Giant Bombcast 935: Dark Cloud 3

<v Speaker 1>Oh, I'm sleepy. Dan'ce like, haha, Mike's sleepy, and I
<v Speaker 1>was like, how dare you call me out for being sleepy?
<v Speaker 1>Chance like, I want the people saw the Mario movie
<v Speaker 1>to talk about that. I'm like, that's, you know whatever,
<v Speaker 1>it's the Mario movie. Jan said we should talk about
<v Speaker 1>video games. Dan had a video game where he types something,
<v Speaker 1>Isn't that interesting? I was like, that's kind of interesting.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to get involved in this conversation about
<v Speaker 1>that typing video game that Jan said, Mike, you just
<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh, it's my train to talk. So
<v Speaker 1>I talked about a Virtue fighter for a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>and Jan said I could go to the bathroom, and
<v Speaker 1>I did that. I switched my calendar and it had
<v Speaker 1>a mini mouths with a bumblebee on it. I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>that's nice. I can't believe I didn't switch that until
<v Speaker 1>just now. We're already a weekend to April. That's my bet.
<v Speaker 1>That's on me. Jeff wanted to talk about the video
<v Speaker 1>game news and Quantic Dream is maybe not going to
<v Speaker 1>make a Star Wars game after all, and the Mario
<v Speaker 1>movie made a lot of money, so that was nice.
<v Speaker 1>And then Jane was like, oh, do you guys need
<v Speaker 1>to take a break, And I'm like, I gotta be
<v Speaker 1>a little bit, but like everyone else doesn't want to
<v Speaker 1>take a break, so that's okay. We can just go
<v Speaker 1>into the next thing there. And that's that's when Jeff
<v Speaker 1>showed us the video game ad and it was like
<v Speaker 1>two words and he's like, this one's pretty easy. No,
<v Speaker 1>he had no idea, he disappointing us. Then I remembered
<v Speaker 1>about then Jeff said that he thought it was a
<v Speaker 1>port of and I'm like, that's not right, that's not right.
<v Speaker 1>I looked it up and that's incorrect. This came out
<v Speaker 1>before that. So yeah, yeah, So another another grub l
<v Speaker 1>and then I was like, uh, then there's the yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And then I was like emails, Mike, you gotta read
<v Speaker 1>super chats. I'm like, oh crap, my name was said again.
<v Speaker 1>I had to do something. Then actually clicked the button
<v Speaker 1>where I got signed out. Uh so those of Jeff
<v Speaker 1>came in and he read the super chats instead. I
<v Speaker 1>think that's what's happening right now.
<v Speaker 2>Hey everybody, it's Tuesday, April seventh, twenty twenty six. Welcome
<v Speaker 2>to the Giant BombCast. Episode nine hundred and thirty five.
<v Speaker 2>I'm your host, Jan Acholla. For video viewers out there,
<v Speaker 2>do not be alarmed by the yellow bean in the sunglasses.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not taking a heel turn. I've not turned evil,
<v Speaker 2>an evil doppelgangers not taken over my persons. I am
<v Speaker 2>just simply trying to fist fight a migrain and my destiny.
<v Speaker 2>And it seems like the world as Wow. I shouldn't
<v Speaker 2>be yelling, but coach captain of the ship, Jeff.
<v Speaker 1>Grubb, Oh, I'm very happy to be here. Jan.
<v Speaker 3>I'm also not feeling tiptop, but I think relative to
<v Speaker 3>many people on this podcast, I'm doing really well, So
<v Speaker 3>I'm just not gonna say anything else.
<v Speaker 4>That's right.
<v Speaker 2>We're all falling apart at the seams. Packs may have
<v Speaker 2>done a number on us, but speaking about together at
<v Speaker 2>the seams, he is bursting at the seams with rage
<v Speaker 2>dedicated towards Oates businesses Ian riker.
<v Speaker 5>Who can say which Oats business has wronged me yet
<v Speaker 5>again and whose Oats code you should not use? But yeah, Jane,
<v Speaker 5>we're all struggling today. Jan, you got the migraine. Grab
<v Speaker 5>You're not tiptop shape. I had to go to the
<v Speaker 5>dentist today again and having some severe tooth pain and everything.
<v Speaker 5>So things are rough there and Mikey had to get
<v Speaker 5>up at noon. Uh, it's tough for everyone out there, guys,
<v Speaker 5>our our own prince of darkness, I.
<v Speaker 3>Want to I'm laughing at Mike shaking his head more
<v Speaker 3>than anything else.
<v Speaker 2>Our own, our own prince of darkness. Jeff Backlar is
<v Speaker 2>out on assignment. But don't worry. He's he's festering in
<v Speaker 2>the corner. He's stuck on the escalator of bad ass.
<v Speaker 4>Ery, the bad boy of games mood are my like.
<v Speaker 1>Minati, Look, I'm sorry. I don't have an excuse. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know why I'm out of it. I don't have
<v Speaker 1>an excuse, all right, I was, Yes, I was up
<v Speaker 1>late playing video games. That's not an excuse. The sleep
<v Speaker 1>just didn't really take for some reason, you know, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know why. I just kind of woke up. And
<v Speaker 1>it's like it looks like I hit my snooze button
<v Speaker 1>thirty times in my or thirty minutes in my sleep.
<v Speaker 1>That's always a bad sign. No time for my shower
<v Speaker 1>in the morning, which always helps wake me up. Missing
<v Speaker 1>the shower, that's a bad sign. I'll have to do
<v Speaker 1>that after this. I got no excuse. There's just tons
<v Speaker 1>of brain fog right now. No, gird, I'm not sick anymore.
<v Speaker 1>I can't blame on that. I was sick last week
<v Speaker 1>and then really busy this weekend because you know, all
<v Speaker 1>the Easter stuff. So I don't know. I guess I'm
<v Speaker 1>just unrested. That's it. I'm just a little baby, you know.
<v Speaker 4>It's it's been hard times. Promo.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, can you Mike Man not?
<v Speaker 1>Can you hit me with a data? I guess I'm
<v Speaker 1>just a little sleepy data. Yeah, close enough, close enough,
<v Speaker 1>all right for me.
<v Speaker 2>No notes, boys, other than no no oats, yes, yes,
<v Speaker 2>other than the world seemingly on fire and folks, hey,
<v Speaker 2>I know there's a lot happening in the world right now.
<v Speaker 2>There may be a lot happening in your own life
<v Speaker 2>right now. Uh sure, sure is a lot of stuff
<v Speaker 2>happening to us right now. But we appreciate you spending
<v Speaker 2>time with us, and we hope this hour two hours
<v Speaker 2>to almost maybe three hours, who knows how the heck
<v Speaker 2>lung will go today will help distract you and be
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of reprieve from the fucking world On
<v Speaker 2>fire boys. Otherwise, how are we doing? It was Easter?
<v Speaker 2>It was we did.
<v Speaker 1>We did a one of them like little hey, follow
<v Speaker 1>the trail, go ahead.
<v Speaker 3>And there's a bun. There's some like bunny sticker like
<v Speaker 3>their pause stickers. Put that on the ground. The kids
<v Speaker 3>went all around the house, found some cool Easter eggs,
<v Speaker 3>some toys and stuff like that. Easter a much bigger
<v Speaker 3>deal than I whatever was for me as a kid,
<v Speaker 3>like we would go get the eggs in the yard,
<v Speaker 3>but now we make a big deal out of it.
<v Speaker 3>And I hadn't been here the last couple of years
<v Speaker 3>because I would go to pack. So coming back, Tom like,
<v Speaker 3>oh yeah, there's all this setup. It was almost equivalent
<v Speaker 3>to like stand up late getting Christmas set up. But
<v Speaker 3>it was a lot of fun. The kids had a
<v Speaker 3>good time.
<v Speaker 4>Hell yeah.
<v Speaker 5>I had Ryan and Becky from Outpost thirty one Productions
<v Speaker 5>come here to fix up the Alien day one on Sunday,
<v Speaker 5>day one of the restoration, and we didn't realize it
<v Speaker 5>was Easter, and then he showed up and starts fixing
<v Speaker 5>up the alien. They're both wearing Alien shirts and they're like,
<v Speaker 5>this is our religion. I'm like, oh, oh, I found
<v Speaker 5>the right crew for this.
<v Speaker 1>This is awesome.
<v Speaker 4>They're coming too today, So you.
<v Speaker 3>Would say that your xenomorph has risen, he's been.
<v Speaker 5>Deck his wrists are fixed up. The latex is drying
<v Speaker 5>right now. They're coming back some hydrating stuff to kind
<v Speaker 5>of like freshen up all that stuff. They're gonna paint
<v Speaker 5>the head of glossy black like in the movie. It's
<v Speaker 5>fucking awesome. Yeah, they're these people love horror movies.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, very cool.
<v Speaker 5>Next Alien buttole oh, keme on it. You should see
<v Speaker 5>the butthole on this thing is crazy, right now? Car
<v Speaker 5>did Carrie come.
<v Speaker 1>Out of it? Get Jim Carrey come out of it.
<v Speaker 5>I don't know if this butthole picture is going to
<v Speaker 5>show up, like the butthole is like they took the
<v Speaker 5>tail off, So this is the button that's latex drying
<v Speaker 5>on the butthole right now? Yeah, so the tails on
<v Speaker 5>the ground over there. It's yeah, guys, I think I
<v Speaker 5>gotta go. You can handle the show without me, right, Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>All right, let's all right, let's talk more about buttholes. Everybody.
<v Speaker 5>Welcome to the Butthole Zone of You podcast from Giant Bomb.
<v Speaker 2>Oh boy, I think even our our our bench team
<v Speaker 2>may be going through it as well. Boys, I think
<v Speaker 2>two of you may have actually participated in some gigantic
<v Speaker 2>festivities over the weekend. And I'm not talking about Jesus
<v Speaker 2>or whatever. He's old news. I'm talking about Mario movie.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, Jeffinite I saw. We haven't talked to each
<v Speaker 1>other about it at all yet. If I don't think
<v Speaker 1>even texted him, he ignored me. I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>he ignored me text me while I was in bed.
<v Speaker 3>I was sleeping, well midnight.
<v Speaker 1>You know some people do. Some people are like the
<v Speaker 1>next day they text it don't go Well, that's just
<v Speaker 1>a wash. But well, obviously you don't have many friends,
<v Speaker 1>lady HD. But also it was this whole weekend I
<v Speaker 1>mostly spent wallpapering, so that's what I was doing. I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>I don't have time for Mike Manatti's silliest side. Now.
<v Speaker 1>I know he's gonna have opinions about this movie, adult stuff.
<v Speaker 2>What if Manati texted you first, you up question mark.
<v Speaker 1>Now, then I would Okay, I'm like, something's.
<v Speaker 4>Up, okay there for I need to ask a question.
<v Speaker 5>I've not seen the film, but I've seen a lot
<v Speaker 5>of reactions from people, and they've been very polarized, and
<v Speaker 5>I want to see which end of the needle you
<v Speaker 5>guys point more towards one end. A lot of my
<v Speaker 5>friends I talked about movies and stuff like that are like, oh,
<v Speaker 5>it is a bad movie.
<v Speaker 4>This is not a good movie.
<v Speaker 5>And then on the other hand, it's usually people with
<v Speaker 5>kids that are just like the references the joy. The
<v Speaker 5>kids loved it, so it's like one or the other
<v Speaker 5>is like this movie sucks or like my kid laughed
<v Speaker 5>so it's good.
<v Speaker 4>So like, wait, where are you guys on it?
<v Speaker 3>I mean I, I man, Am I the only person
<v Speaker 3>that can hold two thoughts in their head at the
<v Speaker 3>same time. It's a bad movie that I had a
<v Speaker 3>good time at. What am I supposed to do about this?
<v Speaker 1>What happened? Yeah, yeah, you'll already know what this movie is. Dan,
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna like surprise you in some way, and maybe
<v Speaker 1>because it's so obvious what it is, it's it comes
<v Speaker 1>across worse than that first movie. There are definitely there
<v Speaker 1>are problems, there are something's done better, but like the
<v Speaker 1>no needle drop bad music tracks thing, that's a lot better.
<v Speaker 5>So you said it was worse than the first one,
<v Speaker 5>because the first one I thought was fine.
<v Speaker 4>I seen you guys and thought it was fine.
<v Speaker 1>It's maybe a little I think in some ways, like
<v Speaker 1>the p is definitely more hap hazard. It's like really
<v Speaker 1>kind of just it's a nonsense. I don't blame say
<v Speaker 1>a movie critic who has no affinity for Mario for
<v Speaker 1>thinking that this is just absolute gibberish and having a
<v Speaker 1>bad time with it. I'll say this, there was definitely
<v Speaker 1>more like ah sounds in the theater pointing out references
<v Speaker 1>than ha ha ha. What a genuinely funny joke in
<v Speaker 1>this movie?
<v Speaker 5>Is the super Mario two stuff? Is that a substantial
<v Speaker 5>part of the movie.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, a it's a scene. It's a good scene.
<v Speaker 1>It's one of the better scenes. Yeah, it was fun
<v Speaker 1>and like stuff like that. It's like, ah, you know,
<v Speaker 1>that's uh yeah, you know, they could have done more
<v Speaker 1>obvious things. And I like the fact that they did
<v Speaker 1>a whole all the bosses from Mario two or in
<v Speaker 1>this casino scene. That's that's neat. That's fine. I will say,
<v Speaker 1>like the first half the movie, I was like, oh no,
<v Speaker 1>they turned Yoshi into a minion. That mellowed out a
<v Speaker 1>little bit. Yeah, Yeah, Fox McCloud's is the best part
<v Speaker 1>of the movie. For sure.
<v Speaker 3>He's a pretty decent part of it. He's like a
<v Speaker 3>tertiary character, Like he's like like.
<v Speaker 1>Donkey Kong last Time. Almost He's is like a Hawkeye
<v Speaker 1>perhaps a little bit.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, actually, for sure. Yeah, the kids did enjoy it.
<v Speaker 3>That we came out of the movie. They were all
<v Speaker 3>talking about their favorite parts. Their favorite parts, like one
<v Speaker 3>was a reference, the other one was just like a
<v Speaker 3>funny joke that everyone laughed at. You could tell the
<v Speaker 3>kids were like, oh my god, I thought that was funny,
<v Speaker 3>and everyone in this room laughed too. That's cool to
<v Speaker 3>be part of a group like thinking something's funny. And
<v Speaker 3>they're kind of having that realization. So it's like, Oh,
<v Speaker 3>it delivered what I went to the movie for, which
<v Speaker 3>was to see a bunch of Nintendo stuff, to see
<v Speaker 3>it be bright, colorful and have kind of a fast
<v Speaker 3>pace to it where they're going from one thing to
<v Speaker 3>the next. So it does go by pretty quick, and
<v Speaker 3>it does, and it's exactly what I was expecting. And
<v Speaker 3>I just can tell that this movie doesn't have any
<v Speaker 3>sort of pathos or tension or anything that I'd go
<v Speaker 3>to other movies for But again, that's not why I
<v Speaker 3>showed up. That's not why I paid one hundred dollars
<v Speaker 3>or tickets for my family to go see this thing.
<v Speaker 3>We went to go see the colorful Mario characters.
<v Speaker 1>Even like even like your average like kids move your
<v Speaker 1>family movie usually tries to be about something, you know,
<v Speaker 1>like a theme or or a moral and there's maybe
<v Speaker 1>like the slightest attempt at that or a gesture that's
<v Speaker 1>something to do with family.
<v Speaker 3>It's not even like even like the time the first
<v Speaker 3>one was like we're brothers and we could see like
<v Speaker 3>see everything through together, and like they're like willing to
<v Speaker 3>do like have a speech about that or whatever. This
<v Speaker 3>movie is kind of like, ah, I don't know, Mario
<v Speaker 3>wants to have a girlfriend, and and maybe Luigi is
<v Speaker 3>still scared who knows.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, all right, So I mean, this's none of the
<v Speaker 5>sounds surprising to me. This is about what I would
<v Speaker 5>have expected from this.
<v Speaker 1>I think when it shocked expect it's not what I
<v Speaker 1>was expecting. I definitely, I definitely maybe have the opinion
<v Speaker 1>that it's not worth all the haulla baloo that except
<v Speaker 1>people are kidding right here, right, you know, the fall
<v Speaker 1>of cinema or that was the greatest thing ever, like
<v Speaker 1>we know what it is.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe they don't.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I mean I was, what was the Mario the
<v Speaker 4>first Mario movie? Was that ninety one?
<v Speaker 1>I was, as it might be ninety one, it could
<v Speaker 1>be ninety one.
<v Speaker 5>Well I was either you're seven or nine years old.
<v Speaker 5>And I left and I told my dad it was
<v Speaker 5>the best movie I ever saw. So that was a
<v Speaker 5>fun time for me. So I can't be mad about
<v Speaker 5>like kids liking a movie that's not the deepest best
<v Speaker 5>movie in the world, like this is right, right whatever.
<v Speaker 1>Like it's funny because I was thinking about that, and
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, that's that's the movie you get when you
<v Speaker 1>try to actually make a real movie based on Mario. Yeah, right,
<v Speaker 1>Like those are the concessions you have to make to
<v Speaker 1>make it maybe make sense in a screenwriter's world, Or
<v Speaker 1>is this movie is like what if we just don't
<v Speaker 1>really worry too much about why all this is happening
<v Speaker 1>or how it makes any sense, or we just can't
<v Speaker 1>introduce Fox McCloud in our movie.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah can, And like I will say, like if I
<v Speaker 3>am looking at it, if I step back a little bit,
<v Speaker 3>the original Super Mario Brothers movie from nineteen ninety three,
<v Speaker 3>I think is way more important than these movies. And
<v Speaker 3>it's cool that like people had to figure out answers
<v Speaker 3>to those questions that no one and Nintendo ever asked themselves,
<v Speaker 3>and they had like set producers come up with ideas
<v Speaker 3>if I how to make these things to life. It's
<v Speaker 3>awesome that that happened and makes that more timeless in
<v Speaker 3>the long run than these movies ever will be. I
<v Speaker 3>wish we could live in the world where we got
<v Speaker 3>both frequently. I'm glad we got one at one point,
<v Speaker 3>and I'm glad we're getting these as well as the
<v Speaker 3>kids are enjoying them. And then I hope that one
<v Speaker 3>day I could show them the Weird Mario movie and
<v Speaker 3>they're like, yeah, just like objectively, this feels like it's
<v Speaker 3>cooler because there's so many interesting ideas actually in the movie.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I don't understand getting mad about this, like as
<v Speaker 5>a Mario fan, like I'm not particularly interested in seeing
<v Speaker 5>the movie, but like, if it's a thing that makes
<v Speaker 5>kids into Mario in twenty twenty six and then maybe
<v Speaker 5>they check out the games and stuff, that just seems
<v Speaker 5>like a positive to me.
<v Speaker 3>I think there's just like people are complating a lot
<v Speaker 3>of the articles. People do hear like, oh, it's a
<v Speaker 3>kid's movie, what do you expect? And I don't think
<v Speaker 3>any of us are saying that. I'm just saying it's
<v Speaker 3>a kids movie, you should occasionally expect this and that
<v Speaker 3>end like they will make bad stuff for kids, just
<v Speaker 3>like they've made bad stuff for adults. Like this is
<v Speaker 3>not indicating that people think kids can only like bad stuff. Obviously,
<v Speaker 3>we just know that's not true anymore. After years of Pixar,
<v Speaker 3>years of excellent Disney movies yea, yeah, and all.
<v Speaker 1>This other stuff they could so they could do better.
<v Speaker 1>And I don't know if it's because of like they
<v Speaker 1>they just don't have it, or it's just like a
<v Speaker 1>dedication of like this is the kind of sloppy one
<v Speaker 1>of go out into them.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And I do think my theory, my pet theory
<v Speaker 3>is memotos they are showing up in like all these
<v Speaker 3>characters should always get along, and we don't.
<v Speaker 1>Jean Rodd and Berry at the Star Trek Next Generation
<v Speaker 1>era for the Mario movie. Yes, yeah, I.
<v Speaker 3>Think it's kind of spoiling any chance for them to
<v Speaker 3>like take a take a cinematic rain to it or whatever.
<v Speaker 1>I think he's kind of getting the way right, Who knows,
<v Speaker 1>I have no idea. It's uh. I think it's gonna
<v Speaker 1>be interesting with that Zelda movie because and like this
<v Speaker 1>is gonna sound condescending, but they're gonna have to make
<v Speaker 1>a real movie with that, you know.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, no way that movie is gonna be good.
<v Speaker 4>There's just no fun. I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>It's I think it's safe to assume it won't be
<v Speaker 3>and if it surprises, this is great.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, I think I'm ready to be pleasantly surprised by that.
<v Speaker 1>I want to believe.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, uh, they're shooting where they shot the Hobbit. There's there.
<v Speaker 2>Their little footsteps are gonna fit in the other little footsteps. Guys,
<v Speaker 2>Okayait is like a little lame dude.
<v Speaker 1>He's literally in a forest, has children.
<v Speaker 4>And hook shot and abilities.
<v Speaker 1>You have swords. Have you seen Bilbo Baggins. Mother's got
<v Speaker 1>the coolest sword too.
<v Speaker 2>Yes?
<v Speaker 4>Oh wait, I haven't seen the Hobbit guy.
<v Speaker 1>The Rings have swords to the forgot. Forgot.
<v Speaker 4>The sorts just walked in grass and talked for nine hours.
<v Speaker 2>They also do Yeah, yeah, let's be clear, all right,
<v Speaker 2>gang well before we talk about video games.
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<v Speaker 1>I'm getting really excited about it.
<v Speaker 5>I'm making maps, I'm making spreadsheets, I'm reaching out, I
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<v Speaker 2>The wheels are rolling, rolling, not on the river, but
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<v Speaker 3>Hopefully not on the river. Let's try to steer clear
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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how to swim, guys, Because the Great
<v Speaker 2>Giant Bomb road trip is happening. It's probably Nure happening.
<v Speaker 5>This Saints plans. Jan's gonna see the Midwest, Jans.
<v Speaker 3>I think there's an over under for how many times
<v Speaker 3>am I gonna say I'm gonna turn this van around
<v Speaker 3>if these guys don't settle down, I'm gonna take.
<v Speaker 4>Jam meat raffle. It's gonna be.
<v Speaker 2>And then you know, Chuck being Chuck uh added an
<v Speaker 2>interesting layer at the beginning of the road trip that
<v Speaker 2>maybe it's gonna be a little bit of a different
<v Speaker 2>trip for Dan, Chuck and I before we one night.
<v Speaker 4>The first night.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, oh right, okay, that yes, you can through the
<v Speaker 3>whole planes, trains, and automobiles, jam betwill the stuff you're
<v Speaker 3>doing the summer.
<v Speaker 5>We're not we're not allowed to stay at Backlar's house.
<v Speaker 5>So we're gonna we're gonna rough it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Chuck, that's right, you know, we'll just say it now. Uh,
<v Speaker 2>Dan sleep in their backyard. We could set up Dan
<v Speaker 2>Chuck and I and I think we convinced Will, even
<v Speaker 2>though Will lives in Jersey. Yeah, well could just sleep
<v Speaker 2>in his bed that night. But he's as a trooper.
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna go camping for the first night.
<v Speaker 3>And oh yes, Like, are you worried that something's gonna
<v Speaker 3>go wrong on the camping night and it's just gonna derail.
<v Speaker 4>The whole trip?
<v Speaker 3>Because I can be great?
<v Speaker 1>All right, you're all about to see how much I
<v Speaker 1>sleep on roadchips because I'm thinking dramma me the whole time.
<v Speaker 1>I'm actually very excited about that.
<v Speaker 4>That which is just coul.
<v Speaker 5>You've talked about driving to Disney with like you just
<v Speaker 5>lay in the back sleeping with your seatpap.
<v Speaker 4>Is that what we're dealing with on the road trip?
<v Speaker 1>Probably? I love that with you.
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna burt in your sepp.
<v Speaker 1>I've got actually get out of seatpap the whole fires.
<v Speaker 1>Can hear me snore? I don't give a ship.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, sweet god, Dan is gonna put vodka in your
<v Speaker 2>seatpap reservoir.
<v Speaker 4>Did that work?
<v Speaker 1>If I work? You know what?
<v Speaker 5>Jackass was an inspiration to us all Steve O was
<v Speaker 5>reckless by injecting himself with the IV of vodka. We
<v Speaker 5>have grown, we're smarter, we're wiser. So Wilter's vodka and
<v Speaker 5>a CPAP. Yes, we'll just inhale it, not injected.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, all right, Yeah, maybe we don't do that.
<v Speaker 1>You're so concerned. God, I saw something I'm hearing and
<v Speaker 1>I just we had like a two hour beating. I'm
<v Speaker 1>just over here like and everything's like, oh no, oh no,
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say it. It was flooding out, it
<v Speaker 1>was floating around. You're like, wait, probably are good. Just
<v Speaker 1>like what if we just what if we just crashed
<v Speaker 1>at fans houses?
<v Speaker 4>What ampy Russlers have been doing this for fucking decades.
<v Speaker 1>About the floor.
<v Speaker 2>All right, before we get the video games gig, just
<v Speaker 2>a couple of quick programming reminders, Uh, for those premium
<v Speaker 2>folks out there, we're gonna have a new episode of
<v Speaker 2>Nine Lives with mister Mustapha Fleas happening after the BombCast
<v Speaker 2>grew up. I saw the clip that is of today's episode.
<v Speaker 2>I don't I can't believe that's the episode that the
<v Speaker 2>folks are on. So much has happened for you, myself
<v Speaker 2>shuck right.
<v Speaker 3>I was looking at that too. I had the same thought.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, okay, the fact that they're just getting to
<v Speaker 3>this joke that I do remember that feels like forever ago.
<v Speaker 3>So yes, there's plenty of adventures of mister Mstopheles had
<v Speaker 3>to come.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, tomorrow the blight continues, Dan, how are you
<v Speaker 2>feeling about re embarking on space Ace It's only forty
<v Speaker 2>minutes left.
<v Speaker 5>I've heard it's only forty minutes away. Yeah, yeah, I
<v Speaker 5>don't want to take breaks with this. I memory is
<v Speaker 5>my biggest adversary with this run, because you do have
<v Speaker 5>to remember very specifically where to jump, where to stand
<v Speaker 5>with all the auto scrolling and all that. I think
<v Speaker 5>it'll come back to me. But I think every level
<v Speaker 5>will have at least one or two like oh fuck
<v Speaker 5>right that okay, here we do I sand left here.
<v Speaker 3>There's going to be a quick relearning process for every level,
<v Speaker 3>I think. But yeah, I think it'll click into place
<v Speaker 3>much faster each time, even after this extended break.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, yes, yeah, no, I'm say looking forward. I'm looking
<v Speaker 5>forward to conquering this game, yes, and so every step
<v Speaker 5>towards that.
<v Speaker 1>Is a plus for me.
<v Speaker 4>So yes, I will do that.
<v Speaker 2>But before that tomorrow, before Blake Club leaves the space station,
<v Speaker 2>Gang Turboshan and I have dusted off the gym. We've
<v Speaker 2>put our own wall paper up across the gym floors
<v Speaker 2>as well the ceilings. We've done so much to the bathroom.
<v Speaker 2>Because pokem Monday Night Combat relaunches tomorrow, Gang Shawn and
<v Speaker 2>I are going to check out Pokemon Champions because tomorrow's
<v Speaker 2>day one, So we're gonna just, uh, you know, see
<v Speaker 2>what shenanigans we sean janigans.
<v Speaker 4>We can get up to.
<v Speaker 1>Oh it's a launch look, well to meet Dan you
<v Speaker 1>have third content meeting. You were like, oh, then maybe
<v Speaker 1>for a when that game comes out, we can do
<v Speaker 1>a watch look. And then you caught yourself like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>whatever it's called.
<v Speaker 5>I mean it's the placeholder you know, I'll use the
<v Speaker 5>placeholder vernacular.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's fine, folk.
<v Speaker 3>Realize what you did. You were.
<v Speaker 4>Hey, listen, you start mitched checking. We're all good.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I'm all for a bitch check. I love it.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that's another bomb on incentive was the Pokemonday Night
<v Speaker 5>Combat and uh, there's another one maybe in the works
<v Speaker 5>with it with Mike and uh and grub coming up in.
<v Speaker 4>The near future.
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, just to reassure everyone, you know, hit all
<v Speaker 5>those incentives in October. It's extremely important to all of us.
<v Speaker 5>We are going to make good on every single one
<v Speaker 5>of those and they are all very in the works,
<v Speaker 5>So stay tuned. A lot of fun stuff coming up
<v Speaker 5>on that front.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Yes, Poking Monday Night Combat UH is going to
<v Speaker 2>be on Wednesday tomorrow. Sean and I are going to assess
<v Speaker 2>the skeedu and see UH nail down a definitive day
<v Speaker 2>to put that on. It's Pokemon Day Night Combat, so
<v Speaker 2>it doesn't have to.
<v Speaker 4>Be on a Monday. Yeah, you know.
<v Speaker 2>That's that's the type of lucy goosiness that can happen
<v Speaker 2>here at Giant bomb A Gang. Unfortunately, the Hottest Gaming
<v Speaker 2>and the Hottest Dating Show it's gonna have to be
<v Speaker 2>postponed due to scheduling stuff going on. So we will
<v Speaker 2>be having a Discord town Hall for all of our
<v Speaker 2>premium members out there. If you're pre remember hop into Discord.
<v Speaker 2>You got cues, you got questions, holler at your boys, UH.
<v Speaker 2>You can ask virtually any and everything and be please
<v Speaker 2>please be ready to talk on the microphone. And then
<v Speaker 2>we got UPF as huge, but also gang. This Saturday,
<v Speaker 2>the community is embarking on their own endurance run. That's right,
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna be hosting on the website giant bomb dot
<v Speaker 2>com slash Endurance Schedule t B A gang. I'm ready
<v Speaker 2>to talk about video games if you were always do it.
<v Speaker 4>Speaking, you know, I'm already donning the the yellow beanie.
<v Speaker 2>Uh and I'm kind of leaning into into the toxicity
<v Speaker 2>because last upf our dear friend Samantha Coleman show showed up,
<v Speaker 2>hung out with us and showed off her new game
<v Speaker 2>that is still in the early days, but we checked
<v Speaker 2>it out. We checked out versus Hyperkinetic Aerial Joust Gang.
<v Speaker 2>You know, this still early stages, you know, of everything,
<v Speaker 2>but kind of I kind of felt myself liking it
<v Speaker 2>too much.
<v Speaker 4>Oh, we could tell because you were being a menace
<v Speaker 4>to everyone with you.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, evil jin is not a thing that just unleashes randomly.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely got unleashed on everyone on that stream by you,
<v Speaker 3>and it was it was scary to see.
<v Speaker 2>For folks that don't know or haven't seen UPF yet.
<v Speaker 2>Versus hyper Connected Aerial Joust kind of a wipeout looking game,
<v Speaker 2>but not a racing game per se. It is a
<v Speaker 2>jousting style game. The mode we checked out it was
<v Speaker 2>two v two, two ships going against each other in
<v Speaker 2>opposite directions, circling around an infinite loop, and you would
<v Speaker 2>just have to unleash a blade and that blade would
<v Speaker 2>take out your opponent. And the new thing that I
<v Speaker 2>think should be in more games, whatever genre, even if
<v Speaker 2>it's a puzzle game. Just give me slow down, give
<v Speaker 2>me that which time, that bullet time happening.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, it's yeah, everyone has their association with minds,
<v Speaker 3>burnout revenge like I mean, I'm just sure the association.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah, but very fun time. I
<v Speaker 2>suggest you go check out the UPF, and I think
<v Speaker 2>if you join the free Patreon you'll get access to it.
<v Speaker 2>That is versus hyperkinetic aerial joust. Speaking about jousting and
<v Speaker 2>actually speaking about that UPF. Sorry, my brain is melting actively.
<v Speaker 2>I feel it leaking out of my ears. Dan Reichert,
<v Speaker 2>on that same UPF, you showed us a fun little
<v Speaker 2>word game Glifica.
<v Speaker 1>Oh.
<v Speaker 5>I'm a sucker for any game where typing is your weapon.
<v Speaker 5>As much as I don't keyboard and mouse for anything,
<v Speaker 5>I get, I get real hyped up for a game
<v Speaker 5>where you're just typing as the only method of input.
<v Speaker 5>Typing the Dead and a few others have done it.
<v Speaker 5>This one is typing Rogue Light Survival, I believe is
<v Speaker 5>how they pitched it. And it's great when you just
<v Speaker 5>see like three words describing a game and you're like,
<v Speaker 5>I'm man, that sounds like my shit, I'm gonna try it,
<v Speaker 5>and then it's exactly what you wanted and more. I
<v Speaker 5>think it's technically early access, but yeah, you're just like
<v Speaker 5>a dot at the center of the screen, like look
<v Speaker 5>it up. It's very minimalistic, almost like sound shapes esque
<v Speaker 5>art style, and enemies are coming in from all angles
<v Speaker 5>like imagine like a Vampire Survivors, but you're not moving,
<v Speaker 5>and they have a word above them and you type
<v Speaker 5>it to shoot projectiles at them and kill them. Some
<v Speaker 5>have shields, some shoot their own projectiles that have words
<v Speaker 5>that you have to like type to counteract. And you
<v Speaker 5>are leveling up. You are getting turrets, you are getting
<v Speaker 5>like Tesla mindes, you're getting giant spinning saw blades that
<v Speaker 5>chop up the enemies and words and things like that,
<v Speaker 5>you know, elemental damage. Some really clever boss bites and everything.
<v Speaker 5>So yeah, it's just one of those games where it's
<v Speaker 5>just your fingers never leave the keyboard, even like when
<v Speaker 5>you're leveling up and stuff, you choose you know which
<v Speaker 5>upgrade you're doing by typing the word to the bottom,
<v Speaker 5>and yeah, you're just it's there's no way to not
<v Speaker 5>pay constant attention and be like super locked in all
<v Speaker 5>the time with this game. You have to be and
<v Speaker 5>every time I'm done, it's just like you feel like
<v Speaker 5>chemicals in your brain were just going insane for however
<v Speaker 5>long you're playing it.
<v Speaker 4>And it's got an endless mode.
<v Speaker 5>So if you're really good at typing, that's probably a
<v Speaker 5>real fun leaderboard situation there. It tracks like your words
<v Speaker 5>for a minute to overtime and stuff like that. So
<v Speaker 5>if anything I'm saying sounds appealing to at all, check
<v Speaker 5>out Glyphic.
<v Speaker 4>It's it's fun.
<v Speaker 1>I did play some of it and I was immediately
<v Speaker 1>was like, yep, I get it.
<v Speaker 3>I like this so much and I want to like
<v Speaker 3>just sit down and really spend a long time with
<v Speaker 3>it because I'm like I can play it for ten minutes.
<v Speaker 6>Here.
<v Speaker 3>Those trials, uh, they go on for how long would
<v Speaker 3>you say each trial.
<v Speaker 5>There is a like actual timer at the top, I
<v Speaker 5>want to say it, okays, like maybe five minutes each,
<v Speaker 5>it could be more. Yeah, and then a boss fight
<v Speaker 5>at the end, and yeah, like fun stuff where it's like, okay,
<v Speaker 5>there's two floating enemies here for a boss and it's
<v Speaker 5>like I think that one's called Gemini, and the give
<v Speaker 5>with them is every once in a while they will
<v Speaker 5>heal each other to the maximum of the healthiest one.
<v Speaker 5>So that way, like you don't just want to like
<v Speaker 5>go after one and take them down because it's to.
<v Speaker 1>The maxim.
<v Speaker 5>Rain boss. Okay, yeah, yeah, like that that's what I
<v Speaker 5>was thinking. And so yeah, I gotta bounce back and
<v Speaker 5>forth quite a bit. And there's a Cerberus where it's
<v Speaker 5>like three different heads you got to attack. There's one
<v Speaker 5>that scrambles the letters of all.
<v Speaker 2>The words and that was nasty. It's got clever stuff. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's really good and zoning. Zoning feels like an important
<v Speaker 2>thing as well, because you're not only targeting enemies, you're
<v Speaker 2>triggering off like these different abilities like this like missile
<v Speaker 2>hammer of Dawn kind of thing.
<v Speaker 4>There was like a meteor shower one.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I got an upgrade there where It's like, okay,
<v Speaker 5>if on the left side of the screen, there's a
<v Speaker 5>place where if I type this word, I'm going to
<v Speaker 5>trigger a meteor shower and that's got a huge radius.
<v Speaker 5>It's like, well, I know that area of the screen
<v Speaker 5>is pretty taken care of. All the meteors are coming down,
<v Speaker 5>so I can focus over here on the on the
<v Speaker 5>right side of the screen.
<v Speaker 4>Uh yeah, yeah, really clever stuff like that, lovely fantastic. Uh.
<v Speaker 2>Something that Mike Minatti and I checked out quick look
<v Speaker 2>with the director and a very dear special friend is
<v Speaker 2>now on the website. We checked out people of note Dan,
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna say this now, this is the most unu
<v Speaker 2>game in the world.
<v Speaker 4>That's what I've heard.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, for folks that don't know, this is a it's
<v Speaker 2>a JRPG, it's a turn based RPG, but it is
<v Speaker 2>all about musicals. They have like the Clare Obscure, the
<v Speaker 2>Paper Mario style of like timing based combat where even
<v Speaker 2>if you're doing your basic attack, you have to like
<v Speaker 2>sync it up to like the little rhythm based PIP
<v Speaker 2>and you do more damage less damage depending on the
<v Speaker 2>timing nature of it. Your abilities are also tied to
<v Speaker 2>that and you know, do need to say this off
<v Speaker 2>the tippy top. We have a dear special friend that
<v Speaker 2>is a prominent character in the game. But that being said,
<v Speaker 2>I'm actually having a lot of fun in this. I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>maybe you know, I'm like, I've finished the first full
<v Speaker 2>complete world that they dump you in after the initial
<v Speaker 2>tutorial area, and I'm having a good time with it.
<v Speaker 2>The RPG nature of it, I think is really well done,
<v Speaker 2>where you can wind up finding specific abilities that already
<v Speaker 2>feel kind of broken, even in like the early world
<v Speaker 2>of it, where it's like, okay, I can see these
<v Speaker 2>synergies popping off now and in the same way where
<v Speaker 2>Claire Obscure in mid to late game, the like timing
<v Speaker 2>of it would kind of feel very complicated to pull
<v Speaker 2>off every time. It already feels that way in a
<v Speaker 2>good way in the early stages of People of Note,
<v Speaker 2>And because it's all rhythm based, for some reason in
<v Speaker 2>my head, is clicking a little bit easier to hit
<v Speaker 2>onto the beat versus Claire Obscure, where just watching the
<v Speaker 2>little pips too shrink down. The other bit that I
<v Speaker 2>think is might go underappreciated in People of Note is
<v Speaker 2>that I really do like the puzzles, and we talked
<v Speaker 2>to the director, and the director straight up said like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>if you don't want to encounter any of the battles
<v Speaker 2>or the puzzles, you can completely turn them off if
<v Speaker 2>you just want to go through and try and encounter
<v Speaker 2>the story. That being said, I have enjoyed the puzzles
<v Speaker 2>and the puzzles ranging from like stage world puzzles to platforming,
<v Speaker 2>light platforming, tile based ones. And for the theater kids
<v Speaker 2>out there, this is our game, everybody. This is finally
<v Speaker 2>the ven diagram of JRPGs in musicals has just become
<v Speaker 2>one again. We haven't felt this represented since Final Fantasy.
<v Speaker 4>Ten to two and.
<v Speaker 2>The music at least the first two songs that you
<v Speaker 2>come across in the game. Fantastic title card reveal, by
<v Speaker 2>the way, I think it popped Mike really hard.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I love a late title drop for sure. You
<v Speaker 1>know what you talk about the musical nature of it,
<v Speaker 1>and watching you play it for a while, it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>because yeah, you're in this world and it's like you're
<v Speaker 1>at a club and maybe there's techno or K pop
<v Speaker 1>blah blah. But then you know there was a part
<v Speaker 1>where there was basically just a cut scene and it
<v Speaker 1>got very Broadway musical there for But I'm like, ah,
<v Speaker 1>that's that's what i want. Yeah, yeah, give me this
<v Speaker 1>kind of what you know, one day more lay miss style.
<v Speaker 1>Everybody's gonna say their piece in musical form about where
<v Speaker 1>they are in the story at the moment. That's the
<v Speaker 1>good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Kayla out there, I think you would really really
<v Speaker 2>like this game because it has the capacity to be
<v Speaker 2>a very tough uh JERREPG because you could just crank
<v Speaker 2>up the difficulty and there are music, there's musical numbers
<v Speaker 2>in this.
<v Speaker 4>She's just a half sister in case anyone's wondering.
<v Speaker 3>The musical side though, is where it comes from.
<v Speaker 1>Both you guys share that of course.
<v Speaker 3>Hi, Kayla Jan So you're obviously the vibes are working
<v Speaker 3>for you, like the sort of what it's going for
<v Speaker 3>in terms of presentation. You are saying that you're having
<v Speaker 3>fun playing it though, right, not that you can like
<v Speaker 3>to like pull those two things apart. Obviously one leads
<v Speaker 3>to the other, but you're like, it's just a fun
<v Speaker 3>game to play. On top of that, Yeah, it's a
<v Speaker 3>fun game to play.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, I've talked on this podcast where I've
<v Speaker 2>been searching for like an RPG to play, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>the answers and suggestions that people have given me are
<v Speaker 2>like upwards to like thirty to fifty hour journeys, where
<v Speaker 2>I don't quite want to invest that much time. I
<v Speaker 2>kind of want to like turn my brain off and
<v Speaker 2>engage in turn based combat in a way that can
<v Speaker 2>be satisfying. But also if I do need to turn
<v Speaker 2>my brain off, I can just kind of sink into
<v Speaker 2>that autopilot mode. And because it is the like timing
<v Speaker 2>based combat, and it is only timing based combat in
<v Speaker 2>the offensive side. There's no defense portion of it at
<v Speaker 2>all where you're dodging or anything, that is enough to
<v Speaker 2>kind of like keep me engaged. And if I am
<v Speaker 2>just like tuning out of the game, it'll lock me
<v Speaker 2>back in when they drop a new musical number. And
<v Speaker 2>also the director here, I think him and I are
<v Speaker 2>cut from very similar cloths, because all of the puns
<v Speaker 2>in the game just make me giggle and go, that
<v Speaker 2>was stupid. And then if I were to drop similar puns,
<v Speaker 2>I know I would get booze in the chat parentheses.
<v Speaker 3>Positive that's what you're going for when you're dropping a pun, though,
<v Speaker 3>let's be cool. Okay. Then last thing, in terms of
<v Speaker 3>musical stylings, is it a variety?
<v Speaker 1>Is it is there?
<v Speaker 3>Like, oh, they're they're obviously inspired by Sondheim or something
<v Speaker 3>like that, Like is there like is it obvious?
<v Speaker 2>The first two numbers in particular feel very greatest Showman
<v Speaker 2>esque Okay, oh yeah, yeah, so very like bombastic loud,
<v Speaker 2>not gang vocals, because that's in like different genres of music,
<v Speaker 2>but layered melodies on top of each other.
<v Speaker 4>I'm a pop.
<v Speaker 2>I am a sucker. When characters will start, it's not
<v Speaker 2>just a duet, but it's multiple characters singing their own
<v Speaker 2>songs on top of each other.
<v Speaker 1>Mike one day More effect, the one day More effects exactly.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 2>We initially met the villain of yeah, the main villain
<v Speaker 2>of the game, in a smaller cut scene, and then
<v Speaker 2>when he popped off into his solo Mike lost the
<v Speaker 2>ship because I think he kind of sounded like the
<v Speaker 2>evil priest from Hunchback of Notre Jam.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, it's just definitely really a frolo time. Yes, I
<v Speaker 1>like the villain a lot. I was like, oh that guy,
<v Speaker 1>he's a cool guy. I mean, it's probably not a
<v Speaker 1>cool guy. It's probably like probably thinks being Horney is.
<v Speaker 3>Evil in the sin like the right which right, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>but I was like the.
<v Speaker 1>Villain was good. He kind of he kind of reminded
<v Speaker 1>me of JP from Street Fighter five but better.
<v Speaker 4>Interesting, incredible.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, yeah, you know, you know, the whole guy
<v Speaker 3>the cane, right, although that guy reminds me of the
<v Speaker 3>people from Clear Obscure, so.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah maybe yeah, yeah, he has a little yeahir now
<v Speaker 1>renoir Yeah hn wow wowow wow, waw.
<v Speaker 3>The French will love it when you say that.
<v Speaker 4>That trial. There we go, thank you. I didn't I
<v Speaker 4>didn't quite know what you were doing in.
<v Speaker 3>First from Gail Perry.
<v Speaker 1>Trying Yo Moto something. I don't know what their deadert is.
<v Speaker 4>Oh boy, oh boy.
<v Speaker 1>Uh but from away, by the way, I told the
<v Speaker 1>English story at a friend's birthday at a pub, and
<v Speaker 1>when I got to the punchline, I got excited. It
<v Speaker 1>screamed English, probably too loud in the in the.
<v Speaker 4>Bar, representing us.
<v Speaker 2>Well, Mike, but you know, to answer Mikey's or Mike
<v Speaker 2>continue Mikey's thought about diversified music genres. It drops you
<v Speaker 2>in to like a small town that has Japanese and
<v Speaker 2>K pop influences, and then the next world is kind
<v Speaker 2>of like a dad butt rock type of world, so
<v Speaker 2>it feels like they are kind of hopping and bopping
<v Speaker 2>around to different genres of music. In terms of the
<v Speaker 2>music numbers, I think they are going to be pretty
<v Speaker 2>diversified as well. Tune in for the Quick Look also
<v Speaker 2>so you can hear Mikey Belt one Day More and
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of memories. It was very, very moving.
<v Speaker 3>And it is out now. The Quick looky X right
<v Speaker 3>did you guys put that up?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, The Quick Look X is out now, and so
<v Speaker 2>is the game. It's out on everything. So if anything
<v Speaker 2>we've said entices you at all, and also if you're
<v Speaker 2>a theater nerd, this one's for us.
<v Speaker 4>Gang. Finally, finally we have a musical video game.
<v Speaker 2>There have been multiple musical video games since then, of course,
<v Speaker 2>but this one's specific.
<v Speaker 1>I'mem before Christmas Lookie Boogie's Revenge or whatever on the
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation two.
<v Speaker 2>Guitar, Yeah, guitar. I didn't want to s say this
<v Speaker 2>because we have the director of the game there with us,
<v Speaker 2>but Yo, there are gonna be some thirsty ass motherfuckers
<v Speaker 2>because of this game. Because some of the game character designs,
<v Speaker 2>not just the main protagonist, but of all the other people.
<v Speaker 2>If people got a little bit too weird fawning over
<v Speaker 2>let's say K Pop Demon Hunter characters, they're gonna do
<v Speaker 2>the same exact thing over here.
<v Speaker 4>Anyway.
<v Speaker 2>That is a confusion of life. That is the paradox.
<v Speaker 2>It is okay to be attracted to a video game
<v Speaker 2>character or an animated character, that is the paradox, just
<v Speaker 2>like Darwin's paradox has been happening and Jeff Grubb has
<v Speaker 2>been exploring.
<v Speaker 3>I have been playing Darwin's paradox. I'm trying to know
<v Speaker 3>if I or if I know the answer to your
<v Speaker 3>question whether or not I'm attracted to this octopus.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, he's a handsome octopus. I like this game. It
<v Speaker 3>is from Konami publishing it, and then it's a developer
<v Speaker 3>that they're working on. That's kind of one of those
<v Speaker 3>things they did with Were they the ones that did
<v Speaker 3>deliver at all costs?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, right, So.
<v Speaker 3>Similar thing here where the ECONOMI spotted a game they liked,
<v Speaker 3>they took it under their wing, and they published it
<v Speaker 3>as a Konami game. Uh, And that was part of
<v Speaker 3>what I was interested in. I was also just I
<v Speaker 3>like the look of it. It kind of had an
<v Speaker 3>Abe's Odyssey style to it. I thought, yeah, and playing
<v Speaker 3>it and playing that, I would say, yeah, that's kind
<v Speaker 3>of what they're going for here in terms of not
<v Speaker 3>necessarily how it feels, but the way it presents itself
<v Speaker 3>where you are solving platforming puzzles as this character that
<v Speaker 3>can go around and grab things and move things in
<v Speaker 3>the in the environment, and there's some physics on top
<v Speaker 3>of that to make the puzzles feel weighty.
<v Speaker 1>You know it.
<v Speaker 3>It's so it's not going to be. It's not Mario Brothers.
<v Speaker 1>I want to try to give an example of like
<v Speaker 1>what to expect from it, like the one of the
<v Speaker 1>early puzzle sections that kind of went on for a
<v Speaker 1>bit longer than I was expecting to the plat where
<v Speaker 1>it's like, oh, this is just what the game is
<v Speaker 1>going to be.
<v Speaker 3>It's going to be these sections like this. There it's
<v Speaker 3>almost a stealth section. You get dropped back in the water,
<v Speaker 3>exploring the land a little bit, and there's like a
<v Speaker 3>sewer system you get into and the sewer system has
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of rats and the rats are chasing you,
<v Speaker 3>and if the rats touch you, you're basically dead, so
<v Speaker 3>you have you have to avoid them, and you could
<v Speaker 3>get in the light a little bit, but very quickly
<v Speaker 3>it's like, oh, no, you need to jump into this
<v Speaker 3>chemical glowing waste to cover yourself in it, and then
<v Speaker 3>the rats won't mess with you while you're covered in it.
<v Speaker 3>And so you have to like run from one section
<v Speaker 3>to the next in the sewer system before the glowy
<v Speaker 3>stuff washes off of the octopus, So you're just trying
<v Speaker 3>to get from one point to the next, and then
<v Speaker 3>they're occasionally you'll get to a point where it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>there's a barrel in the way. I need to figure
<v Speaker 3>out how to get it out of the way before
<v Speaker 3>this stuff runs off. So you're kind of solving puzzles
<v Speaker 3>under a little bit of a time crunch, and that
<v Speaker 3>seems to be the loop of the game where you're
<v Speaker 3>doing stuff like that through a section, then once it's over,
<v Speaker 3>you kind of get the next gimmick and you're doing that.
<v Speaker 3>And I thought it was pretty well designed overall. It's
<v Speaker 3>not gonna blow anyone away, and I definitely like playing
<v Speaker 3>it more than I liked playing Abs in all those games.
<v Speaker 3>But it has that spirit there as well.
<v Speaker 1>So if you're looking for something along those lines, a
<v Speaker 1>little bit of a thinking platform, yeah, it should have that.
<v Speaker 2>They definitely have the two thousands, Jimmy Neutron, Nicolay and
<v Speaker 2>eyes going on with that look of the game as well.
<v Speaker 3>And that presentation works as well, where they do get
<v Speaker 3>a little bit cinematic with the you know, the in
<v Speaker 3>between ers where you're like you're going from one level
<v Speaker 3>to the next and it's like, Okay, we're going to
<v Speaker 3>show off kind of what to expect from this this
<v Speaker 3>new land, and those zoom in close to the character,
<v Speaker 3>and the character animates well and looks really expressive, and
<v Speaker 3>the world looks really nice, and then it runs great
<v Speaker 3>on the Steam deck. Then you're just kind of controlling
<v Speaker 3>the two D plane of a three D game. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I think it's neat. It's definitely worth trying if you
<v Speaker 3>have some like like interest in what I described, and
<v Speaker 3>then I think it might be on one of those platforms.
<v Speaker 3>It might be on like PlayStation Plus or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>I think, GREB, where do you land on like stealth
<v Speaker 2>sections in a two D game? Uh?
<v Speaker 3>I mean there's some games that like when they build
<v Speaker 3>themselves around that concept being a two D stealth game
<v Speaker 3>like Mark of the Ninja. That's one of my favorite games.
<v Speaker 3>I love Mark of the Ninja and then other games
<v Speaker 3>where it's like they'll introduce that. I think anytime I
<v Speaker 3>can hide in a doorway in the background of a
<v Speaker 3>two D level where it's like, oh, here's a closet
<v Speaker 3>and you can sort of like like curl around the closet,
<v Speaker 3>hide in the shadow, and the character walks past you,
<v Speaker 3>I like that. That feels cool. Anything more than that,
<v Speaker 3>it's usually probably a bit much.
<v Speaker 4>Do you wind up playing that the Terminator or two
<v Speaker 4>D No Fate yet?
<v Speaker 1>I did.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, there's that one sequence where the T one thousand
<v Speaker 5>is chasing you in a very much it's exactly what
<v Speaker 5>you describe like sericon or you like duck into the closet.
<v Speaker 1>Cool.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think I think there was a part where
<v Speaker 3>the end of the game where they did something like
<v Speaker 3>that and it was like a little bit more challenging.
<v Speaker 3>It was like, okay, this a little cheap now, But
<v Speaker 3>up until that point, I was enjoying that I'd beat
<v Speaker 3>that game.
<v Speaker 1>That game is pretty good.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, there was.
<v Speaker 2>I checked out Darn's Paradox during a preview for during
<v Speaker 2>GDC and the stealth segments kind of bugged me, But
<v Speaker 2>maybe I just don't wind up liking them when they're
<v Speaker 2>in a two D plane versus three D anyway, moving along,
<v Speaker 2>going from the Sea to the space, Like, Manati, you've
<v Speaker 2>checked out Marvel Cosmic Invasion.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, just over this holiday weekend my girlfriend's visiting. I
<v Speaker 1>was like, all right, I actually rarely played games on
<v Speaker 1>my couch in the living room on like an Xbox
<v Speaker 1>or PlayStation anymore. What's something we could play pretty quickly
<v Speaker 1>here and have some fun And just going through game pass,
<v Speaker 1>I saw Marvel Cosmic Invasion. This is that beat them
<v Speaker 1>up from tribute games to people who did Teenage Ninja Turtles,
<v Speaker 1>Shredders Revenge. This came out last year, Like I played
<v Speaker 1>the demo of it and then I was like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>once that comes out, I'll get around to it, and
<v Speaker 1>I never did. This was a good opportunity just to
<v Speaker 1>go play through the whole thing with my girlfriend for
<v Speaker 1>an evening. It was a really fun way to spend
<v Speaker 1>that evening, right, just you know, really good pixel art,
<v Speaker 1>very you know, just nice visuals all around, very punchy
<v Speaker 1>combat beat them up stuff felt good. I like the
<v Speaker 1>tax system, so you're picking two characters, so you're kind
<v Speaker 1>of swapping between it. You can like call one in
<v Speaker 1>the middle of a combo or slip swap in the
<v Speaker 1>middle of a combo to extend it. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>like each character has a different thing too, so they're
<v Speaker 1>not just Pillett swaps or you know, like especially in
<v Speaker 1>these old beat them ups, like you know, Teamyot Ninja Turtles,
<v Speaker 1>they're all basically the same a little bit different. We've
<v Speaker 1>like the old X Men r K game, like everybody
<v Speaker 1>has like the one power but otherwise very similar here,
<v Speaker 1>it's like, okay, nothing American can throw the shields like
<v Speaker 1>a kind of uppercut anti air thing, or as an
<v Speaker 1>iron Man can just straight up fly. You can shoot
<v Speaker 1>the repuls or blast, but they have three charge over time,
<v Speaker 1>so stuff like that is is cool.
<v Speaker 3>I like how they get the levels encourage you to
<v Speaker 3>swap up the characters as well by having like the
<v Speaker 3>canonical characters for the level, and it's like, okay, so
<v Speaker 3>I wasn't gonna use this character, but now this this
<v Speaker 3>level is expecting me to do that, so I'll swap over.
<v Speaker 1>Them and then you can get a bonus.
<v Speaker 3>I think if you do certain things in the stage
<v Speaker 3>with them.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I mean they do that, but they also
<v Speaker 1>like like your character's level up, and so they get
<v Speaker 1>like perks for you know, when you play the thumbs.
<v Speaker 1>There was a bit of like, well, now this character
<v Speaker 1>is stronger, I feel like I should just keep playing
<v Speaker 1>as them. So I felt a little dissent de incentivized
<v Speaker 1>to swap characters, I guess, which was maybe a little
<v Speaker 1>bit of a bummer to me. So I did just
<v Speaker 1>kind of stay with Captain America and Iron Man no time,
<v Speaker 1>you though, you know, you straight up like our unlocking
<v Speaker 1>characters like Venom or the Silver Surfer while you're you're
<v Speaker 1>playing the game. So yeah, I guess, like I understand
<v Speaker 1>you want to have that progression system of parties, Like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>maybe didn't. I bet if I had just swapped anyways,
<v Speaker 1>I would have been fine. I wouldn't have noticed. But
<v Speaker 1>in my mind I was like, but this character has
<v Speaker 1>a plus botus self, and it says I have a
<v Speaker 1>new passive skill. I don't know what that passive skill is,
<v Speaker 1>but I have it, and I asses it.
<v Speaker 3>I think like that what got me over the hump
<v Speaker 3>is like, oh, if I do these certain challenges with
<v Speaker 3>these characters, I'll get extra upgrades and stuff like that,
<v Speaker 3>so it's like I might as well try to maximize it,
<v Speaker 3>and then yeah, it's it's I did get to a
<v Speaker 3>point playing by myself where there was a couple levels
<v Speaker 3>that I had to do a couple of times to
<v Speaker 3>be able to beat them, and I was like, Okay,
<v Speaker 3>so I'm leveling up these characters now and they'll be
<v Speaker 3>ready for the rest of the game, and I'll go
<v Speaker 3>over to these characters and kind of do the same
<v Speaker 3>thing with them.
<v Speaker 2>I do really enjoy this game for the sheer fact
<v Speaker 2>that they have cosmic ghostwriter in it.
<v Speaker 1>Shit, that's really yeah, really, it looks great and they
<v Speaker 1>do some good pools with a character is not always
<v Speaker 1>the most obvious thing, like it's Beta ray Bill instead
<v Speaker 1>or right, there's even something I like, there's a lady
<v Speaker 1>show up with a sword, and now I was just like,
<v Speaker 1>is that magic or whatever? Who I only know about
<v Speaker 1>recently because of the Marvel rivals in Toekon and know
<v Speaker 1>some other person that I don't even know, Like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>I would say, it's kind of hard for me to
<v Speaker 1>feel much, I guess, just to feel much with Marvel
<v Speaker 1>stuff anymore. Oh yeah, I just I just feel so
<v Speaker 1>kind of like overwhelmed by it and just to sensitize
<v Speaker 1>to it. And I'm having that a little bit of
<v Speaker 1>token where it's like, I don't know who. They could
<v Speaker 1>show a token where I'd be like, oh, yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>guess it would be Cyclops for you, Jan that would
<v Speaker 1>be it. That would be the big spop for me
<v Speaker 1>at this point. Wise, I just don't know how much
<v Speaker 1>outcare the game has some of the problems Out of
<v Speaker 1>Life's games have where it's like I'm finding the same
<v Speaker 1>kind of enemies for for a long time here, haven't
<v Speaker 1>I you know, something that just comes with the genre.
<v Speaker 1>It will say interesting, I did like this game. It's funny,
<v Speaker 1>how you know. I thought this would be the big
<v Speaker 1>beat him up lassion and it was actually Absolom, which
<v Speaker 1>I think is even from the same publisher. In fact,
<v Speaker 1>I remember at Summer Game Fest at their booth they
<v Speaker 1>had Marvel Cosmetication, then they had Absolom there and I
<v Speaker 1>was like, oh, what's that. Oh it looks like a
<v Speaker 1>Golden Ax. That's the any who And that ended up
<v Speaker 1>kind of being the more impactful game.
<v Speaker 3>We uh, we should do a tier list of the
<v Speaker 3>modern beat them ups. We can pick one game like
<v Speaker 3>this is when.
<v Speaker 5>They started, and yeah, it's like Castle Crashers the beginning
<v Speaker 5>of that, well.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe Castle Crashers, Like it's like, yeah, the beginning that
<v Speaker 3>was almost like.
<v Speaker 1>A separate, smaller revival with that Pig game. Back then
<v Speaker 1>it was moren't something newer that started around four Baby
<v Speaker 1>River City Girls one. Yeah, oh yeah, that'd be good.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because it feels like there's they started leaning into
<v Speaker 2>a little bit more depth in the combat at least.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, depth in the combat, depth in the reel playability. Yes, yeah, absolutely,
<v Speaker 3>I mean Streets Streets Rage four's rogue mode, Rogue Light
<v Speaker 3>Mode is fantastic. Oh, this is the key idea of
<v Speaker 3>what to do here. And then I obviously absolutely took
<v Speaker 3>that ran with it.
<v Speaker 2>I'm a big Scott Pilgrim mark. I still even though
<v Speaker 2>the game came out maybe a month or so ago,
<v Speaker 2>he still want to do a quick look for it
<v Speaker 2>because that game is doing some interesting things. Uh, specifically,
<v Speaker 2>if you were tuned into the whole story of Scott Pilgrim,
<v Speaker 2>there was that Netflix show that came out that kind
<v Speaker 2>of twisted the story around, which was a fun neat
<v Speaker 2>look at the universe. The game does a very similar
<v Speaker 2>thing that I want more folks to see. Also, give
<v Speaker 2>us more on Amana Gucci music and that's not normally
<v Speaker 2>my Jimmy jam but tracks were hot.
<v Speaker 4>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>I do want to check OD that's Scott Pilgrim still
<v Speaker 1>because that's also tribute games. So oh yeah they man,
<v Speaker 1>they've been doing a lot, and uh, just please just
<v Speaker 1>give them the Simpsons after after all.
<v Speaker 2>This, it has to happen eventually, right, try the coward.
<v Speaker 1>You won't do it? Yeah, come on, Drake, I'll get
<v Speaker 1>you a diet.
<v Speaker 4>Oh whatever you want.
<v Speaker 1>Uh.
<v Speaker 2>Speaking about games with multiple characters in them, Mike Manati,
<v Speaker 2>you have continued your adventures through Resident Evil zero.
<v Speaker 1>I beat it, jan I beat Resident Evil zero. I
<v Speaker 1>did it, which yeah feels good. It always seems like
<v Speaker 1>a controversial game and I'm like ready to be a
<v Speaker 1>Resident Evil zero defender now come on.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>But then when I ranked it in the series, I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>it goes on the bottom bottom and I haven't played
<v Speaker 1>like six, right, so you know, like the it's in
<v Speaker 1>like that tier with Resual three, remake, resumele five for
<v Speaker 1>me are games? I like five? The game those oh
<v Speaker 1>it five has issues. Five is really fun, but it
<v Speaker 1>has it has certain issues. Yes, kind of like this
<v Speaker 1>game where I think it was fun. It looks great
<v Speaker 1>because it just looks like Resuvul one remake. It's some
<v Speaker 1>of the stuff that I was worried about that people
<v Speaker 1>complain about a lot, like the way the inventory works.
<v Speaker 1>You don't have the item boxes. You just drop items
<v Speaker 1>on the ground. You have to deal with it like that.
<v Speaker 1>That wasn't too bad. Yeah, it's you know, inventory management,
<v Speaker 1>and it's slightly less convenient than it is in some
<v Speaker 1>of the other games. But you have two characters between
<v Speaker 1>them you can kind of figure that inventory out. It's okay,
<v Speaker 1>you'll you'll get there.
<v Speaker 5>You've got a question from the chat Mike, I think yeah.
<v Speaker 5>For you from team kayla.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, is Resident Evil zero worse the to remake? I
<v Speaker 1>don't believe that. Yes, I think. I think. I think
<v Speaker 1>even kala Oh I don't know, because this game wasn't
<v Speaker 1>very scary, and that often seems to beer issue with
<v Speaker 1>what makes it the worst the ones. Yeah, like there
<v Speaker 1>were some scary moments in the beginning, but most resieval
<v Speaker 1>games kind of meddle out on that as time goes
<v Speaker 1>by some of the other things I heard about, like oh,
<v Speaker 1>the enemies are sort of annoying and the very bullet spongy.
<v Speaker 1>That was true, but I liked having the two characters
<v Speaker 1>and songs on the puzzle with them. The puzzles in
<v Speaker 1>general I relatively enjoyed. I liked both characters, bad boy
<v Speaker 1>Billy with his tribal arm tattoos and Rebecca Chambers. It
<v Speaker 1>was a good crew. I it struggles just with that
<v Speaker 1>comparison to Resue One remake because the environments you start
<v Speaker 1>off on that train, and that's all I knew about
<v Speaker 1>this game. In my mind, this game may have taken
<v Speaker 1>place entirely on a train. That's what I saw that as.
<v Speaker 3>Well, and I don't to be clear, that's what I
<v Speaker 3>want from this game.
<v Speaker 1>I want this game to be on a train and
<v Speaker 1>have pre rendered backgrounds like Razuvle remake on the game
<v Speaker 1>game and look awesome. That's what I want. Like you're
<v Speaker 1>on the train for like two hours in the beginning.
<v Speaker 1>Is that it's the best part of the game, And
<v Speaker 1>I get why it's maybe hard to keep that up
<v Speaker 1>for long because it's a train. You just gotta you know,
<v Speaker 1>they got up the train, you got down the train,
<v Speaker 1>you just maybe you know, two levels and then you
<v Speaker 1>could go on the top of the train. Part of
<v Speaker 1>me which is they could have extended that a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>because then the next areas you're basically in Spencer Mansion
<v Speaker 1>light it's like the Umbrella Research area and it's okay,
<v Speaker 1>and then you're in some cathedral and then you're in
<v Speaker 1>another underground research facility something something right, right, So it's
<v Speaker 1>if they could have kept that train with that sort
<v Speaker 1>of you know, elegant oriental express look that that was
<v Speaker 1>very striking, and then after that the game kind of
<v Speaker 1>loses on having its own visual identity, even tho the
<v Speaker 1>pre Runner background still look amazing, all right, still incredibly
<v Speaker 1>attractive game, but yeah, it lose a little something there.
<v Speaker 1>So it's a good time. I'm really glad that I
<v Speaker 1>played it. I'd be very curious to see what they
<v Speaker 1>do with it with a remake, and I hope when
<v Speaker 1>they remake it they don't just turn it into Resionuval
<v Speaker 1>to remake. I hope they find a way to make
<v Speaker 1>the whole you're controlling two characters thing work and maybe
<v Speaker 1>be a little bit less comforsate, maybe even make it
<v Speaker 1>a co op gamey at some point, you got the
<v Speaker 1>remake resume with five in this, so maybe work on
<v Speaker 1>those co op mechanics for both of them. That'd be
<v Speaker 1>a good time, that'd be smart. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I really do like the idea of us doing a
<v Speaker 2>baton pass with the different campaigns for Are six, because.
<v Speaker 4>You can't just say these things.
<v Speaker 1>Jan.
<v Speaker 4>You know what I'm doun to do at some point then.
<v Speaker 2>Is because I'm like, Mike six is something I never
<v Speaker 2>checked out because of the gigantic.
<v Speaker 4>Vomiting on it from the from games media.
<v Speaker 3>Other people from the team in chat elsewhere discord are
<v Speaker 3>are they're just beginning to panic. I see we'll say no,
<v Speaker 3>just no, all right, So maybe I think we get right, Dan,
<v Speaker 3>we have to do it.
<v Speaker 5>I mean, Cayle and I had the intention of going
<v Speaker 5>through Rubies. We had a fun time playing five co
<v Speaker 5>op and we did one of the four campaigns and
<v Speaker 5>both me and Kayla were like, oh, this is not well.
<v Speaker 4>We can't keep going with this.
<v Speaker 1>This is awful.
<v Speaker 4>It's so fucking bad.
<v Speaker 1>And say it for myself because like I put it
<v Speaker 1>below Resuo zero and then I can be like Rezuo
<v Speaker 1>zero is good. People are to me to it it's
<v Speaker 1>not the worst Resident Evil game. Yeah. You need that.
<v Speaker 1>You need to be able to say that part. That's crucial.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, right, God, how would we figure out who
<v Speaker 2>does what campaign? That'd be a fun little yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Roll roll dice, roll the dice, or or maybe a
<v Speaker 3>community vote. Maybe they'll know which one's the worst and
<v Speaker 3>they could punish us.
<v Speaker 5>I think it came out I did whichever one was
<v Speaker 5>in a graveyard. I think that's the Chris one. And
<v Speaker 5>then there's one that starts with like a political thing
<v Speaker 5>with like the president turning into zombie. I think that's
<v Speaker 5>one that's Leon. So I think I've actually done two
<v Speaker 5>of the four campaigns once when it came out, once
<v Speaker 5>with Kayla. I would have to take the other one.
<v Speaker 5>Then I will eventually play through all of the six
<v Speaker 5>campaigns over the course of like fifteen years.
<v Speaker 1>Oh.
<v Speaker 3>I would want to do one with Mike where I
<v Speaker 3>secretly install mods so he has to play as John HaLow.
<v Speaker 1>Oh God, your character is ten percent small, young on
<v Speaker 1>your face when you see this horse and you fall
<v Speaker 1>in love with how is Oh he's stuck in geometry.
<v Speaker 1>I can't believe it.
<v Speaker 2>Mike gonna remind you of one of the best parts
<v Speaker 2>of Parks and rec Little Sebastian.
<v Speaker 1>All Right, I love Little Sebastian, but that's a real horse.
<v Speaker 1>That's nobody mouded that horse. I guess maybe. Yeah, No,
<v Speaker 1>humans definitely did.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, genetics totally moded that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, God, that's a good name for an episode.
<v Speaker 2>Modded that horse. Writing that down, Mike Manati. To cap
<v Speaker 2>off the video game talk, you have checked out on
<v Speaker 2>the switch to Virtua Fighter five Revo World stage. For
<v Speaker 2>a Nintendo switch to we should play.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's funny because, like you know, the switch you
<v Speaker 1>could play the new Resident Evil game. Well, and yet
<v Speaker 1>when I play this fighting game from two thousand and
<v Speaker 1>six on my switched to, I'm like, wow, this is
<v Speaker 1>crazy for a Virtual Fighter five And I switched to
<v Speaker 1>and it looks great right as as a fucking PS
<v Speaker 1>three game. Everything has come to nu tendo. But for
<v Speaker 1>some reason in my mind, I'm still like I'm playing
<v Speaker 1>a Virtue Fighter game on my Nintendo console because I
<v Speaker 1>was such a Sega kid, and you know, I love
<v Speaker 1>Virtue Fighter I had. I had Virtual Fighter one and
<v Speaker 1>two on my Saturn. I even got the Virtual Fighter
<v Speaker 1>one remix disc that they mailed to Saturn owners because
<v Speaker 1>the original port was so bad. I did y of
<v Speaker 1>kids and I via kids everyone, Like, everyone was like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>it was a terrible thing that they did, right, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know that Giant head. It was funny. Come on,
<v Speaker 1>I live a little. Uh yeah. Virtual Fighter five was
<v Speaker 1>a good video game, and this is a very good
<v Speaker 1>way of playing that video game, you know, especially you
<v Speaker 1>could spend so much time in this game just kind
<v Speaker 1>of picking a character and trying to learn everything. Even
<v Speaker 1>though the game is like a three button game, right,
<v Speaker 1>you got punch, kick, and block. There's so much nuance
<v Speaker 1>to that. And then there are some characters who are
<v Speaker 1>way more technical than others, Like you know, there's like
<v Speaker 1>the luchador, right and what's going on with that? Or
<v Speaker 1>it could just be Jeffree and do my wrestling moves
<v Speaker 1>and my grapples and that feels really good as well.
<v Speaker 1>I did not. I did not really even bother trying
<v Speaker 1>the online stuff, and maybe I should have, but in
<v Speaker 1>my mind's like that's probably not gonna work. I'm also
<v Speaker 1>not that interested in seeing what people who have played
<v Speaker 1>two thousand times more Virtual Fighter five than me are
<v Speaker 1>going to do to me online.
<v Speaker 2>Like, do you know if they do the whole like
<v Speaker 2>weird arcist lobby system or is it just straight up
<v Speaker 2>matchmaking in this.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know because I didn't really mess around that
<v Speaker 1>part of me takes the original heads. I think one
<v Speaker 1>of the rivas had something like that, or there's been
<v Speaker 1>so many versions of five. Yeah, so anyway, it was.
<v Speaker 3>It was Virtual Fighter three, I think where it's like
<v Speaker 3>the who's the main character Jackie or something like that. Kara, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>something like he was like spinning and his jacket was
<v Speaker 3>spinning around his back, and it was like, oh, material
<v Speaker 3>physics have come to video games.
<v Speaker 1>This is the most realistic thing I've ever seen. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>it's just been in my head ever since.
<v Speaker 2>I need to bring something up. It's one of my
<v Speaker 2>favorite tropes for a character to wear a jacket on
<v Speaker 2>their shoulders over them and not like sleeves through but.
<v Speaker 4>Like the Requiem guy.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, exactly like the Requiem dude. But it never
<v Speaker 2>looks cool in real life.
<v Speaker 4>It just seems not convenient.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it seems like it's always gonna be sliding off
<v Speaker 5>and you look like a dope, and it doesn't seem
<v Speaker 5>like it would actually keep you warm, which is the
<v Speaker 5>functional part of a jacket.
<v Speaker 4>I've tried it so many times and I can't do it.
<v Speaker 4>I'm sorry. I continue on with the Virtual Fighter. I'm sorry.
<v Speaker 1>Somebody in chat's like, we should play all four campaigns
<v Speaker 1>of Resuvil six at the same time.
<v Speaker 2>We raise, Yeah, isn't there a campaign there's just one character.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's an eight of wa camp. I think that
<v Speaker 1>is just the one character by himself.
<v Speaker 5>No, honestly, okay, we're gimmicking it up.
<v Speaker 4>Suddenly it sounds you're pretty good activity.
<v Speaker 1>Apparently you can't still play that one in co op.
<v Speaker 1>It is, okay, I was the player who's just a
<v Speaker 1>generic agent. Incredible, let's go. Uh, I put data walk kicking.
<v Speaker 1>She's like, I feel kind of bad about all the
<v Speaker 1>genocideato because.
<v Speaker 2>I'm hot, Mike. You know about my internal dialogue this
<v Speaker 2>whole time.
<v Speaker 1>There you go. I like that spider by the way,
<v Speaker 1>that plush spider was kid. She got it for Easter.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah you can get good. Uh yeah. Virtual Fighter five
<v Speaker 1>still good vide game playing on uh switch, that's fun.
<v Speaker 1>I'm excited for uh see what that news street Fighter,
<v Speaker 1>street Fighter Virtue Fighter is going to be all about.
<v Speaker 1>Very exciting.
<v Speaker 2>We should check out some of this virtual fater on
<v Speaker 2>u p F this week.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, I would, I would play some version.
<v Speaker 4>I would do that too.
<v Speaker 3>Excuse to play that online with you guys.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't. I don't want to go on Matchmaker.
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to play with you guys. And this
<v Speaker 1>is this is the verse thingon that you know came
<v Speaker 1>out on Steam last year. Yeah, totally, R know, it's
<v Speaker 1>it's it's okay, there, switch places, Mike.
<v Speaker 4>We're gonna play a quick game.
<v Speaker 2>You cannot participate because you are more well versed at
<v Speaker 2>least Virtual Fighter. I'm assuming grub Dan. We're gonna go
<v Speaker 2>back and forth name as many Virtual Fighter Fighter characters
<v Speaker 2>as we can.
<v Speaker 1>Grub took by one.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, so Virtue Fighter characters all right, I will say Jackieira.
<v Speaker 4>Oh oh you're doing too okay you Rio Ninja.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah okay, Jeffrey that I I have no more Sarah
<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, uh the hornet, the car, that's Fire's mega mix. Okay, fine,
<v Speaker 1>I'll see myself out. You guys have a good rest
<v Speaker 1>of the podcast. It right a lot? Actually, yeah, Wolf
<v Speaker 1>is sick as hell? All right, where'st well from? He's
<v Speaker 1>got red hair? And also right, okay, okay, wolf.
<v Speaker 2>H Wolf could be a Nacho lebre situation, you know
<v Speaker 2>where UH had certain familial lineage, but it was also
<v Speaker 2>raised in a specific UH location. Anyway, folks, we're gonna
<v Speaker 2>go take a quick bricky break and we will be
<v Speaker 2>back with the news right after this.
<v Speaker 3>This is a frog, thank you. I think the natural
<v Speaker 3>conclusion is eventually we're doing a panel and Dan couldn't
<v Speaker 3>be there for some reason, and then we open up
<v Speaker 3>the panel to questions from the audience and a man
<v Speaker 3>walks up and introduces himself as Walter Krunk and it's
<v Speaker 3>Dan and makeup. And at that point we already can't
<v Speaker 3>trust anything on Reddit. I want to be able to
<v Speaker 3>not trust anyone I ever meet, like this could be
<v Speaker 3>Dan Riker.
<v Speaker 5>You can trust it now, because fucking I heard Walter
<v Speaker 5>Krunk got banned. There's serious discussions with the mod team
<v Speaker 5>about Walter Krunk and they banned them.
<v Speaker 1>Job.
<v Speaker 2>If you navigate the various parts that Giant Bomb is
<v Speaker 2>on the internet, specifically the discord, you will see I
<v Speaker 2>have seen a discussion about it.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, incredible, man, everyone's discussing Walter Krunk. All right,
<v Speaker 1>let's get onto the autobiography, Star.
<v Speaker 3>Wars Eclipse development is quote very slow going. Development on
<v Speaker 3>that game, you know, which is the Quantic Dream game,
<v Speaker 3>which is not supposed to be like a typical Quantic Dream.
<v Speaker 3>It's going to be an action adventure. First got announced
<v Speaker 3>in twenty twenty one, and it is apparently proceeding very slowly,
<v Speaker 3>with very little progress over a month's Sources indicate the
<v Speaker 3>game is still looking to be years off from completion.
<v Speaker 3>Parent company net Ease, which as a reminder, I think
<v Speaker 3>acquired Quantic Dream a few years ago, has been hesitant
<v Speaker 3>to invest in expanding the development team. So this sounds
<v Speaker 3>like another one of those issues where net E's acquired
<v Speaker 3>a studio or started a new studio, like.
<v Speaker 1>They did with the RGG.
<v Speaker 3>Guy who was like, Okay, I'm gonna go to Nete's
<v Speaker 3>and make something, and now he's made that game, and
<v Speaker 3>net Ease is like, oh, we don't care about this anymore.
<v Speaker 3>So you could put it out if you want, but
<v Speaker 3>we're we're gonna we're not gonna spend on marketing or
<v Speaker 3>anything like that or even do the publishing. So it yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and this game was always going to take a long time.
<v Speaker 3>I remember back in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty
<v Speaker 3>two being like, yeah, I don't think this game comes
<v Speaker 3>out until twenty twenty seven according to people that are
<v Speaker 3>telling me what they know. And now we're coming up
<v Speaker 3>on that next year, and it sounds like it won't
<v Speaker 3>even be ready at that point. This was always one
<v Speaker 3>that was weird. But you guys think we ever see
<v Speaker 3>Quantic Dreams Star Wars Eclipse.
<v Speaker 2>We've seen Mikey go ahead, Oh.
<v Speaker 1>I mean so Quantic dream and release the game this year,
<v Speaker 1>by the ways, and that while that Spellcasters podcaster yes right,
<v Speaker 1>that came out, so it came out in early access
<v Speaker 1>for twenty six it is like just under seven hundred
<v Speaker 1>reviews at mixed so that games that's just not going
<v Speaker 1>to happen. That game is not going to be a thing.
<v Speaker 1>So they're going to lose money on that. I think
<v Speaker 1>I read, I think I saw somewhere and I don't
<v Speaker 1>know Mayze's case, that they were hoping to finance or
<v Speaker 1>fund the Star Wars game with the money from Spellcasters. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>that's not going to happen. This does not seem like
<v Speaker 1>it's going to be a real video game.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and we've already seen so many Star Wars movies
<v Speaker 2>and games get announced, they'll have a trailer or a
<v Speaker 2>little teaser and then nothing will ever happen with them.
<v Speaker 2>And I think, right, just another one of those.
<v Speaker 3>And like you know, the or it is a lot
<v Speaker 3>of work has been done on this game, and so
<v Speaker 3>you know, yeah, it's got a few years left, but
<v Speaker 3>they've completed a lot of stuff. So that's one of
<v Speaker 3>the issues is they kind of need to hire up
<v Speaker 3>to work on other stuff they haven't done yet. And
<v Speaker 3>the people who could do the other stuff, well, they've
<v Speaker 3>already done a lot of their work. That does not
<v Speaker 3>mean that it's like, oh, well they've already done so
<v Speaker 3>much work, so they're just gonna see it through. No,
<v Speaker 3>they could easily still just cancel this game and it
<v Speaker 3>never sees the light of day. We've seen that, like
<v Speaker 3>you said, Jan a number of times with similarly similarly
<v Speaker 3>scoped out Star Wars games.
<v Speaker 2>Specifically, so and I can't say that there are many
<v Speaker 2>folks clamoring for a Quantic Dreams Star Wars game as well.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, especially like, do you guys remember the
<v Speaker 3>details about it's setting and everything.
<v Speaker 1>It's that High Republic stuff, that's the high Republic.
<v Speaker 3>H Yeah, which you know, like they've kind of stopped
<v Speaker 3>and started up again a little bit. There was they
<v Speaker 3>like reintroduced a new comic line that still takes place
<v Speaker 3>in the High Republic, but that never quite hit the
<v Speaker 3>way that they were trying to get it to hit.
<v Speaker 3>So like, who's gonna, like you said, Jane, who's asking
<v Speaker 3>for this game? But specifically who's asking this game set
<v Speaker 3>in the High Republic? Like I like some of the
<v Speaker 3>High Republic stuff, and that's not what I'm showing up
<v Speaker 3>to Star Wars games for. So it's always been in
<v Speaker 3>a weird place. I don't feel like it's any more
<v Speaker 3>real today than it was in twenty twenty one.
<v Speaker 2>Star Wars is also just such in a funky place, like.
<v Speaker 3>I, yeah, everyone's talking about everyone talked about Mandalorian and
<v Speaker 3>Grogu dude.
<v Speaker 1>And what's gonna happen with that? Like is that like
<v Speaker 1>it's it's going to fizzle out?
<v Speaker 4>Like yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I saw a trailer for it and then I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I love that first season a Mando, I love Pedro, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>but I felt nothing watching that trailer.
<v Speaker 3>I mean it's like you gotta keep watching the second
<v Speaker 3>season a Boba fet or whatever and all this other stuff.
<v Speaker 3>And I did, Yeah, I mean I watched some of it,
<v Speaker 3>but it's like every every ounce of it I watched
<v Speaker 3>maybe less interested in whatever this.
<v Speaker 1>Movie was gonna be, and now it's now it's here.
<v Speaker 1>What just I still can't think about the time when
<v Speaker 1>they go, like Mandalori needs a new ship to replace
<v Speaker 1>his RV in the sky that blew up? How about
<v Speaker 1>a two seater Naboo Star for a baby for a
<v Speaker 1>baby you'll live in this? Yes? Where do they go
<v Speaker 1>to the bathroom? Who cares?
<v Speaker 2>I did initially pop for that until I thought about
<v Speaker 2>the logistics.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that is the thing where it's like I'm always
<v Speaker 3>thinking about where do they go to the bathroom?
<v Speaker 1>In space?
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't get on board with it.
<v Speaker 3>All right, let's keep going here. Sony dlist hundreds more
<v Speaker 3>PS five and PS four games, including Jesus Simulator. Sony
<v Speaker 3>is escalating its efforts to clean up the PlayStation store
<v Speaker 3>by delisting thousands of low quality or deceptive games with
<v Speaker 3>the catalogs of publishers like Welding, bite Go Game console
<v Speaker 3>publisher and VRC Forge recently wiped They removed titles like
<v Speaker 3>Jesus Simulator, Watermelon Fruits Puzzle, and titles to entitled I'm Sorry,
<v Speaker 3>and titles intended to confuse consumers, such as I Am
<v Speaker 3>Busy Digging a Hole, which is a clear knockoff of
<v Speaker 3>another game. One of the things that people are saying
<v Speaker 3>is oh A has made it very simple for these
<v Speaker 3>companies to make even more of these knockoff games very quickly,
<v Speaker 3>and people will make a mistake and purchase them. I listen,
<v Speaker 3>these games are so low quality. It's like, if you
<v Speaker 3>want to get them off your store, I don't blame you.
<v Speaker 3>I still think the better solution would be, like just
<v Speaker 3>let people get refunds if they don't like the game
<v Speaker 3>that they bought, like within it in the first two hours.
<v Speaker 3>Just do exactly what Steam does and let people one
<v Speaker 3>click get a refund. But Sony still won't do that.
<v Speaker 3>So it is a problem that they have these deceptive
<v Speaker 3>games on their store, or it's more of a problem
<v Speaker 3>I should say. It would still be a problem for
<v Speaker 3>a lot of people who feel like it clogs up
<v Speaker 3>the store shelves makes it hard to find stuff, which
<v Speaker 3>it certainly does. But yeah, you know, cleaning up their
<v Speaker 3>store from a lot of this junk is probably going
<v Speaker 3>to be one of the solutions here. But do you
<v Speaker 3>guys expect Sony to eventually make it possible for people
<v Speaker 3>to get an easy refund?
<v Speaker 2>When was the last what was the last game that
<v Speaker 2>launched poorly that they had to offer refunds?
<v Speaker 4>Was it Cyberpunk?
<v Speaker 1>I mean refunds?
<v Speaker 2>Uh?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but it might have of uh right, because they
<v Speaker 3>shut that game down pretty quick. Yeah, Mind's I was
<v Speaker 3>in Mindseye was another one.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that was because of a sabotage.
<v Speaker 4>Though.
<v Speaker 5>Of course, now we're gonna find out and that DLC
<v Speaker 5>they're gonna but you're all gonna feel like fools.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I'm so excited for that. That's because
<v Speaker 2>we can't need to check it out.
<v Speaker 3>We will, We will definitely be checking that out as
<v Speaker 3>soon as it happens for sure.
<v Speaker 1>But that what that did happen last week? Uh?
<v Speaker 3>Mind's I said that they're gonna have DLCU for their game.
<v Speaker 3>That explains who and why, like the sabotage behind Mind's
<v Speaker 3>Eye happened.
<v Speaker 4>Not just explain, it's gonna provide proof.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna pa names, guys. Yeah, I don't think you
<v Speaker 1>can do. That's right. I mean legally that's a problem.
<v Speaker 1>You can.
<v Speaker 3>But your lawyers are gonna be killing themselves and you
<v Speaker 3>feel like we're gonna get out of here. We can't
<v Speaker 3>do this job anymore.
<v Speaker 1>Please?
<v Speaker 4>Is he the espionage? Is he he the sabotage?
<v Speaker 1>He's been working for rock Star this entire Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>You know what that minds?
<v Speaker 5>I think as the energy of like when a wrestler
<v Speaker 5>gets me too and then is like, oh, you're all
<v Speaker 5>gonna feel like idiots. Here's my two hour YouTube explanation
<v Speaker 5>showing all my text messages and naming all the names like.
<v Speaker 2>It has that energy to it. Yes, Joey Ryles, you know,
<v Speaker 2>naming names like an EC three type of deal.
<v Speaker 4>They're going to control their narrative yet.
<v Speaker 1>Uh yeah, it's uh so we're looking forward to that.
<v Speaker 1>We'll see what that looks like.
<v Speaker 3>I just continue to be baffled by everything happening with Minds.
<v Speaker 3>I for sure, all right, PlayStation Studios removes nearly all
<v Speaker 3>PC references from its website, so they still have not
<v Speaker 3>come out as Sony and said that thing that Jason
<v Speaker 3>Schreyer said, we're doing. We're not going to port all
<v Speaker 3>of our big games, A big single player games to
<v Speaker 3>PC anymore. We're not doing that anymore. Yeah, uh, they
<v Speaker 3>haven't said that publicly, but they are clearly moving in
<v Speaker 3>that direction, as a lot of their references in their
<v Speaker 3>SDK and and all kinds of other stuff, they're uh
<v Speaker 3>references on their terms of service, references on the store
<v Speaker 3>that say PC. They've dropped that stuff. So they're de
<v Speaker 3>emphasizing it. At the very least. I can imagine it's
<v Speaker 3>probably going to be challenging for them to communicate it
<v Speaker 3>a little bit because they don't want to make it
<v Speaker 3>seem like they're never going to release anything on the
<v Speaker 3>PC ever again because the multiplayer live service games will
<v Speaker 3>still be coming to PC, so it's just a specific
<v Speaker 3>set of games. But yeah, it does feel like that
<v Speaker 3>is really happening. So recent games like Goes to Yota
<v Speaker 3>and Sorrow's are just coming up soon. Those are the
<v Speaker 3>first two to get marked as those won't be coming
<v Speaker 3>to PC. There is no plans to do that, So
<v Speaker 3>that era is over for now. And I guess how
<v Speaker 3>do you guys feel about that?
<v Speaker 1>And do you expect the change to continue to stick?
<v Speaker 4>It seems silly?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, it's a bummer. I mean, at this point,
<v Speaker 1>my PC is more powerful than my base PlayStation five,
<v Speaker 1>and I'm not buying our PlayStation five pro anytime soon.
<v Speaker 1>You know, even something like a Sorrow's If I play that,
<v Speaker 1>I bet I'd like to play that game with mouse
<v Speaker 1>and keyboard. That is a game mostly about pointing and
<v Speaker 1>shooting at things largely. Yeah, it's it's a bumber seeing
<v Speaker 1>that we're moving in that direction. I guess I kind
<v Speaker 1>of get it from the perspective like why why aren't
<v Speaker 1>we shoring up? Why aren't we really emphasizing the fact
<v Speaker 1>that we are a console company. Why are we dabbling
<v Speaker 1>in this PC space that you know that's a world
<v Speaker 1>war Suddenly, PlayStation isn't special. They are incredibly special in
<v Speaker 1>the console space. So I get again investing there a
<v Speaker 1>little bit. I'm not going to be shot to work
<v Speaker 1>back over here at some point in of five years,
<v Speaker 1>ten years, whatever, Right, places games being a PC more regularly.
<v Speaker 2>Again, I'm thinking less than that. I'm thinking three Yeah, on.
<v Speaker 3>The other side of the PS six like, yeah, very quickly,
<v Speaker 3>Like some of those launch games might show up on
<v Speaker 3>PC like a year later, right, I could see that happening.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, depending on how I don't even want to say
<v Speaker 2>the words PlayStation six launch goes. But if that goes
<v Speaker 2>poorly or availability people's ability to even buy them is poor,
<v Speaker 2>then they're going to need to still sell the software.
<v Speaker 2>So I could see them pivoting and being like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>you know what, we're back on PC.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, yeah, And I'll say a lot of people in
<v Speaker 3>chatter echoing that exact same sentiment. Jan I think that's
<v Speaker 3>the general consens the series that once they get to
<v Speaker 3>the PS six, they'll reintroduce it. At that point, it's
<v Speaker 3>you know, it may take a little bit of time,
<v Speaker 3>but they will all right. Speaking of PS six, report
<v Speaker 3>claims that the PS six handheld will be more powerful
<v Speaker 3>than the Xbox Series S when it launches in terms
<v Speaker 3>of just raw performance and then anything involving ray tracing,
<v Speaker 3>it will be much much better at performing. The PS
<v Speaker 3>six handheld goes along with you know, a standard PS
<v Speaker 3>six and maybe a PS six S, a less powerful
<v Speaker 3>PS six as well. All those things have been in
<v Speaker 3>various form of forms of reports about the next generation
<v Speaker 3>from Sony. But hearing like a general profile of how
<v Speaker 3>powerful this thing will be, does that get you guys
<v Speaker 3>more excited? Prepare you more for a much higher price.
<v Speaker 3>I want a hand out PlayStation six for sure, Like
<v Speaker 3>that would be the most exciting for me. But it
<v Speaker 3>will come down to is this thing eight hundred nine
<v Speaker 3>hundred dollars?
<v Speaker 1>How expensive is it gonna be? Yeah, there's just so
<v Speaker 1>many other questions. Yeah, the idea of having a really
<v Speaker 1>powerful PlayStation portable console, that'd be good. I would I
<v Speaker 1>would like that. It gets weird because I can know
<v Speaker 1>how many pillars of portables are I going to have,
<v Speaker 1>and I have the Switch, I need to have my
<v Speaker 1>PC portable, and I need to have my by PlayStation
<v Speaker 1>portal thing, and all these things are costing seven hundred,
<v Speaker 1>eight hundred nine hundred dollars. Now it's like choices are
<v Speaker 1>gonna have to start being made. Maybe two out of three,
<v Speaker 1>maybe one out of three or none. But BOYD, being
<v Speaker 1>a three out of three household, that's gonna be tough.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, agreed.
<v Speaker 2>Especially it doesn't help when like every time I see
<v Speaker 2>a new friend post about the ayn thor I'm like
<v Speaker 2>I should have bought that, I should have grabbed that,
<v Speaker 2>and yeah, how I'm feeling the foam o of that.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, And the stuff is just gonna keep going up
<v Speaker 3>in price, so it's like, yeah, stuff like that, you
<v Speaker 3>kind of want to act and then you feel left
<v Speaker 3>out and we'll be like, oh, I didn't have to
<v Speaker 3>spend that money. I'm glad I saved that money.
<v Speaker 1>And then a week later you get the desire again
<v Speaker 1>and now it's one hundred dollars more expensive.
<v Speaker 3>All right, let's see here. Level five Vision twenty twenty
<v Speaker 3>six will be a stream that's happening so soon to
<v Speaker 3>show off what Level five the developer is working on.
<v Speaker 3>This is happening in April tenth at six am Pacific time.
<v Speaker 1>Eight am.
<v Speaker 3>That's not I can't be right six am Pacific time.
<v Speaker 3>I'll say nine am Eastern. That makes more sense. The stream,
<v Speaker 3>which will feature Level five President and CEO Akiro Hino,
<v Speaker 3>is expected to provide updates, new trailers, and release state
<v Speaker 3>windows for upcoming games like Deca Police and Azuma eleven
<v Speaker 3>ri and Professor Layton and The New World of Steam.
<v Speaker 3>Professor Layton in the New World of Steam is when
<v Speaker 3>I'm looking forward to. That got announced a few years ago.
<v Speaker 3>We haven't heard much about it since it does feel
<v Speaker 3>like it's time for that. And then Deca Police and
<v Speaker 3>that's been in the works for forever. Yeah, I still
<v Speaker 3>don't really know what it is. I feel like I
<v Speaker 3>heard that name forever ago. Yeah, they've been working on
<v Speaker 3>it for a very long time. Uh So it'd be
<v Speaker 3>nice to like, oh, these things are real and are
<v Speaker 3>coming soon.
<v Speaker 1>That would be exciting.
<v Speaker 2>But you know, none of this matters because gang the streets.
<v Speaker 2>There's heat on the street. It's not just me this time.
<v Speaker 2>We're all clamoring for dark Cloud three. Where is dark
<v Speaker 2>Cloud three?
<v Speaker 4>Many people are asking this? Thank you?
<v Speaker 2>Dan?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Yeah, what's the last time? Level five may one
<v Speaker 1>of their like really big RPGs, though, that's something they
<v Speaker 1>were able to do a lot in the PS three
<v Speaker 1>are Yeah, K two was a PS four game boy
<v Speaker 1>that was probably like twenty eighteen though, right that was
<v Speaker 1>probably oh god, even quite some time I go. Since then,
<v Speaker 1>I think.
<v Speaker 3>They made Fantasy Life Eye, which I don't know if
<v Speaker 3>that's exactly what Mike is getting at, because that's man,
<v Speaker 3>it's it's a big game.
<v Speaker 1>It is a big game. Yeah, yeah, is twenty eighteen?
<v Speaker 1>How about that? Assistant? What what's this Megaton series? Fancy
<v Speaker 1>Life in a zooma? Yeah, you know, they haven't made
<v Speaker 1>a big rpg and it's a big fancy that's something,
<v Speaker 1>but it's a good game. Yeah, you can't make a
<v Speaker 1>dark Cloud three on top of whatever is doing that, right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Man shouts with the Jean dark or d arc for
<v Speaker 2>the PSP game was an underappreciated banger.
<v Speaker 1>I uh, I can't believe. Like the start of level five,
<v Speaker 1>they were like dark Cloud dark Cloud two. Uh, then
<v Speaker 1>somehow we're making Dragon Quest eight. What how that? Well?
<v Speaker 1>Look geezu. He just had an incredible run on the
<v Speaker 1>p S. Then they had wrote Galaxy John d Ark
<v Speaker 1>and then after that's like Professor Layton. And then when
<v Speaker 1>we first saw What Night Chronicles, we all thought that
<v Speaker 1>was gonna be a very big deal. That was like here,
<v Speaker 1>that was like the one of the early Places three tech.
<v Speaker 1>It looked amazing. It turned out to mostly be a bullshit.
<v Speaker 1>I also still kind of want to go and play
<v Speaker 1>Dark Knight. I mean White Night Chronicles one and two.
<v Speaker 1>At some point there's a White Night Chronicles too, with
<v Speaker 1>let's do this sixty Metacritic? What what is?
<v Speaker 3>They also had the game that was most like the
<v Speaker 3>closest to overtaking Pokemon as like the big thing in
<v Speaker 3>Japan with Yoki Watch which was massive. It was so
<v Speaker 3>huge for like five six, seven years, and then to me,
<v Speaker 3>it felt like it fell off the planet. I bet
<v Speaker 3>it's still popular.
<v Speaker 1>It seems like it kind of like, yeah, that was
<v Speaker 1>since COVID, there hasn't been a new Yokai watch.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, let's like, here's the same gang there, here's
<v Speaker 2>the thing. It's in the name. Nintendo doesn't want to
<v Speaker 2>listen to me. Valve doesn't want to listen to me.
<v Speaker 2>There now, Jan, I'm on.
<v Speaker 1>The streets and the steps of playing shows. Jan, please
<v Speaker 1>give me a goddamn watch.
<v Speaker 4>Anyway, get a watch?
<v Speaker 1>All right? Uh?
<v Speaker 3>The supermar Brothers Movie the Galaxy Movie becomes are the
<v Speaker 3>series because the only animated movie series to open globally
<v Speaker 3>at more than three hundred and fifty million dollars twice.
<v Speaker 3>Both the Super Mario Brothers Movie did it and the
<v Speaker 3>Super Mario Galaxy Movie did that as well. This past weekend,
<v Speaker 3>the Super Mario Galaxy Movie made three hundred and seventy
<v Speaker 3>two point five million dollars globally. That puts it just
<v Speaker 3>behind what the Super Mario Brothers Movie did three years
<v Speaker 3>ago at three hundred and eighty seven point eight million,
<v Speaker 3>So just a touch off there, but that is a
<v Speaker 3>ton of money. It is like just unequivocally massively successful. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>this is what everyone involved was hoping for, that they
<v Speaker 3>could replicate the success of the first movie again. And
<v Speaker 3>it ensures that they will begin reinvesting in this stuff
<v Speaker 3>across the board, and you're gonna get a lot more
<v Speaker 3>Mario movies obviously, but I like, now it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>full gear into taking all these properties and making a
<v Speaker 3>bunch of other a bunch of other Nintendo related animated stuff,
<v Speaker 3>probably at illumination.
<v Speaker 2>Mike and Grub, you know, you two have seen the movie.
<v Speaker 2>Did it seem like they positioned a character like Fox
<v Speaker 2>McLeod in a way that he could successfully have his
<v Speaker 2>own spinoff movie just based off of the movie character alone.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, there's so even with Star Fox popping off
<v Speaker 1>like this and being like the movie puts over Starfaux's
<v Speaker 1>big right, Yes, so there's gonna be interest. There's probably
<v Speaker 1>gonna be a new game. Even then, I'm still like,
<v Speaker 1>are they really gonna like make a Star Fox movie?
<v Speaker 1>I hope so, might be more likely he shows up
<v Speaker 1>his stuff. It's like that Hawke. I think jan he'll
<v Speaker 1>show up on our movies. Maybe at one point get
<v Speaker 1>a limited run series on something Peacock. I don't know
<v Speaker 1>what that is.
<v Speaker 2>Is Daredevil the better comparison in terms of like Marveld like.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of shows. Maybe maybe, I don't know, we'll see,
<v Speaker 1>because he definitely is a highlight of the film, and
<v Speaker 1>I am curious where all that goes. I mean, I'm
<v Speaker 1>kind of curious what exactly the third one is going
<v Speaker 1>to look like now, because they really do hold very
<v Speaker 1>little back here. Of course that it's Mario, there is
<v Speaker 1>still a ton that they can do, especially now that
<v Speaker 1>the far starfox Gate is open. You could just be like,
<v Speaker 1>h and Pikachu's in this one. They're also tickets. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the post credits character, which I won't see who
<v Speaker 3>it is, but you know, it's very similar to how
<v Speaker 3>they do stuff with Sonic, where it's like, Okay, the
<v Speaker 3>next movie is gonna be about this character. It's like
<v Speaker 3>the first one with Yoshi, and it's like the implication
<v Speaker 3>of that character is like, Okay, I bet some other
<v Speaker 3>ones that are often related to that character will show up,
<v Speaker 3>and it could be the New Threats and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 3>So you could see where they go.
<v Speaker 1>To just keep this going.
<v Speaker 3>It's gonna be the same thing, a lot of references,
<v Speaker 3>with just a new set of villains each time, basically,
<v Speaker 3>and this time was Bowser Junior will be someone else
<v Speaker 3>next time. They could keep that going for a while,
<v Speaker 3>but I do I want to see what it looks
<v Speaker 3>like when they do begin working on something like maybe
<v Speaker 3>a Star Fox. I don't know if that's gonna happen.
<v Speaker 3>They're probably gonna try Donkey Kong first, see how that goes,
<v Speaker 3>and then take it from there, and if that does well,
<v Speaker 3>maybe we do get something involved in a Star Fox.
<v Speaker 1>In Peter, I want to see what's the Guardians of
<v Speaker 1>the Galaxy moment right where it's a Nintendo franchise that
<v Speaker 1>the average person doesn't know about and it's movie was
<v Speaker 1>a giant hit.
<v Speaker 4>Ye Chris trop.
<v Speaker 1>X, I was thinking, actually, all right, label like Polataina
<v Speaker 1>a lot, that's for sure.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, let's get these last couple of stories. State of
<v Speaker 3>Decays threes twenty twenty announced trailer was just a concept,
<v Speaker 3>studio head says, I basically said in twenty twenty when
<v Speaker 3>they announced that game, it was just a word document
<v Speaker 3>and nothing else, but they had a trailer announced it
<v Speaker 3>back in twenty twenty. Now it is the year twenty
<v Speaker 3>twenty six, and for the first time, it sounds like
<v Speaker 3>the game is going to be playable to people. They're
<v Speaker 3>going to show up with a beta or an alpha.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's an alpha in May, so people are
<v Speaker 3>gonna be able to play this game. State of k three,
<v Speaker 3>Wake up your brat shoemakers, tell them it's time to
<v Speaker 3>go back to State of Decay. So the game's real. Surprisingly,
<v Speaker 3>it's not one of those ones that got caught up
<v Speaker 3>in the Microsoft calling, so they'll actually release that game.
<v Speaker 3>I'm a little surprised that it made it through, but
<v Speaker 3>I'm glad it did.
<v Speaker 1>I have a soft spot for State of Decay. It's
<v Speaker 1>a systems based game, and I like those.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't realize how strong of an audience that this
<v Speaker 2>game has.
<v Speaker 5>People that are into it are extremely into it. Mike
<v Speaker 5>Maharty is one of them, and it is a very
<v Speaker 5>unique game. Yeah, player co op, that is the type
<v Speaker 5>of thing it would be fun to kind of mess
<v Speaker 5>around with.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I would try. I don't think i've played a
<v Speaker 1>second of a State of Decay before, so yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>guess I should try one on.
<v Speaker 3>It's very much about like emergent storytelling, getting these characters.
<v Speaker 3>They have their own background, and then that makes them
<v Speaker 3>behave in a certain way, and you try to get
<v Speaker 3>them to do things and you're like, oh, I didn't
<v Speaker 3>account for the fact that he's actually a dick and
<v Speaker 3>I shouldn't have done that, and then you kind of
<v Speaker 3>tell these stories and I like that concept. I just
<v Speaker 3>have never been able to fully click with one yet.
<v Speaker 5>It's immerging stuff in the systems that does it for me,
<v Speaker 5>where it's you know, normally I'm not big into zombie stuff,
<v Speaker 5>but this one has its own hook that like got
<v Speaker 5>me to look past that and really enjoy it.
<v Speaker 2>I have a small specific friend group that is very
<v Speaker 2>much into this kind of like post apocalyptic zombie world.
<v Speaker 2>This Day's gone. Any of the Walking Dead games will
<v Speaker 2>appeal to them because it's like, yeah, I'm a tough guy,
<v Speaker 2>I could survive the zombie apocalypse.
<v Speaker 3>I think that this is still somehow appealing to those
<v Speaker 3>people while being kind of its own thing that people
<v Speaker 3>who just are there for systems can show up for.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I'm also not super into zombies, so it's
<v Speaker 3>like I think it's one of the things to push
<v Speaker 3>me away it's like, I like this idea, maybe in
<v Speaker 3>a different way, but you can see why the apocalypse
<v Speaker 3>works so well.
<v Speaker 2>For It's funny because that same group of friends isn't
<v Speaker 2>into anything like Dead Rising at all. Like Dead Rising
<v Speaker 2>is like too goofy.
<v Speaker 1>The zombies shouldn't be laughed at. It's sad. Yeah, they
<v Speaker 1>used to have brains. I don't know if they think
<v Speaker 1>it's sad, but they think it's serious. It's time to
<v Speaker 1>take these zombies seriously.
<v Speaker 3>Inside, speaking of taking people seriously, the Mass Effect TV
<v Speaker 3>show will reportedly be rewritten to appeal to quote non gamers.
<v Speaker 1>Report.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I don't know, report claims Amazon's head of Global
<v Speaker 3>TV Peter Friedlander, who has now become the last word
<v Speaker 3>at Amazon by looking at scripts and be like I
<v Speaker 3>approve or I don't approve. He didn't approve of the
<v Speaker 3>Mass Effects scripts, which is going to start filming soon.
<v Speaker 3>It's like very close to switching over to production. Good,
<v Speaker 3>but they don't have the scripts ready. Yeah yeah, he
<v Speaker 3>said no, go back and do him make it appeal
<v Speaker 3>to non gamers. And I still don't really know what
<v Speaker 3>that means. I've seen people like hypothesize that, oh, they
<v Speaker 3>made it to appeal to fans of Mass Effect, and
<v Speaker 3>if you're not a fan of Mass Effect, you won't
<v Speaker 3>recognize this character. And it's too inside for people who
<v Speaker 3>already are familiar with all of the lore. It's like, well,
<v Speaker 3>that that would be I think that would be dumb
<v Speaker 3>if that's the way they were doing things. But that's
<v Speaker 3>not what it says. It says non gamers, not non
<v Speaker 3>Mass Effect fans.
<v Speaker 1>Right, because like obviously, you know, like Fallout and The
<v Speaker 1>Last of Us the reason why they were big successful
<v Speaker 1>TV shows because they did attract an audience outside of
<v Speaker 1>just that core fans those video games. But they it
<v Speaker 1>seems like they did that by just being really good
<v Speaker 1>adaptations of the video game thing and making feel right,
<v Speaker 1>making those people happy, and then it's just so good
<v Speaker 1>and well done that other people discover it. Uh, because
<v Speaker 1>you know, if you go the other way, they end
<v Speaker 1>up with a Halo thing where we're gonna appeal to
<v Speaker 1>the normans and make we're gonna we know how to
<v Speaker 1>make this work interesting and cinematics. Yeah, you know, well,
<v Speaker 1>you can't just have a character who doesn't show his
<v Speaker 1>face a bunch of times, like come on, then you
<v Speaker 1>really lose that core audience. It's concerning here because Pas
<v Speaker 1>Effect has very dedicated fans and if they if they
<v Speaker 1>turn on this thing, there's no hope. You have to
<v Speaker 1>have them on board with this.
<v Speaker 2>Do you think they the original script may have been
<v Speaker 2>to science and sci fi heavy that they thought it
<v Speaker 2>may not be unpalatable to the more possible to like it.
<v Speaker 1>Could be there, but you know, it could just be like,
<v Speaker 1>what's a Garris? That's stupid and alien? Right, Like, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, we just don't know what the issue.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's this strong possibility that this Mass Effect show
<v Speaker 2>will not have that many aliens in it.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's that was part of what was so
<v Speaker 1>cool about Mass Effect when I first played it. It's like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, well, with a Star Trek, a lot of
<v Speaker 1>the aliens is have to be people with the forehead
<v Speaker 1>ridge because it's TV and it's cheap. On a video game,
<v Speaker 1>you don't have to do that, And some of the
<v Speaker 1>aliens will look a bit more humanoid than others. But
<v Speaker 1>you couldn't really get a Rex in a TV show
<v Speaker 1>with decent visual effects. And now that we're still here,
<v Speaker 1>we're going to make the show. I'm still kind of like,
<v Speaker 1>how are you gonna do that? How are you gonna
<v Speaker 1>make Garrison Rex look right?
<v Speaker 3>And that's the other thing is that's described as a
<v Speaker 3>premium genre drama, like our pricey excusing pricey drama. So
<v Speaker 3>they're gonna spend a lot of money on this thing.
<v Speaker 3>And Amazon has spent like a billion dollars on their
<v Speaker 3>Lord of the Rings show and all this other stuff.
<v Speaker 3>And apparently it's important to Bezos to have these big
<v Speaker 3>premium shows, so they're probably going to spend a lot
<v Speaker 3>of money on this thing.
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully that goes a long way.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, unless, like the original script was just very poorly written,
<v Speaker 2>this this bode super well.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't know. I don't think that. It just
<v Speaker 1>needs to be appealing to people who like good shows.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's what they should do.
<v Speaker 3>And yeah that being honest to the games, sure they should.
<v Speaker 1>They can't fumble this one. This is kind of like
<v Speaker 1>one of the remaining big golden gooses in terms of
<v Speaker 1>a video game property that could be a TV show.
<v Speaker 1>This is the one everybody wants. You could see how
<v Speaker 1>it could work, but it could just as easily not work.
<v Speaker 5>I don't know what about all the like you know,
<v Speaker 5>twenty times they've super duper confirmed of the middle year.
<v Speaker 5>Solid movie is in the works and they've green lit
<v Speaker 5>a script, and you jack Man and Oscar, it's in
<v Speaker 5>the works. It's basically in production. Yeah for it every
<v Speaker 5>fucking time. The Biostuch movie is right behind it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, oh my yeah, I mean, you know, uh, a
<v Speaker 2>successful or I haven't seen it myself, but the Exit
<v Speaker 2>eight movie was apparently really well received based off it,
<v Speaker 2>like the behindest.
<v Speaker 3>Rated video game movie of all time or something like that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So I don't know, maybe you lean into the
<v Speaker 2>zaniness of the property you're adapting.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, definitely.
<v Speaker 3>I think they they're learning the wrong lessons if they're
<v Speaker 3>running away from the video game stuff by being like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>any sort of reference to a video game camp be
<v Speaker 3>in here, because yeah, Fallout very much worked on that level,
<v Speaker 3>and it went a long way to making people more
<v Speaker 3>excited about the actual TV show. All right, that does
<v Speaker 3>it for the headlines, jan I'm handing this show back
<v Speaker 3>over to you.
<v Speaker 4>Folks.
<v Speaker 2>Were gonna take a quick bricky break and be back
<v Speaker 2>with the emails and super chets if we got any
<v Speaker 2>right after this.
<v Speaker 4>The emails.
<v Speaker 2>Emails pomcast giant bomb dot com is the email address
<v Speaker 2>to send your emails to right in about any and everything.
<v Speaker 2>We've been getting inundated with Hella emails. I specifically made
<v Speaker 2>a note to myself to mention it here. We've gotten
<v Speaker 2>some weird emails. Good hell, yea good. I love that
<v Speaker 2>some of them make it onto the show, some of
<v Speaker 2>them don't. I still appreciate you sending your emails too.
<v Speaker 2>And hey, you know, for anyone going through a rough time,
<v Speaker 2>we assure you that we overhear at gb HQ or
<v Speaker 2>here for you to make sure that we help you
<v Speaker 2>get through the day. First email comes from Paul. This morning,
<v Speaker 2>I got an email from Mike Minatti with a code
<v Speaker 2>for being a Premium member parentheses thanks, and it felt
<v Speaker 2>excited that my friend was writing to me. I've never
<v Speaker 2>met any of you and live on the other side
<v Speaker 2>of the world Australia. When was the last time you
<v Speaker 2>got excited about a message from a friend who doesn't
<v Speaker 2>know you exist?
<v Speaker 1>Paul, boy boy, that's pretty specific. Yeah, friends exist. What
<v Speaker 1>I've got it, but you don't know they exist, but
<v Speaker 1>they got it, but they messaged you. And that's a
<v Speaker 1>pretty art combo.
<v Speaker 4>I think you exist is the way you.
<v Speaker 1>Say yeah, that might be a super special fun feeling
<v Speaker 1>that just you experienced there. But you know, I'm happy
<v Speaker 1>for you for it. I guess what, I know you
<v Speaker 1>exist now, so it will never happen again. Wow, folks
<v Speaker 1>and chatter Kenny g. Yeah, absolutely, that's a good one. True. Actually,
<v Speaker 1>never mind, you're not special.
<v Speaker 5>Logan Roy for me, Yeah right yeah yeah, Ran Cox, Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>Bryan Cox.
<v Speaker 2>I can't think of one specifically, Yeah, neither. I mean
<v Speaker 2>maybe learning that like a celebrity listens or listen to
<v Speaker 2>any of the podcasts at one point that that always
<v Speaker 2>gets me going find out that like John super iye,
<v Speaker 2>Patch Wolf is a fan and h Bomber Guy is
<v Speaker 2>a fan, I'm like, oh, oh, shure, I got a
<v Speaker 2>tiny the ship a bit.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah right, Like definitely like meeting some people at at
<v Speaker 3>like packs where it's like, oh yeah, that's just Dan
<v Speaker 3>Olson and yeah that's cool to see him. He has
<v Speaker 3>no idea I exist for sure.
<v Speaker 5>I thought it was funny the time Jose and Seko
<v Speaker 5>thought I was dead. I just posted the tweet and
<v Speaker 5>the Chad Jose and Siko somehow thought I died and
<v Speaker 5>tweeted a rest in peace to me and tagged me.
<v Speaker 1>If he does still live.
<v Speaker 3>The day that it comes that you do die, I'm
<v Speaker 3>going to make sure he's the one that announces.
<v Speaker 5>Please do so. Oh No, I'm sorry, he tag me.
<v Speaker 5>He says, I'm sorry to hear Dan is dead. I
<v Speaker 5>didn't know a good strange little man. Rest in peace, buddy,
<v Speaker 5>hug for you.
<v Speaker 2>Just miss a good strange little man is incredible memoir.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah all right, Rob writes in Hey Bombarados, I'm visiting
<v Speaker 2>Chicago for a week later this year and want to
<v Speaker 2>soak in some food options that are part of the
<v Speaker 2>Giant Bomb lore. I live in Denmark, where restaurants are
<v Speaker 2>annoyingly classy, so I want to get into the grease zone.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, just don't go to a Portillo's or else. You're
<v Speaker 1>a filthy kind of funny fan instat exactly.
<v Speaker 2>Don't be a best friend, be.
<v Speaker 3>A worst friend, exactly, Giant Bomb worst friend.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, welcome.
<v Speaker 4>Uh, clearly I was gonna say no.
<v Speaker 5>Let's new sworn enemies, Giant Bomb sworn enemy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, clearly, I will order a Jet's pizza on day one.
<v Speaker 2>But what other Giant Bomb canonical restaurant should I try?
<v Speaker 2>To give me some good old Americana red Lobster Cheesecake Factory,
<v Speaker 2>give me your go to top five thanks and love
<v Speaker 2>everything you do. Launch look for life.
<v Speaker 4>Ron, I mean giant bomb cannon.
<v Speaker 5>There was that entire the packs that I spent the
<v Speaker 5>entire time at the Buffalo Wild Wings, to the point
<v Speaker 5>where they gave me the like manager jersey and a
<v Speaker 5>name tag and I had control of the remote control
<v Speaker 5>in the restaurant. I still have the jersey. Actually that
<v Speaker 5>was my referee.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, yeah Buffalo Wings.
<v Speaker 2>Those are going away. So if you can find one,
<v Speaker 2>we go to one. I guess Yeah, I'm not doing
<v Speaker 2>too well, really great.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, talk about.
<v Speaker 1>Let's I mean cheese factory. You kind of have to
<v Speaker 1>see it to believe it. I think actually that one
<v Speaker 1>I maybe would try to do. There's a Margaritaville in Chicago.
<v Speaker 4>Margaritaville.
<v Speaker 2>That's a good shout, yeah, specifically for this iteration of GB.
<v Speaker 1>Right, but if you're in Chicago, you should get some
<v Speaker 1>actual Chicago pizza. If you go to the Torsi one
<v Speaker 1>like Gidono's or is good.
<v Speaker 3>Is fantastic, It's it's worth having Gio O'dono's. If you're
<v Speaker 3>a tourist, actually do that.
<v Speaker 1>You will find it incredibly American.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I find it obnoxious when people turn their nose
<v Speaker 5>down as something that's like is good pizza.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, it's tourist stuff, but it's like a good deep
<v Speaker 4>dish pizza. It's a change whatever, Get over it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, if you're tourist and be excited about being a tourist,
<v Speaker 3>there's a reason that stuff is the tour Usually.
<v Speaker 1>Chat really wants you to go to a rainforest. I
<v Speaker 1>have to let you know it's pretty. I cannot just
<v Speaker 1>I won't tell you what you gotta do there, but
<v Speaker 1>want to tell you.
<v Speaker 5>Do you think anyone ever has been inspired by that
<v Speaker 5>story and did that at a rainforest cafe?
<v Speaker 1>I do not tell you what if you have, don't
<v Speaker 1>tell me, don't tell us.
<v Speaker 3>But no one's ever done.
<v Speaker 4>That weird email right now?
<v Speaker 1>That would be too weird for email. Yeah, that's actually
<v Speaker 1>too much, guys.
<v Speaker 2>I already go through so much like psychic damage listening
<v Speaker 2>to all of the voicemails every week.
<v Speaker 1>Do not do this to me with I thought you
<v Speaker 1>were listening to us.
<v Speaker 4>No, no, I'm part of this mess.
<v Speaker 2>Also, you have to go to a gas station and
<v Speaker 2>get hot dogs and gets go to a quick trip
<v Speaker 2>roller teketos, they're great Taco bell I think Dan, you mentioned.
<v Speaker 1>Go to an harp you's seeing harpy, get like one
<v Speaker 1>beef and cheddar, right that?
<v Speaker 2>Or just go inside and just like you know, like
<v Speaker 2>rub the counter and like bless up to it.
<v Speaker 1>You know, yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Right, he was here? Yeah, all right, yes, yes? What
<v Speaker 2>is the food that Backlar likes? That he can also
<v Speaker 2>he does?
<v Speaker 1>Does he like food?
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if he likes food anymore?
<v Speaker 1>He likes he likes chicken farm when he thinks of chicken.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>That man loves a dirty martini. Oh sure, go get
<v Speaker 2>a dirty martini in his honor, extra olives please, all right.
<v Speaker 2>Travison Fargo writes in with five questions every week, I
<v Speaker 2>choose one of them. I chose the fifth one this week.
<v Speaker 2>What skill do you naturally lack but have worked the
<v Speaker 2>most to improve?
<v Speaker 1>Uh? I used to be almost cripplingly shy. Actually didn't
<v Speaker 1>really get over that until almost after college. Really even
<v Speaker 1>even during college, I wasn't, you know, doing anything too
<v Speaker 1>crazy there. So yeah, just like actually going out learning
<v Speaker 1>to be comfortable being around people and being myself and
<v Speaker 1>developing social skills things like that, you know that stuff,
<v Speaker 1>doesn't always come naturally necessarily, but you kind of just
<v Speaker 1>work on it. And you saw it was like one
<v Speaker 1>eating your front of the mirror, being like, how are
<v Speaker 1>you no? Not that all my knees right? You just
<v Speaker 1>go out there and you talk to people, you hang
<v Speaker 1>out with people, and you just devote that stuff.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, same with me.
<v Speaker 5>I was superoper shy and it was college that did
<v Speaker 5>it for me, and more importantly alcohol that that helped
<v Speaker 5>en running is when I was just not I told
<v Speaker 5>the story recently about like having to call the mile
<v Speaker 5>in gym class because I was the one that was taken.
<v Speaker 5>We'll just put down fifteen minutes and like fast forward
<v Speaker 5>to like the half marathon training and stuff, and that's
<v Speaker 5>not something that came naturally at all, and I just
<v Speaker 5>had to learn and learn through mistakes and injuries and
<v Speaker 5>stuff like that, which I'm still kind of working on.
<v Speaker 4>So but yeah, this year's going good.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>It's like just being willing to not bother people, but
<v Speaker 3>feel like I'm not bothering people by by asking them
<v Speaker 3>for something or getting their attention or something like that.
<v Speaker 3>It's like always like ah, there's no way they're gonna
<v Speaker 3>want to put up with me. And I just have
<v Speaker 3>to like get over that realize most people do not care.
<v Speaker 3>I just gotta recognize that even my time is valuable,
<v Speaker 3>so as theirs. But I can bring value to them
<v Speaker 3>if I'm bothering them.
<v Speaker 2>Even I haven't necessarily improved on this skill at all.
<v Speaker 2>But on the Filipino skill tree, there's two semi specific
<v Speaker 2>things that I'm lacking in. One of them basketball prowess,
<v Speaker 2>terrible for it. Uh. The second one exactly that grub singing.
<v Speaker 2>It's an Olympic sport in the Philippines. And I unfortunately
<v Speaker 2>my parents didn't spec in that skill tree. Instead, they
<v Speaker 2>give me Catholic guilt, okay, extra sure, yeah, yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 2>They were like, you know what, he needs a plus
<v Speaker 2>four in this. And I've tried so hard to sing, well,
<v Speaker 2>got so far. And you know, I've been told maybe
<v Speaker 2>my ceiling or maybe my bottom my floor is someone's ceiling.
<v Speaker 2>But gang, I just I'm gonna let y'all know, the
<v Speaker 2>second I can start to sing very well, I'm going
<v Speaker 2>to be so fucking insufferable.
<v Speaker 1>All right, that'd be fun. It's gonna be built in.
<v Speaker 1>Never do that, no, never, never come on, all right.
<v Speaker 2>Last email of the show and we do get a
<v Speaker 2>lot of these everyone, so I'm doing my best to
<v Speaker 2>sort through them, read most of them. I'll try and
<v Speaker 2>forward some of them if you have kind words to
<v Speaker 2>say for a specific member of the crew. There's a
<v Speaker 2>couple that actually pertain to mister Backlar, but he's not
<v Speaker 2>here today. Last email the show comes from Mark from Perth. Hello,
<v Speaker 2>GB parentheses, gorgeous boss, got a question for the BombCast.
<v Speaker 2>I'm moving from my hometown of Perth, Western Australia to London,
<v Speaker 2>UK at the end of April. My partners always wanted
<v Speaker 2>to live there at twenty seven, we felt that now
<v Speaker 2>was a good time to give it a go. I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to be keeping my current video editing job and
<v Speaker 2>working remotely, and we've already found a place to live.
<v Speaker 2>That said, I'm a bit nervous about the loneliness and
<v Speaker 2>isolation of being in a whole new country, especially when
<v Speaker 2>I won't necessarily have a place to go and meet people. Though,
<v Speaker 2>besides the obvious stuff, do you guys have any nuggets
<v Speaker 2>of wisdom for a first time mover.
<v Speaker 5>I mean, it's just that, you know, you just got
<v Speaker 5>to jump in the water thing. I mean, I've done it,
<v Speaker 5>so many times across the country and every time. You know,
<v Speaker 5>I wouldn't take any of them back, no regrets, and like,
<v Speaker 5>and you can also leave if a place doesn't click
<v Speaker 5>with you, like I. I've liked every place I've lived
<v Speaker 5>except for San Francisco, and that's why I got the
<v Speaker 5>fuck out of there after two years. So like, you know,
<v Speaker 5>if you go to London, it's not for you, go
<v Speaker 5>somewhere else, but give it a shot, give it not
<v Speaker 5>a try. You know, you'll probably find things to love,
<v Speaker 5>you'll find things to miss about home, but uh, you know,
<v Speaker 5>hopefully you're in a position where you can travel, like
<v Speaker 5>I always go back to Kansas, New York, the place
<v Speaker 5>I've lived that I enjoyed. But yeah, nothing's permanent, It's true.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think it's right. Just start just start doing stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Get up, like get on the Facebook communities, the reddits
<v Speaker 3>that are for your neighborhood and stuff like that. Just
<v Speaker 3>see what people are saying and become a part of
<v Speaker 3>the community. And then if that if it's not your vibe,
<v Speaker 3>at that point, you know you tried it. You did
<v Speaker 3>some cool stuff. You will almost certainly probably make friends
<v Speaker 3>and have cool experiences, and that's all part of it,
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, go for it.
<v Speaker 2>A difficult thing because you will be continuing to work remotely,
<v Speaker 2>is just finding the motivation to go outside. And I'm
<v Speaker 2>a big advocate for clock the fuck out at some
<v Speaker 2>point during the day. Like Grub said, go find some
<v Speaker 2>type of community, and that could be even in a
<v Speaker 2>coffee shop, that could be in a local dive bar,
<v Speaker 2>a local sporting stuff.
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure local gang of vagrant cats exactly run in
<v Speaker 3>the street with them.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Actually, volunteering is also a major thing. So you know,
<v Speaker 2>if you are a cat person, a dog person, maybe
<v Speaker 2>go volunteer on the weekends at a shelter that could
<v Speaker 2>help out and help you introduce you to other folks
<v Speaker 2>that you may mesh and vibe with.
<v Speaker 5>And you're going to London, There's gonna be plenty of
<v Speaker 5>resources and shit to do out there. It's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>it's not like when I moved to like Danbury, Connecticut.
<v Speaker 4>That can be a little tricky.
<v Speaker 5>Because like even someone as social and outgoing as me
<v Speaker 5>and everything, it's like I'm in Danbury, Connecticut. I looked,
<v Speaker 5>I tried, there was not a lot to do. But London,
<v Speaker 5>London is gonna be great for that.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I mean also two very great suggestions here. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>if you like you're into games, you know you email
<v Speaker 2>this podcast. If you're into tabletop stuff, I'm sure there's
<v Speaker 2>like a board game shop out there that you can
<v Speaker 2>meet people, maybe play magic if you're into magic or
<v Speaker 2>other table stop table pop stuff with And I love
<v Speaker 2>will suggestion join an improv class.
<v Speaker 4>I have a dead set.
<v Speaker 2>I think everyone, no matter what your career aspirations are, should,
<v Speaker 2>at some point in their life, take it acting class
<v Speaker 2>or improv class because it just gets you out of
<v Speaker 2>your shell and you know you're moving there with a partner.
<v Speaker 2>But then you'll wind up befritting a bunch of people
<v Speaker 2>that just want to bang each other, and that's just
<v Speaker 2>fun to witness.
<v Speaker 1>That is great one.
<v Speaker 3>That's that's what it's all about.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, before we get to YouTube super chats, we were
<v Speaker 2>this is the third time we've had this segment pop up.
<v Speaker 1>Jeff Grub, I want to guess that ad. That's right, everybody,
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna do the game show within a podcast. Guess
<v Speaker 1>that ad.
<v Speaker 3>It's Jeff Grubb's most famous game show where I show
<v Speaker 3>you an image from a magazine ad from the past.
<v Speaker 3>You tell me what the game is. I have to
<v Speaker 3>this time in case this goes by pretty fast, because
<v Speaker 3>there's a chance you guys just get it right away off. Yes, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>turn chat off. I am putting it in our chat here,
<v Speaker 3>but you guys can also see.
<v Speaker 1>It on the string. Fuck.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So I'm gonna describe it real quick for the
<v Speaker 3>audio listeners. Right now, I'm just showing a very small
<v Speaker 3>segment of the ad. It is a bubble that has
<v Speaker 3>someone saying blow me exclamation point.
<v Speaker 1>And that's all I have so far.
<v Speaker 4>Is it a Kirby?
<v Speaker 3>This is not a Kirby?
<v Speaker 1>All right? For some reason, the image is failing a
<v Speaker 1>load for me.
<v Speaker 4>Is it tied to the ne s I don't think so.
<v Speaker 4>I don't think.
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna say no blow.
<v Speaker 1>Is it a bust to move? Just based off your description,
<v Speaker 1>it is not bust to move.
<v Speaker 4>It's a bubble bow bobble thing bubble.
<v Speaker 3>It is not bubble bobble.
<v Speaker 5>I'm guessing this ads between nineteen ninety five and two thousand.
<v Speaker 1>Let me look at the corner. It's uh, yes, that
<v Speaker 1>was yeah.
<v Speaker 4>You're right, that's right, peak blow me suck it era, yes.
<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, it keeps it blowing, blow blow. I'm trying
<v Speaker 1>to think if it's a DS game that you've blow
<v Speaker 1>into the mic.
<v Speaker 4>No, not, if it's ninety five to two thousand.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, you're right.
<v Speaker 4>I'm laying in sixty four in.
<v Speaker 3>April nineteen ninety seven. There you go, guys.
<v Speaker 4>April ninety seven.
<v Speaker 3>Comes from an issue of Ultra Gameplay.
<v Speaker 1>Fuck.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, that's PS one.
<v Speaker 5>That could be sixty four Saturn possibly so definitely that
<v Speaker 5>thirty two to sixty sixty four era.
<v Speaker 4>It's not Bubble.
<v Speaker 1>Boy boy. I thought goddamn puzzle Babble was my best bet.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna get to that. I think we'll still still
<v Speaker 1>do the second one. I think the second will actually
<v Speaker 1>be easier. So I'm getting a picture of that right
<v Speaker 1>now for you guys, and I'll put that in there
<v Speaker 1>in a second.
<v Speaker 3>All right, So let me see here. You guys have
<v Speaker 3>guessed a bunch of stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah against the platform. Uh yeah, let me see.
<v Speaker 3>Let me doubly hang, double check, make sure I say
<v Speaker 3>the right platform.
<v Speaker 4>Balloons.
<v Speaker 1>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>This actually is a Windows version, but the series is
<v Speaker 3>on a lot The series is on a lot of platforms.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, a Windows release, dex No, it doesn't blow anything.
<v Speaker 3>It isn't This is not gex just thinking about vibes.
<v Speaker 1>All right, I'm lets you want to get this other
<v Speaker 1>one here? Oh so it's confusing. Blow me trying trying
<v Speaker 1>to like.
<v Speaker 6>Balloon all right for a candle see here for you guys,
<v Speaker 6>and I'll put this in the thing a second.
<v Speaker 3>Here is a second thought or text bubble. It says
<v Speaker 3>your toast this time. The color of that background on
<v Speaker 3>that text bubble is green.
<v Speaker 4>Balls three D.
<v Speaker 3>This is not balls three D?
<v Speaker 5>Is there a character that's there's that candle? Guy, I'm
<v Speaker 5>beating the bee, so they're beating the He wouldn't.
<v Speaker 2>Say blow not with this funt either.
<v Speaker 4>No, your toast?
<v Speaker 5>Like what is going on with the someone on fire?
<v Speaker 5>There's a there's a fire, there's a breath. There's an
<v Speaker 5>air thing going on here?
<v Speaker 1>Wait is it a clay fighter?
<v Speaker 3>I was it is not clicking.
<v Speaker 5>I was thinking that because there is that ad where
<v Speaker 5>me and mister Frost he's blown out the mortal combat candles.
<v Speaker 4>That's why I was.
<v Speaker 1>Thinking, wait, wait, wait, okay, now it's not booger Man.
<v Speaker 5>Not booger Man, A flick adventure, not a blow and suck.
<v Speaker 3>Is this you're overthinking it early for.
<v Speaker 4>Twisted Metal, I'm I don't remember the time.
<v Speaker 3>Just Metal one was like ninety five. This is not
<v Speaker 3>Twisted Metal. It is a multiplayer game Mario Party.
<v Speaker 1>It is not Window Windows version multiplayer online.
<v Speaker 3>It might have online, but this would have been pretty
<v Speaker 3>early for that. That would not have been the focus.
<v Speaker 3>Is it's certainly a.
<v Speaker 1>Couch co op game.
<v Speaker 3>No, no couch multiplayer.
<v Speaker 4>Is it a worms?
<v Speaker 3>It is not Worms.
<v Speaker 2>Bomber Man, even though none of these deal with bombs.
<v Speaker 3>It is bomber Man. He did everybody, it's Atomic bomber Man.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Man, I had a Tommy bar Man the PC
<v Speaker 1>should I said, know this.
<v Speaker 3>That game was good.
<v Speaker 1>Made it?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Atomic bottom bomber Man. I think it's the PC
<v Speaker 3>port for like Saturn. Bomber Man is how I understood
<v Speaker 3>it to be. Okay, let me see here, man. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>so I got a picture.
<v Speaker 1>You thought we were gonna get that from this blow
<v Speaker 1>me bubble? I got it.
<v Speaker 2>There.
<v Speaker 1>You did anyone and checked in it. I bet they
<v Speaker 1>got it right away. You said we needed a backup
<v Speaker 1>because it might be too easy. Listen a character just
<v Speaker 1>saying blow me just sound yeah, blowing up.
<v Speaker 4>I just figured, okay, got it.
<v Speaker 3>Hang on, let me post this one on here to our.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna have to post in content planning. It's on
<v Speaker 1>my phone real quick. They'd get it. Man. Now I'm
<v Speaker 1>the nostalgic for atomic bomber Man holy ship.
<v Speaker 3>All right, let me describe the second one real quick
<v Speaker 3>while I post this to you guys, I'll send the
<v Speaker 3>image to you a second.
<v Speaker 1>I'll discover.
<v Speaker 3>It is. It's kind of horrifying. It is a bunch
<v Speaker 3>of skin and there are several mouths with different colored
<v Speaker 3>tongues sticking out color. It is the game Boy pocket pocket. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>but very close. Yes, game Boy pot.
<v Speaker 4>Before you even posted the image to us, Yes, before I.
<v Speaker 1>Posted the image. Jesus Christ, that's terrifying. Yes, the pocket.
<v Speaker 1>There you go. All right, Well, DoD that that was
<v Speaker 1>guess that game ad or whatever we call it. Thanks
<v Speaker 1>for playing, everybody, Yes, sir, I believe grubs Marriott. Thank
<v Speaker 1>you for playing grub Gaster. We'll be back with a
<v Speaker 1>new one next time. Back to you, Jan fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna go play a quick game of hot Potato
<v Speaker 2>because I'm gonna pass us back over to Mike MINAUGHTI
<v Speaker 2>to hit me with some YouTube super chats if we
<v Speaker 2>have any.
<v Speaker 1>We do, and I'm gonna load him up right after
<v Speaker 1>I log back into YouTube because I accidentally signed out.
<v Speaker 1>Oh gosh, I gotta get a verification code. Text it
<v Speaker 1>to me so I can log back in. This is fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>Hold all right, come on, let's yeah you do well, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>do it, but be prepared. I was gonna ask you, guys,
<v Speaker 1>how do we feel about people who use our super
<v Speaker 1>chat thing for self promotion?
<v Speaker 3>That's uh, well, you could do it this time, but
<v Speaker 3>this is the last time.
<v Speaker 1>How about that?
<v Speaker 4>Sure?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Mic, that sounds fair. Yes, cute, cute you found
<v Speaker 1>you found a loophole there, but we will not allow again.
<v Speaker 1>Go ahead, Jeff.
<v Speaker 3>Sign it from Saskatchewan. There's got to be a Blake
<v Speaker 3>club worthy game that Jeff has to play that with
<v Speaker 3>that light gun of his right by you, Billy has
<v Speaker 3>sections box artists and credible.
<v Speaker 1>I haven't set up I can do that, geez I did.
<v Speaker 3>Gosh.
<v Speaker 1>I was at some point watching somebody play something they
<v Speaker 1>described as the worst like gun game ever.
<v Speaker 4>Bad because yeah, yeah, I will say that.
<v Speaker 2>It sounds like it was very unpleasant for will to
<v Speaker 2>watch along because of all like the light gun flashing
<v Speaker 2>that happens.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, there I could there's a solution for that.
<v Speaker 3>When you guys were watching as long, I could send
<v Speaker 3>you the obs feed that is going to take out
<v Speaker 3>a lot of that flashing. So pretty pretty good tech there.
<v Speaker 3>Uh zombie pooring, oh no evil? Jan killed business, Dracula jerf.
<v Speaker 4>What can I say? You know?
<v Speaker 3>And you As the podcast goes further along, Jane, You're
<v Speaker 3>looking cooler and cooler and moo baby, he almost certainly
<v Speaker 3>isn't wearing pants right now.
<v Speaker 1>Guys, I'm so worried. I'm not happy.
<v Speaker 3>Martin Hollis Grub said games will never get prettier than
<v Speaker 3>Doom twenty sixteen. I didn't say that, so they just
<v Speaker 3>don't need to get prettier. Another podcast said design won't
<v Speaker 3>surpass Witcher three. What do you see as being the
<v Speaker 3>next jump?
<v Speaker 4>We're going back to light guns.
<v Speaker 1>Light guns are back, Okay, Connects back, I mean they're better. Look,
<v Speaker 1>I know I'm not gonna really probably be that into it,
<v Speaker 1>but there better be something about Grand Theft Autos six
<v Speaker 1>that's impressive. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I want improvement to the intelligence of enemy characters and
<v Speaker 3>characters you interact with.
<v Speaker 1>And I don't.
<v Speaker 3>I know they're all gonna be like a I now,
<v Speaker 3>but I just I like the idea of the stuff
<v Speaker 3>being programmed and having emergent stuff that happened from a
<v Speaker 3>human programmed algorithm or something like that. I want improvements
<v Speaker 3>to just logic and things to happen because I interacted
<v Speaker 3>with the character and they went to go do something
<v Speaker 3>and had ramification.
<v Speaker 2>I forgot to talk about this during the game segment
<v Speaker 2>I checked out in Marathon. I'm trying to do the
<v Speaker 2>whole Rook thing.
<v Speaker 4>Yo. That game as so much fucking swag.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we maybe need to at least stream it one
<v Speaker 2>more time on this I would.
<v Speaker 1>Do that definitely, because booms.
<v Speaker 5>Anyway, all right, I saw how Grubb to your point
<v Speaker 5>to how impressed I was in Medal of Honor for
<v Speaker 5>PlayStation one that you throw a grenade and some of
<v Speaker 5>the enemies would take off their helmet and like jump on.
<v Speaker 4>It's like, oh my god, Y's crazy, and I just.
<v Speaker 3>And I just want that stuff, Tom, Like, Okay, can
<v Speaker 3>we extrapolate on that with these more powerful CPUs that
<v Speaker 3>can do all of this reasoning? Hopefully?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that would be great? All right?
<v Speaker 3>From Big Fresh thirty seven, Dan now that you don't
<v Speaker 3>hate Pokemon anymore, what would you ever give give a
<v Speaker 3>try to legends z A, it's not turn based.
<v Speaker 5>I don't think I ever hated Pokemon, and I just
<v Speaker 5>never I would say it was interesting necessarily.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't get anything out of that one.
<v Speaker 5>Dan, people were talking with the archaeas. Was that the
<v Speaker 5>one that doesnted Archaius?
<v Speaker 4>Right?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, people were talking big about that one. This is
<v Speaker 5>the breath of the while the Pokemon all right, that's right,
<v Speaker 5>and it just did the fucking thing where it's like
<v Speaker 5>I felt it was like two hours of me talking
<v Speaker 5>to idiots in a town and I didn't do anything.
<v Speaker 4>I'm good, I'm good. Yeah, so that's okay. Like things.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's never been for him.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Martin Hollis Stadium yea millions, Yeah for sure. Martin
<v Speaker 3>Hollis Is Back says Also, the Mario movie is bad,
<v Speaker 3>but my five year old loved it. Yeah, so I
<v Speaker 3>definitely had a similar experience. I liked all the huge part.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>It's just like how you know, kids like the menu movies, right?
<v Speaker 1>These are these are the movies by the minions people, right, exactly.
<v Speaker 3>Flowbotron says, to celebrate the start of asparagus season, thick
<v Speaker 3>crust pizza with sliced ham asparagus and sauce holland Days
<v Speaker 3>plus cheese tomato bas of course yay or nay. So
<v Speaker 3>they laid it out.
<v Speaker 1>Thick cross pizza, Hollandaise sauce, which is the cheese tomato
<v Speaker 1>bas is what they're saying. I would try it.
<v Speaker 3>I would you would try it.
<v Speaker 4>I don't hate you of that stuff. Yeah, I don't
<v Speaker 4>like holidays.
<v Speaker 1>It's funny. Oh, holidays is okay. But a burnet sauce,
<v Speaker 1>which is holiday Jason, Oh, that's the ship, A good
<v Speaker 1>Brene sauce. It's got that. It's got that like I
<v Speaker 1>don't know something about that almost taste a little marshmallowie
<v Speaker 1>to me, which sounds crazy, but I love it.
<v Speaker 3>Uh from Jeremy Hervey.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's right.
<v Speaker 3>If you guys come to Indianapolis, I will give you
<v Speaker 3>a dozen of the best chocolate chip cookies you've ever had.
<v Speaker 1>Is that at? I mean, that's just the kind of
<v Speaker 1>threats that I love. Right there, I don't like.
<v Speaker 5>I'm go look at the road trip map Indianapolis. We
<v Speaker 5>could easily dip down there. That's a dip down.
<v Speaker 1>Dip down.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, but I mean if you kind of like
<v Speaker 3>begin to swell.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because it's a lot. Okay, yeah, it's idea it Okay,
<v Speaker 1>there we go.
<v Speaker 3>Well we should we should not have given him veto
<v Speaker 3>power over the road trip and he's gonna just cancel
<v Speaker 3>the whole thing. Yeah, we haven't announced exactly like where
<v Speaker 3>people will be able to hang out with us, but
<v Speaker 3>there are some details in the works. We're moving putting
<v Speaker 3>stuff together to maybe have a community meet up, so
<v Speaker 3>we'll let you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, as we know more.
<v Speaker 5>Obviously the road trip, there's gonna be a lot of
<v Speaker 5>places we stop and stay and go have drinks, some
<v Speaker 5>dinner and stuff. But there is one specific thing I'm
<v Speaker 5>working on as far as like a actual real deal
<v Speaker 5>community meetup situation, So stay tuned on that. But it's
<v Speaker 5>coming together quickly.
<v Speaker 1>All right.
<v Speaker 3>Let's see here from Amy Winehouse of Leaves. A while ago,
<v Speaker 3>y'all were complaining about no ski games. Hear me out,
<v Speaker 3>baby steps, but L one controls left ski, L two
<v Speaker 3>controls left pole, same for R one R two.
<v Speaker 1>Fuck ice, No, I love this idea.
<v Speaker 3>I would love this any game where you could control
<v Speaker 3>all the limbs on a character.
<v Speaker 4>That's I love that so much.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so give that to me.
<v Speaker 2>Reb Valentine is probably one of my favorite people in
<v Speaker 2>games media, right, She's great.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I highly suggest folks go check out the article that
<v Speaker 2>came out last week about how Baby Steps fans think
<v Speaker 2>that that game might be a covert Uncharted sequel.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's uncharted five. Look, people have spoken Red is great.
<v Speaker 5>But I gotta say there's something I saw pop up
<v Speaker 5>in the last couple of days. Were one Yelix and
<v Speaker 5>Alex Perry great games media fella. A friend of mine
<v Speaker 5>made a post about Ocarina of Time. I don't remember
<v Speaker 5>if you said it was mid or he said something
<v Speaker 5>along those. He's like always this is blue sky is
<v Speaker 5>saved space where I can say the Ocrina time is
<v Speaker 5>mid or something like that. And she was one of
<v Speaker 5>them in the games media space that was like, oh yeah,
<v Speaker 5>she agreed.
<v Speaker 3>She just played that a little bit ago too.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>In the last couple of months.
<v Speaker 4>Jesse Va Telly said the same thing. I know, I know,
<v Speaker 4>people are just disappointing me left and right here.
<v Speaker 1>No comment, I know, I know.
<v Speaker 3>Chat of the Wild says the new season of the
<v Speaker 3>Zelda podcast is live tingle there, there's you got in
<v Speaker 3>there at a fair rate too, Yeah, zombie Boren says,
<v Speaker 3>how does Dan Field know? And he's friends with the
<v Speaker 3>famous pre eminent Mario expert Ben Hansen. I know one
<v Speaker 3>in Minneapolis knows more about Mario and Nintendo.
<v Speaker 5>Oh man, Uh, don't want to put some of Ben's
<v Speaker 5>messages on the spot that he's told me about Mario.
<v Speaker 5>It's pretty funny. He's the guy doing the local news rounds,
<v Speaker 5>is the Mario expert.
<v Speaker 3>He was on game mess mornings, and he was trying
<v Speaker 3>to get me to be like that Mario wonder right,
<v Speaker 3>And I'm like, no, I like that game and I
<v Speaker 3>forgot just how much of a I don't get Mario.
<v Speaker 5>Guy he is, So yeah, yeah, okay, I'll just have
<v Speaker 5>to I think of something higher profile to be a
<v Speaker 5>Mario expert on, so I'll get a man.
<v Speaker 1>Dan, it's pathetic. You're not gonna be able to figure
<v Speaker 1>out anything.
<v Speaker 3>Vivreen says, why is Baklar the bad guy in a
<v Speaker 3>zombie movie and it's dib that has to take him down?
<v Speaker 3>Dan is Dibb's pet zombie in all of this? By
<v Speaker 3>the way, Oh that man that actually super tracks.
<v Speaker 1>That's great. It was the first part.
<v Speaker 3>WHI is Backler the bad guy in a zombie movie
<v Speaker 3>and it's Dib that has to take him down.
<v Speaker 4>Because he doesn't like anything.
<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, And then like Dib is plucky enough that like, no,
<v Speaker 2>I see the good in the world still, Papa.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it's sounded like Backlar is the big boss and
<v Speaker 5>he's he's getting solid snake.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Back Backlar accidentally created the zombies with his son
<v Speaker 1>in a three D printer accident or something. Yeah, three
<v Speaker 1>D printed as zombie. Then it affected affected other people.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>Pax East's own woke gabbagoul boy, who said high at
<v Speaker 3>the show, says an idea for a karaoke slash musical
<v Speaker 3>game feature, lay Mitch.
<v Speaker 1>That's what I did not live until today.
<v Speaker 5>Do you guys remember when we were leaving dinner in
<v Speaker 5>Jersey that one night I think it was last year,
<v Speaker 5>and he was just belting. It was like a back
<v Speaker 5>and forth, like singing to himself and back thing. I
<v Speaker 5>think it was from le Miz what wasn't It was
<v Speaker 5>coming from both.
<v Speaker 1>Sides of confrontation, like man like me can never change,
<v Speaker 1>man like you can never change.
<v Speaker 2>No.
<v Speaker 1>Two four six one. Duties to the law. You have
<v Speaker 1>rights again would be two four six so one. Now
<v Speaker 1>the wheel has turned around, Jean Valjean is nothing. Now,
<v Speaker 1>dare you speak to me of crime and the price
<v Speaker 1>you had to pay? Every man is born of sin.
<v Speaker 1>Every man must choose his way. You know nothing. I
<v Speaker 1>was born inside of jail. I was born with scum
<v Speaker 1>like you. I am from the gutter too, And then
<v Speaker 1>the other characters dialogue. All right, right, the other the
<v Speaker 1>other character, he does a different thing during all that,
<v Speaker 1>which he here's indulge myself in here.
<v Speaker 2>Here's the thing I was telling Mike before he got
<v Speaker 2>going in that car ride. I know the other character
<v Speaker 2>and it's more impactful as a duet as it's written.
<v Speaker 4>And then Mike just kept going.
<v Speaker 1>You've been looking for somebody to lt it with for
<v Speaker 1>so long.
<v Speaker 4>I told you twice though.
<v Speaker 5>I don't people realize how much of a no off
<v Speaker 5>switch guy Mike is. It's incredible, like we took a
<v Speaker 5>break between the news and the games. Mike, you didn't
<v Speaker 5>even realize this. We were all talking about like there's
<v Speaker 5>logistics actually about the road trip, and I was bringing up, like, okay,
<v Speaker 5>check the discord. Jan and grab check this out. So
<v Speaker 5>and we're talking about like, oh, what do you think
<v Speaker 5>about this? This this Mike doesn't have his headphones on,
<v Speaker 5>so he doesn't know we're having this conversation. He's got
<v Speaker 5>his Disney calendar in the back and he's changing the
<v Speaker 5>month and he's just yelling and we.
<v Speaker 4>Can pick it up on it like, oh it's many
<v Speaker 4>mouse months.
<v Speaker 1>Oh it's a many mouse.
<v Speaker 4>It's like we're trying to have a business talk.
<v Speaker 3>I was still staggered from the idea that Mike singing
<v Speaker 3>seven stanzas was him not indulging himself. I know, I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>what does that look like?
<v Speaker 1>Think of me? What you will.
<v Speaker 4>Remember when he was tired?
<v Speaker 1>Right? What happens when he gets more? He needs surging in.
<v Speaker 3>From Macro Parla. They say, what are the chances we
<v Speaker 3>can get minimalist, small logo merch. I love more clothing
<v Speaker 3>that I could wear to work for now, I'll buy
<v Speaker 3>the kind of funny march.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, Like, I know, I see what you're doing there
<v Speaker 1>and it works. Yeah, it's gonna be a new March
<v Speaker 1>job suitorybody. I'll try to include some Yeah you just
<v Speaker 1>mean that GB logo. Yeah, something that doesn't have a
<v Speaker 1>picture of or the word bomb in it. I get it.
<v Speaker 1>That does have a.
<v Speaker 3>Picture of a golf ball instead, and that's pretty pretty small.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>That being said, I have seen folks clamoring for the
<v Speaker 2>og red giant bomb block letter hoodie again.
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna we're gonna see if we can bring.
<v Speaker 4>Up to do this.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah that Yeah, I just want to make sure we
<v Speaker 1>get as good of a hoodie as we did for
<v Speaker 1>that one, because it was just that one has lasted,
<v Speaker 1>so I want to do right by it, make sure
<v Speaker 1>we don't don't make sure our partner comes through. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>well we'll do what we can there.
<v Speaker 3>But all right, last couple of super chats here from miguests.
<v Speaker 3>I fell asleep. What did I miss? All right, Mike
<v Speaker 3>start the podcast over, tell everything that happened.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sleepy, dance like haha, Mike's sleepy, And I was like,
<v Speaker 1>how dare you call me out for being sleepy? Chance like,
<v Speaker 1>I want the people saw the Mario movie to talk
<v Speaker 1>about that. I'm like, hats you know whatever, it's the
<v Speaker 1>Mario movie. Janaid we should talk about video games. Dan
<v Speaker 1>has a video game where he types something isn't that interesting?
<v Speaker 1>I was like, that's kind of interesting. I'm not going
<v Speaker 1>to get involved in this conversation about typing video games
<v Speaker 1>that Jane said, Mike, you just I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>it's my train to talk. So I talked about a
<v Speaker 1>virtue fighter for a lot of it, and Jane said
<v Speaker 1>I could go to the bathroom, and I did that.
<v Speaker 1>I switched my calendar and it had a mini mouths
<v Speaker 1>with a bumblebee on it. I'm like, that's nice. Uh,
<v Speaker 1>I can't believe I didn't switch that until just now.
<v Speaker 1>We're already a weekend to April. That's my bet, that's
<v Speaker 1>on me. Jeff wanted to talk about the video game
<v Speaker 1>news and Quantic Dream is maybe not going to make
<v Speaker 1>a Star Wars game after all, and then Mario movie
<v Speaker 1>made a lot of money, so that was nice. And
<v Speaker 1>then Jane was like, oh, do you guys need to
<v Speaker 1>take a break, And I'm like I gotta be a
<v Speaker 1>little bit, but like everyone else doesn't want to take
<v Speaker 1>a break, so that's okay. We can just go into
<v Speaker 1>the next thing there. And that's that's when Jeff showed
<v Speaker 1>us the video game ad and it was like two
<v Speaker 1>words and he's like, this one's pretty easy, and no
<v Speaker 1>we had no idea. He disappointed us. Then I remembered
<v Speaker 1>about Atomic bomber Man. Then Jeff said that he thought
<v Speaker 1>it was a port of Saturn bomber Man, and I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>that's not right, that's not right. I looked it up
<v Speaker 1>and that's incorrect. This came out before that. Oh really
<v Speaker 1>yeah yeah, So another another grub l and then I
<v Speaker 1>was like, so there's yeah yeah. And then I was like, emails, Mike,
<v Speaker 1>you gotta read super chats. I'm like, oh crap, my
<v Speaker 1>name was said again. I had to do something. Then
<v Speaker 1>actually clicked the button where I got signed out, so
<v Speaker 1>those of Jeff came in and he read the super
<v Speaker 1>chats instead. I think that that's what's happening right now, Sean.
<v Speaker 2>Can you do me the biggest favor and cut that
<v Speaker 2>out and put that at the very beginning of the podcasts?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah podcast, yeah, oh yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Podcast in mic for him, Mitch just recapped the BombCast
<v Speaker 1>right after it happens Premium only. John is pokem Monday
<v Speaker 1>Night Combat going to be open to all.
<v Speaker 4>It's just like Wu tang baby. It's for the kids.
<v Speaker 1>It's for the kids. That's what we're saying.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, absolutely, that is all the super chats Jane once again.
<v Speaker 4>Back to you, Mike, what just happened?
<v Speaker 2>Uh?
<v Speaker 1>I think the show's almost over?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that's correct, boys. What do we got going on
<v Speaker 2>for the rest of this week? Game this morning is
<v Speaker 2>popping off Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?
<v Speaker 4>Right? Good?
<v Speaker 1>Correct a mondo dude, that's right?
<v Speaker 2>Speak about pokem Monday Night Combat. Shawn and I are
<v Speaker 2>dusting off the gym to check out the lawn lunch day,
<v Speaker 2>perhaps looking at the launch of Pokemon Champions with Pokemonday
<v Speaker 2>Night Combat. We're gonna nail down at specific day. That's
<v Speaker 2>gonna work best for the both of us. And after that,
<v Speaker 2>Dan heads back to space, our own space Ace in
<v Speaker 2>the blightning round. Blink and you'll miss it. Forty minutes left, baby.
<v Speaker 2>We got voicemail dump truck popping off on Thursday as well.
<v Speaker 2>And then for premium members out there, we will not
<v Speaker 2>have Marry Me Tomodacci due to scheduling errors. We will
<v Speaker 2>instead have a Discord town hall. If your premium member,
<v Speaker 2>come in, go hang out, go go hang up by
<v Speaker 2>the water cooler. We'll bring muffins. And then Friday to
<v Speaker 2>end the week, unprofessional Fridays most likely will be popping
<v Speaker 2>off with a grab bag. If there's anything that's been
<v Speaker 2>popping off that you want us to take a look
<v Speaker 2>at and you think would work well in the upf.
<v Speaker 4>Just holler at you boys.
<v Speaker 2>But after this, after the giant BombCast is wrapped, a
<v Speaker 2>new episode of nine Lives of Mister and Mista off
<v Speaker 2>of Fleas just for you premium people out there, and
<v Speaker 2>speak about premium people for the folks that still need
<v Speaker 2>to be convinced and you want to taste, you want
<v Speaker 2>to taste of all the stuff we've been cooking up
<v Speaker 2>in the premium kitchen. There is a poll out on
<v Speaker 2>YouTube and as well as Blue Sky for which video
<v Speaker 2>we will unlock for you folks at home.
<v Speaker 4>Let's see.
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna it's my bold predictions here that I think
<v Speaker 2>the Irish who wants to be who wants to be
<v Speaker 2>a millionaire may win that poll and is a banger
<v Speaker 2>of an.
<v Speaker 4>All timer episode. Yes, incredible, it's a good wit bam.
<v Speaker 4>That's right.
<v Speaker 2>That's what they're calling it. The titter wit bam. That's
<v Speaker 2>what the kids on the streets are calling it. That's right,
<v Speaker 2>that's right boys. Anything else popping off, oh oh, I
<v Speaker 2>would be remiss if I forgot and I almost did
<v Speaker 2>this Saturday, the community is embarking. They're hitting the streets
<v Speaker 2>for a community endurance run. More info to come. A
<v Speaker 2>schedule will be announced soon, but you can go giant
<v Speaker 2>bomb dot com slash in Durrance and you will be
<v Speaker 2>able to view those streams from there.
<v Speaker 4>Hang out.
<v Speaker 2>We got a lovely community that loves helping other people,
<v Speaker 2>so help them help other people.
<v Speaker 4>Boys. Anything else going on this week?
<v Speaker 1>No, I don't think so.
<v Speaker 4>I think it covered it.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, you know what Jesse Vittelli's mom watched the Packs.
<v Speaker 4>East vag.
<v Speaker 3>And why isn't your mom, Jesse.
<v Speaker 4>Find a nice girl at one of these things?
<v Speaker 3>We listen? The next one could be.
<v Speaker 4>Correct me?
<v Speaker 5>That is the most mom common of course, guys of
<v Speaker 5>things in games and just like seeing a pa.
<v Speaker 4>What is this thing? I don't remember?
<v Speaker 2>If Vitellia often makes his way out to packs west
<v Speaker 2>right but Packs East next year? What if we have
<v Speaker 2>a speed dating panel?
<v Speaker 1>Yep, and we've come up, I remember, and it's just for.
<v Speaker 4>We don't tell Vitelli, it's just for fellah.
<v Speaker 5>We do the dating and a thing to wheres like
<v Speaker 5>you got the dividers up and everything.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the questions, I'll host it, yeah yeah, beautiful.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I can do that, all right, folks at home.
<v Speaker 2>That about does it for this week's episode of The
<v Speaker 2>Giant BombCast.
<v Speaker 4>He's been Dan, He's the Jeff. He's been Mike.
<v Speaker 1>Shouts out to Sean for editing, who's just show. Shouts
<v Speaker 1>out to Will, shouts out to Chuck, shouts.
<v Speaker 4>Out to Jeff Macklow, who's out on assignment today. I've
<v Speaker 4>been chaying we love you.
<v Speaker 1>Boo the bo