Speaker 1: This week on game Spot after Doc, I'm joined by Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: He's saying, Michael Hyam and Ben Jankett to talk all
Speaker 1: about the brand new Final Fantasy fourteen update, the new
Speaker 1: Nindi's event, and the halcyon days of our summer gaming.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to GameSpot After Dark, Episode eighty nine.
Speaker 1: I'm your host Lucy James and joining me this week.
Speaker 1: We've got Michael Hyam, what.
Speaker 2: To do Baby, Ben Janka Hello, and Tomore.
Speaker 3: He's saying, Hi, still here.
Speaker 2: I just sure hope you are said.
Speaker 1: That was all the energy of like an I lived bitch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is like, despite its best attempt to twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one has not taken me out yet.
Speaker 1: I meant time. I was gonna say give it time.
Speaker 1: We're barely halfway through the yeir Man.
Speaker 2: However, how's Ramadan treating treating?
Speaker 1: Yeah, how's it going.
Speaker 3: It's it's difficult, but it's it's easier than previous years.
Speaker 3: So the last two or three years have been very long.
Speaker 3: If I remember CREPT, they are like nineteen hour fasts.
Speaker 3: This time it's considerably less. I think it's like fifteen
Speaker 3: So like from about four or four am in the
Speaker 3: morning to about seven forty five. Currently it is one
Speaker 3: like what day they This is the first week of it,
Speaker 3: so my body is still very much getting used to it.
Speaker 3: I do have moments where I'm like, I feel like
Speaker 3: absolute refried ass, But I know and I know that
Speaker 3: all it will take to fix this feeling is a
Speaker 3: glass of water. And then I'm like, but dang, I
Speaker 3: can't have that glass of water. But then you go,
Speaker 3: but then you go, you know what, who else can't
Speaker 3: have glasses or people in certain life situations where they
Speaker 3: can't access this kind of food easily and water easily,
Speaker 3: and this is what they have to do with every day.
Speaker 3: So you have to do it for one month, suck
Speaker 3: it up. And now that you've in that moment, like
Speaker 3: you think that thought process, and then you appreciate not
Speaker 3: only glasses of water, but being able to have it anytime.
Speaker 3: And then you're like, you know what I want, don'tate
Speaker 3: to charity a bit? Look at the system works.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, because I mean, I've mostly been friends
Speaker 1: with you for a very long time and worked with you,
Speaker 1: and I do remember a couple of times Ramadan has
Speaker 1: happened over E three, which I can't even imagine how
Speaker 1: difficult that would have been.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will freely admit that. How there were days
Speaker 3: during the E three, like Ramadan's where I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't think I can do it today because it
Speaker 3: was and it was usually one of the days when
Speaker 3: it was like you're on stage for like six hours
Speaker 3: in a row and you've got the lights blaring at you,
Speaker 3: and you're like you're interviewing a CEO of company, and
Speaker 3: if your brain is just like not working and you're
Speaker 3: like sweating and you're it's like genuinely can feel dangerous
Speaker 3: at times. So there's been a few times where I've
Speaker 3: been like, you know what, for my own safety and
Speaker 3: for like my function, I might just parson this one.
Speaker 3: And a lot of people don't really realize that it
Speaker 3: is for self betterment, and you are like exempt in
Speaker 3: so many different scenarios. If you're like elderly, if you're
Speaker 3: you know, ill in any way that could be physical, mental,
Speaker 3: or if you're just not feeling too good, like you
Speaker 3: can not to do it and there are ways to
Speaker 3: make up for it later. So, Yeah, it feels that
Speaker 3: whenever people ask about it, they feel like, oh, that
Speaker 3: seems harsh.
Speaker 1: Wall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of seems can be harsh, but also
Speaker 3: it's for your own self growth, and you can choose
Speaker 3: not to do it if you're not feeling great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to run down to those who are
Speaker 1: participating and celebrating.
Speaker 3: I'm a barrack to everyone.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, halo alla.
Speaker 1: Shall we talk about what we've been playing, Michael. Let's
Speaker 1: start with you have been playing the same thing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm saying, Oh yeah, I hit them folk
Speaker 2: for those who aren't watching the video version. Actually there
Speaker 2: is no video version, so I hit them folk for
Speaker 2: the folk playing Final Fantasy fourteen. Oh my god, Ben,
Speaker 2: we gets so good. We got the major patch drop.
Speaker 1: Yo.
Speaker 2: It's so fucking wild. Like the day a major like
Speaker 2: a point something patch drops and Final Fantasy fourteen. Everyone's
Speaker 2: hyped out. Everyone's on Twitter like.
Speaker 4: Yo, yo, we get high, we get in high.
Speaker 1: Yo.
Speaker 2: It's like you've ever been to like a punk or
Speaker 2: a metal show, and then you're just like the five
Speaker 2: minutes before like the headliner comes on and everyone's like
Speaker 2: like saying the band's name. We're just like yo, we're
Speaker 2: getting hyped out, getting sweaty, like, oh, we're about to
Speaker 2: open up this fucking pit. Man, three am Pacific time,
Speaker 2: the pit opens up, everyone's in, let's fucking go. Uh
Speaker 2: So that's what it feels like to be a final
Speaker 2: Fantasy fourteen stand on patch day. So uh man, it's
Speaker 2: it's good though, I think like the new Dungeon is
Speaker 2: fucking dope. It's being opening up the pit. The song
Speaker 2: and the New Dungeon is like it almost starts with
Speaker 2: like a like a like a doom kind of vibe
Speaker 2: to it. It's got like heavy guitars and and then
Speaker 2: it comes in with like some sitar, so it's like
Speaker 2: sounds a little ethnic, you know what I'm saying, because
Speaker 2: then it's like, you know, hey, you know, just shouts
Speaker 2: out to all my ethnic folks out there. Oh man, myself.
Speaker 2: So in case folks, well they can't see me, but anyway,
Speaker 2: yeah I can't. Ah, I'm immune in certain cases. But anyway,
Speaker 2: this Dungeon's fire. Though, Like I can't talk. I don't
Speaker 2: want to. There there are folks who listen to this
Speaker 2: podcast who are avid fourteen players and some who've actually started,
Speaker 2: so I don't want to like talk about story specific stuff.
Speaker 2: But it is very good and like the lead up
Speaker 2: to it, there's a lot of cut scenes, and because
Speaker 2: you know, we love them cut scenes, and they're there's
Speaker 2: a lot of like implications and tying up old story threads,
Speaker 2: which I think happened a little quick, but there's a
Speaker 2: there's a great sense of urgency in the current world
Speaker 2: of Final Fantasy fourteen, So it's I I kind of
Speaker 2: attribute to that to where like, oh, things are happening fast.
Speaker 2: It's kind of weird. Oh, all of a sudden, we
Speaker 2: got solutions for this thing and that thing. But it's like, yo,
Speaker 2: the fucking world's about to end, so let's get some
Speaker 2: shit done. So that's kind of what's happening there. Also
Speaker 2: did the Near Raid, the Near the third, the final,
Speaker 2: the final part to the Near Automata series Alliance Raid
Speaker 2: in Fantasy fourteen. Man, that shit is fucking good too,
Speaker 2: because here's the thing. It's not like the lead up
Speaker 2: has been kind of like a sort of side story
Speaker 2: for Near Automata, but this last one is like straight
Speaker 2: up like marketing for real Near Replicant like this, this, uh,
Speaker 2: this latest raid part is heavy on Near Replicant and
Speaker 2: I I've been playing your Replicant, so I uh, I
Speaker 2: get all the references. I'm like, oh, shit, this is
Speaker 2: this is so cool that I'm like literally playing that
Speaker 2: game right now and I'm seeing all of it, all
Speaker 2: of it represented in Final Fantasy fourteen. I'm like, yo,
Speaker 2: who the like Yoko Taro and now Kiyoshi are like
Speaker 2: in a room laughing like, ah, this dude, Michael hi yo,
Speaker 2: we got his back. We're gonna hit him like We're
Speaker 2: gonna fucking double whammy, uh with with this ship. So
Speaker 2: it's it's really it's really cool. And like so there's
Speaker 2: there are bosses in that raid where the mechanics represent
Speaker 2: what the bosses do in your replicant. So when I
Speaker 2: was doing my first run, I was like, I know
Speaker 2: this mechanic. I know what the bosses are doing here.
Speaker 2: So then when I'm went in the raid, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to Oh I already know. I already know
Speaker 2: what to do. And it's like I'm playing a completely
Speaker 2: different game and I already know what to do because
Speaker 2: I played the play the source material. Man, It's just
Speaker 2: it's like, oh my god, the ben the you gotta
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you, like, well.
Speaker 4: Even even beyond because you're you're talking about how you've
Speaker 4: been playing Replication and and everything else, and it's been
Speaker 4: been kind of trailing through with automata all the way through.
Speaker 4: It actually has a bunch of Dragon Guard stuff in
Speaker 4: it too. The literal ends Boss is like it's the
Speaker 4: same setup as the end of Dragon Guard. Like it like.
Speaker 2: It's it's just who played Dragon Guard.
Speaker 4: I feel like people I probably should. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: I want to now one of the endings. You keep
Speaker 4: it kind of up in the air. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: But it's it's impressive that, like through this whole thing.
Speaker 4: The big thing is definitely the music, because you're you
Speaker 4: got music from the Zoom which is fantastic, You've got
Speaker 4: music from from the New Year Games, which is fantastic.
Speaker 4: And they I felt like they kind of just went
Speaker 4: all out right from the beginning and did way to
Speaker 4: the world, mixed with the prelude from Final Fantasy. But
Speaker 4: they've somehow found a way to outdo themselves with the
Speaker 4: one for the Last Boss in this one, and it
Speaker 4: also pulls from Final Fantasy. The whole series, Uh, Dragon
Speaker 4: Guard and Near like all mixed up together in one song.
Speaker 4: It's nuts.
Speaker 2: I don't wanna, I don't want to say exactly what
Speaker 2: song plays, but Ben, You're you've been watching me stream
Speaker 2: near the original near, so you're familiar with I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna say you're familiar with that song. Yeah. For me,
Speaker 2: when it played, I like, I literally like I sunk
Speaker 2: into my seat like obviously, okay, you're not yell on
Speaker 2: a video, but I like suck into my seat like,
Speaker 2: and I was just like I tried so because that
Speaker 2: that last boss fight is wild. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: fucking mechanics, uh, and like Final Fantasy fourteen does this
Speaker 2: a lot where they introduce you to mechanics and as
Speaker 2: the fight goes on, they keep layering them on, so
Speaker 2: then you juggle basically every mechanic that you've seen in
Speaker 2: that fight towards the end of it. And I don't
Speaker 2: know I was in the I was in the motherfucking
Speaker 2: zone because I was like, Okay, the color attacks this way,
Speaker 2: I gotta face that way, and then the trains come
Speaker 2: in this way. But then like, oh, I'm getting getting targeted.
Speaker 2: I got to get away from the group, and then
Speaker 2: what's that set there? I gotta avoid the aoees And
Speaker 2: like I'm like, I'm not even thinking, I'm just reacting
Speaker 2: to what I'm seeing on screen, it's a man, are
Speaker 2: you playing alone? No? This is well I'm playing with
Speaker 2: I was playing with random.
Speaker 3: Random players, So you're random, yeah, because.
Speaker 2: You have to for that. For all the Near series,
Speaker 2: you have to play with twenty a group of twenty four.
Speaker 4: I was supposed to take Michael with me, but then
Speaker 4: our whole group was like, no, we're all down to
Speaker 4: play today, and then I abandoned my boy like the
Speaker 4: worst person ever.
Speaker 2: I hate to see it.
Speaker 4: I really hate to see it for people.
Speaker 3: Who might be just starting Final Fantasy, starting zev there's
Speaker 3: no like timer on that event is there. It's just
Speaker 3: forever there, forever, always there.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a whole quest line, so whenever you
Speaker 2: get around to it, it'll be there for you.
Speaker 4: It is. It is the shadow Bringer's main Alliance raid set,
Speaker 4: because each each expansion has its own, like twenty four
Speaker 4: man raid set, and like the one four Blood was
Speaker 4: all the Evilly stuff that had to do with Tactics
Speaker 4: and Final Fantasy twelve. So you literally go back to
Speaker 4: Robin Oster and all that and you get to see
Speaker 4: all those people. Yeah, it shows up, yeah, m Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's there there. Man, They're always.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guys, delete this the deleted delete this that's his name, right? Fuck?
Speaker 2: I forgot?
Speaker 1: Like fourteen? Is that game that because I obviously work
Speaker 1: with you and see you all post about it all
Speaker 1: the time and just see how much everyone loves it,
Speaker 1: is the game that I am so like, I really
Speaker 1: really want to dip my toe into. But it just
Speaker 1: seems very very intimidating because I've never played an MMO before.
Speaker 1: I sho tried wow, but it wasn't for me.
Speaker 2: I definitely feel you on that.
Speaker 1: But would you how would would you recommend? Like it
Speaker 1: would be fine for me to just like I've played
Speaker 1: a lot of Final Fancy, is that okay for me
Speaker 1: to just go in?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 2: There's there's an article on GameSpot dot com called you
Speaker 2: should you should be playing Final Fantasy fourteen Starter's Guide
Speaker 2: something like that. I think it'll pops it. I think
Speaker 2: it's like the top search thing in se O when
Speaker 2: you search Beginner's Guide Final Fantasy fourteen. But I should
Speaker 2: definitely peep that.
Speaker 1: I think I've read that. I genuinely think I've read it,
Speaker 1: but it's like it's still very intimidated. Do I do
Speaker 1: I need it? Do I need it? Do I need friends?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: So I did not. Here's here's what you should notice.
Speaker 3: See the first like we've said this before, the first
Speaker 3: kind of expansion realm Reborn, then vanilla stuff is it's
Speaker 3: dry as fuck. It's not it's not fun. Everyone everyone
Speaker 3: kind of accepts that. Keep it will what will. What
Speaker 3: makes it good is it's a podcast that's a that's
Speaker 3: a thirty hour podcast game. As someone who's done it
Speaker 3: twice and is now in there like halfway through the
Speaker 3: second run of a rum Riborn or something.
Speaker 1: Like that, Oh did you get screwed by square in X?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I got screwed by Square in X, so like I
Speaker 3: had to do it the second time. It's a very
Speaker 3: good podcast game. What I do is I've mapped every
Speaker 3: command that I need to, like my mouse, I've got
Speaker 3: a mouse with loads of buttons, and then like I'm
Speaker 3: playing basically playing one handed. And then on the other hand,
Speaker 3: I'm like just on my phone or whatever I can.
Speaker 3: I can have like a second monitor.
Speaker 2: Not even paying attention to.
Speaker 4: I can't PLAYMOS without that. That's the only mousse I'll
Speaker 4: ever use. It's a it's like him is.
Speaker 3: Right, you probably won't be paying a lot of attention.
Speaker 2: But then I said that how much.
Speaker 3: How much is there to care about in that? Because
Speaker 3: there is not a lot to care about in that first.
Speaker 2: Anything that's voiced, pay attention to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The thing about a Rumberborn is it's very dry,
Speaker 4: and you're getting introduced to all the characters, and it's
Speaker 4: in that moment of going through a rumber Borne and
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, god, Dan Kred's doing whatever he's doing.
Speaker 4: I guess cool. It's it's when you get to the
Speaker 4: the like Heaven's Ward and storm Blood where you have
Speaker 4: that background on those characters that it kind of comes
Speaker 4: around and you're glad that you sort of picked up
Speaker 4: on it. Yeah, it's it's all late payoff, which really
Speaker 4: sucks to say all the time, but it's at least.
Speaker 1: Streng Yeah, you get that burn. And like I said,
Speaker 1: it's streamline. But so I would probably.
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: I can I log into my account and play it
Speaker 1: on PlayStation if I'm.
Speaker 2: Playing what maybe maybe? Who knows. That's not for me
Speaker 2: to decide.
Speaker 4: You can as long as you rebuy the game on
Speaker 4: the other console because you need to have licenses for
Speaker 4: the game on both places when you're playing.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, gotcha. So that's not like, you know, I
Speaker 1: would be stuck to PC or something if I because
Speaker 1: I think I have fourteen, don't they I'll have all
Speaker 1: the expansions.
Speaker 2: When you download the client on PS four, it asks
Speaker 2: you to log in as if you were opening a
Speaker 2: PC client, and then you do that and then it
Speaker 2: loads up the game. But like Ben says, as long
Speaker 2: as you have a license for the p S four
Speaker 2: or what like when you buy the P or when
Speaker 2: you get the PS four version or PlayStation version, because
Speaker 2: now there's a PS five, which I should I should
Speaker 2: also mention published on games dot com, just freshly off
Speaker 2: the hot off the presses, my impressions of it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it'll just be like, okay, you're gonna you buy
Speaker 2: buy it on the PlayStation Store, and then you log
Speaker 2: into you account. The first time is like do you
Speaker 2: want to tie your squareness account to this PSN account? Oh?
Speaker 2: You got that on your ps N account? Cool, Now
Speaker 2: you go play the game. That's how it's supposed to go.
Speaker 2: But that's you know, a squarenest account is wild knows
Speaker 2: all about that.
Speaker 3: I have a PlayStation for account.
Speaker 2: For they said, thought.
Speaker 3: You cannot have that account and if you make an
Speaker 3: account on the PlayStation. I've mentioned this before, but it
Speaker 3: basically ties it to your It doesn't create an account,
Speaker 3: it ties it to your PlayStation profile. So you cannot
Speaker 3: make another account because you are allowed to have one
Speaker 3: account tied to that. If you're like me where you
Speaker 3: get locked out of it because of some nonsense on
Speaker 3: Square any acidey, you cannot create a second console account.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I feel like we have this conversation
Speaker 2: every time we talk about so kind of I'm kind
Speaker 2: of tired of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I like I think, I think, like
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that the PlayStation five version is good. So
Speaker 3: then because I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you should should you should keep the article on
Speaker 2: GameSpot dot com. There's you know, how off the presses
Speaker 2: your PS five version is fire.
Speaker 4: There's gameplay videos if you want to see how it runs.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, it looks good in beta, but I'm waiting
Speaker 3: for it to kind of like I want that final
Speaker 3: word to be like, now it's worth going through the
Speaker 3: hassle of.
Speaker 2: Yes, the way that go ahead?
Speaker 4: Man, I was gonna say, I also want to talk
Speaker 4: about some of like the dumb things that they didn't
Speaker 4: know that they didn't need to do. But I kind of,
Speaker 4: like weirdly appreciate because everyone knows like the dual sense
Speaker 4: controllers are like these weird neat things and they do
Speaker 4: stuff with the rumble and all that they made different
Speaker 4: rumble patterns for every mount you every mount, every mount
Speaker 4: feels different in the way that it like steps or flies.
Speaker 4: You can feel the wings black walking on different terrain
Speaker 4: with your feet makes the controller rumble differently. And I'm
Speaker 4: like you, guys, you could literally spend time with anything
Speaker 4: for this, and you decided to make dirt feel different
Speaker 4: from walking on a sidewalk for me.
Speaker 1: And to be fair though, like given, I think the
Speaker 1: difference is when you play games like Astro and Spider
Speaker 1: Man and Miles Morales and then you go to like
Speaker 1: another Triple A game like something like Cyberpunk, where they've
Speaker 1: done nothing for the duel sense stuff. I really appreciate
Speaker 1: that because the difference is so huge, and so I'm
Speaker 1: I'm down for that. I love that is That's a
Speaker 1: level of intricacy that I'm here for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, p S five version is is pretty good and
Speaker 2: basically the way it works is like it's called a beta,
Speaker 2: but really what it is is it's a it's just uh,
Speaker 2: it's it's like a like an early version of what
Speaker 2: because they said, if everything goes smoothly, we're just gonna
Speaker 2: roll the beta into a full service game and that's
Speaker 2: that on that and we'll have subsequent patches to like
Speaker 2: improve things here there if hiccups occur. But like right now,
Speaker 2: I mean I played all day yesterday on PS five,
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, this shits. This is fire Like there's
Speaker 2: performance hiccups, and I think that that's what they want
Speaker 2: to do, is like do further optimizations. But right now
Speaker 2: it's like, yo, this is this is dope. It's like beta.
Speaker 2: That's the full game. There's there's no they're just calling
Speaker 2: it beta just like you know, be careful with it
Speaker 2: in case something does happen. But basically it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: we have a PS five version of the game. Now cool.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's basically I wrote a thousand words just
Speaker 2: saying that.
Speaker 4: Also, it's wild that uh we got our first uh
Speaker 4: like UI update for the game too, in terms of
Speaker 4: like resolution, so that game is old for everything. So
Speaker 4: that game is so old that all of the assets
Speaker 4: for it were meant to be displayed on like a
Speaker 4: seven to twenty p output.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So if so yesterday when we all logged in, uh,
Speaker 4: the font that was used for like player names was
Speaker 4: finally being displayed in like the proper resolution ratio. So
Speaker 4: it was super thin and kind of hard to read
Speaker 4: for people because it wasn't as blurry and thick anymore,
Speaker 4: which is wild to me. But uh, yeah, the high
Speaker 4: resolution stuff for the UIs need. And apparently they're going
Speaker 4: to start updating old textures too. I read somewhere yes,
Speaker 4: which is yeah, because older gear, if you get real
Speaker 4: close to it, looks kind of gross sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was looking, I was looking at some of
Speaker 2: row Bond's his get up and like, dog, you need
Speaker 2: to update your fucking.
Speaker 4: Right your your your cape you get that high.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, Final Fantasy is uh fucking dope.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I don't know man, that that new I'm
Speaker 2: still thinking about that new near ray Man, because there's
Speaker 2: a whole story that that's a tie that's tied to.
Speaker 2: It's not just like oh go into this dungeon like
Speaker 2: cool shit happens. You see two B and you see
Speaker 2: nine S. There's a story of tied to. There's a
Speaker 2: story tied to it that's actually in universe, so it's
Speaker 2: not just like this wild near thing that happens and
Speaker 2: low key, I'm like, yo, this is fucking like kind
Speaker 2: of sad uh because the the Dwarves in uh In,
Speaker 2: like the Shadow Bringers universe, they're so cute. They're like,
Speaker 2: they're they're very they're very expressive, they're they're adorable. Like
Speaker 2: the way they talk, the way they interact with each other,
Speaker 2: the way they talk to you. It's like, oh, they're
Speaker 2: kind of they're really endearing. But there's this whole arc
Speaker 2: about sacrifice and like building a village and building a community.
Speaker 2: That's that kind of contextualizes the the Near story. And
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say this is a spoiler, but there is
Speaker 2: a wild motherfucking parallel. If you played, if you played
Speaker 2: in Europe, you've played Near Automata, and you play this raid,
Speaker 2: there is a huge parallel between two of the key
Speaker 2: characters in the Final Fantasy fourteen universe that parallel to
Speaker 2: major characters in the Near universe. And when I hit
Speaker 2: that revelation, I was like, you motherfucker, it's oh my god, Okay, anyway,
Speaker 2: that's that's that's that's it.
Speaker 4: So we haven't even talked about the flipp it the
Speaker 4: end of the Final Fantasy seven weapons too, because they
Speaker 4: added the last one of those in there.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, I didn't know that. Yeah, oh yeah, never mind.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: The whole Evangelian storyline.
Speaker 2: The Gundam story. It's Gunda, It's Evangelian. It's also yeah,
Speaker 2: you get.
Speaker 4: A literal Gundam for like half of these quests that
Speaker 4: Sid builds for you, and and it ties.
Speaker 2: Back to an og villain from the base game, and
Speaker 2: it's just like how like and like the whole thing
Speaker 2: about five point five is tying up old story threads
Speaker 2: or bringing back a lot of things that haven't been
Speaker 2: resolve and then resolving them. So but yeah, this patch
Speaker 2: is like the first part of the whole tie that
Speaker 2: goes into the next expansion pack. So late may I
Speaker 2: assume the week after Final Fantasy, for the Final Fantasy
Speaker 2: Fan Festival, they're gonna launch the Part two, a five
Speaker 2: point five Part two, which is going to finalize this story.
Speaker 2: And it's gonna be it's gonna be wild. Because I've
Speaker 2: played Final Fantasy fourteen for a bit over over two
Speaker 2: years at this point, but it's all been contextualized in
Speaker 2: Shadow Bringers, which is what it's the current expansion. Like
Speaker 2: I was playing leading up to it, it came and
Speaker 2: I covered it and I did it all Like I
Speaker 2: love this game. I feel like I've been playing it
Speaker 2: for ten years. But if only like Shadow Bringers is
Speaker 2: the thing that that hooked me in, so to leave
Speaker 2: it behind is gonna be a really weird feeling. But yeah, great, great, great,
Speaker 2: great game. And I kind of already talked about a
Speaker 2: near replicant, because you can check out my preview. I've
Speaker 2: been reviews coming soon. I can say that, but I
Speaker 2: can't talk any more than are what already did in
Speaker 2: the preview. But boy, oh my, if y'all I just
Speaker 2: want to say, like, if y'all fuck with Near Automata
Speaker 2: Europ again starts slow. It's very much a twenty ten game.
Speaker 2: I've said as much in my preview, but at least
Speaker 2: for me, I approach it not necessarily for the gameplay thrills.
Speaker 2: I'm here, I pull up like, hey, I'm here to
Speaker 2: cry dog like what's good?
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I'm ready to just openly weep
Speaker 4: as soon as I hear any of the songs on
Speaker 4: that soundtrack again Grimma Vice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been playing the O g One on PS three,
Speaker 2: sponsored by a tam hashtag lad and you know the vibes.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's yeah, it's hits me whenever, whenever, whenever
Speaker 2: I feel some type of way, like I'm sad about
Speaker 2: something whatever, I pop into a Near Replicant. I'm like,
Speaker 2: this is It feels like I'm letting a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff off my chest. I'm like a lot of things
Speaker 2: are off my shoulders because I'm like playing this game
Speaker 2: where everything's so grim and sad, where it's like, I
Speaker 2: fuck it, I feel y'all. I'm here with y'all, like
Speaker 2: just fuck me up, fam Like that that's the vibe
Speaker 2: right there. You go into that ship like, hey, Arel
Speaker 2: Grimore flies kinda my girl, Yo, Yona, I'm gonna save Yona.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be tied u Emil. That's my boy,
Speaker 2: And it's like, all right now, just fuck up my feelings.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's my preview of Near a Replicant, just
Speaker 2: enveloped in yep.
Speaker 1: Ben, what else you've been playing except for Fun Fantasy?
Speaker 4: Oh besides Final Fantasy, I I finally played a game
Speaker 4: called Before Your eyes. So I don't know if any
Speaker 4: of you guys have heard about it at all.
Speaker 2: I've heard a little bit about it on some hubbub
Speaker 2: on Twitter.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's uh so, it's it's there's like, this is
Speaker 4: a game you could play on like a browser or
Speaker 4: something a long time ago, and they decided to take
Speaker 4: the concept of it and apply it to like a
Speaker 4: full game. And it basically the concept of it is
Speaker 4: you're a person who's recently passed away and you have
Speaker 4: to get ferried away to where for your you're headed
Speaker 4: in like your you're afterlife, and the person running the
Speaker 4: ship forces you to look back on the life that
Speaker 4: you led so that they can tell the gatekeeper a
Speaker 4: story to convince them to let you onto the good
Speaker 4: area of that. And so the idea is you play
Speaker 4: through these are these moments play out and every time
Speaker 4: you have to play it with your webcam, and every
Speaker 4: time you blink, the moment's over and it moves on
Speaker 4: to the next one. So like it'll it'll play like
Speaker 4: a real like sad moment in your life with your family,
Speaker 4: where like your your parents are upset because they can't
Speaker 4: make ends meet and they're trying to like feed you,
Speaker 4: and they're not trying to let you know because you're
Speaker 4: a little kid, and you'll blink and then all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, you'll be at the point where you're you're
Speaker 4: sitting at the beach after you've snuck out with your
Speaker 4: first love you ever had, and you're like, I don't
Speaker 4: want to blink for this because I want to like
Speaker 4: see all the good stuff, but you can't, like keep
Speaker 4: your eyes open. And it's interesting because it's it's a
Speaker 4: very emotional game, and the fact that they're forcing you
Speaker 4: to keep your eyes open already makes your eyes water,
Speaker 4: and so your eyes are already watering because you want
Speaker 4: to see these good moments play out, and then you
Speaker 4: just like as as the game goes on, you kind
Speaker 4: of learn like a weird twist to it and you
Speaker 4: see a whole bunch of other stuff. It's I don't
Speaker 4: want to ruin it for anyone. It's like an hour
Speaker 4: and a half long and it's like ten dollars on Steam,
Speaker 4: but I'd highly recommend it if you have like an
Speaker 4: afternoon where you don't have anything else afterwards, because it'll
Speaker 4: totally kind of throw off your day a bit, maybe,
Speaker 4: but it's it was it was really really good and
Speaker 4: really really emotional, and I kind of like that idea
Speaker 4: of like moments can be gone at any moment, and
Speaker 4: you've got to sit there and kind of enjoy them
Speaker 4: while they're there. Don't blink.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, a blinking thing is the thing that's
Speaker 1: really just adds a whole other level to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are so many moments I just get. I
Speaker 4: was literally upset at myself because I was like, there's
Speaker 4: one way you get a really good letter from the
Speaker 4: person that you're in a relationship with, and I got
Speaker 4: like a moment of relief for the character, which made
Speaker 4: me automatically blink before I could read the second half
Speaker 4: of the letter, and I was upset at myself. It
Speaker 4: was basically them being like, hey, I like you too.
Speaker 4: I feel the same way. But and then it had
Speaker 4: like all this other stuff I never saw.
Speaker 2: Oh hate to not see it.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's really interesting and I'd recommend it to
Speaker 4: anyone who's uh was kind of into that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like I've said as much before, but
Speaker 2: I'm very selective when I play games now. I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm too old to be to gamble on my time.
Speaker 2: I guess like there's a lot of games that seem interesting,
Speaker 2: but honestly, at this point in my life, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I need to have a sure fucking bet that what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna spend time with is going to pay off.
Speaker 2: And I feel like I've I've come to really understand
Speaker 2: what hits like, what my tastes really are, and what
Speaker 2: resonates with me that thousand percent sounds like. Also, like
Speaker 2: you said, it's like what two hours max, So it's
Speaker 2: not even that long, say.
Speaker 1: Less game store as well, there you go, what you've
Speaker 1: been playing?
Speaker 3: So I have been playing a bunch of things. Primarily
Speaker 3: I'm gonna speak about the Backbone, which I purchased. For
Speaker 3: those unfamiliar with the Backbone, it's basically a little controller
Speaker 3: that you jam your iPhone into so you can play
Speaker 3: video games on it. And it's really good. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: super good.
Speaker 2: Like everyone anyone who's mentioned it on Twitter has said
Speaker 2: nothing but good things about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is, So it's good. So I've got mine
Speaker 3: hair Like, it's really small, really simple design, elegantly designed,
Speaker 3: and like it's real good to play games on the iOS.
Speaker 3: So I've been digging into a bunch of games. I
Speaker 3: bought it for a fantasic yeah game. Yeah, so because
Speaker 3: I bought it primarily for that because I was like,
Speaker 3: I need it's a it's a guc game, so I
Speaker 3: got to check it out.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the check out that my interview with
Speaker 2: the Vibes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also the platinum game World of Demons. I
Speaker 3: think it's called which is. I played a bit of
Speaker 3: that and it's been fun. Where it really shines, though,
Speaker 3: is when you use the iPhone to kind of do
Speaker 3: remote play on PlayStation and stuff like that, because then
Speaker 3: you can play like something like a Persona or you
Speaker 3: can even play You can play most games perfectly fine
Speaker 3: with it borring any delay, Like if you are used
Speaker 3: to playing a first person shooter on controllers, it will
Speaker 3: feel good. I have no qualms with Like I feel
Speaker 3: confident that if I wanted to Internet connections kind of permitting,
Speaker 3: if I would feel fine about jumping into an Overwatch
Speaker 3: match right now. And that's that's that says a lot
Speaker 3: about it. The only thing that I think is not
Speaker 3: great is the dpad. It feels like a weirdly squishy
Speaker 3: at times. It feels like it's designed more to navigate
Speaker 3: menus and for like precise kind of aiming or anything
Speaker 3: like that. But then the the thumbsticks are super good,
Speaker 3: like so really really good. The thing that I'm excited
Speaker 3: about is like having like remote access to Xbox games
Speaker 3: and game Pass and that kind of stuff through through
Speaker 3: the Backbone. So but the the the iOS has itself,
Speaker 3: the Arcade has got a bunch of games that are
Speaker 3: real good with controllers, like and Cozy growths great on it,
Speaker 3: and Backbone has their own app where you go into
Speaker 3: there and you can like add games to it and
Speaker 3: it will also highlight games. The actual controller itself has
Speaker 3: got a bunch of cool features, like you can take
Speaker 3: snapshots and record videos in the same way that you
Speaker 3: would in a modern controller, and also share that stuff
Speaker 3: to Twitter and stuff, so it functions like a real
Speaker 3: good controller. Like there's a lot of gulf out there
Speaker 3: for buying accessories for mobile games, but this is one
Speaker 3: that I can like recommend without reservation, Like don't don't
Speaker 3: waste your time looking, just buy a Backbone. And I
Speaker 3: know that a bunch of other people have I've seen
Speaker 3: have been playing and using it, and like Greg, for example,
Speaker 3: Greg kind of funny approved like like I put a
Speaker 3: picture of it up and primary like one of the
Speaker 3: reasons I bought it was because I heard him talking
Speaker 3: about it so much. I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 3: try it. It's one hundred dollars. It's the worst case scenario,
Speaker 3: you know, I just you know, it's not I'm not
Speaker 3: thinking too much money into it. I mean, one hundred
Speaker 3: dollars a lot of money, but still Poller.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I got that managing editor money. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's like San Francisco. That's two meals.
Speaker 1: Greg posting about it you now, but also Brian Altano
Speaker 1: and so like I I'm very very interested. And also
Speaker 1: because we have a big flight next week, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Cozy Cozy Grove is generally the game that's
Speaker 1: making me want to get it because Cozy Grove is
Speaker 1: so good. So my shit, I can't remember we've talked
Speaker 1: about it before. It's basically like an animal crossing meat
Speaker 1: spirit Farer type situation. It's on Apple, Arcade, NPC and
Speaker 1: Switch too, but like it's it's kind of I don't
Speaker 1: particularly enjoy the touchscreen part of it to move around,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, what if I got a backbone.
Speaker 3: I can like, if you're going to get I wouldn't
Speaker 3: if you've got to San Francisco meals worth of money
Speaker 3: to spend.
Speaker 1: I just I just spent to San Francisco meals worth
Speaker 1: on a new suitcase.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I would. I wouldn't like hesitate, like because
Speaker 3: I know that it's one of those things where you
Speaker 3: just it feels good to know that you've got it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and like I've I've played a bunch of Crazy Grove
Speaker 3: as well, and I'm excited to check that out on
Speaker 3: the backbone. But yeah, that's that's That's been the thing
Speaker 3: that I've been checking out a lot. I've also been
Speaker 3: playing a lot of Metal Solid too. I'm streaming it,
Speaker 3: uh TV watch my stream Let's go. But that game
Speaker 3: is phenomenal. So I bought the original Gog version, which
Speaker 3: is just absolute trash.
Speaker 1: Like similar because when I was playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's as bad as it's like really really weird.
Speaker 3: But someone in my chat try lends shot to you
Speaker 3: and was like, Yo, there's there's this mode out there.
Speaker 3: Try it. And I applied the mod and it makes
Speaker 3: that game excellent. It introduces like full screen support, wise
Speaker 3: full screen support, it's got better textures, it's got uh
Speaker 3: it adds in support for dual Shock for on Xbox
Speaker 3: One controllers, and now I'm just like having a great
Speaker 3: time with it. So solitude popping as straight. And the
Speaker 3: last thing I got was the which I highly recommend,
Speaker 3: is they released the WAA asks book Ask Your Water
Speaker 3: Words of Wisdom from Toria Water, Nintendo legendary CEO. And
Speaker 3: I'm not that far into it, but it's really, really,
Speaker 3: really good because like they opened by saying, you know,
Speaker 3: Iwata was a person who didn't really like to talk
Speaker 3: about himself in his interviews, and that very much is
Speaker 3: the case. Like whenever he was talking to anyone, he
Speaker 3: would be talking about the game itself and very rarely
Speaker 3: it would be about him. But he had a relationship
Speaker 3: with a public a website called the Hobo Niktoy Shimbun,
Speaker 3: which was like just an online publication, and I believe
Speaker 3: gumpey Yakoi was involved in that publication. Gumpey Yakoi being
Speaker 3: you know, another legendary Nintendo developer, worked on a bunch
Speaker 3: of devices and software games, and so he would pop
Speaker 3: up and give interviews to them, and they felt a
Speaker 3: little more personal. So that site has got probably one
Speaker 3: of the best collections of personal anecdotes about the life
Speaker 3: and times of Iuaa. And what they've done is they've
Speaker 3: put together with this book that is as much about
Speaker 3: him as it is about those I asks. It's a
Speaker 3: mixture of WA's own personal history and it's kind of fascinating.
Speaker 3: And there's like a everyone you know whenever someone dies
Speaker 3: that's famous and you're like, oh, that sucks, man, And
Speaker 3: it can hit different when it's someone that you know.
Speaker 3: It was within the industry, and I remember it was
Speaker 3: a really really like there was like a dark cloud
Speaker 3: over the industry for a while.
Speaker 1: I remember being the office, in the office.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I wrote it. I wrote the obituary
Speaker 3: for it, and it was rough, and and reading this
Speaker 3: book you realize very quickly why it hit people so hard,
Speaker 3: like that dude was. I don't know if he's going
Speaker 3: to ever be recognized as like a genius in the
Speaker 3: same way that people absolutely throw their toys out of
Speaker 3: the pram about Elon Musk and Steve Jobs and Bill Gates,
Speaker 3: But for me, he transcends them in so many ways.
Speaker 3: And the fact that no one talks about him that way.
Speaker 3: He's just a humble person, says it all. But like
Speaker 3: I'm reading this book and like tearing up at this
Speaker 3: the loss of this guy who's clearly he through and
Speaker 3: through just wanted to make games and he wanted to
Speaker 3: make people happy and bring games to as many people,
Speaker 3: and you realize, like, damn, this dude was. He was
Speaker 3: like a one of a kind, like once in a lifetime.
Speaker 3: It's almost like I'm glad that I got to exist
Speaker 3: at the same time as this guy. And yeah, I
Speaker 3: highly recommend reading it. It's just sweet and really nice
Speaker 3: and supports his legacy. So legend Yeah on Amazon. Rest
Speaker 3: in peace, Rest and peace to the Goat.
Speaker 1: Well, I haven't been doing or watching anything new because
Speaker 1: I've mostly just been packing and so the only things
Speaker 1: I've really done is at the weekend. I did watch
Speaker 1: a couple of movies for the first time. I watched
Speaker 1: Good Fellas, which i'd never seen, never seen Fast Times
Speaker 1: at Bridgemont High, and had never seen The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Speaker 1: So I had like a little weekend where I watched
Speaker 1: all of them. But genuinely, the main thing I've been
Speaker 1: watching and enjoying has been School of Rock, which I
Speaker 1: watched again last night because we were in the car
Speaker 1: on Sunday driving back from the park and we were
Speaker 1: listening to Immigrant Song by led Zeppelin. And so then
Speaker 1: I went on like this little thing where on Monday,
Speaker 1: while I was packing, I was watching Thor Ragnar Rock.
Speaker 1: And then on Tuesday, Tuesday, while I was packing, I
Speaker 1: was watching a School of Rock. So you can sense
Speaker 1: the theme here, thank you to led Zeppelin. Other than that,
Speaker 1: I have I'm reading a book What Big for Me
Speaker 1: well too on this podcast now. So I've been I've
Speaker 1: been struggling with my reading for a long time, which
Speaker 1: is weird because I read. I used to be such
Speaker 1: a voracious reader, Like I used to read so much
Speaker 1: and so quickly, and then I just really fell off it.
Speaker 1: And I'm struggling with seeing a lot of words on
Speaker 1: screen or like my kindle or like in a book recently.
Speaker 1: And so I actually started reading one because I think
Speaker 1: as Christine Steimer posted on her into the story, she
Speaker 1: was posted a book from this author, Brandon Sanderson, and
Speaker 1: it was a different book that I remember my sister
Speaker 1: had read years ago and she really enjoyed it. And
Speaker 1: then the reason I'm bringing this up is because I've
Speaker 1: never appreciated an author more. If you search Brandon Sanderson,
Speaker 1: you go to his website and like there was literally
Speaker 1: a landing page that says where to start with my books,
Speaker 1: and it's literally like, if you like fantasy, you should
Speaker 1: read this. If you don't really like fantasy as much,
Speaker 1: you should read this. And then he's like given, if
Speaker 1: you skip down the page, he gives a little synopsies,
Speaker 1: and then he gives a sample chapter of each one.
Speaker 1: And so I was just immediately kind of on board
Speaker 1: with it because I felt like I wasn't, you know,
Speaker 1: risking my you know, I was actually investing in a
Speaker 1: purchase that I had write up about a bit. And
Speaker 1: so I started to read Alantriss, which is kind of
Speaker 1: fantasy book three different points of view. It's about this
Speaker 1: old society used to be like essentially God's very beautiful,
Speaker 1: essentially magical ethereal beings, and then one day this beautiful
Speaker 1: society collapses. And then fast forward a few years and
Speaker 1: then you have this derelict city and people develop this
Speaker 1: disease and just get thrown there. But the disease is
Speaker 1: like you live forever, but you are essentially dead. So
Speaker 1: there's a bit in the first chapter where the main
Speaker 1: character stubs his toe and breaks it and that will
Speaker 1: never heal. So he's like constantly sons like Perda. But
Speaker 1: I'm honestly I want to bring it up just because
Speaker 1: we are in the middle of a pandemonium and I
Speaker 1: don't know a lot of people seem to be struggling
Speaker 1: with just like finding stuff to enjoy it. But this
Speaker 1: book is super easy to read, really enjoyable, and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of blasting through it and I have to.
Speaker 3: Call it a pandemonium, pandemic, pandemic, a little demi.
Speaker 2: So I'm really enjoying as a treat.
Speaker 1: You have a little pandemic as a tree.
Speaker 2: Not definitely not. That's the thing that gets me canceled. Wow, spoken, it.
Speaker 1: Took forty minutes, But is.
Speaker 3: Is it a good read?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: Are you enjoying it?
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it, and I think it's because it
Speaker 1: reminds me so much of a book series that I
Speaker 1: loved as a kid called The Belgariad by David Eddings who.
Speaker 1: The weird thing about David Eddings is his cousin is
Speaker 1: the David Eddings who worked at Gearbox Oh oh at
Speaker 1: least I think they were related. I want to say
Speaker 1: they were related. But anyway, I used to absolutely love
Speaker 1: David and Lee Eddings when I was a kid, and
Speaker 1: this book reminds me a lot of their writing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on this this author's website and they've got
Speaker 3: one with steel Heart, which seems interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he has like an of the he has
Speaker 1: I can't remember which book it is or it's a series,
Speaker 1: and it's like, this is my Lord of the Rings
Speaker 1: meets saying. I was like, okay.
Speaker 3: He also looks like Tim Willitts he does, which is upsetting.
Speaker 4: Tim.
Speaker 3: What a you're doing writing books in the side you
Speaker 3: never know?
Speaker 1: So that's what I've been doing.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to one of the things
Speaker 2: I want to shout out before we move on. If
Speaker 2: y'all anyone listening to this, I know we got we
Speaker 2: got the audience, you know, fuck with Yakuza and judgment
Speaker 2: like that. I've been watching a Jay drama called ooral Boros,
Speaker 2: So if y'all fuck with Yakuza or judgment, check that out.
Speaker 2: I've been watching it with my girl and that ship
Speaker 2: is on point. And second thing, I want to ask
Speaker 2: one sentence Ben what's the dopest thing about the Diamond
Speaker 2: Weapon fight?
Speaker 4: Uh, the repurposing of the G Warrior.
Speaker 2: Oh, because I haven't played yet. All let's go old.
Speaker 4: I haven't even done the extreme version of it yet.
Speaker 4: But uh, it's like that we're fighting the Diamond Weapon
Speaker 4: up on a cloud deck and G Warriors back in
Speaker 4: a weird way.
Speaker 2: Say, let's say, let's all right, thank you, Ben, All.
Speaker 1: Right, let's move on to the topics. All right, let's
Speaker 1: kick things off with the Nintendo Indie event from this week.
Speaker 1: They've dropped this, They've dropped Nindy's Why.
Speaker 3: Have you done that? Like?
Speaker 1: That was such a perfect title for it.
Speaker 3: Call it.
Speaker 1: I don't call it Nindi's anymore. They call it Nintendo
Speaker 1: Indie World.
Speaker 3: I like Nindy's, Man, that's cute. I like Nindy's Nuts.
Speaker 2: Believe Oh, I love There's nothing I love more than
Speaker 2: a good these nuts. I love these nuts, absolutely love
Speaker 2: these nuts.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you.
Speaker 2: I'll fall into these nuts and God say less, how
Speaker 2: do I?
Speaker 3: How do I?
Speaker 2: Next topic?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 1: I thought it was a really fun showing What were
Speaker 1: your desperately what were your highlights for the show?
Speaker 2: Michael Hold on, hold on hold, let me pull up
Speaker 2: real quick. There is two things I want to shout out.
Speaker 2: First is ship ship ship ship hold.
Speaker 3: On hold up Route ninety six.
Speaker 2: No, Aeron Night's never yield, Okay, I want to shout
Speaker 2: that out. So Aerol Knight, I've been keeping up with
Speaker 2: them on Twitter games coming to switch to check that out.
Speaker 2: It's like a side scrolling runner. Art style and music
Speaker 2: is incredible, So y'all get your hands on that. That's
Speaker 2: coming May nineteenth. So shouts out to aerol Knight. And
Speaker 2: the second one is Chris Tails, which is gonna release
Speaker 2: on July twentieth. I've been hearing a lot about this
Speaker 2: from like Jordan, so shouts out to Jordan romy But
Speaker 2: it's like a it's JRPG influenced and that art style
Speaker 2: and like the kind of the visuals and the mechanics
Speaker 2: kind of coalesce in a really interesting way. Looks incredible,
Speaker 2: you know, vibes with me. If it's jrb RPG inspired,
Speaker 2: I'll at least give it the time of day. So
Speaker 2: definitely check that out. I been hearing a lot about it,
Speaker 2: so it's not necessarily new, but it's like, oh shit,
Speaker 2: we're gonna it's this is things actually coming, so definitely
Speaker 2: peep that. If you're into the same bullshit as me. Ship,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like that VENN diagram as a circle,
Speaker 2: so let's get it. Greg thought it was funny.
Speaker 4: I like that. Somehow we managed to get a new
Speaker 4: Ali Ali and an Oxen Free announced in the same Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's good for the joke, but also because I'm excited
Speaker 4: for both of those video games, and I always.
Speaker 1: Never anticipated saying Oxen Free too. I just never even
Speaker 1: considered it.
Speaker 4: Uh. But besides those, I'm uh the like random three
Speaker 4: seconds of a House of the Dead remake that they
Speaker 4: decided to just throw like their montage.
Speaker 2: Without saying anything. It was like, ohma, by.
Speaker 4: The way, here it is also House the deads in India.
Speaker 4: Now I guess Wait, who's making it? That's what I'm
Speaker 4: trying to figure out.
Speaker 2: I just know why, But I'm like, that's House.
Speaker 1: Being published by Forever Entertainment.
Speaker 3: Who who.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do? Google? Who are Forever Entertainment leading
Speaker 1: publisher video games to the Nintendo Switch? They did the
Speaker 1: pans of Dragoon remake?
Speaker 2: Oh shot pans of Dragoon?
Speaker 1: What else we go? What else we got? AsSalt of
Speaker 1: Metal tron virus, the outbreak that Ultimate Fishing simulated.
Speaker 3: That's the ticket saying el shadaie no no, yeah, Ascension
Speaker 3: of Metatron.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought, I thought, like, oh they what el should.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pans of Dragoon Tennis Open twenty twenty. I think
Speaker 1: these guys just like we're all over the shop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, take work where you can get it.
Speaker 2: Man them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But no, I couldn't believe that there was going to
Speaker 1: like just house that Dead was back, Yeah, just.
Speaker 3: Out of nowhere, bring back Typing of the Dead.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if you get that ship on switch where
Speaker 2: you gotta like use the keypad or like the virtual
Speaker 2: keypad for that should be that should be trash.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So they put all the Yahoo answers as things
Speaker 4: you can type out in Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh. I think the brothers play through.
Speaker 4: I think the game still holds the Guinness World Record
Speaker 4: for most f bombs dropped in a video game. Hell yeah,
Speaker 4: Playhouse did it overkill? If you get the chance, that's good.
Speaker 3: Also, Revenge tmn T looks good. I'm surprised, continue to
Speaker 3: be surprised. I'll still treat it with a level of
Speaker 3: suspicion because it's licensed, and but it's from you know,
Speaker 3: the Speaks of Age fourteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been on point. They've been on point with
Speaker 2: their stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then is I love the games, I'm sure,
Speaker 3: but they have a vibe, and it looks like they
Speaker 3: really want to nail that vibe with this. The art
Speaker 3: style I'm kind of into. It reminds me of scribble
Speaker 3: notes for some reason, but I like the way it looks.
Speaker 3: It kind of looks. It also looks like, you know,
Speaker 3: you get these artists on Twitter that draw really cute things.
Speaker 3: It looks like someone found every one of those who's
Speaker 3: like ever made a like fan Pokemon character. I've been like,
Speaker 3: you're doing our art.
Speaker 1: Now they're gonna say it's like someone found all of
Speaker 1: them put it into an aar.
Speaker 3: I mean it doesn't. It does look like that, but yeah,
Speaker 3: Road ninety six looks really cool as well.
Speaker 2: This student, this dude in the trailer video looked like
Speaker 2: Zach Ryan in early Early World. Yeah, if you watch
Speaker 2: the trailer, it was like.
Speaker 4: He looks like Pokeer.
Speaker 3: It looks like a Pokemon trainer.
Speaker 1: Wait, what give me?
Speaker 3: Give me.
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: Once you're talking, you're talking about the studio founder. Oh
Speaker 3: that's him, Yeah, you're talking about he doesn't he looks.
Speaker 3: It's more like it looks like I'm.
Speaker 2: Lost, Yes, exactly from you put a white man in
Speaker 2: a jean jacket with a good beard. That's Zach Ryan
Speaker 2: shut to him.
Speaker 3: Him.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I see it.
Speaker 1: But I don't think Zach would wear like the is that.
Speaker 1: I can't tell if that's a denim jacket or one
Speaker 1: with cut off arms. I don't think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but those those games look good, and
Speaker 3: Zach ryand looks good.
Speaker 2: So big facts.
Speaker 4: No Oney's detected.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say he listens to it. I was
Speaker 1: about to say I'll pass, I'll pass on your kind words.
Speaker 3: But the other day, like I sent him a Godzilla
Speaker 3: thing and he was like, yeah, I saw this on
Speaker 3: Instagram and I was like, yeah, thanks for sending it
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: Then my m are open hollo me boy wow, just
Speaker 1: because just because I'm going away for a little bit, Michael, Oh,
Speaker 1: whoa whoa whoa whoa?
Speaker 2: Wait, whoa whoa?
Speaker 3: Hey, whoa whoa whoa whoa?
Speaker 1: He relax, all right, ninety six looks so good.
Speaker 4: Miss.
Speaker 1: We play games with Jake. I talked to Jake just
Speaker 1: today Ago. No, I'm I'm super down for Road ninety six,
Speaker 1: Like it looks super cool and like procedurally generate its story,
Speaker 1: seeing procedurally generated levels. But I am very interested to
Speaker 1: see how that manages to keep together because that just
Speaker 1: sounds narratively like an absolute nightmare to try and plan for.
Speaker 1: Like you know the picture of Charlie Day from It's
Speaker 1: Always sunny in front of the board. That's already what
Speaker 1: I can picture right in that game must be.
Speaker 2: Like, but an entire development cycle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great. With Nindy's.
Speaker 2: More, I want to give one more shout out at
Speaker 2: least to what's it called Aztec for God Gods shouts
Speaker 2: out to uh, you know, Mexican developers.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, I'm Filipino, but you know, everyone thinks
Speaker 2: I'm Mexican, which is cool. A lot of people think
Speaker 2: I'm Mexican, a lot of a lot of back home,
Speaker 2: a lot of people pull up to me and start
Speaker 2: speaking Spanish. I'm like, Damn, I feel like I disappointed
Speaker 2: my aunties and uncles because I don't speak Spanish. But
Speaker 2: you know what I want to see that I want
Speaker 2: to see what that turns out to be, I'll be
Speaker 2: happy to support it. So yeah, shouts out to uh,
Speaker 2: what is it a SiO Lionzo for a sex Forgotten
Speaker 2: God's revealed at the Nindy's event that happened today or
Speaker 2: this week depending on when you listen to it, and for.
Speaker 3: The same reason's last stop, which oh yeah, came about
Speaker 3: some some randos in London that.
Speaker 2: Mean I like, yeah, that's what that is.
Speaker 3: Then strangers in London whose lives collide interwined.
Speaker 2: Shout out to jeffle Gaspy my boy hooks up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so excited. For twelve minutes there was some
Speaker 1: really good chip coming out.
Speaker 3: Good work.
Speaker 1: Don't talk about this persona mobile game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, Like I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I just forgot that it was happening, But it's getting
Speaker 1: an official license model that's been off.
Speaker 2: That's fucking wild to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's got like big approach of caution energy
Speaker 3: to it, though, Like what would you say? Yeah, I've
Speaker 3: got like a bigg approach proach of caution energy. I'm
Speaker 3: like you, what are you gonna do here? What are
Speaker 3: you making here?
Speaker 2: Does does anyone know what we're getting into with this?
Speaker 2: Like not a fighting what what what? Yeah, we'll get there,
Speaker 2: I think, I hopefully, but like, what do you on
Speaker 2: the any thing about? Like what what is what is this?
Speaker 2: Like we saw the trailer and that she looked dope,
Speaker 2: but there's no.
Speaker 1: There's hacking, Okay, I'm looking I'm looking at there's there's danger.
Speaker 3: The thing about this is it's got huge like we
Speaker 3: created a game and now we're gonna put a persona
Speaker 3: license on top of it like energy to me, like
Speaker 3: it doesn't look or feel immediately like a persona game.
Speaker 3: There's nothing in it that I look at and go, yeah,
Speaker 3: that is persona. I know persona and that is persona. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: There's music that kind of sounds like it would be.
Speaker 1: I feel like you come out of why you shop.
Speaker 3: You could tell me this is a new dot hat
Speaker 3: game and I'll be like, yeah, I see it. Oh
Speaker 3: the hack though, yeah, or like anything. You could be
Speaker 3: like this is a new I.
Speaker 4: I love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then you know the sound shouts out but yeah, no,
Speaker 2: now that you mentioned it, Tam like, yeah, hells like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, And that's not like there's there's no distinct
Speaker 3: persona to it right now?
Speaker 1: Hang on, So I'm looking at the YouTube comments. So
Speaker 1: not only do you go buy the airft shop, but
Speaker 1: there's one person soon who said, in case anyone's interested.
Speaker 1: On the official side art of the main character shows
Speaker 1: her wearing a k SI High uniform a k A the.
Speaker 2: Go to wow oh ship yo. If this has if
Speaker 2: this does have narrative implications. Oh and also the character
Speaker 2: design is that that character that they're talking about, that
Speaker 2: design is real nice kind into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm excited for an approach with caution energy though
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I mean yeah, uh so.
Speaker 1: Speaking of approach of caution energy resident Evil Village.
Speaker 3: So they will be by the time people that listening
Speaker 3: to this, the showcase will have happened and the big
Speaker 3: news will be there is a demo and you probably
Speaker 3: looked at it and went this is the most confusing
Speaker 3: shit ever. So that there's a demo, you will be
Speaker 3: able to play it on whatever concert you have at
Speaker 3: some point in the future and you'll probably have a
Speaker 3: good time. That's all we can say about that, because
Speaker 3: I've written it down many times and the details of
Speaker 3: it are very confusing. But you can check out game
Speaker 3: GameSpot dot com for more information about when you can
Speaker 3: download that demo. The reason it's confusing is because there's
Speaker 3: multiple demos. They're available to early access to some people
Speaker 3: and not to others. There's different timing for different regions,
Speaker 3: and then there's time limits on how long you can
Speaker 3: each play you can play each demo for, so it's
Speaker 3: just it's just a lot. It's again Charlie Day standing
Speaker 3: in front of his yes, his thing. I was just
Speaker 3: gonna say, yeah, it's very confusing. The other news that
Speaker 3: is big from it is, I know Ben's going to
Speaker 3: be excited about this. Mercenaries is bad. Interesting new stuff
Speaker 3: this time is it's got the same Arcad feel. Now
Speaker 3: you can down and download, you can equip abilities and
Speaker 3: upgrades to yourself to give you more of an edge.
Speaker 3: And this can be like oh I can run faster
Speaker 3: or I do more damage. And there's also an upgrade
Speaker 3: system within, you know, in between runs where you could
Speaker 3: be like, I'm going to improve my gun for the
Speaker 3: next mission.
Speaker 4: Son is like a bit of an expansion on six
Speaker 4: and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, but fundamentally still the same kind of like
Speaker 3: time attack kills zombies, you know, add more time to
Speaker 3: yourccount to keep going as long as possible, so that's exciting.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: The Resident Evil Netflix series got an update Infinite Darkness,
Speaker 3: and it continues to be about Leon protecting the President
Speaker 3: from zombies who are invading the White House, which is okay, okay.
Speaker 3: The President is Ashley's dad, which is all right, okay,
Speaker 3: cool on. I'd just be like, your daughter just spent
Speaker 3: so much time in a trash? Can you have no idea?
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's happening, clear as.
Speaker 1: There as well, and then there too.
Speaker 3: I'm clear it's there too. Everyone looks weird, their faces
Speaker 3: look God. Dead by Daylight crossover they did the most
Speaker 3: annoying thing that you can do in twenty twenty one
Speaker 3: by they appeared on the stream to announce their having
Speaker 3: a crossover with Dead by Daylight, but didn't announce any details.
Speaker 3: They instead plugged the Dead by Daylight stream where more
Speaker 3: details will be announced.
Speaker 4: Wonderful.
Speaker 3: And if you're doing that ship, absolutely behave yourself.
Speaker 1: You get that cross.
Speaker 3: Do not do not do that ship, no one. Haha.
Speaker 3: I hate it so much. I hate it so much
Speaker 3: because my interest in it is like a threadbearer right
Speaker 3: as it is.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, there's there are a lot of DBD stands.
Speaker 3: Out there so yeah, yeah, but like I'm even I
Speaker 3: was interested in. I was like, oh cool, I'm excited
Speaker 3: see what this is, and they were like tune in.
Speaker 4: I was like, now, you literally took me on the ride.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, is it gonna be like Nemesis
Speaker 4: or like Jill getn't put into the game, And you're like,
Speaker 4: but they didn't tell anything. I fell off instantly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the problem. And then Resident Evil four,
Speaker 3: Hell you love it, it's coming back. Everyone has been
Speaker 3: excited for a remake. You ain't getting that shit again. Instead,
Speaker 3: you're getting a version of the game for Oculus Quest two, which,
Speaker 3: to be fair, looks like they're putting in the work.
Speaker 3: It looks like they're adapting that game to make it
Speaker 3: more immersive and interesting for Oculus Quest. It looks like
Speaker 3: some they went Half Life Alex is pretty cool, what
Speaker 3: could we do that with? And someone at Capcom went,
Speaker 3: this is a platform that Resident Evil four doesn't exist on.
Speaker 3: How about you doing this? And I believe the co
Speaker 3: development studio is Amateur Studios, which is the studio if
Speaker 3: I'm remember correctly, that came out of the team behind
Speaker 3: Metroid Prime. Hell yeah, so they they made Batman Arkham,
Speaker 3: Assault on Blackgate and then and then they yeah, and
Speaker 3: then they worked I think they also work with on Record,
Speaker 3: so their history posts.
Speaker 1: I remember someone who reviewed.
Speaker 2: That one shout out to Recorder.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I remember reading the reviews of my old job because like,
Speaker 2: oh record looks tight, yo, Metro Prime but like third person,
Speaker 2: let's get it.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, a review for that, Lisa.
Speaker 1: Have you got their I've got their website up. They did.
Speaker 1: They did the Metal give Solid HD collection.
Speaker 3: For the VIA they did. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: They've been doing a lot of ports, so they ported
Speaker 1: Injustice Unfinished, Swan, Borderlines and Bayonet and Vanquish to ps one.
Speaker 3: Nextworks one good team known for their ports original titles.
Speaker 3: Person not so not as great, but like they have
Speaker 3: a pedigree to them, so it's clear they're putting in
Speaker 3: the work this thing.
Speaker 2: Do they have VR experience, Lucy, did you see anything VR?
Speaker 3: And the I'm.
Speaker 1: So I can see.
Speaker 3: They had like ocular studio folks on the stream being
Speaker 3: like we're here, we're going to.
Speaker 4: Help us, We're gonna wait wait, yes, they have.
Speaker 1: They created fail Factory original Virtual Reality IP. They developed
Speaker 1: that one. The website kind of cuts off the stuff.
Speaker 1: But they did Sports Scramble. Yeah, their website like cuts
Speaker 1: off the platforms of the listings. But yeah, they've got
Speaker 1: a couple.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so that's the other big thing. And then
Speaker 3: that's pretty much it. There are some smaller stories about
Speaker 3: they shot off a new trailer and they shot off gameplay,
Speaker 3: which you can see on GameSpot dot com. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Resident Evil Village looking very much like a Resident Evil
Speaker 3: spiritual success or even like, you know, a follow on
Speaker 3: to some in some extents. But yeah, I'm excited to
Speaker 3: play that game very very much.
Speaker 2: And it's and it's various demos and it's too many
Speaker 2: different times for different periods of time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at one point, I hope it stays. In the
Speaker 3: final version of the presentation that they show the one
Speaker 3: of the developers says, we've made the They basically explained
Speaker 3: that the reason you have an eight hour window to
Speaker 3: play these demos is because it's Resident Evil eight And
Speaker 3: I was like, why why did you do that? We
Speaker 3: have inconvenienced you for banter everyone. That's all right, mate, all.
Speaker 1: Right, let's move on to listener questions. If you have
Speaker 1: a question for the podcast, to make sure to email
Speaker 1: it to after Dark podcast at redventures dot com or
Speaker 1: hit up one of us to get yourself into the
Speaker 1: game spot Discord. All the questions this week are from
Speaker 1: the games what Discord. It is a lovely fun place
Speaker 1: to hang out wherever one is just like super nice
Speaker 1: and it's just a really nice place to hang out,
Speaker 1: So make sure to join hit us up if you
Speaker 1: want to get in. Ben, do you want to read
Speaker 1: this first question from Kevin?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So Kevin?
Speaker 4: Kevin asks, was there a time from your childhood that
Speaker 4: you didn't realize how good you had it as a gamer?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: My, my scrolling won't work, so I can't read the
Speaker 4: second part of the question.
Speaker 3: Why haven't it you like moved some text around?
Speaker 4: I was panicking trying to get my sheet to show
Speaker 4: me the rest of the question, and I appear to
Speaker 4: have drifted the entire thing. I can't I can't read
Speaker 4: the rest of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I want to answer this question first because Kevin's
Speaker 2: Kevin's hitting it right here. Kevin is like fucking on
Speaker 2: point with this question right.
Speaker 3: Read the rest of the question.
Speaker 2: Okay, So the rest question says there was a time
Speaker 2: in childhood you didn't realize you had how good you
Speaker 2: had it as a gamer. My introduction to RPG's was
Speaker 2: an amazing summer playing Mario RPG, Final Fantasy VI, and
Speaker 2: Chrono Trigger. And I'm still chasing the high, Kevin says.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to read it because that was the
Speaker 2: exact fucking three games that taught me how to read
Speaker 2: and brought me up as a quote unquote gamer. Yo, Kevin,
Speaker 2: holl at your boy, because holy fuck yo, I was
Speaker 2: yo in an advanced reading classes through all of elementary
Speaker 2: school in middle school. You know why, because I played
Speaker 2: those three games and Final Fantasy four you can add
Speaker 2: that to the list as well, because holy shit. And like,
Speaker 2: ever since then, I've been chasing that high. I kind
Speaker 2: of got it with Dais X the Original when I
Speaker 2: finally got around to it a little bit with Star
Speaker 2: Wars and I O or Public twenty seventeen was the
Speaker 2: first time that I felt like I had hit that
Speaker 2: same kind of peak because that was when I played
Speaker 2: Yakuza zero, I played Persona five, and I played Near Automata,
Speaker 2: So another trifecta right there, and I'm like, holy shit,
Speaker 2: this recontextualizes what I think games can be and what
Speaker 2: games mean to me, So holy shit, and then again
Speaker 2: I think last year in twenty twenty with Yakuza like
Speaker 2: a Dragon, Persona five Royal, and then like also with
Speaker 2: a Final Fantasy fourteen with Shadow Bringers. Like I think
Speaker 2: my time at GameSpot have been defined by those series
Speaker 2: in those games in many ways near Yakuza Persona and
Speaker 2: Final Fantasy fourteen in particular, and it's like a new peak,
Speaker 2: it's a new high. It's a new paradigm for me,
Speaker 2: especially when it comes to RPGs, and like, now, that's
Speaker 2: that's the only thing I want to play. I only
Speaker 2: want to play games that hit those same eyghes, which
Speaker 2: is what I was talking about earlier when I need
Speaker 2: to be very deliberate about how I spend my time
Speaker 2: playing games because these are big time investments and I'm
Speaker 2: better fucking be sure that that them shits is on point.
Speaker 2: So oh my god, yo keV oh, let's.
Speaker 3: Fucking go baby. I think the thing that it kind
Speaker 3: of highlights and is the same thing where I basically
Speaker 3: played those games in the exact same fashion in a
Speaker 3: row as well, and like a bunch of others, like
Speaker 3: I had long stretches of playing RPGs. The high I'm
Speaker 3: chasing that I'll never get. I don't think any of
Speaker 3: us will get is the amount of time you had
Speaker 3: it as a as a as a youngster where you
Speaker 3: could play that many rpges back to back and just
Speaker 3: do it. Now it's like we have to play two
Speaker 3: or three hours here and there. So the high I'm
Speaker 3: chasing is like high. The high I'm chasing, I'm high
Speaker 3: I'm chasing always, man, But like it's attainable. It's just
Speaker 3: I know, I feel that way when i sit down
Speaker 3: on a weekend every now and then I'm like sink
Speaker 3: like five six hours into a game. When I'm done,
Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, we're still like I'm still a
Speaker 3: gamer still but still got it. Yeah, still got it.
Speaker 3: And like the same thing happens when we have like
Speaker 3: a long old watch session or something like that. I
Speaker 3: come off and I'm like, yeah, I feel like I've
Speaker 3: done a game of pump, you know how like you know,
Speaker 3: you know, uh, gym rats going to a gym. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I do a quick couple of sets and they're.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I feel you literally feel small. Yeah yeah
Speaker 2: that was good small thumbs.
Speaker 3: But yeah I do.
Speaker 2: I do small.
Speaker 3: I do realize. And now that we had it good.
Speaker 3: When we were younger, we just could just sit down
Speaker 3: and play these games for hours and hours and hours
Speaker 3: and then not think about any responsibilities or feel our
Speaker 3: body slowly and like crumbling beneath us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mine maybe isn't from when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: although like I do have amazing memories of just playing
Speaker 1: through like all the crash Banic group games with my
Speaker 1: sister and just enjoying that time together, like passing the
Speaker 1: controller and you know, not being playing games in an
Speaker 1: age pre Internet where all you had was time and
Speaker 1: effort and you'd keep throwing yourself at the same problem
Speaker 1: and like doing that over and over again. The one
Speaker 1: the summer that I'm chasing is the summer of twenty
Speaker 1: ten when so that was at university at the time,
Speaker 1: and university summers are way longer than even school summers.
Speaker 1: It was like two and a half months off And
Speaker 1: in my summer of twenty ten, I did Red Dead, Redemption,
Speaker 1: then BioShock, then Mass Effect one, then Mass Effect two. Ooh,
Speaker 1: that was a lovely time.
Speaker 2: Damn Legends after Legends.
Speaker 1: That was so nice, And then I had to go
Speaker 1: back to Uni.
Speaker 2: I hate to see it.
Speaker 1: Ben. What about you, Well, how are you chasing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually, like I've been so hardcore and playing
Speaker 4: games like literally my entire life that it's hard to
Speaker 4: pick like one specific point. But I guess maybe back
Speaker 4: when I was at like the height of my time
Speaker 4: playing World of Warcraft before it got like it was
Speaker 4: a turbulent time, it went up and down a lot.
Speaker 4: There are some good times and some bad times. But
Speaker 4: the height of when I was I was in like
Speaker 4: my guild and I was I was part of like
Speaker 4: a forty man rating team. And because I was still
Speaker 4: kind of like young, and they they recognize me and
Speaker 4: they're like, hey, you're here all the time, and you
Speaker 4: know what you're doing be an assistant leader and help
Speaker 4: like bring new people in. I was like, I'm too
Speaker 4: young to be leading people. This isn't right, this isn't
Speaker 4: what it is, but it it was cool to have
Speaker 4: that time and kind of be able to give it
Speaker 4: that much dedication to kind of help lead like a
Speaker 4: group of forty people through a giant raid in a
Speaker 4: video game that I've never met before. And I think
Speaker 4: about that a lot. And ZIV is a different type
Speaker 4: of ammal experience, but I don't know if it'll ever
Speaker 4: kind of touch that at least for rating that weird thing.
Speaker 4: But it was such a weird deal and I loved it.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Tom'm you trying to read this? Next one?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 3: This comes from Just a Box. The only video games
Speaker 3: based on books I can think of without a movie
Speaker 3: intermediary or the Witcher games. All right, let me finish. Oh,
Speaker 3: most video games that aren't an original IP scene seemed
Speaker 3: to come from movies. Are there any books or series
Speaker 3: that you think would adapt well into video games? I
Speaker 3: feel like you could do some cool work with Sandersen stuff,
Speaker 3: especially Stormlight Archives. I've read in this book by Brandon
Speaker 3: Sanderson called Alantris that NOE like.
Speaker 1: I was genuinely spooked when because I put a call
Speaker 1: out for questions and Just a Box put this in
Speaker 1: today and I was like, that's weird, that's suspicious because
Speaker 1: I'm just reading it. But yeah, literally, the only ones
Speaker 1: I can think of that came from books are the
Speaker 1: Witcher Metro and I know that because I interviewed the
Speaker 1: author of the Metro books and that was a time,
Speaker 1: Like he was a very nice guy, but he's very
Speaker 1: very sunglasses on in the darkened room, quite intense about
Speaker 1: his books.
Speaker 2: Type tale I write stories about being in tunnels because
Speaker 2: all I see is dark moosh. All right, shit, man,
Speaker 2: the games are five, the books are fire, So all right,
Speaker 2: keep doing you.
Speaker 1: Any books a series that would adapt well into video games? Dude,
Speaker 1: the Mandalorian, I know it's not a book, but the
Speaker 1: Mandalorian is.
Speaker 2: That's Mando video game. I don't know. I read a
Speaker 2: lot of I mostly read nonfiction, so I don't really
Speaker 2: I can't really think I get my I get my
Speaker 2: I get my fiction fix from video games. I'll say
Speaker 2: I can't read. Yeah, reading stuff, you know, stuff in
Speaker 2: the streets, Oral Bros. You could turn that into a
Speaker 2: video game. It's called judgment.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say it, like I it's it's weird
Speaker 1: playing God of War after reading Neil Gaiman's.
Speaker 2: Mythologyology.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I think Norse mythology is so ripe for
Speaker 1: taking those stories in turning him into other things. And
Speaker 1: so I think God of Water does a really good job.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say they like took necessarily from games, but
Speaker 1: it's like there's a lot of stuff to explore within
Speaker 1: that realm.
Speaker 2: Different if we're talking about series, turn all the best
Speaker 2: anime into not Arena Fighters check out the check out
Speaker 2: the article on GameSpot dot com by one Tomorrow Hussein,
Speaker 2: who talks about why anime should not be adapted to
Speaker 2: arena fighters because we've had enough of it.
Speaker 3: Sucks. Stop there and that ship for real?
Speaker 2: Give me give me a Demon Slayer. Demon Slayer by
Speaker 2: Platinum Games everything to make arcists do their two D
Speaker 2: three D thing for everything them too. Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, give me a Is it wrong to
Speaker 2: pick up girls on a dungeon by I don't know alys,
Speaker 2: because they can they give you will problematic, You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. True, says the man with persona tattoos.
Speaker 1: All right, Michael, do you want to read this? Yes?
Speaker 2: I will take this final one because Carbon. It is
Speaker 2: from carbon A, someone very very in the the game
Speaker 2: spot after Dark community, and I think someone who's been
Speaker 2: very very supportive of me in particular, but also they're
Speaker 2: just they're just great. So Carbon asks, what is a
Speaker 2: game that you liked mostly because it made you laugh?
Speaker 2: For me, it's Battle Block Theater. The narration in that
Speaker 2: game makes me crack up every time. And ps right here,
Speaker 2: very very sweet message. Carbon, Thank you so much. I
Speaker 2: really appreciate this. I also wanted to thank Michael for
Speaker 2: getting me into Vocaloid, and Persona shouts out to Carvid.
Speaker 2: Oh my yo, yo, let me take over an episode
Speaker 2: of GameSpot after Dark and I will spend two motherfucking
Speaker 2: hours talking about Vocaloid, and then I'll do it. We've
Speaker 2: already We've already done like five hours worth of Persona
Speaker 2: content on Gamesplot after Dark in the past month. Run
Speaker 2: run it back, never back. So Carbon, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that. War was my heart, like legit,
Speaker 2: like real talk that warns my heart because you know,
Speaker 2: those things mean a lot to me, and like if
Speaker 2: I can share that into the world and like it
Speaker 2: clicks with someone else, Like I forgot who if you're
Speaker 2: listening to this and you approached me at packs West
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen and pulled up and said, yo, I've been
Speaker 2: to vocal because I saw your tweets about it and
Speaker 2: now I'm like, hell into it. I forgot my bad,
Speaker 2: I forgot who that was. But like, if you listening
Speaker 2: to this, I'll at you, boy, because damn that means
Speaker 2: a lot. It really really does. So thank you, thank
Speaker 2: your Carbon. But I guess I'll start by answering this question,
Speaker 2: jazz Punk. I thought jazz Punk was incredible. Jazz Punk
Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily have laugh out loud moments, but every time
Speaker 2: I'm just like, I was just in a in I
Speaker 2: was in such a giddy mood and then they hit
Speaker 2: the like that game hits you so frequently with like giggles.
Speaker 2: It's a very giggly game. But also like, jazz Punk
Speaker 2: just has an incredible soundtrack, aesthetic and the way to
Speaker 2: Louis Hernandez who who made that game, And yeah, if
Speaker 2: y'all haven't check out jazz Punk, it is. It is
Speaker 2: the most I wouldn't say it's obscure. It's extremely different,
Speaker 2: and there's something about the art style and that low
Speaker 2: poly kind of aesthetic that really really hits shit. Jazz
Speaker 2: Punk ain't nothing like it.
Speaker 1: I've never played that one.
Speaker 2: What I know it was twenty four Twenty fourteen was
Speaker 2: so dry. Twenty fourteen was so fucking dry. Jazz Punk
Speaker 2: was the game of the year, straight up, Wait, what did.
Speaker 1: We give game of the year and twenty four show
Speaker 1: there's not very many chuckles to be found.
Speaker 2: In Transistor came out in twenty fourteen. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's Transistor Or it's jazz punk.
Speaker 1: And then Tolkien swept in, swooped in and stole the
Speaker 1: game of the Year from us.
Speaker 2: I hate hate to see it. Well, shadow Wardor is
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 1: Funny games, So I'm definitely shying this one out because
Speaker 1: it just dropped on Switch today. It came out PC
Speaker 1: last summer. I think it's on phone, it's on iOS two.
Speaker 1: But there is no game. Wrong Direction. No, there is
Speaker 1: no game. Wrong Dimension is amazing and the funniest game
Speaker 1: I've ever played. It is basically a game that takes
Speaker 1: the piss out of other games and is very very
Speaker 1: self aware, and you're basically, I don't know, like you're
Speaker 1: you're player trying to play the game, but the game
Speaker 1: itself is trying to stop you from playing it. And
Speaker 1: there is no game run Wrong Direct, Wrong Dimension. God, okay,
Speaker 1: but it's on one direction. Wow, But no, it's basically
Speaker 1: like so, for example, it kind of takes the piss
Speaker 1: out of adventure games in a way, and then there's
Speaker 1: a there's a part where you're kind of in an
Speaker 1: adventure game you're just trying to progress through, but then
Speaker 1: you can turn the TV around and you see the
Speaker 1: back of the game and the different sets, and you
Speaker 1: can like pull on levers and different scenes come in,
Speaker 1: and that's how you progress through the level, and you
Speaker 1: basically break it to progress. It's very very difficult to explain.
Speaker 1: I'm probably doing a terrible job of it. But you
Speaker 1: have this narrator, which is the the program, the game itself,
Speaker 1: who's like, no user, leave me, I am not a
Speaker 1: game leave like telling you the whole time trying not
Speaker 1: to play it. It's very very very funny, like genuinely
Speaker 1: laugh out loud moments and dropped on switch. It was
Speaker 1: in the Nindi's event Please please play it.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 4: That's why I sir, I'll go next. I like funny games.
Speaker 4: I like things with jokes. Uh, there are a lot
Speaker 4: actually that I really like Grim Fan. You gotta let
Speaker 4: me build up to it first.
Speaker 2: Oh my bad, my bat. I was like, oh, I know,
Speaker 2: every time I see.
Speaker 4: It, like a bunch of cool mini shouts like man
Speaker 4: Stanley parable makes me laugh all the time. I like
Speaker 4: that one. It's got some pretty okay jokes and there's
Speaker 4: some times a lot of good thing alongs, but also
Speaker 4: just grim Fandango. I like, you know me too well,
Speaker 4: and that's what I love about it.
Speaker 2: I do, I really do.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Grim Fandango is a game that makes me
Speaker 4: feel emotions good and and and and sad good, none
Speaker 4: of them bad, but just the way that that thing
Speaker 4: is written in the jokes that are just constantly throughout
Speaker 4: through like the dialogue, choices of random things you can
Speaker 4: interact with that game. That game shaped me a lot
Speaker 4: growing up. And I can't recommend that adventure game enough
Speaker 4: to anyone.
Speaker 3: It's just it.
Speaker 4: It's it's so good. I love Manny Calavera and all
Speaker 4: of his friends and this mechanic demon pal who's got
Speaker 4: only one purpose is to fix cars.
Speaker 2: Many Cara Cavrella, the host of the Giant Piece.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's the first first thing they did right there.
Speaker 3: But I don't think of a game that like genuinely
Speaker 3: made me laugh. I remember being amused by all I
Speaker 3: really liking the vibe of a bunch of games like
Speaker 3: Grim fan Nango and Psychone. It's a lot of Tim
Speaker 3: Shaeffer Double Find games like that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 3: there's a game that like truly made me like laugh out,
Speaker 3: Like this is hilarious video game.
Speaker 2: I think yakas are like a dragon did that to me,
Speaker 2: But it doesn't really fit the question because like you
Speaker 2: like mo yeah, but it's like mostly you like it
Speaker 2: mostly because it made you laugh. I like that game
Speaker 2: across the board, but holy shit, that's one of the
Speaker 2: funniest games I played.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yakas are like a Dragon zero all of the
Speaker 3: Yukas games basically they have like a humor to him
Speaker 3: that is like distinct in unique, so I guess that
Speaker 3: does count.
Speaker 4: I also think Carbon suggested a Battle Black Theater is
Speaker 4: also fantastic off that narration alone. I'll listen to that
Speaker 4: intro that game every time I moved it up, so
Speaker 4: I just love hearing.
Speaker 1: It to me.
Speaker 2: Also, GTA San Andreas is funny as fuck because GTA
Speaker 2: San Andreas is like basically where I grew up, and
Speaker 2: that entire game I was playing with my homies and
Speaker 2: we're like, holy shit, this is us at school.
Speaker 4: Like it was.
Speaker 2: It was basically where I grew up in Like that
Speaker 2: entire game was like holy fuck, Like we feel so
Speaker 2: seen right now.
Speaker 3: I take it back. There's two GTAs has reminded me
Speaker 3: Chatterbox FM.
Speaker 2: On.
Speaker 3: I think that's GTA three. Yeah, I say, like yo, yeah,
Speaker 3: and then there's there's one which is the the the
Speaker 3: one that Fernando does in Vice City. I can't remember
Speaker 3: what the name of the radio stations like those two
Speaker 3: chat shows, Yeah, something like that. Those two chat shows
Speaker 3: I remember making me laugh quite a bit.
Speaker 2: This is bringing me back. If anyone is listening to
Speaker 2: this and played Triple Blake Triple Triple Play Baseball on
Speaker 2: the PlayStation one, if you played, I think it's Triple
Speaker 2: Play ninety eight or ninety seven or something. They did
Speaker 2: their own like in universe advertisements. It's like a legit
Speaker 2: baseball game, but they did their own in universe advertisements,
Speaker 2: and that shit was mad funny. When I was like
Speaker 2: eight or nine years old, I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna say, I wonder how much stuff that I
Speaker 1: thought was funny as a kid just absolutely hasn't translated
Speaker 1: to me being an adult.
Speaker 2: I bet that's how I would feel if I replayed
Speaker 2: gt A Sands like Yah Wish while problematic.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for episode eighty nine of Games
Speaker 1: One after Doc. Thank you so much everyone for listening,
Speaker 1: and thank you Michael, Ben and Tam for joining me. Michael,
Speaker 1: what you're up to this week? Where can people find you?
Speaker 3: Ooh.
Speaker 2: This week a lot of Final Fantasy fourteen coverage, Star Warlite,
Speaker 2: Near Raid five point five, msq PS five Beta impressions,
Speaker 2: also a bunch of other things next A. I can't
Speaker 2: necessarily talk about what's popping next week, but next week
Speaker 2: is motherfucking popping for me. Yo, This week and next
Speaker 2: week is just like one thousand percent of my bullshit.
Speaker 2: So if you're into my if you're into the same shit,
Speaker 2: I'm into boy again. Spot dot com got you cover,
Speaker 2: budd Y know, I'm I'm trying my best. I'm only
Speaker 2: one man, so but yeah, a lot of exciting stuff.
Speaker 2: This is a very exciting time for me, but it's
Speaker 2: also a lot of motherfucking work, So keep your eyes
Speaker 2: peeled for that. And you can find me and all
Speaker 2: of my bullshit at Michael p Him on Twitter and
Speaker 2: you can bet yo ass I'll be talking about all
Speaker 2: this stuff and damn how at your boy?
Speaker 4: Uh probably just publishing a ridiculous amount of videos and playings.
Speaker 4: If I still start up, or I'm still trying to
Speaker 4: choose what my next big game I'm gonna play through,
Speaker 4: it isn't I think thinking I might jump into Final
Speaker 4: Fantasy fifteen been hearing a lot of people tell me
Speaker 4: I should do it.
Speaker 1: Boy, have you never played? Did you never play when
Speaker 1: it first came out?
Speaker 4: No? So I I'm still on my final fantasy journey
Speaker 4: of discovery where I'm playing through anyone that anyone suggests
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 2: Uh I think, I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard a lot of people say that it's
Speaker 4: one lines up with things that I would like, and
Speaker 4: also it'll probably mess me up because of quarantine. Uh ah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the fifteen Now, I know that that's it.
Speaker 2: People. People have legit criticisms with fifteen. But when when
Speaker 2: it's all said and done, I look back at fifteen,
Speaker 2: but like that was that was good?
Speaker 1: Like I yeah, I look back at fifteen. It's like
Speaker 1: that was a fun road trip with.
Speaker 2: My boys, with the motherfucking boys boys.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But also I did notice they just put all the
Speaker 1: movies back on I think King's Gloves back on Netflix too,
Speaker 1: so you.
Speaker 4: Could do the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Zach did this, I think last year or the year before.
Speaker 1: He did the whole thing, like watched all the surrounding
Speaker 1: real quick.
Speaker 2: Ben, if you play it, think of think of it
Speaker 2: as you're nactus. I'm glady OLiS Matt Espinelli, is is
Speaker 2: Ignis and John Lucas popped.
Speaker 4: All right, I mean, do it sounds like a good
Speaker 4: road trip to me?
Speaker 2: Final Fantasy fifteen crime boys, let's go.
Speaker 4: I like I like something. I'm gonna do that when
Speaker 4: I hit hit Final Fantasy fifteen. Uh, and try not
Speaker 4: to cry.
Speaker 2: But that's that's that's not.
Speaker 4: Going to happen. Uh. But if you want to keep
Speaker 4: up on all sorts of all the dumb stuff I do,
Speaker 4: or just see me spam pictures of my stupid character
Speaker 4: in zip, you can find me on dot com at
Speaker 4: ben Jenka. I'm so sorry. In advance.
Speaker 1: Team, what about you.
Speaker 3: I'm on Twitter to Haes just doing stuff they you know,
Speaker 3: just typing, typing things into the Internet, and that's it.
Speaker 1: Tweets type tweets.
Speaker 2: That's why I fired fire tweets. The everyone needs to
Speaker 2: check out TAM's Ramadan thread. That's that's very good prime content.
Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter, Lucy James Games. I'm I worked on
Speaker 1: a mass effect video with Jordan that's coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So Jordan did a really great script about the First
Speaker 1: Contact War, which is some hot mass effect law that
Speaker 1: basically explains it's weird because it's barely mentioned really within
Speaker 1: the context of the games, but it actually sets up
Speaker 1: like just why everyone hates humanity at the beginning of
Speaker 1: Mass Effect very very well. And so Jordan did this
Speaker 1: really great script and I edited it. That's going up
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and then other than that, I talked about
Speaker 1: it a little bit. But I'm going back to the
Speaker 1: UK for a little bit. So it's tam and so
Speaker 1: that's my big thing, just like a little round trips,
Speaker 1: see some family, see friends, get my visa renewed. But
Speaker 1: it's also like A'm moving out of this place, so
Speaker 1: it's a lot in.
Speaker 2: One, I know, end of any ear, end of an era. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're gonna miss party.
Speaker 1: I am that little.
Speaker 2: I mean, he might not remember gregor Jenna cool, but
Speaker 2: like let's.
Speaker 1: Get real, no, I'm going to miss the more because
Speaker 1: it's been so much fun to live here and just
Speaker 1: like hang out with all of them. But like it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a great timing because our lease is
Speaker 1: up and I've got to go back to the UK,
Speaker 1: and so honestly, I'm just having a nice time just
Speaker 1: organizing through all my stuff and getting rid of things
Speaker 1: that I don't need and donating a lot, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I like doing a big clear out, so that's what
Speaker 1: I'm doing. But thank you everyone for listening. We'll be
Speaker 1: back again next week. Have a great one.