Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it's Monday, November eighteenth, twenty twenty four. If
Speaker 1: you're listening live right now on Monday, you can pause
Speaker 1: this now and listen to this tomorrow and I'll say
Speaker 1: the intro for tomorrow. Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, November nineteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode eight
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven, powered by N sixty. I am
Speaker 1: your host, jan Ochoa, powered by carneos out of Burritos,
Speaker 1: diet Cokes, and a little bit of hot sauce I
Speaker 1: still had in the fridge joining me. Co Captain of
Speaker 1: the Ship is on vacation, so get the hell out
Speaker 1: of here, Grub, you better not be listening to this.
Speaker 1: Go spend time with your gosh darn family. And we
Speaker 1: had to split the co captain hat into four equal
Speaker 1: pieces for these four lovely people, we got the warheads man.
Speaker 1: He hit fun Factor through the roof. Dan REICHERT, Hello,
Speaker 1: that's me.
Speaker 2: I was hoping to do a podcast about video games.
Speaker 2: It's been a while. It's been a.
Speaker 1: While, just like it's been a while since I have
Speaker 1: seen the bad boy of games media from games Beat
Speaker 1: by Mannadi.
Speaker 3: I checked in my piece of the co captain hat
Speaker 3: is actually a little bit bigger than everyone else's.
Speaker 4: Oh well, its feet underneath it too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's getting ready to walk away. Speaking about bad boys,
Speaker 1: he's to the bone and he's revving up his engines.
Speaker 3: We've got days.
Speaker 4: It's November eleventh, jan What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Earlier this morning, I was very confused and freaked out.
Speaker 1: For a hot second, I thought I finally figured out
Speaker 1: time travel on accident.
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you look at the calendar wrong, right man?
Speaker 1: Speaking about time travel, We've got the youngest, the oldest,
Speaker 1: the hippest, the coolest person, that giant bomb.
Speaker 3: We've got Nikki Grace.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 5: I have no idea where the video Ninja tab is
Speaker 5: closing both of my browser windows, but somehow it's still working.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, because you're podcasting from either the future
Speaker 1: or the past. How's everyone doing on this fine Monday afternoon?
Speaker 3: Get cold? It's cold? All right? Hang on?
Speaker 1: Hang on, Nikki, Well it's sixty one degrees right now.
Speaker 5: You can go shit Jesus when I woke up, and
Speaker 5: when I woke up it was forty four.
Speaker 4: Oh no, okay, you know what, Actually.
Speaker 1: It's pretty chilly for me over here to y'all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's it like fifty six?
Speaker 2: Go fuck yourself?
Speaker 5: Breezy chilly.
Speaker 4: I will say it's almost that here today, which is
Speaker 4: kind of messed up that that we're almost in terms
Speaker 4: of do you.
Speaker 1: Think the climate's changing?
Speaker 3: That would never happen.
Speaker 4: Hey, everyone, Sean here from the editing day. Jan had
Speaker 4: a lot of audio issues at this point in the podcast.
Speaker 4: So while that was happening, me, Dan, Mike, and Nikky
Speaker 4: just continued the bance for an excessively long time. So
Speaker 4: I'm going to put all that at the end of
Speaker 4: the show if you want to catch it. And right
Speaker 4: now we're going to cut directly to the news.
Speaker 1: Uh everyone, we're gonna do things differently since it's Monday.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the news. I was so scared
Speaker 1: to press that button. Yeah, my butt was clutched.
Speaker 2: She pulled us into a phantom zone where we could
Speaker 2: look at your live face and yell at you, but
Speaker 2: you couldn't hear us.
Speaker 3: We couldn't hear us. That's that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's my worst nightmare, actually knowing that
Speaker 1: people are watching me and not knowing that people are watching.
Speaker 2: You're live, you can't communicate it with anyone, and never
Speaker 2: Wane's yelling at you this nightmare.
Speaker 3: Uh, folks.
Speaker 1: First news story today, I'm gonna try and pull up
Speaker 1: the headlines as I'm talking. But the Game Awards had
Speaker 1: announced that DLC expansions, et cetera may be nominated this year.
Speaker 1: During the Game Awards, Jeff Keey put this in a statement, saying,
Speaker 1: the Game Awards aims to recognize the best creative and
Speaker 1: technical work each year, irrespective of the format of that Contents,
Speaker 1: released expansion packs, new game seasons, DLC's remakes and remasters
Speaker 1: are eligible in all categories.
Speaker 3: Worries.
Speaker 1: If the jury deems new creative and technical work to
Speaker 1: be worthy of nomination, factors such as the newness of
Speaker 1: the content and its price slash value should be taken
Speaker 1: into consideration. So here's my podium. I'm going to say
Speaker 1: that we should just nominate No Man Sky for every
Speaker 1: single category, including Best Mobile and Best Sports person.
Speaker 2: This is the year we can make Vampire Survivors game
Speaker 2: of the Year.
Speaker 1: Finally, I guess so yeah, I deserved.
Speaker 4: They did put out a d l C.
Speaker 2: I think a couple contract and Castlevania two canonic properties
Speaker 2: that within a while, I would have.
Speaker 5: Just been easier to make a category called best DLC slash.
Speaker 2: Though, because then it's like, are you putting Shadow of
Speaker 2: the Tree against like a downloadable fighter? You know, It's
Speaker 2: like it's you know.
Speaker 4: Sure are Yeah, you go get good if you want
Speaker 4: to compete with.
Speaker 2: Versus Tree.
Speaker 3: Even within fighting games though, like Mortal Kombat one had
Speaker 3: like a straight up expansion. Also, there were enough expansions
Speaker 3: size things to do that this year between Er Tree,
Speaker 3: Protasy fourteen and World of Workout that expansions well or
Speaker 3: an expansion.
Speaker 4: I really really view the MMO expansions as their own thing,
Speaker 4: because especially Final Fantasy, because they just make a new
Speaker 4: game and then fourteen is just the content delivery service
Speaker 4: for that game. It's I think it's very different than
Speaker 4: just adding a new area to the single player game.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's sad what we were talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it gets fuzzy, but like how we were talking about
Speaker 4: this morning, I think it's a vibes's thing, you know,
Speaker 4: and the vibe of Shawy or Tree, regardless of quality,
Speaker 4: is a DLC. It is an add on for the game.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: Dawn Trail on the other hand, for Final Fantasy fourteen,
Speaker 4: people like even let's say, even Dan, Dan, you've if
Speaker 4: you've heard people talk about Fantasy fourteen, Dawn Trail is.
Speaker 2: The only person I know that's ever talked about this game.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's not for six years.
Speaker 4: Hang on, hang on. But when someone says that to you,
Speaker 4: you do not kind of think of it as like
Speaker 4: its own thing rather than like someone.
Speaker 2: Says Final Fantasy anything to me, my brain shuts off
Speaker 2: for the most.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you're not getting out here.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was hoping to go for the noormy, but
Speaker 4: I'm like, now, he like wraps around so hard that
Speaker 4: it's an interesting bell curve.
Speaker 2: You bring up tactics, and I'm listening.
Speaker 3: I think that, look, sure, DLC expansions that can be eligible, whatever,
Speaker 3: anything can be eligible. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 3: if that necessarily means that we should let it win.
Speaker 3: I think it's a little bit of me. That's the point.
Speaker 3: That's the point I think a lot of us are
Speaker 3: trying to make though. That's why it just shouldn't be
Speaker 3: eligible because well, we're gonna we're gonna have Eldon Ring
Speaker 3: win another game.
Speaker 4: Awards. No, probably not, so, then why even nominate it?
Speaker 3: I mean, got its flowers already, it goes out more
Speaker 3: than enough of them, and I like shallow or tree
Speaker 3: a lot. You need to find some way to recognize that.
Speaker 3: I you know, I think that's fine. But in the
Speaker 3: Game of the Year slot specifically, it seems like a little.
Speaker 4: It just feels like a bad But there's so many
Speaker 4: our categories you could either already have and then slot
Speaker 4: it into or just make a new categor.
Speaker 2: Can I just bring up that Sean called me a normy,
Speaker 2: so that by default makes Mike the weird one.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you got I.
Speaker 1: Think you weren't part of the normy.
Speaker 4: I said with what Kayla said, Mike is weirder, you
Speaker 4: are dumber.
Speaker 3: But I also always agreed with it. Don't worry, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Thinking about the t GAS, the Game Awards had announced
Speaker 1: the nominees for this year's slate of awards. I'm going
Speaker 1: to start from the very bottom that E G I
Speaker 1: g N has announced this list, So we're gonna save
Speaker 1: the Game of the Year in the big big awards
Speaker 1: for the very end. Here gents, friends, Best Esports Team,
Speaker 1: Billy Billy Gaming, Jen g Navvy, T one and Team Liquid.
Speaker 1: Who do we think is taking I think it's gonna Team.
Speaker 5: Liquids gotta take it. This year they had a great
Speaker 5: year Call Duty three and Halo six and Mario Party.
Speaker 5: Their teams really showed out and showed hard this year.
Speaker 3: Whatever, okay, okay, three.
Speaker 4: Sports category they have best Esports Team, Best Esports player,
Speaker 4: and is it still best Esports coach? Or is a
Speaker 4: game now?
Speaker 3: I don't see.
Speaker 4: Oh it's yeah, it's esports games.
Speaker 5: They switched it to a game.
Speaker 3: It feels like it's just all left over from like
Speaker 3: that same era when the Overwatch League was launching, off
Speaker 3: esports were like gonna really take over. Here's my scheme.
Speaker 1: I don't think any of these esports teams necessarily have
Speaker 1: to win things. So what if we just make ourselves
Speaker 1: an esports team and even if we don't want to
Speaker 1: win anything, the vibes are so immaculate that we will
Speaker 1: win people's hearts. We need to intro video. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's what we're for sure doing this year. We have
Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah, we're doing that this year. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm going to make a calendar invite after this for
Speaker 1: best Esports game, we have DODA to Counter Strike two,
Speaker 1: League of Legends Valorant in Mobile Legends Bang Bang.
Speaker 5: So I said that Mobile Legends Bang Bang was fake,
Speaker 5: and then John Drake said, actually, there's Star Wars stuff
Speaker 5: in there, so it is real enough for Disney to acknowledge.
Speaker 2: How many meetings do you think John Drake has been in?
Speaker 2: We're on the Google calendar thing. It says Mobile Legends
Speaker 2: Bang Bang a lot descriptor at.
Speaker 3: Least from a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as far as we can tell, it's just some
Speaker 4: mobile on your face.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I played thirty seconds of it. I played it
Speaker 5: for as long as Dan played Metaphor, and I realize
Speaker 5: that it's not for me.
Speaker 2: So that's a validated to approach a game. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: why don't you do that the third Well I did
Speaker 2: twelve minutes. That's a lot longer than thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: Well, Dan, if the game is called Metaphor Bang Bang,
Speaker 1: would you, like, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, it would give like a plus twenty percent chance
Speaker 2: to me, Like, I'll give it more of a shot, okay,
Speaker 2: just because I get to say it more than Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you know how like Persona games will re
Speaker 1: release a year or two later with like an r
Speaker 1: what if there is going to be metaphor refantasio bang bang,
Speaker 1: then that's when I do.
Speaker 2: The desk randing flip on it, and then suddenly I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah folk, Yeah, yeah, we're all playing the long
Speaker 3: game here.
Speaker 2: I kind of had that this weekend. People showed I was,
Speaker 2: you know, scoffing, like, oh the bad guys are the
Speaker 2: humans whoa crazy deep? But no, then somebody showed me
Speaker 2: what the humans actually look like during the fire Escape
Speaker 2: Game of the Year bank and I was like, well,
Speaker 2: that's fucked up and cool.
Speaker 4: So yeah, hey, hey, Dan, did anyone has anyone bothered
Speaker 4: to give you the context for that line that you
Speaker 4: hate so much?
Speaker 3: You did you did before?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, the thing where I'm intentionally not uh don't we
Speaker 2: don't have to do this?
Speaker 3: Okay, greater the year we have? Case? Oh case you sure?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, It doesn't just want matter. Do you
Speaker 1: want to go through the rest of the list. Yeah,
Speaker 1: techno gamers, typical gamer and usada pecora.
Speaker 2: It's weirde.
Speaker 4: The only person on this list I know is the
Speaker 4: YouTuber which one is that?
Speaker 3: The last one?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: And I don't even know what she does. I just
Speaker 4: I've seen that name.
Speaker 2: If we pulled all of our experience and talents and
Speaker 2: everything together for you know, years, if needed, do you
Speaker 2: think we could make Mike Manatti the content creator of
Speaker 2: the year. I had a whole team behind him, like
Speaker 2: a campaign team for an election, like like looking up data,
Speaker 2: analyzing the best ways to do it, the stuff he's
Speaker 2: got to play, Like, we totally get behind him. Could
Speaker 2: we make that?
Speaker 1: We could make the million dollars Manati million dollar mint
Speaker 1: the marginalized groups he has to disenfranchise. Well, I think
Speaker 1: if we.
Speaker 5: Do it, I think it's possible.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you all know this, but these
Speaker 4: are all voted on by games media people, So a
Speaker 4: million dollar campaign could literally just be a million dollar campaign.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I also voted for.
Speaker 2: The game words and can you guess what sections I
Speaker 2: left blank?
Speaker 1: So maybe it doesn't take that much. Maybe we just
Speaker 1: convince our friends in the industry.
Speaker 5: Does this happened because people don't know who any content
Speaker 5: creators are?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 1: It's actually a situation where it's like six people voted
Speaker 1: for whoever.
Speaker 5: The typical gamer is.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so we just need to do a rallying thing.
Speaker 2: We know people, right, can everyone behind Mike Manatti like, Hey.
Speaker 1: Kitt and Krista, what do you think about nominated man? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Seeking Out?
Speaker 1: Hey do you want to nominate someone?
Speaker 3: Who is it you? Where's backs a million? Dude?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Where's Max? Where's say Jam? Where's like?
Speaker 3: What's his face? The other bald man?
Speaker 1: And the people.
Speaker 3: Either different?
Speaker 2: We have our video game nerd on there.
Speaker 3: Why not are Kanye Fallout?
Speaker 1: Kanye knuckles knuckles like a dragon Yakuza and then tomb
Speaker 1: Raider the Legend of Laura.
Speaker 3: It really up by not doing knuckles at the end
Speaker 3: so they could says, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The Fallout was a very good TV show. Yeah you don't.
Speaker 1: I feel like Arcane has picked up a lot of heat.
Speaker 1: But people don't like this.
Speaker 5: People don't. People, and by people, I mean three people
Speaker 5: including Natalie Flores, says that Arcane Season two is poorly paced.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, Well then that's pretty damning to me.
Speaker 1: Best multiplayer game Call of Duty Black Op six, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Hell Divers too, Super Mario Party Jamboree ten eight, Warhammer
Speaker 1: forty K, Space Marine two.
Speaker 3: There's some good contenders here. I think Hell Divers, who
Speaker 3: might have this one? It's kind of the most interesting
Speaker 3: multiplayer game in a lot of ways, right.
Speaker 2: I could see Black Ops winning Held Divers.
Speaker 3: Only fell off, like if the Game Awards happened like
Speaker 3: a couple months after Hell Divers who came out. It
Speaker 3: may have been nominated for a Game of the Year.
Speaker 3: It was really intense there for a bit. But you're right,
Speaker 3: fall off a bit. But still, this is the category
Speaker 3: where I think it has the best chance to do well.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised Space Marine two got nominated and put here.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, what's fun? I do miss myself a
Speaker 1: Space Marine Monday.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's like the token co op game, you know,
Speaker 4: I guess outside of Hell Divers.
Speaker 1: But Dan, do you see any possibility of this Mario
Speaker 1: party taking multiplayer game?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, not against Call of Duty and Hell Divers?
Speaker 3: No way?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, sean likelihood of Teken eight may be winning this. No, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Best Sports slash Racing Game F one twenty four, EA,
Speaker 1: Sports Football Club twenty five, NBA two K twenty five,
Speaker 1: Top Spin two K twenty five, WW two K twenty four.
Speaker 5: Actually shocked at this category because I don't understand how
Speaker 5: college football was not nominated.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that the one that, like a lot of that'
Speaker 1: sold Gangbusters.
Speaker 5: Right, Yes, yeah, it sold a lot. People liked it.
Speaker 1: Now did it fall off for sure, But it was
Speaker 1: better than F one twenty four. Like this year's F
Speaker 1: one game was awful. They changed they changed this year
Speaker 1: in F one twenty four they changed the way that
Speaker 1: the tires interact with the ground and it all the
Speaker 1: cars slipped and slot slid, slipped and slid.
Speaker 5: For a really long time. The friction is just wrong
Speaker 5: on the ways that the cars interact with the floor.
Speaker 4: Well, so I'm willing to bet that a lot of
Speaker 4: people who voted for these games didn't play any of.
Speaker 1: Them playing so that I thought the wrestling one was
Speaker 1: and maybe that's why the wrestling one came came up
Speaker 1: on this one. Best SIM slasht ategy game Frost Punk two,
Speaker 1: Age of Mythology retold Kunitsugami, Path of the Goddess, Manner Lords,
Speaker 1: and Unicorn Overlord. Yeah, this is a fun one. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to see Kunisugami make this list.
Speaker 5: I hadn't seen the logo for Unicorn Overlord before this,
Speaker 5: and that logo goes so fucking hard, it's so cool.
Speaker 1: I'd really like to see Unicorn Overlord win this.
Speaker 3: It's a possibility.
Speaker 1: Nice Best Family Game, Princess Pete Showtime, Astrobot, Super Mario
Speaker 1: Party Jamboree, Legend of Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom, and the
Speaker 1: Plucky Squire.
Speaker 2: Plucky Squire denominated.
Speaker 3: Somewhere.
Speaker 5: This is tough though, right because usually this is the
Speaker 5: Nintendo category, but astro about has to win it. But
Speaker 5: then you look at the rest of the slate, and
Speaker 5: does that mean Nintendo is gonna walk away empty handed
Speaker 5: this year?
Speaker 3: It's all you're for an intend I mean, this might
Speaker 3: be the first year in a long time, not to
Speaker 3: jump the gun, that Nintendo doesn't have a game nominated
Speaker 3: for Game of the Year, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I asked Roger get this.
Speaker 3: I guess yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Astrobot would get this. Princess Pete Show Time.
Speaker 1: Not enough on the bone there, Super Mario Party Jamboree. Dan,
Speaker 1: you weren't as high on this one, and I consider
Speaker 1: you a good barometer for Mario Party good.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, a lot of people did. I think
Speaker 3: that one does have a chance. A lot of people
Speaker 3: did like it. Echoes of Wisdom.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I see too many little gimmicks
Speaker 1: picking it up, especially.
Speaker 3: For this category. That one does almost feel like it
Speaker 3: just got in because it's the Nintendo category. I don't
Speaker 3: know what about it is specifically so family ish.
Speaker 4: Like it's cute. I'll give it that. And it is
Speaker 4: kind of fun to, like, you know, place the beds everywhere.
Speaker 4: I could see like grubs kids having fun just placing
Speaker 4: random crap all over the place. So maybe.
Speaker 1: Moving on to best Fighting Game, Grand Blue Fantasy Versus Rising,
Speaker 1: Dragon Ball, Sparking Zero, Marvel Versus Capcom Fighting Collection, Arcade Classics,
Speaker 1: Multi Versus and Teken eight.
Speaker 4: This was all right, Yeah, because techn eatees go win
Speaker 4: like it's not even a contrast.
Speaker 3: Amazing though, if the Mars is capt Collection one, I
Speaker 3: would love that.
Speaker 4: Well, if history is a indication, the thing that may
Speaker 4: overtake it is multi versus apparently.
Speaker 3: But right, that's not winning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, surprising to see multiverses nominated.
Speaker 2: Well shut down, Yeah, he came back, turned it off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because the original release was its beta release, and
Speaker 4: I don't not why anyone says that was a beta
Speaker 4: and now it's officially back one point zero.
Speaker 1: Well, you know how many fightings? Which of these fighting
Speaker 1: games has Lebron James just one.
Speaker 4: Shoot, unless you count my really good creative character in
Speaker 4: techn eight. You can make those look like anything you want,
Speaker 4: and they're not as good as Leonos if I were.
Speaker 4: We customize everything on a creat a character, but you
Speaker 4: can make people look like where we want tekena.
Speaker 1: You know, Parada put Lebron James in Teken eight.
Speaker 3: I'd buy that.
Speaker 1: Best RPG I forgot.
Speaker 3: This came out this year.
Speaker 1: Dragons Dogma two, The Golden Ring, Shadow of the Urd Tree,
Speaker 1: Final Fantasy seven, Rebirth Like a Dragon, Infante, Wealth and
Speaker 1: Metaphor Refantasio.
Speaker 3: One of the stronger candy goes. You're right about Dragons
Speaker 3: Dogma two, which got reviewed really well. It feels like, yeah,
Speaker 3: fell off super hard. This is its only nomination in
Speaker 3: the entire list, and I don't necessarily disagree with that,
Speaker 3: but it is like, I mean, it was such a
Speaker 3: good year for rbgs that you know they even are
Speaker 3: things missing here. Persona three Relo got no love. I
Speaker 3: think a lot of people were just like, well, we
Speaker 3: got metaphor in there, so and that's probably gonna win.
Speaker 3: So why even bother with Persona? But that's too bad?
Speaker 3: Is I liked that?
Speaker 4: Remake a Lot Yeah, it doesn't matter that it's a remake.
Speaker 4: It's just a phenomenal game. It's just like you know,
Speaker 4: Silent Hill too. Maybe it's on here, but maybe deserving
Speaker 4: a little bit more recognition because of how they nailed it.
Speaker 4: And Otam was talking about that over on Blue Sky
Speaker 4: of just you know, the whole remake thing is silly
Speaker 4: how we like group those games off in our heads.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I feel like Persona getting snubbed here is a
Speaker 4: result of that. Also, it's really really messed up if
Speaker 4: elden Ring beats out all these games for RB likely War. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's why it just feels weird and growing.
Speaker 3: Like especially like, yes, it's an RPG, but it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like it's not IT'SPG the way that
Speaker 3: the other ones are.
Speaker 4: It is not an RPG that came on twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: That's that's just why it's weird.
Speaker 1: I'm noticing no Dragon Age the Veil Guard in this category.
Speaker 3: I just didn't get a Lot one. Maybe it didn't
Speaker 3: hit quite as hard, but two timing was maybe a
Speaker 3: little bit not on inside.
Speaker 4: That's always a problem with doing uh, you know, Awards show.
Speaker 4: In the beginning of December, but.
Speaker 5: October it should shift. It'd be during the BAFTA window
Speaker 5: when the window because the BAFTA window is later, right,
Speaker 5: Because I think the BAFTAs aren't until like February.
Speaker 4: Question Mark and a lot of people say.
Speaker 5: Should do it January to January, so then if your
Speaker 5: game comes out in December, it still counts in the window.
Speaker 5: So then the awards aren't until oh March says like, yeah,
Speaker 5: which is even better because then you have a full
Speaker 5: calendar year plus time to play all of the things.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the mess up thing is that anything that comes
Speaker 4: out late November or early December is just automatically going
Speaker 4: to forget last.
Speaker 3: Year's December games that we were supposed to remember to
Speaker 3: consider for the right we forgot. Yeah, right out.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's rare cases, Like why I think Smash
Speaker 4: Ultimate came out in December. I want to say it's
Speaker 4: like that one was on the list for the next
Speaker 4: year or something like that. There there are notable examples,
Speaker 4: but yeah, it's just weird.
Speaker 1: Moving on to best action adventure game, we have Astrobot. No,
Speaker 1: it's not an action adventure game, that's the problem.
Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, Jan.
Speaker 3: It's a game with where anything that's more action and
Speaker 3: movement focused. I guess it goes here true.
Speaker 1: Prince of Persia, of the Lost Crown, Silent Hill to
Speaker 1: Star Wars, Outlaws and the Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.
Speaker 2: This is astronaut. I mean, Prince of Persia is right
Speaker 2: up there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'd like to see Prince of Persia win
Speaker 3: it here just because it's not nominated for much else.
Speaker 3: It'd be cool if it got this one, but probably astrobot.
Speaker 4: Category. All Okay, it's just not aventure game.
Speaker 1: Look at your world where Silent Hill too could get it.
Speaker 3: That's not one way I want to see it get
Speaker 3: some love. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like there's action adventure game and there's best action game,
Speaker 2: and looking at the list, I feel like the difference
Speaker 2: is like action game has guns and swords, an action
Speaker 2: adventure doesn't. But other than that it can kind of
Speaker 2: be the same.
Speaker 4: What what the difference is supposed to be? And I
Speaker 4: give rub crap all the time because it's very very
Speaker 4: clear delineation where action is double may cry, action adventure
Speaker 4: is uncharted. You picture those two things very distinctly and
Speaker 4: clearly in your mind, and that's what those things are
Speaker 4: grouped into those two categories, but with the Game Awards,
Speaker 4: there's so many that you don't have the spoke categories for,
Speaker 4: so they get bumped into here.
Speaker 2: I mean in my head, like you know, back in
Speaker 2: the day, like action adventure, the prototypical one for that
Speaker 2: was like a Zelda.
Speaker 3: You know, That's how I thought about it too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, back in the day, they're like solving some puzzles,
Speaker 4: doing a little bit of exploration. Combat is there, but
Speaker 4: not necessarily a focus, and then action is combat is
Speaker 4: the focus and maybe go off to a branch path.
Speaker 3: I think that's it. It's just yeah, action combat is
Speaker 3: like entirely a focused action adventure. There's traversal or some
Speaker 3: puzzles or some other things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, speaking about action, we have Best Action Game
Speaker 1: with Black Myth, Wokong, Waking, Waking, Waking, Call of Duty,
Speaker 1: Black Op six, Held Divers two, Stellar Blade, and then
Speaker 1: Warhammer forty K Space. In my write and two, I
Speaker 1: hope Black Myth wins this one so it doesn't win
Speaker 1: Game of the Year. Mmmmm.
Speaker 5: I'm just I am so emotionally prepared for Blackmith who
Speaker 5: coung to win one of these?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that much juice I've been meaning to play it, like,
Speaker 2: but I felt like I heard so much like it don't.
Speaker 5: Think it has juice, but I think it will win
Speaker 5: one of them. Yeah, yeah, that's the bone feeling I have.
Speaker 1: Best VR AR Game Arizona Sunshine remake as Guard's Wrath
Speaker 1: to Batman, Arkham, Shadow Metal Hell Singer VR, Metro Awakening Batman.
Speaker 1: If anyone missed Grub and Dance VR last week, go
Speaker 1: back and check that out. Tiber best Mobile game or
Speaker 1: no a f K Journey, Blatro, Pokemon Trading Card Game, Pocket,
Speaker 1: Wuering Waves, and then Zendless Zone Zero Lotro.
Speaker 3: Right, it's.
Speaker 5: On the list, but best, but it's also not the
Speaker 5: best mobile game. Like I agree with you because Pokemon
Speaker 5: TCG Pocket is actually the best mobile.
Speaker 4: Game so made for mobile, made for like one handed
Speaker 4: use while you're in line at McDonald's or whatever, whereas
Speaker 4: Bilatro is a better game. But it's also like Landscape
Speaker 4: mode and kind of have to.
Speaker 5: Also it did not it was not ideated for mobile, right, like, yeah,
Speaker 5: it came out on other stuff and then was poureded
Speaker 5: to mobile and now he has placed into this either
Speaker 5: of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no for sure, but yeah, I think there's also
Speaker 1: a world where Zendals Zone zero could walk.
Speaker 3: Away with it.
Speaker 4: That's so weird to think about because at this point
Speaker 4: me Judeo games are just full blown console games that
Speaker 4: also happen to be on phones.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like Fortnite getting Best Mobile Game. Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I guess, but I feel it doesn't feel in the spirit.
Speaker 1: I think we underestimate the size of that casual audience
Speaker 1: that has abandoned the console market and only plays games mobile.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm well aware. I remind you guys of it all.
Speaker 1: The time, people that only play mobile Legends Bang Bang
Speaker 1: and then lazone zero.
Speaker 5: How did Mobile Legends Bang Bang not get nominated for
Speaker 5: Best Mobile Game.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not the best mobile game, but esports wise,
Speaker 1: the scene is hot, all right, I have my microphone
Speaker 1: like that. I was only terrified I wasn't actually recording.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't worry, it wouldn't be the worst thing that
Speaker 1: I could have just wait till I talked again. I
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta start smacking my microphone right now.
Speaker 1: Best debut indie game Ballotro Animal well Manor Lords Specific
Speaker 1: Drive and The Plucky Squire.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was impressive yes.
Speaker 4: I so messed up that thousand times resist asn't on
Speaker 4: that list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's nuts, Dan, I know you're upset. We'll move.
Speaker 3: I know I know the best.
Speaker 1: Independent billion that damn.
Speaker 3: What do you think about the Plucky Squire though? Oh boy?
Speaker 3: I told us that, please help never mind.
Speaker 2: I was surprised by how angry I was about it
Speaker 2: when I started talking about it during fires.
Speaker 1: I hate that.
Speaker 4: Both were just like not happy with that.
Speaker 2: It seemed like it was for me. It seemed like
Speaker 2: my type of game, and they fucked it up so bad.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll speed up a couple of these best
Speaker 1: independent game Animal wel Billatro, Laura and the Laser Eyes
Speaker 1: never and UFO fifty.
Speaker 5: Seems like a they'll split it so like Animal Well
Speaker 5: is going to win. One of these is going to
Speaker 5: win the other one, and then.
Speaker 2: I would like to see UFO get something here, but
Speaker 2: that would got some heavy.
Speaker 3: Laura, I also deserve some love. It does.
Speaker 1: Best community support boulders Gate three, Final Fantasy ZEV Fortnite
Speaker 1: Hell Divers to No Man's Sky. Sure yeah, ongoing game
Speaker 1: Deblo Diablo, I've Final Fantasy ZEV Fortnite Hell Divers to Okay,
Speaker 1: Games for Impact, Closer to the Distance, Indica Never Life
Speaker 1: is Strange, Double Exposure, Sent You with Saga hell Blade
Speaker 1: to Really Tales of Kenzara.
Speaker 3: That's about.
Speaker 4: Ye my mental health.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Innovation and Accessibility, Call of Duty, Black Op six, Diablo
Speaker 1: or Dragon Age, The Vailguard, princip Persia, The Lost Crown,
Speaker 1: and Star Wars Outlaws Well Game of the Year Part two,
Speaker 1: Best Performance Hannah tl Life is Strange, Double Exposure, Breonna White,
Speaker 1: Final Fantasy seven Rebirth Humberly Gonzales, uh, Star Wars Outlaws,
Speaker 1: Luke Roberts, Silent Hill two, Melina Jurgen's Send You with
Speaker 1: Saga hell Blade Too.
Speaker 3: This is actually the category that has made me the
Speaker 3: most angry.
Speaker 1: Yes, go off, believe taking off, though I.
Speaker 3: Can't believe a single person from Metaphor didn't make make
Speaker 3: it on here. I think that Metaphor has the probably
Speaker 3: the best voice acting in a video game I have
Speaker 3: ever heard. And maybe that's the problem because the entire
Speaker 3: cast is so good that maybe everybody was just nominating
Speaker 3: different people from the cast, But god, we really should
Speaker 3: have all got behind his may So that was so
Speaker 3: freaking it's amazing.
Speaker 4: Kind of remarkable how actually on typical anime, the voice
Speaker 4: acting is in metaphor. They kind of do just sound
Speaker 4: like regular ass people doing a good job voice acting.
Speaker 4: They're not leaning way too hard into it.
Speaker 3: In fact, I'm bess saying look normally, hey, do what
Speaker 3: you gotta do. I see NATS will probably might people like,
Speaker 3: oh I picked Japanese, I just picked audio. I think
Speaker 3: you made a mistake this time. I think the voice
Speaker 3: acting in English is just so amazing that that is
Speaker 3: absolutely the way to go in this one. So that
Speaker 3: one was a bit of a barm me. I wonder
Speaker 3: it's because it's not mo cap and so many people
Speaker 3: all these other ones seems like they're probably no cap performances,
Speaker 3: and we give more gravity to that. I just don't care.
Speaker 1: The category is best Performance, so that, yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense there, Best Audio Design, Astrobot, Call
Speaker 1: of Duty, Black Ops six, Final Fantasy seven, Rebirth send
Speaker 1: you a Saga hell Blade two.
Speaker 5: It can't be Call of Duty because I have never
Speaker 5: played that game with this sound on.
Speaker 2: Okay, why to be Call of Duty?
Speaker 4: They actually do have a really good three D sound.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can pick out.
Speaker 4: Interesting, yeah, but I feel like Call of Duty gets
Speaker 4: it a lot as well, So I mean, whatever.
Speaker 2: If there's one thing that makes sense to give credit
Speaker 2: to hell Blade for it's audio design.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Silent Hill two was really good here
Speaker 3: to actually just have the little sounds and whatnot that
Speaker 3: happens you're walking around, very very effective Rebirth.
Speaker 4: It feels like an odd one out here.
Speaker 3: Music your audio design, you see you think of its music, So.
Speaker 1: I guess, but the very Jane, what's the next category
Speaker 1: best scoring music? Astrobot, Final Fantasy seven, Rebirth, metaphor, Refantasio,
Speaker 1: Sold Hill two Andsllar Blade. I don't remember a lot
Speaker 1: of Stellar Blades's music.
Speaker 2: I ever think the music was good and selling.
Speaker 4: No, Stellar Blade has just an awesome soundtrack. Yeah, Like
Speaker 4: it's a little sparse, but when it kicks in, it's
Speaker 4: very good.
Speaker 3: You Rebirth there on that one. Probably you know. Astrobot
Speaker 3: has good music, but it wasn't as great as maybe
Speaker 3: I would have hoped for, Like Astro's playroom was just
Speaker 3: I think the music is better, a bit more filler here, Sean.
Speaker 1: This was one of your like deltas with Astrobot, right,
Speaker 1: like the music just not being as spectacular, and I
Speaker 1: think I felt that way so yeah, you do get
Speaker 1: a little more variety as the game goes on, but
Speaker 1: still does because they're going for that very electronic sound
Speaker 1: the whole time. It kind of started to blend together
Speaker 1: for me within the first couple of worlds and didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's quite stuck the landing there. Silent
Speaker 1: Hill too, I haven't played that.
Speaker 4: Does that sound.
Speaker 3: It had? It had very good music. I think actually
Speaker 3: this the audio design does stand out to me more
Speaker 3: than the score specifically.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, best art direction, Astrobot, black Myth, Moo Kong,
Speaker 1: Elden Ring, shot of the Tree, metaphor, Refantasio, and never.
Speaker 2: Will win probably.
Speaker 1: I think metaphor gets this.
Speaker 3: Those menus are so many.
Speaker 2: Recently, but I don't know how many people play.
Speaker 4: That same metaphor, Dan, I wanted to come out of
Speaker 4: your mouth. Metaphor should win that one.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I saw the tweet from the game words metapahor.
Speaker 1: Closing in in the last couple of categories, Friends, best narrative,
Speaker 1: I don't Fantasy seven, Rebirth like a Dragon, infinite Wealth, metaphor, Refantasio,
Speaker 1: send you a saga Hillblay two, Silent Hill two like
Speaker 1: a Dragon. I would love like a dragon win. I
Speaker 1: don't think it will against rebirth and Refantasio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think is a better chance than rebirths, especially
Speaker 3: since rebirths ending is so controversial for people. Yeah two
Speaker 3: is a very good story, but like that, you know,
Speaker 3: that's one place where being a remake is like, well
Speaker 3: that's that game's narrative again, So maybe that hurts it there.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think metaphor probably a front runner.
Speaker 1: I feel bad saying that. I don't want Senya Saga
Speaker 1: Hill Play two to win, but I think this could
Speaker 1: be one of those like alubs here of like.
Speaker 3: Oh, here you go.
Speaker 1: You guys have this just because haven't they been at
Speaker 1: every Kieley thing like the last.
Speaker 3: They had the music performance last year to promote the
Speaker 3: game coming out.
Speaker 2: Here nominated an awful lot here despite being a bad
Speaker 2: video game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like a lot of nominations.
Speaker 3: Some people are even thinking about that game since it
Speaker 3: came out right, Like it doesn't come up phil No.
Speaker 1: Best last two categories here, Best Game Direction, Astrobot, Balatro,
Speaker 1: Black Myth, Wukong Elden Ring, Shot of the Er Tree
Speaker 1: metaphors or Final Fantasy seven rebirth metaphor refin.
Speaker 4: Jane Can you also read the next category.
Speaker 1: Game of the Year, Astrobot, Bollatro, Blackmith, Mukong, Eldon, Rings,
Speaker 1: Out of the Tree, Final Fantasy seven, Rebirth, and metaphor Refantastic.
Speaker 4: Why do we have these two categories?
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess there's Best Director and Best Picture
Speaker 2: at the Oscars. You know it's actually not the.
Speaker 4: Exactly though, but at the Oscars. Yeah, yeah, I uh.
Speaker 1: I don't feel good about these mostly for like that
Speaker 1: distinction of like, shouldn't best direction win Best Game of
Speaker 1: the Year, because then you're just conflating and just like
Speaker 1: confusing both categories the more you dig deep into it,
Speaker 1: I f game direction, Which who were we polling for?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: That's well, that's kind of the problem here is if
Speaker 4: people don't know the difference, Like as much as it
Speaker 4: sucks to take away recognition, maybe we just don't let
Speaker 4: the people who don't know the difference make that decision.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it just feels weird to me.
Speaker 1: Game direction I could see Astrobot. Yeah, I think game
Speaker 1: direction is astrobot.
Speaker 3: I think who's the most famous year? Which one is
Speaker 3: the most director though involved?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 3: Right, it's me as Zaki, so maybe it wins. Game
Speaker 3: direction because of that.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, so we can walk them out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then that show up.
Speaker 3: Clinton kid.
Speaker 4: Do you think that's how it's gonna go down. Every
Speaker 4: one just wants to give me a Zakia award. Something
Speaker 4: else gets Game.
Speaker 2: Of the Years.
Speaker 3: I think it's the same for both of them, and
Speaker 3: I It's interesting because I I'm not sure what wins
Speaker 3: the Game of the Year this year. Last year, I
Speaker 3: think we all were pretty sure it was gonna be
Speaker 3: Boorderskate three. You know there's years where it's just inevitable.
Speaker 3: The ero's out and ring here. I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It could be astrobotic, could be metaphor, it could be
Speaker 3: like a slightly more of a dark horse, like even
Speaker 3: a Bilatro. So I'll be interested to see where it goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think y'all are right just giving an order
Speaker 1: to Miyazaki for the sake of keeping an award to
Speaker 1: him in direction and then awarding something else Game of
Speaker 1: the Year. I'd like it if it was Blatro, Yeah,
Speaker 1: got it. Blatra is sweep on these on.
Speaker 5: These two would bang though it's not gonna happen, but
Speaker 5: I thought it would bang.
Speaker 1: I think I read that this maybe one of the
Speaker 1: first times the Game of the Year nominations during the
Speaker 1: Game Awards, Bolotro the first time a single dev game
Speaker 1: or nominated like.
Speaker 2: Stardo Vampire Survivors, they weren't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If Vampire Survivors started, definitely was okay, so maybe maybe
Speaker 1: first or second time. Then yeah, I would not mind
Speaker 1: if Bolotro.
Speaker 3: I'd bend at all. I'd be a little surprised, but
Speaker 3: that would be neat.
Speaker 4: Probably not the one I would pick, but I think
Speaker 4: I also wouldn't be mad.
Speaker 1: How are we going to be when Black Myths uh
Speaker 1: Wukong went.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the thing, right, it is going to
Speaker 3: be I'd be up. I'd be I would be upset.
Speaker 3: You're right, it's gonna happen, but I would not like that.
Speaker 3: But I would be a little upset for the showier
Speaker 3: treats you. Again, it's a great experience.
Speaker 4: But well, I would be annoyed. But I also wouldn't
Speaker 4: get man. I know I've been a little pessimistic during
Speaker 4: this segment, but also, these awards aren't the end all
Speaker 4: be all, you know.
Speaker 1: Our awards are.
Speaker 3: I do think it's either metaphor Astrobot, and I could
Speaker 3: probably do a coin flip on on myself, which what
Speaker 3: I'm going for. That's what I think is going to
Speaker 3: win this. So I don't know. Maybe maybe maybe Astrobot
Speaker 3: is a little bit more chance here, but not of course. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's a talker, and you know it's more than
Speaker 3: that's not possible, that isn't.
Speaker 4: Real.
Speaker 3: You would have sold more than Astrobot Black mcfoodcon exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, packs packs of Pokemon trading cards in the first
Speaker 4: day of TCD pocket Yeah, on the market.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, friends, that does it for the game awards.
Speaker 1: A couple more quick news stories before we hit our
Speaker 1: first real break, and not because of a technical malfunction.
Speaker 1: Assassin's Creed Syndicate is getting a sixty FPS update for
Speaker 1: PS five and Xbox Series X. Any of y'all get
Speaker 1: to go check that out?
Speaker 3: No, I was. I almost want to because I didn't
Speaker 3: play this one at all, because this was the one
Speaker 3: that happened after Unity, which everybody hated, and everybody's kind
Speaker 3: of done with the Assassins Creed. Everybody talks this one
Speaker 3: up a bit, and you know what, since it's kind
Speaker 3: of got that Victorian England thing, it reminds me of
Speaker 3: Christmas Carol. Maybe it's kind of a Christmas game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is the Oiguvnor one, right, this is correct, and
Speaker 3: you have male and female yeah protagonists.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So like if I was gonna go back to a
Speaker 3: slightly older Assassin's Creed, I think this is the one
Speaker 3: I will want to play. And I'm always a big
Speaker 3: fan of patching order games so that they run better.
Speaker 3: So I think this is neat yeah, industrial and not
Speaker 3: Victoria in my bagscuse you know.
Speaker 1: The patch is launching November nineteenth, will also include four
Speaker 1: K resolution to PS five PS five pro Xbox Series X.
Speaker 1: Blows my mind that the original syndicate came out in
Speaker 1: November twenty fifteen. That's what times ten years, Time flies,
Speaker 1: Time flies friends. Speaking about time flies, time continues to fly.
Speaker 1: For the hit Man World of Assassination VR two version
Speaker 1: is getting delayed. Previously scheduled to release in December of
Speaker 1: this year, it's getting delayed to March twenty seventh, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. A quote from John Lacaie lakale Io's interactive
Speaker 1: global marketing director, This decision to move the release day
Speaker 1: was not made lightly. We know there is a lot
Speaker 1: of demand to bring Hitman on PSVR two, and we're
Speaker 1: excited to see the great reception following the announcement. This
Speaker 1: is supposed to support the full main campaign of hit
Speaker 1: Man World of Assassinations. The PSVR two version of the
Speaker 1: game was announced in September of this year. Jonathan goes
Speaker 1: on to say, now supporting dual wielding, a wide array
Speaker 1: of actions and interactions have been added, including the possibility
Speaker 1: of performing actions with both controllers at the same time,
Speaker 1: active reloading on body weapon, hall string, aiming through the sniperscope,
Speaker 1: and manual interactions to take disguises. Dan, I think you
Speaker 1: were the only one here with a PlayStation VR two.
Speaker 1: Any interest in revisiting kit Man through virtual reality.
Speaker 2: It has not left the box since we shot that
Speaker 2: launch video, and I cannot imagine something that would change that.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, That about does it for folks interested
Speaker 1: in hit Man and VR. I hope when it hits,
Speaker 1: it hits big. I love the hit Man team. In
Speaker 1: entertainment news, Tom Hardy's splinter Cell movie is reportedly canceled
Speaker 1: with we just couldn't get it right.
Speaker 3: This is news to me, Okay, we couldn't figure out
Speaker 3: to make a military movie it's never been done before.
Speaker 3: It's never done smart done it.
Speaker 1: Apparently this movie was first announced in twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: Okay, that explains it. When you read the headline, I
Speaker 4: was like, what do you mean Tom Hardy's splinter Cell movie.
Speaker 1: With Tom Hardy playing Sam Fit. There is a world
Speaker 1: where Venom never took off, and we have three splinter
Speaker 1: Cell movies. However, speaking to the direct producer Basil or
Speaker 1: Basil Iwanic, who signed on for the splinter Cell project
Speaker 1: in thirteen, who suggested it's no longer happening, the movie
Speaker 1: would have been awesome. Oh what, just couldn't get it
Speaker 1: right script wise, budget wise, he said, but it's gotta
Speaker 1: be great. It's gonna be so fucking sick. Listen.
Speaker 3: We didn't have many people in it.
Speaker 1: The guns were not real. We couldn't get a location,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a script.
Speaker 2: But listen, yeah, you couldn't get the goggles.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't let up, let me tell.
Speaker 1: You, they continue on. We had a million different versions
Speaker 1: of it, but it was going to be hardcore and awesome.
Speaker 1: That's one of the ones that got away, which.
Speaker 3: Is really sad.
Speaker 2: I think Catherine Biglow could have made a good splinter
Speaker 2: Cell movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the second time you've been talking about
Speaker 1: today on the website.
Speaker 2: Well, she's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the five of us could make a
Speaker 1: good splinter Cell movie. All right, Yeah, it's not that
Speaker 1: hard to make a spy thriller in Hollywood. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be Sam Fisher.
Speaker 2: I could be Sam Fisher.
Speaker 1: I would do it, all right, Mike Manad, you're the goggles.
Speaker 3: Okay, the goggles.
Speaker 2: Talk, Okay, sound like this.
Speaker 3: They say, Sam, look out, there's a guy over that corner.
Speaker 2: And then the goggles talking reveals Sam's position and he
Speaker 2: gets shot.
Speaker 3: Already a better premise. I'm so sorry I had my
Speaker 3: pat dude, my past.
Speaker 2: This sounds like a good movie.
Speaker 1: God, I just want the pickled version of that.
Speaker 3: That sounds so much better. Okay.
Speaker 1: And last news story here, I think this one will
Speaker 1: make is a Mikey like story.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Half Life two has broken its concurrent Steam Records players
Speaker 1: records after twenty years of the initial release. This got
Speaker 1: up to upwards to sixty five thousand concurrent players over
Speaker 1: the weekend. The surge is from a twentieth anniversary celebration
Speaker 1: held by Valve over the weekend, where the game was
Speaker 1: temporarily given away for free. I believe it is no
Speaker 1: longer free as of this podcast going out. The surprise
Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary update also included episode one and Episode two
Speaker 1: expansions to the base game, enabling players to play through
Speaker 1: the game and both expansions as one playthrough.
Speaker 4: Jam Big News is no longer free, but you can
Speaker 4: get it for the very expensive price of ninety nine cents.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always on sales. You'll be missed it for free.
Speaker 3: It'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Uh, I would be amazing Steam account in on this game.
Speaker 1: Didn't be surprised. What if I want to buy Angry Birds?
Speaker 1: That's ninety nine cents?
Speaker 3: Still?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta your money appropriately, that's.
Speaker 1: Hard, calculous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: I got like at least five birds in that game?
Speaker 1: What do I get in Half Life?
Speaker 3: You can kill story?
Speaker 2: Okay, I think you can.
Speaker 3: True. I love Alfy two so much. Glad to see
Speaker 3: you get a little bit love for the Big Anniversary.
Speaker 3: To me, it's up to like Mario sixty four in
Speaker 3: terms of being one of those games that you play
Speaker 3: for the first time and it feels like a game
Speaker 3: from the future and It's still kind of fun. Still
Speaker 3: probably my favorite first person shooter campaign.
Speaker 1: Mikey, you think someone would get as much out of
Speaker 1: Half Life two if they played it for the first
Speaker 1: time today?
Speaker 3: Maybe not as much, who knows, but I think you
Speaker 3: still get a lot out of it. I think in
Speaker 3: a lot of ways it still looks good because there
Speaker 3: was strong art direction there on top of everything else,
Speaker 3: and all the physics stuff is still pretty neat, especially
Speaker 3: when you get the gravity gun and you're going through
Speaker 3: Raven Home and you're you know, shooting those saw blades
Speaker 3: through zombies and cutting them in half. It was all
Speaker 3: just really cool stuff.
Speaker 1: Sean, you grimaced your face. Do you want to say
Speaker 1: something about Half Life two?
Speaker 4: I have to do a podcast with Mike tomorrow as well.
Speaker 4: I choose to please the fifth Jane.
Speaker 3: All right, they don't well, please don't please don't pull
Speaker 3: up super much weight on Half Life two. Now, please well,
Speaker 3: I mean you same for that.
Speaker 1: Don't hurt me the thing that hurts my my brain,
Speaker 1: hurts my soul. As like someone on the cusp of
Speaker 1: being an elder millennial. I think I'm like smack dab
Speaker 1: in the middle of that demo. I think more people
Speaker 1: now are more into prop Hunt versus Half Life two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that hurts my soul to field legacy, Dan, What
Speaker 1: do you think prop hunt is?
Speaker 3: What is prop hunt?
Speaker 2: I think it's a mode that is where you hide
Speaker 2: as like a trash can, and somebody has to find you.
Speaker 2: Now I've heard this brought up, and I apparently I
Speaker 2: see nodding, So I think I do have the concept
Speaker 2: what it is. I don't really know what it's like.
Speaker 2: When I hear that, I think of that Prey remake
Speaker 2: or the New Prey. Yeah, pretty much. But what is
Speaker 2: it most known for?
Speaker 1: Its Gary.
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and now it's in everything. It's in Call
Speaker 5: of Duty. It's not this one, right, not Black Ops right.
Speaker 1: No, it was in Modern Warfare three.
Speaker 4: I think the first one it was in was Modern
Speaker 4: Warfare Remastered. I can't remember if there were ones before that,
Speaker 4: and then they bring it back here and there. But yes,
Speaker 4: it's just hide and seeking a video games.
Speaker 2: I see why that would be popular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, folks, that about does it for the news.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take quick bricky break and get at you
Speaker 1: with some video games right after this.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever been more.
Speaker 1: Scared to press a bun than when I'm at my
Speaker 1: desk with the audio device that I keep in front
Speaker 1: of me all the time. I'm more scared of this
Speaker 1: than I have ever been scared of a horror movie,
Speaker 1: horror game, or my own failures in life, video game music.
Speaker 5: I can't do it.
Speaker 3: I can't do it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh Jesus, sweet baby Jesus, I can just add
Speaker 1: that post, Jan I know about I need it excited
Speaker 1: a little bit of the live element, Yes, this live
Speaker 1: element when we could have not done this live? Uh,
Speaker 1: but who's dumb? My deal was it to do it live?
Speaker 1: It's like the devil was speaking into my ears, just
Speaker 1: like Dan Reichert and Mike Manatti have been playing Diablo
Speaker 1: for Oh yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 2: Spot We're all I'm playing right now is Activision Games
Speaker 2: with battle passes, which is not really weird, the usual thing.
Speaker 3: But yeah.
Speaker 2: I decided yesterday to pick up Diablo four because I
Speaker 2: was hearing a lot about the DLC from Mike Maharty
Speaker 2: during Firescape this weekend, and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I was moving when Diablo four Base Edition came out,
Speaker 2: so I never really got around to it. Despite wanting to,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, I got Vessel of Hatred, started the
Speaker 2: new character, and I'm going through the original campaign right now.
Speaker 3: But it's fun.
Speaker 2: I played for like seven hours last night. It was
Speaker 2: it's really good. I'm gonna play more tonight. I don't
Speaker 2: know what exactly the DLC added, because you know, I
Speaker 2: didn't really play the base game, but damn, it's just
Speaker 2: it's a really really solid game, and it's got really
Speaker 2: good a cross progression or cross save basically between PS
Speaker 2: five and and PC. So I've been going kind of
Speaker 2: back and forth. A really good game for the portal.
Speaker 2: I've been playing on that. So it's not super you know,
Speaker 2: twitch reflexe or anything. So, uh, it's a lot of systems,
Speaker 2: especially now it seems like they've probably added a bunch
Speaker 2: of stuff, and it's like, all right, certain things I
Speaker 2: can figure out pretty quick, like Okay, here's how I
Speaker 2: salvage this stuff, and here's how I craft a jewel
Speaker 2: and put it into the But I'm seven hours in
Speaker 2: and there's still like a lot of things that like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know this transmutation thing is or this this
Speaker 2: occult is, Like there's just a lot of like merchants
Speaker 2: in the town room, just like I don't think i'm
Speaker 2: here yet. I don't have the like or I'm unlocking
Speaker 2: stuff and I don't. It's a lot of textboxes and
Speaker 2: stuff I don't quite understand yet, and I'm just kind
Speaker 2: of assuming if I keep playing, I'll understand, because there's
Speaker 2: just a lot going on in that game.
Speaker 1: Mikey, did you play Diablo for much when it came
Speaker 1: out originally?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played the original, and I've been playing the
Speaker 3: Diablo series for a long time, and I always enjoy
Speaker 3: it to varying degrees. I like to deal before a
Speaker 3: good bit. I finally did check out some more Vessel
Speaker 3: of Hatred last couple of weeks, you know, spansion excitement.
Speaker 3: Want to try the new class, the God. It's got
Speaker 3: a weird name, Alborn, isn't it soul Sucker, spirit Worn.
Speaker 2: It's fun, It's a fun class.
Speaker 3: It's fun. I will say. I don't know. Maybe I'm
Speaker 3: just not in the mood for it right now, or
Speaker 3: maybe I've just played so much Yabo, but the Diebo
Speaker 3: has always been a little bit mindless, and I like
Speaker 3: that mindless fun. But if something about it right now
Speaker 3: feels especially mindless, to me, I've been having a hard
Speaker 3: time like really getting engaged and really progressing through the
Speaker 3: storyline of this expansion, which is so far has been
Speaker 3: kind of like, oh, you're looking for this person, go
Speaker 3: find this person.
Speaker 1: And that's fine.
Speaker 3: I don't need a big narrative hook to get me
Speaker 3: fighting monsters. But yeah, for whatever reason, I even been
Speaker 3: super engaged with it, I might try to force myself
Speaker 3: to get through more of it, though.
Speaker 2: I think that's almost why I'm getting into that and
Speaker 2: Call of Duty right now is like I feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, with the Game of the Year rush to
Speaker 2: like kind of play as much as I can. I
Speaker 2: feel like, you know, I got caught up on the
Speaker 2: stuff I want to and so to have these two
Speaker 2: games now that I'm playing where it's just like I'm
Speaker 2: just playing multiplayer Call of Duty, which is pretty mindless.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: You can put something on in the background and then Diablo,
Speaker 2: like I was watching Kyless stream all last night while
Speaker 2: I played. I don't need much audio for Diablo. I
Speaker 2: don't need to pay too much attention, like just turn
Speaker 2: your brain off and have something on in the background,
Speaker 2: Like I'm so ready for that right now, And I
Speaker 2: think that's why I'm ready for this game.
Speaker 1: Well, Dan, speaking about getting all with the rest of
Speaker 1: the games of the year, I'm also getting caught up
Speaker 1: in Black Op six. I had a bunch of fun
Speaker 1: playing with y'all last Friday that I was half tempted
Speaker 1: to see text all.
Speaker 3: Y'all you up for the weekend.
Speaker 4: You could have done that, Jane.
Speaker 3: It turns out Call of Duty six.
Speaker 1: Even though I think I'm or Black Op six, even
Speaker 1: though I think I'm garbro at the game, which I am,
Speaker 1: I still had a fantastic time play.
Speaker 3: There you go, do you do that?
Speaker 2: Ransack mode.
Speaker 3: Is so good?
Speaker 5: So pissed they took out my child in stakeout and
Speaker 5: I said, this game is ass It's useless, And then
Speaker 5: I said what is ran Sack? And it's a game
Speaker 5: mode where it the goal is to get one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty gold bars into your box and the map
Speaker 5: will spawn at like three or four locations and it
Speaker 5: rotates on a timer. It will spawn a vault that
Speaker 5: you can rob for ten You can carry ten dollars
Speaker 5: at a time, but you also can actively take money
Speaker 5: and points out of your opponent's vault, so it's moving.
Speaker 1: It's the ways that it really.
Speaker 5: Like the ways that it reconfigures the lanes in these
Speaker 5: maps is really interesting because there are obviously, because it's
Speaker 5: called duty, people don't play the objective. It does throw
Speaker 5: things off. But when you have people moving in what
Speaker 5: feels like commutes because the teams are large enough, moving
Speaker 5: around in circles from point to point, it feels really good.
Speaker 5: And when you when you catch a spawn at the
Speaker 5: right time and like a handful of the opponents die
Speaker 5: and you are like on your way to cycle out
Speaker 5: to take money out of their vault, and then they
Speaker 5: all they all spawn in front of you and you
Speaker 5: can take them out, and then you can it's really
Speaker 5: really good. I really really do like Grandsac.
Speaker 2: And there's a cool thing too where it's like not
Speaker 2: just the vault and the enemies, you can also like
Speaker 2: jan Let's say we're on opposite teams, and if you
Speaker 2: took you know, one or two bars, and you've got
Speaker 2: it on your person and I kill you, it'll drop
Speaker 2: like a little floating one or two bar thing that
Speaker 2: I can steal, or if you have a full ten,
Speaker 2: it'll drop like a duffel bag, and so I can
Speaker 2: just steal those ten bars you were carying and just
Speaker 2: bring it right back to mine and deposit it again.
Speaker 2: So's there's also super exciting things where it's like, holy shit,
Speaker 2: the other teams at one forty five, they're five away
Speaker 2: and we're at one twenty. But if you don't go
Speaker 2: to the neutral vault, if you go to the other base,
Speaker 2: you're literally stealing the points out of their pool and
Speaker 2: bringing it back, so like big swings can happen late.
Speaker 2: It's so much fun.
Speaker 1: This sounds a lot like the whole flow of the
Speaker 1: finals of Yeah, the cash from people, Oh sure, for sure, Okay.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 4: I saw that mode and yes, my first thought was
Speaker 4: nobody plays Objective and Call of Duty, so I'm not
Speaker 4: trying this mode. But I'm hopping on with some friends
Speaker 4: Layered tonight, so maybe we'll check.
Speaker 3: That's good, good, it's great.
Speaker 4: I've been hooked on this game. That's why I'm lagging
Speaker 4: behind and try to play Metaphor and catch up on
Speaker 4: ours up before a game of the years, I just
Speaker 4: hop on for a couple hours of Black Ops six
Speaker 4: like every night. I haven't been this hooked by a game,
Speaker 4: both playing with friends, you know, playing it here on
Speaker 4: the site, and now I play by myself. I'll just
Speaker 4: like Solo Cube said, it's been a long time, like, uh,
Speaker 4: Modern Warfare three. The reboot three was an anomaly because
Speaker 4: it was just the old MWt maps, which is very
Speaker 4: nostalgic for me and my friends. So I played a
Speaker 4: lot of that. But outside of that, I maybe haven't
Speaker 4: been this hoked accol of due since Black Ops two,
Speaker 4: like a decade ago. So it's they really knocked out
Speaker 4: of the park with this one. And every part is good.
Speaker 4: You know, we we've talked about before. But the single
Speaker 4: player campaign is excellent. It's did y'all finish that campaign yet? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 4: Dan did, Mike?
Speaker 3: Did you No? I might be good on the campaign,
Speaker 3: but I've been just absolutely loving the time I want
Speaker 3: to play it. I have so much of them with
Speaker 3: the monthly player, that's really what I want to Last night,
Speaker 3: that was tough, fantastic. The campaign is great because they
Speaker 3: just looked at other games and they're like, we like
Speaker 3: this game and this game and this game. If we
Speaker 3: just do games there, you know, do levels. There are
Speaker 3: those games, and they nail it. The multiplayers good, zombies
Speaker 3: as good. It's just yeah, really good.
Speaker 2: Squire.
Speaker 4: Uh yes, such a swing in the campaign there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I think this is a Mount Rushmore call
Speaker 2: of duty. I think it's like this the first modern
Speaker 2: warfare recency bias.
Speaker 4: But it could be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it'd be my.
Speaker 3: Favorite, and I'm not a big call of duty person.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if even like in the Prime
Speaker 3: three sixty days, I don't know if I enjoyed playing
Speaker 3: any of them as much as I'm enjoying.
Speaker 4: This, right, It's weird that the Mount Rushmore is probably
Speaker 4: m W one, m W two Black Ops two Black
Speaker 4: Opps six.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the MW remake was very, very solid.
Speaker 4: I thought it was very solid. The maps fell apart
Speaker 4: if you spent a lot of time with unfortunately.
Speaker 2: But Nikki, I did get some time. I'm on Steakout
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven before they took it off because
Speaker 2: of your remendation, And you're right, domination on steak Out
Speaker 2: is stupid, throwing grenades into random rooms and just getting
Speaker 2: a million kills.
Speaker 3: I have kills.
Speaker 1: I have two builds.
Speaker 3: I have like my one build for everything else, and
Speaker 3: then I have a build just for Steakout. As sad,
Speaker 3: I hope it.
Speaker 1: I hope it comes back next week. Desperate for it.
Speaker 1: I if we do that Soldier boy games to get
Speaker 1: high to we need because for a while I was like,
Speaker 1: I felt out of touch. I think with like my
Speaker 1: interpretation of why people were playing Call of Duty after
Speaker 1: Modern Warfare two, because I was like Modern war for
Speaker 1: two was sick as hell. Also, I was a child
Speaker 1: when the game came I was like a teenager when
Speaker 1: the game came out, and I was like, why would
Speaker 1: you Why would you play a Call of Duty game
Speaker 1: after you were a child? And then I was like, oh, marijuana.
Speaker 3: Why because if.
Speaker 5: You get a little bit high and play Call of Duty.
Speaker 5: And again my review is that I don't I have
Speaker 5: not heard.
Speaker 3: Any audio.
Speaker 2: Alternative reason you might play Called Duty as an adult
Speaker 2: is if you were an adult when they started making
Speaker 2: those games.
Speaker 3: Still a teenager. I was a teenager. I'm not going.
Speaker 2: When they started making.
Speaker 3: The fact that my first game review is for a
Speaker 3: PS two game a very lame, but that fact does
Speaker 3: bother me.
Speaker 1: I'm so surprised that Black Op six has even entered
Speaker 1: my brain sphere because I think it's starting to inform
Speaker 1: some of my regular decision making where I thought, you
Speaker 1: know what, maybe I will eat a bunch of pizza
Speaker 1: hut crazy puffs.
Speaker 3: Because I could get some.
Speaker 4: Put some respect on the name.
Speaker 2: Little Caesars.
Speaker 1: I need.
Speaker 2: They have hats and stuff, right, you can get hot
Speaker 2: and Ready hats.
Speaker 4: You can you can get just a dude, just a
Speaker 4: skin for the game han Ready trucker hat, glasses on
Speaker 4: black and orange head to toe and his knife is
Speaker 4: a pizza cutter.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I need.
Speaker 1: How do I do?
Speaker 2: I have to get a pizza for that.
Speaker 4: I'll have to buy what it's like, buy a han
Speaker 4: Ready from Little Caesars. You get code and Dan. I
Speaker 4: hate this part. It's a loot box.
Speaker 3: You don't know what you're doing the way with this.
Speaker 4: So I've been I've been getting Little Caesars every week
Speaker 4: trying to get that. I get the little stupid charm
Speaker 4: that dangles off my gun. I get doublex CSL and
Speaker 4: gotten the guy man.
Speaker 2: I wish i'd do some of the Little Caesars the
Speaker 2: same way. When Titan Fall two was your Titfall one
Speaker 2: was big, and somebody that worked at the Dorito's factory
Speaker 2: reached out to me and they like stole sheets of
Speaker 2: the double XP stickers, and so the whole time I
Speaker 2: played Titan Fall. I had like hundreds of double XP
Speaker 2: Dorito's stickers.
Speaker 5: That was my move, was I was because that was
Speaker 5: when they printed them on the bag for some reason. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So I was walking into the seven eleven down the
Speaker 5: street from my high school and taking pictures of the
Speaker 5: bag Like I was just standing picking up the bag
Speaker 5: and taking a picture with my phone burning.
Speaker 1: All of these coachs. Hell yeah, uh, brighter, Brighter times
Speaker 1: ahead for Call of Duty Black Op six. We should
Speaker 1: play some more of that on the website.
Speaker 2: I was not able during the stream last time. I'd
Speaker 2: love to play that with you guys. I haven't touched
Speaker 2: zombies yet either. I would love to try.
Speaker 1: Maybe we could do zombies sometime soon. Something that I
Speaker 1: checked out for a little bit is Brighter Shores.
Speaker 3: This is a.
Speaker 1: MMO Gary with a bunch of title tiles. It is
Speaker 1: a pointy clickie very early into it, so I can't
Speaker 1: speak to you how it is so far, but as
Speaker 1: it is right now, And maybe this is why it's
Speaker 1: taken me a while to get bit by the Final
Speaker 1: Fantasy ZIV Bug. But I just find it to be
Speaker 1: very slow and boring, just because they have you doing
Speaker 1: the fetch quests in the beginning, just to do tutorials
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But as soon as I got to the
Speaker 1: actual combat, your boy was excited because I saw nothing
Speaker 1: but tiles. It's a tile game, but it wasn't the
Speaker 1: tile game that I like, So it is just they're
Speaker 1: just tiles there for show. I'm not slapping and slideing
Speaker 1: them where I want them to be. It is more
Speaker 1: of MMO style combat, where you have your hot bar
Speaker 1: of your specific spells, your weapons to trigger off as
Speaker 1: you go by. I do want to spend a little
Speaker 1: bit more time with it and get to the actual
Speaker 1: MMO element of it, just because I'm still I think
Speaker 1: at the very end of the tutorial world before they
Speaker 1: unleash me to the rest of the world. Very simplistic
Speaker 1: art style. It reminds me of if RuneScape was made
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Well you know the good reason for that, don't you.
Speaker 4: Jan why it is from the original designer of runs game.
Speaker 4: But when you had this on the dock, I was like, huh,
Speaker 4: this name sounds amilliary. I was like, oh, yeah, the
Speaker 4: game from the guy. Yeah, that's why I was on game.
Speaker 3: The picture of Dan now with his Doritos XP things,
Speaker 3: and it's just very funny. It's a lot of like
Speaker 3: several of those Oh my god, that's great. God, that's
Speaker 3: taller than you did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, so went a little Caesars something boxes
Speaker 2: my way.
Speaker 1: Oh god. Uh speaking about game that's done by the dude.
Speaker 1: Dragon Quest three h D two D a remake of
Speaker 1: Dragon Quest three. Mike Manatti and Turbo Sean. You two
Speaker 1: have been playing it. I've also dipped my toes into
Speaker 1: the dragon Quest Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just dipped my toes in. I think Mike spent
Speaker 4: a little bit more time it last night.
Speaker 1: We were streaming this the other day, right kind of
Speaker 1: a toe dippy like.
Speaker 3: I wanted to start this game before we did this.
Speaker 3: I wanted to beat Metaphor first, and I did my
Speaker 3: best to do that this weekend. But I am at
Speaker 3: like the very very end, in the middle of what
Speaker 3: I am sure has to be the last dungeon now.
Speaker 3: But I still wanted to start this. I started on stream.
Speaker 3: I like Dragon Quest. I played Dragon Quest three a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago. The old version on Switch, which
Speaker 3: is just basically a port of a mobile version, doesn't
Speaker 3: look great, but the game still played really well. This
Speaker 3: game is gorgeous, even among other HD two D games.
Speaker 3: I love everything about the way that this game looks.
Speaker 3: Just the town so the best. The best is when
Speaker 3: it's darkout, like you're in a little cave or it's
Speaker 3: a nighttime and your guys this little lamp. He's walking
Speaker 3: around with the lamp and it just glows. That is cozy.
Speaker 3: That's a cozy game for me. And even just you know,
Speaker 3: you know, Jen, I heard you know, you're you know, saying, oh,
Speaker 3: there's you know, a lot of grinding and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and I get that's not for some people. I love
Speaker 3: that shit so much. The first thing I do, and
Speaker 3: these really old school JRPGs, is I just go outside
Speaker 3: right outside of the first town, and I walk around
Speaker 3: for a while, just grinding levels, knowing that I could
Speaker 3: just go back to my home and Mommy will make
Speaker 3: my bed for me and let me take a nappy
Speaker 3: nap and get my MP back.
Speaker 1: I guess I could do that.
Speaker 3: For hours in the beginning of a JRPG.
Speaker 1: I love that mechanic going home to sleep and then
Speaker 1: mom heals you up and like sends you back out,
Speaker 1: like yeah, go keep fighting, kid.
Speaker 3: I love that that first town still has an inn
Speaker 3: that you could pay for if you want to. But
Speaker 3: Mom's place is right there. Let's definitely do that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Dragus three is just a fun game. I love making
Speaker 3: my little party at the beginning. You pick the job,
Speaker 3: you know, characters you want, you get to name them.
Speaker 3: I've got Rubbie, Penny and Daisy and my party prioritizes here.
Speaker 3: You got a food adventuring Buruiously, I'm you know, like
Speaker 3: seventy five minutes in, but I'm very happy. I know
Speaker 3: I'm going to have a great time with this, and
Speaker 3: it's agous.
Speaker 1: Character named Mikey to continue the y trend.
Speaker 3: No, Tolkoto, that's a stupid question. If I'm playing like
Speaker 3: something very real worldie, then like then it could be Mike.
Speaker 3: It's anything remotely fantasy, it's gonna be Tolkota.
Speaker 5: Well hold on, now, I have.
Speaker 1: A bunch of questions. What is the line between.
Speaker 5: What's an example of.
Speaker 4: Fas in reality?
Speaker 2: Do you think that fantasy can't affect reality or.
Speaker 1: Is it.
Speaker 3: Like for a persona, I'll be Michael, But for metaphor,
Speaker 3: I'm told.
Speaker 4: I can see your reflection.
Speaker 3: Try to reflection.
Speaker 4: Good effect. You know, I saw people saying that maybe
Speaker 4: this remake actually isn't very beginner friendly, which I was
Speaker 4: a little surprised by because I saw multiple difficulty options
Speaker 4: that you can change at any time. There's variety of
Speaker 4: things that you can change. There's graphical sayings and change
Speaker 4: if something is like not appealing.
Speaker 3: To you, and a big difference between the original games
Speaker 3: that you can't just have like the away markers tell
Speaker 3: you where to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's so many of these games before it
Speaker 3: was kind of you're supposed to wander around and just
Speaker 3: kind of discover things or talked to townspeople and hope
Speaker 3: that they'll tell you something that has its own charm.
Speaker 3: But even I'm not that much of a sick. Oh,
Speaker 3: I will just turn the waypoint on. That's fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that because it's just so easy to
Speaker 4: get lost in a world that is, you know, it
Speaker 4: was designed of the time, and a lot of stuff
Speaker 4: looks the same. A lot of those tile sets all
Speaker 4: kind of blend together after a certain point. So yeah,
Speaker 4: just having a general hey, go over here, I do
Speaker 4: like having that. One thing we'll say about the visuals,
Speaker 4: I think as much as they nailed what they were
Speaker 4: going for. It was when I was playing on my
Speaker 4: TV that I really noticed that they've moved away from
Speaker 4: HD two D being entirely pixel art. Oh and then
Speaker 4: you know, like the three D stuff is like three
Speaker 4: D models, but with pixel art for the texturing.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: Now it's just like you're walking around in a more
Speaker 4: modern two D Zelda. But the characters are sprites. That
Speaker 4: looks a little jarring to me on the big screen,
Speaker 4: But I am also fired up in handheld. It's a
Speaker 4: little less noticeable there, so it looks better there. And
Speaker 4: I I assume I will play most of this game
Speaker 4: on the Steam deck in handheld MOE, because that's where
Speaker 4: you play an old school someone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I streamed in on PC, but gonna be my
Speaker 3: rog my next rock ally.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure, bedtime game.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'm gonna be on a plane for a
Speaker 1: hot minute. This may be the playing game.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna raw dog it.
Speaker 1: I thought about it, but then because like, I, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna know someone else on the flight.
Speaker 1: I don't want to scare anyone. Uh who knows who don't.
Speaker 5: Want to scare anyone. You've already said out loud that
Speaker 5: you could do it. That is scarier. The threat of
Speaker 5: it is almost scarier than the act of doing it.
Speaker 1: The threat of raw dogging is always terrifying. Christ Hm Planes,
Speaker 1: I only meet planes. Everyone, Please please calm down, put
Speaker 1: the pitchworks away. We're all friends on Blue Sky. Nothing
Speaker 1: bad has happened yet. I don't want to be the
Speaker 1: main character there, uh Turbo Shawn Sean McDowell.
Speaker 3: I've been playing a group of games.
Speaker 1: The first one I see here is Horizon Apostrophe Capital
Speaker 1: s is Horizon now available on the switch?
Speaker 4: There's no Apostrophe there, but it technically one of those
Speaker 4: games is on the switch. Yeah. So I have been
Speaker 4: playing Lego Horizon Adventures as the resident Horizon fan of
Speaker 4: Giant on now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like, yeah, yeah, I can't believe you were living
Speaker 4: with Sicko Nikki.
Speaker 5: Can you believe that's nuts and be your own people?
Speaker 4: Lego Horizon is bizarre.
Speaker 3: It's so.
Speaker 4: I am not up on the Lego games. I know
Speaker 4: that they branched out in a million different directions past.
Speaker 4: You know, I played the first couple Lego Star Wars.
Speaker 4: I think I played what the first where the first
Speaker 4: DC Lego one was?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 4: Was that Batman or.
Speaker 2: Whatever much as Batman.
Speaker 3: At first, I think, yeah.
Speaker 4: And here it is what I picture those games being
Speaker 4: in my head, at least, being a little dungeon crawler
Speaker 4: e while being you know, the very cute Lego esthetic.
Speaker 4: But yeah, just mixing Lego with Horizon is such an
Speaker 4: odd pick because a lot of things they can get
Speaker 4: away with a t for team game just don't quite translate. Well,
Speaker 4: we need to make it for kids. I told Mike
Speaker 4: about it the r night when I asked about it.
Speaker 4: But yes, there is in fact a scene in this
Speaker 4: game early on where they have to explain cultis to kids,
Speaker 4: and it's just what they're like, Oh, yeah, Cultists are
Speaker 4: people who believe in something so strongly that it's really
Speaker 4: bizarre and you can't believe it. And Ala is like, oh,
Speaker 4: you mean, like how you think pancakes and gravy go together? Right,
Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, just like that, but worse. And so
Speaker 4: it's like, yeah, it's it's very quippi. It's a very again,
Speaker 4: not as familiar, but why I imagine the anime Lego
Speaker 4: stuff being but for Horizon. So yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I I kind of like it. It just feels weird
Speaker 4: every step of the way, like, why this.
Speaker 5: The Lego tone has really changed post movie, Like, yes,
Speaker 5: when they put that movie out, like the tone of
Speaker 5: what like the media representation of what Lego was as
Speaker 5: established by those games was always kind of goofy, but
Speaker 5: it never said anything. And then the movie came out,
Speaker 5: and then the second movie came out, and then post
Speaker 5: that they have been more acknology of the real world.
Speaker 5: They you know, Pharrell's biopic.
Speaker 2: Is in Lego, right, Yeah, Weird is going to be
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Martinly their kings in it. But they do the
Speaker 5: they do the there's a bunch of stories, like retellings
Speaker 5: of like how Pharrell like writes songs, and there is
Speaker 5: a long extended bit where he tells the story of
Speaker 5: tells a story about working with Snoop Dogg, And critical
Speaker 5: to that story is that Pharrell makes the beat while
Speaker 5: high out of his mind, and you can't tell the
Speaker 5: story without also explaining that they were on all of
Speaker 5: America's weed. So they have the way they get around
Speaker 5: it is that they call it PG spray, And anytime
Speaker 5: anyone does weed in the motion picture, they pull out
Speaker 5: a can and the can says PG spray, and then
Speaker 5: they spray a bunch of it and then it's like
Speaker 5: misty inside of the room. Apparently it's pretty good. So
Speaker 5: like I'm already soft on this, but like Lego tone
Speaker 5: has changed a bit, and I think as they have
Speaker 5: shifted that tone, a lot of it has become weird
Speaker 5: to perceive because it's not it is not as sharp
Speaker 5: as it was when that new tone was introduced with
Speaker 5: the movie.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm glad you were here to explain that, because
Speaker 4: that makes a lot of sense. Then because a lot
Speaker 4: of that, I don't think it's they nail it quite
Speaker 4: as much as what you just said, but a lot
Speaker 4: of that type of tone of like we need to
Speaker 4: take something from tray to more E or E ten
Speaker 4: plus rating. We need to explain it to kids. We
Speaker 4: need to have this sense of humor with something that
Speaker 4: is often very serious. It's cute. I've been liking it
Speaker 4: so far, but it's you know, Aloy is very very quippi,
Speaker 4: and in an era where like PlayStation mascots are kind
Speaker 4: of getting a lot of crap for not being able
Speaker 4: to shut up, it's kind of ironic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, cute I think is the word for it. I
Speaker 4: really want to see grubbing the kids play it because
Speaker 4: I think they might have a good time with like
Speaker 4: seeing all these like weird, funny little jokes that they make.
Speaker 4: As for the game itself, yeah, like I said, it
Speaker 4: very much just feels like a Lego game. I think
Speaker 4: that's maybe the weakest part of it, because the writing
Speaker 4: can be pretty funny. Visually, it looks fantastic. I've been
Speaker 4: playing the PC version, you know, four K sixty ray Racing.
Speaker 4: It looks phenomenal. If you look around, everything is lego,
Speaker 4: which is wild. Everything like the ground is the flat
Speaker 4: big Lego pieces, the rocks are all like bespoke pieces.
Speaker 4: It's a stunning game. But then the gameplays kind of
Speaker 4: just move Aloy around, climb some cliffs, shoot the bow.
Speaker 4: It's very simple. So I'm not the target audience, so
Speaker 4: maybe kids would like something like that more. I'm kind
Speaker 4: of curious. For me, I think it's you know, it's
Speaker 4: just okay. I probably won't even finish the game, but
Speaker 4: I thought it was an interesting experiment of nothing else.
Speaker 5: Have you played any of this stuff, the Lego Fortnite stuff?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 4: Did we play some of that?
Speaker 5: I think we must have played. I think we might
Speaker 5: have played a little bit of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I'll remember. I feel like I fired it
Speaker 4: up at least once, because that's like a survival game.
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, right, But like I'm trying to I was
Speaker 5: really curious and it's just seems like I also haven't
Speaker 5: played it in a really long time. But like, mechanically,
Speaker 5: how much of that survival stuff feels like it is
Speaker 5: present in this very little Yeah that's very simple.
Speaker 4: I mean literally, the buns are basically jump shoot bo
Speaker 4: and the interactions with the world are arrow can go
Speaker 4: through fire to light things on fire. Cool, and that's
Speaker 4: kind of it. I'm always in the first like little world,
Speaker 4: so maybe it gets more.
Speaker 1: So this is a full price title, huh, sixty smack
Speaker 1: roof sixty seventy stops full price anymore?
Speaker 3: What are you talking about? That is a budget title
Speaker 3: that's not the full seventy bucks.
Speaker 4: Yeah I do. Yeah, full price are close to it,
Speaker 4: which is sixty is a little simple for that? I
Speaker 4: don't know. But again, it's weird to talk about because
Speaker 4: despite being a Horizon fan, the game isn't for me
Speaker 4: because they're trying to get kids in the door with
Speaker 4: this one so that eventually when they get older, they
Speaker 4: will buy the other game. I played a little bit
Speaker 4: of Horizon zero Don Remastered, which I've also been playing
Speaker 4: on PC, and that one is Horizon zero Down but remastered.
Speaker 4: Oh how that works? Huh yeah, yeah, not a lot
Speaker 4: to say there. Anytime they do that, anytime they you know,
Speaker 4: bring a game up to modern standards, I think that's
Speaker 4: very cool. It's bizarre that that is also a full
Speaker 4: price if you haven't owned it before. That's how you
Speaker 4: know they get around things is by re upping the
Speaker 4: MSRP using the guys are remastered. But yeah, it's just
Speaker 4: I don't know, if you've ever wanted to play that game,
Speaker 4: this is now the definitive edition, so go for it.
Speaker 4: It's an interesting strategy that they got going on there
Speaker 4: with the Lego game then this master coming out. I'm
Speaker 4: curious to see how it all works out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, trying to create an entire funnel but just for
Speaker 5: one of your franchises kind of nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's an interesting strategy, Sean. But that's
Speaker 1: not the only PS four game or game that started
Speaker 1: out on the that you've been playing this morning. Because
Speaker 1: Jeff Grubb is out on a vacation assignment we're not
Speaker 1: having game as Mornings in place. We're having perhaps one
Speaker 1: of the best titles of a future ever, Days Sean,
Speaker 1: where you are deaking it up. It's deep week Baby.
Speaker 4: The comments are saying that they someone Week Baby. Days
Speaker 4: Gone is a video game that Ben's studio made for
Speaker 4: the PlayStation four.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. That's how far.
Speaker 1: Your sister is she your wife?
Speaker 3: I don't know both.
Speaker 4: I don't know jam. It's really weird. Okay, so okay.
Speaker 4: The point of day Sean is not just a dunk
Speaker 4: on a game that I don't like. That is definitely
Speaker 4: not it. Hopefully people didn't get that impression. It's just
Speaker 4: a funny, little fish out water thing where this is
Speaker 4: not the type of game I normally play. But a
Speaker 4: dumb pun is a dumb pun, and if it hits
Speaker 4: hard enough, we do it at giant bumps. That's why
Speaker 4: I am playing Days Gone and in full costume and everything.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: The game part itself honestly does seem fine. The problem
Speaker 4: is that's so average to me that I don't really
Speaker 4: think anything of it. You sneak around, avoid the zombies,
Speaker 4: sometimes shoot the zombies, sometimes shoot the humans, and yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know it's.
Speaker 3: Okay called video game. The video game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Mike, you were saying during the stream. It
Speaker 4: feels very ps for just in general, like a lot
Speaker 4: of the things are popular then a lot of the
Speaker 4: systems and everything. It's just it's it's not bad, it's
Speaker 4: just so comage.
Speaker 1: It's it's like deeply competent. If you were making if
Speaker 1: you were asked to make a triple A video game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: tens did they do that? Totally fine.
Speaker 4: The problem of the game, I just can't get into
Speaker 4: this main character and the story and everything is going
Speaker 4: on there.
Speaker 2: I looked it up while your Planet and realized he
Speaker 2: was also the voice and likeness of the Force Unleashed
Speaker 2: dude star Killer. Yeah, same guy.
Speaker 1: Yeahs does star Killer kill women or what's his deal?
Speaker 3: Path?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it was sure to see a lot of
Speaker 3: people bleeding out in the first like hour of this
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 1: Of women bleeding out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very specifically, which I still don't know why that
Speaker 3: second woman was beaten to death.
Speaker 5: For that's the That's the thing that is like immediately
Speaker 5: frustrating to me is that the game is like the
Speaker 5: world sucks and it's.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, dog, and that's exactly why this should have
Speaker 4: just been the Last of Us spin off or like,
Speaker 4: you know, a small sequel thing Miles Morales or I
Speaker 4: don't know, even like a full blown sequel, because it
Speaker 4: feels like they just had the Last of Us right
Speaker 4: there and said we want to do that. But because
Speaker 4: it's biker culture, it needs to be its own thing,
Speaker 4: which is just such a wild.
Speaker 1: They they already named the Monsters and Last of Us clickers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very different, very far assulting that Sony used Deep
Speaker 2: to promote that little indie game to put out this year.
Speaker 2: I just can't believe that absolutely franchise.
Speaker 1: Oh god.
Speaker 4: Anyways, Hopefully people had fun with the stream because it
Speaker 4: is supposed to just be you know, us just hanging
Speaker 4: out shooting the ship while I play perfectly okay video game.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I thought it was a fun time. People
Speaker 4: seem to enjoy it. Hopefully they will. We keep doing
Speaker 4: it for the rest of this week. I did say
Speaker 4: during Extra Life I would do a full play through.
Speaker 4: If people want to full play through, we can bring
Speaker 4: it back in the future where there it's downtime. But yeah,
Speaker 4: for the most part, you get your.
Speaker 1: Because you're half way through the game, right now.
Speaker 4: Uh huh, yep, that's exactly where I am too. So
Speaker 4: how long to be thirty eight?
Speaker 1: Whoa?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so maybe not finishing that one anytime soon, but yes,
Speaker 4: every day this week is the plan. Yes, including tomorrow,
Speaker 4: since you know we're recording the BombCast on Monday.
Speaker 1: Sean, you don't have to do it tomorrow, all right?
Speaker 4: I should tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We should have done a stretch goal where you have
Speaker 2: one hundred.
Speaker 4: Damn did you know that if I one hundred percent
Speaker 4: and I would automatically be second place at speed run
Speaker 4: dot com because there's only one.
Speaker 3: Other person who has done wow. Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, folks, be nice to Sean if Sean choose not
Speaker 1: to do it tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Just cranky mood this episode.
Speaker 2: I can't mention why.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, that about does it for video games,
Speaker 1: we have played a lot of upcoming news and stuff
Speaker 1: to come out and stuff to talk about as we
Speaker 1: reach Game of the Year season for ourselves, We're gonna
Speaker 1: take another quick bricky break and we'll be back with
Speaker 1: some emails. Oh thank us. Podcast at GiantBomb dot com
Speaker 1: is the email address to send your emails to. You
Speaker 1: can send any type of email you want if you
Speaker 1: want to specifically address a member of the crew, you
Speaker 1: can tell me to do that. I'll forward it to them.
Speaker 1: If you want to send or advertise your local crystal company,
Speaker 1: I will politely nod my head and smile as I
Speaker 1: read the email speaking about specific emails for specific people.
Speaker 1: This came in two hours ago. Dan, please forward this
Speaker 1: website where you can buy cheese to Dan. The oven
Speaker 1: baked cheese is incredible. And then I clicked on the link. Dan,
Speaker 1: they're having a Black Friday sale.
Speaker 2: On cheese by cheese sale shipped, Yeah, shipped, safe to
Speaker 2: ship cheese.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, swhere.
Speaker 1: This specific place is Gardeners, Wisconsin Cheese.
Speaker 4: Oh okay.
Speaker 2: If it's from Wisconsin, that's I'm also like ten minutes
Speaker 2: from the border of Wisconsin. I could probably just get
Speaker 2: over there.
Speaker 4: The hand off. You're just gonna go grab.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a baton, folks.
Speaker 1: I'll also put this in the Giant Bomb chat for y'all.
Speaker 3: Oh, Buffalo chicken cheese. I don't know what that.
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Oh, we have another one from uh that just hit
Speaker 1: the email box. This is from Rebecca. Hey, Jan, can
Speaker 1: can you tell Sean his hair looks great today?
Speaker 3: Thanks?
Speaker 4: Oh? Thank you.
Speaker 1: There you go. Uh first email of the show. This
Speaker 1: is too long of a document. Nikki is going to
Speaker 1: Kansas City. This one comes from uh Nikki.
Speaker 4: No, I think it's from Nikkiel.
Speaker 2: Nikiel sign Nikki at the bottom.
Speaker 1: It is a live email. This is a female first
Speaker 1: of the first kind. Hey everyone, my name is Nikki.
Speaker 1: First time, long time. I'm going to Kansas City this weekend.
Speaker 1: Where should I eat? Nikki? He'ss never mind, that's the well.
Speaker 2: I know emails can't talk back, but if anyone on
Speaker 2: this call wants to be the voice of the emailer, Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, in I wonder where this emailer would be
Speaker 2: staying in Kansas City.
Speaker 5: I'm staying the the the person is staying in uh
Speaker 5: huh bye, I mean thereby they're in. They're on the
Speaker 5: south just south of the river, near the Negro League's
Speaker 5: Baseball Museum.
Speaker 2: Okay, so near downtown. Okay, yes, Well, I always say
Speaker 2: Casey Joe's or Joe's. Casey is my favorite barbecue, and
Speaker 2: probably just this is my death row meal. You know,
Speaker 2: this is like last meal, final meal, whatever they call it.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. They're about to kill me
Speaker 2: and I'm one more good.
Speaker 3: I got it all right, You got it all right.
Speaker 2: So this is something I realized because like, there are
Speaker 2: actual Joe's Casey locations. There's one Casey k there's one
Speaker 2: in the suburbs. There's a couple in the suburbs. But
Speaker 2: I didn't know there were any downtown. But there is
Speaker 2: a place in the Power and Light District which is
Speaker 2: like the big tourist area with a bunch of bars.
Speaker 2: That's where everyone goes to watch Chiefs games and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. And when I was staying there for the
Speaker 2: extra life ignite thing this summer, I found a place
Speaker 2: called the County Road ice House, which is there and
Speaker 2: they just straight up serve Joe's case. They have a
Speaker 2: deal with them, where like all of the burn ends,
Speaker 2: all that the z man, all that stuff. So I wonder,
Speaker 2: if this is this emailer, if they would prefer burnt
Speaker 2: ends or like a really good signature like sandwich with
Speaker 2: with fried endine rings and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Poor Kalinos dose, I guess is kind of what the
Speaker 5: caller or the emailer is letting me know.
Speaker 2: I would say the burn ends are my favorite. That
Speaker 2: is the death row death meal, electrocution meal thing where
Speaker 2: I'm about to die and they give me one more meal. Uh, okay,
Speaker 2: are you following it? Yeah, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: Gonna so hold on. I just need to understand that
Speaker 1: you're about to die.
Speaker 2: I've done a horrible crime and I'm going to be
Speaker 2: put to death for it.
Speaker 3: But whatever you want.
Speaker 2: And they say, I don't know if they actually do
Speaker 2: this for shoot, but if they're like, you name anything
Speaker 2: on the planet, and I say, like, get me some
Speaker 2: burn INDs and fries from KC. Joe's. And that's the
Speaker 2: thing is I get the stuff shipped all the time
Speaker 2: from for the meat, but the fries are also some
Speaker 2: of the best fries I've ever had, So you get
Speaker 2: to actually have it at the location. So you get
Speaker 2: the fries, you dip it in the barbecue sauce. Just
Speaker 2: douse everything in the barbecue sauce like crazy. That's a
Speaker 2: big part of it. So just take the squeeze bottle.
Speaker 2: They got the spicy one. The spicy one's good, but
Speaker 2: the original is the best, and just soak everything on
Speaker 2: that plate in that barbecue sauce. Get the prize. It's incredible.
Speaker 2: Great at the County Road ice House. So don't look
Speaker 2: for Joe's case. You're not gonna find it. The County
Speaker 2: Road ice.
Speaker 3: House has their stuff perfect. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope and I would like to hear from
Speaker 2: the emailer on their their thoughts on it.
Speaker 5: Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 3: I also want to go to Kansas City.
Speaker 2: It's gotten better since the.
Speaker 1: Yeah I'll write next email comes from Eddie in Canada.
Speaker 1: They write in high bombshells, Oh high bombshells. As a
Speaker 1: true gamer, I still enjoy partaking in nacho cheese doritos. However,
Speaker 1: now every time I eat them, I say to myself,
Speaker 1: nacho cheese bitch because of the minati gamer rapp. This
Speaker 1: is a reference that nobody else in my life will understand.
Speaker 1: It's just something I say for myself. What's something in
Speaker 1: your life that is That is a self inside joke
Speaker 1: that nobody else will understand, and it's just for you.
Speaker 3: Stay cheesy.
Speaker 1: Eddie from Canada.
Speaker 3: Um, my friend's order brother made a lot of like
Speaker 3: home movies. We were like teenagers and I wasn't in them,
Speaker 3: but I would watch them and at one point the
Speaker 3: one character says to the other one, so they're like, I, Uh,
Speaker 3: your sister gave me a dump truck last night, and
Speaker 3: then the other guy goes h dump truck, fo excuse me?
Speaker 3: And we would say foe excuse me to each other
Speaker 3: all the time and still do, but nobody else knows
Speaker 3: what FO excuse me means. We made Derek Jeter say it?
Speaker 3: Not Jack Jeter? What's that guy from Jew Carry Show?
Speaker 3: Hold what.
Speaker 1: We made Derek Jeter say it? Hold on the guy
Speaker 1: from the Drew Carrey Show. Which guy? Could you possibly?
Speaker 3: Ryan Styles?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: The other one, Dadrick Bater. You understand it's kind of
Speaker 3: similar Daydrick Baiter, Thank you chat. It's close, It's close bad.
Speaker 3: We made Dadrick Bater say for excuse me one time
Speaker 3: he had a terrible delivery. Oh really Yeah, he seemed
Speaker 3: very confused. They tried to get Boushemy to say it too.
Speaker 3: He is at the same conference. His publicist did not
Speaker 3: let him say fo excuse me.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: I hope Dadrid Bater gets a little bit of a
Speaker 1: spike on his IMDBA to.
Speaker 3: There you go. He's on something. I was at a
Speaker 3: bar last night or on Saturday night and he was
Speaker 3: on TV on some new show or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was. He's getting work. Good
Speaker 2: for him, good, good, I'm one that if you ever
Speaker 2: I'm sure back in the day we said it several
Speaker 2: times on the Game of the Years and stuff and
Speaker 2: never explained it. But if you ever heard, I know,
Speaker 2: Abby you did it a lot. And Benny My it's
Speaker 2: get in there said like that. Yeah, it's from a thing.
Speaker 2: It's from a pilot that was sent to me ten
Speaker 2: years ago, probably from a friend of mine that works
Speaker 2: in TV, and it never aired. It's a you know,
Speaker 2: Mark Prochs, he was on the Office and what we
Speaker 2: do in the shadow is kind of the bald guy.
Speaker 2: He was the Yo Yo master guy that would fuck
Speaker 2: with local news and stuff.
Speaker 3: That guy.
Speaker 2: He did a pilot called Good Morning Try State, which
Speaker 2: is an incredible premise where it's he's got like a
Speaker 2: morning show in the Tri State area, but he's the
Speaker 2: only one that knows it's a bit. So he brings
Speaker 2: all these people on animal experts and cooking segment people
Speaker 2: and co hosts, and they think they're on an actual
Speaker 2: morning show and he's being a real weirdo about everything.
Speaker 2: And there was a cooking segment where as they pour
Speaker 2: the wine into the cooking stuff, He's just like, get
Speaker 2: in there, get in there, and I'm looking. It's on
Speaker 2: YouTube now.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I never showed it before because it was a thing
Speaker 2: a friend just sent to me. Is like a locked
Speaker 2: Vimeo thing. The whole episode is fucking awesome. It's got
Speaker 2: like eight hundred views on YouTube. I just linked to
Speaker 2: the chat. I would highly recommend people watching this. It's
Speaker 2: nineteen minutes long, and just keep in mind that the
Speaker 2: main host is the only one that knows this is
Speaker 2: a bit. It's very very good.
Speaker 1: Back at MythBusters, since the parent production company was Australian,
Speaker 1: we'd get a lot of Australian memes sometimes. So one
Speaker 1: of the producers is just dying as she's looking at
Speaker 1: her phone, and then me and the camera team look
Speaker 1: what's up and it's just a clip of like the
Speaker 1: oldest man possible in I think the local news is
Speaker 1: interviewing him, and then he's just.
Speaker 3: Going, what a joker.
Speaker 1: And then for the longest time, anytime somebod who would
Speaker 1: be a little silly, I would just say that to myself,
Speaker 1: what a joker, Harley Quinn place, it's really good any
Speaker 1: other self inside jokes?
Speaker 4: Friends, I got nothing to all top Derek Jeter, Yeah, no.
Speaker 2: Mike reminded me of when Kayla saw already laying at
Speaker 2: the comedy seller when she visited me in New York,
Speaker 2: and she told my mom that she saw al Pacino
Speaker 2: do stand up, but I.
Speaker 3: Knew it was wrong.
Speaker 2: In my defense, Kayla actually thought she saw do a
Speaker 2: staked upset.
Speaker 1: Would that would be amazing? It's good that Greb isn't
Speaker 1: here because the next email subject reads, I have eaten pickmen.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I was listening to a lot of Cops episode and
Speaker 1: I was reminded that on the way back from the
Speaker 1: first Annual Midwest Mixed Fest in Minneapolis, we stopped into
Speaker 1: Kurasushi in mal of America, where they're serving special Pickmen
Speaker 1: branded foods, where I had the Red Pickman crunchy roll,
Speaker 1: a sushi roll topped with red breadcrumbs as to simulate
Speaker 1: hundreds of pickmen being upon it. He was delicious, but
Speaker 1: the implications made me feel like a monster. If you
Speaker 1: could eat a food based around any game or character
Speaker 1: of your choice, what would it be?
Speaker 3: Thanks?
Speaker 1: Guys love to hear the podcast every.
Speaker 2: Week Snake Eater, Snake Eater Snake Well, but like the
Speaker 2: and wanted to be like a cake that looks like
Speaker 2: a snake or something, you know, but they like, but.
Speaker 3: They have those giant candy snakes, and I find that discuss.
Speaker 3: I don't need that much gummy snakes. Yeah, that much gummy. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Maybe a boring answer, but I really want to eat
Speaker 4: some of that photo realistic food that they have in
Speaker 4: games like Foule Fantasy fifteen and like Bosster Hunter and
Speaker 4: stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I would like to eat the steak from that new
Speaker 3: Mario Party mini game A lot that's so good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like the Orange or whatever and paper Mario that
Speaker 4: was weirdly high resolution. And yeah, anytime they put super
Speaker 4: photo realistic food in something.
Speaker 1: Like the Dragon's Dog mustake from earlier this.
Speaker 2: That was awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, any hot dog in a video game, I'd like
Speaker 1: to eat that in real life naturally.
Speaker 3: They just look so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, uh, we got uh. Since Travis has
Speaker 1: been banned from the emails, we have a lot of
Speaker 1: people coming for the multi question thrown here and we
Speaker 1: got a couple of Cooper cues. Hey, folks, what's the
Speaker 1: game slash genre mashup that you'd be interested in seeing?
Speaker 1: First person immersive sim, Metal Gear, Solid city Builder, God,
Speaker 1: Animal Crossing, Hitman style stealth puzzle game version of Assassin's Creed,
Speaker 1: with each level being a different time period and setting.
Speaker 2: Set it Beforeesight again. Car Combat PUBG Car Combat Battle
Speaker 2: Round like Twisted Metal on an Island. Sure you know
Speaker 2: it's kind of already in Fortnite, right, Oh then Matt
Speaker 2: Max stuff.
Speaker 4: No, just Fortnite.
Speaker 2: You can just do with cars.
Speaker 4: Oh you do anything with just cars?
Speaker 3: Is it good?
Speaker 1: They got helicopters in it again? Oh?
Speaker 2: Try that.
Speaker 3: That's like a flying car. True.
Speaker 1: I feel like we could do more rhythm based games
Speaker 1: with other games.
Speaker 3: Yea Meganman rhythm game, Meganman rhythm game. Yes, Meganman Rhythm game.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh, High Fi Rush, but it's just just a
Speaker 4: rhythm game spin off.
Speaker 1: Why not Rush?
Speaker 3: But it's Mega Man.
Speaker 2: H that's right.
Speaker 3: That is just insane.
Speaker 4: No, no, we are not stopping there. Go on, Dan,
Speaker 4: explain yourself.
Speaker 2: Play an action game. I like to control when I
Speaker 2: get to attack enemies. I don't need to be.
Speaker 3: Dan's white as hell.
Speaker 4: He has no rhythm.
Speaker 2: Yeah I don't. But I like to play rhythm games.
Speaker 2: I want to play rhythm games. I want to play
Speaker 2: an action game. I'm play an action game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you suck and therefore you don't like it. We
Speaker 4: get it, Dan, It's okay.
Speaker 2: I like freedom to play games the way I want you.
Speaker 1: I've seen Dan play a dance game on an arcade
Speaker 1: once and you looked like he was hitting the beat.
Speaker 3: We were both.
Speaker 1: Confused as that play though, So yeah, you know, okay
Speaker 1: the jury another question from coop here. License games are
Speaker 1: a dime a dozen, but not very many of them
Speaker 1: come from books. There's some high profile games adapted from books,
Speaker 1: such as an Thing based off of Journey to the West,
Speaker 1: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Witcher series, Stalker Slash,
Speaker 1: Metro adapting Roadside Panic, but most adaptations come from movies, comics,
Speaker 1: or shows. Even a lot of those only came about
Speaker 1: because of film adaptations. First, what book would you want
Speaker 1: turned into a game? Out of the dust RYE? Okay,
Speaker 1: one at a time, All Kay out the dust by
Speaker 1: Karen Hesse. It's a It's a book about a stupid
Speaker 1: kid living in the fucking dust bowl and her life
Speaker 1: sucks and it's boring and it's awful.
Speaker 5: But this in my video game. You're a thirteen year
Speaker 5: old girl and your life sucks, and you live in
Speaker 5: the dust bowl, and you don't really do anything. And
Speaker 5: then I think, like your brother dies, you have to
Speaker 5: bury him in the backyard. Oh does that sound cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Funny? All right, I'll work it.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah.
Speaker 4: Funded what if they turned Thomas Moore's book Utopia into
Speaker 4: a video game, like maybe an RPG or something fun.
Speaker 4: That might be pray good.
Speaker 1: Let's let's take another stab at the Bible.
Speaker 4: Huh, take another stab at the Bible.
Speaker 3: You know we are joking, but speak for yourself.
Speaker 5: How has there not been There is so much money
Speaker 5: in the in the Christian grift business, right, how has
Speaker 5: there not been a triple A Bible game?
Speaker 2: Bible Adventures? I don't think anyone really played it.
Speaker 1: So, like I said, why hasn't there been a Triple A?
Speaker 5: Is exactly the passion.
Speaker 3: So much of the audience for that is like very
Speaker 3: old people, and they're just not going to play video games.
Speaker 3: You never know.
Speaker 4: They did the Bible game on the PlayStation two, if
Speaker 4: you remember, developed by Mass Media and published by Crave Entertainment.
Speaker 1: Everyone's favorite Christ would be so over if they added
Speaker 1: him to Fortnite?
Speaker 3: What about?
Speaker 1: Okay, hear me out here, And I don't mean to
Speaker 1: step down any of the religious toes here instead of
Speaker 1: candy Crush Candy Christ, Candy Christ.
Speaker 2: I bet there's mobile Jesus game.
Speaker 4: Wait okay, okay, no, no, hold the phone, Hold the phone.
Speaker 4: I never knew this about this game. This, this is,
Speaker 4: this changes everything. The Bible game is a Mario Party clone.
Speaker 1: No oh damn, it's a mini game game at.
Speaker 4: The very least. I don't know if it's Mario Party
Speaker 4: or if it's like Pokemon Stadium style. But yeah, this
Speaker 4: looks like a.
Speaker 2: God are you all doing Friday hopping out?
Speaker 3: These reviews are not good. It's kind of sixty on Xbox.
Speaker 3: Not bad.
Speaker 2: Whoa, oh, yeah, these are many games. Okay, testament trivia, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's the here's the screen. Who did the Egyptians say
Speaker 2: was fighting for the Israelites as they crossed through the
Speaker 2: Red Sea? The correct answer is be the Lord. It's
Speaker 2: always the Lord.
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna be a lord.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Are there trick ones where it's like the Father Son
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit? Because that's all the Lord, the Son
Speaker 2: of God Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5: Speedrun dot com the game.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, look at the host.
Speaker 5: Fourteen minutes.
Speaker 1: I need to ask this question again, But do you
Speaker 1: think i'd get in trouble if I started like a
Speaker 1: fake offshoot Christianity, like grift online.
Speaker 2: No, you just want to start a baby.
Speaker 1: No, but I'm talking about like what if I become
Speaker 1: the priest of Patreon? No, that's good?
Speaker 2: Is that not a priest?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Like what if I just like bless people online? You
Speaker 1: give five bucks a up. I'm like, hey, uh, Elaine,
Speaker 1: I hope here's your blessing.
Speaker 5: Worse people than you are doing worse under the guise
Speaker 5: of Christianity.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to do that. I don't
Speaker 2: want to do a grift. I think we just start
Speaker 2: like a one nice but benevolent cult. I think that's
Speaker 2: what we do. We could do, but no one gets
Speaker 2: have to have some kind of even if it's bad.
Speaker 4: Possibly just go too far.
Speaker 2: But what if we didn't. What if we went the
Speaker 2: right amount.
Speaker 1: For too far in a safe and tame way.
Speaker 2: But I still want to get rich.
Speaker 1: That we have too much orange soda, there's exact about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like or like we pour too much orange soda
Speaker 1: in the Chicago river.
Speaker 4: Isn't that Yeah? Isn't that like just being a CEO
Speaker 4: or something?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we could be like pranksters and stuff, but like
Speaker 2: not any harm ment. Benevolent yeah, benevolent? Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know we could do it all right. All right,
Speaker 2: Well that's all the convincing I need. I'm gonna drop
Speaker 2: some links later. H Cooper has two more a couple
Speaker 2: more questions about read too of them. What's the best
Speaker 2: game with the worst pacing?
Speaker 3: Oh oh, I'll big Final Fantasy fourteen. I like that
Speaker 3: game a lot of times. It is actually just kind
Speaker 3: of watching people talk to each other without much animation.
Speaker 5: Keeper Mario or a Gami king because the game where
Speaker 5: the game is fun, you have to stop doing to
Speaker 5: play the video game, which isn't fun.
Speaker 2: I've been watching Kale play Medal Your Solid four and
Speaker 2: uh that third act in particular, where it's like this
Speaker 2: atrocious stealth segment that takes way too long followed by
Speaker 2: very cool but very long cut scene like that pacing
Speaker 2: is kind of weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I just said this the other day
Speaker 4: to like rubbing Mike. I cannot remember what the game is,
Speaker 4: but if I think I'll come back to just a
Speaker 4: really good game with awful pacing, yeah I can.
Speaker 3: It's almost a tip of my time, right, I'll ring
Speaker 3: up if.
Speaker 1: It comes back to me, all right, And last question
Speaker 1: from Cooper here, which do you prefer perfect parry into
Speaker 1: a stagger slash opening or perfect dodge into a slowdown?
Speaker 2: Which time? Every time? Which time?
Speaker 3: I think? I'm a Perry pal Actually I think paring
Speaker 3: so especially the knife Perry resumeal for. Yeah, although it's
Speaker 3: weird because I never do Perry builds and souls like,
Speaker 3: even though I like paarying, I guess I'll get it
Speaker 3: taste for that one. I eventually do sec.
Speaker 4: I think perfect dodge because of the spectacle that you
Speaker 4: usually get after the perfect dodge, just the game going
Speaker 4: slow mo. You get some cool sound effects and stuff
Speaker 4: that's usually better. Obviously, fighting games don't necessarily have a
Speaker 4: perfect dodge most of the time, but that's where parrying,
Speaker 4: I think, is a little bit more hype.
Speaker 5: Isn't it so nuts that they put a perfect dodge
Speaker 5: in Zelda? Yeah, Like, mechanically it is so wide, it
Speaker 5: feels great, But it is nuts that they were, like,
Speaker 5: I just.
Speaker 1: Put a fighting perfect dodge in this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like everything else in those games, it just feels good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you in I forget which pac Man game it
Speaker 1: was the one that came out in three sixty You
Speaker 1: know when you narrowly.
Speaker 2: Avoid Championship edition. Yeah. I was just playing this a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, when you like the Ghosts is
Speaker 2: about to hit you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was just playing it on your TV.
Speaker 2: The Yeah that's what.
Speaker 1: God, what a good That kind of counts as a dodge,
Speaker 1: right yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, all right. Next email is
Speaker 1: about fries. High Bomb cast crew chatting about fries recently
Speaker 1: got me thinking of one of the best dirty fries
Speaker 1: I make for my wife when it's a special occasion.
Speaker 1: Fahita fries. I make all the topics of Fijidas like normal,
Speaker 1: then load them onto some freshly deep fried fries top
Speaker 1: of guacamole, jllapenno, sour cream, pink pickled onions, and cheese.
Speaker 1: They're absolutely felt. What's your favorite dirty fries to go
Speaker 1: or go to? Longtime listeners since the Certain String Days,
Speaker 1: Absolutely love all of you. Heart emoji, hard emoji Aaron
Speaker 1: from Brisbane, Australia.
Speaker 3: Now poutine counts as a kind of dirty fry, right, yes,
Speaker 3: sure not fries in a burrito that's different. Fries is
Speaker 3: an ingredient.
Speaker 5: It's delicious, but I do think it is different different.
Speaker 5: I think fries has to be the delivery mechanism for
Speaker 5: the stuff on the top of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do love just like the classic cheese fries
Speaker 3: where you get got longhorns, that very good cheese fries.
Speaker 3: So they probably still do. I just can't eat it anymore.
Speaker 3: I'll probably just explode. But because you had the fries
Speaker 3: and they had the cheese sauce and the shredded cheese
Speaker 3: and just a ton of bacon, and you would just
Speaker 3: get ranch and dip it in that also, and boy, boy,
Speaker 3: that's good.
Speaker 2: I'm a dipper. I don't like I'm like that way
Speaker 2: with chips and too. I don't want ship on top
Speaker 2: of my fries or nacho's. I want to control exactly
Speaker 2: how much of what I'm putting on it, you know,
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they get soggy, exactly like anytime I would go
Speaker 4: for this, like chili cheese fries, you know, simple but good.
Speaker 4: But even then, yeah, like cheese on the side gives
Speaker 4: you a little bit more choice. But anytime, yeah, you
Speaker 4: do like carneosada fries or anytime. Guy, it's just like nachos,
Speaker 4: but you're replacing the nachos with fries. Those are good too.
Speaker 1: I will say I do enjoy when like you order
Speaker 1: nachos and you get them to go because you can't
Speaker 1: finish them and they get all coagulated and stick together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's one lie like that Saving silver right,
Speaker 2: We've all seen Saving Silverman.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's this.
Speaker 3: When I get nachos, I always get one chip and
Speaker 3: put it in the dep right away, and I ate
Speaker 3: that one way later because it does get like that
Speaker 3: real kind of like super saturated, kind of softy texture.
Speaker 3: So I kind of like that on the Bartilla chips.
Speaker 5: There's a place in Providence called Frisky Fries downtown that
Speaker 5: is just it's a FRI's establishment. They put stuff on
Speaker 5: the fries, and they had a pulled pork one that
Speaker 5: was a go to when I was drunk walking through
Speaker 5: downtown Providence. They also had a sweet one. It was
Speaker 5: like cinnamon sugar and then they would put whipped cream
Speaker 5: on it. And I didn't really fuck with that one
Speaker 5: because it conceptually.
Speaker 1: And scared me. That sounds too heavy, but yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: I want to give a special shout out to all
Speaker 1: the emailers. We got an obscene amount of emails this
Speaker 1: week compared to normally and just as many newsletters. Last
Speaker 1: two emails of the show, Hey bomb Doooders. After hearing
Speaker 1: that none of you guys had tattoos, I had to
Speaker 1: finally email you to send a picture of the gb
Speaker 1: tattoo I got on my calf.
Speaker 4: Very crucially, here, Jan did not include the picture of
Speaker 4: said tattoo. Okay, okay, all right, all right, diddy, go
Speaker 4: explain some tattoos then.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I have this one which is just some water.
Speaker 5: And then I have on my it's on my left arm,
Speaker 5: and it's go. It goes from like my lower bicep
Speaker 5: to the upper part of my forearm.
Speaker 1: And then on the other.
Speaker 5: Hand, I have a squiggle portal situation that goes from
Speaker 5: the middle of my forearm and then it wraps around
Speaker 5: my wrist onto the the top of my hand. Was oh,
Speaker 5: and then I have this one, which is just some
Speaker 5: You can't see it if you're watching the video, but
Speaker 5: you know what, if you're at home and listening, you
Speaker 5: can't see it either.
Speaker 3: It's just.
Speaker 5: They are it's just colored dots.
Speaker 1: Uh. Simon continues on, this was my first tattoo, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't think of what to get parentheses. I got
Speaker 1: a voucher for Christmas, then forgot about it until near
Speaker 1: this the time, so decide to get something near and
Speaker 1: dear to me. Almost everyone I've shown it to has
Speaker 1: no clue what it means, uh, what it is meant
Speaker 1: to be, which makes it even better for me. Question
Speaker 1: if you guys were to get a tattoo that means
Speaker 1: something to you, but if you showed it to almost
Speaker 1: anyone else, they wouldn't know what it was.
Speaker 2: What would it be?
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. Simon from Aberdeen, Scotland.
Speaker 3: PS.
Speaker 1: Please don't suit me for copyright infringement and then I've included.
Speaker 2: Too late buddy, Can we send a picture synthesis for
Speaker 2: a tattoo for human? It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: You're looking to repossess another person's leg.
Speaker 4: It is the what what would you say like mid
Speaker 4: era giant bomb bombing.
Speaker 2: That's only twenty tens. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this.
Speaker 1: Is the day and hour redesign. Yeah of the bomb.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I like that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my favorite, my favorite version of the bomb.
Speaker 3: I like that one.
Speaker 1: I would get a brown coffee cup to commemorate my
Speaker 1: time as a little hoodlum at the coffee shop I
Speaker 1: used to work at.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 4: People know broadly what this means, but I've always said
Speaker 4: for a very long time. I've told my friends this
Speaker 4: for years and years and years. If I ever got
Speaker 4: a high ranking job at Nintendo, I would get a
Speaker 4: faint triforce on the back of my left hand.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 4: Because Link has the triforce on the back of his
Speaker 4: left Link the princess you save in those Zeldas. Oh,
Speaker 4: in the Zelda games.
Speaker 3: Yes, I said before, but Spaceship Earth and epcot Aka
Speaker 3: the Big golf Ball has a logo that I like
Speaker 3: a lot. If I ever gotta tattoo, it would be
Speaker 3: that and most people.
Speaker 1: Your whole back right what it is?
Speaker 4: Ah, just like oh, arm, what if Mike got a
Speaker 4: yaka is a back tattoo? But it was just Disney references.
Speaker 3: You would not see it through the hair.
Speaker 1: They would have to shave off all that hair first
Speaker 1: the tattoo.
Speaker 3: You Yeah, it would not.
Speaker 4: Be with the tattoo payment.
Speaker 2: Like I remember someone asked me this, probably on a
Speaker 2: podcast like twelve plus years ago, like what I would
Speaker 2: get if I got something, And we're like, I can't
Speaker 2: think of what I would do, like maybe like like
Speaker 2: a sleeve of the American flag And imagine I did
Speaker 2: that and now looking with a giant beard, bald guy
Speaker 2: with a big American flag sleeve. How that would rain
Speaker 2: upon meeting me? Like how much work I would have
Speaker 2: to do to be like no, no.
Speaker 3: No no no, I'm yeah, It's like.
Speaker 2: That would not go quick. I'm glad, I'd.
Speaker 1: Great almost. Yes, tattoos are almost gotten in Germany. It's
Speaker 1: good that we didn't come across another tattoo place.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Last email comes from Brett. That's right, we would have
Speaker 1: made both if you get them too. Uh sure Brad
Speaker 1: from Minneapolis, Right, And Brad is emailing about leveling up
Speaker 1: in real life? Hey, dudters, have you ever noticed how
Speaker 1: leveling up in video games is the complete opposite of
Speaker 1: leveling up in real life? If games were like real life,
Speaker 1: you leveled up, you'd have things like new pain unlocked
Speaker 1: randomily take ten hpee of damage throughout the day, or
Speaker 1: limp unlocked minus fifteen percent of movement speed. What level
Speaker 1: of up abilities would you add to games? That's trying
Speaker 1: to be like real life, Brad from Minneapolis, It would
Speaker 1: just be like a d buff of like depression and.
Speaker 4: Sometimes immediately went to depression, like you can't move for
Speaker 4: the next hour. I think it would be if stuff
Speaker 4: like left your quest log for like like you receive
Speaker 4: a quest.
Speaker 5: You receive a quest and then it shows up in
Speaker 5: your thing and then it immediately goes away, but you.
Speaker 3: Gotta go back to a different room.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good, say on the same tip as Nikki's
Speaker 1: forgetting the objective, you forget a key item of whether
Speaker 1: or not you grabbed it and picked it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like checking your pockets and your inventory of like
Speaker 1: oh where did I put it?
Speaker 5: Or you have the item and there's no description because
Speaker 5: you don't remember the description, so you just you're in
Speaker 5: possession of the thing and you're like, okay, so this
Speaker 5: is green ORB.
Speaker 1: I do not remember what green orb.
Speaker 2: Is for, like inventory upgrades, so there's just more space
Speaker 2: to put stuff.
Speaker 1: Good, that'd be great. I wish I could go to
Speaker 1: my mom's house and sleep the day if I'm not
Speaker 1: feeling it, and then everything would be fine the next day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great, everything's better. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: In chat, everyone's name text bubbles says question mark, question mark,
Speaker 5: question mark, five seconds after they introduced themselves, perfect for
Speaker 5: two textboxes, and then it goes away.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not looking forward to the game award. It's
Speaker 3: all the people whose names I should know.
Speaker 1: But oh, you know the trick.
Speaker 3: You know the trick. You know the tricks. You don't
Speaker 3: say nice to meet you, you say good to send.
Speaker 2: Did I tell you about the trick that Ben Hanson
Speaker 2: taught me about remembering names?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, So okay, this is a very Ben Hansen thing.
Speaker 2: But let's say you meet someone. Okay, you you need
Speaker 2: to imagine a celebrity with the same first name and
Speaker 2: they are carrying this person you're meeting on their shoulders.
Speaker 2: So let's say I meet someone named Chris. I have
Speaker 2: to mentally picture that person riding on like Chris catan shoulders,
Speaker 2: like like he's a dinosaur.
Speaker 3: You know, Orr, that is so wild. You said Chris
Speaker 3: and you went to Chris. That's the first Chris.
Speaker 2: What is there a more than Chris?
Speaker 3: First? Chris Smsworth, Chris Evans, Chris Rock, Chris.
Speaker 2: I don't really, I couldn't point Hm out in the
Speaker 2: police line up, but you could. You could. Hesworth. I don't.
Speaker 2: I've probably seen him something. But Pratt, you can you
Speaker 2: know it's mister papers. Come on, he's the biggest star
Speaker 2: in the world. That Mocky bone.
Speaker 3: While from Undercover Brother.
Speaker 4: It's so wild when you described it, But that basically
Speaker 4: is like the visual equivalent of a mnemonic device, Like
Speaker 4: I kind of get it, just like giving yourself something
Speaker 4: ridiculous to remembers that you'll remember the small detail as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Sean, Yeah, you'd be on Sean Michaels, what
Speaker 2: would I be on?
Speaker 4: How many of these are going to be wrestling?
Speaker 1: Mike?
Speaker 3: Are you going with? Micro?
Speaker 2: Mitch?
Speaker 3: Was Mitch?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: I want to know you're gonna know any other?
Speaker 2: That's the first Mitch I think of, Mitch McConnell, Mitch interchangeable.
Speaker 3: Is there a famous Jan the most famous Jan Janos.
Speaker 1: Jan Michael Vincent? Oh right, all right, Nikki, I saw
Speaker 1: Nicki Glazer in an episode of Beat Bobby Flay.
Speaker 3: I was like, Hey, nice, Oh dang, did she win?
Speaker 3: Did they beat Bobby FLA No, she was a judge.
Speaker 3: They usually the judges usually conspire against Bobby Flay though.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, that about does it.
Speaker 3: For emails.
Speaker 1: Bombcastigiant bomb dot com is the email address to send
Speaker 1: your emails to This is going to be an interesting week.
Speaker 1: So no game mess mornings because Grub is out on vacation.
Speaker 1: I will be out on assignment. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're getting close to the Game of the Year in
Speaker 1: the Game Awards folks, so there's a lot of meetings
Speaker 1: coming up all the time, all the time, all the time.
Speaker 1: But hey, GB at night, we're doing one night the
Speaker 1: week of the Game Awards, I believe the night before
Speaker 1: the Game Awards. Also look forward to some stuff around
Speaker 1: the actual Game Awards. I don't know if we've announced that.
Speaker 2: At some point. Hey, we're supposed to announce that, right,
Speaker 2: I think we can talk about it.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it eventually.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: But for the rest of this week, Sean, you are
Speaker 1: undertaking the gigantic task of playing through days.
Speaker 3: Sean.
Speaker 1: Uh, there's gonna be some other stuff. Uh, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a dump truck of sorts this week, maybe a
Speaker 1: d LTE club folks probably know BCR just because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of work for the team as E is.
Speaker 1: But things will be popping off this week.
Speaker 4: I'd imagine we'll cook up something for a upf just
Speaker 4: whatever the hell we want to pat or something plays zombies.
Speaker 4: I don't know, because we'll probably four of us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and what we learned to We learned that
Speaker 1: Jesus fucking Christ, things are boozy over here. And I
Speaker 1: gotta go pack because I've yet to pack. I don't
Speaker 1: know where my passport is either.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, you don't need that. I kind of do
Speaker 3: my cage.
Speaker 1: I'm good for it at the chill chill, folks, that
Speaker 1: does it. Thank you for joining us for a special
Speaker 1: Monday edition of the Giant bomb Cast. They have been Nikki,
Speaker 1: he's been Sean, he's been Mike, he's been Dan, I've
Speaker 1: been Jad and you and home have been doing great.
Speaker 1: Go drink some water, Go breathe some fresh air. Go
Speaker 1: I don't know, look up the Cinnamon Challenge videos from
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen and laugh. And what a different time it
Speaker 1: was in the world when we didn't really have to.
Speaker 3: Worry as much. But we should be worrying.
Speaker 1: Folks.
Speaker 3: Go check in on loved ones I don't know, do that,
Speaker 3: or check in on yourself.
Speaker 1: We'll see next week. But also next week is gonna
Speaker 1: be weird because the Thanksgiving week here in the States
Speaker 1: will probably have a bomb cast. We might even have
Speaker 1: a light club. Uh, since I think grubbed his back
Speaker 1: next week, but will say good bye.
Speaker 3: I've been getting some texts from Jeff. He's been having
Speaker 3: fun Disney World. He's an Animal Kingdom today. He's been
Speaker 3: enjoying all the avatar them to offer ranks. He's a
Speaker 3: good time. He got the kids each their own little
Speaker 3: avatar Ekron. So that's cute.
Speaker 2: Is that good?
Speaker 1: Do you want what you want?
Speaker 4: This?
Speaker 3: You know the little dragon things they fly at the
Speaker 3: end of the ride, kind of make your own and
Speaker 3: buy one like the lights kind of like the Lightsabers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: not quite as much of a to do as we
Speaker 3: did the Lightsabers. It's like half a show. The Ghost
Speaker 3: of Yoda talks to you at the n thing is
Speaker 3: animal part of like this complex that I saw.
Speaker 2: You were in disney Land only Oh so the Animal
Speaker 2: came tom a whole separate place.
Speaker 3: So Walt Disney World. There are four theme parks.
Speaker 2: Oh so he's in Orlando. He's in Orlando. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 2: I've been to Typhoon Lagoon. That's a good one. That's
Speaker 2: a solid water.
Speaker 3: Does episod about it on nineties Disney A good one
Speaker 3: to listen to that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can't yeah, but we can't hear him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the show is writerless about Ja.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna say, like, does Jan just not know
Speaker 2: how to host anymore.
Speaker 1: Water parks? Broadly?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, one hundred per I love water parks, but
Speaker 3: I don't do the slides very much, and I never
Speaker 3: did a much these days even less, but just lazy
Speaker 3: rivers and why pools and just kind of lounging about
Speaker 3: and tiki bars all that crap.
Speaker 2: I want the biggest crazy are we on the internet?
Speaker 5: Jan just disappeared gone, and we're because that's where, because
Speaker 5: that's where I'm looking at you, because I still don't
Speaker 5: have my video Ninja window, so I'm looking at all
Speaker 5: of us but delayed.
Speaker 2: I like, I like the biggest crazy marks you can find. Uh,
Speaker 2: Like the last one I went to, like a year
Speaker 2: after I went there, a kid got his head ripped
Speaker 2: off about the uh and it was like a senator's
Speaker 2: son or a congressman's son. They got his head ripped off,
Speaker 2: and so they closed it and tore it down.
Speaker 1: The kid that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ten year old that snuck on he was under
Speaker 2: or whatever, and there were two ladies and then there
Speaker 2: they came down the slide and then I head rolled
Speaker 2: down the slide.
Speaker 3: That's fuck me up. Back here. This podcast is getting dark.
Speaker 4: Kid about giant bomb killing kids today. This is a
Speaker 4: messed up day.
Speaker 2: Look up schlitterbond in Kansas City. It's a bad bad scene.
Speaker 2: The river was good before that also had to get
Speaker 2: torn down because it was associated with the capitation.
Speaker 5: There's there's a lazy River at Marango Good Times, which
Speaker 5: is the casino that is like by Palm Springs, And
Speaker 5: I've only been there underage. So everything I did was
Speaker 5: hang out in the lazy River with my sister while
Speaker 5: my mom and grandma gambled in the casino on penny
Speaker 5: slots for like four hours, and I just kind of
Speaker 5: hang out in the lazy river. It was pretty good.
Speaker 5: I haven't been in a lazy Oh, penny slots.
Speaker 1: Should we get into penny slots.
Speaker 2: It's good for free drinks.
Speaker 3: All the old ladies in my family dead right, Like,
Speaker 3: they all were super into that. I think a lot
Speaker 3: of them are dead now. But they would like take
Speaker 3: buses through the casino and then just put money in
Speaker 3: penny slots and then come back, and that seemed to
Speaker 3: make them happy.
Speaker 4: I realized this, but our penny slots still one like
Speaker 4: just I.
Speaker 2: Think they still exist. I mean you can still find
Speaker 2: the like you know, here's the Nickel video poker stuff,
Speaker 2: and if you go to like Circus Circus, you'll probably
Speaker 2: find a whole district of those.
Speaker 3: Jen Jen there he is weird are great because it's
Speaker 3: like your.
Speaker 2: Just for us though.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's all.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Uh, pump your fists still you're fine?
Speaker 3: Now, Okay, that's it.
Speaker 4: Remember what we consider pre recording this the thing that
Speaker 4: would these issues that would never work.
Speaker 1: No, hold on, my mike, keep keep talking, my audios.
Speaker 2: Do you all remember this weekend the boxing was boring?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 5: Where did you watch?
Speaker 2: At a watch bar in Minneapolis? And it was very loud.
Speaker 2: Everybody was very excited for the first round and you
Speaker 2: can see every tod the excitement level going down and
Speaker 2: people leaving. U bummer.
Speaker 4: I was watching Maximilian Dude get ready to fight Mike
Speaker 4: Tyson in punch Out. That was a very good bit
Speaker 4: that he did, and he said, I'm going to wait
Speaker 4: until the fight is over so that way as made
Speaker 4: people as possible will get in here. I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 4: I guess I'll pull up the fight just cause because
Speaker 4: everyone else is waiting on it. And so I caught
Speaker 4: the last two rounds and.
Speaker 5: It was where they were standing around for I don't.
Speaker 4: Know, you tell me. Was it better in the first
Speaker 4: couple rounds where they had l or it?
Speaker 2: It was just when there was the possibility that like, oh,
Speaker 2: Tyson might just pull out some crazy ass appercut and
Speaker 2: kill this guy, and then it just became very clear that, like,
Speaker 2: this is not going to happen. So, uh, excitement maybe
Speaker 2: lasted forty five seconds.
Speaker 4: I would say, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: And also I watched it at a David Busters, which
Speaker 1: I think is like the ideal place to.
Speaker 3: Go watch that. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Right, And by the end of it, people were booing
Speaker 5: the televisions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good time.
Speaker 3: I was playing of Hearts too instead smart.
Speaker 1: That's a way better way to spend the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been looking at Yeah.
Speaker 4: You could have said pretty much anything there, Mike.
Speaker 1: Ah, Oh my mic sounds super low, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lovey.
Speaker 5: It's good that Netflix hasn't signed any long term live
Speaker 5: television programming deals because it seemed like they had some
Speaker 5: issues with the live stream.
Speaker 2: I heard that at the bar I was at. It
Speaker 2: was fine, but I heard it was pretty widespread at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was rough at the Dave and Busters. Oh really, okay,
Speaker 1: it did.
Speaker 5: It was cutting in and out. It was like some
Speaker 5: some of them because it was really I could tell
Speaker 5: that they weren't like all on the same Netflix account
Speaker 5: because they were off slightly. So it seemed like there
Speaker 5: were like fifteen TVs.
Speaker 1: Or whatever, but like half of them were on one
Speaker 1: Netflix account and half of them were on another one,
Speaker 1: so they were out of sync and offering and artifacting
Speaker 1: and the sound was weird.
Speaker 5: So it just kind of seemed it was a miserable experience.
Speaker 3: Top her.
Speaker 4: Maybe their Internet was just complete ass and they didn't all.
Speaker 1: Possible, also possible, And then I played Papa Shot for
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 3: I just really liked the sentence. It was rough at
Speaker 3: the Dave and Busters. I got my ear drum burst
Speaker 3: out of Dave and Busters in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: How did that happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was on a first date and we were playing
Speaker 2: big Buck Hunter and we were competing against each other,
Speaker 2: and believe it or not, I was doing a little
Speaker 2: bit of like ha I won type of stuff and
Speaker 2: she hit me in the ear open a slapped me
Speaker 2: in the ear and burst my ear drum. First day?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then did you go again?
Speaker 2: I don't think she was a fan of the the playful,
Speaker 2: competitive razzing.
Speaker 4: Yes, first day? Do you say first date?
Speaker 2: Birthday?
Speaker 3: Given for a first date energy Dan, we're talking.
Speaker 2: Twenty three year old Dan. That was at different, much
Speaker 2: more subdued man.
Speaker 3: Now, hmmm, all right, Jan working.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna no, no, no, it is not sound sound
Speaker 1: like it sounds like you have asshole.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jan, it's a great show. Good one sounds like aw.
Speaker 3: No, it sounds like a robot.
Speaker 1: What I sound like a robot in my own head?
Speaker 3: Yeah you too? Oh no, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: Oh god, y'all ever had a Long Island iced tea?
Speaker 1: I had my first one at the David Buster because
Speaker 1: I felt like that was appropriate.
Speaker 4: The first drink I had my twenty first birthday was
Speaker 4: a long You I were just a terrible job, Nikki,
Speaker 4: And I was like, yep, I'm I'm legally getting messed
Speaker 4: up after this, and.
Speaker 3: I sure did. It was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fat shows at Ku this bar they would have
Speaker 2: on Wednesday's dollar fifty long Island iced teas, no bad nights.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was not good that's such a good deal.
Speaker 2: What was the mid seventies?
Speaker 5: So yeah, Jane says, we're canceling the episode so he
Speaker 5: can restart his computer and we'll be back right after
Speaker 5: these commercial messages.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounded crazy.
Speaker 1: Should we still keep recording?
Speaker 3: Keep recording, I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: Oh no, remember save your audio. Remember saving your audio
Speaker 4: before you restart.
Speaker 1: I okay, yeah, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay,