5: Uh, Mixy's back, says Jeff Grubb. Will Commander Keene ever
make our return? They announced then canceled that mobile Commander
Keen game, and that's the last we've heard of that. Yeah,
there was some mobile.
Speaker 6: Ports of Commander Keen games, so I remember checking those
out after reading the Doom book, right Masters Doom, Right, Yeah,
that's what's going on Commander King game.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know. I don't think it'll ever
come back. I want to play a Commander King games.
See how that feels.
Speaker 5: Commander Ken exists because yeah, the the the people figure
out how to do side scrolling on computer games, and
originally wanted to just make a Mario three port, but
the tennis and no, and then they make Commander Keen instead.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 5: And then Mixy says, was Mike looks not considered? Look
I be there might not always be.
Speaker 3: Its a Pokemon game like I'm looking for rhyme was
released now and seeing what we can work with release,
at least.
Speaker 6: In my original point has always been, it doesn't need
a name. That's stick that out Brandon, I yeah, Brandon
on the site. All you want, guys, have fun, kuck
yourselves out.
Speaker 2: Like I do, like I do, like Chuck's wife's idea.
A new game. Wo dis yeh new game? Who is fun?
Speaker 3: That's better than any of the launch stuff?
Speaker 2: Not try that one? Would that be? And g w
d see No I also want the Yeah, I don't mind,
we just call it who is for short?
Speaker 5: Or something? Yeah?
Speaker 2: All right, any more, super chats mister Mananti. That appears
to be it. Thank you so much, everybody appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Fantastic boys. We got an interesting week ahead of us,
but it is still packed with things. Uh. Nine Lives
of Mister Mistopha Fleas. The newest episode releases after the
podcast today, Episode four Grub. Surely you remember what's happening.
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: All right, came mornings popping off Wednesday and Thursday, not Friday,
Wednesday and Thursday. We're gonna send our boy to space,
or he's gonna still be there in space, the space
Ace himself.
Speaker 2: Dan Riker's blightening round game right.
Speaker 1: Having a real nice weekend back that was such a
genuine cuss.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like stubbing your toe mad.
Speaker 3: It is fucked up because it is somehow both Blake
Club and this is the run.
Speaker 2: Yep, you know we can see like what do you remember?
Speaker 5: Like how much can you stitch together week to week?
That's gonna be a big point.
Speaker 3: I think the platforming stuff I will get pretty quickly
again once I go back back to those levels. I
think I'll remember certain things from the Space Maze. They're
like all lefts, all rights. But like I have, I
did draw out. I think it took a while of
going through the archive of our stream and drawing out
where I've been so far.
Speaker 1: So I've got some of that. But oh boy, that
shit sucks. Yeah, yeah it doesn't. It doesn't look nice either.
Voicemail Dump Truck is moved to Wednesday this week, folks,
because some of us will be in transit on Thursday.
Voicemail Dump Truck on Wednesday, so get your calls in
uh Thursday. For our premium peeps out there, we are
releasing the test Blight where mister Mint tested Space Ace
and I believe another game correct.
Speaker 2: The original game that we signed up a costume for
and everything. We were ready to go with it. We pivoted,
We pivoted. We realized we could probably do better.
Speaker 1: So that's what we did, and we will do better.
We probably see you folks at home. Folks, if you
haven't checked out the last Titter released last Saturday, go
check that out all time moments. I gotta say, I
think this format of Titter being a game show, I
really really like it's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. I love it, And there's other
ones we can do with that too. I think we
should try the millionaires.
Speaker 1: We should try and get all five of us to
do a family feud run I agree, and then we
should switch off doing the fast money round at the
very end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, we're going to Millionaire packs.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, speaking of packs, folks, we are at pax
Ease this weekend. Dan, Mike and Grub are going to
be playing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with you
folks at pack. We're gonna be on the Creator stage
Friday three forty five pm Eastern and Saturday eleven thirty
am Eastern. We got stuff to give away. And if
you were Irish, if you were Irish and you have
an Irish passport. We will play the Irish edition Who
Wants to be a Billionaire? Only only that though, checking Yeah,
I'm taking this, Yes, yeah, yes, but we're gonna have
a great time and we're gonna but you know who
potentially might not have a good time, Our dear friend,
the good boy of games media, Vinnie Caravella. Because we
are going to blight Vinnie Caravella Saturday, Albatross Theater, four
pm Eastern.
Speaker 2: You won't want to miss it. Gang.
Speaker 3: We were throwing some games around and then I just
saw a couple of screams are the ones we landed on.
I'm like, I am okay going in blind on this
because this seems like some Vinnie ass horseshit.
Speaker 2: Stuff. Very good shouts out to Will for helping us
on Yeah this one. Yes.
Speaker 1: If if it wasn't too late to change the name
of the panel, I would have suggested the blighting of
Vinny Caravellay we make a poster anyway, we'll be at
packs East back large. Does that code still work if
folks are interested in going? Or is that expired?
Speaker 5: Oh? Good question?
Speaker 2: The code will still work.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, So if you're a premium member and you're
interested in still hemming and hawing over whether to go
to Packs East hop into the behind the Scenes channel
on the Giant Bomb discord. If you're a premium member
and there should be something a little post up there
to get you fifteen percent off a Pax East ticket, Borg,
did I forget anything? We got anything else popping off?
Speaker 2: Seems right?
Speaker 1: It's a lot, all right, all right, who knows we'll
get We might get a quick look in the can.
Other recordings may drop. The KASO video will most definitely
be up before Packs East.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I'm just gonna full on send it, bro, and
I'm gonna say it to the end of the show. Caucaso.
Oh Bro, I'm just gonna start talking like this, uh.
Speaker 5: And just have it like a little bit of a
drawl and it sounds like I've chugged like three liquid
Depth said, the carbonation is killing my throat.
Speaker 2: Folks.
Speaker 5: That does it.
Speaker 2: For the end of the show, We're gonna send it.
Happy birthday to Jeff back our Jeff Grubb, our dear
friend Mary Kish. Folks, We'll see you next week for
another episode with John BombCast us.
Speaker 1: But Jeff, he's been Jeff goes glo be Boy, Mike Manati,
Shan Reiker, Jan show up.
Speaker 2: Thanks so well, Thanks to Shaw, Thanks Chuck. We'll see
you on the Hi