911: Human Sandtrap

<v Speaker 1>Hey everybody, it's Tuesday. Welcome to the Giant BombCast, Episode
<v Speaker 1>nine hundred and eleven. I'm your host approaching the Green
<v Speaker 1>jam Shoa, Welcome to the Giant BombCast. Joining me as
<v Speaker 1>I was co captain of the ship. He's picked a
<v Speaker 1>sand wedge as a driver and we're just going to
<v Speaker 1>see him cook.
<v Speaker 2>Jeff Grubb, it's a beautiful day out here on the greens, Janichoa.
<v Speaker 3>We are really going to witness some special golfing here today.
<v Speaker 1>Speaking about special golfing, it's all in the hips, because
<v Speaker 1>he is the most hip person in a hip moving
<v Speaker 1>guy on the podcast on the website. Jeff Beckler, Well.
<v Speaker 3>No, it's a beauty all day out here.
<v Speaker 4>And Agusta, we're apparencing winds out of the north, not
<v Speaker 4>three miles an hour.
<v Speaker 3>Did they do that?
<v Speaker 4>They do the weather a lot because that matters.
<v Speaker 3>That's like a big part of the gold broad.
<v Speaker 1>Part of the meta.
<v Speaker 3>Back to you at the at the studio, Jan, we have.
<v Speaker 1>The human equivalent of a sandtrap. Dan Reichert, I.
<v Speaker 5>Feel like I'm going to strain something trying to talk
<v Speaker 5>quietly for the first.
<v Speaker 1>Time in my life. How you do it? Is this
<v Speaker 1>good they don't have to trap it hurts I hear it,
<v Speaker 1>heard it. We all have to do this until we
<v Speaker 1>introduced the last guy. Okay, all right, who's he's no
<v Speaker 1>longer the bad boy of games media because he's a
<v Speaker 1>dirty boy. That's right, Because he's out on the what
<v Speaker 1>do you call it? It's not a field when it's
<v Speaker 1>golf course court, of course, there you go. I don't
<v Speaker 1>I still don't know the battle zone, that's right, Thank you, Dan,
<v Speaker 1>when you're out on the battle zones. Because he's washing
<v Speaker 1>his ball, that's right.
<v Speaker 3>The merchmaster, my Bnatti, buy all this shit that I'm wearing.
<v Speaker 3>Go to store dot die bomb dot com and deposit money.
<v Speaker 3>Get hat and shirt, golf hat, golf shirt, get giant
<v Speaker 3>buck golf with It's.
<v Speaker 2>A merchmaster, a Pokemon that can only say the merchise selling.
<v Speaker 5>I gotta say, there's several forms of Mike Manati, and
<v Speaker 5>I think my favorite might be screaming merchman yeah wears Yeah, it's.
<v Speaker 1>Really I really need to edit the video you did, Mike.
<v Speaker 1>It just throw some CRT filters on it. Throw in
<v Speaker 1>like a bunch of like PNGs of like you two
<v Speaker 1>can buy Golf week March. Yeah, taking like a local
<v Speaker 1>TV ed Mike Manati. I say this in the most
<v Speaker 1>pop a way possible. You exude when you're in merch
<v Speaker 1>master mode, the biggest Billy May's energy.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, sure, and.
<v Speaker 4>Like we need that in the world, you know, Yes,
<v Speaker 4>Jan I forgot how little you know about golf vocabulary.
<v Speaker 4>I remember the last time, right, what were we doing
<v Speaker 4>last time where you were just like, what do you
<v Speaker 4>call the flat carpet part with the hole in it? Right,
<v Speaker 4>Like you just didn't know like what a green was?
<v Speaker 3>It was awesome. I think it was.
<v Speaker 1>Was it Mario Golf for the switch been?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I mean I yeah, it was. It was Oh no,
<v Speaker 4>someone chested it was Bingo Papadoppolis. No, no, because that's
<v Speaker 4>not quite a golf golf game.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't know about golf. I learned that a
<v Speaker 1>driver and a sand wedge and an iron or different
<v Speaker 1>golf clubs.
<v Speaker 3>Would you happy, Gilmour?
<v Speaker 1>I love a lot of Adam Sandler things, but I'm
<v Speaker 1>not familiar with the character's familiar with.
<v Speaker 5>To hockey stick. Yeah, yeah, sure, like you. I can
<v Speaker 5>never think of the word pool que. Whenever she sees one,
<v Speaker 5>she calls it a pool pole, And then when I
<v Speaker 5>say it's a queue, she's like, I think pole would
<v Speaker 5>be better. Even if so, that's not what it's called.
<v Speaker 5>It's it's q Yeah, you know, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>It's a little bit late to start lobbying the pool
<v Speaker 2>industry to change the name of it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I speak about pool cues and pool poles. I've
<v Speaker 1>encountered a lot of old men walking to a pool
<v Speaker 1>hall that bring their own cues. Oh yeah, is that yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Is that like too much pieces?
<v Speaker 6>I have two pool poles in my storage here.
<v Speaker 1>It's like bowling balls. I get right, because you want
<v Speaker 1>the weight, it feels right for you.
<v Speaker 3>Same thing.
<v Speaker 2>They're the exact same level. You bring your own bowling ball,
<v Speaker 2>You're going to be the same guy that brings your
<v Speaker 2>own pool queue for sure.
<v Speaker 6>I bet fifty percent of them have flames on them.
<v Speaker 1>Oh I wish, I wish.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe maybe I want to say fifty one. I want
<v Speaker 2>to say it's on the over.
<v Speaker 1>I want to say, yeah, yeah. Do people bring their
<v Speaker 1>own darts or is that yeah? I want to do
<v Speaker 1>the game thing.
<v Speaker 5>There's always gonna be like leagues and people who take
<v Speaker 5>it super seriously and they always have their own ship.
<v Speaker 4>That makes I mean, all this makes sense, right, because
<v Speaker 4>all the stock stuff is it's it's garbage, it's you know,
<v Speaker 4>it's been through the ringer.
<v Speaker 1>Sure, sure, sure, sure sure. I'm trying to think of
<v Speaker 1>another sport where you would just rock the default stuff.
<v Speaker 1>But I guess if.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, the ones where has to be provided by
<v Speaker 2>the league itself, right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>There's very few.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I guess yeah, not even like people bring
<v Speaker 4>their their own bats to batting cages obviously your own
<v Speaker 4>clubs to the golf course.
<v Speaker 6>I betles.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, you know what word in the in the
<v Speaker 1>twitch chat? Would I use default coffee gear? You're right now,
<v Speaker 1>it all makes sense, right, It just had to be
<v Speaker 1>put in perspective.
<v Speaker 3>I think I think I'm letting golf we get to me.
<v Speaker 3>I think I'm sorry to take it too seriously. I
<v Speaker 3>don't know. I stayed up like watching videos about the
<v Speaker 3>actual Pebble Beach, not the Siga Saturday Quick Stadler, for
<v Speaker 3>like three hours last night. I've learned a lot about
<v Speaker 3>that course and why there's First I think there's just
<v Speaker 3>a Golf Digest overview of it. Then there's some like Young,
<v Speaker 3>there's some golf influenc there who just has a very
<v Speaker 3>popular golf channel. He went the Pebble Beach for the
<v Speaker 3>first time, so I watched him play eighteen holes on it.
<v Speaker 3>Then there was like a restored classic matchup of Jack
<v Speaker 3>Nicholas and got some guy that was older than him
<v Speaker 3>at the time. He's just in his twenties then who
<v Speaker 3>was like a legend, and they played eighteen on head
<v Speaker 3>and it was this really interesting match. So yeah, I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if it's that or if it's just
<v Speaker 3>the festive golf week atmosphere, but I just I'm like, really, in.
<v Speaker 4>A golf it's an interesting course, right, it's like very famous.
<v Speaker 3>It's like uh oh, it's beautiful.
<v Speaker 4>It's very strange, right and difficult, and it's even it's
<v Speaker 4>even better when you realize it's naturally occurring.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he got me on the side.
<v Speaker 5>Wait be young golf influencers, and I'm thinking, like, their
<v Speaker 5>videos can't just be like unedited eighteen holes, right, it's
<v Speaker 5>gotta be like, is it like mister beasted up?
<v Speaker 7>What?
<v Speaker 1>This one wasn't that bad.
<v Speaker 3>It was mostly he played eighteen holes and it was cut,
<v Speaker 3>so you know, it was like a forty five minute
<v Speaker 3>video of him doing all that and talking about the
<v Speaker 3>course and you know some goose here. I bet he
<v Speaker 3>probably has more gimmicky videos too, but this one, like
<v Speaker 3>you know, it's just I'm playing Pebble Beach for the
<v Speaker 3>first time. This is a dream come true. You talking
<v Speaker 3>about some of the history, like the seventh hole. Is
<v Speaker 3>that par three that's right there on the cliff by
<v Speaker 3>the ocean. It's very dramatic and beautiful because that's a
<v Speaker 3>very famous hole. Craig Staydler did tell me that, and
<v Speaker 3>now I understand.
<v Speaker 1>Right, Yes, yes, he was very supportive, the grandfather figure
<v Speaker 1>I never had until he wasn't he got I saw
<v Speaker 1>a video that he had to control his rage. Of course, I.
<v Speaker 3>Told you, like, I have no evidence of this, but
<v Speaker 3>he just looks like a person with.
<v Speaker 1>An anger management problem. And then you do have evidence.
<v Speaker 2>There's literally a video where he talks about how he
<v Speaker 2>control of anger management issues.
<v Speaker 1>And that's why he got really into wine.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe Mike Maharty, Yeah, yes, yes.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, one of the same one and the same. When
<v Speaker 1>I think of Mike Maharty, I think of a Walrus
<v Speaker 1>as well, but like a smaller, more spelt one.
<v Speaker 2>Lle you ogotiate wine with Mike Maharty now that when
<v Speaker 2>there was a news story on NPR yesterday about how
<v Speaker 2>the wine industry is kind of been a lull, like
<v Speaker 2>people aren't buying wine the way they used to, and
<v Speaker 2>so it's like they're they're gonna just let like a
<v Speaker 2>metric ton of grapes rot this year because they're not
<v Speaker 2>gonna be able to use it for wine.
<v Speaker 1>And I was just like legitimately worried about Mike.
<v Speaker 6>I'm like he was distraught he had to miss a
<v Speaker 6>couple episodes.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, that's what That's what I figured all six
<v Speaker 2>time off bounce back.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I really like wine, but then I've noticed I
<v Speaker 1>just I think I like wine because it's cheap. Where
<v Speaker 1>I go get wine, I mean there's cheaping versions of
<v Speaker 1>the booze, you know. Yeah, but like I don't like
<v Speaker 1>cheap beer, but cheap wine like yeah juice.
<v Speaker 3>I'm with you guys there.
<v Speaker 4>The delta between cheap wine and expensive wine is a
<v Speaker 4>lot slimmer.
<v Speaker 5>It's at Yeah, you're gonna summon Mike Mahrdy like beetle juice.
<v Speaker 5>If we keep talking, It's okay, it'd.
<v Speaker 4>Be nice to see him.
<v Speaker 1>It'd be nice he's a nice guy. Like he's a
<v Speaker 1>nice boy. He's a nice boy. And I just remember
<v Speaker 1>one time we were at a bar and he looked
<v Speaker 1>at me and he just like threw his hands in
<v Speaker 1>the air and said, jan, I know you're looking at
<v Speaker 1>my ears. I'm like, what one you know, I'm not
<v Speaker 1>what And then he just goes like, I know I
<v Speaker 1>have small ears. Stop looking. I can't help but look.
<v Speaker 1>But it's okay if you out there have small ears
<v Speaker 1>and but big eyes. Because the video versions of the podcast,
<v Speaker 1>that's right, the Giant Bomb Cast, Games Mornings, and Voicemail
<v Speaker 1>Dumb Truck. If you are on Spotify, Uh, the video
<v Speaker 1>versions are now up there.
<v Speaker 5>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>There's like a small little toggle when you go select
<v Speaker 1>the podcast and just like boo that and then hey,
<v Speaker 1>bing bang boom, you can see our lovely mugs on
<v Speaker 1>the go. I believe it also works on the desktop version.
<v Speaker 1>So there we go. If you've ever only listened to
<v Speaker 1>us and you want to see what we look like, Hey,
<v Speaker 1>what's cooking something? I have a hair?
<v Speaker 4>What what could be better than that? Aside from like,
<v Speaker 4>I don't know, mugs in the store?
<v Speaker 3>How up that the whole golf The before delivered a
<v Speaker 3>huge sales day for us through golf Week, which you
<v Speaker 3>could be a part of my going to store dot
<v Speaker 3>giant bomb dot com everybody, and you're on this mug bullshit?
<v Speaker 1>Right?
<v Speaker 4>That was That was yesterday, Mike today is today.
<v Speaker 3>Lately selling more colf shirts and the hats. Hey, why'm
<v Speaker 3>sure to that? That's what I'm doing today?
<v Speaker 1>It's golf week.
<v Speaker 3>Idea to do a golf week There I am dressed
<v Speaker 3>like an asshole, I mean a stud to sell.
<v Speaker 4>The shitory straight, get your story straight.
<v Speaker 1>Speak about getting the story straight. We're open to communication,
<v Speaker 1>we're being honest and what we're going to be honest about.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm going to toss this to Jeff Beckler. You're
<v Speaker 1>going to get an email in your email inbox from
<v Speaker 1>you might us you might Yes, No, it's not from us.
<v Speaker 1>It's not from us. See that's why clear communication. So
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to toss this to the more qualified person
<v Speaker 1>to talk about it.
<v Speaker 4>That's right, me, the emailer, the one and only true emailer. No, listen, folks,
<v Speaker 4>depending on the level of engagement that you've had with
<v Speaker 4>our website over the last I don't know, two years
<v Speaker 4>or so, you will likely be getting an email. I
<v Speaker 4>believe the email will come from our from like a
<v Speaker 4>no reply at Giant Bomb. But it is an email
<v Speaker 4>that you should take seriously because it will also include
<v Speaker 4>instructions and directions on migrating your account to our brand
<v Speaker 4>new website which is coming later this year fingers crossed.
<v Speaker 4>And yeah, that's just something we want to put out
<v Speaker 4>there as a heads up to make sure that you
<v Speaker 4>are prepared, so that you know you're hearing it straight
<v Speaker 4>from the source. We are authenticating it. It is not spam,
<v Speaker 4>just so you know. It is a real ass email
<v Speaker 4>that you need to take seriously and read and hopefully
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<v Speaker 4>next evolution of our website, you opt in to the
<v Speaker 4>new site and we can bring you along for the ride.
<v Speaker 3>That's about it.
<v Speaker 4>Just want to put that out there on everyone's radar,
<v Speaker 4>make sure you know what's coming. You might get this
<v Speaker 4>email today, you might get it next week, you might
<v Speaker 4>get it two weeks from now. But if you do
<v Speaker 4>get it, I think the subject will say something about
<v Speaker 4>you know, independent Giant Bomb and all that good news. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>give it a read, let us know if you have
<v Speaker 4>any questions. And that's about it, Jan speak about two weeks,
<v Speaker 4>give or take.
<v Speaker 1>I just want to say this out loud because this
<v Speaker 1>is an open forum and a safe space to talk.
<v Speaker 1>But I miss seeing yell in person. I wish I
<v Speaker 1>could see all in person. Dan, can you do anything
<v Speaker 1>about that.
<v Speaker 5>I can absolutely do something about that. Jan, you know,
<v Speaker 5>four or the five of us on this call. You know,
<v Speaker 5>Mike wasn't born yet. Mike, remember in twenty twenty two,
<v Speaker 5>we all got together and we had a real fun
<v Speaker 5>time on the East Coast and we spent fifteen hours
<v Speaker 5>spending time with each other, playing local multiplayer games with
<v Speaker 5>each other, and doing a whole subscriber drive thing for
<v Speaker 5>a giant bond back in the day.
<v Speaker 6>That was three years ago.
<v Speaker 5>Now we including young Mike Manatti and including Chuck and Sean,
<v Speaker 5>we'll be going back to the East Coast. We did
<v Speaker 5>fifteen hours last time, twenty four hours stretch switch, YouTube,
<v Speaker 5>subscriber drive, Giant Bambathon. We got a lot of fun
<v Speaker 5>stuff planned, a lot of stuff in the works right now.
<v Speaker 5>We've been talking about it for like two months now.
<v Speaker 5>I think maybe some people here haven't seen love on
<v Speaker 5>a leash. We'll see if there's some incentives for that,
<v Speaker 5>but yes, details to come. But the main thing you
<v Speaker 5>need to know is Monday October twenty seventh, five pm
<v Speaker 5>Eastern until Tuesday October twenty eight at five pm Eastern,
<v Speaker 5>we will be doing the Giant Bambathon twenty twenty five
<v Speaker 5>in person from the East Coast, all five of us,
<v Speaker 5>Chuck and Sean be there.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, let's leave my hair alone this time. I agree.
<v Speaker 1>Everyone chat's worried about it. I should be too. Yep.
<v Speaker 5>Well, we also got to figure out what we're doing
<v Speaker 5>with Extra life and Kayla. Kayla is always a foot,
<v Speaker 5>so you never know.
<v Speaker 1>She just comes at me with the scissors. That's right,
<v Speaker 1>thought up, But she's a person. Book, I'm just fucking
<v Speaker 1>donkey Kong. That's awesome.
<v Speaker 5>Hell yeah, kaylamon, Yes, it's gonna be awesome. We have
<v Speaker 5>a lot of fun stuff planned and uh, it's gonna
<v Speaker 5>get stupid and fun late night twenty four hours evening
<v Speaker 5>to evening.
<v Speaker 6>You'll want to tune in for this.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm very excited. There's been a lot of behind
<v Speaker 1>the scenes work going on a gang, so hats off
<v Speaker 1>to y'all here. I'm very excited to see y'all very soon.
<v Speaker 1>I'm less excited to perhaps witness love un a leash. Dan,
<v Speaker 1>there's no guarantee you have to watch it the least lounge,
<v Speaker 1>the least lounge. Well, I was going to throw it
<v Speaker 1>to Dan to reveal it, Mike, but I guess you
<v Speaker 1>could just talk about it. I got excited, Mike, Why
<v Speaker 1>don't you tell us the name of motherfucker? We had
<v Speaker 1>the newshole at Dan's place in the East Coast. We're
<v Speaker 1>gonna have what Mike.
<v Speaker 3>Wish? Wow?
<v Speaker 1>Why did you say like that? I felt like I
<v Speaker 1>had to do something.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I'm about to fuck up my like Amazon recommendations
<v Speaker 5>when I buy like seven leashes with human sized collars.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you can do that. You can go to your
<v Speaker 3>your local Roman sort.
<v Speaker 1>Of find.
<v Speaker 2>Extreame restraints dot com. Everybody there's they're a sponsor.
<v Speaker 1>Now, Yeah, there you go, which is so leaicious on
<v Speaker 1>the bum. Michael, you got all the power to do that,
<v Speaker 1>you sybody. You don't even have to word yeah embroidered wishes.
<v Speaker 1>Oh great, Yeah, fantastic. It's gonna be a fun time.
<v Speaker 1>I'm very excited. Perhaps, uh well, we will do a
<v Speaker 1>full twenty four and who knows what else we're gonna do.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it just it feels like a chance, like really
<v Speaker 2>like just set up, set us up for the future,
<v Speaker 2>and just like really declare, Hey, yeah, all that stuff
<v Speaker 2>happened earlier this year.
<v Speaker 1>Now we're going forward and this will be the.
<v Speaker 3>Real start of it. So very excited about it.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, will there be singing, who knows. We'll probably
<v Speaker 1>do a podcast or two in between we are during
<v Speaker 1>actually yes, during during Shenanigans will be afoot. I'd like
<v Speaker 1>to order a pizza at one point the sorry.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's Detroit invention.
<v Speaker 1>Actually, yeah, you know I'm gonna say this. I think
<v Speaker 1>I like Detroit style pizza.
<v Speaker 2>Better anyway better, yeah, turned me ye, It's just it
<v Speaker 2>is demonstrably better.
<v Speaker 3>Opinions. I think both are good.
<v Speaker 1>Probably both are good, you know what, that's right, Just
<v Speaker 1>like Jimmy Fallon where we're not going to get political here,
<v Speaker 1>how dare you?
<v Speaker 4>And everyone loves that guy on a on account of
<v Speaker 4>that bullshit.
<v Speaker 6>Mike, the Jimmy Fallon of games media.
<v Speaker 3>Though the good boy never sold anybody anything, that's true
<v Speaker 3>are you talking about? I think he has.
<v Speaker 6>Somebody's bought a Fever Pitch DVD at some point.
<v Speaker 1>Depressing.
<v Speaker 3>I just SND.
<v Speaker 4>I think he has sold a lot of people, a
<v Speaker 4>whole lot of nothing.
<v Speaker 6>Hang on, I need to check something right now. I'm searching.
<v Speaker 1>And don't you look Barrymore in that movie? Yeah, she
<v Speaker 1>probably sold that movie.
<v Speaker 6>Do you think I'm gonna look this up?
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 6>Do you think he put out a comedy album with songs?
<v Speaker 1>I'll who probably? Yeah? Are you gonna look? Yes?
<v Speaker 5>And if he has one, there's gonna be an option
<v Speaker 5>in the Leash Lounge where you can just send some
<v Speaker 5>of the Leash Lounge and that's put on headphones and
<v Speaker 5>listen to the entire gymn.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe pot he collaborated on something.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's he popped on stuff and he he loves
<v Speaker 1>to sing on his show. But I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>he's made it. Folks album album, we have two answer.
<v Speaker 5>We have The Bathroom Wall from twenty two thousand and two,
<v Speaker 5>and we have Low Your Pants Off from twenty twelve.
<v Speaker 1>Twenty twelve. Yeah, twenty twelve.
<v Speaker 5>Seems to be an actual music album where he brings
<v Speaker 5>in like, oh, it's like Timberlake and Paul mcfurk on it.
<v Speaker 5>He looks like the Bathroom Wall. Okay, Okay, the bathroom
<v Speaker 5>Walls count He released.
<v Speaker 1>Oh Christmas album last year Holiday Seasoning.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's not exciting.
<v Speaker 1>The look of this.
<v Speaker 5>I think that the bathroom Wall is his attempted at
<v Speaker 5>a Sandler thing. Here are the tracks, Idiot Boyfriend, I
<v Speaker 5>Can't Play Basketball, Drinking in the Woods, Road Rage, Snowball,
<v Speaker 5>troll Dolls, Celebrities, dorms, shower baskets, and the Walk of
<v Speaker 5>Shame Roommates Chris Rock was my ra gotta get a
<v Speaker 5>fake id troll doll jingles. We have two troll doll
<v Speaker 5>themed songs in two thousand and two and hammer Time.
<v Speaker 1>Do you think that's just a cover of hammer Time
<v Speaker 1>by mc hammer? It might be.
<v Speaker 2>Do you ever think about how is the movie Fever
<v Speaker 2>Pitch is a baseball movie, but it's a remake of
<v Speaker 2>an English movie about soccer, and so in the English
<v Speaker 2>movie it's fever pitch as in the field is called
<v Speaker 2>a pitch, and for baseball it's because they're pitching a ball.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's interesting thing about that movie.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely it is.
<v Speaker 6>Yes, do you want to see Taxi?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Queen Latifa.
<v Speaker 5>And yeah no no, I watched that and Set of
<v Speaker 5>Love on a leasht.
<v Speaker 4>Nine tomatoes, nine Yeah, couldn't break double digits, could it?
<v Speaker 1>No? Not quite? Oh you mean a nine out of
<v Speaker 1>one hundred.
<v Speaker 6>Yes, that is what I meant.
<v Speaker 1>That's what I meant.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Wow, I was confused there for a second.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So in uh, when I was in college, I
<v Speaker 1>had like a I forget the specific class, but you
<v Speaker 1>just kind of had to make like a mini reel
<v Speaker 1>for yourself. And I made this whole thing where I
<v Speaker 1>just wanted to take Jimmy Fallon's job of hosting Late
<v Speaker 1>Night and I just had like under it, and I
<v Speaker 1>thought I did a pretty good job. I don't fucking
<v Speaker 1>know where that file is anymore, but the whole thing
<v Speaker 1>was better than Jimmy Fallon and my classmates. Dug it.
<v Speaker 1>I thought I did a very good job in everything.
<v Speaker 1>But my my professor asked to speak with me after class,
<v Speaker 1>and I thought like, oh, she just wants to congratulate
<v Speaker 1>me or tell me I did a good job, because
<v Speaker 1>like your boy was busting out the after effects and
<v Speaker 1>everything and shoes and sound design ship, which was above
<v Speaker 1>all this like fucking eyemovie shit my classmates were doing.
<v Speaker 1>But anyway, she pulls me aside and she goes like
<v Speaker 1>jan I don't. I don't think it's a quite a
<v Speaker 1>polite of you to be bashing on a beloved member
<v Speaker 1>of the media. And yeah, I'm a big people describe
<v Speaker 1>Jimmy Fallon of the media. No one ever said that, No, well,
<v Speaker 1>I had.
<v Speaker 4>One, No, but I think that's the kind I think
<v Speaker 4>that those are the people who like that something in him.
<v Speaker 6>Nice boy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, And then she just kept going like I
<v Speaker 1>loved his contributions to Saturday Night Live, and I love.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, such a fair way to describe it, though, contributions
<v Speaker 2>because he didn't make anyone laugh, but he contributed.
<v Speaker 5>He had a decent sailor impersonation on Celebrity Jeopardy. Outside
<v Speaker 5>of that, he was mostly known for sucking at like
<v Speaker 5>breaking during sketches. It's like the main thing he's known for.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've never understood why he's popular.
<v Speaker 1>No, Mike was there, a teacher, a ropey.
<v Speaker 3>It's just as weird got upset on Jimmy Fallon's behalf.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. She was okay the rest of the semester,
<v Speaker 1>but I didn't quite trust her and I didn't want
<v Speaker 1>to bash Jimmy Fallon anymore.
<v Speaker 2>We got to talk about Jimie Town for another thirteen minutes. Right,
<v Speaker 2>that's the quota.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, check, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, did we
<v Speaker 1>clear the King of Meat threshold as well?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, insane that Jimmy Fallon has a ride
<v Speaker 3>in Universal.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's the crazy thing actually about him.
<v Speaker 1>He would you say the Backlot Tour is a Jimmy
<v Speaker 1>Fallon ride.
<v Speaker 3>He's in Orlando. Gender is an entire ride that's just
<v Speaker 3>about Jimmy Fallon. You go in the Q is themed.
<v Speaker 3>The Q is actually the best part because it's the
<v Speaker 3>show museum that was where Twister was.
<v Speaker 1>Which was more dorade.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and it's it's it's just a bad simulator, right,
<v Speaker 3>It's really weird. It's like you're in the audience for
<v Speaker 3>a show and you were three D glasses that he
<v Speaker 3>races you randomly, and you're the whole theater races him,
<v Speaker 3>and you go to the mood and office beloved characters
<v Speaker 3>show up, like when he's that girl who goes aw
<v Speaker 3>you see.
<v Speaker 5>Her, right, Jimmy Foul feels like the last celebrity who's
<v Speaker 5>famous just because he was on TV.
<v Speaker 2>Like he's just famous because he was he happened to
<v Speaker 2>be on TV.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think he's like.
<v Speaker 5>The harbinger of the death of good late Night, you know,
<v Speaker 5>because you don't. She was kind of coming in. It's
<v Speaker 5>like you're starting to get like, Lettermans retire. Yeah, Letterman's
<v Speaker 5>about to retire. The whole Lino Conean ships about to
<v Speaker 5>go down, and Conan kind of like exits, you know,
<v Speaker 5>uh late night not too long after. It's just like
<v Speaker 5>I think it all got what the ship once Fallon
<v Speaker 5>got involved.
<v Speaker 1>You don't, okay, because if we don't get Fallon, we
<v Speaker 1>don't get James Cordon right, right?
<v Speaker 3>Or is that a chicken or the a kind of thing?
<v Speaker 1>Oh sure, I don't know.
<v Speaker 7>Uh.
<v Speaker 2>At the same time as is Fallin, right, they both
<v Speaker 2>started a little bit, I think a little bit. But
<v Speaker 2>after okay, yeah, okay, that being said, I miss Craig Ferguson.
<v Speaker 2>He's not a piece of right. He's around, he's doing
<v Speaker 2>something right, He's okay.
<v Speaker 1>Ferguson.
<v Speaker 2>Craig Ferguson was the best. He was so good at
<v Speaker 2>his monologues.
<v Speaker 1>It was incredible.
<v Speaker 6>Jolbourne doing is is remember Yambo.
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 4>I remember being in that old was he an old school.
<v Speaker 1>Whatever?
<v Speaker 3>He's the creep?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Was he talk soup.
<v Speaker 3>And guy I care about Craig Stadler from Pebble Beach
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<v Speaker 2>He was the daily show host, former John Stewart.
<v Speaker 1>That's what I was.
<v Speaker 6>Thinking, old enough to remember Stuart being the new guy.
<v Speaker 5>And then I also got Kilbourne's late Late show after
<v Speaker 5>Tom Snyder and before Greg Perguson.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah right, and Tom Snyder was like not funny, and
<v Speaker 2>I was very confused.
<v Speaker 6>This is a dark room where he talked to boring people.
<v Speaker 1>That was the thing.
<v Speaker 5>That Ken Work came on. He was he was pretty funny.
<v Speaker 5>Actually he was fine compared to Tom Snyder. I could
<v Speaker 5>so do that.
<v Speaker 1>If I, okay, Gang, if I wind up moving to
<v Speaker 1>l A, I'm just gonna rent out a shitty the
<v Speaker 1>shittiest little closet studio possible, and we're just gonna invite
<v Speaker 1>whoever wants to come, and.
<v Speaker 6>The cigarettes too.
<v Speaker 1>I could be miss.
<v Speaker 3>Eve better.
<v Speaker 4>You speaking his language, and then they roulette. Yeah, Pokemon cards.
<v Speaker 6>Tom Schnyder would not shut the fuck up about Pokemon cards.
<v Speaker 1>It's like you guys are reading off of a list
<v Speaker 1>of my favorite things. Tom Snyder Pokemon cards. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know who Tom Snyder smoking overalls, don't.
<v Speaker 3>We're just standing there, gin there. I miss the robot
<v Speaker 3>host of me to Craig Ferguson.
<v Speaker 2>He was a gay robot and that was a representation
<v Speaker 2>we need ever spelled that way of a g I'm sorry.
<v Speaker 3>You know what.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, maybe we'll maybe we'll compile lists later. But speaking
<v Speaker 1>about lists, Dan Riker, you came to us early this
<v Speaker 1>morning because you got a new magazine. Please please please
<v Speaker 1>describe the thought process.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, I have not told you the plan for this list.
<v Speaker 5>I only told you I want to have a blank
<v Speaker 5>list of fifty entries, and I want to see if
<v Speaker 5>we can just kind of rapid fire how many of
<v Speaker 5>these we can name. I just the time and place
<v Speaker 5>of this magazine, and it makes me very interested. The
<v Speaker 5>video game history Foundation. This is not an ad. I
<v Speaker 5>pay for this every month and I have for years.
<v Speaker 5>They do a vintage magazine kind of blind box thing,
<v Speaker 5>so every month you get like an old DGM or
<v Speaker 5>Game Pro or you know whatever.
<v Speaker 1>You can get some.
<v Speaker 2>Computer Gaming World yesterday. So I was very excited because
<v Speaker 2>I've never read one of those, only heard good things
<v Speaker 2>about it.
<v Speaker 1>It's a good thing. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>So I got mine yesterday and it was from October
<v Speaker 5>two thousand and one, and it is a PSN is
<v Speaker 5>a issue number fifty of PSN, and that's the top here.
<v Speaker 1>It is a least for.
<v Speaker 6>From SSX, which I showed up to.
<v Speaker 5>Banka pointed about what I remember crappy the face looks
<v Speaker 5>and then lovingly drawn breast like just the marks and everything.
<v Speaker 3>The lips and the tits, and you're, guest, wait, that's
<v Speaker 3>that's snowboarding.
<v Speaker 6>This is the snowboarding game, Beckler.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, I know, I don't remember that character anyway, they do,
<v Speaker 4>never mind.
<v Speaker 5>So what fascinates me about this is for the fiftieth
<v Speaker 5>issue of PSM. You can see the seal is not broken.
<v Speaker 5>I have not opened it yet, so I don't know anything.
<v Speaker 5>They list the fifty best PlayStation games ever as of
<v Speaker 5>year two thousand and one one, so we're so we're
<v Speaker 5>like a year into and keep in mind that probably
<v Speaker 5>like got finalized and sent to the printers in like
<v Speaker 5>August or whatever. So that means there was a lot
<v Speaker 5>of stuff in that first year PS two that they're
<v Speaker 5>like kind of a week first year and then like
<v Speaker 5>that holiday season. I feel like it was like GTA three,
<v Speaker 5>Middle Year, Solid two, Final, Fantasy ten, like all these
<v Speaker 5>huge ones.
<v Speaker 6>So I am so curious.
<v Speaker 5>I mean, this would basically be like from the first
<v Speaker 5>PlayStation launch to the first year of the PS two,
<v Speaker 5>Like what would the top fifty games be?
<v Speaker 6>So, Jane, you've got a list. Can the folks at
<v Speaker 6>home see that?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, they should be able to find the list?
<v Speaker 2>And Jim, why don't you like call us out one
<v Speaker 2>by one and then Dan, you'll gill check and then
<v Speaker 2>we'll go to the next person.
<v Speaker 1>Does that sound like the best way to do this? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking quick, look, yeah, well let's do let's let's
<v Speaker 1>go around the horn. I'll call you all out. Let's
<v Speaker 1>do two games each person.
<v Speaker 5>And don't do me because I'll be checking this and
<v Speaker 5>Janie'll go out the list and now let's try to
<v Speaker 5>get the top ten.
<v Speaker 3>First, guys, let's try to like nail the top ten.
<v Speaker 5>They do separate it from the truly tantalizing ten and
<v Speaker 5>the tremendous twenty five and then the top fifty. So
<v Speaker 5>and I'll get the truly tantalizing ten.
<v Speaker 1>Okay. And again, Dan, this is the best, the top the.
<v Speaker 5>Best PlayStation games ever. This is PSX, the magazine PSM PSM. Okay,
<v Speaker 5>is that imagine or was that future?
<v Speaker 1>Who made this? Is Davis?
<v Speaker 6>I don't see right now, I'm gonna lose, Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Jeff, Jeff knows the different leanings of those magazines a
<v Speaker 3>little bit of.
<v Speaker 2>And this is it's not pouring, Dan, you can just
<v Speaker 2>Yeahka just tells you to start though.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, Oh, this is oh cool.
<v Speaker 6>Imagine Bill don hughes On here yep, yep, yep.
<v Speaker 1>Okay. And this is according to PSM magazine, right, yes, got.
<v Speaker 2>October twenty He said it's the company that would was
<v Speaker 2>starting I g in at this time.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, okay, okay, all right, let's start with mister Minati. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Uh, I'm going to suggest Metal Gear Solid.
<v Speaker 6>Metal Solid is the number one PlayStation game of all time.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay, would also like to suggest a final Fantasy seven.
<v Speaker 5>Final Fantasy seven is the twelfth greatest PlayStation.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, I thought that would be in the top ten.
<v Speaker 6>I can guess as well.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, okay, yes, one, yes, one, Okay, mister backlar.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 5>Crash Bandicoot all right, crash Bandicoot is maybe you can
<v Speaker 5>give me both at the same time. So as I'm scanning,
<v Speaker 5>I can and Silent Hill okay, crash Bandicoot and Silent Hill.
<v Speaker 5>Silent Hill is the fifteenth best PlayStation game of all times.
<v Speaker 5>Pretty high for so Hill one before Hill two though,
<v Speaker 5>singing crash Bandy there's okay, hang on, I.
<v Speaker 3>Wonder if they might put do the sequels higher than
<v Speaker 3>the original.
<v Speaker 5>You know, I'm scanning. I'm scanning. I've looked at all
<v Speaker 5>of them. I'm just seeing if I missed anything.
<v Speaker 1>It's already.
<v Speaker 6>I mean, do any of them right, let's just do
<v Speaker 6>that way, okay?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Crash Bandicoot Warped is the tenth best place station. Crash
<v Speaker 5>Team Racing is the twenty eighth best PlayStation.
<v Speaker 1>Oh you got two? What number DAN for CTR?
<v Speaker 5>CTR is twenty eight? So we'll go buy those rules too.
<v Speaker 5>So if if you say like a series or whatever.
<v Speaker 5>I'll just go ahead and going forward.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Okay, okay, mister Grubb, well wait a second. He
<v Speaker 3>wanted to look right now for the other Final Fantasy
<v Speaker 3>because I feel like a nine and the.
<v Speaker 1>Should just do that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he's showing up thereats.
<v Speaker 6>Tactics is nineteen.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, Tactics made it.
<v Speaker 3>That's great, So.
<v Speaker 5>Tactics at nineteen. Final Fantasy eight is number twenty one.
<v Speaker 3>W this was this was before and nine was reconsidered
<v Speaker 3>and is everybody's favorite back then. I think no hard Nope.
<v Speaker 6>Final Fantsay nine is the sixth The best PlayStation is.
<v Speaker 1>A good list.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but it kind of I feel like Roger Burt
<v Speaker 2>Show was writing for this magazine.
<v Speaker 3>He was a huge ARPG guy. He probably would have
<v Speaker 3>been right there.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, then let's go with I'll just say the specific
<v Speaker 2>ones I'm thinking of, but you can check the whole
<v Speaker 2>thing Resident Evil too.
<v Speaker 6>That is the fourth best PlayStation game.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that sounds right. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Now I'm like split between Tony Hawk or Castlevania simply
<v Speaker 2>of the Night. I'm gonna go for Castlevania Symphony of
<v Speaker 2>the Night because I think I think I think it
<v Speaker 2>was being real reprised right in this moment.
<v Speaker 1>Is the third best. Yeah, there we go, there we go.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Okay, Dan, what about uh I guess any
<v Speaker 1>twisted Metal game? Oh, that'd be way up there on
<v Speaker 1>mine the twenties.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Black isn't out yet, so.
<v Speaker 6>Folks, I don't see a twisted Metal game on this.
<v Speaker 1>I don't forget.
<v Speaker 3>At this point, we had like just about three and
<v Speaker 3>four people had soured on the series.
<v Speaker 5>But the Middle Black game out that summer, which I
<v Speaker 5>think would have been for that summer. Oh you know
<v Speaker 5>what this does say PS one all time. It did
<v Speaker 5>not say that. It just has PlayStation up here. But
<v Speaker 5>this is just PS one.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah I figured twist but yeah, okay, gotcha, Okay, second one. Gosh,
<v Speaker 1>if they had tactics on here. I'm gonna take another
<v Speaker 1>shot in the dark for other RPG the PS one, Dan,
<v Speaker 1>show me legend of the Dragoon.
<v Speaker 6>Legend of Dragoon.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it could be there, could be there.
<v Speaker 6>I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking.
<v Speaker 1>It is the fortieth best place, okay, job, all right,
<v Speaker 1>all right, we got there. Legend of Dragoon might be
<v Speaker 1>Mikey back to you.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, definitely give me a grint charisma too.
<v Speaker 6>Ah, good choice, let's go. And you're looking at the chat.
<v Speaker 3>I'm looking look at the chat. Look, I know my
<v Speaker 3>PS one and then some of the Uh, here's a
<v Speaker 3>series we haven't said yet. Yeah, I know, but I
<v Speaker 3>think I'm going to go with a parasite Eve.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, Oh, interesting choice here, Wow, folks, Parasite Eve did
<v Speaker 5>not make the list.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if there's fifty better P one games
<v Speaker 3>and pairs?
<v Speaker 1>But maybe do we it was my turn? Did we
<v Speaker 1>not get the number two? No, you do not, so
<v Speaker 1>we did.
<v Speaker 3>Go ahead.
<v Speaker 5>Let me give you resideval because we already did mention
<v Speaker 5>the resideval two. So three is number twenty nine?
<v Speaker 1>Right?
<v Speaker 3>And then four wasn't on it?
<v Speaker 1>Four?
<v Speaker 2>And to be fair, I forgot we said right, that
<v Speaker 2>was the big franchise I was thinking about.
<v Speaker 1>Ye, yes you did. Yeah, I know. Listen, I'm a
<v Speaker 1>bad person.
<v Speaker 4>I think number two is probably it could be Tony Hawk.
<v Speaker 1>It has to be, right, doesn't.
<v Speaker 5>I think there's a pro skater two is gonna be
<v Speaker 5>Skater two is number nine? Okay, Okay, I feel like
<v Speaker 5>we can go to like a group if you just
<v Speaker 5>want to call him out.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and then my other one was going to be
<v Speaker 4>snipher and filter.
<v Speaker 6>Oh interest filter. Good choice is gotta be on here, right?
<v Speaker 3>That was a big one, kind of if it's not there,
<v Speaker 3>just you know, throwing tech.
<v Speaker 6>And three hang on real quick, resident Evil. The first
<v Speaker 6>one is number forty two.
<v Speaker 3>That makes sense.
<v Speaker 5>Oh wow, there's got to be a tech and three
<v Speaker 5>up there. I don't see siphon filter. I do not
<v Speaker 5>see sicher filter. Nope, where's taking three? Number eleven?
<v Speaker 3>I know, all right, I know a spiral game.
<v Speaker 1>I think the original spiral of the Dragon beable.
<v Speaker 6>I mean, Revenge Year Dragon is number twenty two.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, oh yeah, is that the.
<v Speaker 6>More spir Oh uh, that's the only spiral.
<v Speaker 1>Okay? What was that one vagrant story? I don't see.
<v Speaker 1>They don't know really, dude.
<v Speaker 3>It has been like it would have been.
<v Speaker 1>Kind of soon for that. Oh okay, I have too
<v Speaker 1>go akay uh.
<v Speaker 6>PaRappa Parapa is number seventeen.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, okay, my two were wipeout real quick.
<v Speaker 6>I do want to say I'll count Jammer as part
<v Speaker 6>of the Parapa series. That's number sixteen.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 6>Greb comes in with wipeout, which is no, no.
<v Speaker 1>That was Backler.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, sorry, get you guys mixed up. Fourteen is wipeout
<v Speaker 5>xl okay.
<v Speaker 3>And then my other one was soul Reaver.
<v Speaker 5>Oh wait, I'm sorry, siphon filter is on here. It
<v Speaker 5>was number thirty six. Sorry, okay, soul Reaver Legacy of Kine.
<v Speaker 3>No, get the frick out of here.
<v Speaker 6>Alright, let's's top ten. Nope, it's not.
<v Speaker 1>Let's uh, let's stick to the taking turns just because
<v Speaker 1>we're stepping on each other. But g drop three games. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>all right, let's see here.
<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to like think outside the box that number
<v Speaker 2>two to be I know, turmb Raider two.
<v Speaker 6>Look at the series you would think, so.
<v Speaker 1>I just don't.
<v Speaker 2>To me, it's like I could be weird for even
<v Speaker 2>by Dan for them to still be like kind of
<v Speaker 2>glazing tum Raider.
<v Speaker 5>But number thirty seven is tomb Raider. The last revelation
<v Speaker 5>that was three or four?
<v Speaker 1>No, three like four four four.
<v Speaker 6>Mm hm four is the only tomb Raider on this list.
<v Speaker 6>That's weird.
<v Speaker 3>I think I have a good one.
<v Speaker 1>Hang on, let me, let's let me do a couple. Well, no,
<v Speaker 1>you have a good one.
<v Speaker 3>Could just go that's fine because this guy likes RPGs.
<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking maybe Zeno Gears is this.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that was the definite staff list. I would imagine
<v Speaker 5>Zeno Gears is number twenty.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Oh, sorry, okay.
<v Speaker 3>I thought I thought my confidence was unfounded. A Kronocross
<v Speaker 3>thirty three. Oh, okay, there's a lot more RPGs here
<v Speaker 3>than I thought.
<v Speaker 1>Third, Hey, the I G the Imagine staff are rpg weird,
<v Speaker 1>Yes for sure.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, if you are a PS one magazine, you better
<v Speaker 3>like j RPGs.
<v Speaker 6>Actually, there are still three from the top ten that
<v Speaker 6>are not.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is that's driving me crazy. We are so
<v Speaker 2>vagrant pars legend is the wild.
<v Speaker 5>Arms, Yeah, wild quite a while. There's another real just
<v Speaker 5>doesn't check wild Arms.
<v Speaker 6>No wild Arms.
<v Speaker 3>There's a real sick o jerap. We have may sweak
<v Speaker 3>it in two.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's a good one.
<v Speaker 3>It might not have been like it might not have
<v Speaker 3>risen to that cult status at this point yet though.
<v Speaker 6>Uh that is number thirteen.
<v Speaker 1>Okay okay. Oh, is there is there a sports game
<v Speaker 1>like a Big One? Yeah?
<v Speaker 6>Game Day Madden O two for the PS one is eighteen.
<v Speaker 3>It's weird.
<v Speaker 6>I definitely play the m POS two.
<v Speaker 1>Weird Driver oh oh yeah, very good choice.
<v Speaker 3>That's gotta be there. Oh yeah, barely Jesus.
<v Speaker 1>It does seem like in general they're doing like one
<v Speaker 1>entry per series. Okay.
<v Speaker 5>Oh they're saying if games of a series are different enough,
<v Speaker 5>more than one may appear on the list.
<v Speaker 6>But they're saying, like with like tech and they just
<v Speaker 6>took one.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, this one did just show up and chat.
<v Speaker 2>I did just glance, but I was thinking this one.
<v Speaker 1>Let's can we just check ape escape?
<v Speaker 3>That's just wondering.
<v Speaker 2>I was one of that number two, number two. That's
<v Speaker 2>pretty high. Yeah, we still have a seven and eight.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah are they Ridge racer Type four freaks?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's that's a good one.
<v Speaker 3>Number eight one a good list, good list, this list.
<v Speaker 1>That was number yeah, that's my favorite number.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Mikey, back to you. Give me two more stretches.
<v Speaker 3>Are type four? Okay, back to me two more. It
<v Speaker 3>is it is getting to a point where, boy, those
<v Speaker 3>are some really big impactful ones.
<v Speaker 5>That we have up there, and at a certain point
<v Speaker 5>when you went throw on the towel, I'm just gonna
<v Speaker 5>read it from the bottom up.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>One just just just to just pipe up at this
<v Speaker 3>time because yeah, now I'm just trying.
<v Speaker 1>Wait. Abes Odyssey. Oh good call, okay, I don't think so,
<v Speaker 1>I got one before we go to uh just made
<v Speaker 1>I got more, all right? Was AME's Odyssey on the
<v Speaker 1>top fifty? Dan World? Oh wow? Okay, this has to
<v Speaker 1>be on there based off of like the other games
<v Speaker 1>on there, guys, bless thee.
<v Speaker 3>I bet game it's not though. That makes me think
<v Speaker 3>of another game that should be on.
<v Speaker 5>It, which, okay, guys, is not. But I think Mike
<v Speaker 5>is about to guess number forty four.
<v Speaker 1>I hander, yes, I thought.
<v Speaker 3>Games games that are related except their names are exactly
<v Speaker 3>the same to me.
<v Speaker 1>Where rival schools? Dan did? How about Bashido Blade?
<v Speaker 6>Blade is number fifty? No rival schools, No rival schools?
<v Speaker 1>But any other any other ones that we want to Knowah?
<v Speaker 6>Yes, I saw that earlier. That is number twenty four.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, good showing for Clinoa there. I want to look
<v Speaker 3>at my collection real quick.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, let's uh, let's get one or two more
<v Speaker 1>from everyone and then let's just get through the list.
<v Speaker 3>Was there a Spider Man?
<v Speaker 1>They were not bad?
<v Speaker 6>Those are the never soft ones. I don't think that's
<v Speaker 6>on here.
<v Speaker 3>No, yeah, I'm probably not gonna make him. I liked
<v Speaker 3>that game a lot. Actually, yeah, I love that. I
<v Speaker 3>did look at chat.
<v Speaker 1>At this point.
<v Speaker 3>But Star Ocean two.
<v Speaker 1>Did that make it? No, it didn't know. Vib ribbon No, no, no,
<v Speaker 1>it's surprising.
<v Speaker 3>You can't funk around with mister Domino whatever it was called.
<v Speaker 1>No, No, incredible crisis unfortunately. No.
<v Speaker 6>Conny Warris, oh, Connie Wars that.
<v Speaker 1>Critics love that.
<v Speaker 5>There were forty five Colonie Wurrison police. All right for me,
<v Speaker 5>right back, okay, mega man legends, I don't remember seeing that.
<v Speaker 6>No, let's do this.
<v Speaker 3>Wild that we're missing one.
<v Speaker 1>The top was there?
<v Speaker 4>There was a there was a grand theft auto right, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>but that serious were the top down?
<v Speaker 1>Super not really?
<v Speaker 6>Maybe on there no associated with PlayStation enough, I guess.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, jet Moto, Oh that's a good guest.
<v Speaker 6>Thereto to not here, that fell off pretty quick.
<v Speaker 5>NFL blitz Nope, No, but that, yeah, Jan start from
<v Speaker 5>the bottom up. Call out blank numbers and I'll tell
<v Speaker 5>you what they are, all right, Uh forty nine Vigilante eight,
<v Speaker 5>gilt eight.
<v Speaker 3>Wait we say that blasphemy, didn't we say that there
<v Speaker 3>wasn't a Twisted Metal on this list. Yeah what you said? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's crazy, that's incrazy.
<v Speaker 1>All right, forty seven ten chu oho you eventually? Yeah? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>all right? Hit me with forty six and forty three
<v Speaker 1>Soul Blaze in Fear Effect retro Helix, the Lesbian Game.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, these are actually kind of impressive poles. He is
<v Speaker 2>jumping Flash two in the top ten.
<v Speaker 1>It should be.
<v Speaker 6>We're going up from bottom up.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, alright, alright, right, let's go to forty one alone
<v Speaker 1>in the Dark four. What they got to four? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I didn't even know they ever.
<v Speaker 3>Number two wait above Resident Evil one, saying yep.
<v Speaker 5>There's one above Resident Evil one that is Infogrames June
<v Speaker 5>two thousand and one alone in the Dark four.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, hold on, I love soul Blade, but Einhander
<v Speaker 1>above Soul Blade.
<v Speaker 6>That's correct.
<v Speaker 3>Oh Okayander, I could see Ironhander above, So maybe top ten,
<v Speaker 3>chen absolutely, yeah, I don't know about guys.
<v Speaker 1>No, If who is guys, it'd be top fifteen, okay,
<v Speaker 1>Dan hit me with thirty eight and thirty or thirty nine.
<v Speaker 5>Thirty eight, thirty nine is Colin mc ray rally, oh
<v Speaker 5>of course, and thirty eight is ray Man two.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, I never.
<v Speaker 3>Think ray Man, I never think that's as one game.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah or og raymn for sure. Dan, thirty five, thirty
<v Speaker 1>four please.
<v Speaker 6>Thirty five is Breath of Fire four?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah it could have gone. Okay, that's Roger Burchill. Definitely
<v Speaker 1>we worked on this list.
<v Speaker 6>It's a thirty four. Thirty four is Dino Crisis.
<v Speaker 3>Oh okay, we missed that's so wait Dino Crisis, but
<v Speaker 3>no Parasite Eve.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, a little a little strange or vagan sorry.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, Dan hit me with thirty two, thirty one
<v Speaker 1>and thirty thirty two is Ace Combat two. She should
<v Speaker 1>have got at Yes, yeah, that's a great game. Yep,
<v Speaker 1>got it.
<v Speaker 5>Thirty one one Grandia, Oh okay, in thirty how did
<v Speaker 5>you guys miss this?
<v Speaker 1>Roll Cage Stage two? The hell is that?
<v Speaker 3>What that?
<v Speaker 1>It's PlayStation game of all time? Jan I retire.
<v Speaker 3>You're right, this is Champ is better than Parasite Eve.
<v Speaker 3>I don't even know what you just said.
<v Speaker 5>Old Cage stage two number Cage's extreame g but bat
<v Speaker 5>when your cover looks like that, you get number thirty
<v Speaker 5>is Roll Cage Stage two.
<v Speaker 1>This is not what I thought it was. Gonna game
<v Speaker 1>actually looks pretty al right, okay, keep going alright, left
<v Speaker 1>that we haven't picked, okay, Dan, hit me with twenty seven,
<v Speaker 1>twenty six and twenty five.
<v Speaker 6>Twenty seven is FEEFA two thousand and one okay, okay,
<v Speaker 6>twenty six is need for Speed three Hot Pursuit okay, speed?
<v Speaker 1>And what was next?
<v Speaker 6>Five five Medal of Honor two.
<v Speaker 5>Underground alright, twenty three that would be Super puzzle Fighter too, Okay, Wow, cool, okay,
<v Speaker 5>there's only one left, all right, number seven, Dan, I
<v Speaker 5>feel like Mikey should have got this out of all
<v Speaker 5>of us.
<v Speaker 3>It wasn't Is it a Mega Man X four or something?
<v Speaker 6>Street Fighter Alpha three?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I was wondering, Yeah, okay, yeah, probably should have. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>we should have said street Fighter Also, X four should
<v Speaker 3>be on this list.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, it's the list. I agree. No Legends weird.
<v Speaker 3>No Legends was not super well liked that at that time. Honestly,
<v Speaker 3>this came.
<v Speaker 6>Out when October two thousand and one, which.
<v Speaker 4>Means they probably rode it in May. It was, right, yeah, right,
<v Speaker 4>and then nine eleven happened, sure of course.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but it was pretty comprehensive of the whole PlayStation
<v Speaker 5>one era outside of.
<v Speaker 6>Like the sports games they released until like oh five
<v Speaker 6>or whatever.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, it's an interesting list for sure.
<v Speaker 5>Apes of two is crazy to me would have been
<v Speaker 5>metal Gear in Final Fantasy seven, and so for f
<v Speaker 5>F seven to be down at twelve is kind of crazy.
<v Speaker 3>That they are right that Night's better than it. I
<v Speaker 3>just I usually whom that seven is going to be
<v Speaker 3>put higher than that? I like, Yeah, I'm impressed, like
<v Speaker 3>Register Type four being at number eight, That's that's right,
<v Speaker 3>RESI Evil two of four, that's right, Cynthy and Night
<v Speaker 3>at three, that's right. There's nothing too crazy. There's some
<v Speaker 3>admissions that seem a little whild to be like a
<v Speaker 3>parasite of like a vagrant.
<v Speaker 6>Story alone of Dark four being above Resniva one is
<v Speaker 6>pretty insane.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's bizarre. Yeah, yeah. I do like seeing how
<v Speaker 1>high the O G Silent Hill is on this list though,
<v Speaker 1>So that's that's cool. Yeah yeah, yeah, interesting.
<v Speaker 6>List for sure, which is you know, kind of what
<v Speaker 6>you go for when you make these.
<v Speaker 1>No jet Moto I'm kind of surprised by, but it's
<v Speaker 1>almost likely. You're right.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it was an early when I think like early
<v Speaker 5>PlayStation one, I think of single track. I think of
<v Speaker 5>you know, Warhawk, Twisted Middle one, Twist Middle two and
<v Speaker 5>Jet Moto, and like Jet Moto pretty quickly. It might
<v Speaker 5>have been around the same kid the Twisted Metal went
<v Speaker 5>Downhill with the nine eighty nine changeover. But yeah, people
<v Speaker 5>forgot about Jet Modo pretty quick.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, okay, okay, that's right, hex Proof. It's an atrocity
<v Speaker 1>that there are no golf games on hill. What the
<v Speaker 1>well the best ball game was on the Saturn. It's
<v Speaker 1>main competitor, it's made competitors. Yeah, all right, folks, you
<v Speaker 1>know with old games, let's uh, let's talk about stuff
<v Speaker 1>we've been playing. I don't like good games, no, I know,
<v Speaker 1>I know, I know. Now I'm I can't believe I'm
<v Speaker 1>looking up how to play roll Cage Stage two, remember.
<v Speaker 6>And it was made by Midway, it says, So it's
<v Speaker 6>like that checking out. I'm kind of curious.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, damn.
<v Speaker 2>You can't play old games on your own time, though,
<v Speaker 2>You got to play new games to do your job here.
<v Speaker 2>All right, that's good, that's clearly, that's good.
<v Speaker 6>That's a joke for me, man.
<v Speaker 1>Now, I just want to go play a bunch of JRPGs.
<v Speaker 1>Thanks a lot Gang good. They're very good. I think
<v Speaker 1>that's why Press the Fire for is good. It's overrated,
<v Speaker 1>little over yeah, a little overrated. All right, we got
<v Speaker 1>a jar with the games here, So let's start with
<v Speaker 1>a game that just that someone finished and they said
<v Speaker 1>they have a note here, real quick, mister backl Are
<v Speaker 1>you finished Kronos?
<v Speaker 3>Oh? Yeah, I finished. I don't want to take a
<v Speaker 3>lot of time talking about it. I finished Kronos.
<v Speaker 4>I then had to watch a YouTube summary of the
<v Speaker 4>story because it is almost unfollowing. Yeah, yeah, I wish,
<v Speaker 4>I wish. I don't know, I can't. Maybe this is
<v Speaker 4>a larger issue of is can Jeff just simply not
<v Speaker 4>pay attention to some stories and games anymore?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>I feel like I'm sort of struggling with that a
<v Speaker 4>little bit. Uh in Silent Hill f as well.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>We could talk more about that in a second. But
<v Speaker 4>I did finish Kronos, and I and I am mostly
<v Speaker 4>happy with it. I do encourage people to play it now.
<v Speaker 4>It is a very scary, very spooky game that is
<v Speaker 4>very ambitious with its storytelling.
<v Speaker 3>But believe me, I did it.
<v Speaker 4>I didn't think I could do it, So thank you
<v Speaker 4>to all the people who said I could You allowed.
<v Speaker 3>Me to persevere and see it through and that means
<v Speaker 3>a great deal to me, and for that, I thank you.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, good the question for you?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, And you're playing this and Silent Hill F. And
<v Speaker 2>I know you're gonna talk about that in a second.
<v Speaker 2>But if I was gonna pick one of these to
<v Speaker 2>play for October, which one would you recommend?
<v Speaker 4>At this I think I think the better complete package
<v Speaker 4>is Silent Hill F.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>It's also like eight to ten hours, which sounds real
<v Speaker 2>good to me right here after playing so many games
<v Speaker 2>that I'm like twenty plus hours into.
<v Speaker 4>And we could just parlay this right into the F
<v Speaker 4>conversation if you don't mind, Jen, I think go from's
<v Speaker 4>talking to a super eyepatch. Well, I'm talking to John
<v Speaker 4>about Silent Hill F and He's like, oh, yeah, you
<v Speaker 4>got to play it four times? And I was just like,
<v Speaker 4>who the fuck are you that's gonna play Silent Hill
<v Speaker 4>F four times to see all these different endings.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>I don't understand how you can do that. I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>don't you have a video to make about Garfield or something?
<v Speaker 4>Like you're gonna tell me, you can play Silent Hill.
<v Speaker 1>F yeah, Simpsons right now, we gotta know.
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, please, I need you to make videos and
<v Speaker 4>not play this game eleven times?
<v Speaker 2>So uh in your automatic Like is it automic?
<v Speaker 3>No, it's even like cause Naro not has the different endings,
<v Speaker 3>but it's really kind of a linear progression through the right.
<v Speaker 3>It's like Silent Hill too, where depending on your choices
<v Speaker 3>you get different ending and like the people who really
<v Speaker 3>like the series, they're like, well, I gotta see all them.
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna I'm gonna watch them on YouTube, is what
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna do.
<v Speaker 2>I watch I just watch them on YouTube and get
<v Speaker 2>the same effect, is what I'm saying.
<v Speaker 4>I just, you know, there's if there's a lot of
<v Speaker 4>like for me, you do you guys, what do you
<v Speaker 4>call it? When you're just like I don't know, maybe
<v Speaker 4>this is exclusive to me. Like there's the there's this
<v Speaker 4>thing I have where I'm just like map slopping where
<v Speaker 4>I'm just like constantly looking at the map like sure
<v Speaker 4>you know, I'm like in this labyrinthinian area and I'm just.
<v Speaker 3>Sort of like, whereas what's you always left?
<v Speaker 1>Where's left?
<v Speaker 3>Like come left?
<v Speaker 4>Where am I facing where's my arrow facing?
<v Speaker 1>I have to go up? Okay, I'm you know, like
<v Speaker 1>getting old Becklow. I have the same thing because it's
<v Speaker 1>always been that for me.
<v Speaker 3>That's always been that for me with these games. Uh,
<v Speaker 3>it's like, you know, I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>It's like it's like if you have like Google Maps
<v Speaker 4>in your car and you're not doing north, You're not
<v Speaker 4>doing like up is always up right. That's obviously not
<v Speaker 4>always know, but like I need that. I need that
<v Speaker 4>sort of constant positioning awareness to show me up right.
<v Speaker 4>Like that's how I coordinate myself, That's how I yeah, right,
<v Speaker 4>exactly what's up?
<v Speaker 3>Just everyone's chat saying apparently like the new game plus
<v Speaker 3>stuff is more than just a different ending. So I
<v Speaker 3>guess I bet it's very interesting to play the game
<v Speaker 3>more than once. You need to to feel like you
<v Speaker 3>got feel experience a full experience there.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I mean, I look, I'm happy to I'm happy
<v Speaker 4>to have it. I'm happy that the value is there,
<v Speaker 4>I'm happy that the replayability is there. I'm not I'm
<v Speaker 4>never gonna like look that across in the face, but
<v Speaker 4>it's like, I I can't do that with your game,
<v Speaker 4>especially in such a densely.
<v Speaker 3>Packed fifteen games. I need to do baby Steps.
<v Speaker 4>I haven't even done anything outside of that unfinished baby steps.
<v Speaker 3>Are you kidding me? You're the baby Yeah, I gotta
<v Speaker 3>take some steps.
<v Speaker 1>Anyway.
<v Speaker 4>I really do like Silent Hill. I think it is
<v Speaker 4>is really good. Say for like maybe one or two
<v Speaker 4>areas where I'm just like, all right, we this is
<v Speaker 4>maybe a little repetitive, but yeah, I'm super into.
<v Speaker 3>What do you What do you think, Mike? Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I checked out maybe the first three hours or so
<v Speaker 3>and was definitely enjoying myself.
<v Speaker 1>I love just the setting.
<v Speaker 3>Anytime something is said in that very rural kind of Japan,
<v Speaker 3>which for me is basically just this persona flour in
<v Speaker 3>my neighbor totoro.
<v Speaker 1>Those are the three things I associate to say.
<v Speaker 3>But I always really like it. It's a very interesting
<v Speaker 3>kind of vibe and aesthetic. But yeah, I see people
<v Speaker 3>talk about the combat and some people complain about it.
<v Speaker 3>I love it all specifically because it's kind of clunky
<v Speaker 3>and not sophisticated, just like how it should feel for
<v Speaker 3>just some you know Japanese schoolgirl who's wielding a pipe.
<v Speaker 1>Right, you know, it's not dark souls, it's not some
<v Speaker 1>you know, intense action game.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, don't you off combos, you know what I mean, Like.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she's just kind of swinging shit the kids.
<v Speaker 3>It's just a little kid. But even though there is
<v Speaker 3>still like good mechanics to it and good kind of
<v Speaker 3>game logic and reasoning there without it necessarily devolving to
<v Speaker 3>just oh it's dark souls or you know, oh it's
<v Speaker 3>it's this or that. I was actually surprised how good,
<v Speaker 3>Like I did like a big boss fight right where
<v Speaker 3>I just actually had a whole boss encounter situation going on.
<v Speaker 3>There are some fun gimmicks, especially with him disappearing and
<v Speaker 3>kind of reappearing somewhere. I had to like listen for
<v Speaker 3>him and find him and hit him before he got
<v Speaker 3>off some attack. I was like, jeez, this is a
<v Speaker 3>pretty good boss fight, which, you know, sound Hill has
<v Speaker 3>actually not been bad at that. The sound Hill two
<v Speaker 3>roommake had some good ones too, but sometimes you don't
<v Speaker 3>necessarily associate Silent Hill with bosses. Having a good experience
<v Speaker 3>there was nice. But yeah, I'm just kind of I'm
<v Speaker 3>loving the whole sort of vibe, the whole setup, The
<v Speaker 3>story is intriguing, you know, I think the themes skirt
<v Speaker 3>a fine line of being pretty obvious or what they are,
<v Speaker 3>but not feeling spoon fed at the same time.
<v Speaker 1>So all of that is good.
<v Speaker 3>I'm excited someone play more. It feels like a perfect
<v Speaker 3>little October game. I don't mean little disparagingly, but you know,
<v Speaker 3>it's a great game for this season.
<v Speaker 1>I will say this may be spoilers for some people,
<v Speaker 1>but I'll just keep it as vague as possible. And
<v Speaker 1>for folks that have already completed Silent Hill f you
<v Speaker 1>will be well aware that this game actually shares a
<v Speaker 1>lot with Sonic Unleashed. And that's all I'm gonna say
<v Speaker 1>about that.
<v Speaker 3>I can't play it now.
<v Speaker 1>You just ruined it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that was a spoiler the entire experience for me.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. If you put that on the back
<v Speaker 1>of the box, you know. Yeah, that's good.
<v Speaker 2>People won't buy it. They're like, why do I even
<v Speaker 2>need to play it?
<v Speaker 1>Now?
<v Speaker 3>That's what a detour?
<v Speaker 1>Is that? The way with the wear hoog? Yeah, Jeff
<v Speaker 1>Grubb speaking about beating games, You're not the backlar. Isn't
<v Speaker 1>the only Jeff finishing games? You conquered baby Steps? Yeah
<v Speaker 1>this morning?
<v Speaker 2>Actually, so I had spent several streams in the morning
<v Speaker 2>here on Giant Bomb, trying to conquered the Man Breaker,
<v Speaker 2>which is this big mountain where they they give you
<v Speaker 2>the option to go up the stairs, and that was
<v Speaker 2>a really powerful, awesome thing to do, and it was
<v Speaker 2>it was a lot of fun to actually get through there.
<v Speaker 2>And then there's a little bit more after that. There's
<v Speaker 2>apparently a couple paths you can go to get up
<v Speaker 2>to this final bit of the mountain. But the option
<v Speaker 2>I found myself taking without what even knowing was an option,
<v Speaker 2>It just felt like the way to go was this
<v Speaker 2>crash train. It's an uncharted two and it's got a
<v Speaker 2>bunch of luggage over the place and you got to
<v Speaker 2>get your foot in on there. But because it's because
<v Speaker 2>you're inside and it's at a slant, it like really
<v Speaker 2>is disorienting because you just feel like, okay, am I
<v Speaker 2>standing upright and it's like, oh no, I'm going to
<v Speaker 2>lean to the left here. That was a lot of
<v Speaker 2>fun to get through, although kind of a little bit
<v Speaker 2>child's play after the Man Breaker, which was welcome. After that,
<v Speaker 2>there's just like a small little snow section. A guy
<v Speaker 2>gets trapped under a boulder in a cave and stuff
<v Speaker 2>like that, I get to talk to him. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you eventually get up this mountain and you go into
<v Speaker 2>a house and you're one of the people that you've
<v Speaker 2>been there talking to the whole time, is in this
<v Speaker 2>house cabin, and it just has this such a sweet
<v Speaker 2>ending of Nate is this character that you're playing as,
<v Speaker 2>and every conversation he has, he's just trying to get
<v Speaker 2>out of it. He doesn't want to bother anyone. He
<v Speaker 2>doesn't feel worthy of anyone's time. He doesn't like feel
<v Speaker 2>like he's like worthy of any space at all. Actually,
<v Speaker 2>and the game ends with you knocking on this cabin
<v Speaker 2>door and just being afraid still but kind of you
<v Speaker 2>could see he's working up his courage and finally he
<v Speaker 2>just asks, Hey, can I come inside? He finally asks
<v Speaker 2>for help, and it was a really like moving, powerful
<v Speaker 2>moment for this character that just can't get his shit
<v Speaker 2>together at all. But you I walked ninety thousand steps.
<v Speaker 2>The game told me ninety thousand steps to get to
<v Speaker 2>the end of this game, and you know, he did
<v Speaker 2>all that. He actually did accomplish all that, he did
<v Speaker 2>conquer the Man Breaker, he did get through all these things,
<v Speaker 2>and so he kind of is capable, but the thing
<v Speaker 2>that was hardest for him was just asking for help
<v Speaker 2>and it hit real hard.
<v Speaker 1>And so get through that with chat this morning, and
<v Speaker 1>I just I love this game.
<v Speaker 2>It is so well done and it's it definitely feels
<v Speaker 2>like the right way to make one of these right now,
<v Speaker 2>where sure it's punishing, but it's not as punishing as
<v Speaker 2>something like Getting Over It, where Getting Over It is
<v Speaker 2>another Benetfotty game where you're in the pot and you
<v Speaker 2>have the hammer and you're swinging around trying to like
<v Speaker 2>pull yourself up, and you could fail in that game
<v Speaker 2>to the point where you could really do at any moment,
<v Speaker 2>can fall all the way back to the beginning. Here,
<v Speaker 2>it's like usually you could fall a long way, but
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna be to a certain like relative checkpoint. And
<v Speaker 2>even when you do that, the game remains funny, It
<v Speaker 2>remains fun to play. You always feel like you are
<v Speaker 2>kind of learning something, and so it feels like the
<v Speaker 2>most broadly appealing one of these that has been made,
<v Speaker 2>Like it feels like it's made by people who's done
<v Speaker 2>who have done this many times before and have learned
<v Speaker 2>a lot of lessons and know now how to deliver
<v Speaker 2>on this idea in a way that is fair but
<v Speaker 2>also still brutal, in a way that's very, very fun
<v Speaker 2>to watch. Yeah, it's a game that should have made
<v Speaker 2>me rage a lot more than it did. And I
<v Speaker 2>found myself just kind of being like, you know what,
<v Speaker 2>I'm ready to try again, and and yeah, it's it's
<v Speaker 2>up there for me, I am really impressed with it,
<v Speaker 2>really happy with it.
<v Speaker 4>How did you find again, I'm only coming from the
<v Speaker 4>first time we touched it, but like, how did you
<v Speaker 4>find the sort of like understanding of like what you're
<v Speaker 4>really meant to do? Because I feel like, for me,
<v Speaker 4>you know this game, I have not been able to
<v Speaker 4>isolate myself from seeing more, you know, videos about it.
<v Speaker 4>Obviously you playing it, how do you feel about how
<v Speaker 4>all that was presented and whether or not you think
<v Speaker 4>it's a really like satisfying way to be presented with
<v Speaker 4>the game?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so so, yeah, it's it can be discouraging at
<v Speaker 2>first because you don't know where you're going and you
<v Speaker 2>feel lost. Eventually, though, that very quickly settles into being like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>that's part of what's happening here. It's not just that
<v Speaker 2>he's bad at walking. He's bad at walking and also
<v Speaker 2>doesn't know where to go, and it's like, these these
<v Speaker 2>dual factors working against the character are are really the
<v Speaker 2>both things to be overcome, and it's like, well, what
<v Speaker 2>do you do to solve this? I guess I could
<v Speaker 2>try to like I can go look it up, or
<v Speaker 2>I could just keep walking forward and see if I
<v Speaker 2>eventually figure something out. Now, the game does sort of
<v Speaker 2>offer up some interesting ways of making you feel like, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>if I do start going forward, even if I might
<v Speaker 2>not know if I'm going the right way, maybe I'm
<v Speaker 2>going the wrong way.
<v Speaker 1>There is a chance.
<v Speaker 2>It's not like it's allowsy with this stuff, but there's
<v Speaker 2>a chance you're going to run into some cut scene
<v Speaker 2>that you wouldn't have seen had you not gone the
<v Speaker 2>wrong way, and that's really well done. So there's one
<v Speaker 2>early on where I was super lost. There's point in
<v Speaker 2>the kind of funny race where both me and snowbike
<v Speaker 2>Mic are trying to find out where to go, and
<v Speaker 2>we're like neck and neck, and I went to the
<v Speaker 2>left and he went to the right, and I was
<v Speaker 2>stuck at this place because I didn't see the pathway
<v Speaker 2>to the left for a very long time. So I
<v Speaker 2>was going around the map and it loops. It's a
<v Speaker 2>complete sphere. So you go from you go to one
<v Speaker 2>side of the map, you go one more step and
<v Speaker 2>now you're on the far left side of the map.
<v Speaker 3>You can't tell that.
<v Speaker 2>When you're actually in the game, but there's a map
<v Speaker 2>later that kind of showed you that's what was happening.
<v Speaker 2>I was doing that over and over again, and I
<v Speaker 2>got to this like sand cast or this giant sand cast,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, let me get to the top of this,
<v Speaker 2>see if there's anything up there. And the only thing
<v Speaker 2>up there was two little naked men who just kind
<v Speaker 2>of yelled at me, and I sat on one of
<v Speaker 2>them on accident, and it was hilarious. They were all
<v Speaker 2>voiced by Bennett Foddy. That's and finding that felt like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>it's own reward, and there's a ton of that stuff.
<v Speaker 2>There's so many hilarious cut scenes. I think that's the
<v Speaker 2>thing the humor for me for a long time. I
<v Speaker 2>guess not for a long time. For that first couple
<v Speaker 2>of play sessions, I was like, this is funny, but
<v Speaker 2>I'm not laughing out loud. It just keeps getting so
<v Speaker 2>much more absurd, and you start to realize, oh, they're
<v Speaker 2>improving this, and they're kind of just leaving in the
<v Speaker 2>rough cuts of them laughing over each other's lines, and
<v Speaker 2>it's super endearing. And trying to like not even trying
<v Speaker 2>to find the next one of those, but thinking, oh,
<v Speaker 2>I might find another one of those as I continue
<v Speaker 2>was more than enough to make everything kind of feel
<v Speaker 2>worth it. And then occasionally I'll find a cool little
<v Speaker 2>puzzle segment where it's like, here is just a little
<v Speaker 2>tower that you got to climb to the top of
<v Speaker 2>and you'll either get a hat that either does nothing
<v Speaker 2>or does something cool, or a fruit he yells about
<v Speaker 2>finding a parse simon or whatever it's called, and that's
<v Speaker 2>exciting as well. So I think it's like happy to
<v Speaker 2>be the game it is, which is you should feel lost,
<v Speaker 2>you should feel overwhelmed by every ticking, every step, but
<v Speaker 2>it's not so harsh that it's never gonna make you
<v Speaker 2>feel like you didn't get a reward.
<v Speaker 1>It has that pretty often cool awesome right now. God,
<v Speaker 1>I didn't think i'd have to check this out before
<v Speaker 1>Game of the Year time, but I guess I got it.
<v Speaker 2>It's very much a me game, Like it's not like
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna be out there on the streets trying to
<v Speaker 2>hawk this to everybody. But I definitely see a lot
<v Speaker 2>of people in chat when I was playing, being like, Hey,
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't gonna try this out, and I've been watching
<v Speaker 2>you play and it actually won me over, Like watching
<v Speaker 2>this game be played, and it's like, I think there's
<v Speaker 2>more to this game than like it's open. Critic Score says,
<v Speaker 2>it's like, oh, you know, it's not for everybody, but
<v Speaker 2>the people who it's four are really gonna like it.
<v Speaker 2>It's definitely in this like certain classic games for me,
<v Speaker 2>with like Octo Dead, where it's about moving a character
<v Speaker 2>in a weird way, but it's telling a lot more
<v Speaker 2>about like human nature and about your nature as a
<v Speaker 2>player than you might even realize.
<v Speaker 1>Fantastic of Fantastic, speaking about overwhelming, I have been enjoying,
<v Speaker 1>but I've found Ghost of Yota be very, very overwhelming. Dan,
<v Speaker 1>you talked about this a little bit last week on
<v Speaker 1>the podcast because the embargo lifted and I had reserved
<v Speaker 1>to myself that I wasn't going to check out Ghost
<v Speaker 1>of Yota until the holidays, because we've talked a lot
<v Speaker 1>about holiday kind of games, and this feels like one
<v Speaker 1>you have to really sink your teeth into. And I'll
<v Speaker 1>say this up top, I did not like Ghost of Tsushima.
<v Speaker 1>Did not click with it at all. I don't quite
<v Speaker 1>know why. Maybe I was expecting like different style of combat.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe I was looking for a seci row at the time.
<v Speaker 1>But something about this and maybe it is God, I
<v Speaker 1>really forget her name, but the character that Erica plays,
<v Speaker 1>and just like the characterization, I think it just it
<v Speaker 1>hits a bit better. Maybe I'm digging the setup to
<v Speaker 1>the story. But damn game, pretty game look good.
<v Speaker 6>You all game pretty It's really it's unbelievably gorgeous.
<v Speaker 5>And like, Jan, how are you finding like the open
<v Speaker 5>world because it's got those elements from the first one,
<v Speaker 5>with like the wind taking from place to place. But
<v Speaker 5>I am finding myself just enjoying that open world a
<v Speaker 5>lot more than Sushima.
<v Speaker 1>I think that that's what I might be enjoying more.
<v Speaker 1>And that's kind of the friction I'm encountering though, is that,
<v Speaker 1>like I do enjoy the open world more, but because
<v Speaker 1>I'm enjoying the open world more, it's kind of stalling
<v Speaker 1>my overall progress in it. Sure, and this game just
<v Speaker 1>is full of like the different cinematic styles you can
<v Speaker 1>throw the game into. I tried playing it in black
<v Speaker 1>and white for a second, but then again, game two
<v Speaker 1>pretty to limit yourself to grayscale. Just like the effect
<v Speaker 1>that they have with like the Ginka leaves and everything,
<v Speaker 1>like as you're like trapesing through the fields. Absolutely gorgeous
<v Speaker 1>and I just want to cook every single thing.
<v Speaker 6>Also the duels and see how you're blown into the microphone.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, uh. And it's kind of a bummer that
<v Speaker 1>this game uses the dual sense so well, because what
<v Speaker 1>is the last game y'all would even think using duel sense? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>exactly Astro before that, even maybe.
<v Speaker 3>The ratchet and clanking, Yeah, maybe ratri Yeah. It's great
<v Speaker 3>when games do use it really well because I actually
<v Speaker 3>do like a lot of that stuff, even the gimmicky things.
<v Speaker 3>But a few people really kind of make good use
<v Speaker 3>of it.
<v Speaker 6>I mean, Sucker Bronx loved doing that.
<v Speaker 5>They did that with the second son I remember the
<v Speaker 5>first time I used a PS four track pad was
<v Speaker 5>right checking that out, and like they would have things
<v Speaker 5>where it's like, oh, swipe up to pull this tank
<v Speaker 5>up and then shoot into it, and right, they love
<v Speaker 5>using the hardware like, I.
<v Speaker 1>Don't have much more to say about a Ghost of
<v Speaker 1>Yota than you already covered last week, Dan, because I'm
<v Speaker 1>still fairly early in, but like, I don't I can't
<v Speaker 1>quite articulate why it is clicking with me more? Can
<v Speaker 1>I ask this? Because please? He brings us up and chatting.
<v Speaker 1>This was going to be my question.
<v Speaker 2>So the first game was very big on hey, we
<v Speaker 2>were still a video game, so we're gonna have moral choices,
<v Speaker 2>and you're a Samuraid do you have to be you
<v Speaker 2>should be honorable? And there was like the father character
<v Speaker 2>who was like reminded you you should be honorable, and
<v Speaker 2>then you had the option to be a sneaky little
<v Speaker 2>assassin guy, but that was dishonorable, and the game was
<v Speaker 2>saying you were naughty for doing that, or at least
<v Speaker 2>that's how I read it. I don't know if it
<v Speaker 2>was actually going through in like punishing you or anything,
<v Speaker 2>but I certainly felt that way, and I was I'm
<v Speaker 2>just like out a point where it's like, if you're
<v Speaker 2>gonna put stuff in a game, let me decide if
<v Speaker 2>it's good or bad.
<v Speaker 1>I don't really need that.
<v Speaker 2>But whatever that was the first game does the second
<v Speaker 2>game maintain any of that. I guess you do still
<v Speaker 2>have the choice to be because Dan showed me in
<v Speaker 2>the Quick Look you can still like do the thing
<v Speaker 2>where it's like, Okay, I'm going to announce that I'm
<v Speaker 2>here as a samurai and do a showdown with a guy,
<v Speaker 2>which I thought was cool, But I also think I
<v Speaker 2>want the option to be equally weighted to like go
<v Speaker 2>be a sneaky little ninja. Does it kind of open
<v Speaker 2>you up?
<v Speaker 5>Or what it doesn't like have like a larger system
<v Speaker 5>that I've seen yet, Like you know, Infamous, you know,
<v Speaker 5>was very just like you know, blue Glowy Halo guy
<v Speaker 5>or Red devil horn guy. This is like you will
<v Speaker 5>come upon certain scenes and stuff not even necessarily tied
<v Speaker 5>to the story of just like are you gonna loot
<v Speaker 5>all these corpses and kill the guy who says that
<v Speaker 5>that's shitty? Or are you gonna like, you know, give
<v Speaker 5>the guy money and help collect these masks and stuff
<v Speaker 5>like that. Like there's like clear good and bad choices
<v Speaker 5>you can make at times, but it doesn't feel like
<v Speaker 5>it's a gimmick of the game, you know, and like
<v Speaker 5>there's no one coming in to be like, oh, what'd
<v Speaker 5>you do that, you know, it's it's not.
<v Speaker 1>Like that, really, I think that's I actually, I think
<v Speaker 1>that may be what it is for me where I
<v Speaker 1>felt like I couldn't play Ghost of Tsushima in a
<v Speaker 1>way that I want to play, where like I do
<v Speaker 1>want to be a sneaky little guy sometimes and then
<v Speaker 1>like if shit hits the fan, just go into a duel.
<v Speaker 1>But here it's like I guess it's just like cool
<v Speaker 1>with letting you do it. And I don't know, maybe
<v Speaker 1>the character for there's so many parts of the internet
<v Speaker 1>that have such a weird boner for Gin from the
<v Speaker 1>original game about like oh, I can't really their reprice
<v Speaker 1>Chin and he's not going to be the main character
<v Speaker 1>for their second one. Fuck off. I find this main
<v Speaker 1>character to be more of a person anything.
<v Speaker 2>So it does it does like solve that problem of
<v Speaker 2>like because she her whole thing is just revenge, right,
<v Speaker 2>Like she's just out there to like do this, and
<v Speaker 2>so who cares how you get revenge?
<v Speaker 1>It frees them up.
<v Speaker 2>It answers that question of like how do we deal
<v Speaker 2>with this problem in the first game if it was
<v Speaker 2>a problem, which I think they've decided by doing it
<v Speaker 2>this way. In the second game that maybe it was
<v Speaker 2>something they didn't want to repeat, so maybe not a problem,
<v Speaker 2>but they wanted to try something different here, and so
<v Speaker 2>they were gonna need a different character.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and anyway, I there's so many games coming out,
<v Speaker 1>but I do just find myself just firing this up
<v Speaker 1>and staring at it, just like letting the wind blow.
<v Speaker 1>And now I think I finally understand Brad Shoemaker.
<v Speaker 3>Oh no, really, there's just no you don't now, I'm sorry. Samurai.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, maybe you have called him that, Yeah, I mean
<v Speaker 1>behind it se yeah, behind the scenes, we would call
<v Speaker 1>him the last Samurai. Yes, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>It was a biograph biography about him, biography and biograph.
<v Speaker 1>I think you were there this This might have been
<v Speaker 1>either my first or second game of the year. But
<v Speaker 1>Brad had gone on about how how he had enjoyed
<v Speaker 1>so much of Red Dead Redemption two and just like
<v Speaker 1>living in the world and kind of just like losing
<v Speaker 1>time in it. Yeah. Yeah, And then I could easily
<v Speaker 1>see myself doing that in Ghost of Yote and kind
<v Speaker 1>of like the same way that that Brad had enjoyed
<v Speaker 1>all the bits and pieces around the main story of
<v Speaker 1>Red Dead Redemption two. I can see myself just like
<v Speaker 1>roaming across the fields and just like basking it in.
<v Speaker 1>This may be the only instance I will say that
<v Speaker 1>I think a game sent would be cool for that Jesus.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, it'd be pretty good for the most part.
<v Speaker 5>And it's like the whole ship and all that. Than
<v Speaker 5>I'm with you on the Red Dead two thing, But
<v Speaker 5>like you know, it does do the thing that like
<v Speaker 5>makes me like it more than Red Dead two in
<v Speaker 5>the way that like, if you're writing past a fraud
<v Speaker 5>is that a word, I don't know, something you can
<v Speaker 5>pick up.
<v Speaker 6>You can just hit R two and it just picks
<v Speaker 6>it up.
<v Speaker 5>It wears like Red Dead, Get off my horse's fraud,
<v Speaker 5>you know, like.
<v Speaker 1>Arthur, you got there, thank you, thank you.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>It's not a person no nuts.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I mean this is like not afraid to be
<v Speaker 5>video gaming in that way where it's like there's some
<v Speaker 5>quality of life stuff and every once in a while,
<v Speaker 5>like it's like you don't need to do the cooking
<v Speaker 5>mini game, we got you, you know, just give you
<v Speaker 5>a boost, you know.
<v Speaker 6>So it's not as slavish to that as as Red
<v Speaker 6>Dead is.
<v Speaker 1>But the thing this also reminded me of is that
<v Speaker 1>Assassin's Creed Shadows came out this year. It's oh boy,
<v Speaker 1>uh not a year in a fair.
<v Speaker 2>Amount of that, which is one of the reasons why
<v Speaker 2>I'm not like chopping at the bit to get into OTA,
<v Speaker 2>which is not fair to Ota, but that's just where
<v Speaker 2>I'm at.
<v Speaker 1>I think I may be more of a two D
<v Speaker 1>Ninja mood because I've yet to check out the Shanoby
<v Speaker 1>game and Sean super Dan, you were also super high,
<v Speaker 1>so god, that is on the list. I feel like
<v Speaker 1>all these games are consuming me. But Dan Reiker, yes,
<v Speaker 1>you have been playing consume me? I yeah, I started
<v Speaker 1>it last night. I started it. I didn't really know
<v Speaker 1>what it was.
<v Speaker 6>I don't know.
<v Speaker 5>I feel like I saw some like posts about it
<v Speaker 5>where I was like, it's gonna be one of those
<v Speaker 5>really narrative games that are probably extremely like like a
<v Speaker 5>desk Belote or something like that, where it's just like, Okay,
<v Speaker 5>I can recognize the craft inness, but like, typically I
<v Speaker 5>don't enjoy playing those type of games, And uh, what's
<v Speaker 5>that smirk backler, it's the isn't it below te Probably
<v Speaker 5>I assume no, yes, yes, so, but Bonk was playing it,
<v Speaker 5>and Banc was really enjoying it and telling me about it,
<v Speaker 5>and she was like she liking it to Warrio where,
<v Speaker 5>which is like, oh, okay, I'm immediately interested in now
<v Speaker 5>with like a lot of little mini games and stuff.
<v Speaker 5>But then she told me it's it is about disordered eating,
<v Speaker 5>and that is something I did not realize. That's what
<v Speaker 5>the game was about. And that is something I learned
<v Speaker 5>a lot about, you know, over ten years ago when
<v Speaker 5>I met Bianca, and one of the first things she
<v Speaker 5>told me was that before meeting me, she had really
<v Speaker 5>struggled with anorexia. And I didn't really know anything about it.
<v Speaker 5>I'd never really known anyone that struggled with disordered eating,
<v Speaker 5>at least to my knowledge, and so yeah, I learned
<v Speaker 5>a lot about it early on. And it's like it
<v Speaker 5>was very eye opening in that, like, you know, if
<v Speaker 5>someone's never experienced anxiety. I've run into these people that
<v Speaker 5>are like, chill out, what are you worried about it?
<v Speaker 5>And it's like, yeah, not at works. That's that's not
<v Speaker 5>how it works at all. I boy, I I'd love
<v Speaker 5>to just chill out. That'd be great. The same way
<v Speaker 5>that you know, some people if they hear about annarexia,
<v Speaker 5>just you a cheezberger. Why don't you just eat a cheeseburger?
<v Speaker 5>And it's like, through talking to her about it, I
<v Speaker 5>learned so much about what it is and the control
<v Speaker 5>factor of it and how it just kind of consumes
<v Speaker 5>your you're thinking every day. And I remember she I
<v Speaker 5>read I want to understand it more, and I read
<v Speaker 5>a Porcetta Rossi's book about it. She was from Arrested Development. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>she struggled with that. So basically, I just I learned
<v Speaker 5>a lot about it back then and I played this
<v Speaker 5>game and talking to Bank about it too, it's like
<v Speaker 5>she's like, yeah, this is like such an interesting way
<v Speaker 5>to illustrate the difficulties and the struggles of disordered eating basically,
<v Speaker 5>and it's presented very like it is kind of like Warrior.
<v Speaker 5>W're like, and the presentation's awesome. It's very you know,
<v Speaker 5>kind of jaunty music and stuff like that. But it's
<v Speaker 5>a kind of runs like Depression Quest or Unpacking where
<v Speaker 5>it's like I've never had depression, and then playing Depression Quests,
<v Speaker 5>I kind of saw that like, oh, you have multiple
<v Speaker 5>choices of what you can do tonight, and you keep
<v Speaker 5>getting it crossed out because you have depression it's like, oh, okay,
<v Speaker 5>I didn't understand it was like that or whatever. So
<v Speaker 5>with this, there's like different meters you have to just
<v Speaker 5>kind of juggle between all the time. You go day
<v Speaker 5>by day, you wake up every day and eat lunch
<v Speaker 5>and all this, and you've got your mood meter, you've
<v Speaker 5>got your energy meter, and you've got your gut meter,
<v Speaker 5>like how full you feel. But you're also trying to
<v Speaker 5>stay under a calorie limit, which is a huge thing
<v Speaker 5>that people with what you have is like very much
<v Speaker 5>obsessing over every calorie that goes into your body. So
<v Speaker 5>you got all these meters you got to juggle, and
<v Speaker 5>you know one's going down, like it's almost impossible to
<v Speaker 5>kind of keep them all in like an equilibrium. And
<v Speaker 5>at the same time, you're trying to earn money by
<v Speaker 5>doing chores, because chapter one is all about like you're
<v Speaker 5>trying to save up money to buy a swimsuit because
<v Speaker 5>there's this party and there's this boy you like, and
<v Speaker 5>you want to go look hot in a swimsuit for
<v Speaker 5>this guy for this party.
<v Speaker 6>So you got like nine days basically to.
<v Speaker 5>You know, you're trying to stay underneath your calorie limit,
<v Speaker 5>which it says early on it actually like to avoid
<v Speaker 5>like triggering people with eating disorders, it just calls them bytes,
<v Speaker 5>and so you have like five hundred bytes you can
<v Speaker 5>do each day. So it starts with like you're eating lunch,
<v Speaker 5>and it's like a Tetris minigag type thing where it's like, okay,
<v Speaker 5>so I can fit in. There's all these hunger spots
<v Speaker 5>I need to fill, and if I don't fill them all,
<v Speaker 5>which is impossible most of the time, you're gonna like
<v Speaker 5>not be hungry, you're not gonna be full enough. And
<v Speaker 5>there's stuff where it's like, oh, there's this cookie that
<v Speaker 5>I can use for this one slot, but that has
<v Speaker 5>a bunch of bites, so that's going to put me
<v Speaker 5>over the limit.
<v Speaker 6>So I'm going to feed that to the dog.
<v Speaker 5>So there's all these like very interesting play mechanics that
<v Speaker 5>go into the story they're trying to tell. So like
<v Speaker 5>another thing you're trying to do is level up, Like
<v Speaker 5>you've got skill meters for like diet, athletics, academics, and chores,
<v Speaker 5>and so you're trying to do all of those. So
<v Speaker 5>you know your mom's on your ass for like it's
<v Speaker 5>a semi autobiographical thing. So like the character's mom is like, hey,
<v Speaker 5>you're getting chunky.
<v Speaker 6>You need to lose weight. And it's like, hey, your
<v Speaker 6>grades are you know, slipping. You need to work on this.
<v Speaker 5>So like the minigame for when you're studying is like
<v Speaker 5>you'll pick a You'll be on the bus and you
<v Speaker 5>have to read a book to study for a test,
<v Speaker 5>and like your head is rotating around and you have
<v Speaker 5>to like jam a when your vision is over the book.
<v Speaker 1>But it's like rotating around.
<v Speaker 5>And then it's like also these thoughts are popping up
<v Speaker 5>and they're visualized by like clouds like thought bubbles and stuff.
<v Speaker 5>So it's like, oh, it's your mom yelling at you,
<v Speaker 5>it's the scale, it's all these other things that are
<v Speaker 5>entering her mind. And that kind of like like your
<v Speaker 5>the minigame cone bumps against it and makes it so
<v Speaker 5>you can't finish it. So it's just so smart with
<v Speaker 5>all these different ways. It very much gamifies the thinking
<v Speaker 5>of someone that's going through this. So like that that
<v Speaker 5>is the thing is like, it's kind of I assume
<v Speaker 5>it's going to become impossible to juggle everything, you know.
<v Speaker 5>I finished chapter one. I was able to kind of
<v Speaker 5>like get everything to a reasonable level, but like, for instance,
<v Speaker 5>I was so worried about like trying to keep my
<v Speaker 5>bites under the limit. And also you can exercise, so
<v Speaker 5>you can burn up, so if you go over the limit,
<v Speaker 5>it's like, oh, if I burn fifteen bites, then I'm
<v Speaker 5>under the limit and I'm great. But you only have
<v Speaker 5>a set amount of time every day you can do things,
<v Speaker 5>so like if you're just focusing on dieting and exercising,
<v Speaker 5>you don't walk the dog, you can't do your laundry,
<v Speaker 5>you don't have time to study, you're not cleaning the bathroom,
<v Speaker 5>so your mom's pissed you about that. So like I
<v Speaker 5>had a moment where I was so much trying to
<v Speaker 5>like do all the bite stuff and the diet stuff
<v Speaker 5>that you do have to actually do your laundry in
<v Speaker 5>the game, and there's a really kind of fun minigame
<v Speaker 5>with it. But at one point there was like a
<v Speaker 5>little vignette where a bus droby and splashed my character
<v Speaker 5>and so it's like, oh shit, my clothes are dirty.
<v Speaker 1>Now I need a change.
<v Speaker 5>But because I hadn't done the laundry minigame that day,
<v Speaker 5>I didn't have any clean clothes.
<v Speaker 1>So the mood meter goes down.
<v Speaker 5>So it's just this like really really tremendous way of
<v Speaker 5>like like it is on its surface like fun mini games,
<v Speaker 5>and it's it's just kind of like a time management thing.
<v Speaker 5>But as far as like getting across you know, the
<v Speaker 5>message of this game, and like as far as like
<v Speaker 5>you know, you don't really hear empathy games that much anymore.
<v Speaker 5>I was kind of a phrase that people throw around
<v Speaker 5>a lot. I think this is like tremendous as far
<v Speaker 5>as that goes.
<v Speaker 2>Awesome, you do, so you think it accomplishes the goal
<v Speaker 2>of like someone like you who is a somewhat familiar
<v Speaker 2>with these things but maybe can't necessarily immediately put yourself
<v Speaker 2>in those shoes? Does it bridge that gap a little bit?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 6>And and most importantly, you know, I asked Bianca.
<v Speaker 5>I was like, I mean, do you feel like effective
<v Speaker 5>and like and she's like, this is so relatable, Like yes,
<v Speaker 5>absolutely so Yeah, it seems to like absolutely be nailing
<v Speaker 5>the message and also the game aspect of what it's
<v Speaker 5>going for.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I know, and I'll almost expecting next.
<v Speaker 2>It does seem made by people who have who want
<v Speaker 2>to convey these things, But I think it's one thing
<v Speaker 2>to convey to someone who knows what they're going for
<v Speaker 2>and has experienced it. Yeah, but like you know, it
<v Speaker 2>does sound like it even can reach out to people
<v Speaker 2>who have no frame of reference for this and maybe
<v Speaker 2>begin to help them understand it, which is really impressive.
<v Speaker 5>Because yeah, again, like like so many mental illnesses, I
<v Speaker 5>think people that don't understand it or haven't excloruished it,
<v Speaker 5>like it is very hard to like, like, Bianca doesn't
<v Speaker 5>have anxiety, so like I can, I can explain what
<v Speaker 5>a panic attack is. Act She's seen me have panic
<v Speaker 5>actually knows they're not fun. But unless you have felt that,
<v Speaker 5>you can't understand. Right, It's like it's like, oh, hey,
<v Speaker 5>you're not gonna die, what's going on?
<v Speaker 4>You know?
<v Speaker 6>It's like this is a great way to kind of
<v Speaker 6>let someone feel that a little bit, you know.
<v Speaker 1>For as dire as video game news seems to be
<v Speaker 1>every single day that we report about it on this website,
<v Speaker 1>I'm very happy that the indie game scene is able
<v Speaker 1>to pull off neat things like this Despolote and just
<v Speaker 1>other weird stories that, like you know, I talked about
<v Speaker 1>last week, can only really be pulled off in video games.
<v Speaker 1>Like on its face, Baby Steps is just a frumpy
<v Speaker 1>white dude in a onesie. Uh, that's too dirty home,
<v Speaker 1>he needs a shower. But you're have to hear you
<v Speaker 1>talk about like the deeper messages they you know, you
<v Speaker 1>can that are intentionally laid in there that you can
<v Speaker 1>pull out. It seems very It's just like, you.
<v Speaker 2>Know, I'm not someone who's dealt with a lot of depression,
<v Speaker 2>but the game, clearly it's like such a good way
<v Speaker 2>of like understanding someone and like kind of like what
<v Speaker 2>they have to overcome or things like that. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know if it's as good as as consume me, which
<v Speaker 2>consume me.
<v Speaker 1>I swore you were saying consume me, and I was like,
<v Speaker 1>Google and consume me. I'm like, that's a lot of dinner.
<v Speaker 5>Compared it to Baby Steps. I'm just seeing this from
<v Speaker 5>the chat, so I can't verify myself, but it says
<v Speaker 5>fun fact. I love to bring up Jenny the lead
<v Speaker 5>dev is a protege of Ben at Foddy.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, okay, yeah man, that's hell. Yeah, that rules okay,
<v Speaker 1>very awesome from the Bennett Foddy Learning Tree and that yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 1>I I was thinking about this where quick tangent to movies,
<v Speaker 1>but I watched Infinity Castle, the Demon Slayer movie, and
<v Speaker 1>it is obscenely long. When it comes to I'm going
<v Speaker 1>to download it and make my own edit because if
<v Speaker 1>you were to show this to anyone, it would be
<v Speaker 1>you couldn't parse out shit. And also Zanitu's fight should
<v Speaker 1>be last, and I think we can all agree on that, right.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, we're right there with you, Bud, Thank you,
<v Speaker 1>thank you, thank you. It's a much more deeper interaction.
<v Speaker 1>I do like reng Goku though, anyway, But I am
<v Speaker 1>so juiced because if this is the type of like
<v Speaker 1>visual assault that we're seeing in animated movies now with
<v Speaker 1>Infinity Castle, across Spider Verse, Mitchell's versus the Machines, I'm
<v Speaker 1>so excited for in ten years, the fucking visual mayhem
<v Speaker 1>that we're going to get from like these weird kids
<v Speaker 1>growing up consuming this shit. Oh yeah, anyway, speaking about
<v Speaker 1>consuming things, this is a game that I think has
<v Speaker 1>quickly consumed a good chunk of the staff.
<v Speaker 5>Eighties two So credits yesterday, nice, I saw credits this weekend.
<v Speaker 1>I beat it.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, I you know, I've talked about it more
<v Speaker 5>at length in the past, but I'll just say that
<v Speaker 5>now that I'm done with it, And the last few
<v Speaker 5>weeks have been so Hades two in Megabank Heavy, and
<v Speaker 5>I still am loving MEGABONK and I'm still I'm definitely
<v Speaker 5>you know, knocking off checking off all those boxes and
<v Speaker 5>stuff like that. It is like, I beat Hades and
<v Speaker 5>I had the thought that, like, you know, MEGABONK is
<v Speaker 5>a scoop of ice cream and Hades two is like
<v Speaker 5>a three course meal. You know, Oh, we're both good.
<v Speaker 5>You like eating both of them, for sure, but like, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>Haites is just so much more like layered and just
<v Speaker 5>in so many different ways. You know, obvious We've talked
<v Speaker 5>about the dialogue and everything, but just like how different
<v Speaker 5>the runs can be and everything, and like the fact that,
<v Speaker 5>like the first one, you do need to do a
<v Speaker 5>bunch of runs to a bunch of successful runs to
<v Speaker 5>see credits in this game, and it does keep that
<v Speaker 5>interesting and fun and everything. So it's like, look, knew
<v Speaker 5>this game was gonna be good. It it's an absolute killer.
<v Speaker 5>It's if you said it was the best rogue Light
<v Speaker 5>of all time. I certainly wouldn't blink at that.
<v Speaker 3>Now, are you also feeling a pool to kind of
<v Speaker 3>keeping and getting the epilogue done.
<v Speaker 1>Are you trying to use this as a break to
<v Speaker 1>check out some other games?
<v Speaker 7>Same thing.
<v Speaker 1>I should do that, but I also kind of keep
<v Speaker 1>going to play Eighties two.
<v Speaker 5>It's the exact same approach I had to Soilk Song,
<v Speaker 5>where it's like I got to the end of Act
<v Speaker 5>two and it's like Act three started, and it's like,
<v Speaker 5>all right, I do want to play this because this
<v Speaker 5>is definitely one of my favorite games of the year.
<v Speaker 5>But it's like, I feel like I've seen credits, I've
<v Speaker 5>seen an ending of this game for sure, Like I'm
<v Speaker 5>going to focus on other stuff right now and then
<v Speaker 5>maybe I'll come back to it at some point.
<v Speaker 1>Mm hmm. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like I kind of need to do that
<v Speaker 3>as well. So many things. You know, I need to
<v Speaker 3>start tactics and like I should be trying Trails on
<v Speaker 3>the sky. But god, it's just so fun playing Eighties two.
<v Speaker 3>And you know the first game did this too, but
<v Speaker 3>it's just so smart how when it starts almost get
<v Speaker 3>kind of easy. It introduces that system where you can
<v Speaker 3>make the game harder through various ways that you can pick,
<v Speaker 3>and then you get rewards for doing that that unlocks
<v Speaker 3>more cool stuff. So You're still even this lay in
<v Speaker 3>the game, even at the rolling credits, constantly unlock. That's
<v Speaker 3>creat constantly getting new dialogue and new story beats and
<v Speaker 3>interesting things happening.
<v Speaker 1>It's just insane how dense.
<v Speaker 3>This game is.
<v Speaker 2>But I think that's the most impressive thing is that
<v Speaker 2>is you both you and Dan now have touched on
<v Speaker 2>that where it's like it just keeps going and the
<v Speaker 2>three course meal of like they just find ways to
<v Speaker 2>make everything still feel so worthwhile even though you are
<v Speaker 2>still doing these runs over and over again.
<v Speaker 1>It's they could change things up on you.
<v Speaker 2>It just feels like one of the most well thought
<v Speaker 2>out games ever made in terms of making sure the
<v Speaker 2>player feels like they're never wasting their time.
<v Speaker 3>That starts right away.
<v Speaker 2>I talked about that last week when we were talking
<v Speaker 2>about it. To hear that that continues and there's new
<v Speaker 2>things to unlock and see and like new systems that late,
<v Speaker 2>that is impressive start.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I still haven't actually completed like a romance
<v Speaker 3>path or fooled out, you know, filled out an entire relationship.
<v Speaker 1>Thing, which God, are you trying to fuck? I?
<v Speaker 3>I you guys aren't gonna like is I? You both
<v Speaker 3>disliked them, like the mean lady with the short babe.
<v Speaker 6>No ghost, are you? That's a McGroom, Mike.
<v Speaker 3>Also scary movie the lady ghosts.
<v Speaker 5>You're getting the ghosts, Mike, dan Ackroy fuck the ghost
<v Speaker 5>he got blown by ghost.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I mean out of you know relations, the meaning.
<v Speaker 3>Of it is, of course, yeah, of course, yeah, yeah
<v Speaker 3>themreal seems like a nice guy. Huh, good for you, Mike.
<v Speaker 3>You know, hey, do your thing, chicken wing. I like
<v Speaker 3>the lady that's mean to me. Yeah, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 3>says okay. I nemesis went too far that one time.
<v Speaker 3>But she was like I at least knew my mother.
<v Speaker 3>Uh no, there's no coming back from that. She doesn't
<v Speaker 3>even really apologize for it. You can go get fucked.
<v Speaker 6>I'm a Sellini man, I get it for sure.
<v Speaker 3>Can you later, Harry?
<v Speaker 1>Carry line? Isn't it? I'm sorry?
<v Speaker 3>What did you say? Does Aras show up later?
<v Speaker 4>Is that?
<v Speaker 3>Which?
<v Speaker 1>Which one's air? She's short hair? The game girl.
<v Speaker 6>Oh she's the worst.
<v Speaker 3>She's the one who gives you the deep buff and
<v Speaker 3>what in the beginning of the game thro trash on
<v Speaker 3>the ground, Yeah, a second area.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, no, you know what Mike I get it. I
<v Speaker 1>get it. I understand it. Yeah you know what, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's a cheat code for me as well.
<v Speaker 3>It's a strife yeah, okay, right, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I get it. Mike. Did you encounter the person
<v Speaker 1>I was alluding to last week that had the cum gutters?
<v Speaker 1>I I.
<v Speaker 3>Saw somebody with just a massive i'll just say it,
<v Speaker 3>a massive penis bulge.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's him, dress.
<v Speaker 6>Like I dress like fucking dress and acting like Matt Riddle.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I didn't notice. I didn't notice the I'm not
<v Speaker 1>gonna call them the cgs. I didn't notice the cs
<v Speaker 1>as much as you.
<v Speaker 3>I was distracted by his thong bulge.
<v Speaker 1>It was insane. He stuffed it. You think he's stuffed?
<v Speaker 1>I mean, God is wild. So he put a grapefruit
<v Speaker 1>in there, a grapefruit maybe of some kind.
<v Speaker 3>What are you even trying to say? You put a
<v Speaker 3>grapefruit in there? Jesus Christ?
<v Speaker 1>That spherical? It is kind of spherical. Okay, all right,
<v Speaker 1>all right, Well we talked a lot about eighties two
<v Speaker 1>and and like the replayability and unlocking everything. I want
<v Speaker 1>to hear from y'all. What is the load out that
<v Speaker 1>y'all have been rolling with? And or like the builds
<v Speaker 1>that you're trying to.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I generally will do the one that recommend
<v Speaker 3>that like switching up, unless it's that axe. I have
<v Speaker 3>not ever made that axe feel bad. So give us
<v Speaker 3>some tips because've been struggling with the I ax.
<v Speaker 5>You do the scythe version, the aspect that turns it
<v Speaker 5>into a scythe because that I think already, oh yeah yeah,
<v Speaker 5>so up sythe and the attack speed goes up. So
<v Speaker 5>like the big downside of the axe is the swing speed.
<v Speaker 5>But it's got like good damage. It's got this huge
<v Speaker 5>range of attack, and so you focus on getting like
<v Speaker 5>you know, the hammer upgrades and stuff like that. It'll
<v Speaker 5>be like boost your attack speed and so and I
<v Speaker 5>barely use like sometimes i'll use the special for that
<v Speaker 5>one to like knock off armor, but I put everything
<v Speaker 5>else into like you know, you'll get crazy shit where
<v Speaker 5>it's like it'll attack in a three sixty around you
<v Speaker 5>with the normal speed of a slice. It has a
<v Speaker 5>chance to swipe twice. It's like you can make that
<v Speaker 5>thing a fucking killer.
<v Speaker 2>I did have a good run when I was doing
<v Speaker 2>the slash twice. I got one where it was like
<v Speaker 2>slash twice and then also Mike slash twice if you
<v Speaker 2>do a dash, so it was actually slashing four times occasionally.
<v Speaker 1>That was insane. That was really cool.
<v Speaker 3>I think my favorite has been the last one you
<v Speaker 3>get that just kind of turns you into an armored
<v Speaker 3>Corps robot with all the missiles you can just kind
<v Speaker 3>of run around spam your special or aiming at people.
<v Speaker 3>I've gotten pretty strong with that, and the one where
<v Speaker 3>you and then the one you throw out the skulls.
<v Speaker 3>I've had good luck with that, and then also get
<v Speaker 3>the ones that could just later ones like one, well
<v Speaker 3>later in the game, it becomes pretty easy to just
<v Speaker 3>constantly have Mana reag in so that that isn't all
<v Speaker 3>resource you worrying about, so even just constantly shooting those
<v Speaker 3>out and spending the Mana on that. And and if
<v Speaker 3>you have builds that reward you for using Mana, like
<v Speaker 3>you know, if you get at the saliney stuff, that
<v Speaker 3>could become pretty powerful.
<v Speaker 5>And I really didn't like. Those are the two I
<v Speaker 5>didn't like for most of my time with this game
<v Speaker 5>was the wands and the skull. The skulls and I
<v Speaker 5>barely ever even even when they were the glowy one.
<v Speaker 5>I didn't pick it, and then like yesterday, I was
<v Speaker 5>picking them a lot, and it's like, man, any weapon
<v Speaker 5>in this game you can kind of tweak it. Like
<v Speaker 5>with those hammer upgrades. I love when I'm going up
<v Speaker 5>because there's almost always a hammer there in that first time. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>and so it's like I go there first and it's
<v Speaker 5>like I will just get something. It's like, okay, great,
<v Speaker 5>that makes us a very usable thing. Or like you know,
<v Speaker 5>the skulls. I didn't necessarily like picking up my AMMO
<v Speaker 5>when it dropped it down, So it's like all right,
<v Speaker 5>when you get a hammer upgrade, that makes them automatically
<v Speaker 5>returned to me and one hundred percent faster. And then
<v Speaker 5>it's just like I have this awesome ranged explodey thing
<v Speaker 5>that I used to like kill the the main boss
<v Speaker 5>going up without even like using a death defiance. Like
<v Speaker 5>so these things that I didn't like at all, it's like,
<v Speaker 5>oh shit, you just get on the right run with them,
<v Speaker 5>and like they can be That's.
<v Speaker 1>That's the thing with the weapons. The right run can
<v Speaker 1>make anything awesome. Yeah, you kind of get it.
<v Speaker 3>You just start getting a sense of what boons you're
<v Speaker 3>looking for, what upgrades are even taking advantage of those
<v Speaker 3>uh those items that make certain gods appear more often
<v Speaker 3>because you're looking for something. Yeahcific and the bosses are
<v Speaker 3>just super good too, you know spoilers. But the third
<v Speaker 3>boss on the going up route, I love that fight.
<v Speaker 3>That fight is so much fun. There's parts of it
<v Speaker 3>that remind me of like a World of Warcraft raid,
<v Speaker 3>with the way you.
<v Speaker 5>Certain things fire stuff that Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm the
<v Speaker 5>middle top bottom.
<v Speaker 1>I literally hear my raid leader calling it.
<v Speaker 6>Out in I was assigning numbers to be like a
<v Speaker 6>two one, two three I would.
<v Speaker 3>Do if you like that kind of stuff, that's what
<v Speaker 3>That's a lot of what WOW rating is like, Well,
<v Speaker 3>I didn't like that, so.
<v Speaker 1>I recommend it for you.
<v Speaker 2>Kronos, it like didn't seem like I'm still pretty early on.
<v Speaker 2>I got to Kronos once and got him like the
<v Speaker 2>second phase, and like one fit of his south I
<v Speaker 2>was like, right there, I'm like this s that fight
<v Speaker 2>wasn't too bad. I'm assuming like he is an appetizer
<v Speaker 2>for like what is really happening in this game.
<v Speaker 3>Right, And you know, and there's that yeah, because you
<v Speaker 3>thinking of him as like the final boss maybe's and
<v Speaker 3>super correct because you do have the uppath. I will
<v Speaker 3>say that he seemed he definitely seemed easier than Hades
<v Speaker 3>did the first.
<v Speaker 1>Time they got to the comparison I'm making.
<v Speaker 3>I think you get to that point with Chronos maybe
<v Speaker 3>because we're all a bit more trained on this now, right,
<v Speaker 3>But you got there with Hades eventually where that was
<v Speaker 3>kind of automatic. He just knew what he did. And
<v Speaker 3>you feel that with Kronos. But you know, you get
<v Speaker 3>those things too that make each boss fight harder, and
<v Speaker 3>I'm kind of working my way through those right now too.
<v Speaker 3>It's always really interesting to see the ways they do that.
<v Speaker 3>Like you know, for the Sirens, it's very different. They
<v Speaker 3>sing a different song, there's a different mechanics there, there's
<v Speaker 3>a different arena you're fighting them in. So yeah, it's
<v Speaker 3>completely different encounter in a lot of ways. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I love the Sirens and like the building lore in
<v Speaker 1>between runs. I got fairly early they were like you're
<v Speaker 1>an agent, right out at you, and then like you
<v Speaker 1>meet them the next round, they're like, you're not a
<v Speaker 1>fucking agent. You lied to us. It is so good,
<v Speaker 1>It's so fucking good.
<v Speaker 3>It's great characterization, amazing character like my favorite depiction of Greece,
<v Speaker 3>Greek mythology stuff I've ever seen, and they made a
<v Speaker 3>Disney movie about that shit.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Okay, yeah, yeah yeah, Heracles here doesn't need to
<v Speaker 1>show me any com gutters. I'm I'm down for the ride.
<v Speaker 1>Uh folks, that's wait. Wait, we talked a lot about stuff.
<v Speaker 1>We let's take a quick bricky break. We'll finish off
<v Speaker 1>games talk, and then we'll talk about the news right
<v Speaker 1>after this. Brub. I love podcasts and I would like
<v Speaker 1>to listen to more of them.
<v Speaker 5>Oh boy, I've got the podcast for you, then, Bud
<v Speaker 5>Stage Select, Grub.
<v Speaker 1>I have trust issues, especially with podcasters.
<v Speaker 2>Look, it's always important to be careful and safe about podcasters.
<v Speaker 1>But don't worry.
<v Speaker 2>Host Julian Titus and Justin Hamm have over sixteen years
<v Speaker 2>a combined podcasting experience, and The Stage Select is finishing
<v Speaker 2>up its second season at the end of the year.
<v Speaker 1>Holy smokes, what a pedigree? Tell me more, Grub.
<v Speaker 2>Oh what about a video game variety show where the
<v Speaker 2>hosts act as if they're performing for a live studio audience.
<v Speaker 1>Kind of like The Muppet Show. Do they have reoccurring
<v Speaker 1>characters Shenanigans, Bits and skits. Oh baby, we got bits,
<v Speaker 1>we got skits. I love bits and skits. Is there more?
<v Speaker 2>The show is designed to be unexpected. Jan they'll go
<v Speaker 2>to space sometimes a surprise game show. Expect the unexpected space.
<v Speaker 1>Grub, Grub, I'm hearing that. Episodes forty one and fifty
<v Speaker 1>nine are fantastic points to get a vibe of the show.
<v Speaker 1>Julian and Justin are fiercely independent and do this for
<v Speaker 1>the love of video and podcasts.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, they draw from the best, like the Giant BombCast,
<v Speaker 2>next Lander, Rebel FM.
<v Speaker 3>And no one can know.
<v Speaker 1>About this well Grub, I'm glad I know about this
<v Speaker 1>podcast at stage select give it a.
<v Speaker 7>Listen, Bits and skits. We still got games to talk about.
<v Speaker 7>I realized my channel is muted, but hey, we still
<v Speaker 7>got games. So the truck, the train is moving along.
<v Speaker 7>That's why everybody.
<v Speaker 3>No more distractions, no more pausing for any other bits
<v Speaker 3>or any other business unless it's related to golf Leek merchandise,
<v Speaker 3>which you can find at store dot giant Bomb dot com.
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<v Speaker 3>and Giant Bomb golf hat not just available in green,
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<v Speaker 4>And he's like gone down since the first time.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, you're still working for me now, airs coming out
<v Speaker 6>of the balloon.
<v Speaker 1>So yet, yesterday I learned in golf that there's like
<v Speaker 1>a beer cart.
<v Speaker 3>Girl.
<v Speaker 1>Can I just go to a golf cart course and
<v Speaker 1>just like hang out and and and counter one or
<v Speaker 1>do I have to play golf?
<v Speaker 2>You can hang out at the nineteenth hole right the bar. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>what a lot of a lot.
<v Speaker 4>Of they're all legally obligated to be called that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've never seen one not called that. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, a lot of local Like at least here, all
<v Speaker 3>the local golf courses have generally a pretty nice restaurant
<v Speaker 3>in bar, and you can look out on the greens.
<v Speaker 1>They're pretty Mike, I enjoy your business tactics, but you
<v Speaker 1>know what I enjoy more than that? No fy, no
<v Speaker 1>fantasy tactics. Now, I'm just grubbs.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't see where that was going.
<v Speaker 1>It's right, I'm trying to zig and I thought you
<v Speaker 1>were gonna zag with me, but you like ziggy z.
<v Speaker 1>Get over there, Jeff Grubb, you it says on this
<v Speaker 1>list here have peeped Final Fantasy Tactics, the Evilies Chronicles.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I've started it.
<v Speaker 2>I've done a handful of battles, and I like, I
<v Speaker 2>think it's clicking for me. I tell you what, it
<v Speaker 2>looks really nice and that helps. I think the presentation
<v Speaker 2>is very good. I think it took me a second
<v Speaker 2>to I get used to the camera, but once I realized,
<v Speaker 2>you could just hit the one of the shoulder buttons
<v Speaker 2>and it gives you a top down view.
<v Speaker 1>And then if that's not even.
<v Speaker 2>A toggle, it's just like a Holts. You hold, you
<v Speaker 2>check down, make sure that you got everyone in your site,
<v Speaker 2>you let go. It goes back to the more cinematic
<v Speaker 2>isometric view that looks really pretty. That helped me like
<v Speaker 2>unlock the game. For me, It's like, Okay, I'm not
<v Speaker 2>like struggling with this camera anymore. I could just quickly
<v Speaker 2>pop in, pop out and make my move. It's got
<v Speaker 2>a job system, which I of course knew, but I
<v Speaker 2>love job systems games and.
<v Speaker 5>Just like barely sort of scraping the surface of that.
<v Speaker 5>I'm already like, oh, I'm good.
<v Speaker 2>I'm super gonna get into this because I just can't
<v Speaker 2>wait to take these characters and build them out and
<v Speaker 2>give this one this job and then that next job.
<v Speaker 1>And oh my god, a bit later on they're can
<v Speaker 1>be able to like take.
<v Speaker 2>The things they learn and do some super special job.
<v Speaker 2>Because I went down that path, I'm like, ooh, that's
<v Speaker 2>my shit. So it's it's hitting sort of the tone
<v Speaker 2>that I needed it to hit. I think, like I
<v Speaker 2>remember Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced maybe being getting going a
<v Speaker 2>little bit faster and getting me on board with the
<v Speaker 2>tactical gameplay, which is what I'm really here for a
<v Speaker 2>little bit faster. But it's not like this is some slouch,
<v Speaker 2>and you know, it's always been praised for its story
<v Speaker 2>and early on I think that's like, oh, yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 2>getting this.
<v Speaker 4>I am.
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I get what people why people think this
<v Speaker 2>is high quality, and I can tell that there's some
<v Speaker 2>seeds here that if they deliver on them, then yes,
<v Speaker 2>I will be right on board with everyone else who's
<v Speaker 2>super into what this game is doing on that front.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how many games allow you to work
<v Speaker 1>your way up to be a mime, but this is
<v Speaker 1>one of those that's a rules.
<v Speaker 3>Have you guys played foun Fantasy five where like that's
<v Speaker 3>where the Final Fantasy job system style was written.
<v Speaker 1>Talk to me about it before, and it sounded awesome.
<v Speaker 3>So freaking good if you like this job system and tactics.
<v Speaker 3>My understanding is that it's very similar to the one
<v Speaker 3>from Final Fantasy five.
<v Speaker 1>Got it? Okay, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying your
<v Speaker 1>time with it, Grub. I need someone to eventually tell
<v Speaker 1>me what the fucking Onion Knight is.
<v Speaker 3>From Final Fantasy three is where Onion Knights first originated.
<v Speaker 3>It was the name of the starter class in the
<v Speaker 3>original version of the game and subsequent remakes. It was
<v Speaker 3>almost kind of the ultimate class that you could get instead.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, it's just a it's a Final Fantasy three thing,
<v Speaker 3>original Fficy three, the one that was on the famicom.
<v Speaker 1>Ah. I see there's there's there's lots of layers to it,
<v Speaker 1>just like ogres, just like onions, just like a parfait,
<v Speaker 1>and just like Lego Voyagers has lots and lots of layers.
<v Speaker 1>Jeff Beckelart, you have been playing this, I'm assuming, but
<v Speaker 1>dib yes.
<v Speaker 4>But this is not a story about our time with
<v Speaker 4>that game, Jan This is a story about how we're
<v Speaker 4>not playing that game. Oh okay, and this is a
<v Speaker 4>story how we're not playing Henry half at because I
<v Speaker 4>offer these items to my son as a gift. He
<v Speaker 4>doesn't know how good he fucking has it getting to
<v Speaker 4>play all these goddamn games like Schmorga's Board of whatever
<v Speaker 4>you could possibly conceive, all of these free codes. He
<v Speaker 4>he's playing FC twenty six the week before it comes out,
<v Speaker 4>like it ain't no thing, It's unbelievable. And what does
<v Speaker 4>this kid want to play instead of Henry half Het?
<v Speaker 4>What does this kid want to play instead of Lego Voyeurs, which,
<v Speaker 4>by the way, we did play for two hours. We
<v Speaker 4>played it for two hours. We had a great time.
<v Speaker 4>Stacey washed it was a family moment.
<v Speaker 3>We did the thing.
<v Speaker 4>It was really really nice and we got to like
<v Speaker 4>a certain level where he was like, oh you know what, Dad,
<v Speaker 4>I'd really want to go back and play Steal the
<v Speaker 4>Brain rot on Fortnite Fortnite.
<v Speaker 2>Oh now, my kids just started Fortnite because it came
<v Speaker 2>about Demon hunters and they've been asking for a brain
<v Speaker 2>rock game and I'm like I can't find one.
<v Speaker 1>So now they have.
<v Speaker 3>What does that mean?
<v Speaker 1>What is a brain rot game?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, just like the kids like like today regular like Sixcess. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>but listen, okay.
<v Speaker 1>Just keep saying things.
<v Speaker 4>Well, most people know what they are. It's not it's
<v Speaker 4>not your fuel, no don't, but uh at least not
<v Speaker 4>on my browser. Listen, here's here's what it is.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Steal the brain Rot is very loosely adapted from the
<v Speaker 4>Roadblocks game. Steal the brain Rot kind of like a
<v Speaker 4>comic where you so it's like a Fortnite you know, uh,
<v Speaker 4>custom game right where someone built this map area where
<v Speaker 4>you get onto a server and out an assembly line
<v Speaker 4>comes these quote unquote brain rots that are just he's
<v Speaker 4>like insane sort of I don't know, for lack of
<v Speaker 4>a better comparison.
<v Speaker 1>Ambos, right, just come out.
<v Speaker 4>There's like trophy there, there's like a there's like all
<v Speaker 4>the brain rot classics you've come to know and love,
<v Speaker 4>all collected in one ridiculous Fortnite experience, and they come
<v Speaker 4>out and you can buy one and then it goes
<v Speaker 4>into your base and you collect all of these brain rots.
<v Speaker 4>Then if there are more people on your server, you
<v Speaker 4>basically have to play this game of like Fortress, where
<v Speaker 4>you protect your brain rots, you have to renew the
<v Speaker 4>lock on your base, and if you allow your base
<v Speaker 4>to be unlocked, someone can steal your brain rot.
<v Speaker 1>And that's what this game is.
<v Speaker 3>It's very dumb. It is very dumb.
<v Speaker 1>It is very bad.
<v Speaker 4>And where I'm really like, you know, where he and
<v Speaker 4>I are locking horns. It's like, dude, you play all
<v Speaker 4>these like really sort of a I don't want to
<v Speaker 4>say cerebral, but certainly more engaging in a positive way,
<v Speaker 4>even Fortnite on its face, like with the strategy and
<v Speaker 4>the socializing. He's getting the socializing with the brain rod shit,
<v Speaker 4>but like he's not. This is not a game. This
<v Speaker 4>is just very dumb. And I'm like, dude, you gotta
<v Speaker 4>just stop.
<v Speaker 1>You got to stop.
<v Speaker 3>There's no like currency, there's no like V buck attachment.
<v Speaker 3>It's not like you don't understand.
<v Speaker 4>He's not like he's not like, you know, draining the
<v Speaker 4>bank account, asking for seven thousand v bucks just so
<v Speaker 4>we can get like a tik tala miky mala, you
<v Speaker 4>know whatever.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Yeah, I wish.
<v Speaker 4>It just sucks. Look, I get it. He's ten. Is
<v Speaker 4>the worst taste imaginable. He is just a piece of
<v Speaker 4>shit in every sense of the word. He has no understanding.
<v Speaker 4>That is true of every kid. My kids said loved garbage.
<v Speaker 4>I've said this for years. True, they love Track one hundred,
<v Speaker 4>like you know. I mean, look, need I say more
<v Speaker 4>than the cyber truck? Right, the thing that's only ten
<v Speaker 4>year old boys think is cool. Right, there's a reason.
<v Speaker 1>So I get it.
<v Speaker 4>And my patients only last so long with this stuff.
<v Speaker 1>But did you get tungue tung tung sahar?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, we got like eleven of them. And the more
<v Speaker 4>brainroots you get, the more your base gains a floor.
<v Speaker 4>So he has like a five story base with all
<v Speaker 4>of these brain rots that generate fake money, and you
<v Speaker 4>collect all the money so you can buy more.
<v Speaker 3>It's just like a collection thing, clicker. It's a time
<v Speaker 3>wasting collect a.
<v Speaker 1>Lot of these games.
<v Speaker 2>A lot of these games are basically like idol games
<v Speaker 2>with a little bit more going on. The k Pop
<v Speaker 2>Demon Hunter's Tycoon game, another Fortnite fan made game my
<v Speaker 2>kids are playing, is basically just an idle game.
<v Speaker 1>I watched them.
<v Speaker 2>I was like what are you guys doing because they
<v Speaker 2>had spent ten minutes straight just punching a box that
<v Speaker 2>was spreading out money.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it was like yeah, like I can't judge. I've
<v Speaker 5>played a lot of idle clicker games, so.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean get it.
<v Speaker 4>I get it right, and I know, just like most
<v Speaker 4>of this slop, it will pass right, Like, yes, the
<v Speaker 4>time is running out on this for I go. Look
<v Speaker 4>like you're you play Fortnite, You've been playing Rocket League
<v Speaker 4>in Fortnite for like five years.
<v Speaker 3>Those are the things you come back to.
<v Speaker 4>I promise you in six months, you're gonna be like,
<v Speaker 4>oh right, I did play that brain Rock thirty years.
<v Speaker 5>You're gonna have like a synaps spark and like wait
<v Speaker 5>did I play that game? And you're gonna try to
<v Speaker 5>find it and it's not gonna be anywhere because it's
<v Speaker 5>not worth preserving and like that, your brain.
<v Speaker 4>Will decide to delete it to make space for other stuff.
<v Speaker 4>So you know that's Henry. Henry Halfhead. He played for
<v Speaker 4>like two hours.
<v Speaker 1>He loved it. He's like, this is great, this is
<v Speaker 1>so much fun.
<v Speaker 3>I'm you know.
<v Speaker 4>He It brought a lot of like the Donut County,
<v Speaker 4>you know, memories he really loves and uh, I think
<v Speaker 4>that game's cute.
<v Speaker 1>And very cool.
<v Speaker 3>Uh and Voyagers is great as well.
<v Speaker 4>I just, you know, I bring all these up because
<v Speaker 4>he put them on a shelf to go back to
<v Speaker 4>this goddamn brain Rock game. And if you're a parent,
<v Speaker 4>you probably know what it's about. But holy shit, I
<v Speaker 4>just can't wait till this this one passes, because this
<v Speaker 4>one hurts. This one is this one's uh scraping at
<v Speaker 4>my uh scraping at the wounds here a little bit.
<v Speaker 1>What do you guys back are you know? Uh Jan
<v Speaker 1>Mike Dan, what do you guys think? Tongue tung tongue
<v Speaker 1>Sahar is it? I'm gonna say it. It feels racist
<v Speaker 1>in the mouth. Is there a racist mouthfeel?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>It definitely had his racist mouthfeel and probably there could
<v Speaker 2>be something there, but well, I mean it originated from
<v Speaker 2>Indonesian Malaysian culture, so they're part of the brain Rock community.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely it is.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's a piece of wood with arms and
<v Speaker 2>legs that carries.
<v Speaker 1>A baseball bat.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, there's so many weird like the brain It's weird
<v Speaker 4>how the brain Rod stuff turned into like statues like
<v Speaker 4>these are characters.
<v Speaker 2>You know, Valerie to Cappuccina, there is a literal one
<v Speaker 2>that's a six seven.
<v Speaker 1>Yep.
<v Speaker 4>He's just walking around like I'm a six almost seven.
<v Speaker 6>Hey, so doing you know I'm gonna go live in
<v Speaker 6>the woods.
<v Speaker 1>You do.
<v Speaker 2>That's that's what they want, Dan, So you're you're seeding
<v Speaker 2>this culture to them.
<v Speaker 1>That's what they want.
<v Speaker 3>The old man to go away.
<v Speaker 4>I will, Yeah, it's true, that is true. I mean, look,
<v Speaker 4>I think it's mostly harmless.
<v Speaker 3>I get it.
<v Speaker 4>Just like you said, Grub, we were into pretty dumb ship. No, no, yes,
<v Speaker 4>I never felt this way about you, Like my dad
<v Speaker 4>watched it with me and I lose SpongeBob and fucking uh.
<v Speaker 4>You know, Gravity Falls is amazing. There's a lot of
<v Speaker 4>good stuff there, for sure. There is.
<v Speaker 7>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>POGs. Yeah baby.
<v Speaker 3>If you if your memory is a poster deleted and
<v Speaker 3>POGs showed up right now as only a thing Dib
<v Speaker 3>and kids like that were into, you would hate POGs recess.
<v Speaker 4>I will just say this, for the best majority of
<v Speaker 4>the brainwaw, shit is bad. I do think six seven
<v Speaker 4>is not the worst. I kind of in a way,
<v Speaker 4>I think it's all right.
<v Speaker 1>It's so stupid.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, right, but here the thing. Uh Rich in the
<v Speaker 4>chat was like six seven is no worse than whats that?
<v Speaker 3>And Rich is right, yeah, right now that's the Budweiser commercial. Similarly,
<v Speaker 3>like that's what we're all doing, right, yeah, yes, I
<v Speaker 3>mean it is, that's the truth. We're also all the
<v Speaker 3>homophobic things we used to just say constantly in the
<v Speaker 3>school yard, right yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're better about that now. Yeah. Well I've heard
<v Speaker 1>some youth still saying certain words and like yeah, and
<v Speaker 1>then in fact, the art word. We got rid of
<v Speaker 1>that one, and like everyone's like we miss it, What
<v Speaker 1>the hell I mean? Yeah, okay, well it feels like
<v Speaker 1>the youth are in a completely different world, if not
<v Speaker 1>a completely different galaxy, just like Mike Minatti you have
<v Speaker 1>been on a different galaxy by playing Super Mario Galaxy too.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I mean it's one of the all ten great
<v Speaker 3>games and it still is that, And the graphic improvements
<v Speaker 3>are more than I was expecting. The game looks very
<v Speaker 3>sharp most of the time, Like every once in a
<v Speaker 3>while you'll see Captain Toad and he kind of looks
<v Speaker 3>like a GameCube character suddenly, like his mouth is just
<v Speaker 3>a texture, you know, kind of a thing, like oh,
<v Speaker 3>that part looks old, but everything else actually still looks
<v Speaker 3>super spiffy. The resolution is really sharp, the colors are popping,
<v Speaker 3>so the porting job whatever they did, looks fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>Just using the.
<v Speaker 3>Gyro controls is more than adequate instead of the pointer.
<v Speaker 3>I haven't had an issue with it at all. It
<v Speaker 3>was amazing when I was using the pro control and
<v Speaker 3>it works just about as well when I'm just doing
<v Speaker 3>the game in hound handhold mode. Even when I'm doing
<v Speaker 3>the Yoshi stuff. You had to kind of aim somewhat
<v Speaker 3>precisely with that pointer while you're platforming. I have not
<v Speaker 3>had a problem with that at all. It is interesting
<v Speaker 3>playing this game because, like, outside of the levels, I
<v Speaker 3>think a lot of the stuff just isn't as good
<v Speaker 3>as it is in Galaxy One. Not that coming to
<v Speaker 3>a Mario game for story, but it's more like the presentation.
<v Speaker 3>Like Galaxy One opens with this surprisingly epic and just
<v Speaker 3>sort of well framed opening cut scene.
<v Speaker 1>They hear it.
<v Speaker 3>It's like it's a story book with you know, texts,
<v Speaker 3>and it just feels cheaper. Spaceship Mario isn't nearly as
<v Speaker 3>good of a hub world as the Observatory from one.
<v Speaker 1>The thing is like you know that's a matters.
<v Speaker 3>It doesn't matter that much, certainly not as much as
<v Speaker 3>level design and mechanics, and Galaxy two is just so
<v Speaker 3>freaking amazing at that stuff. The levels are all so
<v Speaker 3>freaking interesting and fun and constantly introducing new ideas and
<v Speaker 3>new things. It's just an absolute blast to jump through
<v Speaker 3>all of them. The physics feel perfect. When you have
<v Speaker 3>those weird gravity moments of the little planet toys you're
<v Speaker 3>jumping between them, it's awesome. Some of the best power
<v Speaker 3>up probably like my favorite suite of power ups in
<v Speaker 3>any Mario game, between the b Suit and the cloud
<v Speaker 3>Suit and like the rock rolling Mario and all that stuff,
<v Speaker 3>and then yosh in this game, one of the best
<v Speaker 3>implementations of Yoshi that we've had. Super fun. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>Galaxy two is still that game, and this seems like
<v Speaker 3>a fantastic kind of upgraded port of it.
<v Speaker 5>I've had to stop myself because I have not played
<v Speaker 5>Galaxy two since I think it came out, and I
<v Speaker 5>remember at the time thinking like, yeah, this is the
<v Speaker 5>best three D platform of all time. I think this
<v Speaker 5>is a little bit better than Galaxy which was my
<v Speaker 5>previous best ever. So I got like one star in
<v Speaker 5>this just to kind of like see how it looks
<v Speaker 5>and everything kind of wet the appetite, and it's like,
<v Speaker 5>all right, maybe that's a holiday thing. Maybe that's you know,
<v Speaker 5>once I'm done with some other stuff, you know, like
<v Speaker 5>that's I'm very very excited to go back to that.
<v Speaker 1>So I'm happy to hear control. So well, that's great.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, fantastic, Chat says interesting question. Hey, is every mainline
<v Speaker 5>Mario game now on Switch? And I think it might
<v Speaker 5>be wait Sunschina. Yeah, it's in three D all Stars,
<v Speaker 5>so so okay, and I know maybe you don't. I'll
<v Speaker 5>just do it real quick.
<v Speaker 3>I know it.
<v Speaker 5>It's one two, three World, World two sixty four Sunshine
<v Speaker 5>Galaxy Galaxy two honesty.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, all right on mom. Yes, so three D Land
<v Speaker 3>and Super Mario Lant aren't on there yet. And yes
<v Speaker 3>we also have three D World, which is still the
<v Speaker 3>weirdest one, Dan that you don't consider that one. Did
<v Speaker 3>you see like the museum put up a wall with
<v Speaker 3>all the Maine Mario games and there's no Yoshi's Island?
<v Speaker 6>How interesting did it say? What was the phrasing? Send
<v Speaker 6>me a link.
<v Speaker 3>I don't rember for you. The one that posted this Dan,
<v Speaker 3>I believe it's name line.
<v Speaker 6>I pointed out that Yoshi's Island was on the Yoshi Wall.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, is that what you're referring to?
<v Speaker 3>No, there's a new one. I'll find it for you later.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, so, uh, whatever you want to.
<v Speaker 3>Call him of the May of the three D of
<v Speaker 3>the Mario platformer games, which somehow is then enough of
<v Speaker 3>a description to be mainline for Dan.
<v Speaker 1>Uh, it's just Mario lant.
<v Speaker 3>Which will be is that somehow stone?
<v Speaker 1>That can't be right?
<v Speaker 3>Is that not on nisode?
<v Speaker 4>No?
<v Speaker 3>That has to be what am I saying?
<v Speaker 4>I figured it's god which land it is?
<v Speaker 7>It is?
<v Speaker 3>It's just three D land actually, which I don't even
<v Speaker 3>know if they bother with that one. Honestly, I'm not
<v Speaker 3>sure if we get that one.
<v Speaker 6>Oh bro, you're saying a game boy one. So those
<v Speaker 6>aren't mainline, but yeah, you.
<v Speaker 3>Can just talk to me. Yeah, three D Land.
<v Speaker 2>I think they'll redo that at some point. They'll because
<v Speaker 2>you can't just put that out in HD. It would
<v Speaker 2>look fucking bad.
<v Speaker 1>Give it some extra love, you know.
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure it could get away without being three D,
<v Speaker 3>but you gotta kind of replace that with something. I
<v Speaker 3>don't know because was important. Yeah, yeah, but.
<v Speaker 2>It's like they can figure something out there, but it's
<v Speaker 2>it looks pretty barren when you played on an emulator now,
<v Speaker 2>so hopefully they do something there, but they'll do it
<v Speaker 2>at some point.
<v Speaker 1>I think, Yeah, I forget and Galaxy too. How many
<v Speaker 1>different like suits and stuff does Mario get? There's a lot,
<v Speaker 1>because uh, I sometimes get which ones were brand new
<v Speaker 1>for two? But he was in the he was in
<v Speaker 1>the first one. What about Cloud was Cloud in the
<v Speaker 1>first one?
<v Speaker 5>Cloud was Cloud is the best?
<v Speaker 3>Cloud is the best Mario costume we've ever had. The
<v Speaker 3>way it looks and the mechanics of it are so
<v Speaker 3>freaking good. I think Boulder might have been new for two.
<v Speaker 3>I like bolt to Mario. You have fire, you have
<v Speaker 3>ice as well, you have the spring. Also you have
<v Speaker 3>that cherry that creates the copy of you.
<v Speaker 1>That's great.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, it's all sorts of good.
<v Speaker 1>Stuck. Well, yeah, Mario continues to wear a bunch of
<v Speaker 1>different hats, But I'm more interested in the hat that
<v Speaker 1>you're wearing, Mike Manatti, because you have it celebrating golf
<v Speaker 1>Week like no one else. You're still wearing the golf
<v Speaker 1>week clothes. You can get Store dot Giant Bob dot com.
<v Speaker 1>But you have also been playing a couple other golf
<v Speaker 1>games that you'd like to.
<v Speaker 3>Talk about, Yeah, Josh Tomorrow, to kick Golf Week off,
<v Speaker 3>I dug into a bunch of them, starting with Pebble
<v Speaker 3>Beach Golf Leaks on the Sega Saturn, which was originally
<v Speaker 3>a three D O game, And yeah, that's really the
<v Speaker 3>vibe here. Don't think early three D polygons three think, uh, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>we're using digitized sprites and FMV cuttings on some three
<v Speaker 3>D levels. But boy, the vibe is actually really neat.
<v Speaker 4>It.
<v Speaker 3>It's Craig Stadler is This character just keeps popping up
<v Speaker 3>and talking to you. He doesn't have a lot of charisma,
<v Speaker 3>which is why it's amazing. Whenever he's saying lines, it's
<v Speaker 3>actually hilarious. He has become my favorite golfer ever. Now
<v Speaker 3>I'm obsessed with the Walrus and yes that is his nickname.
<v Speaker 3>But there is like this is actually a good game,
<v Speaker 3>and I love that it is just Pebble Beach, this
<v Speaker 3>one renowned golf course and before every hole they actually
<v Speaker 3>like show you a video of it with Craig Styler
<v Speaker 3>talking about it and literally like offering you actual advice
<v Speaker 3>on how yeah you should play this hole, which you
<v Speaker 3>know a place of the game, but would also apply
<v Speaker 3>if you are actually playing golf there.
<v Speaker 1>This is the virtual highlight engine.
<v Speaker 3>This is the fertile highlight engine, so it's made for yeah,
<v Speaker 3>digitized sprites on three D world.
<v Speaker 1>The best is uh I was.
<v Speaker 4>I caught a glimpse of it, and it's like the
<v Speaker 4>shakiest fucking helicopter.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it comes over yesterday.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't hear that.
<v Speaker 4>No, that is so funny to me, Like just these
<v Speaker 4>lengths of which they had to go to to just
<v Speaker 4>get an aerial shot of a single golf hole, where
<v Speaker 4>now it's just some putts with a fucking drone.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. The one thing I really struggling with was the
<v Speaker 3>power meter was just difficult to read. It was in
<v Speaker 3>like five segments, so it's hard to tell where percent
<v Speaker 3>was really and I don't know. It just feel like
<v Speaker 3>I was constantly undershooting or overshooting. You know, if I
<v Speaker 3>played it more, i'd get a feel for it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>this is a kind of golf game that could only
<v Speaker 3>have existed in this one two or three year window
<v Speaker 3>there in the history of video game graphics. So I'm
<v Speaker 3>glad we got it. It was a fun treat. But
<v Speaker 3>we actually got a couple of indie developers reached out
<v Speaker 3>and wanted to help us celebrate Golf Week with some
<v Speaker 3>of their games, So I checked those out on Mega
<v Speaker 3>Man last night. You can catch that stream. First one
<v Speaker 3>was called Golf in It and this one is like
<v Speaker 3>it's a little bit of that like Game Boy Color
<v Speaker 3>Mario style. One thing that reminded me of and I
<v Speaker 3>mean this is positive. It's like the flash golf games
<v Speaker 3>used to play in high school.
<v Speaker 7>Right.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, sure, I'm nostalgic for those. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Because it's easy to play on mouse and keyboards. It's
<v Speaker 3>very fast paced, you know, classic golf stuff with you know,
<v Speaker 3>click once for power, click again for accuracy. There's some
<v Speaker 3>a few other extra things happening, Like there's turtles on
<v Speaker 3>the golf course and if you land near their radius,
<v Speaker 3>they'll just sort of hit your ball, so like that
<v Speaker 3>could really miss you. Up there are portals, and if
<v Speaker 3>you go in a portal, maybe it'll get you closer,
<v Speaker 3>but maybe it'll get you further away.
<v Speaker 1>You can also buy upgrades.
<v Speaker 3>With sort of the experience points you're through playing things
<v Speaker 3>like oh you can use this ball one time that
<v Speaker 3>just won't bounce at all, or another ball that will
<v Speaker 3>always bounce in the direction of the pen.
<v Speaker 1>So stuff like that. Yeah, so ito's golf in it.
<v Speaker 1>Go O L F I N I E. Then also
<v Speaker 1>checked out Super Video Golf.
<v Speaker 3>Now this is like what a sega on a golf
<v Speaker 3>game would have looked like if it was like Virtua Golf, right,
<v Speaker 3>early three D polygons kind of a thing like the
<v Speaker 3>golf game we didn't get then, So I always love
<v Speaker 3>that low poly look.
<v Speaker 1>So this has that in spades.
<v Speaker 3>And then again just very classic golf mechanics on top
<v Speaker 3>of all of that has everything. He kind of went with,
<v Speaker 3>you know this, you know again, classic swing controls, stuff
<v Speaker 3>like that. It just had a very good vibe, very
<v Speaker 3>good music. It had a little bit of that Craik
<v Speaker 3>Statler energy.
<v Speaker 1>Honestly looks cool. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you have the bad voice lines right with the
<v Speaker 3>low quality audio. So yeah, so it's the low fi
<v Speaker 3>video golf, very cool vibe, super good Again it's called
<v Speaker 3>Super Video Golf. So another very good uh indie golf game.
<v Speaker 3>To check out what I have online stuff like online
<v Speaker 3>tournaments or play with Okay, oh, that's cool locally things
<v Speaker 3>like that.
<v Speaker 2>I did try that Beavis and butt Heead mini golf
<v Speaker 2>game from nineteen ninety eight to see if it would
<v Speaker 2>be worthy of Golf Week.
<v Speaker 6>That game sucks, but holes a hohoy or what's it called.
<v Speaker 2>It's like a bung hole in one. The best thing
<v Speaker 2>about that game, by far is the name good. It's
<v Speaker 2>just like what if mini golf was happening in the
<v Speaker 2>Beats and butt Heead world, but you don't like see
<v Speaker 2>them on the course. You like, it's one of those
<v Speaker 2>ones where you click on the ball, pull away from
<v Speaker 2>it and then it kind of flings forward like I
<v Speaker 2>like that mechanic. But it's just such a bare bones,
<v Speaker 2>basic nothing game that really isn't worth the time.
<v Speaker 1>That's the new golf game I played.
<v Speaker 2>I played some Neo turf Masters and stuff like that
<v Speaker 2>before everyone knows that rules, Yeah, I was.
<v Speaker 1>I checked out some of that stream. Neo turf Masters
<v Speaker 1>does rule.
<v Speaker 3>I mean it's funny because it has some of that
<v Speaker 3>similar energy to Pebble Beach, which is, you know, instead
<v Speaker 3>of like digitized, it's mo capped, really high quality spice
<v Speaker 3>sprite work. I think, Yeah, it just still looks so
<v Speaker 3>freaking good. The music is amazing. That's probably my favorite
<v Speaker 3>golf game ever. I love it.
<v Speaker 1>It's it really holds up.
<v Speaker 3>It's fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>We are continuing the Golf Weeks celebrations and for those
<v Speaker 1>folks out there that may have heard the Game Informer
<v Speaker 1>at the play during the break, we're gonna go play
<v Speaker 1>against Game Informer tomorrow. That's right. I believe Dan and
<v Speaker 1>Grubb are going against the Vans. That's right, Van Allen
<v Speaker 1>and Van Ak, and we're going against them in everybody's golf,
<v Speaker 1>right is that's that's.
<v Speaker 5>The everybody's I think Van Aken might be traveling, but
<v Speaker 5>I've been talking to Van Allen about it and if
<v Speaker 5>he's not availble.
<v Speaker 1>Tongs one Van otherwise I'm out.
<v Speaker 5>We will have a Van and another Game Informer out
<v Speaker 5>of there that we would go against. All right, okay, okay,
<v Speaker 5>unfeat against kind of funny. I think it's about time
<v Speaker 5>to be undefeated against another outlet.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, do it. Yeah. All the models out there, you're
<v Speaker 1>on watch, get on watch. We're all coming for you.
<v Speaker 1>That's right.
<v Speaker 3>Right, We're getting out of the com gutters and we're
<v Speaker 3>gonna go dominate in video games across the board. Start
<v Speaker 3>giant bum.
<v Speaker 1>We sell coung gutters. No, well, I was gonna I
<v Speaker 1>was gonna say, I'm ready to party with Game Informer.
<v Speaker 1>But before that, I want to hear about a party
<v Speaker 1>that we had last Friday, Lego Party. Holy smokes gang,
<v Speaker 1>imagine if was good so badly? This game was really fun.
<v Speaker 5>Actually we played it and loved it. And then I
<v Speaker 5>said at the end, I said, because like I think
<v Speaker 5>it was. Yes, yeah, that Friday, because like my my sister,
<v Speaker 5>her husband and their daughter my niece were on the
<v Speaker 5>way up here driving up from Kansas when we were
<v Speaker 5>playing Lego Party, and I told you that, like, Okay,
<v Speaker 5>the real test is going to be is Mario Party
<v Speaker 5>has always been a game that can appeal to people
<v Speaker 5>if they don't really play a lot of games or whatever.
<v Speaker 5>You know, the types that like you play Mario Party
<v Speaker 5>twice a year at holidays or whatever, and like that's
<v Speaker 5>your thing is Mario Party. And for my sister Katie,
<v Speaker 5>that is her game, Like she would like you to
<v Speaker 5>play Mario Party with me and Kayla growing up and stuff,
<v Speaker 5>But she they've got a switched. They don't play a
<v Speaker 5>whole lot or hasn't play some Call of duty every
<v Speaker 5>once in a while, not really gamers biny stretch and
<v Speaker 5>I brought it up to them that night. I was like, Hey,
<v Speaker 5>would you guys be up for changing it up a
<v Speaker 5>little bit to night and uh and playing this new
<v Speaker 5>Lego Party game. And Katie told me later that when
<v Speaker 5>I said that, she was skeptical because she was like,
<v Speaker 5>I don't really care about Legos. I don't really do
<v Speaker 5>Lego stuff like Mario Parties are thing like, let's just
<v Speaker 5>play that. They finished the first game, absolutely loved it,
<v Speaker 5>and we're like, nice, that is better than Mario Party?
<v Speaker 6>Can we do another game right now?
<v Speaker 1>So?
<v Speaker 6>Wow, it is, and I will say it it is.
<v Speaker 6>It is better than Mario Party.
<v Speaker 3>It's frustrating how much better it is. Like they make
<v Speaker 3>fifty Mario Parties, they couldn't have thought of a single
<v Speaker 3>one of the one hundred improvements of the formula that
<v Speaker 3>Lego Party has introduced here.
<v Speaker 1>It's just so much snapier.
<v Speaker 4>I feel like on the outside where I'm at, like, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>we've been saying this for a long time, So Lego
<v Speaker 4>Party no, just about how like piss poor of an
<v Speaker 4>experience Mario Party is. And yeah, I'm not going to
<v Speaker 4>go that all of these all of these quality of
<v Speaker 4>life things that are like so sick people and obvious.
<v Speaker 5>Let me run down a few here of like clear
<v Speaker 5>improvements and tweaks to Mario Party that I noticed, and
<v Speaker 5>I've only played three games of it now, and like
<v Speaker 5>there's maps I haven't played, like I want to play
<v Speaker 5>a lot more. All right, So mini game placement determines
<v Speaker 5>turn order, so yes, which is so smart because let's
<v Speaker 5>say it's the thing where me and Greb are both
<v Speaker 5>two or three spaces away from the golden brick, which
<v Speaker 5>is the star that adds so many stakes to the
<v Speaker 5>mini game itself. Is that like goal first, Like holy shit,
<v Speaker 5>that alone changes a lot. That's incredible. They've got these,
<v Speaker 5>you know, like the two v two stuff. You know
<v Speaker 5>it would happen in Mario Party if you know two
<v Speaker 5>were on blue and two were on red. Here it's
<v Speaker 5>specific brick battle squares that you land on and it
<v Speaker 5>puts you in a two v two match and the winner,
<v Speaker 5>the winning team gets a golden brick each, so immediate
<v Speaker 5>stakes on that. So you get to a brick battle
<v Speaker 5>it randomly puts you. It's all right, jan, me and you,
<v Speaker 5>we got to get this and there's a star on
<v Speaker 5>the line. It's not just ten bullshit coins or whatever.
<v Speaker 5>It's it's like a real thing at the end of
<v Speaker 5>mini games. This is a very minor one, but I
<v Speaker 5>appreciate it. Like it'll show the score, let's say, you know,
<v Speaker 5>it's just something where you got to shoot X number
<v Speaker 5>of whatever. The score shows up, but then like in
<v Speaker 5>the waning seconds, like last five or ten seconds, it
<v Speaker 5>fades away. So there's that element of like ooh, one
<v Speaker 5>until it does the like you know, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Final thing. That's that's awesome.
<v Speaker 5>So the boards themselves shift, Like the way they use
<v Speaker 5>legos in this game is so fucking good because like
<v Speaker 5>you'll do the theme park course and there's like the
<v Speaker 5>starting area and then like the central fountain thing they
<v Speaker 5>go around, but then when you go to the corners
<v Speaker 5>you get to build one, so you can build like
<v Speaker 5>the new land. So it's like do I want to
<v Speaker 5>do horror Land, like a haunted house themed section of
<v Speaker 5>this board, or do I want to build extreme Land?
<v Speaker 5>And that's a whole different thing. So each time you play,
<v Speaker 5>even like the theme park world, that's going.
<v Speaker 1>To be different.
<v Speaker 5>It does like these risky free bricks you can get
<v Speaker 5>there where it's like, okay, I can go to the
<v Speaker 5>water park land and if I can climb up this
<v Speaker 5>whole thing and avoid all six of these you know
<v Speaker 5>why slide things that will send me down shoots and
<v Speaker 5>ladder style to the beginning, I will get a free
<v Speaker 5>golden brick that I don't have to pay for. I
<v Speaker 5>went to the extreme Land and it was a totally
<v Speaker 5>different thing with the free brick, where it's like it
<v Speaker 5>is a series as you progress through it of like
<v Speaker 5>you have to do like okay, like a bike stunt
<v Speaker 5>or whatever. You have to like it's a timing thing.
<v Speaker 5>And then at the last one you get a monster
<v Speaker 5>truck and the golden brick is inside of flaming like
<v Speaker 5>hoop and you have to like ramp the monster truck
<v Speaker 5>in and if you fuck up the timing, you don't
<v Speaker 5>get the golden brick. It was all for not so
<v Speaker 5>that stuff is super good. It is way snappier pacing everything.
<v Speaker 5>There's moves along faster. There are a couple shops, but
<v Speaker 5>like it is not the constant fucking Mario party thing
<v Speaker 5>of like, right, well, I could roll eight and run
<v Speaker 5>into three shops and have to like fucking shut up, Koopa,
<v Speaker 5>I don't want to buy anything, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, wh it's just like the way like it does
<v Speaker 3>like a solo mini game where a Mario Party, it
<v Speaker 3>just stops. You talk to NBC. It loads too a
<v Speaker 3>thing here. It just all happens on the board. As
<v Speaker 3>you're going along, your character just quickly looks at the
<v Speaker 3>mini game. It's an it's usually like one or two
<v Speaker 3>button presses, so it doesn't think forever and just move
<v Speaker 3>off your turn.
<v Speaker 1>It happens so fast.
<v Speaker 5>That's a great point in Mario Party. It happens a
<v Speaker 5>lot where you land on a solo one and Okay,
<v Speaker 5>we're gonna fade to the roulette to decide what single
<v Speaker 5>player game we do. Okay, lands on this, fade to
<v Speaker 5>the practice thing. Okay, like everyone's just watching. Okay, fade
<v Speaker 5>to the actual thing and then you got to pick
<v Speaker 5>your fucking glove item or whatever.
<v Speaker 6>Fade back like it's just like so much bullshit.
<v Speaker 5>And here, yeah, Michael, you said you can go to
<v Speaker 5>like an archery thing in the fantasy land or whatever,
<v Speaker 5>and it's just like okay, yeah, hit a twice to
<v Speaker 5>try to get the higher number and then move along
<v Speaker 5>like it's just so much snappier.
<v Speaker 4>It's so much better, so demonstrably better. That Lego is
<v Speaker 4>inadvertently jeopardizing its licenses with Intendere's.
<v Speaker 1>What they do.
<v Speaker 3>They said they're gonna do a switch to upgrade when
<v Speaker 3>they get dev kits.
<v Speaker 1>Here's what they do, right. They've They've done Lego Batman,
<v Speaker 1>Lego Star Wars, do Lego Mario Party Party awesome?
<v Speaker 5>Give them the series, Like seriously, Hey, the Lego Nintendo
<v Speaker 5>sets are fucking great.
<v Speaker 6>I love those. It's cross play.
<v Speaker 5>So like my system, Katie and her husband can play
<v Speaker 5>on Switch while Cala plays on PS five and I
<v Speaker 5>play on PC. It's forty dollars. It's cheaper like it
<v Speaker 5>focuses on that. Like all anyone wants to do in
<v Speaker 5>these fucking games is play the core board game mode.
<v Speaker 5>And the recent Mario Parties outside of Superstars was like
<v Speaker 5>the greatest hits. It just packs it with all these
<v Speaker 5>fucking side modes no one gives a shit about where
<v Speaker 5>it's like, oh, me and Jan are you know, on
<v Speaker 5>a Koopa delivery service thing and we gotta fly around
<v Speaker 5>with motion flappy things to deliver toads or something like.
<v Speaker 3>Things.
<v Speaker 5>You'll play once and be like what the fuck is this?
<v Speaker 5>And like put the resources into making the fucking board
<v Speaker 5>game experience better, and that's what this game is is.
<v Speaker 5>It's just the fucking board game experience. And then you're
<v Speaker 5>getting player XP levels up, you're getting a park, you know,
<v Speaker 5>like board levels up, and getting like fun Lego mini
<v Speaker 5>fig customizable stuff. I may like before they all got
<v Speaker 5>in town, I made all of us like Lego mini versions.
<v Speaker 5>So it's fun to be able to just be a
<v Speaker 5>little versions of your Lego versions of yourselves. If if
<v Speaker 5>Aliens came down tomorrow and said, like we come to party,
<v Speaker 5>like I'm going to fucking Lego Party way before Mario
<v Speaker 5>Party objectively better.
<v Speaker 1>You're not gonna party off. You're not gonna party r
<v Speaker 1>off for it. Yeah that's a joke.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 2>It feels like NFL two K. So Nintendo's gonna go
<v Speaker 2>out and get exclusive license.
<v Speaker 3>To party and actually do this and.
<v Speaker 1>Parties.
<v Speaker 3>The medium of cells are so good too, Like they're
<v Speaker 3>all very intuitive, they aren't too complicated. None of them
<v Speaker 3>are super chance based, which I came across these.
<v Speaker 1>You're playing a game.
<v Speaker 5>This is way more leg I jokingly said for so
<v Speaker 5>many years, Mario Party's a game of skill. There's so
<v Speaker 5>much bullshit luck in there. This is just like there's
<v Speaker 5>no bullshit stars at the end. I know you can
<v Speaker 5>turn this stuff off in Mario Party and everything, but
<v Speaker 5>there's always bullshit. And Mario Party was like you just
<v Speaker 5>land on a block and you got a star for
<v Speaker 5>no reason. This one like you kind of earn your
<v Speaker 5>shit in this. And some of these mini games, like
<v Speaker 5>Mike said, like very Tall Race. I don't know if
<v Speaker 5>you like it was the funniest fucking thing. I don't
<v Speaker 5>know if you guys have played that one where you're
<v Speaker 5>on this like tall unicycle and you have to have
<v Speaker 5>like a race against each other, and it's just like
<v Speaker 5>this incredible like balancing game you have to do. Museum
<v Speaker 5>Mayhem is this fun one where you like it's like
<v Speaker 5>a four square thing where you each have it's like
<v Speaker 5>a two by two grid and like everyone's guarding their
<v Speaker 5>own lego vase and there's like a big ball bouncing
<v Speaker 5>around and it's just very much that like kind of
<v Speaker 5>like air hockey. If you ever done those like four
<v Speaker 5>player air hockey tables, Yeah, it's like that, but it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>I'm trying to like knock this ball to break your
<v Speaker 5>vase behind you and everything. There's a trivia game where
<v Speaker 5>you're like identifying lego versions of famous art, so it's
<v Speaker 5>like a lego version of Starry Night.
<v Speaker 6>And you're doing like a multiple choice thing on like
<v Speaker 6>what this thing is?
<v Speaker 1>It's cool.
<v Speaker 5>It's so fucking good, Like I can't like, I feel
<v Speaker 5>like when we played the SGF, it was just kind
<v Speaker 5>of like we're all just looking around, like this is
<v Speaker 5>really good.
<v Speaker 1>What the hell? Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>Then we played it on Friday, had a blast, immediate winner.
<v Speaker 5>It's like this is our new thing. We're like, they're
<v Speaker 5>buying it on switch.
<v Speaker 3>We need to play it again next week. I know
<v Speaker 3>this is golf week made time, but I need to
<v Speaker 3>this game again. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Fun reason I want to.
<v Speaker 3>Brothers in the getting it's I can play with them more.
<v Speaker 1>I just want to play more Lego party. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Maybe we don't know if it changes based on what
<v Speaker 5>map you're on, but I did see there's a twenty
<v Speaker 5>four turn option that was estimated that three hours.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a party.
<v Speaker 2>I honestly think that would be a lot of fun
<v Speaker 2>because there's so many things we didn't get to do.
<v Speaker 2>Because we didn't get to do any of those two
<v Speaker 2>versus two things because we didn't have enough time to
<v Speaker 2>land on that, and those are so high stakes, they're
<v Speaker 2>pretty rare.
<v Speaker 1>Like I want to see everything.
<v Speaker 5>I haven't seen the version of chance time like on
<v Speaker 5>the leg So chance Time needs to be a thing
<v Speaker 5>in my party. And that was the ultimate bullshit thing here.
<v Speaker 5>It's just the last turn. The shops are turned into
<v Speaker 5>like chance Times squares and like that can change things, right.
<v Speaker 3>And even like the Boo equivalent, like the seas, they
<v Speaker 3>don't show up right away, right.
<v Speaker 1>The banana guy.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, they're just kind of like the banana dudes show
<v Speaker 5>up in speedboats, like halfway through the game.
<v Speaker 3>That was so cool.
<v Speaker 6>A bunch of fucking monkeys from an airplane to beat
<v Speaker 6>the ship out of you.
<v Speaker 1>Great. Maybe we should also invite another party of fiicionado
<v Speaker 1>to the Lego party party, Yeah, another sequel party I did.
<v Speaker 1>Did Bianca like it? Yes? Really?
<v Speaker 6>She actively despises Mario party like that.
<v Speaker 5>It's like a family thing and it's like we don't
<v Speaker 5>have the full group or whatever, and it's like, listen,
<v Speaker 5>the kid is like sixteen months old.
<v Speaker 6>You're gonna we need a forest. She's like, I will
<v Speaker 6>do it. I will not enjoy this. I will not
<v Speaker 6>like I will do the family thing, but like she
<v Speaker 6>had fun with this one.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 6>I think this one can win over people that like
<v Speaker 6>actively hate Mario Party.
<v Speaker 1>It's really good wild.
<v Speaker 5>I did a Ninjago level, which that is totally different
<v Speaker 5>than the theme park one where it's like you're going
<v Speaker 5>to these uh you have these fights against these giant
<v Speaker 5>Ninjago dragons and stuff with like timing based things where
<v Speaker 5>you goat ship out of them and go they can
<v Speaker 5>get a brick.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think it get like, you know, some of
<v Speaker 3>those classic Lego laces and stuff involved when they did
<v Speaker 3>the menses. I would love it if there was like
<v Speaker 3>a back to the Future level or.
<v Speaker 1>A yeah, yeah, that'd be really cool. Lego Party devs,
<v Speaker 1>if you're out there, I know you have a lot
<v Speaker 1>of work because you're trying to get the switch to
<v Speaker 1>up and running for me, for me, your friend Jan,
<v Speaker 1>can you add bionicles please?
<v Speaker 3>You're going to pay for that one, I'll do.
<v Speaker 5>I've posted about this being better than Mario Party, and
<v Speaker 5>one of the devs did repost me saying this is
<v Speaker 5>the most professional validation I've ever had in my entire life.
<v Speaker 4>I love it.
<v Speaker 3>I love it.
<v Speaker 1>Let's fucking go.
<v Speaker 5>It's tremendous. It's tremendous. It's gonna be my go to
<v Speaker 5>and I hope they make twenty more of these.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, that may be the best news that I've heard
<v Speaker 1>all day. Jeff Grubb, I challenge you to deliver some
<v Speaker 1>more no good news. Oop. All right, let's do this.
<v Speaker 3>Let's start here.
<v Speaker 2>Did you guys see this this thing that Nintendo dropped
<v Speaker 2>a weird video a short film. Nintendo post mysterious close
<v Speaker 2>to You animated short film this morning. A Nintendo clip
<v Speaker 2>titled close to You shows a baby chasing a floating
<v Speaker 2>pacifier around a bedroom. It'sok like a three DCGI animated thing.
<v Speaker 2>Nintendo has offered no further details, simply posting the video
<v Speaker 2>with the title. The video depicts a mother leaving her
<v Speaker 2>baby with a passifire, after which the baby's toys begin
<v Speaker 2>moving on their own. The passifier then floats out of
<v Speaker 2>the baby's mouth, leading to the baby chasing it around
<v Speaker 2>the room. The mother re enters, seemingly surprised by the
<v Speaker 2>baby's first steps because the baby got up to get
<v Speaker 2>the pacifier and hugs the baby, and Nintendo logo appears
<v Speaker 2>and the video ends without explanation. Online speculations suggest the
<v Speaker 2>music is very similar to Pickman.
<v Speaker 3>You know what. The first couple of notes.
<v Speaker 2>Of that song sound exactly like the Pickman music, but
<v Speaker 2>then it goes in a different direction, so it's like,
<v Speaker 2>are those my ears or my ears playing a trick
<v Speaker 2>on me? There is another moment in the trailer where
<v Speaker 2>the camera's focused on the baby and the baby's chasing
<v Speaker 2>some of its toys that's moving around, maybe the pacifier,
<v Speaker 2>and underneath its crib a small blow read object is
<v Speaker 2>moving that maybe could be a Pickman Even if it is,
<v Speaker 2>what do you guys think this trailer is trying to accomplish?
<v Speaker 2>So weird because the trailer videos short? Yeah, I mean
<v Speaker 2>that's what.
<v Speaker 3>It looks like, a CG short, like something from an
<v Speaker 3>illumination or maybe it seems like.
<v Speaker 1>Something that we'd play before the Mario movie later next year.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, like that is the court. Like this doesn't look
<v Speaker 3>like anything Nintendo has done before. But if I would
<v Speaker 3>initially think this is just related to you know, they
<v Speaker 3>have that Mario line of basically baby toys and baby
<v Speaker 3>stuff coming out. Yeah, but like, yeah, like the quality
<v Speaker 3>of this is seems surprisingly high and nothing in here,
<v Speaker 3>says Mario.
<v Speaker 1>It's just this pacifier kind of moving around on its own.
<v Speaker 3>Like maybe there isn't it like a new pigment type
<v Speaker 3>that's an invisible pickment, and that's moving the pacifier around.
<v Speaker 6>This doesn't look like Piman to me. I'm just watching now.
<v Speaker 1>The arts high.
<v Speaker 2>That's a great many about it. Now we go go
<v Speaker 2>to one minute in thirty nine seconds to see that
<v Speaker 2>thing move.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, there's something there.
<v Speaker 6>That is a tiny little that's mmm, that's I.
<v Speaker 3>Mean, it could be like the teaser for the Pickman
<v Speaker 3>movie from Illumination, right, and.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that would be cool. I think that would be
<v Speaker 1>my best guess.
<v Speaker 2>Right, I mean, even if it's like Pickman shorts before
<v Speaker 2>the Mario movie that eventually leads to a Piman movie.
<v Speaker 3>Down the road. There are people, there's some other speculation.
<v Speaker 2>People think that that baby could be Rosolina because of
<v Speaker 2>her eye color and what else that was written here,
<v Speaker 2>because of its mama storyline in the game. I think
<v Speaker 2>that's a stretch, but I don't know, I really don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, the baby's wearing blue, right, like that's spacey
<v Speaker 3>blue like Rosalina, And yeah, the blonde hair you know what.
<v Speaker 3>I like this theory actually immediately now, maybe maybe there's
<v Speaker 3>a Loomo over there or something like that. Okay, I
<v Speaker 3>think this is a rose oh gosh, yeah, and the
<v Speaker 3>mobile has stars on it. I actually immediately think that
<v Speaker 3>this is just related to the Mario Galaxy movie and
<v Speaker 3>that this is a Rosalina origin.
<v Speaker 5>Actually, okay, okay, Chat says again just a chat thing
<v Speaker 5>not verified here, says Meamoto has said that pickmen are
<v Speaker 5>always quote close to you in the world, and the
<v Speaker 5>Pickman bloom app says that humans can't see Pickman.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was thinking I was wondering if there was
<v Speaker 2>something like that. Okay, So a lot of possibilities here,
<v Speaker 2>but regard this is weird.
<v Speaker 1>Weird they don't.
<v Speaker 5>This feels like you're like like Kajima tees of just like, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>movie Dick studios, you know what's this fucking thing?
<v Speaker 1>You know? Like, yeah, it's very bizarre. All right, I'm intrigued. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo's name pops up. I don't.
<v Speaker 2>I feel like if Illumination was very involved, they would
<v Speaker 2>have their credit on there.
<v Speaker 1>I don't see. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Ninato did acquire a three D video production team last
<v Speaker 2>and they called it Nintendo Video in like the last
<v Speaker 2>couple of years.
<v Speaker 3>So I don't know either way, I'm fascinated by this.
<v Speaker 2>Uh I listen, it's something new with Pickman. Even if
<v Speaker 2>it's a Pickman movie, Oh anything, I will be very excited.
<v Speaker 1>I love I love Pickman. I'll take it. I would
<v Speaker 1>love a new Pickman game. Though. They should just make
<v Speaker 1>the Pickmen into minions.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, I'm honestly, they're gonna work with elimination,
<v Speaker 2>just like, have the Minion team do a Pickman movie.
<v Speaker 1>I bet that would be all ruin pimen.
<v Speaker 2>Pickman were doing that shtick long before the minions existed,
<v Speaker 2>so they didn't.
<v Speaker 1>Have a stick. They were real, they were pure.
<v Speaker 3>They're very honest, all right.
<v Speaker 2>Months after delay, Bungee's Marathon is returning to testing. Buzzy
<v Speaker 2>a Bungee Shooter Marathon is set to return to close
<v Speaker 2>beta testing between October twenty second and October twenty seventh,
<v Speaker 2>nearly four months after it's an initial delay. This NDA
<v Speaker 2>protected play test aims to evaluate improvements made since the
<v Speaker 2>alpha does feel like and they say it, it's like
<v Speaker 2>a big important checkpoint. It feels like this is gonna
<v Speaker 2>be the moment it's like, Okay, can we actually release
<v Speaker 2>this game by March and it'd all be decided by
<v Speaker 2>help people respond to it. Now, let me ask you, guys,
<v Speaker 2>any interest into seeing how Marathon looks at this point
<v Speaker 2>or is this one of those ones where like I'll.
<v Speaker 3>Just wait till it's out. I mean, it's an academic interest,
<v Speaker 3>because you know, we've heard pretty quickly that people didn't
<v Speaker 3>like Marathon when it was last testing, and that seemed
<v Speaker 3>to kind of, you know, put the game in this
<v Speaker 3>weird place. I'm just curious if I don't think I'm
<v Speaker 3>going to like the game almost no wonder what I
<v Speaker 3>tried it.
<v Speaker 1>I think I just don't like extraction shooters.
<v Speaker 3>Actually, who knows, But there are a lot of people
<v Speaker 3>who do, and I'm curious if this wins over more
<v Speaker 3>of them, if this does find some positivity, or if
<v Speaker 3>this Marathon is just going to continue to sort of
<v Speaker 3>drown in this negative space that's been occupying for so long.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, yeah, we've talked a bunch about Marathon, so there's
<v Speaker 2>not much else to say here. But you know, that
<v Speaker 2>is a game that apparently they still want to get
<v Speaker 2>out by March, by the end of the fiscal year
<v Speaker 2>if it doesn't make that window.
<v Speaker 1>If this goes poorly again, do you.
<v Speaker 2>Think it could be as bad as pulling the plug
<v Speaker 2>on it?
<v Speaker 1>Like they can't, right, they can't. I feel like they can't.
<v Speaker 1>I think you're right, I feel like they can't. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, though.
<v Speaker 3>No.
<v Speaker 2>Metal Health Singer studio closed as part of fun coom cuts.
<v Speaker 2>Funcom is closed the Outsiders, the developer of Metal Health Singer,
<v Speaker 2>as part of company wide the layoffs. Founder David Goldfarb
<v Speaker 2>shouts out to David Goldfarby's school. Dude announced the closure,
<v Speaker 2>noting that the studio, acquired by Funcom three years prior,
<v Speaker 2>had survived a previous near death experience that led to
<v Speaker 2>the creation of Metal Health Singer. I see there's there's
<v Speaker 2>a lot of camaraderie there.
<v Speaker 1>At the studio.
<v Speaker 2>They're going to try to like do something to maybe
<v Speaker 2>save the essence of the studio. I didn't fully follow
<v Speaker 2>what he meant, but it sounds like they are going
<v Speaker 2>to try to continue in some way. Whether that's like
<v Speaker 2>building a new team off to the side with a
<v Speaker 2>lot of the same people or not.
<v Speaker 1>We'll see.
<v Speaker 2>I never played Metal Health Singer. It seemed like a
<v Speaker 2>like it seems like the idea. Yeah, it seemed like
<v Speaker 2>a good try an idea, do something different from everyone
<v Speaker 2>else and stand out like and they did that, and
<v Speaker 2>it seems like a lot of people did actually pick
<v Speaker 2>up on it and enjoy it. Again, was well reviewed,
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, it's a shame, I bet though. It's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>reached a certain level of success, and we want to
<v Speaker 2>see this level of success.
<v Speaker 1>To just get out of here.
<v Speaker 2>That's the story of gaming right now. Red Dead Redemption
<v Speaker 2>two is PS five, Xbox Series and Switch two versions
<v Speaker 2>are still happening. That's according to Nate the Hate. That
<v Speaker 2>sounds about right to me because Red Dead Redemption two
<v Speaker 2>on PS four and PS and Xbox one that version
<v Speaker 2>is the version that you can still get on modern consoles,
<v Speaker 2>and it then it's still locked to thirty frames per second.
<v Speaker 3>So it's like, yeah, they will probably unleash that game
<v Speaker 3>in some new way here pretty soon.
<v Speaker 1>Probably just with an update.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, then they release it on Switch To, which
<v Speaker 2>is a twenty eighteen game that will make sense. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know if I'm gonna replay it here. If I
<v Speaker 2>replay that game, I'll try it on PC with some ods.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, they're gonna have Grand Theft Auto six next year,
<v Speaker 2>So do you think this comes out like much sooner
<v Speaker 2>than that. It's like not distract from it.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe a January February thing that was, Yeah, that would
<v Speaker 1>makes sense.
<v Speaker 3>We can still continues to sell pretty well, actually even yes,
<v Speaker 3>even still, so yeah, these updates will give it some juice.
<v Speaker 3>You know, they definitely couldn't use some performance boosts.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'd be cured.
<v Speaker 3>I'm really curious to see how this game looks on
<v Speaker 3>a switch to, because sometimes it is just a matter
<v Speaker 3>of how much work you put into it, and we've
<v Speaker 3>seen with like the GTA trilogy, sometimes even a company's
<v Speaker 3>biggest take to just won't put that much work into it.
<v Speaker 3>So I hope they do a good job here.
<v Speaker 1>Yep.
<v Speaker 2>Mina the Hollower delayed. Yacht Club Games has announced a
<v Speaker 2>delay for Mina the Hollower. This is the shovel Night team.
<v Speaker 2>They were going to release this game on Halloween, October
<v Speaker 2>thirty first. They are now releasing it on unspecified date.
<v Speaker 2>They've not given a date, but they did say that
<v Speaker 2>they will tell everybody the date once they submit the
<v Speaker 2>game to platforms. So they're trying to suggest here like
<v Speaker 2>it is a quote unquote indefinite delay in that it's
<v Speaker 2>not being defined. But it's not like, oh, we're taking
<v Speaker 2>this thing down and we don't know when we're going
<v Speaker 2>to put it back out. They just want to make
<v Speaker 2>sure that it's really finished, really and actually submit it
<v Speaker 2>to platforms ready to go, and they'll talk about it again.
<v Speaker 2>So we're probably talking about a month or two, probably
<v Speaker 2>still before the end of this year.
<v Speaker 3>I absolutely having a fancy I'm sure they wanted to
<v Speaker 3>hit Halloween. It's like, you know, it's a fitting release
<v Speaker 3>date for a game that has some spooky vibes like this,
<v Speaker 3>but it can also probably add pressure to feel like
<v Speaker 3>you have to hit this day and maybe you're rushing
<v Speaker 3>through certain things that you'd rather take your time on
<v Speaker 3>and make sure a really good Uh. You know, we've
<v Speaker 3>seen a lot of games now, Soak Song Haities two
<v Speaker 3>the biggest indie games. You can imagine, they don't tell
<v Speaker 3>you their release date until it's like a week or
<v Speaker 3>two out, until they are too super certain stuff.
<v Speaker 6>We'll just have one powerwash simulator just like a couple
<v Speaker 6>of weeks from now.
<v Speaker 3>I think now, like I think they're all like, why
<v Speaker 3>bothers setting up a release date, Uh that we that
<v Speaker 3>we might miss, probably will miss these days.
<v Speaker 1>Let's uh just wait until we really know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they announce the state a bit ago, so it's
<v Speaker 3>a bit of a bummer, but it's probably the right
<v Speaker 3>thing for this game, almost certainly.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, now that you guys talk that out, it's like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's exactly what these other companies did. They submitted it
<v Speaker 2>to platforms, got the approval, and like, oh, okay, now
<v Speaker 2>we know two weeks from now this game's coming out,
<v Speaker 2>so yeah, we'll probably get exactly the same thing with Mina.
<v Speaker 2>Last week after the show, Xbox raised the price of
<v Speaker 2>game Pass. A Game Pass Ultimate will now cost thirty
<v Speaker 2>dollars a month. It's the twenty dollars a month. There's
<v Speaker 2>a whole bunch of caveats. It's going to be double
<v Speaker 2>the price in some territories, it's going to be it's
<v Speaker 2>not gonna have all the features that it once had
<v Speaker 2>on like the middle tier. You no longer get Call
<v Speaker 2>of Duty eventually added to the library.
<v Speaker 1>But whatever.
<v Speaker 2>The big highlight here is everything's getting more expensive. They
<v Speaker 2>are no longer trying to find new users, They're trying
<v Speaker 2>to make more money from the same users. You know,
<v Speaker 2>there was kind of a seemed like a rush to
<v Speaker 2>cancel this thing. I said I would, I still have
<v Speaker 2>not I need to do that because I'm just not
<v Speaker 2>using this at all. Really, you know, this is overall
<v Speaker 2>kind of part of Hey, what's going on with Xbox?
<v Speaker 2>Like how serious are they are they about anything that's
<v Speaker 2>not Call of Duty or Minecraft or a handful of
<v Speaker 2>other things. And it feels like they got to justify
<v Speaker 2>what all the money they've spent, and that comes back
<v Speaker 2>to we need to increase prices, and of course there's
<v Speaker 2>tariffs and all these other things.
<v Speaker 1>But I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Other companies are finding creative ways or working hard to
<v Speaker 2>keep prices down, and Microsoft does not seem interested in
<v Speaker 2>doing that. How are we feeling about game Pass.
<v Speaker 3>It's it's just a it's rough at that price. Even
<v Speaker 3>though gay Pass had a pretty good year when it
<v Speaker 3>comes to releases, even though Microsoft Microsoft themselves don't have
<v Speaker 3>much I mean, game Pass had Exhibition thirty three, they
<v Speaker 3>had Soak Song, they had a lot of the biggest
<v Speaker 3>games this year. It feels like it should be able
<v Speaker 3>to ride this momentum. It just feels like, well, if
<v Speaker 3>it's maybe it's ever going to work out. Then, I
<v Speaker 3>don't know what you could possibly make game Pass work
<v Speaker 3>for you as a business plan, aside from just constantly
<v Speaker 3>raising the price to you know, they didn't just go
<v Speaker 3>from twenty to five or you know, twenty to twenty five,
<v Speaker 3>they're from twenty to thirty, a huge fifty percent increase.
<v Speaker 3>It's almost just it's almost insulting that they would just
<v Speaker 3>immediately jump it that high. They get so clear and
<v Speaker 3>naked that they are just going after that ten percent
<v Speaker 3>of their fan base that will show up no matter
<v Speaker 3>what they do. They are hurting that brand so bad
<v Speaker 3>right now. You know, even like some of the normies
<v Speaker 3>in my life right like, boy Xbox is done. Huh,
<v Speaker 3>Like that's becoming the narrative. It just feels like they
<v Speaker 3>are a spiraling out of control. And even in an
<v Speaker 3>industry that has a pretty short memory with these things, right,
<v Speaker 3>we've seen other brands be at low points and then
<v Speaker 3>climb to new heights again, it's so hard to imagine
<v Speaker 3>how Xbox gets out of this quagmire.
<v Speaker 1>But the remember go ahead, Jen well it just real quick.
<v Speaker 1>But the thing is, it doesn't feel like they're making
<v Speaker 1>any active or positive steps to get out of the quagmire.
<v Speaker 1>It's not like they switch to their sand wedge web
<v Speaker 1>Norman bomb dot com.
<v Speaker 2>Everybody is that the name of the thing that is
<v Speaker 2>Sandwichka think the open Face Club, the sand wedge opening.
<v Speaker 1>Like with every new thing I see anyone from Xbox saying,
<v Speaker 1>it's like it's just kind of it's beyond sweep swiping
<v Speaker 1>or sweeping the problem under the rug because like the
<v Speaker 1>rug is like just full of coffee stains. Shrug exactly. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they're actively doing it, and like, what are y'all even
<v Speaker 1>thinking about doing? Scout, I know you're working a ship rug.
<v Speaker 3>A shrug, that's right, that's what That's what a ship
<v Speaker 3>rug is called. I they I think they.
<v Speaker 2>I think what happened is they had a bunch of
<v Speaker 2>ideas to try. They tried them all and and the
<v Speaker 2>whole time there's someone kind of behind them being like, Hey,
<v Speaker 2>when's this thing going to really start popping off and
<v Speaker 2>making real money?
<v Speaker 1>And they're like, well, once we really get game Pass.
<v Speaker 2>Going, and star fields are going to be once we
<v Speaker 2>have once we have starfield, Yes, once this happens, what's that?
<v Speaker 2>And then all these things happened, nothing really changed. I'm
<v Speaker 2>not saying these things weren't scessful or people didn't like them.
<v Speaker 2>A lot of that stuff did happen, but as far
<v Speaker 2>as the people standing behind of Phil Spencer were concerned,
<v Speaker 2>this thing is not really changing its stripes at all.
<v Speaker 2>It is still kind of the business it has always been,
<v Speaker 2>and even if it's growing, it's not growing the way
<v Speaker 2>that we're seeing some spaces grow like AI. And so
<v Speaker 2>they did, they tried everything, and they are basically out
<v Speaker 2>of excuses and now they have to sort of give
<v Speaker 2>in and turn into the thing that the people standing
<v Speaker 2>behind them wanted it to be, which is pop out
<v Speaker 2>only the most popular things going forward, cut a lot
<v Speaker 2>of cost, cut a lot of studios that aren't making
<v Speaker 2>call of duty, and we'll just kind of go from there.
<v Speaker 2>So it's like, yeah, it is kind of shitting in
<v Speaker 2>the bed because they don't have any choices left in
<v Speaker 2>front of them, really, and that's a lot of that
<v Speaker 2>is just the way that the industry is growing and
<v Speaker 2>not growing and not selling a lot of consoles, but whatever.
<v Speaker 2>They should have more answers to this than they just don't.
<v Speaker 4>I remember when, like don't you remember right when this
<v Speaker 4>really started to take shape in a way where everyone
<v Speaker 4>was like, whoa, this seems like the greatest value in games, right.
<v Speaker 4>The question was always how can they continue to do
<v Speaker 4>this forever? That was the conversation when when game Pass
<v Speaker 4>really presented, the most compelling case was, holy shit, there's
<v Speaker 4>no way this makes sense financially.
<v Speaker 1>What's the end game?
<v Speaker 4>I'm gladly pay you now for this because it seems
<v Speaker 4>like I'm getting a tremendous deal and you're the ones
<v Speaker 4>getting fucked over. I guess this, But like, so to
<v Speaker 4>me with with that, you know, information not left leaving
<v Speaker 4>my mind. I'm not surprised, right, Like I could see
<v Speaker 4>the other shoe dropped, right, It's like, yeah, the whole
<v Speaker 4>idea is cornered the market at the lower price, get
<v Speaker 4>everyone on the board of this idea, and then eventually
<v Speaker 4>you raise the price because everyone's like, well, this is
<v Speaker 4>how I play games, right, And that's like I worked
<v Speaker 4>for Netflix and.
<v Speaker 2>Amazon Prime and all these other things. Sure, it just
<v Speaker 2>it didn't get big enough like those other ones did.
<v Speaker 4>Well, and the miscalculation being there was never a you know,
<v Speaker 4>the opportunity to like parlay this into you know, dot
<v Speaker 4>dot dot profit question mark was never realized in a
<v Speaker 4>meaningful way right.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I feel like that's the shoe dropping.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>I feel like back then it was either like this
<v Speaker 5>is going to change the industry forever and now we
<v Speaker 5>buy games and play games, or this is too good
<v Speaker 5>to be true and this is it's gonna be on
<v Speaker 5>borrowed time.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, even if it like is making a profit,
<v Speaker 2>which they claim often that it does, you know, I
<v Speaker 2>think that is a fancy math a lot of times,
<v Speaker 2>like they aren't like really taking into consideration all the
<v Speaker 2>things that go into the cost of running something like this.
<v Speaker 2>But even if it is it is, it has clearly
<v Speaker 2>not grown the way that they wanted it to. There
<v Speaker 2>was that year that Phil Spencer and Satiinadella both had
<v Speaker 2>their bonuses tied to Game Pass growth. Neither of them
<v Speaker 2>got those bonuses. They were expecting, poor guys. They were
<v Speaker 2>expecting huge numbers and it stalled out at around thirty
<v Speaker 2>million subscribers. And you compare that to Disney Plus Netflix,
<v Speaker 2>uh maybe even Paramount Plus, Like it's probably it's probably
<v Speaker 2>not like all the all that great, and so it's
<v Speaker 2>like they want that growth, that's what they're looking for.
<v Speaker 2>The growth stopped even if it's profitable, which again we
<v Speaker 2>don't know, but they say it is. But even if
<v Speaker 2>it is not growing, that was that just told the
<v Speaker 2>whole story right there. They're like, Okay, so now we're
<v Speaker 2>getting bored with this. Let's change our direction. And here
<v Speaker 2>we are, and so like what happens to this old
<v Speaker 2>business model? Now that's no longer the shiny new thing
<v Speaker 2>it is. We got to sort of raise prices because
<v Speaker 2>we just need to make more money from it. And
<v Speaker 2>they're putting in ub Soft Plus Classics, which everyone's been
<v Speaker 2>clamoring for. Please give us our ub Soft Plus Classics,
<v Speaker 2>is what the kids on the street are saying. And
<v Speaker 2>they put in Fortnite Crew. It's called Fortnite Creue. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the battle Pass thing or you know, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Get the V Bucks and stuff like that, and yeah
<v Speaker 3>for people to play.
<v Speaker 2>Fortnite, like you're gonna be able to do some math here,
<v Speaker 2>but be like, oh, I get these games, and I
<v Speaker 2>get four Ande Crew, maybe I'll play Ubi Soft games.
<v Speaker 2>Some people are gonna be able to justify it, but
<v Speaker 2>most people, I think are just gonna see thirty dollars
<v Speaker 2>say I'm.
<v Speaker 3>Out of here, and we're not.
<v Speaker 2>We're not done right. The price doesn't stop here, it's
<v Speaker 2>going to be forty dollars a month.
<v Speaker 3>That couple of years.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, like I thought they'd do like two dollars and
<v Speaker 2>fifty cents per per increase, right, small five percent increases
<v Speaker 2>here or there, a fifty percent increase and one go
<v Speaker 2>is bananas, and it says, oh, we can just keep
<v Speaker 2>going up from here, Like fifty dollars a month is
<v Speaker 2>probably not off the table within the next ten years
<v Speaker 2>for this thing, and maybe that's longer than really it
<v Speaker 2>will take for them to get there. And then meanwhile,
<v Speaker 2>because of all this, there's a lot of like bad
<v Speaker 2>vibes around the Xbox brand. Some rumors began to spread
<v Speaker 2>that they are kind of changing their plans for doing
<v Speaker 2>a full on Xbox next Gen thing. There's been some
<v Speaker 2>back and forth about this. Xbox did come out and
<v Speaker 2>point out, hey, we have a deal with AMD to
<v Speaker 2>make a system on a chip for our next hardware.
<v Speaker 2>We are going to We're still in this. Now, what
<v Speaker 2>exactly does that look like? Is it going to look
<v Speaker 2>a lot like a traditional Xbox? Well, the rumors for
<v Speaker 2>a long time have been no, it's going to be
<v Speaker 2>a PC basically that has some Windows OS version on
<v Speaker 2>it that makes it feel like a console.
<v Speaker 3>I to me that I think that's still there.
<v Speaker 2>Focus is make Windows based Xboxes and change up the
<v Speaker 2>strategy in that way. But they claim that they're still
<v Speaker 2>making Xboxes going forward. We've talked about that a bunch
<v Speaker 2>of times. But I don't know what do you guys
<v Speaker 2>even want or expect from the next Xbox.
<v Speaker 1>I don't want anything.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I can't imagine what I think i'd possibly
<v Speaker 3>do to make it exciting anymore. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>I think they are a bit out of a crossroads
<v Speaker 4>where it's like.
<v Speaker 3>The time to Yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>I always and maybe this is just like an antiquated
<v Speaker 4>way to think any more, of like the combining of
<v Speaker 4>like their their PC lane with the idea of owning
<v Speaker 4>a console, where it's like, maybe Xbox is just an idea,
<v Speaker 4>let alone a thing you can turn on and off.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know, but it's certainly, especially as we end
<v Speaker 4>this generation, having this kind of negative momentum is not
<v Speaker 4>setting them up for anything.
<v Speaker 2>Xbox is dedicated handheld. Meanwhile, that thing that was rumored
<v Speaker 2>a long time ago, separate from the Asus Roger ally
<v Speaker 2>Xbox X whatever the fuck it's called.
<v Speaker 1>This is a separate from that.
<v Speaker 2>There was rumors about why that was canceled, and it's
<v Speaker 2>because apparently AMD was like, hey, we'll make you this chip,
<v Speaker 2>you have to guarantee you you'll buy ten million of them.
<v Speaker 2>An Xbox like, oh, well, you know the steam decks
<v Speaker 2>only sold five million. We're afraid to commit to that now.
<v Speaker 2>Jess Gordon's come on and said that the story is
<v Speaker 2>not true. He didn't say exactly what part of the
<v Speaker 2>story's not true, although I imagine it's this thing right
<v Speaker 2>here where it's like AMD demanded ten million chips. That
<v Speaker 2>sounds not right to me because AMD has definitely made
<v Speaker 2>fewer chips for that for people before. But maybe something
<v Speaker 2>about this requires so much effort that I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, frankly, why wouldn't they just use something off
<v Speaker 2>the shelf like everything else does Steam Deck the Roger
<v Speaker 2>ally just use one of those and build your OSS
<v Speaker 2>on top of that. None of that really sounds right
<v Speaker 2>to me, But whatever, For some reason, Xbox did put
<v Speaker 2>their handheld They're dedicated handheld on hold, which again says
<v Speaker 2>to me, they're going to focus on the OS. We'll
<v Speaker 2>see that Roger is that thing out out yet or
<v Speaker 2>is it about to be a yeah, okay, uh and
<v Speaker 2>then last thing here still Xbox. Virtuos is currently working
<v Speaker 2>on a remake of Halo Combat Evolved. According to a rumor,
<v Speaker 2>this is the team that that that did Metal Gear
<v Speaker 2>Solid Delta. They did something else recently, They did Oblivion
<v Speaker 2>with Xbox, and it sounds like they're gonna do something
<v Speaker 2>similar here where they're going to take the underlying tech
<v Speaker 2>of Halo Combat Evolved and then take the unreal Engine
<v Speaker 2>five and apply that visual polish on top of that.
<v Speaker 2>And Virtuous has some experience with that, so uh, It's
<v Speaker 2>not not necessarily what I'm craving for, But but I think,
<v Speaker 2>you know, this does give them a chance to maybe
<v Speaker 2>buy Halo some time, reintroduce it to people who might
<v Speaker 2>not be on board with that, and put it out
<v Speaker 2>on PlayStation and Switch and sort of say, hey, like you,
<v Speaker 2>maybe do you care about Halo. Shit, we do another
<v Speaker 2>one of these, a new one of these, and put
<v Speaker 2>it out everywhere. But I don't know, it just really
<v Speaker 2>feels like Halo's time has passed.
<v Speaker 1>But maybe I'm wrong.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, they could always bounce back the boy. They
<v Speaker 3>can't mess this one up, though. This thing has to
<v Speaker 3>come out and be pretty pristine if they want to
<v Speaker 3>repair Halo's image. And that Oblivion remake was pretty good,
<v Speaker 3>but it was very heavy and it was not running
<v Speaker 3>great on a lot of platforms, and I don't think
<v Speaker 3>people are going to tolerate that. Again, this should be
<v Speaker 3>an easier ass This isn't some giant open world game
<v Speaker 3>like Oblivion is. It has open areas, for sure, but yeah,
<v Speaker 3>they gotta nail this one. It can't look weird, it
<v Speaker 3>can't run weird. It's gotta basically be Halo one, but
<v Speaker 3>much prettier. It's gotta have all the multiplayer stuff people want.
<v Speaker 3>The gunplay needs to feel just right. It sounds like
<v Speaker 3>a safe thing to do and yet also a difficult ask.
<v Speaker 1>And that does it for the news. Jan the show
<v Speaker 1>is back over to you. Grab. Can I posit a
<v Speaker 1>question to you? Please? What if they made Halo a
<v Speaker 1>rogue light? I mean, that's a good idea. That's that'd
<v Speaker 1>be fun, man, Yeah, let's do it. You know what
<v Speaker 1>else is age light?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>I fully agree with you. What sounds like a great
<v Speaker 1>idea is taking a quick coffee break and then we'll
<v Speaker 1>be back with emails. And super chats and who knows
<v Speaker 1>what else we'll be back with. We'll see on the
<v Speaker 1>other side. Rub It's okay, just look at it. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>it's fine. Well wait, damn, what are you doing here?
<v Speaker 6>Oh like like existentially or what do you mean?
<v Speaker 1>No, Dan, like here a giant bomb covering games?
<v Speaker 4>Oh?
<v Speaker 6>Oh what I do for a living? Okay, Well, I'm
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<v Speaker 1>That's right.
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<v Speaker 5>it has been a huge part of my life ever since,
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<v Speaker 5>They mean a ton to me, so it hurt me,
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<v Speaker 5>When the unexpected news came down not too long ago
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<v Speaker 1>Now, Danny boy, I see that you're holding a magazine
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<v Speaker 4>Not enough about Mike actually about the time he got
<v Speaker 4>some attention.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know what. We talked about this on the
<v Speaker 1>dump truck. We're getting too many calls about Mike. Uh,
<v Speaker 1>but you know what, I'll take it. It's fine. He's
<v Speaker 1>selling hats, you're selling shirts. I'll take it.
<v Speaker 3>Three to the four to the five to the putt
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<v Speaker 3>and go to Giant Bomb store store dot Giant Bomb
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<v Speaker 1>Right the greatest week of all time?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>That's uh.
<v Speaker 3>That's Pandemonium's uh song. Cut from quotes from Craig Stadler
<v Speaker 3>and Pebble Beach Golf links.
<v Speaker 1>Well, let's just do this whole segment again. Email's first
<v Speaker 1>email comes from David from St. Charles, Illinois. Hey, dudes,
<v Speaker 1>every now and then, I asked myself dumb questions that
<v Speaker 1>asking out loud would likely get dumb looks. I routinely
<v Speaker 1>asked myself what do other people do when with their
<v Speaker 1>other arm when brushing their teeth? The reason I ask
<v Speaker 1>is because sometimes I notice myself clenching a fist for
<v Speaker 1>the entire duration, sometimes just passively scratching, or sometimes just dangling.
<v Speaker 1>Most everyone else likely has never thought about this, but
<v Speaker 1>I'm curious what others say. David from Saint Charles, Dan dangle,
<v Speaker 1>just like you know, hanging, I do? What do you do? Phone?
<v Speaker 7>No?
<v Speaker 4>No, that's only when I'm pissing at a urinal in public.
<v Speaker 4>Jan No, I, I just I have like my fort
<v Speaker 4>it's like straightened out up against the counter, just sort
<v Speaker 4>of like I make it straight, kind of like working
<v Speaker 4>it out a little bit, hands on the sink, like
<v Speaker 4>straight down to like support yourself for Yeah, just kind
<v Speaker 4>of like lean into.
<v Speaker 3>It, give it a little stretchy pooh.
<v Speaker 6>I'll brush my teeth and figure this out. Is there
<v Speaker 6>something fish he does?
<v Speaker 1>He could have just pretended to do it. He didn't
<v Speaker 1>have to.
<v Speaker 3>In the stream, before he gets back, we clean, like
<v Speaker 3>or clean the sink bowl as we're brushing. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>sometimes I do. I walk around and do other stuff too. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'll clean the mirror a little bit while.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, maybe trim an eyebrow, pluck a.
<v Speaker 1>Couple I can't do that with the lefty, No way.
<v Speaker 3>Jam.
<v Speaker 4>When he comes back, just tell him we moved on
<v Speaker 4>and whatever he has to say is irrelevant.
<v Speaker 1>I mean we're gonna have to We're not going to
<v Speaker 1>wait for him to come back. Of course, do you
<v Speaker 1>think he's out there right now brushing his teeth instead
<v Speaker 1>of bringing it over here. No, I think he's going
<v Speaker 1>to think there because he wants to know okay. Well,
<v Speaker 1>next email comes from pile from Sorry, we moved on,
<v Speaker 1>We moved on. It was so interesting. No, no, okay,
<v Speaker 1>we told Sean to cut that email from No, you
<v Speaker 1>don't deserve No. I had a revelation that you're not
<v Speaker 1>going to know. I got my Keith.
<v Speaker 3>You're so bad.
<v Speaker 1>What a sucker? A sucker. I'm not saying for.
<v Speaker 3>No amount of Bullshitna, No.
<v Speaker 1>No, you're done. Move on, move on, move on, move
<v Speaker 1>on yourself. That very little Golf Week.
<v Speaker 3>God, thank you?
<v Speaker 1>Email okay. Email address emails to Cale from scotlet right
<v Speaker 1>said Hey, gang, in honor of Golf Week, which video
<v Speaker 1>game location would make the best golf course? And which
<v Speaker 1>character would you want to be your caddy for a
<v Speaker 1>round of golf? Thanks Kyle.
<v Speaker 3>Apparently the What Walk About Golf has a missed golf course.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know how we missed that. Yeah, morning missed
<v Speaker 3>the block. But yeah, we weren't going to put you
<v Speaker 3>in VR. You get dizzy?
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's VR. Yeah you should play VR. You like
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to I'm gonna do.
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna find the mis court, So that actually would
<v Speaker 3>be a great golf course.
<v Speaker 1>That's like the right answer.
<v Speaker 4>I think I think Mallard Duck has the right answer
<v Speaker 4>in Green Hill Zone is like the perfect.
<v Speaker 3>Like that.
<v Speaker 1>Shadow Moses, Shadow Moses would be cool. Right Sega did
<v Speaker 1>a tennis game?
<v Speaker 3>Did they do a golf game with golf?
<v Speaker 1>Be good? That had been awesome, just says Breath of
<v Speaker 1>the Wild. Jesus h golf mini game in there the
<v Speaker 1>most thing. Yeah, ye holes, yeah you went. I'm one
<v Speaker 1>from Doom's funny answers for this.
<v Speaker 5>I like this.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the Spencer mansion that makes no sense putt putt though,
<v Speaker 3>will be more putt putt fitting. Yeah, that'd be good.
<v Speaker 1>Silent Hill for golf.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the big crocodile fish then comes out and bites
<v Speaker 2>your ball.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they should actually make a residevil Minnie golf spin.
<v Speaker 1>Actually, that'd be great. That'd be cool. I love that
<v Speaker 1>Silent Hill would be challenging because it would just be
<v Speaker 1>nothing but fog all the time.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, no visibility, like Silent Hill is so fog based,
<v Speaker 3>And we didn't have a Silent Hill game in the
<v Speaker 3>N sixty four, the most foggy console of all time.
<v Speaker 1>Surprising.
<v Speaker 3>I think about that a lot.
<v Speaker 5>Think about it all the time, keeps me up at
<v Speaker 5>night is going to be like you know what Bill
<v Speaker 5>Murray said to Scarlett Johansson and yeah lost in translation,
<v Speaker 5>there's gonna be like, there's gonna be like essays.
<v Speaker 1>About whatever you could tell anyone.
<v Speaker 3>I don't care.
<v Speaker 1>You could never tell Mike.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not gonna tell anyone, Okay, if that's fine.
<v Speaker 1>Definitely not Mike.
<v Speaker 3>No, are you over it? Mike?
<v Speaker 5>Or no?
<v Speaker 1>No, no, he's not. God it must be did your
<v Speaker 1>brothers fuck with you? Oh?
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, okay, man, if you were my younger brother, I would.
<v Speaker 3>Just be going down every day, not as much as
<v Speaker 3>others outside. Chris, my younger brother did it the most.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, he's well, you're not the youngest that
<v Speaker 3>you can't do it. He's the middle. He's not how
<v Speaker 3>it's supposed to work.
<v Speaker 1>I'm aware.
<v Speaker 2>How it's like needs the most attention and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 4>What a huge what a huge win for your youngest brother,
<v Speaker 4>he Chris, Yeah, right, friend Tom from London rights and
<v Speaker 4>hi guys, I decided, rather than keeping up with all
<v Speaker 4>the excellent game releases in twenty twenty five, Silk Song,
<v Speaker 4>Haities two, et.
<v Speaker 1>Cetera, I'm gonna save a ghost of Yotay for the
<v Speaker 1>holiday break at the end of the year, he feels
<v Speaker 1>like a good holiday game. Any of you have any
<v Speaker 1>memorable holiday games or are you saving any games for
<v Speaker 1>the holiday break? Cheers Tom from London.
<v Speaker 5>First Metrod Prime was I remember it was that Christmas
<v Speaker 5>I got the Platform Cube and Metrod Prime like bundle
<v Speaker 5>and it was like, oh.
<v Speaker 3>That was perfect.
<v Speaker 1>M that's a good one. I can't think of anything specific.
<v Speaker 3>I could see myself really digging into Yo Tai that
<v Speaker 3>is the one like during the holiday break perhaps, but gosh, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I can't like distinguish in my mind, like when was
<v Speaker 3>that when I sat down to play this game a lot?
<v Speaker 3>When was it? I remember the one year on Thanksgiving
<v Speaker 3>I spent a lot of it just watching D Space
<v Speaker 3>nine the video game.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I told the one about Donkey Kung Country Thanksgiving
<v Speaker 2>a bunch, So this year I will I got someone
<v Speaker 2>mentioned Super Super Mario Galaxy to you, saving that for
<v Speaker 2>the holiday.
<v Speaker 1>I think I might do that as well.
<v Speaker 2>That's that sounds real good this year, like, okay, get
<v Speaker 2>the time off, maybe the Thanksgiving break even although I'll
<v Speaker 2>probably still be catching up on games at that point,
<v Speaker 2>so probably Christmas.
<v Speaker 1>Indiana Jones was a good holiday game from last year
<v Speaker 1>for me. Yeah, yeah, I really like that.
<v Speaker 3>And like Metric Prime for is kind of coming out
<v Speaker 3>in that slot this year, so that could be that
<v Speaker 3>for sure, could be real good.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Okay, a couple more emails here. Caleb from London
<v Speaker 1>as well also writes in Dear BombCast ex Manchester United
<v Speaker 1>legend Wayne Rooney recent tribute recently attributed the team's success,
<v Speaker 1>including winning the Premier League, to the socom PSP game. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>This is because during travel the team would play the
<v Speaker 1>game together, which he felt enhanced their communication and teamwork
<v Speaker 1>in a way which improved results on the pitch. My
<v Speaker 1>question is have you ever heard any other celebrity who
<v Speaker 1>have attributed any of their success to video games? And
<v Speaker 1>do you personally feel there were games which developed a
<v Speaker 1>skill which was useful or relevant to you outside of
<v Speaker 1>video games. Keep up the fantastic work, Caleb.
<v Speaker 3>There was that NASCAR driver recently who like did some
<v Speaker 3>where you like grinded the wall and then he's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I learned that in the GameCube now car games the
<v Speaker 3>price it worked, Yeah, and it didn't like.
<v Speaker 2>He went from like he was not going to like
<v Speaker 2>make the playoff or something, and then because he did that,
<v Speaker 2>he went up like seven spots and made the playoff
<v Speaker 2>at the playoffs.
<v Speaker 3>It really worked.
<v Speaker 1>It's crazy.
<v Speaker 2>And then they banned the move because it worked too well.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, it's kind of super dangerous.
<v Speaker 3>Isn't that what the grandt Tourismo movie is trying to say?
<v Speaker 1>Pretty much?
<v Speaker 2>Movie is like a true story about a guy who
<v Speaker 2>is good good in Grand turismo and like want a
<v Speaker 2>competition to become a real race car driver, and then
<v Speaker 2>became a really good race car driver.
<v Speaker 1>I guess I don't know how true.
<v Speaker 2>That is, but I want to still do this business
<v Speaker 2>of Uh, there's an important thing in all sports footwork
<v Speaker 2>of being able to move your feet around and be
<v Speaker 2>able to like kind of like move like without like
<v Speaker 2>thinking about it too much, and kind of being fast
<v Speaker 2>on your toes And there is nothing better for practicing that.
<v Speaker 2>And I don't think they've ever like, there's no one
<v Speaker 2>in sports that has actually realized this.
<v Speaker 3>DDR.
<v Speaker 2>Getting good at DDR would make a quarterback better like
<v Speaker 2>running backs, like kind of like really any sport, I bet,
<v Speaker 2>being able to fastly quickly shift your weight from one
<v Speaker 2>side to the other without without really thinking I think
<v Speaker 2>that would be like one of those things where you
<v Speaker 2>could like run like a oh, I'm gonna help little
<v Speaker 2>lingers get better at baseball or whatever, and charge parents
<v Speaker 2>way too much money just to play DDR and be
<v Speaker 2>like yeah, yeah, just play that.
<v Speaker 1>I know what I'm talking about. So yeah, I think
<v Speaker 1>that could really work.
<v Speaker 4>I think, uh, it doesn't always translate, but I do
<v Speaker 4>think sports games obviously not the skill of the sport,
<v Speaker 4>but understanding the broad strokes of the game and strategy
<v Speaker 4>I think is helpful. You know, Like, you know, there's
<v Speaker 4>a lot like right now, with the age that deplays
<v Speaker 4>hockey at, you've got a lot of kids who like
<v Speaker 4>clearly watch a lot of hockey and kids who clearly don't.
<v Speaker 4>So there is a lot of positioning there that I think,
<v Speaker 4>you know, makes a lot of sense. But yeah, I
<v Speaker 4>don't know, like actual you've heard it before. I do
<v Speaker 4>thinking the way Rooney's describing it, where it's like attributing
<v Speaker 4>a mechanism of like communication, right, yeah, sure, Like this
<v Speaker 4>is the thing that kept me sane, cooperation separate from like,
<v Speaker 4>oh I learned how to grind rails by playing right,
<v Speaker 4>of course.
<v Speaker 1>I had a friend that like picked up the drums
<v Speaker 1>because of rock band and always like a pretty decent
<v Speaker 1>drummer like before Homie could not keep rhythm for shit.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I think for rock band specifically, that's probably the
<v Speaker 4>only instrument you can really well, aside keeping time.
<v Speaker 3>Man Rocksmith, which is like actual guitars. Right really, it's
<v Speaker 3>always more like a guitar learning software than it is.
<v Speaker 1>Right right, all right. Last email of the show comes
<v Speaker 1>from Matt from Mesa, Hey, big Bamo boys. You know
<v Speaker 1>that oh deer diner thermis that keeps selling out for
<v Speaker 1>Alan awake too? What if Luca dear diner thermos importantly
<v Speaker 1>not a mug, but it also holds coffee.
<v Speaker 3>And it's a dumb video game slash GB joke.
<v Speaker 1>Years Matt for Mason.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, thermiss are cool.
<v Speaker 1>I got no. I have no issue with thermises.
<v Speaker 3>Everybody. Let it be known because they don't impact it,
<v Speaker 3>don't chatter on impact or through shipping. Yes, exactly. I
<v Speaker 3>got one from SGF when I saw the theater demo
<v Speaker 3>of actually that they note it later. So yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>do have one, and it's very nice. Oh I would
<v Speaker 3>have said it to you if I didn't like it.
<v Speaker 1>Well, thank you for the thought. At least mikey folks.
<v Speaker 3>That does it.
<v Speaker 1>For emails, mister menoni, do we have any YouTube super chats?
<v Speaker 3>We absolutely do. Uh And since I need to kill
<v Speaker 3>time because I haven't pulled them up yet, let me
<v Speaker 3>remind you about golf week. It's not just for us,
<v Speaker 3>it's for you. Store thought giant bomb dot com. Golfing
<v Speaker 3>is the national past time for whatever nation you reside in,
<v Speaker 3>or whatever nation you decide to admire the most. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>it will make you more virile, it will make you
<v Speaker 3>more attractive, it will increase your intelligence beams, which is yes,
<v Speaker 3>we call how brains work. Go to store dot giant
<v Speaker 3>on dot com. Just buy a shirt and hat. Please please,
<v Speaker 3>I'm begging you buy it, please please.
<v Speaker 4>Please, but please do not wear jeans on the golf course,
<v Speaker 4>please please.
<v Speaker 3>Whatever you do, is.
<v Speaker 1>That really taboo? The golf you can do?
<v Speaker 4>You can do most Some courses have like rule it's whatever,
<v Speaker 4>I'm just making fun of my okay, but like, uh,
<v Speaker 4>but you look, it's a sport.
<v Speaker 3>Like how much you know you're gonna gonna fucking play sports?
<v Speaker 3>And jeans that's another thing. It's definitely a sport, for sure,
<v Speaker 3>But like you know, it's golf is also a sport, right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>if you're without running, let's be clear.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I mean, look, if you're walking the course, you'll
<v Speaker 4>feel it. You don't want to be wearing jeans walking
<v Speaker 4>the course, even taking a cart.
<v Speaker 1>You don't want to.
<v Speaker 4>You don't want to wear jeans, man, jeans are too hot.
<v Speaker 4>You gotta wear something breathe that breathes better.
<v Speaker 3>Of course, no argument.
<v Speaker 4>No serious person plays golf in jeans.
<v Speaker 3>But all right, I remember when I get into I'll
<v Speaker 3>remember that. Thank you. I can't wait to play around
<v Speaker 3>the golf with you.
<v Speaker 4>Mike.
<v Speaker 3>It's gonna be all.
<v Speaker 1>It'll be great.
<v Speaker 3>It'll be great, and I know that you'll be doing
<v Speaker 3>it in your very own golf shirt from Giant Bombs.
<v Speaker 1>Giant bomb dot com.
<v Speaker 3>Has prof says, are you all going to play the
<v Speaker 3>golf games in UFO fifty? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>We may not have time. It is not gonna have
<v Speaker 1>the time.
<v Speaker 3>It is while how many golf games there are that
<v Speaker 3>are worth playing? Because you know, like yeah, like you know,
<v Speaker 3>people brought up sim golf, which I love. I don't
<v Speaker 3>know how easy that is to play these days.
<v Speaker 2>You know, what I want to do is like maybe
<v Speaker 2>for one of these slots still take biz Hawk and
<v Speaker 2>put a bunch of golf games in there, and is
<v Speaker 2>that the one that does the randomize? Yes, and I
<v Speaker 2>could like see like how many of them I could
<v Speaker 2>complete a round in or whatever, because I.
<v Speaker 3>Would love it for just like stop and shift right.
<v Speaker 1>In the middle of a swing. That'd be really fun.
<v Speaker 5>Would definitely, I mean, you could set it to be like,
<v Speaker 5>you know whatever, your one second to one minute intervals randomly.
<v Speaker 1>Oh man, all right, man, I might look into that.
<v Speaker 3>Grog says, what if Mike never takes that shirt off
<v Speaker 3>all week? Yeah, look after this one is probably gonna
<v Speaker 3>get a wash, now, you know, I got to make
<v Speaker 3>sure everybody knows.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, do you know all kidding?
<v Speaker 3>Is that?
<v Speaker 4>Do you know if it's like a air dry only
<v Speaker 4>I feel like it might be one of those.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think it's air dry, No, okay, I think
<v Speaker 3>I think it just goes in with a normal wash.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, hey, buy two shirts then they're disposable folks by
<v Speaker 1>five right now so that you destroy it clear? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Well maybe maybe check. I put all the info there,
<v Speaker 3>but I think it's fine on the store store at
<v Speaker 3>gifon dot com. How shaky talking about our bonton just
<v Speaker 3>no Mario party hashtag never forget. We'll probably have to
<v Speaker 3>do something Mario.
<v Speaker 1>No, well asked the you brought us up.
<v Speaker 3>That's a question now, like do we play Mario party
<v Speaker 3>because it's the tradition it's kind of funny, how it's bullshit?
<v Speaker 3>Or do we play Lego party because it's better and
<v Speaker 3>more fun.
<v Speaker 1>We could have an incentive and people can just like animals.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, is it a Lego party party or a Mario
<v Speaker 6>party party?
<v Speaker 1>I like that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's like the trolley problem, Like we just have the.
<v Speaker 6>Incentive be the party party, and then we have to
<v Speaker 6>run the thing once.
<v Speaker 1>Its both at the same time.
<v Speaker 3>I don't care what a think about it.
<v Speaker 1>Dan No, no, don't let him think about it. Super chats,
<v Speaker 1>keep reading super chests.
<v Speaker 3>Ep Idiot Box says idea fact your life. The main
<v Speaker 3>character and glove whun leash only wears green key out
<v Speaker 3>her wardrobe and play nubes over her clothes.
<v Speaker 6>Oh my god, and her entire apartment green.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, there's a lot of green. I was
<v Speaker 1>gonna say, let's do the Binurmal audio you have love
<v Speaker 1>on a leash like playing at a top channel and then.
<v Speaker 5>Writing die, I'm writing some things down goals and incentives tab. Okay,
<v Speaker 5>so we've got Lego party, Mario party simultaneous and what
<v Speaker 5>was the Okay, I don't know if we can green screen.
<v Speaker 6>Maybe we just have two TVs going.
<v Speaker 1>No, we just have to edit it. Yeah, I can
<v Speaker 1>do it.
<v Speaker 6>Okay, I'll do it. I'll do it on nob nubes
<v Speaker 6>on a leash, nubes on a leash.
<v Speaker 1>And then we do what if we did spatial Okay, okay,
<v Speaker 1>hear me out spatial audio the leash lounge or love
<v Speaker 1>on a nubes leash has to be in v R
<v Speaker 1>and then wherever you look is what you're listening to.
<v Speaker 5>Oh, if you can make that happen. And then in
<v Speaker 5>the leash lounge if somebody has to do VR, they
<v Speaker 5>are not.
<v Speaker 6>Getting any controls. They can't do anything.
<v Speaker 5>And it's max volume, not max volume of Jesus Ut
<v Speaker 5>except from Tyrant.
<v Speaker 3>Everyone should have their own punishment room. They should have
<v Speaker 3>to watch either Peppa Pig or Ben and Hawley. Speaking
<v Speaker 3>of bad list pitchforks one hundred rap LP apparently, if
<v Speaker 3>people weren't.
<v Speaker 1>Happy with that one, she's fucking garbage. Don't get me
<v Speaker 1>started on this one.
<v Speaker 3>Oh really, yeah, let's see what Let me see what
<v Speaker 3>number one is real quick. Maybe I'll see if I
<v Speaker 3>recognize it. Number one squirrel scull scroll scroll.
<v Speaker 6>Is is it ready to if that's wrong? If it's
<v Speaker 6>not mob.
<v Speaker 3>Deep the Infamous from nineteen ninety old. Wow, interesting that
<v Speaker 3>six thousand says Top Golf has a green Hills zone course.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that makes sense. They have the sonic thing.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, right, that's right. They did do that, right,
<v Speaker 3>And then Antoyo where else says do golf month? It's
<v Speaker 3>out of golf week, penis. Uh boy, we.
<v Speaker 1>Could the whole month of golf. Could it be done?
<v Speaker 1>In our hearts, it can be.
<v Speaker 3>If you order your own golf shirt and golf half
<v Speaker 3>from sort of giant on dot com, you can celebrate
<v Speaker 3>golf week the entire year long.
<v Speaker 1>That's right? Yeah, yeah, I mean, who knows. We could
<v Speaker 1>fill out a whole month with golf and golf related
<v Speaker 1>things that people spell during golf.
<v Speaker 4>Right.
<v Speaker 1>We could do another spelling bl right again.
<v Speaker 3>When I l I g an, it was not a
<v Speaker 3>challenge Dan, it was not a challenge spelled Craig Stadler r.
<v Speaker 1>G S T A D or t D. I think
<v Speaker 1>it's D. I think it's l E. R. Craig Stadler
<v Speaker 1>A D. All right, Mikey any more super chats or
<v Speaker 1>is that it that.
<v Speaker 3>Looks like it's it. I'll do a quick refresh here
<v Speaker 3>to make sure. But I think we're I think we're
<v Speaker 3>pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>But uh nope, we're good. We're good.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you everybody.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you everyone for your emails, thank you everyone for
<v Speaker 1>your super chats, thank you everyone for celebrating Golf Week
<v Speaker 1>with us. So far, it's only day two. Don't worry.
<v Speaker 1>We got so much more golf headed to your eyeballs
<v Speaker 1>and speaking about eyeballs. All of the podcasts are now
<v Speaker 1>available in video form on Spotify. If there is another
<v Speaker 1>podcast platform that you choose and prefer and that supports video,
<v Speaker 1>I'll go investigate. Well, we'll see it then. Also reminders
<v Speaker 1>from the tippy Top of the of the show. You
<v Speaker 1>may be receiving an email not from us, but you know,
<v Speaker 1>not today, not tomorrow, maybe in the next couple of weeks.
<v Speaker 1>Just some important information about how to migrate everything over
<v Speaker 1>to the news site once that gets going, and speaking
<v Speaker 1>about a couple of weeks, Gang tippy Top. But if
<v Speaker 1>in case you missed it in case you came late.
<v Speaker 1>The Giant Bombathon returns to the East Coast. We're headed back,
<v Speaker 1>not just all five of us. We got Chuck, we
<v Speaker 1>got turned about Sean as well. Coming out east Monday,
<v Speaker 1>October twenty seventh. We're going full twenty four hours. Baby,
<v Speaker 1>we go from Monday to Tuesday. We'll do a podcast
<v Speaker 1>in there. I guess now there's gonna be a Nubes
<v Speaker 1>love on a leash lounge whole thing. But lots of
<v Speaker 1>fun shenanigans are planned. We hope to see u. Just
<v Speaker 1>just hey, hang out with us for the whole time.
<v Speaker 1>If you can, we love you. Anything else going on gang.
<v Speaker 6>Blake Club tomorrow, Grub, Did you send me a hat?
<v Speaker 1>No, I didn't.
<v Speaker 3>I forgot to do that.
<v Speaker 1>Let me see if I can go and ship to
<v Speaker 1>you like and have it delivered in one day.
<v Speaker 6>Overnight civil war hat, overnight civil war butt they have that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, definitely.
<v Speaker 1>Go to that spirit. Ye yeah, true, I was in
<v Speaker 1>on this weekend. I could door dash it to you.
<v Speaker 1>I'd be absurd, so stupid, that's irresponsible, right right right.
<v Speaker 1>Like we mentioned, we're going to be going against Game
<v Speaker 1>Informer tomorrow in Everybody's golf to continue the Golf Week Shenanigans.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go flip some coins after Blake Club, but
<v Speaker 1>no one has to worry their pretty little heads about that.
<v Speaker 1>On Thursday, we're also gonna be playing Nintendo Switch Sports golf.
<v Speaker 1>But then on the dump truck we got our dear
<v Speaker 1>old friend, old friend Jordan Old's joining us. That's right.
<v Speaker 1>Guarcinio Hall is on the pod this Thursday Friday. We're
<v Speaker 1>ending the week with some Mario golf, and then it's
<v Speaker 1>gonna go golf with our friends, golf with friends in fact, gang.
<v Speaker 1>I believe that is it. Of course, Games Mornings popp
<v Speaker 1>an Olf Wednesday, Thursday Friday. That about does it for
<v Speaker 1>this week's episode of the Giant BombCast, I love you
<v Speaker 1>and I hope that you never forget that. You can
<v Speaker 1>head to store not Giant bombs dot Com not only
<v Speaker 1>buy any of his golf Week March, but anything else
<v Speaker 1>on there. Mike, quick, quick, what else should they buy?
<v Speaker 1>Yelp go, that's right, he's he's been, Mike. He's theer stabber.
<v Speaker 1>He screams when he argues he's been ship store that
<v Speaker 1>giapod cop.
<v Speaker 3>I love.
<v Speaker 1>My god, I've been gentle seeing up for another week.
<v Speaker 1>Another episode of The Jopop Guys Goodbye,