Giant Bombcast 799: Gollum Week

Hey, everybody, It's Tuesday, July twenty five, twenty twenty three,
and I am so glad that you could join me for another episode of the
Giant BombCast, Episode seven hundred and ninety nine. That's a lot of podcasts,
and that's not even including the Game of the Year ones we throw in
here or the weird ones we throw in here. That's arguably maybe too many
podcasts. Maybe we should do something special next week. I should take a
crash next week instead, let's go you know what, maybe we should mug
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Kenough dan Hua joining me co captain other Ship and ready to grog it up
and projectile vomit on you and our friends. Jeff Grob Grog is here.
Mr Grog. Jeffrey Grog is what the kids call me now? Yes,
Jeff Grog Jeff Grog. That's uh, that's your pirate counterpart joining us today.
We've got two very very very special guests. We've got the bad Boy
of games Media Mike Manati. All right, I'm Mike Manati. Yes,
that's that's that's what bad boys saying exactly. So it's so easy to get
a pot from Jed name it is. It's so easy. It's easy.
Yes, you know what's tickling me right now? Is that v at our
our our other guests. I'm noticing both have sonic plushies in our backgrounds.
That's funny. Oh yeah, it's matching. It's it's nice that we both
decided to wear the same thing, but one of us will have to change,
etcetera. Yeah, yeah, Mikey gets older. This is like a
real yeah Bailey, this this is a really old sonic doll. I got
a best buy, like back when the Sake of Genesis was a thing.
Okay, okay, this is a knuckles doll that I got from a press
thing for the for the for the movie. They, the movie itself,
gave this to me. We're being a journalist, so it's special and it's
parting half of a BBA love it. I'm liteing the head. My mommy
and daddy bought me this sonic, probably because I would have thrown a tantrum
if they didn't, So it'll sound like you. Nah, Mike, ye
happy. Nobody's happy, last, but certainly not least my greatest nemesis and
my greatest friend, the Phantom of the Opera. For honest game trailers,
Bailey Myers, thank you. Yes, I do do honest game trailers,
and the one coming out today is very normal and has a normal amount of
boobs in it. What is it? It's story of Seasons by Do you
mind if I read our slack conversation? Yeah, go for it? Whatever,
Okay, all right, uh let's see where is this? Where is
this? Well, while you're doing that, if she's the Phantom of the
Opera, does that make Mike the rum tum tugger of I want to be
skimble Shanks. I want to be skimble Shanks again. Every time I say
rum tum tugger, I'm so afraid. There are so many hard syllables in
there earth that it just feels like it's going to be so racist. That
was just a type rope, tightrope, and I knew what you were talking
about, but for a second I didn't know what you were talking about.
It's scary up here, simble Shanks. The railway cat, the cat off
the railway. I've done here, You're going to get a DMCA notification?
Oh yeah, should we should Episode eight hundred of the Giant Bomb cast just
be a cat's spoiler cast. No, it could be a musical, an
original musical. It's only way to save the school. I did a podcast
with my brother, like on veh Games, called Exploiting Borrow Pocast Forever,
and like we knew we were going to end it like what our final episode
is going to be a musical? So turn turns out with just never get
a final episode, Like, come on, it's a good bit. Yet
we all want to be the Drew Carey show, right, we all want
to be Scrubs. But we don't have it in us to make the musical
episode. We just don't. I remember one time when I ran out of
cable. As a youth, I used to record episodes of Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, and the one I had recorded before uh my cable one out was
the musical episode. So I was just watching that on repeat for like a
solid week straight. It was gorgeous, fantastic. It's funny. I don't
think I've ever seen like a continuous minute of Buffy the Vampire Slayer anything except
for footage of like the Xbox game. That's it. I mean, you're
good. Yeah, that whole thing just like based off of my of my
limited but deep knowledge. You, Mike Manatty, I don't think you'd like
it now. Yeah, I mean, like this this year, I'm not
going to be like, go watch a show from that guy was right,
Yeah, that is my favorite downfall because that guy was just like the king
of like that very specific like you know, kind of brand of nerd culture
forever. And then it was one of a man falling on a woman's chest
and like just landing like boobs first, like oh oh boy, it happened
in like everything he ever made. It's like, we get it. Yeah,
It's like like Patrick Stewart on Extras where he's like, am I have
the power and I make her clothes fall off and then she puts him back
on. But I've already seen everything. But I've seen everything. Yeah,
alright, alright, So there's boobs a Story of Seasons. Well, there's
boobs in the Honest game trailer for Story of Seasons because I just went joker
mode when I was writing this made I don't know what happened you made Mommy
Milker's jokes again, didn't you? I did, Actually she did with it.
I lead with it. It's like your signature. No, it's like
your signature, you know that. And Simpson's clips is like you know,
like like it's my little signature. I said, you an idea for a
Simpsons clip on on the portal one that was one you didn't take. I'm
sorry, I used a lot of I used portal potties, he said me,
just the word portal potties, as like you had to work this in
to the portal too. Now you take it run into the end zone.
I will always credit my writers, even for portals. I got portal.
I was that in the Piccolo joke. I was proud of him that one.
So I was glad to Piccolo made it there. I had to include
Piccolo. No, I'm very excited for everyone to see the new Honest game
trailers. I do you think it's my magnim pie? You know? You
know I think so. I think so. I've never believed in anything.
I told Bailey yesterday she's gonna win two Webbies for this, and I'm dead
set if I have to steal, if i have to steal the old webbies
that were in the c NET office. I will, and I'll bring them
to LA and I'll have smeared off ices hiding inside of them. Have a
great summer. Yeah, keep in touch, you rock never changed. Why
am I looking at the music numbers from Cats? I already know those.
You don't need to look those up. No, I'm just looking at like,
what my faves are, you know, like the old Gumby Cat,
remember the Vagelical Ball. I'm gonna pull Mike and be like, hey,
someone work in an Andrew Lloyd Webby joke in here. Someone. Okay,
he did it already. Damn all right. Well for segue of the Year.
And I feel like I got robbed for this because I've had at least
two good seguys this year. Jeff Grubb, you win the Andrew Lloyd Webby.
Thank you? Okay. I want to think all the little three Andrew
laid Webber musicals. What do you se meus? You have set the bar
so low. I've seen a Fantom of the Opera and I've not seen Cats,
but I'm aware of Cats. I probably also did lay A. No,
I didn't know. I was right, he didn't do that so eat
shit. Okay, yeah, I don't know. What's another one? Superstar?
Oh yeah, sure, Jesus Christ Superstar, color, religious, yeah
yeah, etc. Anything with an electric guitar or like that's Webber. Yeah,
guys, the s Oh we should do a film in forties to that.
Is there even a film version of it? It's on YouTube? Jesus
Oh yeah, no wat Oh my god God. Okay, now I'm just
thinking of Greece too. No other musical sequels, maybe they should. I'm
more of a godspelled. I never liked Jesus Christ Superstar. Well you're a
You're a heathen. We know this. I like Jesus is a hippie in
that, and I'm like this, I can this, I can accept.
This makes sense to me. Uh enough musical talk. Let's, I guess
talk about video games, but not really video game alienating and people. Yes,
yes, I'm sick alienating people. It's quiet down it. Stop getting
excited. All you theater kids watching and listening. I'm gonna be begging for
restling talk by the time I'm going on about cats. Oh man. Now,
I just want to talk about how love never dies absolutely ruins both products
now because it is absolute garbo. I had a friend train for Starlight Express
and then they broke their ankle. They were really upset. Yeah, I
can't imagine why. They just wanted to be in the ensemble. Uh,
like they could do a sick flip on their skates. Yeah. I saw
Starlett Express at Vegas like in like the nineties when it was there, and
I was like, that was a formulative experience for me. Okay, wrestling
talk, let's go. I'm done. Bailey, When did you find out
wrestling wasn't real today? What? Da? Oh shit, I didn't know.
She's right. We had aisle seats for Starlight Express. It was so
cool because they would go right by you on their skates. Oh that sounds
fun. I am we needed a longer awkward pause there. I'm sorry,
but well. We also saw Michael Crawford because he had his weird one like
not one man show, but he has his special show EFX Michael Crawford.
Jeff was the original fan of the opera. Okay, cool, thank you.
For folks that don't know, Starlight Express is the musical that Andrew Lloyd
Webber made about talking skating trains. Yeah, well, kids, trains.
It's like a kid's train set. That's very cool. Okay, that sounds
pretty good, and it's about how like, oh, like Ben, he's
a fancy electric and like new trains are pretty cool. But like what's wrong
with steam? Steam could win too if it has enough heart. That's just
that's just not true. I does not have enough heart. No, not,
you know, I do want to say to your persona Mike exactly,
that's what we're always saying. Yeah, I would express one not answered,
Jeff. Yes, you know the ninja turtles are coming back in vogue.
I really need them to bring back teenage mute ninja turtles coming out of our
shells. Don't even start with me. Don't even start with me. Yeah,
yeah, growing up in a glass show with me lizards and tadposts or
something like that. Growing up in a glass bowl and tadpoles. Maybe Christmas,
maybe you shouldn't. Oh you don't know about my caroling that I do
for Christmas? Well, jan no, no, I don't know. But
yeah, every Christmas, me and my friends dress up as the teaching met
ninja turtles and we do a play in the local towns square where we we
reenacced. Okay, now it sounds like a Charles Dickens novels, those same
turtles from coming out of their shell, and they made us that that video.
They also chance time. We also made a Christmas special so we reenact
the songs, but we had to make more so like most of them of
our own songs. We have a bunch of teenage digit Turtles Christmas pretties out
film it this year, so everybody can see a giant bomb Christmas album and
we can maybe put a couple of those tracks on there. That'd be fine,
That's great. Yeah, have yoursell phone Ninja Turtles Christmas. Yeah,
make it radical. Mary Ninja Christmas is right there. No like Dia Turtles.
Most of them are just like you replace the word of Pepperoni, like
that the halls with pepperoni. La la la la la la la Mary Ninja
Turtles. I feel like does oh man, we have a Yeah, if
you have a picture of this and you would put it in chat, I'll
share it with the best instead of joint the world. It's Baxter stuck Man.
He is a bud. He used to be a human. This I
love it. That's that's a big hit every year. Huh brings the house
doubt. What if we weren't, you know, we're usually outside in the
corner house. It is already down. Yeah, everybody's like ideas of costumes
to really be like brought Town. We're basically wearing green sweaters with our color
coordinated headbands. But yeah, dark Ail around in chat says, holy shit,
is Manati weirder than dan Rykert weirder? It's yeah, it's it's nine
nineteen am for the folks watching live or listening to the archive, and my
moisturizer has already gone into my eyes. I'm tearing up. Video Games just
moved you to tears with his great story. God, it is weird that
that's so normal to me that, like Jeff had to tell me, Hey,
tell Jan about your Turtles Christmas play didn't even occur to you. Yes,
everyone does that. I thought I've had an interesting life, But no,
not not in the slightest. I have to play the Leonardo of the
crew right now because I'm wearing a blue bandanic at the show back on the
rails and Leonardo and the play Jan, I'm like, oh, God,
shut the fuck up, like you say this. With I say this,
you know, I hate saying that. I say this smallows affection in the
world video game adjacent things grub Like you went to about Old Games convention.
How was that? It wasn't I was scared Mike spent so much money.
I don't. I'm not trying to get you bugged. I'm sorry, Mike.
It was It was actually kind of all inspire and be like, this
is what it's like to be a collector. You have to just pull the
trigger, even if that price tag is high on Cube before, like you
gotta you gotta do it. And I'm like, he could never be me,
But I'm like it was cool to be there and watch Mike find these
games and add him to his collection and see how excited an he want.
So, Mike, do you have like a hit list of stuff that you
want to that's missing from your collection or if you see it you'll just grab
it. No, I generally know, I kind of like used to keep
a list, but at this point, like I know, and there are
just certain big ones. So you know, I've been collecting specifically just GameCube
games. I think it's fun and it's a practical collection, Like I'm not
just doing it for like to put them on a shelf. Forever. I
have the GameCube and I have this like pretty fancy HD on my converter for
it, so I'm able to play those games. I'm able to stream those
games. I like the GameCube a lot, so you know, it's fun.
But you know, like I would go to like the couple local stores
I have here that would sell these things, but you know, you kind
of wipe them out over the course of a couple of years with what you
want. So I've never done one of these conventions, so I knew,
like for a while, like okay, like I'm gonna go HAM at this,
I'm probably gonna see a lot of stuff I haven't seen. I did
expect to go quite this ham because yeah, they had they had two pretty
big expensive ones there that I wanted, Chibi Robo and Cube of Vore.
They're both they're both big ones. But I saw them and I'd be pulled
a trick on both of them. Got some other random fund ones. I
got Batman Dark Tomorrow. It comes with the promotional comics still, which we
want to have him read on Blake Club tomorrow this week, everybody, so
tune in for that. At Odama, got a bunch of got Tarzan and
Odama. Yeah, Doma, no Mike yet, I gotta find a Mike.
Odama is what I want when we if we do a GameCube stream,
Odama is what I want to play. Thanks, get set up. Thanks
man, that's incredible. But yeah, like Biden Katoes, the GameCube was
made for the Obama administration, the Obama of game consoles. We're always saying
this, Yeah, but it was just kind of fun to like actually go
around, uh and actually having like this much choice to pull from. Like
it's you know, I've been to comic cons and are fun, but I
don't actually care that much about comic books. For one thing. Oh no,
I saw the only comic book I'll ever need right here with the Batman
Phase Clan comics. Though I don't need anymore comics. When you say comic
con, you really hit the comic on it because you wanted to keep it
legally, legally distinguishable from comic Con, the entity that is in no way
about comics anymore. No, I'm talking about like real local stuff, like
with actual like people with like boxes of old comics. Why did he say
it like that? Yeah, the young stound comic con right is a little
different but so it was fun. Sometimes I would have like one person with
like a few Nittown sixty four games at those So it was great just being
at a place. Oh there's a ton of video games here. There's some
tables with like fun little knick knacks or like crafts and whatnot. Like Jeff
got to see RTV. Oh gorgeous. Look at that. Look at that.
It's got a lot of it's got B and C and puts and I
need to uh yeah, I got an adapter for a composite to S video
and it's not working yet, and I'm I'm not too surprised by that.
I was like, I got the S video stuff. But yeah, so
I'm a little bit of headaches with it. So I'm gonna but I'm gonna
get it working because it looked really great when we saw on the show floor.
Grab if you don't mind, how much did you get the CRT for?
Yeah, this was twenty five dollars. That is a steel Yeah,
I felt that's what because it's got a really nice picture. There was a
bigger one for fifty. I went for the twenty five dollars one. It's
a good size. It's gonna be like right here in front of me,
so exactly good wine. It was very heavy. It's on an Ikea table
that Yeah, yeah, I might help to. I might put it over
his shoulder, yeah, exactly exactly. I was cradling. There was one
point where I had these and stuff in my bag and uh, I was
just going around the con and then like later I was walking around, I
was like, I don't have my bag on me any this is like quite
quite a quite a bit worth the game, kind of like run back across
the hall, like there's my bag and just gotta pick. And I'm like
like wandering around looking at stuff. And then I just turned around and Mike
just looks like he saw a ghost and he's like huffing a little bit,
like okay, if I guess heart was beating fast. I'm like what and
he told me the start. I'm like, oh my god, Like that
bag just sitting there with money's worth of games. Yes, yes, yes,
why's not so fool anymore? At least I took care of that.
Yes, there you go. You spent some of some of Daddy Daddy Minotti's
money. Doctor mant look look look this is my key money, Mikey money
doesn't actually matter in the real world monopoly, oh man, for some reason,
God what I not that I want everyone to cannibalize their weekends and turn
it into content. But what I would have done to see Mike's face and
then Mike's face of relief afterwards of finding his backpack. Yeah, I didn't
get video of that. I didn't get if some video of him making some
big purchases that he got the video beat me buying cubeavore, I don't know.
Actually, I send it over to Sean. Sean's gonna. I think
we'll just put it on the tab on feeds. So yeah, okay,
we're most of the transactions cash gentlemen for me. Yes, but yes,
I think cubivore. You didn't do cashbi is PayPal. Well, yeah,
most people don't have that much catch. Oh okay, all right, jan
I want you to think before no. See, I can't answer this because
Grubb told me yesterday. Okay, okay, how much do you think cubifore
costs? Sixty bucks? Seventy easy? I don't go with that. I
don't want to happen. Tell me cost. I've been sitting here wondering,
like Jesus Christ, what amount. Okay, all right, now would freak
out? No one? Okay, I want, I want. I want
this to be a judgment free zone everyone. This is a safe place for
Mike. Look a muscle. I'm a big boy. I don't have kids.
I could do what I want with my money. It's fine, already
moved a muscle. I justification, right, that's what gets you. Okay.
Cube Before is a five hundred dollars game right now. Ten minutes later
we found it for four hundred. Yeah, I wish I waited a second.
But this first ship and it's very it's very nice shape. It's got
the manual. Maybe the other one didn't have the manual. We didn't.
Look. I'm just gonna tell you myself. Look, yes, exactly this,
tell myself it didn't have a manual. Yep. How do I leave
in an expensive city? Why? Why do I do this? Right?
Yeah, but I can afford I have a house. I mean, I
gotta apartment. Okay. It was cool to be like, there's Cube before.
Mike wants cubafore. He just bought Cuba Moore. That was neat.
Yeah, it's easy. Actually, it turns out, yeah, you gotta
do It's like tell him, you want it, and then they tell you
what they want. You give them that, and you pushed that number and
pay powers. Did you try haggling with them, thanks Homer. Did you
try haggling with her saying that it was her personal copy and it meant a
lot to her? And so so Mike's like, well, then I got
it is actually a full lie. I'm the second owner of this game.
She bought this GameStop when it came out. That's you know, that's very
good. Did she show you the receipt, Mike, No, she did
show me the receipt. She was showing on Jeff. Jeff saw the honesty
in her eyes, Like I've got a bridge in Brooklyn. I would love
to tell you five hundred dollars. What are you saying? I mean for
a bridge. That's a good deal, That's what I'm saying. And it's
my bridge. They're from childhood, so it means a lot sent a mental
value. You want to lose, buddy on this deal? All right?
Before before we get to the actual video game talk, Jesus Christ, what's
on this rundown? I watched the Barbie movie at eight am. I didn't
know that they showed movies at eight am. Ye, wait today, no,
not today Sunday, instead of going to church, I decided to go
watch Barbie, and let me tell you, it was more holy, if
not holy your oh wow, absolutely man ry guys, Jesus. Yeah,
I mean I haven't seen this movie yet. The the review for Jan though,
Jan, I should go see it, right, oh yeah, whole
hardly please yes, do it, do it? It is amazing, It's
great. I laughed, I cried. I posed in a box and then
deleted the picture because I looked bad in it. I did the same thing.
You know, I bet i'd rocket in that box. You would rocket?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because like there is a confidence about you,
Mike. You know it's Barbie like confidence. Yes, yes, yes,
Mike is totally the Alan of the group. I can't wait to see
what this move. Yes, absolutely, character yes, yes, okay,
oh no no, but Michael Sarah characters what no, look around, Kaike,
you fused like women scared me? Yes, Michael Sarah, I just
want to be scared by women in the In the Barbie movie, though,
I think he's more like adopted by them. He's like the little baby bird
they found on the side of the Road and brought into their clan, just
like Mad and Chests. As Mike is not the Allan. Allan is nice.
I'm so nice. How nice? I give you a piece of shit.
So that's a good comment there, you medic. I appreciate that.
All right, man, I just want to out for you video game.
He's lying about this. I've been playing nothing new, Unfortunately. I've just
continued to let Octopath Traveler Too and Dave the Diver take over my life.
I've both totally very different games. Octopath Traveler two, Holy smokes, uh
fucking fantastic. I can't recommend it enough. It goes places. I don't
want it to be any good. See, Mike, I know that you've
been playing the Final Fantasy Pixel remasters. That's great. Did you like Octopath
one? No, that's the thing. I didn't like one, and I
love Bravely Default. I am in the same one. So I was like,
there's so many games to play. I'm like, good, I don't
have to worry about the Path Traveler two. I know it looks great,
and then people are like, oh, it's good. I'm like, well,
what do people know? People are wrong about all sorts of things,
right, So yeah, but now I don't know. Everybody is like very
adamant about it, and they specifically say, oh, I didn't like Octopath
Traveler one. But I like to see Mike that I'm in that same exact
boat with you. I'm ready to come out of my shell and defend Octopath
Traveler two because holy smokes, hated one, absolutely detested it. Octopath two
It's it's a banger, Mike. I think this is up your alley,
especially considering that you've been on like a JRPG kick. It is obscenely long.
I feel like I've played twenty hours of this game and I've made no
progress. And it's it's the middle of the year. I don't know if
I can finish it by the end of the year because of everything else coming
out and also because of my addiction. Bailey, please go ahead. Sorry,
Is twenty hours supposed to be a lot twenty are you? Are you
saying I'm putting rookie numbers in? Is that what you're that's what you're like.
I've met I have played it very little, and for some reason,
I've made no progress. Wow, get roasted. See people say I'm not
there. Billy Bailey just like goes for it. She never like she has
thought, and just why why do you think there's nothing that stops what's in
my brain? Why do you think I introduced her as my greatest nemesis because
it is like a hair trigger away from Bailey and I cussing each other out.
We're amicable right now, but just wait, I mean jan honestly,
like because of how honest game trailers works, usually, no matter the size
of the game, I have to get through a significant portion of it in
a week. So like Tears of the Kingdom came out and I put one
hundred hours in in a week, and I was like, we're coholic.
Oh, off to the salt mines, look at me. Go But like
I mean, it's worse when it's like golemn you know, or Story of
Seasons. But like, like commit to the bit, like play the game.
I've got, Big Jean. You know those old Fantasy Game three they're
like they're like ten fifteen hours. It's really nice to be able to like
put ten fifteen hours in a JRPG and finish it, right. Yeah,
it's every week He's beating a final Fantasy game for like the last month.
I'm like this is weird. Yeah, five, the first one I think
is actually more like thirty hours instead of like fifteen. But five's also like
one of my favorites. So well, I will never recover from this this
uh this publish. Yeah, Bailey, we're no longer friends. Uh,
I'm not. I'm not going to kick you off of this podcast out of
spite, but I do want to continue to mention Dave the Diver, because
this fucking game goes places, y'all. Uh. I know that we've got
an email that we probably won't get to that talks about fat shaming, and
I do agree that some of the jokes can be a little bit heavy handed.
And I think that's how I fell at early on. And I know
that the defense of like Dave being a very capable person that just also happens
to be big isn't the best defense. But like, Yo, my guy
Dave. I'd party with this dude eight days a week, baby, and
I know he would take care of me if I passed out. Yeah,
Dave like is presented as a very competent and and put together and not like
not in any way held back by being a boy. Yeah, but there
are the occasional jokes from other characters, and I guess, I mean I
get it to a certain extent, but it was like this is this is
a little bit weird for me. It lightens up after a while. Then
everyone starts to see that, like, you know, there's more to day
than just his physical appearance. And if that is holding anyone back from playing
the game, I want want to let you know, maybe three ish hours
in, maybe after you get past the first real big chapter, it lines
up and then everyone's just cool with Dave for like four months into the gameplay
for you, Jan, Yes, yes, exactly. I'm just a little
popper. I'm like five Will goes West. I'm like Donald Duck slicing the
little bean with my video games, Like this is how much I can consume
today. God, we should cut more beans into little pieces. Yeah,
that's like it's a good bit. I always like that. I'm like when
you started talking about that, Jan, I'm like, I got pretty excited
thinking about that duck cutting that bean. Yes, yes, just like I
was excited to watch you cut weird people on fire Grub with back larn Dan
and Remnant two. Yeah, Remnant two. It is. Yeah, he's
there. This is what Jen does uh, Remnant two is fun because the
shooting is really good and it looks really nice, and those two things are
unassailable about the game. Uh, the issue might be the map, like
the first game, is still a little bit obtuse and not necessarily as even
well put together or easy to get to the fun as like a Dark Souls
where you know, clearly this game's taking inspiration from the souls Borne genre.
But like once you do find enemies and you get in these boss fights,
it just it's like so so good because that's where they put all their effort.
You could just tell they just thought about these boss fights making sure that
they feel intense and difficult and fun for you know, three players. It's
a three three player multiplayer game generally, is how it's. It feels like
it's built to be played, and I, yeah, I really am enjoying
its. Just when I played it at SGF, they just like threw me
into it, and I'd like that was really nice to just get thrown into
it. And here there's definitely the build up of Okay, you're gonna be
in your town and you're gonna talk to one person and then they're gonna tell
you to talk to like five other people, and then you gotta like,
once you've talked to all those people, then we'll get the game started.
And then I mean, I'm just still like I don't know why developers do
that. I suppose maybe they think that this is the way like that it
like adds something between the gameplay segments to you know, this is still gameplay,
but between the action segments to go back to town and like do your
little chores and then like that adds like an up and down to the roller
coaster effect or something. But for me, it's just like, especially before
where we've really done anything in the game, to have this laundry list of
stuff I have to take care of. It was it was dislike disheartening that
at first, because I'm like, I know this, I know how this
game play is. I played it. It's fun. Just get like,
like, give me a shortcut to that, And there is no shortcut to
that, at least at first. Now it's not some massive hill you got
to get over. It is just a matter of talking to a couple of
people and then they will send you in there and then once you are shooting,
it's pretty cool and uh and yeah, I've had fun playing as my
big boy character with the sword and who's like really good at melee and he's
got this Night's uniform on and just looks really cool. And it's an Unreal
Engine five game and it shows in like the lightning tech and the fire uh
and the animations. It's it's it's really good looking. I wonder if it's
going to have that same sort of life as Remnant One, where Remnant One
kind of came out of nowhere and when people over or if it's going to
be like we expect so much more and this game is like, yeah,
it's more in some ways, but a lot of it it's more of the
same. So I wonder if it's going to be able to like really pop
off the way that first game did. But I'm looking forward to going back
and playing some more of it as as I get dumb with Zelda. Finally,
as I play with my little being. It's worth of Zelda every day
as well. Over here. Well, just just like you want to return
to Legend or Tears of the Kingdom, Mike, you've returned to the Overdin
I have. I've been actually playing this for the first time, trying to
go five or five game. Yeah, so you know, on our sort
of discord channel that Jeff and I have, we do a game club there
and we play something every month. This month it is Return of the over
Day, which is one that I missed out on back when it happens,
so fun excuse for me to actually finally play this one. Yeah, it's
been really neat. You know, like I am a fan of like the
old school point and click adventure games, and there's like a bit of that
here, but obviously, like the way you're solving puzzles or sort of figuring
things out, it's completely different from that kind of talking to people inventory management
stuff I'm used to from say a Monkey Island or something like that. Even
like you know, you can't even really compare this to miss or something like
that. It is doing very much its own thing, and it is really
cool. It takes you a little bit to kind of like figure out the
language like the things you're supposed to be doing, because like you know,
the whole bit is that you can kind of like find a corpse. You
can find it, you can see the moment this person died, and that
may lead you to another corpse, and then you're using all the clues from
these scenes to identify all the people on this ship, and you need to
identify their name, you need to identify the cause of death. So in
that and like at first, like I wasn't thinking broad enough, which I
think was a problem where I was just like listening for people to like why
do they would say this person's name. It's like, Okay, I have
this big picture I should be really paint atch you to like how are these
people dressed? Uh? This makes me comfortable, but like what is there
of this city? You know, like some of that maasically a little uncomfortable,
but you know, who are these people like with who appeared to be
their friends? Like well, I know this guy is an officer, and
this person's dressed like him, so that's probably an officer too, so so
you know things like that. Yeah, it's been it's been really interesting.
It's just it's just such a good game. But I it is the only
I love puzzle games and point click games like like Monkey Island. As soon
as you said that, I would be like I have my heart swelled,
like yes, he gets it it. Oberdon is the only puzzle game where
I've had to take notes in real li life outside of the game, other
than some Nancy Drew games. They're hard. They're hard. Play them,
Senior. Okay, Bailey, go ahead, Jen, Yeah, Uh well
Bailey, Uh grub Grub can solve grub. Bailey can solve this problem that
we've been having, Uh Bailey. These style of games where you're you're it's
like a walking puzzle, like a Walkee puzz What what genre would you call
this? Because we have souls Born games for sure, and then we understand
what that is. That's sub genre, and we do have we have puzzle
games, but this isn't necessarily like Tetris are so different from each other Exactly,
Petris isn't a puzzle. See, that's that's what puzzle game is.
This is also different from socker Mike, what do you mean? No,
I'm right, because that's like, to me, puzzle genre is like Petris,
Poyo Poyo, Pokemon puzzle. Like you look at a screen and there
are like blocks or circles or something, and it's about the configuration. That's
a puzzle game. Yeah, that's what at least that's what that's the Boomer
explanation. So we had to go with it. I would call it a
first person point and click puzzler first for first person like solvers with Someone in
chat said, I still like solve them up. I'm just gonna keep staying
solve them up good. Someone a chat said that if you want to,
you know, take your your flowers there, let us know who it was.
I can't remember who it was, but yeah, solve them up is
good. It like kind of gets the point across real quick. I think
I'm into that. I love them because these games I'm so good. I'm
honestly, like not to brack, very good at puzzles, like video games
really long, You're really smart at games, so good at them, I'm
like a professional gamer, but like I love puzzle games. But like when
I was streaming over did like I would have these moments of like real brilliance
where people were like, wow, that was so smart. And then I
literally had a moment where I thought the blue was the land, so like
like one right after the other. So it's like some real opportunities to feel
like the biggest dipshit in the world. Yeah, I definitely like fell Like,
oh man, some of these puzzles in Oberdon gets so confusing that you
do really have to think about it, but and maybe have to write it
down. I don't. I don't remember writing anything down, but I was
drawing on like my pitcross and Pudoku skills because that's what like, it is
the exact same idea. And I've I've told this to Michael where it's like
it is just they provide evidence on the periphery and you need to look at
all the way all those things intersect to then fill in a little dot that
says this thing can only be this and that is. It takes practice because
like if you play enough Pseudoku, everyone knows like once it gets difficult enough,
you've really got to be thinking three or four inferences deep to be able
to get some of those correct numbers in there and return to the oberden.
It is the exact same way. So it's like once I got in the
habit of it and thinking about things that way, and things started falling in
place, and it's like such a satisfying things. I like games that,
Yeah, there is a lot of information on the screen, and there's a
lot there's there's some interaction on the screen, but really you're playing most of
it in your head. Like it's giving you information and you just need to
like mull it over in your own brain, and that's where the actual gameplay
is happening. And I think that there's other like other adventure games do that
to a certain extent, but the Return of the over Dan is like one
of the best examples of it, and it's that's that's one of my favorites.
I do like feel bad because I can't. I do sometimes make progress
just by brute forcing things. I know. If I know, like,
okay, so this is one of the Russians, this guy, I will
kind of go through the list and just assign him each Russian name and then
it'll be like, oh, you did it. I was like, all
right. I always felt so guilty when I like accidentally brute force something.
I definitely did it a couple of times, but I was like, I
don't know, I feel like this feels like cheating. No, no,
you play game sport forcing is its own kind of accomplishment. Yeah, like
I didn't try to undo it or anything like that game itself, but I
feel bad. It's like a command grab in Street Fighter. It's like you
can't get too mad at it. It's in the game. Yeah, this
isn't this This wasn't a bad transition. You just that was your analogy.
No, No, that was just a bad transition. Mike. Wow,
Wow, God, Oh my god. I'm the nice guy ship. He's
always over here causing trouble. I'm causing trouble. I have to play the
Leo, Dado or Cyclops of this group. Sometimes it'd be the straight man,
uh, the Leonardo to like seven Michaelangelo. So it's got to be
exhausting. I think Jan needs a little pizza right this very bit. Oh
I had, I had, I had a brilliant segue. I was trying
to make my batting average perfect this this episode. Inscription Bailey, Inscription.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's great. It's so good. Someone
brought up to me in my chat that you, Jan specifically, were obsessed
with it for a while, and I was like, Jan, and I've
got to talk about inscription. Okay, it's all I've been doing. How
have you beat the game? I am like most of the way through Casey's
maud now oh okay, okay, uh yeah, so you know, apologies
for spoilers. I don't remember when Inscription came out, but sorry, too
bad. Wait, I just bought this game. I'm not going to listen
to the spoiler. Okay, the point where you pop out and you have
to uh push the like go to the menu and move around when you get
out of like the first World. Right, Yeah, I accidentally deleted my
save because that's what I thought the game wanted me to do. Yeah,
that's right. And then I had made so many custom cards I did.
I had like I called it the jan God card because it hit three different
lanes, it had twenty attack. It was the most amazing thing. And
then it left me. Mike, you can put your things back on it's
and then the woman takes her top off in the game keeps happening. That's
why it's been on my brain's installing inscription. That's the thing is, it's
like, I okay, So when I'm writing a script for honest game trailers,
my job for a week is literally play the game that the trailer is
about, which mileage may vary on that depending on the game. Like Tears
of the Kingdom week, it was great or was it? I didn't leave
my house, but I wanted to die. It was the worst. I've
never been angrier at a game, but with story of seasons. It was
just so goddamn boring that like I was just like, I'm going to go
into Plue Station Plus and just she woulds available. I don't know, take
a brick. Maybe I don't watch. And so it was like ten o'clock
at night. I was going to Disneyland with my sister the next day,
so I was like, just play for a couple hours and then like,
go to bed, you're well rested for the park. And I then looked
at my phone and it was five in the morning, and I was like,
oh, yeah, it's such a good game. Is a thing.
Yeah, I knew nothing about it going in. I just knew spooky card
game, and I was like, soul, that sounds great, and it's
so much more than that. But it is also very much that, and
it's it's such a well designed game, Like the onboarding process is so smooth,
it's amazing. Yeah, PlayStation Plus now, so if anyone has that,
like you can just go play this for free right now. Yeah.
There's also like Slight I guess I don't not a org, but like horror
elements to it, and like I'm a big, big sucker for found footage
style things and it totally barks up that tree. Uh, the extra stuff
at the end, how it's just popping off. There's we all know there's
for folks that have completed the game, there's a certain bit with a certain
apparatus that attaches to your wrist. That got the biggest pop out of me.
Probably also when I was playing at four am. Yes, yes,
yes, yes, my a watch. I got really excited about a watch.
The yep flap briste. It was a slap bracelet. Yeah, I
saw my Daisy power band slap bracelet from Super Nintendo World. Here, Mike,
before I say anything, do you know anything about Yukio? I mean
a little bit. I mean it's you know, I'm not going to see
the next thing about what jan Jan pikachues no more. I guess we are
friends. Okay, he fail. I was Disneyland. It was good.
I lost my debit card I have. I am and I am not one
of the I just destroyed my whole set to show you my long Pikachu.
I am not one of those people that's like always losing their debit card.
You know, we've all got that friend that like does that. Yeah,
that's not me. Twice in my entire life, including this time. But
I was just having one of those weeks where like every little thing was going
wrong, and I was like, no, you know what, I'm gonna
go to Disneyland and I'm gonna have a fun one time. First place I
went, I lost it? Where was it? Which place? I don't
know? They called, and the five days later they called, They're like,
we found it, and I'm like, well, I canceled it where.
Oh we didn't write that down, Like that's the only thing I want
to know. Yeah, for me, it would have been that corn dog
cart that would always that would get me. That's the first Are you talking
corn dog castle? I'm talking about the Little Red Wagon. Okay, corn
dot castles are superior. I'm sorry. They're basically the same corn dog But
there's something I have corn dog castles. I mean, the one California Adventure
over Wait, wait, what do you want to say? Jeff really doesn't
want us to have fun today? I know. Wow, Wow, it's
not all about you. God. You don't normally on a podcast when you
have guests on, they're like really polite and like, oh, like I'll
speak when you speak to me here and stuff and everything and and all that
jazz. Now with these two who will again never see you all do karaoke?
I owe you nothing they did this time. There's pizza. I'm dressed
like a Niga turtle. It's outside, and really call oh man, Maybe
we should do holiday karaeoke because they're fun. Absolutely, there may be a
reason for all of us to meet in Los Angeles. Okay, who's doing
baby? It's quote outside with me, not everybody all at once. Are
you gonna be the Zoidationel part or the Will Ferrell part? I could do
whatever. I know both. Don't worry you are a classic Zoidationel type.
Though we all know this, that's true. People are always saying this.
I can't think about Zoe Deschanel and think about that Siri commercial. Siri,
is that rain? And it's like you can look at our window and see
it's raining. I want some soup? What fuck you? Siri? All
right, so you know we're tired of your impish way exactly the love that
she married a property brother. It hurts me so much inside, Bailey,
it hurts me so much. Girl. You got so tired of being everyone's
favorite manic pixie dream girl that you went hard opposite it. Yeah, literally,
on the tip of my tongue. I'm like looking for an opportunity to
say, manic Pixie dream girl, thank you. That's right. She was
like, Yeah, she was like the that monodic pixie dream boll I mean
cont essential. Oh I am a I am a Pixie dream girl. Yeah?
Absolutely, am I manic? Is that what you describe my energy?
All right? Uh gum, I apologize. We're gonna spare everyone Tears of
the Kingdom talk. We'll probably talk about it next week. I actually I
can't talk about for two hours. Literally, that was literally what I was
going to talk about, no joke. I wrote down here playing Tears of
the Kingdom like an old man, because like, oh, I'm enjoying getting
to this point in my life where I don't feel like I got to rush
through everything and I just play the games I want to play, and it's
like I could take my time on it. And then barely made that sound
like I'm a dirty casual. So Tears of the keenom weeks ago. Now,
yeah, you played seventy hours. I'm one hundred and forty hours in.
Yeah, I did everything you needed to do to beat the game.
And then I beat it. Yeah, oh my god, you haven't done
any Okay, everyone on this I have to go, like, wow,
so much to do. I thought you guys were real gamers. I got
most of the support stuff I wanted to do. I didn't like complete the
depths for no reason. Now that's what I'm doing it. Let's that's literally
what I'm doing right now. I'm completing the depths. Look, I'm sorry
you had to like spend thirty hours wandering the darks. You can write a
joke for on his game Showers. But all right, let's get to the
game of the week. I did it for the love of the game.
The game of the week this week, which I think maybe only Jeff Grubb
has played, maybe Mike Manady Mike because played the demo. That's right,
folks, we're talking about the little freaks, because we're a bunch of little
freaks. This episode Pickman four. Yeah. I started this game in ernest
last night. I played a bunch of hours. I was gonna I was
playing this morning and I couldn't stop. I wanted that's all. I wanted
to keep playing that I had to come to do this podcast. That game's
real good. They have streamlined Pickman four to the point where they've distilled it
down to the things that make it very good, which is the loop of
you get Pickman. That enables you to do stuff you could do stuff,
and that enables you to bring stuff back to your ship and that empowers you
to do more stuff the next day. And that loop still works really well.
And then on top of that, they just added a bunch of quality
of life stuff, including Ochi the pup which you can ride on, and
that makes getting around that much easier. It's got a jump button now,
which is new to Pickman. They're like, yeah, we're not gonna like
force you to walk around the long way every time, even if we give
you a shortcut a lot of times that still feels like the long way.
We're just gonna give you like little bumps you can jump up with a dog
and that's just another way to get around. Yeah, they just have really
figured out Pickman. It took a long time. I think got twenty years
to actually get it to this poin. Don't say twenty years, that makes
me feel incredibly, it's actually longer than that. It's like twenty two or
twenty three years. Two thousand and one was Piman one S, which is
the version like they could be a little tablet in the game, and the
tablet software version is at is twenty point zero point one for two thousand and
one for when the game came out. But uh, yeah, it's it's
just it's super fun. I think that I get why a lot of people
are intimidated. Not intimidated. They don't care about Pickman, that's the honest
answer. They don't care about it because they look at it like, yeah,
it looks a little strange. It's hard to tell where the fun is.
I have to like manage these things. Am I gonna have to like
send some pigment this way and some pigment that way. That seems like kind
of a lot and it but once you actually start playing it, and this
happens with me, where it's like do I like Pickman? And then I
start playing and I can't stop playing. Uh, And it just comes down
to again to like getting that progression feeling so so solid every day. And
I'm glad that they still kind of kept the day night cycle where you do
have a certain amou time on the surface and then if you are looking for
a reprieve from that, they still have the caves where you go down these
caves and then time doesn't pass, so you can spend as much time down
there and explore a little bit more leisurely. But then the enemies are a
little bit more intense down there. So it's it's just they figured out this
balance and I'm just so into it. I'm very happy with it. Mike,
I think you played the demo. Yeah, it's a beefy demo.
Like I basically got to play three hours just from the demo. I don't
I'm probably not too far past like what you played in the demo on it,
right, and like you so that's if you're thinking about this at all.
It's nice because you can play that demo. It's just the start of
the game. Your progress carries over. Just do that. And you know,
I've never been much of a Pickman person. I like played a bit
of one back when it came out a little freak. Yeah, I'm just
doing exactly but uh yeah, but you know, that's definitely was the most
I was getting into it. I wasn't enjoying the dumb especially once you get
past like the beginning, because even if this game has a bit of that,
like we're gonna really explain a lot. Yes, we're gonna introduce all
these characters, and like you're gonna walk and feed. It's gonna stop everything
and like show you a vignette of this little Pickman Captain person like getting harassed
by something. It's like, okay, I get it. But as it
got going, Yeah, I was having fun. I will say now that
it is out, like I do want to play it. I'm not like
rushing over there. I am still kind of more obsessed with my playing through
Final Fantasy thing. Yeah, I can't wait to put an hour in in
the next month. Yeah. I was the same wig where it was like,
you know, I haven't finished Aldi yet. I'm and I don't want
to finish it necessarily, so I keep putting it off and enjoying playing the
game. But I'm like, I should play Pickman four for the show.
So I booted up and that's when it's like, oh man, I'm glad
I already pre ordered it and had it ready to go and I just boot
it up and it was ready to play. And I'm glad I did because
as soon as I started playing, Oh yeah, I do really love Pickman.
It is one of those games you have to play. I think it's
hard to see from a distance and understand where the enjoyment comes from. So
grub I know in the lead up to Tears of the Kingdom a lot of
folks went back revisited Breath of the Wild. It's calm and pattern folks will
do when a sequel comes out. Do I have to do that with Pickman
four at all? Or is this a good jumping in point? Yeah?
So I have an answer to this. I thought about it since playing this.
I've been thinking about it since last night. I would say at this
point just jump in with Pickman four. If you are someone who already bought
Pickman three Deluxe and never played it, you can. You don't want to
necessarily got and spend more money on Pickman four right away. I think you
can go and play Pickman three Deluxe and get a good idea of whether or
not you like this franchise. Now there is the demo for Pickman four,
but like Mike says, it does have the stop and start with a lot
of tutorialization in the form of dialogue boxes that do stop the action, and
I find that frustrating. It's not so egregious, but it's still in that
Nintendo zone of this is sometimes what they do, and it can it can
halt the gameplay and halt the fun a lot of the time. So if
you want like a longer, more you know, actual game, and you
can have Pickman three Deluxe, I would say try that out. But if
you are just looking at all four of these games and you're trying to decide
where should I jump in, just go to Pickman four. This is the
one that they have They thought about the player the most, and this one
the controls are much more refined. They automate so much of the stuff.
Some examples, again pass games, you would send a pickmen to go out
and do a task. You're like, hey, go collect this thing,
And what they would do is if they were gathering up, like let's say
there's twenty resources on the ground and you've send twenty pickmen down there, or
maybe you only be only a five and you put five down, they rush
and they go pick up five, they carry it to your ship, and
then they rush back and they get another five, and then when they get
done. In the older games, they would run back to that point and
then just stand there and you'd have to go gather them up. Now they're
smart enough to wait at the ship if there's no more resources at the thing.
It's like it's a small thing, but the game is filled with those
kinds of decisions where it's like they just made it way more streamlined. It's
just more well thought about all across the board. And it's again that comes
down to like having the pickman ride Ochie so you don't have to worry about
the path five ending of like I'm gonna take this sharp corner run over here,
and now a pigment stuck on the wall and he's not coming around there.
They could make the pickment smarter, but the pickmen are dumb. That's
the half the idea. It's like you gotta guide them. So having them
ride the dog around with you just it solves that problem just straight up.
So I would come straight to Pickment four and start there, and I yeah,
the way that I feel about Pickment three Deluxe in terms of that solving
all my issues like with the controls of you know, the dual stick controls
on the GameCube, where oh you gotta okay, we're gonna aim allamar over
this way and then we're gonna point the the cursor where we want the pickmen
to go. They don't even really do that anymore. The right stick doesn't
aim. They're like, no, we know what you're trying to aim at.
We're just gonna lock on automatically. There's no lock on button, like
you want to get the thing over there, So we'll just lock onto the
thing for you. And that stuff just works. It's it's not not a
headache ever. And so yeah, I would definitely just come straight to pickment
four. Okay, Okay, well maybe I'll go party with a bunch of
little freaks after I think, you know, a three hour demos is,
like Mike said, b three demo. Yeah, all right, everyone,
before we go take a first break because Jesus Christ, do I need to
I need to go outside, And yeah, I gotta gotta go watch the
new Honest game trailer. It just dropped a minute ago. There we go.
It's man, mary Yan. You can find out what I'm talking about
when I say there's a shocking amount of boobs in my story of seasons on
this game trailer, be shocked. Before we take a break, any would
have any quick, quick, little tidbits of games they want to chat about.
You guys, a picture of me caroling? All right, well,
I can't do that because there might be some set Greb, can you do
a check for me? Is there sensitive stuff in this I'm looking would be
sensitive. There's an old, out of out of date netplay code. So
that's fine. Uh ah, right right right in the chat it's just back
our saying that they asked us debut that video that we talked about publicly.
So I think we're all good. And as long as the Google doc the
that is a public Google doc I think from before, so we'll move this.
Wow, Mike, that's adorable. Thank you. There we are.
Yeah, that's my brother and two to high school too. High school friends.
That isn't that cute? We're old still friends. Shots out to high
school friends? Which city slam a Jamma's not caught in there there, it's
Chris. It's not Chris this Shots out to high school friends. Shots out
to Chris, Shots out to Neely P. We'll see you in just a
second for some news. Welcome back to the Giant Bomb Cast, the one
podcast on the Internet that is hosted on a website called giant Bomb dot com
that has never gone into any trouble with any type of adult reverse Dildell Company,
Jef Grub. Let's talk about some news. Uh yes, Hello,
Maybe I shouldn't have said that. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. Even
if it's in a joking way, it's too late. I said it.
It's over. Sorry backlar Uh. Pickman four is getting that switch shine.
Pickman four topped the weekly UK physical sales charts, selling forty five percent more
than Pickman three Deluxe did in twenty twenty. The game has been well received,
with critics praising its improvements and features. Uh you meanwhile, SIMS four
Horse Ranch a debut at number three in the charts following its release on July
twenty, Tears of the Kingdom dropped it to number four, and Mario Kart
eight Deluxe fell to number five. Diabolo four climbed its way to number ten
despite a thirteen percent decrease in sales, while Jedi Survivor fell to an eighteen
with a sixty percent decrease. Game been out for a while, So yeah,
because it makes some sense and also a lot of it, and it
sucks. You really don't like it, You really don't like it, that's
right, Yeah, yeah, I hate that game. Yeah I can't.
I think I just remember you're here and you're saying you hate it. I
can't remember. Why? Is it just because I don't think that Dark Souls
and Uncharted makes for a good gameplay experience if you mush them together. The
first one definitely separate, like it had both, but it separated him and
to do two different things. But then, yeah, this game seems to
messing together a little bit. I'm gonna go back to that. Ji is
taking fall damage, are you goddamn got? You gotta keep in mind he
sucks stuck, That's true. I love having Bailey around. That's great.
Street Fighter six saw a sixty five percent increase in sales, bumping up to
number fourteen, and Super Mariodysse moved from number twenty two to number seventeen,
and the Dark Souls Trilogy experience in eighty seven percent increase in sales at number
twenty two to do a Steam promotion. But going back to Pickman four,
that is it is probably the fastest selling Pickman game. Almost certainly it probably
will end up being the best, the best selling Pickman game. It is
forty five percent faster than Pickman three de Luxe. I think for Pickman three
for the EU it's only about fifteen percent faster, but that's for physical sales,
and digital sales have grown a lot since the WU, and we don't
know those digital numbers. So the assumption here is that you know, up
to a third could be digital sales, maybe even more, or in the
in the UK at least, and that would make this game easily the fastest
selling Pickman game. But that's like what we expect from Nintendo games coming to
the Switch, right, they should be selling better than any of their predecessors
for the most part, right right, Yeah, exactly. I don't want
to say the install bass is just so ridiculous at this point. You would
hope that you're going to be selling millions of copies, even if you are
like one of these quote unquote smaller franchises. They're like a Pickman, but
still, even like a Pickman is bigger than an Advanced Wars or something like
that. Yeah, And the big difference with the Switch compared to other things
other Snintendo systems that have had huge install bases like the Wii Switch, owners
buy games like the Attachment, the software attach rate way higher than any other
previous Nintendo system that has this many consoles sold. And so yeah, that
is they're still buying Yo Kart eight. They won't, they'll never stop by
market? Is that not just a one percent attach rate yet? Like I
mean, it feels like you remember when when a Breath of the Wild like
launched, it was like more than a one hundred percent attach rates. Like
maybe Marty Kardate deluxis doing that all right. Monster Energy Drinks spills info on
Modern Warfare three. Further evidence suggest this year's Call of two D game will
be Modern Warfare three. Images on Twitter show a potential promotion with Monster Energy
Drinks featuring the game's logo and characters. The official Twitter account confirmed this,
basically tweeting woo mondays, anyone have any Energy drinks they can spare, basically
saying, hey, how we're in on the joke. Call of Duty twenty
twenty three is a continuation of last year's Modern Warfare two, but this time
developed by Sledge Sledgehammer Games. Your operator's weapons and bundles from Modern Warfare two
will carry over to the new title. Maps and modes from Modern Warfare two
will also be included in a new game. And this is all from reporting
from various sources. But yeah, this game's coming. They still haven't announced
it yet. We're pretty late in the game for them. Normally they have
announced, yes, a new Call of Duty by now. This game probably
is coming out in November. So yeah, man, it's weird that we
are just strip going to Modern Warfare three, Like, yeah, it's strawn
that. Yeah, Like there's usually at least one in between. And I
know what Vanguard between the last Modern Warfare one and Model Fare two didn't like
do nearly as well as a Modern Warfare. But it is so weird that
even like even just releasing a year league Call of Duty isn't good enough.
It's gotta be a modern warfare specific maybe a Black Ops if you're lucky.
Yeah. So I think what happened here is that they were thinking about this
maybe being the first year that they were going to take off all yes,
so all this stuff was being made as expansion material from Modern Warfare two,
and then I think they're like they you know, kind of did a right
turn in the last second. They're like, actually, we're making enough stuff.
Let's just make a new campaign, make a new game, sell it
for seventy dollars again, because that's what we do, and we have and
we basically have everything ready and here we are now again. They haven't announced
it yet, but we could probably expect that, I mean in the next
two weeks. I would say maybe three weeks, so you would think it
has to be soon. And they're gonna do August. There's no way we
get out of August without them announcing this game. I don't think it.
Stomniac. Excuse me, Insomniac is working on a third time excusers because here's
talking too excitedly. Yeah, I just like stumbled on Vomniac. Yeah,
you inter working on a third games Candy, Yes, exactly, Games developing
a third out announced title along with Spider Man two and Wolverine. Project director
Aaron Eberhart confirmed the unannounced project during a live stream at Full Sale University last
September. The video for that just came out and people saw this. Eberhart,
who previously worked on a PlayStation now, worked on PlayStation Now as a
project and then worked at Sony Interactive Entertainment as like a producer, is excited
to be leading this triple A game project. They said. Insomnak is known
for the Ratchet and Clank series and is currently working on two Marvel titles.
So I wonder what this game is. Probably Ratchet and Clank, That's what
I would talked to Jordan Midler about this, But I don't know if you
guys have any other ideas. I mean, I wouldn't be shocked if it
was it. It could be. I feel like Ratchett is at a point
where it's you get one of those per console. It's kind of what I
that's I had that feeling too, But Jordan was so confident. I think
he won me over. But I don't know. Yeah, I think he's
wrong. I think Jordan's wrong. There. I know. I like Jordan
Midler a lot. We were both Pokemon freaks. I also think Jordan's wrong.
Well, okay, so what do you guys think? Guys, are
we going resistance on this? No? I mean it could be. I
mean, Sonick has done random, weird stuff before. I mean, I
think it could be one of the many multiplayer games that's Sony once. Right,
Let's say they have a bunch of these in the works, And of
course I guess it could be a multiplayer Ratchett. We've kind of have had
those Ratchett deadlocked on places too. That multiplayer mode it was all one multiplayer
one that was a four player co op multiplayers Places three that nobody really liked
very much. But because like, okay, so look looking at this person's
like stuff, right. Uh. He oversaw global program planning and execution for
the liveline competitive system for Harstone E Sports for Aaron ever Heart, right.
I mean it could be like a card game even or something like that.
I don't think this is like the next big ratchan Clink game. I mean
the director for that would probably be like one of the Retched Clink directors at
least somebody who had more experienced in that franchise. Right. We've got him
higher in a while actually since Ratching Clank. So we don't know. Because
the Insomniac seems to have three main teams now, the teams that we're doing
a Spider Man and Miles Morales used to be one team. They've kind of
splintered off into two teams, and now one is doing Spider Man two and
the other one's doing Wolverine. And then they have the Ratching Clink team kicking
around and then maybe this is something something new? Can I is there a
possibility that this is a Marvel multiplayer game? Some people mentioned Spider Verse,
so doctor Ryan plucked this from my brain and I think we're both poisoned by
the same. Well, a Fantastic four co op game. I feel like
in Insomniac's hands, i'd really enjoy studio that could really make that work.
Yeah, but thinking like when Mike had said, the folks that have have
publicly been involved this is probably a games as a service, I mean,
they have the tools for Ratchet already, so maybe Jordan Midler isn't wrong.
I'm sorry, Jordan, Sorry. I mean they look, they saw,
you know how Crash Team Rumble is popping off. Oh yeah, they got
am I do like that, Billy, Fantastic Four the most boomer of superheroes,
don't you do? Bailey's Bailey? We're friends now, okay, just
you're you're grown there when yeah, this will be there are I think there
are boomer e er superheroes and Fantastic Four, but it's like, we get
it. There's literally a boomer well actually know he's a great generation. He's
on a boom. Honestly, Frankly, if they put a fresh spin on
it, it could be very gen z. It's like, oh, we
get it, you're a polycuel. Oh. They made the millennial Fantastic Four
movies right with great y. Yeah, millennial Energy's incredible. Did when I
was talking about from that movie is just insane. Kate mar is incrediblewig.
It's so great because not only is it obvious it's a reshoot because of the
wig, but it's obvious because it's the only like they're the only scenes in
the movie with like jokey dialogue. I think it's obvious what these reshootes are
for, like maybe the funniest, one of the funnier viewing experiences of my
life. I did it in theaters and I had we drink every time we
saw the wig. It was a very I don't remember the end. I
think during like all the rumbling of like the Snyder cut coming out, I
think the director of that movie was like, well, you God, like
Josh Trank, it's right, you should see my what I really intended for
Fantastic Four. Everyone was like, that's fine. Josh was Josh another person
who's supposed to like do a Star Wars movie. Absolutely, yes, he
was, why can't we do a Star Wars movie? Then we get started,
but they'll just replace us when we have ideas, because a Book of
Henry the worst movie I've ever seen. Book of Henry is an all time
classic bad movie. Stream it is it is like the Raise Your Voice starring
Hillary Duff's ways. Is that is that on the video? If that's a
video on video? It isn't. I don't tell anyone, but I did
have to use totally legal methods. Fantastic. All right, let's hit up
this next story here. Project que seemingly runs on Android. Images of PlayStation's
upcoming Project Q handheld him surfaced online, showing the device and internal components.
The images suggest that Project Que will be Android based, potentially allowing for modding
to run another game streaming services as well as emulators and ROMs and things like
that. Project Que is a dedicated device that enables streaming games from a PS
five console over remote connection to using Wi Fi. The device features an eight
inch screen, it's ten ADP and has all the buttons. Because it's just
a dual sense controller. What's been split in half with the screen in the
middle. I am continuing to be like, I will buy this thing almost
no matter what I think. If it's three hundred and fifty dollars, I
don't think it will be that expensive. But if it's the expensive, probably
not. But if it's any that's three hundred or less, I'm gonna get
it. That's almost enough for one game Cube game, yes, almost,
oh boy? But I don't know. Having Android installed and like that,
being the operating system makes it like maybe a little bit more valuable because you
can install emulators. Even if it doesn't have like the Google Play Store,
you'd be able to side sideload those pretty simply so. But but at this
point in your life, how many talk about no no, no, no,
no no no. How many devices have you already sideloaded stuff onto that
you need another one? Wow? People should rob Jeff and steal those from
him. That's a funny joke. A lot, Yeah, I have a
lot, like more like double digit, like yeah, double digit in the
back room there, I got a couple of drawers filled with things like that.
And yet, what if I did it again, I don't know if
I could justify three hundred dollars though, unless it's a really nice screen.
Shut up, Mike, he's popping himself. Now. Yeah, he's just
like, I'm oh man money, that's nothing to me. I'm Mike,
come on all right, Yeah, it's a joke everybody. He's very poor,
don't rob very poor. Yes, it's it'll be easier for Mike Manati
to get through the eye of a need or whatever the saying is. I
can't then for a Richmond and her Heaven. You guys, exactly you were.
I knew you had the heart of a Christian school a couple of times,
part of a Christian the heart of the cards. It's like that,
right, exactly. It's like Yugio, right, we'll talk about Ugi earlier.
Yeah, yeah, it's exactly like, Yeah, my grandpa's that has
the weak cards, Jato Cholla, Blue Eyes, Weight Dragon, Jesus christ
Uh. Ubisoft isn't going to delete your games, youb Besoft clarified today or
this morning, late last night that it won't inactivate accounts with purchase games.
A Twitter user claimed to receive an email warning a potential account closure if it
did not like if you didn't click on and reactivate the account before they decided
to nuke him. Ubisoft Twitter support seemingly confirmed the closure, leading to players
being very concerned. Ubisoft explained that this it was doing this for legal reasons
because inactive accounts sometimes violate GDPR of like keeping people's data too long without their
permission. Accounts with purchase PC games, however, are not going to be
eligible for deletion. Confirm that, which makes sense. The GDPR wouldn't be
like, oh, delete people's purchases. They'd be like, yeah, if
you're just keeping people's information for free or whatever, I could see that being
a recent delete stuff, but not if they have actual things that they bought.
But if you are worried about this, if you've like, you know,
have achievements on Ubisoft that you care about for some insane reason. The
time period is four years, so if you haven't logged into your you play
account in four years, you might be up for deletion. So keep that
in mind. The other side of this, you be soft. It is
deleting games. Wait a minute, actually, hang on, let me double
check something real quick. If I could do the story yet, because this
this one I thought, I said, I would hold off onto A friend
said, it's okay, let me just check this website. Yeah, it
is there. It is Okay, we're good. Uh you Besoft is canceling
Immortals Phoenix Rising the sequel. I talked about this, Yes, I how
I feel too, because the first game was okay, Yeah, I didn't
love it. It was the trying to do Breath of the Wild with the
Greek god Pantheon and and the most they've got jokes energy I've ever seen it.
Yes, he does, and they wouldn't shut up. The two guides
or one was a titan, yes, exactly, Prometheus and Prometheus. It
was It was it the other one. Not even a guy saying like Socrates
or some shit. I don't know, Plato. It was Prometheus. It's
Prometheus, the tend the one that got gave us fire, fair enough,
one who keeps getting his liver ate by a bird, thank you Bailey.
Yes, but someone here is classically educated. Listen. I made a dentalist
joke in like right off the bat in my golemn trailer. You know,
I'm going to get that Greek mythology obsession I had in sixth grade in somewhere.
Uh. Anyway, they are canceling this new game that was going to
take people to the Polynesian Islands instead Okay there John John John Drake, come
on, just get this, get them, talk to them, make them
a Wanta game out of these assets. Come on, yeah, there you
go. Just it's it's probably just like a one button click to do that
and then we make shot. Okay, all right. I was in a
conversation recently, right, and so I need folks to keep in mind,
I'm a brown person from the Bay Area. Someone was having a conversation with
me about polyamory and it's like, hey, do you know any couples at
like Dabble and Polly. And then I was like, yeah, I know
tons of couples at Dabble and Polly. And I was like, really,
like you know any I could hit up to, like just you know,
experiment. I'm like, I mean, there's classes in Polly here in the
Bay Area. I know a couple of teachers, and it's like, Yo,
there's teachers and Polly here. Whoa. And then I had to tell
him wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait wait do you mean Polynesian
dancing? Jan they did that, I mean Polynesian dancing, and I almost
want to say that, like the first question they asked was really more like
are you I think you were getting I think you were getting invited to be
in a throuble energy from across the room. Yeah, keeps happening me.
Look at it. We's got that fetching. Is that an ascot? Ascot
on? What would you call you? You were applying that you know tons
of people who are implies to me that the person read it as, yes,
you are Polly, but you're rejecting them. If someone asked me about
the Polly, I would think they're talking about the Polynesian Resort in Walt Disney
World. Oh would you? Has anyone thought about that? I think about
it like daily. I have a replica sign of the Polynesian in my living
room. I'll have you know. Okay, I'm sorry for de rail and
grub No, I appreciate it. I would have it no other way,
you Persops canceled bunch of games this year, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recount, Frontline,
Splinter Cell, VR Project Que, hyper Escape Project Que, That's a
miss Type, Hyperscape, Tom Clancy's Rainbow six Patriots, all stuff that people
deeply care about, uh, and that none of that's coming back. But
I think this one, actually I'm bummed out about. I think I liked
taking that like the bones of what they did with Phoenix Rising and put in
it in a more interesting setting. I think could have gone along way because
it was a fun game, and like I remember thinking the sort of platforming
elements of it actually felt really good. There just wasn't And I think the
Polynesian setting would be way more interesting than what it was at that time.
A really I remember because Immortal's Phoenix Rising came out at the same time Hades
was popping off, and Hades just had such a more interesting representation and interpretation
of those characters and that much better art style, and you know, like
the whole thing Phoenix was was hoping on was it's jokes, and it just
wasn't a funny game. Like that's the rest. If you want to be
a funny game and you're not funny, that kind of derails everything. So
if you like change the direction, they're a bit. I think the Polynesian
setting would have been really cool, would have looked really pretty. Yeah,
I think there was definitely some there could have been a future in this,
and it is a bit of a bummer we're not going to see we've seen
series before or that don't pop off until the second game. Yes, I
mean Assassin's Creed one popped off because of the marketing, but Sassas Creed two
is actually where that series hat like Ubisoft has done this a bunch of times.
Maybe they've just well, I mean we have used Gamo like saying basically,
and I'm gonna paraphrase here, I'm not gonna read the exact quote that
they are trying to get these games out of the way of their other games.
And then he says what I think is the real He says, yeah,
see I gotta get out of the way. See if thieves No,
no, no, yes, that's right. He's got to say the other
which is the real reason, which is we have a lot of games that
need content, that are coming out and need support long term, and I
think a lot of these studios that are working on these other projects are getting
sucked into those bigger projects and now that's what they do. Okay. Next
story, Blizzards games are coming to Steam. Blizzard Entertainment will bring a selection
of its PC games to Steam eventually. They're starting with Overwatch two, which
will be the first Blizzard title available on the platform, with a release of
August tenth, players on Steam will need to connect their Battlenet account for cross
play and other features. Blizzards. This aims aims to offer players the choice
of platform and meet their expectations. That's their reasoning. Also, over Watch
two not doing very well, so this is the opportunity to like get it
in front of people who weren't going to download Battle that ever. Gabe Newell
was like very excited about this. We like it when free to play shooters
coming our our service because we make a lot of money from those games.
I don't think it's exactly what he's said. Oh yeah, go ahead,
let's play t F two. Oh yeah, it's pop it off again?
Can we play? We play? You do Classic? You wanna do Classic?
That was my That was like my first like online shooter. It was
Team Forteous Classic. Guess I know I'm old, but man beat young Mikey
like Levin playing Team Fortreous Classic, the you know to fort the well too?
Uh? Good? Good times watching digimon on while I'm doing that.
Those were the days we don't have to watch digimond. Do we excuse me?
A dog? I forgot who I was surrounded by, So I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, and we're gonna and we're all gonna cry
when Patamon uh did you balls in the antemon and sacrifices himself. Okay,
okay, I don't remember that. I remember, Pam, you are the
Padamon of the crew. That's why thank you, not for nothing. But
speaking of TF two, I do want to say that, like when we
played Exo Primal the other week, that was the first time I've ever been
able to play an online shooter because because I can't do the voice chat without
getting like, yeas skilled enough to like pull off, being in those without
getting yelled at sounds up pretty fucked up. So I do want to say
that, if you guys do it, can I play with you? Absolutely?
Of course. Now I feel like a responsibility, so yes, definitely
we would appreciate your presence. That would be great. I just don't like
getting yelled at it, all right, Yeah, it's already a succressful gaming
situation. Anyway, have you met Mike Manati? Mike now just trying at
the yell atter for the rest of the episode. Never all right, every
time xpen means me, I've taken it really personally, and I'm gonna cry
after so mean all the time messages. Pot you like that, you like
the code of Portal PONTI, you responded, llol, smiley face. Oh
okay, I'm moving us on al right. Reside Before Remake is series as
fastest to five million since two thousand and nine. The Resume Before Remake has
reached five million sales, which is a significant milestone. It achieved this in
a relatively short period after its release in March of twenty March twenty four of
this year for PS four, PS five, Xbox Series X and sn PC,
comparatively Resuable Village took almost six months to reach that same sales figure,
so we're talking three to four months for resival for remake to do that about
half the time almost. Capcom, of course, is planning to kind of
keep this game going with the VR mode getting released for PlayStation VR two,
which will be it should be given a little bit of a bump. I'm
not expecting huge things for that, but this is with this perspective, Like
we talked about this, and I think we were like, oh, I
thought, at least I said, I thought it would sold a little bit
faster, the same thing I think we're used to looking at switch number switch,
Yes, exactly, I think switch numbers and then maybe some of those
late gen PS four exclusives that would do like ten million and like and that
same amount of time. Hearing that this is the fastest selling since two thousand
and nine, which what is what would that mean? Resivutions it's pretty Resival
six, which is somehow like, yes, I don't they must speed shifted.
They must have just shifted a stupid number of those games. I don't
know. Nobody likes that game. I understand how that is this massive seller?
Ye blow job one? Right? Yes, y think about a six.
That's just a draft getting a blow job if you think about yeah,
so that's okay, that's good numbers for this game. It probably is going
to be the best selling Resuval in the long run. If that's the case.
Six is no longer the top one, which is good, but it
was for a very long time. I think six was for a while.
But I think two remake the really well seven actually is a really big seller
because it kept selling for a lot of time. But I mean we're kind
of at the place where all of these as long as they deliver and usually
do, like Resuval three remake was one a remake of not like one of
the more popular ones, and also a remake that was missing content, so
that's going to be an outlier. But Resume before remake is just so ridiculously
good. It's a remake of maybe the most beloved entry in the series.
You gotta think, Mike, you know, we got enough a good amount
of listeners to this podcast. There is a strong chance that a large percentage
of them have never looked at the Resumeal six logo and saw the draft blow
jobs. So imagine what they felt when you were just like yelled, that's
the draft blow job one. I just thought that was like part of like
gamer cannon, No, no up. Just look at the residuals six up
yeah logo. It looks like the toys are us mascot getting. Do not
be smirched Jeffrey like that, what's wrong with your Jeffrey's having a nice time.
But he was the president. He earned that position. My mom signed
up for a Toysrus credit card so I could get a T shirt as a
child. If he's just looking for those poly classes, Bailey, were you
the same as me? Whenever that Toysrus Holiday catalog came around. It was
like fucking Christmas just looking at the cattle. What you want boys and girls?
Oh, I definitely love to look at them, but like, I
don't celebrate Christmas, so like, uh, it was like Hanna cut in
that I would circle it. My parents would just give me a gift card.
Yeah. I already got into trouble last time I was on a show
because I kept like asking his Christmas tradition and I found out he had a
Christmas They had like three Christmas trees actually, but I think it's still be
on our Christmas album though, thank you. I do have Christmas traditions.
Every Christmas Day I get lit on a bloody marry bar and watch like a
really bad Hallmark Christmas movie stars greatly the holiday. Is it too stereotypical to
say, do you ordered Chinese food? Because that sounds like a happened the
night before. That's my Christmas Eve dinner. I have like a like thing
that I do, and so I do have traditions. I just yeah,
my Christmas Eve tradition is to go get habbachi. Now we go to get
habachi ever year. That's very fun. We have a good time. I
set up by fireplace and wait for Santa. Armored Course six box photo reportedly
reveals online multiplayer details. A photo of the Armored Course six game box suggest
multiplayer details have been revealed. The game will support online multiplayer for two to
six players, and up to nine people could participate at the same time if
you include the spectators, which sounds actually pretty fun. The game, of
course, was announced last year. They haven't given us too many more details,
although an Armored Course six live stream has been announced for Tuesday. From
Software will showcase the new Armored Core six fires with Rubicon gameplay during a live
stream on Tuesday. They promise of a twelve minute gameplay briefing that will air
on July twenty five at seventy Pacific time noon Eastern. That already happened,
Jeff, did it really? Yes? Sorry? Okay, yeah, that's
that's today, all rights. That just happened. Hey did it? I
wrote this this morning before I knew what day it was. Everybody, you
gotta keep that. I watched the stream. It looked really good. I've
never been super into like all the deep lore, for all the items and
souls born games, right, I want to do the opposite for Armored cores.
I hope every little component of a robot has some rich lore of like
to the armored lore. Okay, that's good. That's good. Baily write
that down for a future Honest Game trailer. He's lobbying for podcast. I
earned a little if you want, Jan, I'm just saying that's my opinion.
I know I can mike fifty podcast points. I thought it was gonna
go one man, all right, all right, thank you sir. Uh
yeah, okay. So that that video is out, I wonder if it's
the same briefing that we got at Summer Game Pest. I haven't seen that
behind Closed Doors one that we saw. I think it was about twelve minutes,
so that sounds that sounds about right. But either way, it does
look very cool. It comes out of a month today. That's insane.
Yeah, that's the thing. Like for everything that they showed at Summer Game
Fest. Yeah, it was like, Okay, this is a game that's
coming. It did not feel like a game that was coming later this summer.
If I mean like it was behind closed Doors like you all better be
quiet. I'm like, this keeps coming out in two months? Right?
Yes? Weird? How secretive they're being again like yeah, a game that's
out imminently now, it's uh, this is from software, and there are
definitely the from software like hits like you have a basically that's this flask,
You're gonna have three repair kits instead, and they're they're basically I think there's
basically bondfires and stuff like that. But the movement, everything, the way
you're interacting in the fights, it's all Armored Core and not really like like
a It's still like level Base is not like the Bad exactly right, So
it's like they are sprinkling in a few things that I think they just think
are really good gameplay designs, good gameplay mechanics, and I think I agree.
I like the idea of having three repair kits. That feels like a
good balance of like stress management. Uh. And then they're going to keep
all the Armored Core stuff, including the multiplayer, which apparently has been a
thing for the series. I've never been an Armored Core guy, so but
yeah, apparently since the beginning they've had some form of multiplayer mission based game.
That sounds great. Yeah these days, Hell yeah, let's go,
let's all really getting the metal gear solid peace Walker. Okay, I was
actually just thinking about playing that yesterday. Actually, that'll probably get rereleased very
soon. That'll almost certainly be in that volume two of the Metal Gear Solid.
Ye. Yes, our time will come there. Yeah, I'm not
playing it with Bailey. We need a new co op partner and not I'm
not saying we're gonna get rid of anyone, but we're getting rid of Dan
Record. If you want to come to our new co op partner, I'd
be great. You would love that because honestly, like when we played games
together for the first time at dream Hack, I was like really intimidated and
really nervous. I'm like, oh, these guys have been like games journalists.
Mario Party, Like, yeah, I couldn't lose a single game against
you guys. I also Mario Maker competition, and I had never seen Mario
Maker before. That's embarrassing. You wouldn't beat me, but good job beating
does guys. Totally. That's what Dan sent about Mario Party too. Mike,
you lost every match of Mortal Kombat to Emma, so you're not the
same person. But that was that was my first time playt caught that one.
It was her first time too. Maybe maybe not. I don't know
she hasn't. Spider Man two marketing kicks off with Brandon. PS five in
Dual Sense PlayStation and Insomniac Games premiered a new Spider Man two trailer at San
Diego Comic Com, revealing a special edition PS five console and controller. Uh.
It's part of the trailer we saw that Peter Parker and Miles maralists Surprise,
are struggling with the balance between their superhero live send their personal lives.
What did you maybe like, what Spider Man. It's the way where it's
like they're doing all right, I do want that, but I get like,
this is the character, Like this is super duper what the character has
always been. So I'm not complaining it too much about that. Honestly,
I thought the trailer was pretty good, like they held emotional beats really hard,
and now I'm like way more excited for that game than I was for
the gameplay trow that went way too long at sgfor I'm sorry the PlayStation showcase.
But in terms of the brand of PS five in Duel Sense, it's
like a venom. It's taking over the Spider Man logo. It looks pretty
cool if you're into that sort of thing, the Venom sort of Yeah,
listen, I don't know. I think I'll go back and forthink, like
I go back and forth of Venom. Venom is kind of a key because
it's like the nineties spawned Todd McFarland stuff. Yeah, yeah, I didn't
know that Venom is basically just spawned, and I think I don't like Venom
anymore. That's fair. Yeah, I don't blame you. Yeah. When
he's like symbiote to Gwen Stacy, like that, to me is such a
perfect intersection. Is a thing they do? Oh yeah, the Gwenom series.
Yeah, oh it's cool too, Like she's such a The thing is
the thing that you don't really get inspirder verse in the comics is she's just
a huge idiot who just punches stuff really hard. And so the Venom symbiote
stuff works really well for because she's like a mess of a human being.
She's like me, for real. There's a cent a band with a cat
and they have a cat in a murder face, like like she's just a
cool person who totally deserves to have a cool symbiote. There's a Gwen Pool
so like they just think I like, there's this character that was just like
killed off to give like Peter Parker an emotional story beat, and now yeah,
a frigid woman in a comic book. Yes, and now she actually
has the whole thing going on. That's like, she's like three of our
best characters. All right, there's a scented excuse me, a pizza scented
Xbox controller, because God is a bandoned US. Xbox is celebrating the upcoming
release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from Mutant may Am, which is a movie
that's coming out very soon, with an exclusive pizza scented Xbox wireless controller.
The controllers coming four variations representing each of the Turtles. Fans can enter to
win the controllers by following Xbox game Pass on Twitter and retweeting the official Xbox
Game Pass sweepstakes tweet from July twenty fourth through August thirteenth, So you can
go do that right now. They're gonna have in person events and stuff whatever.
But basically this controller is you know, the controller itself is green,
looks turtly, and then a piece of pizza, a plastic pizza pizza like,
connects to the back and amidst pizza smells, tell you, nah,
is it cheese pizza? Yeah? Like what kind of pizza? What is
there? Kids? I think it's smell different. I think it's pepperoni pi.
We can't get into this. I'm holding back to help. I think
pepperoni pizza smells amazing in the context of eating pepperoni pizza, like otherwise I
don't. That's a very aggressive smell for just like a like a funky,
like a spiciness and not like a good kind of spiciness to the odor.
Like something smells like a little spicy in here, like that kind of spiciness.
I like eating, Yeah, I like eating it. I don't like
mixing food with anything else. And you guys can take that wherever you want.
But I agree it's yeah, food's kind of gross outside the context that
I need it for nourishment. I don't like watching people eat. You're like
your mouth is like I don't like to hear. Yeah, it's like there's
like like you're mixing up all the goop and the and the substance and stuff
and it's nothing. Yeah, I'm always thinking about that. Like Disney Channel
original movie Steps Sister from Planet Weird when she's like preparing the food for the
party and she just puts all this like beautiful food right in a blender.
She's like, why it's all going in the same place. I'm like,
God, you're so right for that. It's just like me for real,
because exactly this controre looks like the way I think most of these special controes
look, which is very ugly. Again, is why I'm so grateful for
like that Starfield control that actually looks really good. Which take this away from
my kids, because my kids think it looks cool because they go, rain
me two bros. Yeah, there you go. Did you bring that the
barbie where you're blown bubbles first? I should have. That would have been
a hit. I think I'm gonna bring this to Oppenheimer. Let's go.
That's incredible. When the bomb goes off, every I hardly know her.
She's got one of those hand clackers, everybody, Oh my god, incredible.
What do you call that? What would you call that? Jeff?
I would call that a noisemaker, But you're right, hand clapper noisemaker?
Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, I like it. I've got just a
full thing of like props and noisemakers. Over here. You're oh, you
beat me the current top joke. Damn. Oh we should get everyone?
Would I do with this watermelon? Though? You should get everyone slide whistles
for the holidays. Yeah yeah, I mean it will break this show,
but we should definitely still do it, all right. Danny posts that a
flat whistle is that tim Olm tim Allen the human slide whistle power? Oh?
I guess who was at the Young Style Comic cart It was the girl
who played like the lady on tul Time and I was just like al Borland
and now I'm disappointed. But no, no, it's like the woman us
just says like it's tul time, right, it's the beginning. She's doing
the convention circuit. She was very lovely by all accounts. She went around
all the tables and was like asking people questions. So yeah, going on
her h yeah, shout out to Heidi. Uh. Danny posted a TINDP
version of Sony twenty six Press Crown Fronts over no Clip game History archive channel.
It looks really good. I think we should watch this, Mike.
That'd be fun. Yeah. I remember like streaming this probably on GameSpot dot
com or ign or something interesting. Watch on G four. But yes,
and this was I remember it just went on. It's like two hours long,
and it's just like that weird time where they still like it was almost
like half an investor call, like they would have slides like yeah, and
then like all these It's funny because like everyone knows like the mean ten minute
cut of it. But again, this is a two hour show. A
two hour show. Yeah, but yeah, the Genji Giant Enemy crab you
have a rich race or five hundred ninety nine US dollars. Oh, this
is just man, it really it's funny how like these things are poor.
Like this really did kind of set the tone for the PlayStation three's early struggles
that it eventually rebounded from things to Ken Butler or whatever his name was,
right all all his name, what was his name, Kevin Kevin Butler,
Kevin Kevin Butler. Yeah, he turned things around there and also was on
the commercials. That's really impressive. I can't tell if you're doing the bit.
I think you're doing the bid. I'm doing a bed. You actually
worked me on that one. That was good, Okay, it worked very
earnest, Yeah, it was super earnest. It worked marks. Yeah,
apparently under scullable. Yeah, it's a lot of good stuff going up on
that note clip archive channel, including Jack Tretton introducing U Ludacris doing a rap
for like five minutes or whatever, and that is an incredible thing. It's
like so HD that you can see yes aggressively HD. You can see like
the pores in the sweat on Jack Tretton's face and like fuck, yeah,
let's go. And then Ludacris comes out and it's it's a hell of a
thing. I mean, there are also like actual interesting things there, like
you get the first look at Uncharted ever and Drake's wearing like his different shirt
that they brought back when they had Young Draken and Charted three. Right,
Like there's it's really interesting. It's really cool. But it is also like
disguided. Hey where those tapes mostly came from like the game spot offices?
Right, Yes they did, Yes they did. It was fine, Like
I just remember like hearing the conversation like when we were asked you have like
those tapes, I think Danny's gonna do something with him, like okay,
and then like a couple of weeks later this is all happened, Like oh,
this is pretty neat all right, I guess this makes sense better.
It's better than those tapes getting thrown out or anything. So fantas I I
just a little peak behind the curtain. One moving. One of the times
we had to move upper floor, different building, I don't remember. At
this point I had to make considerable decisions to throw away gear for these tapes.
Yep. So I'm glad you did the right thing. Sacrifices you've made,
Yes, gimbals a plenty, cables. I'm like, oh man,
I got gadgets and gimbos of plenty. No, not anymore, Oh Jesus,
all right, last got story. This is the most important one.
The dash Rendar Watch is on. We are on the watch for dash Renders.
Watch dash watches here. Dash Watch twenty twenty three Wars Outlaws takes place
between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, just like Shadows of the
Empire, and that means that dash Rendar could feasibly show up in that game.
Let's fucking go, Well you can. You can get an outfit and
Jay Survivor that's very clearly inspired by Dash but they have like they have inspired
costumes. One also, but the dash render is very dash render. Oh.
I mean, they brought back the Blue Guy and everybody seemed really happy
about that. So they've been bringing back some legacy characters. General Thron they
okay, remember I was like, I'm going to see Blue Man Group this
week. I don't think that's what the sexy trench coat Rod, sexy trench
coat Troid. Why is he wearing a trench coat? Is he cold?
I don't care? Oh yeah, we got who cares? You gotta fuck?
Like, of course I finished Blish, I finished that I Survivor,
and I was like, I'm never playing another goddamn Star Wars game, which
I know was a lie. I literally have to do it for work,
but in my heart it felt real. And then that trailer came out and
was like a sexy Droid and a trench coat. They got me and they're
cheating outlaws. Is looking so good. I am also just obsessed with that
character's hair. I don't know why. I really love her hair. She's
so cool. It's good, she's really cool, it's fantastic. Hare.
I don't know why I'm so obsessed with people good hair. Hi Bud.
All right, that's all the news that I have I'm handing this show show
over back to our host Ken. Here go Ken. Thanks Ken. Uh
Well, it seems like the show needs to go outside and get aired out
yet again. So we'll take a quick break and we'll be back with some
emails, perhaps some shout outs and something else. Maybe Welcome back to the
Giant Bomb Cast, Mikey, We're going to say something. Do they know
it's Christmas time? Ada bodcast? The Giant Bomb dot com is the email
address to send your emails too. I read all of them. I appreciate
all of them. I print them out and then I put them on my
refrigerator over there. Oh no, I messed up the joke. It's do
they know it's pizza time? At to the song? Mike? Yeah,
right right, yeah, I'm like, you hurt my brain. But also
okay, we just go do they know it's Christmas time at all? What
the fuck is that song? Are they? Like Africa Bibles? Is that
what that song is? But like, Mike, a pitch for you though,
do they know it's turtle time? Is? Like right there? Yeah,
I think we thought about it, but they say a pizza time A
lot toos my art? Please, I don't tell you how to do your
ganest game trail you literally do literally, I have good ideas. Yeah,
maybe you're right, Maybe I blew it on that one, But I think
the implication of that song is that they're all too poor and like worried about
Like, yeah, yeah, it was definitely racist. It's why can't they
just forget the systemic issues keeping them in poverty and like spend a lot of
money at toys, r ust or whatever. Right, yeah, contribute to
the economy a rights in Oh, we ever get another single player Fantasy Star
game? Thanks a man, that would rule? It's so weird, like
because they have Atlas right there at Sega and they make all these really cool
RPGs, but they are they are of a very specific flavor. There's like
some sci fi stuff there, but man, like Fancy Star is still like
I think, probably the best pure sci fi JRPG, even Star Ocean,
even though it's called Star Ocean. The sci fi elements and those are often
very light. And then like what else you got yet? Zeno Saga,
which is just a lot I think is too much for most people. Yeah,
yeah, Cosmos what's her name, Chemos or whatever? Yeah, I
think Cosmos is how Cosmos. Yeah, Zenos. I mean even with like
all these freaks popping off about Zeno Blade and Zeno Gears, you don't hear
a lot of Zeno Saga talks these days. But man, it is actually
kind of nuts to me that we haven't gotten like a fantasy Star five they
Okay, so there was a rumor yesterday that they're going to make a new
fucking Altered Beast. I think it's an altered Beast. They could do a
Fantasy Star right That's that's that is messed up. Like you know, you
have Sky's Arcadia and Fantasy Star right there. You're gonna make it new?
Like I even, yeah, maybe they have these great RPG franchises. Uh
so you know, I get that SMT is good, but maybe we only
need the mainline SMT in persona. Maybe we don't need Soul Hackers too or
whatever that one was that No. I have such a resentment for that game
quick sidebar, because it broke my computer. Oh ms, I, for
work related reasons, needed to download a version of it that wasn't like fully
ready to be sold yet, and it was maybe had only been run on
a dev computer before, and my poor gaming PC tried its hardest, but
it just blew throughout the audio to the degree that I can no longer record
voice over on my actual PC. I have to go sit in the closet
with my laptop. WHOA unable to fix it. I don't know what happened,
but I think it like broke an actual part of my computer. It's
I imagine the real game that came out did not do that, and the
game did seem fun, but I was so deep in the throes of my
resentment that I couldn't see past it. What they should do not to those
just suddenly jerked things back to Fantasy Stars. You don't want to talk about
my broken computer whatever. That's real sad. I hope it gets better.
I hope so too. Man. They should just they should remake Fancy Star
four, because that is a fantastic game that still that has a pretty bad
translation, and it's the only translation of it we've ever had. It's one
of those translations where everything's written in like a first grade level for some reason,
and sosis kind of it reads really awkwardly and real simply, so I'd
be pretty happy if they even just went back to the old ones, like
even like fan Star three isn't a lot of people's favorite, so maybe you
can plus that one, you know, even have just do all of them,
do one and two, just remake them, HD two D whatever,
but do something with single player fancy Star for sure? Amen? Next few
paters better Bailey? What? Thank you? Yeah? I hope so too.
It's not better. But I did play Fantasy Star online a lot as
a child. But I did play a single player because my dad wouldn't let
me go online because he was a good parent. Yeah, I was online.
He's a good parent. Shout out to Mike. Mike, I got
an email from him this morning. Uh every morning. Hey guys, real
quick, I just realized the Cosmos name is is a space thing. It's
a pun yep. What that's real stupid of me. I know, I'll
just admit it. I'll say it. I don't think i've ever said that
name out loud before. It's like, I just never said that name out
love, just because it's it's spelled like it's an operating system, you know.
Yeah, yeah, look, I know it's embarrassing. Okay, I'm
not trying to defend myself on it. I'm just admitting it. Sean says
he's just staying, Oh my god. Yeah, I've never seen him in
the same room at the same time. Gig Factory Together caught it on your
face. Michelle from the Chicago Suburbs Right Son, Hi, BombCast. As
a public librarian, your discussion about library services on last week's BombCast warmed my
heart. Thank you for spreading the word about services that we provide. I
select and purchase video games for the library that I work at, and trying
to figure out whether a game will be released on physical or digital is the
bane of my job. Sometimes I have to just wait until a game hits
release date to see if it will be offered on physical. Viewfinder is a
good example. You have any recommendations on how to know in advance if a
game will be digital only? The publishers generally don't seem to want to divulge
that information upfront. Thanks and much love. Michelle from the Chicago Suburbs.
Michelle, do they sell magic eight balls near you? Yeah? That might
be your best bet. Honestly, this is the kind of thing where it's
like, when is a movie gonna hit streaming? You think that that information
would just be out there right, like that that's just the date. They're
gonna just have that date. They know it, and it's like, no,
that's actually it's a moving target, and so they always kind of keep
it on luck because they don't really know. I think the same thing happens
with physical releases for games, because they they're just like, man, we're
always judging the demand and maybe we're going to decide to do it and maybe
we're gonna do it as a limited run or something like that. That being
said, yes, you freaking go to a library. Libraries are great.
Yeah, we have such a nice library in my town and I haven't been
there forever. I feel so guilty about it. I need to change that.
Also, surprisingly really hard to become a librarian. Oh yeah, like
a master's in library science's library sciences degree. Yeah, absolutely, I teach
you to do a decimal systems still, Yeah, I'm sure they do.
Actually, yes, yes, I don't know why I phrase that like a
joke. It's did we decimal system in particular? You like said it the
same way boomers make that like underwater basket weaving joke, that like tired one.
Like it's just like yeah, man, of course, like, oh,
it's not going to be like what else, But it's like, okay,
Mike, I but you have to learn about authors, uh real quick.
An answer to this might be go to your local game store, not
like game stop, but like if you have a local game store and talk
to the person who orders games for them, because they probably have contacts with
retail supply chains and they will have maybe better information on this. At the
very least, they can give you insights and how they decide to know win
a game's coming out. For now, they're still going to ask you to
enjoy their power up program tell them, and definitely you just say no and
don't look them in the eye and then back away slowly trade them like a
library card. At the same time, it's just so sad that, like,
apparently the solution to this is, like anything else, to go outside
and make friends. That's so difficult though, Jeff, Yeah, is never
in a million years world where am I going to talk to someone? And
it's like that's the same. Yeah, you're right, I would never do
that either, So I'm sorry. Yeah, was it was it last week?
Or on the voicemail dump truck someone asked what our motto for life was,
and I think One of my mottos is just call, Like, just
just pick up the phone and call. Ye, that's a good motto.
Yeah you're right, because but I won't hit. That's the thing. Expecting
it exactly like hotels when you need like a last minute uh invoice for a
trip you went on a couple of months ago that you suddenly need to expense
because you forgot. It's like, how I god, I got yelled at.
I'm like, I didn't even book this hotel. I don't. They
didn't send me a receipt and they're like, I don't care. They printed
it out. They were supposed to email me. Uh yeah, all right,
I'm glad we're all terrible at expenses. Uh. Next my job to
know about money? Yeah, you didn't hire me in the finance department.
Next email sub crew. I enjoy pizza with a variety of different toppings.
Add a splash of watermelon juice to my mate water. Traditional gored prep doesn't
require hot water at all. By the way, listen to a lot of
metal and hyperpop and pretty much only play games that make genres. What are
some things you do to prevent yourself from feeling like you're eating the plain bagel
of whatever you're enjoying Lombology, Los Angeles. I'm kind of a playing bagel
of a man, though, I don't know. Just look at me.
I know what I like to do is I buy the canned soup like from
from Campbell's, get the hardy select whatever, jazzy jumbalaya. But then I
would like add like something a little like a splash of soy sauce and hot
sauce in there, maybe like some black ending seasoning like I do like to
get like the super prepared stuff for food already and then just add a couple
of things. And actually, yes, I love grabbing a package salad and
spicing that bad boy up. Oh yeah, its soy sauce is a good
one. I put soy sauce in in tuna when I make tuna fish sandwiches,
A little soy sauce in there, it goes. It's like, it's
actually what I learned that when I work at Jimmy John's. That's what they
do. They're they're tuna, and so I'm like, yeah, that's actually
really good, and I kept doing it. Number one food tip, like
soy sauce doesn't make any everything tastes like Chinese food. It is just like
au mom et bomb. It's just big things and problem right, yeah it
wouldn't be, but I can't. Like some people are like, oh,
I can't put this in this you know this, this this this uh steak
sauce on making yoursel's gonna taste like Chinese food. It's not. It's just
gonna taste like taste good. Salt just gonna take like salt. You can
put half green grapes and tuna salad on some potato bread classic sandwich. But
I would say, if we're talking more metaphorical Plaine Bagel, I do like
to get really stoned before playing Tetris ninety nine so that I feel a little
I feel a little bit of a challenge, very like Enigo Montoya. I
am not left handed. Jesus Christ, all right, how many of those
pictures have you gotten? Oh? Like a lot? Like usually I'm usually
top five anyway, unless I'm just having a bad day. But like I've
won, I've gotten first place on like stream a lot of times and off
stream more times. Because all the people playing are like you, like everyone's
still playing Tetris ninety nine. Are people who have played Tetris every day for
twenty years. I wish they did that format was more puzzle games like play
You'll play ninety nine. No one cares about that. Not good, It's
not as good as Tetris. Okay. I will also turn the sound off
and just blast K pop. I feel like it really motivates me. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I'm Oh god, I thought I was resisting the
K pop bug for the longest time. But you know, I think I'm
super shy, super shy. I'll send you videos you have you've sent me,
send you more. I sent you a single gift once. Hey,
Hey, that that gift was enough. It started everything. Now I'm looking
at it now, I'm looking at Black Pink tickets, and I'm like,
am I am? I good? Look? Am I in this? Now?
Do I want Black Pink to be in my area? The answer is
yes. I will say. The best thing I've ever done for work was
I I Machella this year for like Fortnite, I don't remember, but the
point is they gave us free VIP passes. Oh oh, Bailey's doing it
out is I was a different person after that, y'all. Also, the
Gorillas, Oh my god, that was Black was the best show. The
Gorillas was the most well done show. I actually, I mean I don't
listen to a lot of the newer albums, but Gorilla's Demon Days is still
probably they brought everyone out, They brought the guy just to do the laugh
on field. Could they have that weird head from Dare I love that head?
Of course they did, of course they did. It's a whole it's
a whole experience. No. I started. I started that concert like,
I'm sorry, I know we're supposed to talking video games whatever. I started
that concert being like, okay, I know two of their songs. This
should be fun. And by the end of it, I was like,
Damon Auburn is a genius and I will defend him with my life. Like
became a huge stand just over the course of the concert. It was so
good. Anyway, Grillas are great, but so is Black Pink, my
two favorite K pop artists. You think Dan would know what the k K
pop stands for? Yes, I think he could guess. Okay, I
don't think he'd be certain. I put this, I put this in slack.
I think Dan Grubb and I should take a K pop dance class together.
Yes, all, I mean, all right, you gets that fun
with that Jeffrey gonna gets so sweaty. Yeah, I know, all right,
I just wouldn't want to get I would also, to be clear,
a man, I just hate getting sweaty from dancing. I'll say that I
did take a K pop dance class ones, but it was way more advanced
than it was, like an influencer event, so I thought it'd be very
basic, but it was extremely advanced. It was a choreographer who's worked with
Black Pink, and I pulled a muscle doing the stretches and set the hold.
Yo. I'm so ready to dance. I need to dance, y'all.
It's like I'm stretching for no reason. I almost can't do the splits
anymore because I'm not stretching and dancing enough. I need to. I need
to dance. You gotta do what I do and watch the Let's get Flexi
guy on TikTok and then never ever do any of the things he shows you
to get flexi. Hey, jan, I got a lot of him saved
though, don't worry. Yeah, yes, I hope you dance conchu motion.
Yeah all right. Next email comes from Alex from Portland, stop bombers.
I'm technically a true blue haberdasher, and in Portland, do you say,
have been for a decade or so? Now most people think we make
hats, But a haberdasher is someone who sells men's clothing and accessories, including
a lot a lot of stuff you wouldn't find at normal clothing stores. And
half of our store is dedicated to hats. So I got some me some
knowledge on the subject. Quick staff hat facts. I apologize Bailey and Mike,
you're non included in the hat staff facts. I do want to say,
I think my head's bigger than anybody's on this staff, and I think
that yours is wider. I think Dan's is taller, is what it was?
Together? Yes, together we are a beautiful from head. Yeah,
bacclar, you're a seven seven and a quarter or probably seven and three eighths
European fifty eight or fifty nine. That's a large and most common size sold.
Dan you're a seven five eighths European sixty one, assuming you didn't measure
in a weird place, that makes you an XCEL and the same hat size
as me. And even though Manati has been calling you mega mine on the
subreddit. You're just I have not done that. That'd be funny, though
I wish I did. The hay game in this email is remarkable. Like
I thought I was roasting y'all this whole time. But he's just like,
your head's really not that big, you're just super bald. Well, it
continues on your head only looks bigger because you literally have no shadows hair,
and all the shadows are lower on your dark beard hair. So because you
have the facial hair of it. In saying eighteen hundreds of Russian poet,
your not get looks bigger. We gotta make sure he honestly so grateful.
I'm not in this. I think if someone told me what size my head
is, I would die. Jan everyone has a hat that would look good
on them, but not all hats look good on all people. Separate people
like you, my man. You could clear just about any hat, classic
wolf fabric, Gatsby, you could swing it flat, driving cap up top
hat. You're damn right, your classy motherfuck are you? Thank you?
Who's just written by jam from Portland. Yo, I got like a strawbrim
hat. I'll put this on right now. Y'all will think a little bit
more highly of me. Anyway, I have an Animal Kingdom safari hat.
I think that's the only fancy hat I fancy easily, non baseball cap hat
I have here grub correcting the word fancy. There, you're welcome. I
saw you about to like I was gonna keep it to myself for that one.
I was gonna let you have that. Actually, all right, it's
topped to myself. You told me you had the yetty hat from Expedition Everest.
It's my only fancy I bought that hat when I got drunk after drinking
the Avatar beers. It was a good time. Animal Kingdom is the best
place to have a beer at nine ams, So I understand you. I'm
a fawn animal key dumb boy. I wish they never shut down that Star
Wars Hotel thing, because could you imagine all of us there together. Hey
it's not just down yet. Hey, we should just all go to Disney
World anyways. We'd actually would have a better time just going to a normal
We go to the PAULI. I hear you're really interested in that these days,
jan I want to go to the Star Star Wars Hotel again. If
anyone can make that happen before it closes down. Please let me know,
Please, please grub it's time. Giant brimmed straw hat with a draw string.
You have skin to protect and kids to embarrass. I have one of
those in my van and it has a Taco bell logo, and I wear
it whenever it's especially sunny, specifically to embarrass my children. I don't know
that's a bit much. I mean, your kids have a future, not
an able heart. I have a green one too, It's not straw,
but it's the same thing. God, Dan, do fucking look good in
hats with that? He kind of look like Dick Tracy, but in a
good way. I think this hat is like, oh, there we go.
I fixed the brimm It looks yeah. You get just for size reference,
the smallest we sell is a six and three quarters euro fifty four and
tiny all the way up to eight and one eighth euro sixty five and hat
gang and most people from Nashville to Norway, fun air to Simbabwe, Ohio
to check us Slovakia and back under something. So now it's like permanently flippy
up like this, and I feel it. Carmen san Diego, it's kind
of perfect it's a vibe. It's a vibe, homie. If you need
hats or short stays, send up the dasher signal. I got you.
Keep it up, boys, smooches Alex Corman alright, alright, uh,
we got time for one last email here. This comes from Z from Pa
Hey, Giant Bomb. It's Za from PA. I grew up a Jehovah's
witness and that that's partitions, particularly the reason I never got to watch a
lot of the best movies that came out rated R in some PG thirteen or
a no go. I'm no longer associated with that religion or any religion right
now, and it's been that way since twenty fourteen, when I turned eighteen.
That being said, I filled my time with games more than movies.
I'm now watching a lot of movies to catch up on some of the best.
I just watched The Shining a few months ago, Goodfellas last year.
I've just seen all the Star Wars movies, regretfully in the Rocking movies up
to Creed, which I plan and I plan to watch that trilogy soon.
I've seen Terminator one and owned Terminator two, but probably won't watch any more
of those I've watched some Tarantinos, no Nolan films yet, no Wes Anderson
films. Fell in love with Mit Samar from ari Astor, what are some
standouts to watch that aren't obvious, like The Godfather, which I haven't seen
yet. Thanks so much, Sorry this turned out longer than I wanted to
be Za from Pa. All these guys are going to recommend classics obviously,
and so like, I feel like I've got to recommend one in line with
that. Yes, listen, have you heard of the movie Race Voice starring
Hillary A joke grub. It's the third time it's come up in this episode.
It's a really good movie. It's not. It's not a good movie.
I would recommend expanding your repertoire past the classic classics and go into like
the fun ones too, like like dip your toes into rom coms. Bridget
Jones Diary is a great movie. Watch Legally Blonde, watch the blue lists,
like hit don't be afraid to hit up the girly movies. They're fun
and they're great, and you should watch them. I'm a Losing Guy in
Ten Days is bad, but you should also watch it. I'm a big
mark for the blank Check Podcast. I'm a big Blankie myself. So if
you ever want like an accompaniment to a director or something that's a good podcast
to dive deep into, like a director that you may want to explore,
here's my pick. Sam Raimi films, Watch all of dark Man, go
watch Oh my God. See were like he where he started with like superhero
movies, where like he couldn't get superhero movies. He just made his own
drag wild Hell yeah, it's so wild. I just rewatched for no particular
reason. Uh, the original Sam Raimi Spider Man trilogy, Jesus Christ Alfred
Fucking Molina in that Oh My soundtrack Dashboard Confessional. Road likes it when people
sing on a podcast we are going to get a DMCA takedown. It sounded
too good, you said. James Cameron movies. Watch the rest of James
Cameron's movies, because like those are always the biggest movies ever, Like every
single movie does it is like massive, And then even some of the smaller
ones like the Abyss are very good. If you like want to like catch
up on the jokes people my age make them when they're when they're Princeton movies.
Who wouldn't want to do that exactly told me. That's why I sound
uncertain. I'm like, I don't think you should care about that, But
if that's what you're talking about here, like the Princess Bride, Goonies,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Beetle Juice, Uh, Extra Et, the Extraterrestrial
Lost Boys, Raising Arizona, Breakfast Clubs, stuff like that like those.
If you if you do like three or four of those, you're gonna be
fine. You're gonna get half the jokes that someone like me makes. So
yeah, Additionally, oh, Mike, please go ahead. I've already recommended.
Yeah, I don't know. Movies are kind of mid. Just keep
playing video games. What's commanding? Movies suck? Movies are done, Movies
are over. I'm over the movie weekend of the year. You're like,
movies are over. I don't know if people are about this because all the
movies that his company makes are remikes of old animated movies, and they're going
poor. I don't think that hatted Manchon movies gonna be making next weekend.
That doesn't look I don't know. Watch Kambando if you I assume like the
PG thirteen movies you weren't allowed to watch or anythings that, like, anything
that hadn't magic in it, because I had friends like that. It's like,
you know, go go watch Lord of the Rings movies. I like
those the most. Yeah, I had. I had a Jehovah's Witness friend
when I was young. I don't know. This friend was so much of
my like my mom took me there once to hang out. So but either
what wo I remember is he had Karnoff for any s and that's that's where
I learned about Karnoff. And so I will always be grateful to the Jehovah's
Witness religious sect for that. Oh, this person should also watch everything Giarmo
del Toro has ever made. Oh my god, that's a good pull.
Only how Blait two the Golden Army. Oh no, we're gonna skip Crimson
Peak. I don't know what else have I actually even seen? Watch RoboCop
and Backs Pants, Labyrinth. There you go, Scars like the legitimately very
good one. Crimson Peak is the one that made me laugh out loud in
the theater. Well there's value to that. Also, Yeah, you said
bad movies, watch bad movies. I watched The Room. I know.
I know, see like the Room joke is like red Scores. I still
have so much fun watching The Room every time. The Room. The Apple
is like the musical version of the Room. Basically a Nets. Yes,
watching Nets. Go watch Mystery Science three thousand, like old episodes of that.
They're always streaming on Twitch. Just go watch those instead, And that's
a good way to like get this. Watch Annabelle Comes Home. It's the
best movie in the in the conjuring cinematic universe. It's my Avengers. How
many movies are in that universe? A million? Okay, so good?
Hey. Also, you know Tom Cruise is a fucking weirdo. Mission Impossible.
Oh yeah, this bangs so fucking hard, dude, I hate it?
Oh man, Uh god, I had another wreck off the top of
my head. Oh watch watch Everything that was Adam McKay and Will Ferrell.
Uh please yeah, Bangers after Bangers, uh Jack Black as well School of
Rock. Oh oh my god, Yes, dude, I'll start with the
big short with the Adam kay stuff. That's hip. Shallow Hell. Don't
watch no, no, we don't watch Shallow Hell anymore. Avoid any comedy
that was made in like two thousand. Yes, absolutely, because they will
definitely have all the slurs. You're like, I can't even believe we said
that. Still was it so hard? It's like I have a place in
my heart for like drop Ted gorgeous, but god, it's hard to watch
in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty three. Oh, there's so much
stuff where you're like, I don't know, I think I said this before.
I love Bill and Ted so much, but Bill Ted's excellent adventure.
They have said this one line where they drop the big homophopic slur Squads Squads,
such a cute, fun movie, and then they're like doing the same
thing. I'm like, what the hell. God, I mean, it
was the eighties, but even then that seemed insane, Like it's a cute
movie. Uh, you know, going letterbox, pick an actor that you
like in a film that you've seen, and just explore their filmoger you know.
Yeah, that's also the good way doing it. Oh yeah, the
Before Trilogy by actually all Richard Linklater movies. It's the best American director Richard
Linklater. There you go start there, watch everything rye Goz is made.
Because god damn, that man that sounds like it. It sounds like a
ghost and Goblins Villa. You don't have to watch the Notebook though, Like
I know, I said watch rom coms. Do not watch the note but
watch the Notebook because of what's the chance guy? Drive is so bad.
I hate that movie. Okay, that's not Ryan Gosling's fault. Someone at
Chet said Drive. I thought maybe Rye Gaze or whatever was Drive. He
isn't Drive. He is, but with the jacket. Ryan Gosling is in
the best romantic comedy that which is Crazy Love. Yes, so honestly,
that's the one you start. That's the first movie you should go watch,
Crazy Stupid Love. Yeah, that's very upset. I don't like Drive.
I always get this rest. I was so weird Drive though, No,
no, don't care about Mike's movie opinions. He doesn't watch movies. He
doesn't care about them at all. Sure, he did literally say movies are
bad, like started movies are made. But Drive is bad. I don't
get it. I don't know. I saw that movie like anything has any
like like like violence. It feels a little bit gratuitous, right, that's
like right, that's yeah, but context matters, like RoboCop didn't bother me.
I don't know. I don't know. I guess Drive is a quote
unquote vibe and I was not vibing with it. Yes, yes, yeah,
Nice Guys is also amazing. Jesus Christ, it's such oh God,
yes, yes, I love recommending movies. We should just have him watched
Shane Guys. Ver see Shane. I have seen Shane. That's a good
movie. I've seen Westerns. Oh yeah, okay, I've seen a man
named Shane. Terris quads watch the entire Cornetto trilogy Fuzz World End. How
do we feel about World's End these days? Because I was definitely like the
one that left left the least impact. I haven't seen it since I saw
Yeah, I haven't revisited it, but I loved it at the time.
I thought it was really good. Definitely the one I would want to watch
again the least compared to Hot Fuzz. And I do think Hot Fuzz is
like the most underrated of the trilogy. Like I like, there's a reason
everyone loves Shaun of the Dad obviously it's great, but Hot Fuzz like it's
very kind of most under the radar one, like the like ignored middle child
of the series. It's really good. I bet, I bet Hot Fuzz
gets more love than even World's End does. I don't think. I think
Hot Fuzz has picked up steam over the years as people have like, but
I remember at the time people not being as excited about it. Last last
two recks. I swear to god fucking watch all of angles films. Uh
the Hawk, No, I I legitimately I shoot love Angle's Hulk movie.
It has the best transitions in any fucking film ever. A weird movie.
Also, Speed Racer. Yeah, I do want to watch speed I bet
I would like speed You would love speed Racers. I kept trying to get
my friends to watch with me, and they just like refused. They just
wouldn't believe me. My friends always see this thing where I'm like, oh,
people say this is good, and they're like, who's they? The
people on the internet? Yeah, in my computer, Yes, what do
you want me to do? That's who? Yeah, I guess that's who
they are. Like, it wasn't you, Obviously, it wasn't my mom.
Munich, go watch Munich. We need to instead of film and forties
with speed Racer, we just need to do speed and watch speed Racer.
Yeah. I got some in the closet over there, Okay, isn't that
one of the bad drugs? All right, No, thanks for joining us
Giant Bob Cast, Bailey, any plugs for the folks at home people?
Yeah? Well, first of all, please check out the honest game trailer
they dropped today. It is my If done well, it will be my
Star Wars. Yeah. Yeah, finally it's what the people want. And
then I'm streaming tonight at six pm Pacific time Bailian Versus Predator or you can
catch me on any social media Bailey Myers or Baileyan versus Predator. Lovely,
Lovely, Lovely, Mike, Mike, what's you up to this week?
Should please check out games Beat? Uh, that's where That's where I work
at. And the new episode of Nineties Disney should be coming out on the
first of August. I'm spear hitting this episode. It's about the Tomorrowland Transit
Authority slash People Mover, which is basically the fancy Montree esque thing that just
goes around Tomorrowland and just kind of like shows you Tomorrowland. And for some
reason, is I thought it was weird, like, oh, this is
like my favorite ride. There's a lot of people feel that way. Yeah,
so people mover moves people. It does move the people, and it
moves yan but yep, yep, I look out for that. And then
well, Jeff and I are doing less than at ten dogs tonight we do
that over on his YouTube channel Game mess Stand. You guys might have to
talk about Colombo now, Yes, I think we we We've had a Patreon
goal. Jeff and I are gonna have to start a Colombo podcast. We're
gonna talk later and figure out the little justice of that. Don't expect like
a weekly bond. You know. I'm very busy, but podcast doesn't sound
too bad. And Octo, I think already got a Columbros is very good.
Colombros is pretty good. I said, who came up with that?
Because I had the credit octod Octo, Okay, good, Columbros is pretty
good. I'm I'm just biding my time until I can start a Psychos podcast
where I just talk about psych all the time. Sure, I think I
would like psych I don't know if again, if it has a little too
much They've got jokes energy, But I think I think you have you watched
any show on USA, Monk or anything I like. I watched Monk,
I liked a Monk for all. They are all like Monk. It's right,
that's what I guess what I assume. I liked Monk for a bit,
kind of got a little teds and they like that's what they start.
They do like twenty episodes a year or something. Vibes. Yeah. I
had a friend who was really good to burn Notice, which I thought was
funny. Ye, Bruce car the first couple of seasons, and then I
was like, Oh, all these episodes are the same. I'm going to
watch something else. Now you're a spy, all right, Grub, you're
no gay mess. Mornings on Thursday, Friday or the following Monday, go
fucking go to sleep. Just go to sleep, Go hibernate. You deserve
it. Big Dog Blake Club is moving to tomorrow, folks. Yeah,
this week for sure. Maybe in the future yes, but for this week
for sure. Wednesday we'll also have Voicemail Dump Truck as per usual on Thursday.
We're also doing upf earlier this week as well. I believe we're planning
on doing a ten am Pacific Standard time because I gotta I gotta make it
down to Santa Clara because of these swifties. I have to brave the Swifties.
I am terrified of this folks. I don't think I can handle the
Swifties. Uh, we'll catch you next week for another episode. An episode
eight on trid it turns out of the Giant Bomb Cast. I've been Jan,
he's been Jeff, he's been Mike Cheese, been Bailey, and you
have been gorgeous today. Keep drinking water, damn it. Stretch, think
about stretching. Do it? Oh my god, on it. And I
thought about him. I'm doing