Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Game This morning is with me
Speaker 1: Jeff Grub, your host from Giant bomb dot com.
Speaker 2: Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 1: In this episode, we're going to be talking about that
Speaker 1: next next God of War game, and we'll wrap up
Speaker 1: the week with the Bomb twelve. But first it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good one because we have Sean Turbo Sean
Speaker 1: McDowell on the show.
Speaker 2: Sean, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: Where's Zeno? Blade four?
Speaker 2: Where are my wife? Woods?
Speaker 1: Great work all around, great work by Mike, but even
Speaker 1: better work by Sean.
Speaker 2: That's good at it.
Speaker 3: Thanks. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I put out Mike's Metro Prime four rant on our
Speaker 4: socials and YouTube shorts, so check it out after this
Speaker 4: if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: It's Mike's new character that he's playing. The name of
Speaker 1: the character is Mike Manati, and he just it's like,
Speaker 1: what's that one guy, the big guy that kind of
Speaker 1: like flailed around and screamed about and he was like
Speaker 1: pretending to be.
Speaker 2: An whatever the way he's doing one of those Mike Manati.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, he should just do that one of those
Speaker 1: a week. We got to keep prodding them. I don't
Speaker 1: think you could, like if you asked him to fake it.
Speaker 1: I don't think we could get him to do so,
Speaker 1: so we'll have to get him shoot hot.
Speaker 2: Sean.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, well, look, I know ways to do that.
Speaker 4: I don't Mike's I don't know if Mike's watching right now.
Speaker 3: We don't.
Speaker 4: Look, we don't need to stay on Metro Prime four
Speaker 4: for too long. Jeff, you know the one that broke me,
Speaker 4: the one that really got me. Oh no, what someone
Speaker 4: saying Metroy Prime four is so ugly. It looks like
Speaker 4: a switch one game. My dude, what happening? It is
Speaker 4: a switch on one game.
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 3: People are losing their minds, Jeff.
Speaker 2: It's bad out there. It's bad out there. This is
Speaker 2: it's the worst.
Speaker 1: It does get worse with games that have been in
Speaker 1: development for an extra long time, so people have had
Speaker 1: a long time to think about it. And when it
Speaker 1: takes that much time, like, well, it should be the
Speaker 1: best thing that has ever happened by the time it
Speaker 1: comes out.
Speaker 2: And we just haven't played this game.
Speaker 1: And the people who have said nothing but good thanks, Sean,
Speaker 1: there's been good words about from the people who have
Speaker 1: actually gotten your hands on this thing.
Speaker 4: We're in that weird cross Shend period two where people
Speaker 4: were the same way. I remember this about a game
Speaker 4: that came on both PS four and PS five, where
Speaker 4: they would say, it looks so ugly on PS five,
Speaker 4: it looks like a PS four game, just because it
Speaker 4: is a PS four game. You know, just magically hit
Speaker 4: four K dot exx and suddenly it's it's like you're
Speaker 4: not running it on a much lower end system like
Speaker 4: you know, for example, an Xbox three sixty squeezed down
Speaker 4: into a tablet. Now I'm getting Mike about it. Get
Speaker 4: we gotta move on.
Speaker 2: I can't help them stay on it for another second.
Speaker 1: Think about Metric Prime is and like maybe a lot
Speaker 1: of these Metroy venues, if they're so atmospheric that you
Speaker 1: probably can't get the real sensation of what it feels
Speaker 1: like it feels like to look at until you play
Speaker 1: it yourself. I mean that did happen with me with
Speaker 1: Silk Song, a two D metroc Venia game.
Speaker 2: You can go look at those trailers, but I know
Speaker 2: what this looks like.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, you need all the other elements to
Speaker 1: make make the visuals pop. And that's also been true
Speaker 1: of Metroid, a very atmospheric game that relies on its
Speaker 1: audio design to sort of complete the visual stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: just I guess we've been around. We've been doing this
Speaker 1: a long enough time with these games to know. Might
Speaker 1: go back to my My central point here is there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who have not played the
Speaker 1: Metroid Prime games before who are commenting on this game,
Speaker 1: and it should be illegal about it.
Speaker 4: We can't love Yeah, just you know, I would rather
Speaker 4: a company focus on making the core of the gameplay
Speaker 4: good and not on a secondary thing that you're not
Speaker 4: gonna spend a ton of time and hopefully.
Speaker 1: And it's it's retro. I know, like there's probably been
Speaker 1: a lot of turnover, but they do. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of good artists in Texas working on video games. I
Speaker 1: bet they hired some good ones and I bet we're
Speaker 1: gonna get some real awesome shit to look at in
Speaker 1: that game. We'll see, we'll see in December. We should
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Speaker 1: All right, we have a lot to get into, so
Speaker 1: let's start the morning mess with Let's actually start with
Speaker 1: this super chat from one freeman Sean love though og
Speaker 1: Red and Blue looking to get back into Pokemon video
Speaker 1: games for the first time ever Rex for an old
Speaker 1: timer finished one hundred and fifty one master set.
Speaker 4: If you played Red and Blue back in the day, hey,
Speaker 4: playing Pokemon Let's go on the Switch is a good
Speaker 4: way to revisit the first generation and Pokemon. It's just
Speaker 4: a very well made game. Otherwise, the other Switch games
Speaker 4: are totally chill, like. You can play Soor and Shield
Speaker 4: or scarletand Violet if you have a Switch too. I
Speaker 4: would not recommend Scarland Violet on Switch one, and they
Speaker 4: have lots of quality a life things to get you
Speaker 4: on there. My personal favorites in the series are Black
Speaker 4: and White and Sun and Moon, but those are kind
Speaker 4: of harder to get by nowadays. So yeah, the Switch
Speaker 4: games are good. I do recommend them. I'm watching Jeff,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry not to spend too long this. I've been
Speaker 4: waking up early in the morning because over on my
Speaker 4: Life in Gaming, Corey on his Twitch channel has been
Speaker 4: doing Pokemon Violet as his first ever Pokemon game. Oh
Speaker 4: really wow, And it's been really interesting watching someone who's
Speaker 4: not really like because you know, my life in gaming,
Speaker 4: they don't really get involved in people yelling about video
Speaker 4: games on the internet. It is kind of refreshing to
Speaker 4: see someone just play something like this for the first
Speaker 4: time and say, yeah, this game looks like but but hey,
Speaker 4: that gameplay loop that people have been talking about for
Speaker 4: thirty years, this is pretty fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cool, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I guess I could see because those are
Speaker 1: guys who are their old school gamers.
Speaker 2: They've been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was so excited about Nintendo stuff
Speaker 1: that when Red and Blue came out, so I gotta
Speaker 1: at least try this.
Speaker 2: So that's the Pokemon game I played.
Speaker 1: But I could easily see a guy in my position,
Speaker 1: like those guys were skipping that until now.
Speaker 2: That's okay, that's interesting. Well I might check that out.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this first headline here. The
Speaker 1: next God of War game to possibly feature Egyptian setting.
Speaker 1: We'll go over like exactly what is being extrapolated from
Speaker 1: here here Sean, although I do think this is still
Speaker 1: probably right. This is from Alex Hopley at Game Reactor.
Speaker 1: We're coming up to, or we're coming up on three
Speaker 1: years since the launch of God of War Ragnarok this year.
Speaker 1: It feels a lot longer than that, but I guess
Speaker 1: it's three years. And while we've heard tell of a
Speaker 1: God of War metro Advena arriving sometime soon, that's next year.
Speaker 1: The next Staple entry in the series is apparently also
Speaker 1: in the works, with Crados ditching his cold Norse surroundings
Speaker 1: for a warmer climate. That's if Insider Games Tom Henderson.
Speaker 2: Is to be believed.
Speaker 1: On the latest episode of the Insider Gaming podcast, Henderson
Speaker 1: claims that in the next major God of War release,
Speaker 1: we'll see Crados return with an Egyptian sword in hand.
Speaker 1: This heavily implies Crados will be facing enough against Anubis.
Speaker 1: Thought raw, and I don't know if that's how I
Speaker 1: said that, thought, yeah, yeah, you're good, okay, and the
Speaker 1: like in his next God of War outing. Okay, So
Speaker 1: it does sound like they are saying, Hey, the sword
Speaker 1: looks like an Egyptian sword, therefore all this other stuff
Speaker 1: is true.
Speaker 2: Now, that is compelling enough for me.
Speaker 1: Sean, I'm pretty convinced just by that tiniest piece of evidence. Also,
Speaker 1: I think we heard in the past Corey Barlog say, hey,
Speaker 1: Egyptian said he would be cool. And then and then
Speaker 1: if we were like to go into a room and
Speaker 1: we were put in charge of where they should go
Speaker 1: next with credos to fight some more gods, I kind
Speaker 1: of I mean, if we would get cute, I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'd be like, oh, there's some other cultures where it'd
Speaker 1: be even cooler to go fight their gods.
Speaker 2: But I think the.
Speaker 1: Safe one, the smart one, the coolest one probably still
Speaker 1: is Egyptian settings. So in terms of circumstantial evidence and
Speaker 1: sort of just oh it feels right, I'm buying into this.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it sounds right to me.
Speaker 4: I don't know if Tom is saying that he saw
Speaker 4: something about this, or if he's just being coy and
Speaker 4: he's like, yeah.
Speaker 1: He think he's saying he saw some image with a
Speaker 1: curved sword. I think is how it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, I see Gosha gotcha either way.
Speaker 4: They also I forget exactly what I think even in
Speaker 4: the First God of War you know, twenty eighteen, the
Speaker 4: reboot series or whatever, they referred to Egyptian mythology. I
Speaker 4: think it was like in that scene where you're writing
Speaker 4: an elevator up and they're talking for a bit and
Speaker 4: there's it's on the walls or something. I believe that's
Speaker 4: what it was. But they familiar, They've hinted that that
Speaker 4: would be like the next place that they go after
Speaker 4: they wrap this portion of the story up. That sounds
Speaker 4: right to me. And yeah, you know, Egyptian mythology is
Speaker 4: really cool. They got some cool stuff to play with there.
Speaker 4: And all my Yu gi oh fans in the audience
Speaker 4: know what I'm talking about there where they got some
Speaker 4: cool stuff to work with. You Egyptian god cars Chef,
Speaker 4: we have a lot to teach you. We have a
Speaker 4: lot to teach you. All right, I'm ready to.
Speaker 3: Learn, Thank you.
Speaker 4: Jan I think that would be a cool setting too,
Speaker 4: going to Egypt and seeing what that looks like for them.
Speaker 4: I want to see what they would do with it,
Speaker 4: because Egypt is a setting that can be done in
Speaker 4: an either very interesting way or just it's interpreted as
Speaker 4: sand a lot of sand and desert, like, well, it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna have a very prime four problem. Where are my
Speaker 2: wife foods?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's the right way of doing it, the wrong
Speaker 4: way to do it, and I just have Look, I
Speaker 4: have such faith in the teams that have been working
Speaker 4: on these games that I want to see what that
Speaker 4: would look.
Speaker 3: Like from them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the same they they have seem to have a
Speaker 1: real grasp on what they're doing. Okay, if they didn't
Speaker 1: do Egypt, where would you want them to go. I
Speaker 1: don't even know, Like I look like a chat throughout
Speaker 1: Aztec and I'm like, oh, that that would.
Speaker 3: Be that could be interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah and that yeah, yeah, pretty different setting from uh
Speaker 4: more like the European stuff.
Speaker 3: That would be interesting.
Speaker 1: I would want them to fight in North America. The
Speaker 1: Mormon gods go there and take on I can't remember
Speaker 1: the name of any but like go to Jackson, Missouri
Speaker 1: with Kredos and just take on that whole pantheon. That
Speaker 1: would be a good time, actually, North America for Native
Speaker 1: American Like eventually, I hope they'd get there. I don't
Speaker 1: think they ever would because it just feels like out
Speaker 1: of place for Credos, but I would enjoy that either way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people are pointing out the curve to curves or probably
Speaker 1: a scimitar. Actually it is the word we're looking for there,
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean you could just I think you
Speaker 1: close your eyes, you picture Credos fighting a Nubis like
Speaker 1: that just looks right, Honestly, I'm like, I wouldn't suppresed
Speaker 1: he's fought a Nubis in like the original three games
Speaker 1: for some reason at some point. But yeah, like, well,
Speaker 1: we'll probably get some of that in this next game.
Speaker 1: In the meantime that that Metroid Vana, the two point
Speaker 1: five D one that is going back to the it's
Speaker 1: the Greek setting, right that is sounds like it's still
Speaker 1: coming out next year.
Speaker 3: A Cordon said that, like I would know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm like what the original games were
Speaker 1: in the Greek mythology, I always kind of mix it
Speaker 1: up with so I was like, it's.
Speaker 2: Greek though, it's Greek, okay.
Speaker 1: Yug Horri comments on why they settled on Dragon Quest
Speaker 1: seven remake. First, this is for my Nintendo News. The
Speaker 1: Dragon Quest producer Eugi horr Is commented on why they
Speaker 1: chose to remake Dragon Quest seven before the other beloved
Speaker 1: entries in the RPG series such as four, five, and six.
Speaker 1: Horry says that it was simply a matter of chance
Speaker 1: that they settled on seven first. Horri also said that
Speaker 1: Dragon Quest seven Reimagined is progressing very smoothly and that
Speaker 1: a lot of progress has been made on the game
Speaker 1: thus far. A lot of things are moving around, but
Speaker 1: it was just done first by chance. As I said,
Speaker 1: just now, we want to make them playable on ongoing platforms.
Speaker 1: They got the interviewer here, nas Chris says, does that
Speaker 1: mean seven is simply progressing smoothly? And then yeah, he
Speaker 1: just confirms that, but it's not. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what he means by chance. I was like, I
Speaker 1: put the story in here because it's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get some clarification. It's like, no, I still
Speaker 1: don't feel like I understand why you guys went in
Speaker 1: this direction. Now when I look at the game, the
Speaker 1: sense I get is they want to make sure, like
Speaker 1: I think it's this on, we want to make sure
Speaker 1: these games work on ongoing platforms, and that means eventually
Speaker 1: they're going to do all of them, right, That's what
Speaker 1: it sounds like to me. I think all of these
Speaker 1: Japanese publishers are looking at Capcom as a playbook, and
Speaker 1: I think that's right.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with it at all. That's the move.
Speaker 1: If you're in that position, though, you might have to
Speaker 1: think about it a little strategically, and maybe you do
Speaker 1: start with like the lowest hanging fruit, or not the
Speaker 1: lowest hanging but the one that needs the most work,
Speaker 1: so that when you get to Dragon Quest seven, people
Speaker 1: aren't like, oh, that's disappointing. We got all these awesome
Speaker 1: ones remade, now we're gonna go to the one that
Speaker 1: don't love quite as much. It's like, well, let's show
Speaker 1: what we can do with seven first, and then they'll
Speaker 1: be even more excited when we go back to these
Speaker 1: ones that are more beloved.
Speaker 2: That's what it sounds like to me. Does that sound
Speaker 2: right to you?
Speaker 3: That sounds right to me as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, at first glance, you see this headline
Speaker 4: and you're like, so they rolled to die.
Speaker 3: To figure out whichelonway you mean?
Speaker 4: But yeah, I do think it's that of they probably
Speaker 4: have plans or some concept for each of these games
Speaker 4: a remake. Studios do that all the time. They just
Speaker 4: throw stuff at the wall. They you know, whiteboard stuff.
Speaker 4: They just past stuff out there, start planning things, they
Speaker 4: get into early stages of development. So many studios have
Speaker 4: so many projects that we'll just never know about because
Speaker 4: it didn't get further than someone like having an art
Speaker 4: board that they started making stuff for. And I think
Speaker 4: this is just, Hey, whatever we wanted to do for
Speaker 4: each of these older Dragon Quest games, seven is the
Speaker 4: one that we had ideas for the most, and so
Speaker 4: it's the one that we're progressing with first. And it also, yeah,
Speaker 4: like you said, does make sense to do the one
Speaker 4: that needs the most love first, because we talked about
Speaker 4: this recently with the Resident Evil games, where even the
Speaker 4: ones that are seen as lesser in the series, like
Speaker 4: five and six, are still playable, are still you know,
Speaker 4: even if they have their issues, you can still fire
Speaker 4: those up, and it's a relatively modern gaming experience. But
Speaker 4: something like Code Ronka is or need more attention because
Speaker 4: they are so rough and technologically, you know, not as advanced.
Speaker 4: So I think it's a similar situation here where people
Speaker 4: I'm not huge into Dragon Quest, but I know a
Speaker 4: lot of people who are, and they all say that Yeah,
Speaker 4: seven is the one that I just could not get into.
Speaker 4: It's a very rough game. It clearly had some issues
Speaker 4: with development or just they tried too many things. And
Speaker 4: so I think it's cool that this is the one
Speaker 4: that they are putting their attention to and saying, what's
Speaker 4: the term they use, It's going to be pacier or whatever, which.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, got a word, but okay, we'll take It'll
Speaker 1: mean we know.
Speaker 4: What they mean. Yeah, So I think it sounds good
Speaker 4: all around. Glad to see them doing this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, chats like offering a lot of other
Speaker 1: stuff here. Dragon Quest seven is ready first because four
Speaker 1: or five, six apparently are a trilogy that all go together.
Speaker 1: So it's like, oh, that might require even more work.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting point. I buy a seven more standalone.
Speaker 1: Another person pointing out Merlin and Chat seven was the
Speaker 1: second highest selling PS one game in Japan, so I
Speaker 1: don't think it's correct to say it's less beloved.
Speaker 4: The Japanese sales do not necessarily reply to how the
Speaker 4: rest of the world is about the game.
Speaker 1: Yah, and that like you got to think about the
Speaker 1: history and the context of that release, right that was.
Speaker 1: Dragon Quest seven came out several years after six and
Speaker 1: six was a super Nintendo game. This was a PlayStation
Speaker 1: one game, like a couple of years after Final Fantasy
Speaker 1: seven happened. I think it was also after Final Fantasy eight.
Speaker 1: Dragon Quest was already Dragon Warrior was already beloved in Japan,
Speaker 1: or we call it a Dragon Warrior, they're a dragon Quest.
Speaker 2: Dragon Quest was already super beloved.
Speaker 1: In Japan, so there was a huge amount of anticipation
Speaker 1: on top of Final Fantasy seven taking over the world.
Speaker 1: So grpgs were at their zenith. That game was always
Speaker 1: going to sell very well.
Speaker 2: It was at the time.
Speaker 1: I think people the response to it afterward was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it kind of drawn out.
Speaker 2: It's not exactly what I was looking for.
Speaker 1: At the same time, I think people are like ready
Speaker 1: for this game to sort of go in and find
Speaker 1: all the best stuff of dragon Quest seven and put
Speaker 1: it forward.
Speaker 2: And again, I just think it looks so cool. It's
Speaker 2: got a really sharpen to it.
Speaker 1: Borderlands four patch aims to improve performance on PC.
Speaker 2: This is from Ben Lyons at Game Reactor.
Speaker 1: Gearbox has already started work on improving the performance of
Speaker 1: Borderlands four, I should hope, so following its conflicting launch
Speaker 1: where many reported port technical stability, all despite strong debut sales.
Speaker 1: Following the recent promise to continuously improve and enhance the game,
Speaker 1: now with patch has been released that should improve stability
Speaker 1: on PC and squash a few bugs at the same time.
Speaker 1: As per what the September eighteen patch fixes. The full
Speaker 1: notes are stability, gameplay and loot improvements. Stabilities addressed crashes
Speaker 1: tied to animation states, audio and collision checks addressed various
Speaker 1: GPU related crashes. Gameplay progression. There's a bunch of improvements there,
Speaker 1: and then looten items updated, lootpools so gilded Glory pack
Speaker 1: guns no longer appear in standard chests. You know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a lot of performance improvements quite yet,
Speaker 1: but stability, fixing crashes obviously, that probably is the number
Speaker 1: one priority. You want people to be able to play uninterrupted,
Speaker 1: even if they have to turn down their settings or
Speaker 1: whatever to get a decent frame rate.
Speaker 2: And this is just the PC version.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've heard about an update or a
Speaker 1: patch for the PS to five version, which apparently has
Speaker 1: a bad memory leak where the longer you run, the
Speaker 1: worst performance gets.
Speaker 2: I know, I call it a memory leak.
Speaker 1: I'm not a professional and I don't know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, So when I say that, that's the colloquial
Speaker 1: term that we use.
Speaker 3: Also, I think, really, what's happening?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't know if that is or isn't it,
Speaker 4: So that's what we're assuming it is based online.
Speaker 3: What's happening.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of thing that we say when this
Speaker 1: thing happens in a game where the longer it runs
Speaker 1: it performs worse. But either way it's something they have
Speaker 1: to address.
Speaker 2: Right. So Borderlands four it does.
Speaker 1: Feel like it probably is in that sweet spot where
Speaker 1: it can push through a lot of these issues with enough,
Speaker 1: you know, more frequent updates, as long as the support
Speaker 1: feels like it's there. I think people who show up
Speaker 1: for Borderlands game are like ready to put up with that.
Speaker 2: Is that the sense you get?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Yeah, I would say in general, because
Speaker 4: Borderlands is absolutely a game series that broke through to
Speaker 4: the mainstream in a huge way. Tons of people I
Speaker 4: know who you know, dropped out off of gaming high school,
Speaker 4: college or whatever. They you know, people my age just
Speaker 4: the right age to have played like Borderlands and Borlands
Speaker 4: two around that time. And so to them, they still
Speaker 4: have fond memories of it, and so the Borderlands name
Speaker 4: does still hold that name recognition, that cachet with an
Speaker 4: audience like that, So I think Borderlands four could still
Speaker 4: appeal to them on whatever platform they may have, you know,
Speaker 4: PS fives or something really well, so it definitely seems
Speaker 4: like a game that they would love to get on
Speaker 4: that system. And I think a more casual audience is
Speaker 4: more accepting to performance issues, the kind of thing where
Speaker 4: we're going to eyeball that and we can see a
Speaker 4: low frame right right away, because it's all we do
Speaker 4: is play video games and analyze this stuff and everything,
Speaker 4: spend money on hardware, yeah, and spend my on hardware
Speaker 4: that we expect to perform a certain way. That's the
Speaker 4: problem with the PC version. But I think that broadly speaking,
Speaker 4: that audience is going to be more accepting of the
Speaker 4: waste performing.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Granted we are specifically talking about the PC version here,
Speaker 4: and that is the difference here, and one that maybe
Speaker 4: you Randy didn't really realize when he was talking about this.
Speaker 4: You can't tell the PC audience you don't know what
Speaker 4: you're talking about, because hey, if any consumer was going
Speaker 4: to know what we're talking about. It's the PC audience
Speaker 4: that literally made the machine that we are using to
Speaker 4: run the game. We know what this class of hardware
Speaker 4: is supposed to do, how supposed to perform where crashes
Speaker 4: could or could not occur even and if we're feeling
Speaker 4: like this game should not be doing things in this way,
Speaker 4: it just feels bad when it does, and people are
Speaker 4: being told you're wrong about this thing. So I I
Speaker 4: really hope that they continue to increase performance as well
Speaker 4: across all platforms in addition the fixing these crashes.
Speaker 2: And you're not even like close to overstating that.
Speaker 1: Like when you look at like the Nintendo community or
Speaker 1: the Nintendo content creator scene, right, it's a bunch of
Speaker 1: people talking about games, talking about Nintendo, like their strategy,
Speaker 1: what they're doing. Like the top ten most popular PC
Speaker 1: gaming content creators like on YouTube are all dudes who
Speaker 1: do like overclocking videos and performance test and that's their
Speaker 1: entire thing is we have refined the science of meticulously
Speaker 1: testing every piece of hardware. We built our custom way
Speaker 1: of testing this PSU, this power supply unit. They're lunatics
Speaker 1: and they have millions of views because even the casual
Speaker 1: PC players are like, this is like my hobby, this
Speaker 1: is my tinkering with a car during the summer, or
Speaker 1: like even they bought a pre built PC, they know
Speaker 1: the parts that are in their system because they picked
Speaker 1: them from a dropdown menu, and they.
Speaker 2: Still want to feel really good about it, so they go.
Speaker 1: Watch these videos and so it's kind of a feedback
Speaker 1: loop of I'm in that scene to get the best performance.
Speaker 1: I spent my real money on there, and I expect
Speaker 1: to see frame rate per dollar on the screen, and
Speaker 1: you're right, And he just seems a little unaware of
Speaker 1: like the way that PC gamers are feeling these days
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 4: Sort of thing, right, Yeah, because even like you know,
Speaker 4: in our circle, Mike is kind of that person you
Speaker 4: talked about where like he's not as technically inclined as
Speaker 4: say you or me, but he spent good money on
Speaker 4: a good PC, so I would you know, run games
Speaker 4: in a certain way for work and when it's not
Speaker 4: performing in the way it should, you know, he kind
Speaker 4: of turns out and say he's like, is this right,
Speaker 4: and we're like, no, it's not. It definitely is not.
Speaker 4: And yeah, with the big channels, you know, love them
Speaker 4: or hate them, even channels like Lions type tips for example,
Speaker 4: is making stuff like PC gaming a little more accessible
Speaker 4: to the mainstream, and as we get more people in there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like you said, this audience is growing. I mean, if
Speaker 4: you look at PC as a whole, it's bigger than
Speaker 4: console gaming. But you know, with the record audience, especially
Speaker 4: in the West, Yeah, console is probably still seen as
Speaker 4: the bigger thing. By the numbers. It might be still
Speaker 4: the bigger thing I assume, so at least. Yeah, they
Speaker 4: just need to work on both these versions though, because
Speaker 4: it's got issues all across the board, and the overspecking
Speaker 4: of this version, like going beyond your scope for something
Speaker 4: that still doesn't look radically better than you know, well,
Speaker 4: I guess border Lands three, but even border Lance two,
Speaker 4: with like better resolution stuff, it doesn't look miles beyond that.
Speaker 1: Yep, we are those diminishing returns have hit hard over
Speaker 1: the last ten years, for sure. We are about a
Speaker 1: decade of it too, of like really serious obvious diminishing
Speaker 1: returns where you kind of have to do side by
Speaker 1: side and zoom in to see a.
Speaker 2: Lot of differences in video games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even Dan, like who is even less inclined than Mike,
Speaker 1: he like we keep talking about maybe getting new CPUs,
Speaker 1: and every time we talked.
Speaker 2: About he's like, am I gonna have to install myself?
Speaker 2: What's happening? Like petrified?
Speaker 1: Even he's still drivers, even he knows like what GPU
Speaker 1: he has and like kind of like what it should
Speaker 1: do and what it's capable of. So it's like kind
Speaker 1: of across the board. If you spend money on a GPU,
Speaker 1: you know, you have some idea. And that's just about
Speaker 1: everybody in the PC gaming space. Even if you put
Speaker 1: like a gaming laptop, they kind of.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, you know, because again it's those channels that
Speaker 4: are telling people, hey, this is what you can expect
Speaker 4: out of like this. They just know the number, and
Speaker 4: it's easy when you have like forty seventy or like
Speaker 4: fifty eighty, it's easy to remember that number and they
Speaker 4: know what to expect out of that. But just real quick,
Speaker 4: I think dead on about diminishing returns as well, and
Speaker 4: again not to relitigate, but something like a Metroid Prime
Speaker 4: for that we're talking about earlier. Does a game really
Speaker 4: need to look better than that? I personally don't think.
Speaker 4: So that's why I still love Nintendo games is yes,
Speaker 4: it looks less technically advanced, but if they're hitting target
Speaker 4: frame rates and it's fun to play, that's why I
Speaker 4: care about right now. And with PC gaming, the reason
Speaker 4: I like is that I can choose what to sacrifice
Speaker 4: to get to look a certain way. And if I
Speaker 4: can't sacrifice enough to get it to perform the way
Speaker 4: it should on my machine, that's when you have a
Speaker 4: bad PC port. And that's why door lance for is
Speaker 4: seen as such a you know, just mishandling of the
Speaker 4: situation the.
Speaker 3: PC space right now. And yeah, they got to fix it,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's we're going to take a break, I guess
Speaker 1: before we do, so, let's get this other one from
Speaker 1: to one free man a super chat.
Speaker 2: I want to play Sean's fave Pokemon games. Don't I
Speaker 2: need a DS.
Speaker 1: Like enter Grub, need rex ray dual screen handheld that
Speaker 1: can run fit Thanks guys, there was that.
Speaker 2: There was that new one.
Speaker 1: I've not gotten any of the dual screen ones, but
Speaker 1: there was a new one that I think retro Gamecore
Speaker 1: was really into. Let me let me see I could
Speaker 1: just find it. It was the one I was watching
Speaker 1: watching his videos on those are first of all, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the I in Neo pocket DS does it Chunky Boy
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 2: J I think it's also kind of expensive. Also idiot.
Speaker 1: Doing any sort of dual screen set up on any
Speaker 1: of these devices, especially the I in EO, which give
Speaker 1: you a lot of control.
Speaker 2: I think they all well.
Speaker 1: They don't all run Windows. They have Android stuff. I
Speaker 1: think I think that well, the Pocket series has been Android.
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about this one. I'll say across
Speaker 1: the board. It's a little bit of a hassle. And
Speaker 1: if you really want to do the DS three DS games,
Speaker 1: I think your best move probably is just to get
Speaker 1: a three DS. A new three DSXL.
Speaker 4: Two DSXL is are cheaper than the three DS, and
Speaker 4: that's a good way to get in there. And like,
Speaker 4: if you don't want specific stuff, it's a good way
Speaker 4: to do three DS games, DS games and even older games.
Speaker 4: Then you know, check out three DS dot has dot guide.
Speaker 4: For no particular reason.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, you should. Everyone should. It's so good. It's
Speaker 2: the way to live. Everybody. Uh but we like we're
Speaker 2: not even like joke. That's the recommendation.
Speaker 1: There, go get a two DS, or even if you
Speaker 1: want to save a little bit more money, you can
Speaker 1: get a DSIXL or something like that to just play
Speaker 1: those games. All right, let's take that break. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: with the headline. Sonic Racing Cross World's Final DLC Racer
Speaker 1: is another classic video game character. This is from Chris
Speaker 1: Calling of VGC, although I found out about it from
Speaker 1: a freaking out Mike Manatti.
Speaker 2: So what could it be? It's Matt, I wonder it's
Speaker 2: the Baca Man. Let's get through here.
Speaker 1: The game is out September twenty fifth, and, as often happens,
Speaker 1: less than a week before a game's.
Speaker 2: Release, some physical copies have already.
Speaker 1: Found their way into players hands. One player Reddit user
Speaker 1: wrong minute one three one nine posted a photo on
Speaker 1: the Sonic the Hedgehog reddit page which appears to show
Speaker 1: a flyer inside the physical PS five version of the game,
Speaker 1: revealing all the games DLC packs. As the time of writing,
Speaker 1: Sega's only confirmed that the game's Season pass will include
Speaker 1: Minecraft content in October, SpongeBob SquarePants in November, followed by
Speaker 1: Pac Man, Avatar Legends, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem. However,
Speaker 1: the included flyer with the game appears to confirm that
Speaker 1: Capcom's Mega Man is the sixth and final DLC pack
Speaker 1: set to be included in the season past. Following the
Speaker 1: posting of this image, Sonic news site The Sonic Stadium
Speaker 1: also posted their own video of the physical version's box
Speaker 1: being opened and the flyer being found inside. So there's
Speaker 1: there's two sources we can kind of we could say
Speaker 1: this is real. Hey, I think that is That's fun.
Speaker 1: I think that they have struck an interesting balance of DLC.
Speaker 2: Guest characters for this KRT Racer. It's it's not like perfect.
Speaker 1: I think I definitely want them to be more like
Speaker 1: focused on all the Sega history stuff.
Speaker 2: But that's me personally.
Speaker 1: I know that partnerships are gonna happen and so we're
Speaker 1: gonna get stuff like this, and if that's the case,
Speaker 1: I look, I think SpongeBob is really fun. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not personally, I haven't watched a ton of of
Speaker 1: Avatar show, but I know people love that.
Speaker 2: I think those are cool.
Speaker 1: And then as long as we also get something like
Speaker 1: Mega Man, and then it all kind of like coalesces.
Speaker 1: For me, it kind of feels like, Okay, we're getting
Speaker 1: some fun stuff for the kids, some fun stuff for
Speaker 1: the old men. I feel like they have delivered a
Speaker 1: pretty decent set of DLC bonuses here. How do you feel?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I feel same.
Speaker 4: Like, Look, I'm a big Mega Man fan too, So
Speaker 4: I saw this, I thought, oh, that's really cool, and
Speaker 4: it's awesome that, you know, like Mike was pointing out
Speaker 4: when you guys talked about this, Hey, it's kind of
Speaker 4: interesting that Mega Man, Pac Man and Sonic are all
Speaker 4: getting back together and they're leaving Parrio out of it
Speaker 4: this time.
Speaker 3: That's pretty funny.
Speaker 4: I do like that when you see someone like this,
Speaker 4: the crossovers happening, it's clear that there's deals happening, because
Speaker 4: that's why we have three different Nickelodeon characters or groups
Speaker 4: of characters in here as well. They must have went
Speaker 4: for one of them, and the negotiating negotiations panned out
Speaker 4: of Hey, do you guys maybe want to work something
Speaker 4: deeper out and we'll give you even more characters. And
Speaker 4: I think it's the right audience, the Sonic audience, which
Speaker 4: is going to be kids and younger adults generally speaking,
Speaker 4: and the Mike and Eyes of the world who holed
Speaker 4: onto the nineties. It's definitely going to be people who
Speaker 4: grew up with SpongeBob and Yeah Avatar and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So I think it's very smart to have that combination
Speaker 4: of care. Then you know, Minecraft Steve in there as well,
Speaker 4: and then yeah, well we'll slowly get some Sega characters too,
Speaker 4: just because it's so much easier for them to do
Speaker 4: as well. We already got Joker in there, Hots name Meek.
Speaker 4: You technically kind of a Sega character because they do
Speaker 4: like all of her games, or at least most of
Speaker 4: them know they do the rhythm games. So yeah, a
Speaker 4: lot of this is making sense, and I do think
Speaker 4: they're striking that right balance. And it's awesome to see
Speaker 4: Mega Man in here as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I was pretty happy to see this game
Speaker 2: really reviewing. Well. I think it's going to be like
Speaker 2: a long term hit for them.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be one that they could probably
Speaker 1: sell this game this whole generation and kids will keep
Speaker 1: coming to it.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm I'm.
Speaker 1: Glad to see other kart racers still hot happening in
Speaker 1: this space.
Speaker 2: A lot of other genres.
Speaker 1: One game sort of dominates and everyone's like, well, let's
Speaker 1: not even try.
Speaker 2: I'm glad.
Speaker 1: Sega's like, no, we can make this work still, and
Speaker 1: they've successfully done it multiple times now, so very cool
Speaker 1: to see. I mean, if this works, we probably may
Speaker 1: like I know, this is the promised YOU'LC for now,
Speaker 1: they could just keep adding characters going forward. I could
Speaker 1: see them doing that. I guess the game would have
Speaker 1: to reach a certain level of success to do that,
Speaker 1: but I can see this game really riding the wave
Speaker 1: of early switch to sales and then kind of being
Speaker 1: the game that just always is on a list of
Speaker 1: best games to get for families and young kids and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: them maybe supporting it even more so than they are
Speaker 1: already promising.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and DLC has planned years in advance. Harad has
Speaker 4: talked about that in regards to Tech and it's just
Speaker 4: true with all games where you need to plan this
Speaker 4: stuff out. So I won't be surprised if they have
Speaker 4: a minimum of two seasons planned out. And like season
Speaker 4: two is in development right now. You know season one
Speaker 4: already done and ready to be put in the game
Speaker 4: when the time comes. Now they're working on season two.
Speaker 4: And then Yeah, if this game is super successful, why
Speaker 4: not keep adding more characters, more stages from other worlds
Speaker 4: Because I don't think I don't think there's no because Steve,
Speaker 4: I think, had a Minecraft track that they showed off,
Speaker 4: Pari mar they've shown so far, because like Joker, I
Speaker 4: don't think like there's no Persona track as far as
Speaker 4: I know at least, But yeah, I can totally see
Speaker 4: them keep adding to this. And like I mentioned on
Speaker 4: the BombCast this week, when I did get to play
Speaker 4: it in the network test. I had a lot of
Speaker 4: fun with this game, and so I'm looking forward to
Speaker 4: the full release because I you know, I love Mario Kart,
Speaker 4: so in world not being what I was looking for.
Speaker 4: I really want to just have a fun kart racer
Speaker 4: player with my friends, and this is looking like it's
Speaker 4: the one for us this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's just getting like out in like you know,
Speaker 1: early release through like a premium version.
Speaker 2: We should play this game at some point soon.
Speaker 4: Maybe it comes out next Thursday, at least I have
Speaker 4: on my calendar.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we will play it next week. Then that'll
Speaker 2: be a fun time.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see here, let's keep up with the headlines.
Speaker 1: Why do I not like actually include this the name
Speaker 1: of the game in the headline?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm look confusing.
Speaker 1: Skate Story is heading to switch to sometime this year.
Speaker 1: I just I just says heading to switch to sometime
Speaker 1: this year. This is from Go Nintendo, Devolver Digital and
Speaker 1: Sam Ing's Skate Story is launching on Nintendo switch to
Speaker 1: this year. And you could check out the game in
Speaker 1: action above and they have a trailer in Skatestore. You
Speaker 1: are a demon in the underworld made out of glass
Speaker 1: and pain.
Speaker 2: The devil has given you a skateboard, and now you
Speaker 2: you got listen, did I stutter? I might have?
Speaker 1: Actually still, the devil has given you a skateboard with
Speaker 1: a simple deal. Skate to the moon and swallow it
Speaker 1: and you shall be freed. And all of this is
Speaker 1: on the go on the switch to now. So Skatestore
Speaker 1: mostly included this just as confirmation that this game is
Speaker 1: still coming out this year for people that don't know
Speaker 1: what it is. There was a trailer for this game
Speaker 1: like at a I don't want to say, maybe a
Speaker 1: Game Awards a.
Speaker 2: Couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: It is a very stylistic take on on skate where
Speaker 1: like the cameras kind of panned down towards your skateboard
Speaker 1: more than it is at your character. And but it's
Speaker 1: all it all seems about just like skating forward, doing
Speaker 1: cool tricks and looking cool.
Speaker 2: And then it's super style.
Speaker 1: And I remember that early trailer being like, look, you
Speaker 1: are a skater made of glass and pain, and it's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: well I wonder what that means. But then you see
Speaker 1: more game plan, it's like no, I look at it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that looks like glass and pain. It's got a real
Speaker 1: vibe to it, and I'm ready to see this game
Speaker 1: come out and another indie game coming out on switch To.
Speaker 1: I think also just like tying yourself to the switch
Speaker 1: to in any way, if you are one of these games,
Speaker 1: is it continues to be the right move for as
Speaker 1: much as there is some I don't want to quit.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's quite backlash. There is some backlash,
Speaker 1: But as much as there is like consternation about the
Speaker 1: switch to and prices and Nintendo and their moves and
Speaker 1: their lawyers and all this stuff, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are still buying the switch to and playing games on it,
Speaker 1: and they don't feel anything any of those things about
Speaker 1: the indie games. They'll show up for that. And Skate
Speaker 1: Story two or a Skate Story feels like it could
Speaker 1: be one of those games that could really benefit from
Speaker 1: again tying themselves to the switch to. How are you
Speaker 1: feeling about the indie scene on switch at the moment?
Speaker 4: And switch to, Jeff, My switch To is currently unplugged
Speaker 4: and sitting in the corner over there because it was
Speaker 4: a very bad little system. You know, it knows what
Speaker 4: it did. I'm a situation where I have a Steam deck.
Speaker 4: That's where I prefer a play games. I prefer a
Speaker 4: buy my indies there or on stuff like it or whatever.
Speaker 4: So for me, that's my indie machine. But in relation
Speaker 4: to the topic, I think that, yeah, any indie attaching
Speaker 4: themselves to switch to is a good idea because we
Speaker 4: saw I was switch one. People are looking for games
Speaker 4: on that system. You know, mine's unplugged because it didn't
Speaker 4: fit in my system very elegantly. I need to like
Speaker 4: get a new TV stand here, like the whole.
Speaker 1: The whole setup you have for like all your systems
Speaker 1: all together and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's because you know, I have a capture cartoon
Speaker 4: that I'm routing things through for streaming and capturing and stuff.
Speaker 4: It's just I don't quite have the space for it
Speaker 4: at the moment. So that's why it's over there. And
Speaker 4: because there's not exclusive that play right now, because that's
Speaker 4: what a switch. That's what Nintendo systems are to me
Speaker 4: nowadays as a PC player, it's the exclusives machine. Oh
Speaker 4: I'm going with Donkey Kong. So it's sending over there
Speaker 4: until I get that new TV stand or I need to.
Speaker 3: Plug it back in for work purposes. But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I was talking to you about my plan for getting.
Speaker 1: A third dock. So I have the two sees because
Speaker 1: I bought to it at launch. I was going to
Speaker 1: sell one. The kids will bothering me and like you can,
Speaker 1: you guys can have one whatever. I just won't get
Speaker 1: the money back on that. So we had two docks
Speaker 1: and that was handy. A dock upstairs and a dock
Speaker 1: down here. But I also have my computer and it's like,
Speaker 1: actually moving these docks is a little bit of a pain.
Speaker 1: I do have to like climb back behind some TVs
Speaker 1: and unplugs some stuff.
Speaker 2: I really dislike that.
Speaker 1: And there's times where it's like, hey, we're gonna let's
Speaker 1: stream some switch games. Go get there and saying okay,
Speaker 1: so I did. I was like, I'm gonna get a
Speaker 1: switch to dock, and I don't want to necessarily get
Speaker 1: an official one. I want one that's like it has
Speaker 1: a little more of a few more options. I want
Speaker 1: one that can handle the steam deck as well and
Speaker 1: can maybe capture video. I actually capture video locally on
Speaker 1: an SD card, and there was one out there that
Speaker 1: was capable of that. Now there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: Steam two docs to choose from to begin with, but
Speaker 1: there have been several of these that have gotten updates
Speaker 1: through firmware to Sport switch to and they do work
Speaker 1: as long as you have an official Nintendo switch to
Speaker 1: charging thing, which so I have buy another one of those,
Speaker 1: so that added to the cost. But I spent one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty dollars I think maybe even one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty on this AVerMedia.
Speaker 2: Let's see what is it.
Speaker 1: It's like the go like the yeah, the AVerMedia go,
Speaker 1: and it's it works, it does work. And then the
Speaker 1: handy thing here case it's got this little this little
Speaker 1: ravine down here, so you can plug this into the
Speaker 1: bottom which is where the video comes out, and then
Speaker 1: it sort of like nestles in there and then it
Speaker 1: snugs in there.
Speaker 2: Tight and it works out really well.
Speaker 1: It does function as a capture card and as a DOC,
Speaker 1: so I actually have it going into my other capture
Speaker 1: card in this PC. But if I needed to move
Speaker 1: this around or take it with me or move it
Speaker 1: somewhere else, I could still pop in an SD card
Speaker 1: and get full four K capture on this thing. And okay,
Speaker 1: it's working. It's handy I like it. I now I
Speaker 1: would not recommend this route to most people. There are
Speaker 1: equivalent ones that are even from like AVerMedia that don't
Speaker 1: have the capture stuff that I think you can get
Speaker 1: for around seventy to eighty dollars, and that's probably the move.
Speaker 2: But okay, very at least this one did work.
Speaker 1: So there are other options for docs besides what Nintendo's selling,
Speaker 1: which is too expensive for what that thing is.
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking at on Amazon and I'm trying to
Speaker 4: like sus a couple different listings out, but looks like, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the one you're talking about, I think it's this one
Speaker 4: is Yeah, MSRPs for two hundred N's on sale for
Speaker 4: like one fifty ish. That's neat because yeah, if it
Speaker 4: does include the capture card stuff as well, the four
Speaker 4: K AVerMedia capture card that I have, I think it
Speaker 4: can go a higher end than that. Yeah, because this
Speaker 4: CAP's out of four K sixty. I think mine is
Speaker 4: four K one twenty was around the same price. And
Speaker 4: so the fact that you got a dock and a
Speaker 4: capture card all in one for switch and steam deck,
Speaker 4: that's really good.
Speaker 3: That's really good.
Speaker 1: Actually, let's pump the brakes there a little bit though,
Speaker 1: So the end for your HDMI capture is this USB
Speaker 1: C thing. The HDMI plug here on the bank is
Speaker 1: the out to the TV. Yeah, so like how would
Speaker 1: I connect this to? I guess I'd have to get
Speaker 1: an Hdmi converted to USB C to actually actually capture
Speaker 1: anything else other than a steam deck or a switch.
Speaker 4: Oh right, yeah, in order to do other systems. I
Speaker 4: see what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Yes, you have a system, so like don't I would
Speaker 1: not buy this as your main capture card, is what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like, if you have a capture card, you
Speaker 1: need something specifically for the switch, this would be great.
Speaker 1: Or if you want to like go through the hassle
Speaker 1: of figuring out an adapter so you can plug it
Speaker 1: into other systems. But you're right, like this does have
Speaker 1: a bit more features. That is why I ended up
Speaker 1: spending a little bit more money on this one. And
Speaker 1: I'm happy with it. It does what I needed it.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Uh Next, Zelda Lego set rumor to be Ockering of
Speaker 1: Time diorama featuring Ganandorf.
Speaker 2: I it's got The rumor is it's.
Speaker 1: Going to be one thousand pieces, one thousand and three
Speaker 1: lego pieces, which would be I got I'm say, like
Speaker 1: fourteen cents per block for like one of these licensed ones.
Speaker 1: So I want to like, guess that's around one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty dollars. Is that would that be the map there?
Speaker 1: I yeah, I like the Zelda stuff, or I like
Speaker 1: the Nintendo stuff they've done. I'm wondering like what this
Speaker 1: could mean. Is it like a scene from Ockering of
Speaker 1: Time with gannandor for what like maybe he's on the
Speaker 1: horse or whatever and you can have like a little
Speaker 1: link like looking up at him or something like that
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my assumption is that it's a diorama of
Speaker 4: either a specific scene or just like a medley of
Speaker 4: scenes from the game.
Speaker 3: Oh sure, one thousand and three lego pieces. I think
Speaker 3: that's what.
Speaker 4: That's not a ton I don't do, right, Is that
Speaker 4: actually that's on the key dollars?
Speaker 2: Is that like a small set? I don't know.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, like nothing, nothing that small. But I think
Speaker 4: you're right that this would be like well like maybe
Speaker 4: a two hundred dollars set or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, but yeah, I think it sounds very
Speaker 4: basic based on at least the way this is being
Speaker 4: described here in the story, I think, yeah, it's probably
Speaker 4: like a scene showing off things you remember from Okarin
Speaker 4: at a time, and it says featuring Gannendorf. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: probably gonna be maybe the boss fight at the end
Speaker 4: of the game or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's behind the Lego Nintendo collaborations.
Speaker 2: I think they've mostly hit the mark.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I've been cool.
Speaker 4: I know what Dan has, like the more retro and
Speaker 4: Nintendo themed ones, and so you know, while we're at
Speaker 4: check those one.
Speaker 2: Hundred and forty six pieces for comparison.
Speaker 4: There you go, Okay, that checks out. Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 4: So yeah, this is going to be smaller than maybe
Speaker 4: uh ye first impression.
Speaker 2: But they have a lot of those.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of like smaller Mario sets and smaller
Speaker 1: stuff like that that aren't don't get as many headlines
Speaker 1: as like the NS that is two six hundred pieces.
Speaker 4: Or whatever, right or the I know, the Pokemon one
Speaker 4: is the one that people are freaking out over because
Speaker 4: we like the third biggest ever something crazy like that,
Speaker 4: and it's yeah, it's gonna have like thousands of thousands
Speaker 4: of pieces, and people are expecting it to be like
Speaker 4: six hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: Or something like that.
Speaker 4: And I remember on VGC they were trying to figure out, like,
Speaker 4: what the hell is that thing gonna be? What could
Speaker 4: you possibly show with that many pieces? And they're speculating
Speaker 4: me it's like a town from Pokemon with a bunch
Speaker 4: of different like little scenes and stuff. But I think
Speaker 4: it's cute. I'm not much of a lego person, just
Speaker 4: because I don't know. It's kind of something you display
Speaker 4: and I don't know if my camera really shows off here.
Speaker 4: I don't have much room in here is to be kidding,
Speaker 4: I don't know what the hell I'm gonna put those
Speaker 4: damn things.
Speaker 2: So do you have an equivalent?
Speaker 1: Do you have like a like a piece together something
Speaker 1: hobby painting miniatures?
Speaker 2: I guess the card game stuff probably gets closed.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, that's probably the closest I get because other
Speaker 4: than that, well, building a PC every five years, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's sequel in for me is definitely collecting whatever I
Speaker 4: want to collect in Pokemon from any given TCG says probably,
Speaker 4: and then don't I got my little plushy collection back
Speaker 4: there actually spruced that out recently.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's keep talking about we go back
Speaker 1: to Handheld's world's most powerful hand most powerful handheld the
Speaker 1: GPD Win five opens pre orders on September twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: This is from Oliver Stogden at steam deck HQ. If
Speaker 1: you have it yet, one of those is like, this
Speaker 1: is their social media college.
Speaker 2: You haven't follow us on Twitter if you haven't heard
Speaker 2: of the GPD Win five yet.
Speaker 1: In short, it's touted to be the most powerful handheld
Speaker 1: gaming console on the market, with its top model featuring
Speaker 1: a rise in AI max plus three ninety five APU. Yeah,
Speaker 1: paired with the Radiant eighty sixty s GPU, this thing
Speaker 1: will be a bit of a beast. Now, let's keep reading.
Speaker 1: GPD has just announced that the Indiego Go campaign for
Speaker 1: the device will start on September twenty fifth, with shipping
Speaker 1: estimates to commence in November twenty twenty five. The GPD
Speaker 1: Win five is an enthusiast level device through and through
Speaker 1: with a proprietary miny SSD compartment, additional accessories to the
Speaker 1: to doc the device, and more RAM than all of
Speaker 1: my hardware combined. Like, there's a skew of this that
Speaker 1: has one hundred and twenty eight gigabytes of RAM. That's bananas.
Speaker 1: This is definitely one for those of you who want
Speaker 1: a top of the line piece of tech. With that
Speaker 1: being said, there's some specifications here. I want to like
Speaker 1: try to find it. I've seen people say that this
Speaker 1: thing does not have an internal battery and you have
Speaker 1: to buy the external battery. So let's go through the
Speaker 1: dispecs real quick. There is the top of the line.
Speaker 1: One is a the three ninety five APU sixty four
Speaker 1: gigabytes of Wow.
Speaker 2: This is one of the top lines with sixty.
Speaker 1: Four gigabytes plus four terabytes of storage for two two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight dollars. The Indiegogo price though is
Speaker 1: twe twenty dollars. But then they keep talking about the
Speaker 1: external battery for an extra one hundred and three and
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's additional battery or if that's
Speaker 1: the only battery that people keep making it sound that way,
Speaker 1: but I'm like trying to confirm that, and I'm I
Speaker 1: just don't don't see that. But people because they keep
Speaker 1: saying like by having this external battery they can have
Speaker 1: better internal like a cooling. I said, well, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: not a battery in there.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's this is a strange piece of kit. But also
Speaker 1: it does feel like it is really throwing everything in there.
Speaker 1: And that pricing is uh. Oh we lost to Sean.
Speaker 1: That is, I'm sure he'll be back. He seemed like
Speaker 1: he was doing something and I wonder if that just
Speaker 1: broke everything for him. But we'll give him a second
Speaker 1: to come back, and I'll just vamp until then. The
Speaker 1: GPD company has been around for a while. They were oh,
Speaker 1: look at that, I'm ready on Oh and Mike, everyone
Speaker 1: just jumps in.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh you already were new Sewan. I was ready
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: Welcome, come to the new flesh. All right, Well, it
Speaker 1: looks like Sean's trying to get back either way. GPD
Speaker 1: has been doing this for a long time. They actually
Speaker 1: far predate the steam deck. They had years and years
Speaker 1: of handhelds and they were always about fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: They ranged from like eleven hundred up to two thousand.
Speaker 1: So this is like kind of still mostly in line
Speaker 1: with what they've done. Also, these things have gotten more expensive,
Speaker 1: so it's like this feels in line with what they've done.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised they're not trying to be more competitive with
Speaker 1: the pricing. It seems like they've made the alternative decision
Speaker 1: here to just go all in and put together the
Speaker 1: best piece of hardware they can possibly make and hope
Speaker 1: that that distinguishes them while Steam continues to have the
Speaker 1: low end of the market and the like the mass market. Jane,
Speaker 1: are you going to spend two thousand dollars on a
Speaker 1: GPD win five?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Greb.
Speaker 7: I was about to ask who is this specifically targeted for?
Speaker 7: If it's not for like that hyper ex I mean,
Speaker 7: I I scoff when I see the price tag, but
Speaker 7: they they're are audio files out there that are buying
Speaker 7: top of the line, not MP three, but like flack
Speaker 7: players out there that are almost the same in price
Speaker 7: when it comes to like in the two thousand range.
Speaker 7: But I can't imagine someone would want to spend that
Speaker 7: much on a like premium handheld experience.
Speaker 1: There are going to be some out there, like if
Speaker 1: you just really prefer handheld and you do have a
Speaker 1: lot of money, and you do on top of the
Speaker 1: line and you are like, oh man, I've loved my
Speaker 1: Steam Deck, or maybe I upgraded to the Asis rock
Speaker 1: ally X and that was significantly more powerful and I
Speaker 1: really appreciated that, but hey, it still struggles to play
Speaker 1: some of the most recent games at sixty frames per second. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'm getting thirty frames per second, but I want even
Speaker 1: like elden Ring at sixty frames per second. Well, this
Speaker 1: thing probably should be able to do that for a
Speaker 1: lot more games than the Steam Deck and the Roger could,
Speaker 1: And to some people that's going to be worth the price,
Speaker 1: because it does seem like we are still a little
Speaker 1: bit of way away from a steam Deck two or
Speaker 1: a real, actual, massive, significant upgrade. For what Asus and
Speaker 1: Lenovo have done, I think ada As has theirs. There
Speaker 1: are those things are are out there, and they are
Speaker 1: getting consistently updated and upgraded, but they are still mostly
Speaker 1: in the orbit of what the Steam Deck was. This
Speaker 1: thing seems like a generational leap, and the reason they're
Speaker 1: able to do that is this massive price. I do
Speaker 1: wonder though, it's like, what is this going to be
Speaker 1: a unicorn like an anomaly. We see them try this,
Speaker 1: try to stand out and it doesn't really work, and
Speaker 1: when we don't.
Speaker 2: Get another one, you know they're being kind of cautious
Speaker 2: with this.
Speaker 1: They're only going to produce six hundred of them at
Speaker 1: first for this Indiegogo campaign, and they'll be like, okay,
Speaker 1: once we have those ready to go, that will sort
Speaker 1: of fund the rest of development when it goes to retail.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, maybe maybe not everyone shows up
Speaker 1: for this, GREB.
Speaker 7: How far away do you think we are from like
Speaker 7: more bespoke custom handhelds, Cause I am one of those
Speaker 7: people that I do prefer playing my games handheld. I
Speaker 7: still continually will look at a PlayStation portal and tell
Speaker 7: myself I don't need it, even though I have a
Speaker 7: Steam deck and I can do use like cheockey or
Speaker 7: something to get that performance. But also some of these
Speaker 7: other handhelds that are out on the market that are
Speaker 7: not a Steam deck, not your switch to I just
Speaker 7: kind of don't like the design of them. And if
Speaker 7: I could just, I don't know, throw into like a
Speaker 7: computer or into like a Google form like, hey, I
Speaker 7: want like I want like a three DS style clamshell thing,
Speaker 7: and I want the analog sticks to be placed this.
Speaker 2: Way versus that way.
Speaker 7: How far away from that do you think we are?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So right now, Like the closest thing to that is
Speaker 1: there are several of these companies like Ian EO that
Speaker 1: basically has a new one every few I want to
Speaker 1: say weeks. Maybe it's every couple of months, but at
Speaker 1: times there have felt like every couple of weeks they
Speaker 1: have a different one that has a different combination of
Speaker 1: specs and a different form factor. They're the ones that
Speaker 1: were talked about earlier that had the dual screen one.
Speaker 1: So a company like that might get to a point
Speaker 1: where it's like, we've kind of like done a VERTI
Speaker 1: like every version we can think of.
Speaker 2: Maybe we should just build a tool.
Speaker 1: Where someone can do a like a PC part picker
Speaker 1: sort of anywhere. Here's the shell, here's the controller layout. Here,
Speaker 1: here are the specs, here's the memory configuration, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: It's probably possible here really soon, does it make sense
Speaker 1: for one of these companies, I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: an I and EO could stand out by offering that
Speaker 1: because there are going to be a lot of people
Speaker 1: are like, this is still PC gaming. I still want
Speaker 1: to control my experience. Although I think the real reason
Speaker 1: that these handhelds not the real reason one of the
Speaker 1: main reasons that these handhelds have succeeded, especially the Steam Deck,
Speaker 1: is it's standardized, and they because you can expect it
Speaker 1: to work one way. That means that when developers support it,
Speaker 1: they're supporting a huge number of people in the audience.
Speaker 2: When the community.
Speaker 1: Builds tools for it, they can build one tool and
Speaker 1: expect them the majority of people to just go use
Speaker 1: that tool on a Steam deck and it will work
Speaker 1: the same way every time, like you know the decky
Speaker 1: tools or the EMU deck, that sort of stuff where
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, that the reason that gets so much
Speaker 1: support is there's a lot of Steam decks out there.
Speaker 2: So even if we do get.
Speaker 1: This alternative where people can build their own own way
Speaker 1: of doing things, it'll be a very niche thing, and
Speaker 1: maybe one company does it. And even if that's something
Speaker 1: that's appealing to you, Jane, you might not find to
Speaker 1: like there's some trade offs here. I might still want
Speaker 1: to just go with the standard, the standardized thing that
Speaker 1: has worked for everybody.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I say that, greb whor I would like certain
Speaker 7: specific things, and I'd be willing to compromise on on
Speaker 7: other things, Like I don't need it to be super beefy.
Speaker 7: I don't need to play elden Ring at sex sixty fps,
Speaker 7: but I do see that being a slippery slope of like, okay, well,
Speaker 7: I'll compromise on this for these sets of games, but
Speaker 7: I'm not realizing that it's also kind of kneecapped me
Speaker 7: further down the line when I wanted to check out
Speaker 7: other things.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, yeah, all right, yeah, I was just looking
Speaker 1: at this Wookie riot chat here. That GPD handheld could
Speaker 1: legit be a desktop replacement. The rise in three ninety
Speaker 1: five is a monster chip forty sixty slash seventy level
Speaker 1: of performance. I have a laptop with that chip, and
Speaker 1: the performance for.
Speaker 2: An APU is amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is the more the most exciting thing about
Speaker 1: this is we're starting to get handheld gaming devices using
Speaker 1: that really powerful new generation of AMD chips and that
Speaker 1: you know, in a couple of years, probably an equivalent
Speaker 1: of that chip, like the new scope down generation of
Speaker 1: it will probably be what's in a Steam deck, and
Speaker 1: that'll be exciting to see at that point when it's
Speaker 1: more cost effective. All right, last story here, Capcom will
Speaker 1: host an online special program at Tokyo Game Show. This
Speaker 1: is from Ben Lyons, a game reactor. I wanted to
Speaker 1: include this because of this first like little description here.
Speaker 1: Next Week is steadily becoming more and more of a behemoth. Already,
Speaker 1: several showcases have been announced in line with Tokyo Game Show,
Speaker 1: including for Xbox, Rio, Gat Gotoku, Studio, Konami, and Anna Pirna,
Speaker 1: with rumors scrolling that Sony also will have something in store.
Speaker 2: Now. Capcom is joining in on the fun.
Speaker 1: The Japanese publisher has revealed an online special program that
Speaker 1: will occur next week. The exact date and time for
Speaker 1: the show is set for September twenty fourth at fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred BST, and as for what it will deliver, expect looks.
Speaker 2: At many of Capcom's biggest upcoming games.
Speaker 1: That includes Pragmata, Mega Man, Star Force Legacy Collection, Street
Speaker 1: Fighter six Year three on a Musha Way of the Sword,
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter Wild's free title Update three, and Monster Hunter
Speaker 1: Stories three Twisted Reflection. Whereas Resident Evil Requiem. You might
Speaker 1: wonder there's no direct mid mention of that game that
Speaker 1: that game will be present, but a recent rumor suggested
Speaker 1: update of the game will happen next week and confirm
Speaker 1: the involvement of a beloved character. I bet that's at
Speaker 1: the state of play. Actually, yeah, man, maybe we have
Speaker 1: a lot of things to react to next week. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many of these we actually choose to
Speaker 1: do so, but it does feel like Tokyo Game Show
Speaker 1: is finally really starting to pick up some slack from
Speaker 1: the lost E three. Sure, Summer Game Fest has done
Speaker 1: a lot of it, and Opening Night Live and Gamescom
Speaker 1: has done a lot of it. I think we always
Speaker 1: were like, why doesn't Tokyo Game Show do more of it? Well,
Speaker 1: I think the answer to that is, well it is now,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2: Sean, have you been listening? Have you been keeping up?
Speaker 2: But what?
Speaker 3: Also?
Speaker 2: Are you okay? Jeff?
Speaker 3: Find you switch off a Windows real bad?
Speaker 4: Oh no, so just real quick, I got an error
Speaker 4: message in Discord that I've never gone. Even though how
Speaker 4: Funnet was fine, Discord didn't want work, and then Windows
Speaker 4: when I tried to do a resear it was like, hey,
Speaker 4: we got like ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Of updates for you do.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, really shouldn't Productivity operating system because I
Speaker 4: need this from my job right now, But whatever, thanks
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 3: Funny going anywhere it's.
Speaker 2: Going, it's going good.
Speaker 1: We're talking about this Capcom show that they're promising for
Speaker 1: next week. We should probably set expectations for one of
Speaker 1: these special programs from Capcom. We talked over that last
Speaker 1: Capcom thing, and it was, you know what, these Capcom
Speaker 1: things often are just a bunch of updates and reminders
Speaker 1: of some games they have coming out. People probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: expect major new announcements. Even with this rumor that there's
Speaker 1: some cool stuff being t used for Resident Evil Requiem,
Speaker 1: I do think that'll happen at the State of Play instead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I never expect anything big from the Capcom presentations.
Speaker 4: It is almost always, like you said, just updates for
Speaker 4: stuff that has already been out.
Speaker 2: The video post. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, like people joke about some of these
Speaker 4: presentations could just be an email this Capcom's usually actually
Speaker 4: can and they maybe need to get a little bit
Speaker 4: better about that stuff. But if the options are being
Speaker 4: part of a big presentation like a State of Play,
Speaker 4: sure or a Ninto Direct, they'll take that and then
Speaker 4: this is just a catch up for everyone else. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I would say, don't get your hopes up. It's just
Speaker 4: going to be you know, extra footage, extra trailers, extended cuts,
Speaker 4: that kind of thing, unless they've explicitly said something else
Speaker 4: is can't be there.
Speaker 1: More people watched that last Nintendo direct than watch the
Speaker 1: Apple thing, you know, and everyone has a phone. It's
Speaker 1: like yeah you yes, it was like two point nine
Speaker 1: million to two point eight million. Dang yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: like being in a direct in a state of play.
Speaker 1: Those are also very much that they have very high viewership.
Speaker 1: That stuff is worth it. It's worth a lot of money.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll figure out how we're going to talk
Speaker 1: over any of these things. If there's a state of play,
Speaker 1: we'll definitely do that. I do want to see like
Speaker 1: what Konami has. Maybe we'll just do that for the
Speaker 1: hell of it. But there's a lot next week and
Speaker 1: then Tokyo game shows happening, so we'll cover it all
Speaker 1: on Game mess Mornings. That's going to do it for
Speaker 1: the headline, and that means it's time, not quite for
Speaker 1: the bomb twelve. First, we got to do the poll
Speaker 1: question from yesterday.
Speaker 2: Let's do that.
Speaker 1: I got the results right over here. Let's refresh it
Speaker 1: to make sure we have the most recent data.
Speaker 2: Oh it took a second. YouTube is just a very
Speaker 2: good website.
Speaker 1: Have you everything's breaking? Yes, I'll wait for this one
Speaker 1: to crash too. Have you spent money on user generated content? Yes, no,
Speaker 1: and I don't know maybe were your options. Twelve percent
Speaker 1: said yes they have, thirty percent said I don't know, maybe,
Speaker 1: and fifty nine percent said no, just flat out no,
Speaker 1: they know they have not done anything on UGC. I
Speaker 1: concluded that I don't know maybe because it's like a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff presents itself is like maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit more official in something like the Minecraft Store, but
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff's just created by third party users,
Speaker 1: like building stuff professionally for the game, but as part
Speaker 1: of a a UGC program. This does feel like a
Speaker 1: growing part of the industry though. It's where all these
Speaker 1: major publishers, the ones that have the black they're all
Speaker 1: looking at this as the future of their business model
Speaker 1: because of stuff like roadblocks, So.
Speaker 2: Expect more of it for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, with that out of the way, I think
Speaker 1: what we should probably do now is say, Sean, where
Speaker 1: can people find you on the internet?
Speaker 2: What do you have going on and all that good stuff.
Speaker 4: I'm turbo Shan in all the places, sakay wn and
Speaker 4: of course doing stuff here at Giant Bomb, you know,
Speaker 4: like I mentioned, follow us on social media and check
Speaker 4: out our YouTube. Shorts because that's usually the stuff that
Speaker 4: I'm editing in the week outside of the podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I pop up on shows like this when Jeff
Speaker 4: needs me.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, I think you know what, Let's
Speaker 1: do what we're gonna do on Giant Bomb real quick.
Speaker 1: There's a chance right after this I might I might
Speaker 1: just stream something. I feel like I want to start
Speaker 1: catching up some games on stream here on Giant Bomb,
Speaker 1: although I have a doctor's appointment at one thirty, so
Speaker 1: we'll see if I can actually.
Speaker 2: Make that work.
Speaker 1: But we will be back later today with upf where
Speaker 1: we are going to hang out and play some skate.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna go online place skate, go into that world,
Speaker 1: maybe build some some skate parks or whatever, just see
Speaker 1: what we can do. That will be at We do
Speaker 1: that at three pm. That's a right three pm Eastern,
Speaker 1: So come hang out with us. Then it'll be a
Speaker 1: good time, and then we'll be back next week with
Speaker 1: all that coverage we were talking about for pre tgs
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, as well as our normally scheduled programs.
Speaker 2: It'll be a good time.
Speaker 1: We appreciate everyone hanging out with us, but that means
Speaker 1: it is now officially time for the Bomb twelve. Everybody, Jeane,
Speaker 1: I saw you had some some issues with the layout.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be able to people gonna be able to
Speaker 1: see this, because if not, I can.
Speaker 2: Like go like gotty, go over each of the entries.
Speaker 2: All right, fantastic, There it is the Bomb twelve.
Speaker 1: These are the twelve games that really matter to people
Speaker 1: who are really playing games. We got the results of this,
Speaker 1: and here we are. The top three is unchanged. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that here in a second. But number twelve
Speaker 1: is in fact Skate. Number eleven is Schanobi Art of Vengeance.
Speaker 1: Number ten is Hell is Us number nine two x KO.
Speaker 1: A lot of people were playing that game. Number eight
Speaker 1: is Hell Diverse two. Number seven Medal Gear Solid five
Speaker 1: The Phantom Pain.
Speaker 3: What Maniacs Sway number seven?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I when I put out the call for the form
Speaker 1: of like, hey, submit your game, the first one the
Speaker 1: first response was Meddle Gear Solid five The Phantom Pain,
Speaker 1: And I was like, hey, I wonder if that'll actually
Speaker 1: end up on the list, being like.
Speaker 2: Of course it wouldn't. You can't ever do that because
Speaker 2: people will be like, I'm gonna get it on the
Speaker 2: fucking list you just watch.
Speaker 4: And must be really just doing really well to pay
Speaker 4: off all those people. Jeff, we need to reevaluate that.
Speaker 4: We got to see what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Number six Hollow Night, Number five Trails in the Sky,
Speaker 1: first Chapter. I bet that that feels like it could
Speaker 1: be even higher next week as people get around to it.
Speaker 1: Number four Donkey Kong Bonanza. And then, as I said,
Speaker 1: the top three unchanged from last week, Uma Musame pretty derby,
Speaker 1: number three, number two Borderlands for and number one Hollow
Speaker 1: Night Silk Song, which once again actually kind of blew
Speaker 1: everything else out of the water. Not quite as bad
Speaker 1: as last week, but I bet that one continues to
Speaker 1: remain a number one for quite some time. What was
Speaker 1: your game this week, Sean?
Speaker 3: What was I playing this week?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: Soccer Awars two on the Retroy Pocket.
Speaker 2: Last that one, it just missed the top twelve.
Speaker 3: Justs ah, dang. It's yeah, I've been.
Speaker 4: I've been, you know, sort of just big chilling, just
Speaker 4: taking it easy until we get to October and November,
Speaker 4: where it's just getty constant releases I gotta keep up with.
Speaker 4: So I'm just taking it easy right now.
Speaker 2: Shout outs to Samo nis and chat.
Speaker 1: Who is just doing a humble brag here of first
Speaker 1: or one shotting the Bilewater boss. Good job, samone nice,
Speaker 1: that's impressive. Shit all right, Mike, one shot at the
Speaker 1: last the final boss of the game. Though, I think
Speaker 1: he would want me to say that, so I should put.
Speaker 2: That out for him.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, yep, I'm at My game is still hollow
Speaker 1: Night Silk Song. It will probably be something different next week.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it then. For now, though, you want
Speaker 1: to have your say, I will put a new link
Speaker 1: out on my blue sky.
Speaker 2: We'll put it on the Giant Bomb Blue Sky.
Speaker 1: I will include it in a blog post on giant
Speaker 1: bomb dot com where we recap this week's Bomb twelve.
Speaker 2: You can find there's a line there at the bottom.
Speaker 1: I'll bowld it with a link to the form you
Speaker 1: can vote and we'll get the results next Friday.
Speaker 2: Until then, though, that was the Bomb twelve. All right,
Speaker 2: we should wrap this show up.
Speaker 1: Sean, thank you so much for hanging out with me
Speaker 1: today and talking about video games.
Speaker 2: Man, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Jeff Grobb, did you read this last super chat here
Speaker 4: while we're still on the air on YouTube?
Speaker 2: No? Yeah, why don't hit it for me?
Speaker 4: Yeah from bow Hey, Sean, any chance you could do
Speaker 4: more recovered? It's a retro Pocket Classic. The system looks awesome.
Speaker 3: I'd love the system to play PS one and under.
Speaker 3: I don't know if like a specific.
Speaker 4: Video would really fit with what we do around here,
Speaker 4: but tell you what, anytime that I am on the
Speaker 4: BombCast or whatever, I'll update y'all on how things are
Speaker 4: going with that. Yeah, you know what Retroy Pocket Classic.
Speaker 4: It is, just it is my recommendation if you want something,
Speaker 4: especially for PS one and under, but also you just
Speaker 4: want a small little system. I like that thing a lot,
Speaker 4: and I definitely recommend. I saw people in the discorder
Speaker 4: we're pinging me because they're like, well I get one now.
Speaker 3: That just sounded real good. It takes a lot.
Speaker 1: Me and Jan always talk about doing like a hardware
Speaker 1: show where it's like, let's just hang out and talk
Speaker 1: about the gizmos that we've been using the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Maybe we can spend one of those up
Speaker 1: here and talk about it.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Once again, Sean, thanks for hanging out with me and
Speaker 1: talking about video games.
Speaker 2: Man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: All the tech issues aside it was a fun time, Jeff, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, always is.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for watching and listening. You're the best
Speaker 1: audience in gaming. Until next time, have a good one,
Speaker 1: take care of yourself and goodbye.