Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, March tenth, twenty twenty six. Welcome
to the Giant BombCast, Episode nine hundred and thirty one.
I am your host, Jano show A Happy Mario Day
to those that celebrate. Joining me is not Jeff Grebb.
He is out on assignment. Co Captain of the ship
is driving his ship perpendicular to me. It is somewhere
geographically around me right now. We hope Jeff Grubb is
having fun. Had a wonderful talk yesterday at GDC. Happy
GDC Week to those of you that also celebrate and attend.
I've had a lovely time so far meeting folks over there.
But we have the most celebrated week. Celebrator. That's right.
He loves a themed week, whether it is fishing, casinos, pinballs. Paea,
the human piea of games Media.
Speaker 2: Dan reichert Oh, boy, that's right, because Paea, I'm kind
of running through my brain. That's meat adjacent, fish adjacent.
Speaker 1: Uh, jumbalaya adjacent.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, I'm about to be in New Orleans,
you know what. Yeah, when I come back, I'm going
to be a human Paea.
Speaker 1: There we go, speaking about human forms of everything. He's
barely holding it together because the dark Lord is coursing
through his veins, his electronics, his circuit boards.
Speaker 3: Jeff Beckler, Hello, Yeah, I'm far from transformation into a
demon just yet. I feel like I've got that mostly
under control. As long as the sun rises every day,
it will prevent me from full transformation into a devil beast.
Speaker 1: What if you go to one of those places where
it's like dark for forty eight hours, oh.
Speaker 3: Like your your Alaska's or your Nordic countries, and you're
one of the polls.
Speaker 2: And yeah, good night country or whatever.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm not gonna tempt fate. I'm not gonna try
it out. Do you think you transform if you were
like on a submarine for like three days. That's a
good question.
Speaker 3: All these scenarios I've not really run through, and now
I'm kind of worrying about I'm finding myself in one
of these things.
Speaker 1: The next thing, you know, I'm like some fucking triple
goat headed beast. No Backler.
Speaker 2: If you have a submarine situation, you are if it's
like an abyss, the abyss, you're totally Michael Bean, the
guy who just like cracks and just like loses it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't think I could hang out on
a seb Yeah. I think the transformation into some sort
of goat demon is like the furthest for my problems,
because I think the claustrophobia would get.
Speaker 1: To me first. Speaking about phobia, everyone else in games
media is scared of him and his powers and the
fact that he has pulled the ripcord. We have the
b boy of games media.
Speaker 4: Makmanadi paea is a Spanish rice dish cooked in a
large pan, especially notable for the crispy layer of rice
that's cooked on the bottom, called the soccer rot.
Speaker 1: And folks news for you. We are all headed to
Packs East. We're not bringing any payea. That'd be very
hard to cook on the show floor. I think they
would frown upon that. We're going to Pax East. That's right.
We have three panels the main show floor stage as well.
There will be a show floor stage in the show
floor and we will be over there. But gang, that's
not it. That's not it. And also it's not just
us flour plus grub headed to packs. We got Chuck,
we got Sean, we got Will. Will's a real person.
It turns out and we're all gonna go over to
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Last week we saw some developments. One of us became
a child. I'm not gonna spoil who I'm a child?
Oh really?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh I watch that? Yeah, how did I fair? Did
I do? Okay, not nearly.
Speaker 5: As well as that episode where you were there for
Actually not nearly as bad as whoever it was who
got turned into a child.
Speaker 2: Yes, it could be anyone. I'm a child and.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe that person becoming a child may actually
have them lose the game unless we find the adult spray.
Speaker 2: And somebody might already be courting Shack and might be
a front runner.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and it's bad bro. And then maybe both
versions of someone is unfortunately getting courted and befriended by
an evil CEO insane man that crashes cars on the regular.
Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, I know that both jans are in
a throutle.
Speaker 1: This isn't the polycue I wanted. All right, boys, I
think that's all the housekeeping.
Speaker 2: Uh, I want to talk about this. So I'm next
on Blake Club again.
Speaker 5: And did you realize the ripcord For the last six
months I think has been me except that one week
when Jeff had to play not Cole again.
Speaker 2: I just won the fight in the bank and I
reached the benefits. It's all above board.
Speaker 1: I okay.
Speaker 2: So Mike has referred a lot to pulling the rip
chord and doing something uncharacteristically mean for the game, picking
a game that maybe he would have previously thought was
too mean to be my game.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But then he went through Virtuoso and he needed to
strike back, and he pulled the rip chord with this
tough game, And Mike, I had a fucking dream last
night about you giving me my game, and it was
a Polish Sonic mod for the Super Nintendo.
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 2: The dream was like a real time thing, so it
felt like two hours and at the end of the dream,
I was like, oh, I'm done. I made it through
SA worried what the game would be. I'm done. And
then I fucking woke up and I was like, shit,
I haven't anything yet, Mike. If I I have one
guess right now as to what the game is, by
the way it is in the mail, or know it's here,
I had Bonk look at it and she stonefaced, just
no sold the shit out of it. So I have
no idea if I guess correctly with my one guess,
will you confirm it here?
Speaker 5: We just thought here to okay that I don't know
if I can confirm it.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to say what I think my guess
is he fa Okay, I've heard it blightening round length
in terms of the uh you know, long plays and
stuff like that, which we saw what happened with VIRTUALO
so and Grub referred to the game pick as targeted
towards me, which to me means adjacent to something that
I like or something so putting together the little that
I know, I think it is a game that I
rented numerous times as a kid, and it pissed me
off unbelievably and I could never get past the first level.
I'm looking at your face, Mike. Is it Wayne's World.
Speaker 1: Time? Oh? My god, Wayne, I don't. I hope it is.
I Love Wayne's.
Speaker 6: World jpeg of Mike Myers face and then all the
electric like sub wolfers and stuff sucking up in the
first level and you have no direction of where to go.
Speaker 2: I hate that game.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I would like learn to love it, because
there's no I've never met a Wayne's World thing.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I'll just well blake amazing.
Speaker 5: Actually yeah, I will neither confirm nor deny dan.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, right, OK, fantastic back or did they ever
make a Wayne's World pinball machine?
Speaker 3: Ooh, good, fantastic question, my friend Jen. I don't believe
they have. I'm just going through the human Wikipedia pinball
that I am, and I don't think they've done it.
Speaker 1: Interesting thought. I'm happy to be ch.
Speaker 3: You'd be surprised, you know the way. Look, you know,
if we're onto bigger and better things like Pokemon, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Oh well, I'm going to the Mario Day event at
the local brewery after work today and that's where all
the pimball machines are. Is it too early to see
Pokemon out in the wild? Is that not out yet?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not shipping yet.
Speaker 3: I actually think they had to delay it a few
weeks for like licensing approvals, And I don't I don't
claim to have all the insider information. There's stuff I
know that I'm just never gonna say other than that.
But yeah, no, if I was you. The ones I'm
looking for in the wild right now are beetlejuice, which
they which is like the hottest commodity in the world,
and like people are they They've sold that shit out
in fifteen seconds and it's like super annoying. But yeah,
I'm looking for those out in the wild. Now that's
that's the one I want to report.
Speaker 5: If I see a beetle, thank you sir.
Speaker 1: Actually, wait where are you going? Because I could see
what's that?
Speaker 5: It's called bird fish in Columbiana, Ohio, Colombiana.
Speaker 3: I'll report back bird fish.
Speaker 1: Wordfish, right, Okay, all right.
Speaker 5: Mario day.
Speaker 1: They have it.
Speaker 5: They always have a band there and they're playing Nintendo songs.
I want a gift card less time because they're like,
who does what this song is? And it was Laura's
theme from salin Hill two and all my friends were
really impressed.
Speaker 1: I was a hero.
Speaker 5: So I'm looking looking forward to big things tonight.
Speaker 3: No beetlejuice, but they do have I mean I could say, oh,
they got a solid they got a good line real
solid line up.
Speaker 1: They got good stuff.
Speaker 5: They got that D and D one, they got the
weird Avatar one, they got ton they got that Jaws one.
Speaker 1: I love all sorts of good things.
Speaker 3: Yes, I would play a Soro d Rail, play that
new Dunge and dragons play that new King Kong. Our
friends at Stern just swapped out two of my machines.
That's what I have in the house now, that is
what we'll be streaming one of these months. But yeah,
play those those are phenomenal.
Speaker 1: In the D and D one. Is there like any
die on the Yeah, well there's there's die like you know,
implied in the in the the mechanics of it.
Speaker 3: Sure, but there's like a gelatinous cube on the playfield Dragon.
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
Speaker 2: You get to just pick whatever score you want and
when you get a multi ball and it's just improv
you just choose.
Speaker 6: Dan.
Speaker 5: You just.
Speaker 3: It's super cool because you get you choose your class
and the before you plunge. Uh, It's it's fucking awesome.
Speaker 1: Anyway. Yeah, I'm I'm a weirdo about that one, but yeah,
fans play that. I said it at the top of
the show. But it's g DC week here in San Francisco,
and man, it's a good, pretty ass week out here.
The sun is out for once. And despite living here
and working into the industry for a hot second now,
I've never been to GDC. Have y'all been to GDC before?
Speaker 2: I went to San Francisco and did not like it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had to go a lot when I was
at Games Beat, like we games be treated like any three,
like this is a big deal. Which I mean, I
always thought I was a little misguided for us because
there wasn't necessarily a ton of news. There was a
lot of people available, so I get it. We could
do a lot of interviews. And I don't know, I
my thing with what it was was always very busy.
Jeff wasn't going very much because he started having kids
and he uses excuse not to have to go, so
I didn't get to hang out with my buddy anymore.
That what I did like was there there was always
at least one really good like retro like game post
mortem or or Ted talk thing. So I'd always goes like, oh,
that's the people who made NBA Jam are going to
just talk about that for an hour, or you know,
the people who made Miss pac Man or was the
ultimate online one. So those were always super fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I walked around yesterday and then I also
went to the day day of the DEVS event that
Double find an im e bit put on. Shouts out
to Nicky and I don't know what it was, y'all.
Maybe it's this year in particular, because I'm used to
hearing the vibes of GDC not necessarily being for games
media people, but the vibes were like low key, immaculate,
like people are having a good time. People were happy,
and I think they're all dark.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was hearing some I was I'm hearing people
are very upset about the early closure of the grass
field this year.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's stupid as fuck that I don't understand. Yeah,
they early closed the grass field.
Speaker 5: There's that like Grassy Park right by GDC, and I
guess they put a fence up around it after two
pm or something like all right, Gabe journals, no more
of this.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh like outside Moscone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah they did that because they figured and
found out that people that didn't buy a ticket to
GDC were congregating and having meetings, so they just put
a gate around. Oh no, stop to that.
Speaker 5: But if they like networked or something without paying us, right,
But I.
Speaker 1: Will say Greb had a fantastic talk yesterday talking about games, media,
games journalism. Some other friends of the website were there
as well. Fantastic time. Probably gonna go later today, a
bit tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Guys, Like I definitely feel like I don't prolong there
because everyone looks like they're working, working, and like actually
networking but you're doing great so far. Yeah, you're working,
you're you're you're networking, you're rubbing those elbows, you're shaking
those kissing those babies, and you're not shacking babies. You're
kissing the babies. If anyone wants me to shake their baby,
I will, I will, I'll do that. I'll check them.
I forgot we should.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say who it is. I'm changing the
subject just ever so slightly, not gonna say who it is.
Speaker 1: But we're bringing a.
Speaker 3: Super special guest with us to PACs. I just asked
him if I could say who it is, and they
were like, hold on, and I'm waiting, but don't worry
about it. We have a super special guest.
Speaker 7: You're You're never gonna guess you're you're your Your brain
will melt in front of your face before you realize
we were gonna be there.
Speaker 1: We purposely tell people don't fantasy book with a website. Listen, listen.
So I'm bringing uh uh, you know, we're bringing some folks. Uh.
Speaker 3: And I was talking to my kid and he's like, oh,
is my good dad gonna be there? You just talking
about super eye patch wolf.
Speaker 7: He goes it's better, Dad gonna be there.
Speaker 1: What did you say?
Speaker 3: I said, Number one, that's kind of funny. Number two,
you little kid, that's pretty good. Okay, No, kind of
funny is great?
Speaker 1: Villa there.
Speaker 5: I recently got to impress an I r L friend
because they're like, oh, have you've seen super iPad tooolf
And I'm like, I have interacted with him on the
shows a couple of times, and very recently he asked
me for advice on it for Disney theme park things,
So yeah, his mind.
Speaker 1: Have you not you've met John in person? He was there,
lay not a person, not a person? Where were you?
Speaker 3: There's the world?
Speaker 5: Right right? Believe it or not?
Speaker 1: Right? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, speaking of Disney, this is this is this skeet
with the Star Wars rage bait doing fantastic engagement numbers.
You should all be very happy with me.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're playing the se O game, so
let's we might as well now talk about video games, Dan,
I am the most interested to hear your thoughts on Pokemon.
Oh Copia, Oh shit, that game's good. Yeow yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I always thought the variety, like whenever I
look at a Pokemon, I'm not like mad. You know,
it's like I've never been a Pokemon guy. I'm just
not an RPG guy. So it's like that's the core
thing of the Pokemon series, those RPGs. So I don't
touch him. But I like Snap. I like the minigames
in Stadium.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like you you wrap Pokemon up in a package
of gameplay that I like, and I'm cool with Pokemon,
and it turns out this is a good one of these.
It's like it's it is definitely pulling all the like
animal crossing levers and things like that, but with the
fun gimmick of just like you can just be this
freaky t one thousand dude that like suddenly your arms
can become like tillers for soil and stuff like that,
and like all these dudes are like cool. Like I
made my little leaf hut and I was talking an
owl hoot hoot. I believe yes, who dude, Yeah, cool dude.
We didn't realize we were standing near my house, my
personal house that I put a literal diddo flag on
top of, and uh, he was like, oh wow, this
is cool, Like is it cool if I live here?
And I was just kind of like and I hit yes,
and then he walked into my house and I was like,
this fucking owl and he just stealed my house and
I walked in there and it's like, no, it's just
like my buddy that like he's like my roommate pet
I guess or something.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what.
Speaker 2: If I had to accidentally have a Pokemon to live
with me, that hoodoot seems like an hour, I dude,
So I don't regret it. Uh charming game, It's just
really charming. It's uh yeah, it's got the animal crossing,
a little bit of Minecraft going on there. I like
how there is a little bit of kind of like
questing him, just like Okay, so I got this stuff
and then now I can go to this caves area
and now I can go here and I'm breaking these
things and causing the water to come down and uh
water all the soil, which half my time in this
game is just watering every fucking square.
Speaker 5: Soil and I guess it is. Yeah, And I got.
Speaker 2: The grasshopper cutter things now, so I'm going around just
cutting weeds and stuff. That's a good time, man, your dude,
Just like the Datto thing is cool, like you learn
to sport, you can barf water and then like you're
going around, you're just creating this fun little town for everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I never Mike, come on you. I reacted
bigger than I did this time, Jem he called you
out though, It's fine, I know. So I I never
played too much of Viva Pinata. Is this like reminiscent
of like that flow at all.
Speaker 5: It has some of those vibes with like the habitats,
And that's one of my favorite parts of the game,
right is Like you know, sometimes the game would just
tell you, like hey, if you put four grass things together,
it'll track a Pokemon. Sometimes you just stumble crossing, and
sometimes it's very specific like put this railway sign next
to this railway track that will attract a Pokemon, or
like you know, like oh you put the grass really
high up or put next to the sea by a
fishing pole. So all that stuff is is a ton
of fun, just these different weird combinations that could attract
the problem. Yeah, that's the Viva Pinata gameplay looks. You
get to do specific things to attract specific pionatas.
Speaker 2: I like how it's like weird too, Like even just
the little things you gotta do, Like I'm just headbutting
trees like crazy, you know, and then things are breaking
into a ton of logs. I'm just like inhaling millions
of lumbers and the kind of weird and fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just really smart and like the loop is
really and I love how the loop is kind of
before you even think that what you're really doing is
organizing the town and making it look better. By the
time you kind of just do the mainline quest stuff,
you're sort of there, and then you can see how
if you wanted to get off the main quest and
just really develop the town like crazy and build the
roads and the buildings, you can do that. And I'm
in like the second area now, so I see again
like the bigger loop of oh so now this new
place and it looks even trashing in the last one,
and just again by kind of eating quests sorry to
come together and I can see, oh, I could like
really develop this place and make minds and you can
kind of make an irrigation system for crops instead of
having to water them. So it's like playing through the
quest this one. But I can also see how beyond
that there's gonna be so much game here for the
secos who really wanted to develop. I have a giant
Pokemon map.
Speaker 1: Mister Backler, please, hi, just could just try something real quick, like,
just pretend for a second, really pretend that I don't
know anything about this game. Okay, so I need to
know what it is, A and B. I need to
know if Herdier is in it. I don't know if
Herdier is in it. I never gets any fucking love
because there's so many It's a Pokemon. It's like one
of the dogs.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna look it up Pokemon.
Speaker 2: It's a Marty like. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, basically, mister Backlar, if you take Animal Crossing, Minecraft
Dragon Quest Builders, because it's the same developers that made
that mush together and uh with Pokemon inside of it
and around it, and you play as a Ditto, and
a Ditto is the amorphous problem. Yeah, he's just like
silly Puddy. Yes, yeah, And Ditto transforms into their uh,
their original trainer, and then Ditto is pretty much fixing
up and solving the town and attracting all the Pokemon back.
It's very charming the whole time. Now do you think
do you think I would like it.
Speaker 2: Do you like Animal Crossing?
Speaker 1: Did you Yeah? Did you like starting about? No, that's
that's stupid. Did you like Disney started Bell?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: I think Animal Crossing is just not for me, okay.
Speaker 3: Because this is pretty animal cross fun.
Speaker 5: It's a bit more to do in this, like like
Animal Crossing would have the hole you're done for today
element to it, especially early on in this game, there's
there's none of that. You just kind of keep going
and keep going and the loop is always satisfying. So
I mean, I like it. I like the new Animal
Crossing a ton sure, but I definitely think this is better.
Speaker 2: There is there's like a lot of personality and like
even the little things like oh, we got to rebuild
this Pokemon center and it's not just adding like oh
zero out of three of this thing. It's like, okay,
you got to get all the resources and stuff. But
then there's this like rallying the Pokemon where it's like
we need you. You're the builder, and you're like to
save the community center.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like getting all these dudes come up and build
this thing together.
Speaker 1: I love that they're constantly punching at the building. Yes
all the time.
Speaker 5: Well, it just like you know, you're not just attracting
the pokemon, that's it. You've got to make them more comfortable.
And some of them like can do things to help you,
like some can make turn your logs into timber, some
can make your plants grow faster, some can start fires
where you need them to things like that. So I
don't know, it's just like all feels very exciting. It's
not like a glacier pace like you maybe expect with
these things. Like yeah, there's a little bit of talking
and stuff, but it's not upsetting or it gets in
the thing.
Speaker 1: Like the talking and like the writing in this game.
I like that it's been picking up a lot of
heat because it is actually kind of funny. Just like
the pokemon have distinct personalities. I swear one of them
is written like they have a long Island accent. And
I can't remember which specific pokemon it was Charlion, it
could be Charmeilan gives off long Island vibes, right, but
it's just very cute. It's clever with the writing, and
like it's just very earnest in how it's like pushing
me along to like keep engaging with it, because otherwise
I think I would just be buttoning through the story
like any dialogue and animal crossing, I don't care, right.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like that is part of the personality
for me, Like that's part of what I like about
animal crossing is just like the weird little personalities like
that's my penguin neighbor, you know. Sure, but like this
is like a leisurely paced for sure, but it is
not a thing. There's no real time clock, so it's
not like waiting forever, waiting three days for something to happen.
After you plant a tree, it's like, oh, okay, if
you put four flower beds next to the water on
the beach, that will be a habitat that a Pokemon
of some sort might show up, and like next time
you walk over there, it's gonna be like, whoa, who's
that in there? You know. So it's not waiting forever.
You kind of get in.
Speaker 5: Like the biggest time gate has been like when you're
rebuilding say the poke Pokemon, it's like, that'll be ready
the next day. I'm like, okay, well, there's plenty of
things to do in the meantime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of like the bigger buildings that you wind
up putting together outside of the Pokemon centers, they do
take a I wouldn't say significant amount of time. I
think at most the day, I've seen people's creations that
have spent an obscene amount of time in the game already,
and I this is the part that irks irks me.
But this is more of a personal thing where Wow,
I have no sense of interior design, and you have
made such a lovely, gorgeous home for your hookem on
and I just look at mine and everything, like the
land is just haphazardly shaped, and there's a dirt tunnel
that I haven't finished.
Speaker 2: Because like anytime you see like someone in Tears of
the Kingdom made like a working factory or something, and
it's like, man, I'm just trying to get something to
like launch this time and it's not working.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you.
Speaker 5: We're using like that one thing that's like a wing
and a lever in one fand that everybody used.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 5: It's just a satisfying game and it seems like it's
popping off in a huge way. Probably gonna be one
of the big games of the year. Honestly.
Speaker 2: Yes, the Dynasty Warriors team is there, like a mega force.
Speaker 5: The dragon Quest Builders I know, but the dragon Quest
Builders team, I'm not sure what else they've done. I
can go well right now, which boy, I've always meant
to play those games as I heard, They're really good,
and I like the dragon Quest franchise quite a bit.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have been saying that this is
pretty much dragon Quest Builders three in their eyes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like they I did like those at yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah that these people did work on Dynasty Words.
Speaker 5: That's incredible. That's that's crazy. Gosh, that's really funny.
Speaker 1: H I think we should definitely check out some more
multiplayer stuff and just investigate more stuff with that.
Speaker 5: I'd like to Yes, yeah, I haven't done any of
the multiplayer stuff either, and I mean, like, I know
we did that stream then I wasn't in it. I
guess I should go back and look. But I'm curious
what that is. I assume you just go to one
person's island and everyone else is kind of just running
around helping. So certain ways, I think you can do that.
But the way that Grubs set it up is that
you went to like a dream island, so it is
supposed to supposedly an island that is supposed to be
on all the time.
Speaker 2: The cloud island thing.
Speaker 5: The cloud, Yes, that was the one thing I kind
of like. I did it one time the tutorial, and
I know I can go once a day, but I'm like,
it's not really what I want to do right now.
Let's just go to some strange empty island and no.
Speaker 1: But then we can build it together though.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah yeah it's like a Minecraft server, right, yeah, yeah,
that's for the multiplayer part. Sure, like in the single
player games, I go there and collect some resources and
come back. Yeah, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: It really is one of those ideal podcast games or
if you got something on the background you're half paying
attention to. It's just like, yeah, it's not going to
demand not a lot of cut scenes or voice acting
or anything.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no voice acting at all. But
I hope that uh, you know, the Pokemon Company continues
to experiment with Pokemon and give it to different devs
because this is great and I Mikey, I think we
talked about it yesterday on game Miss Mornings. But like
this game is actually selling out right.
Speaker 5: Physical costs, selling out, copies, selling out.
Speaker 2: That reminds me did any of you hear over the weekend,
what happened with Kayla buying this game?
Speaker 1: I heard about it. I hear about I.
Speaker 2: Was ready to go to war over this if justice
was not served. Oh no, you fucking She likes getting
physical games with like modern games and stuff. I think
usually she trades them back and stuff like that. It's
it makes sense if you're doing that. She goes to
Game Stop, everyone's favorite corporation, and she went to go
buy poke Topia, poke Pocopia, Poketo Pocopia, Pokepia. This motherfucker
at the register tells her.
Speaker 1: Like, whoa, how do you know he fox his mother.
Speaker 2: Wait till you hear the story and you'll know. He says, okay,
so yeah, if you're buying this, you can't play it.
He pointed to the thing that said game key card
at the bottom, you know, because it's one of those
game key card things, and he said, oh, yeah, you
can't play this unless you buy this. And he showed
her this fifty dollars SD card and said that, like, yeah,
you can't play without this, and Kayler's like, okay, I
didn't know that, and like she bought it, and then
she told that story like she was on stream and
she's like, I didn't know I needed like a micro
chippy thing to play this game. And everyone in chat,
including me, was like, what did they tell you? And
she's like something about GameCube and I was like, something's
off here, what's going on out We sussed out it
was game key card, but yeah, this guy said that, like, yeah,
you need this to play it. So she went back
the next day and the guy, the manager, was like, oh,
you can't return this was opened. And I told her,
I was you make sure you tell them exactly what
you told Chad about how they told you you needed
it to play it, And I guess the guy gave
her a refund, and then she left game Stop. She
saw the original guy that lied to were sitting in
his car eating ice cream, and she specifically just drove
in front of the guy's car to flip him off
in the speed away.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so her energy I think is cool. It's fine.
Speaker 3: I can never I can't blame people who work at
game for line people here, so it's not so they
are like basically held against their will to they are
incentivized like it is.
Speaker 1: It is the fault of the corporation. Well, they are pushing.
Speaker 2: I worked at the story level. I worked at best Buy,
and they pushed you need to like add on accessories
and periferles and stuff. But you can also just be
a shit bag and like.
Speaker 3: Totally totally again, like I have sympathy for people who
are put into a situation that is like unmovable.
Speaker 1: It sucks. Should they have lot?
Speaker 3: I like that, No, of course, not that deserves a
couple of middle fingers, for sure. I just think it's
crazy that like they're put into this situation of like, yeah,
you you you're employed, and you have to be shitty
to be to work here, don't. I mean, like there's
I understand, but these guys get like quotas they have
to hit, Like I get it.
Speaker 1: It sucks.
Speaker 3: I yeah, I just obviously it's a it's a byproduct
of the corporation and not necessarily like I don't believe
this is an inherently evil person who's just like hmm.
Speaker 5: Well, it's just again, it starts off like, oh, you
gotta like sell a lot of accessories, and then I
guess panic sets in.
Speaker 3: But and then it's like, oh then I get fired
if I don't all right, well I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The whole like gonna lie about Like I'm not defending line.
Speaker 2: That's a lot where it's like when I worked there,
it was all about the fun club thing or whatever
turn into game stop pro players player card whatever, and
like there are ways where it's like, Okay, this person's
trading in a shitload of games and buying a bunch
of US games and so it is an easy sell
and and I would feel good about it, being like, hey,
if you're doing a bunch of use games and stuff,
if you get this card, it's gonna pay for itself
next time you do a trade end of this value
or whatever. So like go and get this, you're gonna
get the free game in form of subscription. With it,
you got a year of getting a discount on the
use games. Like there are use cases where it's like, Okay,
this serves both purposes. They are getting something that pays
for itself, and I'm also my stats look better for
my job or whatever. But like it's the outright lining
thing that I'm just like that.
Speaker 5: I'm not discounting the possibility that the person is also
maybe just very stupid. It's it's some weird twisted way
that she needed she saw this game in his own
mine was like, that's an SD card.
Speaker 1: I know what that means.
Speaker 3: And like, you know, don't they get like they get
like you know, the sort of like talking points and
the and the kid and like so you're implying that
like they they were sent some literature that was like this.
Speaker 1: I don't say.
Speaker 5: I don't think this person can read.
Speaker 3: I don't think Jean. I think, yeah, it sucks. It
sucks ass, But like you know, I get it. You
can be mad at the people. I'm mad at the
corporation having such.
Speaker 2: An insta all timersty company for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just you know, sometimes you don't got to
tell the company line, especially when you're abused at the
retail level. Hey look we are you know, we are
worship McCall. We're in a good We're.
Speaker 3: In a different spot, right So maybe again.
Speaker 1: Launch Look continues to drive us all apart. No, no, no,
here's here's my pitch, and I'm gonna put it here.
I put it on our discord. I think it's hilarious
if we call them long looks. I like that better.
Jan that's got a better Mouthfield long Look, long Look,
Launch Look. I can't get into what I can't you're lying.
You're just lying. Now, thank you for your doing a
thing speaking about uh lying, Mike Manatti, you have been
exploring lying in Lies of pe the deal, Yeah, the
whole thing.
Speaker 5: I went through, finished the base game at a great time.
Then did the DLC, which came out just last year,
and that is some beefy DLC. I mean they could have.
Speaker 1: Called that Lies of p two.
Speaker 5: It's like really it's like ten hours of content, right,
like longer than a traditional from Soft deal. So except
it maybe not urchree, right, that was pretty big, so
kind of like kind of on those levels of whoa,
this is like a whole separate thing and it's not
trick at all. Tons of new bosses that you're playing
in there. I can't remember exactly, but like six seven God,
I did not mean to do that, I swear to God.
Speaker 1: But yeah it's okay, nobody cares anymore. Good, good, good,
thank god.
Speaker 5: But boy, I had a great time with Lies of
Pea because it really is like the greatest hits of
the stuff from the from games that you want in
terms of that kind of like grim atmosphere, uh you know,
the but you have the mechanics like the dodging and
the character building from like say Bloodborn or a Dark Souls.
But then you also got the parrying U do you
make in a secero? And I love the pairying.
Speaker 1: Is there any like like continuation of the story at all, Mike,
or is it just like a kind of like branching
off to like a different path.
Speaker 5: It's believe it, there's time travelsing in again. So it's
actually kind of a prequel sort of thing here, which
is kind of neat because you sort of see some
characters that you knew a little bit during the main game,
with some characters who are kind of like already like
past their prime or done or like very much in
their prime. And our big threats here and like a
lot of these games, they kind of are like, well,
you beat the basic probably, so these are going to
be the really hard bosses and that is a ton
of fun. Last boss especially is basically a serial killer,
crazy puppet guy who like first is just coming at
you with weird like knives and trying to gut you.
And then the second phase becomes like Angel Satan, which
is you know, his is the thing, so God just
but boy, like you know, It's very much like in
a sec row field of like, oh, I am learning
these patterns, and at first it seems impossible. These these
these combos are like nine attacks a long. How can
I possibly ever get by this? And then suddenly it
just clicks and you have that run and it feels
so freaking good.
Speaker 2: I was a little intrigued because I had not seen
the game in motion really until I saw you streaming
a bit over the weekend, and it's like you're flying
around with this like rocket thing, and then like some
of the enemies I love, just like the like weird
robot guards, but not like cool future robots, like weird
old clanking and stuff like. Yeah, I kind of like
the look of this game. So that's a little curious.
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 5: It's like, I do like the whole kind of maybe
steampunk's not the word, but it's kind of this Victorian
creepy robot, which like I find super interesting, you know,
like more so than say, there's a little bit that
Lovecraftian vibe here that's very predominant and a bloodborne but
that's not necessarily always been my favorite kind of aesthetic.
This speaks to me even where yeah, the weapons in
the game in general are cool, but the DLC adds
a ton of neat weapons. My rocket sphere, which one
of the attacks did just on me literally kind of
rocket along with it for as long as I had stamina.
At one point I got just squalls gun blade from
Final Fantasy eight, Like he literally even like rested it
on his shoulder exactly the same way. It was like
the point where was like, man, I wouldn't mind doing
New Game Plus and just playing the whole game with
the gun blade. That sounds like a good time.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, Okay, I gotta check this out then.
Speaker 2: Yeah quick, yeah, before we're off from stuff I did.
I told myself I was gonna maybe in a few
months or something, come back and beat the Demon of
Hatred and Securo. I just streamed it over the weekend
and beat the Deme of Hatred and it's just like, okay, man,
I just I want to just replay that game already.
It's uh now, yeah.
Speaker 5: It's because like I'm not usually a DEALC guy, but
something about these kind of souls likes they usually always
have really good DLC that most people just consider part
of the game. Sakro is the one that never really
got that.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 5: So it's a bit of a bummer in that case
because I could absolutely use uh some more Sacroo. But boy, yeah,
I like Liza p a Ton, I think it's just
as good as a lot of even the frum stoft stuff.
Maybe not, but as the tippy top like eldering sacro
for me. But and I know this as sacro some people.
I think it's kind of in that same tier as
like a Dark Soul's Dark Souls three even.
Speaker 1: It's too crazy. I feel like I've seen very positive
sentiment with who made that?
Speaker 2: Where did this come from? Like I remember like first
hearing man like there's some weird Pinocchio Dark Soul. I
thought it was like a gimmick, you know, like a
meme game or something. It's like, who the fuck made this?
Speaker 5: No, it was called Neo Korean game Neo w is Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's South It's a South Korean game studio. Who like
I think most of the other stuff you've probably not
heard of, right, And yeah, then for some reason they
just made a very very good Souls like.
Speaker 1: The Banger Mike. Have you ever checked out any of
the other Souls like games like Wu Kong or any
of those.
Speaker 5: I think I played Wukong for a bit. I might
check out there's Wukong and Wu Chong, which so I
can never remember which one was which, I gotta be honest,
but not a ton. I bought the Surge games really
cheap recently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, I remember tam feeling okay about the
Surge games.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: At the time, they were like the first other Souls likes, right,
So I wonder if maybe they got a little grace
because of that, or maybe like the second one is
better than the first one. So who knows, I might
I might look into some of the other ones, like
Kazan whoa Loong Oh you know it's it's see, I've
been on such a kick with these that maybe I
should take a little break. I don't know, but there
he always sort of adjacent, and maybe I would Maybe
I could go back to New three and start that
from the beginning, because I kind of started. I had
that weird play through right now that I with Kayla
where I was kind of running past half of the
game just to get to a boss. But yeah, there's
I don't know. I do like this style of action game.
I'm realizing even more so than say, character action, which
I know is kind of you know, and I like
those fine, like more so than character action or whatever
sort of action you call, like the God of were
cool down action game. I suppose, I don't know, but
something that's very the crux of the gameplay is sort
of reading the opponents right, as long as it involves
that and kind the bit of that pattern recognition, That's
what I'm really into.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, speaking about playing older games, Dan, You've been
checking out Mini Shoot Adventures again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like the first time I played it
was on Steam Deck. So it's not like, wow, it's
on the go because that time I played it the
first time. But I'm playing it again and just instantly
having fun with it and just like I think, this
is what this is just all I need games to be.
It's just the thing they did all of the game
things I need.
Speaker 1: This is great.
Speaker 2: I'm moving, I'm shooting, I'm fighting bosses, I'm solving puzzles.
It's it's still I think I like the art style
more now that it's been more time, because I remember
it feeling like a little more flash gamy the first time,
and now it's like I look at it and I
just think, oh, yeah, that's the mini shoot art style.
It's fine, it's good. Yeah, it's just a tremendously satisfying game,
and like just the way deals with upgrades and stuff,
and how easy it is to kind of slop those
gyms in and out, and it's pretty open as far
as the map, Like it's very easy to just kind
of go well outside of your map region that you've
got unlocked and just kind of explore and level up
beyond where the game would normally have you go. But yeah,
just another shout out. Like I know, I talked about
it constantly when it first came out, but again now
that it's on Switch to Many Shoot Adventures, it's Zelda
Geometry Wars. That just those two things together and turns
out that works very well.
Speaker 1: That's why it's oh go ahead back.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry I'm saying that's why it's like back in
conversation because of the switch to release, right, Yeah, yep,
I feel like that's like low key a good strategy.
I realized switched to is a relatively new ish platform,
But if you were to like wanting to get that
shot in the arm, I don't know, this is a
perfect game to kind of have like a second victory
lap sort of thing, you know.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Dan, we're ever a fan of like old
shoot them ups or schmups?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always liked them. I never got like, like
there were the bullet hell is where I got at
the point where it's like I never played them enough
to get good at him. Like I remember, I deeply
respected like Ikaruga when it came out right, like oh,
this is like obviously a very good game. But I
just wasn't like I don't know if I wasn't good
enough or didn't spend the time really to get good
at them. But yeah, like nineteen forty two, you know,
anytime I saw a schmup a an arcade, I would
play it in unit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a whole separate fandom. It's it's interesting,
like I kind of peeked behind the curtain less year.
I was like schmuck curious. I'm like, oh, there's like
a whole other community that is just like these are
the games we really like, And I find it fascinating.
Speaker 1: I learned that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I started the GI I remember I had
to review like a Skullgirls was one of them, and
I I didn't like it, Yeah, or was it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It was it looks like it had that type of
vibe to it.
Speaker 5: It wasn't anymore a goal gallvillions or something garden.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was something that I just wasn't super hot on.
And like the responses I got was like, whoa, Okay,
some people are real into the schmups and very defensively.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Well speaking about games
that just got to do the thing and they're good,
Mike Manatti, you streamed yesterday Slay the Spire too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, did a couple of runs for the site, then
played a few more that evening. Boy, it's funny. I
only played the first lay Inspire finally last year as
part as my twenty nineteen apology tour. I was like, oh,
this is a really good game. Somebody especially spent a
lot of time with Heartstone and and likes card games
that kind of got tired of, like, oh it's another
two months spent fifty dollar on more digital cards. That's
kind of getting hard to keep up with. If you
have the deck build or I just you know, have
a game and I'm gonna make a new deck each
time and have to make that work, but I still
kind of get the same neurons activated in my brain.
It's fun stuff, and this is also very fun. It's
definitely slight the spire too, right, you're doing the same
kind of things. You're making those you know, you start
with the very basic decks and you're trying to get
rid of the basic cards and get better cards and
try to find some synergies of Okay, my deck is
drawing a lot of cards, or the cards that are
strong with that, or ooh, I have a lot of
cards that are getting me shields. They are a way
to turn my defense into offense. You have the different
characters that each have some kind of different gimmicks, starting
off where it's like, oh, this guy heals himself at
their battle too. This is a necromancer and he has
a pet, and you can give the pet more max
help and then the pet can attack and you're right.
So you know, it gets more complicated all the way.
That's very satisfying because just the basic process of trying
to complete a run with each of these characters is
a good time, and then there's challenges beyond that work.
This could just be the game you play.
Speaker 1: This could be your.
Speaker 5: Game now I have to try it out, like the
co op, which I think is the big new thing here,
which maybe you know because right now, like, oh yeah,
it is Slay the Spire too. It is Slay the
Spire some more and some new, and that's fine. I'm
curious that the co op really shakes things up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw a little bit of Game Informer streaming
the co op, and I just don't know if I
would want to devote like a couple of runs to
having to like balance and work with someone else, just
because the way like I play those games, I'm kind
of just like doing the site reading of like all right,
just rattling through and like, all right, this is the
most optimum build for this run. I'm just gonna blast
through it versus like taking too much time to think
about it.
Speaker 5: I bet it's really good, and I bet I'll also
try it out once and probably not engage with that
system anymore.
Speaker 1: Who knows. I want to try.
Speaker 5: It to, but it's like I'm usually pretty cautious about
early access stuff to like maybe I'll try a little
bit and then I'll be like, oh I want a
wait for this game to be out. This game feels
like I'm playing a full game. Likes, I could see
how they're gonna maybe add you know, they're gonna add
more to it, for sure, more cards and like some
other things, but not in some way that feels like
I'm having lesser experience in some of the early act
Excuse me, some of the early access stuff is actually
kind of charming. Like when it's not final art, it
literally looks like a kid's like crayon drawing of what
something is and it's you know, it says like not
final and I actually love that Art's like, that's some
of my favorite looking stuff in the game is like
some guy drew a star field or like a demon
and yeah, it looks like a first grader did it.
That stuff's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Uh, speaking about a game that parts of it are
well parts of it to me feel like it's an
early access Dan, you and I have been playing in
checking out WWE two K twenty six.
Speaker 2: Man, if people want to see the long form look
at it, like, I don't think anything we can say
with our voices here can get across just how casino
bullshit this game is. I don't even think there's not
even enough with the actual gameplay that's changed or upgraded
or gotten better or worse or anything to even like
it's that same fucking game it's been for a long
time since like two K twenty two, which is like
a serviceable ish but I still don't think fun wrestling game.
But it is just wrapped now in the most like
as someone who doesn't play like the other like NBA
two K or FIFA or any of that shit, I
just don't like this whole like card thing and this
whole like an app just super aggressive shit, Like it's
new to me. I only see it here. And every
time I go into like a my Faction mode or something,
and I'm hit with four hundred fucking screens of just
like buy this VC and buy this booster, and here's
the sixteen different passes and upgrades, and like I look
at a roster of four hundred wrestlers, which is great
on paper, but then when half of them are great
out and it's like, oh you and b Bray whatt
you have to go through my rise for this. Oh
you gotta go through the trip like ringside pass. If
you want to get the burned version of Bray White,
you gotta get Hollywood Hogan is behind this, it's just like, Okay,
this fucking sucks. It's it's just yeah, deeply unenjoyable.
Speaker 1: And I haven't actually gotten my hands on, uh one
of these games, like I've mostly consumed them through like
quick looks that we'll put on or just like watching
other content creators do stuff with it. And sometimes I'll
just set up an AI match, not actually just play
the actual game. But since I have the code, I
wanted to dip into the wrestling and give it a
proper shot, because there are people that genuinely really like
the wrestling in these games. I don't know how now,
who they.
Speaker 2: Like looking above a fucking character's head and waiting for
a y prompt and then missing it and then watching
that sounds it's a real fun time.
Speaker 1: It's it's really cool. And also, Dan, I don't know
what the fuck they're going for, because are they trying
to go for a sim wrestling game or because it's
not Arcadie, Because it's not fun to just jump in
and play. I can't imagine giving this to a friend
that is like, oh, coming over and wants to play
like a multiplayer game. Fucking way no, because like, at
least with any other fighting game, you could parse out
what to do. You could mash buns and still have
a good time.
Speaker 2: And here's how you're a finisher, here's how you do like.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing that that's always been the problem with the
wrestling is there's so many different circumstances where it's like, Okay, well,
this guy's finisher is done in the corner, this guy's
finisher is a ray masterio? How do you set up
the six one nine?
Speaker 1: How do you like?
Speaker 2: If you play these games a ton, you know how
to do it. But if you're just like having a
friend over to you know, like you can have a
friend over and play Mortal Kombat and have fun. Yes,
you know, you don't have to know every movement fatality.
You can still basically understand the language of the game.
Wrestling doesn't work that way, and so like good wrestling
games are the ones that have been boiled down to
like everyone points to the sixty four ones for a
reason or here comes the pain. They were boiled down enough,
they were arcadie enough, they didn't have to be full
on WWE All Star's cartoon land, but they certainly weren't
sims And I don't think wrestling game work as sims.
I don't think they ever really have. And yeah, not
the case.
Speaker 1: Here, and we we highlighted in the quick look, but
it is just so mismatched the different wrestler models, like
some of them like, oh, you put more work into
so and so versus other person because other person looks
like shit in comparison.
Speaker 2: Trust me, they were gonna very lovingly recreate Triple H.
And then if you're a I don't know, like Maxine
Duprix or something's probably not going to be quite wonder
yeah you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, how could you disrespect Delo Brown like this?
And no Delo uh? And then you know, Dan, like I,
just for morbid curiosity sake, I went into like the
is it my factions? That is a card?
Speaker 2: That's the card thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right? And then y'all know, I like games like
Uma Musume, which is kind of like a management card
game when you boil it down, and I wanted to like,
not that I wanted to like it, but I just
wanted to try and understand it and understand the appeal
because just like Dan, I've never engaged with all the FIFA,
all the NBA two cabullshit with the cards, so like
who is obsessed with this and why? And y'all also
know I like opening like physical cards and stuff, so
I thought maybe it'll like hit that dopamine. There absolutely not.
Some of it is just so purposely obtuse and just
like so poorly designed. But you know, it is designed
in such a predatory way that whoever this appeals to
it is made to exploit their wallets. Yeah, and like
keep engaging with it, and it's just not even fun.
Speaker 2: No, And it's just so egregious with this stuff where it's,
like I said in the quick look, but like they
make it seem like there's four different editions of the game,
Like you know, here's the delect edition, Here's the Collector's Edition.
Whatever with this one. It's like here's the King of
King's Triple Ah Edition, Here's the Attitude Era edition, Here's
the Monday Night War Edition. And it's like it made
me think when they originally announced it, it's like, oh,
I guess they're doing like another Attitude story mode. No,
punk is the showcase mode. These fucking mode like one
hundred and fifty dollars or whatever. Monday Night Wars Edition
it's not like you get a bunch of Monday Night
War stuff. You open up like a pack where it's like, oh,
I can be Hollywood Hogan and Kevin Nash and wo
style and like in a card on like a card
pack thing for your my faction thing. It's just like
it's a jpeg of Kevin Nash. Look, I love Kevin Nash,
but like, good lord, that's one hundred and fifty dollars
for that and some some currency that it's just not
it's so emblematic of the current state of w DOE,
of TKO, of from what I hear two K and
their sports games. It's just like it's just so gross
and uh, it's overwhelming with that shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I really don't understand this island that they've
made this.
Speaker 2: Really weird and stupid. It's it's just another virtual shop.
Let's go to the Nike store, Let's go to the
Jordan store. Let's yeah, it's just insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm very I know that there is like
a certain I guess bias that comes when reviewing this game,
and like this game will speak to people or the
people that choose to review it are like, well, I
like the these previous games. I'm gonna go see what
the newest one is. I'm just constantly surprised that they
review fairly. Well, yeah, I really.
Speaker 5: Get away with it, like these games, the questions, These
games sell very well, and like you know, like every
once in a while they'll be the one that's so
bad that the reviews are bad. But as long as
they kind of do until the lines not, then yeah, right,
like then you'll get a low eighties score on one
of these.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I just cannot imagine being a
person that sees all that stuff and is not bothered
by how in your face it is with all that
and how constant it is. It's just I mean, even
if the game was good, even if I love the
wrestling engine and the matches were fun and everything, I
would find it very hard to give it a good
score because of all this shit it's wrapped in.
Speaker 5: But like, like even like the newer Madden games, like
the average scores are like in the sixties a lot
of the time, right, So like, I guess, oh, the
last one was apparently much better, got seventy nine. Look
at that, So I don't know, back, are you gonna
say so yeah.
Speaker 1: Like what what what's really going on? Right?
Speaker 3: Is it that someone who puts up with their ship
as a product is like perfect for this ship that's
a video game?
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Like? I don't, I don't
know stuff like yeah, like it's the worst, Like, isn't that?
Speaker 2: I mean I think they do kind of target a
certain Like I went to that prece event at WWE HQ,
and it's like they were like having the different wrestlers
come out and their theme song would play when they
came out, and like most of the other people there
were like chanting along to the songs and stuff, and
they were doing like the Pento walk when pent was
like I hesitate to use this phrase, but kind of
mark shit, you know the ones that are just like
on like ya, WWE the corporation. You know, It's like
it's kind of surprised they keep inviting me because like
I have not liked these games pretty much ever, But yeah,
there are a lot of people there that just seem
like they are inviting. It's like, what was it they
slop it up? It was like the remember there was
the whole deal like the Skyrim re release in like
the mid twenty tens and it was one of the
first times. It's like, oh, but as I was sending
this out to enthusiast Skyrim YouTubers before they sent it
out to the igns and game spots and giant bombs
of the world, and it's like, yeah, I think that
might be kind of what's going on here, you know, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe that because reasonable people are like, this
is trash and that's it. That's all you need to know,
Like you send it to reasonable people.
Speaker 1: Dan, I think you mentioned like, wasn't there like a
different section for the influencers that were there versus like press.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was interesting because it's like you had the
content creator. Like if you go into WAHQ now, it's
like the lobby has like all these different floors that
kind of like mezzanine type look over the lobby, and
so they set up all these gameplay stations on these
different floors, and like the first couple were all like
content creators, and so that's when like they're bringing out
Drew McIntyre and Oba Fami and Tristrattis and seeing punk
and stuff. They're having to sit down to the stations
and they can play with you and they're doing interviews
and stuff like that, and then like the top top
one they shoved like you know, me and and Roger
from kind of Funny and Marcus from Game Informer and stuff.
We're just kind of like, oh, here's the old Krusty.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: They they write words and talk about, you know, things critically.
And again I don't mean to like there's a ton
of like great talented people like you know, yeah, you
know it was in the content creator floor and stuff
like that, but they definitely did kind of like shove
the traditional press up in their own little corner.
Speaker 1: It's been interesting to see, uh this game more also, Dan,
because I think my social media algorithms are being influenced
by me playing it or just looking up gameplay clips
to see try and see people enjoying this game. And
I don't believe them. I don't believe that they're having
fun because like uh, you mentioned in the quick look
that like you know, John Blood and and his his
homies will kind of like treat it like a match
and set up spots. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I did have the realization when, like I was
on the new Legacy video where is Macho Tia Juhn
Blood and me, and we did a triple threat, and
it's like I was playing it like I would play
like a fighting game, where it's like I'm going in,
I'm trying to get my moves in, I'm trying to
get a finisher and win the game. And then I
kind of realized as we were recording, it's like, oh, wait,
they're setting up spots and stuff and I'm just running
in trying to like win, and it's like, oh, Okay,
maybe this is because like I don't really know like
wrestling YouTube like that scene at all. It's like, oh,
I guess I could see why they're kind of making
it more of a show the way wrestling would be
rather than like a competition, you know. So it's like, Okay,
maybe I'm just not tracking what this is, you know.
Speaker 1: But I feel like with John and then like New
Legacy InCor are doing is very different than some of
these other content creators that I've come across, because like,
I honestly, God don't believe them when they're saying like, oh,
this is the best game ever, this is the best
version of this game. Look at these physics blah blah blah,
and like I think you're full of shit, I don't
think you know what a game is. There are a
lot of marks, a lot of marks men, a lot
of people.
Speaker 2: Still slopping up the w do stuff big time, and a.
Speaker 1: Lot of mark ass bitches.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's always been the case. That's why the business
of a rustling has gone on as long as it has.
But yeah, at times it's been better than it is now.
Speaker 1: Speaking about wrestling, it sounds like, you know, we've gone
through multiple rounds of wrestling games, but it sounds like
Dib is going through rounds.
Speaker 3: He's who I find out about all the coolest games
from now what there's three of us here, Well, this
is an old game, so pick it for what.
Speaker 2: He's a retro guy.
Speaker 3: He's this huge retro guy loves what came out five
years ago, back in twenty twenty one, and that is
the game Rounds.
Speaker 1: Have you guys ever heard of round Not?
Speaker 5: But now I'm looking at it and its like as
overwhelmingly positive reviews and looks like something we would enjoy playing.
It's it's basically the smiley face Ben with guns.
Speaker 3: It looks like Yeah, so it's it's like.
Speaker 1: A one v one.
Speaker 3: Like gun shooting battling where you play five. After each round,
the person who loses the round gets a card upgrade
gets a perk, so you know it imagine like the
way spider Heck is presented, where you're like a randomized
sort of level. Then it's one v one and then
the two of you go at it, and whoever dies
first is offered a pretty substantial perk because there's only
five rounds, so the stakes escalate super super quickly. It
is incredibly fun. You get you have a shield cool down,
and you have a bullet bullet capacity cool down, and
that's it. There's no other kind of like mechanic that
you really have to worry about. You get you can
you know, I've definitely like I guess that's like the
rogue part of it too, where you like you start
to realize, like, oh, if I go down this path
where like I make all my bullets poison and if
you make contact with one you know, shot, then the
other player takes damage over a certain period of time.
We we must have played this for three hours on
Sunday nights.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 3: It's really really a lot of fun. I can't believe
it completely missed.
Speaker 1: It missed me.
Speaker 3: He came home from her friend's house and was just like,
I don't know, I missed this. I'm like, well, you
were like two at the time. No, it's it's great.
It really is great. He obviously loves spider Hack. We
still play spider Hack a bunch. I think this is
even more accessible because spider Hack has like a certain
level of like, uh, there there is a bit of
like a skill barrier that you kind of have to
cross where getting into rounds is pretty much uh, you know,
play and you're you and you're off to the races.
Speaker 5: Oh, this is this is a landfall. This is the
peak people. Oh oh is it part of well Agroc Yeah, yeah,
well that's the publisher. Anyways, I guess so you okay.
Speaker 2: This type of game is a great example of, like
you know, earlier we were talking about accessibility, like, oh,
if you had a friend over, you wouldn't put him
in front of two K twenty six because it's not accessible.
I think this type like TowerFall, Samurai Gun Ducky. Yeah,
what I'm saying, these are ideal for like you don't
even really have to play games. A lot of these
games have one or two buttons and the simplest concept
you can explain like elevator pitch style, like that's it,
this is the best for that.
Speaker 3: He'd you know, and obviously like you know, I mean,
he picked it up super quick and he was fucking
destroying me the first couple of rounds and then I
kind of like figured out what was going on here.
But yeah, the variety of perks is really cool. Uh,
they're you know, they're randomized, so you know, you can
certainly like land on you know, some of like the
op ones and you're like, oh, you're in trouble now.
But then they kind of like balance it pretty well
because when it's your your turn to pick a perk,
they kind of meet that level of ability sort of
in kind. So yeah, I think it's really cool. It's
super cheap, cool. Go check it out if you're looking
for like the local Yeah, local local co op, couch
co op, super fun.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could play it online. I
gotta imagine, what do you can.
Speaker 5: What do you think co op means? It looks like
very cop.
Speaker 2: An one forget everyone what the co op means? Everyone
says couch anytime. It's a competitive game. Now it's driven
me in saying for like a decade. It's Cooper. We're
working together as a team.
Speaker 3: It's totally so, I mean, so what do you call this?
So what's a better word?
Speaker 2: Because we multi it's a multi competitive multiplayer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's but but the couch because couches and.
Speaker 2: Local multiplayer, that's what local local?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's local one one on one. Watch. Look now
that's terrible call it that. Yeah, local a local one
v one right.
Speaker 2: Local Smash Brothers four player? You know call these video games?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Video Yeah. I was Actually it's funny you say that, Mike,
because I was going to ask Backlar has did checked
out any of the Smash Brothers games, Because based off
of the things he's shown interest in, I can maybe
see a pipeline or he gets in the Smash I
could see him in joying it. I don't think he's
like as Nintendo coded as the world wants him to be. Well,
you don't have to be to play Smash. Those are
like fighting game people, no, like all kinds of random
assholes find their way in that game. I get it.
But yeah, he's never had hands on it. I'm not
a big Smash guy. Uh so you know, he he'd
have to be exposed to it through outside forces.
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, I don't. I don't think I think
it's worth a shot.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be interesting when the next Smash Bros. Comes out,
because I don't know. I'm a I'm a big Smash guy.
So I feel like it's gonna be a surprising amount
of Smash coverage on here and people aren't gonna be
right for it. I gotta figure out what that's gonna
look like. I want to.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to show people what's up Smash. Yeah,
coming soon, Smash.
Speaker 2: You can play without items on. It's fucked up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's crazy, right, it's more fun it turns out.
Speaker 3: Nope, but yes, uh most not a couch co op,
but more a couch cooperative, No kidding, a couch one
v one, which is fun.
Speaker 1: It's it's really it's really a good time. And how
long did y'all play together? It was just like what
like three hours? Three hours? Sounds like a little bit
of a marathon, just like we have checked out marathon
on the website. I check out upf Last week, Dan
Grubb and Mikey played marathon boys. I want to hear
your thoughts.
Speaker 2: I like the moment to moment, I think, you know,
this shouldn't surprise anyone that Bungee is incredibly good at
doing gunplay and the guns look awesome, they feel awesome.
Like when I have either AI or other players that
I'm shooting at, I think it's really awesome. I definitely
had to fight through my initial just like there were
a few times I was ready to, like, as it
was explaining a million just weird things to me, I
was just like ready to put it away and be like,
why is everything so fucking complicated now? Like what happened to? Like,
there was definitely that part of me that's like what
happened to?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 2: Gotta campaign? You got some takes on deathmatch and maybe
some objective modes, you know, the classic like Halo Call
of Duty thing, And it just got me thinking a
lot about like is it because extraction shooters and that
type of gameplay is what people prefer now? Or is
it because those are easier to monetize on like a
long time.
Speaker 5: I mean maybe a bit of Call, make bit of
Call and b but like you know, like Arc Raiders
is huge. There are definitely a lot of people who
something about this loop is super engaging to them, right,
And it's like the risk of it all. I wonder
if it's a little bit like you know, or things
became so forgiving and a little bit simplified that the
idea of that a world is actually punishing you and
pushing back a lot. It's like it's like the dark
Souls of multiplayer shooters right right, Like we're getting things
kind of easy there for a bit, and now it's like, oh,
I feel like there's actually consequences if I lose. Then
that makes me feel something again.
Speaker 2: But i'd like you say, the dark Souls and multiplayer shooters, Yeah,
but give that to you know, like kind of like
that like campaign, you know, like I can't help I
think like this world and this art design and just
the this game are all top not, but I want
to play a fucking campaign.
Speaker 5: So I would up, Yeah, I agree with you, Like
I think it feels really good. And like my biggest
thing with the game is I don't know how much
I like extraction shooters. I don't know how much I
like the whole what am I doing in between matches
kind of thing? I don't know if the whole like
sell my surplus and you know, fiddle with my load
out kind of thing is necessarily anything that's doing a
lot for me, I'd rather just kind of get in,
like to the point where at first it's like, oh,
here's like the basic show or the basic load out
you can put in. I'm like, I'll do that. Then
it's clear if you do that, you're so weak you
basically have no chanceling. All right, I guess I better
really think about equipping this stuff. And then you're sort
of because of that, you kind of play the game
super cautiously, and that's I think part of the charm there.
But you know, it's it is one of these games,
this open war, A thing can happen. So yeah, sometimes
you are just going to get unlucky. You're gonna be
fighting one person. Another person's gonna come up and take
advantage of that and then shoot you. Now, it also
makes for these amazing moments, right where two people are
fighting for an extraction zone and I'm the character who
can turn invisible, so I just wait for the last second,
pop my visibility, shoot some fog grenades, and just sneak
into the extraction and get out there. So it makes
for these big moments, and again I think that's another
reason why this game is so popular with people. It's
so popular with streamers and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I think the thing that's failed to get me a
long term into things like Art Graders and Marathon just
fight liking the gameplay is that, like for a game
for a genre that's supposed to be about like getting
this valuable stuff and extracting with it. I feel like,
at least with both of these, which now are the
two extraction shooters I've played, I always get back to
the menus and I'm like, all right, I got a
bunch of fucking I don't know. I got some AMMO
and some metal bullshit, some containers like I don't like.
It's never like I find something in the mission where
I'm like, oh my god, I got to get this out.
This is so valuable and so exciting. Yeah, they never
have that feeling. It's just like it's a bunch of
shit that I'm gonna have to like do inventory management
of when I get back, you.
Speaker 5: Know, because you almost can't find anything too exciting because
then you then you would have some giant advantage in
the world with the other players. Right, So the loop
is more about finding you know three coils because the
current mission tells you too. And then there's the permanent
character progression, and that's what people I think, really get
stuck into. It is like, oh, I gotta like get
through all these little factions. And they do so much
of the production and set dressing to make that stuff cool.
Like each time you unlock a new faction, there's this weird,
horrifying like future hell commercial.
Speaker 2: For the commercial of like painting these like Neon plans.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's super slick, like like the world building
is is awesome, but it's also like not enough where again,
I'm playing this game where I'm trying to get multiplayer matches.
Then a robot wants to talk to me for two
minutes and I'm like, I'm not listening.
Speaker 1: Do you do yod? How does it work if you
just want to go in solo dolo? Can you just
drop in? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I tried that the other this weekend. I was like,
I'm going to try the Rook thing, because the Rook
was the class that I understood was like, Okay, you
just kind of go in with a pre built thing.
It's solo blah blah blah. You're not gonna level up
much or whatever. But it's it kept saying like you
got too much shit in your inventory, and this is
or not like there might be a button or something
where it's just like I just unload all my shit
into my vault. I just want to be a rook,
like you would think when you pick the rook, it's
like do you want to throw all your shit out
into your backpack or into your vault or whatever. And
I couldn't do it, And so I was trying to
individually take all the shit out of my backpack, but
I didn't have room in my vault, and so then
I have to like decide what stuff to sell. And
it's like I wound up not even being able to
play as the rook because it's like I just have
too much shit and there's not a way to like
offload it. Basically, that'said I do like the Faction stuff.
I do like that there is something that like, even
if it reminds me of like Fortnite quests, where it's like, look,
you're not going to win first place for your royale
every time, but there's all these quests that are getting
you XP and stuff, and it's like, oh, okay, I
rode in three cars or whatever, and I got some
thing for my battle pass. The faction stuff in the
contracts are that way where it's like, Okay, download something
from here and then do this in the same run.
So you have these objectives that are more than just
get shit and get out. So I do like that
because I don't remember that as much in our graders,
you know.
Speaker 1: Backlart, you would be so jazzed with this game because
of the sheer volume of fonts everywhere.
Speaker 2: Oh good fonts of very.
Speaker 1: Good fonts, Like yeah, should I fire this up? Watching
these boys play, I was entertained merely looking at the UI.
That's all right. Sometimes that's enough to like get me
interested for a couple hours. Like I don't know what
type of design it is, but like some of the
guns just have like a gigantic like little mini LCD,
not LCD, but like a flat screen on it just
showing all your AMMO stuff, and like the little PDA
that pops up when you're resing someone, and it's just
like the little crude outline is like, oh that's cool.
Speaker 2: That bleeplop remote stuff, the pop up yeah on the
XVILL and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love a good bleep bloop remote. This game
is popular, turns out.
Speaker 5: Huh maybe, like it's it's it's.
Speaker 1: Hard to tell.
Speaker 5: Like, right now the concurrence is thirty seven thousand, which
is a lot bits Earlier in the day, it like
it was peaking at seventy five thousand. It seems like
that peak goes down maybe a little beach day. It's
hard to say, Like those seem like good enough numbers
to me. Is it good enough for Sony and bungeee?
You know, arc Breaders for example, still peaks more, you know,
like like twice as much as that maybe or even
a bit more than that at the moment. So it's
I don't know, it's so impossible to tell what the metrics.
Speaker 1: For those are as far steam numbers just steams to PlayStation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, also thing here, you think that would probably be
pretty well for a game published by PlayStation, right.
Speaker 2: I was curious. I'd never really looked at the steam
dB concurrence before, and I did when I was curious
if Marathon was doing well. And I'm looking at like,
nothing will make me feel older than looking at the
steam dB concurrence because it is just a laundry list
of games. I it's just like what is Bongo Cat?
What is you know? Like all these games, like it's
all like super multiplayer stuff, Geometry, Dash, war Thunder, Like
I know I said a million times before, like counter Strike.
I don't know a single person that plays counter Strike.
It is the number one most played game on Steam
by an order of magnitude here, like who are these people?
Is it just a world of game gamers like outside
of our usual audience personal tastes.
Speaker 1: And yeah, but like your like counter Strike is huge
in Asia, it's huge in Europe.
Speaker 5: Part of it is that for sure. Part of it
is just like not in our circle. Part of it
is not in our country.
Speaker 2: Even Delta.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people still playing Rest.
Speaker 2: That's daisy hardest for all the stars.
Speaker 3: This is like when my father in law discovered people
like yogurt similar energy and it's like you put you
can put granola and it's delicious.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, yeah, the games are so fucking big now
that like I don't know, I've this has been my
entire life is games and careers and stuffing. Like there's
just a whole world of games out there that is
just like massively popular, and I don't know a single
person who's ever played any of them.
Speaker 1: And the thing Dan is the you know, these are
games that probably and most likely don't appeal to most
of us. But that's also just Steam. Like there's a
whole mobile audience out there that are playing like, yeah,
not even gotcha games, just random RPG bull crap or
Match three stuff. Yeah, it's wilds are big now it
turns out pac Man. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Remember don't you remember during the charity stream, Uh, Dylan
wanted to challenge you to geometry Dash. No, well that
was the note he sent during the donation, and geometry
Dash is very popular.
Speaker 1: With people his age. Like a subway surfers.
Speaker 3: No, it's like a like an auto It's like an
auto run jumper thing. Okay, yeah, it's it's really hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: Project Zomboid, rim World, Limbus Company project.
Speaker 1: I think Project Zomboid I've heard before. Anyway, folks, Balder's
game three is no one knows what that is. Uh, Folks,
that about does it for video game talk. I would
like to watch you guys play some more Marathon because
apparently there's like, uh, drones have become very popular in
the game. It was like a big puzzle.
Speaker 2: I got filled in with a random I tried one
random filled crew thing and I had a little drone
guy chased me around and my dudes had drones too,
and I had no idea what that was about.
Speaker 1: I love I love it. Also, I'm just very glad
that this game is having even a little bit of success,
because it felt like it took forever to come out,
and it just felt like different I don't want to
say controversy, but like different thing to like misalign the
game after a different thing. And I'm happy that people
are liking it, happy that it's as popular as it is,
and I'm happy to take a quick breaking break and
we will be better. Wait.
Speaker 3: Wait, sorry, I hate doing this to you because I
know it's like a buzzkill and you're just like, oh,
I had a.
Speaker 1: Good outro going and backlars a piece of shit.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. It's okay, preemptively sorry. Number one Rim World
not what I thought it was. Number two, number two.
I just got a d M from our special guest,
and Vinnie Caravella says it's okay to say that he
is coming along with us to Packsi'm going to be
on our content with us to packs.
Speaker 1: He bear Bear is here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope Vinnie asked me more since you're questions
about Disney.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's too nice.
Speaker 1: That's on the docks. That's actually all three all three
panels are that?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Uh, that's right. What would Vincent Caravella's music be if
he did a surprise running.
Speaker 2: Man in the Box? Would it just be like sounds.
Speaker 1: Like just saws and stuff? It would be the whole
improvement theme song? Ye oh my god. Do you know
an Alison Chains songs Box and Rooster? Yeah? What about that?
I know that that song.
Speaker 5: Too, uh because uh, actually my one of my one
of my best friends really likes uh.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, I just always I always suspected the mic.
It's like, oh, I was in But Alison shades those
songs in his.
Speaker 5: World of Warcraft p v P highlight videos, which were
pretty yeah fuck yeah, hell yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: Folks. We're gonna go, uh make our own World of
Warcraft p VP videos during the break, and Mike McNaughty
will be back with the news.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, mister man, Hi, everybody, I'm newsman. Now
look at me, news news news m J Carty. As
you look at that it's left.
Speaker 1: Grub always goes news news, Yeah, sound.
Speaker 5: News starting with Donald Glover is the voice of Yoshi
of the Super Mario Guest movie.
Speaker 2: I'm a lor y'all don't know, no, no, is it
just saying Donald Glover?
Speaker 1: Well that's that's the question.
Speaker 5: So okay, So this there was a Mario movie direct
yesterday where basically they just showed the final trailer for
this film that's coming out very soon, coming on April first,
and they're like, yeah, Yoshi's voiced by Donald Glover, and
I'm curious if that means this is like a grout
situation Vin Diesel just as rude a lot, or is
there going to be a sequence where, like, you know,
Yoshi could talk. We know there's a sequence with like
baby Mario baby Yoshi, So maybe a part where they
understand him, or maybe it's a part where Yoshi's with
other Yoshi's and only then they can talk.
Speaker 2: I don't know yo saying sentences.
Speaker 3: That would be cool though, Yeah, that would make me
care about this movie more. Was just like verbos if
he was just yeah, he was just like, hey, how
are you?
Speaker 1: My name is Yoshi? Wow?
Speaker 2: It was this sound like Donald Glover's voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be sick, huh.
Speaker 5: I know what else might make you care about this
movie is that this trailer also gave us a look
at Wart, the antagonist from Super Mario Brothers too.
Speaker 1: And you will never guess who the actor is.
Speaker 2: Let me guess. I guess Wart would be John c Riley.
Speaker 1: Luis Guzman. Oh, that's very good.
Speaker 2: Does he look like Ward from like Mario to Wart?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, you get.
Speaker 5: I think he's like running as like like.
Speaker 1: It seems like there's a whole.
Speaker 5: Part where they are just in a Super Mario two
themed area, and I think that's where Burdo is, and
then nin g So.
Speaker 2: Posers on the poster, right.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's the thing with this movie. It
is the Mario Galaxy movie, but it's also kind of
the Mario Galaxy Odyssey World two movie.
Speaker 1: There seems to be no restraint.
Speaker 5: It's just all in here because tons of new characters.
We know, Rosaline is there, Bowser Junior. It is probably
the equation so much so that like I no longer
believe maybe they are gonna go that crazy. I don't
think we're seeing Warrio and Wa Luigi unless it's a
post credits.
Speaker 1: I think it.
Speaker 5: I can see that there's just too much. There's too
much already here.
Speaker 2: I think there's it's about time we start introducing more
Mario two stuff into the overall, Like you know, we
just start having them in Mario cardmore. We already have
shy guys, we have Pokey's, but like war Buser being
in the movies, I want to see Mauser fry guy
all those day there was a good lineup of bad
guys we don't really see anymore from too cares.
Speaker 5: About War because we have not seen Warp much, so
that that one is actually kind of that's the one
that is surprising and need to meet to see Wart.
So I would I would like to see Wart in
games again, like yeah, throw throw him and Smash Brothers
and Mario Carter.
Speaker 1: I forgot about him.
Speaker 5: Make him the villain of the next Mario game, even
like the playable in it as a an.
Speaker 2: Ally Bouser's inside story and everyone's teaming up against Wart.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so this movie coming out very soon probably make
a zillion dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah April oh shit, Okay, yeah, Like I guess I'll
see it if did one wants to see it? I
don't know what his temperature is on it. I feel
like he he'll like, I don't think he's like a
day one, like Daddy take me to see this. I
think he's sort of just like if he sees it,
he sees it. I'm sure it will make a ga
jillion dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel I guess I alluded to this in the
first segment, but I do think like Nintendo is losing
his interest. Yeah, yeah, right, It's famously not for kids,
so I guess that track he could.
Speaker 1: Just for the old yeah, millennials.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he could.
Speaker 1: Just be aging out of it or whatever, and then
something he circles back to.
Speaker 5: He'll have a kind of period time there and like yeah,
around that twelve age.
Speaker 2: Oh that's why I couldn't play Pokemon because I was
too cool and had to play metal your solid. He's
in that phase. Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: I still think he would take a new Sonic over
a new Man's.
Speaker 2: That's that's real fun.
Speaker 5: I'm a big Sonic defender. That's disgusting. You need to
talk to him for the movies different That's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm talking about the movie.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Dibb has never played a Sonic game, of course,
come on.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I guess that would not care.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of kids that like the Sonic
movies and see him as a movie character and haven't
played the games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, we've had this conversation a few times. But yes,
technology is has he ever seen targeted his wife? He's
definitely Z targeted for sure, But like he A doesn't
think it's novel or interesting, and B is not like
actively searching it out.
Speaker 1: I think and all all kidding aside, I really do
think like for people his age, I do think like
Sonic is like got more riz like I think they
I think they mean that's why they made Yeah, people
Sonics cool.
Speaker 3: Mario is kind of like the is kind of for
like little baby idiots.
Speaker 1: Right, well, what do you look at that way? I
wouldn't know that for it, but it was fine. I
wasn't overly impressed. You look at the movies. I mean
you have Chris Pratt and Chris Pratt.
Speaker 2: Is Chris Pratt think Chris Pratt is cool?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, I'm saying they think John Ralfhio is
cooler and just has like a better vibe to him.
I always for Ben Schwartz. Sorry, I always been Schwartz, John.
Speaker 5: I get it. I get it at thinking of cartoon movies,
I saw Hoppers, the New Picks one over, We gain good.
Speaker 1: That's really good. Yeah, that's funny. Uh.
Speaker 5: The Teddo's confirmed that its switched to side scroller. Yoshi
and the Mysterious Book were released on May twenty. First
new trailer for this game came out today to celebrate
Mario Day with Just Today March tenth.
Speaker 1: Uh. Boy, I'm like I am.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I've ever been more cautious about
a video game.
Speaker 2: In fact, I don't even think cautious.
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: I think we just know what this is gonna be.
We've been how many times?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Wait?
Speaker 2: Are you a fellow Yoshi's Island fan?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: I love Yoshi's Island. Okay, and the sequels.
Speaker 2: Starting with Yoshi Story, starting with Back on the End
sixty four. Getting disappointed by every new fucking Yoshi platformer.
So I think I've made peace. It's a starfuck situation.
I made peace. I'm not going to get excited about this.
I will play it. I'm sure it'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I thought crafted World was like very exciting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the Wii U one and I don't know,
I played through it and nothing about it stuck with me.
It felt like I was just kind of floating through
some experience.
Speaker 1: It was the World on fire.
Speaker 5: No, that's what I expect from this. Like the art
style looks really cute. It has a bit of that
watercolar watercolor almost uh maybe claimation vibe to it. But
like even the gameplay, I'm like, what is this? It
almost seems more maybe puzzle platformer or I don't know,
I don't think this is the kind of not I
don't know if high auctings the were, but you know,
Yoshi's Island was a challenging, somewhat traditional but just level design,
running and jump been kind of focused two D platformer,
and I don't think that's what YO see them serious
books is to be. It seems it seems you know,
and like, you know, they know what they're doing, but
they've made Yoshi a very young kid targeted franchise now,
and I get why they do that, but it does
make the games less engaging.
Speaker 1: Look at this frog now.
Speaker 2: Some might say that Island is one of the best
two D platforms of all time.
Speaker 5: Of course, absolutely no, it's here to stop us from
saying that. I argue the point, yep.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised that this game is not hitting before the movie,
Like I'm surprised that they have are not parlaying them
in a way that you would think you absolutely would
just because Yoshi's a new character in the game in
the movie, and it's like, how do you not draw this,
Like how do you not have these sync up? Maybe
there are other production uh uh intangibles that we're unaware of,
but like, I don't know, it seems like a missed time.
Speaker 5: Tendo's never super like, you know, they'll do synergies with
the movie for sure, but you know, in their mind
are already ten Mario and Yoh just some products on
that people will pick up, and that movie is gonna
have a long lifespan. This think comes out first. It's
not like it's totally missing.
Speaker 2: Saying hates Money, you got Super Mario, Wonder, Nintendo Switch
two Edition, Bell, Bell Island, bullshit. I mean that's the
big that's the headliner, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I will play again.
Speaker 2: I've kind of been looking forward to playing that game again.
Speaker 5: Speaking of loving Money, epic is increasing the price of
for Fortnite V bucks in the block pusts announcing this,
they said, the cost of runny Fortnite has gone up
a lot, and we're raising prices to help pay the bills.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I want.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I want to talk raise things like,
oh my god, you have the fucking nerve to say that.
Speaker 1: Just say that true, Just say that you don't. Don't
say this quote. Do you think we're fucking ass the bills?
That's the quote? Yeh fell.
Speaker 3: Just say, just say, no amount of money will ever
be enough. It will never be enough. It does not.
Speaker 1: Fucking Fortnite mays eight billion.
Speaker 3: Dollars a month. It's never enough. It's never gonna be enough.
Fortnite costs more to fucking run up. Go eat your eat,
eat a butt, eat a butt.
Speaker 1: Uh not gonna keep the Yeah, oh I go.
Speaker 3: People just like bumming quarters at the bus stop working
for epic.
Speaker 1: Chet the fuck out of here.
Speaker 5: Nine dollars used to get you one hundred, one thousand
V bucks, Now you get eight hundred. To give you
an example, Uh, the battle Pass, which previously costs a
thousand V bucks, now only costs eight hundred, but completing
it will also only earn the player eight hundred V
bucks instead of a thousand. That doesn't mean that at
least uh, that means the players can unlock the next
battle pass with the rewards from previous one.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, and this money is not enough, Mike, so
we have to raise the price of this invisible money.
It's just sorry, say the truth. Don't give me this shiit,
Say the fucking truth. Say endless profit. That's what we're after.
It's never enough. Fuck you love epic.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's a is this like an interesting
new litmus test for the economy?
Speaker 1: Is what it's?
Speaker 5: What is the exchange rate on v bucks?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 5: Oh jesus, what's going on with roebucks? What's happening over there?
So someone let me know. Uh, speaking of money, Nintendo
issuing the US government over tariffs. Oh yeah, this is
this is related to the you know Supreme Court selling
Trump that hey, all those tariffs he did were illegal. Actually,
you know, Trump's trying to still say I got other
ways of doing the terist blah blah blah. But in
the meantime, like a thousand companies are suing to get
money back from that. And this includes Nintendo, which was
really affected by the timing of the tariffs because they
was right when they're getting ready to release Switch to
they delayed pre orders, and that's something they're specifically saying
cost the money was the fact that they had to
delay the pre orders and they had to reconsider if
they were going to launch a thing, and then they
raised a price for accessories and things like that. So yeah,
it's pretty interesting to at first it seems like wholl
Nintendo's just going up through the US government. But again,
a lot of companies are right. It's not like Nintendo
is necessarily sticking its neck out here, particularly like they're
they're not in danger of getting targeted in a way of.
Speaker 3: No, but I liked what was For example, it's a
pro it's not it's not a protest, it's a it's
an opportunity to recoup value. That's what it is, right,
It's an opportunity to recoup a refund.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So that so that's going to be
going through the courts. We'll see how long that all takes.
I bet a long long time, but I bet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, we'll have to pay the US Defense Bill yeah,
of course, and this is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah cool cool. I love where all my tax dollars
are going right now? Yeah? Oh brother, Yeah, I'm not
going to pay taxes this year. You can't.
Speaker 3: My advice, no you can. It's we're not recommending it.
Do Everyone should pay your taxes. Don't pay your text,
but pay your tax, pay your tax.
Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna.
Speaker 5: Sega says strong reviews for its recent games aren't yet
translating to better sales. Part of a recent financial result,
Q and A here says the relatively high acclaim of
modern games has not yet translated higher sales, and it's
aiming to improve its marketing and sales practices as a result.
Last eighteen months, saying an Atlas have released a bunch
of games that have scored pretty well, like Shanobi Our
a Vengeance as a Metacritic for eighty seven, two point
museum metacritic of eighty four, that's too low. Metaphor in
Fantasio is a meta crek of ninety four Sonic Racing Crossworld.
It's a meta critic of eighty two that One Day
specified before as being a little bit slower in the
sales front than they expected. I think this is interesting
something I remember. I think something similar with Capcom happened
when and they were turning residueval around at first, where
it's kind of confusing because like Resievil six sold really
well and seven was maybe a little slower. It's like, well,
sometimes the current game is selling based off the reputation
of the previous game, right, so maybe it takes a
little bit to catch up. I better Sega keeps releasing
good games. They'll hit those sales targets like they want to. Yeah,
there's probably maybe also a marketing aspect to that as
well that they need to work on.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I hope this doesn't lead to a trend of them, like,
you know, kind of abandoning this good run, this fairly
good run of video games that they've been on, abandoning
that to just try and make a quick buck and
go for something that they think would lead to a
bunch of sales. Because like Schanoby Artivention's great two point Museum, Mike,
you really liked it, Therefore, great Sonic Racing, Eh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that one I thought. I don't know that one.
I don't like maybe as much as the average critic
on that one, But uh, yeah, Like a metaphor is
interesting because you know huge, I bet that game has
done well. I wonder if Atlas has also maybe shot
themselves in the foot a little bit with the way
with the Persona games, they're like, we released the game,
and then a year later or two years later, it's like,
now here's the super plus version with even more content,
and a lot of people feel burned for buying the
original version.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know if there's a sizeable amount of people
waiting for Metaphor for that reason or something. But who knows.
Speaker 1: Oh, I guess I never thought that Metaphor could potentially
have that like Deluxe this is the ultimate version with
more story, yeah.
Speaker 5: Which, like I don't think it needs to. I think
these games already come out with so much content. I
kind of wrap. I don't love that. Like I never
went back to play percent of five Royality, and everyone's
like it's better. I'm like, yeah, I can't play one
hundred hour game twice. Really, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just a lot uh ea.
Speaker 5: Laysoff staff across all Battlefield studios Following the record pricking
Battlefield six launch's laid off a unknow number of visuals
from different Baffeld teams, including employees a Criterion Dice, Ripe
Effects and Motive Studios.
Speaker 1: Ig said that.
Speaker 5: These the universe being formed, that laborers are taking part
as taking place as part of a realignment across the
Battlefield studios. All the cities are going to remain operational,
although the layoffs will of course impact them. Battlefold six
was the best game of twenty five in the United States,
actually sold a record shattering seven million copies in three days.
It was the best launch ever for a game in
the franchise. Now it does seem like the game has
lost a bit of steam since that incredible launch, so
maybe they're like, well, we needed all those people to
launch this game, not to keep it going, although it
still seems incredibly shitty that you work on the biggest
game of last year and now you are fired for realignment.
Whatever the hell that means.
Speaker 1: Sustainable It seems like sustainable behavior.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so I don't know, that's just that's just
an absolute ton of behte this bullshit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Battlefield.
Speaker 5: They also, of course, for no reason like launched another
attempt at doing a battle royale that nobody played again,
so they keep going to that well with no success.
So no matter how long it's going to be before we
get the Battlefield extraction shooter that people don't really care
about either, because it turns out Battlefield fans want to
play Battlefield. What Yeah, that's wow. Warrior Aware series director
Goro Abbe has left Nintendo grow. Abbe posted on x
that he resigned for the company last month, leaving the
games industrail together. He's going to be joining the Osaka
electro Communication University.
Speaker 1: Cool yeah. Abba.
Speaker 5: Abbe started as a programmer on Warreland four for the
Game Boy Advanced in nineteen ninety nine. Since then, he's
worked prom mostly on the Warrior series as a director
for games like Why We're a Mega Party Games a GameCube,
Why We're Twisted on GBA all the way up to
the re Since Switch Games, Warriwork, Get It Together, and
Why You Where Move It Dan? You're a Warrioware fan?
Are you like worried about the future of the franchise
or anything like that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Like that. I'm happy anytime there's a new warriorwear I
won't say the more recent ones have stacked up to
maybe the older like DS and GBA ones or anything,
but I guess, I mean, if he's worked on all
of these, then obviously he was a big part of
what made those games what they are, so hopefully they
can keep that spirit going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet we'll get another Warriwaar game eventually. I
won't wouldn't mind a bit of a break. I think
I think a lot of people really want to see
a Warrior Land again, or even a new a new
something else with Warrio, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Something to all those old ones are like, you know,
I always put together these little handhelds and emulation machines
and everything, and they just turn into warriorwear machines. And
it turns out like all those old ones are still
extremely fun and very evergreen, whether it's the GB or
the DS one. So I can always go back to
the old.
Speaker 5: Ones, right yeah, Like yeah, just playing normal Warior where
on NSO is actually still kind of a great experience.
I'm almost happy.
Speaker 1: Just having that. Uh.
Speaker 5: Valve insisted will release the Steam Machine and Steam for
Even twenty twenty six after a blog said it hoped to. So, yeah,
this is the thing where Valve kind of had this
blog post about the Steam Year review toy Tway five
and in it they're like, oh, here's our lineup of
all that announced hardware we announced last year. You know,
there's these memory and shortage storage supplies, but we are
still hoping to ship the stuff. In twy twenty six,
a lot of people freaked out, like.
Speaker 1: Hope, what do you mean hope?
Speaker 5: Hope?
Speaker 1: Hope.
Speaker 5: So Valve kind of came out like nothing's changed on
our end and they replaced the word hope and kind
of changed the wording there. But I don't know, you guys, yeah, replaceing.
Let's get people don't like hope these days. Hope has
a negative connotation.
Speaker 3: Actually, we've we've replaced the word hope.
Speaker 5: I don't know, how are you guys feeling about that
suite of hardware, the control or the Steam Machine. I
want to Steam Frame?
Speaker 1: Want it? I want it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I want it. I'm definitely worried about I'm not
I don't know if I'm worried about the release day
as much as I'm worried about the price. That's the issue.
It's gonna be a lot, no matter what, It's gonna
be a lot, but it could be a lot a
lot because of these shortages, and there's still weird tariff
situations and confusion around that, but especially the shortages, the
RAM stuff. It's gonna be a big issue. And Valve
is now in this sort of unenviable position of kind
of having to navigate these waters before a PlayStation will
have to before Xbox is gonna have to with Helix.
So it's gonna be pretty interesting to see how they
approach us. How much money, if any, they're going to
be willing to lose on the hardware.
Speaker 2: Val free tip here, just don't don't make RAM part
of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not a bad idea. RAM. Yeah, just
put like the yeah it did, it probably did. It's
pretty good. All kidding aside, I know you're joking, Dan,
I explaining RAM to people who are like over the
age of seventy is awesome, and I reckon everyone does.
I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I could explain it is it.
That's not the brain. The CPU is the brain, right.
Speaker 1: Labor It's a random random access memory. It's like temporary memory. Yeah,
it's confusing.
Speaker 5: You have to like read, You have to take a
course in college or two to really understand anything. I've
been listening to books and understand it. Slightly now where
I used to understand it, not at all, but even then,
not really. It's vacant, it's it's it's wild.
Speaker 1: It's all switches.
Speaker 5: It's all electrical signals that make a one or a zero,
and somehow you get enough of those and you have
a resident evil on your computer.
Speaker 1: Why is it just ones and zero's.
Speaker 3: I feel like we're just limiting or so many different
we added it to No, no, let's throw in I
don't know, like an exclamation mark.
Speaker 1: Or that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5: It's like one Jane, that's the news. I'm turning the
show back.
Speaker 1: Over to you. Uh. You know friend of the website,
Matt Piscatella, he just posted this on Blue Sky. Uh,
something that Sircana is reporting, And I feel like this
would just be a fun stat to share with everyone,
especially because Dylan may not be into Mario and maybe
Mario's not for the kids. According to this graphic, fifty
percent of people who bought Super Mario licensed products in
twenty twenty five were in households without children.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, fifty fifty sense it makes experience.
Speaker 1: So that also means that maybe Mario gets a little
more adult like.
Speaker 3: Zoipe at zero, Mono, finally, jan Finally he lays the pipe.
Yeah yeah, I'm just saying, like, would it kill you
to like have Mario grow with his most beloved fida anybody?
Speaker 1: What's Yeah, well, you guys are wrong. Can you imagine
if Mario trips in a level he just goes ah fuck,
I mean it just like holds his knee. That'd be fun.
Speaker 3: I guess he does that in the first movie. But yeah,
you know, I don't know. I guess, like I guess,
I'm not like, I guess. I'm not clamoring for like
adult Mario. I just think it's funny that, like everyone
else around him gets progressively older and he's just like
stuck at whatever. Oh no, I'm talking about the fans us.
Speaker 5: Always and then those fans he's.
Speaker 1: Not McConaughey and dazed and confused, right like, yeah.
Speaker 5: Right, I don't I think that. I think what they
got go where Mario is working pretty well right now?
Speaker 1: No, I know, I know. But do you think he
still speaks to you?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're not the best person. But yes, I'll
I'll do a bit of a non scientific service.
Speaker 1: I'm a child and that's important. Mike. You hold onto that.
Speaker 8: Yay.
Speaker 5: I saw the kids mov last week, and I'll see
another kids movie on on April first, and then Toy
Story fives after that. I think that that's I think
I've only seen kids movies apparently.
Speaker 3: This I want to report back. I want to do
a little bit of digging. I'm gonna ask Dib and
some of the friends and just be like, you.
Speaker 1: Guys care about like the Mario movie coming out next month,
and like there's a Mario movie coming, and then some
of them will be like two year old.
Speaker 2: I was running this weekend and there's a family and
they had their Kurts and all that stuff, and one
of the kids was like walking and you said, I
mean he waved me and he had a Mario kurt
shirt and I said.
Speaker 3: Nice and he picked okay, or was just dressed because
he's too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I'm curious, you know, I don't know. I'm
gonna show him the latest trailer and just like kick
the times.
Speaker 5: But your theory is that Mario is falling out of popularity, right,
that's what you're trying to know.
Speaker 3: That is not what I'm saying. I'm just saying for
the for the demo of child that I am raising.
I think perhaps it's like not top of mind that
I still fundamentally believe this movie will make a metric
ton of money from as a result of patronage from
all ages. I just you know, in my little anecdotal experience,
I do think dib is sort of like take it
or leave it?
Speaker 1: He could, you know.
Speaker 5: As part of that research, I want you to find
out what what is dib and perhaps his colleagues what
is their most what is their biggest concern in terms
of right like?
Speaker 1: What is what is?
Speaker 5: What is what is the character or ip that they
do think is the best? What is their number one
like when we were kids like turtles?
Speaker 1: Right? What is number one? From right about? I think
it will be all over the map, But you're like chapelone.
I don't think that. No, I don't think it's Chapel
so popular. Okay, and then follow up Q to that
back Lauren, then we'll go take a bricky break. If
Mike's done with the news news Okay, all right? Has
Dibb and his colleagues and his cohort consumed that specific
media they're into or have they just seen it in Fortnite.
Speaker 5: Oh fuck, answer of the thing they care about the most, right,
Like that might be.
Speaker 3: That's why it's so fleeting, Right Like, I do think
a lot of the culture is driven by what has
appeared in Fortnite to some degree, Like he knew what
the Hopper guy.
Speaker 5: Like him, we're worried about Fortnite because they can't pay
the bills anymore.
Speaker 1: Right time, pour pour one out? I do, yeah, like
he knew the frog from the Hopper movie, because at that.
Speaker 5: I think it's more like a blizzard's interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, folks, We're gonna go take a quick
bricky break and we will be back with some emails
and YouTube super chats if we got them right after this.
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We hope you continue to first email of the show
comes from Phil from Austin. On your most recent talkover
Nintendo Indie World, Dan exclaimed link to the past, did
at need DLC? That makes me wonder what if Nintendo
did start releasing DLC for classic games? After all they did,
after all, they did release extra levels for Super Mario
three in Carter reform. Is there a classic game you
would like to see DLC four. I might like to
see extra dungeons added to wind Waker. I know it's
a fan favorite, but I can't help but think it
has some of the weaker dungeons of the three d's
elder games. Parentheses, PS, marry me, Tomadacci rivals some of
my favorite bomb content of all time. You guys are
killing it lately, fist Well, actually a tell of you.
Speaker 5: In Japan broadcast they kind of linked to the past,
sort of sequel things. So yeah, you know, even then
there was something kind of like DLC.
Speaker 2: They were trying ship. Yeah, the card reader thing. That
e reader is like the most Nintendo way to go
about that for sure. Like even I couldn't get on board.
I'm not buying this thing to play a few levels.
Speaker 1: It was hell. It was hell a cool though.
Speaker 2: Interesting concept for sure. I think Phil's idea here of
wind Waker. I think there's a He's right about the
dungeons being weaker in wind Waker, but like imagine like
a shadow of the urd Tree type like you know,
Beefy delC of wind Wakers set and like maybe that
high roll from Underwater where it's like you get a
glimpse of like like imagine just that you know, like
remove the ocean elements, which I think is fine.
Speaker 5: Just for like a little bit. Yeah, for like this, Yeah,
I mean, I like when's dungeons, it just needed like
two more of them, right, So that is a game
that would have really benefited from expansion of some kind. Yeah,
I think that would have been cool for sure for sure.
But love yeah, yeah, I don't know what some Usually
I'm not really a big fan of the kind of
expansion or DLC. I guess expansion is different, like if
it's like diobolo like to me, like, oh yeah, that
makes sense. Expansion for these from software games that makes sense,
even like Breath with a Lot, which I love, They're
like we added a car and like some new shrines,
I'm like.
Speaker 1: I don't do there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you felt like another like almost a sequel, like
you were saying they have at the Eliza p thing
almost feel like like those, I'll play. But if it's
just like I don't. Here's a couple other things. I
never play those.
Speaker 1: I would, uh, like maybe DLC for the original Pokemon games,
for like Red and Blue, like I don't know, maybe
some more gym battles or something like that other Pokemon,
but specifically in that format.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's not what two were, like Scarlett like,
instead of doing like Pokemon Gray or like you know,
the Pokemon Yellow, they do do DLC and we get that,
and again I'm like, I can't imagine engaging with those things.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think Twisted Metal could add. You know that that's
an easy one. Just introduce a new co.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, thank you. Phil From Austin,
Simon writes in Hello Bombers, whenever you Midwest boys talk
about cold weather, it makes me realize how different our
countries are. On the last dumb truck. Dan mentioned it
warmed up to a brisk fifty degrees fahrenheit, which was
feeling warm. I'm in Perth, Australia, where our winter average
is about forty six to sixty five men max. It
will very rarely hit thirty to thirty five degrees fahrenheit overnight,
and when it does, it's big news. I genuinely cannot
comprehend the cold temperatures you guys go through over there,
though I hope to experience it one day. Always wanted
to have a snowy Christmas that I grew up with
in the movies instead of swaltering a sweltering hot one.
Is there anything you've heard about other another country's weather
or lifestyle that just blows your mind? How do you
guys fare in hot weather? Of course we have to
deal with hot summers that can be up to eighty
five two one hundred and ten degrees and much hotter
in rural towns that have a cracked one hundred and
twenty two degrees. Keep up the great content of the
site and Pod Simon. I can I can't fathom where
you all live.
Speaker 2: I mean I can do the only place that good
I was.
Speaker 3: Gonna say, the only place that really blows my mind
where people live is like the northwest Canadian territories or
places where like the winter is just like stuck at
negative fifty fahrenheit like for six months, and they're just
like it's called today and you're like, no, you're good.
How do you do it? I mean, I think that's amazing.
I mean, and then like the you know, there's like
other countries where it's just constantly you know, twelve months
of unbearable Russian winters and stuff like that. Everything else
I think makes sense. I guess I could see how
someone lives in you know, well I can't see how
someone lives in Florida, but I can see how someone
lives in Floridian weather right where, you know, it's just
like that all year round.
Speaker 1: I think it's so.
Speaker 3: You know, for me, it's like, I what much rather
be cold? Obviously, Like when it warmed up this weekend
and it was like sixty eight degrees, I get I
got mad.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm sixty you know, it's great. Yeah,
I was just mad.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh it's a little warmer if I
know springs coming, I'm a little I'm a little you know,
just to see winter go in such a violent way.
Although I think we're going to get one more week
of like winter temperatures. Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at.
Speaker 3: But people who live in these like because I love
watching videos of people who are like I have a
cabin in the northwestern Canadian territories that I can only
visit once.
Speaker 1: The river freezes.
Speaker 3: And when the river freezes, I take my snowmobile out
and I go out there and I have to burn
eleven trees every hour so that I'm survived. And I'm
just like your mother, Your motherfuckers are crazy.
Speaker 2: Hey, I could take this type of like Minnesota isn't
like Northwest Canada, col but you will have like long
stretches of negative twenty, negative thirty things like that. And
like the thing is you just if it's zero degrees,
you're not going outside. If it's negative twenty negative thirty,
it's not that different really, you know, unless you're working
outside or something. So it's just like no, you're just
kind of hunkered down. You just make it company in
the house and everything. And I could take that, even
though it is a long winter here and it gets
very cold, I would take that over a place that
gets like regularly over one hundred and humid, Like I
I can't do like super hot, Like I'm not a
fan of that. Like it gets to the mid nineties here,
Like maybe you'll have a day or two that's like
hits one hundred and that's just miserable outside. I can't
imagine regularly sweating through that, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I went to Japan two years ago, it
was like during the summer and it was super duper humid.
I didn't realize I could sweat in that many places. Yeah,
it's kind of amazing.
Speaker 2: It sucks up your clothes and fucks up the smell,
and like cold is a pain in the ass. You
got to put on all these layers and everything, but
it's like your clothes aren't like fucked up. When you
get back home, you know, you just kind of warm
up and you're not like dealing with the after effects
of it as much, you know.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmmmmmm. All right, moving along here, Matt writ sin
with a little tip for folks at home. If you're
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of the century. So thanks again for explaining the miracle
of modern science to us all. Now you'll have to
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Thanks again, and fuck Ice Matt Matt. Here you go,
you two at home. If your premium subscriber can watch
Marry Me Tomadacci, a new episode of nine lives on
your television screen by using the RSS feed, very easy
to use. I would just add like that's I would
love to have a way for that to not always
be the case where you don't have to maguy way
to do it, so it's, you know, just just if
it helps you feel any better. It's something we are
always thinking about, how do we make that better? Always
thinking about I'm gonna need you boys to look at
a picture here that I've pasted in the email or
I reckon this. Yeah, yes, Matt from Massachusetts, raight say
howdy bombers. With PAX East on the horizon, I wanted
to ask you all, what is the strangest booth you've
ever seen at a convention? For me, it has to
be the booth for Kadella Gaming at PAS East twenty
twenty four. The booth itself was just a larger medallion
you would walk up to scan your badge for a
chance to win a prize. No real games were actually shown.
Turns out it was a stealth campaign for a gaming
section of an upcoming Saudi Arabian city. I've attached the
picture of the actual booth. Have a great day, Matt
from Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Didn't we shoot something there like we were doing like
a tour? Did that actually work up in the trialog?
Or did we just shoot something?
Speaker 5: Mightn't the same booth like at the games Calm we
were at. I feel like I remember it.
Speaker 2: Maybe no, no man did No Xbox had a thing
where you'd get coins and stuff like that and scan
your coins for prizes.
Speaker 1: I think this was there too, maybe.
Speaker 2: I mean that would have been like the same year.
I mean that would have tracked Oh right, that was air.
Speaker 1: I remember this, Yeah, this gigantic medallion and Dan I
think you and Nikky went up to investigate and we
came with no answers. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was something shady and weird for sure.
Speaker 1: I think one of the weirdest booths was probably uh
one of these. It was probably g fuel at the time,
just like having booth babes and booth dudes like gyrating
and dancing to an floor.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was always weird, like because like that used
to be the norm, and then there was a few
were like we're still doing that, and they always stuck
out like a sort thumb.
Speaker 2: I remember probably like six or something. I mean I
was I was deep in the booth babe era of
E three. I remember going to like the fringes of
you know, maybe Kensha Hall or something like that, and
there was just a fucking like peripheral company was selling
like GameCube peripherals or whatever, like shitty controllers, and they
something about like a fox was their logo or their
name or something. And so they had a bouncy castle
in the middle of the Kentsha Hall or whatever or
not on the fringes. They had a bunch of women
in there and not a lot of clothes thing, and
they pinned foxtails above their butts there, and they had
these girls and they had fox ears on and they
were bouncing around and there was a massive line of
weird dudes waiting to get in there. And you could
take your turn to go in there and try to
grab the foxtails off the girls butts. Oh that's terrible
for GameCube controller company.
Speaker 1: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Big line, biggest line. Yeah,
Oh that was that Air one mid two thousands, e
threes or something else.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: When I used to go to CEES, I would always
have about a half a day to myself where I
would wander the various show floors. If you've never been
to CEES and you're aware of what like an E
three or a uh, you know, packs the size of
that is like Cees makes is like the cost go
to those seven elevens, Like I just can't even like
begin to describe to you just how enormous the Yes,
they have cheap dogs at ces I don't know, I've
never had a hot dog, so I think. So what's
crazy is like you would always find these like booths
were like or you're just like, I don't think this
company understood the assignment, Like I don't think they like
realized what they were supposed to do here, and you
would always like find these like weird little fringy things
and you'd be.
Speaker 1: Like, whyn't they they do? What are they in this
hall for? They they sell? It's it's wild.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think like that was like the golden
era of just like the most inappropriate uh booth And
you would sort of like you almost went around looking
for things for content because of just how like out
of place and sort of like uh, you know, kind
of bizarre things were. But I yeah, I don't miss
that life that much and having a prop up a
booth that you're not too ber confident and it's got
to be a rough, a rough couple of days.
Speaker 5: Jan Jan Jeff Grubs and chat and wants to know
where he should go for tacos.
Speaker 1: Well, don't go near Moscone. Leave Moscone. Just go to
Valencia taco specifically, there's so many places. Just go to
the Valencia area and then the first, like Tucker, you see,
it'll be Britas. I'm sorry again, Oh burritos. Oh god,
uh grab, I'll text you a list. I can't. I Actually,
anywhere in the mission is probably good. You might like
El far Alito. I don't fuck with El far Alito
that much. But they own a soccer team in the
Bay Area. That's fun they right, Yeah, one place that's
oh right, let's see. Moving on along U. Speaking about
food suggestions, Chris writes in Hey everyone, the question is
specifically for jan I'll be in Union Square area next
week for work. Do you have any good local recommendations
for places to eat, grab a drink or visit while
I'm there? Love you all, Chris, Chris, Union Square kind
of sucks. The only neat thing there is a Nintendo
store and the cheesecake factory.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right there in factory Jeff and I love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just go there, man, the one we love.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is, it's the one we adore. We love
that cheesecake matter Dan, Dan and I went to some
weird tourist trap like a bar based around the railcar
thing right after that was fine, Yeah, yeah, that weird bar.
Speaker 2: He's Joint is the place to showed Mike Tommy's Joint.
That was one of my main plas.
Speaker 5: Yes, Tommy's Joint was really good. And then I mean,
how far away was the tiki Bari went to from Union.
Speaker 2: Square Smuggler's Cove that I would say, yeah.
Speaker 5: Go to Smutler's Cove. I love that man.
Speaker 1: But Chris, what I would suggest go to Chinatown if
you're specifically around Union Square. Chinatown isn't super far. You'll
get great dim sum, great Chinese food, great Vietnamese food,
and then go or specifically go fuck what is it
called Nan King something some of the best fucking Chinese
food I've ever had. But also go to the LiPo
Lounge and get the best Mi tie you'll ever have.
They it's cash only. Go there and get inee briated
and get into a fight in an alley. That's what
I used to do all the time in my early twenties.
So Mike does King House of Nan King is what
it was that there you go, he said.
Speaker 5: Jeff says, this hotel's across from that cable car bar.
Oh that's fine. He had a burrito lest night a
Chinatown that was nine dollars and it tasted exactly like
Taco Bell.
Speaker 1: That was good. Then grub Actually go to La Tuckeria.
You'll enjoy the burrito. It will be amazing that.
Speaker 2: It was always a crowd pleaser when I was on
the West Coast when I would talk about how like, yeah,
Mission burritos are good, but I and I do prefer
the Taco Bell burritos, and oh boy, yeah, oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah yeah, I'll do that for the next time
I have to ski up the podcast.
Speaker 1: I almost flipped my whole desk, but I know, I know,
I know, I know. It just hurts to me. Okay,
moving on. Last email of the show because I have
to go decompress now comes from ev May. I've turned
to the discord and no one has figured this out yet.
So I've had this track in my head for the
last few days and cannot figure out what it is.
I've scoured my listening history and TV slash movies I've
seen lately, cannot figure it out, so I tried to
create it in garage band. No, I don't remember any words. Yes, yeah,
I'm sorry. Finished. I don't remember the any words or
even the melody, the vocals, just this little loop? Is
this just any song? No? No, no? They ev May
sent in the MP three and I was gonna play
it for y'all so we can know what I'm saying,
like it could be anything. It could be anything. Okay, sorry, Ev,
let's hear it all right, it's sixteen seconds. Let's see
if we can help ev May out.
Speaker 2: It's good. I think it's like Kon was like like
a eighties kind of pop sent thing.
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish. Can we hear one more time?
Speaker 2: The like the dream?
Speaker 1: You think it's.
Speaker 2: That kind of see that?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, let's let's play it again that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I like this version.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, I don't know. Yeah. I I didn't listen
to it and prior to the show because I was
hoping it would just be a goof. But it seems
like a legitimate ask.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I got nothing.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if we were really expected no offense, Mike.
Speaker 1: It was just whoa you can know what? Boy?
Speaker 5: When while when Dan showed me pop Star, He's like, Oh,
it'll be so funny if artist shows up, if we
make Mike say if he knows it or not. I
was like, all right, and then of course I knew
all of them because they're very.
Speaker 2: Oh you didn't know all of them, you do, like
Mariah Carey and Ringo.
Speaker 5: Star like almost all of that where you got or
like you got like you were like, all right, Mike,
we get it.
Speaker 1: You know them.
Speaker 5: You're like you thought I was disrupting the movie and
I was like, no, you.
Speaker 8: Told being the same I know them or not? I
tell you, Oh that is thirty You're insane. That's not
what happened. It was like eighty percent down visionist history.
Speaker 1: Chan you were there, say something. You knew every You
knew pretty much everyone. It was maybe like the occasional
like artist, like was am I imagining that? T?
Speaker 2: I was in that look and T is in it.
Pharrell is the Roots the road to quest Love, Quest.
Speaker 1: Love, and you were Roots and Quirse.
Speaker 3: Love because of Fallon and that disqualifies you, Mike.
Speaker 1: Oh what do you want me to do?
Speaker 2: Right at It's like Snoop Dogg. It's like ever my
mom knows Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, you didn't say like that.
Speaker 3: He still gets the points. Wait when did you watch
pop Star?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: One of the knights.
Speaker 1: Oh you went home, so it's like not a backlers,
we can have fu. I was.
Speaker 5: Eating so many bagels.
Speaker 1: Yes, ah, god, pop Star? What a fuck?
Speaker 2: It's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's right, Uh, Connor for real? Great, great, great for real?
Uh folks, that about does it. For emails, BombCast john
bomb dot com is the email address send your emails too.
Thank you everyone for writing in your emails. It really
helps boost morale and I try and relay the messages.
If you have anything specific to say to anyone's or whatever,
I will try and forward that over. Mister Manatti. Do
we got any YouTube super chests? Yes?
Speaker 5: Uh migsy, says Mike Manaudi. Is there a new Sega
Dreamcast calendar this year?
Speaker 1: No? Last year.
Speaker 5: I had my Sega hardware calendar. They didn't make a
new fun one this year that I saw, so I'm
actually just using the annual past order calendar I got
from Disney. So that right there is that's the orange Bird.
He was a kind of mascot created by Disney and
the State of Florida to promote the orange farming industry.
So that's the orangebird. They're harvesting some oranges. That's what
I got from March at the moment. Uh, mixy, says
Dan Reikert. Have you watched Bill and Ted yet?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I have not watching Phantom Threat tonight, which I've heard
is very similar.
Speaker 5: Very similar movie. Yeah, yeah, I think Napoleon's and both
of them. Steven Beatty says, first part here, you're coming
up on a year of Giant bomb independence. I bought
a year there and then when you nust it at PAX.
What I like to know is what's the monthly or yearly?
Don't give me, Oh, we appreciate your support, tell me
what you prefer you cours, because I fucking love you guys, Smith.
Speaker 2: We prefer right.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, if the question is what gives us
more money, the answer is monthly.
Speaker 1: And you and just paying monthly indefinitely. Uh.
Speaker 3: That is the just transparent answer. So if that's what
the If that's the answer you're looking for, there it is.
But however you wish to support is more than appreciate it.
Speaker 5: There you go, Mixy's back with a few here, Jan
Will the Giant bomb packs be recorded premium? Question mark?
Speaker 1: Generally we we will grab the stream and flip that around,
so most and not just premium, those usually free? Yeah, everyone, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta ask our our friends there. But
I believe they are recorded regardless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the maybe main staged one may be a little
bit of a challenge, but I think they should be
equipped to record that for us as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a there's a different wrinkle to the whole
thing this year that will learn when we get there,
and we'll message out how that's gonna work for streaming.
Speaker 5: Uh. Next up, Migsy asks Jeff Backler, will you ever
green light the wolf for GBS. I'm sorry what I
thought you would know? The wolf for Game Boy I
assume GBC means game.
Speaker 1: Boy Color game. I don't know what that is, Sadly,
I'm sorry. Okay, the wolf.
Speaker 5: It sounded like you will not green light the wolf
for game Boy Color.
Speaker 1: Then are you're saying wolf?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: W O l F the wolf? Okay? I was hearing wolf,
like I understand.
Speaker 5: I was in I was in a speech class work
on my l it's too mumble something. Yeah, yeah, I
got a problem.
Speaker 1: Was okay? Somebody asked about Dune soon? Yes, okay, we'll
get we'll get to it. We'll get to it, right,
so right, okay, sorry, man just made me think of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I don't I haven't seen any clarification in
chat about what the wolf can.
Speaker 3: Be be more specific. I feel bad chatter.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's okay, Bigs has got another one here, Peeps is
done worth watching? Is it complete?
Speaker 1: Now? Mike? Can you do your best Dune? Yell?
Speaker 2: Microphone is gonna get so fucked up?
Speaker 1: Are people? Are people gonna say it's racist or something?
I do it.
Speaker 2: I guess we'll find out depending on how you.
Speaker 1: Do it, all right.
Speaker 5: I've always seen like that one do movie one time?
Can you play it against yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, oh that sounds racist?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do it? Can you do it as a panel? Then
I do it now for you. I'll do it because
now Dan's right. I'm scared that it's gonna get eaten
up by your microphone. It won't beautiful, no, no, no,
but it's great. It was perfect. Go watch Dune. I
like Dune Part two.
Speaker 2: I like I like them both. I think I prefer
the first one a little more.
Speaker 1: Dave Batista is getting acting work, and I support anything
that man is in. Yeah, feel bad.
Speaker 5: For everyone in Doom. Seems like it sucks to be
in the Dune worlds.
Speaker 1: That's all right, it's not real. Don't worry, just like
a real.
Speaker 5: But Mike on Drum says, then Mike sez he will
Requiem story expansion ounce. I did not see that. I
looked into it, so yeah, he just like said it's coming.
Uh the director, here's play that. Well, that's the So
all the Resident Evil games, they always get some kind
of dealc. As much as I love them, I never
play those. It's sometimes you hear like there's some of
them are good. Yeah, there's a Residval seventy one where
your grandpa who punches people. That's supposed to be good.
Speaker 2: Speaking of that, let me ask the chat right now, because, uh,
because Grub is out tomorrow. Unfortunately, I'm not gonna be
able to start my blight club. But since I've got something,
I'm looking down the barrel with something tough, I get
to play a d light club. So I was gonna
play Beautiful Joe too, because I've never played it quick
in formal to no, because I remember I think I
didn't get as good reviews to the first one. I
love the first one, but would people rather see me
play that reson seven DLC where You're a bunch of alligators?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I think that that's.
Speaker 2: I'm curious about that. So maybe I'll call an audible
so disregard to the schedule. Changed something there?
Speaker 1: I like that, swap it?
Speaker 2: Ok, okay, maybe I won't play that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I've heard mixed things about the Rose
DLC for a fine, it's fine, I love it, And
then like four has separate ways of course, and that's
that's good. So I wonder what this will be. I
don't know if you guys have noticed, but like all
the the resident evil fandom is in a tizzy because
really you could see you can see Leon's got a
wedding ring maybe, and everyone's all like, well, who the
fuck is he married to?
Speaker 1: So maybe that are they mad that Leon isn't married
to them? Well, some of them are that.
Speaker 5: And then some of them have very specific ideas about
who he should be married too, and then they fight
with other people who do. But what if well, some
people want some people want that. Some people what Claire.
Some people wanted to be characters that you knew when
they were children, and other people are like, that's weird,
don't do.
Speaker 3: That, And yeah, that's kind of weird that it's good
that these people exist, because I do need to like
envy people's problem.
Speaker 1: You know what you think? People said? If I start
wearing a wedding ring and I just don't tell anyone.
Speaker 2: It's a good bit. Yeah, it's a good bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people, there there'll be threads like, oh, yeah, who's
Jane's married to the streets. That's who he's married to.
That's right back.
Speaker 3: Exactly, I think, Yeah, man, to have those problems, what
a dream?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: I feel bad. I didn't get to talk about Resident Evil.
Well we talked about in the review, but.
Speaker 3: I was I was a little sticky poo last week,
so I didn't. I didn't get to talk to It's good, Okay,
you should do it.
Speaker 1: Spoiler cast.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I want to maybe talk about Yeah.
Speaker 3: So okay, let's unpack that just for a wee minute here.
When you talk about it's just story spoilers, like.
Speaker 5: Mechanical things, like some things that happens towards the end
the game, right, like because there's some surprises, some mechanical stuff,
or just like this section of the game at the end,
like in where it takes place.
Speaker 3: I think Resident Evils probably like a top five series
of all time for me, like without a doubt.
Speaker 1: Yet I know maybe seven percent of the lore.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't resonate with me in a way that
means anything. So I have that interesting kind of like
relationship with the series. But uh but yeah, okay, I
feel like if I had every little story.
Speaker 1: Beat spoiled to me in front of Requiem, it would
have changed.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah right. I don't agree with this chat that I
see here saying that Ada is out of his league. Ada,
A'm so lucky to be.
Speaker 5: It's just because Ada is like kind of mean and
like it's sexy. Everyone's like, he is allowed to be
a terrorist. I think she's hot.
Speaker 1: I mean that's an opinion.
Speaker 3: Look, you know what now that she's saying, you know
now that you Sun that allowed to be.
Speaker 2: A terrorist is a hilarious What.
Speaker 5: The community is like, they like it's fine.
Speaker 3: I do think Leon is like a phrasing terrorist though,
I do think Leon like says some of the most
remarkably stupid shit where I'm just like, bitch, shut up,
to shut your stupid handsome face and just like shoot gun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this isn't a spoiler, but it is incredible. Like
the crux of that, Gabe is that there's this twenty
two year old FBI agent and her her boss is like, hey,
remember that creepy hotel where your mother was murdered in
front of you?
Speaker 1: Someone else has been murdered there. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I know that you're emotionally distant. It seemed very uh touchy,
but you're going allowed.
Speaker 2: To an best not a field agent at all.
Speaker 5: Like I was like, I was kind of waiting to
find out that the FBI director whatever was a zombie.
Like he's.
Speaker 3: I mean, she I don't know, I don't know what
she's qualified to do based off like everything she says.
Speaker 5: He's qualified to stutter the first word of a sentence,
which he does very well.
Speaker 1: Actually every time she does it. I like it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So it's like, what do you mean I can't
go in there. I'm like, yeah, she's scared. I like it.
Speaker 1: Fucking bugs bunny.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of a bugs bunny voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh Biggsy has given us. Okay, we I gotten some
suffer to help with that one. The Wolf is specifically
iPads Wolf and GBC.
Speaker 1: It's not the.
Speaker 5: Game Boy color, it's the Giant BombCast naked.
Speaker 1: Mike.
Speaker 2: I also thought game Boy color.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well obviously game Boy color. All right, Niggsy, you're
paying you're paying us to write these in.
Speaker 1: Don't be so cold.
Speaker 5: So the super chat you're only allowed to write as
much as you tip for, so you have to use
a preview, I don't think. But to get like like
twenty character Yeah exactly, that is.
Speaker 3: That's like cool and dark at the same time. Okay,
I gotta help us pay the bills. Yeah so John, No,
John's back from Japan. I I spoke to John this weekend.
Speaker 1: Wait. First off, John's been on BombCast before, and I
think he's been on the BombCast, He's been on the
Power BombCast, and we've had him on the Dump Truck.
Oh maybe it's the dump I'm thinking of. Yeah, yeah,
I think John would be into it.
Speaker 3: And also I don't know does John deserve it?
Speaker 1: WHOA take your issues with him being cool dad out
of the equation. Hey, this is a look.
Speaker 3: Perhaps perhaps there's a there's some truth to that. Perhaps
I am a little resentful about John being the cool
dad that my son never had. That's a demon for
me to exercise.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would if John wants to come on
the Giant Bomb cast. John's more than we.
Speaker 2: All right, there we go.
Speaker 5: I do want to hear about his Tokyo Disneyland experiences.
So yes, I have one more here, and it is
from Rio Raku Dan. Who's the core dude salt steak
or Walauigi solid Snake. Yeah, I mean, I don't know
if cool.
Speaker 2: I'm fascinated with Wallaweigi the way I'm fascinated with like
Marty Supreme. He's just like this weird easy worker, you know,
like like solid that's a cool fucking dude. I want
to see Hm shoots some bad guys, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Walawigi would also get someone knocked up and then
immediately leave to go play ping pong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Waaluigi would have sex with Gwyneth Palultrone shower to
steal her necklace.
Speaker 1: That was a fake necklace.
Speaker 3: Right now, walawug does appear to be chronically directed by.
Speaker 2: A saft safe curred here's a good time.
Speaker 1: I think yeah, great, fantastic, Yeah, any more super chats.
Mikey looks like we're all caught up. Thank you so much, everybody,
Thank you everyone, boys. What do we got going on
the rest of this week? Games Morning's popping off Wednesday?
Thursday Friday. I believe Mikey's gonna host tomorrow's EP because
Greb will still be in San Francisco for g DC.
We have a delight club. I think we may call
an audible.
Speaker 2: We're downloading End of Zoe right now. The RI seven
DLC punch Alligators so audible. It was Beautiful Joe on
the thing. I still want to play Beautiful Joe to
at some point, but this seems timely. I want to
play this.
Speaker 1: You know what. You know what, Dan, I think you've
earned both. Thank you. You know what.
Speaker 2: I got some tough stuff ahead. I gotta play a
bad game, you know, janefs determinate amount of time, So
let me have some fun beforehand.
Speaker 5: Do you know do you realize that the Blightening Round
started in November?
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, Well you're supposed to finish a quick.
Speaker 2: Let'm just ask you this my Blighting Round game. Do
you suspect it will be an actual blightening round.
Speaker 5: Well, according to the same metrics you use, Yes for
your research and also grubs research what Yes, Grub on
the line too. No, Grub did what he did for you.
He told me I had this one.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, that's missake all.
Speaker 1: Right tomorrow, Yes, can I tease this dream? Don't you?
Don't tease it, just say it.
Speaker 3: Here's here's the real life truth, folks. We're finally doing
We're finally doing it. The crazy bastards are doing it.
Abby Russell and myself we'll be doing a co op
keyboard build stream. I'm actually gonna rebuild one of my
own personal keyboards, and Abby is going to build her
own brand spanking new keyboard that was gifted to us
by the fine folks at Kinetic Labs, a wonderful New
Jersey based keyboard online retailer, and we actually are gonna
have like an affiliate code you could use to help
support Giant Bomb. You just use the code JERF. We'll
put that on screen tomorrow as well. But that'll be
what five thirty Eastern time Wednesday. We are going to
build some keyboards and it's going to be it's gonna
hopefully be all the ASMR dreams and delights that you
possibly could want out of a stream.
Speaker 1: So's it'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Be fun to hang out with that be tomorrow and
Jan you'll be there too, Yes, I'll be there as well.
Speaker 1: A new episode of Nine Lives after this.
Speaker 5: Wow, while we're teasing things, uh, is it time to
tease what we're going to be up to next week?
Fun little going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well week from yesterday, right, we have so many things
going up, mikey tell the folks at home.
Speaker 5: Yes, our friends at Lego Party actually want us to
check out some new stuff coming to that game, and uh,
they specifically wanted us to check it out in a
couch multiplayer game capacity.
Speaker 1: So I love it.
Speaker 5: The Chef's going to be coming up to my place,
of course, but I've also have recruited the other Minate
Brothers to help fill out that match. So yeah, we're
going to be checking out new stuff for Lego Party.
I think we're gonna have some an opportunity to give
away the game as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, a handful of codes for new subscribers. That'll be
a lovely event next Monday, Yeah, Mike, So.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm excited. I love Lego Party, so I'm excited
to play some more of it and show my brothers
what's up. I can't wait to see my uh order
brother's reaction video to losing to me at Lego Party.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
Speaker 3: He's really finding every opportunity for premium folks.
Speaker 1: We also have Marry Me Tomadacci coming up on this
Thursday as well, Voicemail, dumb Truck before that, you p
this Friday, and the boys are gonna go try and
get some titters in the bank. I mean, this is
the run, come on, that's what we started calling it eternally. No,
I can't have watched Look you can't have is better
than it's any This is the run. It's a bad day.
Like it.
Speaker 2: People like it.
Speaker 8: It's descriptive and it echoes our other brand.
Speaker 1: I don't get what's a home run?
Speaker 8: And I didn't.
Speaker 5: To be clear, I did not name that launch look
all right? I think Jane did because he agrees with me.
Or what's to a piece?
Speaker 1: This is? This is a bad idea. I changed the stream.
I didn't do that. You didn't do plade? Who named
a look? I don't know? Maybe who is changed Jane.
Speaker 2: Grubber straungely anti launched look wouldn't have been us.
Speaker 1: I think kind of makes more sense. It sounds shitty,
don't be honest, history with his back look, why is
it so bad? But also I think long look is
just funnier.
Speaker 2: Look is funnier. It sounds better.
Speaker 5: To be clear, it's not funny. We can call it that,
but it's no one's laughing.
Speaker 2: Someone said, first look, one's like Chuck first look today,
that first looks better than like everything is better than launch.
Speaker 5: We can't do because like what the people like, launch
look is too much like quick look, which it's supposed
to be. They're very similar to things. But you can't
look that's even more like that's well, apparently it's a problem.
Speaker 1: The problem is funny. Long look is funny because it's
actually a longer look at the game.
Speaker 5: It's it's more descriptivepiness than an hour long look at
that thing.
Speaker 1: But that was a question, Yeah, and that's been the joke.
Do you think you could name a restaurant Titters?
Speaker 3: Though, yeah, you can't, Like you'd be like, oh, that's
not a Martinitaville anymore, it's a Titters.
Speaker 1: Now the Hooters exactly. Well, since Jeff Greb is still
out on assignment over here in San Francisco at g
DC UH, we may call in our own special lifeline
for this is the run and it'll be a great time.
It will be a very very grand time. Titter Also, Gang,
we said at the top of the show, we're going
to be at Packs East, but that is not the
only thing happening with Pax East. We're getting way to
two pairs of two tickets between now and then. And
if your premium subscriber, where we got a code for
fifteen percent off of your Packs East cart can't be
applied to codes or stuff that's already been bought, but
that code will be posted in the behind the scenes
channel on the premium section of the Discord. Boys. I
think that's it. I think we got to get on
out of here. M all right, yeah, all right here.
The character your made be Buster Scrugs. Was that what
it was?
Speaker 2: Now that's a Netflix Coen Brothers movie. There was a
super smooth scoop dunbar.
Speaker 1: How did I get Buster Shrugs?
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 3: Oh, we just had another We had another super chat
come on from see Brahma snack money for the lego
pee you on.
Speaker 6: Thank you, folks.
Speaker 1: That doesn't for the drive Popcus. He's been Jeff, he's
been dead, he's been Mike, I've been jan We'll see
you next week, bar another Bruno.
Speaker 5: I get sad when buster shrugs get shot.