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Star Wars Outlaws on Switch 2 and Round 3 of Metacritic Draft 2025 · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hello everybody, welcome back to the Boss First podcast, a great
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  place to play games and be better and one of your hosts,
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  Corey dear, get alongside me as always is the PC muscle race
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  himself, Le Ron Dawkins. Hello.
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  What's Poppin? Hello, Le Ron.
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  Court. How's it going?
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  Going OK I'm OK I'm just I'm just I'm just waiting for you to
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  quit verbally abusing me like you did on the pre show.
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  You verbally abused me for an hour and a half last week, so I
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  don't want to hear it. How wait wait.
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  And you had a teammate. How did how did how was Todd and
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  I talking about talking about your misfortunes on the with AP
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  with APC that was built broken? How was that verbal, verbal
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  abuse? Trying to convert me anyways.
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  Also here. Also here.
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  Drinking her marathon juice. It's the mad pharmacist herself,
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  Stephanie Klumov. Got to stay hydrated and I'm
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  sitting here in my gaming office because I got feedback that they
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  don't like it when I podcast from my bed even though I do
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  that because of my back pain. So here I am experiencing back
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  pain for you guys. Just kidding, life is good.
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  You know, you're, you're also doing so much for something, for
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  a, a Nintendo trinket. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm still
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  scratching my head. It's all right.
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  I've done some things for worse, I'm sure.
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  Also here, who has taken over PK power?
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  Pat Klein is Borderlands. What do you call them, dummy?
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  I don't know what they're called.
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  He's just staring at me. Those are sounds emerging from
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  the mask that I don't understand what the words are, but that's
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  OK. That's fine.
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  Yeah, it's fine. It's OK.
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  Pat, did you get that? Is that like a collector's
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  edition thing? Is that what that is?
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  Oh, actually I've won this at PAX.
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  Oh, same thing, Yeah. Look.
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  It's me. Does it have a little bit of
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  does it have a little bit of Randy Pitchford's magic on it?
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  Oh God, I hope we're gonna wash my face now.
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  Oh, that. Sounds.
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  That sounds nasty. It was meant to, yeah.
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  No, it was something I got for playing Borderlands 4 at PAX
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  West. And no, it actually fitted my
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  luggage so without crushing it so I kept it.
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  It's the Psycho Mask, or the Rippers as they're called in
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  Borderlands 4. Well, they're still psychos.
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  Speaking of Borderlands 4, I downloaded Borderlands one on my
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  Nintendo Switch 2 to see if it would run better, but I didn't
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  play yet. I don't.
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  I didn't play yet. Anyways, everyone having a good
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  week, good week, good weekend, good good life.
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  I did more things. Yeah.
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  Oh yeah. I'm, I'm always doing things,
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  yeah. Things are fun things.
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  Things are fun. Oh.
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  Tattoo #3 or at least part of it.
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  He's he's turning into a fiend. That's right.
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  A couple weeks I'm gonna get this side right over here.
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  This is going to probably be like a a six session progress
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  because it will get colored. I'm going to be curious if if
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  that's. The underarm areas though.
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  What they're what they said they'd do is they kind of do AV
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  shape with the underarm to help with like Keeling and stuff and
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  like not really going to this part right here, but more like
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  have the image but like cut AV in it.
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  So. Yeah, that makes sense.
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  Yeah. Cool.
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  Very, very, very cool, Pat. You're turning very badass.
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  Looking nice. Yes, I am.
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  The only thing I did was buy new clothes because I've I mean that
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  for a while. That can be cool.
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  It's kinda cool, just doing my parenting thing and I've begun
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  week 1 of training for the Kyoto Marathon and that's it.
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  Nice. Nice, you just decided to wake
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  up one day and be like hey I'm going to run 26.2 miles.
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  Sounds like so much fun. No, it's more like I saw
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  Nintendo Direct and they said, hey, look, we're going to be on
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  the racing bib, do you want to join the race?
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  And I'm like, yes. Our names on the number tag.
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  You can have one if you run. Now if anyone, now if anybody
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  needs any more evidence that Nintendo is promoting cult like
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  behavior, that's it. That's it right there, that cult
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  like. Behavior encourages you to be
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  healthy then, and there are possibly worse cults out there.
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  I was gonna. Say, you know what, I I could
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  have been influenced to do much worse things by Nintendo.
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  So hey, who would have thought that a video came game company
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  would influence someone that's a gamer to be a marathon runner.
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  Just, you know. Yeah.
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  I, I think, I think Nintendo just wanted money, that's all.
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  Because how much does it cost for that, for that marathon?
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  I paid like 200 I think 30 something dollars.
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  There is. Hold on.
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  How much does the Boston Marathon cost?
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  I don't know. Boston Marathon's pretty
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  expensive. Boston Marathon price 2026 The
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  Boston Marathon. This is riveting. $250 was the
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  2025. 250 OK. OK then.
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  So, Steve. It's like on par.
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  Is that parody? She's going to be in a, she's
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  going to be in a different country, Lauren, she's going to
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  be. That's it.
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  So she has, So she has to be for travel, international travel.
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  She's going to, she's going to become more cultured than us.
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  Stephanie's Stephanie's already more cultured than all of us
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  combined. It's fair.
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  Inflation hit the 2026 one, it's going up to 260.
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  Oh boy. No, but like, it'll put me in
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  the perfect time window to go to the Nintendo Museum during the
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  Mario 40th anniversary, so I'll get that too, but not for free.
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  I'll probably have to pay for that too, so you know.
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  Get that special ticket. Yes.
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  I mean, to be fair, I want to go to the Nintendo Museum as well,
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  but. I just want to go to Kyoto.
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  Tickets are cheap, sort of. I, I, I'm doing my best to
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  somehow manage to bring my child because I think it'll be the
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  most perfect parent child thing to do together to go see a
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  freaking Nintendo museum. I mean, come on.
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  But. And wave a giant Wii mote I.
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  Know right? Be cool with Miyamoto.
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  Do you think you ever got jokes that called him Wii Emoto?
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  Oh my gosh, I didn't even think about that.
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  You probably did, and those people never were seen from
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  again. I'm not.
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  I'm not going to dignify that response, Corey.
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  I mean, you've heard, you've heard Kid and Chris.
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  They they confirmed the Nintendo ninjas are real.
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  Oh goodness. Oh man.
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  You know what else is real? This podcast.
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  The Bossers Podcast. Nice transition.
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  Show the bossers. Thanks.
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  It's my, it's my superpower. Good transitions or mediocre
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  transitions that I try to make sound fun.
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  Pax W Coverage interviews 2 pretty recent ones are going up
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  by the time this episode goes up so three technically if you
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  count Pat's surprise that'll be up by the time this goes up.
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  So yeah, really, really exciting.
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  Theron and I interviewed Matt Boson from Way Forward, the Co
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  creator of Shante Such a. Awesome fucking interview.
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  Like, we had a blast. Dude I could have talked to him
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  for like 3 more hours and I know the.
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  The crazy part was he wanted to talk for three more hours.
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  That would be the part I know I. Should have just left it.
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  I should have just left it recording 'cause he said so many
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  cool things after we stopped recording.
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  Yeah. Where's the backup when you need
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  it? Man, you're he's welcome back
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  anytime like like I love it. Stephanie, you, you had a
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  spotlight recently. It's a pretty good one.
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  Yeah, I, I interviewed, Yeah, from someone from Choose Your
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  Own Adventure. So it's not a video game, but it
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  is a book series, the publisher of the traditional Choose Your
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  Own Adventure, which are awesome.
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  I thought those went away, and they kind of did for a while.
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  Now they're back. They've been attending PAX East.
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  PAX West really really awesome conversation about creativity
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  and how choose your adventure like inspired, you know some
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  aspects of gaming so check that out.
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  I will be taking off and visiting the Limited Run
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  physical store in about a month from now to be there and cover
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  the 10th anniversary for Limited Run.
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  I applied to go to New York Comic Con, but I I can't confirm
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  I'm going yet, but if I do, it's because Capcom's going to be
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  there and I believe Capcom's holding a showcase.
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  So that's the primary reason why I'm going so.
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  A 90 minute showcase. Yeah, Monster Hunter movie too.
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  So if I. Hey.
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  I'll. I will be there to cover that.
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  So yeah, I have the Choose Your Own adventure that will be
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  coming out this week, and then hopefully I'll provide coverage
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  on a couple of awesome events next month.
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  Nice. And Pat, you've, I think, I
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  think no offense to, to, to our other guests, but I think you,
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  you may be the current winner of this interview race right now.
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  I know, I'm so jealous. I mean.
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  I only worked on trying to get this interview for like my
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  entire boss rush career so it's fair you know?
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  Luckily I I finally managed to horse Ben started to join an
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  interview and he's like fine, but we're doing it in person at
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  PACs West, so. If if jealousy was a person
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  right now, they would look like me.
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  What are you going to miss? He's an awesome guy.
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  Like he's, he really is as chill and cool, you know, as you think
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  he is. Like he will basically take the
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  conversation and run with it. He's he's pretty awesome.
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  Yeah, He that that was a good interview, Pat.
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  I listened to it multiple times, mostly to make sure that, you
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  know, nothing was said that shouldn't have been out there in
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  the wild. But I'm just going.
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  To have to log, he's just had to log into the studio, he said.
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  A lot. He he said, he said a lot like
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  it. It was a great interview.
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  You can find out whether he prefers coffee or tea.
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  Yeah, you can find out about a lot of his gaming habits than
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  just kind of what he thought about his year and characters in
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  general, so. Yes, I purchased 2 games that he
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  voiced characters in this year. So I I broke down and bought
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  Final Fantasy 16 on Xbox because I can't stand the PlayStation
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  controller. Sorry, that's fine.
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  Now you can finally complete it. I know I'm excited, but I got
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  sucked into a different game, which we'll talk to.
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  I was actually going to start Final Fantasy 16 soon, but I got
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  sucked into a different game, so we'll talk about that in a
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  minute. A good run of stuff.
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  We also have a couple more interviews coming up from
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  developers and creators that need scheduled, but they're
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  coming up, I promise that. Just got to find the time to do
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  it anyways. Not important.
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  We'll tell you when it happens. Let's we have two kind of bigger
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  topics. So I think we should maybe spit
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  out what we're playing real quick just to kind of, you know,
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  get that out of the way. I want to go first because I'm
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  actually playing different games for once.
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  You're very excited about that too.
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  I am not. You know how long it's been
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  since I've played something that wasn't like that I haven't
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  talked about for like 5 months. Yeah look, there's a green light
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  valley not in a good spot right now.
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  I'm going to tell you I don't like the star path this month or
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  this season, so I'm not doing it.
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  I am, however, the big game I'm playing right now besides
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  Fortnite, which I unlocked all the Power Rangers.
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  You're welcome everybody. I have started playing Star Wars
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  Outlaws on the Nintendo Switch 2.
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  It is very, it's not what I expected, but in like a good
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  way, like I expected like a third person kind of shooter
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  type thing where you kind of explore and it is that.
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  But it's more like it feels like, at least in this opening
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  couple hours, it feels like Uncharted meets Assassin's Creed
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  meets The Division in a lot of ways, which makes sense because
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  it's Ubisoft, right? So it has a lot of Assassin's
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  Creed influences. Like the climbing is straight
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  out of Assassin's Creed Odyssey. It feels like the cover based
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  shooting is straight out of The Division.
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  Like it feels, it feels like The Division when you're in a cover
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  based shooting and and trying to stealth around and the like, the
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  little quips and stuff feel very uncharted.
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  I think K of S is a really cool character.
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  I think Nyx is an awesome companion character and Nix is
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  like the little alien cat dog thing looking thing that goes in
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  like. Cat.
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  Dog. Yeah, that fetches, you know,
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  things throughout the world for you.
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  Like if you find something that you can't reach, Nix will climb
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  through a window or a door or a hole in the wall and go fetch it
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  for you. So you can kind of upgrade your
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  tools and whatnot. So it's it's very cool, very
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  impressive looking and running on the Switch to I did change
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  some settings to make it run a little bit better.
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  But overall, like, I mean, yeah, it probably looks and looks and
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  runs better on the PlayStation five and the Xbox Series
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  consoles, but it's pretty impressive.
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  I continue to be impressed by the games that they're putting
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  on Switch to to be honest. This and Cyberpunk specifically,
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  super impressive. Street Fighter 6 was also very
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  impressive. Hogwarts Legacy is also very
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  impressive on this thing. But now are you still in Canto
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  Blight or did you? Get to them for Hydra.
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  Planet. No, I'm, I'm still on Canto Bite
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  and I'm making my way through that.
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  The palace area where you have to like, steal something, no.
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  The game's gonna be a complete change once you get to the main
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  or get to 1 of the main planetoids.
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  Yeah, 'cause then you start. Dealing with the factions and
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  yeah. Yeah, yeah, I knew that.
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  I know the the Underworld factions kind of play a big role
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  in this and I haven't found anything yet, so I figured it'll
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  change quite a bit. It's a balance game because
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  usually by doing a mission for one faction you're probably
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  going to piss off at least one if not two other factions.
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  So. Yeah, that's fine.
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  I'll just, I'll just take them out.
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  The Division doesn't work the same way, but it's kind of, you
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  know, you do quest for different factions or you take out
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  different factions and it helps other factions and it's kind of
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  like, you know, that sort of thing.
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  The other game I've been playing is a game called Wave Tale.
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  It is kind of an indie adventure, sort of.
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  It reminds me a little bit of Wind Waker meets.
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  Anybody remember that game Rhyme?
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  I don't know, probably from like a decade ago at this point.
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  No, I. Remember, I remember that RIME
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  right that game. Yep, yeah, I remember it kind of
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  reminds me of that. The movement is very fun.
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  I'm exploring the the first island, trying to do the this
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  initial series of quests. But essentially it's the, from
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  what I've been seeing and looking at after I played this
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  initial section was you sail around on a boat and you you go
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  to these different islands and collect different things and
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  kind of solve puzzles and it gives a lot of Wind Waker vibes.
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  So, and it's really cheap too. I think it, I think I paid like
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  $8 for it, maybe even less. Yeah.
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  It's got a really cool color palette too.
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  It's like these aquas and pinks. And so it's really cool.
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  I'm really enjoying what I've played so far.
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  Oh, that does that. The game actually looks really
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  cool. I can see.
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  Yeah, it's got the the graphic fidelity of Rhyme, but it
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  definitely looks like something from a Zelda game.
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  Yeah. Or like Wind Waker, at least.
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  Yeah, and there's a lot of cool mechanics, like there's a dash
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  mechanic that helps with movement.
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  It's really cool. You get a double jump, but but
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  you also get like a like this weird hover because you you have
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  this net, but you can use it like you know how you pretend
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  like certain things like long kind of tubes and stuff for
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  helicopter blades? Like you can use the this net as
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  a helicopter blade type thing and kind of float in the air
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  once you double jump. It's kind of cool.
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  So OK, now it looks like this has like a traversal, like she
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  looks like she runs on water. She can, and I don't know if
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  that's all the time or just in certain areas, but there are
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  points where that dash mechanic kind of takes you into the
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  water. OK, I'm not far enough to tell
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  you one way or another if it's forever or if you can kind of.
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  Traverse that way as well, but there is a boat or like a raft
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  kind of sailboat that you can use to get places.
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  So it's pretty cool. But that's those are the kind of
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  the main things that I've been playing the last couple days.
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  So it's been really refreshing to play something different.
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  So you know what, Stephanie, I'm going to pick you.
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  What are you playing? Relatively short because I know
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  it's been a while so I can't recall if I've just if I've told
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  you guys I've finished Sorry We're closed, but I finished
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  Sorry We're closed. Wonderful horror indie game
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  published by Akupara, developed by Alamode.
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  Very original Silent Hill Resident Evil vibes with very
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  memorable characters. It was a lot of fun for a switch
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  to. I just kicked off Shinobi Art of
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  Vengeance, but I really just started, so you know, I'll see
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  how I go with that. I've been dumping the majority
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  of my time on Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater and I really
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  want to know if I ain't that bad at stealth Games are on because
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  I'm playing on regular mode and I get caught like so easily and
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  I ended up taking the extremely murderous path because I just
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  keep getting caught so when I went.
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  No, it's, it's, it's easy in this game to, to be, to be
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  spotted, you know, And is this your first stealth game?
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  I think first primarily. Well, let's, let's take, let's
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  let's say stealth game of this caliber because yes, because
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  metal, the Metal Gear series basically like redrew the
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  landscape of stealth games. Yeah, I would say this is the my
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  first of this kind, this caliber like.
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  Yeah, well, well, Metal Gear Solid 3 in my, in my personal
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  opinion, Metal Gear Solid 3 has the has the hardest stealth
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  mechanic as in like the stealth mechanic where like you don't
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  get spotted all the time. Like MGS 1 and two were much
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  better were were much more forgiving.
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  MGS 4 was a little more was a was a little more balanced
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  compared to three. And I didn't play enough of
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  Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom Pain to know for sure how the
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  stealth was in that one. But I'm assuming it was probably
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  on par with Metal Gear Solid 3 because because there was a lot
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  of, there was a lot open, open area stuff.
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  Yeah, 'cause I'm sure a big chunk of it is get good, you
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  dumb ass. Like I was very new at it.
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  But the same time, you know, after I got used to the
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  controls, I, I sincerely tried my hardest to make sure, you
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  know, my, I have the best, you know, camo percentage that I
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  crawled, I stalked people and whatever.
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  But just, I would just do 1 little side crawl and all of a
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  sudden the exclamation point went off.
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  And then they sound the alarm. And then I'm like all right now
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  I have to wait like 5 frickin minutes for them to all go away.
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  Yeah, the the alert phase is the alert phase is no joke.
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  So I just end up going shooting everyone, huh?
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  Oh yeah. Yeah, No, no, no.
• 23:21
  The so I you can't make that sound in real life.
• 23:26
  No, but yeah, Lauren, you can imagine how my battle against
• 23:29
  this, the sorrow was like. It was painful.
• 23:33
  It was very, very painful. So.
• 23:36
  No. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
• 23:38
  wait, wait wait. You killed a bunch of people?
• 23:42
  Because you can make that fight really easy by not.
• 23:44
  By not I understand that but I kept getting caught and I
• 23:48
  couldn't get away because I kept getting shot at so I decided to
• 23:51
  just kill everyone that I saw and by doing that my boss battle
• 23:55
  for that it was like it was so so hard because I literally
• 24:00
  murdered everyone in the. Game actually actually here's
• 24:03
  here's some trivia for you. They made it more difficult.
• 24:07
  Actually, it's more they actually made it true to like
• 24:10
  the actual actual how it was supposed to be developed in the
• 24:12
  original game. The original game had the
• 24:14
  original game had a bug in it. So even if you killed everybody
• 24:17
  like it was still in a much easier traversal than it is in
• 24:20
  this game. They I, I saw, I saw the I saw
• 24:22
  what some behind the scenes stuff and they actually fixed a
• 24:25
  lot of stuff that was wrong in the original game with that,
• 24:28
  with that boss battle, that boss battle and the boss battle
• 24:31
  against the boss battle against not the furious who's who's the
• 24:36
  freaky guy? The end.
• 24:39
  Yeah, the end. That one, that one was also that
• 24:42
  one was also tweaked to make it more like how it was originally
• 24:46
  supposed to be. The the battle against the
• 24:48
  battle against the the the Hornet guy, the pain is actually
• 24:54
  easier because there's a couple of tricks you can do now to
• 24:57
  actually like to actually like, you know, like distracted the
• 25:00
  Hornets and and you can no longer you can no longer do all
• 25:04
  you can no longer do every single cheat against the end.
• 25:08
  There's still one cheat you can do against the end but the but
• 25:10
  every other cheat they fix that aw all.
• 25:13
  Right. Well.
• 25:14
  Great, can can you still kill him preemptively while they're
• 25:18
  wheelchairing him in the? Yeah, OK.
• 25:20
  You can do that. And you want to fight in the the
• 25:22
  Ocelot unit in in, in that, in that Boston counter that where
• 25:25
  you would have fought the end. Got it.
• 25:29
  Yeah, there. There's a brief scene where
• 25:30
  they're pushing him into a base. Yeah, and you can snipe him
• 25:33
  right there. Snipe and you can see him right
• 25:35
  in the head. Yeah, I forgot I I read about
• 25:38
  and I forgot what I did to miss out on that window.
• 25:40
  But it was fun actually, out of all the boss fights so far, I
• 25:44
  actually enjoyed the end because it's different and I'm I'm near
• 25:49
  the tail end. I just did the like the from
• 25:54
  soup to nuts the the the battle against the Shagohar.
• 25:59
  Oh yeah, you are. Yeah, you are right there.
• 26:01
  Almost. Done.
• 26:01
  You're right there. Yeah.
• 26:03
  So I just I have that one last bit to.
• 26:04
  Do you have like one fight left? Yeah.
• 26:07
  Exactly, so I'm looking forward to finishing.
• 26:09
  How's your how's your fight against Colonel Vogan go?
• 26:11
  Like the actual like the actual fist fight.
• 26:14
  That actually wasn't too bad to be honest with you.
• 26:18
  What I found frustrating for me a little bit was the controls.
• 26:23
  I noticed every time I get hit, I don't know it could be me if
• 26:27
  I'm mashing buttons, but my character, my snake character
• 26:30
  automatically goes into crawling mode and I'm like how did I get
• 26:33
  down there? It happens to me.
• 26:35
  It happens to me too like, but I think I think it happens to me
• 26:38
  more because like because like there the role mechanic is
• 26:42
  there, but depending on the controls you have, are you
• 26:44
  playing on modern controls or classic?
• 26:46
  Modern. Playing on Modern, Okay, yeah,
• 26:49
  because, because I'm playing on modern as well.
• 26:51
  And I think, I think what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to
• 26:53
  like do a roll, do like either a rolling fall or a rolling get up
• 26:58
  and and he just winds up crawling.
• 27:00
  Yeah, yeah. So in that and you know, if you
• 27:02
  get hit by electricity, you either you don't, well, you
• 27:05
  don't, I don't know if you lose your your your bullets that you
• 27:08
  have loaded, but you need to reload your gun.
• 27:10
  And it got so frustrating. So what I ended up doing was.
• 27:13
  That's right. It discharges your gun and he
• 27:15
  does that. I remember that.
• 27:17
  So I unequipped my weapon, I I take him down, re equip my
• 27:21
  weapon and shoot him. It took a little longer but then
• 27:24
  it was fine. So it was OK, you know, so I
• 27:29
  actually am considering doing like a listicle of like me
• 27:31
  ranking the bosses. They're very unique.
• 27:35
  Again I have a very different perspective on on this because
• 27:38
  this is my first Metal Gear game believe it or not.
• 27:43
  Took me a while to get used to the the fact that it was so
• 27:48
  realistic in a sense that it takes place like Cold War era
• 27:52
  but then they introduce these completely fantastical type
• 27:56
  characters that my brain couldn't comprehend the two.
• 27:59
  But by this point I am truly enjoying it and at some point
• 28:04
  I'm definitely going to want to do another replay where it's
• 28:06
  like all stealth or and no to minimal kills.
• 28:12
  I'm I'm, I'm happy, I'm happy to hear that.
• 28:15
  Like you like it sounds like you were having a good time even
• 28:17
  though like the stealth party is like kicking your ass.
• 28:20
  It was frustrating in the beginning, but I I like to get
• 28:22
  give grace and be patient, not draw conclusions.
• 28:25
  In fact, I like it so much that I've decided that Snake is going
• 28:29
  to be the character I'm going to dress up for Halloween this
• 28:32
  year. Oh, OK.
• 28:34
  Yeah. Naked Snake.
• 28:36
  Naked Snake. I feel like, I feel like, I feel
• 28:40
  like, I feel like after you beat the game, you may change who you
• 28:43
  want to cosplay as, but we'll find out.
• 28:45
  Oh, maybe. It's possible, actually.
• 28:50
  Like I could. I could see you as a boss.
• 28:53
  Yeah, me too. It's more about how blonde wig
• 28:56
  the complexity of the costume because it's really easy to just
• 28:59
  find camo. So it's partially laziness, but
• 29:04
  anyway, that's what I've been playing.
• 29:05
  You just find out. You just find a silver jumpsuit.
• 29:09
  Well wait, you know the sew, right?
• 29:12
  I knew I. Like it with the sewing machine,
• 29:13
  right? With the yeah, OK, I was with
• 29:16
  the sewing machine like, so I was thinking you could actually
• 29:19
  like you could actually like go ahead and like put together like
• 29:21
  a set of fatigues. I know so.
• 29:26
  Yeah, that was. I'm sorry.
• 29:27
  That's I'm sorry. That's what, that's what.
• 29:29
  That's what military people call all.
• 29:32
  Of that, yeah. Yeah.
• 29:35
  OK, but if you do go a snake, you have to make sure you have a
• 29:39
  cooked snake with you. You know, that way you can like.
• 29:46
  I do have a toy snake, a toy snake that I got for this guy
• 29:50
  so. Eye patch or no eye patch?
• 29:55
  Which? Which snake are you going to do?
• 29:57
  Eye patch or no eye patch? I'll do eye patch if I can.
• 30:02
  Eye patch. Yeah, I patched.
• 30:05
  Just like this little one I'd lost.
• 30:07
  Yeah. All right, who's up next?
• 30:13
  Lauren, what are you doing? Well, I am, I am also still like
• 30:17
  playing my way through Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater.
• 30:20
  I am nowhere close to where Stephanie's at, as a matter of
• 30:23
  fact. As a matter of fact, I am, I am,
• 30:25
  I've, I've infiltrated the base as, as one of the scientists.
• 30:29
  So that's where I'm at. So I think I'm more like halfway
• 30:31
  through the game, I think. Nice.
• 30:34
  Yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 30:36
  I was also having the same problem she was having with
• 30:40
  encounters and stuff like that. But here's the thing.
• 30:42
  I'm kind of old. I played Melger solid.
• 30:46
  I'm kind of seasoned Melger solid, so it's like if I get
• 30:49
  spotted, if I get spotted and I can't immediately get in the
• 30:52
  cover to where the the the alert phase goes off, I just I just
• 30:55
  reload my save and and just do it again.
• 30:58
  So that's where a lot of my time is going.
• 30:59
  If I actually play straight through like like you are right
• 31:01
  now, I think I would probably have also I I think I also have
• 31:04
  it beaten by now, but the plan is to still have it beat by by
• 31:07
  September 30th for Final Fantasy test day got to and that's still
• 31:13
  my that's still my plan. And and also and also I am
• 31:18
  playing. I'm also continuing my
• 31:20
  playthrough about Final Fantasy Rebirth Integrid.
• 31:23
  Nice. Quick question, Lauren, when
• 31:25
  you're going through Metal Gear Delta, do you have any go to,
• 31:30
  when I say costumes, like I tried the box and try to creep
• 31:33
  around in a box for a little while.
• 31:36
  Is there anything that you go to?
• 31:39
  Actually, actually, I do a lot of when I'm out, when I'm
• 31:42
  outdoors, I do a lot of the the splinter, the splinter armor,
• 31:45
  the splinter camo armor. Wow, Monster Hunter.
• 31:47
  Sorry, the splinter ammo with the with either the woodland or
• 31:50
  this or the OR the black face that that just sounded wrong.
• 31:55
  But whatever, I know I wish. You said it.
• 31:59
  I wish you said it, blackface. What the hell?
• 32:02
  Yeah, or or or yeah, like that's usually my that's usually my go
• 32:06
  to when I'm when I'm when I'm outdoors and when I'm indoors.
• 32:09
  Like because because I did get the I did get the deluxe edition
• 32:13
  because I got a very nice, nice, nice PC discount.
• 32:16
  I did get the deluxe editions. When I'm inside I usually Don
• 32:19
  the sneaking suit. OK.
• 32:24
  Nice, Nice. Well, Pat, I guess that leaves
• 32:30
  you. You're not playing anything
• 32:32
  right. Yeah.
• 32:34
  You know I I just found this $20 game on the E shop the other day
• 32:39
  called Silksong. Oh, I heard it was too cheap.
• 32:42
  Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm like, this game can't
• 32:45
  possibly be any good. So anyways Silksong, I have a
• 32:52
  love hate relationship with this game.
• 32:55
  Still a neat. It's you sound like the Internet
• 32:59
  like. OK, First off, yes, it is a
• 33:04
  brilliant game. It is very, very beautiful.
• 33:08
  The music is stellar, the combat on point, you know, like I enjoy
• 33:15
  exploring this wonderful like dark but majestic world full of
• 33:20
  very animated critters that you instantly fall in love with,
• 33:24
  especially Sharma. If you don't know who Sharma is,
• 33:27
  look him, look her up. It is probably the one person
• 33:30
  that we need to protect in the entire world for her absolute
• 33:35
  purity. But this game is punishing like
• 33:43
  I I like I would almost I would say it's hard.
• 33:46
  It's definitely hard but it's more punishing than silks are.
• 33:53
  Then Hollow Knight was for sure. And Hollow Knight in my opinion,
• 33:56
  while it was hard, the main path was very doable and it didn't
• 34:01
  get hard until you got towards more of the post content of it.
• 34:05
  This game kind of starts off really like, it's almost as if
• 34:09
  you played Hollow Knight and you're jumping into like this
• 34:14
  game where bad guys will immediately start doing two hits
• 34:18
  of damage on you when you only have like 5 pips of health,
• 34:24
  which is a yeah. All the bosses will have
• 34:28
  abilities to, to hit you. And then there's certain normal,
• 34:32
  actually like at least half the normal bad guys will also to hit
• 34:35
  you. The flying bad guys are a pain
• 34:41
  in the ass because they have this ability when just before
• 34:45
  the attack they back the fuck up and then you missed and then
• 34:50
  they have pinpoint accuracy to hit you.
• 34:53
  And so it's like they're like the most cowardly pieces of
• 34:57
  garbage I've ever fought and I hate it because they just, some
• 35:03
  of them are damaged sponges too. I've literally today fought a
• 35:06
  mosquito that took five hits with a Level 3 sword to finally
• 35:14
  dispatch and this motherfucker kept running away and kept
• 35:18
  spitting these goddamn acid blobs at me, literally draining
• 35:23
  my health. I'm like what the fuck?
• 35:25
  You are a flying little gnat and you are christening me off.
• 35:31
  Oh boy, that's crashing out. That's crashing out.
• 35:36
  Take cover. But then when I finally achieve
• 35:39
  what I'm trying to do, then, you know, it's like, OK, you know,
• 35:44
  and we can probably become friends again until I get to the
• 35:47
  next boss fighter, the next little minion that's like that
• 35:50
  stupid little ass mosquito. So this is how I feel about
• 35:56
  Silksong. What is the general consensus
• 36:04
  around this game? Like you had, you had to pick a,
• 36:06
  you had to pick a rogue like. No, it's not a rogue like.
• 36:10
  It's from metroidvania I think. Oh yeah.
• 36:14
  Yeah, that this one's, this one's a pure Metroid mania.
• 36:16
  It's like there's do you go back?
• 36:20
  Like the thing about this is that if you die, you have a
• 36:23
  chance to go back to where you died and hit your cocoon so that
• 36:28
  you can regain your what they called rosaries, which is one of
• 36:32
  your currencies in the game. And they've also made it so that
• 36:36
  rosaries are also a very rare currency to have.
• 36:38
  Like you almost needed to purchase maps, purchase items,
• 36:43
  even sometimes purchase rest benches to rest on.
• 36:47
  Hell, there's even a store where you have to purchase just to get
• 36:50
  into the store. And then when you walk out of
• 36:53
  the store, they close the damn door and you have to repurchase
• 36:55
  to get back into that store. You see, it's things like that,
• 37:01
  that's like, this is what makes it frustrating.
• 37:04
  Oh. Man.
• 37:07
  But it is overall, I would say like it it's it's really good in
• 37:13
  in terms of its design. You know, if only they maybe
• 37:19
  made it a little more and this is the argument you're going to
• 37:22
  find online. Is that like the get good or the
• 37:27
  skill issue? Like, you know, it's a game like
• 37:31
  that. Like in my mind, yeah.
• 37:33
  If I came into this game knowing that it was going to be hard,
• 37:37
  like I came in thinking this was going to be like Hollow Knight.
• 37:40
  And while Hollow Knight again was hard, it didn't get hard
• 37:44
  until the end. This one immediately, this one
• 37:47
  is definitely a lot harder. So it it kind of was a little
• 37:51
  bit of a drawback. This one's like, this one's like
• 37:54
  gotcha. This one's like gotcha bitch.
• 37:57
  Yeah, So, you know, it's it's one that I feel like I would
• 38:04
  probably enjoy more if I have more time with that.
• 38:08
  The only issue with that is I did say that it was going to be
• 38:11
  the next spoiler cast. We're doing recording later this
• 38:16
  month so. Have fun, have fun.
• 38:19
  Yeah, but so far I put like 30 hours into the game.
• 38:23
  I would say I'm definitely over halfway, but there's a lot to
• 38:27
  unlock. Like there are a lot of quests
• 38:30
  to do in this game. There's a lot to explore, just
• 38:34
  various offbeat paths. So it's it's good, but be
• 38:40
  prepared for a very frustrating time and have to have a lot of
• 38:45
  patience with this game to be able to enjoy it.
• 38:52
  But a game that I am really enjoying right now is Kronos the
• 38:56
  New Dawn. Well, Kronos New Dawn.
• 38:59
  The new dawn New dawn is. Actually, the name of the city
• 39:02
  that it takes place, so that that's why it's called New Dawn.
• 39:08
  This is Bluebird Team's newest original IP, and this game is
• 39:13
  literally the baby child. The, the, yeah, the, the baby
• 39:18
  child of Resident Evil meets Dead Space.
• 39:21
  It's got the Resident Evil style puzzle manage and inventory
• 39:28
  management system. You, you know, you only have a
• 39:30
  certain amount of spaces to put items in and that will also
• 39:34
  include your guns. And then you have chess in the
• 39:37
  same room for you can like reorganize your inventory.
• 39:41
  So it's very old school survival horror in that regard.
• 39:45
  But I would say it's very Dead Space almost in its combat,
• 39:50
  ranging from well, basically you have.
• 39:54
  It's very in your face, right? Yeah, these these creatures,
• 39:59
  these what they call the orphans, are these like body
• 40:05
  horror, like merged? Monstrosities of humans, you
• 40:10
  know, like it could have like multiple arms with heads and
• 40:15
  like, you know, or maybe an extra hand sprouting out of
• 40:18
  another hand. And it's like these things are
• 40:21
  just weird fleshy monstrosities that you don't want them, that
• 40:28
  their gimmick is that if they sense another one of their kind
• 40:33
  that's dead, they will run up to that and then they will merge
• 40:37
  with it and get become stronger. So you want to either burn the
• 40:42
  bodies or you want to kill them off really fast with your
• 40:48
  weapons. But of course you have limited
• 40:50
  ammo too, so you got to be very good with your shots as well.
• 40:55
  But one of the cool things is the weapons all have these.
• 40:58
  Well, most of the weapons I've had so far have these charge
• 41:01
  abilities. So it really like gives more
• 41:04
  like hit with your bullet instead of taking like maybe 5
• 41:10
  bullets to knock down a creature, it takes like 2:00 to
• 41:12
  3:00 depending on how powerful you charge up your gun.
• 41:19
  So it it's, it's fun in that regard.
• 41:22
  You get other things like fire bombs and you get a flame
• 41:26
  thrower of course to kind of like flames kind of stunned
• 41:29
  them. They're all very weak to fire.
• 41:31
  So it's kind of like you can stun them by hitting them with
• 41:35
  flames. If you have a certain ability
• 41:38
  attached to you, you can do more damage while they're on fire as
• 41:42
  well. But the atmosphere and the
• 41:46
  environment is like chef's kiss for survival horror.
• 41:50
  It's very, very good. They're creepy.
• 41:54
  The lighting is absolutely perfect with the nice amount of
• 41:59
  like dark but also like some neon drench going on too.
• 42:07
  It's got a, it's got that 80 synth wave kind of soundtrack
• 42:11
  going on behind it because it is like a mix of like horror but
• 42:16
  also like sci-fi horror. So it's got that stranger Things
• 42:22
  like boy, yeah, that mixes great with colors and weird space
• 42:31
  anomalies. It fits them so perfectly.
• 42:36
  But yeah, I'm really enjoying this, the game.
• 42:40
  The I don't quite understand what's going on.
• 42:43
  Like with the story, you just find out in the beginning that
• 42:47
  you have to extract something, a special target and that you're
• 42:53
  in this like place called New Dawn, which was ravaged by a
• 42:58
  plague that created these monstrosities and essentially
• 43:03
  like just made this weird, like nightmarish sci-fi horror.
• 43:11
  But it it's I got to give Bluebird team credit.
• 43:14
  This game is absolutely phenomenal.
• 43:16
  Like they just seem to get better and perfect their craft
• 43:20
  with each and every game that they put out there.
• 43:22
  So I am this is probably my focus title that I'm focusing on
• 43:28
  right now. Like I, I will dabble in some of
• 43:30
  the other games I'm playing, but this is like, this is the one
• 43:33
  that I want to beat. Nice, you know, next.
• 43:39
  I'm glad, I'm glad. You gave that feedback.
• 43:42
  Sorry to cut you off, just just like, no, I'm just saying I'm
• 43:46
  glad you, you know, I, I heard that feedback from you because
• 43:49
  I'm actually hearing like mixed reviews over it.
• 43:53
  So that made me sad because it seemed like it's a high quality
• 43:56
  game. It honestly, it reminds me of
• 44:01
  like the the Resident Evil remakes.
• 44:03
  Like if you like Resident Evil and you're OK with the whole
• 44:07
  inventory management, it's a good game.
• 44:10
  It's solid. Like I I'm the story's
• 44:14
  nonsensical a little bit, but that's probably the only
• 44:18
  downside. Everything else just fits OK.
• 44:25
  Mm hmm. And I'm also dabbling in
• 44:27
  Borderlands 4. It's more Borderlands right now.
• 44:33
  Borderlands. But you also have like a glide
• 44:35
  ability after your second jump. So jump jumping makes traversing
• 44:41
  a little funner, but it it seems a little more serious.
• 44:46
  I haven't run into anyone from prior Borderland games and so it
• 44:52
  it almost feels like it's kind of a reboot, but I'm not quite
• 44:55
  sure how it ties into the rest of the Borderline games other
• 44:59
  than the fact that Pandora's moon hasn't somehow kind of came
• 45:03
  into the atmosphere of this planet based on the events of
• 45:06
  the third game that I guess spoiling the third game.
• 45:11
  The final thing is you have to protect the planet from the moon
• 45:14
  crashing into it and so Lilith sacrifices herself to push it
• 45:19
  away so it somehow lands over to this planet and now you got
• 45:25
  bolts and vault hunters and some dude named the time keeper that
• 45:29
  basically wants to get rid of everyone's free will so well.
• 45:33
  That's always wasn't. Yep, haven't really played a
• 45:37
  whole lot into it so there isn't a whole much I can report on
• 45:40
  this one though, but it feels like Borderlands.
• 45:44
  It looks like Borderlands. It shoots like Borderlands.
• 45:49
  Oh, stop it. It must be Borderlands.
• 45:52
  Move on, move on. Does it?
• 45:54
  Does it joke like Borderlands? Oh yeah, it's still jokes like
• 45:57
  Borderlands. You got Claptrap.
• 46:00
  That's right now the only common thing going on at the moment.
• 46:03
  And Claptrap is still just as annoying little hunk of metal as
• 46:07
  always. We scared the runaway too much,
• 46:11
  Borderlands. No, I didn't.
• 46:13
  I didn't want the. I didn't want the I didn't want
• 46:15
  the audience to see like the obscene faces I was making.
• 46:20
  OK, OK, OK. Well, since that's what we've
• 46:25
  been playing, shall we go to Metacritic draft or the topic
• 46:31
  first? I'll leave that I'll.
• 46:34
  Leave that to. Metacritic.
• 46:37
  OK, Metacritic it is all right, was the first answer I heard
• 46:41
  besides the Ron say he doesn't know so.
• 46:44
  No, I was going to say I'll leave it up to the panel like I
• 46:47
  wasn't going to, I wasn't going to like assert my dominance on
• 46:50
  this. Sounds sounds like you just
• 46:52
  didn't know the run. Hey anyways, I'm just I'm.
• 46:57
  I'm getting sick of you. I'm getting sick of you tonight.
• 47:02
  Download more RAM, you'll feel better.
• 47:03
  You better watch yourself. Speaking of watching, I'm
• 47:08
  watching you in last place as we go on to the last three picks of
• 47:11
  our Metacritic draft. Wait, this is the final three?
• 47:16
  I guess so. I guess so.
• 47:18
  I. Guess so.
• 47:19
  It's September. Yeah, we.
• 47:19
  Are we aren't, we are in Q4, I guess so, yeah.
• 47:23
  All right, so we are picking our last three games for Metacritic
• 47:26
  Draft 2025. We have the scores here.
• 47:31
  Stephanie, you wrote the scores down.
• 47:34
  I sure did. Since you were prepared for
• 47:35
  this, unlike me. But huge disclaimer, you know,
• 47:41
  these numbers seem very different, not like very range,
• 47:46
  but that's because some of us have picked a bunch of games
• 47:49
  that already came out, while some are all gonna come out in
• 47:52
  the next few weeks. So these aren't really
• 47:55
  technically an accurate reflection of how we're all
• 47:57
  doing. It's more looking at how each of
• 48:01
  the individual games have been going.
• 48:03
  If something tells me I don't know.
• 48:05
  La Ron's numbers are looking pretty good, but we'll see how
• 48:08
  Pat does. Yeah, my, my Audible's doing
• 48:15
  pretty awesome. I love it.
• 48:17
  I'm so sorry this was. Getting either this that game
• 48:21
  was either going to do really good or really.
• 48:23
  Bad. There was no medal for that one.
• 48:27
  It's better than a big fat 0. Judith was going to get me this
• 48:29
  year, so. Yeah.
• 48:32
  So should we like each just quickly rattle off like what the
• 48:36
  game, what games we've picked that have scores so far and then
• 48:39
  we'll do round Robin of our last three picks?
• 48:44
  Yeah, we'll, we'll go in order here on the list.
• 48:46
  Laron, you, you rattle off your scores 1st and then I'll go and
• 48:50
  Stephanie and then Pat can go last.
• 48:52
  OK. All right, so, yeah, so my first
• 48:56
  pick was Monster in the Wilds, which is 6 is an 88.
• 48:58
  I believe that score had adjusted from when it was
• 49:01
  originally out because I know, I know it scored in the 90s when
• 49:04
  it when it in its first month, but whatever, whatever.
• 49:09
  Then they've got Death Stranding 2 on the beach That got 90
• 49:12
  points overall on Metacritic. Mel Gasol, Delta Snake Eater is
• 49:18
  doing pretty well. I feel like that's kind of a mid
• 49:20
  score at 85, but whatever. Ninja Gaiden Rage Bound is at 88
• 49:25
  Borderlands four hits, 84 PAT. Do you believe that's that's
• 49:29
  worth that score? At the moment, yeah.
• 49:32
  OK, all right. And then for games that I have,
• 49:35
  they're still waiting in the in the in the wings for for like
• 49:38
  releases as Metroid Prime 4, Beyond Final Fantasy Tactics,
• 49:42
  Evil E Chronicles and Ninja Gaiden 4 and Dragon Quest 1 and
• 49:48
  2 HD 2D remake. So I'm sitting at 435 points as
• 49:53
  of as of before we enter our games in tonight.
• 49:59
  Nice, nice. You still have some pretty good
• 50:02
  pretty good games on here too. Yeah, and I'm adding a few more
• 50:06
  too. I'm I'm I'm going to go out on a
• 50:09
  limb and say that at least half of the games you have left will
• 50:15
  perform 90 or better. That's what I'm hoping.
• 50:20
  So yeah, I guess. I guess I'll go next.
• 50:24
  All of my games seem to have scores so far.
• 50:28
  So Assassin's Creed Shadows is sitting in an 81, Doom, The Dark
• 50:33
  Ages, then an 83. Lost Soul aside, as is a 62.
• 50:38
  I really thought that game was going to do better it it's been
• 50:44
  in development for so long. And like, I really had hope for
• 50:46
  this developer because it just, it looks like a cool game, but I
• 50:52
  know it had some performance issues when it came out.
• 50:54
  And also when you have a game this ambitious from a solo dev
• 51:00
  that ends up bringing on a small team, you know, 2/3 of the way
• 51:04
  through, you know, it's, it's ambitious.
• 51:08
  I'll give them that. But sometimes ambition doesn't
• 51:11
  always convert into Metacritic score.
• 51:14
  So Donkey Kong Bonanza and a 91 Trails from the Sky first
• 51:22
  chapter. The remake is sitting at an 89
• 51:25
  so far, but not all the reviews are in so that may change.
• 51:30
  Probably within a couple points. I did try out the demo.
• 51:36
  There's a lot of talking in that demo.
• 51:38
  I didn't actually get to play because the talking is so long,
• 51:40
  but. The Trails games are very story
• 51:43
  heavy. They're they're literally like
• 51:45
  75% story, 25% gameplay. They're dialogue heavy, which is
• 51:49
  why, which is why I like, I did not, I didn't, I didn't stick to
• 51:53
  the to the series. Shinobi Art of Vengeance is at
• 51:59
  an 87. Gears of War Reloaded at an 84 a
• 52:04
  little high, I think for that, but also I'm not going to
• 52:08
  complain. I guess everybody's golf
• 52:10
  Hotshots. I thought it was going to do
• 52:12
  better, but apparently it has a lot of like performance issues
• 52:15
  and missing features and a lot of people are really upset about
• 52:20
  this game and Wu Chang fallen feathers at an 81.
• 52:28
  So pretty good on that. So my my scores are pretty, I'm
• 52:34
  pretty happy so far. No goose eggs like last year at
• 52:38
  this point so. Lucky you.
• 52:42
  Yeah, side tangent, I have a review code for Wuchang Fallen
• 52:46
  Feathers that I found in my inbox, like from two months ago.
• 52:51
  They're just. They're just.
• 52:52
  They're just. Waiting for that review.
• 52:54
  Yeah, I I guess. Well, it's not important.
• 52:59
  I didn't even ask for it. Well, you can use it once it
• 53:04
  comes off a game pass. I'll probably just give it away.
• 53:08
  It'll be fine. We'll figure it out.
• 53:12
  Stephanie, you are up with some pretty good scores so far.
• 53:17
  I think a lot of my score, most of not, I shouldn't say most of
• 53:20
  chunk of them are kind of they're not bad, but they're not
• 53:23
  going to give me the win. So the games that have scores so
• 53:29
  far, which is most Elder Ring Night Rain 77, Sid Meier Sieve 7
• 53:35
  at 79. Say that five times Fast.
• 53:37
  KCD, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 at 88.
• 53:41
  I'm so happy for War Horse Studios and how successful that
• 53:44
  game has been. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4
• 53:48
  at an 86, Kronos, The New Dawn 83, Sword of the Sea 88 and
• 53:54
  Mafia The Old Country is, I think, my lowest score.
• 53:57
  Yeah, at 74 I'm. Shocked that game was that low.
• 54:02
  Yeah, I, yeah. I've heard nothing but good
• 54:04
  things about that game. So I don't know.
• 54:08
  The story was good, but outside, yeah, outside the story.
• 54:12
  And you do the extra stuff, the extra the world is dead.
• 54:18
  Like there's no reason to explore it.
• 54:21
  That's a bummer. All right, well, the games that
• 54:29
  don't have scores yet, Silent Hill F, which is coming out
• 54:32
  soon, and Whisper Mountain Outbreak, which now I'm
• 54:35
  wondering if I just won't get a score because it came out, but
• 54:39
  it came out as early access. So I'm not really quite sure if
• 54:42
  I'll see a score by the end of the year.
• 54:46
  If the recent embargo break for Silent Hill F proved anything,
• 54:54
  the one the review that broke was a 95.
• 54:58
  Nice, nice. So, so far, my total is 575.
• 55:03
  All right, Pat. All right, out of my 8 choices
• 55:09
  only Split Fiction and Silk Song.
• 55:13
  Funny saying, Silk Song is one of the ones that came out.
• 55:18
  Anyways, Split Fiction came out at a 91.
• 55:22
  Silksong is sitting at a 93, so that gives me 184 out of 800.
• 55:31
  But a big chunk of these games I have are all coming out in
• 55:35
  October. So we shall see what happens.
• 55:42
  But I'm I'm looking very positive here.
• 55:46
  Nice. Well I suppose it's time for us
• 55:50
  to pick our final three games. We will go round Robin, so
• 55:56
  LeBron will go first, I will go second, Stephanie 3rd and Pat
• 56:00
  will go last. LeBron, will you do us the honor
• 56:08
  of picking your game first? I'm glad.
• 56:14
  I'm glad I'm going first because Hades 2.
• 56:22
  Yeah. I mean, that'll probably give
• 56:25
  you some points, I'm sure. Is it?
• 56:28
  Just a smidge. Just a smidge.
• 56:30
  Yeah, yeah, let me write that down on your list.
• 56:34
  I. Already.
• 56:35
  Did. Yes, please.
• 56:36
  Yes. Write that down.
• 56:38
  Write it down now. Write it down all right?
• 56:43
  I guess it's my turn, huh? Let's see.
• 56:45
  It was not. Was not prepared for this.
• 56:49
  You're the one that was like, let's do this.
• 56:52
  Actually, Stephanie, Stephanie suggested it to me and I said
• 56:55
  that is a great idea. I do not want to take, I do not
• 56:58
  want to take credit for this topic, but let's see here.
• 57:05
  I am going to take a safe one with Plants versus Zombies
• 57:11
  replanted. That's so that's.
• 57:17
  Very safe. It is.
• 57:20
  Like that's that's almost safe to a fault.
• 57:24
  Well, I need the points. So, you know, I'm going to, I'm
• 57:28
  going to, I'm going to take the points and run the run I.
• 57:30
  Don't know, I don't know, you said.
• 57:31
  You just swung, swung for the fences.
• 57:34
  There's two more picks. I can do whatever I want.
• 57:36
  Don't tell me what to do, Mom. My own person.
• 57:41
  Well with that being said, I will.
• 57:48
  This is where you know love for franchise goes against better
• 57:51
  judgement, but I'm gonna go with Legend of Zelda Age of
• 57:54
  imprisonment. I was gonna pick that next.
• 58:00
  But we'll see. I don't know.
• 58:01
  Like I'm excited for it, but I actually don't recall how well.
• 58:04
  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 58:05
  You mean you mean Hyrule Warriors?
• 58:07
  Oh. Hyrule Warriors.
• 58:08
  Sorry. Yeah, Hyrule Warriors.
• 58:09
  Agent, I was about, I was about to say, wait, that's not that's
• 58:12
  not I didn't mean. Sorry, I didn't mean to get
• 58:14
  anyone excited. No.
• 58:16
  We all knew what you meant, Laron.
• 58:20
  That was going to be my second pick, so you so yeah, you got it
• 58:23
  in there. Hyrule Warriors, not Legend of
• 58:25
  Zelda. It's all the same, all right,
• 58:29
  It's fine. What will you choose?
• 58:35
  What should this be? Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
• 58:44
  do, do, do, do do, do, do do do, do, do, do, do.
• 58:46
  Yeah. You took.
• 58:47
  You took too long. You took too long.
• 58:50
  He has no, he has no vote. Yeah, that that's not happening.
• 58:55
  Don't listen to him, Pat, he's just said he's in last place.
• 58:58
  Yes, he is right. I'm mean today, yeah.
• 59:09
  You are. You are.
• 59:11
  You are. I'm gonna ignore you for the
• 59:13
  rest of the night after after we get.
• 59:15
  To show. Don't do that.
• 59:18
  I'll make you dinner. What's for dinner?
• 59:21
  I don't know. I'm just going to I'm just like
• 59:26
  any other man, like the weight of my heart's through my
• 59:28
  stomach. Wasn't expecting a follow up
• 59:31
  question. You know, I'm excited.
• 59:35
  I'm going to choose one that I personally am looking forward
• 59:38
  to. So I'm going to go with Yuka
• 59:41
  Replay. That's a.
• 59:44
  Good one. That's a good one.
• 59:50
  Replay Yi, right? Yuka replay or something like
• 59:53
  that, right? Yep Yep, just for the audio and
• 1:00:01
  and video watches after this it is September 16th, so we can
• 1:00:04
  pick anything after September 16th.
• 1:00:07
  I know you're. Doesn't really have, yeah.
• 1:00:10
  I just, I just if anybody was wondering if we pick anything
• 1:00:15
  between now and the time this comes out anyway, it's not
• 1:00:19
  important anymore. Le Ron.
• 1:00:23
  Hang on one second. So I've got 2 here and I'm
• 1:00:25
  trying to, I'm trying to, I'm trying to coin toss right now.
• 1:00:30
  Coin toss, he says. You know what this might be?
• 1:00:33
  This might be a stinker for me. Might be, but I think I'm going
• 1:00:39
  to go with Battlefield 6. OK.
• 1:00:51
  It might be the one, Lauren. All right.
• 1:00:55
  Just might be the one. I might get pushed back on this,
• 1:01:00
  but I'm going to pick it anyway. I'm going to go with Mario
• 1:01:07
  Galaxy 1 and 2 pack, whatever that is.
• 1:01:11
  I don't know if they're getting what if they so you think
• 1:01:14
  they'll get rated together or separate?
• 1:01:17
  That's the thing. Oh, I.
• 1:01:19
  Think they're going to get ready together but here's the thing,
• 1:01:22
  will it get rated because it's basically a repack?
• 1:01:25
  Yeah, all the games, all the remakes that came out this or
• 1:01:29
  all the ports that came out to Switch got.
• 1:01:31
  Oh, they did. OK, OK.
• 1:01:33
  Because OK. Because I've seen sometimes
• 1:01:35
  they're going to Metacritic and there's no listing for a game.
• 1:01:37
  Yeah. So Super Mario Galaxy one and
• 1:01:46
  two. Pretty bold move.
• 1:01:51
  I'm a bold. Guy.
• 1:01:52
  On it. Haven't you heard?
• 1:01:54
  I'm going to go with probably not a bold move.
• 1:01:58
  I'm just betting on people just being hardcore fans and why we
• 1:02:04
  would even get another second full game specific direct for
• 1:02:07
  this. But Kirby Air Riders, I'm
• 1:02:13
  telling you. I'm telling, I'm, I'm telling
• 1:02:15
  you the Kirby games are going. The Kirby games are going to
• 1:02:18
  fall in their face like it it it's coming.
• 1:02:20
  It's Kirby Air Riders, man. It's an acceptable Kirby game.
• 1:02:26
  Air Rider. Fans are pretty, pretty
• 1:02:29
  passionate about their Air Rider game.
• 1:02:31
  That just that just scratched the game off my list because it
• 1:02:34
  was it was on my it was on my list of players.
• 1:02:36
  I just scratched the game off my list.
• 1:02:37
  Thank you, Stephanie. You keep stealing my game step.
• 1:02:40
  Sorry. Every.
• 1:02:42
  Every. Medical This is the third meta
• 1:02:44
  great draft we've had. Like in every year, you steal
• 1:02:47
  more of my games than anybody else on this panel does.
• 1:02:53
  I love you, Stephanie. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just
• 1:02:55
  trying to stress you out. Right now maybe you gotta be
• 1:02:57
  like Magneto and wear like a metal helmet so I can stop.
• 1:03:00
  Reading your mind alright, anti anti anti cerebral, anti Xavier
• 1:03:07
  speaking noise. I can't wait for the second
• 1:03:08
  season of X-Men 97. I can't wait whenever they
• 1:03:13
  whenever they get it done and announced.
• 1:03:17
  Oh, right, Well, right. Or is it?
• 1:03:19
  No, it's my turn. It's my turn.
• 1:03:22
  Sorry Laurent talked so much. I thought it was his.
• 1:03:24
  I thought you just went. Never mind.
• 1:03:25
  Yes. That that should be Laurent's
• 1:03:27
  turn, right? I don't know, let's what happens
• 1:03:33
  to my brain when I'm not on caffeine?
• 1:03:35
  OK, Breaks. It's melting.
• 1:03:39
  Yeah, let's go with Octopath Traveler 0 that.
• 1:03:45
  Was going to be mine. Man, I've got this.
• 1:03:47
  I've got this. Itch right above my.
• 1:03:48
  Mustache, Corey what? What is up with this?
• 1:03:51
  Someone's thinking about you. I don't know.
• 1:03:53
  I'm not always looking at you. He's.
• 1:03:56
  Looking at me. Oh.
• 1:04:02
  Stephanie, should we leave the room?
• 1:04:04
  That's caught me so off guard. I'm so I'm, I'm, I'm my, my pad.
• 1:04:11
  I'm quite Twitterpated right now.
• 1:04:15
  Now calm down, I have to watch Alien Alien Earth after we get
• 1:04:19
  done tonight. Calm down.
• 1:04:20
  Oh boy, nothing alien about that.
• 1:04:28
  What was your pick that what was it?
• 1:04:31
  My pick was Octopath Traveller. Oh, OK, OK.
• 1:04:37
  The OT 0. Yep.
• 1:04:39
  And that that that killed that killed another game.
• 1:04:44
  OK, is it back to me? Hold on.
• 1:04:47
  Let me look at everybody's list here real quickly, because I
• 1:04:49
  don't want to. I don't want to call a game
• 1:04:50
  that's already on the list. Yeah.
• 1:04:52
  And this is our last pick of the year.
• 1:04:54
  Make it a good one. It's not on the list, so.
• 1:05:01
  Go for it. This is among us, too.
• 1:05:05
  Actually, I want that game, but I don't want it bad enough to
• 1:05:08
  put it on my Metacritic draft. I enjoyed the first Wolf Among
• 1:05:14
  us. That was that was a wonderful
• 1:05:15
  game. I played on Vita.
• 1:05:19
  There's three games here. There's three games here.
• 1:05:21
  And like, and I am, I am literally racking my brains for
• 1:05:24
  these three games. Like I don't know why this this
• 1:05:30
  one might this one might be an upset for me.
• 1:05:33
  Black Ops 7, Call of Duty. This might be an upset because,
• 1:05:39
  because I swear to God, I'm hearing a whole bunch of people,
• 1:05:41
  nobody wants this. But then again, it's going to,
• 1:05:44
  they're going to, it's going to sell gobs and well, oh wait,
• 1:05:47
  it's a Game Pass game. Hold on.
• 1:05:49
  That might, that might be bad. That might be bad.
• 1:05:52
  Black Black Ops 6 was still the best selling game of the year
• 1:05:55
  last year. Yeah, no, no, no, I'm, I'm, I'm
• 1:05:58
  going Black Ops seven though. Like that's that, that's that's
• 1:06:00
  no lie. I'm sure it will be great.
• 1:06:05
  Do we get a bonus pick? No bonus.
• 1:06:10
  Pick Can we get an extra? Well, here's the thing.
• 1:06:13
  We can either do your topic or pick one more game, do another
• 1:06:16
  round Robin all. Right, Wally, let him think
• 1:06:22
  about it. And then Corey, you pick your
• 1:06:25
  next game. So I think my next game I was
• 1:06:33
  staring right at it and then I got distracted.
• 1:06:37
  Don't worry, I will pick one and it is going to be.
• 1:06:41
  Dinkum. No.
• 1:06:46
  Definitely dinkum. You're going to chase that
• 1:06:48
  kangaroo all across the Australian Outback.
• 1:06:51
  Jeez, OK. Wow, you actually have a pretty
• 1:06:54
  decent decent accent there man. I'm going to pick Pokémon
• 1:07:01
  Legends ZA is my next game I. Already have that one.
• 1:07:06
  Don't shut up damn it. I've read everybody's list like
• 1:07:12
  4 times and I listen to you say it and I still.
• 1:07:14
  Sounds like you have this Lexia. You're Lex Dixia.
• 1:07:20
  You're less Dixia. What did you what did you say
• 1:07:25
  about my Dicks? You don't want to know, it's not
• 1:07:30
  safe for this podcast, Tales of Axilla Remastered.
• 1:07:36
  It's my next pick then. Tales of what?
• 1:07:39
  Wait, are you? Are you?
• 1:07:40
  You should have. That one What?
• 1:07:45
  What'd you say? That I said you can have that
• 1:07:48
  one. It's not on anyone's list.
• 1:07:49
  I. Was there?
• 1:07:51
  Are you sure though? You know what?
• 1:07:53
  I'm not here to help anybody my. Bad Everybody, everybody,
• 1:07:55
  everybody loves Tales of Axilla. Oh, that's where you're putting.
• 1:07:59
  It I'm putting that somewhere else.
• 1:08:02
  Oh Yikes. It's 2L's.
• 1:08:06
  Whatever. All right, get it?
• 1:08:09
  Right. Otherwise you can't have it
• 1:08:10
  anymore. Oh, you're putting it down here
• 1:08:12
  where I had it listed to go. All right.
• 1:08:15
  Oh well, Stephanie's following the rules and I am not.
• 1:08:19
  So so I'm like really struggling guys cuz I really want to pick
• 1:08:24
  Just Dance 2026 but. Do it.
• 1:08:28
  Do it. Kidding.
• 1:08:31
  Remember, sales numbers don't necessarily equate.
• 1:08:35
  To no guts, no glory. No guts, no glory.
• 1:08:39
  Escape. The.
• 1:08:40
  Tacos. We're gonna go with some.
• 1:08:42
  Yikes. Guts and people that might be
• 1:08:45
  hunger or individual or characters that are hungry for
• 1:08:48
  guts. And that's Vampire the
• 1:08:51
  Masquerade Bloodlines 2. Stephanie.
• 1:08:55
  I'm hoping Stephanie. Oh my gosh, don't tell me you
• 1:08:59
  were going to pick that. No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:09:02
  I was actually going to caution you against that one.
• 1:09:04
  I, I, I really am like guys, guys do.
• 1:09:09
  You rate they don't usually get good reviews.
• 1:09:11
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're so, they're so niche.
• 1:09:14
  They're so niche that you know, like, like they're, they do well
• 1:09:19
  for their fan base, but they don't do well for the general
• 1:09:21
  public. Plus those games have a tendency
• 1:09:24
  to get delayed, like several times.
• 1:09:26
  Yeah. If you'd be better.
• 1:09:27
  Like that, am I allowed to change my opinion on the spot
• 1:09:30
  then would you be OK with? That yeah, we, yeah, we.
• 1:09:33
  We will allow it. We we voted yes.
• 1:09:36
  Oh, thank you guys. Well, I appreciate it.
• 1:09:38
  I'm going to I'm going to be simple, then Once Upon a
• 1:09:40
  Katamari. Nice.
• 1:09:44
  That is going to do better. I think that's going to do
• 1:09:45
  better than than anybody expects because, well.
• 1:09:48
  That's. What I'll say like.
• 1:09:48
  It can't be as bad as Yeah, So like, that's a safe, nice, safe
• 1:09:53
  pick. All right, Patrick.
• 1:10:02
  All right, Do we go with fun? Do we go with risky?
• 1:10:15
  Do it 'cause if I choose this game, it's either going to
• 1:10:21
  completely kill me 'cause it won't come out this month, or
• 1:10:25
  not this month, this year, or it could be pretty damn good.
• 1:10:33
  Do it. Do it I'm.
• 1:10:36
  Curious which? Brooke for me.
• 1:10:39
  Which Brooke? Interesting.
• 1:10:46
  Not what I thought you were. Going to pick.
• 1:10:47
  Yeah, yeah, same. Not what I was thinking, I
• 1:10:52
  thought. It's it's, it's one of those
• 1:10:54
  games that people want to live their life as a wizard or witch
• 1:10:58
  in a Harvest Moon setting. Actually, I'm not.
• 1:11:01
  I'm not going to say. Anything.
• 1:11:02
  I'm not going. To say anything.
• 1:11:03
  Wasn't it by the same person? Bonus round.
• 1:11:06
  Is the same person that did? Oh my gosh, biggest brain fart.
• 1:11:11
  Ever same company but not same. Person.
• 1:11:13
  Yes, Sir. OK.
• 1:11:14
  Same company as Stardew Valley, right?
• 1:11:20
  Yeah, it's Chuckle Fish, but no, it's not concerned ape.
• 1:11:24
  He is doing the haunted chocolatier When he finally
• 1:11:28
  gets, you know, around to it. It's.
• 1:11:31
  Chuckle Fish. He's released some free updates
• 1:11:32
  for Stardew Valley, so. Man so fun story over at PAX W
• 1:11:41
  our good boy Safi. He just literally goes up to
• 1:11:46
  people and just randomly talks and gets conversations going so
• 1:11:50
  he goes attaboy. Sophie.
• 1:11:52
  That's how he's supposed to do it.
• 1:11:54
  Yep, he goes to a meeting that's pre packs called The Slice and
• 1:11:59
  one of the keynote speakers was Eric Barone of Stardew Valley.
• 1:12:04
  So Safi just walks up there and starts getting a casual
• 1:12:07
  conversation with him and he mentions how he knows this other
• 1:12:11
  guy. I forget what who the other guy
• 1:12:13
  was. And Eric Barone's like, I
• 1:12:14
  totally would love to meet this other guy because I'm a huge fan
• 1:12:17
  of his work. And so Safi just happens to get
• 1:12:21
  Eric Barone's number and it's like, hey, I'm going to set you
• 1:12:25
  up with this other producer. And sure enough, you know, that
• 1:12:29
  Saturday at PAX, Eric Brown walks into the the media room
• 1:12:35
  and, you know, he starts talking to Safi.
• 1:12:38
  And then Eddie tries to walk over there and, you know, I'm
• 1:12:42
  like yelling at Eddie, like to get home 'cause they were having
• 1:12:47
  like an interview. And it's like, he's talking to
• 1:12:50
  someone right now. Don't mess this up.
• 1:12:53
  But yeah, Long story short, Safi introduced him to this other guy
• 1:12:58
  and there might be some collaborations going on now, who
• 1:13:02
  knows? OK, But yes, Asafi's now besties
• 1:13:06
  with Eric Barone of Stardew Valley.
• 1:13:09
  That's crazy. Yes, look at that, Laurent.
• 1:13:20
  It's your turn now. Are we doing a fourth?
• 1:13:22
  So we're going one more round. Are we doing a topic or what do
• 1:13:25
  we? I don't know.
• 1:13:30
  I don't know if we really have time for a topic, to be honest.
• 1:13:33
  Also, the wrong froze, so Jared Brown goes to disappear
• 1:13:39
  sometimes going to come back. Look at this guy just just
• 1:13:43
  crashing out. Well, I guess that means I don't
• 1:13:49
  have to, Man, now I got to choose.
• 1:13:54
  Do I want that game or this game?
• 1:13:56
  No, I got to, I got to figure out, I don't even know what to
• 1:13:59
  pick now. I mean, I do kind of have like
• 1:14:01
  a, a short list, but they're, I feel like they're all going to
• 1:14:03
  be like mediocre at best. Yeah, there's got to be a
• 1:14:07
  surprise in here somewhere. Do Terminator no fate.
• 1:14:13
  You joke, but. Cudi is hot right now.
• 1:14:16
  Cudi is hot. This is going to be either good
• 1:14:18
  or bad. I mean, you know, I feel like
• 1:14:20
  that game is probably secretly going to do OK, to be honest.
• 1:14:28
  It's got this. It's got this real like.
• 1:14:33
  Super Nintendo. Vibe going on?
• 1:14:36
  Like I said, Cudi's hot right now.
• 1:14:40
  Yeah, look at the Ninja Gaidens. Yeah, and Shamaka Ron, Yeah, I
• 1:14:45
  missed you. Yeah.
• 1:14:47
  Here's how we chose a game for you.
• 1:14:49
  You're going to get. Oh, we give you a bonus round.
• 1:14:53
  We're gonna, yeah, we're gonna do one more.
• 1:14:55
  Yeah, we're giving you Elf and the Shelf for Christmas.
• 1:14:59
  Oh, that means I can take this hero.
• 1:15:01
  That means I can pick for you guys then.
• 1:15:03
  Come on, what? That means I gotta pick games
• 1:15:05
  for for all of y'all, so yeah. Buckle up, I did not vote on
• 1:15:11
  that. Hey, hey, I didn't, I didn't, I
• 1:15:14
  didn't vote that we have a we have a 4th pick, so.
• 1:15:18
  Just giving you more chances to win, Loron.
• 1:15:21
  Sorry. Yeah.
• 1:15:23
  If you guys wanted. The bonus pick?
• 1:15:26
  If you guys are making these type of bonus picks for me,
• 1:15:28
  guess what? I don't mean that so.
• 1:15:30
  That was a joke Loron. Pick what you want.
• 1:15:34
  Wait, so we are doing a fourth one?
• 1:15:36
  Yep, yeah. OK then.
• 1:15:40
  Then I am going with wait. No, let's let's make a rule
• 1:15:49
  about this. One wait.
• 1:15:50
  Oh, never mind, never mind. Pat already has other worlds
• 1:15:52
  too. Yeah, we're going to make a rule
• 1:15:54
  about this one though. OK, This is the, this is kind of
• 1:15:58
  like the audible this game, like we will only have 10 when it
• 1:16:04
  comes to the Metacritic. So this game is going to replace
• 1:16:07
  whatever the lowest scoring 1 is on your deck.
• 1:16:12
  So basically we can put this, we can put this on here and then
• 1:16:15
  like and then like it can kick off another a low scoring game.
• 1:16:19
  Yeah, it can either kick off a low scoring game or if it is the
• 1:16:21
  low scoring game, it just doesn't apply.
• 1:16:25
  How's that sound? OK, All right.
• 1:16:28
  When we put it like that, then wait a second, wait a second.
• 1:16:33
  I just got to see something real fast here because I because like
• 1:16:37
  I'm back to like oh, I have two picks, so my bad.
• 1:16:41
  Well, I got it's it's between two games, so hang on one
• 1:16:44
  second. I just got to see one thing and
• 1:16:46
  then I will know for sure. Where is it?
• 1:16:53
  There it is all right, let's see this.
• 1:16:59
  OK Yep, I'm going virtual fighter 5 Revo.
• 1:17:06
  That'll probably do well. All right.
• 1:17:12
  Well, I already know what my next game is going to be.
• 1:17:15
  I actually thought Lauren, you were going to pick this game,
• 1:17:17
  but I'm going to pick Marvel Cosmic Invasion.
• 1:17:24
  It was on my list. It was on my list, but I had to
• 1:17:27
  I had to pick the ones that I felt were going to like do me
• 1:17:30
  the most credit. I'm not saying this is a bad
• 1:17:34
  pick. I feel like, I feel like this
• 1:17:35
  game is going to do really well because like it has that vibe
• 1:17:38
  that that a lot of people are going for right now.
• 1:17:40
  Well, also it's developed by the the Ninja Turtles devs.
• 1:17:44
  Yeah, so exactly. So.
• 1:17:45
  And everybody loves Shredder's revenge, including me.
• 1:17:48
  So. Yeah.
• 1:17:50
  I expect a lot of DLC for this game, though.
• 1:17:55
  All right, it's Stephanie's time.
• 1:17:57
  Since it's kind of like our replaceable one, I will ask for
• 1:18:01
  your guys's opinion. I'm between little nightmares 3
• 1:18:07
  or hotel Barcelona. 1 is more risky, 1 is more safe but not
• 1:18:12
  stellar cuz I believe little nightmares 2 did OK.
• 1:18:17
  Yeah, but Little Nightmares 3 is a different developer than two,
• 1:18:20
  and a lot of people are skeptical about that.
• 1:18:23
  Yeah, pardon me, wants to say what the hell, let's do Hotel
• 1:18:26
  Barcelona, but I have no idea, like where that's going to land
• 1:18:30
  as far as its reception. Because it tries to be or is
• 1:18:33
  trying. I don't know.
• 1:18:34
  It looks super edgy. I don't know.
• 1:18:38
  Edgy there. Are you Hotel Barcelona?
• 1:18:42
  I don't know what you're about. It's so freaky, like let's see
• 1:18:48
  Hotel Barcelona game because I they probably will pull up an
• 1:18:53
  actual hotel. So on Steam it's by White Owls
• 1:18:59
  Inked, published by Cult Games. It's basically from the creators
• 1:19:04
  of Deadly Premonition and No More Heroes.
• 1:19:07
  A Marshall possessed by a murderer, A hotel full of
• 1:19:10
  killers. Check in and wipe them out.
• 1:19:18
  No More Heroes is good, yeah. So a blood soaked 2.5 V slasher
• 1:19:25
  action game from Suda 51 and Sweary?
• 1:19:31
  That's what I mean by risk. That's it's either, it's either
• 1:19:35
  going to score like high 90s or low 50s.
• 1:19:38
  Or yeah, yeah, there's. No in between.
• 1:19:41
  Yeah, Sudafedy won. Like their, their, their track
• 1:19:44
  record is like a yo-yo. It's like up and down.
• 1:19:47
  I don't know man, Lollipop Chainsaw was pretty good.
• 1:19:50
  He's niche and very. No, no, that game, that game
• 1:19:54
  hurt me in last year's Meta Creek draft.
• 1:19:56
  Don't. Don't even.
• 1:19:57
  Shadow the Damned was also pretty good.
• 1:20:00
  Yeah, Shadows of the Damned was great.
• 1:20:02
  Like like. Stephanie, if you like Resident
• 1:20:04
  Evil 4, you should play Shadows of the Damned for real.
• 1:20:06
  He's got a point. It's, well, no Shadows of the
• 1:20:10
  Damned. Feels more like Devil May Cry
• 1:20:12
  meets Resident Evil. It has the same vibe I feel
• 1:20:17
  like. It's crazy.
• 1:20:19
  Well, I'm going to put it this way.
• 1:20:21
  I'm. Definitely not your your gun
• 1:20:23
  currents. Really.
• 1:20:25
  Your gun's called the big boner. Oh.
• 1:20:27
  Nice. I forgot about that.
• 1:20:29
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:20:31
  Well, I didn't forget. I'm definitely not going to win
• 1:20:33
  this year, so I'll go for the risk.
• 1:20:35
  I'll do Hotel Barcelona, just see what happens.
• 1:20:38
  Yeah, take the risk. Risking it for the bisking it.
• 1:20:46
  And what will you risk or not risk, Pat?
• 1:20:54
  I was either going to go with SpongeBob or what was the other
• 1:21:04
  one that I was like, hmm, maybe, maybe if I can Scroll down there
• 1:21:09
  fast enough, which apparently I can't anymore.
• 1:21:15
  It wasn't going to be Little Nightmares.
• 1:21:17
  Do you think it'd be SpongeBob or Keeper?
• 1:21:22
  I feel like Keeper is going to be something really interesting
• 1:21:25
  that a weird group of people are really going to love, including
• 1:21:29
  Game Does, because Double Fine is a beloved studio and Tim
• 1:21:33
  Schafer. People love Tim Schafer, I feel
• 1:21:35
  like. I feel like Keeper might be the
• 1:21:38
  one. Honestly, Spongebob's probably
• 1:21:41
  only going to be in the 70s. To be perfectly honest, I only
• 1:21:43
  get it because of SpongeBob. So you know what?
• 1:21:47
  I'm going to go with Keeper all. Right keeper.
• 1:21:50
  I'm going to go with the game where you play as a lighthouse.
• 1:21:54
  Such a weird look. I thought psychonauts was weird
• 1:21:58
  but this is just a whole nother. From the creative minds of.
• 1:22:05
  Psycho costume quest comes. And The Cave and I love Double
• 1:22:13
  Fine. Costume Quest.
• 1:22:15
  Man, what a classic. Yeah, I've still never played
• 1:22:18
  that one. Oh man, you're missing out, Pat.
• 1:22:20
  That shocks me. I got.
• 1:22:22
  I would be tempted, but I also have like, like I would save
• 1:22:25
  that one for, you know, Spooktober.
• 1:22:30
  You mean the month that's literally 2, two weeks away?
• 1:22:32
  That one, Yeah, yeah. But I also have like 100 horror
• 1:22:37
  games that I want to play. Like Steph and I already talked
• 1:22:41
  about it. We we want to do the Silent Hill
• 1:22:43
  F, you know, and see if we can get that as our horror themes.
• 1:22:49
  Spoiler cast that month. Yeah.
• 1:22:53
  All right. So to recap super quick Loron,
• 1:22:59
  your four final games for our 2025 Metacritic game draft is
• 1:23:05
  Hades 2, Battlefield 6, Black Ops 7, and the Virtua Fighter
• 1:23:09
  game. I was too lazy to write out the
• 1:23:10
  rest of it. Cory Plants versus Zombies
• 1:23:13
  replanted Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 pack, Tales of Zelia Remastered,
• 1:23:19
  Marvel Cosmic Invasion. I picked Hira Warriors, Age of
• 1:23:23
  Imprisonment, Kirby Air Riders, Once Upon a Katamari, and Hotel
• 1:23:27
  Barcelona man, which one is not like the other?
• 1:23:30
  And then Pat Yucca Replay Octopath Traveler 0, Witchbrook
• 1:23:35
  and Keeper. So stay tuned how that's gonna
• 1:23:41
  go. And is it me or is literally
• 1:23:43
  September through the end of the year one of the most stacked
• 1:23:47
  months we have for games coming out?
• 1:23:51
  Holy cow. It's pretty stacked.
• 1:23:53
  Yeah, it's how it's up there. Mm hmm.
• 1:23:58
  Yeah, pretty up there. Most fun guys.
• 1:24:02
  Well, I mean. Yeah, super fun.
• 1:24:05
  Yeah, it's always fun. It's always.
• 1:24:07
  Fun. Yep.
• 1:24:08
  Excited to see who wins. What do we got?
• 1:24:12
  Yeah, 12. Weeks till we see who wins this
• 1:24:14
  thing so. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:24:18
  Did it. Well, yeah.
• 1:24:20
  As is out there, as is out there.
• 1:24:21
  Good luck, everyone. Yeah.
• 1:24:23
  Yeah. Good luck everyone, but I think
• 1:24:27
  we're going to get out of here. Yeah, we're, you know, short
• 1:24:31
  episode, but we're all going to be in bed before 11, so that'll
• 1:24:34
  be nice For once, maybe everybody out there quick
• 1:24:41
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• 1:24:45
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• 1:24:50
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• 1:24:52
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• 1:24:53
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• 1:25:22
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• 1:25:24
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