Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November eleventh, twenty twenty five. Welcome
to the Giant BombCast, presented to you by our friends
at Dekou Deal's. I am your dear host Jan Oshawa
joining me. Co Captain of the Ship. He doesn't need
any cameras to capture his likeness. He's punching all the
lenses in the mouth. Co Captain of the Ship Jeff Grugg.
Speaker 2: They have cameras on the web now, I'm just gonna
use one of those.
Speaker 1: We have the ultimate surfer of the web. That's right,
he's hanging ten and hanging.
Speaker 3: Loose and maybe hanging some other things.
Speaker 4: Dan Riker, I'm here checking out the I r c's.
That's what the kids that know the Internet do, right,
if you're rephrase. I've never really know what an I
r C is, but it seems popular.
Speaker 1: Dan and I had an extend to talk about this.
It was a dear heart to heart where uh we
didn't quite know, uh master of all things dark on
the Internet, including I r C and RSS feeds and
other things that uh you've heard for years now and
have been too scared to actually figure out why or
what they are.
Speaker 3: Jeff Beckler. Yeah, that that's probably what would expose me
the most, is my I r C history if I
ever position.
Speaker 4: Do you know what that thing is to is that
like dark web?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, it was interrelay chat, I believe is what it's.
Speaker 5: You actually do it daily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 6: You know basically right well, and when you access it
it is it's it's twitch chat. Twitch chat still uses
IR so it's.
Speaker 4: Still like the main thing that all the like techies
used to talk to each other.
Speaker 5: No, Yah, which I r CER is at icee Q.
Speaker 6: I can't think it's speaking about I see Q.
Speaker 3: I see a QT right over there. Because he's a
bad boy of games media.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need a collar because he's popping off all
the buttons and all the shirts. He's he's reloading his
fists like that one guy in that one movie.
Speaker 3: We all know the reference. We love the gift many.
Speaker 5: I'm stroking my fistew.
Speaker 1: Okay, I take it back.
Speaker 3: What wait?
Speaker 6: Like you mean like you were cockying it like Henry
cavill And and one movie.
Speaker 4: He grows the beard really fast because of the way
they edited it, and his shirt rows.
Speaker 2: A pocket and shirt rows a pocket.
Speaker 6: Yeah, was that was that a shoot like or was
because the people are like, no, that's just an optical
illusional might get.
Speaker 4: Really it looks like a pocket and the beard gets start.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so anyway, is that what you met Mike?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Uh anyway, uh hey, thanks for listening to us here
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Speaker 1: And I'm constantly watching all of you and whatever I
r C chats, discord chats, forum chats, whatever, I'm watching
you fondly, and also shouts out to Deeko Deals.
Speaker 4: Fondly like the mic check.
Speaker 1: Now you know we had like Chuck kind of just
like volunteer to be like O r T guy. If
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Team Kayla and our dear friend Turbo Sean this Saturday
because Extra Life is coming to you.
Speaker 3: Boys. How long are you playing and going?
Speaker 4: We have we loose things we're thrown around. As far
as incentives, we got a big list of games and everything.
I'm getting all that stuff set up this week. As
far as time, you know it's gonna be a long one.
We're gonna start after lunch. This typically starts in the
afternoon and goes late into the night, so we'll say
that is the intention again this time. So we don't
have a specific time frame yet, Let's say noon. Let's
say noon Central will start and then we will go late.
Speaker 2: Sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've heard some luc shenanigans. We talked about a
silly idea yesterday, and I love how all of them
involve Mitch.
Speaker 4: Is it the one? Can I say the one that
we Mitch agreed to last night that I'm very excited
about Yes, okay for TBD incentive. If we reach We're
gonna quan Chi Mitch and make him play up through
the Fujin fight and moratal combat mythologies in masana, and
we'll have like a GoPro in there or something, so
he will be fully make uped out. And then also
there's blue in the sauna, so we will have the
mythologies music blasting through the sauna as we.
Speaker 1: Bluetooth in the sauna. Definitely is essentially if we.
Speaker 6: Hear muffled from the other room, you can trust a
sorcerers sometimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm gonna be setting up go pros in
my bathroom.
Speaker 1: And Mike Mikey is a strat to do the makeup
before going into the sauna or as you were in
the sauna.
Speaker 3: No, we do it before.
Speaker 5: I need a mirror, you got it? How Yeah, I
can't just do it in the sauna. It's particulars stuff.
Speaker 1: No, you have to like look into a pool of
water as you do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have to be in a sensory
deprivation chamber exactly.
Speaker 1: Also speak about extra life. Shouts out to everyone that
has been a part of the Giant Bomb team on
Extra Life raising tons of money for a good cause,
helping the kids out there, especially specifically shouts out to
Anthony Thomas raising an obscene amount of money all for charity.
We love and appreciate all y'all for being part of
Team Giant Bomb, and I also love and appreciate our
dear friends main Gear. Go to main gear dot com
slash giant Bomb. You can uh get some of the
customized face plates that we have. We have all designed.
Go buy a PC as well. You know it's we're
due to be in inside for a while because of
the colder months. Why not go snuggle up next to
a lovely new PC? Uh?
Speaker 6: It right now?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 3: Someone by Mike's plate.
Speaker 5: He's upset about it off while it's on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can only only my plate is selling in
a good way and not Mike's specifically wrestler person that's.
Speaker 4: It could be anyone.
Speaker 3: Him, that's mister mister headlock. Who that is someone by
Mike's very specific plate to him and only him, Mike.
Speaker 1: If it makes you feel better, I don't think anyone
is bought, Okay, if it makes you feel better, No
one's bought my plate with me and the cool s
on it.
Speaker 5: Does that make me feel better? We should all thrive.
We should all be thriving shoving agreed.
Speaker 1: Hey, Mike, I'll buy your plate if you buy my plate.
Speaker 6: By the way, when he laughs like that dismissive laugh,
now I've heard.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you would like that. Mother buy your plate.
Speaker 5: It's personally customized for you.
Speaker 3: Would I buy your plate? Then, I've never seen your dog.
Speaker 5: I don't know your dog. I never thought about it
like that.
Speaker 1: Mikey rolled up to like our pre show, just saying, guys,
I'm feeling a little bit under the weather, and you
know what that is the energy I I welcome. I
welcome Mikey. Not at one hundred percent, because Mikey at
one hundred percent, the tree skews to a different direction
and where the energy is going.
Speaker 4: That's it be tough for Mikey because like when he's mad,
he's very entertaining. When he is sleep deprived, as we
saw the bomb bombiton very entertaining. When he's sick, he's
very entertaining. So you can just give him a negative
status effect. Yeah, we need to get to boost to charisma.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we need like a non barred we need someone
around him just to upset him constantly.
Speaker 5: Oh God, who could possibly fill this role? What a
big mystery? Who could it be?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: And if it's not these two, it's a Christian.
Speaker 5: Shouts to Christian for doing some stuff for the Giant
Bomb Extra Life over the weekend as well. Oh yeah, yes, yes, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
I think I caught a little something when I was
in DC for that wedding, which was which was a
good time.
Speaker 3: A virus from Chuck.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 5: I caught it with like the uh the other person
in our group who did like say, like, I think
I'm a little sick. And it's like, well, were living
in an airbnb together. What are we going to do? Right,
I'm gonna be like, well, you got to stay away,
It's fine.
Speaker 4: Did that shut out of your system before you come
to Minnesota?
Speaker 6: I'm trying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yes, Jeff, Jeff's already got the that's his
gimmick here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I'm I'm working on getting some butt
stuff happening again.
Speaker 3: Yeah wow, Oh but okay, it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: I have to make precautions for that bathroom involving butt
stuff because so the cat has one of its litter
boxes in that bathroom and that cat has the most
nuclear ships ever. So like literally today I usually take
my ship down here because it's got a beday here.
I took it upstairs because like for like an hour
after it ships, even after I've cleaned out the litter
box and dumped it everything and spray ship.
Speaker 3: Cat food.
Speaker 4: It's like last night I got in the sauna. The
sauna is in that room too, so you about sitting
in the sauna and everything that smells like cat ship
just bailing this. So I gotta make sure if we're
gonna be streaming for a long time now, because it
fucks up the whole floor, we're gonna keep that door shut,
keep that cat out of there. This is.
Speaker 5: Torturing me.
Speaker 3: To my home.
Speaker 5: Cans want to rest all be clear. I know it's
funny when I'm bad. You can't just torture me because.
Speaker 3: It amuses you. For the kids, you know, this is
the kids.
Speaker 1: What A?
Speaker 5: What A?
Speaker 1: That's the ultimate irony here. What a great time to
recommend or have a friend or someone listened to the
podcast for the first time and we just talk about
nothing but SNA's and cat poop, and we crushed it.
We had all the boxes already. Get y'all.
Speaker 4: We'll keep the door shut so we don't have the
cat ship down there.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Dan, do you just have like a regular
litter box or one of the cool washing machine looking ones.
Speaker 4: We got two of the washing machine ones, so you're here,
one upstairs. Yeah okay, okay, yeah, and give it a
couple of options.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, fantastic.
Speaker 4: We have to put up fences around everything because dumb
ass dogs want to just eat cat shit, so we
have to put up all these goddamn fences and stuff.
It's just it's a nightmare.
Speaker 3: Have they not learned to not eat the cat? No?
Speaker 4: No, we did it more, that's the thing. They did
it and they get sick and then it's like I
want more of that and a few gumbasses and like
so we have to like fully block everything off, like crazy.
Speaker 3: Cool? Great?
Speaker 1: So how was everyone else?
Speaker 3: I have an.
Speaker 4: Incentive where Mitch eats cats ship?
Speaker 5: Oh great? Yeah? Cool? Oh? Me and my me and
my girlfriend met Chuck and his wife for dinner. The
one night that was nice, Uh, I was dinner. Dinner
was great. I embarrassed myself though, I made I made
that damn fool myself because the check came and like
I was like, well, we'll split it, right, I'm like, yeah,
we'll do it, dude. So I got out my card,
whipped it down in there. I was like, I got
to the bathroom right back, and then I came it was
already paid, and I see on the table my grocery
store savings card and I'm like, oh, no, that's what
I gave them.
Speaker 6: And then like I'm drinking.
Speaker 5: I'm not done. I was fumbling to get back on
the table. I accidentally got to the tablecloth at the
table next to me stuck on my shoe somehow, and
I almost like I almost knocked all this ship over.
I caught myself halfway through that though, and they were
just like what And I was like, yeah.
Speaker 3: Your shoe, you're talking? What do you talk into your shoe?
Speaker 5: I think it got like caught between my shoe and
my thigh. I was as I was maneuvering you.
Speaker 3: You're a tall man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what were you walking like dwarf?
Speaker 5: I don't know what happened all were you?
Speaker 3: Were you inebriated?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I was that was that was so hung over that day.
Speaker 6: Basically, someone has to explain the.
Speaker 3: Physical world that we occupy. Here we go, here we go. No, no, no, no, no, no, don't.
Speaker 5: Do that.
Speaker 3: Oh he's gonna fall.
Speaker 4: He's saying his officehair on one foot.
Speaker 5: He just h the crane kick from Karate Kid.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what, it makes sense now. It doesn't,
but it makes sense now because I thought it was
his shoe to the same thigh.
Speaker 4: It's still weird and confusing.
Speaker 3: But still, how's the how's the tablecloth get caught in there?
Speaker 5: It was a tight fit between our table and the
nexta one of those tables were like, there's just like
a long row of basically like of a bench, you know,
and they's put as many tables in there, like tight
packs to fit seating as possible as I was.
Speaker 6: I was on that thing.
Speaker 5: So did they take your GIHNNY Gold advantage card. No,
they did not accept that as payment. So Chuck, Chuck's
trying to be cute. I'm like, all right, Chuck, just
tell me what I give VM you. He's like, maybe
I will, And I'm like, Chuck, you so I'm a bitch.
Speaker 6: I'll just send you didn't want to pay because who
would check the cars?
Speaker 5: I was gonna send him a large sem of money soon. Also,
I was under dress. I didn't know the place was
gonna be kind of nicer side to fucking Kermit the
frog shirt on, and that's that's appropriate.
Speaker 6: You gotta let us guess next time, Mike, what what's
on your shirt?
Speaker 3: All right? This cavalcade of just poor decisions and unluck. Wow, wait,
it's explain to me. How do you one? How is
your like frequent shopper card that a accessible and mistakable
for a real life adult credit card? You see? Wait?
Speaker 4: Wait there, Chuck posted this on Blue Sky. It's even
less looking like a credit card than you have.
Speaker 6: The grocery store Lloyd to loyalty card thing you've ever
second explain myself.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna explain myself what uh it is like right
next to my uh depit card is and they're both
kind of blue. All right?
Speaker 3: This has the lamination peeling on it.
Speaker 1: How much cash did you have in your wallet that day?
Speaker 5: No, it's more than that. I got a little bit,
a little bit of some twenty I don't know, it's
like a twenty maybe I had on me. I didn't
occur to me to just throw money at him.
Speaker 3: It's not even like it's not even dimly lit. This
restaurant like this had to come out, and I just
like it.
Speaker 5: I do go to the groceries. I go to that
grocery store a lot. It's right by me, so I
am constantly giving them that card.
Speaker 2: It's one of those.
Speaker 5: It's one of those grocery stores that also sometimes has
gas station.
Speaker 6: The do you ever used to check out?
Speaker 5: Our mind doesn't have it. We're not that fancy.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, the one in mine. You can't scan unless
you scan your loyalty card. So it's very.
Speaker 5: Necessarily were very into the loyalty card. Basically, you don't
go there if you don't have that card, then't like
look at you like you're a moron, because they're overcharging you.
The only way to make it possibly worth it is
to get the loyalty card. It's like the mob. Unless
you have loyalty, you're gonna have a bad time.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 1: I went down to La over the weekend to visit
the IM eight bit twentieth Anniversary Art show. Very fun stuff,
shouts out the IAM a bit. They also helped us
out during the Amazon Yo Art's cool, especially what it's
like video game art like I saw link as a squirrel.
There was a bunch of people wearing Luigi masks, not
actual shoot people, but like on a painting and whatnot.
Also also, hold the fucking phone, y'all. I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: Okay, now she was going to stand on a chair.
Speaker 5: Another another Vinyl that I wish I had.
Speaker 1: Oh, I almost, I almost. I'm not going to show
my thighs today, okay, darn. I almost bought them up
at Vinyl though, Mikey I saw it. It was beautiful. But
I finally have it, and I'm so fucking oh final.
Speaker 5: Oh dear thermos, everybody, I like, I saw it at
their little merch stand and then I almost pushed our
dear friend Bailey Myers out of the way because I
wanted it, but she also wanted it.
Speaker 1: Thankfully there was enough to go around, but like I
needed it and I finally you have it.
Speaker 3: I almost.
Speaker 1: I almost left clothes in LA to make space in
my bag because I needed this and I felt like
I needed to keep the box.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna now You're gonna use it as a
thermost or is it just I don't know, It's it's difficult.
Speaker 2: I know, are cool?
Speaker 6: I like I've been using my metroid thermos recently that
I we showed up in the video.
Speaker 5: I got that fantastic.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I do every time I do use it.
Speaker 6: I do think about Dan putting a thermis into the
fridge and then wondering why it wasn't the water wasn't
getting cold or whatever.
Speaker 3: Uh that was.
Speaker 2: I didn't talk about.
Speaker 6: That every time.
Speaker 4: This might surprise you, but I learned nothing from that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that does surprise me. Oh my god, whoa.
Speaker 5: It's okay. We won't explain it again.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna take no. Uh you know.
Speaker 5: Also went to a spy museum because all the all
the other museums were about to call all the real museums.
I don't want to be disrespectful to the spy museum,
but all the other museums were closed because they are
run by the government, but the spy museum not so much.
So why do it looks so confused?
Speaker 4: Dan, I'm constantly confused about whether the government's open or not.
Speaker 1: I thought, no, they've been closed.
Speaker 6: The votes at stolen procedure, yeah stuffy, yeah, yeah, okay
yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: So the government was shut down, so we went to
the spy museum instead, which was fun. Because they gave
me a secret identity and I was really into that.
I was Cameron Jones from Royschek Iceland or Price said
that wrong, but that's okay. If I already had a
cover story for that. If anybody was like, where are
you from? And I said, Roychek Iceland are like what
you say, I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. I can't get
over how you Americans say it over here. So funny. Yeah,
I had to go to Argentina. I was like, oh,
maybe I'll meet Christian. That was my secret mission. It
was fun. Basically we had to go to like terminals
and play some games. I was kind of sad there
weren't more like people at the Buza Brole Plague and
like asking me, like interrogating me out like a couple
level of cover stories. Show off my improv skills, but
really good at it.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to do a murder mystery dinner, but
no one is down.
Speaker 3: I wanted to I will Oh my god, came.
Speaker 4: Next game of the year.
Speaker 1: Maybe next year.
Speaker 3: It's too soon.
Speaker 6: God, that's incredible. Yeah sounds really.
Speaker 2: That would be fun.
Speaker 6: But maybe if we do some fixing for Dan Voyage
or whatever, maybe something like that could.
Speaker 4: Murder mister murder scene, I'm telling you for catch. If
you Dan, I'm giving you permission to Michael Douglas the
game me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're thinking about it.
Speaker 4: That seemed intricate, but we're not working as a kid.
As a kid watching the game, I was like, this
seems fucking kid. Yeah, that's the movie where Mario commits suicide.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who's Martine.
Speaker 4: Jumps off a roof? He plays he's the dad. Really,
that was the That was the dad Mario commits suicide
in that movie.
Speaker 3: All right, here we go. I don't think it's I
think that sentence is a bit I'm not wrong. Yeah
you are.
Speaker 6: That's well only because he's not Mario anymore. The former
Mario killed him, right, Yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Well we've jumped off the deep end, so we might
as well talk about video games.
Speaker 5: Can somebody ask me questions? Like I'm Cameron Jones, so
I could live out my fantasy.
Speaker 1: No no, don't do it. No no no no no no
no no no no no no. We played the game music,
we do. Stop ask me about my parents. We're on
topic now, we're on topic now.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Sorry, sad and getting the inferior computer.
Speaker 5: Dad, we can't keep complaining about a fifty eighties for
free instead of fifty nineties.
Speaker 4: That's how you get a French Revolution.
Speaker 3: That's the joke.
Speaker 6: The French Revolution is a good thing, right, Mike. You
love the French Revolution.
Speaker 1: That's what That's what it was about, right yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no, actually no, that's that was the that's
that's a different uprising that didn't quite take Actually, so.
Speaker 2: There say it, say it beat.
Speaker 3: There I go.
Speaker 1: That's what I live for, all right, yep, I needed that, Mike.
I will ask you about Dragon Quest one two HD
two D.
Speaker 5: Though, yes, yes, I've been excited for this one. I
really liked the dragon Quest three HD two D probably
my favorite of the HD two D games, that of
the Liva Live remake, which was also fantastic. I love JRPGs,
and I find these these kind of ones that are
from the eight bit era redone really charming because there
is a simplicity to it, but there's there's also this
peerness of it, and then just sprucing that up in
some small ways with the graphics and the presentation, it
just makes for a really cozy experience. Dragon Quest three, though,
I had played before. I never played Dragon Quest one
or two in anyway, and drag Quest one specifically, that
is the first JARPG. It's really the first big console RPG.
It was the game that was taking what was going
on and the then you know, very like you know,
small PC gaming space with things like the original Ultimas
and Wizardry, which those things got popular in Japan. So
here we are. We're gonna make it for the Famicom
disk driver, no, probably even just cartridge. We're gonna make
it for the Famicom computer. That's redundant. The comm means computer.
We're gonna make it for the Famicom. And uh so
here it is, and I am really enjoying it. It
is simple and a pleasant way. You are just one
person in your party. You don't even have party members.
Oh you know, your quest is relatively straightforward. It's just like,
you know, there's towns, there's a big role map, go
to some dungeons. But again, it is cozy. Even though
I've been played before, I know the ways that they
have sort of juiced up a bit. And the original
dragon Quest that was not just you were one person,
but the ends was always one monster. So there's always
a one on fight here. You can't fight groups of enemies,
so there's a bit more strategy involved there, and there's
like you know, just more cut scenes with voice dialogue
each shit Pokemon, right, we got so we got voices
sometimes in this game like that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I am. I'm really enjoying. It's just the
you know, I.
Speaker 5: Like playing my Switch in bed a lot kind of
cozy time, watching something stupid on YouTube, playing some Switch,
and this is a perfect game for that.
Speaker 3: Mike, I said that, go ahead, grib Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was just I was just gonna ask, like you,
so you've played three, You've played a bunch of the
later ones, right, and so, but you've never played.
Speaker 2: One and two.
Speaker 5: You said, yeah, I never played I've played I played
eleven s first and then uh in whatever order. I
did five on the DS three, which was the old
Switch version of three that was based on a mobile
version of it. Seven on the three DS and that's
the one that's getting remade soon, right, and like half
of eight on the three DS before I got a
little Dragon Quest fatigue.
Speaker 6: Okay, So then my question is when you are if
someone comes up to you and they're like, hey, I
really like starting a series with the first one. Dragon
Quest is maybe not necessarily one where where it's like
that would be reckoning. But at this point with this version,
do you think it like, hey, no, yeah, go jump
in with this version of one, or is there still
another one you would recommend first?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting, you could. There are so many places
you could jump in with dragon Quest. This makes sense.
Dragon Quest three, HG two, And the reason why they
kind of justified doing three first is that three was
a prequel to one. This remake is even kind of
doing more stuff narratively to tie it into one than
they you know, the original, So you could go three one,
then two three is going to be a more complex game,
so it might be a little funny kind of going
to that game with its job system and some of
these other mechanics. Then you go back to one and
it is a good deal more simple. So what two
three I think's good?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 5: Three one two? If you really want something even more modern,
you could just go straight to eleven S, which is
a fantastic game.
Speaker 2: It's really good.
Speaker 3: Zone.
Speaker 1: Mikey, you said that this is one of your favorite
HD two D stuff of the RPGs that have done this.
What else is on that list for you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think Live a Live like that, Live livey make
well a ton I thought that that was really really good.
Uh yeah, Octopath Traveler still stands out, even though I
feel really bad that I didn't get into Octopath Traveler
two more because basically everybody else who likes these kind
of games, like I do, think it's like one of
the all time greats.
Speaker 3: I'm with you, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'm on on that side of the fence because everyone
talks so huge about Oxtopath Traveler too, but I could
never get into it.
Speaker 2: Live fuck you, Michael Hyam, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: You and Sho Tani.
Speaker 5: That's right. But I think of Oxopath Traveler two is
that because just the way it is, it's like, you know,
it's eight characters, so you have to kind of play
eight beginnings of a j RPG, like the be case
of Jebergs. They're kind of slow and they're setting stuff up,
and that's fine. I could that that pacing works when
it's win game, when it's like here's eight first acts
in a row. Something about that just kind of is
like it's a little bit it's a lot td to
me with Live Alive. First off, it's like overall a
shorter game and there's a bit more of a Each
of these are very distinct gameplay wise and sort of
story wise, like one is, you know, straight up the
wild West, and then the other one is sci fi
stuff like that. So that's just my little hang up
there with with Octopath.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you, Big Doug. I need something. They'll
get me straight into the action almost immediately. And I
want to take this opportunity to tell my fellow co
owners of the website here that I'm getting super into esports.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go pro, go on, go on.
Speaker 1: And y'all may be thinking, oh, no, to Jan and
his internet friends start playing league again, Is he getting
into a doda? No, No, I'm talking about the hottest
esport out right now.
Speaker 2: Q up Okay, I.
Speaker 5: Watched you play this and I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: Qu perfect uh levels out the playing field in terms
of competition, no longer.
Speaker 6: Sound game standing in line.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, you shut your mouth. Bro. Now
what you do is you two teams of five. There's
the Q side and then the upside, and then you
pick your specific characters you have a load out of
skills and everything, and then each character is a different skill.
There's a healer class. There is a class that specifically
targets another specific character, and I think that character's name
is Meta, and he looks like Chuck, and I just
can't get it out of my head that he looks
like Chuck. But there's also a dragon, there's a whale
and all that jazz and uh. It is first to
three points, and that three points is determined by the
ultimate esport. A coin is being flipped. If it's the
Q side, the Q side gets a point, it it's
the upside, upside gets a point, and then whoever gets
to three first wins. In between each flip's flip, your
different abilities get triggered, so you're earning Q points that
will increase your rank as well as getting XP. You're
also getting gold some gems as well. And then in
between each game you can go to the shop and
get different items to affect your different stats, your different abilities.
It's a gigantic skill tree or sphere or skill grid,
and all of them synergize with each other, so you'll
have to have to put a skill point or a
skill strategically at one part of your grid, so it
can trigger off other parts of your grid. It is
the ultimate e sport. It feels fair. I feel like
my time is being respected.
Speaker 6: Maybe, like, yeah, a bit too fair.
Speaker 3: No, what a you're talking about?
Speaker 2: It's it's literally fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3: No, what are you talking about? I've gotten, I've got.
Speaker 1: I've just gone three in some games, y'all. I've gone
three and I've come back from zero lead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I'm just I have some questions?
Speaker 3: What are the questions? All things considered? Uh, it is
the best like gambling rates, You're ever gonna percent, You're
ever gonna guys? What are you about for you and
your your situation? Fifty to fifty is pretty good.
Speaker 6: I don't know about this is the coin Like, Okay,
there's that other coin flipping game recently, I can't remember
the name of it, might be called coin flip. Uh
it uh like you can affect the outcomes of the
coin flip in that game. You can make it the
coin more in your favor overtime by upgrading it. I'm
getting the sense here, Like, no, it's always.
Speaker 1: Norty because this is an e sport, right that you
can't developers included quantum physics to ensure the odds are even.
Speaker 3: So then it's like it's turning into an intervention.
Speaker 6: What do I feel there was prevention here? People are like, jan,
don't play this, please, don't make this a choice. So
then is it about making sure that when you do win,
you get the maximum benefits from that? Isn't that where
you're playing the game?
Speaker 1: What you that's the initial strategy of like, oh, as
I win each flip and get a point for my team,
I'm maximizing the amount of Q points that I'm getting
based off of the win. But but there are different
builds for different characters where you are actually incentivized to
lose because it doesn't matter if you if your team loses,
because your build favors your skill set where you are
getting more points from losing. There's also a character I
believe she's a troller, a goblin, where her skill is
like I'm gonna throw the game. I'm gonna like fuck
this team, like I'm in it for me?
Speaker 4: How for the game? Wait, it's like someone in betting
the don't come line on craps exactly.
Speaker 1: They they're they're betting on come uh where they don't
want to win. They're they're hoping to not win.
Speaker 4: Oh people, people don't like that at a craft stable.
Yeah yeah, no, it's an asshole move. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But you can't control who you get matched up with.
You can't invite friends to join your team though, So
if you four wanted to join up with me and
we want to get like a good team, Gump going.
Speaker 2: Wait, how it's a multiplayer it's an sport.
Speaker 3: Did you hear it from the very.
Speaker 5: Attention you know, I pay attention. I knew that it
was multiplayer, jan I just think it's not stupid. Wait, Mike,
that's funny.
Speaker 3: But you also said you were watching him play.
Speaker 5: I didn't really understand it was multiplayer then, until you
explained it to me. I mean it was.
Speaker 6: I thought it was like faux multiplayers, multiplayer surreal multiplayers
a synchronous though.
Speaker 2: So you oh, okay, that makes sense. But that's all right.
Speaker 6: So would I actually need to play for me to
be on your team or could I just like create
a character and then you.
Speaker 2: Do all the work.
Speaker 1: You have a gitar, You got to create a character, Greb, Like,
we gotta synergize our characters.
Speaker 2: Come on, Okay, all right, I'll see what I can
do for you.
Speaker 1: Like if you be a healer, then like I have
a skill that like benefits from at least having one
healer on the team, so then we can get maximize
our flips.
Speaker 5: Dog No want the next time play a tabletop game,
do you want to just replace all of the dice
with coins? Just make everything that's fair.
Speaker 1: Hey, as long as I got at least one or
two hero points in in lock, then I got it. Anyway,
it's uh, go ahead, dan Oh. I was just gonna say, Mike,
you brought up for its dry guitars. Would it surprise
you if I told you that the very first game
where they introduced that, and they're like, oh, the way
you drive will show up in your friends game. I
just got the game and turned around own and just
drove into everyone going backwards for like ten races in
a row, just so my car would be like an ultimate.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really fun. I wonder how much that actually transferformed.
Speaker 4: I would ask my friends and they said it, I
mean I was like erratic and stuff, but it wouldn't
like fully drive.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I played a lot of the early Forces, and then
for years later everyone would always yell at me about
my dry guitar, and I was like, oh, okay, apparently
still out there being an asshole.
Speaker 4: That's a cool idea.
Speaker 1: I like that, fantastic h you know what. And I'm
not gonna take this discussion personally where you guys are
kind of it seems like you're ragging on my newfound
hobby and my newfound.
Speaker 2: I thought it was like a career. I thought you
were going to sport career.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like once I go pro and q up,
I'll still take you guys with me, you know, like
you'll you'll be like with the posse that walks down
with me to the boxing ring and every like at
the end of Nubes, Yes, yeah, yeah, yes, and then
Sabrina Carpenter will also be there, so that'll be cool.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: I guess if we had to be any part of Nubes,
maybe that's the most acceptable one, Yes, the.
Speaker 4: Most Jason mus of Giant back on, come on, if
you wanted to be anyone from Nubes.
Speaker 2: God, I don't know, it's right.
Speaker 3: All right. I had that coming on.
Speaker 1: The other side of the coin from something totally random. Well,
I guess it's actually the same side of the coin
because all the encounters are incredibly random. You never know
what you're gonna get, especially if you have Kla on
your team. H y'all, some of y'all have been playing Raiders.
Speaker 3: Yes, who's me and Gub mainly playing that?
Speaker 5: I think, so I haven't the chance to check it out.
Speaker 1: I'm too scared.
Speaker 6: I've had I've had a good couple of evenings with
it now where it's like it's starting to I'm piecing
more and more of it together exactly what I should
be doing or how I should be spending my time.
And uh yeah, I mean it's it's a game where
you go out and get resources, you come back, you
can spend those resources to improve your stuff, and then
you get excited because you're like, and now I have
better stuff. I go out and get more resources. The
loop is clear and it's satisfying once you get into it.
I've also just really locked down. Oh, this really is
like an engine for a merchant storytelling. We can go
in there with an idea of let's let Cayleb be crazy, and.
Speaker 4: We were trying to like be civil.
Speaker 6: You're right. Very quickly though, it became like, well, we
have to harness this like yes, so, uh we're going
into the world, and Kayla is just like, hey, you know,
we'll talk it out. And then the second she sees
an enemy, another real person, she just begans or even
just hears them, she begins screaming at them immediately that
she's going to kick the balls and.
Speaker 4: Front I'm going to full frontal your ass.
Speaker 5: Full frontal your ass.
Speaker 6: That was a key one, and it did seem to
unsettle a lot of people when they're like, we hear something,
let's go see what's going on. And I had like
a good view one time of you guys in a
hole and her screaming up and these three people like
trying to get a good look at you, and then
I kind of saw them talk to each other and
they're like it's not worth it, and they just ran away.
Speaker 2: It was amazing, and it's like.
Speaker 6: Being able to come away from this game with those
kinds of stories is something I really treasure.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, watch the we did the UPF last week.
It's me grubbing Kayla, my sister playing art graders, And
that is a great example of some of the emergent
stuff that can pop up like that is some of
the more like chaotic stuff, which I think in trios
and duos you see a little more. I think it
scales down with like trio's is the most kind of
combative even but it's not like it's not pubg it's
not constant shoot on site type stuff.
Speaker 3: Duo's.
Speaker 4: I do a lot of duos with Bonk and that
tends to be pretty cool. Like there are a lot
of times where like we'll go into a building to
like loot stuff, and it'll be like another couple in
there and we'll hear them on on mic and stuff
and they, oh, yeah, I know, it's all we already
looted that room here. There's some bad guys out there
where it's like a cool thanks, you know, it's really
cool experiences like that. And then solo. Banx has a
lot of solo and I'll watch her and like that's
almost always peaceful. Occasionally there's one thing that like lays
some traps or something right near the extraction and stuff
like that, but like it seems almost like this peaceful
thing of just kind of like solitary going around kind
of looting stuff, you know, taking out the occasional arc
meeting with someone having a brief conversation and moving along
like that. Emergent storytelling is really great in this game.
Speaker 1: I speaking about emergent storytelling, one of my favorite bits
from that upf was Kayla uh asking out out is
there fault damage and then immediately just plunking straight into
the ground.
Speaker 6: She was clearly in the hair when she asked that,
when she screamed at that one person that I'm going
to be your step mom's mom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a hard thing.
Speaker 6: I saw someone a chat remind me of that, and
I was trying not to laugh for like the last
minute because that's just that's what mean what it full
front of your full frontal You're asked me, none of
anything that makes it scarier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's scary.
Speaker 4: Like I said, her head is just like a Bengo
hopper with a bunch of words in it and just
stuff comes out fu. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Having that the peaceful stuff in Solo that has been
like okay, But when that peacefulness does get popped and
something goes wrong, it's like, oh, this is still a
very scary game. And that's what reminds me of PUBG
a little bit of is I played a lot of
PUBG solo, playing a lot of this solo, and it's
like you're just kind of creeping around finding stuff, and
the encounters with other humans can be very harrowing. Now
im PUBG. You were supposed to shoot, but there was
still the chance of like sneaking around, and here I'm like,
I'll sneak around. And now we also have this opportunity
to use prox chat and try to negotiate or whatever.
And even when I'm like not you verbally communicating, everyone's
like flashing flashlights or bouncing up and down, being like
I'm friendly. And then you know, I've had that turned
on me where I told the story of I made
of friends with someone at the extraction point and I
go in and after he opened it and I looked down,
I saw a dead body, and like it kind of
occurred to me right in that second. It's like, well,
that would only be here if and then that I
started getting shot in the back, and it's like, okay,
you know what, fair I should have kind of put
two and two together faster than that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, incredible amends because I have yet to really
dig into arc graders. If you were going in as
a trio, do you only get matched with other trios
or it's just like mixed bag of like there's one.
Speaker 4: You should go in with people you know ideally, but
you can have it fill the trios where you can
ask it to not fill.
Speaker 6: And I think you're saying with the rest of the
lobby B trios, yes, yes, yes, I think tip typically yes,
but you, like Dan said, when you can ask it
to not fill it, there's a chance that some of
those other solo players might be mixed in there. But
for the most part, I think it tries to match
you up with the equivalent groups.
Speaker 3: Kah.
Speaker 6: I kind of think there's no duos, though I think
there is, like.
Speaker 4: And we're just not filling basically, we haven't run into
a lot of trios while we're just going around.
Speaker 3: Moments.
Speaker 4: I love those moments where it's like, Okay, you'll be
a duo and you'll meet up another duo. Ow you're
just kind of talking and all of a sudden, you know,
the arcs, the robots, the I enemies show up, and
then it's just like, okay, now we're all just in
this fight together. It like suddenly turns into four of
us fighting the computer. Like it's really really cool. Stuff
like that that really differentiates it from like, you know,
it's got elements of pub G, elements of hell Divers,
but it's very much got its own flop.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The way that you guys are talking about it, it
feels reminiscent to early early days of PUBG of just
like miscellaneous stuff happening balls in the stories. Yeah, it's
like the random encounters with other people. Would pubs you
have been different if there was proct chat at the
very beginning?
Speaker 4: Oh my yeah. I mean now, I don't know how
much it would really play in because like when it
is everyone against everyone, it's kind of just like what
are you gonna say?
Speaker 6: Like, right, I mean there's coffin. There was examples early
on in both this and Fortnite of people being like
finding ways to communicate with others and let's team up
for now, and I think both the games were like, no,
that's that's against the rules.
Speaker 2: You can't do that.
Speaker 6: If we find you doing that, we're gonna consider that cheating.
It's like someone else was like, well what if we
made that the entire game? And so yeah, so having
the incentive here of like you know, it is, it's
game theory, right, it is a stag hunt. It is hey,
should we work together to get a medium sized thing
or should one of us just go out here and
if one of us wins, well then I'll get the
bigger prize, but it's more risky. Or do we both
try to fight each other and maybe both of us
die or something we attract an arc. There's a lot
of obvious like risk reward decisions you're making constantly. That's
kind of all up and down the chain, and that
keeps every sort of interaction very you on your toes
and interesting.
Speaker 4: I will say, when you're playing solos, it is the
absolute best case for the PS five mic on controller ever,
because like I hate wearing headphones. I never wear headsets
or just cut off normally. Right, that was scissors, Yeah,
that's what we do in this family. But it's just
short little bursts of conversation typically, So if you're playing solo,
you don't need a headset, play through your TV speakers
and then you just press that little unmute button when
you see someone and be like, hey, don't shoot, I'm friendly,
and then turn them off.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: You don't have to have a fucking headset the all
time yeah, yeah, that's handy.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Did you guys see neuro Gamer gave the game with
two out of five because of the AI voice stuff.
And then Tim Sweeney got involved and it was like
political opinion should go on to op ed folks. That's
real cool stuff. How's that to say? How is that political?
Somebody asked this, what's this political? And he said, yes,
this technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer
multiple multiples, and views on whether this is a net
good and should be rewarded or bad and should be
fought against are speculative and generally distributed along political lines. Boy,
when I think about the warmth and complexity and the
emotions of the human condition, I just think about Tim
Sweeney and I'm interested in what he has to say
the most.
Speaker 3: The most robotic response.
Speaker 6: Sounds like a mill house was real, Like he's just
go back climbing your tree.
Speaker 1: I hope you lose yours.
Speaker 4: So he's an interview by definition.
Speaker 3: It sure is, my god, sure insightful.
Speaker 5: Something, just.
Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, I know well it is video
game reviews. Someone put that in the vault.
Speaker 5: Of every time AI is criticized, like the Defenders just
come out of like like this will probably bad for artists,
and they're like, well, actually, what if it's good for artists?
It's like collaborate and they're like you, how could it
possibly be? It's like a fucking game past thing where
it's like, actually, our games are going to sell even
more that they're also available for free on this thing.
How does that make sense? We'll never tell if it isn't.
Speaker 3: This is not a one to one comparison, although some
would probably argue it is closer to that. But like
when people first came around and started being like, hey,
you know what, maybe smoking's bad, like imagine, it was
met with that kind of like why do is it
got to be political? Yeah? You can't even imagine.
Speaker 6: There was like a major campaign against smoking that was
relatively successful in America and like it got it banned
it most like public spaces and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you could do that.
Speaker 6: Today yet there, I take it back.
Speaker 3: It was one hundred percent political. What am I talking about?
Like the lobbying right that went into don't look this way,
don't look at this, don't look at this black long,
this is unrelated to what you're talking I mean.
Speaker 4: When they introduced like seatbelt laws and everything, people are like, well,
this is communism, you know, Jan you need to look
up like highlight reels of news, like you know, local
news talking laws and every where it's going to be Russia.
Were Russia nowhere?
Speaker 5: Like there was like a.
Speaker 2: Big campaign against airbags.
Speaker 7: It's like, oh my God, Jesus Christ while speaking about
Human mill House, some of y'all been dipping into Simpson's
Fortnite Mister Manati, You and the Minati brothers plus Christian
played well a bit of this.
Speaker 5: Four Adoptive Night. I have been I have been playing
a good bit of this event. Some of it is
like the pressure of I want to unlock Homer, and
of course they make him the last thing you unlock
in the battle pass. And now I'm invested in a
battle pass and want to unlock Homer, and I'm traveling
a bunch of this month and they only have until
this month to do it. So I am playing a lot,
but just buy some levels and gets there. I'll tell
you what if I'm it works, if I'm disinvested. I'm
about to leave on this Florida trip which goes through
to November. I'm not going to be like, oh, wow,
guess I don't get Homer then right, just.
Speaker 3: Get better.
Speaker 5: A j found some uh one of like the community
maps is just a clicker thing that he was just
doing for a few hours to unlock it, and I'm like, well,
as long as you were having fun.
Speaker 6: Ag My kids have played a bunch of those. Now, yeah,
they love those tycoon games.
Speaker 2: That's what they're called.
Speaker 5: But it is a really fun event because it's not
just like, oh, there's like one section of the map
that's Springfield.
Speaker 3: The entire map is spring Film.
Speaker 4: When it introduces the when the bus flies and it
does the Simpsons intro and says, and it's just fun
to look down and be like, Okay, do I want
to go near Burns's manor or the power plant or
Evergreen Terrace. It's just like, I am totally that person
that bought Virtual Springfield just because I wanted to walk
around Springfield in a video game and that wasn't even
a game, and that was still fascinating to me. So
I have like a good ass game like Fortnite, completely
live within the Simpsons world with all the right gags
and everything, because like, I'm sure there's a million gags.
I don't know from season twelve and beyond or whatever,
but I think they know their audience and it's like, oh,
I see the rake and it's like, oh, I know
it's gonna happen if I walk on that rake. You
know the right gags? I think it's blinky the fish
as an item and stuff like that. It's just been fantastic.
They rebranded all of the def stuff to slur so
it's like sloping man. Yeah, yeah, what is that about?
Why as a Fortnite thing? And also if they've done
like beer or alcohol, I don't think stuff, yeah right.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, shooting up downtown Springfield, but you can't
it's only firearms please, Okay.
Speaker 3: I will say I think this is one of the
strongest integrations they've ever done. Like it is so smart.
I think it's also endlessly amazing that, like, you know, certainly,
uh my kid knew what the Simpsons were before going
into this, but the vast majority of like Simpson's lower
that he will ingest is now through Fortnite. Like he
didn't see the blinky Fish episode. Wasn't that like yeah,
like there's no way on earth he would know what
that Springfield head.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that was doing.
Speaker 3: It's like it's a one shot. I think it like
helps you against headshots. It's it's crazy. It's just crazy
to me that like, oh yeah, he will gather the
majority of his Simpson's lower knowledge through playing incessantly and
like the kids love this season. They are all about it.
Speaker 5: That's why. Yeah, that's investing billion of dollars a day exactly.
It's because they want to their IP to younger people in.
Speaker 3: This like the New Life that I'm sure this says
breathed into The Simpsons with an under thirty kind of
crowd is like tremendous six.
Speaker 6: To eight year old that thought. I would put on
Simpsons for myself and they would be like, uh what sorry,
how old is the Simpsons?
Speaker 1: Episode is that you're no, no, no, the Gimmicks.
Speaker 2: Six and eight?
Speaker 6: Yeah, uh not six seven, I'm sorry, Jane.
Speaker 3: Uh that's over door.
Speaker 6: Yeah we're past that. Well, yeah, they wouldn't like it
when I put on Simpsons. They'd be like, this is
not cool stuff. And now that here's it's in Fortnite,
which they just started kind of getting into recently because
the K pop stuff and it's like they're you could tell,
I could tell they're like warming up to it, or
at the very least, it's sort of like washing over them.
And it's uh, not something that they're immediately.
Speaker 2: Like repelled to or repelled by.
Speaker 6: So I think it's like, Okay, this is clearly working
on some level, and I could see why Disney thinks
it's so worthy of investment.
Speaker 4: It's so it's the thing is it is a good
game too, So it's easy and just be impressed and like,
my god, the roster of characters you've gotten here just
dwarfs any game ever by far. And then the game
is constantly evolving, like I haven't really played it and
probably well over a year, and I went back in
and like, all right, Fortnite's still really fucking good. I'm
just really impressed by the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I wish I like the Simpsons more. I want to
experience with y'all are playing Fortnite.
Speaker 4: The best comedy writing of all time. You'll like it
season three through ten, probably the best comedy writing ever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like, I don't think I'm going to be
checking out Fortnite like because Fortnite anymore. I'll be coming
back for stuff like this, sure, and I just think
and so they are going to be in a situation
where it's like, Okay, we have to keep escalating. What's
the next biggest thing we can get now. At the
very least, they do have Disney in their corner, so
that's going to be easier for some time for the
most part. But it feels like diminishing returns as well,
because I'm just like, yeah, this is still a fun game,
but it is a little bit of a played out
sort of style or like shooter mode at this point,
I'm not thrilled by Batter Royals the way I once
was for sure.
Speaker 4: The thing is when you log in now, it's like,
I know, there's a million other things, Like I haven't
tried the they have like a Rocket League thing or
a rock band thing. There's a million there's that grid
of things, and it's just kind of like for me
who's been out for a year, it's just kind of overwhelming.
Speaker 1: So it's like, that's a lot of zero build Yeah,
that's a lot of Roadblocksky, it's the roadblock style community creations.
Speaker 6: A lot of them are anyhow, and.
Speaker 3: That's becoming pretty big. Yeah, leg.
Speaker 2: Leg Yeah, leg By them.
Speaker 4: I never did that.
Speaker 5: They did a Disneylan thing. I didn't check it out.
I heard it's bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sorry Mike it but those community created things are
very simple, very basive. The clicker that Aj was probably
playing is like very like underdesigned, just there to give
you something to do less like a click click bomb
is more complicated and intricate than a lot of the
games you're going to get from the community created stuff
in Fortnite.
Speaker 4: So that's not they don't have Chuck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Chuck.
Speaker 3: The brain Rock game was like a very big deal.
I think I'd tapering off a little bit. Yeah, but yeah,
that's the kind of nuts I think. This is, Like
I wonder what their next. I mean, what was the
one that was this heavily sort of skinned and integrated,
Like what was the last one of these, like the.
Speaker 5: Whole map, Like, yeah, the biggest Star Wars ones, But
even then, I don't think it's the whole They will do.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, here's a little like tattooine area or something
part of the map, but like I've never played the
whole thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, to be fair, like this whole map
is like cell shaded, like and that's they just kind
of turned on that filter. But there it is Springfield
spread all over the place for sure. Yeah, in a
way that we've not really seen before, at least as
far as I can remember.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't remember ever seeing them do the full
map before. That's right.
Speaker 6: This is a smaller map too, so it's a little
bit easier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they don't like feel too small to me. I
don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a well.
Speaker 6: They also filled with eighty players, so it's like a
kind of bou That's.
Speaker 5: How that makes sense.
Speaker 4: It's just like you go into the Simpson's house and
I went up the couch and me and Kayla were playing,
and I was Solid Snake and said press X, and
like Solid Snakes sits on the couch with a can
of Slurp and she's Vegeta. And now Vegeta and Solid
Snake are sitting on the Simpsons couch.
Speaker 5: Is like, I kind of love this, but for us,
we were each one of the Stimpsons characters you can't
play in and we like did the couch thing. Now. So
even like some of the in game like quests you
can do for just bonus points, like one is just
do any emot then shoot a shotgun and it's your
dissing your fly girl thing that Mode did from that
one episode. Right, you could jump the Springfield Gorge with
a car. Oh, it's just it's just really smart. There's
just a ton of you know, it's it's it's a
lot of not sense fan service, but it's fun.
Speaker 3: Now. Dylan was playing as Bob from Bob's Burgers goes
into the the Simpsons house, sees Marge, and Marge goes
tell Linda. I said, Hi, oh, that's that was really good.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Now I know that, Uh, Disney is probably
okay with the Simpsons just shooting and blasting guns. But
what other Disney property do you think they could just
be okay, could.
Speaker 6: Shoot a gun, right, he shoots a gun in the movie.
Speaker 3: He's got to me, it seems has that energy for sure.
Speaker 2: Almost.
Speaker 5: I think the corporations are just convinced themselves, well, it's
not real guns. It's fine because it playing it does
it is just about it.
Speaker 6: It's still it doesn't feel like ar graders to me,
like our graders. I feel like, I'm sure a real
gun here. For some reason, it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't because I was thinking in terms of like skinning
a whole world again. You could maybe do toy story.
Speaker 5: I mean they've done picks are already they this is
incredible is in there? Yeah about toys could be good.
It's somehow feels a lot Matrix would be good.
Speaker 3: But that is that is that Disney.
Speaker 5: No Epic did that Matrix. Uh like reloaded whatever that demo?
Speaker 4: They have Trinity. I've got like a trinity and like
the Dodge is already in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure Neo's in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so many I would be alien, but they
are like Ripley is in there already. Actually they've done
a big.
Speaker 4: Predator one that New movies that Bredather's in there, but
he was like I think it was a battle pass
thing because I really wanted Bredather and never got him.
I've got Terminator.
Speaker 3: See that quick quick anecdote. Bad Lands so fucking good.
Speaker 4: You need to I want to see that's good.
Speaker 3: No, not yet, I would Stobby is in it? Really,
I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not Disney.
Speaker 5: They've done any Star Trek stuff yet because.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Because Element.
Speaker 3: That dark Dark City, nothing but sentence.
Speaker 1: If that Tron movie was good, Tron could have translated
really well.
Speaker 5: I bet to put Tron in eventually at some point anyways,
like Original Tron and Tron like Tron yet, you think.
Speaker 1: They're gonna put that Glenn Powell show Chad Powers into.
Speaker 6: They're gonna do Darren Aronofsky's Mother.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be Downton Abbey and Fortnite would be hard.
God let me hours or back art. Yeah, they backlards.
Speaker 5: They should put the sticky bandits in it, right, they
should just put the.
Speaker 3: Sticky bandits. I would purchase like immedia, like every now
and then, like Dy'll give me something that he thinks
I'll like and which is really sweet. He got me Edwards.
Oh and I know day one, the sticky bandits would
just be in my inbox.
Speaker 2: Kid, I'm just working before we get off this. So
it's I think this is awesome.
Speaker 6: I agree with you. Your guys just takes on that
that this is a really cool, cool way to have
some new Simpson stuff in video games.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: It does feel like we get this though, instead of
a new Simpson's video game, right, And it's like, I
think I would still prefer that, even though I think
this would actually be better to play.
Speaker 3: I think your sentiment is in the right place. But
I do think from a cost efficiency perspective, we can
just do this and get eighty percent of the way there. Yeah,
And for as much as like for better or worse,
that statement is true. You know, it is exposing the
people to that thing, as opposed to taking a risk
on a thing that no one might not even play,
where you know, people are just gonna play it by
virtue of it being Fortnite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean look at that Terminator game that
it just got delayed again to.
Speaker 6: I mean I just think, like you know, I think
Star Wars will probably it's fate will probably be this
And it's like, I think it's nice to have Battlefront
two to go back to when I'm like in the
mood and that pops off with the community every once
in a while, once in a while, and that's probably
that idea of doing.
Speaker 3: The testing ground, right, Like, oh, maybe we should make
a Simpsons game now that it did really will and
well I would love.
Speaker 5: For that to be the case.
Speaker 2: I really don't didn't announce a.
Speaker 3: New Simpsons movie.
Speaker 5: They're doing a new movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They put out the game, the Simpsons game with that
last one, and that Simpsons game was not terrible.
Speaker 5: It was pretty It wasn't just feel. It just feels
so different now, like they're not going to do that, Like, yeah,
I would love it. They're like we're making a hit
and Run two and like, whoa, what does that look like? Now?
Speaker 3: That'd be so amazing.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's just not the way things are. And
this is like the best. I mean, the last game
before this was tapped out, which is offline. Now you
came and play it at all right, Oh it's kind
of this or nothing.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: From dropping out of the sky onto Springfield to talking
about the Ambrosia Sky. This is a neat little title
that I checked out a little bit of y'all. Imagine
a little bit of Powerwasher, a little bit of a
game with a gravity gun and then a gravity or
grappling hook, and you have Ambrosia Sky. You are thrown
onto a spaceship and you were supposed to collect different
plant samples of a different fung guy, and you have
your water gun or your powerwashing gun is used to
get rid of the miscellaneous fung guy that is popping
up throughout this part of space.
Speaker 3: It's neat.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of little puzzles where you have to
kind of futs around with like the gravity or you're
using your gravity gun equivalent hook to pull stuff towards you,
and you have to It matters what condition the fungi
or plant samples are when you acquire them. So if
you just walk up to them and get them, they'll
be in good condition.
Speaker 3: But if you like.
Speaker 1: Gravity gun them over to you and you drop it
and you don't nail like the catch, it'll wind up
being a bad sample. And the flow of the levels,
as far as they've been for me so far, is
you will explore a specific part of a spaceship, get
to point B, and then from point B you have to,
like Warrior Land style, run all the way back to
the very beginning. And there are different obstacles that pop up,
like hey there, all these plants are electric, so you
can't touch them, so you have to use your grappling
hook to pop and bop around them, and your powerwasher
water gun equivalent you can control the nozzle, so you
can do like a wide flow or like a super
tall vertical spray.
Speaker 3: It's neat.
Speaker 1: I like the art style of the game, but it
is definitely one of those games that hurts my eyes
because the art style is so funky. From my understanding,
it's a very small team. I don't quite know how
long the game is overall, but I've been enjoying the Bible.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing it listed as part one. Do you know
if this is supposed to be episodic?
Speaker 1: I am not quite sure if it's supposed to be episodic.
I am not gonna lie. I was kind of humming
through all of the dialogue.
Speaker 3: How dare you?
Speaker 1: I know, I know I'm disrespectful, I get it, but
I am really enjoying what I've played of it so far.
There's an upgrade mechanic where based off of the different
types of fungi or plant samples you were collecting, you
were affecting like your resistances or the effectiveness of your
sprayer gun.
Speaker 3: It's cool the god.
Speaker 1: I just love a cool zero G segment where you
have to use a grappling hook to like just pull
you through. I just want that to be real. Just
that part was it.
Speaker 4: Dead Space two that had those sequences where the gravity
would drop out and you could kind of like jet
pack around and rotat and everything really good. I remember,
like that's my favorite, Like zero G sequences.
Speaker 1: Yeah, parts parts of Ambrosia Sky feel like those segments
of Dead Space. It's like if you mix dead Space
Warrior Land is it four? I think it's four and
Powerwasher Simulator together and just like jumbled it up. Finally
we can get that genre going. Speaking about episodic Gang,
Holy smokes, you talked a lot about this game last week.
I've been streaming a lot of it. I've played it,
and it looks like Jurf has played it. I'm talking
about Dispatch. Yeah, back, I want to hear what you think.
Speaker 3: About this aside from the penises.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no specific Hey there's one Hey, there's one
episode that starts very spicy.
Speaker 3: So I I recruited my wife to yep, thank you,
to sit down and watch this with me because I
knew what this was and I knew it was like
a very narrative focused episodic kind of choose your own
adventure thing, and I lost her, like almost immediately after
the toxicity Guy Penis stuff. Yeah, look, I tried.
Speaker 6: Did you did you tell her about the censor bar
or is that against your your you know, a censor
I'm a purist.
Speaker 2: One, a guy.
Speaker 3: Penixactarist Penis purist must keep it. I don't care how
drippy and green it is. I wanted in my video game.
It's so a little drippy. So I so far really
like Dispatch it is. It is, like we said, a
narrative driven, episodic sort of cartoon that I believe is
from the pedigree that brought us most of the Telltale stuff.
That's right, Wolf Wolves among us? And is it the
Walking Dead people? Is that who? There's DNA.
Speaker 6: It's like, you know a lot of the Walking Dead
people already left the Telltale early on from that first season.
Speaker 3: But yeah, So the story follows a sort of retired
superhero who exists in a world where there are people
with superpowers, but he does not have superpowers. He was
just sort of LARPing as one inside. Yeah, he's this
generationally passed down mech suit that he's been sort of
dawning for for a while. He kind of is forced
into retirement and then is recruited by a superhero dispatch
company that is meant to kind of like organize the
dispatching of superheroes to problems around Los Angeles. And the
first episode is you sort of is this setup for that?
And without getting too much more into the story. That's
sort of where you are set. I think from a
production value point of view, like this is off the
goddamn charts. I think some of the look and the
kind of like realized collective vision of what this story
and game looks like is nothing short of like you know,
sensational the as.
Speaker 2: The animation and sort of blocking of.
Speaker 6: Modern day animated shows on streaming platforms and then but
it's still presented like a video game. It's directed like
a video game, so it's like it's not going to
get that stuff is not going to get in the
way of you seeing what's happening. So you get all
the information so you can make choices the way you
want to.
Speaker 3: Make, right. I So, you know, and here's where like
I guess my waterfall of positivity kind of doesn't dry up,
but it's certainly kind of like peppered in with a
little bit of observational kind of criticism.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 3: It's like I think the game, you know, I I
almost like don't want to play. I feel like I'm
at the point where I'm like, this story is better
than any of what the gaming devices are in this thing,
and you are almost left to the point where like
you can interact with some of the cut scenes in
a sort of meaningless you know, or it feels meaningless,
kind of like hold a so that you punch back
or slide the left stick across so that your mech
punches a thing and it's like you have the option
to turn that off.
Speaker 6: So the sort of those are the least interesting interaction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure, you know. I guess the meat and
potatoes of the actual quote unquote gameplay of this thing
is the sort of like real time dispatching of these heroes,
which for me is like it's fine, it's not the
most compelling sort of gameplay loop. Sure, I'm happy to
do it, but I'm like, all right, let's get back
to like this thing. And I guess it's kind of
reminds me of like a lot of when they were
trying to get those Choose your Own Adventure like Netflix
shows off the ground I get right like where it's like, yeah,
I guess it's cool I'm holding a controller during this thing,
but I'm not really like finding the right sort of.
Speaker 6: Bad those couple of years there where Jan Dan wouldn't
see each other without going dander statch.
Speaker 3: We're all waiting for the next pun that they can
play on. Oh, don't you worry. I know it'll happen
before the year's out. I'm sure of it. Yeah. So
I mean like that's kind of the I guess that's
like my sort of over over beauty thing. What do
you guys think?
Speaker 1: I actually have grown to really enjoy the dispatching part
of the gameplay for folks curious it is. I saw
a lot of people saying it was very similar to
Thirteen Sentinels combat, where you are going to a heat
zone and then from there dispatching a specific unit to
take care of it. It is much more hands off
than that, because you mentioned it last week, reb but
you were given a scenario and some like keywords as
to how to deal with the situation, and your different
heroes that you were dispatching have their different strength and everything,
and from there you were kind of like it's almost
a dice roll of like, okay, well they're taught this
specific scenario is like, well, you gotta defend a celebrity
and then if it gets hairy, you gotta like fight
your way out of it. So then you would be
sending your heroes of like okay, you're high in combat.
This one you're full of mud, so you just defend
very well. And then certain instances you can send just
one hero or you'll send up to I believe, up
the floor in some of the instances, And there's different
synergies amongst them which play very well, and it's fun
just seeing the interconnectedness of the different characters and just
kind of like, hey, I think you might like this person.
Oh okay, cool, I guess you guys are friends now,
and some of that plays off into the story as
you go through.
Speaker 3: I really fucking love this game. Yeap.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not surprised to hear that both you guys like,
I think it has things that each of you like.
Beck All you really like high production values. And I'm
like watching this being like, yes, this is some of
the best this kind of thing that we've had in
a game. And Jane, there's all these excellent characters cast
to characters that have tension and then they have but
they have a reason to work together. That's that's your
shit and so and I think it delivers on both
those things. And then yeah, I think the uh, the
gameplay mechanic of the dispatching having them use that you know,
it's just your language language English language, explain the needs
of this call, and then you have to sort of
just parse that and figure that out in your head.
That continues to be very good, and I think it's
getting better as I go along, because it does get
more complex with getting the characters to work together and
being like, Okay, I should manage them a little bit
more carefully. I don't want to just maximum, like send
the max amount of heroes and every call, because the
next call could come in and I might need someone.
So I got to be a little bit or sparing,
and so you're juggling things a little bit more.
Speaker 2: But then yeah, I've also really enjoyed the story.
Speaker 6: Although I'm getting episode four right now, in my understanding
is that's where it begins to take off a lot
in terms of like all the stakes and the tension
really does rise.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to that planning.
Speaker 3: To do I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: The final two episodes come out tomorrow tomorrow, November twelfth.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: The other thing I'll say is I do want to
give a special shout out to the voice acting and
generally I'll have a little bit of friction when like
fancy schmancy actors are given voice roles that voice actors
should have, because sometimes it just doesn't quite translate. Like
I love Florence Pugh, I don't think Florence Pugh is
great and Puss in Boots you could, she just wasn't
giving it the same type of litzpah as like a
trained voice actor would do, because it's a completely different
acting medium. That being said, I could not tell for
the longest time that the main dude that you're playing
Robert Robertson is Aaron Paul because he does such a
good job at like hiding his uh speaking cadence.
Speaker 3: Behind character sounds like George Clooney in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a little bit of drawl.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Jeffrey right, popped me real hard. Someone mentioned
like that it sounds like Jeffer and that's like, oh yeah,
that's totally Jeffery.
Speaker 1: Right. So normally I'll be a big proponent of like
give voice actor's voice over opportunities, But if an actor
is going to do the gi give the proper care
to a role, then by all means that being said.
Speaker 3: I saw that they want to do season two. I'm
not saying, put me in it.
Speaker 1: Just let me read for a character, and then we'll
see give jan a chance, Please give a chance, give
give him a chance, and then give Dana dance.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 5: I hope you dance.
Speaker 2: Why doesn't Dan dance anymore?
Speaker 1: Speaking about speaking about dancing, the music luminous Ariyes just
gets me jiving and popping in that chair. Guys, Dan Jerff,
I believe YouTube been playing it the most.
Speaker 3: Love it.
Speaker 4: I'm almost done with the journey, and if you've played
Tenrorist effect, it's very much that same enhanced style of
like chunks of stages all.
Speaker 3: What what note. I was just saying, like I just
love how goofy the pieces are at the very beginning,
and then just like there's.
Speaker 4: A real stage that I definitely thought about it during.
Speaker 3: I do think there's like parts of the game, like
I do think some shapes and colors I can see
better than others, and I'm sort of just like this everything.
Speaker 4: With the it's clocks and taxicabs and it's like, okay,
it's kind of hard.
Speaker 3: When the astronauts and the cubes get released, that's when
I get a little cross eyed and I can't really
see what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: But it's like they have brought Luminous back on like
xbo A or Luminus remastered on Switch and stuff before.
But this is like my favorite version of it because
it really is like that was part of the beauty
of the PSP one, which PSP objectively dog shit console,
but Luminous almost made it worth it.
Speaker 3: Is just going said that for I feel like you
were targeting one very specific person with that comment.
Speaker 4: No, I'm talking about the console. It's a console, Miller, Miller,
I feel like that. Yeah, yeah, I feel like that too.
So which Vita also objectively so they fixed all the problems.
Ve so much, asshole, they suck so much. But Luminous delightful,
delightful game and just that like every time you don't
know when it's going to morph into the next thing,
and the music's gonna change and the visuals cool, Like
it's awesome, and like look what they did with Tetris
effect they did with Luminous, which it's interesting because like
Tetris kind of needed it more and that Tetris is
usually just kind of like, hey, here's some blocks, you know,
and they kind of Luminous up Tetris, you know, here,
it's kind of like them doing the natural thing, like, oh,
this is like just a new luminous that they took over.
It plays the same except for the new burst mechanic,
which I think is awesome.
Speaker 3: And can you explain this to me? I couldn't quite
wrap my head around.
Speaker 4: I'm still kind of like, Okay, so you trigger it
the first and you can do about one hundred, Well
you can do it before that.
Speaker 6: Fifty you could do it, so you can pull it
as a risk at one hundred, Yeah you're about to die.
Speaker 4: You can pull the burst thing at fifty, but it's
just gonna you're not gonna get as much juice out
of it.
Speaker 3: Basically.
Speaker 4: I always try to wait till it's at max and
then it's like it will basically pick like it seems
like a chunk of blocks that you are already uh
you know, like oh, here's already like in a four
or six or eight blocks there. It's like, okay, that's
kind of the nucleus that you're trying to like build
off of. Let's say that's all blue or taxi cabs
or whatever, you know, you throw all your taxi cabs
at the ball or taxicabs and it gets bigger and
bigger and bigger, and it starts feeling incredible as it
gets huge, and then it starts bouncing the other ones up.
So the ice cubes, the taxi cabs are the nucleus
and the ice. If you haven't bite luminius, this sounds insane.
It's blocks blue and orange will say. So if your
ball is blue, all the oranges go to the top
and you building off it.
Speaker 6: Sorry, you go sort of like you want to like
make it a big square, and you kind of like
if you do that, yeah, that'll include everything in the burst,
and then all that stuff explodes and then the orange
stuff comes back. Yes, then you might get another combo
from that.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, yeah, So let's say you get the big
blow up thing and then all the like oranges fall
down and they're all connected, and then maybe sometimes you
get one of those little crosses that connects all of
the same color and then you just clear out the
whole fucking map. And so now you know, servers are
live for online. So I played a little bit online
this morning when I got up, and uh so when
you do that stuff, it throws garbage blocks at them,
and the garbage blocks come in from the sides, and
so if you are making matches against the garbage blocks,
that's how it kind of clears it out. So like
had some very very tense, very fun burst battles they're
called in multiplayer, but just the journey itself is so atesome.
I can't wait to do this, Like this is top notch.
Get a little high, getting the VR set, play the
whole journey type thing. Respect you know, I'm definitely going
to be doing that with Luminous, but I have not
done a journey end to end yet. I've just kind
of been like I have like one level left of it,
I think, but just tremendous game. These are the right
people to bring Luminous back for sure.
Speaker 3: I still think I don't know if I'm good, Like
I don't know if I'm good at this. I think
the four the two by two blocks just don't speak
to me the way like a Tetris block speaks to me, or.
Speaker 6: I feel that way. Yeah, it's not intuitive the way
Tetris intuitive, but it's not until you get over the hump.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think once people realize the almost like timing
aspect of it, of just like the timeline that goes
across like kind of once you figure out what that
timeline is doing, I start realizing the strategy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is very much like the windshield wiper blade
of it all, where you just kind of like have
this micro reset. But you know, still I also think,
like the scoring is is it's tough for me to follow,
like you know, as much as you you kind of
like parlay all those the matching and the wiping together,
and then like, all right, well, how does this translate
to like me being strategically smart with scoring and combo
ing and stuff like that. I'll just see combo stuff.
I'm like, oh, I understand kind of why I got
that combo, but I got it by accident.
Speaker 4: It's based on just the number of two by two
squares I believe you get during the like in between
spaces between the timelines.
Speaker 3: So and yeah, let's call them waves basically.
Speaker 4: So if you can get sixteen times combo, if you
get like, I don't know, four two by twos or
something like that, but I would say, more importantly, don't
worry about that, Like, just try to keep your board clear,
just try to put things down in places that are smart,
try to time things with the line more than anything.
Speaker 3: Yes, racing that is, yeah, the bursts, Yeah, racing the
reset line is really like the thing I'm focusing on
the most now. And I feel like I've been playing
this on and off for like two months already, right, Like,
I feel like we've had some level of access to
this game for a while.
Speaker 4: And it's one for Steam Deck, and yeah, they've focused
on making sure it's ready to.
Speaker 2: They said that's because the legacy of the PSP.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I don't don't play this with a
mouse and keyboard. It's it's not meant for that. Will
be arrested, yeah, I mean I probably will be, but
like I didn't have a controller, buy me in my
Steam Deck. I don't know where where it is, but yeah,
if folks are curious. It also does the whole tetrace
effect thing of like when you are shifting around the
configuration of the block, it's just still going to the music,
so you're still like with a drum be like uh
and then as you drop in and everything, it's just
so good. I do just want to get blazed and
play this now.
Speaker 3: It's top notch for that, which.
Speaker 5: Better better man than you doing that?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 6: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, there it's a lot, man, it
is a lot, and.
Speaker 1: There is a there's a massive photo sensitivity warning, So
folks are that's kind of what.
Speaker 3: I mean more than freaking out, Like it's just there's
a lot of stuff flopping on screen there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's no dehydration warning, so maybe double check
if you're going to drink and go in your sauna.
Speaker 4: I guess is it just PlayStation?
Speaker 3: Is that the way you do it? Because it's not
on Oculus, right, meta?
Speaker 2: What are you asking playing v for VR?
Speaker 6: I mean, is it not the Steam v R because
then you could just stream it to your Oculus.
Speaker 4: I guess you could just see that steam br link thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it works great.
Speaker 1: Just put Pisoper two out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just get that piscarer out and strap it on
your face. I feel like I play this thing in
my family room sometimes and at the end of a
session my eyes are like blurry and teary.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, stuff, let me tell you.
Speaker 3: And that's like, yeah, I'm wondering, like like, hey, maybe
I don't put this directly on my face. I feel
like it being ten feet away is enough of like
a work out my eyeballs in my veins. Yeah, it's all.
Speaker 1: Right, good luck, Luminous arise, it's out out now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, multiple up and running. That's been fun to do.
Do more of that tonight.
Speaker 1: Another thing that is out out now and has been
out that we've had access to is Mortal Kombat Legacy.
Speaker 4: Collection, so fucking good grub. You and I were talking
somewhere about we've been watching the documentary stuff and like
we you know, we played a lot of the game
at the Bombiton.
Speaker 3: I think we broke that out.
Speaker 4: If you want to see the Mortal Kombat tournament we
did with Benny and Alyx, which was the highlight of
the bombitthon, I think. But you know, obviously that's not
the place to watch the documentaries. So I've been just
kind of going through that and it's it turns out
like I've never really understood the appeal of video game documentaries,
even though Ben Hanson's been yelling at me about the
Double Fine thing for like fifteen I just have to
like the games. I don't care about Double Fine. I
love Mortal Kombat. So it's like, this is fascinating shit. Namely,
I mean, it's all great, but Grubbs we were talking
about they fucking got on camera the moment that is
that Daniel Pasina plays Scorpion and Johnny Cage and sub Zero,
but he's in the Scorpion outfit and they're doing the
like it's not really mo cap, they're just kind of
like taking the footage of it's you.
Speaker 6: Know, frame capture, Yeah, yeah, the frame capture stuff.
Speaker 4: So it's him, you know, on set basically, and they're
just getting him to do punches and stuff and they're like, oh,
you want to try a different stands for sub Zero
and stuff like that, Like all this stuff is fascinating.
And then ed Boone, like a twenty something year old
Ed Boone, they have the footage of him being like, oh,
you know, what would be badass? What if you had
like you could throw like a spear into someone and
they had a rope on it and you could like
pull it back. You see the moment he brings up
that idea, and there's like two seconds between him coming
up with the idea and suddenly Scorpion and costume doing
the move you've seen a billion times, like the most
iconic moral combat move ever. It's oh man, all this
all these interviews were great, and that most of these
fucking dudes are like still at Netroom damn.
Speaker 3: Forth just retired.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, it's like this is just dudes that didn't
have corporate bullshit holding them down. In terms of ideas.
You just saw a bunch of guys in an office
in Chicago that were having cool ass ideas and they
were talking about like certain fatalities and stuff like the
sub zero spine rip they just took from Predator and uh,
They're like, oh, wonder if this is going to be
too much and they're like a Midway guy came in
like Piza seven the rooms.
Speaker 3: Like bad ass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how games would be made.
Speaker 5: That's cool.
Speaker 6: The Chicago of the documentary and the you know, the
setting and where all this guy's is from really comes through.
And I was saying that somewhere else, like that's just
a city I love in the Midwest being represented so
hardened video games. It's like, oh, yeah, Mortal Kombat's a
product of just like the culture I come from, and
they'll be like, you know, what would be cool and
then so that to see that then represented in the
moment they could have shown it to capture that specific
move from the history of Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 2: It's like, holy crap, what a what a cool thing.
Speaker 6: I'm so glad Mortal Kombat existing was doing things this
way and that we get to see it all. It's
it's a really well done thing.
Speaker 4: You see footage from when they would take the test,
like Arcade Cabinet, they would just bring it to this
place in Chicago and set it down. They put like
a new game thing on it, and like they would
basically incognito because I didn't know John Tobias and Ed Boone,
the guys just kind of like standing there and watching people.
Speaker 5: Try it out.
Speaker 4: And like when we realized, like Ed Boone would go
up and just like they just thought he was another
guy and he would do a fatality and just like
walk away.
Speaker 3: And did they do that?
Speaker 4: Like that that mystery around Mortal Kombat that like I
feel like I was born in eighty four, so that
was like that was the time before the Internet where
it's like that early nineties where people were not looking
up codes and stuff on the internet, where like that
could exist where they could bury secrets and stuff. And
it's like even on the home console once where it's
like okay, one in three hundred times. When you go
onto this question mark space on the ladder in Mortal
Kombat too, you're just like playing pong or whatever, like
weird shit like that and you wouldn't know it right away,
stuff like you know, reptiles showing up in the pit
and people trying to figure out how to fight him,
and like, I just I'm very nostalgic for that series
in particular, and that really encapsulates that.
Speaker 3: Time before the Internet kind of like ruined all the mystery.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was like thinking, like I would put up
being twelve in nineteen ninety five, like against anyone else's
year being twelve. I think it's like that's the one
thing I have. And then you know, things weren't great
after that, but hey, in that moment, things were fantastic,
and it's like, oh, this also captures that that like
anything as possible. We have all this new technology, we're
kind of just figuring it, figuring it out, and they
kind of immediately became the masters of those that frame
capture stuff and just making silly things look fun and
cool and kind of badass. Yeah, and I was I
was even a super huge Mortal Kombat guy at the
time back in the nineties, I was a street fighter guy.
But you know it's like still like seeing that history
be like, oh yeah, no, this was also awesome. I'm
so glad they were doing things their own way, in
a different way than everyone else was developing games and
seeing that reflected on screen rules.
Speaker 1: If they can do this with sorry real quick, if
they can do this with the technology that they had,
then with everything we have now we can.
Speaker 2: Just I'm fra yes, some can definitely frame crafture some stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, make a Mortal Combat, oh Jesus, or frame
by frame cleaning this It wasn't even like a green
screen that were working off of, Like no, were they
just bring it in and just clean it.
Speaker 2: Every individual like they had to make the two themselves.
Speaker 6: And of course there was like Eugene Jarvis Is and
some other guys were like actually responsible for making the
tools for some other games right before that and they
got to like use it. But there wasn't like photo shop.
They were just kind of figuring this stuff off on
the stuff on the fly.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, you kind of like Sonya there in
full gear and just like can you do a thing
where you kind of like flip over and have your
legs go over and you know, okay, I'll try that,
like just telling us like stunt people, like can you
do a thing where it's.
Speaker 3: Like you're rating and you do it looks disinterested to
be a job, that's a job whatever, you know, that
kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Rad and do the torpedo with like one foot fully planted.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the doc is like almost worth the price
of admission. Oh you know what I mean, Like, I
think it's so compelling. I think, you know, more common
exists in this sort of like enigmatic space for me
as a as a young person, because I'll be honest,
I was like a little scared of it. I was
like eleven, i think when I first started hearing about
it or twelve, and I was sort of just like
what the.
Speaker 5: Fuck is this like fucking murder game?
Speaker 3: Like what's going on?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: And it had with that came a lot of intrigue
and you know, it was more above average in terms
of like sensitivity back then. But I think it became
this like very elusive and like mysterious black box for me,
and I think without it, I would not have been
drawn to, like, you know, when it had its console
debut and that was like such a big deal to
me because it was like forbidden taboo kind of thing. Yeah,
watching this doc has really like picked a lot of
those scabs in a good way for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, if we're talking like formative moments of the
video games like Mount Rushmore, for me personally, it's like
playing Middle of your Solid playing Mario sixty four. And
when I got ninety one, i was seven. Or my
cousin who's two years older than me, he took me
to his dad's like he ran like a gas station basically,
and he always had one or two arcade machines and
one pinball machine. So it's typically Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam
and Adam's family or the Terminator Pinball should go. And
so every Wednesday, my grandma would pick us up and
we'd go there and she'd let us have some quarters
and we'd go play games. And the day we went in,
they had Mortal Kombat for the first time. Matt, my cousin,
like went up and he did Scorpions Fatality and I'm
seven years old and I'm like, that's the coolest fucking
thing I've ever seen. And then he did sub Zero
Spine rip and it's like literally like jaw dropping. So
then it became this thing that like that winter, we
would go to the gas station. We would buy red
slurpies at his dad's gas station, and then we would
go to my grandma's front lawn and play Mortal Kombat,
and like I would do anuppercut and we would throw
the red slurpee on the snow so it looked like
blood was staining all around us. We were I would
to the principal for fucking like drawing Raiden's fatality and
just like blood covering the whole page and everything like that.
Nun saw it and it was like you need to
go to the principal, like all this like classic Mortal
Kombat stuff at the right age.
Speaker 3: And just it was just the coolest shit ever. Tell
me you would not watch an entire season of Young Daniel.
I would watch that shit. I mean it should be
a cartoon maybe also, but holy shit, I would be
all about that your misadventures. What a delight.
Speaker 4: It just it did not get cooler than those early
days in Mortal Kombat. And like I'm still working through
the firs, Like it's there's a lot of footage and
a lot of documentaries like so much. I'm still like
at the getting near the end of the Arcade MK
one stuff, and I know it's going to go into
the console stuff and Mortal Monday and then two three,
and Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 6: It really is. And I don't I think you're right, Dan,
that caring about these games goes a long way. I
think that's not just specific for you, but definitely true
for you. I think if there's anyone that's like, I
never cared about Mortal Kombat, will this give me appreciation
for it? Yes, it will cool this and that. The
same thing's true for like the Atari fifty thing and
all that other stuff. If you're like open to that
sort of thing, these games will deliver on giving you
the history and all the anecdotes and the emotion of
like when the the guys like years later found one
of the original Space Computer Space Arcade machines sitting on
the side of the road in California and they're just like,
we're gonna go get this thing. And it's like that
that sort of stuff is in this Mortal Kombat one
as well, and they do a really good job of
sort of conveying why it's important.
Speaker 1: Lovely, lovely, fantastic, folks. That almost does it for video
game talk, because it's just gonna at play a little seed,
give give a little tease to y'all at home because
one of us has played. Well, I guess two of
us have played Metroid Prime four and we'll be talking
about it this Friday. That's right, Well, have a little preview,
get I got some impressions to share. It's about all
we can say, about all we can say. That's about
all we can say.
Speaker 3: We will talk. Are you okay? Mike, you should come.
You should come and we'll talk together.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, we'll do that.
Speaker 3: Come to the recording.
Speaker 4: Not everything is my God Wall, the Blair Mitch Project.
Speaker 3: You're gonna come and we're gonna talk about Metroid Prime
for Colon beyond.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, folks, We're gonna go and take a
quick preaky break and then Jeff Greubb will be back
with the news.
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You know we were just talking about teasing some teases
for later in the week, but sooner.
Speaker 3: Than that, perhaps tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Even Uh, we we got another video, so you should
pay attention to wherever we post videos, whether details now.
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Speaker 4: You can see it tonight, Grub. Thanks meet me and
Jan travel together again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I like traveling. I love traveling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's not news to me because but Jeff
Grubb has news for me. Grub.
Speaker 6: That's right, I have the news. Let's start with news
about more news. PlayStation is announced a State of Play
Japan special for this week. Let's say it's gonna happen
today at five pm Eastern two pm Pacific times. So
h think me and Mike are going to talk over
If anyone else is around, feel free, but at the
fair least it will be us.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: I think this is cool.
Speaker 6: They're gonna focus on Japanese games as well as other
games from Asia, they said. I think that might include
some of their own, but I bet there will be
a lot of partner games in there as well. But
I like it when Sony's like, hey, remember we're a
Japanese video game company, and uh well I wish that
uh you know, Worldwatch Studios Japan was still going Japan
Studios at the very least do something like this to
gesture at that legacy. And this feels like that's exactly
what they're doing. You guys have any expectations for this?
Speaker 1: I mean, like they closed all the studios I'm familiar with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, like I said, think it's gonna be
partner stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know if like that means more like
resident Evil because there's a whole resid eval thing coming,
so we're probably not seeing that here. Yeah, I guess
I'm curious what exactly this is point. I mean, like
i'd love it that it you know, it's like we're
gonna revive one of those classic sort of Japanese made franchise,
like here's a new ape Escape. Finally. I don't want
to set my expectations that high though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 2: Already saw it off like things go well, so they
get to that point. Sorry, Jane, go ahead, No.
Speaker 1: No, I was gonna say it's too early to see
anything about like the new Silent Hill remaster. But that's
not even gonna remake of one. No, yeah, but that's
my blueber. It wouldn't show up here anyway.
Speaker 6: There's like there's maybe some other Silent Hill things. Someone said,
like Anna Pirna they were they doing.
Speaker 5: There's like there's one more. Yeah, there's like one other
Silent Hill project aside from the remake. We haven't heard
about it. I forget its the same token will probably
be there. Oh yeah, COOLi Revell character for Tokon for sure.
Yeah for two someone at chest Head Ridge Racer. So
now I'm actually gonna lodge onto that and just hope
desperately that we'll get some ridgies and some races.
Speaker 1: Uh. Would we potentially see anything from.
Speaker 3: Square at all?
Speaker 1: I mean Kingdom I don't want to say Kingdom Hearts
four because every time I say it, I feel like
it gets pushed back twelve years.
Speaker 6: Sure, Yeah, I just like, is this big enough for that?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't think we're gonna see anything. We can see
something from Square Enix, I don't know, but it's gonna
be like Kenohart's four Found Fantasy seven remake Parts three.
Speaker 3: I have a question where did all the Tango Game
Works people land they got purchased by Crafton, the pub
g company. Did they close the studio?
Speaker 2: The studio got.
Speaker 6: Closed by Microsoft and then then a crafted showed. It
was like, hey, we'll buy what is the rhythm action game.
Speaker 5: I Fi Rush Fi Rush.
Speaker 6: Yes, we'll buy High Fi Rush and the studio so
that the studio can make a new thing in High
Fi Rush Universe.
Speaker 3: Tokyo. Am getting that? So no more spooky stuff is
what you're saying.
Speaker 6: It doesn't seem I don't know if I don't think
Microsoft sold the Evil Within?
Speaker 2: Is that what those games are called?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think the Microsoft sold Evil Within to Crafton.
Maybe they sold Ghost Wire Tokyo, but I don't think
they're interested in that. They're interested in High Fi Rush at.
Speaker 3: Least so far.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay uh.
Speaker 6: Nintendo direct confirmed for the Super Mario Galaxy movie, so
we have a least they stay to play and or direct.
They did say that this direct which is happening Wednesday,
November twelve, so that's tomorrows of the time that we're
recording this. That'll be at six am Pacific, nine am
Eastern a two pm GMT. They said this won't have
video game announcements, which okay, so it's just kind of
They're probably going to show off the first real trailer
uh for the Super Mario Galaxy movie and cool. Yeah
they did this before you guys expecting any sort of
jaw dropping moments like the moment you aren Chris Pratt
was going to be Mario.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Nintendo is just so weird because they don't have to
have a whole direct just put the trailer out.
Speaker 5: Yo, I want to have bets right now? Is Yoshi
gonna be a Folly voice character? Is he's just gonna
make Yoshi noises.
Speaker 4: Yoshi noises, Yoshi Yoshi noises.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that would almost seem a bridge, like a
bridge too Far cartoon had him talking. Way.
Speaker 4: They haven't announced the voice for Yoshi, right, No, No,
they're gonna.
Speaker 5: Probably announce some voices that we're gonna get the Rosalina
voice actress probably here, right.
Speaker 4: Yoshi's gonna be Jeremy Irons, Okay.
Speaker 5: Now boards Jeremy Irons. Yeah, do you guys? You guys
see the Pillsbury uh Cookie Company leaked the Yeah she
looks good and.
Speaker 3: Wait what happened yesterday? Does no one watch all the
shows on this website. Jillsbury leaked the design of the
Yoshi Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yoshi cook cookie box and Junior stamp oh yeah featured
in to this movie.
Speaker 3: But no one has sucked up the design of Yoshi.
Speaker 5: It's hard to do. He's pretty cute.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: How's Sbouser Junior just show up? It was like be like,
oh right, my son that I forgot to acknowledge in
the last Yeah exactly, yeah school right exactly.
Speaker 6: He's home for a summer summer break, and they won't
bring up the fact that he doesn't have a mom.
Speaker 2: They just won't come up.
Speaker 4: Well, well, he's got questions about his mom based on Sunshine.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, grub.
Speaker 4: I saw during your show somebody in the chat said,
is Bowser Junior gonna make a six to seven joke?
And some people thought he would, And I'll say it
if he does. If Bowser Junior makes a six to
seven reference, I will never play another Nintendo game.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, that is not a zero percent chance.
Speaker 4: I careful chance, an opportunity gonna happen to.
Speaker 3: Do the funniest thing.
Speaker 4: Chris Son, if you are listening, get back in the
v O booth not gonna.
Speaker 6: They would, they Wouldn'tintendo is better than that. Odds he's
still digesting hat to this day. Yeah, ever, very famously
eater of hats. Yeah, you know what's weird is that
Yoshi is not look great.
Speaker 5: What was more upsetting to me on the Pillsbury thing
was seeing the movie Chris Pratt Mario doing the Mario
Galaxy flying post from that box art just looks weird.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have a canonical idea in my head of
what that looks like. You're right, And anything that's off
is like a it feels like the Okay Uncanny Valley
is happening here.
Speaker 5: There's like they released a teaser trailer along with the
announcement of this direct and it is like toads on
the water for like the star like festival whatever it
is that does happen in the game. So, uh, it
is interesting, like we are adapting that one already. Yeah,
and it makes to get because you do get Yoshi,
you get Rosalina, you get a bunch of new characters
and toys.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If we get a voice for Yoshi, genuinely, besides Jeremy Irons,
who would y'all want?
Speaker 5: Chat? Said Ben Schwartz. On, Like that sounds right.
Speaker 1: They can't have Ben Schwartz, he's.
Speaker 3: Sonic John Malkovich, please, thank you.
Speaker 1: Here's my pick. Jenny Slate.
Speaker 2: Oh it's one that'd be fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: Because she already.
Speaker 2: N Butler so son he could sue him again.
Speaker 1: If you can't get if you can't get Ben Schwartz,
get Jenny Slaate his sister, so they can just Yoshi please.
Speaker 5: Jenny slap. But it's only using clips of her voice
from hosting the YouTube Comedy Awards.
Speaker 4: No one tried to keep something on the rails more
than her in that moment.
Speaker 5: It usually has to be like it's like I'm like
a you know, non reverend goofball and like she's trying
to hold it together against Norm McDonald.
Speaker 3: Jenny Slay. Now I'm thinking Kristin Shawl for yoh uh, I.
Speaker 1: Could see its Kristin Shawl for Bowser Junior would go
so hard, God, that's actually she could do that.
Speaker 6: That's actually pretty good kind.
Speaker 4: Of Bowser Junior. Like I think I was anti Bowser
Junior at first because they really wreckoned the coopl Lings,
and I really love the Coopling.
Speaker 2: It wasn't Bowser Junior's fault, though, don't take it out
on him.
Speaker 4: No Boers decided that these seven children weren't his kids anymore.
Basically a bad guy, and then he had a new
favorite son. But I won a Coopling revival questions.
Speaker 5: I really saw that they were in all of the
New Mario Brothers games that got put into Smash Brothers.
They you know what the other Smash Brothers. I should
think what you thought? I wanted them back. Then they
came back and I got tired of them pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: What are you talking?
Speaker 4: They're gonna have silly names. They look goofy, some of
them sunglasses.
Speaker 6: Some bad issues because there were seven of them. And
then the dad named the eighth kid Bowser Junior. What
does that do to somebody like Orbison? Like let me
Motorhead just dirt bag years. Oh yeah, yeah, Ludwig Vaughn.
Isn't there like Ludwig?
Speaker 5: That's my favorite?
Speaker 4: Like they're cool.
Speaker 6: That is weird, though, I guess we'll find out the
answers to all these questions and more on Wednesday for
the Nintendo direct covering the Super Mario Galaxy movie.
Speaker 4: I'm just looking up pictures of Cooplings this makes me
happy that.
Speaker 2: Movie's out in April.
Speaker 6: Good for the Grand Theft Auto six has been delayed
again to the end of twenty twenty six, and that
happened within the last se days. It was surprised. Tom
Be like, oh yeah, it feels like I had it
forever ago. This is another delay. It's now coming out
November nineteenth. I said somewhere, I think when we first
talked about this on Game mess Mornings, that this doesn't
even feel like a real delay because it's for them,
it's so easy to move this because it's in the
same fiscal year. You weren't moving it past Christmas. It's
honestly might do even better in this slot. So for them,
it's like this doesn't feel like a negative in any way,
and they get more time to make the game better.
So I'm I wasn't surprised at all to learn that
this had happened. There could still be more delays, but
I feel like at this point it's a little less
likely if.
Speaker 3: You're even convinced that it will come out in twenty
twenty six, yeah, yeah, then sure.
Speaker 6: I mean it could easily move to March of twenty
twenty seven, very easily. Because that would again again still
be the same fiscal year. But yeah, they're the reasons
for it. They just like they basically are saying, we
want to make sure that the launch goes perfectly. We
don't want to ruin any chance or risk any chance
that this game will not be accepted as one of
the best games ever made when it comes out, and
we don't want any backlash. So and they're trying to
nail it now, nail it down with this initial launch.
Speaker 1: And perhaps they're just trying to hope other negative stories
surrounding Rockstar are just gets covered up.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: The timing of this was it was right before their
earnings report. But they also laid off about thirty to
forty people. Fired forty people because of gross miths conduct,
is their claim. And what is that gross Miths conduct?
They were talking openly about their business, which I guess
Rockstar was arguing this violation of the NBA, but they
were talking about that in a discord about their business
because it was a place where they were organizing for
labor so that they could all be in a union.
And so the expectation here's Rockstar fired a bunch of
people for trying to form or to strengthen the union
that exists. The maybe notable thing there is the number
of people in the union that relates to Rockstar passed
a certain threshold in the UK where it's like, now
the Rockstar will be forced because it's over this number
to have a collective bargaining talks with this group. Well,
I bet these firings put it back below that number,
which maybe a little suspicious, but yeah, that definitely happened,
and then got buried by this news that Grand Theft.
Speaker 2: Auto six what was being delayed.
Speaker 6: Marvel nineteen forty three, Rise of Hydra also delayed. They
have not given it a new date. It was supposed
to come out in early twenty twenty six. All they're
saying it is now coming beyond that date. This is
a game that feels like it's not real every time
it was what I say every time we talk.
Speaker 3: Goot, it is this the one with a Black Panther
in it?
Speaker 6: Yes, this is Black Panther and Captain America in it
is Captain America Ray in World War Two. So it's
not the Black Panther game from EA, which I think
that's the one that got canceled. This is the separate
game from Amy Hennick's team and sky Dance. So Larry
Ll since money is behind this and it is going
to be like an uncharted like but with these these
two characters, it's hard to say. We don't we don't
really know much. The only the only place that this
game's ever really shown up is an Unreal Engine event
where like the technology of the game was shown.
Speaker 2: Off because it's using Unreal Engine. Beyond that, we just
haven't seen much about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a trailer from what feels like years
ago at this point, and.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, I don't know, it's just very confusing. H yep.
Speaker 6: We'll see if that that gets like a new dat
or when that re emerges, you know, I'll say this game.
There's a handful of games that are in this weird
spot of they were too big or too close or
sort of the only bet that some of these companies had,
so they aren't part of that batch of games that's
been getting canceled, but there was quite a few of
those recently where all these companies were pulling back, like
Perfect Dark got canceled, Like there's a lot of stuff
in that bucket. This game feels like the next bucket over,
which is this game at a lot of other companies
probably would have been canceled by now, but the companies
now instead probably just trying to hedge their bets and
figure out exactly what it is and maybe try to
get it out the door instead.
Speaker 2: For Suicide Squad, Yeah, it.
Speaker 5: Just seems the idea of canceling another aiming headed game
just seems.
Speaker 3: So rude to me.
Speaker 5: At this point, she hasn't been able to release a
game that she's had a big role in since the
p S three era. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 6: Jesus, all right, let's keep going here. Four years into
a into the ten year plan, Halo Infinite is officially
ending major updates.
Speaker 3: That's wild.
Speaker 6: That game is only four years old, it feels much.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Does that include when it got delayed that it's supposed
to be a launch game for the series series? Yeah?
Speaker 5: The series?
Speaker 3: Yes, your series series. Yeah, so I guess you put
it like that year.
Speaker 2: I guess it can out in twenty twenty one then, yeah, wild.
Speaker 6: So yeah, anyway, they are ending development for that game.
Speaker 2: They're getting it's getting.
Speaker 6: One more major update, and then next year we'll get
Halo Campaign Evolved, which is the remake of the campaign
of the first game, and that obviously begs the question,
Halo is a famous multiplayer series. What will be the
replacement in terms of what where do you point people
now to go play Halo multiplayer? Well, obviously they must
have something to answer that coming soon as well. It
won't be part of that campaign Evolved, that's just the campaign.
So yeah, they'll have a chance to announce whatever that is,
but clearly they're getting getting ready to move on Halo Infinite.
That was such a weird situation because now we're at
a point where everyone kind of talks about it. It's like,
I like that game, and then they're like, well, why
did anyone play it? It's it's just because it didn't
have immediate massive gobs of like oncoming content at all
times because they just couldn't figure out the engine. So
they're using unre ungine this time. Hopefully that we'll address
that and they'll be able to figure it out. But
I don't know what, because what do you do? It's
is it gonna just be feel like Halo Infinite again?
I don't know what you do with Halo. Do you
guys have any insight?
Speaker 3: No, idea put the Simpsons in it, you know, yeah, yeah,
change the whole Fortnite map into yeah Halo, And I
don't know, I don't.
Speaker 5: Know what you do, because I mean I really liked it,
right and like boy, like people just the vibe around
have got so bad so quickly from and there were
false It's hard to just make a lot of content
for a game like that, So how do you somehow
smooth out that that process? I mean, they're gonna try
AI And that's my fear is that the next Halo
is like, this is gonna be Microsoft Howard right right,
It's gonna be a lot of that bs. It didn't
even turn out Whirl in the game.
Speaker 4: No Windows.
Speaker 3: I just I just think there is a certain amount
of rust on Halo that you just can't polish off.
And I just whether that's like brand rot or whatever
it is, there's just something about that franchise that has
not been able to like generationally continue its momentum for
whatever reason.
Speaker 1: Do you all think it is going to go by
the ways of like Medal of Honor.
Speaker 3: I don't think son Metal of Honor, Halo's much has
a much longer legacy than.
Speaker 1: For sure, not able to adapt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I think it's too big. I
think I think they'll figure something out probably. I mean
seems like Battlefield was dead and then it just kind
of takes one game for to finally get people they
want basically, and all of a sudden, Battlefield is huge.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 5: I don't think Halo is like going away or anything.
They'll even if the next one doesn't work against somehow,
and even the one after that, Microsoft will have the
funds to brute force it eventually. I think you're right.
Speaker 6: I think it hit when when, like when people are
ready and receptive toward a new Kalo.
Speaker 3: So I think I think it's I think it's one
of those things that it's like we got to like
put it on the shelf for a little bit, give
it to bun you know. Yeah, you know, like like
you do with the they're not working with anything with
the secret recipe. Yeah, and then when the time's right,
it'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Uh all right, seven years is more? Hey, what's going
on with Microsoft stuff?
Speaker 6: Seven years after it was announced the Elder Scrolls six
is still a long way off. Todd Howard says, basically,
he's like, yeah, we're working on it, we have Fallout
stuff happening, like there's probably a Fallout three remaster being done,
just like Oblivion. He didn't say that part, but that
seems to be what he's suggesting. Uh, But then, yeah,
the team is working in Earnest on the next Elder
Scrolls game. But I think he's also kind of suggesting,
we really did just finish star Starfield Starfield and yeah,
and so now, yeah.
Speaker 5: Think about what the name of it was, right, well, yeah,
you know they had all those they had those expansions
to make for star Field that were just you know,
eating up right.
Speaker 2: And I think they still right.
Speaker 6: That first one was very negatively received by everyone except
for Greg Miller. And then I think coming into Greg today,
I didn't mean to grub, meant to Yeah, now, let's
still directly attack that man.
Speaker 2: Otherwise I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: I physically attacked him.
Speaker 6: I So we'll see this game at some point. Still,
obviously they're going to make another Elder Scrolls. But are
we talking twenty twenty eight or twenty thirty.
Speaker 5: Or twenty thirty You shut the hanging up.
Speaker 2: It could easily be twenty thirty.
Speaker 3: But it's just wild.
Speaker 5: I mean it's just wild again that we went from
getting obliviated Skyrim on the same console to just we're
talking about twenty thirty when the last one happened.
Speaker 6: But Mike Starfield would come up, I'd be like, I
think it's a bad idea, and you'd be like, no, they.
Speaker 5: Need to try something missed me everybody. I was always like,
they should not be making a starfill what is this.
Everyone's like, hey, we need to do new things in
the industry. It's great, Well, there you go. You got
your fucking bad space version of Fallout and it was
awful and looked like crap. And that's one of the
reason why it s game is going to take so long,
because it's gonna take them forever to either update their
aging technology. Don't Actually it was supposed to be though, right.
It was only because I have to assume so much
energy had to go into the bs of randomly generating
these planets, which I bet was technically impressive in some
way but was not fun or interesting anyway, and then
developing all of these systems like space combats and base building,
all of which exists in absolute microcosms that don't interact
with each other in any meaningful way whatsoever. They probably
spent hundreds of maybe thousands of hours of manpower to
create this thing where you get to make your own
spaceship only so that I can complete a mandatory side
mission and get a better one anyway, So I guess
I'll just fucking use that. I'm sorry, Startfield's bad.
Speaker 4: You can tell Mike's getting real hot when he's like
he does the thing where he looks off at the
distance and he's talking with his hands.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's locking, he's blocking out the voices. He's apologizing.
Speaker 6: That makes sense anyway, Starfield see like a misstep. Yeah,
it was a miss step.
Speaker 5: And I don't know how you rebound with older Scroll
six because the expectations are going to be so ridiculously
it's even a matter of just falling up Skyrim. It's
a matter of now competing with what people like about
like some of the big RPGs, like like boorders Gate
or even you know, Witcher three and stuff like that,
and trying to do that with what people are expecting
production wise.
Speaker 6: Good luck.
Speaker 1: What is post Malone doing? You know, he didn't he
tease it or is he he was just super jazzed
about it. No Elder scroll six, Oh, I think.
Speaker 5: My post Malone have to do is it?
Speaker 2: I think he has jazzed.
Speaker 6: I think he did mention this as one of his games,
but he was just involved in another game recently. He
came up when I mentioned it mentioned in someone's like
post Malone's game, and I can't remember what that game was. Anyway,
Fans believe that a new Crash Team Racing game could
be in the works. B Knox, the studio behind Crash
Team Racing nitro Fueled, could be working on a new
game in the series. This all emerged due to a
new profile image that the company used, which featured Crash
Bandicooting in his cart. But it's the Crash Bandicoot four model,
which was not nitro Fueled. So people are like, oh,
is this a new Crash Team Racing where they're going
to use the new model for Crash Bandicoot. And I
think that that's probably going to happen because that last
game sold like ten million copies, and I think they're like, hey,
maybe we should do another cart racing game featuring Crash
especially since that team. I think it was B Knox
that did that Crash Party Bash weird bad multiplayer game,
kind of fun?
Speaker 5: Uh not crad No no, no, no, no no no,
we're talking about very recent Remember they made a kind
of like kind of a mobave that weird thing. Yeah,
I mean as bad as if.
Speaker 2: It was a really poor choice.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, business wise, terrible decision.
Speaker 4: Oh maybe now, Like I mean, people really wanted to
like Sonic Racing because they were disappointed by Mario Kart World,
So maybe now is a good time for Crash Team Racing.
Speaker 3: I don't love people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, people, CTR is great.
Speaker 5: People loved the remaking and the remakes so very well,
I believe. Yeah, so, I mean absolutely, why not do
another one of those?
Speaker 6: It's just so I think it is happening because of
those factors, like it sold well and that last Crash
thing was mean to do. To be Knox, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Diddy Kong Racing, Chuck in the chat is right, Bring
back Diddy Kong Racing. Give us an adventure mode with
boss fights and a cart racer.
Speaker 3: Please, great, n.
Speaker 2: That's still not a race.
Speaker 6: He's down on there yet, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Did anyone check out the Kirby Air Ride demo.
Speaker 6: One weekend.
Speaker 4: I need a few more hours of directs before I
dive in.
Speaker 5: What's happening here?
Speaker 4: You got to get your hours in.
Speaker 2: It's it's a licensing thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, So Crash Tam Racing probably happy happening. Uh,
here's another game that's probably happening. EA remains committed. A
BioWare blog says to dispel rumors and reassure fans about
Mass Effect five and the fact that it is still coming.
My gambo, who's basically in charge over there, especially in
charge of that game, did an update on in seven
day November seventh, which is the unofficial Mass Effect Holiday.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: They were like, hey, yeah, we're still really working on this,
and everyone involved that is important to making sure that
this will actually see the light of day is on
board with this, and I still believe that. I also
believe this is the last time that would be the case.
Speaker 4: I was the last BioWare game that was generally well received.
Speaker 5: It'd probably be a Mass Effect three was twenty the Inquisition.
Inquisition was well received, was like a lot of places
game of the year. Yeah, it kind of later got
reconsidered to be, you know, a bit worse than that,
but at the time, it was Rosie, but you know,
since then it's just been you know, astronomical failures with
Andromeda and Anthem and then like missing the mark with
the Veil Guard, right, not a terrible right then.
Speaker 2: Didn't live up to hopes and expectations for sure.
Speaker 1: Right right.
Speaker 5: So I mean it definitely feels like Mass Effect five
is do or die for Bar. It might be do
and die anyways the place things are going. Uh, but
they you know, they absolutely need this one hit, and
boy that it's a tall ask to try to make
one of these games these days with the amount of
expectations and just how ravenous that fan base is. And
they have a very specific idea in their mind. I'm
sure of what they want the next Mass Effect, and.
Speaker 6: It's not like to be set up for like an
obvious follow up, right because they have that dramata kind
of poisoning the well a little bits. And I think
they want to still respect Andromeda, so as the game
is going to go back to the Milky Way and
it takes place something like four hundred years after the
original stuff, but it does seem like they want to
tie it to those original games in some way. That's
a tough needle to thread, so we'll see if they're
able to pull it off.
Speaker 1: I love and respect every different group of fans for games, right,
Silent Hill freaks, Kingdom Hearts freaks, whatever, the people that
super excited about when it is November seventh every year
for n seven day?
Speaker 3: Oh is that what it fucking is? Yes? Yeah? Such
big nerds.
Speaker 1: Wow, and I'm sorry, it's just like what nerds?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Let's get janon in seven Hoodie. I think I think
you should joined the crew.
Speaker 1: I thought those were really cool. Anyway, though, I tell
you seven.
Speaker 5: The aesthetics and MASSIFCT they're great. There's there's a lot
like about that franchise.
Speaker 3: I love Mass Effect. It's good.
Speaker 4: Eight out of ten series.
Speaker 2: Okay, what would you say about March tenth, Mario day,
Jan That's fine, that's fun Mario for cool dudes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Like May fifth, that's great. May fourth.
Speaker 5: The last of us days the worst, just like the
day the pandemic happens.
Speaker 1: That's just terrible.
Speaker 5: The Lore people making their nine to eleven our day
of celebration for the franchise doing that is they are
the video? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He does that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like Martin Luther king Day. That's great.
Speaker 5: Sure day like the math number March that's fun. It's fun.
Speaker 2: Then you can like have an excuse deep pie, I
like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: Claire Obscars snubbed in Grammy Video Games Soundtrack nominations. Mike,
just all right, buckle up, it's okay. The twenty twenty
six Grammy nominations. Her bat Score soundtrack for video games
includes Avatar, Frontiers of Pandora, Secrets of the Spires, DLC,
Hell Divers two, Indiana Jones, and The Great Circle, Star Wars, Outlaws,
Wild Card in, Pirate's Fortune, and Sword of the Seas.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's stop righting. So you're telling me they couldn't
find like enough actual games that came out that they
thought had pretty good soundjacks that they were doing just
the deo seas stoopy soft license games just because, probably
because all the fucking grant people are like, wow, I
know what an Avatar and Star Wars is, Indiana Jones,
I know that. And then somehow somehow Hell Divers to
and Sore the Sea managed to sneak in there. What
the hell is this bullshit? It's just it's nothing. It's
not a serious category. It's this is my serious f
now whatever they're doing.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: Now, of course Christopher ten won a Grammy before for
Bobby Yet too, Mike, so they do they know it
wasn't a video game category at the time he just won.
Speaker 5: It was not right, so that's why it was me.
And then they're like, well, we got to look like
we're not, you know, the old assholes that we are,
so we'll have a video games soundtrack category. And it's
fucking embarrassing. What the hell is it? You don't have
clear up scure, Like somebody in there had to be like,
well wait a moment, now you can't about clear up scure.
Speaker 6: I think Michael O'Leary kind of gets it here where
it's like you be submits everything Sony submitted sort of
the sea. Yeah, the people who like are responsible for
this game didn't know you even needed to submit. Sure,
I didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it's just a nom or whatever.
Speaker 6: I'm sure submissions helps, but you probably can nominate anything,
but I bet the submissions go a long way toward
getting those things considered more than anything that wasn't submitted.
Speaker 1: For as much as I have my ambitions for Hollywood,
and I just keep trying to plug stuff and just like, hey,
put me in shit, I need Mike Minati to be
in an episode of The Chair Come.
Speaker 4: But oh my god, that's that's the new Tim Robinson
j Yeah should Daniel? Can you sound in the last one?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: I cackled very very loudly of that one. That's not
Prestige TV. It's comedy, right or is it prestige comedy?
Speaker 4: It's comedy. It's a weird fucking comedy. Surreal isn't the
right word. It's like dada. Yeah, yeah, it's one percent.
Actually that is the best way to put it down.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: I imagine if Salvador Dolly made like also like a comedy.
Speaker 3: I think you should series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, okay to say what happened in the last one.
Speaker 1: Jan but you know, I know, I know, I don't
want to spoil anything for anyone listening at home.
Speaker 3: I think the powers that be got back Lar. I
don't know what happened. Yeah, he looks like.
Speaker 6: He was worried about. In a meeting recently, there was
a man doing some of his electricity. He was worried
about that opening up box maybe the guy came back
and finished the job.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, anyway, I'm done with the news, so might hand
the show back over to jam folks.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a quick bricky break.
Speaker 1: We're gonna check in with Backlar to see if he
fell into the Internet holes and if his Internet holes
got wider. Uh, that's that's gonna be it. That's gonna
be all that we talk about the with of holes
on this program. Just band past this. Gosh, yeah, but
it's going to be a different thing about his body.
Speaker 4: Why can't I forget everything, whether I went to or
not and that one holes?
Speaker 3: It just sucks that I know that.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see you right after this. These are
the emails the show emails. Bombcasta giant bomb dot COM's
email address to send your emails too. If you know
where Jeff Backlar is, please email us at podcast at
giant pop dot com.
Speaker 3: We don't know where he is, man take him.
Speaker 6: We have no War of the worlds could be happening
in New Jersey, right, we would have no idea. Holy smokes,
there's no way to find out. There's no way to check.
We've we've checked all the proper places.
Speaker 5: The way to check is that Facebook?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, trying to get back online, he says.
Speaker 6: I don't know. That doesn't sound like him. I think
the alien's already got him.
Speaker 5: Maybe the tripods wrote that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, maybe it was uh.
Speaker 1: I was gonna try and work in War of the Worlds,
but the ice Cube one. But I don't want to
think about that movie again. That was this year, Holy Ship.
That's every day?
Speaker 3: All right? Once again?
Speaker 1: BombCast John bomb dot com is email. Just send your
emails to first email comes from Arthur Oho. I am conflicted.
Do you seem like a bunch of guys who know
what to do with an excess of game materials stored
in boxes? Since I was a wee lad, I've collected
and kept every Nintendo console and a wide collection of games.
Speaker 4: For each from send them to me, that's what you
do with them?
Speaker 1: From the SNS onwards. I'm now in my thirties and
I'm in possession of a collection that fills five large
plastic boxes sequestered in the room I rent. The problem
is I have very little free storage space, thanks terrible
housing economy, and they're always a pain to transport every
time I move thanks again. Terrible housing economy. As it stands,
they're sitting idly in tubs, never being enjoyed due to
my limited time and shelving. And it's started to feel silly.
Speaker 3: That being said.
Speaker 1: Does owning a copy of Duck Dodgers the Marvin Missions
for SNS spark joy?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes it does.
Speaker 1: So here's a question. Do I go about selling or
giving these to others to actually enjoy or continue to
cling onto them and hope I will one day be
able to enjoy the collection? Thanks for all you do.
Thanks for all you have done and continue to do.
Arthur from among the boxes.
Speaker 2: Get out of your system.
Speaker 3: Dan, go ahead, give me the games, give me, give
me the game.
Speaker 5: Don't give them to Dan. He's guys, He's got plenty.
Speaker 4: Look I don't have any.
Speaker 5: He's not a private collection. My collection is behind me
right there. You could see. Yeah, good, look at I'm
displaying it right now.
Speaker 3: You Yeah, but I don't know. I could never.
Speaker 6: I can never put up some of your games for sale,
and then if it begins to hurt, stop doing it
and then find a way to keep it. But yeah,
just try to reduce it some like start somewhere. There's
got to be something that's not Duck Dodgers quality that
you are, like, man, this one, this specific one, actually
doesn't spark joy.
Speaker 5: Just reduce it. Try to get it down to four
bends and go from there. It does suck that, Like, yeah,
you don't have a way to display them. That's what
makes it fun, even you're not playing them all the time.
Like just walking into this room and the first thing
I see is this wall of old video games.
Speaker 1: I like.
Speaker 5: It makes me happy, right, I like, I like that.
So yeah, it's rough just seeing them in boxes like that, though.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 4: I just got a brand new AMBO display cabinet from
Facebook Marketplace, and it's delightful. They're going to see themed
it's a three by three grid and no, there's the
Smash Brothers one, there's the animal cross saying, there's the
Zelda looks great.
Speaker 1: Was it specifically made for Ambo's or.
Speaker 4: It's just like no, I looked for like two months
and I had running searches for things that like I
needed to be the right size for all these and
I had measured out for this area by the fireplace,
and it's perfect.
Speaker 6: You'll see, it's big enough for all the Ambo or
select amebo all my amebo.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's the thing fucking twelve feet tall.
Speaker 4: No, No, it's got like you know, nine nine chambers
or whatever.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite.
Speaker 6: Wa That's what I was going to go.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised Mike didn't make the joke first.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Next email comes from Mike from Loveland. Hello, crew of
the good Ship Bomb Cast. You've almost done it. The
episode is almost done. You guys crushed it. Insightful and entertaining.
Another instant classic. What's your favorite post show snack?
Speaker 3: Love the show? Love you all, Mike from Loveland.
Speaker 4: I got two that I've been into most of this year.
You got the Sargento Smart Breaks, which is one of
the things that's like a little plastic tub and he
pulled the top off. And the one I like is
it's got wheat thins and then pepper jack cheese squares
and cheddar chee squares and you make yourself little just
snacky things. And the other ones is you got the
Sobra things where it's a dual thing where you you
pop it off and one chamber is the lot of
chambers going on his little pretzel rings, and the other
one is hummus, great, great little snack.
Speaker 1: Though, Oh I bet it is a good stack.
Speaker 3: I like that he's back, al, He's back, he's easy eating.
Speaker 5: What's that's the fund way he's eating right now? For
this question?
Speaker 3: Was eating? And all right, I don't know what to
do anymore. If you move to al a civilized state
like Ohio in the blood Sugar, you could have just eaten.
It's the street I live on, like, I don't know
what I have to I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5: We need to start campaigning your internet company? Do we
need to like get a grass?
Speaker 3: Everyone one knows their bet.
Speaker 2: It's bad again?
Speaker 5: You look okay right now you can complained again for.
Speaker 3: The Audioptimum and yeah, it's just it's insane, uhazing in
and out of time right now? You don't need the
internet for his job.
Speaker 5: Have you tried? Have you tried putting all your stuff
in the basement and says, see if it works better
down there?
Speaker 3: Yes, it's the the level of I feel like I'm
handcuffed in a way that like can you just have
no options? And they're the worst company on earth?
Speaker 6: Have you like replaced your modem and all that stuff done?
Speaker 2: Okay, I had some jerk off here. Yes, should I
that's your problem. You can't be doing with jerk offs.
Speaker 3: Didn't do shi. It was just like everything's fine. I
was like, well, thank you, you fixed it.
Speaker 5: Your service is awful. Then it is frustrating, like I
was having troubles for a bit and it's like there's
nothing I can do. This is the this is the
ip in this area. There aren't options. But you know
what you're back now is the hiccup. It's great you
ate a nie to answered the question.
Speaker 3: It's all the time. It's all the time, and it's
been so bad lately, Like I don't know, can you
do you do you own like a fiber digging contractor
did your dad also do that?
Speaker 5: No, he's just he just only works with people.
Speaker 2: He just put into people.
Speaker 5: He suggested fiber for people, not for me though it's
apparently bad for my crowns.
Speaker 3: Well you know it depends. Uh, back, Lara Wood.
Speaker 5: Do you like snacks?
Speaker 1: What's what's a good snack? Postpot snack?
Speaker 3: I like plantain chips. Oh yeah, like too. I like that.
I like a big nut guy. Everyone knows that huge huge.
Speaker 5: Laughing. Well, grow up, dad, your head. Yeah, you look
at the wall.
Speaker 6: Now you.
Speaker 3: Are we up to? Like emails?
Speaker 5: Is that where?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I took a break and everything.
Speaker 3: I love a lot. I love Japanese snacks. I love
like all that stuff. Yeah, give me all that, you know,
like melon candies, like milk melon candies. I just sesame candies, peanut.
But of course dude.
Speaker 4: Turned me on to this thing. He brought me a
packet of jersey of this boltok uh spicy ramen. It
Oh yeah, fucking so hot. It is like I was
my nose is running, I was fucking sneezing. It was
like it was the good ship.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 4: It was quadro cheese bulltok ramen, so goddamn good.
Speaker 5: What is it called bulltok bulldock bulldock.
Speaker 4: Bulltoks gears of were gun that I it sounds like
a space.
Speaker 6: Ghost bulldog bulldog chicken on it. That was gonna be
my answers.
Speaker 2: It was ramen.
Speaker 6: I'm kind of getting nostalgic for ramen again, so I've
been eating some instant ramen, but I can't do that often.
I get sleepy after I eat ramen, which I think
is a BADDI you think it's like, oh, you just
had a salt bomb in your body.
Speaker 3: Go off.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, Ship, that's really good.
Speaker 3: It was crazy when Vinny ate all those nuggets, all
the moisture in the room had lips puckered, and yeah, YouTube, Jan,
good job, good work.
Speaker 5: I hate eating lunch before noon, so I always get
lunch after the podcast, so I after this is usually
starving and I will run straight to Subway and get
my bullshittissery chicken sandwich or whatever.
Speaker 2: I just take a shot, right. Do you look in
the mirror and shot a clock?
Speaker 1: No, I just have ISO voice recordings of each of
you saying it and then which one and I played?
Speaker 5: Cool? Did I send you the picture? I found a
buzzball and I took a picture. They forgot to send
it to you. Jane that now.
Speaker 3: You've seen them, but it's a picture of me with them.
Speaker 5: And if I'm like, this reminds me of my friend
Jan and his Did you find it like the venue
or something like he went to a liquor store.
Speaker 6: Well, because that's not as exciting because that's that that's
their's where they live.
Speaker 2: So you just saw one at the store and that Okay.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I like my friend Jan, and I'm going
to take a picture with this buzzball for him in Japan.
Speaker 4: And I took a picture of a buzzball and I
sent it to Jam being like, hey, just come to Japan,
and Discord was fucked up. All was in Japan and
it sent it like eight hundred times.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 6: They were like, I don't know what's going on your guys.
We're like, it's more funny that you're upset about this
because of course it bothers you.
Speaker 3: But yeah, oh this is a good picture. Yep.
Speaker 5: It's a biggie.
Speaker 1: It's a matches one wild. It matches with your shirt.
Speaker 5: You thank you good. That's my lily Bow shirt from
the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. You could
go there today, Jan, if you wanted to. I'll, you
know what, I'll take a buzzball there. I don't have
a dealer in time. It's kind of why that they
call those grapes gone wild? Aren't we not like acknowledging
girls gone wild anymore? That was all really bad, right?
That was the.
Speaker 6: Busball company seems like a very CONSCIENTI.
Speaker 3: It's a woman owned company.
Speaker 4: All right, it is, Yes, so one of the most
omnipresent commercials. Or maybe it's just because I just watched
nothing but Wrestling on Comedy Central, but now from from
nine pm to four am, it's I.
Speaker 6: That commercial probably fifty thousand times.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it was more than any other commercial.
Speaker 5: I think, did you guys get a lot of the
Michael Flatley stuff too, like the River Dance the dance
stuff I got a less so less. I see that
a lot too, and a lot of.
Speaker 6: Like Shirley Temple best of things.
Speaker 3: I think we might have been watching different things.
Speaker 5: College commercials, Yeah, let's witch coffee commercials, Maxwell incest coffee commercials.
Speaker 3: They were like Super Bowl commercials.
Speaker 5: Seas it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like the brother comes home and the sister
just seems like super into him, and everyone's like, this
is an incest commercial.
Speaker 5: Yeah, their chemistry is not uh, sisterly and brotherly, it's
it seems romantic and it's everyone was off put by.
It's very funny.
Speaker 4: Oh buch of Insomniac with David tel which tended to
have a lot of girls going gone, Girl's.
Speaker 6: Gone wild commer, Yes, it's yeah, yeah, yeah, or anything
on E I watched a lot a lot of wild
Entertainers of Byron Allen and E.
Speaker 4: Gone was wild on E with Brooke burn wild On.
Speaker 6: And I would watch that all the time, and that
would have girls going because I was basically like the
PG Girl's Gone Wild, wild On.
Speaker 1: I must have had a different host for wild on
E because that Brooke Burke doesn't sound fu to me.
Speaker 5: You did?
Speaker 2: You know who that is?
Speaker 6: Is Steven Soderberg's wife, and she is, apparently under a
pen name, the writer of that Logan Lucky movie.
Speaker 2: She wrote it, Stephen Soderbergh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and she was like Jules Asner, Jules Asner, Yeah,
I'm pretty sure that's right.
Speaker 2: If it's wrong, whatever, yell at me. But I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 5: It's you know who Brooke Burke is, the sketcher slip
on lady now. Yeah, man, there's a horal history of
the Folgers, incest.
Speaker 6: Ad folders, my bad apologies given him stolen valor by
Maxwell for incest commercial Wow.
Speaker 1: Our incest quota for the podcast.
Speaker 3: Way, We're like HBO, we can't get enough of it.
Speaker 5: We picked to sensitize my normal sex. Don't you know anymore?
Speaker 3: What are you got?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: We should just start selling bingo cards of the podcast
on the store.
Speaker 2: And definitely yeah.
Speaker 6: And there square it's the Folgers incest commercials.
Speaker 1: Please please all right, Travis and Fargo writes in with
five questions, I chose one of them, Travis asked, best.
Speaker 3: Video game merchant. It's got to be the Ari FOURD
for me.
Speaker 1: I can't think of any top of my head.
Speaker 5: Dragon Quest four had a famous one who then starred
and I think what was like the first Mystery Dungeon
game actually started that dude. He's just some fat merchant guy.
But I don't even remember his name, which is not
a great case for him.
Speaker 6: But Ones Beatles from Zelda is great. The librarian and
Symphony the Night is very good, Chuck that what was Yeah,
this whole deal.
Speaker 4: The messenger have Like there's some gimmick with the liking
the merchant and.
Speaker 5: That too funny. Maybe people either like him or really
dislike him.
Speaker 3: The happy mass.
Speaker 5: Salesman is a great one for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's great.
Speaker 5: That's a good one. That's a top tier guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The way the librarians and talks like wow, like he
was great, Yeah, Beatle.
Speaker 1: I guess they're not really merchants, But I like the
Dwarves and God of War twenty eighteen.
Speaker 5: Oh injury and uh the other one injury and yeah
Clo rock brock Brock. Yes, Smith is kind of like
almost a separate category that we can talk about great
video games.
Speaker 1: Smith's sure, sure, okay. Do you like the miouscular chef
count as a merchant from like Monster Hunter the Captain
because they're selling you food? I that's like again, that's
like chefs. I mean, he does so food. But if
you ask me what that, what's what that person?
Speaker 6: Job?
Speaker 3: Chief chef.
Speaker 5: Metal your solid for he just shows up and no one,
no one else ever thinks about drabbon.
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 4: No, He's got them to drinks soda and some cigarettes.
Speaker 5: Look just look at chat. Look how chat was popping
off for lesson.
Speaker 4: Talking about drind What are you talking about it?
Speaker 5: One of them, but one of them did actually bring
up drebven So that's more than I expected.
Speaker 6: So how do you guys feel about the word merchant
as like an insult? It's like become one where like
I remember like someone was trying to like insult Parasolla
by calling them a positivity merchant, and I think about
that a lot.
Speaker 2: That's like a very funny thing to say.
Speaker 3: I think I think George can be a stigma attached
to merchant in at least.
Speaker 5: This is like a George Costanzra jerk store thing.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, feels close stretch.
Speaker 1: I'll let you have that one, Mike, thank you. Two
more emails and then we'll get to super chats. Josh
the Canadian and Cali writes in Hey, gang, how much
time has to pass before you can throw away a
birthday card? Currently going on two weeks? I want to
get rid of them, but feel odd considering there were
gifts and people that like me spent money on them.
Anxiously undecided Josh the Canadian, Kelly, I think the rule.
Speaker 4: Is if there is a personalization, like there's a nice
note in there that maybe hang on to it. I
think if it's just like happy Birthday and the signature hey,
you can toss it, then.
Speaker 5: Oh man, yeah, you're probably right. But guilt test compelled
me to never throw away a greedy ever ever. Ever never,
they're just in boxes somewhere. I do have like one
dwar somewhere that is just full of them, because yeah,
I do fool but I usually don't even do that.
I do them for weddings, that's about it. If it's
a birthday, it's like like I got you a present,
I don't need to get you a card. Also, it's
it's fine, so I don't. I don't really expect that
many cards. Christmas cards are fun because you don't know
you like usually you have to take a picture for
them too. Write it's like, oh, I went to Hallmark
and I got this car. That's one thing I like
when like the families go and like we got a
picture of ourselves and we're sending it to our friends
and look at us. We're all on our red pajamas
and there's a Christmas tree. I'm like, that's nice. I'll
keep image.
Speaker 4: Just something people with kids do. Like, I've never known
anyone that didn't have kids making Christmas cards.
Speaker 3: I did. No couples.
Speaker 2: Couples will do it. Yeah, yeah, couples and Mike Manatti,
Yeah I did.
Speaker 1: It for Scout. I sent one out of a Scout
last year.
Speaker 2: I really I'm sorry this reference in Chad Sam.
Speaker 6: It was like, you feel guilty enough to keep the
birthday cards, but you didn't go to your grandma's funeral.
Speaker 5: See this is how misinformations friends. It was.
Speaker 6: Was on it was.
Speaker 5: It wasn't even like a great aunt or something, a
great she was great.
Speaker 3: I like the grandma's story better. I'm gonna.
Speaker 7: Bad.
Speaker 3: I would have got my dad said out.
Speaker 5: And I didn't think he was playing forty chess with me, right,
I just he wasn't. But a different family member must
have been. No, no, whatever, it was fine, all right.
Speaker 2: Just a funny thing to say.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I I think you did the right thing, Mike.
I'm on your side there, but I was on your
side as well.
Speaker 2: But just a funny.
Speaker 5: Brothers brothers, so super believe I was wrong, but they
think they know what they know what they think they know,
they think they do.
Speaker 3: Also, I also dislike your aunt, so that's fine. Why
why did we wind up on a video call with
a j in a suit and he looked like a lawyer?
That yeah, what happened.
Speaker 6: Was that one of those late night streams. Mike was
like playing something and we all.
Speaker 4: Why we weren't on video.
Speaker 5: Right because he was he was still in his from
the funeral getting.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, okay, right, right, okay, okay, all right. Last
email of the Oh. I guess this is the problem
with a show. You bring up a state or a
town one time in passing, and then someone from that
place will write in a passionate list of things about
that place. We talked about Vermont for a life.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I want to learn about Vermont.
Speaker 5: This is why we wanted to hear more about Vermont.
I asked for Vermont information.
Speaker 1: Well you got it because Nick from Vermont wrote in
with a bunch of stuff. And now maybe they work
for the Board of Tourism or whatever, because I'm now
suddenly compelled to go to Vermont. All right, high Bombers,
longtime first time congrats on gb going independent and a
super successful bombathon. On the BombCast last week, you guys
had said to reach out to hear about Vermont.
Speaker 3: I don't remember saying that.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 1: I grew up in northern New Jersey, but moved up
to central Vermont right after Montpellier the capitol with my
now wife four years ago. Here's a few things I've learned.
It's great here for you like outdoor activities, hiking, skiing,
just go off mountain biking, all great options and you're
never far from.
Speaker 3: Any of it.
Speaker 1: People tend to think it must be so cold here,
but honestly, on average it's about ten to twelve degrees
cooler than where I grew up in New Jersey.
Speaker 3: In the winter, it is cold.
Speaker 5: This is pretty cold to me. That's cold.
Speaker 3: It's all right.
Speaker 1: I love Vermont go on usually about the same temperature
in the summer, though for about three weeks less time.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Generally, national government leaders from Vermont tend to lean more
Democrat slash of liberal. There are huge swaths of the
state that are redneck trumpers, and frequently we end up
with them in local government, including our own tiny town
of about two thousand people. Unfortunately, similarly, in my experience
in these areas, you'll find lots of folks walking around
strapped for no reason, certainly not to my liking.
Speaker 5: Second gun.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's straps.
Speaker 3: We do have.
Speaker 5: Everyone faced the wall.
Speaker 3: Now, I mean any oh shit, sorry, any any fucking
rural area. Come on, Like that's not exclusive.
Speaker 1: Yes, part like go ten minutes away from me and
like parts of pacifica with a cool beach Taco bell
will have people strapped up and strapped up to the
other We do have a relatively large lgbtq I A
plus population. Most of our friends in the area are queer,
but unfortunately many of the programs and services available to
them for support in the more rural areas have been
closing down due to the Orange Turns cuts to government programs.
We have had an increasing issue with unhoused people, especially
after two years ago we were hit with a flooding
that reached levels where entire towns needed to be rebuilt.
Businesses have struggled, but coming back mostly mostly smaller, local
mom and pop or local change all.
Speaker 5: Right outside the disc golf, I have not been hearing
a lot of positives so far.
Speaker 1: To leave on a more positive note, gener fun fact
is that it is illegal to put a billboards on
any road or a highway in Vermont to preserve as
much of the natural views and beauty as possible. Hey, Nick,
maybe right in about maybe two three more things that
are good about Nick.
Speaker 6: Lost Vermont's largest export snow weed micro electronics.
Speaker 4: They make the ben and Jerry's there right. I think, yeah,
there's a Delaware. I feel like Vermont and Delaware.
Speaker 3: Definitely not Delaware. I think it's Vermont.
Speaker 1: Sorry for the long email, I just want to fill
yell in. Thanks thanks guys, Love you Nick from Vermont.
Speaker 3: PS.
Speaker 1: Nolacona is from here. If you haven't heard of him,
you should check out his music and I have so.
Thank you Nick from Vermont. If any other Vermontonians is
that the right Vermont is Vermont's Vermont? Uh out there?
Have any quick facts about Vermont, please send them in
because made me a little sad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Vermont is is dope. Just to be clear, I mean,
I'm only exposed to like the skiing parts of it,
but it's.
Speaker 2: Fun and can I be real? I when you said
that Montpelier is the capital of Vermont, I don't know
if I've ever.
Speaker 6: Heard that before.
Speaker 5: Really heard it in Laos song on Animaniacs.
Speaker 3: Vermont.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I've never been there. It's in a very north north
central part of the state that I've just not been to.
It's close to Burlington, though I think Burlington I've heard of. Yeah,
the code factory, the code factory in the town.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Uh mister Minati, do we have any YouTube
super chats with your shirt? Do?
Speaker 5: Big Fresh? Thirty sentence says which is more likely closing
biowhere or selling by where I imagine closing? Uh what
do you think.
Speaker 2: Who would they sell it to?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: At this point and he just kind of closes these
things they think so right.
Speaker 4: I feel like recently wouldn't like Embracer was buying everything.
Have they cooled off on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, acquisition season has come to an end unless you're.
Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia, right, So it's like, yeah, who do you
think the new owners would be?
Speaker 3: Is Embracer? Wait? Did Saudi own Embracer?
Speaker 6: Actually that was one of the the problems with Embracer
that Saudi, the Saudi Arabian government was involved with them
Bracer a little bit, but then they were gonna do
another big two billion dollars infusion and Embracers like we're
gonna keep things going, and then that fell through, and
then since then Embracer has like been cutting and laying
hop off and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, Sire Sketchewan says, ever heard of an old timey
drink called beef fizz?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, I'm interested.
Speaker 6: I was like something you a threat you would say,
like come meet me and Alley, I'll give you some
of this beef fizz.
Speaker 4: I think that's the Center for Extra Life is Mike's
gonna drink a bunch of beef fizz.
Speaker 5: It does. Oh my gosh, it's uh condensed beef broth,
ginger ale and lemon juice. That could be that's what
you like.
Speaker 6: That's what you give to the workers when you don't
want them to have real meals so they can keep working.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's protein in that baby.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it just sounds very sounds upset cool stuff for
boy says, I don't know why. I think that name
is funny. I will signed up for a premium of grub.
Him and Naughty's vow to start pronouncing Pokemon correctly instead
of like boomers.
Speaker 4: All right, listen here, I think you just said it right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I sometimes I say Pokemon. I get excited.
Speaker 4: Wait, can we all try? Can we all go around
the horn and give it earnest?
Speaker 6: Let me let me go first, cause I don't want
you guys to influence because they want me to get right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try.
Speaker 6: Sean did teach me recently, And when he said that,
he's like, I also know that you don't care, and
I like that.
Speaker 2: He's like, no change, but Pokemon.
Speaker 4: All right, I'll go Pokemon, Come on, Pokemon, Pokemon, Mike, okay, Pokemon.
Speaker 5: Uh look, I don't hear I was on the ground
floor this whole Pokemon sitch. At least, you know, if
America is concerned.
Speaker 1: Nailed it a little because a little accent over the
EU is it to hear the themes?
Speaker 5: Sorry, Pokemon got to catch Jim right.
Speaker 2: The accident means the sounds like an I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be called a Pokemon boomer. I was there,
I was there at the start. I was there. I
went to fucking in the past.
Speaker 2: Is not an argument against being a boomer.
Speaker 5: That I'm discerned that they're trying to quickly fight the
parants like my son's in the Pokey.
Speaker 6: Man, and no, I will not I will not saying
that instead.
Speaker 5: You're right br tearsys reminder that Dan wanted to use
the Rascal Castle music playing NonStop and the extra life
noubsful man. I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I don't even write that down. I got a doc.
Speaker 5: Yeah, great, great, thanks for that one.
Speaker 4: I know if the music in that game was atrocious,
it could also play in the sauna all the time.
Speaker 6: It could do that.
Speaker 5: I want to be clear about this. If I'm not
feeling on the sauna, I'm not gonna like, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4: Brave it out money off the kids, families.
Speaker 5: Instead of dying.
Speaker 6: Yet he's right, week, warlocks Gaming says, have and what
what what what? Just like those aren't the two options?
Feeling a little like not great?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 5: You fucking god? You just because you will put yourself
in bodily hard because it's not gonna kill me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, music, I'm adding it to the doc.
Speaker 2: I guess you're I don't know until something does.
Speaker 5: You're right, Yeah, warlocks Gaming says, have any of you
seen the New tron f Jared Letto? But it's the
best trauma movie. I did see it. It's not the
best movie. It's probably the worst draw movie. But I
actually did not mind it. It's fine. It was not
a bad movie at all. Certainly was a weird movie.
Wasn't the right movie to make, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: I mean, but you're such a Jared lettohead that that.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh antoyo mohere else says, what game do you
guys bust out for a get together? We're both gamers
and non gamers. Is the only option jackbox or is
there anything else out there? Jack box is always the
best object, like five options, and they can just people
just use their phones. Everyone's got one of those, right,
So it's just it's so much better. You could do
it like the Lego party. Now might be fun Riftracks.
Speaker 6: Game, which is very similar, but you know that's one
thing where the jackbox games are right fifty than you know.
Speaker 5: Rock band used to be the thing, right everybody would
have to phone with rock Band.
Speaker 1: May I suggest a good old card game called Flip seven.
Speaker 5: Where you.
Speaker 1: I don't want to explain it because I'm just gonna
get too amped in jazz. It's very cheap, it's you
could get out of target. It's kind of like twenty one.
You're flipping over cards, but if you get the same cards,
you bust and Jesus Christ, it does not help with
my people's perception of me of having a gambling problem.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 5: Let's see here now, snore relaxing, Say's fun fact. Since
g T five came out five nights at Fridday's debuted
and has released eleven games and a feature film in theaters.
Jesus a Lot can happen in thirty five years. Yeah,
and then Breezy Caesar says how many subs for a
day planned by Dan? And no one can say no?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right ideas?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know you would. I know you'd have some
ideas for sure. It would just be be someone safe.
I would know.
Speaker 4: I want to be like the fun safe jigsaw.
Speaker 1: That don't have the jigsaw part to it. I don't
have the jigsaw.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know you think you would be, but you
just you just don't. You don't know what's safe, and
that's not no one gets actually hurt. Whose ideas are
those where you get hurt?
Speaker 3: Kisses? Huh?
Speaker 4: I was thinking about them.
Speaker 5: It's it's true.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 4: Nothing I do is I'm safe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I pass out on your fucking dry air
sauna dying to fujiin. I hat to bring like an
extra pair of clothes now for this little shit like.
Speaker 4: We are all going to die, and you know that'd
be a funny one.
Speaker 5: Your arm?
Speaker 3: All right? All right? Is that it for super chats? Mikey?
Speaker 5: That looks like that's it for super chats?
Speaker 3: Thank you so much?
Speaker 5: Everybody?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, what do we got going on
the rest of this week game. This morning's popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
correct Grub. That's right, A new season of blight Club.
The Blightening Round starts tomorrow. Is Grubs turn at bat Grub.
Initial feelings going into this new season, Uh.
Speaker 2: Steph likes to look and she laughed and had some
awareness of it.
Speaker 6: But that couldn't be COO mean anything.
Speaker 4: So I also the look. I think, Mike, we found
a good one.
Speaker 2: The costume it's right there.
Speaker 5: I don't know what it is, so and a slight tease.
But we have already also picked Dan's game, even though
he goes last. So we're set on that, and we
think the whole blatting round is ready to go. Yeah,
who knows how long it's gonna take. Why not take long?
And it'll be funny If Jeff's game is all secretly
like a four episode, that.
Speaker 2: Would be funny.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: We looked into it, and like we did, look at
some that were like this could go a little longer.
This one seems legitimately short, okay, like possibly one episode
shouts out.
Speaker 1: To our short kings out there, all right, voicemail dump
truck popping off on Thursday and then Friday, we're gonna
have unprofessional Fridays. We're gonna do cod blops.
Speaker 2: Wait, what's my console? I can know my console?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Or okay, here, make sure you it's a weird one,
because I wonder if that's gonna narrow it down too much.
I mean, tell you what, tell you what grub get
your retro archs going, make sure to leave it up
and make sure you have the cores for let's just
say Nintendo, Sega, Sony consoles.
Speaker 6: Including handhelds yep, and cluding handhelds. Okay, down, maybe just handhelds. Okay,
all right, all right, I'll get.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, I think of that about does anyone
else got anything else?
Speaker 3: They want to shout out?
Speaker 1: What's again? This Saturday? Extra life at Dance. I'm gonna
be popping off generally around twelve Central time?
Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah? I think yeah.
Speaker 4: We'll get some lunch. I think we get some taco
bell for lunch. We eat before the stream to kind
of hype up, and then we'll eat the bajab Last pie. Yeah, yeah,
we'll eat the pie to start the stream. There we go,
and then we were gonna fucking turbo crust the place
up for the Lego Party.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm so excited to play Lego Party. I understand why,
why why I had to get preempty when when vine
Now showed up. But I wanted to play Lego Party,
and I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I was there with you, Mike, and then I'm sad
that I won't be there. But once again, also shouts
out to everyone that has joined Team Giant Bomb for
extra life this year. A lot of y'all were streaming
last weekend. Shouts out against Anthony Thomas for raising.
Speaker 3: A bunch of money.
Speaker 1: Also shouts out to our friends at main Gear may
gear dot com slash gihn bomb. Go get yourself a PC.
Don't buy Mike's face plate. Don't do it, don't do it,
don't do it, don't do it.
Speaker 5: Oh this is a reverse psychology.
Speaker 1: No no, I'm just I'm just traighted telling them.
Speaker 3: Don't do it. Don't do it.
Speaker 5: It's fine, like pie, don't do it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, God, I just want to jump in now.
Speaker 5: Chuck still needs help with the wiki.
Speaker 1: Wikia BombCast dot com slash wiki you can get some
more info. Also, if you were in the Giant Bomb discord,
go look for the wiki Street Team channel help chuckster out.
Sorry I forgot. He doesn't like being called that help
chuck out. Also special special special shouts out to Deeco Deals,
Good Deals dot Com, SA the Double D.
Speaker 3: Go make a list, go save your money on some games.
There is a cat? Is that a cat back there?
That's that's a boss. And that about it, and that
about does it. For another episode h.
Speaker 1: The podcast, Hey eleven eleven, go make a wish or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week for another episode of the
Giant BombCast. He's been Jeff, He's been Jeff. He's been
like he's been Dan. You at home have been coachious.
I've the jan We'll see you next week for another
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