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to think for yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm your host. Jeff Grubbing with me.
Speaker 2: Is Mike Manati in today's episode, Take two, is confident
about GTA six coming out in twenty twenty five. The
PlayStation five professional has arrived, and Massive Act TV series
is maybe in the works.
Speaker 1: Is in the works? Not maybe? No, maybe it's about
it and then that's it. Yep. Nothing else is happening.
So fantastic, Mike. How are you doing?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I played lots of metaphor, I sleep a lot.
I almost stress bought a seven hundred and fifty dollars
game today.
Speaker 4: I was like, gonna maybe do it.
Speaker 3: The local used game store has had a copy of
that Metroid Prime wind Waker combo thing for for ginky.
They've had it for months mm hmm, and I was
just like fuck it. I'm like, you know, it's like
I'll have a staycase at a real vacation, Like I'll
just spend money that could use that.
Speaker 4: I'll get that and then I'll be happy, you know.
Speaker 3: The Thank God, turns out somebody actually finally bought it,
like just before I could, so I was saved. So
I got so Caliber legend for the Wei for ten
bucks instead.
Speaker 2: So that's all right, Okay, all right, so you saved
some money, and uh, you didn't save it, like you
didn't save yourself. Someone else had to like step in.
But in the it's you know, all the same. In
the end, you didn't have to spend that money. So
that's that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: They they do have a virtual boy there now though, hmmm,
virtual boy, complete right tables and everything. How much would
you pay for a virtual boy? I'm not gonna tell
how much it costs. How much would you pay for one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got I think how much would I pay?
I think if it was anything, because I'm kind of cheap. Oh,
so I think anything over.
Speaker 1: Four hundred I probably would be, like, I'm not sure
I could do that.
Speaker 3: Not in the box, everybody, but it's got everything. It's
five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, it's got everything.
Speaker 3: Here's here's what drigon crazy though I had a virtual boy,
we had one. I just don't know what happened. To
it like, I don't know. I'm not like, oh, my
parents threw stuff away kind of person. But the virtual
boy they must have done something with. Maybe my mom
saw a news story about it destroying kids' eyes or
something noticed we weren't really playing it. I just quietly
got rid of it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I SHO should already have one
to live on a farm somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So uh so, yeah, I don't know.
I probably don't want to spend five hundred dollars on
a virtual boy. This is virtual boy, though, You're like,
you know a lot of this ode of stuff.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, just I'm really waited.
Speaker 3: I don't you know, I don't need to get intoll
sixty four. But blah, virtual Bay, what did I do?
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I do emulate that in the question of meta quest.
Speaker 2: So that's that's kind of neat. But you're right, I would.
I think I prefer to have the shoot hardware for that.
Speaker 1: That'd be fun.
Speaker 3: There was a part of it's like, Okay, so I'm
gonna spend soeder and fifty dollars on this package of
geeky games I already own instead of like of play
Station five Pro for fifty bucks less.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean that that thanks Za, I will talk about
it here in a second kind of do another temperature
check on how we're feeling about it. But yeah, I
I did have to sit down this evening and really
figure out like how to use lightning Lane. And when
I'm gonna have to do that. It's the Sunday. The Sunday,
I'm waking up early so I can get our legs person,
That's that's when I yeah, it's when I have to
make That'll be seven days out from when we leave.
Speaker 1: Right, okay or arrive I suppose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm making the plans there any like I'm
gonna do like lightning Lane for Rise to the Resistance,
I'll get a single pass for that. But for the
multi pass stuff, are there anyones in those like second tiers?
It's like, oh, that'd be a waste to have a
like Spaceship Earth. Should I use my one of my
two to my second tier lightning lane passes on that.
Speaker 3: Spaceship Worth often doesn't have a long line, Like the
only time that usually has a long line is right
in the morning because it's the first thing, so when
people walk up to you probably don't need to. But like,
what else is in that second tier?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's most things other than I mean,
it's gonna be the obvious ones that aren't gonna be
in the first tier, and then obviously the biggest the
newest ones are in their own thing where it's like
you can't use the multi pass at all.
Speaker 3: Right, Like people love that guard to the Galaxy Coaster.
I haven't done you because I'm a coward, but everyone
it does it has absolutely loved it. So yeah, that
is one that it's a bit more expensive for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm looking at it now. Gosh yeah, everything
else here it's not worry bad too much. Yeah, yeah,
I like living at the land. I think you like
living at the land. It's just the boat right about
like crops.
Speaker 1: That sounds good to be far you again, users that
have a long line, but who knows.
Speaker 4: I mean, look if you have if you have.
Speaker 3: Sore and it's tier one, yeah, like all the Soword
and Frozen Over Actor and rather it tu e those
are all the tier one ones and those three are
all great and you should do them. And then yeah,
you should maybe buy Guards to the Galaxy if you
want to do it. But yeah, after that, yeah, just
you know, look at them, see which one you like best,
because I think they all have similar Maybe don't have
too bad of a line. Don't use it on Journey
to Imagination with Figment or the Disney and Pixar Short
Film Festival.
Speaker 4: Don't use it on those, Okay.
Speaker 1: All right? Cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I might have been, like, I've heard
the words Journey into Imagination with Figment before.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should use it on that. So I'm glad you.
Speaker 3: It's Look, it's it's kind of not great right now.
I mean you could do it, but also usually doesn't
have a line over ten minutes. That's fine.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: The big thing is make sure you do that Avatar Pride,
I mean, do both of them, but definitely do oh yeah,
the big one.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll do the big ones for Passage, yep. Looking
forward to it.
Speaker 2: Having having like to get into the weeds on this
stuff has like begun the process of anticipation, and now
this thing is real and it's happening right there, and
I can sort of imagine myself, imagine myself being there,
so that that has helped with the giving.
Speaker 1: Me something to focus on, which has been really nice.
Speaker 4: My brother met the voice of Goofy at the airport today.
Speaker 1: Was that is that what he was saying?
Speaker 2: He was like, I wasn't like I couldn't tell it
was just a fan, but it was like the way
he tweeted it made it sound like this is someone
that didn't know nineties Disney, and now the nineties Disney
account is tweeting at them, being like, hey, I just
talked to you. That's my Yes, okay, here's the nineties
Disney account. Okay, so very cool. Well, what the hell?
How'd that happen?
Speaker 3: Just my brother is enough of a sickle to recognize
the face of the guy who's the voice of Goofy,
Bill Farmer. He's just at the Spurg Airport. My brother's
flying somewhere. He's flying to some convention. So yeah, I
just went up to him, said, Hi, got a picture.
So that's neat.
Speaker 1: If you're a voice actor and a fan recognizes your
face that do you think they immediately get set on alert, like,
uh oh it's one of them.
Speaker 3: He liked it, he say, he said, he was please,
that's somebody recognize Also, the voice of Sam and Sam
and Max hit the Road, which is exciting.
Speaker 1: Were you aware of this, the Ava voice being the
Little Mermaid the entire time or is that was that
news to you?
Speaker 4: I think it's news to me.
Speaker 3: I think when I read the story, apparently a lot
of people had'll guess that for a while. Yeah, it's
as soon as people said it, I was like, oh,
that makes sense.
Speaker 4: It's de though. I like it and I like you know.
Speaker 3: Of course she had to be a little bit afraid
of using her name because she was so tied to Disney.
Speaker 4: It's kind of funny, right, you.
Speaker 1: Can't be doing Sicko Kojima shit and a Disney they
would never have you back. Right.
Speaker 3: You can't be a fool lady, full grown lady with
cleavage in a movie, but you can't be a young
teenager with bikini show cleavage in entire movie.
Speaker 1: That's just wholesome, good time fun. Absolutely, it's great.
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All excuse me, All right, a lot of big stories
get into Let's get into it. With Grand Theft out
of Six still on track for Fall twenty twenty five release,
Take two had their earning support two hundred and five
million copies of GTA five sold. Things like that they
sold off private division because while they've said every project
they had was successful and they're very good at what
they did.
Speaker 4: It's blame in boring.
Speaker 1: Who cares blame and boring?
Speaker 2: It doesn't like they aren't the biggest projects, and so
it's not even worth our time. It's basically shit on
our shoe dared. Yeah, very weird, but yep, that's what
they said. You know, maybe that's like, you know, used
car salesman speak. He's like, I'm selling this to somebody,
so I got to say this bullshit. Uh but no,
I believe him. I believe straus Olnick when he talks
that way. Grand Theft out of Six though they don't
need anything else because they got that coming fall twenty five.
Speaker 1: Still, do you still believe that?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 3: You know, of course it can easily fall out of that,
and I you know, I I think I heard people
I think even Chance said it's like it'd be or
you said this, it'd be weird that game never got
a big delay, right in a big.
Speaker 2: Official, real delay, because it's just like many ones been
behind the scenes stuff like that. But of course it
has that they you know, it's a massive game they've.
Speaker 3: Been working on for a long time, right, but you
know there is something so so it's weird because they
can go both ways.
Speaker 4: The game is so so so so big.
Speaker 3: That like, of course it's going to get a delay,
but it's also so so so so big that's like, no,
this one maybe they're extra careful of and they gave
it so much grace to give it this release window,
but who knows, Jeff. So many times with these big projects,
it's like you get your window, and no matter what
that window is, it always comes. It always actually needs
to come a little bit later than that, right, something happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I think they would like to
get it out this fall, you know this upcoming next fall,
because it kind of sets things up nicely for them
where it's like they can really take advantage of a
mature generation of console sales, so there will be a
lot of Xbox series consoles out there. There will be
a lot of PlayStation five's out there, and then you know,
they will have a PC version maybe the next year,
but they could also easily have in fall twenty twenty six,
there could be a new Xbox out, they could have
a new version for that, and they love doing that, chicks.
They really do see massive spikes and sales through those
first couple of years as they release on new platforms
or upgraded platforms. So I think in their heads they
just see this this roadmap that makes a lot of
sense to them, and that's why Fall twenty twenty five
is something that they're really aiming at hard. But you know,
this is going to be a big, complicated game that
just has to be everything they need it to be
so that they don't so they can hit the ground running.
I mean, look, this company could certainly survive a messy
GTA six launch because that thing's a force of nature
and they'll have to just do every thing it would
take to get it to a place where people love it.
But boy, they would much prefer people to just love
it out of the gate. They're like, you know, Gta's
come out, they get tens. That's just what happens, and
that like they want this game to do the same,
and then they also want GT Online to be very good.
That's actually not something they've done before. They haven't been
able to pull that off. It like to have a
game that gets tens and have a good version of
the online mode ready to go. But I think they
are aiming for that, And that's where I'm like, that's
a degree of difficulty that really suggests the possibility of
a major delay, just to make sure all those ducks
are you.
Speaker 3: Know, they could do the thing right of well, yeah,
granted thought of six came out GTA Online two or whatever,
not Clay ready, yet that's gonna come later.
Speaker 2: I'm here when you see something like that does happen,
that's a good point, I mean, especially because we don't
we still don't know what that looks like. Is this
GT Online two or is it GT Online two point
zero and everything kind of just carries over. I imagined
they would want to like see a version of that
game that can exist for another ten to fifteen years
after the release of GTA six And can you really
do that with the GT Online you can you could
make that could be a world of warcraft sort of thing.
But I you know, you have a chance now to
like just restart the clock on the tech that there.
Speaker 1: I bet they're aiming to do that.
Speaker 2: But we'll see. Yeah. Either way though, when that game
comes out, it really will just be this massive money
printing machine. Two hundred and five million again sold of
GT five, there's no no reason to think it won't
do very well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I kind of question is in the
you know, number must go up environment? Is this game
like a failure if it only sells one hundred million
copies over its lifetime?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Is that the world we're in?
Speaker 2: I mean, I if like all other things are equal, yes,
But my guess would be that they have some innovative
and creative new ways to make money in GTA online too.
That will mean like, oh, if it's sold one hundred
million copies of the of the Packaged Good and then
we're making a ton more money from online than everything.
Everything's working out exactly hoped it would. So you know,
if they are gonna like have another game that sells
two hundred million copies, it will maybe really will have
to be in more places than what we're even thinking.
Jan mentioned phones today. I was like, I don't know,
but it's like, I don't God, maybe not like not
maybe not like the seventy dollars version of GTA six,
but GT online just on the phone, they might be
thinking about that. I wouldn't be surprised if they're at
least considering that. So and in that situation, who knows
this guy's the limit?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's always kind of hard to see. It's
hard to match. I'm sure think it's gonna be successful.
I mean, part of the problem is, and I'll just
admit I don't really get it with GTA five.
Speaker 4: I get it to a degree.
Speaker 3: I don't two hundred and five million copies, you know, millions,
millions more sold every month get it with that. But yeah,
it's there. That's what it does. There's no real reason
to think why it won't happen. And the only reason
I guess you think that is it's been so long
since GTA five and Xbox three six the game, for
God's sake, does it really just come out and do
that again?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, what if people decide the game's
too woke? Right?
Speaker 3: What if it gets that thing going on now?
Speaker 1: To play as a woman, so right, like the all
red flags are already up for those weirdos.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, So like what if that becomes the narrative
and then you have to deal with that baggage and
I don't know whatever else. As much as I love
to decide that those those conversations don't actually matter gain
a lot of traction, maybe they do.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't know. Again, it's probably gonna be fine.
Speaker 3: But gosh, so much is writing on this one big game,
you know, for for take two, of course, but then
for the entire industry. It seems like it just makes
me worry, worried to have so many eggs in one basket.
Speaker 2: Guess how many people are watching NFL football on Twitch
right now? Which you do have you do need to
have a prime subscription for, but every household America has
a prime subscription some Twitch. Yeah it's at Thursday night football.
NFL games are on Twitch in Amazon Prime. But guess
how many are watching on Twitch right now?
Speaker 1: Two hundred thousand, one.
Speaker 2: Hundred and twenty thousand. Guess how many people are w
GTA five right now?
Speaker 1: Oh, two hundred thousand, one hundred and sixty thousand.
Speaker 2: Okay, uh yeah, uh. Twitch is just a. I'm sorry,
GTA five is a force. I mean, there's more more
people watching Grand Theft Out other than watching Call of Duty.
Speaker 1: It's it's yeah, it's just is that game.
Speaker 2: So when it drops, there's already the mechanations are already
there for them to take advantage.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: You give that game and the role playing stuff maybe
that you built into there to all these like popular streamers,
let them have early access to it for like a week, and.
Speaker 1: That's marketing done by itself. Right there. You're you're ahead
of the curve.
Speaker 4: It should be fine.
Speaker 3: It's just you know, I'm sure things have happened, right
like you remember the successor to the Wei, right what
wesan we was?
Speaker 4: You make the you and again it would be weird.
Speaker 3: And those circumstances don't seem to be like this, and
things like Call of Duty have managed to just somehow
keep momentum that seemed unsustainable up forever. Uh So it
should be fine, But it doesn't make me a little concerned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I tend to agree with you that
they're like, there's these numbers are so big that we're
likely going to be in a scenario where, yeah, the
GGA six comes out and it doesn't get to two
hundred million copies ever, and it's like, oh, well, was
that a failure? Like that conversation could easily happen, but we'll.
Speaker 1: See PS five Pro is out. Reviews came out.
Speaker 2: Basically all the reviews said almost exactly what everyone said.
They felt a second that that thing got revealed, which is,
I don't know if we need one, and all the
reviews are like, you probably don't need one, Like games
look better, the games do look better. Do they look
seven hundred dollars better? They don't look seven hundred dollars better.
It's like, yeah, that's kind of the sentiment we had
from the moment we saw it.
Speaker 1: I think that if you had a Pepsi.
Speaker 2: Challenge sort of scenario where you could set people in
front of it and like just like pick the thing
that looks better, people are going to pick the PS
five Pro obviously. But I think PS five is gonna
continue being the console choice for a lot of people
for a long time because seven hundred is just such
a big number.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think that's that's right.
Speaker 3: I mean I still feel some pool for it, just
because you know, I mean, I have been having games
coming out this year, even last year, right where I'm
not happy with the performance, So it's like, oh gosh,
the next three years, what does that look like? But
I also know that I want to upgrade my PC
and that should obviously be a bigger priority, and that's
gonna take a lot of money, so I shouldn't spend
seventy dollars on that or on GameCube compilation discs that
I won't actually use, right, but you know what I
will see, like whenever I see videos or anything like that,
I'm like, Okay, yeah, it does look better. Basically seven
Rebirth is always flitted around there as a big example
of that, right, And I like that game a lot,
and I have some postgame stuff I could clean up
in that and looking at how nice that runs, like,
oh that's pretty nice.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I complained a lot about Master Hunter World or Wilds
and how that was running on a base PlayStation five,
and it's like, oh, I if that looks much better
on here, that's something. So there's definitely still an attraction
for me, but probably not enough of one. We'll see.
I'm just I am curious how it is going to sell.
I was actually going to do in the market.
Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, I'm curious.
Speaker 2: I think that it'll probably be like just a touch
below where the PS four was a PS four pro
excuse me, relative to the overall size of the PS
four install base, and that'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I think they're aware that that's a possibility.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons I think they charged a higher
prices because they're like, we can get away with it
with the kind of people who are gonna buy this
thing anyhow, so we might as well set it a
little bit higher because those people will pay a little
bit more, and all these other people that already have
a PS five, they're going to be so difficult to
commence to get this thing anyhow. We might as well
just completely aim this thing at that smaller base that
will pay a lot more.
Speaker 3: It's a bit of a problem, like the one game,
and maybe play on my PS five the rest of
like the two games. I'm playing my PS five right now,
Astrobot and Dragon Age.
Speaker 4: They both look great.
Speaker 3: They're both ready to go already, so there certainly isn't
any kind of urgent need for it for me.
Speaker 2: Yep, man, I'm just you know, not to veer that way.
But it's like seven hundred dollars. People are sticker shocked
at that. And if those tariffs go through, which he
wants to do, consoles are gonna be worth like they
are gonna cost like a thousand dollars. This PS five
pro would be eleven hundred dollars probably if all the
tariffs went through that he wants to pass.
Speaker 1: So, man, don't get it. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: MASSIVECTV series in the works that Amazon from Fast and
Furious and nine writer.
Speaker 1: This is from Joe Otterson at Variety.
Speaker 2: A mass EVEVECTV series is officially in development at Amazon
MGM's studios. Daniel Casey is set to write and executive
produced the adaptation. Kareem Zurich will executive produce under his
Cedar Tree Productions banner and a ari Arad I can
never say his name. Aria Rod uh and EA's Michael
Gamble also executive producing.
Speaker 1: Michael Gamble was the head of Mass Effect if I
remember correctly.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Cedar Tree is currently under an overall deal at Amazon
MGM Studios. No details about plots so far.
Speaker 3: You said, you said Amazon MGM studios, And that sounded
so much like Disney MGM Studios, Like got activated.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, I mean this can work.
Speaker 2: It Also, you know that this is also the same
sort of smattering of production companies that you know, Amazon
is where they just restarted the work on on what
other show they have another video game show that they're
like it was at the last not the last of us.
Speaker 1: That one's very.
Speaker 2: Turm raders something like that. They're like completely resetting production
on other stuff. But then they've also had a Horizon, right,
maybe it was Horizon. Yeah, but it's uh, they you know,
could pull this off.
Speaker 1: It could be fine. Uh, maybe it's God of War.
Speaker 3: I can't remember a lot of spitting over there.
Speaker 1: Sorry, yes, I honestly can't remember.
Speaker 2: But they've had successes, they've had production hell, just like
all these other video game projects.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is somewhere in between.
Speaker 2: If it comes out, though, I can just like see
this working very easily, Like this is just such a
like an easy slam dunk sci fi television show with
like a slightly higher streaming budget.
Speaker 1: I welcome it. I'm hopeful, but you know, we'll see.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it makes a lot of sense in
a lot of ways. I mean, especially like a mass
effect too is basically episodic the way it worked. I mean,
the whole thing is, the whole game is clearly inspired
by stuff like Star Trek already, you know it would
be expensive, right, Space stuff usually is very little there
that you could really just film somewhere.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of aliens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some of them could just be you know, it's
paint a person blue and give them a prosthetic and yeah,
then you got Tilani or whatever her name was. But
you know, the Krogan and some of those other alien
species are very alien Garris, right, you can't just use
prosthects or Garris probably, so that stuff could be difficult,
That stuff could be expensive.
Speaker 4: They can figure out.
Speaker 3: You think there's any any chance in the world we're
gonna get female shepherd instead of a male shepherd. You
think they're not doing an adaptation of the games, and
they get you something else.
Speaker 2: I think, God, I think a light adaptation makes the
most sense, and I think a female shepherd would be
like the right even the right move that that can
work in a sci fi space show.
Speaker 3: I bet you're a million bucks it's a male shepherd
about then you want to take my bet?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Probably I'm not gonna take that bet.
Speaker 6: No, sorry, but the Fallout show is the main character
is the lady, and that shit due.
Speaker 1: Yeah mighty, why do you hate women so much? Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, that show did great, But that show also wasn't
an adaptation, and it didn't. I think that was the
right move for that one. There's so like, as most
people love Fallout and one's like, oh god, in the
story of Fallout three here right, So yeah, you're just
sending something in that world works in a way that
so far, the only non notable, non Shepherd MASSI effect
story we ever had was Andromeda, and we know how
well that did.
Speaker 4: So I was saying, look, I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm just I just cynically think if it's a show
about Shepherd, it's gonna one million percent just be male Shepherd.
Speaker 2: The thing we were trying to think of was God
of War and got that got reset at Amazon, and
Ron Moore is taking over that.
Speaker 1: Ron Moore he.
Speaker 4: Is Star Trek.
Speaker 2: Yes, we did a lot of Star Trek, did Battle
Star Galactica, he did Carnival.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I think I did a bunch of great stuff and
I found now I'm kind of excited that'd be cool
to very least he probably gets Bear mccreer, you to
do more music for that franchise. Let's see what else
was here that I was gonna mention. Oh, I was
just like there was new reporting. Apparently Simon Kenberg, who
has done a lot of the Star Trek movies and
a lot of like X Men Bad x Men stuff,
is going to do a new Star Wars trilogy. I'm like, man,
that's the last name I wanted attached to that. I
I like, what's going around in my life, Like, man,
at least we don't have Simon Kenberg making Star Wars.
Speaker 1: And now that's what happens to me.
Speaker 3: There's a time in my life where it was like,
you know, oh, you can't even do an episode number
after nine, And I'm like, maybe, yeah, maybe give.
Speaker 4: Us an episode ten. Maybe see if we can have
a nicer way to wrap this shit up. Yeah I
don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one more go please? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have no idea. God here, you saw death
strandings on Xbox today?
Speaker 1: Huh yeah? I mean.
Speaker 2: And also, like when I talked about on Games Mornings
this morning, I was like, you blew it, but I'm
stop paying attention Sony. I was like, Sony, you've owned
a part of that. Apparently, no, not anymore. Apparently the
Coach of Productions took full ownership of that of the
IP there.
Speaker 1: So what happened that it.
Speaker 3: Gives up IP in the year twenty twenty four? Huh yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I wonder if there was like an option
sort of scenario where it's like it unless Sony were
to like commit this much more to it down the
line rights to revert over to Coach. I bet there's
something like that in the contract. And so this was
just like a natural outcome. Like sure they're making death
stranding too, they are doing that, but I don't get
the sense that Sony's like building their future on death stranding,
that that does not seem to be what they're what
they were doing.
Speaker 1: There no no mass effect TV series.
Speaker 7: Huh uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I won't, but yeah I don't watch anything, right,
Like even the follow so everybody liked it. I like
Following enough, and I was like, maybe I'll watch this one,
and then I don't. So I just don't really watch
TV shows ever, because like the last thing I think
them to do when I have downtime is like I'll
go in my living room and watch TV.
Speaker 4: I don't know why. I'm like that, and you select
to watch TV and I just don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, things change. You'll probably you'll be an old man
and you'll catch up on all the on the TV.
Speaker 4: Then yeah, that would rule. Or maybe I'll just watch
whin Stone's re runs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing. All right, that doesn't for the big
topics I want to talk about. We got plenty of
super chats in Thanks everybody. We're gonna take a quick break,
we'll come back, we'll read those, we'll get into a game,
talk about what you people want to talk about right
after this. People, all right, We're back into it, Mike,
super chats please.
Speaker 3: Simon Esti says, I love your transition to camera work,
but as someone trying to gain in the industry, I
definitely miss reading your work.
Speaker 4: Do you two ever miss writing?
Speaker 2: Sometimes? Occasionally. I don't miss trying to like find a
new story to write about every couple hours per day
or anything like that, even though I really like video
game news. But there's definitely times where it's like, man,
I wish I could take that. It is one of
those things that unless I'm forced into a situation, I'm
just not going to do it. So I'm like thinking
about waste, Like what could I do to like force
myself to sit down and write, because otherwise with the ADHD,
it's I could always be doing something else, is how
I feel about everything. So that's a hard environment in
which to write.
Speaker 3: I still right sometimes, but still it's a kind of no,
I don't know. I like doing the camera stuff. I
don't know. I am a bit of an immediate gratification
kind of guy, Jeff, And you know, I immediately see how
people are reacting to.
Speaker 4: What I do.
Speaker 3: When I'm doing stuff like this, I'm just immediately talking
and it's out there. The writing, so much of that
stuff goes under the radar these days. Unfortunately, there's maybe
a time and a place that could have felt more
rewarding in some ways.
Speaker 4: But this is definitely a better fit for me.
Speaker 3: Although you know, we both we both have to write
our bit for that egm book here soon.
Speaker 2: We gotta, yes, I keep I gotta do that before
I go to Disney, for sure, Mike, so definitely bump
that for me.
Speaker 1: So maybe sit down and do that tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah sounds good, alright, yep, and Iron Made in concert tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I gotta do it before. Oh really, that'll be fun.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Next one here is from Simon from Saskatchewan Men's Health months.
Everyone get checked, not forty yet, but I'm diagnosed with
prostate cancer. It's early stage so I can do something
about So don't wait, get screened. Love you guys, Thanks Simon.
I'm glad that you got yours caught early. Hope everybody
else gets checked, especially you know. Yeah, forty is like
the numbers supposed to do it. I don't think it
hurts to do it earlier. One nice thing about having crones, Jeff,
plenty of doctor's fingers in my butt, so.
Speaker 1: They're checked basically constantly in there, right, yeah, yeah, So
so one thing I'm not too worried about.
Speaker 4: I have that checked. At least that's.
Speaker 6: Good fut concert. Also, I think the new prostate life
screening is not invasive. If you feel word about that.
Speaker 7: What the.
Speaker 1: Well? Not for you, Mike?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, just a second.
Speaker 1: Shot us to you, Simon, Stay healthy, man, we got
your back.
Speaker 3: Simons says. For all that's going on, could next theme
week be Friendship Week? Can play games like Party Animals?
Has to be the funniest dream y'all have done. Oh god,
the Party Animals was really good, wasn't that. Yeah, that's
that's a good idea we could use. We could use
a Friendship week or something along those lines. Jance definitely
looking up.
Speaker 2: It was nice to see him on Game this morning
this morning, but then I basically send him right back
to bed. Uh, And so as he's like on the mend,
we'll we'll talk.
Speaker 1: About maybe doing another theme do we care? Pretty soon
it's gonna be Harry the next couple of next like
eight weeks with Game of the Year stuff and me
out and Jan's traveling too.
Speaker 2: I hope he's I hope he's still traveling. I hope
he can a whole bunch of stuff. So, uh, we'll
see when we can fit it in. But we will
try to do our best to do some more stuff
off that. I like all those themes week.
Speaker 3: Give me my missed playthrough series, Yes, give me and
the people what they want. Monday Mornings missed with Mitch
A k A Mike.
Speaker 7: You're gonna do a morning show.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll be morning in the West Coast. What's so
what It'll be ten am West Coast time.
Speaker 1: For me.
Speaker 2: Let's say I like it. Yeah, we also got to
do a day Sean, right, I was when that happened,
so I still don't know how that happened. Is just
one of the goals.
Speaker 7: That was the last one. We couldn't We couldn't think
of anything, so I was like, all right, screwter, one
of the chests saying, I fine, I'll do day Sean.
Yeah that might that might have to be a in
the New Year thing because it might be at awkward
to do like one episode this month of one episode
in December and then nothing else.
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, that's follow me. Make that happen.
Speaker 7: I committed to a full play through. I don't know
if you saw it, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you do a lot when you're like ten
drinks steep.
Speaker 4: Anyways, is that banana shot or whatever?
Speaker 7: Banana shot fucked me up?
Speaker 3: Holy shit, Ali Miracle says, just the thanks for me
to you boys. In these times, gay mess and giant
boocumites have always been a wecoly place in the kind
things I have seen, both me and others has been amazing.
Lovey folks and trance fucking rites.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: I know you said this about you know, giant bomb,
but the answer.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 3: We always want to make a welcoming place for everyone,
including all of our trans and non binary and anything
else friends. So yeah, I hope everybody continues to feel
welcome and safe here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know that we're gonna do our best
not to be miserable, like we're gonna like everything else
is gonna be miserable. So yeah, we'll do our best
to keep staying you know, positive, And you know it's
not gonna give there. There's not gonna be a lot
of reasons, right, so we just won't be one more reason,
right right.
Speaker 3: I feel guilty about it sometimes, but I'm still gonna
be me exactly. Ali Miracle says also, Jeff, please stop
getting your hair butchered. And Mike, it's more of a
porn stash than a cop stash.
Speaker 4: I am O. It suits, thank you.
Speaker 6: I appreciate to say that's a that's a like Bucking
Naked type.
Speaker 2: Started as a cop stash and it's turned into a
porn stash somehow. As his fine clock shadowed against filtering
in there, I got to remember what Ron Jeremy looks like.
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: Is I look more like Ron Jeremy than you do? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I listen Ali miracle. I'm not happy about the
most recent thing that happened in my hair, but it
was for the kids, So what can I say.
Speaker 3: I kind of wanted to try a mustache. I'm just
a coward and needed this to do it. So here
we are. I am excited to see some There's a
lot of family hasn't seen it yet.
Speaker 4: I want to see their reactions.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to hear about that. That's fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be just like I'm going my uncle's going
to this Iron Man concert tomorrow. Will be interesting to
see what he thinks.
Speaker 4: You have no idea?
Speaker 3: Epanada eater says, how much do we need to super
chat to unleash the mall at hashtag? What's our price,
Jeff to take that hat? I don't know if we're
allowed to accept tips to this robe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like I think it's saying that I can
reveal the haircut, like not saying I'm taking something off,
but I will reveal the haircut. I don't know. If
someone says, reveal the haircut with ten dollars, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think we can make that happen out
grug says Man it's been a week. That's sure what
the future is going to bring. But think you guys
for what you do Mike's mustache for Game mess Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 4: We should do a.
Speaker 3: Like Mount Rushmore or something of video game mustaches because
you got Mario got you got Mario Old Snake.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, that's a good one. Yeah yeah, then yeah, okay.
Then we'd have to like really dig deep, but I
be we'll be able to find some good ones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll be fun. Everyone remind us that we want
to do that next week. That'd be fun.
Speaker 3: Uh at Tendre says, do you guys know any good
video games to help take the mind off things coming
out in the next four years or so? Also, any
good alcoholic drink? Suggestionis it's going to be along four
years time to get it's a World of Warcraft, our
Final Fantasy fourteen that's only to take up a lot
of time.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just gonna I am gonna play Metaphor now
and I'm going to take a really long time to
play it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you really think about if fiction can impact reality
or whatever.
Speaker 2: And just drink ever Clear or moonshine. Yeah, just destroy
those those cells that can remember things in your brain.
Speaker 3: There you go, and anafloor Pres says, I feel like
an anomaly because they couldn't stomach more than a few
hours of both GTA five and read their redemption. I
think they'll update the outdated mission and gameplay design or
what we see more of the same because it works well.
I think it's gonna be more but bigger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more but bigger.
Speaker 2: There'll be some like maybe someprising tech stuff here or there,
but it'll be more, more, bigger, like that's what the
people want. And you're spending that much money, you kind
of have to get people what they want.
Speaker 3: That boy, Jerry says, shout to our friends at Remap
Radio doing their twenty twenty four Safe Point stream right
now raising money for eight and Palastign and Elebanon. Don't
know if I can link it in super Chap, but
they're doing great. Thank you, Jerry. Yeah, I mean, you know,
look them up on a Twitch rematch.
Speaker 2: It's just radio Twitch dot tv slash Remap Radio and
they've been going since this afternoon. They started off with
Neo turf Masters. Oh that's good taste, yes, absolutely, and
they they're just going to be playing all week and long.
They're all in person. It's already been a fun stream.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: If you want to save some money for the super Chats,
go give it to a Palestinian adea that helps help
help the folks out in Gaza.
Speaker 1: You should do that.
Speaker 3: For something completely different, here's Chris Pratt, who says, rough week,
just remember that when Mario stomps the tupa, the tupa
goes inside it itself but eventually gets back up. Don't
give up. Thank you, Chris Pratt. I think I have
a guess that you voted for.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm sign right now.
Speaker 6: This is a Chris Pratt from a timeline. This is
like the good one we got is Chris Pratt.
Speaker 4: That's one only cares about stomping on tube, which is.
Speaker 1: A good thing to care about. Good for you, Chris Bratt.
Speaker 3: Mikey Olarius is turning forty and flying to Disney World tomorrow.
Thanks for being my packing soundtrack and for the charitable
torment you went through last weekend. Oh gosh, we had
more fun than than torture last weekend. Right, the torture
was fun. You had the most torture, some of it
self inflicted much of it, some of it, some of.
Speaker 1: It, definitely some of it. Yeah, it was you know.
Speaker 2: I do keep occasionally having flashbacks to being in that
room alone with Nubes for an hour and a half
and god, yeah, if I never watched another second of
that movie, it won't be soon enough.
Speaker 3: Boy, maybe we had to convince Dan that's played out.
Nobody wants to say any more Nubes.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it is probably good like we did,
like what more can we do with that?
Speaker 3: But yeah, sorry, getting like Jason Muse involved, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Sabrina Carp performs her scene live, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: Hey, have fun in Disney World. Give us a little
trip report when you get back. I'd love to know
you did anything especially fun or eight anything interesting.
Speaker 1: Absolutely want to hear if you're saw any like early
Christmas stuff and things like that.
Speaker 3: Inten Eric says, the chances of switch to news during
Jeff's trip, that'd be incredible. I'm pretty high, you say,
kai because you're going right before Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just because I'll be gone though, so uh yeah,
but they're.
Speaker 3: Gonna be They're not gonna do it like in between
the election and Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: I mean they might either next year at this point,
it's probably January.
Speaker 1: Yep. Uh.
Speaker 3: An if for press says what's going to be the
horseballs of g TA.
Speaker 2: Five horses will have three balls and also it'll have
horses GTA this time, so it'll just be horseballs again,
but bigger.
Speaker 3: I like that, Okay, just a lot of horses of courses.
I mean, I bet they'll show like they'll be like
a seaword of COVID and something something bizarrely sexual will
happen there.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm trying, like I'm like trying to think, like what
what could you be like walking around and maybe like
perspiration or like, uh, you know, they did a lot
of stuff with like San Andreas right where it's like
your character eats too much and they'll get fat and
then you work out, they get they get again and
stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So it's like they've kind of done a lot of
those ideas already in Grand Theft Auto. Uh, there's I
don't know, there's much ground left for them, you know,
untapped there for them to like play around with. Uh,
like your characters experience in the world and then their
body is changing to reflect that.
Speaker 3: Jedi Moss for says, we'll defastrating one plus two come
to switch to Slash Xbox. Well I assumed Xbox, but uh,
because we had Destinating one there, I don't know why
you wouldn't eventually come there now or maybe just come
there on release at this point now, Uh switch to
destranding one as a switch to game. I don't see
why not now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so probably it probably will be.
Speaker 3: Cody Bishop says, how will Trump tariffs affect switch to
in places?
Speaker 4: I pro you can't talk about it a bit, but
prices should go up, right.
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like I think he's talking like a
ten percent global tariff, so like on everything. So uh
and like teriffs don't people don't know their attacks that
you that a company has to pay when they bring
a when they bring a product into a country. So
if you make a console in China and then you
ship to the United States, you can't ship it to
the United States without paying the tax this tariff. And
the way that they always the companies always pay for
paying for that tax is they increase the price.
Speaker 1: There's just no really no other way to make it
make sense.
Speaker 2: Either that or they don't release the thing in the country,
which is what happens in a lot of countries in
South America that have really high tariffs. The reason they
don't get consoles for a very long time is like
we either make it in that country, which would be
privably expensive and dangerous and of a security issue, or
we just pay this massive tax every time. So on
top of that ten percent global tax, he does talk
about a sixty percent tariff for like electronics made in China,
which would just be a massive increase in price for
every single console and GPU and everything.
Speaker 1: It would just be it'd be wild, We'll be insane.
Speaker 6: The fifty series is about to come out like next year.
This is going to be disastrous. It's going to be
so bad for that.
Speaker 2: And the thing with the tariffs is he can kind
of do it unilaterally. He doesn't need Congress to do.
Speaker 3: Tariffs, so Congress anyways, so.
Speaker 2: He would have Congress anyway, although although Congress might be like, yo,
we just got out of inflation. This might be a
bad some of them will be gunshy about this, but
that won't matter.
Speaker 3: Is that optimistic of me to be like, well, he
says a lot of things that he doesn't.
Speaker 1: Actually do them right. Yes, but it did.
Speaker 2: Like last time, he said a lot of things and
the one things he did do were tariffs on China
and things like that. So yeah, listen, I hope he
gets distracted it is too lazy and just goes golfing too.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this easily could happen.
Speaker 3: But Sex says that Stash looks like a controller. Which
system this is the.
Speaker 1: PS six, the double ended banana controller, not PS six,
the PS three whatever, the one.
Speaker 4: The PSC boomerang.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say that, and then you jumped
in with the wrong answer.
Speaker 1: With the wrong with the wrong words.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, first off, who never called it the boomerang atour?
Speaker 4: What did you call it?
Speaker 3: The double ended banana controler.
Speaker 1: It's just like it's like got a banana shape to
it or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like one banana.
Speaker 3: I don't know why yet it's a double in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why are you such a stupid piece of shit? Anyway,
boomerang controller.
Speaker 4: That's that's the answer, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Uh. YouTube crashed one moment. Why is it always YouTube grasping?
Speaker 1: Oh my YouTube.
Speaker 2: Crash as soon as we started the super chats. Also,
it's like still recovering from the sun. I don't know
if I'm ever going to recover. This just might be permanent.
Speaker 3: Now, Tyrant says, speaking of Death Stranding, I love uh.
I have long had the theory that the one two
punch of Death Stranding and read their Redemption too, being
danced most hype games then hating them motivated him leaving
the games industry grub get the answer. I had no
idea he was hyped for Red Dead Redemption too. That's interesting, Well,
he likes for Dead Redemption.
Speaker 1: He likes that a lot.
Speaker 2: I think it's you know, I don't know if it's
one of his favorite games, but I know he loves
the game. So uh yeah, they were definitely hyped.
Speaker 3: But he did on this rounding, so he likes this
runding now, So I had completely understand Dan not liking
just shreading.
Speaker 4: I'm almost a little bit more diffused. What did turn
him around on it?
Speaker 7: Well, I think were you not here when we heard
the story over the weekend. On the weekend, he told
us that he watched Bonk play it and the way
that she was like sort of just stopping and taking
the time to analyze the situation, like figure out like
what sort of creative things she could do caused him
to like, rethink how you approach any of the obstacles
in the game rather than just trying to rush from
beginning to rarely said that changed his perspective.
Speaker 6: He was like, I watched the cutscene and they look dumb,
and that's why he liked them.
Speaker 2: Well, I think he still doesn't like the story, but
maybe I'm wrong about that.
Speaker 6: I Thoughtreker is a mystery.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Dan going to WWE, Bryce d Shuck with
their first super chest says just signed my first WWEE
to deal.
Speaker 4: Excuse me.
Speaker 3: Thank you for all the workouts and long car rides
that you've gotten me through. Been listening from Exploding Barrel.
Appreciate both of you and HJ and maybe Sean and Christian.
Oh my god, that's amazing. Maybe my favorite super chest ever.
Thank you so much. That's awesome. Congratulations, Yeah, congratulations, enjoy
this moment, have a good time, keep working. Very proud
of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm going
to send that to aj uh ep idiot boxes. Thank
you for being sources of positivity on behalf of the
Latino community. The games crew is officially invited to the
car to the carne asada, bring beer, all right, I'll
bring the land sharks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds fantastic to me. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Ep I gotta get I think I need to be
tested for a shell fish allergy. Yeah not, I mean myself,
think a margaritea of everybody.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 3: Because I had shrimp there and then I was sick
for a bit. And then the last time I had
shrimp when I was traveling, I also got sick.
Speaker 8: Maybe maybe I just got lucky.
Speaker 3: Could be Could just be that because I like Shrimp's
one thing I love crab. I don't want to lose crab.
I can't afford to lose crab in my life. I
can't afford so well.
Speaker 1: Can't afford to lose crab. I can't afford to lose crab.
It's twenty twenty four. It's all I got left. It's
all I have left. Next up is uh from Cody Bishop.
He says election has be so depressed. I feel disenfranchise.
It's hard to feel hopeful for the future. Got my
PS five pro today and it's not helping.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes you can healthfully, you could disassociate in a
healthy way. I suppose it's always difficult because of course
it's this tight rope of like, well, you can't give
up the fight and and and all that stuff, you know,
the doom scrolling, the constantly being online, the you know,
at certain play you got to just be ready to
take things as they come and be ready to deal
with them, not you know, just be a completely hedonistic
asshole or anything like that. But I think you said, Jeff,
you know a lot of people want you to be miserable.
Don't let them have that. You could still go out
there and find joy in life. You could still help
your community and a much more micro level, you could
still have healthy interactions, positive interactions with people and the world,
and you can still have fun with your hobbies and
interest and grow as a person. They probably can't take
that away from you yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not yet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, straight up hobbies despite them, there we go, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And like, you know, try something else, shift things
up a little bit, go for a walk, go for hike,
go camping, get outside a little bit, gets a fresh air,
reset things a little bit. It's kind of what I've
needed to do here over the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: And it's helped a ton Edgar Marina says, show the goods.
There you go, Jeff unleashed.
Speaker 8: Wait he's still get all of the mulin.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I forgot from at least them all. That
just looks not bad at all, really doesn't really doesn't
look that just looks good.
Speaker 2: I think it looks like it looks weird if I
because like sometimes the hair will just pop off on
the sides here and it just looks kind of like
I think I look exactly like one of the nasty boys,
not the friends of the site or the pose, the
actual wrestling boy and like during their like w W
or w c W days where they were like older
and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: So yeah, see, but when it just like blends into
the back of your chair, they're like, that looks good.
Yeah yeah, Like if I.
Speaker 2: Do honestly, what I'm saying is I would just have
to do a little bit of work in my normal hair,
I don't have to do anything, and it looks fine.
Speaker 1: And here it's like I would have to do a
little bit and it looks pretty good.
Speaker 6: I had to touch my hair a little bit to
be handsome.
Speaker 1: I should and that's the cross I have to bear.
Speaker 3: I have a random tang, Oh please, my next doorhouse
is for sale. No, but it's the fourth time it's
gone on sale since I moved in here, like six
years ago.
Speaker 4: It's for sale a lot is is.
Speaker 8: The Baboo store. It always goes.
Speaker 6: It's the same field episode, where like the story is
always like closing because it's just a back corner.
Speaker 4: I'm just worried.
Speaker 3: It can't be me right, people would love to be
my neighbor.
Speaker 1: I should have known it was you making it about yourself. No,
I bet it's just.
Speaker 2: Like you know, it probably has gone up in value
each time, and people are like, I'll just flip this ship.
Speaker 3: There's always it's always some like either young couple or
single guy who moves in there and then like a
year later they like start a family.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, okay, we need a bigger house.
Speaker 1: I think you might have cracked it.
Speaker 4: It's just like everybody starter home apparently.
Speaker 3: I just want to So the one was so good
because they like they had the kid and they stuck
around for a little bit and I was like getting
kind of closer to them, and they had the fence,
and I'm like, and I was gonna be I was like,
I'm gonna be Wilson from Home Improvement. I'm going to
I know, I'm gonna give this kid so much life
advice over the fence.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be great. And yeah they moved. Oh shit.
Speaker 3: Al Grugg says, did Mike bring back Jeff's hair or
is he a bad person? Also call it mighty Mitch's
midday missed madness if you can't get up in times
ending And hey, that's pretty good too. No, I did
take the hair. Somebody suggested it, and I just didn't
want to have to. Well, no, eclaen that the TSA.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also like it was not your fault because my hair
got mixed in with your facial clippings. Yes, and so
it was like this unholy amalgamation of our two hairs
from our.
Speaker 4: Together is a gay mess hair orgy.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you have to burn it at that point
nothing else could be done about that.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, the Decks is lazy. Stigus Or says, why does
grub look hot with any haircut?
Speaker 1: Oo?
Speaker 3: Woo?
Speaker 1: I don't know oo wu. Yeah. I just built like that.
Just I'm just build different. That's all.
Speaker 4: That's it for the super chest form right now.
Speaker 1: One more just came in a.
Speaker 3: Quiet alien Thank you, says first super Chat. Thanks so much,
thanks for keeping our moods up with all the bullshit
happening and also keeping me busy well cooking. What's your
favorite dish slash thing you can cook? Yeah, I've been
saying about this. I really want to make a big
pot of chili soon. It's it's chili season.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not necessarily like the tastiest thing that I
can cook, but it's the most There's something very pleasant
about cooking chili. It's kind of fun. There's a lot
of room for sort of jazz when you're making chilis.
I never do measurements or anything like that. It just
kind of get what I think I need, maybe try
something a little bit different here or there, and it
always comes out at least good enough. And you can
do so many things with chill, and you can keep
for a while, you can freeze it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, big fat bowl of chili.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like recently it's it's definitely been just like
you know, this is cheating because it's the instant, but
the instant in Japanese curry, that's a nice meal because
you can make some chicken, make some rice, you boil
down that curry.
Speaker 1: It's it's real tasty.
Speaker 2: But you know, Steph typically makes this, but I've I've
made it a couple of times. But when it either
either way whoever's making it. This is like my very
much good mood food. And it is chicken biscuit where
it is cream of chicken soup, like just a bunch
of shredded chicken some flaky biscuits in there, and it
just makes me feel so happy and warm and tasty infacted,
like this is the time of year where we make it,
and I just.
Speaker 1: I love that shit. It's so good.
Speaker 3: There my favorite thing my mom makes. And I got
actually maybe learn how to make this or maybe not.
It's probably increbly and healthy. It's these chicken chicken crescent
rolls where she gets like that Pillsbury dope boy like
crescent croissant rolls stuff those triangles you just wrapped kind
of straighted chicken and cheese in it.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: You put them in like this kind of cream of
mushroom soups.
Speaker 1: Very similar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's very good. It is so good.
Speaker 3: We got one more here from an Ico that says
first super chat, thank you so much, says my name
is Mike manaughty and I just shipped my pants.
Speaker 1: All right, we got them, We got them. Everybody, all right,
all right, good. That was kind of tried my best
not to laugh during. Yeah again, maybe they do miss
being a writer. I think that's it for the super Chats.
Speaker 2: Thank you everybody. Thank you everybody so much, very generous.
We appreciate it.
Speaker 3: And if you have any more, apparently I will read anything,
so I said, the men will read them before the
end of the show. Don't worry, man, the super Chats
just went all over the place today.
Speaker 1: They covered the gamut.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I got the full cycle. So thank you
so much.
Speaker 3: Oh one more for Cody Bishop, give recipe for cheese
omen and flaky biscuit.
Speaker 1: That's one that.
Speaker 4: They're typing real fast.
Speaker 3: They want the recipe for your for your.
Speaker 1: We need the recipe for the cheese omen.
Speaker 4: The cheese omond, flaky biscuit. What's the recipe?
Speaker 3: Jeff uh? Is this your thing or my thing? Actually,
I don't know.
Speaker 1: It might be your thing. It might be, honestly my thing.
Speaker 2: You could make this with like used to go get
the Pillsberry, like the flaky donuts, the ones you can
like flake off the layers art donuts, biscuits. Uh, then
get the cream of cream of chicken soup and just
heat that up. And then you can also get any
chicken you want, even like canned shredded chicken, and you
just throw that all together.
Speaker 4: Does sounds do sound very similar?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: And then mashed potatoes it was, Yes, that's sort of
the bass.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just very good fairy tastes like.
Speaker 4: You like mashed potatoes, but not pasta.
Speaker 2: I like instant mashed potatoes. Yeah, yes I do. No, No, okay,
well know I don't. I don't dislike pasta. I just
always disappointed in it, I think.
Speaker 6: But it's the sauce. We're already talk about this. You
have mediocres fauce. That's what you don't say. It's okay, okay,
I believe you. I don't think you're wrong.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make you some pasta.
Speaker 1: I'm not like standing my ground on this. I want
to like pasta. Everybody I'm making.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna fix this. I'm gonna
fix you. I can fix you.
Speaker 3: Cheese Omen has spoken, Jeese Omen. All right, let's let's
take a break. Cool gear back. We have a game
of some sort to play here. All right, we're back.
I'm your host, Jeff Grubb, but I'm no longer your host.
Now the host is Sean Turboshan McDowell. Uh, let's take
it away.
Speaker 7: Please the hell you mean you like instant mashed potatoes.
Speaker 2: I it's when I was a kid and it was Thanksgiving,
my mom would like do a lot of the instant stuff,
and so I got a taste for like instant mashed
potatoes and stove tops stovetop stuffing. So now when I
get the real shit, it's like, oh, this isn't what
I had as a kid, so it's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's bad, but I'm like, it's very
much like the nostalgic.
Speaker 7: Stove top stuffing. Though that that stuff rules exactly. Yes,
I do not want my stuff in coming out of
a bird's ass. No, it needs to be from a
box or a can, made in a pan with some butter.
Speaker 1: Definitely.
Speaker 2: And I just happened to feel the same exact way
then about instant mashed potatoes.
Speaker 7: Okay, well you know what you're wrong, but.
Speaker 1: Potato chip mashed potatoes are real bad potato oh oh,
like with I like mixed in with potato chips. Apparently
you can just take because potato chips are just you know,
dehydrated potato. Really just kind of mix those with some
like some like heavy cream or something or milk and
put it in a microwave and then you mix it up.
You got my scaled potatoes. Scal potatoes are also very good.
That's so that's good. Okay potatoes as well?
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, Well, anyways, we need to move on from
Detroit over here onto super Dan for the Quest four critiques.
Beef partially made this while you have VR headset Hammer
hosted by me. Sean would also use VR to escape
Ohio McDowell. True and of course in association with but
with no approval from Dan Reiker.
Speaker 1: Yeah fuck that guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah wow, he welcomes you to his home.
Speaker 7: Well well he knows what he did. Anyways, what is
super Dan for the Quest four Critiques? Well, our good
friend beef Hammer has returned with a few more reviews
and game that we're gonna play around them. However, this
time we're mixing up how we're revealing everything here. Worse off,
Beef is bored with you two this time shine. So
I'm gonna give each of you some bullet points, one
at a time from a review from Dan Riiker. Every
time a bullet point is given, you may make one
guess at what the game is. Well, we'll alternate so
that way you can, you know, take turns again. Whoever
identifies the game first gives a point, and you may
receive one bonus point if you can guess the review
score Dan gave. Oh hell yes, it'll be interesting see
how much you know about Dan. And then, of course,
due to our quarter print best executives, Dan's game and
former reviews were raised down. If you were aware of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard.
Speaker 7: It, but thankfully be found the archive. So shout out
to the Wayback Machine and Internet.
Speaker 3: Archive scale they do like one to ten.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I will say, all of these scores I'm
thinking back are on a ten point scale with some
quarter points. Yes, okay, okay, so yeah, go go for
go for go for that quarter point scale.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 7: The Famisu just god, Dan Infamisu, What what a combination there. Anyways,
I flipped a coin to see who would go first,
and is Jeff. We'll pick You'll you'll just take turns
on each bullet point, make you I guess?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Okay, and uh, you said pick but I think maybe
you must spoke. I do you have to pick something?
Speaker 7: Or I'm a game from the one thousands and thousands
of video games in the world. You're guessing the game?
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good? All right?
Speaker 7: Game number one concept return to the world of a
classic and improve upon it.
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong Country returns incorrect?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Mike, Oh, I don't get another bullpoint. No,
I don't know if you would have still been a
game reformer. This maybe late Uh ledges out of a
link between worlds?
Speaker 7: Wow? Nicely, so many more bullet points there, but no, Mike, I.
Speaker 4: Don't need it. Snipers shot don't need it.
Speaker 7: All right now, Mike, for the bonus point, what did
Dan give a link between worlds?
Speaker 3: I bet he gave it a nine point five?
Speaker 1: Can I guess? Go for it? I think I think
you give it a ten.
Speaker 7: You won't get points being guessed. Yeah, yeah, you think
you gave it a perfect ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I should come with the ten. No, he's
not wrong. It's so good.
Speaker 7: It's an amazing video games.
Speaker 4: So yeah, the game is that old eleven years old.
Speaker 1: Ship.
Speaker 7: Yeah, three, ass was a while ago. Man, Now, I
guess so I know time dilation because of the fucking pandemic,
but yeah, that's sure you Uh game number two, Mikey
is gonna guess. First here, first ball point is Fans
of rock Steadies Batman games should enjoy Blanks fighting system
as it features Blank countering and attacking like he was
a Cape Crusader himself.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna guess X Men Origins Wolverine Nope, Jeff Chick.
Speaker 1: Fans of rocks Day's Batman game should enjoy Blank fighting
system as it features Blank counter and Okay, so it's
the name is the it is the character or that's
going to be very important. I mean I'll say Deadpool.
Speaker 7: Nope, all right, so second ball at point here. Blank
has enough entertainment value to justify Blank's decision to save
it from cancelation, but also displays a lack of polish
that makes its troubled development evidence.
Speaker 4: Okay, what is?
Speaker 1: Okay? What is?
Speaker 4: I don't know what?
Speaker 3: God, if I really think about this, I bet I
could come up with it. I'm not gonna get chat
in case they're throwing out suggestions, don't do that chat if.
Speaker 1: You are Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna say brutal legend, no chet, save.
Speaker 1: It from cancelation value decision to save the Cans, Spider Man,
Web of Shadows.
Speaker 7: No, all right? Ballpoint three blank. Can arrange drug busts
via security cameras, participate in fight clubs and street races,
find hidden statues, the unlock new melee, moves out the dojo,
and pray a shrines to increase maximum health.
Speaker 1: Mike, what is Sleeping Dogs? What is.
Speaker 7: Sleeping Dogs? A good video game? That's what?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good game, all right?
Speaker 7: A point for Mikey there? Can you guess the score?
That dangs?
Speaker 3: He started slightly downish on it, not so much of him.
Maybe he was more of like a seven point five
on this one.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jeff, for funzis I think some point five sounds good.
I'll just but I'll say a seven point seventy five.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, okay.
Speaker 1: You're really good at that part part our powers combined?
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, going back to Jeff guessing first on
this one. Game number three bullet point one. Fewer and
fewer titles in modern gaming are entertaining within minutes of
picking them up. Most are filled with slowly paid editorial sections.
There are long cutscenes, so it takes a while to
get to the good stuff. Blank, waste no time at all.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'll go with Yeah, what's a game that just goes?
But one that Dan would like to because he seems
it seems like he's super into it.
Speaker 5: What is?
Speaker 1: Well, I just did the thing too? What is I
did the jeopardy?
Speaker 7: What is I've trained you guys too?
Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, let's see. Shooters just keep coming to mind,
like like side scrolling shooters. Actually, you know what? Titan
Fall two? No, Mikey, what is doom? No shit?
Speaker 7: Bullet point two four player competitive gameplay brings memories of
Smash Bros. To mine and four first and foremost. But
it's what hit kills in constant intensity, also contract moments
from classic bomber Man.
Speaker 1: Powerful. Yes, yeah, powerful?
Speaker 7: Yeah it is powerful? All right, here's a bonus point chance.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with. I'll go with a nine.
Speaker 3: This was the game that uses an excuse to rally
against cuts.
Speaker 7: An interesting pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'll say he gave it a nine point
two five.
Speaker 7: Nine out of ten jacket the bonus. Nicely done.
Speaker 4: Damn Okay?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 7: Game number four, Going back to Mikey in the Blank years,
I've been doing this way of blank that out. I
can honestly say that Blank is the worst game I've
ever viewed.
Speaker 1: What is.
Speaker 4: Highway to Hell Retribution.
Speaker 7: Not the name of that game, but also wrong.
Speaker 1: Ah ship God that that's like the only thing that
comes to mind too, Mike. Uh, because it's like it's
thought I had it because I thought he told us
that it was the worst game he ever reviewed. I
don't know. I'm trying, Like he's definitely mentioned some games
where and he's like, I think he said, like that's
the worst one I ever reviewed, And now I can't
think of any of them. What are some bad games
he always tries to make us play? Oh, I'm not
sure if I'm gonna even have a good guest here.
I'm gonna have to gonna just pass because I can't. Okay, Yeah,
fair enough?
Speaker 7: Uh ballpoint two. When you first start the game, you're
given the ability to create your own character. Once you're
done perusing the various customization options, don't worry, it won't
take long. It's time to rise through the ranks.
Speaker 4: What is hal Cogan's main event?
Speaker 2: Yes, he did review that game, okay eventually, Hell yeah, Okay, that's.
Speaker 7: Point for mikey there. What do you think he gave
haul Cogan's main event like a two?
Speaker 1: Jeff uh point zero point twenty five?
Speaker 7: You gave it a one out of ten. Ok Yes,
I believe that is the worst review score he's ever given.
I think that's what you said the last time we
talked about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very fun to be like game form and
gave that game of ten.
Speaker 7: But uh huh, okay, game number five, we're back to Jeff,
uh what the hell?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 7: Sound poppy and upbeat tunes accompany you throughout the City
of Blank Entertainment. It may not feature many jaw dropping moments,
but the game remains entertaining throughout.
Speaker 1: Throughout the city of you know, Lego City Undercover.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, Mike, Sunset Overdrive.
Speaker 1: No, I felt good about all right?
Speaker 7: Second second clue, second hint. Blank powers are the star
of the show, and Blank as a story, struggles to
maintain focus. Characters are constantly introduced and dismissed throughout the narrative,
leaving you wondering who's important and who's disposable?
Speaker 1: Huh interesting, it's a Jess pick first.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool?
Speaker 1: Gotcha?
Speaker 2: Bad like trying to remember the name of this game. Yeah,
but I mean the one that I think might be right.
I don't know if it's almost certainly not right. But
h uh what is that?
Speaker 1: Damn? I don't want to say anything in case it's
uh case, I can't think of it, and then it'll
set Mic off.
Speaker 7: Got anything?
Speaker 1: It's now I'm having I'm struggling to remember the name.
I'll pass, okay, Mike, Agents of Mayhem?
Speaker 7: No chit all right? Clue number three. Challenge stages feature
blank racing, flying and sliding throughout the city and checkpoint races,
and a lengthy side quest involves discovering the tale of
two ghostly lovers. I enjoyed having options in between missions,
but most of these distractions are fairly basic. Struggling to
beat times in challenge stages isn't as enjoyable as leisurely
collecting hidden gems flying around the city.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, huh m hm, huh.
Speaker 4: Ghosts, ghosts are involved. This is the Jeff, right, Yeah,
this is this is the Jeff still.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see, uh, poppy music challenge stages and
ghosts Apparently Ghosts apparently.
Speaker 7: Got anything.
Speaker 1: I'll Saints Row two.
Speaker 7: No interesting choice though.
Speaker 3: Mike, Yeah, gosh, I don't. Yeah, I'm really struggling on
this one.
Speaker 1: This is tough.
Speaker 3: I feel like I should feel like it seems like
there's enough clues here that should be distinct, some kind
of open world bullshit thing right, mirrors Edge Catalyst. I
don't think there's ghost in that though.
Speaker 7: No, but also an interesting guess okay, all right. Fourth clue,
Originally planned as a p S three title, Blank finally
found its way to Sony's new portable despite missing the
system's launch window.
Speaker 9: Jeff Infamous the something uh infamous?
Speaker 1: No, okay, thank you?
Speaker 4: Gravity gravity Rush.
Speaker 7: It's gravity Rush. I want to see what else Dan
say about gravity Rush down becomes up in Blank solid
Vita debut. Okay, okay, the first couple of points. Interesting,
that's not what I remember thinking about gravty Rush's story,
but fair enough, Mike, what do you think he gave
your Gravity Rush?
Speaker 3: Sounds like he doesn't like as much as me. I
love this game. This is like a nine or something above.
It seems he seemed cooler on it like if he
just solid he feel.
Speaker 7: Like the powers, but maybe not how animate it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you'd like this game, it's a a Jody
Orb game.
Speaker 1: I know I should play it. I just never have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe hearing he was like a seven point seventy
five on this one.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh yeah, that sounds about right. I'll go with
the seven point twenty five.
Speaker 7: Eight eight quite a little higher with the nets.
Speaker 1: Good man, it's good.
Speaker 3: Interesting game rules, the game rules, and the sequel very
good too.
Speaker 7: All right, Game number six, Mike, you're gonna start us
off here. Slick production values, solid controls, and a ton
of fan service can't make up for mediocre progression and
a lack of content.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Mediocre progression and a lack of content fans service fans, gosh,
you're so lo go on it. It could be anything.
The first one is difficult. I gotta think like franchises
that Dan even would be reviewing, although sometimes it was
things you wouldn't even expect. Something fans service, y, gosh,
I don't know. No, No, that's stupid. I was gonna
say no more heroes too. That makes zero sense. Uh
maybe else. I don't know why I keep going back
to Saints Row. Maybe this time I'll say, I'll say
Saints Roe four. He probably loved that game. No, Saint
Troe four.
Speaker 2: Ope, Jeff, Yeah, I'm just as lost. I'm just gonna
throw out a medal of honor twenty twelve.
Speaker 7: Well yeah, fan service for okay?
Speaker 1: Interesting? Yeah, I mean listen, Like I said, I'm throwing
it out there.
Speaker 7: Point two. Multiplayers progression shortcomings aren't remedied by Blank's single
player offerings include our five training missions, a tutorial, an
AI battle on each of the four planets, and a
standard wave survival mode.
Speaker 3: Mike, Okay, that narrows it down, but gosh, okay again,
fans service is what keeps throwing me off, Like gosh,
some kind of sci fi multiplayer shooter with a bad
single player mode, five tran editorial, in AI battle on
each of the four planets. There's only four planets. That
seems important. Gosh, it's I'm getting words like something I
have played. Everything I'm thinking of definitely has a more
substantial play more than that. Ye right, it's not like
titan Fall one. So I guess, I guess I'm just
gonna have to guess something here and say it's just
I guess I have to guess titan Fall. I got
nothing else.
Speaker 7: Titan Fall is not titan Fall, Jeff, Hey, I.
Speaker 1: Battle on each of the four planets single player off,
I don't. I lost Planet two.
Speaker 7: Nope, all right, third bullet Point. Hero Hunt is an
eight player mode in which one player assumes the role
of a named hero or villain while the wrestling group
tries to take them down.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's like, I think it's got it. It's like,
is it a Star Wars?
Speaker 4: Who's he? What's it? But then like what Star Wars
would it be?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Named hero or villain? I mean, Battlefront one didn't have
much of a single player mode. The new one he's
like was dance still writing at that point. Maybe ball
Front one's probably longer than I think. Now I'm gonna
guess Star Wars Battlefront.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, very good?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, did it? You got there? Okay?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was screaming internally, you guys not knowing about
this SI fan multiplayer. Anyways, Mike, what do you think
Dan gave Starr's Bell Front the reboot for audio listeners?
Speaker 5: Way?
Speaker 7: Yeah, reboot?
Speaker 3: I bet he also gave this a Cowards eight. Cowards
eight oh, I given a lot of cowards.
Speaker 4: Eight to mine for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say seven point seven.
Speaker 7: It was three out of five stars bombs, okay, yeah,
do you do the conversion for the sake of game
shows around here, so it would came out as a
six okay, interesting, okay, which got from the way he
was talking about maybe yeah, probably.
Speaker 4: Was too high.
Speaker 7: Six or seven?
Speaker 1: Yeah that's fair, all right.
Speaker 7: Uh well you can't see it, but was game seven?
We're back to Jeff. I consistently enjoyed my time with Blank,
but I frequently questioned the value component of this package.
At forty dollars, the offering us feel a bit slim.
There are well under one hundred small levels, and the
two main boss fights are recycled in slightly changed forms
several times.
Speaker 3: Get a load of this older propositions, you're gonna stay
some giveaway? No, no, no, just talk about our value
propositions in video games, Oh my god, disgusting dan.
Speaker 1: One hundred, one hundred small levels and two main boss
fights are recycled in slightly changed change forms several times.
I don't know, but a freak week, Uh not sure.
I want to say, like a beat them up or
something but it also doesn't feel like that. Well maybe, uh,
I'll say retro city rampage, No Mike Kid chameleon, No shit, all.
Speaker 7: Right, second clue. You can tap some enemies to hold
them in place, but I rarely found that necessary. A
handful of levels have you touching the screen or blowing
on the mic to move platforms around, but it's never
done so much as to be aggravating. Mike is spelled
mi C for audio listeners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well that kind of narrows it down. Some
one hundred small levels and two main boss fights in
a game for that.
Speaker 7: Forty bucks.
Speaker 1: And it's forty forty bucks, so that now that kind
of like shifts around the idea of like what the
value proposition he's getting at there is.
Speaker 7: It's a lot of levels for forty bucks.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, touch the magic xx x y or whatever.
The rub Rabbits now, yeah, the Rub Rabbits.
Speaker 4: Game, Mike, Yeah, it's definitely a three DS game.
Speaker 3: Huh shit, fanfil loves have been touching the screen or
blowing on the mic to move platforms around, you know,
Oh did Super Mario three D land?
Speaker 1: No shit, I.
Speaker 7: Found myself liking the game significantly more once. I had
been in air quotes word quotes on the page the game,
but still lacked the the stamp On many pages. Since
the stages are so small, I often found myself rotating
the camera and trying to look at every possible angle
in effort to find a pesky crystal that I had
previously missed.
Speaker 1: Jeff, is it Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker?
Speaker 7: Your favorite video?
Speaker 1: We you?
Speaker 4: We were off a little bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're in the ballpark there, but yes it was
we you not three DS initially. H Jeff, what do
you think he gave this game?
Speaker 5: When did you.
Speaker 4: Give this game?
Speaker 1: Jeff? I don't remember remember reviewing it, so definitely don't
remember what score I gave it.
Speaker 2: All right, he liked it more. I'll go with the
seven point.
Speaker 7: Five, one point five, Mike, you got fun guess, cowards eight,
cowards eight.
Speaker 10: He gave it three out of five stars again, okay,
which means that five to three and Mike takes it.
Speaker 7: Congratulations to mikey and Mike.
Speaker 4: Wait, we got all of them eventually, there's not one
miss good on us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well done.
Speaker 7: I need to watch the interview. This is from audio Listeners.
The end card here is a min Max interview where
the headline is I know I can come across as
an idiot.
Speaker 1: He apparently he just worked with the min Max.
Speaker 2: He had a bunch of a footage of him like
interviewing a Game Informer staff very early on, and then
Charles hart over at MIMX just edited that together into
a documentary and they just, yeah, need I need.
Speaker 1: To check that out.
Speaker 7: I love what Ben and the crew are doing to
like President or the history of Game Informer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very good stuff. Yea, all right, right, thank you
for that, Sean appreciate it.
Speaker 2: If anyone else wants to create any games like that,
or if you have your own idea for waste of
torture us with games, feel free to send them. In
work with Sean, they always kind of end up working
out really. Thank you so much, beef Hammer. That's good
looking out, and I suppose thank you to Dan Record
for your content.
Speaker 7: That's that's nice to wait you contribute to this.
Speaker 1: H You know what, when we're break, we'll come back,
we'll talk about what we've been playing, maybe you catch
up on any super chats, and then we'll get y'all
out of here right after this, all right, We're back, Mike,
What have you been playing?
Speaker 4: Really has been a lot of Metaphor.
Speaker 3: You know, like before I was kind of playing like
an hour or two maybe every night when I could
being on this sort of staycation. It turns out what
I've mostly have been doing is playing a lot of
Metaphor and not feeling bad if I stay up till
five am just playing the game. You know, it really
has been that, like this deep into it, it is
just like, Oh, I just want to keep going, you know,
I want to do one more day. The cycle feels
so good. I'm going to feel very comfortable with the combat,
and you know, I don't know how close I am
to the end, but you know, I think I might
be like two thirds of the way there now. So
things kind of rapped up in an exciting way. It's
excited to see where the story is going. So, yeah,
I've talked about this game a lot. I've been loving it,
and I just still continue to be very very high
on Metaphor.
Speaker 4: Refontasio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one where I'm now I'm like, may maybe
I should play that. I've I've been getting maybe the
urge to play it, and I'm not gonna have enough
time to like really get anywhere near the end before
Game of the Year, but I kind of just want
to play because I want to play it, so Mike
might put some more time to that. I did play
some more Mario and Luigi since we talked about it
on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I get I'm liking that game more and more.
Speaker 2: I always liked it. I think it's an okay game.
I just thought some parts, some aspects of it were
a little disappointing. And getting past the early parts, which
I never thought were like, oh, excruciatingly slow or anything
like that. Uh, but getting still getting past the early
parts where they're introducing everything, it's like, Okay, now this
game really is coming into its own and feeling more
positive about it. So I think people who were like,
you know, I already pre ordered it, or Okay, I'm
gonna make up my own mind going there with like
the chance of this game could win you over, I
think the possibility is there, and then you know, overall,
though it's it's it's it is still that game.
Speaker 4: I reminds me.
Speaker 3: I haven't looked at my work emails since I'm not
working right now, but I wonder if I got a
code I'm gonna look at that. Remember when you promised
me that you're gonna beat a thousand year door before
you played.
Speaker 1: This doesn't doesn't ring a bell?
Speaker 3: Ye, interesting, you better beat up before Game of the Year.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do that because I also want to. I
still be beat Echoes of Wisdom because everything got messed
up with Astro. So I'm gonna I'm gonna play both
of those here pretty soon and uh and wrap those up.
And I've been able to like kind of get the
switch away from Addie a little bit more frequently, so
that's been helping too.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, rip it out of that child's hands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she doesn't, she doesn't need joy. She's a child. Yeah, exactly,
I can.
Speaker 2: I can just like push her away with like one
hand and then play it with the other hand.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 3: She doesn't understand the despair of modern US politics.
Speaker 2: That although one of the kids teachers definitely tried to
make that happen and that wasn't fun.
Speaker 1: Uh I'm weird, Yeah, very weird.
Speaker 2: It seemed like she I got in trouble. But yeah,
we were just gonna kind of keep hanging out of
here playing as Zelda too. Emmy's been playing a ton
of Zelda still, it's been wild. She's like into Pokemon,
but I don't know if she's like into the Pokemon
games yet.
Speaker 1: Like, she has one there.
Speaker 2: I've shown it to her, but she's like, I love
this Pikachu fella. He's great, and all these other ones.
And she keeps talking to her sister, who likes meat,
so like, isn't this one a meat? Look at that one.
So we had a book fair today. She had a
book fair at her school. I got to go there
and eat a donut and take her to buy some books.
All three books I get, she gets her sister, got
three books and was able to buy one for her
for her sister. Emmy got three books. I was able
to buy one for her sister. All three books that
Emmy chose were Pokemon books. So that's where we're at.
It's a little annoying because we did only have been
buying Bluey stuff or her for Christmas, and by the
time we get to Christmas, blue he might be old
news and that'll be frustrating. But isn't that the way
it goes. That's just the way it goes. I am
very used to that now. So yeah, who knows, we're
going We're going to be at Disney next week. All
this could get flipped on its head and there. Yeah,
so full Thart on stitch again or something. Yeah, if
it comes back to the Muppets, I'll be happy if
we can get back to the So that's the one
where like when they're fighting at dinner and they're like, hey,
they have like a little table set up because me
and stuff are off to pretty busy in the evening,
so we have a little table for them in the
kitchen where they can turn on TV and watch something
while they're eating.
Speaker 1: And uh, they.
Speaker 2: Usually fight over who's going to get to choose what
they watch, Like, let's pick something we both like, and
it's always Muppet Baby.
Speaker 1: Still, so that's good. I can't wait to see Muppetvision three.
Speaker 3: D Oh, yeah, there's that photo. There's that Muppet Christmas
photo op right now.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm looking forward to yep, beyond beyond those games. Uh,
it's been hard to like sort of start games here
or there for various reasons, not just the modern political
landscape but just being busy and having other things on
my plate. But uh, yeah, I want to play some
more call of duty. I want to I want to
get back into Astro. I haven't tried the new level yet.
Dan said he was got up to like sixtieth in
the world or something in the morning when he was
playing that on the first day.
Speaker 1: So so, yeah.
Speaker 2: And people seem to like this new level quite a bit.
So I assume, So.
Speaker 3: Does that mean the monkey one saved for last? I
assume this isn't it.
Speaker 2: It might be you know, did we assume that maybe
the frog one was the monkey one? There's a chance
maybe or is there one that just.
Speaker 4: Trailer where they showed them. Okay, I don't remember that.
Speaker 2: It's okay, yep, So the monkey one might be last
because this one is the inflatable one where you can Okay,
that's a good move.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it for me.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 3: I did start the Diablo four expansion finally, Vessel of Hatred,
and you know, I played the new class.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's having an all right time with that.
Speaker 3: I mean it's definitely more Diablo four, which which is
a fun game. You know, I was enjoying the new class. Fine,
if it feels kind of similar to a lot there's
a little bit of a all these classes kind of
feel the same to me in a little bit with before.
And it's because like I haven't played Barbarian even though
I am kind of melee.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You just you kind of go around, you push your buttons.
Maybe I'm being a little cynical about it. I need
to play some more of it or maybe change up
my skill tree with this. Uh, this class it's called
what's it's a weird name.
Speaker 1: Spirit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not something it's Yeah, they don't want to
call it witch doctor anymore, but it's like witch doctor
and Monk had a baby, right, and it's called spirit something,
Spirits born, spirit Tracks is what it's called. It's called
Spirit Tracks, right. Yeah, so we got this instead of
a sword on board. It's probat of it may just
be I'm not like super in the mood for Diablo
at this moment, actually, but there's certainly nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, the almost one where it's like, man, I
almost kind of want to play that as like a
couch co op game now, like Pizza and Beer and
you have so over and just played the Diablo couch
co op.
Speaker 3: It's probably the most fun I had with Diablo in
a long time. Was like when it was just Diablo
three was on like Xbox X one or whatever, and
I just had, like, you know, three friends. We just
all kind of played to the campaign a couch co
op and it was like playing a modern, better version
of Gauntlet.
Speaker 2: Legend, right exactly. Yeah, that sounds like a great night. Yeah,
so something I would I would maybe think about doing again.
Speaker 1: All right, well many, Oh sorry, go on, Christian.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, Mike, do you play.
Speaker 6: Well more than more than you play on the stream?
Speaker 4: No, I just played it. I just played that.
Speaker 7: P h.
Speaker 3: I mean I played, Yeah, I played it on stream.
Speaker 1: That was it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I played at a PC and I have the most
middle of the road PC.
Speaker 6: I have RX sixty seven hundred XD and rice in
seven fifty eight hundred X. And he it's not it
doesn't run very well. He's like, yeah, it's around four
e fps all the time, which is fine, Like I
could play it, you know, but that game needs some
that that I'm you know, I was thinking the other
because like, oh, we love the ri engine.
Speaker 8: The ri engine is so good like all the time.
Speaker 6: And now I'm kind of like, oh, maybe we don't
use the ri engine for everything, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Right, they wanted to shift in the open world, and
it's been sort of a painful process.
Speaker 7: We definitely talked about scale. I think is an issue
because you know ri Engine is what Rise ran on, right,
and that was a switch game. Yeah, oh yeah, because
of the scale of it, because those classic Monster Hunter
it ran okay, it ran at thirty uh. While I
was at the airport, I was trying to see if
I could like invade Jans game because I had nothing
else to do, and so I fired up on the
Steam Deck because I had a download on the lowest settings,
lowest resolution, which would be like internally well like three
six DP. It was running at like twenty two fps
and crashed.
Speaker 1: So okay, you.
Speaker 7: Know there's also more optimizations that need to be done
there by both CapCo and Valve for Steam Deck stuff.
But yeah, this game is real heavy because of how
the enge.
Speaker 6: Yes, it is heavily at CPU bottleneck. Because I was,
I put everything down and I couldn't like I couldn't
crack the fifty fps. Well I cried the fiftys but like,
you can make this this game look really well.
Speaker 1: That's what we saw with Dragon's Dogma two as well.
Speaker 8: Yeah, without without Yeah, because I saw already.
Speaker 6: I was like looking already and it was the worst
thing I could ever do because people it's like looks
like a PS two game and its like ship. Well,
you can make it wrong, like yeah, it's gonna run
like shit, but you can make it look better, Like
you don't need to make it look like shit all
the time because it's not gonna you know, you have
wiggle room there. It's not Chip you bottleneck e CPU
like that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah you should. You should just take advantage of
that stuff for sure.
Speaker 6: And the gameplay is the gameplay is so fucking good.
I play this game with thy f PS. I don't
care like like saying all that. Yeah, it was like shit,
I'm gonna put a thousand hours, more than a thousand
hours in this game for sure. It's just like it's perfect,
like they made it perfect motor Hunter game. It's open world,
all the weapons feel so fucking good. It's just like
I'm so high for this game, and I think they're
gonna they're gonna get it, like at least sixty is
gonna run at least sixty and like the mediocre PC
like mine for sure when it comes out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing if they're able to
make optimizations between now when the game comes out. I
mean obviously don't make some, but like will be noticeably different.
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 4: So we'll see, Yeah, I hope so.
Speaker 3: I mean, yet, imagine it's like a worry of some
kind there right now, right like they released the baby,
they got to know that's sort of everybody's you know,
sticking point at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, but you know, they might have
been up more than they can chew. They might That's
might be the case here with our engine and open
world games, at least at the moment, Mike, I think
we got one more super check top of mar Okay.
Speaker 3: Real quick, they guy figured if they're really doing that
open world resident Evil nine with the ORI engine.
Speaker 4: I hope they hope they.
Speaker 1: Got nobody is more open zone than just completely open world.
I hope they like can like limit those areas a
little bit so it's not just crushed under so much stuff.
Speaker 3: T Money says, I remember when Dan said during Extra Life,
you didn't realize there were any songs about sadness. It's
forever weirder than I didn't say that. Yeah, look, I'm not.
I don't need to plead my case anymore, but it does,
and I need to stop reacting to it, because I'm
sure just eggs it on, but it does. It always
just shocks me when people tell me I'm weirder than.
Speaker 6: The thing is that you're you're You're somehow louder when
you like were your willless but like your were issues
like food, like the you're you're picking eater.
Speaker 8: Then he's wound with the universe like matter our own him.
Speaker 7: So that's fine, Yeah, that's I.
Speaker 1: Mean, it's one thing to be like, I don't listen
to songs.
Speaker 2: I don't need to listen to a song that's about
sadness that does nothing for me. To be unaware of
the concept is a whole other thing.
Speaker 4: Screaming Matt And says, should Giant Bomb reward the developer
whose game wins Game of the Year a trip to
Disney World, It might can be the tour guide, totally
doable and cheap, right slash s which indicates sarcasm, Jeff.
Speaker 2: If the game that wins Game of the Year is
in any way affiliated with with Disney and we can
get John Drake to help out with that, then sure,
why not?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what what game developer do you think would least
enjoy a tour of Disney World with me?
Speaker 1: God, that's a good question, Neil Dave Lang. Dave Lang
would be like, I can't this fucking guy, and he's like,
whereas could just take me to the track or something.
I don't know who would most enjoy it? All the
rest everyone else enjoy it? Yeah, absolutely like it.
Speaker 4: That's it for super chats. Thank you so much everybody.
Speaker 1: Thank you Mike, you for reading those. Thank you everybody
for sending in every super chat and for listening, for
hanging out with us all that stuff. I'm gonna hit
the button, I think, uh, while we get out of here,
like Manati, where can people find you? What you have
going on? We got plans for the weekend? All the
good stuff?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Uh, Tolkoto, I never were notably blue sky at the moment, right,
maybe you start using that more.
Speaker 4: But twitch uh yep, yep, definitely twitch.
Speaker 3: Going to I need to finish up my Kingdom Hearts
two say if I from last year's final mixed Miss
Keenomharts Charity Marathon. I'm gotta get ready for the next
one sometime later in December be doing birth by Sleep,
so there will still be some extra life fun to
be had for me.
Speaker 1: You played all those you played all the like the
Kingdom Heart games. Okay, you have played all of them.
Speaker 3: Yes, I was always empathetic to that. People were like,
I just what, I played two and I'm playing three.
What the hell's going on? I'm like, yeah, oh yeah,
all those games that you thought were just little side
things very important to the story, it turns out sorry.
Speaker 2: Were they like full cut scenes or Okay.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, some of them, Like but the PSP in
the three d X ones could have been numbered if
they wanted to. The one was pretty couel, sure, but
even even like the all of them, all of them are,
even the freaking mobile game that's the one I didn't play,
is that mobile slip Slash, a web browser game, which
was kind of important three. It seems like it's gonna
be really important for four. So shit, yeah, you have
to kind of admire it. But it's also like probably
a bad decision.
Speaker 2: If I am We're Let's say I was going to
Disney in a couple of weeks and I wanted to
really quickly like play some Kingdom Hearts with the Girls.
Speaker 1: Which one should I play other than one? I'm not
gonna play one again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well like one would be the end.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Just jump into three. Jump into three.
Speaker 3: It gets going faster than a lot of them, Like
it's bullshit, is more evenly spread out. At least you'll
be in a hercules level pretty quick when you start
planking in March three.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll do that. I think I might have
three all so somewhere already, so that'll make it easier.
All right, plans we should be like back with the
normal episode to next week. Uh, things are gonna get
weird after that. I will I will be in Disney
the week after that, and so you guys have to
do episodes. But then we have Thanksgiving the week after that,
and that's on the Thursday. Stuff out, trusted everybody.
Speaker 5: Bye, it's don't talk for real. Look at that slant.
Look at that slant.
Speaker 1: Look at that slant.
Speaker 5: Look at that's slant.
Speaker 1: I have to pooh my Dixie wrecked.
Speaker 3: All right, Rick, I'm ready, Yeah, I'm ready to let's go.
Speaker 8: All right, brake the cheesem.
Speaker 6: I was looking at this guy. This is Simon Kinberg guy. Yeah,
he's his life.
Speaker 8: His work is another roller coaster. If you tell me,
it's very much a good way, but it motherfucker. He
did Jumper, which he did for the X Men First Class.
Speaker 2: That's good, right, But that's good because of the fucking
energy of the Matt Vaughan, right, didn't he directed?
Speaker 1: Who directed first Class? Or was that it was?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Mad, you're correct, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Matt Vaughan can make a script go at least he
could back then.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Uh oh I love the Oh no, I m dB
it's broken. I broke.
Speaker 1: I am IMDb turned the ship just like fucking restream
dot io there.
Speaker 2: If you guys want to meet the two maddest people
about restreaming the world, just get me in Jan talking
about it. It's like, that's all honestly, it's got. All
we talk about now is how much we're so mad
that chief well you you two?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah that costs you just ye, massive
addicts all weekend.
Speaker 7: That's yeah.
Speaker 1: Why would they?
Speaker 6: My friends also, the n GP boys also complain on restream,
so yes they should.
Speaker 7: He did.
Speaker 1: Yep, I'm getting it right now. There's that. There's this He.
Speaker 8: Did Elysium, which is. I love it. Listen, it's so good.
Speaker 6: And right before that, he did Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
Speaker 4: What is this guy?
Speaker 7: That movie?
Speaker 8: I feel like this guy she.
Speaker 6: Throws money at whoever tells him. He's like, you have money,
and he's like yeah sure, and she's he just gives
money away.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Dark Phoenix. Oh my god, this guy.
Speaker 4: Are you're talking about bad X Men movies?
Speaker 6: No, I'm gonna tell you about Simon Kimberg. Yes, director,
screen writer, producer.
Speaker 1: Uh sean. I should just have the gray box, the
inner gray box.
Speaker 7: Just the inner gray box.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 7: I framed up you know every other way.
Speaker 3: Oh, I bought a cool there's a Christmas metroid sweater,
PRIs and the Yetti that I bought.
Speaker 1: Good job. Shoot, steph Is finally told me I have
too many clothes I've got I know this, but I
was kind of hoping it wouldn't ever get brought up.
So I'm like, I gotta start getting some stuff. I'm
gonna buy new shirts from the Yetti and ship.
Speaker 4: Oh, let me know.
Speaker 1: If you say it's good, I bet I could wear
some of your crap. Oh yeah, I got that's a
good idea.
Speaker 7: I can.
Speaker 2: Okay, why does it say totally innocent game he he
he he.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're framed up. I'm ready to go. If
you boys are ready, I'll bring it back in.
Speaker 6: Let's go, all right, all right, right right, good games,
good gamest, super chats at the moment.
Speaker 4: We'll see if anything else comes in.
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 4: Bring it back