Speaker 1: It's the Internet. You're busy, Let's do this. Welcome to
the Game as Deicides Podcast. This is the podcast where
we decide everything about the world of games, so you
never have to think for yourself. I'm your host Jeff Grubbin.
With me is Mike Manati. In today's episode, Pacopeia is
doing just fine. Microsoft continues to talk about Project Helix,
and we are going to do that sequel Battle March
Madness chart thing, that kind of funny put up. It'll
be a good time. We're gonna We'll explain more of
that on once we get there. But first, Mike, how
are you doing. I'm good. I'm good. It's busy.
Speaker 2: I had to do this this this news show a
couple of mornings, and wow, it took a lot of
work and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I appreciate you stepping in. I listened at
least one of the days. I was pretty busy. The
other day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I could tell it because you repeated my
Legos story that I already covered.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was. I like, I was like,
after I got done, I'm like, huh, I feel like
I probably should have checked that. And then I looked
and it was like, Okay, there's definitely some crossover here,
but hey, that's how it goes.
Speaker 2: It happened, you know what. I wanted to hear what
you thought about the place station Lego. It's fine, Yeah,
it was.
Speaker 1: I talked about it in the the I did a
grubsnackt premium as well, and there's someone asked about it there,
so I've talked about it a lot. But yeah, Hey,
I went to GDC and that was pretty cool. It
was nice to see people. I did my panel, which
was which was the main reason I went out there,
but then I watched a bunch of other panels got
I found out Wizardry still very popular in Japan. People
still care about that quite a bit. I also just
kind of like I tried to run into people and
that was that worked out really well, especially just kind
of like going there and sitting down and kind of
bumping into developers. People wanted to wanted to talk, so
it was kind of nice to sort of reconnect with people,
or to like reconnect with the industry and start building
up start start building up, not necessarily sources, but just
contacts in the industry again, people that work in there
and kind of know how things are going. It's also
very funny because occasionally I will see somebody who is
like a good source and they can't come say hi
to me. So it's like it's like and the Departed.
It's like, how do you know someone? If someone's a cop,
It's like, if they don't look at you, they're a cop.
It's just like that. So any developer that doesn't look
at me at GDC, that's my source. Everybody, now, you know? Incredible?
Did you go? Is it any other panels or talks
or anything like that? Yeah, I went to a few.
I actually was like, I want to see what's going
on with all of these kind of sponsored ones for
all the technology stuff. So I sat into a couple
in Nvidia and arm ones and man, graphics on phones
are getting really good. I just wish the games were there.
There's still be some games that look like they're trying
to do more with that. But it's like, oh, yeah, okay,
ray tracing is going to be on phones here in
this next year or so, and that's all going to
be the next gen of funds. You have to buy
a new phone to get that stuff. So it's still
years away from everyone sort of being able to see
that stuff. But it's like, oh yeah, this is the
kind of thing that makes me remember that we are
a little overdue for new consoles because developers want to
move to making games with ray tracing, but they're held
back by these older consoles. They can't do that very well.
That's still going to be a very very long transition.
They're not going to be able to force that overnight,
but they're getting ready for it at the very least.
It's a lot of stuff like that. Gosh, yeah, that's
that's interesting.
Speaker 2: It's fight is one place if I've launched, they talked
about ratracing a ton miles. Morales was like, you know,
cool with that, and then you heard about it a
good deal less as time went by.
Speaker 1: Fact, it seemed like if you weren't Insomnia.
Speaker 2: Echoes, maybe a little difficult for some of the ray
tracing things, and.
Speaker 1: Even like even more basic than that. It's like, you know,
because in those situations that you're talking about, it's a
Marquie feature as it should have been. They looked really
good in the Insomniac game, just like getting some games
that use very basic ray tracing for their lighting system.
It's like, at this point the narrative is it's way
better on the switch Too. If your game requires that stuff,
it's better on the switch to. Actually it's like, oh,
that's weird, But it's also a reminder that even that
mobile hardware that is at the time the Switch Too
launched also kind of older Nvidia ARM hardware. It's like, okay,
so if we get a chance to get to this
next gen and really put in those bespoke chips that
are there for raid tracing, we should see performance improvements.
But really it's you know, that's what some developers are
concerned with. There's a lot of panels about like how
do you make money in this industry and how do
you raise money and how do you get the most
money from your users. That stuff's always been there, but
it's like, oh, yeah, that's the stuff that's surviving because
it's go time. It's crunched. I'm in the industry. A
lot of people are like, hey, we got to be
profitable or else we're going to be pushed out. So
you can tell there's a lot of anxiety about around
being one of the studios that knows how to make money,
and uh, that's what are.
Speaker 2: People saying about what are people saying about AI? Yeah,
so there's like.
Speaker 1: Huge installations from like Google, like hey, come make games
in our on our AI platforms and maybe even use
our like AI tools to like where you just write
a sentence and we start by prototyping your game for you.
And those things were getting big lines. I know that
the Google panel about AI development was packed, So take
that for what you will. It's it. Look, this is
an industry show. This is people who are business people
first and foremost. A lot of times, there are a
lot of passionate game developers there, but the people that
are going to be making the game that comes out
of nowhere and like Bulatro or whatever. I'm sure the
people that made Blatro were at GDC, but they're not.
Like the ideas that they used that took over the
world didn't come from GDC. They're the ones that show
up and do a talk at GDC this year, and
they did. They talked about some of the stuff from
that game, not Local Thunk, but some of the people
that I can't remember the publisher play something Wouts Company.
They're You're not going to get a lot of the
stuff of like Okay, this is where the true creative
stuff comes from unlet's you go to the post mortems
where that stuff is on display and it's awesome. The postmortems, Yeah,
they're great, They're fantastic. I tried to go to a
couple of them. Also, Phil Over at the Video Game
History Foundation had one of his like a bunch of
his academic buddies come up and talk about preserving video games.
And Wes Finland, I believe, who did the story on
the person who finally built the emulator for the laser disc,
the Laser Active, the Laser disc a console. He did
a talk on that. It was great because I read
that article when it came out. It was very good.
But just having him like layout like the beats of hey,
the guy started the project. He's like, this is gonna
take a couple of nights. It's probably not going to
be that hard. And then of course it's the sixteen
years later is the next slide, and it's like, yeah,
that's the story of how these things go sometimes. So
it's just a cool place to be because you're gonna
run into cool people and there is a lot of stuff.
It's not just the dark patterns of how we extract
most money although it's a lot of that. Glad to
be back though. How's Dean. Deane's good. Yes, Dean was
on the panel. It was me, Nathan Grayson from Aftermath.
It was Steven Tatillo who does Game File now, and
then Dean and myself and then Paron Kaplan who was
like Reggie before Reggie for me because I remember reading
about Paron Kaplan on in sixty four dot com and
IGN sixty four dot com where she was the Nintendo
person that actually communicated with the press, so her name
was always in story and she was like really involved
with the game cues.
Speaker 2: I've got to meet her and I was really asking
a lot of questions about the GameCube.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's, you know, she's one of these old
school PR people who's just like always remembers everything and
it's like very kind and treats you like an old friend.
And we are at this point, but it's just kind
of it's still very sweet to like hang around with
pairing because she's just she really does make you feel
welcome in this industry. So she put the whole thing together.
Really appreciative of her for doing that. And then it
was cool to see SF. I got my hotel, I
you know, sent there for like a second. I'm like,
I should see where the Nintendo story is and it
was four hundred feet away. It was literally across the street.
So it's like fantastic.
Speaker 2: So I went right by our cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, which I didn't. I couldn't go to without you.
I just felt that I understand. Yeah, I got I
get it. Cool man, It's so weird to me that
you went to a GDC I didn't go to. I know. Yeah,
it was a certain point. I was like, glad, I'm
only here three days. Maybe I should move my flight up.
But it was I'm glad I went out there at
the very least. But like I said, glad to be bad.
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All right, so we are going to get to our
big topics of the week, but first a quick break.
All right, it's game Mess decides. Let's get into the
big topics that I want to talk about, including Pacopia
is already one of the best selling Pokemon spinoffs after
just to four days, Game Freak and coe Techmos Pokemon Piccopia,
a Nintendo Switch To exclusive, is one of the best
selling Pokemon spinoffs ever, selling over two point two million
copies in its first four days, including over a million
in Japan. This puts it in the top twelve spinoffs
by known sales data. Released release last week, the physical
game key card quickly sold out. That's also been a
big part of this of like how much more would
have would it have sold sold? Excuse me, one if
it was more available, and two if the game was
on the card. I feel like that would have made
a difference. Actually, even on top of this, although clearly
clearly it's not holding the game back, it has it's
fully taken over, right, Like I was a little bit
unplugged because it was hard to keep track of like
social media and memes on Reddit or whatever when I'm
traveling around a bunch and kind of walking twenty thousand
steps a day. But it did still seem to get
the sense that Pocopia is everywhere, and now these sales
numbers confirm that. What's what's been happening here? Mike, Well,
how do you feel about, Like, is Pocopia really that
next game for Nintendo? The system seller that the Switch
two has been waiting for.
Speaker 2: I mean, I saw Daniel ahmadas kind of contextualize some
of this on Blue Sky, saying, you know Mario Odyssey,
which released eight months at the Switch one launch, that
sold too million copies in three days, so relatively comparable here,
the current the best selling Pokemon spin off of all
time is Pokemon Stadium, which sold five point four million.
This is obviously going to be doing better than that.
It says, it's a Pokemon game. You meagine the legs
are going to be ridiculous on this thing. So you know,
we're looking at at least probably ten million copies I
bet one day for this and maybe beyond that. The
only thing holding it back right now is that, you know,
there aren't a ton of Switch tos out in the
world right now, although I bet this game is encouraging
more people to pick up the console.
Speaker 1: You know, anecdotally, I've heard that people have definitely been
you know, there's been memes about that of oh god,
now I got to go spend four hundred and fifty
dollars and then buy this game as well, or trying
to you know, talk myself out of doing that. People
are being motivated by this thing. It is very similar
to Animal Crossing, So I do think it's going to
end up somewhere around like Super Mario Galaxy or excuse me,
Super Mario Odyssey and Animal Crossing on the switch one.
So we're talking twenty to twenty to thirty five million
copies sold, and it only does that if it's also
a system seller. So yeah, and you know, at the
very least investors who are very stupid, but investors believe
that this is a system seller because it's the fortunes
for Nintendo, because it's stock price which has dropped something
like thirty to forty percent over the last few months
because they didn't have like the next big game lined
up or announced. Now they're upteen percent and then and
now it's up fifteen percent I think earlier today. And
I think the markets were kind of maybe wobbling a
little bit today, so that might not have maintained. But
still that's a big recovery for a stock price that
was getting pretty beat up. And it's all seemingly because
people are like, oh, Pacopia is that game? Right?
Speaker 2: And unlike that time when the stock price went up
because of Pokemon go Nintendo does actually profit directly off
of Pacopia being a big hit. Did you get like
a sense at GDC is this the game people were
talking about there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was always like the GDC volunteers with a lot
of them did say hi, and a lot of them
were big fans of a giant bomb and we would
start talk about what games people were playing, and Pacopia
was like right there, it was, and that it was
still a lot of resident evil, but Pocopia was. It
was probably the number one response. And even like when
I would go like to the Nintendo store and would
run into people, you could it was being chattered about
in there. And that was like during Mario Day, right,
everyone's talking about Mario. Well, Pocopia is the hot shit
right now, and it was very very odden. Turns out
it's Dido's day now. Yeah, yeahs that Mario. I don't know,
it looks a little bit funky. His eyes are a
little bit beaty. I'm not sure if that's actually Mario. Yeah,
I heard you talking somewhere. I must have been on
the BombCast of like Ditto reaching that next echelon of Pokemon.
It's like, yeah, I think that's probably right. Kids, are
going to recognize them. Even though you places a funky
ditto in this it's that's not going to matter. But yeah, okay, so, uh,
this is the big game for Nintendo at least in
the first half of the year. Definitely takes a lot
of pressure off them, but it also probably does not
change their strategy for whatever was going to be in
the second half of this year, where they probably were
going going to announce they do have something big. Mike,
I think I'm choosing to get on the side of
believing in a three D Mario getting announced at least,
even though I know that there's a lot of reasons
that we shouldn't believe that. I'm just choosing positivity in
this world. Thank you. I know you're still skeptical of that.
I don't think it's happening now. Yeah, but they probably
have something that can like like deliver that kind of blow, right,
that have that kind of effect, right, And that's the thing, right,
And I mean, it's not gonna be Pokemon Gen ten.
We know that's not until next year twenty seven, and
they have this game now, so they're pretty good on
Pokemon for a moment. So you know, the.
Speaker 2: Question is, well, what can't be. It certainly isn't Zelda.
It's gonna be Mario before Zelda. But it could be
Smash Brothers. It could be all right, something there we
just mentioned, maybe somewhat in that realm. But yeah, like
I get why so when people want to say it's
gotta be Mario because it has been so long, it
just seems like that would be the game you would
want for this holiday. There's there's just certain realities and
they're not insurmountable about that Donkey Kong game just having
come out, which again maybe that's not on its own enough.
Speaker 1: Of a reason.
Speaker 2: There could be a two teams in there, and that
doke Yong game could have been done for a while.
I don't know, I just just a smidge skeptical.
Speaker 1: Well's, yeah, there was. You know, it is fun.
Speaker 2: It's fun to wonder what the big holiday game is
going to be and when we're going to hear about it.
Speaker 1: Yep, hopefully hopefully soon. In the meantime, I've I've really
been enjoying Pacopia. It's I played a lot more like
on the on my trip than I normally would have
played of a game like that, And mostly that was
on the plane, but I had a four and a
half five hour plane ride, so I spent quite a
bit of that doing just kind of continuing to go
along the path and then getting distracted here or there.
Because once it opens up and you realize, oh, there's
so much that I can just choose to be doing.
Was I was almost intimidated. But I'm glad I'm sticking
with it because it's like, oh, they still are onboarding
you gently, yeah all that.
Speaker 2: And they do a good job of like there's kind
of are the different areas, Like I kind of just
finished up the second area right so doing.
Speaker 1: That right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you threw a party was fun. So
it's hey, uh, did you see that new Mario trailer?
Speaker 1: I did. I did see the new like the direct
and the trailer and the character. Yeah, the actor announcements
Donald Glover definitely got me h that there. They're still
kind of hitting stuff with with those announcements. A lot
of times it's just the pairing of the name often
in quotes, with the character or with the actors like
a headshot, and it just looks silly and I love it.
I still think I think Donald Glover is going to
do an amazing job.
Speaker 2: I could have sworn that at some point in my
life you said something to the effect of the only
thing that's going to make me really pop off and
get excited about this movie is if Wart is in it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm very excited about Wart. Yes, I honestly, Louise
Guzman Guzman, maybe is how you write casting incredible cast?
This is like kind of a dream scenario. Okay, I'm
not trying to be cheeky with that with Dwart there,
but ah, right, right right, it's a subcon scenario. It's
very Yeah, I can't believe that they're doing this. It
seems like there's a lot more super Mario Brothers too,
like in this movie than I thought they would have
gone to our Mouse kind of showing up previously. I mean,
I think there's like a sequence.
Speaker 2: It seems were like Tode and Peach go to Mario
World basically.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I think you're right. It's a lot like
when they went to the casino played an episode eight.
I think it's gonna be a lot like that. Actually
that Hey, sure, why not? Can't go bite in in
your Mario two. Let's do it? Uh Yeah, I'm I'm
getting excited I'm gonna buy tickets now that I'm home
talking with stuff about going and see that with the family.
It is soon. I think there are so many people.
Speaker 2: There are some people this movie right now, Jeff, I
feel like Warrio can't be in it, but as a
post credit thing now, they could still put Warrio in it,
because they are clearly not afraid of just jamming this
movie filled with things.
Speaker 1: I still think Warrio's post credits on this one. I'm yeah,
it's hard to tell in this moment, I'm not. It
feels like a coin flip if I had to go
on one Saturd or the other. I think they're probably
gonna cram this movie just because that's Illumination's mo o.
But we'll see it's already so crammed.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much screen time Rosalina could possibly
have in this movie at this point.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, elephant Rosalina huh, I'll uh, that's okay.
She has the hair over her eye. I accept her
into my art. She looks exactly like the elephant character
from Sing. Is that yeah? Yeah, yeah, gold it's dumb, Bostfoo.
What do you think about the Beatles, Jeff?
Speaker 2: I like I like the Beatles. What's happening. I don't
happened when I was gone. I just was wondering what
you thought of the Beatles. That's cool, all right.
Speaker 1: Microsoft reveals next gen console details and promises in order
of magnitude power or increase in power. Blah bla blah.
We've heard that before, but they did actually come out
with some details Project Helix. As we said, I think
we said last week they were going to talk about
this at GDC. Well, now they've done that. It is
going to use an AMD system on a chip with
next gen ray tracing performance. That is one of the
focuses here. Still for how they're talking about this, they're
also talking about how they're getting that order of magnitude increase.
Well that is applied to the ray tracing. The ray
tracing is going to be way better. But also they
are really focused on neural networks to upgrade the visuals,
some machine learning so they can upscale lower resolution images
to get you know, the stuff from DLS.
Speaker 2: Neural networks are real. That's the thing Data would always
say about, like his brain. Yes, I think Arnold said
that as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, neural Yes, neural networks are real that's actually how
the machine learning works. Are positronic brains reel too? You
have one? But that's what? No, absolutely not, Mike, how
dare you I've had I'm sorry? Sorry, sorry, sorry. This
thing's gonna have an Xbox mode. It's gonna be a
PC that boots that dual boots into Windows or this
Xbox mode that is the Xbox mode. It's gonna be
kind of like when you use the Steam Deck and
it goes into the game mode. That's it's gonna be
that for Windows. So you should get ideally improved performance
and just a scenario for this specific chip set that
is built for getting the most out of games. And
it's gonna play old Xbox games, so Xbox one, Xbox one,
Xbox three, sixty, Xbox series, it's gonna play a lot,
or they should play all of those games because it's
gonna have backward compatibility. But it's also, I think first
and foremost a PC. All this stuff that we've talked
about before, but now now it's confirmed. They're out here
talking about this and they say that alpha development kits
will go out in twenty twenty seven, so early development case.
Speaker 2: Okay, So why does it need a development kit if
it's a PC, Like, don't you just make a PC game?
Speaker 1: What? Don't you just need to know the specs? You know,
there's a possibility that it's just like why not. Maybe
that's their strategy here is, let's build something that at
the very least gets you all of the tools to
make the most from this spec of PC and this
version of Windows. And then also if you do that,
here's a button to get to put yourself right into
the Windows Store so that we can maybe still get
a thirty percent cut if you sell your game on there.
I don't really expect that. I'm raising my hand pick Sean, please,
what's up?
Speaker 3: Hello, thank you, thank you, Mike. I think it's gonna
be the opposite. I think it's the right. I think
it's gonna be an Xbox console. But because the Xbox
OS is already a Windows kernel, I think that it
can just do both, because Microsoft has been moving towards
that this whole time. So I think it's going to
have traditional console games that's how they do backwards compatibility,
and then that book hardware can actually just also run
Windows now in a sandboxed environment, and so when you
like switch between them, Steam deex style. Like you said,
it's switching between the hypervisor driven Xbox lockdown consoles versus
a more open Windows environment as just you know, sandboxed
in some way on the SSD.
Speaker 1: I right, I I like I like that. I think
that's the way they should do it. The reason I'm
skeptical is how do you convince developers to like get
on board with that? Because this thing is going to
be you're going to be able to use it as
a PC because they want you to access all these
other stores. Now sure they could be the ones presenting
the stores, but they're promising the ability, the ability to
boot into Windows. Right, you would expect it just to
work and do that stuff. So how do they get
board with making Xbox games?
Speaker 3: How do they get developers?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do they get developers on board with making
anything at all for Microsoft? Because even if it's a
PC that has the Xbox app, why bother playing your
game on there?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah for sure? Right, But at the very least
they could pretend like they can position this thing as like, oh,
it's a good way to access those games even if
we aren't, even if you are getting them through our store. Yeah, look,
I think that they probably might end up doing it
the way you're just saying, because once you laid out
like that, it's like, yeah, that just makes sense from
a technological perspective. It's just hard to see how that
matters for anyone deciding to make a game.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be one of two extremes.
I think what we both propose are the two extremes.
Either it is what I said, whereas continuing to be
a console and then you know, in software they do
the PC stuff, or it's just going to be an
Xbox rog ally but beefy. And that concerns me because
that's kind of like, I feel like what you were proposing,
because that's just not an Xbox because like, okay, what
does backwards commacability look like? Are they spinning up emulators
to run these that are different than the console emulators
or is everything going to be backwards campable? Does this
thing have a disk drive still then, because they have
to consider that, and then how's that playing to the
PC side. I think in either situations can be very messy,
and I think that makes it the most interesting next
gen console. But yeah, we have no idea what the
hell is going to be.
Speaker 1: Uh, well, they've just started talking about it. I bet
developers will begin leaking like some more details here pretty soon.
So we probably have not heard the last of Project
Helix anytime soon, So we'll check back in as we
hear more. EA laidoff staff across all Battlefield studios falling
following its record breaking Battlefield six launch. So yeah, this
is one of those scenarios where this game did the
best Battlefield game's ever done. Right, It just it finally
outsold Call of Duty. It really was record breaking. So
why are they having these layoffs. Well, it's like they
still came in under their expectations because the whole thing
was we're gonna sell one hundred million, or we're gonna
have they didn't say so, so we're gonna have one
hundred million Battlefield players and that is uh, several times
more than any Battlefield game had sold previously compared to that.
So it was very clear that they were screaming that
red SEC if people remember that, I think it is
red SEC or d SEC that's gonna carry the day,
our our battle Rayale game or whatever it is. And no,
that was d d A, that was Donzo the day
it launched, and that that kind of brought down this
entire thing, despite the fact that they, yes, they did
actually have a pretty popular and well received Battlefield game.
It was annoying to see this because it's like I
was walking past the panel U for that EA Dice
was doing about Battlefield at GDC starting up right when
this news broke j. Yeah, of course his people probably
could be affected in that room. Uh yeah, so just
a tough stuff. This is the kind of thing where
it's like, hey, how do you not build your business
in such a way that when you have something that
is very successful, you aren't very successful? Like how do
you avoid right? Yeah, that seems like a fundamental problem. Yeah,
that seems like a huge issue.
Speaker 2: I mean, they already tried doing the battle Royale, Battlefront,
Thring Battlefront things so many times. You think they learned
by now that Battlefront players want to play Battlefront, right,
Battlefield excuse me, the Battlefield players want to play Battlefield.
Speaker 1: They probably want to play Battlefront as well. I mean,
I mean going to be a bat off Front three.
I'd stoked about that, but probably not happening.
Speaker 2: In prob I wonder if they always thought that this
was gonna happen, like, yeah, well, of course we need
a lot more people for to get the game off
the ground, and then we'll fire some of them and
then you know, I have enough.
Speaker 1: People to keep it going.
Speaker 2: It does feel like after that explosive launch, I have
not even hearing much about Battlefield every now, which you know,
again is part of EA's problem of one expecting these
games to be super exclusive for all time and to
not be able to make that happen.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what they want. I I kind
of am wondering if this is already them slimming down
and getting ready for the acquisitions that is happening. But
this probably does just feel like we had a certain
expectation for Red Sec. It's not happening, and it won't happen.
So let's like sort of scroll things down and try
to build for the future again. And what does that mean.
I don't continue to build for Battlefield six proper, I
would hope, So just support that, try to make that
important again. In the meantime, a bunch more layoffs in
the video game industry, Big surprise, All right, that does
it for the headlines. We're gonna take a break, come back,
get into the super chats. We'll be right back after this.
All right, Right, we're back, Mike. Let's do those super chats,
all right? From Missouri. Matt says, thank you for the content.
Basinga Basinger, Remember Bazinga Remember? Yes? Because actually not really.
I mean I knew it existed, but I think it
would be inaccurate to say I remember it, because it's
like that was.
Speaker 2: A big bang theory. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's his name? Shelddon Old Sheldon? They call old
show you think.
Speaker 2: I don't know if young Sheldon knew about Bozinger yet,
I don't figure.
Speaker 1: I don't know if young Sheldon knew about old Sheldon.
It's like, man, yeah, wow, you think about it. Yeah,
I don't think that'd be weird. You got to give
old Sheldon bosinga. Give the kids something else.
Speaker 2: Epic up and roll Say has been a giant Bond
fan for over a decade. The Latest Black Club is
easily top five favorite piece of content the site has
ever produced.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that you enjoyed it, uh, I.
Speaker 2: Will say, I don't know if you did. You get
to see the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Irish edition?
Speaker 1: Yes, but I'm hearing things and it just sounds like
such a good time.
Speaker 2: I don't want to toot my own horn here, but
I think that was some other Alzheimer content, as they say,
it was very funny to me.
Speaker 1: So we've been having fun for sure. For sure, I'm
looking forward to checking that out. Danny's so great and
that's such a good idea. So I'm glad you guys
got to do that. It was good. It was good.
Speaker 2: And speaking of Blike Club, I mean you know that,
you know the ripcord has been pulled in my homework.
I came to that decision. It's happening.
Speaker 1: People asking me at GDC what the rip chord game is, Mike.
So if there's interest on the streets, people need to
mast on the streets.
Speaker 2: Okay, he has the game, now, he's got the costume,
he's got it's gonna happen. And I'm I'm I'm nervous. Honestly,
I'm nervous because I don't want us to be in
a position where he can't finish a blike club game
and like it full.
Speaker 1: This is maybe the closest one to that. We'll see,
we'll see. Maybe I'm over, Maybe I'm over selling it. Yeah,
we won't. We won't know until he starts playing. Well, well,
we'll just have to see for ourselves.
Speaker 2: Corenda Rick says, Hey, dogs, with Nintendo's suing the US government,
D see Apple making a movie Abound in the future
with Howard Lincoln and a car chase getting chased by
the Chrishners in you bay law. I mean probably not,
just because like everyone's suing the US government to get
their money back. So fortunately, there's something like super exceptional,
per se about Nintendo doing this at this moment, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's always the chance that Nintendo's lawyers are you know,
and their ninjas get unleashed and do something extraordinary. But
so far this has been pretty boiler boiler play because yes,
all these companies are suing to get their money back.
Speaker 2: As Mike said, Raslo says, what was the most inspiring
game you saw a GENC Yeah. I didn't get a
chance to like play a lot of games, kind of
like talk to some developers, so there was nothing like
comes to mind I saw. Honestly, it was kind of
interesting to see like, oh that that's a really cool
looking next gen game?
Speaker 1: What's that running on? And finding out, oh that is
running on a phone. That's interesting to see. I wouldn't
call it inspiring.
Speaker 2: I still just have like such a base problem of
I don't want to play games on a phone screen. Right,
Oh yeah, same, Yes, I just can't overcome that for
the most part.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you. I'm like, put that game on
a switch and it's like a whole other thing. Well, yeah,
I'll play it on there.
Speaker 2: Zombie point says Jeff, did you get hot dogs with
your bottom dog?
Speaker 1: Jan? Well, how are you a.
Speaker 2: Bad person who didn't find out about a new Ridge
Racer for Mike or find your and thor? Yeah, I
guess I haven't asked you. Did you get any scoops
about Ridge Racer while you were there? And did you
find your and thor?
Speaker 1: The last time I asked someone about Ridge Racer, you
really didn't like the answer, and it was that they
had never once heard that game come up. So yeah,
and then I was gone. So I've had a chance
to look for my thor. But we are at a
point where it's like, I got it. I should find
that this weekend. I should really actually make that happen.
So I'll do that, And then, uh no, I did
not get a chance to dog it out with jan
next time.
Speaker 2: Two versus, speaking of the Irish edition, Who's to be
a millionaire Mike for five dollars?
Speaker 1: Who sang the hit song Linz dun Varna? Uh? It
was like Dicky Dicky Butter something like that was his name?
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 1: Really? No?
Speaker 2: There was there's a Dicky something And I don't think
it was the right answer what I.
Speaker 1: Wanted it to beat you wanted?
Speaker 3: It was not Dickie.
Speaker 1: It was not Dickie.
Speaker 3: Looked up like ten messages in the chat and you'll
see Lexi talking about it.
Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah, my bad, Lexi.
Speaker 2: Uh I can't yeahs I just see Lexis saying christ.
Speaker 1: Oh, Christy Moore is the one whos saying it Christy Moore.
Speaker 2: There Dicky Rock, that's it, Dicky Rock with one who's
not the right incredible? Yeah, Oh it's something. It's something, Uh,
Pokey says, we boa Copia Pokemon habitat would ju spawn it.
I just discovered a happy that's just a l a
street light by a bench. I think I want that one.
That's where you find me. I'll just be taking a set.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. I do like the bed with the
plushy buy it. It's like, yeah, I'll just yeah, I'll
lay down fully go fully horizontal. Here, I'll just take
a nap. That's where you meet. Hey, there's lex Latti
says that you ever have to finish a bad game
for work? No, never, not once, not once? Does that
go up? That's I don't even know what that would
be like, Jeff, Jeff, do you know we've been on
the blightning ground since November When you said that during
the Delight Club that I was at the airport and
I kind of almost like reeled, like, Oh, what the hell,
that's crazy. That's November so long ago. It's abode. Yeah,
oh right, mind you.
Speaker 2: When we started the Lightning route was when I really
had to go and play leisure Larry yep, because you boot.
Speaker 1: It up your Knuckles game or like whatever Sonic Blast
for ten to fifteen seconds and then and it was
all leisure Shoot Larry from there for months. Uh.
Speaker 2: Next up is Big Fresh thirty seven says one second
YouTube freaked Out Area I dot Nintendo's Big Fall Game,
an expansion for the great game of All Time. Pacopeia
also likely Super Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Deluxe with ditto
added maybe, but remember how little content Animal Crossing got
and it was their biggest hit ever, So ye knows
how much postgame support the copy you will get. It'll
get a sequel at some point, for sure, Like that's
already a guarantee, and it'll just be in some other
setting or what have you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, uh, what's the what's the Pocopia developer? Is
g Force or something? That's that's the movie with the
Hamster Matts. I always yeah, the okay, MiG a Force
the Guinea Pigs have. Do they typically do DLC for
their like Dynasty Warriors games? It makes so many Dynasty
war games, why would you need DLC for any of them?
But they might exactly yeah, uh make a Force deals.
I'll say they probably aren't gonna do a ton of
DLC for Procopia. I would be like just kind of
put this game, there's a ton of content in there already,
and then just give us a sequel in a handful
of years, like three or four years. That'd be great,
all right.
Speaker 2: Next up here is from Jedi Moss Forress Outer Ring
On Switch to is at GDC and isn't bad now, Yeah,
Jan said he played it and I see some video
and I'm like, oh, that looks presentable.
Speaker 1: Now. Good. That is encouraging, especially for Dusk Bloods. Right, Like, yes,
if this game that wasn't meant for the switch to
but should be able to run on a switch to,
you got that in a decent state. Now, that should
have built up your familiarity with this hardware. Hopefully that
just gets applied one to one to Dusk Bloods. That's
that's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good to hear though, Like that was that
really did kind of bother me that that game is
going to come out and look bad. So I'm glad
they delayed it. I'm glad they were shamed into doing
that apparently. And yeah, if that thing comes out and
runs great, I want to play out in Ring again.
Speaker 1: I want to go out there.
Speaker 2: It really bothers me that I didn't really have a Yeah,
it bothers me. I never really had a real Millennia
fight because I just I had like a sword in either. Yeah,
so I just like got joined a fight with two
people doing most of the work, and I like want
to actually fight that boss.
Speaker 1: I want to do a run with like no mimic tears.
Speaker 2: None of the signs or anything like that have fun
to be a toddname boy.
Speaker 1: That would be cool on the switch to. I played
that game mostly on the Steam decks, so like improved
performance on the switch to. That sounds very welcoming to me.
Speaker 2: Let's see here now. G Nitro says, CA Pop Demon
Hunter's sequel officially confirmed. Yay, So where's my K Pop
Demon Hunter side score action game? Come on Netflix EU Studios?
Also Zoe Best Girl. Yeah, it's like I bet demon
I bet the K Pop demonhards will continue to show
up in some other games. It's weird because we're not
in that era where they would just obviously get fifteen games,
half of them for the Game Boy Advance anymore. Right, right,
But this game or this movie is of a pop
ularity where it's like it might get a bunch of
those weird like remember those Stranger Things games where it's
like clearly basically a mobile game, but they're putting it
on Netflix and it doesn't have micro transactions. And I'll
look at that they showed up on the E Shop
on switch I could see them doing something like that.
Speaker 1: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I saw Hoppers last weekend By the way,
how was that?
Speaker 1: I think you would like it. I think, okay, the
kids might like it too. You seeing the Mario movie
Kiki's Delivery Services is playing on in Imax tomorrow night
and it's back. Yeah, that's an Emmy loves that. I
love that movie. We should go see it, but it's
it's expensive to go to the movie theater.
Speaker 2: Bring like a baguette with you. I always want to
eat bread when I'm watching that movie.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Just a seaside European town, probably like NiFe
or something. Yeah like that, and a total are like
the super cozy Gibli movies.
Speaker 2: Man, you watch those, it was like a warm blanket.
It feels so good. Yep, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up is from large.
Speaker 2: Mario says, Hey, Mikey, should I bother playing Final Fantasy
seven before remake? I mean, I think it's a neat
thing to do.
Speaker 1: You don't have to. If having to play the original
sounds like I'm assigning you homework, then don't do it.
Speaker 2: But if you like classic RPGs or j RPGs, you
should play Final Fantasy seven anyway. And this is a
decent opportunity to you. It won't take you insanely long
to get through a thirty hour game.
Speaker 3: What have you.
Speaker 1: It's available in a bunch of different places, so.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't but now you don't have to if you
are mostly excited about playing remake. And yeah, you know
you think that Fantasy seven playing the originals just for
some context, don't worry about it too much. Next up
here is from Frozen winging x how y'all feeling about
Steam Machine? If places a six slash Helix do come
twenty twenty seven, I think it might be in trouble.
Mlid claims Helix is targeting around a fifty ninety performance
at two hundred f like I heard its Yeah, so that's
the other part about this project Helix and PlayStation six.
I think at least one insider is saying maybe holiday
twenty twenty seven, which right for a lot of people,
like that sounds that sounds too soon, actually, and yeah,
if it was that soon, maybe that is rough for
the steams.
Speaker 1: You know, what do you think about all of this, Jeff? Yeah,
you know, it's a lot of people come down to pricing.
I think it's easy to assume that this Xbox they're
talking about, this project Helix is one thousand to twelve
hundred dollars. It's another reason I think they need to
like position it as like, oh, this is also a PC,
but it's like, yeah, we're talking about one thousand dollars,
so hopefully the Steam Machine can come in well under that.
But that's pretty difficult, Like we're not expecting it to
come in well well under that. So yeah, look, yeah,
I think the Steam Machine is going to look underpowered
compared to these other devices. Uh, it will probably. I
think this is one of the reasons that they have
stuck with the Steam Deck as basically with its launch
specs since it came out, because they want to sort
of like slow things down and get people used to
this idea of you don't need the most power. You're
getting access to the Steam Store and it's amazing library
and all the sales and this is an easy way
to build up your your PC gaming prowess or whatever.
And they'll try to lean into that side of things.
I don't know how far that will get them. I
think this is still going to be like one of
the better selling computers ever, but that doesn't mean it's
going to sell like a console. Yeah, gosh, I'm going
to be super curious about it all. But boy, is
the idea of the new Xbox PlayStation stuff in twenty twice,
especially PlayStation man something about that? I mean we're talking
about twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: I mean, is there any world where heretic whatever the
Intergalactic Project or that thing is called.
Speaker 1: Is that even coming out on a PlayStation five? Maybe? Yeah,
it's uh in twenty twenty seven, it feels less likely
or you know, it feels like it'll be cross chink,
so of course it'll be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean may as well at that point. Yeah,
I can't wait till stay Also, like a lot, I
can't wait till they re release Last of Us Part
two on PlayStation.
Speaker 1: Got get the PS six version. Absolutely it'll be I
have not played that game until you played the PS
six or you're missing out. It's so much con don't
even talk about the first game you thought you think
you played that in the PS three Then you're a
fucking idiot. You are pathetic. Wow, that's up here.
Speaker 2: Cody Bishop says, awesome Netflix dad movie called war Machine.
Speaker 1: I've heard good things about this, Cody Bishop. I you know,
it's hard to make time for movies. Although while I
was playing Pacopy on the plane. I watched a lot
of Drive to Survive. I'm like, uh, I've decided to
become an F one guy. Why the hell not? It's some,
It's some At that point in my life, I could
have made some time for war Machine while I did that.
The last time I heard good things about a dad
action movie on Netflix it was Distraction two, which is
one of the better recent action movies. So I want
to give this one a shot. Extraction Oh the Chris
Sam's Worth thing. Okay, gotcha. Yes, I still not watched
Extraction one, but Extraction two owns Bones.
Speaker 2: And Dresser three or five. Namey says Hoy Hoy, beef
and cheddar boys. I'm playing snake Eater for the first
time in the song is a banger. What are your
favorite non Nintendo video game songs? Oh, all sorts of ones.
I like a lot of like credit songs, Like they're
always kind of like this whole genre of kind of
melancholic sad credit songs. My Ocrosol two as I can't
say Goodbye to Yesterday? Eco has You Were There? That's
a banger. There's a very good one in Nino Kune
or Kuna I always say it wrong, people get mad
at me.
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 2: Then of course the Kendaharts went to intro songs simple
and clean, I Have to Meet your Father, and then
then Sanctuary from Kinamart two maybe even better. Also, you know,
I play Liza p recently. There's a lot of Flue
songs in that and Quisotic. I've been listening to that
a ton on It's actually on Spotify, so I've just
been kind of looping that one during my showers and
things lately.
Speaker 1: Any drum and bass on PS one is good, So
most of most of the games on PS one basically
and then and then yeah, I don't know, like does
account if I say, like Krona Trigger, I'll listen to
that soundtrack pretty frequent.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean you could just say yeah, Scars time
from Crunch, although I think maybe we're talking lyrical songs here.
Speaker 1: I suppose maybe, Oh, if we're talking that, then then
not not as much. Yeah, I'm definitely more of an
instrumental kind of guy. I love I love.
Speaker 2: I love when they start singing and gets me going.
It's exciting stuff. Oh and like, uh, Final Fantasy nine
again another awesome sad credit song with Memories of Life
so freaking good. Give me that all day, even better
than I know. Eight has eyes on me and ten
has one. Don't really care about them even I do
like people live eyes on me.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Give me modives of life. I like
the rest of you. Before credits song that was yes,
that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, Oh my god, I almost forgot about
the bullet or the blake.
Speaker 1: Keeping on the road ahead. Nine has a pretty good
I need to listen to it more. But I'm glad
that nine. It's not as good as forst but it's good.
It's not good, it's not good, but.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch because, like
I said, I do like a lot of this. Next
up is from Jason Fonoi. He says, sitting here eating
a bowl of two cereals mixed together, Golden crams and
peanut butter crunch. It's amazing. What two cereals do you
or would you mix? Yeah, I've never mixed cereals before.
That sounds pretty good. I'ven't had captain peanut Captain cruches
peanut butter crunch in a moment, And that's that's some
pretty good shit.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I feel like I would.
Speaker 2: Want to put a non marshmallow cereal with a marshmallow cereal.
Speaker 1: Maybe I was just thinking that, like golden brams, uh
with a like try to make a s'more cereal or something, yeah,
something in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like uh like maybe just maybe just lucky charms
and uh freaking Cinnamento's crunch that would be pretty good.
Speaker 1: Or some yeah good crisp golden grams. I can't remember.
It's one of those Halloween cereals that has a chocolate
crunch and then marshmallows. So then yeah, that try to
make a small.
Speaker 2: So you mean cocoa, you don't you know, you don't
mean count chocular you do mean Couchok?
Speaker 1: Does count chocolate have marshmallows? Yes? Okay, then yes, then
it must be that I wasn't sure. To me, that's
like that's chocolate marshmallow. So did you did you come
out of the womb as a twenty five year old?
What do you mean? Does count chocolate marshmallows? Look, they
all kind of mixed up like Booberry this, I'm pretty sure.
Then I'm like, do they all have marshmallows.
Speaker 2: They're all the same exact cereal and marshmallows, but with
different flavors.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, well there you go, So yes, then I
would do count Shocula and Golden Grams. That'd be good.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can also just do the monster mash though,
which they just sell in boxes. Now you get all
those monster flavors, and that's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: It's on characteristic of me because like a lot of
my cereals, I mostly like the kind of like the
honey or like honey cheerios, that kind of thing. Or
I even just like kicks. Just give me some regular kicks.
I'm happy with that, but I.
Speaker 1: Like special k Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But come Halloween time, I gotta have my Booberry.
Speaker 1: It's I love it.
Speaker 2: It's like my one of my favorite seasonal treats is
just getting boxes of Booberry and kind of going to
town on it.
Speaker 1: I like fruit Brute, Give me fruit Brute, you would?
Next up is from Last Geek. What's your favorite hat?
Indiana Jones's hat? Yeah, I mean, minds similar.
Speaker 2: When I was drunken Animal Kingdom that one time I
bought a Safari hat and I still like to wear
that only when I go to Animal Kingdom.
Speaker 1: Now, so that hat makes me happy. That's a good one.
I like right now. I really like our giant bomb
golf hat's yeah, it's very slick looking. I like it.
I think it like you totally could just wear that
at of course, and no one would blink their eye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. Next up is weeze Man.
It says nice hair day grub Mikeyer. Italian is showing
Oh no, I mean good, good, good, look at it.
Speaker 1: Have you been watching any of the World Baseball Classic No, No,
not really.
Speaker 2: I'm just paying more attention to spring training because I'm
that kind of a jerk.
Speaker 1: Sure, yet, it's been really good so far. That Italian
teams a lot of fun. They drink espresso when they
hit home runs. It's great. That's racist.
Speaker 2: Next stuff is the Razi says Nirvana, the band, the show,
the movie ruled see it I did.
Speaker 1: I had a little bit extra time one night and
it was late and I was like walking past the
AMC theater. I'm like, my feet hurt. I want to
sit down, And it was like, oh, look, it's plaining
like right now, and I just walked in and I
watched it, and I really enjoyed it. It is before that,
before I saw it, all you would hear is people
seeing it and going, I don't know how they made it,
And now I watched I'm like, man, I think I
know how they made it, but I feel like I
should definitely know how they did some of this stuff.
It's wild. It's uh, it's very cool, and they definitely
there they are. There are references to the We Shop Wednesday, uh,
sketch and stuff like that. That's great, it's good there.
I don't even give away I don't want to give
away anything because there are a lot of fun surprises
in there. But there is like one moment again, I'm
not giving away anything where like once he like the
character came to a realization of something. It was one
of the funniest jokes I've ever seen. It's gonna stick
with me forever. Oh my god, that's just nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, has process heretic the Intergalactic project sounds like a
beastie boy heretic and.
Speaker 1: Salactic heretic, the oh my God, the heretic prophecy, Oh
my God, intergalactic prophet, prodigalactic, the heretic prophet. I think
that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the actual name, right, I think I can't. Yeah, now,
I'm never gonna be able to under.
Speaker 1: It's syllable soup. It's crazy that they called a game
that doesn't sound nearly as good as Launch. Look, no,
no way, uh I uh, Mike, I'm I'm. My point is,
you're doing the work, you should get to name the show.
It's right, it's Look, I'm not gonna be that guy.
Speaker 2: And I know Danzy be like well, Mike, big shot
at and just saying things whatever he wants. Even though
I said I didn't like it. It's fine. I don't have
to call it launch. Look, I think we could call
it launch. Look, but all right, if it's over, it's over.
It's over, it's done. We won't call it that now.
I'm so sorry, And like guess people chat through. That
name is awful. If you see the things actual products
are named, like two x KO or the Galactic Heretics
Problem whatever, that is like awful.
Speaker 1: Launch look is off. Few people throw up off that
as awful as the Beatles. Huh, look at me. I'm
younger than thirty five, and I don't care about the
Beatles cool. I was always like, we talked about it
early on and you got mad at me for the
but we had a conversation at that time and I
was just like and I was just like, yo, I
just don't think it be great for YouTube, and you're
like yeah, but we could still call it something on
the website and like, oh yeah, And at that point,
it's like it doesn't matter all that much. It's fun
now at this point because we've had all these jokes
about it and it's not gonna mess up to the SEO
because we could just continue doing what we need to
do on YouTube. Yeah, I'm no harm, no follow in
my opinion, but hey, we moved on. We moved on.
Speaker 3: Didn't you literally say the phrase launch looks sucks ass?
Speaker 1: No, I said it it sucks shit.
Speaker 3: I think, oh right, okay, sorry, I didn't mean to misquote
you there.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, How dare you? And I was
lashing out because he was trying to egg people on
with the Star Wars episode eight stuff. But I you know,
I don't love it, but I just don't love any
of the names we said. But my point is I
never said I don't think we should name it that,
because I don't think it matters all that much, Like
it's great, fine, I ever.
Speaker 2: Look, I gave people of episode eight for engagement, Jeff,
come on, no, I know totally yes, And.
Speaker 1: I was lashing out at you, like what a joke?
Yeah exactly?
Speaker 2: So yeah, all right now is sorry? I just sorry now, pillotoy.
It's saying elteration does not equal good mouthfield. I mean,
of course not always, but like it could be.
Speaker 1: Part of it. Steinar says, grab what f one team fandom?
Are you jumping into it? Don't? I don't know. I'm
feeling like it might be fun to just get on
the ground floor of Cadillac. You know, they're starting out
this year. A Cadillac is a weird brand to like
be a fan of, and it's they seem like they're
gonna like start off real bad and get decent in
the next couple of years. It's a weird sport, man.
It's the same teams always win because they spend four
times the amount of money, like the amount of money
that we spent to go to the moon or to
make a nuclear weapon, to make a cargo fast, and
so it's like it's more just about the various rivalries.
I'm almost just gonna keep watching without picking a team
for now. Okay, So that same person said monosyllabic alliterations
for toddlers. Oh sorry, not all names could be as
complex and good as pillow toy quick quick look is
not illiteration, I guess. But yeah, I don't know. It's
it's you know, one syllable, one syllable. I don't know. Uh,
next up? Is it? Tomy Moral says you all watching
aw Revolution this Sunday? Lotube.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm no, I'm pretty out of it with all
wrestling in general, and I'm like, I'm at a point
where about it been out so long delay, I don't
even feel that bad about it. I'm like, I guess
I want to break who knows ye?
Speaker 1: Same time. The other thing, it turns.
Speaker 2: Out very busy with giant on stuff right now anyways,
So it's exactly Yeah, So I'm gonna start using some
of these weekends to take care of the stuff we
gotta take care of, and.
Speaker 1: We got packs coming up soon. I'm I'm not gonna
fill up my weekends with anything extra, especially if I
have to, Like, how am I gonna watch this? I don't.
I don't even want to think about it. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2: And then Leski says, can we see Mike's cool hat?
And then there must be some bud because like YouTube
saying that this has two hundred and eighty six thumbs
up on my end, and I don't think that's possible either.
Speaker 1: You' about to say two hundred and eighty six million
viewers will say a slur, that's how it works. I'll
get that. I'll be right back. I think, all right, fantastic,
I'm on it. Yeah, so whatever you call it. Yeah,
so I look, I get what people say about mouthfeep.
I think the launch you put your tongue kind of
down during and you bring it back up for look.
I get it.
Speaker 3: But oh man, it's it's about the law.
Speaker 1: Law.
Speaker 3: It's a bad sound. Launch is a bad word. This
isn't this isn't an attack on Mike. I Launch is
a bad word.
Speaker 1: I like the word launch. I don't think you're wrong, though.
I don't think it's a good word. But I like
it just because I think of the definition, the implication
of like, oh, we're launching, and that means spaceships, and
I like spaceships. So that has nothing to do with
the way that word sounds.
Speaker 3: Not beating the accusation in chat of this podcast is
run by children.
Speaker 1: Spaceship go froom. Oh hell yeah, Mike, what the fuck?
Damn what the hell? God damn it, he's hot. Yeah,
sorry to keep it hard to put it all headphones
on with it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, here's my Safari hat that I got after
I was drunk off of the Avatar beers. Like everyone
else would like take kids home for naps. I was
in the park by myself. It's got drunk dinosaur.
Speaker 1: It was great. It's a core memory. Yeah, that's a
good time. I also was happy to see your Muppet
vision three D three D glasses. Uh. You know you
have never stolen. I'm glad you were able to liberate those.
That was good. Uh and then cone no Neklosama says Mike,
your Irish name should have been Mick. Also long live
won't you look too? Con neko Sama, I've always liked you.
Like that means your toilet bowl or what her name was.
I shouldn't it Salter. I think I think they know
what they're doing when they like they know. Oh, got
part of the business. More coming, good. Jason Vanoa says,
might call it rope drop. The idea is playing a
game on launch day, no early.
Speaker 3: No, sorry, I'm vetoing that we are not calling it
rope drop. We are not dropping rope no.
Speaker 1: Pretty Oh okay, yeah, fair, all right. I like it
though these pitches love Sosa says launch lick, where Mike
buys the new physical games of the week and licks
them on camera. It's interesting idea here. Well oh great,
now Pillotoid's crying, get chat? Uh how so st that point,
Jerry creating a playthrough consisting of opening moments, you could
call it.
Speaker 4: Cap Nobody said ship what I needed to show? Bega man?
Speaker 1: Are you are we doing this?
Speaker 3: Ceo I've ever had to deal with in my life
telling people you don't watch a show called Mega Man oh.
Speaker 2: Just because it had the worst numbers of any gipe
on show apparently had CEO.
Speaker 3: Related you know.
Speaker 1: The Last Geek says, I love rope drop things. Last Geek,
I'm gonna take this out of a kit wear my
head bes normally with. It was beautiful while it lasted,
but I yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's it for the super chest. Oh, I have my
Flynn's Arcade hat here too from Disney World some time.
I have bought ninety percent of the hats of my
life in Disney World.
Speaker 1: I could say we I mean pretty good. It's the
time when you, like probably most need a hat because
you are going to be outside. There are going to
be a lot of times where you not have an
option for shade, and your heads are gonna burn if
you don't protect it.
Speaker 2: Chaktowski says, it's super chet. He looks like he's going
to be friend a child and a talking dog and
going adventure.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, oh sweet cool. I'll be the I'll be
the mechanical hand with the cat. All right. That's it.
That's the super chats for now.
Speaker 2: Everyone, you want us anymore, we will read them before
the end of the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thanks for reading those, Mike, thank
you everybody for sending in the super chats. Let's take
a break. We'll be right back, all right. I'm hanging
in there. I did take a little bit of a napple.
You guys are doing Tomadacci and I help me recover
a little bit. I'm definitely tired, maybe first, but also
bringing off the con crude as well. I've got something
going on but West Coast time and not being able
to sleep last night definitely hurt me quite a bit.
But I'm hanging in there. I'm feeling pretty good, but
I think I need to get my juices filling with
some arguments and getting mad at other people for doing
a bad job. So we have Mike, this was your idea,
We're going to complete this March Madness bracket that kind
of funny did for sequels, specifically number two's in a series,
and that's not I'm not talking about Pieces of Poo,
the second Hand.
Speaker 2: Series, right, So most part, yeah, and standing is that
like they got people from their community to write in
to figure out which games were in this bracket, so
we will yell at their community specifically for any emissions
or weird choices that are inside this bracket in the
first place. And then I think, I think it was
blessing and still like Mike went through and they filled
this out, and I'll just tell you Jeff went. When
they were all said and done with it, they decided
that Halo two was.
Speaker 1: The ultimate winner. I thought, we'll have a different winner.
I bet we'll have a different winner. Who knows we
got That's why they play the game, Mike, We'll wait
and see it, but I think I think you might
be onto something. All right, So where should we start
with this? Well?
Speaker 2: Start so starting the top left, the brackets are there's
a modern bracket, memory card bracket, which basically looks like
PS two era, uh, the HD bracket, which looks like
three sixty PS three era, then the classics, which is
like PS one one sixteen bit game it looks like.
But yeah, mostly that era stuff, not a lot of
older stuff. There's not like you don't see meghan In
two or Mario two or like Shoots a Rat Shoe
on this list. The only sixteen big older game I
see is street Fighter two put maybe fucking mine Jens, Yeah, I'll.
Speaker 1: Take credit for that one. When he posted this, I respond,
H'm like, it's a street Fighter too. You don't even
have to ask. And I bet that did conmit some
people to be like, oh, yeah, probably is street Fighter
to It reminded the children about it. So I'll take
some credit there. Okay, So Mike's right, let's start from
the top left. We will will we will reiterate these
matchups as we go. Red Dead, Redemption two, and Near
Automata is our first one, though two of your favorites. Now,
I have enjoyed parts of both these games, but yeah,
that a Near, I don't. I just don't think lived
up to the expectations. And I was but I beat
the you know, the a run through of that, and
then I asked people to look, I didn't really enjoy
playing this game. Should I continue to play? Everyone's like, no,
You're well. For the most part, people like probably not,
even though obviously more stuff happens in B and C
and D or whatever. But I like a lot of
parts of Near. There's awesome music, there's awesome character's, awesome writing,
The character action stuff is okay to a certain extent.
I just think it kind of dragged out, dragged on
for too long. Red Dead is like, for me, kind
of just an annoying game that I can't believe they
still make stuff that way over at Rockstar, but I
see it's charms. I like both these games a lot. Actually,
I'm so kind of opposite of you in this one.
I lean towards Near, though.
Speaker 2: I would maybe lean towards Red Dead if, like, if
you ask me which one I had to play right now,
But I don't know. I like ne Automata and the
fact that you like that a bit more, we can
just go near.
Speaker 1: Are you sure, because I don't like either of these
games really like you were saying, so if yeah, if
you want to have the pick, I kind of would
be fine with you having the pick here because you
care more about both of them. Let's do let's suit near.
I don't want Sean Matt at me.
Speaker 2: Sean smart just smart thinking. What, Yeah, we'll make Sean
the least upset with me.
Speaker 1: We'll go with that. Uh all right, well, okay, recency bias,
Kingdom Come Deliverance too, and Dark Souls to Mike. What
were you gonna say something?
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh well, just that they actually had a bunch
of Nearer toominskins Overwatch. So it's still popular somehow, Yeah,
for sure, which, uh yeah, this is a weird I mean, okay,
Dark Souls two is actually the one I'm the most
like that made it on here.
Speaker 1: The Dark Souls people don't like Dark Souls too. I
know some do, but a Dark Souls two is definitely
the worst in that series. You know, you know what
happened here. It's just like the Dark Souls people wanted
to put Dark Souls something on here, because that's that's
all they think about, which I get, I understand, uh,
but that's what happens, so I almost don't take that
all that seriously. But it's going up against Kingdom Come
Deliverance too, so I don't know, Mike, I played a
little bit of Kingdom Come Deliverance too. We're we're not
far enough away from like being able to slot that
actually onto this list here even at this point, like,
I think it needs more time, even though what I
played was pretty good. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I played was good enough that I will
already put it above Dark Souls to a game I
played all the way through of Okay, Yeah, it's Darksles
two to the one.
Speaker 1: Next up is the Last of US two and titan
Fall two.
Speaker 2: Now, guess which won this matchup for the kind of
funny guys.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess that they angered some people with this one,
although of course they would have angered their fans a
lot more, maybe with they went the other way. I
bet they went to the Last of US two. Mike.
I'm I'm very much titan Fall two. I've played both
these games. I never finished the Last of US too.
I kind of got to a point where, like I said,
I get it. I think it's a good game, but
titan Fall two's campaign is just for me. It is
the the cookie cutter that all developers should be using
to make games like that, where it's just a roller
coaster but also completely gives you every chance to express
every idea in every verb they wanted to put into
the game, and NonStop just one levels one way, the
next level feels completely different, great pacing, just a well
made game all around, and then the multiplayer is still
really fun, even if it's not quite as good as
Titan faull Ones. Yeah, I mean Last of Us Part two.
I stopped halfway through.
Speaker 2: I kind of had enough that obviously a well made game,
but boy, yeah, titan Fall two is just so incredibly
slick and feels good to play, and it has that
fun multiplayer mode. Last of Us two is multiplayer mode
got split off and then canceled.
Speaker 1: Yea, that's right. I think this is an easy titan
Fall two. Actually, Alan Wag two versus Hades two.
Speaker 2: Interesting because like because you have Hades two, which is
super good but also like not not necessarily significantly more
ambitious or like some big improvement over its predecessor was
Alway two. Very ambitious, really takes some some big swings, big, weird, fun,
interesting game that I respect a lot.
Speaker 1: Gosh, it's Hades two has been weird.
Speaker 2: I've been thinking about because when I was playing that game,
I play a lot of it, love love love loved it.
They kind of as soon as I put it down,
there was a part of me that, like, I stopped
thinking about it much faster than I stopped thinking about
Hades one.
Speaker 1: I think Hades two is the most frictionless game ever
made to and that is parentheses positive while you're playing it,
for sure. It is because they just make sure every
moment leads to something bigger and better. And if you
keep playing for another beat, you're going to see the
next thing, for sure, And the next thing might not
necessarily be what you're looking for, but you'll get to
that eventually, and in the meantime, all this other cool
stuff's going to keep happening and you'll keep unfolding that game.
And that that is impressive, Like that is technique from
a developer that other developers would kill to have. But
it's uh, I think you're right kind of makes it
rubs off the rough edges enough that maybe makes the
game a little bit less memorable than some I would
probably still take Hades two over allan Wake two, but
I'm not a super Allen wack guy. I try, I
try to like those games, but I just, man, don't
know something about remedy games. You run from one place
to the other, you pick up the thing, and I
don't know. That's not an accurate representation of IF their games.
But you're a flashlight hit racist, yes exactly. I'm I'll
just get those flashlights out of my video games. But
I'm not like, I like Hades too. I think Hades
won a lot more. So I'm not like, oh, I
need to get one of these games through. So what
do you think? You know, look, we're picking the game.
It's going to lose the tit Fall two here.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, let's yeah, let's say let's say on Wake two.
Speaker 1: Okay, that music, the music, I was so cool. Yeah,
I think the presentation of on Wake two is an
incredible Okay, so that's our first run of games through
the modern quadrant. Well, let's go over to h D.
Let's do Mass Effect two versus Saints Row two, Like,
what do you think.
Speaker 2: I think that Saints Row two was, like, is really
well done, and especially in terms of the game sit
is that is the you know super GT clone because
the Saint Rose series kind of became its own thing
for the better, I think, but it was Saints Row
two is the one that's like, Wow, this is like
Grand Theft Auto before we even had HD Grand Theft Auto.
Speaker 1: Right, So let's good at that. Mass Effect two though.
And I know I'm not one.
Speaker 2: Of those huge mass Effect people, but I still put
a ton of respect on Mass Effect two's name.
Speaker 1: It has some of the best characters.
Speaker 2: I think they did a really good job of, you know,
making that gunplay really satisfy. I'm still putting enough of
the RPG stuff in there that it didn't just feel
like it completely abandoned its RPG roots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a cool setting. It's probably mass Effect
two for me. Yeah, it's pretty easily mass Effect two
for me. I played the Saints ro games before the third,
but it is Saints Row the third where that franchise
I've really fell in love with it. Saints Row two.
I know there are a lot of people out there
that like that. That's the real Saints row to me
and I respect you. But it's mass effect two. Yeah,
all right, marking that down, all right. Up next Assassin's
Crew two versus Batman Arkham City. Hmm.
Speaker 2: This is interesting because Assassin's Creed two is a big improvement, yes,
over the original Arkham Arkham City is almost more like
a side jump, It's.
Speaker 1: A nateral but also like, yeah, improved in other ways.
Yeah yeah, so I guess it just comes out.
Speaker 2: I really before which game do I like more? And
I likes sas Cree two. I like Arkham City more.
If I had to play one right now, it's definitely
Arkham City, just slink shotting and floating around. I love
the way that the like it's almost like Zelda Dungeons
that when you go inside of these places that mister
Freeze flights super cool.
Speaker 1: Just getting all the Joker trophies.
Speaker 2: It's a very satisfying game to just kind of go
and complete that whole Arkham combat still felt really good
at that time. Oh yeah, yeah, so assass Cree two,
I mean, Brotherhood is better than that. They're still refining
to happen there with the Arkham games. You know, we
still got good ones after this, but they didn't get
better than this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I mostly agree. I like Assassin's Creed.
To your argument of which game woul I playn't want
to play right now, Arkham City, You're definitely right about that.
In fact, I kind of want to just start playing
Urkham City right now. I am someone who's always preferred
Asylum because it's just like a much more stricter metrode Vania.
It's one of the better three D metrode Venias, and
City kind of gets rid of some of that stuff.
But City is still very very good game. And then,
like I said, in many ways better Portal two versus
Dead Space two. Have you ever played Portal two? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember it was on the show floor at I
think that first Packs East we were back. It was
like the new big up. I mean, it's like that
in Red Dead Redemption one, and I think that the
Old Republic them.
Speaker 1: So those are the big games.
Speaker 2: Co guy, what I I never touched much of the
co op mo, which I want to do someday ag
and I played a bit of it on the PS
three right. It was definitely cool. I just didn't get
around to it. But just the campaign of Portal two
so freaking good. I love the kind of like chapters
of it, uh you know, like that first part like
in the dilapidated research facility and then that second part
where you're like deep underground in the seventies facility and
you have those gels.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: The writing was fantastic. It is a funny game. Cave
Johnson is like one of the all time is great
speaker characters.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Is there a better I Am talking to you over
loudspeaker's character ever than Cave Johnson?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. No, Yeah, I was up. Yeah,
go ahead, I say, I'm like getting to what you
like You're I think you're getting at where it's like
a dead Space two is an enjoyable game, but for me,
it was like it had the a similar effect is
dead Space one and Portal twos is like, oh wow,
they really built on this in every way and they
definitely it's definitely the It's portal but with like a lot,
a lot, a lot more. But it really worked for
Portal two because Portal one was so sparse, so barren,
deliberately so, and to like to have the effect that
it was trying to have. And I think in some ways.
Portal one it's always going to be a more pure
game to me. But Portal two is probably the answer here.
I don't know if I ever actually beat Portal two,
I should go do that.
Speaker 2: Well, that's good. I never beat thats Bas two. I
played good, Chuck vet a guy. I wish it got remade,
like because that Despak's remake was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Yep, all right, well then it's do Portal two. Uh.
Infamus two versus Uncharted too is our next one.
Speaker 2: Well, I never really got into those Infamous games that much.
The only one I played was the PS four and
just because it was an early PS four game and
I thought it was good. Meanwhile, Chart two is one
of my favorite games, so this this is an easy answer.
Speaker 1: This is Uncharted too. Yeah. I got the Infamous games,
but I don't know they were never my favorite. Okay,
we are moving over to the memory card portion of
the bracket. Half Life two versus NBA Street Volume two.
I love NBA Street Volume two. I think I would
have a hard hard time arguing that it should go
in before Half Life two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know, you know I love the NBA
Street Volume two as well. It's got this matchup. But
uh huh, like half Life two's if you ask me
what's the best like two game of all time, it's
probably the first one. I am going to say. I
love Halfway two. Uh played it a bunch of times.
I want to play it again. The physics just feel
so free good. But just even the gunplay and the
whirl and the characters. Then of course all the stuff
that was built on top of Half Life two, including
things like Portal and Team four just two ah, so
freaking cool.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm looking at how did Halo two come on?
This break? That's crazy all the way. Baby, You'll just say, well,
you know, we'll get there, We'll get there, We'll get there,
all right. It's half Life two, even though it's like
got NBA Street Volume two in a lot of ways
could be like a fine it's like certainly a top
eight game if we're just like gonna start ranking these
things out because that's like, man, it's so perfect. But
it's going up against Half Life two, and that's very tough. Uh.
Sol Caliber two is excuse me, Solo Caliber two and
smash Melee. That's hard. Oh yeah, man, okay, I don't know.
And I love Soul Caliber two, but Smash Melee is
so important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, Melee is this huge jump for that series,
whereas like, is, isn't that much better than Soul Caliber one.
Speaker 1: That's probably it. That's probably what it is. It's like
Soul Caliber was that, you know, you know, that's the
second game in the series in some ways, but whatever,
I get what it's kind of a number two in it.
Uh So Smash Melee is that game series coming into
its own. Soul Caliber two had already long been there
by the time it came out, So I would probably
go with Melee. Let's Melee. God of War two versus
Sly two, I go got, I go got to War
two because I've not played Slide two. Yeah, I just
haven't played Side too yet. It's something I really want
to do.
Speaker 2: But uh, I like not that I'm like thinking about
God of War two a ton these days, but that's
a game I played, and I like, best not going
to go too much further than that anyways, But yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Kingdom Hearts two versus Halo two. I like,
I enjoyed Halo two. I got caught up in the
hype at the time I got an Xbox specifically to
play it, and I thought the campaign was okay, and
then had a lot of fun on multiplayer for some time.
But definitely it didn't take over my life. I don't
think it makes past Kingdom Hearts too. No, you're here,
which which one of these games has Tron in it? Look, Halo?
It is kind of like Tron. Okay, you're right, which
one of these games has an ending? Yeah? That's oh man,
that's true.
Speaker 2: Man, that's a cliff finger still, but I mean it's
got you know, there's that at least, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Kingdom Heart's two moving on from Kingdom Hearts
two versus ha a bit overrated, I think so, yes,
and still apparently to this day, sequel of all time.
Speaker 2: I get Look, I get I do get it like
jokes Asidica, especially the Xbox Live arcades.
Speaker 1: Yes, so you were playing that online? I get it,
for sure, but I do. Man. Is it that aris
GoldenEye a little bit. It's not fair because GoldenEye was
is so, but it's like kinda at some point it's like, yeah,
if you were there playing with your friends, of course,
that's the best. Shit. I felt that way about GoldenEye.
That's that's unfair. I don't really mean that. That's a
thought that slipped out. Everybody, don't get mad at me.
Tony Hawk's pro Skater two versus Diablo two, Oh okay,
this one's interesting. Yeah. I like both these teams a lot.
Speaker 2: I really like Diablo two, and I don't think you've
had you haven't had a ton of Diable two.
Speaker 1: Experience out of time. I've played some a couple of times.
I knew my friends were really into it, so I'm like,
I'll check this out at like years later and definitely again.
Another one where I saw the appeal. Tony Hawks pro
Skater Too is like one of my favorite games ever made. Though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, we can give this one to
Tony Hawk. That's fine, both great games. I like Double
two a lot, and my personal bracket Double two probably
make some distance here.
Speaker 1: Age Empires two versus Street Fighter two.
Speaker 2: Like Age of Empires two, but come on, straight Fighter
two is you know it's the most improved sequel of
all time, right because no one even likes that first game,
but it feels terrible to play now. Shoots the Fire
two invented a genre, really, and it still feels so
good to play a good stuff.
Speaker 1: Next up, Pokemon Generation two versus Silent Hill two. I
don't even know how to do this one, mic, Yeah,
this one's rough.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Salon Hill two is fantastic for sure. But Pokemon gent
two boy, uh.
Speaker 2: Even even before the remakes of both of these, even
before the remake of gent two, gent two felt so
good and a pretty noticeable improvement or the first game,
despite the graphics basically being the same, even just a
little things like seeing the XP bar interesting the barriers,
and then of course that amazing surprise of beating that game.
And then there's this whole postgame thing of going back
to the map from the first game and going through
all of that again, so freaking cool. I would give
it up to Pokemon Gold and Silver here. Personally, I
think I am one over.
Speaker 1: And then our last one for the first round is
Resident Evil two versus middle Gear Solid two. I'll say
I think it's Resident Evil too the days, But that's me,
I think, so, I think so.
Speaker 2: I mean, Mugassou two is beginning a lot of reevaluation
in its favor lately.
Speaker 1: Yes, for sure two was.
Speaker 2: Like immediately recognized as an amazing game and still get
celebrated as such, So I think I think you gotta
give it to r E two.
Speaker 1: There all right? Uh so our new matchups near Automota
versus Kingdom Come Deliverance too, then Titan Fall two versus
Allen Wake two, Mass Effects Mass Effect two versus Batman
Arkham City Portal two versus Uncharted two. On the other
side of the bracket, it is Half Life two versus
Smash Melee, God of War two versus Kingdom Hearts two,
Tony Hawk's pro Skater two versus Street Fighter two, Pokemon
Gen two versus Resident Evil two. Seems like our most
controversy one so far. Mike, it is Tony Hawk over
Diablo two. Like, I get it, but I also don't.
I think that is people just weren't really weren't there,
or they don't remember what it was like before tony
ookx pro Skater two dropped. It was like games can
feel like this, what the hell? How?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But Diablo two, I know, I get it, and that's
not I'm just I'm trying to explain how important tony
ookx pro Skater two was. There's a reason it is
where it's at on on metacredit, cause that is not
some Fluke. That is not made up. That there's a
reason it is. It was rated that high, especially at
that time. I still need to play.
Speaker 2: They added that new class to the Diable too, so I
got to go back and play it again.
Speaker 1: I say, I did that, all right. Let's uh, let's
work backwards this time. Let's go Resident Evil to versus
Pokemon Generation two.
Speaker 2: Oh hmm, huh, way, I I leaned Pokemon. Actually here,
you thought me if that's crazy, because it's not different.
Speaker 1: It's not crazy. I think I leaned Resident Evil too.
But I like both of these quite a bit, and
they're they're they're not similar, but the way I feel
about them is pretty similar, where it's like, yeah, those
are really good games that I could go back to
and enjoy. Now, Pokemon really kind of came to its
own and Resident Evil came into its own in both
these games. It's hard to like kind of build that
argument one versus the other. Let's make it resid evil.
Let's make it resid Evil on this one. Okay, sounds good,
all right? Then Tonyak's pro Skater two versus Street Fighter two.
This is this is tough. This is tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I give it the street Fighter too.
Still just got that important factors and is insane here?
Speaker 1: I do as well, and like, you know, what are
we talking about and we're saying the best sequel? Is that?
Like what is the best game with the number two
in the title? Or is it the best game versus
it's it's precursor. I think there's some of that, but
I think overall it's the best game with two, And
I think you're right, So yeah, I I'll go with
Street Fighter two as well, but it's it's really close
for me, and that's tough to leave behind. Tonyawk Uh, okay,
God of War, God of War two versus Kingdom Hearts
to Mike.
Speaker 2: I just I just realized that Man two is honest
list And that's insane. That is these these children.
Speaker 1: These philosophies. God, reader of it book, maybe you've heard
of it. Go outside, go to the library, talk to
an adult.
Speaker 2: No, Mario two megam It's okay, eight Big games inn't exists,
all right?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Do you really want to play God of War two again?
Like we're going to because they're going to remake it,
But like if I want to, if I were to
replay an old God of War game.
Speaker 1: It probably wouldn't be two. I would probably actually go
play replay the first one, and then three and then
maybe two last. So Mike, I'll give you Kingdom Hearts too. Yeah, okay,
there you go.
Speaker 2: Like all jokes aside, Like, I think that game is
actually amazing. I think it's super fun to comment, and
I've never played it.
Speaker 1: I have. All my problems are with Kingdom Hearts one,
Like I have no idea what's happening happening with you? Okay,
I did start Kingdom Hearts two and intro was a
bit long winded for me. Intro, but like, I think.
Speaker 5: The vibeyes are good man, I love it and I
can't argue thentions.
Speaker 1: It has the best worlds in this series, freaking timeless
River going back to Steamboat. Willie's so freaking cool. All right,
Half Life two versus Smash Medle Like good luck, Like
this is you tell me what we should do here? Oh?
Speaker 2: Great, two of like my favorite video games ever, exactly
this is this is Mikey's time.
Speaker 1: You got to figure this one out? Brother?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh I feel great about this because yeah, literally
two of my all time favorites, and I still I
think I have to give it for half Life two
man half Life.
Speaker 1: Two just it's like my if.
Speaker 2: It's like if I had to start the Criterion collection
for video games, I would like make Half Life two
the first one. It's like the game, it's my most
respected game ever. Maybe I think about Halfway two and
I just like feel good.
Speaker 1: I just feel some weird sense of awe still.
Speaker 2: And like playing that game in two thousand and four,
Like you know, just that part where that jerk like
knocks the can over and lands on the ground, like
pick up the can, idiot, you could be Like the
fact that I could pick up a can and throw
it away in a video game for some reason was
incredible to me. God and uh and then we get
to see you explain all that as you slowly maybe
kill the Kingdom hearts to next to next round, we'll
see bracking.
Speaker 1: Oh, the memory car brackets rough for Mikey's it's been
bad all right. Uncharted two versus Portal two, it's another
tough one for Mikey. Oh, I want to know what
you think? Uh, yeah, I who I probably go Portal two,
But that's because I really got on board with Uncharted
with four and I the ones before that didn't do
a ton for me.
Speaker 2: Oh, I feel like I feel like for mostly it's
gonna be Portal to on Chartered has had a little
bit of falling off lately. It feels like, right, it's
been a bit out of sight, out of mind with
that franchise. I think, Yeah, people who were there though,
they remember how big a deal in chart two was
and what how much of a better reception.
Speaker 1: Yes, that game got than the first one.
Speaker 2: Just a super cool campaign, man, just so many amazing
It's so like my among my favorite set peete most
moments in any video game.
Speaker 1: The train, the tank, the falling building, just so freaking neats. Gosh,
this one is really hard because Portal two is also
just incredible, so freaking good. I can almost flip a
coin on this one.
Speaker 2: I am literally just going to because I'm like that,
and you're you say Portal two when I've seen so
many people in chats say Portal two. We can just
go Portal two, kay, But like, I want it to
be clear that I do not think that's an easy decision.
I think and Charted two is a goat.
Speaker 1: I think there's another. Yeah, this is another one where
it's on Chartered two, would like, like, could easily if
it wasn't going to get to Portal two, it could
make it to the next round very easily. Would probably
be in our top eight, right all right, So then
that brings us to Mass Effect two versus Batman Arkham City.
I go Mass Effect two here. I really like Mass
Effect two, and again I prefer Asylum versus City. So
that's that's where I'm at, Mike. But I don't think
this is an easy one.
Speaker 2: No, Like, I bet I would, you know, give me
a twenty point review scale, and I bet I give
both these games the same score. Sure, That's that's where
I kind of am with them. I do think I
lean Mass Effect too, though, actually yeah, I think i'm
the same.
Speaker 1: Think I'm with you, all right. Then two more for
this round, Titan Fall two versus allen Wick two. Yeah
slightful two? Yeah, I think so? Uh. And then Near
Automata versus Kingdom Come Deliverance too. We should both feel
a little out of place to me at this point,
but brackets are like that.
Speaker 2: Look, it's I'll still give it to Near in this one.
They need to play more Kingdom Come, but I like
and to be clear, I would give it to near
as well. Okay, so we are. We have four more
matchups right here.
Speaker 1: We go Near Automata, titan Fall two, Mass Effect two,
Portal two, Half Life two, Kingdom Hearts two and Street
or Street Fight or two and Resident Evil to the
Great eight. All right, Mike, let's start up here. We'll
save that one for last. Let's go Near Automata versus
titan Fall two. All r Yeah, title a good run
by Near Automata.
Speaker 2: Let's here, everybody, which I believe is like the sixth
entry in the Dragon Guard franchise or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yea, that's what. That's what we're saying when we're when
we were on break, we were like me and Sean,
we're talking about that. It's like, yeah that once. Yeah,
it's like the fifth or sixth tracking card game. Yeah,
and so many people have played the first year for sure,
mass Effect two versus Portal two, Yeah, I still go
mass I still go Mass Effect two, but I agree
this one's even closer.
Speaker 2: I would go Portal two. Actually yeah, so yeah, I
this one's close. This is a close one for sure.
But boy do I think Portal two is just phenomenal
massive to I have some issues with like, I know
the game hypes up that the suicide missions so much
that and like, of course I want to play optimally
and not have anybody die. And then it kind of
feels like I was cheated out of what the game
was promising me in some weird way.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's a mass Effect three. I don't
want people to be dead for that, so I want
them to all survive. I don't know, maybe maybe that's nitpicky, yeah,
but that's what where you have to get for these
sorts of things where we're comparing these two very very
good games, you start have to picking knits. Yeah, I
just think Mass Effect two to me is like such
the game sequel, like that is you said earlier, like
one of these games, like you will think of Half
Life two first, I would think of Mass Effect two
pretty quickly if we started talking about games that are
not like number two in a series. It's emblematic, and
to me, it's stuck with me, maybe despite or even
sometimes because of its flaws. It's like, man, the game's
trying something, it's not always pulling it off. But I
care about these characters so much, and it's a fun game,
good action, really great sort of set up to it
sci fi world. The world building's really good. All. That's
a lot of that stuff's true about Portal two, for sure,
But I don't know. I the eventually go on to
Mass Effect two really stuck with me. This is tough.
I'm like kind of looking ahead a little bit, and
it's like, I don't I'm not sure if it matters
too much. It might the next round is still gonna
be tough, but I don't know. What do you think.
Let's say Mass Effect two, then let's say Messifect two.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's fine. I think it's fine. I said, this
is another one where I bet I would maybe score
these games similarly.
Speaker 1: But it's okay. I played that Portal two co op,
I'd be more strong. I don't know. It's okay. Then
let's do street Fighter two versus Resident Evil two.
Speaker 2: Oh the capcom competition here, Yeah, I think I think
I still give that the Street Fighter too.
Speaker 1: I think I do too as well. I mean, yeah,
I minute when I said Street Fighter two is such
an important sequel. Okay, Well, then Mike half Life two
versus Kingdom Hearts.
Speaker 2: That's actually easily halfway two, believe it or not. Yeah,
I actually don't hesitate there for a moment. I'll get
that the halfway too.
Speaker 1: All day. Okay, So now we are down to our
final four, titan Fall two versus Mass Effect two and
Half Life two versus Street Fighter two. Let's start with
titan Fall two versus Mass Effect too. Mike, I'm I
can go either way on this one. I want to
hear what you have to say. I will give it
the titan Fall two, I think actually, I think so
as well. All the things I like about Mass Effect
two in terms of like the world building and the characters,
Titan Fault two has got some really amazing character moments,
and then it's such an incredible campaign. I'm gonna go
titan Fall two as well.
Speaker 2: Title two made it a bit further in ours than
in the kind of funny one where it lost in
the first round to the last of Us.
Speaker 1: Part two. Yep, all right, half Life two versus Street
Fighter two. Yeah, half Life two, I'm I think I
am ready. I can say goodbye the Street Fighter two
at this point. Street Fighter two in the in the
final four is correct, it should be here, uh I.
I agree with you on Half Life two is importance,
and so yeah, half Life two. All right, Mike, the
championship battle. It's all come down to this Titan Vault
two versus the Half Life two. We always knew we'd
see these two faced off against one another. Like I
think it's Half Life two. Actually I agree. Yeah, it's
honestly going into this, it's once you start talking about it,
and really it's like for me, it's like best improvement
from one to two is street Fighter two. If we're
just talking about two, is half Life two is is?
Actually there's a reason you said it's the first thing
you think of. It is that emblematic.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm looking at the kind of funny thing.
Half Life two did not win its first round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fair so, Mike. When I when he realized he
realized I was in that Steff the day I was
leaving and he's like, come to the studio. I'm like, guys,
I tried to reach out a little bit so if
we could hang out, but it was I have a big,
busy schedule. The one thing he said to me is
come to the studio. We'll play NBA Street Volume two.
So like ANBA Stream five two. But that's wild. I listen,
I might personally take NBA Street Volume two over Half
Life two. If I'm gonna play a game right now,
but half Life two is gonna win this one. That's
that's how it's gonna go down.
Speaker 2: All right, right, so we're all right, that's great. Yeah,
always be Corgy's right. Let's make sure we share this
with kind of funny on Blue guy. Let's tag them
off so we can they can see how we fix
their bracket.
Speaker 1: There we go, and then we also have an empty
bracket here from It was fire hair right that put
this together. So yes, the hair. Maybe we could do
more of these in the future if people want to
like recommend some.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can make a bracket that actually includes Vega
Man two and stuff exactly just that same bracket but
Mega Man two, and then we'll really fix it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, replace starts two with that. All right there, Okay,
so I have it copied. All right, let's get that
posted here in a second, let's take a break, we'll
come back and talk about what we've been playing, wrap
up the super chats, and then get on out of here.
But everybody, we'll be right back. All right, we're here,
We're back, and we're going to talk about what we've
been playing. For Mike it's mostly or for me it's
been mostly been Pacopia. What have you been doing? Yeah,
I'm a lot of Pacopia actually as well.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I just finish up that second area,
which is the part with the mines and the mind carts,
and I had to like learn how to cook.
Speaker 1: Throw a party.
Speaker 2: Really Okay, So I think there's a branching path there, right,
because there was kind of two doors at one point,
I think, so, like, so I there there might be
that stuff like is there like a seaside town next
to those mines you have to turn on the electricity
and stuff.
Speaker 1: No, I have not the okay yet, So then we
just went in different directions. All right, very cool, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In fact, I kind of told me like, hey, there's
another door by that first place, you should go there next.
I'm like, okay, so now I'll get to go see
what's going on over there, and I'm excited to what
I love is you know, it's a great loop. You
go this place, it's basically a trash heap. Then by
doing that kind of campaign stuff, you fix it up
a good bit and then you can just tell if
you really want to and stay there, and maybe even
post game you're going to really be able to clean
these places up and personalize them and make them look tidy, and.
Speaker 1: They even kind of like teach you the process of
like doing that. It's like, hey, I would really like
it if you were to build a house where a
house used to be, and it's like, oh, okay, I
can kind of see what I can do to take
this existing infrastructure and improve it and make it better.
And it's like so I kind of get a good
handle on that. It's like, now I can replicate that
myself if I want. I also really like that some
things actually just to take a whole day to get built.
So once you do that, it's like okay, and now
I'm like I have seven or eight Pokemon committed to
making this thing and it won't be ready until tomorrow.
So while there isn't the hard stop of I've done
everything in this game, like there is an animal crossing,
there's certainly a time where it's like, Okay, I could
begin those things I was putting off until it's time
to wrap up the game for the night. I could
begin working on that stuff and really come to a
natural daily conclusion, put it down, and then feel good like,
all right, if I want to play more right now,
I can. But if I don't pick it up again
until tomorrow, well one, I have a reason to do that.
And too it's like, oh, something exciting will be done
when I get back. So just really well done. And
I bet there's like people who are super big fans
of the Dragon Quest Builders games going like motherfuckers, I'm
trying to play those games so long now, and it's like, yep,
you're right, I should have done that because I am
really enjoying this. This is it's it's super well done.
The Pokemon turned out, turn out they're still cute. Yeah, Yeah,
I like Pokemon. They're fun. Yeah. I am at a
point where it's like, uh, I'm thinking about what my
Pokemon habitat would be all the time. I tried to
make one for Jan so I could trap Jan in
SF and I'll coffee cup or something it was, yeah,
and and cigarettes on Tannessee. Yeah, and a buzzball. Yeah exactly.
It didn't. It didn't work. I must have missed something.
I'm probably gonna stick with this game. I was definitely
like there was a moment where I'm like, oh, this
is this new area is intimidating. Should I just be
like I played that first area and that was fun.
I can put it down now or whatever, and I'm
glad I've stuck with it, so I'm gonna continue playing
for a minute. There's some other games coming up pretty soon,
but I'll be happy to make Pocopia one of those
ones where it's like it for now, I'm playing every day,
and if I start playing every other day going forward,
that wouldn't be so bad anything else, Mike.
Speaker 2: I did start up Spiral Year of the Dragon, the
third spiral game in the Reignight trilogy. Just you know,
I did two not too long ago, never really played
three either, So going through that, you know, it's very
just like Sprout to very pleasant remake is well done,
very colorful, having fun there.
Speaker 1: But doing a lot of Slave the Spire too.
Speaker 2: Actually, you know, you know, I streamed it on the
very cool Slight then I played for my own stream,
and now it turns out I've actually played thirteen hours,
so Slight Aspire too.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, an early access game can do that to anybody.
That's that's the thing I like about early access. It's
not uniform, it's not any one thing. Sometimes there's a
game that you're like, you're gonna pick it and be like,
this is basically done enough for my purposes, and I
can now you get to just see how it changes,
and that's exciting, especially like for me, like the Slight
Aspire one.
Speaker 2: When I finally played it last year, I wasn't somebody
who was gonna do all the antis or whatever they
call them there. I wanted to complete a run with
each character, right so, you know, and there is enough
here for me to do that right now, and that's
enough of a goal for me. So yeah, I've I've
completed runs with two of the characters I think, and
there's five in the game, so that is just plenty
of content right there. There's tons of cards, even like
the stuff that is the placeholder, like the art. It's
funny because it looks like a child's drawing and it
just is like placeholder by it and it's endearing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's just feels like Slight Aspire too. You know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I like waiting for the one point, No I
want to play, No what happens, I'll definitely check in,
But I like this it's different. Than even say Hades
two when I played that in early access and it
was a little bit more clear, like okay, not everything's here.
Speaker 1: I'm legitimately asking, I've still not played one of these games.
Would it be insane for me to learn to play
in a co op Slay the Spy or to match
with you? And I'm asking, would that be like frustrating
for you? Because you're like, there are basic things that
you should probably just come with or could you learn
on the job a little bit? I could probably teach
you through it. Actually, I don't really know what co
op means in this game, so I want to see that.
I thought it was like always ok okay, two people
are doing something. Maybe it sounds like it's up to four.
It's crazy. I need to see that. That's why I'm
a saying, yeah, let's just try some things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't because it seems like one of the
big differences between this and the last ones.
Speaker 1: I want to check that out. Yep. Definitely yep. And
then I played some I actually played some more four
G or four p GP. I talked about that a
few weeks ago, and because I was like watching Drive
to Survive, I'm like, I just want a game that
is an F one game. I'm like, oh, yeah, I
have that, and again the sense of speed in that
game worth calling out. Uh Okay, I think that does
it for what we've been playing, Mike. Do we get
any more super chats? Uh? We certainly did. Let me
see where we left off here? Do do do do do?
Speaker 2: Because you know we've got quite a few since the
last one? Geez geez, where are we?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: I think this one from Cody Bishop who says for
Mario Kart World, Badget expansions were added as extra islands
that you could drive to, like a Donkey Kong theme
island or a Yoshi's Island. That would be great. I wonder, like,
if you think we're gonna hear about some kind of
Mario Kart wrote expansion maybe when that game is Turns one? Well,
wait when you know when Stuke come out?
Speaker 1: I think I think, yeah, it came out in May,
that's right now. Soon I think we will hear about DLC.
Do I think we'll hear about it in May, like
in the first at the end of the first year
that I don't know. I guess it could make sense
to have some new stuff for the holiday, But I
just wouldn't be surprised to you that that's one of
those things. It's like two and a half years later,
Nintendo has announced LC for Mario Kart World. I could
see it going down that way.
Speaker 2: Dixon Maya says, kind of funny. Choosing The Last of
Us Part two over Titan Fall two was egregious. Yeah,
I thought they were nice people over there, like.
Speaker 1: They had a good head on their shoulders? Again, was it?
I think it was Blessing and Mike. Yeah there, Maybe
you could have talked some sense to them.
Speaker 2: Maybe they can only enjoy games if people get bludgeoned
to death or shotgun Yeah, blasted their head off, but
their faces.
Speaker 1: Finally, if that they finally taught them that revenge is bad,
and they're like, Okay, now I know that I have
to give credit where credit is due, right, Well, at
least we know they won't come for revenge.
Speaker 2: They've learned that lesson uh band or essences with the
success of Pacopeia. Why isn't PlayStation made a cozy life
service is to have another shooter?
Speaker 1: Are they stupid? Whereas former Creaked does?
Speaker 2: It's weird because I mean again, for that audience that
loves the last of us, and that's the kind of
the end of the word. I wonder if it would
even hit with uh with the PlayStation fan right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think PlayStation thinks it probably wouldn't. Yeah, it's like,
how do you teach and or like make your executives
believe that the audience can be more than into more
than just one thing. I bet there is some overlap there,
but yeah, I don't know. Farmer a farmer crados game,
a game where he actually retires and becomes a farmer.
I legitimately would be interested to see what that looks like. Yeah,
he rests under his grape vine and fig tree. That
canna exactly. He's earned it. Two whole president runs. Yeah,
it's time he's done. Okay, we got we got quite
a few.
Speaker 2: Bess is here about cosmic and McDonald's tertiary mascots?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay.
Speaker 2: November zero says, last week you talked about cosmic. A
friend of mine worked at a cosmic that closed. Coffee
was mid but the lore was that the alien stole
McDonald's ideas, took them to his world, and then came
back to show off his ideas.
Speaker 1: They I do appreciate that there's lore though, Yes, a
corporate espionage being part of the Cosmic lore is is
very fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The November zero says Cosmic closed only six months after
opening here in town. At seeing Antonio Texas, Cosmic felt
threatened and skipped town apparently, but he's still number one
in my heart.
Speaker 1: Man, it's sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it totally perhps his congrats guys. He made the
kind of funny bracket look better. Thank you, Antonio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 2: Tea Bucket says you all need to play Slight two.
Play Slight one first for st reasons, but two his
pe one of the best of the best.
Speaker 1: Two gives it. It's very high on my to do list,
always has been. It's I have it on the steam deck.
I'm like, that's one. I should probably just stream it
or something, but when is the time? Yeah, it's tough.
Text prof says Jeff is saying too a lot, losing
its meaning yet. Yeah, long time ago, it definitely was
causing my brain. I'm like, serve points. I guess I
could say these, but some of them it's actually important
to clarify. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandy, Brandy says the bracket is missing a great two.
Bravely Default two pause, pause, pause. I hate Bravey Default two,
is what I say, and then this first goes shut up,
my kid's good. Bravely second though, now there's a banger, right, and.
Speaker 1: That I was like, didn't you like one? That's oh yeah, that.
Speaker 2: Was brave I hate the other Bravely Default sequel. It's confusing.
The one that's a directus, the direct sequel to Bravely
Default is Bravely Second, and then Bravely Default two that
story wise has nothing to do with Bravey Default one.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, that's what. Another thing we're saying
during the break is Red Dead Redemption two actually the
third game, not really the second game, yes, and also
a prequel. Yeah yeah uh.
Speaker 2: Filix Fortuna says, caught up on last week's episode, of
all McDonald's characters, you guys chose the one that's a
classify that's classified as a hate symbol by the A
d O A.
Speaker 1: I forget what we chose. I honestly, I remember talking
about cosmic I remember having conversations about McDonald's characters. Terary.
Was it a hat question? What's the greatest Tertiarycald Tertiary
is McDonald's mascot. Who did we pick?
Speaker 2: I think I had no idea was that maryor mccheese
cheese back Tonight, back to night to hay Nikon, Oh
he's anti Semitic.
Speaker 1: What's his student's hat is? Back tonight?
Speaker 3: Hate maxide is like Pepe the Frog, he got co opted.
Speaker 2: Ah, man, that's not that's that Mac the Knight's fault.
But Pepe apparently got on co opted or whatever because
I see, yes, yeah, yeah, it's weird. Okay, well, yeah,
to be clear, we had no idea about that. Uh Mac,
Mac the Knight did nothing wrong. He's a good guy,
all right, leave alone.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's Morale says I've never seen Finelli this. He yes,
I have it. I have it on the funding chats,
so I've not seen a lot of the live chat
and uh, okay, so I missed that. All right, Sorry
for what we did to you, Jason Finelli.
Speaker 2: Javan I says, you're the man now dog turned Mac
racist y tmnd.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's interesting. I'm gonna look. I'm gonna look that up.
I gotta see his entry on the ad L website,
right right, and then g Nitro says, why fu bracket,
let's go eh. I don't know the reddit's gonna handle
that one.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Ryan Allen says, my Commodore sixty four Ultimate arrived this week,
and it hits me where the other fbga's hit you all,
either you have experienced with eight bit computers, paint us.
Speaker 1: Now that's a that's the whole thing I missed.
Speaker 2: And now I'm very I've been listening to a lot
of audio books about old computers, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Very intrigued by all of that.
Speaker 2: Again, there was a Commodore sixty four classic that I
got sent at one point.
Speaker 1: I messed around that a little. Yeah, yeah, but in
general was not my scene. Yeah, it's uh we we
got like an Apple too, so that was like our
first computer. So it's like all the cool stuff that
was happening on Commodores and amigas or whatever. Uh, it
completely passed us by. Was not even really an option
where I was at. Snorlaxing says, friendship with regis ended now.
Gabe barn what's his name? Got Burn? Gay Burn is
my friend. He's the he's the host of the Irish
edition of Who Was a Millionaire? Tell him. Just give
me the short version of the points. Issue with the
driver's license, is that him? Oh I don't know, yes, yeah,
I don't. I don't know. Somehow he ruined driver's license. Okay,
that's all. You're right, that's actually all I need to know,
fair enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a problem with that. Yeah, gaba gaba is what? Yeah,
they're calling all right, And then Plufum says paper Mario
thousand Year Door is best sequel that that's that would
be good to have on I wouldn't get first.
Speaker 1: Not for sure.
Speaker 2: Not many RPG's there, such like Mass Effects, which yeah,
but like right, Final Fasy two is not a beloved
ur sequel and also very old, so you know, don't
know what I would have thought Swinging Into should have
been on there, But I don't know how many kind of.
Speaker 1: Funny people know about Swinking Into unfortunately, but it's just
an ignorant bunch over there. That's what we do about them, right.
I don't think I got that one. I mean, what,
it's weird that came out on a PlayStation.
Speaker 2: But another super Chat Yeah by Carl Earlier says sure
it was its own game that Konami squeezed in as
a sequel, but no, TM and T two still feels bad.
Oh yeah, Team and two, TM and T two the
Arcade game is greatough also like technically like Turtles of.
Speaker 1: Time is the sequel to the Arcade game. But ye see,
I get it.
Speaker 2: And then Conokam says, can we get Grubb to do
an Irish run? Maybe we'll do another run of the.
Speaker 1: Irish I think there's a chance we do. We talked
with The plan was always to have Danny on when
when we were all going to be there, But when
I was gone, it was like, oh, this is a
great opportunity just to pull the trigger on this. So
uh yeah, if they're still use in there, maybe we'll see.
Oh that's say System Shocked too.
Speaker 2: I mean there are there aren't any nine nineties PC
games on that list, right, You could even put Doom
two on there. They Craft Warcraft too, No Quake to
Warcraft to mickeyell On to ye, I don't think. I
don't think those the sweet boys knew about PC gaming
in the nineties.
Speaker 1: It's okay, all right, that catches us up on super chats.
I forget what we do now, Mike. We just kind
of start wrapping things shows over over. Yeah, what do
you mean you forget what we do? Now? Maybe that's
why I forget, because it's just a void in my
brain and everybody we can go, we can leave right.
I've hit the button saying let's see where people are saying, Oh,
Jesse Norris is upset that Red too lost in ear
Atomata as people seem, actually.
Speaker 3: Only those video games is fun to play.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, someone thought the Titan Fall too Love is
weird your It's not.
Speaker 1: It's just not. It's a good video boy, that's a
game that just makes me happy whenever I play, think
about it, talk about it. It's it's so so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, boy, we're getting a lot of
thank you for fixing a lot.
Speaker 1: I think Half Life two has probably got to be
the one that people looking at the listener going huh I.
Speaker 2: Would like to see, Yeah, like afflick two out in
the first round too, Like as good as it is
a sports game, I bet most people have not played
any days.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a couple that are saying this is
much worse. There we go, but worse it's they They
posted the meme of of Hawk going oh no, this
is much worse but Halo.
Speaker 2: Halo fanboys, the Halo fanboys who killed the franchise on me,
and you were like, no, that new game is pretty good.
Actually they delighted and it's the miise and now they're
like hurt little Brecker anymore.
Speaker 1: It's a big miss. I wonder it's yeah, a big history.
I don't know. I'm happy to be back, Mike. It's
uh good to do these shows. SF was it was
a good time. I'll miss not having a Nintendo store
across the street or a pop part. I was also
right next to the PopMart, so I was able to
get some more La Boo boos for the kids. Although
it's important. Although I think Labuo boos are on the
way out, so I might be getting on the otel
end there. Yeah, that's it's it's going off over there.
Speaker 2: You see that that Seventh Guest remake that was only
available in VR is coming out from normal PCs, so
we can play it, really, I guess, yeah, we can
play Sound Guest again soon. About that, I mean, sure
has that problem like the mysterymake, where like you don't
have the digitized actors anymore, which is ninety percent of fun.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm doing the thing. It's why do this
drop in the first place. Thanks for watching, everybody. Until
next time, I have a good one.
Speaker 3: Take care of.
Speaker 1: Yourself and goodbye for real. There is no like Mike.
Fuck that raw Ditto described damn, oh my god.