Speaker 1: You are listening to Video Games to the Max. Hello,
Speaker 1: and welcome to another edition of Video Games to the Max.
Speaker 1: I am your host Sean Garmer, with me as usual,
Speaker 1: mister Mark Morrison aid, and this is episode four hundred
Speaker 1: and forty four of the show. And well we've got
Speaker 1: a topic for you this week. With you know, it
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Speaker 1: kind of Switch one Switch too heavy, So this week
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Speaker 1: that you know kind of stood out to us over
Speaker 1: the time. And then next week we'll do like a
Speaker 1: big you know, preview of the Switch To. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have one at launch so that you know, next Monday
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Speaker 1: into that, and then of course we have other things.
Speaker 1: Marcus finally finished Clear Obscure Expedition thirty three. I've been
Speaker 1: playing a game that the embargo was finished today. It
Speaker 1: actually comes out the twenty ninth, Nice day for fishing.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about that, and we will have some discussion
Speaker 1: on PlayStation Stars being finished, Xbox making a new edition
Speaker 1: to Game Past the Retro Classics, more stuff on the
Speaker 1: Switch to the Elder Ring movie is real, you know,
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Speaker 1: with the the episode here, Mark, let's start with we've
Speaker 1: always started with the games. You finally finished You finished
Speaker 1: it now, ye and you got everybody like level ninety
Speaker 1: nine before you.
Speaker 2: Go, yeah, before it ended. That's real easy.
Speaker 1: Why do you uh so, so, is there a trick
Speaker 1: to doing this grinding or did it actually feel like
Speaker 1: a grind to you?
Speaker 2: Or I mean, once you hit like level nineties, it's
Speaker 2: a little grinding just because you know there's only so
Speaker 2: many you know, certain enemies are power. You know, you
Speaker 2: can only only certain enemies are and that gives you
Speaker 2: experience at that point, like you can't go back to
Speaker 2: the lower area and grind it out. But no, that
Speaker 2: mayel uber build works really well if you can once
Speaker 2: out anything or if you can't, like the next time.
Speaker 2: The next time she's up, she can for sure because
Speaker 2: he knocked everything out, the most of every thing out
Speaker 2: the first time. So yeah, what do you want to know?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I've been playing the game as well,
Speaker 1: so it's not I just haven't been able to move
Speaker 1: anywhere because I've been having to make sure I could
Speaker 1: get through as much a nice day for fishing as
Speaker 1: possible since them Barbo dropped the day. So I mean
Speaker 1: I'm still in the same spot. I haven't played the
Speaker 1: game because I've been playing that. You know, just did
Speaker 1: you do any like how much extra stuff do you do?
Speaker 1: Did you do any more everything.
Speaker 2: I could find? Yeah, so there's few interesting boss fights.
Speaker 2: There's a big tower that I think eleven floors and
Speaker 2: there are three boss fights and every floor basically ah,
Speaker 2: so if you run through that, you'll get a lot
Speaker 2: of experience for it and a lot of good materials
Speaker 2: for upgrading. Weapons. Uh, there's one boss fight where it's
Speaker 2: basically five rooms and you can only use one character
Speaker 2: per room and once they're once they're used, you can't
Speaker 2: use again until the you know, you leave or until
Speaker 2: the thing's over. So that was interesting because I had
Speaker 2: to use characters that like Monaco and cl that I
Speaker 2: don't really used to often.
Speaker 1: H oh okay, that was gonna ask you what do
Speaker 1: you do with your party? Because I've been playing like
Speaker 1: I played h Rebirth, where I switch out the characters
Speaker 1: pretty often.
Speaker 2: The only character the only time I had to switch
Speaker 2: out really as is a trophy to get all of
Speaker 2: Monaco's legs or Monico's legs. Yeah, and you get those
Speaker 2: having him in your party when you beat certain enemies.
Speaker 2: That was the only trophy that glitched on me also unfortunately.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I pretty much I always had all my
Speaker 2: party and I always had the guy. Uh yeah, because
Speaker 2: I built him out so he can be like nine
Speaker 2: different attacks, but he had like no AP problem at
Speaker 2: all because he had attack and gained four AP from it,
Speaker 2: four to five. So i'd i'd use him as like
Speaker 2: you know, a buffer, a Mark Mark character they have
Speaker 2: like you know, if you shoot an enemy they would
Speaker 2: cave get marked and everything else in between. So yeah,
Speaker 2: there there are some like out in the world, there
Speaker 2: are some world bosses that you can kind of take on.
Speaker 2: They're like level sixty to seventy, and then there are
Speaker 2: two like super bosses two to three, I would say,
Speaker 2: but in like the Spoak areas that are like actually tough. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that are like named and you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah danger danger, Well no not, I.
Speaker 2: Mean at a certain point you just go past that,
Speaker 2: but you know, right, yeah, there's two Simon and then Clea.
Speaker 2: Those are like the two like the trophy ones, and
Speaker 2: they're not I mean where I was, they weren't that hard,
Speaker 2: but they you know, if you're playing trying to play
Speaker 2: the game straight, than they are. Yeah. Yeah, the U
Speaker 2: I had true trophies I was worried about. One was
Speaker 2: the Monaco one. And what happened with that is I
Speaker 2: got all the legs and the trophy didn't pop. Oh no,
Speaker 2: am I missing something or what the hell just happened? Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I like had some saves and I reverted it
Speaker 2: back to an earlier save. I had to get like
Speaker 2: three of them, got to three again and didn't happen again,
Speaker 2: and I tried it a third time and I was like,
Speaker 2: all right, what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I noticed because I'm still playing like the disc
Speaker 2: version I didn't update it, and like there are like
Speaker 2: these weird colored icons next to next to like the
Speaker 2: leg like the skill menu, and I was like, is
Speaker 2: there something with this? I asked, like Reddit, and they're
Speaker 2: like no, it's just like a visual glitch from version one.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, So I just quickly like
Speaker 2: upgraded to the latest version, got got the less like
Speaker 2: I needed, and then I popped popped at once and
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, cool. Then I deleted the
Speaker 2: update and deleted the save and reverted back to my
Speaker 2: old one.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: And the other one that I was worried about was
Speaker 2: there's a trophy to collect all the all the journals.
Speaker 2: I was able to do that, no problem. Uh, they're
Speaker 2: actually all where they said they would be, which is good.
Speaker 2: And there's one they collect all the records. That one
Speaker 2: thankfully didn't glitch, but it was it was different from
Speaker 2: like what you're playing, because there's like at least one
Speaker 2: merchant that's also a record that when I went to him,
Speaker 2: he didn't okay, okay, and there are like there's some
Speaker 2: other version differences, like merchants selling things that they're not
Speaker 2: supposed to, or they are and they just aren't, or
Speaker 2: the merchant isn't fucking there. And I was like, all right,
Speaker 2: that's cool. But when I beat the game, that that
Speaker 2: record one top because you get one right at like
Speaker 2: at the end of the game, and I was like,
Speaker 2: Thank Christ, I don't have to do this again.
Speaker 1: You're to keep doing this right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Really good game. Uh you know, the story really
Speaker 2: like racked up in a really good way. Ah. You
Speaker 2: go back to the starting town and it's really awesome.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you get like all the performances are good.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah. I think it's a really solid game overall.
Speaker 2: I think what we were talking about last week, I
Speaker 2: think he's I think you do you need even if
Speaker 2: you just said bumping down too easy? I think having
Speaker 2: the dodge and perry mechanic makes that game more unique
Speaker 2: than just you know, turn based you know, j RPG
Speaker 2: based combat, because like, to my mind, there are only
Speaker 2: three or four other games that really do this crap,
Speaker 2: and that's like Mario RPG. Uh, Legend of Dragoon, shadow
Speaker 2: Heart's Covenant and like Lost Odyssey, that's about it. So
Speaker 2: I think having any more like action but still turn
Speaker 2: based system works better than this turn based Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you should get back to it.
Speaker 1: I definitely will. I'm probably gonna write the review either
Speaker 1: start writing the review either tonight or when we finished
Speaker 1: recording or tomorrow, since I have to work in the
Speaker 1: morning and then there's no overtime either, so I'll just
Speaker 1: I'll have that time to just write. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's the only game in plan.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I caught back up a little on like Diablo
Speaker 2: and all the other craft that I, you know, basically
Speaker 2: my network off for, but I'm not that into it,
Speaker 2: especially Diabolo, just because they keep like, I think the
Speaker 2: game is like partially bugged at this point because you're
Speaker 2: supposed to get these like uh basically these like dungeon elixirs,
Speaker 2: and one used to drop and now it doesn't at all,
Speaker 2: and I was like, what happened? I liked that one? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and no one has said anything, so I'm like, what's
Speaker 2: going on here? And and Finny and Nikki continues to
Speaker 2: be a dumpster fire at the moment, so.
Speaker 1: That's always nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I gave ut like a big apology of
Speaker 2: saying like, oh, we we know the last update didn't
Speaker 2: go well, it's like, yeah.
Speaker 1: They didn't, all right, Well, yeah, so this game called
Speaker 1: Nice Stay for Fishing. I had a trailer I think
Speaker 1: in the Galaxy showcase that I talked about several weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and then when I saw it, I was like, are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? They've now made it a whether that's
Speaker 1: like eight bit or sixteen bit fishing RPG, right, I
Speaker 1: so need to play this. So I actually got the code.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I got the code originally like a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and then last weekend, like when
Speaker 1: I tried to put it, the code in that Friday,
Speaker 1: so not this Friday, but last Friday, the the code
Speaker 1: didn't work. It was an error. It kept saying that
Speaker 1: I was I had a game that had not been
Speaker 1: released yet, so they had to go bug Nintendo to
Speaker 1: make the code work right so that you know, I
Speaker 1: could actually play it. So the first weekend I couldn't
Speaker 1: actually play it at all. It's aways fun So then
Speaker 1: I officially got to start playing, I think like on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and then yeah, so I'm really not sure how long
Speaker 1: the game is but I'm about like halfway through because
Speaker 1: it one of the things in the game is you
Speaker 1: get to it basically has a character. They rewards you
Speaker 1: for catching all the fish in an area before you
Speaker 1: you know, so it's shown me that there's like at
Speaker 1: least a couple more areas, and so I think I'm
Speaker 1: about halfway, if not a little bit more than that.
Speaker 1: The game is essentially a it makes fun of RPG tropes,
Speaker 1: but also it's very much almost like an MMO ish
Speaker 1: RPG where it's like, here's this quest, go do it.
Speaker 1: Here NPC gives you another quest, go do it, and
Speaker 1: it's like just keeps doing that over and over and over.
Speaker 1: It like it's almost like it's it's like doing it
Speaker 1: almost like a joke, but then you know, it's also
Speaker 1: just that's the game. So it's from the a dev
Speaker 1: called Viva a Dirt Team. Seventeen's the publisher. I think
Speaker 1: it's like twenty bucks, so it's not you know, uber
Speaker 1: expensive either. It's on PlayStation PC and Switch, so not
Speaker 1: on Xbox at the moment. And yeah, I've been having
Speaker 1: a lot of fun with it. Like I'm not a
Speaker 1: fishing person. Actually I do live with or you know,
Speaker 1: there's a guy that stays that comes over quite often
Speaker 1: that is does love the fish, so I showed him
Speaker 1: the game and he's like, okay. They actually try to
Speaker 1: make it like you know sometimes you know, fishing when
Speaker 1: you're actually getting the fish is a fight or whatever,
Speaker 1: and that's how they replicate the battles. It's pretty much
Speaker 1: like you're essentially button mashing to the rhythm of like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're actually trying to get the fish out of the
Speaker 1: water with the hook or whatever, so or the fishing lines,
Speaker 1: so you're constantly your you're button mashing, and then it's
Speaker 1: the fish is turned to fight against you and you
Speaker 1: have to try to block and you can parry also,
Speaker 1: so it has a block and very mechanic as well.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously not anywhere near the as it difficult
Speaker 1: as Expedition thirty three or whatever, but it has one.
Speaker 1: Some of the fish can actually be a little bit
Speaker 1: difficult to parry because they're they try to go like
Speaker 1: the quick hits instead of like really long. So each
Speaker 1: fish has their own mechanic of how they how you
Speaker 1: do the block and the ferry. It's the same button
Speaker 1: it's still be but you have to like guess, Oh,
Speaker 1: are they gonna be the ones that take forever to
Speaker 1: pay to show the block or they to be the
Speaker 1: ones that like try to do it really fast, So
Speaker 1: you got to figure that out. There's also they also
Speaker 1: try to make it easy for you. There's an item
Speaker 1: that you can get that essentially shows you when they're
Speaker 1: going to attack you, so you can block and pair
Speaker 1: if you want. You can also remove it if you
Speaker 1: don't want to use it to kind of make you
Speaker 1: guess more so you know, you can make the challenge
Speaker 1: as difficult as you want.
Speaker 2: On that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it I didn't see any kind
Speaker 1: of difficulty option, so I don't know if though I
Speaker 1: went in eventually or whatever, this could easily get DLC
Speaker 1: if it does decently for them. But yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: enjoying it. Like it it some of the gags that
Speaker 1: they do, Like there's a gag where the guy your
Speaker 1: blacksmith keeps using his hammer and you have to go
Speaker 1: like fish it out of a well or whatever, and
Speaker 1: they do it over and over and over, and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: after the third or fourth one, it's like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is really funny anymore. It's just kind of like right,
Speaker 1: it literally takes like ten seconds, but it's still like
Speaker 1: kind of like, Okay, this is kind of silly, but
Speaker 1: you know, some of the humors funny, and you know,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that that, you know, they put that in there.
Speaker 1: I just enjoy like kind of going and fishing and
Speaker 1: getting the different fish and essentially like there's I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's another area, but there's like two main areas,
Speaker 1: and you just get to keep going deeper and deeper
Speaker 1: and deeper and that's how you find the fish. And
Speaker 1: then there's another area that like you actually like platform
Speaker 1: and do whatever through. My only issue that I've had
Speaker 1: with the game, which I think part of it, is
Speaker 1: it's supposed to give you the experience of fishing, right,
Speaker 1: Like they're not going to have fast travel in a
Speaker 1: game where the the point is for you to go
Speaker 1: through and experience what it would be as a fisherman
Speaker 1: where you're going on the boat and you're getting the
Speaker 1: fish and then you're having to go back and take
Speaker 1: the boat back and then going back to your land
Speaker 1: or whatever. So I kind of get that point, but
Speaker 1: sometimes I wish there was like a fast travel of
Speaker 1: how do I get to the other area, because it
Speaker 1: gets kind of annoying to go on one boat go
Speaker 1: all the way to the end of the area, get
Speaker 1: on another boat to go to the area where you
Speaker 1: want to be in. It's like, yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Should be represented by drinking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they could do like a loading screaming drink with
Speaker 1: the guy drinking. They could do yeah, but no. I
Speaker 1: definitely think if you like rpugs and you you're one
Speaker 1: of those people with the likes just you like playing
Speaker 1: RPGs uh in different settings, I think this is kind
Speaker 1: of a it's a neat little indie game UH that
Speaker 1: lets you do fishing RPG right, you're not really okay,
Speaker 1: so the mechanics don't really change much, which I think
Speaker 1: that kind of is an issue for people that that
Speaker 1: play RPGs Like it's a lot of the same over
Speaker 1: and over, but there is a strategy to it, and
Speaker 1: you can make get harder and easier if you want.
Speaker 1: I think the style of it is matches that as well.
Speaker 1: Some of the characters are funny. You eventually get to
Speaker 1: the point where you get to upgrade the shops or whatever.
Speaker 1: So you have a woodsman that if you bring all
Speaker 1: these items to them, you can build the shops or whatnot.
Speaker 1: And you also don't run out of bait, like the
Speaker 1: bait will just essentially just keep refreshing itself. If you
Speaker 1: stand there for like twenty thirty seconds, you can go
Speaker 1: get the worms or the the garlic or the berries
Speaker 1: or whatever, because there's different fish like different things. So
Speaker 1: I like that part too. It's not like you're having
Speaker 1: to go farm all this stuff every time it does
Speaker 1: it for you. You do have to go farm the supplies
Speaker 1: for the different upgrades for the buildings and stuff, so
Speaker 1: that can kind of get a bit cumbersome if you're
Speaker 1: not too into that part and you just want to
Speaker 1: get the upgrades. But you know, sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: work for stuff you want. But overall, like I said,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's I haven't really decided on a
Speaker 1: final rating for it yet, but it's definitely in that
Speaker 1: seven to eight range. I think I'm gonna see if
Speaker 1: I play more, maybe get to the end what I'll think.
Speaker 2: Really a story game, Yeah sounds like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do live up to the fishing gimmick like
Speaker 1: they don't. There's a part where you platform, but it's
Speaker 1: not like he all of a sudden gets a sword
Speaker 1: and starts killing people. He is fishing the entire time.
Speaker 1: So I like the fact that they stayed on point.
Speaker 2: Use the fishing fishing pull like a hook shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but I mean it's not like it's not
Speaker 1: like they all of a sudden have you fight on
Speaker 1: land with the fishing hook or whatever. It's right, you
Speaker 1: everything you do has to do with either getting items
Speaker 1: that are replenishing, like the bait, or you have to
Speaker 1: go and fish for it, So they stay on it
Speaker 1: all the time. It's just how they mix that up.
Speaker 1: You know, it can kind of get it can't get
Speaker 1: a little bit repetitive, so like that, I mean also
Speaker 1: fishing is repetitive, but you know, right, so like that's
Speaker 1: part of it too. So your your variance with that
Speaker 1: may vary. Some people may not ever get bored and
Speaker 1: it's a nine out of ten game for you, and
Speaker 1: some people may kind of. Again, this is why sometimes
Speaker 1: it's hard as a reviewer when you're having to like
Speaker 1: play the game faster than you normally would, because this
Speaker 1: is really a game that feels like it's meant to
Speaker 1: be played in spurts. It's not meant for you to
Speaker 1: play it for ten hours it feels like it's really
Speaker 1: meant for you to play to like two to three
Speaker 1: hours whatever, stop, come and play again or whatever. It
Speaker 1: doesn't lend itself that well, So playing overly long because
Speaker 1: again you're going to feel that repetition. But overall, I mean,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed my time with it, and I'm again always
Speaker 1: a good thing when you're reviewing a game, that it
Speaker 1: winds up being an enjoyable experience and not something that
Speaker 1: like you're like, oh my god, why you know? So
Speaker 1: always good for that and that I've been playing on Switch,
Speaker 1: so this might be my last new Switch game before
Speaker 1: I get to the Switch to.
Speaker 2: Just make it your first Switch two game.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be uh some of a Chronicles X. I
Speaker 1: feel like, I think I'm just not going to touch
Speaker 1: that until Switch to which I don't know why they're
Speaker 1: not giving it that that sixty frames per second patch
Speaker 1: that we know is there.
Speaker 2: And I need it.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not. I I just they have not said
Speaker 1: anything about that the system will update your games by itself,
Speaker 1: like that it's going to make the games run better
Speaker 1: by themselves, so we'll see. I'm wondering if we're going
Speaker 1: to get that surprise. So we'll talk about that later
Speaker 1: when we probably more so next week when we talk
Speaker 1: about like what we think preview about the switch to itself.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's that's it for playing games this week.
Speaker 1: I haven't played anything else except for that. So let's
Speaker 1: get into the news. And this is a kind of
Speaker 1: a much lighter news week, right, so it helps that
Speaker 1: we have the topic. Dude, there's not a lot the
Speaker 1: two big news things for once in a lifetime since
Speaker 1: we've done the show on Mondays, the two big news
Speaker 1: things that everybody's talking about. We essentially already talked about
Speaker 1: it because it came out before we did the show
Speaker 1: on Monday, which is very rare that that happens. The
Speaker 1: Bungeee thing with the stealing art and the Haven Studios
Speaker 1: thing with fair Games.
Speaker 2: And whether that's all right.
Speaker 1: So if you want to hear us talk about that,
Speaker 1: we did talk about that with Crafty on the previous
Speaker 1: episode of the show. So but all right, let's get
Speaker 1: into the news here, and there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything from each of the big three. I guess let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start with Xbox. They did reveal the
Speaker 1: game pass stuff for this coming two weeks of May
Speaker 1: and they they're getting some some cool things, especially on
Speaker 1: the indie side, and then also a big you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether you can sart triple A or
Speaker 1: double A, but a big game. More of that Sega
Speaker 1: at List partnership that they have. Metaphor Refantasio is coming
Speaker 1: to game Pass so and that's going to be out
Speaker 1: on everything, even game Standard. So if you have Xbox
Speaker 1: game Pass and you have not played that game, you
Speaker 1: are missing out on an amazing experience. So definitely go
Speaker 1: and play that. If you didn't buy it on PlayStation
Speaker 1: last year or on PC, go check that thing out
Speaker 1: on game Pass, man, especially for get double Clareubscurer. This
Speaker 1: is the perfect game to go transition to if you
Speaker 1: want to play like actual traditional turn base, this is
Speaker 1: the game. I feel like that is a great segue
Speaker 1: to that of playing clarub Scurre and then going and
Speaker 1: playing metaphor Re Fantasio. I think you're going to have
Speaker 1: an awesome time if you haven't played that game yet,
Speaker 1: and even if you have, that game's worth playing again. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't do New Game Plus on A
Speaker 1: if you didn't don't have it there. But still also
Speaker 1: tells the Conzera zal is now available on Standard along
Speaker 1: with Stalker two and hell Bla two those that are also
Speaker 1: on Standard now. Division two comes to game Pass on
Speaker 1: all versions on May twenty seventh, So basically essentially a
Speaker 1: tomorrow the day you're hearing about watching or listening to this.
Speaker 1: And then the bigger get aside from Metaphor is also
Speaker 1: Monster Trained two. That was a Monster Train was one
Speaker 1: of those like hidden indie gems from a few years
Speaker 1: ago that I actually liked a lot on game Pass,
Speaker 1: And now that you're getting Monster Trained to day one,
Speaker 1: I think that that's that's pretty great. Get there. And
Speaker 1: then also to a t another one of those Annapurna
Speaker 1: joints which actually has a Devero release today, so if
Speaker 1: you want to go check that out, you can, but
Speaker 1: that's also coming to game Pass.
Speaker 2: So a local store by me and she has that
Speaker 2: Anna Purna PS four collection for sale.
Speaker 1: Oh really, how much?
Speaker 2: Three eighty five Jesus what I mean?
Speaker 1: That is a lot of games, but still.
Speaker 2: No ocause I think it's about like instantly and like
Speaker 2: a thousand copies or like two.
Speaker 1: A rarity thing. Oh yeah, and they also have a
Speaker 1: lot more games coming to the games you can play
Speaker 1: on Cloud that weren't on Cloud before, I guess, or
Speaker 1: I don't know. If this is like you can if
Speaker 1: you own them, you can buy them on Cloud. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, or I mean you, I'm sorry. If you
Speaker 1: own them you can play them on Cloud. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: It doesn't. They don't really make a distinction here, but
Speaker 1: it's a lot of uh, double find stuff, brutal legend
Speaker 1: cross request.
Speaker 2: To all of the that's that makes sense.
Speaker 1: And then Steam World dig two is also on there,
Speaker 1: Super Lucky's Tale, that kind of thing. And then also
Speaker 1: should note that if you haven't played this game yet,
Speaker 1: Cassette Beast is an awesome Pokemon like that's actually very
Speaker 1: unique from Pokemon like okay, it has a lot of
Speaker 1: the Pokemon Red and Blue tropes, but it does them
Speaker 1: in their own way and it has its own like
Speaker 1: little unique story and everything. And it leaves on May
Speaker 1: thirty first, So if you have game Pass and you've
Speaker 1: wanted to, like, maybe check this out. Definitely worth giving
Speaker 1: it a shot if you like Pokemon. Also, Remnant two
Speaker 1: is leaving on the thirty first as well. I know
Speaker 1: that's a game mark yep yeah, champion there. Speaking of
Speaker 1: old games, we can go way back in the in
Speaker 1: the Classics machine all the way to the Atari six
Speaker 1: hundred and further days. As everybody's been asking where where's
Speaker 1: all the I mean, this is probably not the Activision
Speaker 1: Classic stuff you're talking about, but people have asked where's
Speaker 1: that Activision Classic library? And here we go. This is
Speaker 1: how it's being implemented into game Pass. They have made
Speaker 1: a EA play type deal with Antarcade, which if you
Speaker 1: remember I actually reviewed on.
Speaker 2: The Yeah like that service or that Yeah it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a service that you can and it's on everything.
Speaker 1: Now they've added to PlayStation as well that has like
Speaker 1: retro classics from old PC Doss games to twenty six
Speaker 1: hundred to even Genesis, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's worth checking out. And actually right now, if
Speaker 1: you have game Pass, you can get it for a
Speaker 1: whole year, the actual ant Arcade thing for ten bucks.
Speaker 1: So and if you like retro games at all, if
Speaker 1: you like those old school retro games, ten bucks, that's
Speaker 1: nothing to play. And this is a service that they
Speaker 1: keep adding things to. They don't just stop at these games,
Speaker 1: they keep adding stuff. So I would definitely give a
Speaker 1: recommendation to people that love those retro old games. This
Speaker 1: is worth getting for ten bucks for a whole year,
Speaker 1: and they have an option. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: it is and I don't know if it ever goes
Speaker 1: on sale, but they also have a lifetime option. The
Speaker 1: last time I ever looked at it, I think it
Speaker 1: was like eighty bucks for a lifetime option. And we're
Speaker 1: talking about a thousand, like five hundred games on there.
Speaker 1: That's well worth that if you're like a lover of
Speaker 1: classics that wants to be able to have class et
Speaker 1: cetera disposal constantly. But either way, there are sixty one
Speaker 1: games from the Activision in this and they're available everywhere.
Speaker 1: You can play Game Pass so on out on the
Speaker 1: smart TV apps, all that stuff on PC on the consoles,
Speaker 1: so like Pitfalls on there, Beam Rider Baseball from the
Speaker 1: twenty six hundred days. There's stuff from the PC doss
Speaker 1: Uh era. You know, there's a lot. You can go
Speaker 1: find the even Zork you can go find those at
Speaker 1: the Big List.
Speaker 2: So these are all these are all Activision games, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even like even the MechWarrior games, the nets and
Speaker 1: PlayStation mechware one and two. Uh yeah, these are all.
Speaker 2: Activision where are the most important actions?
Speaker 1: And Blizzard? Sorry, Activision and.
Speaker 2: Blazer, where's the most important Activision game ever? Venetian Blinds
Speaker 2: for the Atari twenty.
Speaker 1: Six It's on here, Actually it is. It is on here,
Speaker 1: So there you go. They're apparently going to add more
Speaker 1: to wake it to where it's up to one hundred
Speaker 1: for now. I don't know if they're going to eventually
Speaker 1: make it to where there's non activision things that are
Speaker 1: going to come over from that service as well, like
Speaker 1: the EA play kind of work does, where they have
Speaker 1: stuff that maybe eventually they'll bring it in and it'll
Speaker 1: go away. I think they're kind of doing that as
Speaker 1: a let's see if this actually gets used, and then
Speaker 1: they might do a bigger deal with ant Stream where
Speaker 1: maybe they gets the rights to other things that aren't
Speaker 1: just activisional Blizzard based. You know that they own whatever,
Speaker 1: So it's cool. I mean, obviously, I'm sure this means
Speaker 1: that those games are also on Antstream Marque without you
Speaker 1: having to have game Pass. So again another reason why
Speaker 1: I think that the deal for the ten dollars ends
Speaker 1: on June fourth, Like, if you really like these classic
Speaker 1: games again, ten bucks, it's worth it.
Speaker 2: Do you remember a game room for the Xbox three sixty?
Speaker 1: Man, that's a long time ago. I don't I know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, but I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: I ever used it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, it's basically the same thing they did that. Okay,
Speaker 2: And I think Venetian Blinds was like one of like
Speaker 2: the last games they had too.
Speaker 1: Oh so they they had something like this, but it
Speaker 1: was like an Xbox version of it instead.
Speaker 2: Of yeah it was I'm a three sixty. Uh. I
Speaker 2: got a PC version too, but that was like wait,
Speaker 2: that was even like a less supported kind of Yeah.
Speaker 2: You buy like old atare and collecul Vision and crap
Speaker 2: like that, and then you can make your own like
Speaker 2: little virtual arcade with that stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean again, like this is a it's
Speaker 1: it's no joke that they keep like this is actually
Speaker 1: I wouldn't to be honest like they are. I think
Speaker 1: they added Disney game that, like some of the Disney
Speaker 1: games like not too long ago. Uh, they keep adding
Speaker 1: stuff to this so like this, you know, I mean.
Speaker 2: I think they realize that like no one's going to
Speaker 2: pay for like the Atari fifty Atari games for twenty
Speaker 2: five bucks anymore, because you know, people have already paid
Speaker 2: that stuff so many other times it's like why you know,
Speaker 2: I bother, Oh.
Speaker 1: No, you're right about that. Like, I think this is
Speaker 1: probably the best way to introduce this to people because
Speaker 1: it also has achievements stuff like that. So if you're
Speaker 1: like one of those people that that love to do achievements, right,
Speaker 1: this is here for you as a way to get
Speaker 1: you know, chief achievements those people that like to do that.
Speaker 1: But like this is uh, like I said, they've been
Speaker 1: adding stuff constantly to it, so it's, uh, it's worth
Speaker 1: looking at if you if you're like one of those
Speaker 1: that like, man, I want this service, but like game
Speaker 1: Pass and PS plus don't work for me. I like
Speaker 1: the older games. This is kind of a you know,
Speaker 1: and you don't have a switch, this is a good
Speaker 1: way to get So moving on from that, also, PlayStation
Speaker 1: gets another one of the Xbox games pretty soon. Maybe
Speaker 1: not one that everybody's so super excited about it or whatever,
Speaker 1: but send you as Saga Hill play two. It's going
Speaker 1: to come to PlayStation five. There are going to be
Speaker 1: some updates that are going to premiere with the PlayStation five.
Speaker 1: Version that will come in a free patch for PC
Speaker 1: and Xbox, so you know, get ready for that. At
Speaker 1: some point it is going to be PS five Pro enhanced.
Speaker 1: So there's that, which, Man, that game already looks beautiful.
Speaker 1: That's one thing you can't complain about this game. It
Speaker 1: looks amazing, So I can only imagine how much better
Speaker 1: it's going to look on PLACE five Pro.
Speaker 2: And you know, so play better and be more interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's not right that game, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure they will charge the full fifty bucks for it.
Speaker 1: Uh So, you know there's also that too, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be paying fifty bucks on PlayStation, whereas that six to
Speaker 1: eight hour experience that was on Game Pass not that
Speaker 1: much of a herd, right, It just it stung a
Speaker 1: lot more when it was like the only big game
Speaker 1: release that year for Xbox. That's that's what was the
Speaker 1: the issue, yep, which isn't a problem so far this
Speaker 1: year because well, I'll put both of these together because
Speaker 1: they both Bethesda things. Dune the Dark Agents hit three
Speaker 1: million players according to Bethesda. You know, we've seen somebody
Speaker 1: start using this metric as well. You ust that has
Speaker 1: been using the metric. Uh So I mean, Xbox has
Speaker 1: kind of been the one that moved to it faster
Speaker 1: than anybody about They aren't going to tell you about sales.
Speaker 1: They're going to tell you about how many people are
Speaker 1: playing the game.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The steam dB charts are not amazing for it. I
Speaker 1: think it hit like thirty one thousand or something like that,
Speaker 1: which isn't great. But also Doom is a game that
Speaker 1: this doesn't really have. It has a multiplayer mode, but
Speaker 1: they're really not talking about it. It's much more focused
Speaker 1: on a single player because you know, as Crafty talked
Speaker 1: about last week, they they really tried to put a
Speaker 1: a story in this thing, even though you know it's not.
Speaker 2: I mean, the past too bad also, so yeah, but they.
Speaker 1: Really try to push it with this one. And it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm not coming to Doom for that,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. I kind of saw
Speaker 1: a thing of like I saw some people make a
Speaker 1: comment about how we've had other games hit that number
Speaker 1: in sales and people think that it's disappointing, and then
Speaker 1: this is being celebrated because it's three million players and
Speaker 1: most of it's on game Pass, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean there's two problems. There's two things. One, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it is decent on game Pass because it's like,
Speaker 2: what what new things on there?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you have Claar obscurity, you can still
Speaker 1: be playing. You have oblivion the I meaning.
Speaker 2: I mean people have you know, I would say that's
Speaker 2: much much more like a you know PS five game
Speaker 2: or you know, a Sony game then.
Speaker 1: But it's all on game Pass, like you can play it,
Speaker 1: so you know that's how I'm playing it, right.
Speaker 2: But also it's a matter of you know different you know,
Speaker 2: franchises work different or you know, on different scales.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is a game you can technically
Speaker 1: finish and then just not come back to it. Right.
Speaker 1: It's twenty two missions long. It's not uh short, I
Speaker 1: would say by any means there's a good check of
Speaker 1: time you're going to spend in this game. But it's
Speaker 1: also not uber long, right, Right, So because they focused
Speaker 1: so much on the story part of it, you could
Speaker 1: essentially finish this game and then just that's it, you
Speaker 1: stop playing.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So that being said, I mentioned Oblivion just now because
Speaker 1: Elder Scrolls for Oblivion, a remaster that was shadow dropped
Speaker 1: at towards the end of April is the best selling
Speaker 1: game for the month.
Speaker 2: Proving again people are idiots.
Speaker 1: No, I mean I think it's also a nostalgia. It's nostalgia.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, Oblivion is the best selling game for for May. Now,
Speaker 2: Now imagine this scenario. What if Bethesda remade a good
Speaker 2: Elder Scrolls game like Marland. I feel like, how many more?
Speaker 1: I feel like we have a better shot of them
Speaker 1: remaking Skyrim again then them doing that, man, Like I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, I don't know. I mean, it gives a lot
Speaker 2: more credence to the idea that they're going to you know,
Speaker 2: remake or not them specifically, but some developers going to
Speaker 2: remake call Out three, which yeah, I could see it happening,
Speaker 2: especially now, like and especially if you get it out
Speaker 2: the door by December.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Yeah, definitely Fallout three, that that's happening.
Speaker 1: Also interesting that this is where.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you are right though about nostalgia.
Speaker 2: Like my talks my downstairs neighbor and she was like, oh,
Speaker 2: she's not really a game er, like she she plays
Speaker 2: it to dabbles occasionally, but she's like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 2: want to play Oblivion or Master. But you know my
Speaker 2: old boyfriend, my boyfriends'll gaming laptop won't handle it. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like okay, like you know, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if she gets game fast, she could
Speaker 1: play with the Cloud. And I'm sure she's.
Speaker 2: Not gonna do that crap. She doesn't care that much. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but uh yeah, because I'm sure, yeah, she's only kind
Speaker 2: of plays those older rolls games. So it's been a while.
Speaker 1: I will, I will say, like I think I mentioned it,
Speaker 1: I don't know a couple of times. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know I probably said it once. But I did
Speaker 1: play Claire Obscure a few times on my girlfriend's Chromebook
Speaker 1: using Cloud through the browser. And yes there's some lag,
Speaker 1: but I was able to dodge in Perry in the.
Speaker 2: Game easy or hard.
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing on an expert like you, but I
Speaker 1: was playing on normal. I don't play. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: haven't played the game oneasy at all. So but you know,
Speaker 1: it does work, like I feel like the cloud's gotten
Speaker 1: a lot better. Uh, And she doesn't have like super fast,
Speaker 1: and I mean Exfinity I think bumped their base internet
Speaker 1: for everybody to like one hundred megs, right, But I
Speaker 1: have a gig at my house. She has one hundred megs,
Speaker 1: so there is a difference in the quality of the
Speaker 1: cloud there. I didn't really have a problem that much
Speaker 1: with it, so you know, if she wanted to play
Speaker 1: Revlon Remaster, it probably would work just fine. But just
Speaker 1: to keep on with us. This is where satin Adela
Speaker 1: got the the info for what they got the tout
Speaker 1: at their the earnings report about them being the top
Speaker 1: publisher on PlayStation fours. The Horizon five was number forty
Speaker 1: two and went to number two thanks to just the
Speaker 1: PlayStation five and Steam sales, and then Indiana Jones in
Speaker 1: the Great Circle was at one hundred and eighteen and
Speaker 1: went to sixth based off of those sales. I'm just
Speaker 1: happy that any of the Jones was getting bought by people,
Speaker 1: and Disney was right to wait it out. They said
Speaker 1: that they want to do more with the game or
Speaker 1: with the series, but they were waiting on those PlayStation
Speaker 1: and Steam numbers, and here we go. It looks like
Speaker 1: it's doing well. We'll see if any of that holds
Speaker 1: for next month. Oblivion was obviously number one thanks to
Speaker 1: being those slim sales. M willb the show twenty five,
Speaker 1: which is on all Consoles is number three. Minecraft is
Speaker 1: number four because of you know, the movie, and Assassin's
Speaker 1: Creed Shadows is holding firm at five, and Black Ops
Speaker 1: six is down all the way at number seven. You know,
Speaker 1: still some good numbers. Monster hundred Wilds is still hanging
Speaker 1: in there at eleven's but Fiction is still there at twelve.
Speaker 1: So some of the games that are I'm out this
Speaker 1: year still hanging around, which is good to know for
Speaker 1: for those games. Even Elden Rings still hanging around at eighteen.
Speaker 1: So and I think PlayStation those those numbers are a
Speaker 1: little I think there's four of those five games that
Speaker 1: are in the top seven or so, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: And then looking at the whole year, it's still Monster
Speaker 1: hundred Wilds one and two so far through May third,
Speaker 1: but then other Scrolls Oblivion Remaster is number three on
Speaker 1: that list, and then m will be the show called You,
Speaker 1: Black Op six and kenon cun Deliver Ince two, which hey,
Speaker 1: that's good for them, So yeah, I mean crazy to
Speaker 1: think obviously, it helps that those are kind of the
Speaker 1: like big releases so far and they've lived out to
Speaker 1: that kind of sucks to see that, Like I guess
Speaker 1: they were player obscure sales were not enough to even
Speaker 1: put it in here. But also I think Xbox Digital
Speaker 1: sales data is not counted, even though I imagine that
Speaker 1: not a lot of the people that bought it on
Speaker 1: an xbos are playing it on game Pass. But still
Speaker 1: they sold two million and for that to be an
Speaker 1: indie team, although I'm sure their budget was bigger than
Speaker 1: an indie studio because they had all those contractors and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Hey, still good for them, right. I
Speaker 1: think Matt Pitzitellas says that they're like around twenty fourth
Speaker 1: or something like that if they're looking at it from
Speaker 1: all that, but they're not, you know, in the top ten,
Speaker 1: top fifteen or whatnot, so yeah, which, hey still cool, right,
Speaker 1: Still good for them that they're even in all of that.
Speaker 1: But all right, been on to the PlayStation side of
Speaker 1: things here. Talked about them getting Helpley two. Also PlayStation
Speaker 1: Stars is done. Yeah, PlayStation Stars itself will replaced the
Speaker 1: old rewards program that they used to have, but this
Speaker 1: was only available to the PlayStation app. You could not
Speaker 1: They never integrated it with the console, which.
Speaker 2: Is right, which is I never signed up for it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you if you were using it
Speaker 1: or not, you can no longer sign up as of
Speaker 1: November second, twenty twenty okay, so you can't sign up
Speaker 1: at all, like Mark could not sign up now and
Speaker 1: as of November second, twenty twenty six. I don't know
Speaker 1: why they're taking a whole year and a half to
Speaker 1: remove it, right, but as of November second, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: will fully end. They kind of make mention that this
Speaker 1: is not like the end. Something else is going to
Speaker 1: replace it. They just don't know what that is right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you couldn't just keep this going
Speaker 1: until that thing comes it's going to replace it.
Speaker 2: But I mean, the obvious thing is no one. I
Speaker 2: mean you were using it barely.
Speaker 1: Yes, And also you can continue earning points up to
Speaker 1: July twenty third, twenty twenty five, just to say, uh,
Speaker 1: I did get forty bucks out of it, so I
Speaker 1: got to play for I got to pay PlayStation Plus
Speaker 1: for two months for free.
Speaker 2: But that's the thing. It's like, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't imagine the adoption if this thing was big.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, because it was.
Speaker 1: Stuck on the app and they didn't want you to
Speaker 1: know it existed. Essentially.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess under ten percent, probably even under five percent.
Speaker 1: Probably, But I bet if they would have done it
Speaker 1: like Microsoft does, where anything you do on the console,
Speaker 1: eventually they do have stuff that works with the console, right,
Speaker 1: where like there's certain games you could play or whatever
Speaker 1: that worked with it, like or no, it wasn't the
Speaker 1: things you played it was. That's a thing too. It
Speaker 1: really didn't have much to do with you playing anything.
Speaker 1: It had to do with you buying only. So like
Speaker 1: if you bought like when I bought Stellar Blade because
Speaker 1: I bought it at launch, they gave me a bunch
Speaker 1: of points, right, and then I bought some other game
Speaker 1: that was also Like if you bought both of these
Speaker 1: games at once, you would have got a bunch more
Speaker 1: stars or something like that. And it's like okay, Whereas
Speaker 1: like Microsoft's program is tiered into getting you points, so
Speaker 1: like it's a lot harder than it used to be
Speaker 1: used to be able to. There were people that basically
Speaker 1: kept re re upping on game Pass every month by
Speaker 1: playing game Pass games. Essentially you still get points for
Speaker 1: playing game Pass games and all that stuff. I do
Speaker 1: it all the time. You get ten points I think
Speaker 1: for like pushing a button on the app every day, like,
Speaker 1: but PlayStation Stars, it almost felt like they kind of
Speaker 1: had it there for you to just okay, if you
Speaker 1: know about it, cool, If you don't, we don't really
Speaker 1: care because essentially we're just giving you free money. So
Speaker 1: they don't want you to do that.
Speaker 2: Were like half in and half out, like they don't
Speaker 2: fully commit to it, and then it inevitably fails and
Speaker 2: then we'll bring back something later. It's like, hey, now
Speaker 2: you won't and then be even if you do, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be even worse than the thing you just it
Speaker 2: just failed.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the over Wars program wasn't that great either,
Speaker 1: right involved village that made a comment on on YouTube here,
Speaker 1: I was just talking. We're talking about PlayStation and Stars
Speaker 1: eventually fully going ending on November second, twenty spenty six.
Speaker 1: That's what's going away.
Speaker 2: So bring that yeah home? Huh.
Speaker 1: I saw people talking about that. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: for people that like to chill in spaces, now, I
Speaker 1: wonder if like they were just kind of ahead of
Speaker 1: their time. They need to h Yeah, that too. That's
Speaker 1: still sony Also is what do you know? It's June people,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a Gaming Showcase. Uh yeah, right,
Speaker 1: but no, Honestly, Sony's been doing a State of Play
Speaker 1: like for the last couple of years, like around this week. Actually,
Speaker 1: they usually don't wait until uh Summer game Fest starts.
Speaker 1: They usually try to have it be like the week
Speaker 1: before so that they're kind of the the one that
Speaker 1: starts the showcases and they kind of get their own time.
Speaker 1: So I wonder if they're just gonna they and they
Speaker 1: do this a lot where they just it gets rumored
Speaker 1: and then they then they just randomly announce it and
Speaker 1: then it's like the next day or whatever, like kind
Speaker 1: of like Nintendo does. They don't. They don't do the
Speaker 1: thing like Xbox where they give you like a whole
Speaker 1: month and whatever to tell you that the showcase is happening.
Speaker 1: They they kind of just go on, all right, this
Speaker 1: is not gonna be a big deal, so hey, it's
Speaker 1: happening whatever and h and Jeff Grubb says that it's
Speaker 1: most likely a state of play, not a showcase, so
Speaker 1: take that what you will. Sometimes they announce big things
Speaker 1: like they have announced you know, like they announced Ghost
Speaker 1: of Yuta on one very recently, and then they you know,
Speaker 1: they did show off sorrows that new Housemart game on
Speaker 1: one as well. So they may not have enough for
Speaker 1: a showcase right now, because you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: the games that they've been having are the live service stuff.
Speaker 2: But I expect that the show off Interstellar's interest or gameplay,
Speaker 2: intell what not, whatever the hell that honey Dog thing is,
Speaker 2: oh right.
Speaker 1: Right, intergalactic Intergalactic. Okay, you think do you think they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're that close to showing off gameplay for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe not like a twenty minute show piece or anything,
Speaker 2: but they at least show like real somewhat realistic looking
Speaker 2: gameplay enough, you know, may not be like the Finished
Speaker 2: Hut or anything, but make you know, you hunting down
Speaker 2: some robot or some criminal or whatever, like some side.
Speaker 1: Yeah that since Death Trany's coming out like next month,
Speaker 1: that's Straining two is coming out next month, they're not
Speaker 1: going to show too much. Uh oh you know, no.
Speaker 2: That'll be that'll be the summer summer, summer gamest thing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: because Jeth always has to put hide in because.
Speaker 1: He right, right, the best friends, Right, I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: get something would go to Yota since something on October
Speaker 1: and this might be the last time they really get
Speaker 1: to I mean they do stay to place for individual games.
Speaker 1: The way the way they announced sorrows, I feel like
Speaker 1: they're not going to show anything all right, but maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we finally give Overine I think, or now we've
Speaker 1: heard nothing since that leak man, like this would be
Speaker 1: the time. So something from Overine.
Speaker 2: Was Yeah, shocked that they had to say of play
Speaker 2: about borderlines for It's like really.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, they made a marketing deal.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe they had to include borderlines for in order
Speaker 1: to get like GTA six marketing deals. Thank you for
Speaker 1: that segue, by the way, because Randy Pritsford once again
Speaker 1: cannot help himself man and not be the center of
Speaker 1: saying something stupid, so that PR gets really like I
Speaker 1: I can only imagine, like he PR, soon they're going
Speaker 1: why do you even answer questions like what? Why do
Speaker 1: you even answer people on on social media? You know,
Speaker 1: if anybody needs to learn to like put an away
Speaker 1: message on their social media, it's Randy Pittsford. Because anytime
Speaker 1: this dude speaks, it's like, oh my god, somebody has
Speaker 1: to go run a defense campaign off of what he
Speaker 1: just said. So if if you don't you know, listen,
Speaker 1: you know, pay attention to the use it all. Somebody
Speaker 1: asked him, somebody kind of he's he's talking about Borderlindspore
Speaker 1: coming to switch to you, right, Andy says yo, Randy,
Speaker 1: you better not make this game eighty dollars. Not everybody
Speaker 1: is gonna be okay with that, and we're not gonna
Speaker 1: pay the price, right right. And he answers which he
Speaker 1: could have just answered, not my call. That's it. Don't
Speaker 1: say what, don't say anything else. Just shut up right there,
Speaker 1: and then he has to keep on and go. If
Speaker 1: you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make
Speaker 1: it happen. My local game store had Star Flight for
Speaker 1: Second Genesis for eighty bucks in nineteen ninety one. And
Speaker 1: I was just out of high school, working minimum wage
Speaker 1: which I think it was like four dollars at the time,
Speaker 1: and ice creamed parlor and Pismo Beach, and I find
Speaker 1: a way to make it happen and shut up, like
Speaker 1: why why say anything? I don't know, man, It's just
Speaker 1: like he can't help himself.
Speaker 2: So what I mean? I I see a sentence it
Speaker 2: somewhat yeah. I think if there was a new Zeno
Speaker 2: Blade Chronicles game that came out tomorrow. There's a hundred bucks,
Speaker 2: you'd start to the store and bite immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I kind of way to make it happen.
Speaker 1: But obviously nowadays we have way more ways to make
Speaker 1: it happen than even then back then. So I think
Speaker 1: his point is even more valid. But you don't need
Speaker 1: to say the part about being a true fan. I
Speaker 1: think when it comes to monetary stuff, we don't need
Speaker 1: to be telling anybody how to spend their money at all.
Speaker 1: In this class.
Speaker 2: There's two other things. First of all, like Randy didn't
Speaker 2: like pull himself up from his bootstrafts, like his dad
Speaker 2: worked for an intelligence agency.
Speaker 1: And well, but we don't know, Like you know, my
Speaker 1: dad kind of he my dad was a doctor. I
Speaker 1: didn't have to worry about stuff when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: But when I became an adult, my dad cut the
Speaker 1: thing off. I had to. I literally had no income
Speaker 1: and I had to figure it out, like it was
Speaker 1: not you know whatever. So like maybe his dad did
Speaker 1: the same thing for him. We don't know, but you're
Speaker 1: right about he didn't start from absolutely nothing either.
Speaker 2: He went to UCLA. Like, yeah, believe me, I'm sure
Speaker 2: I'm sure that was paid for. If not, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure, Like but yeah, but if he's saying fresh out
Speaker 1: of college like Navy again, once college got done, we
Speaker 1: don't know what happened there. But I agree with you
Speaker 1: in that he didn't have he didn't have to worry
Speaker 1: about too much most of the time.
Speaker 2: And thirdly, I would say, uh, what about the true
Speaker 2: fans who saw the movie.
Speaker 1: Those are the real fans. Those are the real truth
Speaker 1: fans right there right like if you if you really
Speaker 1: are Borderlines fan of the form where you watch that
Speaker 1: terrible movie, got Heaven help you?
Speaker 2: Speaking of which this is somewhat related. But I saw
Speaker 2: this was like on Twitter. Look a week ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: someone there's some dextra article about Borderlines to sold nineteen
Speaker 2: million copies, like franchise wise, Yeah, and that Borderlines too
Speaker 2: has sold thirty million copies. And some guy tweeted he
Speaker 2: said it as a joke. He's like, oh, they should
Speaker 2: make another one of those, you know, Porterlines four, And
Speaker 2: my kind of my comment to him was they should
Speaker 2: make another movie instead, and he liked it. Yeah, good
Speaker 2: on him. And I didn't know who this guy was,
Speaker 2: and I clicked his profile. He was the narrative director
Speaker 2: at Gearbox.
Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, well you know, hey, now that they don't
Speaker 1: have humor, Yeah, that's good. I free like, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Randy just needs to They just need Like it's
Speaker 2: the same thing that like Tessa Instrude with Elon Musk.
Speaker 2: Just put him in like a fake boardroom, like a
Speaker 2: fake press room, and have him rant and have the
Speaker 2: cameras powered. I'm back to connectin anything, and then let
Speaker 2: me say whatever bullshit he wants to. No one and
Speaker 2: everyone else gonna get on with their jobs.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just wonder like if somebody eventually got to
Speaker 1: Randy and were like, what did you say? Now, dude,
Speaker 1: what did you say? Now?
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, Like, I mean, I'm sure they could
Speaker 2: fire him.
Speaker 1: No, They're not gonna fire him for that.
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying I said I'm sure they could, yeah,
Speaker 2: or but that someone clearly likes him or clearly has
Speaker 2: some use for him.
Speaker 1: To be fair, Like, you know, if Borderlines four goes
Speaker 1: out and sells, well, I mean, dude, dude's keep right.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't think I think it'll do okay, but
Speaker 2: I think the guys that like guys to that franchise
Speaker 2: is kind of over and you know, I think it's
Speaker 2: just like Worderlines one came out, Quorderlines two kind of
Speaker 2: shot up, and then three or four three presequel and
Speaker 2: Tiny Tina's bullshit. It's just been like a slow decline.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Tiny Tina's had a mixed audience for sure. There's
Speaker 1: but a lot a lot of people that liked that
Speaker 1: game a lot, and there's people that didn't like it.
Speaker 1: And then three just had the thing where you know,
Speaker 1: they they came out and said, we're not going to
Speaker 1: be overdoing it so much on the references and all that.
Speaker 2: Suff It's like, that's like the worst one.
Speaker 1: So well, that's the point that they're not going to
Speaker 1: overdo it with four for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people didn't like it, but you know it's the
Speaker 2: same people in charge of writing or any sensibilities. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I'm kind of dreading and so clad trap
Speaker 2: in it, so said, Oh God.
Speaker 1: Speaking of franchises, lots of uh. I had no idea
Speaker 1: that there was this grounds full of people playing Battlefront two,
Speaker 1: a Star Wars Battlefront two, I should say, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, And apparently some former deths of the game
Speaker 1: have said that they're now they they would really like
Speaker 1: to make out of Front three and have you know,
Speaker 1: a chance of redemption because we know what have a
Speaker 1: Battlefront two where that was the height of loot box right,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Yeah, just people absolutely hating loot boxes
Speaker 1: and all that stuff and just them monetizing it to
Speaker 1: helen back because it was Star Wars to the point
Speaker 1: where where they had to take the game down.
Speaker 2: Right yeah, they like rebouncing the economy and then it
Speaker 2: kind of worse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you know, it kind of really really
Speaker 1: lost its luster after that because Disney even got onto
Speaker 1: EA about like, yo, how did you screw this up
Speaker 1: so bad? Yeah, because they had no idea that I
Speaker 1: think that most people didn't even know that this stuff
Speaker 1: was in the game.
Speaker 2: Well, it was a perfect storm because EA is trying
Speaker 2: to make money off cosmetics, but like Disney wouldn't let
Speaker 2: him make cosmetics or like me, no, like cannon breaking
Speaker 2: cosmetics and crap like that.
Speaker 1: Right, it was the definition of pay to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or like Darth they are something looks slightly different.
Speaker 2: It has like one more line on it, and it's
Speaker 2: like oh the ten bucks or whatever, like no, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean the reason is it's popping off it's because
Speaker 2: of Fortnite, because they bolted in characters from you know,
Speaker 2: Star Wars characters into that. Uh, they shouldn't make another one.
Speaker 1: But you think, like, you know, with all this stuff
Speaker 1: about like oh we again, you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: Sony's live service thing last week and how that's not
Speaker 1: popping off for them outside of Hell Divers Too, and
Speaker 1: then even Hell Divers team. I wonder, I wonder if
Speaker 1: there's something to that or they just decided that they
Speaker 1: wanted to move away from Sony, but like interesting that
Speaker 1: Arrowhead just was like, we're not going to work with
Speaker 1: Sony on our next game like that the way they
Speaker 1: work with Hell Divers too, right, And it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I wonder if EA and all of their you know,
Speaker 1: they're still winning so many live service all their sports
Speaker 1: games have live service right to them all almost you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're still pumping out mobile games, trying to get
Speaker 1: modernization and all that stuff. Uh, do you think that
Speaker 1: they could if somebody convinces somebody like you think it
Speaker 1: could work, like bring back Star Wars and do this.
Speaker 1: Like it's not like people didn't like the game, it's
Speaker 1: just the loop boxes and all that crap ruined.
Speaker 2: I mean even like the problem with Battlefront specifically is
Speaker 2: like it's reilly a large market of that fan base
Speaker 2: like the old ones.
Speaker 1: So yeah Battlefront, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like the I forget the studio, the saboteury guys forget.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Uh Okay. There is like a leaked version of that
Speaker 2: of their Battlefront too, from like you know, twenty years
Speaker 2: ago floating around that was like way more impressive than
Speaker 2: what came out as actually thattle Front two. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I think there there is kind of a I don't
Speaker 2: want to say a need, but people like that type
Speaker 2: of gameplay, but it's very shallow and very uh like,
Speaker 2: I don't mean the gameplay itself a shallow, but like
Speaker 2: the audience is shallow for it. Like it's a good
Speaker 2: like a Real Tournament when they tried to bring that
Speaker 2: back and it was a boondoggle and they went away,
Speaker 2: Like I would I would like I would like a
Speaker 2: good like arena based shooter like that, you know, like
Speaker 2: Unreal Tournament or Quake three or something that's like archaic.
Speaker 1: Telling uh, you know it should go and try to
Speaker 1: do something with Quake.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't. I don't trust them because I think
Speaker 2: the markets have changed so much from that, you know that,
Speaker 2: like the audience just isn't like I mean, what was
Speaker 2: a boss Key when Cliff was still making games like
Speaker 2: that was like that one that you tried to make
Speaker 2: and it failed and next Week's failed, and most of
Speaker 2: these things fail. So I think there could be a
Speaker 2: market for the Battlefront game, but I just don't see
Speaker 2: EA doing it, and they don't see I mean, it
Speaker 2: has to be like some small team that's just yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean they pretty much have to life sacrifice Battlefield
Speaker 1: again right right to to be able to do that,
Speaker 1: because it'd be a lot of those same people.
Speaker 2: Right, and they don't own you know, they have to
Speaker 2: share marketing dollars for Star Wars or just that.
Speaker 1: They don't have a problem because they're doing that that
Speaker 1: strategy game, and they're still doing Jedi Survivors.
Speaker 2: But that's that's a whole separate thing, you know, Like
Speaker 2: you just said, like they don't have to pull away
Speaker 2: from their own you know, battlefield itself.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean with the way Disney has that
Speaker 1: deal with Epic or whatever right now for Fortnite, right,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't totally surprise me if somebody's like watching that
Speaker 1: and somebody at EA is maybe thinking about it, because like,
Speaker 1: this is what EA loves. They love getting a game
Speaker 1: that people were excited about and they're gonna play. And
Speaker 1: it's like especially if Battlefield like bombs or something, and
Speaker 1: they basically get the definitive like, Okay, people don't care
Speaker 1: about this franchise, it's done. What can we do with
Speaker 1: that team? Like I could see a Star Wars Battlefront three,
Speaker 1: maybe not doing a Marvel Rivals type like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it is the game now, but I could see it
Speaker 1: making a comeback. I could see people really getting excited
Speaker 1: about that, you know. So I'm not going to rule
Speaker 1: it out. I'm not going to rule out the Star
Speaker 1: War Battlefront three could happen at some point, especially at Battlefield.
Speaker 1: Whatever the heck this game is gonna which look, I
Speaker 1: don't want that to happen because I mean, seper we're
Speaker 1: going to probably lose jobs. But if battle for some
Speaker 1: reason doesn't do well, I could see it happen for sure.
Speaker 2: If a battle Run three is made, how much how
Speaker 2: many celebrity or you know, how many of the actually
Speaker 2: do you think they rope into it.
Speaker 1: I mean some of these actors getting kind of really.
Speaker 2: Old it's voice acting. Yeah, you know they can get
Speaker 2: they can rope in you know, Ah's forget a dynamn
Speaker 2: name the ton Reese, Katie sack Off.
Speaker 1: And they could get I can't remember her name or
Speaker 1: the girl that plays Ray.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they could get Daisy really and you know that.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean that was the thing with the last one.
Speaker 2: It's like they like they couldn't really do it because
Speaker 2: it couldn't get Han solo. They can't get Harrison Ford, right,
Speaker 2: but like hey, just I.
Speaker 1: Mean, now you could get Troy Baker to do Harrison
Speaker 1: for you know, they can find ways around it maybe,
Speaker 1: or they could.
Speaker 2: Just not have them talked right well, I mean I
Speaker 2: haven't talked a little like grunting or they got to
Speaker 2: sell Compact somewhere so.
Speaker 1: Right, but uh okay, moving on from that, just to
Speaker 1: get to a few more things. We talk about Nintendo
Speaker 1: being into our main topic. Embracer group who und you know,
Speaker 1: well they are because ken Cums Liver Too is doing
Speaker 1: really well, right, but they once again are I thought
Speaker 1: we were done talking about their studios and the makeup
Speaker 1: of it. And whatever, and then like out of the blue,
Speaker 1: they are once again like doing something with this three
Speaker 1: headed monster of groups that they assembled last year, which
Speaker 1: you know they split as to the table Talk people
Speaker 1: get a Lord of the Rings group and then Coffee
Speaker 1: Stain was doing all like the indie ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So now Coffee Stain and Friends, which hilarious that that's
Speaker 1: still the name is. It's going to officially become its own,
Speaker 1: uh indie standalone group like away from Embracer, right, I
Speaker 1: guess to hopefully, like I guess, get some of that
Speaker 1: Embracer name off of them and kind of be able
Speaker 1: to do their own like publishing and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Coffeees thing was supposed to focus on PC, console and
Speaker 1: mobile games, including current community driven free to play games
Speaker 1: live ops, you know, the indie double a space essentially,
Speaker 1: so you know, they're kind of I guess this is
Speaker 1: Embraceous way of like not having to officially like sell them,
Speaker 1: but also like you know, I guess divest from them
Speaker 1: somewhat some a little bit. Uh. The middle Earth and
Speaker 1: Friends is officially now called Fellowship Entertainment and will basically
Speaker 1: essentially handle everything that's not indie, So a huge amount
Speaker 1: of Studios. We're talking about a Spire Crystal Dynamics limited
Speaker 1: run dark Horse war Horse Studios, the people that made
Speaker 1: Keenan Culverts too, that play on. That's also a publisher
Speaker 1: trip Wire that does Killing Floor, which they have Killing
Speaker 1: for three coming soon, if not out already. And like Metro,
Speaker 1: they just had that VR game not too long ago,
Speaker 1: so there's uh, there's quite a bit uh there. I
Speaker 1: don't really I can't really talk about what this really does,
Speaker 1: aside from okay, I guess cool that they gave it
Speaker 1: an official name this time instead of Lord of the
Speaker 1: Rings and Friends or whatever Middle Earth and Friends or whatever.
Speaker 2: His buddies.
Speaker 1: Yeah that, But sure, okay, I mean this is cool
Speaker 1: for Embracer Again, I don't we I don't think we're
Speaker 1: going to really know what this means for a while.
Speaker 2: So but another Gollum game'll be all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure? Uh And last thing here before we
Speaker 1: get tell my Nintendo just because you know, this is
Speaker 1: I guess officially the first time we've had a from
Speaker 1: software like Souls like like this that is really really
Speaker 1: heavily beloved getting difficulty options. I'm not I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if Remnant two also has that but yeah, oh yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: so I guess they're not the first ones, but like
Speaker 1: they're kind of making a big deal of it because
Speaker 1: it's a you know, the way that this is built.
Speaker 1: It it gets a lot of Eliza p gets a
Speaker 1: lot of talk towards like Bloodborne and things like that.
Speaker 1: So in this update that they're doing, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: new difficulty options called Butterflies Guidance, an Awaken Puppet. They're
Speaker 1: going to be added in a patch alongside the DLC,
Speaker 1: the Eliza p overture that's coming, the difficult difficult. The
Speaker 1: default difficulty is gonna be called legendary stock are now
Speaker 1: or whatever. As somebody that does play these games, Uh
Speaker 1: do you think? What do you think about this? Like
Speaker 1: is this them like copping out or you think this
Speaker 1: is a good thing to let.
Speaker 2: You know, I think it's good. I mean, like you
Speaker 2: just say it's bad. But he's like, you know, I
Speaker 2: mean like the die hard purists are always like get
Speaker 2: good or you know, just get better, and yeah, I
Speaker 2: got I don't got a thousand dollars to devote this
Speaker 2: damn game, you know, right, So yeah, I think it's good.
Speaker 2: People should people should I mean I don't think it's
Speaker 2: bad that a developer would say here's how we want
Speaker 2: to play it, or here's how we want you to
Speaker 2: play it, but like having options is always a nice thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely agree with that as well. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: Clark could have easily because they are aping the that
Speaker 1: that coin of, like the same difficulty structure in the
Speaker 1: Dodge and Perry, they could have easily said, hey, uh,
Speaker 1: there's only one difficulty mode, right, and unfortunately you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to get good or whatever, right, right, But they
Speaker 1: didn't do that, and in fact, like let you change
Speaker 1: the difficulty whenever you want, which I always think is positive, right.
Speaker 2: And the trophies, it's not like you beat the game
Speaker 2: on normal and then hard or anything anything like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. I hate I really hate when
Speaker 1: they do that, Like it's all you know, I understand, Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: you want to you want to have a trophy for
Speaker 1: people that want to play it on hard mode or whatever,
Speaker 1: But I don't feel like that needs to be included
Speaker 1: into the Platinum or whatnot. Like that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that he made a big deal about rebirth, Like
Speaker 1: you have to play so many of those things on
Speaker 1: the mini games on hard or whatever to be able
Speaker 1: to get the platinum and people couldn't stand it, So
Speaker 1: like it's good to me. I think it's a good thing. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't if me a Zaki never wants to add
Speaker 1: difficulty options to hit to the actual from soft games,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a bad thing either. The developers
Speaker 1: should have a maybe able to make their own decision.
Speaker 1: Does it hurt the game, No, because who gives a
Speaker 1: shit about gamer credit at the end of the day. Nobody,
Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, nobody's going to
Speaker 1: remember any of that crap, you know, Like you can
Speaker 1: use it as a hell, Hey, I beat it, and
Speaker 1: if you want to beat it on normal, beat it
Speaker 1: on normal. Man. But I don't think it's bad because
Speaker 1: as I've we talked about with Crafty last week and
Speaker 1: he said that it did happen for him this week
Speaker 1: where he kind of used easy as training mode so
Speaker 1: that he could play it on normal and beat the
Speaker 1: boss on normal that he couldn't beat because he was
Speaker 1: able to get better at the Dodge and Perry, And
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that that's wrong. That's also
Speaker 1: kind of getting good. But in a different way. Now. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's levels to it, and I'm sure considering how Neo
Speaker 1: Wiz has handled Liza p overall, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna make it like gosh darn easy either. But I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be able to make it easier for
Speaker 1: you to you know. Uh yeah, yeah, They're not gonna
Speaker 1: make it harder for the whole point is to kind
Speaker 1: of ease you into the experience, and that's that's good.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So let's uh go ahead and get into
Speaker 1: Nintendo here since it kind of leads into our Oh wait,
Speaker 1: wain more, since we're talking about that, elder Ring is
Speaker 1: officially getting that movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will.
Speaker 1: We have somebody asking us in the comments of Nintendo question.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in just a second. Elder Ring
Speaker 1: is getting this movie with a twenty four and Alice Garland,
Speaker 1: who's he just teamed up again to do the twenty
Speaker 1: eight Years Later movie, which is coming out pretty soon.
Speaker 1: And you know, Danny Boyle directed that movie, so he
Speaker 1: has history with that that franchise. He's also like wrote
Speaker 1: and directed Civil War, which came out last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, and you like enslaved Odyssey's the West, which he
Speaker 1: co wrote and also did some supervisory stuff with DMC, which.
Speaker 2: You liked as a writer. He's fine, Yeah, this movie
Speaker 2: will never come out.
Speaker 1: You don't think slaving with well, obviously we have the
Speaker 1: King have never come out with George R. Martin attacked, right,
Speaker 1: that's one problem. But you know what he does. He's
Speaker 1: bad about writing his books, but when it comes to
Speaker 1: like whatever he does with other stuff, he's he's great
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, shouldn't it doesn't matter or shouldn't matter to him,
Speaker 2: but it makes a bigger celebrity. So that's why he doesn't,
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 1: Of course? Of course, you know, because we know that
Speaker 1: book's going to come out and the people that read
Speaker 1: the books are gonna love it, but that's probably still
Speaker 1: not going to get into the zeitguys, yeah or whatever.
Speaker 1: You finally, you're wrong.
Speaker 2: That book is never coming out.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, faugh But anyway, twenty four is also attached
Speaker 1: and Vanda Namco and I'm sure Vanda Namco wants this
Speaker 1: Newey to come out because they want to make money.
Speaker 1: They want to keep making I don't know how many
Speaker 1: people don't Old elden Ring at this point, but uh,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: It's a few things. First of all, like I said
Speaker 2: that the books never coming out. Uh, I don't see
Speaker 2: a twenty four putting in a huge budget for this,
Speaker 2: you know, personally, I.
Speaker 1: Mean they like.
Speaker 2: They should. I think it's like a property that demands
Speaker 2: it kind of.
Speaker 1: Well, but ben Anaka is also putting some money in
Speaker 1: here too, It's not like it's just them.
Speaker 2: Another problem is like what's the story.
Speaker 1: I would assume it's its own story, right, like it's
Speaker 1: its own origin story.
Speaker 2: Of No, because like Eldon Ring doesn't have a story.
Speaker 2: I mean people say it has a story, it does
Speaker 2: not have a story.
Speaker 1: That's the thing too, right, You're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do this like Lord drop thing like you do
Speaker 1: in the game. You're gonna have to actually give people
Speaker 1: a story and you're not gonna be able to interact
Speaker 1: with it the same way where you get to go
Speaker 1: and do whatever you want. That you have to lead
Speaker 1: the people through the story.
Speaker 2: keV. It's a fifteen minute scene in the movie where
Speaker 2: it's just like the main character breaking power. It's over
Speaker 2: and over. He can get the one fucking material he needs.
Speaker 2: That's a better weapon.
Speaker 1: Obviously. You know Night Rain's coming out this year too,
Speaker 1: so this kind of adds to that. Right.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, what do you think the
Speaker 2: Odds Artist thing actually comes out?
Speaker 1: I think with Miyazaki tied to it as well with uh,
Speaker 1: you know, gr R, I think it will come out.
Speaker 1: Maybe it gets delayed or something like that, but I
Speaker 1: think it will come out because I don't think Miyazaki
Speaker 1: is gonna waste his time away from doing stuff away
Speaker 1: from the series for a movie that doesn't come out
Speaker 1: like that doesn't make any sense to me. So I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, I know you're stuck on the reality. No,
Speaker 1: I know you're stuck on that, but you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: So we'll see if it does come out or not.
Speaker 1: But thank you Ken for getting us into talking about
Speaker 1: our main topic here, which is Switched Again. We're doing
Speaker 1: like a two part looking back at Switch one and
Speaker 1: then also getting ready for Switch to with you know,
Speaker 1: the show is gonna come out during the launch week.
Speaker 1: I do have a pre order, so I'm ready for Thursday.
Speaker 1: So far, Walmart says they're gonna switch it. They're gonna
Speaker 1: ship it to me on this I'm supposed to be
Speaker 1: getting it by June fifth, so I and Ashley is right.
Speaker 1: This Sonya is making that ze the live action to me.
Speaker 1: But just so even though this wasn't on the the doc,
Speaker 1: it actually does ask uh, why do people hate Nintendo
Speaker 1: so much? Most gamers for PS, Xbox or PC, would
Speaker 1: you agree? So here's the thing, Like there's I think
Speaker 1: it's just the loud people online. A lot of people
Speaker 1: online like to talk and say that they hate Nintendo.
Speaker 1: But they hate. It's almost like a love hate, right,
Speaker 1: they hate, but then they go and buy the games
Speaker 1: that they hate so much.
Speaker 2: Well, Nintendo is missing some key game types or you know,
Speaker 2: mature games or games of that elk.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the third party they got what the Witcher three,
Speaker 1: they got Doom Maternal last time. They're getting Cyberpunk at
Speaker 1: launch count Cyberpunk counts, they're getting that at.
Speaker 2: Lot they're talking about I'm talking about like Nintendo made game.
Speaker 1: But Nintendo's not going to do that.
Speaker 2: That's not part of their exactly. Yeah, yes, you're making
Speaker 2: my point.
Speaker 1: But that's why you think they hate people hate them
Speaker 1: is they don't do mature games.
Speaker 2: Because they I'm taking off like think of like Asthma
Speaker 2: Gold or like you.
Speaker 1: Know, brings up that she brings up athmen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's never gonna, like, never gonna like a Nintendo
Speaker 2: game because not enough women or you know, the big
Speaker 2: booged women. They're too quote unquote easy h appeal to
Speaker 2: his warrior sensibilities. I mean, Nintendo games are fun and
Speaker 2: colorful and charming everything he's not.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, to be fair, Donkey, that's that's his whole
Speaker 1: point is to make fun of things. So it's like
Speaker 1: almost at some point, but Dunkey, you like never know
Speaker 1: if he's being serious or he's just doing it because
Speaker 1: it's gonna get him attention, right, whereas Asthma go, I
Speaker 1: don't know either. He's also very you know, I agree
Speaker 1: with with keV. Why can't we just all love every console?
Speaker 2: I have some bad consols out there.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, but I own all the consoles.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You just don't own an Xbox, but you have the others,
Speaker 1: And to be fair, you don't really need on one
Speaker 1: when you have a PC. So yeah, that's that Sexbox's
Speaker 1: problem anyway. But let's let's like kind of go backwards.
Speaker 1: I guess in time back when I got my to
Speaker 1: be I got my switch one on launch day when
Speaker 1: Walmart was still good when Walmart still had the twenty
Speaker 1: four hour thing when they were open okay, at midnight
Speaker 1: before the pandemic, where they even though there was a
Speaker 1: lot of Walmarts that were already going to start going
Speaker 1: and closing at eleven or whatever or closing at twelve. Uh,
Speaker 1: they were starting to kind of ease out of the
Speaker 1: whole being open twenty four hours, but there was still
Speaker 1: a lot of them, and I had one in my area.
Speaker 1: I had two in my area actually, that were open
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. I went into one like at eleven
Speaker 1: forty five and kind of waited around, and at twelve
Speaker 1: oh one they start putting out the I'd pre I
Speaker 1: been able to pre order like a couple of before
Speaker 1: actually because Walmart had done like some crazy like pre
Speaker 1: orders at the last minute. But it was cool because
Speaker 1: I literally got to stand there watch them put it out,
Speaker 1: and then I walked up and been like, oh, can
Speaker 1: I buy one? And they said, do you have a
Speaker 1: pre order? I said I do, But are you also
Speaker 1: going to put some out people that didn't pre order?
Speaker 1: They said, yeah, but we're going to make sure we
Speaker 1: order the out of the pre orders first. So I
Speaker 1: had to tell them I was canceling my pre order
Speaker 1: in order to buy the one there at the store,
Speaker 1: but then let me buy it, so I walked off
Speaker 1: with an SD card the two I don't remember. I
Speaker 1: think it's the two fifty six gig SD card that
Speaker 1: I have the Breath of the Wild physical one of
Speaker 1: the only few physical games that I have for a
Speaker 1: switch and and and the console. So yeah, I've had
Speaker 1: mine since launch. It still works. The only thing is
Speaker 1: I dropped it once and it doesn't have a screen protector,
Speaker 1: so I do have like this little blue mark on
Speaker 1: the screen that won't go away when I'm playing handheld.
Speaker 1: But hey, it still works, although it sucks because you know,
Speaker 1: I've never gotten to get some of that awesome battery
Speaker 1: life that the new version of Switch one eventually got.
Speaker 1: But I guess that prepares me for what the Switch
Speaker 1: two is going to be, because it's apparently going to
Speaker 1: have worse battery life than the first one. But I
Speaker 1: love my Switch, Like I said, I just I've been
Speaker 1: playing nice Stay for Fishing on Switch to me, Switches
Speaker 1: a great console. It's something that I think I never
Speaker 1: knew I wanted until it came out, and now it's
Speaker 1: like I can never think about going back to only
Speaker 1: playing handheld. I want the handheld to be able to
Speaker 1: go into my TV if I want to, even though
Speaker 1: most of the time I do play the game the
Speaker 1: thing handheld. Look, it's not as I think us on
Speaker 1: as great graphics wise as a Steam Deck. But I
Speaker 1: think for all the stuff that's come out with the Switch,
Speaker 1: it's it's an awesome thing, and I'm glad to see
Speaker 1: Nintendo is still going to be continuing to switch on
Speaker 1: with the second one. What did you think about like
Speaker 1: the Switch when it was first going to come out,
Speaker 1: and do you like you own one as well? I
Speaker 1: know you don't use it as much, but where are
Speaker 1: you with the Switch one as far as your thoughts?
Speaker 2: I think I don't really remember it coming out. I
Speaker 2: think it got like a year later for like a
Speaker 2: birthday present from a friend. Ah, but it's still one
Speaker 2: of the like lngch ones or that's still really early on. Uh.
Speaker 2: I think it's fine. I think it's see. I think
Speaker 2: it's only good for like indies and Nintendo games. So
Speaker 2: you go and like, oh, you know Doom three or
Speaker 2: Doom whatever the hell Doom is on, Like the mature
Speaker 2: games is like, no, those don't count because those are
Speaker 2: better on literal anything else.
Speaker 1: But if you don't own anything but a switch, which
Speaker 1: there a lot of people to.
Speaker 2: Do, oh well, I mean save it for something better.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but I don't look. Well, you're doing the
Speaker 1: Randy Pittsford thing right now.
Speaker 2: Well, playing a heavily compromised version of something isn't exactly
Speaker 2: like a fun or good experience.
Speaker 1: M right. But okay, the teenager it doesn't have a
Speaker 1: way to get their own income and they want to
Speaker 1: play Doom and the Switch is what they have.
Speaker 2: I means four, fine, but you know, don't do that.
Speaker 1: People don't do that. You're missing out a lot of
Speaker 1: games that you can't play on the PS four. But
Speaker 1: still the so you're I agree with you. I use
Speaker 1: it a lot for Randy's That's what I play most
Speaker 1: of it on UH just because you know, Nintendo games
Speaker 1: never go down on sales, so I end up not
Speaker 1: getting a lot of them, only the ones that I
Speaker 1: really really want, like like Mark mentioned the Zena Blades
Speaker 1: and that UH type game. And as just to there's
Speaker 1: a I don't really want to bring this up because
Speaker 1: it's just some rumor that it is being floated by
Speaker 1: people that are not. There's a stupid rumor that's been
Speaker 1: going around. I saw, like on Facebook and other places
Speaker 1: of like Parokis and Tokey apparently says something about uh ps,
Speaker 1: gamers are gonna have to get used to they're also
Speaker 1: going multi platform or whatever. That's that is absolutely bs
Speaker 1: until I see it, Until I actually see them announce it,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Believe really small shiping multiplatform like that Lego Horizon game.
Speaker 1: But to me that the one doesn't even count because
Speaker 1: it's not a it's not a it's a Sony property,
Speaker 1: but it's not a Sony game. It's being made at
Speaker 1: somebody else. They probably said, hey, we need this to
Speaker 1: be on switch because it's not going to sell, and
Speaker 1: it still didn't sell, you know, so you know, until
Speaker 1: we have an action like until I see the Last
Speaker 1: of Us, not even Spider Man, because I can see
Speaker 1: Disney saying they need Spider Man on switch seat or
Speaker 1: whatever doing Indiana Jones type thing. I'm talking about. If
Speaker 1: a Sony game like I talked about Last of Us,
Speaker 1: Complete God of War whatever shows up on Nintendo, I
Speaker 1: won't believe it. So to me, it's still a bunch
Speaker 1: of crap because Look, I get it, they have a
Speaker 1: lot of games that we're supposed to come out with
Speaker 1: live service that are not doing well and they need
Speaker 1: to increase that income somewhere. But I see them if
Speaker 1: they do anything. I can see them do Day one
Speaker 1: PC before they ever put a bunch of their big
Speaker 1: games on Nintendo right now, were they would they be
Speaker 1: more willing to work with Nintendo than Xbox? Yeah? Would
Speaker 1: they put their games on switch to before they ever
Speaker 1: put them on Xbox? Yes? Because they're both Japanese. I
Speaker 1: could see them. Even though Sony has that bad blood
Speaker 1: with Nintendo from back in the day, they've apparently mended
Speaker 1: fences in all those years from then. Most of those
Speaker 1: people are not like even really around anymore. Do you
Speaker 1: even know that that really happened aside from like the
Speaker 1: history books essentially, But that stuff's not like that is
Speaker 1: just absolute made up bull crap from people that are
Speaker 1: just trying to stir the pot of console warbs, which
Speaker 1: I don't really like talking on here because we're here
Speaker 1: to celebrate games, and I'll mention it sometimes, but it's
Speaker 1: just really like not worth getting into until somebody from
Speaker 1: Sony officially says we're putting four games on Nintendo's Switch
Speaker 1: and we'll see how it goes. Because I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised at all. It's similar to Microsoft's opening strategy of
Speaker 1: we're gonna put some games and see how it goes.
Speaker 1: They're not going to all of a sudden go we're
Speaker 1: putting all of our games on switch too. Now that's
Speaker 1: not happening. But anyway, going back to uh so, like
Speaker 1: when you were thinking about your and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you have honorable mentions or whatever too, but like
Speaker 1: when you were thinking about your like top switch games,
Speaker 1: when you think about like your time of playing switch games,
Speaker 1: like what stands out to you as far as like
Speaker 1: games you gotta play or whatever before just going through
Speaker 1: your list, because I know there's games that you don't
Speaker 1: maybe not necessarily like your favorites, but you feel like, okay,
Speaker 1: definitely gotta gotta check this out. If you're buying a
Speaker 1: switch too, and you haven't, you didn't have a switch
Speaker 1: one at all, what's what's something you'd say you have
Speaker 1: to play?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, it's just it's on my list,
Speaker 2: you know, like yeah, and then Hendo stuff, and then
Speaker 2: like a few indies and then.
Speaker 1: Was it like hard for you to come up with
Speaker 1: the the ten you already had.
Speaker 2: The on the bottom? It was because you know, the
Speaker 2: Switch does have a lot of crap on it. Ah,
Speaker 2: and I didn't want to do a multi platform or
Speaker 2: at least most at least like I'm not gonna play from.
Speaker 1: The major ones. Oh like see I did put Haites online,
Speaker 1: but that's no. So so I'm going to give a
Speaker 1: caveat to the way I did this is you can
Speaker 1: do it as all exclusives. You can do it as
Speaker 1: just your what you think are the ten best games
Speaker 1: on Switch. You can do it as games that you
Speaker 1: played a lot on Switch that maybe are multi platform.
Speaker 1: So like, that's why Hayes is there for me, because
Speaker 1: that's how I played that game. I didn't play it
Speaker 1: on anything else with Switch, right, Uh, so for me
Speaker 1: it is a Switch game, even though yes it's on
Speaker 1: other things, right on PC.
Speaker 2: When it came out, like come out on the Switch first,
Speaker 2: then I would have it wouldn't have made my list,
Speaker 2: but I would have that would have been better. But
Speaker 2: it hits PC and Switch at the same time. So no,
Speaker 2: like the tourist made my list, and that's because it
Speaker 2: hit Switch first, Yeah, initially, right.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, Like, well, it was on what PC
Speaker 1: in early access for a while, and then Haiti's and
Speaker 1: then it came to Switch first as one of the
Speaker 1: as the first console, and then it came to everything else.
Speaker 1: So like now it hit Switch first, Okay, hits but
Speaker 1: it came it was on PC in early access first, right.
Speaker 2: It doesn't say but first even if the case like
Speaker 2: it came out like a year and the Switch before
Speaker 2: PC or like Windows the official window, so I wouldn't
Speaker 2: count that at all, all right, But.
Speaker 1: All right, like what are your you have any honorable mentions?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: All right, you just did ten? Okay, my my honorable
Speaker 1: mentions really quick are just because I don't I kind
Speaker 1: of want to not like have a bunch of the
Speaker 1: same games. Uh zann a Blade Definitive one, uh, the
Speaker 1: definitive one, the first one and then two. I haven't
Speaker 1: really gotten to play X, but I'm pretty sure Chronicles
Speaker 1: X would probably be on there as well. I've just
Speaker 1: I have it. I played a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: It's just other stuff came out around the same time
Speaker 1: and I never got back to it. But I will
Speaker 1: when Switch two comes out, because there's besides Mark Carr World,
Speaker 1: there's nothing I'm buying until maybe Donkey Kong, if not
Speaker 1: even further. Also there we talked about Tony, Nintendo was
Speaker 1: apparently having a switch to direct right after the console
Speaker 1: comes out, which is no brainer because they always have
Speaker 1: a direct in June. The people that have been saying
Speaker 1: that they don't think anything's happening, It's like, guys, they
Speaker 1: have a whole year left of things that they have
Speaker 1: to they have to fill out the year with. So
Speaker 1: definitely they are going to have another direct because it
Speaker 1: can't just be two. Yes, Metrified four Pokemon Za are
Speaker 1: two big games, but those are also coming to switch
Speaker 1: one right now. Donkey Kong Bonanza and Marcott World are
Speaker 1: like the only two big games that we have announced
Speaker 1: at all for Nintendo. So they definitely got to get
Speaker 1: something going. And having it right after the console launches
Speaker 1: is perfect because people buy that system. Whether the people
Speaker 1: that haven't bought the system yet, you can show them, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: look at all this stuff that's coming, whether it's in
Speaker 1: this year or early next year. Oh, this is why
Speaker 1: you need to buy it, you know, because they're definitely
Speaker 1: gonna get you ready for the holiday season when they
Speaker 1: have more stock again and they're gonna want you to
Speaker 1: buy that system for the holidays. So yeah, So, like
Speaker 1: I said, the Zuno Blade series is the rest of
Speaker 1: the Anoploid series except for three, which is actually on
Speaker 1: my list. Are my honorable mentions? What's your I guess
Speaker 1: number ten through eight or whatever out them?
Speaker 2: However you want my number Tennis Kirby Forgotten Land. Okay,
Speaker 2: number nine is live alive umber Yeah, number it was
Speaker 2: being outed.
Speaker 1: Too, all right, any of those that you like really.
Speaker 2: Have a you know, I mean, it's a remake of
Speaker 2: the That's NEETs one that ever came out, and it's
Speaker 2: on other systems now, but when it first hit was
Speaker 2: on on Switch and yeah, really interesting RPG.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love I love the fact that that exists
Speaker 1: and that you know, we can play it, you know.
Speaker 1: It's it's also that that was revived and you can
Speaker 1: you can check that out.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a SNS translation, you know, one
Speaker 2: English translation of the NES version, and yeah, they really
Speaker 2: recaptured it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they did a fantastic job of that game.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: A lot of big credit to them for that. My
Speaker 1: number ten is Hades. Like I said, it's not a
Speaker 1: Nintendo game, but played the craft light of it on
Speaker 1: the Switch. Love that game. I don't really do roguelikes
Speaker 1: that much, so that game obviously one of the best
Speaker 1: ones ever, right, But for sure Number nine Dragon Quests eleven,
Speaker 1: I did play it on PlayStation, but Switch had the
Speaker 1: best version for a long time, and I played a
Speaker 1: lot of it on Switch, and it's one of the
Speaker 1: best Dragon Quests games ever. So you know, definitely, if
Speaker 1: for some reason you haven't checked it out, I definitely would.
Speaker 1: Like I think after those two that's when it became
Speaker 1: like difficult for me because I didn't want to do
Speaker 1: too many of the same like franchise, because I wasn't
Speaker 1: a fan like and I know you weren't either. Like
Speaker 1: that's something I think we're both going to share that
Speaker 1: people are probably going to be very upset when you're
Speaker 1: looking about we're talking about obviously, like I said, best
Speaker 1: Switch games for us. You know, when you do best lists,
Speaker 1: there's always it's subjective, so you know, people or get upset.
Speaker 1: But both of us are not fans of the three
Speaker 1: d's of the as far as like Tiers of the Kingdom,
Speaker 1: and that's the while, so I'll be surprised if it's
Speaker 1: on there for you at all, but it's not for me, right.
Speaker 1: Also number number eight, you know I had to have
Speaker 1: this in here somewhere because I bought it on Switch.
Speaker 1: I played it on Switch. I know it's on PlayStation,
Speaker 1: but theaterithm Fall Fantasy. I bought all the DLC that game.
Speaker 1: I sunk so many freaking hours into that game. I
Speaker 1: love the crap out of it still. Sometimes we'll go
Speaker 1: back to it to play games I used to. I
Speaker 1: still have the the three DS versions over there in
Speaker 1: that corner on the show. So yeah, it's for me.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a game I really loved on the Switch.
Speaker 1: So what is your seven?
Speaker 2: Five? I remember seven was Mario RPG. Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that game too.
Speaker 2: My number six was Smash for the Ultimate. Uh And
Speaker 2: number five was the only good Zelda game, Caine's High Rule.
Speaker 1: Kin's tyl Is Fun.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I reviewed that. You know their newest game, Riff of
Speaker 1: the Necrod. Answer from that team, Uh, well yeah that
Speaker 1: game was and it was difficult too. There was no joke, right,
Speaker 1: but yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it's gonna be hard thing to top Ultimate
Speaker 2: or Smash for the Ultimate.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's gonna be an interesting one, like what
Speaker 1: do they do with Smash Bros.
Speaker 2: Ultimate?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, hey they did from Mario A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Do they finally do they add like an RPG type
Speaker 1: like actual like story mode to the thing?
Speaker 2: That's the thing. I didn't like Ultimate story Mode at all.
Speaker 2: That like four game bullshit. It's like this is way
Speaker 2: too big and involved.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, I felt like it took forever. I
Speaker 1: was just like, uh, okay.
Speaker 2: So I'd be happy. I mean, it'd be funny if
Speaker 2: they did like a Mortal Kombat style story mode but
Speaker 2: just sounded like a simple five or six fight story mode,
Speaker 2: and that'd be a you know, yeah, I think it's people.
Speaker 2: I think it's speaking a word of combat re quick.
Speaker 2: I think its funny people are outraged that Mortal Kombat's
Speaker 2: one supportive ending. It's like, yo, that game is old
Speaker 2: and didn't do too well, so what do you expect?
Speaker 1: Definitely, uh, not kidding there with that. My number seven
Speaker 1: is Astral.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That game is awesome. I wish more people would have
Speaker 1: bought it, because it really should be one of those
Speaker 1: like Platinum games that we talk about in the same
Speaker 1: vein as you know, some of the stories is kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know whatever, but I love the gameplay
Speaker 1: in that freaking game, and I just it should be
Speaker 1: up there in like the platinum like echelon of games,
Speaker 1: Like right, I wish there was talk of an astral
Speaker 1: Chain two coming out or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's weird. The Switch had had some like theoretically good
Speaker 2: games on it, but like they just didn't hit like
Speaker 2: Asple Chain is won Ah, Tokyo Mara Sessions, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think that was.
Speaker 1: A we u game initially, but yeah, the remaster, the
Speaker 1: remaster of that, yeah.
Speaker 2: Kind of came and went and I tried it and
Speaker 2: didn't really like it that much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I definitely uh gets you on that Super
Speaker 1: Mario Brothers Wonder. Yeah, absolutely amazing game that, like Yo Death,
Speaker 1: is one of the great two D Mario games of
Speaker 1: all time. Like the whole Wonder system where you have
Speaker 1: it like completely almost changes the level, how you have
Speaker 1: to traverse it and everything, and and then just even
Speaker 1: playing the levels before that are like really good, and
Speaker 1: then some of the challenge levels are insane on that.
Speaker 1: So Super Marrows Wonder for me is is uh up there.
Speaker 1: And then Mario Karty Deluxe obviously the highest selling freaking
Speaker 1: Mario kard whatever, highest selling game on the Switch. No,
Speaker 1: no doubt the DLC levels awesome that it got all
Speaker 1: that DLC content. Also, way, I forgot to talk about it,
Speaker 1: But do you think does it diminuce Mario Part nine
Speaker 1: that it's it was being developed for Switch one and
Speaker 1: they essentially just kind of put it for switch to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it shows like they're I mean, it's not
Speaker 2: just some cash grab or it's not just some cheap
Speaker 2: expansion pack like they want to expand the world pardon
Speaker 2: the pun. So yeah, need the more powerful console like
Speaker 2: would expect.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think Also that's another thing too of like
Speaker 1: I know, people were talking about, oh they screwed up
Speaker 1: and and or this is why the graphics don't look
Speaker 1: that great on it, you know whatever, because it was
Speaker 1: now it was actually I'm glad that they finally came
Speaker 1: out and said that it was a Switch one game,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. It's like, Okay, look, switch To graphics
Speaker 1: are not out of this world amazing, but.
Speaker 2: Like people really need to call them now in the
Speaker 2: graphics like, graphics being nice is good, but yeah, the
Speaker 2: gameplay or whatever the hell they're doing is better, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, what's your like, I guess, uh, four,
Speaker 1: three and four.
Speaker 2: My number four was the Tourist uh and number three
Speaker 2: is Mario Odyssey.
Speaker 1: All right, well we share one there, uh.
Speaker 2: Too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, I completely like, okay, so what is
Speaker 1: the Forest of Our People? Because I completely forgot.
Speaker 2: It's like a Vauxel adventure game or platformer where you
Speaker 2: watch upon this island or like a tourist literally, and
Speaker 2: there are like little islands and each island has a
Speaker 2: bunch of activities for you to do, like playing an
Speaker 2: arcade game or jump roping and or it just looks
Speaker 2: like an interesting game. I think you're trying, like and
Speaker 2: I beat it. You're gonna like find these like four
Speaker 2: not like shards, but like these like four power things
Speaker 2: interne THEUS like dungeons basically. But yeah, it's a cool
Speaker 2: little game, they reported to other consoles later on. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the Switch is what I played in the first and
Speaker 2: I think I reviewed it. So yeah, what about your
Speaker 2: four through three? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This got difficult for me because I definitely had like.
Speaker 3: A one in two Yeah, and then I was like, uh,
Speaker 3: you know where where am I putting the the like
Speaker 3: other two that I really really like.
Speaker 1: Enjoyed in here. I would say that my like what
Speaker 1: now I can't, like I need to look at the
Speaker 1: I had it in my head like it's one of
Speaker 1: those are like you're sitting there say it in your head.
Speaker 1: And Donkey Yong Tropical Freeze is my number three. I
Speaker 1: picked it up a few years ago when it was
Speaker 1: like on a forty dollar or it's my number four.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's like and that game is awesome. It's
Speaker 1: like everything you wanted, Donkey Kong. Uh. Definitely would buy
Speaker 1: this over the new like retro collection one that they
Speaker 1: came out, which like the one that just came out
Speaker 1: like this year the country HD or whatever. Definitely would
Speaker 1: buy that instead. And just because I love the game
Speaker 1: so much, I want to give it props. Death Store
Speaker 1: is an amazing game. You can go play on switch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can go play on other stuff too, but it's
Speaker 1: perfect for handheld. It's not like graphic intensive, and it
Speaker 1: has a bit of the dark souls like combaty stuff
Speaker 1: with like the weirdest story. And I just love that
Speaker 1: game so much, Like it was one of those games
Speaker 1: I was not expecting to like so much and then
Speaker 1: I ended up loving it. It was my Game of
Speaker 1: the Year of twenty twenty one. So yeah, that's my
Speaker 1: number three. I always said on my number two was,
Speaker 1: which is honestly, what's your number two? In one there?
Speaker 2: My number two is met Tray Dread.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was waiting. I knew that had to be
Speaker 1: on here somewhere.
Speaker 2: Since they finally gave me a good metro and I
Speaker 2: took them twenty years.
Speaker 1: That's a fantastic And it's like crazy because like Mercury
Speaker 1: Stream just came out with a game they didn't do
Speaker 1: so hot, and then like Dread is fantastic, right, yeah, uh.
Speaker 2: That's number one, firing them three houses.
Speaker 1: I was being very surprised that that wasn't even one, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh are you are you surprised they've gone this long
Speaker 1: without doing another fireing them like like that, like just regular.
Speaker 2: No, because they seemed to like for the other franchises,
Speaker 2: it's still seemed to like make like one game and
Speaker 2: that'd be it. I mean I made three helps and
Speaker 2: that was cool.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, and that.
Speaker 2: Wasn't like fighting them at all, but it was still
Speaker 2: actually pretty good for like, you know, a type of game,
Speaker 2: and they made that fireing them engage and that was
Speaker 2: not good or it was. I mean it was passable, but.
Speaker 1: It's a very that has a very mixed reception. Like
Speaker 1: there's people that really love that game, and there's people
Speaker 1: that just don't.
Speaker 2: It's it's overly complicated and it's missing a lot of
Speaker 2: the charm and the characters. Uh that I'll fire. You know,
Speaker 2: Three Houses has Yeah, so I mean they do still
Speaker 2: kind of replicate like the house, like the like the school,
Speaker 2: but it's just like irregular base. Yeah, but it's just
Speaker 2: not yeah, just missing the charm of the three three Houses. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a great game. I mean I still want to
Speaker 2: I want to sealed copy of that thing a special edision.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's quite I.
Speaker 1: Think everybody can figure out what my number one is.
Speaker 1: Chronicle three, the best of the unobeate Chronicles games, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, has an absolutely ridiculous story. And you know
Speaker 1: that DLC that they added, which is essentially like an
Speaker 1: expansion that just explains a lot of the other story
Speaker 1: things missing and ties all the numbered games together is
Speaker 1: also fantastic. But like three is just has maybe not
Speaker 1: like I still loves two's characters a little bit more,
Speaker 1: but three definitely has like the best cast overall, the
Speaker 1: best story overall, some of those moments maybe like shed Tears,
Speaker 1: the best combat in the series, just like the best
Speaker 1: world to explore. And it's ridiculous that that game runs
Speaker 1: on Switch. Absolutely ridiculous that game runs on Switch. Like
Speaker 1: Okay one is okay was originally on the Wii. It's
Speaker 1: remastered or you know whatever you want to term it,
Speaker 1: like remade, remaster. Dish two are chronicles exes from the WIU.
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of you know, magic that did
Speaker 1: with that game that obviously that is the most open
Speaker 1: world of the open world part of the game.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And that's ridiculous that that runs on Switch as well.
Speaker 1: But like two was a launch game and there was
Speaker 1: obviously problems with that game, they had to do a
Speaker 1: lot of patching that that was a launch window game
Speaker 1: for the Switch. But three, like for it to run
Speaker 1: so well and be so big and do all the
Speaker 1: things that it's like, it's insane how like Model is
Speaker 1: Off is just so good at making this work on
Speaker 1: an underpowered system. Obviously, you know they help with making
Speaker 1: Breath of the Volunteers of the Kingdom work as well,
Speaker 1: but it's just like they have this magic that they
Speaker 1: run on the sunne Bld series. That is incredible. They're
Speaker 1: supposed to work on another game that's not zonal play
Speaker 1: related that maybe that's gonna be one of the mystery
Speaker 1: games shown off with that June direct. They've been working
Speaker 1: on it for a while, so we'll see. But I
Speaker 1: wonder if what the next ZnO Blight game is going
Speaker 1: to be in that series now that officially, like this
Speaker 1: arc of the Cnalbliate is done. Also ridiculous that we've
Speaker 1: had this many We've actually had two Zeno Blade games
Speaker 1: in the time that we've had Ah, when Kingdom Hearts
Speaker 1: Week come out, was it like, okay, so we've had
Speaker 1: one Kingdom Hearts game in the time that we've had
Speaker 1: two Zenal Blade games and a remaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 1: There's that as well.
Speaker 4: But all right, that that's part one essentially of the
Speaker 4: switch We'll we'll look at more of like everything Switched
Speaker 4: to next week, like some games we might think get announced.
Speaker 1: At that direct, Like what I'm most looking forward to
Speaker 1: with switch to, you know what what we know is
Speaker 1: going to be the launch line of that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: like what's coming in the Switch to all that. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that next week, let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: the show out the way we usually do here with
Speaker 1: the games that are coming out now that we're in officially,
Speaker 1: and and also next week we'll officially be in June,
Speaker 1: so another month will have been completed here. Uh, for
Speaker 1: for us here in the in the podcast, or for
Speaker 1: you know, our whole everything where we're getting into. We're
Speaker 1: getting into the showcase season with June, with the release
Speaker 1: of the Switch to then we've got Summer game Fest,
Speaker 1: the Xbox thing. I guess you'd be so not doing
Speaker 1: anything because you know whatever. I also should have mentioned
Speaker 1: that Nintendo is also releasing four game Boy games on
Speaker 1: the Switch online Gradius, interstell of Assault, Kirby, Star Tracker, Uh,
Speaker 1: Survival Kids, and sort of Hope. So Survival Kids like
Speaker 1: a new version of servl Kids. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that is is coming launch with the switch or launch window, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: so that makes sense why this is coming. And then
Speaker 1: it's always good to have another Kirby game. Gradius is
Speaker 1: always never a bad thing. I don't know what sort
Speaker 1: of Hope is.
Speaker 2: I've heard crap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kirby is like the Kirby game is like another
Speaker 1: Tetris okay type game. So there's there's that. As far
Speaker 1: as what's coming out this week, we have the AI Limit.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: That's another one of those like China Project games that
Speaker 1: this has got a little bit. This has got a
Speaker 1: bit of dark Souls combat in it with more of
Speaker 1: like an action e flair. I guess you could say
Speaker 1: sort of more like Berserker Kaison the way that that
Speaker 1: game went. So there's that, but it's obviously nowhere near
Speaker 1: as good as so take that for what you will.
Speaker 1: There's also a demo out on the PSN store, so
Speaker 1: I would say try it out there before you just
Speaker 1: go drop money on it. Cattle Country, another one of
Speaker 1: those like Farming Sims, also comes out the same day
Speaker 1: that I keep seeing like pop up in my feed
Speaker 1: to a t comes out on the twenty eighth. That's
Speaker 1: going to be on game Pass and you know you
Speaker 1: can bind anywhere. That's the newest like Enterpruna Joint game.
Speaker 1: The newest Fuga Melodies of Steel three, the furry RPG
Speaker 1: that is also coming out on the twenty ninth for PC.
Speaker 1: Nice Day for Fishing, which I just talked about on
Speaker 1: the show today, is coming out for PlayStation PC and
Speaker 1: Switch on the twenty ninth, as well spray paint simulators
Speaker 1: coming out of twenty nine, which that's also coming to
Speaker 1: game Pass. Yeah, Xbox with their love of simulator games,
Speaker 1: and elden Ring Night Rain is coming out at the
Speaker 1: end of this month. Here, all right, you're so you're
Speaker 1: officially not getting it right, You're not.
Speaker 2: I doubt it because Ens is pretty what he'sn't really
Speaker 2: interested and it's a co op holeague game, so.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he's not getting you just to like play
Speaker 1: play with you since.
Speaker 2: It's because it's a three player co op.
Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, so it's like it's either you play
Speaker 1: solo or you play with three players. But don't they
Speaker 1: let you play with like randos or you have to.
Speaker 2: Have Yeah, but you know, we don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, like one of.
Speaker 2: The guy that could invite, but he's in Germany literally
Speaker 2: oh there, yeah, yeah, but he's actually most of the
Speaker 2: time we were up anyway. But still like it's not
Speaker 2: great yep.
Speaker 1: And speaking of Twitch, that the Disney Illusion Island Switch game,
Speaker 1: which was really good, is actually coming to other platforms
Speaker 1: now on on May thirtieth. So cool, you're having that
Speaker 1: nostalgia for that Disney making like jumping around, you can
Speaker 1: do that. But all right, that's it for the episode today.
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