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Resident Evil FINALLY Got the Games Right... Sort Of - Xenomania 91 · Xenomania

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  Jon: This week on Xenomania, when a pharmaceutical plant closes
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  up production in Raccoon City, unemployment is not the biggest issue.
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  On the way out, a toxic chemical is released, turning scientists and residents
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  into bloodthirsty zombies or way worse.
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  A young woman, an inexplicably inept police officer, the chief of police,
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  and a special police unit are left with no option but to try to escape
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  on a secret underground train.
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  Can they get out before the Umbrella Corporation covers its tracks?
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  Find out.
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  This is Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
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  This is Xenomania
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  getting ready to dive into a video game adaptation tonight.
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  Kearns: Nice.
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  Jon: you listen,
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  Ryan: least
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  Jon: if you listen to our intro, you know we're hitting Resident Evil:
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  Welcome to Raccoon City tonight.
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  which inspired me.
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  I wanna ask you guys, what are three of your favorite games of all time?
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  Ryan: I'm curious on yours 'cause I feel like one's gonna pop up definitely.
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  Kearns: or John's?
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  Oh.
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  Ryan: yours
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  Kearns: W- all right, we're gonna start off with Tecmo's Deception,
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  which was a game on PS1 that was like a Japanese port game that was ridiculous.
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  You were in a
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  household, a, a mansion, and, people would come in, and you had to capture
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  or kill them take their bodies and basically sacrifice them to an altar,
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  which gave you whatever the currency was.
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  And then you could build upon the mansion, build better traps, continue on.
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  But I didn't realize how deep it went.
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  Like, you could do all the… There was different endings,
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  multiple different endings, and you could… There were secrets.
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  There were monsters that you could only get to come into the
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  mansion if you played a certain way, and we were young back then.
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  So, like, I wanna replay it again so badly.
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  And they made, like, eight of them, but most of them didn't
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  come to the US because Satan.
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  next one I'm gonna mention is Final Fantasy VII, the original.
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  Ryan: Yep.
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  Kearns: I have to.
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  It was transformative, game, as an RPG.
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  A lot of reading, but oh my God, I played that game all the way through
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  multiple times and just golden ch- you know, Golden Chocobo, get your
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  knights of the round, get Vincent, do the, the deep dive, Dirge of Cerberus
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  and everything afterward, and then you know how it's expanded since then.
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  then, uh, I, I have to say Expedition 33.
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  I have to.
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  All time.
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  Probably my favorite gaming experience of all time at this point.
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  is just a beautiful piece of art.
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  If you have not played Expedition 33, stop what you're doing, get a divorce, do
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  what you have to do, and play that game
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  And play that game.
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  Ryan: I second that.
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  Kearns: Yeah,
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  Ryan: second
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  Kearns: on his way.
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  He's going to, he's going to take an ax to his problem.
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  I was gonna say, we, we can't be your alibi if you go off camera, buddy.
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  You gotta freeze frame it
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  Jon: Mm-hmm.
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  Ryan: put like, what was it?
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  The, uh, the cutout, a cutout of John right there
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  Kearns: That would've been nice.
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  But yeah, guys, I c- I'm gonna repeat it one more time.
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  Play Expedition It's phenomenal.
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  Perri, it … All right, Ryan, what about you?
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  Ryan: I'm, I'm a little taken back by that 'cause I thought you?
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  were gonna mention Elden Ring.
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  Kearns: I loved Eld- I loved Elden Ring, but I can't, I can't, like, throw
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  out Elden Ring over some of the games that f- like, built the foundation.
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  I'm a huge FromSoft guy.
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  Played through every FromSoft game to platinum, including Demon Souls,
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  and I cannot… I mean, Tecmo's Deception I could say maybe swap out
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  for Bloodborne or Elden Ring or Dark Souls III, but that's the other problem.
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  They're all fighting each other, the FromSoft games.
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  So it's tricky, right?
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  Ryan: You gotta give him a fourth on that one, 'cause he is… He loves those games.
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  I remember that one morning you walked in, I was like, "You
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  platinumed it?" You were like, "Yeah."
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  Kearns: Yeah, I did.
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  I did Platinum
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  Jon: Three.
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  Kearns: fast.
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  Just the
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  Jon: Three
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  Kearns: I'm gonna keep Tecmo's Deception then just because
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  I want people to find it.
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  Scrounge through, find it somewhere.
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  I don't even think it's on the PlayStation Store
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  Ryan: No, no.
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  It's, uh, you gotta go buy an old school PlayStation at a pawn shop and
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  Kearns: No way.
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  Really?
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  Ryan: to find the game.
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  Yeah
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  Kearns: You could probably get an emulated version of it on the PC.
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  Ryan: Oh
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  Jon: Bet you can
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  Kearns: What about you, Ryan?
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  What are your games?
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  Ryan: So I gotta start off with The Witcher 3.
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  Uh, it's one of the more recent games, came out in 2015.
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  It's gotten a lot of love.
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  It's coming out with a remaster or a updated graphics for the PS5
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  on September 29th with the DLC.
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  I feel like this is one of the games that I've played multiple
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  times because the story's excellent.
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  Geralt's an excellent character.
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  I found new things that I didn't find in my last two playthroughs, which is
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  pretty cool, and I think that's based on the raising of the difficulty.
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  I'm doing it on a harder level now.
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  So it's like there's more to it, and it just… It- The world's
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  expansive, and you get to know the characters, and you get, get close
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  to them, and it's, it's phenomenal.
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  If you haven't played Wild Hunt, give it a play.
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  And if you wanna know how to do the cheat, just type in the comments
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  and I'll explain how to do the cheat for you 'cause it's, it's worth it.
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  my number two game, I was having a hard time with this one 'cause,
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  like, I always think of my top fives and stuff, but I have to go with
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  Revenge for the N64.
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  Kearns: wrestling game?
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  Ryan: I love that game?
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  I, I'll… Listen, my uncle and I would play that game for hours
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  where we had our own storyline.
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  For example, there's these, like, modded wrestlers in there that were, like,
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  fake of course, and some were based on real wrestlers with different names.
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  But his team was Dr. Frank and The Executioner, and mine was the THQ Man
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  and Aki Man, and we had like a whole storyline where, like, he had the
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  Executioners and then they disbanded, then I brought in the fake Executioners.
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  And it was just like weekend was fun.
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  And, like, school WCW, like, you had everyone, Scott Steiner, Hulk Hogan,
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  Piper, Bret Hart, uh, Sting, Raven.
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  Like, I can keep going on.
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  Goldberg.
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  Like, the roster was so expansive.
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  And, uh, I… Sorry, I can talk about it all night.
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  But, uh, my number three has to go to Mass Effect 2, and it's the sequel to one of
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  the best trilogies in sci-fi game history, I believe, because it was one of the first
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  games to actually carry your save from the first game and continue it on the second,
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  and it just makes the story more…
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  Again, like, you're closer to the story.
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  You're closer to the characters.
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  It's, like, years later, so you see where your former teammates are doing.
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  You're, like, trying to build this new life, and it's just great storytelling
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  that leads up to, I think, a pretty good conclusion for Mass Effect 3.
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  But a lot of people will concur on that.
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  John, I'm curious, are you gonna do more horror games or are
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  you gonna do a nice mix here?
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  Jon: this is, is definitely kind of a wild card list right here 'cause I went
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  through like sort of three different time periods, and it's really games that
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  I've probably put the most time into.
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  So the first one I wanna mention is, all the way back to the Sega Genesis.
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  It's a game called Shining Force.
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  Ryan: Yep.
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  Jon: It was like my, my intro to the RPG video game world, and
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  I c- uh, I didn't even own it.
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  I borrowed it from a friend, and I th- I kept it for like three years 'cause
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  I, I just, it like, I'd finish it and start over and… 'Cause it, it was the
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  like it's, it didn't have the memory or any of that, the ability to, you know,
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  have that much of a diverse storyline, but there were so many characters you
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  could add to your party and use, but you couldn't use them all at the same time.
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  I just wanted to like use all of them.
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  So I, the, you know, just kept rolling through it,
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  Kearns: like Final Fantasy VI.
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  Ryan: Yeah.
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  Kearns: there's a lot of characters and
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  Jon: Mmhmm Mmhmm
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  Kearns: cool.
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  That's cool
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  Jon: Uh, um, the next one, I mean, is pro- probably the most known
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  game on here, and it's Skyrim.
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  Kearns: Oh,
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  Jon: I…
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  Ryan: Yeah
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  Jon: The hours I put into that game, like I got way closer to
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  platinuming that than, is realistic for someone who plays games like I do.
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  You
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  know, like an hour or two here or there, and like, you know, over the
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  course of months and years sometimes.
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  But Skyrim, I, I mean, it also helped that I broke my foot right when it came out,
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  Kearns: Oh,
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  Jon: so I couldn't do, I couldn't do a whole lot of other stuff.
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  So I played a ton and ton of Skyrim, and the story's so, so much fun and,
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  and there's a lot of things you can do differently through the course of that.
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  And the last one I want to highlight is, you know, one that got a bad rap 'cause
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  it was really buggy on its release.
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  Uh, but Days Gone.
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  The, uh, Day- Days Gone hits every one of my, my joy spots, you know?
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  Like, h- the open world and the zombies and the, the like… I, there
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  are people who mock the story 'cause like, I mean, it's not like a complex
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  story, but it's a really good story.
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  You know, it's, it… Days Gone is a lot of fun and, and it, like, it's…
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  There are parts of it that are surprisingly difficult,
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  like especially hordes
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  Ryan: Yep.
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  Jon: But,
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  Ryan: you
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  Jon: know, pick
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  Ryan: it get, it gets a bad rep because it was supposed to be a
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  start of a trilogy, PlayStation just dropped the ball on it, and I
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  Jon: Well, yeah.
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  Yeah, PlayStation dropped any sequels because it wasn't as successful out
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  of the block that, it was expected to be because there were a lot of bugs.
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  And like, I mean, I played it within a couple of months of it being released.
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  I bought PlayStation just for Days Gone
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  Ryan: That's cool
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  Jon: You know, so i- yeah, there's bug- there's still bugs.
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  Like, they r- did a whole PS5 remaster.
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  There's still some bugs in there, but m- mostly it's like, it's not stuff
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  that is… ruins your experience.
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  But it was panned when it came out, and that killed the, any hope of sequels
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  Ryan: I find it shocking you find bugs still in it, 'cause
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  like I haven't found any yet.
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  Like in the original gameplay they would
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  Mmhmm
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  missions and
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  Mmhmm
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  Jon: Mmhmm
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  Ryan: that, yet, so
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  I
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  Jon: mean, it,
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  Ryan: then
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  Jon: you'd, you know, you'd ru- you'd run into zombies that
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  sorta, like, didn't die fully.
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  They'd, you
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  know, they'd be, like, still sorta like standing and twitching at you, and
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  like, they, there were a few times where you'd, like, fall through the earth.
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  But mostly, most of those times were like you were trying to
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  exploit something that you probably shouldn't have really been able to do
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  Ryan: Fair.
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  Fair on that
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  Kearns: Right.
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  Days Gone was your last one or your second one?
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  Jon: My last one.
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  Yep, it was, Shining Force: Skyrim and Days Gone
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  Kearns: And what game are we doing for this episode again?
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  I forget.
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  Ryan: Evil
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  Kearns: right,
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  the
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  Jon: Evil
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  Kearns: Survival horror.
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  Maybe not the GOAT, but definitely the beginning of the modern
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  survival horror experience
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  Ryan: Definitely forefront.
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  I feel like it started with this good old PC classic called Phantasmagoria,
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  Kearns: I love that game.
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  I couldn't get past the part in the stupid freaking office though, where, like,
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  you couldn't figure out how to get out.
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  You were, like, messing with a computer and stuff.
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  There was so many disks to that game.
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  Yeah, I'm sure there, I'm sure there was, but I couldn't figure
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  it out s- and it pissed me off.
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  what was your first experience with Resident Evil?
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  Ryan: Mine going to EB Games, seeing that cover with Chris and like saying
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  director's cut, and then looking at the back and being like, "This is
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  a game I need to play." And being told no until high school where I
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  was able to get a copy of four at
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  Kearns: high school You sheltered, sweet, sweet summer child
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  Ryan: Like my cousin, my cousins had it, so I was able
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  to play a little bit of two and
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  Kearns: Mm-hmm.
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  Ryan: on the original PlayStation So I'd say like more like playing it two
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  is my first experience and you're in the alleyway and you're Leon which we'll
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  get to that later but Leon's badass in the game And like you're stuck in the
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  alleyway and I had to get out of it and try to find a key and it's intense And
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  it's just like a thrill ride that you want more and more of And I feel like
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  they've all done that And yeah some have fallen off like six for example
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  but they've come back with seven and especially eight And Requiem which came
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  out was I heard a excellent experience
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  Kearns: Yeah, it looks like, the of the different types of gameplay
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  from the hits of the series
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  Jon: Mmhmm
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  Kearns: out for them, which makes me happy.
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  How about you, John?
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  Jon: Oh man, it was, um, shortly after it came out.
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  I was living in a three-bedroom apartment with four other guys a-
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  and, and a woman, and, you know, two or three other people who basically
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  lived there most of the time.
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  And, you know, like a couple of us would sit in front of
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  the TV and pass the controller.
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  "Oh, you died?
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  Your turn.
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  Oh, you died.
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  His turn." And, you know, you just pass it around, and you'd be hanging out
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  and doing the things you do when you hang out and you're in your early 20s.
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  And it just, I having a great time with some great friends.
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  It, like, that's what Resident Evil was always about for me
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  Kearns: Yeah, that's huge though.
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  That's huge
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  Ryan: I would love to imagine like your guys first experience like that iconic
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  there we go when the zombie like turns
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  Kearns: He's in, he's in Wel- um, Welcome to Raccoon City.
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  Did you see the little Easter eggs?
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  Jon: Mmhmm
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  Ryan: I
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  Jon: Yep.
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  I
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  Ryan: popped for that
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  Kearns: Yeah
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  Ryan: Yes And Jada was like What the hell And I'm like It's
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  Kearns: You wouldn't get it.
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  You wouldn't get it.
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  But, uh, fifth grade, South Park came out the same year, I think.
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  Resident Evil.
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  Um, there was something else big.
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  my PlayStation buddy, Matt, I was, like, over at his house, and he
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  s- I don't know if he rented it or he owned it, but that was the…
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  Then I had to get a copy, my own
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  Jon: Mmhmm
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  Kearns: Evil.
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  Resident
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  Jon: Mmhmm Mmhmm
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  Kearns: uh, we both chose Jill to start because we were basic.
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  But yeah.
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  Um, the one thing we still quote Barry to this day stuff, "It's The
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  Jon: Mmhmm
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  Kearns: Evil was horrible
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  Ryan: I was very upset that didn't make it in the final cut of this film and I was
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  waiting for that line and I was very upset
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  Kearns: I couldn't even figure out if Barry was in this movie
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  Ryan: He was he was the skinny guy with no
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  Kearns: Which makes so much sense.
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  Yeah, we have a lot to talk about for the movie, but yeah, that, that was
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  my kind of intro into Resident Evil.
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  Do you think this movie like stacks up with the game at all?
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  'Cause the other ones really aren't about the game
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  Jon: No, the other ones have never, never felt like Resident Evil.
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  And I, yeah, I think Raccoon City is better than that franchise is.
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  But you know, it's… Is it Resi- Like for me, Resident Evil 1, Resident Evil 2, some
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  of it's nostalgia, but a lot of it is the actual games, are way up on a pedestal.
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  Like, they are, you know, for me, like gateway horror games.
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  I wasn't playing a lot of horror games.
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  There weren't a ton of horror games that I- were on my radar.
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  And I like
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  Kearns: then there was like Clock Tower and Silent Hill came a little later
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  Jon: Mm-hmm.
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  Kearns: There wasn't much… I mean, in Japan there was.
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  They had some wacky crap out there, but not really for us.
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  was a lot of, um, there was a lot of regulation on blood, if I recall.
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  But Resident Evil seemed to skate right by all that.
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  Jon: Mm-hmm.
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  Kearns: So
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  Ryan: had we
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  Jon: res- resident
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  Ryan: adaptations
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  Kearns: Hmm?
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  Ryan: We had some adaptations though
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  Kearns: Of what?
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  Ryan: A Nightmare on Elm Street Friday 13th for the Nintendo
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  Kearns: they're terrible games.
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  Jon: Yeah.
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  Ryan: Let's
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  mean
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  Kearns: It's terrible.
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  Jon: there, there was a really…
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  Kearns: Games people bought
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  Jon: Yeah.
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  There was a really long p- time period in there where the, the,
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  the games based on movies were as bad as the movies based on games
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  Kearns: Yeah, fair point.
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  Jon: I, I, think it's probably with the Lord of the Rings games
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  that that started to change.
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  Like when the, when the movies came out, those games were like more in
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  line with being actual good games.
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  I guess, GoldenEye was up there too, but it wasn't… I mean, that,
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  that was j- that w- that, that could've been anything though.
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  That didn't have to be James Bond.
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  Kearns: because of the campaign mode It was
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  Jon: Yeah.
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  Kearns: and the
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  Jon: Yeah
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  Kearns: And that was the first uh without that you don't get Halo
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  Ryan: No
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  Kearns: and stuff like that Um GoldenEye really trailblazed all of
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  that But it's safe to say Resident Evil this film Welcome to Raccoon City
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  pays homage and is at least faithful to the video game All right so I
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  Jon: Mmhmm
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  Kearns: that too by the way Um but I have some gripes I have some gripes
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  Jon: I d-
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  Kearns: change a lot
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  Jon: it's, far from perfect.
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  They
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  They, definitely take some liberties.
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  Uh, some of them don't work
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  Kearns: Well Leon Leon's first of all it's not even the fact that his race
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  is not the same cause Leon video game
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  Jon: I- Irrelevant to me
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  Kearns: pretty Caucasian fella and
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  Jon: Mmhmm
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  Kearns: in the m film is not But the it's
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  Jon: Mmhmm
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  Kearns: that they change his entire character He's like a lame
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  weirdo who doesn't do anything
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  Jon: Yeah.
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  He, feels like the type of character you put in this stuff to be a comic
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  relief, except they never really give him anything comedic to do.
• 19:10
  So he just comes off as inept
• 19:13
  Ryan: Uh he's uh you know watching it and you see the the trailers and stuff
• 19:20
  and you're hoping Okay this is They're gonna nail this character And then
• 19:23
  they make him more of like the comedic effect and inapt and a bumbling buffoon
• 19:28
  And then it's like it doesn't compare Like in the beginning of the second
• 19:33
  game he's riding in the motorcycle it's his first day he goes to the
• 19:36
  Mmhmm
• 19:37
  Jon: Like
• 19:38
  Ryan: he off the first zombie goes to the police station and then takes
• 19:42
  action And in this it's like he's like sleeping on the job he's unaware
• 19:47
  and that's not the Leon like I fell in love with You know And I feel I
• 19:53
  I'm being honest Leon's like Yeah I
• 19:56
  Kearns: Is it it's the hair Is it Probably the it's probably the hair
• 20:00
  Ryan: the blue eyes
• 20:01
  Kearns: flips
• 20:03
  Ryan: Yeah damn straight Leather jacket
• 20:06
  Kearns: I
• 20:06
  Ryan: in the
• 20:06
  Kearns: unpopular opinion I don't think anybody gave a damn
• 20:09
  about Leon until Resident Evil 4
• 20:12
  Ryan: Agreed
• 20:13
  Kearns: cared about his character until Resident Evil 4 and then they were like
• 20:16
  That's when the Leon fanboy stuff started
• 20:19
  Ryan: Everyone wanted Claire
• 20:21
  Kearns: Yep
• 20:22
  Ryan: No
• 20:23
  Kearns: Claire Redfield Yeah I said yep
• 20:24
  Ryan: Oh okay
• 20:25
  Jon: Claire
• 20:25
  Ryan: I was
• 20:26
  Jon: like
• 20:27
  Claire, and Jill
• 20:28
  Kearns: Valentine Yeah nobody played Chris as like a first option
• 20:31
  really in Resident Evil the original
• 20:34
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 20:35
  Kearns: started with Jill probably because you got the Glickie Chris if
• 20:37
  you remember started with the knife
• 20:39
  Ryan: Which is
• 20:40
  Mmhmm
• 20:41
  Jon: Yeah, I, I always hated that part.
• 20:45
  Just, you just give me the good stuff.
• 20:47
  Yeah.
• 20:48
  Just give me the good stuff
• 20:49
  Kearns: beating it in under two hours You got the f unlimited rocket launcher
• 20:53
  Jon: Yeah
• 20:55
  Kearns: It was the best But
• 20:57
  Jon: I never even tried to do that.
• 20:59
  Kearns: Oh I
• 20:59
  Jon: Never even tried to do that
• 21:01
  Kearns: time I heard about it I also played through Final Fantasy VII with
• 21:04
  all the stupid lies to try to keep Aerith alive and st I used to do that stuff
• 21:07
  all the time Half the time it would work
• 21:10
  Ryan: she make it
• 21:11
  Kearns: No she does not make it She stays very dead Um the other characters
• 21:16
  what do you guys think Um who c who'd they get right who'd they get wrong
• 21:21
  Ryan: Claire 100 right She's a
• 21:23
  Mmhmm
• 21:24
  they kept her story so intact especially when she rides in on the truck when she
• 21:29
  gets the motorcycle her style her attitude that's Claire Redfield to a T And I feel
• 21:35
  like it was more of her being from Code Veronica more which I didn't mind she had
• 21:42
  more of a harsher attitude in that video game while in the second one she was a
• 21:45
  little more like What's going on All right We're gonna do this and figure everything
• 21:49
  out I think she they nailed her right
• 21:51
  Kearns: Okay
• 21:52
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 21:53
  Yeah, I think Claire was good.
• 21:55
  I think, Jill and Chris were okay.
• 21:59
  They weren't given a lot to do.
• 22:02
  Like, there wasn't a lot of character between… Like, they were just
• 22:06
  almost exclusively fighting zombies
• 22:10
  Kearns: Chris got the
• 22:10
  Jon: the whole movie.
• 22:11
  Kearns: in the darkness
• 22:12
  Jon: Yeah.
• 22:14
  Kearns: I mean that was
• 22:15
  Jon: Yeah, no
• 22:15
  Kearns: but it was like okay that's what you do I guess I will save this for
• 22:19
  later actually cause there's something I desperately wanna bring up that
• 22:22
  would've made this movie so much better But yeah let's see Barry we already
• 22:27
  talked about was a complete whiff did they even mention like some of the
• 22:31
  other f Resident Evil 1 characters in the mansion Like Carlos was he involved
• 22:36
  Ryan: No
• 22:37
  Kearns: No they didn't do any of that
• 22:38
  Ryan: the they mention the pilot The pilot has the same ending
• 22:42
  in the game which I appreciated
• 22:44
  Kearns: Mmhmm
• 22:44
  Ryan: where he's playing on the phone and they you know there's really no buildup
• 22:48
  on his character I feel like that was a nice Easter egg But I did enjoy Wesker
• 22:53
  Mmhmm
• 22:53
  Ooh
• 22:53
  they d I because they they did it properly because remember in the first game
• 22:58
  he's all buddy buddy with them and he's aware of everything But in the game you
• 23:03
  really don't know that because they're you're focused on Jill and Chris but
• 23:07
  they focus on that in the movie and I I liked that little tidbit the actor's a
• 23:12
  decent actor It's the gentleman who was in The Umbrella Academy I think if they
• 23:16
  continued with it especially with that midcredit scene it would've done better
• 23:21
  cause they did nail Ada Wong I'm just
• 23:24
  Kearns: I'd like to nail Ada Wong
• 23:28
  Jon: One of us had to say it
• 23:33
  Kearns: Somebody had to say it Wesker was too Gronkowski for me in this
• 23:39
  Jon: Yeah, I can see that
• 23:41
  Kearns: He's so not Wesker to me so I had a really hard time suspending that
• 23:45
  Cause they do that That's a common theme in this movie is that they do not try to
• 23:50
  make the characters resemble or act in the way you expect the characters to act
• 23:55
  based on the games And in some places it's fine Like some places they do a
• 23:59
  really good job like you guys mentioned In some things like Wesker was totally
• 24:03
  miscast in my opinion And I was like All right well I'll I'll try my best here
• 24:09
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 24:09
  Kearns: have like a redemption thing with him they do too which
• 24:12
  was kinda lame He was never re a redemption guy He was always
• 24:16
  Jon: Yeah.
• 24:18
  Uh-huh.
• 24:18
  Kearns: buddybuddy thing was fake He was always working for Umbrella
• 24:22
  So like him being like I wasn't gonna fire a little girl or whatever
• 24:26
  at the end I was like Yes you
• 24:27
  Jon: Uh-huh.
• 24:28
  Kearns: You're Wesker
• 24:29
  Jon: Yeah.
• 24:30
  He, he's also, he's sort of more an unwilling participant in the movie.
• 24:38
  You know, like he, he's kinda reluctant every time he has to
• 24:41
  do something, and that's not the character I remember from the games
• 24:47
  Ryan: Well they definitely change it cause I I I don't He's not working
• 24:50
  for Umbrella in my opinion Cause after Umbrella crumbles in the games he's
• 24:56
  working for another c corporation I think
• 24:59
  Mmhmm
• 24:59
  was the start of that If they were to continue the series I think they were
• 25:04
  just jumping into that story which would've led to I think five which
• 25:09
  is a whole different game in itself
• 25:12
  Kearns: Oh you're talking about just the films like what they
• 25:15
  were doing from the film scripts
• 25:17
  Ryan: That's where I was going with it because like I was expecting
• 25:20
  it to be Umbrella and he It's not Umbrella it's a separate corporation
• 25:24
  he's working for and I'm forgetting the name of that corporation but
• 25:27
  it's like the alternative Umbrella
• 25:29
  Kearns: The owner the Umbrella's a shell company for
• 25:34
  Ryan: I think
• 25:34
  Kearns: it Something like that Google it real quick
• 25:37
  Ryan: a lo there's a lot of lore
• 25:38
  Kearns: Tell the fans what they wanna hear There is a lot of
• 25:41
  lore Once you start getting into Code Veronica before you even get
• 25:45
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 25:45
  Kearns: RE 4 where it blows up more lore Code Veronica really really expand And
• 25:50
  without Code Veronica you don't get The Village you don't get Requiem you don't
• 25:54
  get any of the weird stuff we're getting now cause that's how you figure out
• 25:57
  what the progenitor virus is which is
• 26:00
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 26:00
  Kearns: T virus the G virus and everything are derived from And damn
• 26:03
  it you people listening you better be nerding out because this is good stuff
• 26:08
  This is good stuff Tricell's the name of the company All right So all right
• 26:14
  Ryan: crumbles which starts the whole thing in seven the
• 26:19
  the liquid and everything
• 26:21
  Kearns: All right everybody I'm gonna trigger these guys real quick
• 26:23
  Um would this be better or worse than George Romero's Resident Evil
• 26:31
  Jon: I want Romero's Resident Evil so bad.
• 26:33
  I wish, I really, really wish it had gotten made.
• 26:36
  I mean, it's written.
• 26:39
  Kearns: I wanna
• 26:39
  Jon: It's
• 26:40
  Kearns: at
• 26:40
  Jon: written.
• 26:40
  I, I f- I found the script online today.
• 26:43
  I didn't realize that the script was available.
• 26:45
  Kearns: Oh we gotta read it
• 26:46
  Ryan: cool
• 26:47
  Jon: I texted it to you guys.
• 26:48
  It's in your text.
• 26:49
  Uh,
• 26:49
  Kearns: Oh
• 26:50
  Jon: you guys… Yeah.
• 26:51
  there's a whole documentary on it too that like if you're familiar
• 26:55
  with it, any of this at all, it's, it's really mostly just retreading
• 27:01
  ground that's already been laid out.
• 27:03
  But, you know, so it's 1998, you're right near the release of Resident Evil 2.
• 27:10
  In fact, Romero did a Resident Evil 2 release trailer that only aired in Japan.
• 27:17
  He did the trailer.
• 27:19
  He did the RE 2 trailer.
• 27:21
  Ryan: I'm looking that up right
• 27:22
  Jon: g-
• 27:23
  Ryan: Like
• 27:24
  Jon: y- you can tell.
• 27:26
  You can tell.
• 27:26
  And he, he put the work into adapting.
• 27:31
  The company that ended up doing the Resident Evil franchise, Constantin, a
• 27:35
  German company, had hired him to write and probably direct a film adaptation.
• 27:43
  So he, he studied the game.
• 27:45
  He had a production assistant play and record the entire game so he could sit
• 27:51
  and focus on elements to make it the game.
• 27:57
  Ryan: Smart
• 27:58
  Jon: Like, full on.
• 27:59
  Like, I didn't know until today there was access to the
• 28:02
  script, so I haven't read it.
• 28:04
  But allegedly, it's more true to the first game.
• 28:09
  the one exception being he writes in a romance angle between
• 28:13
  Jill and Chris, which is sort of hinted at in Raccoon City.
• 28:18
  Like, there's sort of like a little thing with them going on there.
• 28:22
  but beyond that, it's pretty true, and he included everything.
• 28:26
  He had the sharks, he had the giant snakes, he had the tyrant.
• 28:29
  He put… E- everything is in that script.
• 28:32
  One of the big issues, apparently, was the estimated filming budget
• 28:38
  was gonna be in the neighborhood of $30 to $40 million because of
• 28:43
  how much he was putting into it.
• 28:46
  So that was strike one against it.
• 28:48
  But the big strike against it comes from, uh, the produc- a producer at Capcom na-
• 28:52
  Kearns: Oh no
• 28:54
  Jon: Yoshiki Okamoto, whose…
• 28:59
  His quotes on this are blatant and indicative of why there are so few
• 29:05
  good Capcom adaptations, I think.
• 29:07
  He said it's not good
• 29:12
  Which
• 29:13
  Ryan: disbelieve that
• 29:14
  Jon: I fi- I find it hard to believe that it's not good.
• 29:17
  But, uh, you know, maybe, maybe.
• 29:20
  And he f- so he fires Romero, and it becomes Paul W.S. Anderson's thing,
• 29:25
  and you know where it goes from there.
• 29:28
  Kearns: He must have had a particular taste for the the hot garbage
• 29:31
  that they came out with then
• 29:33
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 29:33
  Mmhmm
• 29:34
  Well, he…
• 29:35
  Kearns: crap
• 29:36
  Jon: Yeah, he also wanted it to be lighter, more teen-friendly,
• 29:41
  which isn't what Romero wrote.
• 29:43
  Romero wrote Romero.
• 29:46
  It's apparently violent and gory and brutal.
• 29:51
  It's like, it's like everything you would, you would expect from a Romero
• 29:54
  or a zombie movie, except, yeah, with, with Resi- the Resident Evil name.
• 30:00
  But the other thing they wanted is, and they got ultimately,
• 30:03
  was a more action-heavy movie,
• 30:07
  Kearns: Mmhmm
• 30:08
  Jon: and that, that's really what they wind up with with the Resident Evils
• 30:11
  Kearns: the Furious um sort of timeframe and
• 30:14
  Jon: Yeah.
• 30:15
  Kearns: type
• 30:16
  Jon: Yeah.
• 30:16
  Yeah
• 30:17
  Kearns: Yeah Um I mean it it had its function in society at the
• 30:20
  time It wasn't I never thought the movie was good I wasn't
• 30:23
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 30:24
  Kearns: away by Resident
• 30:25
  Jon: No.
• 30:26
  Kearns: of the sequels
• 30:26
  Ryan: No
• 30:27
  Kearns: Um
• 30:28
  Jon: No
• 30:28
  Kearns: but I was like I like Milla Jovovich This is fi I like uh Michelle
• 30:32
  Rodriguez This is fine There's a licker That makes me happy I kinda wish I
• 30:38
  could see a hunter like that sorta
• 30:40
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 30:41
  Kearns: So I don't know why they're so scared to put hunters in these
• 30:44
  damn movies by the way Give me some
• 30:46
  Jon: That was, that's apparently in Romero's version too.
• 30:50
  He put it all in there
• 30:53
  Ryan: So he basically did what Warren Beatty did for Dick Tracy is
• 30:56
  include everything just in case it
• 30:59
  Mmhmm
• 31:00
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 31:01
  Mm-hmm.
• 31:02
  Ryan: gotten their money back on it I believe Um
• 31:05
  Jon: I
• 31:05
  Ryan: reading a little bit like he nails the first scene and then
• 31:09
  Mmhmm
• 31:10
  he nails the ending like the
• 31:12
  Mmhmm
• 31:13
  if fans know what I'm talking about Like he writes it so well where it's
• 31:18
  like an exact image of the game It's crazy that they didn't wanna do it They
• 31:23
  would've made 10 times the money on it
• 31:26
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 31:26
  And I, I mean,
• 31:27
  I
• 31:27
  I, have personally
• 31:28
  Kearns: Evil movie is a high order It's a tall
• 31:31
  Jon: 40, 40 million, 40 million, 40, 30 to 40 million.
• 31:35
  Kearns: 40 m 40 to make it but 400 to earn for 10 times that's
• 31:41
  Jon: Probably not.
• 31:42
  Probably not.
• 31:42
  Kearns: bar
• 31:43
  Jon: But the, the other thing with those, the other thing with those
• 31:47
  numbers is we've discussed on previous episodes, Romero, all his movies
• 31:52
  combined didn't hit that budget.
• 31:55
  So he pro- I mean, if they had come to him and said, "Listen, we can't
• 31:59
  make this movie this way 'cause we can't afford it," Romero has showed
• 32:04
  throughout his entire career that he could produce quality for less
• 32:12
  They just didn't give it to them.
• 32:13
  They ju- they, you know, it is what it is, I guess, but we, I think we know why
• 32:19
  Capcom has never had a good adaptation
• 32:24
  Kearns: It's that Suzuki guy
• 32:26
  Jon: Or
• 32:27
  Ryan: of
• 32:27
  Jon: of a live action.
• 32:30
  Uh, I'll, I'll say a live action adaptation.
• 32:33
  I don't know, you know, I know, I think there's some
• 32:36
  of
• 32:36
  some of the an- animated ones are maybe okay.
• 32:39
  I, like, listen, we know I don't watch a ton of animation, so I've seen the…
• 32:44
  Ryan: II
• 32:45
  Jon: I've seen at least one of the Resident Evil animateds and it's okay.
• 32:50
  It's not my thing though, but it's okay
• 32:52
  Kearns: All right guys You know what it's time for
• 32:56
  Ryan: Street Fighter
• 32:56
  Kearns: It's time for for a game
• 32:59
  Ryan: that's amazing
• 33:00
  Kearns: Street
• 33:01
  Jon: is time for a game
• 33:02
  Kearns: What are you talking about
• 33:04
  Ryan: You you said there's not good Capcom movies Street Fighter
• 33:07
  II the animated movie's excellent
• 33:09
  Jon: I, I, I amended that.
• 33:10
  I amended that.
• 33:11
  I, I added live action,
• 33:14
  Ryan: Okay
• 33:14
  Jon: I, can't speak on the animated stuff 'cause I didn't see most of it.
• 33:18
  But live action, I think we're about to discover that in our game.
• 33:22
  I'm not gonna give you guys… You're not gonna have to guess.
• 33:27
  but we're doing video game adaptations,
• 33:30
  Ryan: Slash or
• 33:31
  Jon: or stash.
• 33:32
  Um, but I'm gonna change up the numbers because I think you're g- it's gonna-
• 33:41
  it'll be more interesting to me to make you guys stash five of these movies,
• 33:46
  to make you have to decide what's good enough to keep around in the world
• 33:52
  Ryan: I have a
• 33:52
  Kearns: Oh cause they're all that bad They're
• 33:54
  Jon: Yeah, they're, the- these are, these are not great.
• 33:58
  so we're gonna start with Alone in the Dark
• 34:01
  Kearns: I played this
• 34:02
  Jon: with Tara Reid and Christian Slater
• 34:09
  Kearns: Yeah Well slash Wait no Yeah I don't wanna stash this Slash
• 34:16
  Ryan: Slash too They missed the ball with this I was excited for this cause
• 34:20
  I played the game too and I'm like Oh they're gonna do this and they fumbled
• 34:24
  so badly I was very disappointed
• 34:28
  Jon: I gotta tell you guys, I woulda, I woulda kept this one.
• 34:31
  I kinda like this bad movie.
• 34:35
  I kinda like how bad this is.
• 34:37
  I kinda like it.
• 34:38
  It's Uwe Boll, so you know it's not good, but I kinda like it.
• 34:44
  All right, movie number two, the original Resident Evil
• 34:51
  Kearns: Just knowing your game I'm gonna have to stash this have to stash
• 34:56
  this because of that I said it's I don't know it's like taking medicine
• 35:00
  when you're sick It's a necessary evil
• 35:03
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 35:04
  Kearns: didn't like what Cause it's it's not bad in and of itself It's bad
• 35:09
  because of the potential that's lost That's what makes it bad It's not what
• 35:15
  Jon: Yeah, I would agree with that
• 35:16
  Kearns: has And Milla Jovovich's character isn't even a character in
• 35:21
  the games am I correct Yeah this is ridiculous This is ridiculous I don't
• 35:27
  wanna stash it but I think I have to
• 35:31
  Jon: Brian, did you answer?
• 35:33
  Ryan: No not yet I am gonna stash it as well uh just cause I don't know what
• 35:38
  you're gonna put on here Again I hope you have one that I'll definitely stash
• 35:41
  But the trailers I feel like misled you cause you're thinking it's Resident Evil
• 35:48
  and you're gonna watch the game in movie form and he flips you upside down and
• 35:53
  I didn't like it I didn't like how they made the mansion more like a 13 Ghosts
• 35:59
  House on Haunted Hill mixture a fan of
• 36:02
  Mmhmm
• 36:02
  it just He misses the point and he tries to reclaim it
• 36:07
  Kearns: the AI thing is so dumb
• 36:10
  Ryan: Yeah
• 36:10
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 36:11
  Kearns: dumb Yeah I'm so mad I stashed this John you're evil
• 36:17
  Jon: This might be the peak of, of this list too.
• 36:20
  Uh, movie number three is going to be the live action original Street Fighter
• 36:28
  Kearns: No you know what Actually for M Bison's performance I would stash this
• 36:33
  And uh you guys know the actor's name Ryan I'm sure you can spit it out Yeah
• 36:40
  Dying of cancer I believe at the time
• 36:42
  Jon: Yeah.
• 36:43
  Kearns: puts out
• 36:44
  Jon: Yeah.
• 36:45
  Kearns: performance this awful movie
• 36:49
  Jon: Yeah, in a movie that deserves none of it
• 36:53
  Kearns: And it's so so American to make Guile the main character but cast
• 36:57
  JeanClaude Van Damme as him be like Yeah we're no we're gonna We're not gonna Ryu
• 37:03
  and Ken are gonna be side characters in this We're really gonna go proAmerica It's
• 37:07
  gonna be Cammy and it's gonna be Guile Ugh
• 37:13
  Stupid movie
• 37:16
  Jon: Brian?
• 37:18
  Ryan: I yeah I don't wanna stash it but I have to stash it cause it's like this
• 37:22
  is like I feel like the punishment is us stashing these films this week It's like
• 37:28
  Jon: absolutely is.
• 37:30
  Ryan: them This is Like Raul Julia does a great M Bison I love him Um but they
• 37:37
  yeah they don't do any justice with this film Ri Ryu and Ken should've been
• 37:41
  the main characters But they do get my boy uh Vega correct with the mask the
• 37:48
  outfit They do get him correct And Balrog
• 37:54
  Jon: Ball rock.
• 37:56
  Ryan: Orac
• 37:57
  Kearns: The original Mike Tyson
• 38:00
  Ryan: the boxer
• 38:00
  Kearns: The real M Bison Did you uh w one of you guys sent that to us right
• 38:05
  How they ripped off M Bison completely or was that another friends group
• 38:10
  Jon: Might be another friend group
• 38:11
  Kearns: have to I have to share that with you It's They show he he's from
• 38:15
  a manga completely ripped off from another character they even stole all
• 38:20
  of his poses and stuff that you see in the like scripting of the first
• 38:23
  game Street Fighter II from the manga It's pretty egregious Pretty egregious
• 38:32
  Jon: Yeah, it's ready.
• 38:33
  Movie number four.
• 38:36
  Doom
• 38:38
  Kearns: I'm I have no problem stashing this one I enjoyed this movie
• 38:45
  Ryan: Nope slash
• 38:46
  Kearns: No I enjoyed this movie I did I've just I played Doom 3 like right
• 38:51
  before this came out too and that that might have helped a little bit
• 38:57
  Ryan: Doom 3 though like for at the time was so unique cause it kind of got
• 39:01
  into the psychological horror more than like blasting everything And it led to
• 39:07
  this film for more people wanting to see it but I don't think they The first
• 39:11
  person is cool but the story I can't No
• 39:17
  Jon: This is not The Rock's only appearance in this game tonight
• 39:21
  All right, movie number five.
• 39:24
  Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
• 39:26
  Ryan: Stash Stash
• 39:28
  Kearns: this too I'll stash this too
• 39:32
  Ryan: my grandmother took me
• 39:34
  Kearns: Oh my God I was wondering where you were going with that
• 39:37
  Ryan: she
• 39:37
  Kearns: grandmother used to dress up as Lara Croft and
• 39:40
  Ryan: God no no She
• 39:42
  Jon: Grandma
• 39:43
  Kearns: no Meemaw
• 39:45
  Ryan: she took me to the theater and it was great cause it was in the summer
• 39:48
  There was no one in the theater of of course cause it's such a fantastic
• 39:52
  movie But seeing it in the big screen and then seeing it at home it it they
• 39:58
  they nailed it I think they nailed it
• 40:02
  Jon: Gam Gam, can you put your clothes on?
• 40:05
  Kearns: Camp camp How did you like uh the Vikander version of it Vikander as
• 40:10
  Jon: it.
• 40:10
  Kearns: Croft No
• 40:13
  Ryan: No
• 40:13
  Jon: see it.
• 40:14
  I checked out after this one.
• 40:15
  I, uh, this was enough
• 40:17
  Kearns: see
• 40:17
  Jon: Tomb Raider for me
• 40:18
  Kearns: it felt indulgent Like um I wasn't I didn't care that it was
• 40:22
  a Tomb Raider movie and I wasn't gonna go see it to be a horny weirdo
• 40:24
  So I was like all right hope she
• 40:26
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 40:28
  Yeah, they my, they got my horny weirdo money f- with this one.
• 40:31
  And, and like that's, that's all the horny weirdo money you get out of me
• 40:37
  Ryan: well the the new
• 40:38
  Kearns: For this franchise
• 40:40
  Ryan: the
• 40:41
  Jon: for this franchise
• 40:43
  Ryan: is more on the newer games where she's like trapped on an island and
• 40:46
  she goes through like this survival experience while the original timeline's
• 40:51
  more like I'm rich I'm an adventurer I can do all these things So there's
• 40:56
  Mmhmm
• 40:56
  different dynamics I feel with both This one's definitely the more
• 40:59
  the original like you do the mods and all that while the newer film
• 41:05
  is more on that survival aspect
• 41:09
  Jon: Okay.
• 41:10
  All right, next movie.
• 41:13
  Movie number six.
• 41:16
  The Rock is back with Rampage
• 41:19
  Kearns: am happy to slash this hot garbage This movie was tough to get through
• 41:27
  Cause he turns into one of them right I think that's the big thing at the
• 41:31
  end He like turns into one of them Yeah
• 41:35
  Jon: I think he does.
• 41:36
  I don't remember, like, almost any of this movie
• 41:40
  Kearns: It's really bad
• 41:42
  Jon: Brian
• 41:48
  Ryan: It's how do you like I'm gonna slash it because I couldn't wrap my head around
• 41:48
  how they would do this successfully um without it being like a Godzilla ripoff
• 41:53
  of course cause that's what the game is
• 41:55
  Jon: Well, yeah, the game…
• 41:57
  Ryan: Godzilla
• 41:58
  Jon: Yeah, and I loved this game.
• 42:00
  I, this game got so many quarters w- in the arcades.
• 42:04
  Kearns: It was fun
• 42:05
  Jon: and then it, it, it was on, it was on one of the early consoles.
• 42:10
  I don't remember which one, maybe Genesis
• 42:13
  Ryan: Yep
• 42:13
  Kearns: I think it had a Genesis before It had a Sega Nintendo too
• 42:17
  Ryan: Yep
• 42:18
  Kearns: It was on Super Nintendo
• 42:20
  Ryan: They had an N64 one which was 3D where you can roam and all that
• 42:24
  It wasn't the 2D And then I think they had one on PS2 and that was it
• 42:30
  Kearns: I mean
• 42:30
  Jon: This game needs to come back.
• 42:32
  Kearns: They
• 42:32
  Jon: It needs to come back
• 42:34
  Kearns: and stuff and iPad apps now where you just get to nuke the city and stuff so
• 42:38
  I don't know if Rampage will ever return
• 42:41
  Ryan: are
• 42:41
  Jon: No, we, we need Rampage back.
• 42:44
  We need Rampage back and we need Gauntlet back
• 42:47
  Kearns: Gauntlet
• 42:48
  Ryan: Gauntlet yes They are
• 42:50
  Kearns: Golden Axe
• 42:52
  Ryan: though
• 42:52
  Kearns: Golden Axe Speaking of games that ate my quarters
• 42:55
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 42:56
  Yep
• 42:56
  Ryan: out with a animated show on Netflix
• 42:59
  Kearns: Well we'll be griping about that in a future episode kids Sure of
• 43:04
  Jon: All right.
• 43:06
  We have two movies left, and here's where we stand.
• 43:09
  Kearns, you have one stash and one slash.
• 43:12
  Ryan, you're left stashing these last two movies.
• 43:16
  I hope they're what you were waiting for
• 43:18
  Ryan: Super Mario Brothers Super Mario Brothers
• 43:21
  Kearns: stash that
• 43:22
  Jon: Movie number seven, the first Silent Hill
• 43:26
  Kearns: I'm gonna stash it
• 43:27
  Ryan: it
• 43:27
  Kearns: gonna stash it
• 43:28
  Ryan: it
• 43:28
  Kearns: For the even just for the homage to Evil Dead the barbed wire tree root
• 43:33
  crossover we've all been waiting for I I think they nailed this movie to
• 43:38
  be honest with you I like Silent Hill
• 43:42
  Jon: Yeah.
• 43:43
  It, it's, it's better than it should be.
• 43:46
  It's be- better than any of the other Silent Hills they've
• 43:49
  attempted by a long shot.
• 43:51
  I,
• 43:52
  Kearns: Mmhmm
• 43:53
  Ryan: I
• 43:55
  Jon: I, probably should have subbed out the, the recent remake, but I
• 43:59
  don't think you guys have seen it
• 44:01
  Kearns: No
• 44:02
  Jon: And I would highly recommend that you keep it that way
• 44:05
  Kearns: It's got Sean Bean in it Come on guys
• 44:08
  Jon: I would highly recommend that you do not see the new one.
• 44:12
  Highly.
• 44:13
  Like, I don't generally tell people to not see something.
• 44:17
  Don't see the new Silent Hill.
• 44:19
  Kearns: I like when
• 44:20
  Jon: Don't do it to yourself
• 44:21
  Kearns: the girl's entire body and then throws it at the villagers
• 44:26
  Jon: Oh yeah, that, that triangle-headed guy is awesome in this one
• 44:31
  Kearns: Yeah he's great
• 44:31
  Ryan: Pyramid
• 44:32
  Kearns: Yeah that was I think he did that on purpose to trigger us
• 44:36
  Jon: I absolutely did.
• 44:37
  I did it that way the first time.
• 44:38
  In our last movie, I think you'll both be…
• 44:40
  Ryan: I'm
• 44:41
  Jon: Oh, I think I just, I think I just broke Kearns' world.
• 44:44
  I'm so sorry.
• 44:45
  I thought you s-
• 44:46
  Ryan: you had to slash it
• 44:47
  Kearns: Yeah
• 44:48
  Jon: And I thought you still had a slash, a stash
• 44:51
  Kearns: Dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee Uh this was good too because
• 44:54
  I my friend and his dad showed up at my house on like a Saturday at 1100 AM
• 44:59
  and like Hey you wanna come see Mortal Kombat And I was like Yeah I do And I
• 45:03
  Jon: Yeah
• 45:04
  Kearns: cause my mom wasn't home and I just left the house with them
• 45:07
  and she had no idea where I was for like five hours No regrets I used to
• 45:12
  run to the soundtrack of that movie
• 45:15
  Ryan: It's a good soundtrack
• 45:16
  Kearns: I'd burn CDs where I'd
• 45:17
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 45:18
  Kearns: like Rocky music and stuff But I always had the Mortal Kombat
• 45:21
  song on there for my runs Good times
• 45:25
  Ryan: I got good memories The one is my grandmother giving me this movie on VHS
• 45:30
  and introducing me to Mortal Kombat not knowing what it was She was like Oh it's
• 45:34
  just an action film And getting to know the characters and embracing more of the
• 45:41
  video game culture and stuff at that time
• 45:43
  Kearns: it's time to unleash Ryan on you his insane knowledge
• 45:48
  of all of the Raccoons I mean not Raccoon Resident Evil games
• 45:52
  Ryan: Man there's so many It's starts in 1996 we get the first Resident Evil
• 45:57
  game where we have to investigate Spencer Mansion You get to choose whether you're
• 46:03
  Jill with the uh the Bam Bam or Chris with the knife Um and you go through this
• 46:10
  whole experience of people turning on you Dobermans crashing through the window
• 46:15
  lightning trying to figure out where you're gonna put your items because you
• 46:20
  don't have enough room in your s inventory There we go And then you gotta go back
• 46:26
  and find everything and that was just the experience And then you you t you
• 46:31
  top it with two discs for Resident Evil 2 it's not one game it's two games Cause
• 46:37
  you get Leon's story first day as a cop and you get Claire's story trying to find
• 46:42
  Chris then it continues with the third one happening at the same time focusing
• 46:47
  on Jill and Nemesis and you can't exclude Mr X And it just continues on with Code
• 46:54
  Veronica the spinoff and Claire finding Chris on this island and explaining
• 47:00
  more of what the Tvirus and Umbrella's doing And then we get four where Leon
• 47:06
  just becomes this great action hero
• 47:09
  Kearns: We changed the camera angles for 4 changes up the whole game dynamics 4
• 47:13
  4 was a new game mode for Resident Evil
• 47:19
  Ryan: More actionpacked and that's where they take it with five with You get back
• 47:23
  to Chris and it's like a new organization and then with six that's where they
• 47:28
  wanted to wrap it up with the three games
• 47:32
  Kearns: into the button mash game sequence stuff Just way too much It
• 47:36
  breaks immersion for me like crazy f um God of War does that too and I hate
• 47:40
  it I can't stand those cause it's just trying to get you to watch interactive
• 47:45
  cinematics and I'm not into that have been
• 47:49
  Ryan: work with Six I feel it lessens the gameplay God of War I feel it
• 47:53
  works when you're trying to like rip the wings off or you're in the middle
• 47:57
  of a boss fight with the Cyclops
• 47:59
  Kearns: Poseidon They did it with Poseidon the first fight and that
• 48:03
  Yeah I didn't like it I didn't like it
• 48:07
  Ryan: but that's why they returned to form for VII cause you get Well they go into a
• 48:12
  firstperson mode which I feel is a a lot creepier and it brings that thrill back
• 48:17
  Kearns: Seven is a great a great pivot for the franchise
• 48:23
  Ryan: And they change it they make it fresh Like it's very We mentioned this
• 48:28
  um in a couple episodes ago um how the family is compared to another film Oh God
• 48:37
  Kearns: Texas Chainsaw
• 48:39
  Ryan: No Was it was it X
• 48:44
  Where all the the family's infected and all that
• 48:49
  I said we were talking about it
• 48:50
  Kearns: Oh in the episode of Acts The the episode we recorded for Acts you mean
• 48:55
  Ryan: it was Exorcist It was something along those lines
• 48:57
  but how the family interacts
• 49:00
  Kearns: scene around the table We were talking about the scene
• 49:03
  around the table in uh what movie was it Oh my God now They were
• 49:08
  Jon: Oh, Evil Dead burn?
• 49:10
  Kearns: Evil Dead Burn Thank you It's so forgettable that film that I
• 49:13
  forgot the title Um yeah they ripped off the scene from Resident Evil 7
• 49:20
  Ryan: And it's that that creepiness and intensity and that claustrophobic I feel
• 49:24
  You play as Ethan you're going in the cellar And they carry that over into
• 49:28
  eight which I feel is an excellent game and it kinda brings it back to that fold
• 49:33
  of action and horror with a little spice of that universal classicness with the
• 49:39
  vampires and the werewolves and the sea creatures And then we get to Requiem
• 49:44
  which is like cause you get Leon who's the action pack and then you get this
• 49:50
  new character who's that survival horror But gonna turn on your heads because
• 49:56
  next year we're getting a remaster or remake of Code Veronica and I am very
• 50:01
  Kearns: I'm looking forward to that because that's that's not a spinoff um
• 50:04
  so much to me as it is a like a prequel
• 50:08
  Ryan: the
• 50:08
  Kearns: almost Yeah yeah that is that is the third game I agree Nemesis was
• 50:13
  sort of So when when Nemesis came out I was not thrilled because it felt like
• 50:18
  a reskin of Resident Evil 2 and it felt lazy and that's kinda what it was They
• 50:23
  built a story around that but that's what they did and I was like That's
• 50:27
  lame Easter eggs in this to all those games that Ryan mentioned Easter eggs
• 50:31
  What Easter eggs were in Raccoon City welcome to Raccoon City that you guys
• 50:35
  can think of off the top of your heads
• 50:37
  Ryan: let me start off I popped when you see the tractor trailer in the beginning
• 50:42
  cause that's how the second game starts
• 50:44
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 50:44
  Ryan: They do it to a T I mean they add the the creepy truck driver in there
• 50:48
  which I was like I don't think you need to add that But h him hitting the
• 50:53
  zombie uh the Doberman getting infected and that whole scenario setting it up
• 50:59
  Mmhmm
• 50:59
  the truck flips and crashes in front of the police station was exactly how it was
• 51:04
  in the game and I loved every minute of it
• 51:07
  Jon: Yeah, I wa- I was a fan of that.
• 51:09
  I don't mind the creepy truck driver.
• 51:11
  Someone has to be driving the truck, it might as well be a creepy guy
• 51:15
  Kearns: He wasn't so creepy He was like You're sleeping
• 51:17
  a lot blah blah blah He was
• 51:19
  Jon: Yeah.
• 51:20
  Kearns: like touching her and stuff
• 51:22
  Jon: Yeah.
• 51:22
  Ryan: he touches her
• 51:23
  Jon: You sure are pretty when you sleep
• 51:26
  Kearns: like that
• 51:27
  Ryan: Yeah
• 51:27
  Kearns: But I didn't ca I didn't catch the leg touch by the way
• 51:32
  let's see The typewriter typewriter
• 51:36
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 51:36
  You can
• 51:36
  Kearns: like
• 51:37
  Jon: see the typewriter in the diner.
• 51:38
  Kearns: ink ribbons at the right time
• 51:40
  Jon: Uh-huh.
• 51:41
  Kearns: Cause
• 51:41
  Jon: Oh, man
• 51:43
  Kearns: era of gaming when they had like mechanics that were super
• 51:45
  punishing and annoying that was one of them would Who blocks a game save
• 51:54
  Ryan: Do you remember with safe rooms where they weren't safe
• 51:59
  Kearns: There uh there aren't many
• 52:01
  Ryan: the Mr X one
• 52:02
  Kearns: yeah there aren't many where you go into a safe room and it wasn't
• 52:05
  safe That was like that's like the mimics in Dark Souls That's just an F
• 52:10
  Jon: Mmhmm Mmhmm
• 52:11
  Kearns: funny like oh yeah There was one game where if you hit the start
• 52:14
  menu it still killed you Uh I forget what game that was Pretty funny Pretty
• 52:22
  funny stuff there So the typewriter that was in the diner scene in the
• 52:27
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 52:28
  Yeah.
• 52:28
  You also in the diner get Jill talking about getting eaten by sharks and
• 52:33
  snakes, which is direct game reference
• 52:37
  Kearns: They could have I mean what about plants Like do you guys remember the big
• 52:41
  plant you have to do that big plant puzzle
• 52:44
  Ryan: I hate that
• 52:45
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 52:45
  Kearns: Yeah that that is a It's like a full stopping moment towards
• 52:48
  you know you're getting close to the end of the game and it slows
• 52:51
  you down so much You just wanna get through that whole scene The
• 52:54
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 52:55
  Kearns: there and you're like Ah
• 52:56
  Jon: Yeah.
• 52:57
  Yeah.
• 52:58
  Kearns: scene Moonlight Sonata obviously I still kn only know the title of
• 53:01
  that song because of Resident Evil
• 53:04
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 53:05
  when Claire is in Chris' house alone and the neighbors come over
• 53:10
  as they're turning into zombies, she writes "itchy tasty" on the door
• 53:15
  Kearns: Yep
• 53:15
  Jon: blood
• 53:16
  Kearns: big homage to the note that you find w
• 53:20
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 53:20
  Kearns: it's a scientist who's turning while he's writing in his
• 53:22
  journal and then it just evolves into itchy tasty itchy tasty which
• 53:27
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 53:27
  Kearns: there's been so many funny memes about that part of Resident Evil where
• 53:31
  they're like Yeah we're gonna crossbreed a gorilla with like an a and something
• 53:35
  a monster and we're gonna poke it with a stick for like six days And then like
• 53:40
  the next installment's like It got out
• 53:43
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 53:47
  Kearns: It's just good stuff right there I love it And that's pretty much
• 53:50
  what all those notes devolved into
• 53:52
  Jon: Yeah.
• 53:53
  Ryan: Yeah
• 53:55
  Kearns: The keys Keys Nothing more
• 53:57
  Jon: He's…
• 53:59
  Ryan: I
• 53:59
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 54:00
  Ryan: Jada was questioning me She's like Why are you so excited for four set
• 54:03
  of keys I go You don't understand much of a bitch it is to get all those keys
• 54:08
  Kearns: Yep
• 54:08
  Ryan: and to do what you have to do And it's sometimes it's a side
• 54:13
  mission where you're you get something extra you get more inventory or
• 54:17
  something special or it's just to continue with the game and it can
• 54:21
  Mmhmm
• 54:21
  hours
• 54:23
  Jon: Yep.
• 54:23
  Ryan: run out of bullets or
• 54:25
  Jon: Yeah.
• 54:25
  Ryan: man I have to run back to another
• 54:27
  Mmhmm
• 54:28
  to get that special thing
• 54:30
  Kearns: Mmhmm
• 54:31
  Jon: I don't remember how to do this puzzle.
• 54:33
  Like, I'm gonna do a, a kids don't know the struggle right here.
• 54:38
  You guys can look it all up on the internet.
• 54:41
  You can go on YouTube and watch somebody do it and then replicate what they did.
• 54:47
  The best we had was a Prima game guide.
• 54:50
  Kearns: Yep and you had to go out and
• 54:52
  Jon: And
• 54:53
  Ryan: Yep
• 54:53
  Jon: yeah, and eventually you got the, enough of from the internet
• 54:58
  to be able to, to write down cheat codes and stuff in a notebook.
• 55:04
  Kearns: I
• 55:05
  Jon: what you had
• 55:05
  Kearns: I mapped out like Metroid in a on a piece of looseleaf like crazy
• 55:09
  and then it got thrown away and I remember just being destroyed by that
• 55:13
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 55:13
  Kearns: I
• 55:14
  Jon: I had the I had the
• 55:16
  GTA cheat codes on like pages of notebooks, like just all over the place.
• 55:21
  Like, "Ah, I need, I need, I need unlimited health. Like
• 55:25
  where ha- where is that one?"
• 55:27
  Ryan: I wonder if I have all the cheats I had I had the GTA ones I had the
• 55:31
  Super Star Wars ones Put that in which that helped a lot A lot of the Super
• 55:38
  Nintendo games I had all the cheat codes cause like you'd go to Barnes
• 55:42
  Noble or um Borders and I'd have a little notebook and copy the code down
• 55:48
  Kearns: Mmhmm
• 55:48
  Ryan: have to buy the magazine
• 55:50
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 55:51
  Ryan: Ah
• 55:52
  Kearns: Those were good ones Those were good ones Rocket launcher obviously
• 55:56
  Ryan: Oh yeah I
• 55:58
  Jon: Ja ja.
• 55:59
  Ja, vi er i
• 56:00
  Kearns: in but fan servicey enough to get a pass
• 56:04
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 56:04
  I mean, you can't, you can't do it without the rocket launcher though.
• 56:08
  Like, it has to show up
• 56:10
  Kearns: The best part is there's nothing left of him after after that
• 56:14
  And they're all fine They were all like within eight feet of it Nope
• 56:17
  they're fine There's nothing left of the giant monster Like they did nothing
• 56:22
  Yeah Uh there's usually at least remnants There's just nothing there
• 56:28
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 56:32
  Kearns: not pass on stuff like that
• 56:35
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 56:36
  Ryan: Were you happy about the liquor Because the liquor was awesome in
• 56:40
  the movie They did a really good job
• 56:41
  Kearns: It was a fun scene where he gets
• 56:44
  Jon: Mmhmm Mmhmm
• 56:47
  Kearns: is annoying but
• 56:49
  Jon: Yeah
• 56:50
  Kearns: that's fine I suppose
• 56:52
  Ryan: go for the brain That's the rule
• 56:55
  Kearns: She like broke its neck
• 56:58
  Ryan: Yeah which I you can't because they're too strong They
• 57:03
  Jon: No, no, Mm-hmm
• 57:03
  Ryan: in the
• 57:04
  Kearns: Little gimpy orphanage ghost just came up behind it put in a rear
• 57:08
  naked choke and took it out Um what about the Resident Evil 2 remake Easter egg
• 57:17
  Ryan: Are
• 57:17
  Jon: I mean it
• 57:18
  Ryan: the
• 57:21
  I was gonna say the bobblehead You talking
• 57:23
  Uhhuh
• 57:24
  bobblehead Yep
• 57:25
  Kearns: What about missed opportunities in this movie And there's a bunch
• 57:28
  so let's it to like the top ones
• 57:32
  Ryan: Who was Mr X
• 57:33
  Kearns: That's the biggest missed opportunity in the film
• 57:36
  Jon: Hmm.
• 57:36
  Mm-hmm.
• 57:39
  Ryan: Like Birkin's okay like but Mr X is the main villain of two
• 57:45
  Kearns: Well I also get that this is it's a mashup of one and two
• 57:49
  Jon: Yeah
• 57:50
  Kearns: And they don't go for the tyrant they don't have the hunters skip out
• 57:56
  on uh I mean what about the herbs We couldn't have had an a little bit of a
• 58:01
  nod to the green and red herbs in some
• 58:04
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 58:05
  Kearns: Like somebody eat a salad or something Do something where
• 58:07
  we see the green and red I that's the most iconic part of Resident
• 58:10
  Evil mixing the herbs and stuff
• 58:13
  Ryan: The red and the green and was it yellow And then you get the super
• 58:18
  Kearns: Yellow is for um poison
• 58:21
  Ryan: Yep Yellow is poison
• 58:23
  Kearns: and green were uh full health and then three greens were full health
• 58:28
  Ryan: Yep I've mixed two reds and a green gone some crazy with that
• 58:33
  Kearns: I don't know if I didn't know that was a thing
• 58:36
  Jon: Yeah.
• 58:37
  Kearns: I didn't
• 58:37
  Jon: You can pretty much mix them up however you want to
• 58:40
  Ryan: Yeah
• 58:41
  Kearns: Interesting
• 58:42
  Jon: herbs.
• 58:43
  Kearns: Make cherubs
• 58:44
  Jon: Mixture herbs.
• 58:46
  Kearns: that was my biggest one was Mr X missing was so dumb I
• 58:49
  Jon: Yeah
• 58:49
  Kearns: I'm The hunters how do you skip the hunters They're the
• 58:53
  most iconic secondstage enemy
• 58:56
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 58:56
  Mm-hmm
• 58:57
  Kearns: just can't do that to us
• 59:00
  Ryan: You were lucky you got the Doberman I mean there wasn't like a whole army
• 59:04
  of them like I was expecting but you
• 59:06
  Mmhmm
• 59:07
  dot And I was like
• 59:08
  Jon: Yeah
• 59:09
  Ryan: But I do agree like the hunters are very important in the story that
• 59:15
  they should have included them at least a
• 59:16
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 59:18
  Well, I mean, really the last third to maybe even as far as the last
• 59:24
  half of this movie, it's just really the human enemy, uh, time, and,
• 59:32
  you know, whatever Birkin and Wesker are turning into.
• 59:37
  Like,
• 59:37
  that's
• 59:37
  it
• 59:39
  Kearns: Wesker's interesting cause he runs the In order to explain the fact that
• 59:43
  Wesker is the way he is they also had to dig deeper into the lore of well how many
• 59:48
  people in Raccoon City got the Tvirus the answer was everyone including Leon
• 59:54
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 59:54
  Kearns: Claire and Jill some people that have the ability to live with it
• 1:00:01
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:00:01
  Kearns: And I was like all right they're reaching a little
• 1:00:03
  bit here with the lore make
• 1:00:06
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:00:06
  Kearns: sense because it was
• 1:00:08
  Jon: Yeah.
• 1:00:09
  Kearns: and it w uh
• 1:00:09
  Jon: Yeah
• 1:00:10
  Kearns: too maybe
• 1:00:11
  Ryan: Yep
• 1:00:12
  Kearns: So
• 1:00:13
  Ryan: a fan of that cause like none of them in the game have the virus The only
• 1:00:18
  time one of them does is Jill in Resident Evil 5 and that's under Wesker's control
• 1:00:25
  till they eventually cure her But the only one who should have any remnant
• 1:00:29
  in it is just Wesker alone because of him like testing everything on himself
• 1:00:35
  and becoming this superhuman eventually
• 1:00:38
  Kearns: should have kept it zombie outbreak Wesker got his this way
• 1:00:43
  Ryan: Mmhmm
• 1:00:43
  Kearns: was administered They shouldn't have made it so it
• 1:00:45
  could spread communally like that
• 1:00:48
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:00:52
  Mmhmm
• 1:00:52
  Kearns: well how animals got it and things like that but you can suspend your
• 1:00:55
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:00:56
  Yeah.
• 1:00:57
  Kearns: assume this and
• 1:00:59
  Jon: Well, I think a lot of that is, could be due to the time
• 1:01:05
  period this movie comes out in.
• 1:01:08
  You know, the, that you're playing on COVID fears too.
• 1:01:13
  So, you know, you
• 1:01:14
  Ryan: make you
• 1:01:15
  Jon: make
• 1:01:15
  a virus airborne, may- maybe that becomes a little scarier for this
• 1:01:20
  audience, and, uh, it doesn't
• 1:01:23
  Kearns: Yeah not
• 1:01:24
  Jon: Resident Evil doesn't need that addition
• 1:01:27
  Ryan: no
• 1:01:28
  Kearns: as far as like missed opportunities go that's kinda it sort
• 1:01:32
  of cherrypicks what it wants to put in from those two games Does a passable
• 1:01:37
  job and good job in some cases and it's
• 1:01:40
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:01:41
  Kearns: watch It's way better than the other franchise as John pointed out Um
• 1:01:46
  what about the ending though Ooh there's some stuff to discuss with the ending
• 1:01:53
  Ryan: It's a nice nod to the second when they're escaping uh Leon and Claire
• 1:01:58
  and the little girl I'm skipping on her name when they're escaping at the end
• 1:02:02
  that secret ending and they fight the snakelike creature They just changed it
• 1:02:07
  to for to Birkin which like the actor he does a great job of playing him
• 1:02:13
  Jon: Neil McDonough.
• 1:02:15
  Ryan: yep Neal McDonough He's a I've only seen him a lot in TV
• 1:02:19
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:02:20
  Ryan: does a great job Uh the one thing that doesn't get me is his transformation
• 1:02:25
  cause Birk Yeah I mean when you play the game and you see Like they follow
• 1:02:29
  the same story but as he evolves he just becomes like this gigant gigantic eye with
• 1:02:35
  tentacles eyes everywhere and it's more of
• 1:02:37
  Mmhmm
• 1:02:38
  feeling When you see him you're disturbed because like he was the one who created
• 1:02:43
  the virus This is his baby and like he's like the allseeing eye to me in my
• 1:02:48
  opinion to the whole Umbrella Corporation That was like the message And in
• 1:02:53
  Mmhmm
• 1:02:53
  they make him look like Grim Cutty and I was I wasn't a fan I wasn't a fan of that
• 1:02:59
  Jon: Uh-huh.
• 1:03:01
  Yeah, I, I get that.
• 1:03:02
  I think, you know, maybe, maybe that's where you start to run into some budgetary
• 1:03:07
  limitations that, you know, you have to… A- and time, I mean, like, you
• 1:03:13
  know, it's an hour and 47 minutes already.
• 1:03:17
  There's cuts that have to be made somewhere.
• 1:03:20
  I, I mean, you know, may- maybe the Resident Evil games are
• 1:03:24
  best adapted as a TV series.
• 1:03:26
  The end feels kind of rushed to me the way it is.
• 1:03:29
  But that's what it is.
• 1:03:30
  this may be the best you get out of a Resident Evil movie.
• 1:03:34
  Kearns: Yeah
• 1:03:34
  Jon: I hope not.
• 1:03:35
  You know, I'm, I'm, I am, I am still excited about the Zack Snyder
• 1:03:41
  version that is gonna come out right about the time you're hearing this
• 1:03:46
  Ryan: Yeah I am too I sent you guys something
• 1:03:49
  Kearns: I am not
• 1:03:51
  Ryan: Are are you one of the people who's like yelling at him
• 1:03:54
  because it's not Resident Evil
• 1:03:56
  Kearns: Yeah
• 1:03:57
  Ryan: Well he he's trying to do something different He's putting s his unique
• 1:04:01
  twist inside the game universe and
• 1:04:04
  Kearns: Some of the stuff I saw in the trailer just isn't Resident
• 1:04:07
  Evily though It was Evil Deady and
• 1:04:12
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:04:12
  Kearns: I d I you don't need to do that If you wanna make an Evil Dead movie you
• 1:04:16
  should've made Evil Dead Burn and made it good Don't do this So I don't like that
• 1:04:22
  like what I saw I hope I'm gonna watch it
• 1:04:24
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:04:24
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:04:27
  Kearns: Let's hope
• 1:04:28
  Jon: mean, I, yeah, I'm holding out some hope for it 'cause Zach
• 1:04:32
  Cregger hasn't missed for me.
• 1:04:35
  So, you know, he's a, a director as talented as I feel that
• 1:04:40
  he is gives me some hope.
• 1:04:44
  He'll be the best director attached to, to make a Resident Evil movie
• 1:04:49
  Kearns: That's true
• 1:04:50
  Ryan: True
• 1:04:50
  Kearns: What we
• 1:04:51
  Jon: And some
• 1:04:52
  Kearns: a similar thing for the Dawn of Dead um Dawn of the Dead remake
• 1:04:56
  is that it's a good movie that's not Resident Evil probably what's
• 1:05:01
  going to happen That's my t my
• 1:05:03
  Jon: Yeah, probably.
• 1:05:05
  Ryan: Yeah
• 1:05:05
  Jon: Probably
• 1:05:06
  Kearns: But we'll see But all
• 1:05:08
  Jon: And I, I, I, I know I mentioned Resident Evil as a TV series, and I
• 1:05:13
  know they did a TV series on Netflix, but it wasn't really, even that's
• 1:05:18
  not really a Resident Evil story.
• 1:05:21
  Kearns: Right
• 1:05:22
  Ryan: No
• 1:05:23
  Jon: It's, you know, it's the… Yeah.
• 1:05:25
  They took a lot of liberties with the story there too,
• 1:05:28
  but, you know, it was fine.
• 1:05:32
  Kearns: It was
• 1:05:32
  Jon: I didn't hate it.
• 1:05:34
  I didn't hate it.
• 1:05:35
  Kearns: So how'd you
• 1:05:35
  Jon: I watched all of it
• 1:05:37
  Kearns: How'd you like the end and the midcredit scene the this movie
• 1:05:43
  Ryan: I love the midcredit scene more than the ending cause you get Ada Wong and you
• 1:05:46
  get that Wesker transformation He gets his sunglasses You know it kind of gives
• 1:05:51
  the explanation of why Like cause in the game everything he puts into him he's
• 1:05:55
  like very sensitive to the light So they do tie that in and I feel it was gonna
• 1:06:00
  lead to a I said badass Wesker with Ada Wong and it was gonna lead into Resident
• 1:06:06
  Evil 5 at least that storyline And maybe go with a little Code Veronica into it
• 1:06:13
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:06:13
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:06:17
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:06:17
  Kearns: mean I'm I'm okay with them not continuing on with this anyway This was uh
• 1:06:21
  better for me as a oneoff If they'd made
• 1:06:24
  Jon: Yeah
• 1:06:24
  Kearns: movies and it got worse This didn't have any room to go
• 1:06:27
  down in my opinion It was it was suspended just above bad So if it got
• 1:06:35
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:06:35
  Kearns: quality of the second one went down ugh They also they removed
• 1:06:40
  the nuke and turned it into the mansion bomb and just focused on the
• 1:06:44
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:06:46
  and
• 1:06:46
  Kearns: I
• 1:06:46
  Jon: Yeah.
• 1:06:47
  Kearns: kinda lame Like yeah at least give us a
• 1:06:48
  Jon: Yeah.
• 1:06:50
  Yeah
• 1:06:51
  Ryan: I thought they teased it a little bit and then they just forgot about it
• 1:06:56
  Cause I think they mentioned the idea of it which is the the bomb in the uh
• 1:07:01
  Spencer mansion but they do mention a nuke getting delivered and I was like
• 1:07:04
  Okay gonna keep it close and no they don't
• 1:07:09
  Kearns: Nothing Gave us nothing
• 1:07:11
  Jon: Yep.
• 1:07:12
  Kearns: Yeah Are we doing reviews for this one John
• 1:07:15
  Jon: Well, of course we are.
• 1:07:16
  I have a, I actually have four 'cause I l- I love the re- the set
• 1:07:22
  of reviews that are, that it's on Rotten Tomatoes for this movie.
• 1:07:26
  They are so unhinged.
• 1:07:28
  They're, it's so out there.
• 1:07:31
  we'll start with the overall scores.
• 1:07:33
  This i- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is a 30% critic score
• 1:07:39
  Kearns: Oh that seems accurate It seems
• 1:07:42
  Jon: It's a 60- it's a 65% audience score though, so you know, the fans, some fans
• 1:07:50
  found some to like, as this person did.
• 1:07:53
  This is a five-star review that will leave you a little confused.
• 1:07:58
  "First of all, musical effects are insane.
• 1:08:01
  Genre itself is not bad, but not for Leon, there's a big mistake.
• 1:08:07
  Leon S. Kennedy is chestnut hair cop in video games and most popular game
• 1:08:14
  character in RE, That is the most bizarre five-star review I have ever heard.
• 1:08:19
  Uh, clearly it's not an English as a first language person, but I mean,
• 1:08:26
  forgetting that, there's nothing… He's not, that's not a five-star movie
• 1:08:30
  if you hate that character that much
• 1:08:34
  Kearns: Yeah
• 1:08:35
  Ryan: a three star
• 1:08:36
  Kearns: fact
• 1:08:37
  Jon: yeah, that
• 1:08:38
  Kearns: brings up like why did you hate him so much Really why did you hate him
• 1:08:43
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:08:44
  Kearns: And we talked about that a little bit Switching
• 1:08:46
  Jon: Yeah.
• 1:08:48
  Kearns: Anytime they do it with a character that's
• 1:08:50
  beloved too it's a risky move
• 1:08:53
  Jon: It always
• 1:08:54
  Kearns: this review a little bit
• 1:08:56
  Jon: That always angers people.
• 1:08:58
  I mean, my issue, like I, like we said, it's not the race
• 1:09:02
  change, it's the ineptitude.
• 1:09:07
  Um, so with the scores of this movie, you know I found some ones and some halves.
• 1:09:15
  Here's a one star
• 1:09:18
  One star.
• 1:09:19
  This is the worst Resident Evil movies I've ever seen.
• 1:09:24
  They don't study your time with it
• 1:09:27
  Kearns: Wow
• 1:09:29
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:09:30
  Ryan: Maybe
• 1:09:31
  Jon: So
• 1:09:32
  Ryan: it's a one
• 1:09:32
  Jon: yeah, uh, Leon's a problem clearly.
• 1:09:36
  I, I also wanna point out, I'm having difficulty reading some
• 1:09:39
  of these because there is no punctuation in any of these reviews.
• 1:09:45
  None.
• 1:09:46
  N-
• 1:09:46
  Kearns: way
• 1:09:46
  Jon: not a comma, not a period, nothing
• 1:09:51
  Kearns: Stream of consciousness hate.
• 1:09:53
  Jon: Nothing.
• 1:09:54
  Do you… Yeah.
• 1:09:57
  Um, I think these get worse.
• 1:10:00
  Here's a half star
• 1:10:03
  Half star.
• 1:10:03
  Are we dead ass?
• 1:10:04
  This is the worst film ever.
• 1:10:04
  I hope they don't make a number two, 'cause this sucked ass.
• 1:10:04
  The characters didn't look like the ones from the game except for
• 1:10:04
  Chris and Claire, and the story is
• 1:10:18
  even worse.
• 1:10:20
  It was like if number one and two had a baby and then shatted on it.
• 1:10:25
  Even my cousin could make a better movie than this, and she's 10.
• 1:10:31
  Three thumbs down.
• 1:10:32
  They also made Leon useless ash and like a hobo
• 1:10:37
  Kearns: Oh my God.
• 1:10:38
  But like a hobo is definitely something I agree with.
• 1:10:40
  I actually like the spirit of that review though, 'cause it hits on
• 1:10:43
  everything I don't like about the movie.
• 1:10:46
  I just might
• 1:10:46
  Jon: Yeah
• 1:10:46
  Yeah, yeah,
• 1:10:47
  Kearns: as he doesn't like it though
• 1:10:49
  Jon: Again, no punctuation and the thumbs down are emoji thumbs downs
• 1:10:57
  Kearns: Yep
• 1:10:59
  Jon: Yeah.
• 1:10:59
  and one more half star.
• 1:11:02
  "I saw this on Hulu thinking, oh, a different take on Resident Evil, one
• 1:11:08
  of my favorite all-time game series. I only made it about 10 minutes into
• 1:11:13
  the movie before I gave up. I know it's hard to keep a movie to a video game
• 1:11:19
  and vice versa like it is with a book adaptation, but what is this crap?"
• 1:11:25
  And now we're gonna go into the grievances.
• 1:11:28
  "One, Wesker works for Umbrella, not RPD.
• 1:11:31
  Two, Jill isn't friends with any of them.
• 1:11:35
  Three, Leon Kennedy doesn't meet Wesker so early.
• 1:11:39
  Four, Leon meets Claire Redfield before meeting anyone of the RPD staff.
• 1:11:45
  Five, starts at a gas station, not a diner.
• 1:11:49
  Six, Wesker is a scientist, not a cop.
• 1:11:52
  Seven, Claire Redfield doesn't meet her brother at all.
• 1:11:56
  There is so much more wrong just in those first 10 minutes that I couldn't watch it.
• 1:12:02
  I would never recommend this movie to anyone, not even my enemies.
• 1:12:07
  It doesn't have to be exactly the same, but this was completely far from the
• 1:12:12
  storyline that it doesn't make sense.
• 1:12:15
  Please don't watch this.
• 1:12:17
  I'd give it zero stars if possible."
• 1:12:23
  Kearns: Speaking of stars, Ryan, I feel,
• 1:12:26
  Jon: This
• 1:12:26
  Kearns: you're gonna point something out about Wesker
• 1:12:29
  Ryan: He he's undercover He he was a part of the squad He was undercover
• 1:12:34
  working with them So yes he was part of the STARS team as an undercover agent
• 1:12:39
  for Umbrella Mr I Know Resident Evil
• 1:12:43
  Kearns: would make him an, which would make him a cop, by the way.
• 1:12:46
  It'd be like saying a SWAT team member isn't a cop.
• 1:12:49
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:12:50
  Kearns: Special STARS group.
• 1:12:51
  He is definitely a cop in the game
• 1:12:53
  Jon: It's,
• 1:12:54
  Ryan: Yes
• 1:12:54
  Jon: I lo- I love that review.
• 1:12:56
  He got so angry in 10 minutes
• 1:12:59
  Kearns: Yep.
• 1:13:01
  angry.
• 1:13:01
  Ryan: Yeah
• 1:13:03
  Jon: So angry in 10 minutes.
• 1:13:04
  Kearns: get some of it, but whatever.
• 1:13:06
  All right, Ryan, why don't you
• 1:13:07
  Jon: I mean
• 1:13:07
  Kearns: review?
• 1:13:09
  Jon: Yeah,
• 1:13:10
  Ryan: I'm, I'm in between.
• 1:13:12
  I'm giving it a three out of five, and the reason I'm giving it a three
• 1:13:16
  out of five is, does it hit some strides that I was looking forward
• 1:13:19
  to, being a Resident Evil fan?
• 1:13:21
  Yes.
• 1:13:22
  Is it the truest form for right now we're gonna get of an adaptation
• 1:13:26
  of the game that's true to it?
• 1:13:28
  Yes, and I respect it.
• 1:13:31
  Do they nail it fully?
• 1:13:33
  really.
• 1:13:35
  But is it a good watch if you're just chilling on, like, a Saturday
• 1:13:39
  afternoon with nothing to do?
• 1:13:40
  Yeah.
• 1:13:42
  So I'll give it three out of five on it.
• 1:13:44
  Be generous.
• 1:13:46
  'Cause it's also one of the best Resident Evil films I've seen.
• 1:13:51
  Until
• 1:13:51
  Kearns: Which give you an idea of what I would've given those
• 1:13:53
  movies after you hear my big fat
• 1:13:55
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:13:58
  Kearns: Um, without Resident Evil, this movie is terrible.
• 1:14:01
  So just the, like, the nostalgia factor and stuff props it up a bit more.
• 1:14:06
  It's
• 1:14:06
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:14:06
  Kearns: much, so much missed potential, and it's just, it's just… talked
• 1:14:12
  about it, all of it, so I don't need to rehash any of it here, but it
• 1:14:15
  really is not that f- good of a film.
• 1:14:18
  Like, it's enjoyable though if you're a
• 1:14:21
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:14:22
  Kearns: of the franchise
• 1:14:26
  Two
• 1:14:27
  Jon: I think that's pretty fair, and I'm gonna wind up almost
• 1:14:31
  right in the middle of you guys.
• 1:14:32
  I'm gonna go with 2.75.
• 1:14:35
  I think it's fun.
• 1:14:36
  I think there's fun to be had.
• 1:14:38
  G- I could be talked up to three.
• 1:14:40
  I could be talked down to 2.5.
• 1:14:42
  Like, it, it f- it does some things well enough, and, and, you know, like
• 1:14:48
  we've mentioned multiple times, I…
• 1:14:50
  This is the best, the most faithful Resident Evil we're gonna get probably.
• 1:14:55
  I'm not sure this franchise can be made into a movie.
• 1:14:59
  I'm not sure we should continue to try to make it into movies.
• 1:15:03
  You know, maybe it's time for an Amazon or somebody to get involved and make a sh-
• 1:15:08
  a series out of it, and, you know, see.
• 1:15:11
  But, you know, at the end of the day, even that probably doesn't work.
• 1:15:15
  I, you know, it may just be an unfilmable property.
• 1:15:20
  And, you know, this is where we are with it.
• 1:15:23
  You know, it's, uh, if Zach Craiger doesn't hit, in a few years someone
• 1:15:27
  else will take a stab at it again, and it'll probably come out about the same.
• 1:15:33
  And that's where we are.
• 1:15:34
  So 2.75
• 1:15:36
  Kearns: All right, so that's the end of our discussion of the movie, but
• 1:15:39
  now it's time for our top fives, kids.
• 1:15:42
  Ryan: Oh, I've been waiting for
• 1:15:43
  Kearns: I bet you have-
• 1:15:44
  Ryan: going top five Resident Evil games, and I'm
• 1:15:47
  Kearns: Ooh.
• 1:15:49
  Ryan: I'm giving an honorary mention to one of the most hated
• 1:15:51
  Resident Evil games out there, and that's Resident Evil Zero, which
• 1:15:55
  originally came out for the GameCube.
• 1:15:57
  It's the first prequel.
• 1:15:58
  it's different characters.
• 1:16:00
  We get a prisoner, and we get one of the S.T.A.R.S. team, and
• 1:16:04
  they're just stuck on this train, and it's a different atmosphere.
• 1:16:08
  Much harder because you couldn't walk past the zombies.
• 1:16:12
  There wasn't enough storage, uh, not enough inventory.
• 1:16:16
  But honorary mention.
• 1:16:18
  Not a lot of people love it.
• 1:16:19
  But we're gonna start off with my number five.
• 1:16:21
  We mentioned it earlier.
• 1:16:22
  We're going to 2000 when anyone… everyone had a PS2 and a Dreamcast, and
• 1:16:27
  that's Resident Evil Code: Veronica.
• 1:16:29
  Um, set three months after the events of Resident Evil 2 and during the
• 1:16:35
  concurrent, uh, destruction of Raccoon City as seen in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
• 1:16:39
  It follows Claire Redfield and her brother Chris in their effort to
• 1:16:42
  survive a viral outbreak at a remote prison island in the Southern Ocean
• 1:16:46
  and a research facility in Antarctica.
• 1:16:49
  an excellent game.
• 1:16:50
  I'm not gonna spoil anything.
• 1:16:52
  I'm just gonna give synopsises because I feel like everyone, whether you've
• 1:16:56
  played it or are interested in Resident Evil, should experience it yourself.
• 1:17:00
  So yes, I will be, uh, spoiler-free.
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  But it… This is one of the hardest games because it's still in the
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  tank controls, and the cameras are very close-ended, just to say.
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  Yeah, this game is very hard to play even for modern consoles
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  Jon: Did you say in the taint controls?
• 1:17:21
  Oh
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  Ryan: tank controls.
• 1:17:22
  Tank, um, that's what they call the Resident Evil tank, the tank
• 1:17:25
  controls, because it's all based on the camera angles and the closeness,
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  and it's basically like the original.
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  Um, you gotta get ribbons, make sure you know where your, uh, storage facilities
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  are, and have enough inventory.
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  then we kinda jump backwards to 1996, which is my number four, and
• 1:17:48
  that's the original Resident Evil.
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  I never had the pleasure of playing the original Resident Evil, but I played
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  the remake in 2002, which is basically the same game with upgraded graphics.
• 1:17:59
  Always go with Jill first.
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  Um, the whole idea is set in the fictional Arklay Mountain region in the Midwest.
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  Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, members of the elite task force S- S.T.A.R.S.,
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  must escape the Spencer mansion infested with zombies and other monsters.
• 1:18:14
  It's excellent for the survival horror.
• 1:18:17
  It really gets the survival horror going, 'cause then we get Silent
• 1:18:20
  Hill, we get Siren, Fatal Frame, we get all of these classics.
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  But is what made it.
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  And the cool thing is, couple years later, you get a director's cut of it,
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  which features a lot of the scenes from Japan, where it's known as Biohazard.
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  So it kinda gives the American culture more of that horror experience of survival
• 1:18:43
  horror from the Japanese culture, which is cool, and it still is used to this day.
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  which, we'll jump to number three, and number three is,
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  recent 2021 Resident Evil Village.
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  I really love that game.
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  It's a sequel to VII.
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  It follows Ethan Winters who searches for his kidnapped daughter in a mysterious
• 1:19:04
  European village, of course, filled with mutant creatures, which also hold
• 1:19:08
  secrets around the Umbrella Corporation.
• 1:19:11
  It's in first person as well as third person.
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  Play it in first person if you want the thrill, if you wanna be scared.
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  It's a fun experience, and there's a lot of homages, too, to the
• 1:19:22
  Universal horror films, which I loved.
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  And it's a very easy play through.
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  it's very enjoyable, and it's a good first outing if you wanna get into Resident
• 1:19:32
  Evil, I feel, you wanna jump around.
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  that leads to number two, though.
• 1:19:38
  two, we had a remake in 2023, but the 2005 still slaps, and that's Resident Evil 4.
• 1:19:44
  We follow Leon, who's a badass in the game, on a mission to rescue
• 1:19:48
  the President of the United States' daughter, Ashley Graham, who has been
• 1:19:51
  abducted by a religious cult in Spain.
• 1:19:54
  get so many great scenes in this.
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  You get the merchant, you get the little Napoleon guy, you get a
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  Rasputin guy who turns into a spider.
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  You get so many great Experiences in this game.
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  definitely play, I would say play the remake 'cause you
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  don't have the tank controls.
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  with the modern controls it's a little bit better, and it follows the same story.
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  And
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  Jon: That's neat
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  Ryan: to number one to number one.
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  my number one, both 1998 with the two-disc and 2019 with the
• 1:20:30
  remake, and that's Resident Evil 2.
• 1:20:32
  It's my favorite Resident Evil game because it puts you in
• 1:20:36
  every, I feel, zombie fan's dream.
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  You're in the middle of a city, and you're trying to survive, and
• 1:20:43
  you get two character aspects.
• 1:20:45
  You have Mr. X haunting you.
• 1:20:47
  Nowhere's safe.
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  And you get a couple good side stories which expand the universe even
• 1:20:54
  more, and just a great experience.
• 1:20:57
  I… Resident Evil 2.
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  Go play these games.
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  Enjoy them.
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  Have fun.
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  Kearns: Good.
• 1:21:04
  Ryan: John, okay
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  Kearns: No, I was gonna say it's a good top five.
• 1:21:08
  Very topical
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  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:21:10
  Ryan: Yes.
• 1:21:11
  Yes.
• 1:21:11
  Uh, and you know what?
• 1:21:13
  In your comments, let us know what your top five Resident Evil games
• 1:21:16
  are, or top five horror games are
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  Jon: Or top five games, or top five movies, or top five…
• 1:21:23
  Give us your top fives.
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  I went pretty straightforward here.
• 1:21:27
  I went with, um, virus movies
• 1:21:32
  Ryan: Oh, okay
• 1:21:33
  Jon: Yeah.
• 1:21:34
  Or virus-like movies.
• 1:21:36
  Some of these are bacterial, some of them are infections.
• 1:21:40
  It's, it's a, a mix.
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  Illness movies.
• 1:21:43
  We'll g- we'll straighten it up to m- illness movies
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  Kearns: Can we, do virus movies where Gwyneth dies?
• 1:21:50
  Uh, unalives.
• 1:21:51
  Can we do just those?
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  Jon: number five, Contagion.
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  Num-
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  Kearns: five, there it is.
• 1:21:57
  I knew it was
• 1:21:57
  Jon: number four, number four, Contagion.
• 1:22:00
  Number three, Contagion.
• 1:22:02
  Number two, Contagion.
• 1:22:04
  And number one virus movie where Gwyneth Paltrow dies, Contagion.
• 1:22:10
  Kearns: Nice.
• 1:22:11
  My favorite top five
• 1:22:12
  Ryan: Best unaliving seen since Seven
• 1:22:15
  Jon: All right, here, here's the actual top five.
• 1:22:18
  At number five, I'm gonna go with a movie with a cast that includes
• 1:22:22
  Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, and Jeffrey DeMunn,
• 1:22:28
  and it's a movie called Warning Sign.
• 1:22:31
  so an accident in a biotech facility causes a bacterial leak, and the lab is
• 1:22:36
  locked down, trapping the staff inside.
• 1:22:40
  The trapped staff and their families outside are desperate for
• 1:22:44
  their release, but the military is determined to prevent that and
• 1:22:48
  prevent the spread of this illness.
• 1:22:50
  a security guard, a cop, and a drunk scientist team up to try to find
• 1:22:55
  a solution before time runs out.
• 1:22:59
  Warning Sign is a fun ride, my number four is also a fun ride, and it's the
• 1:23:05
  rare appearance of an Italian movie on my top five, and it is, Nightmare City
• 1:23:14
  So when a military aircraft full of infected people lands in a European
• 1:23:20
  city, a reporter on scene to interview a scientist witnesses the zombie
• 1:23:26
  passengers escape and attack soldiers in decidedly un-zombie-like manners.
• 1:23:33
  These undead use weapons.
• 1:23:36
  He attempts to inform the public, but is thwarted by the military, and before
• 1:23:42
  long, the zombies have overrun the city.
• 1:23:45
  It is Umberto Lenzi cl- a classic
• 1:23:51
  Ryan: It sounds very similar to Planet Terror in a way
• 1:23:56
  Jon: Yeah, I would say it's got some similarities.
• 1:23:58
  And I mean, you know that that whole grindhouse concept, as with anything
• 1:24:04
  Tarantino is involved in, has a lot of homages to other stuff, so
• 1:24:09
  Ryan: Oh yeah.
• 1:24:09
  It, it just, it's crazy.
• 1:24:12
  And it's Italian, which makes
• 1:24:14
  Mmhmm
• 1:24:14
  even more interesting because I feel like real quick that market at that time
• 1:24:20
  like, to the next level, especially with,
• 1:24:22
  Mmhmm
• 1:24:23
  westerns and stuff.
• 1:24:24
  So it's
• 1:24:24
  Mmhmm
• 1:24:26
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:24:27
  my number three is probably gonna hit a big Kern spot, and it's a movie I
• 1:24:33
  only found out about because excerpts of the dialogue, are used in a death
• 1:24:39
  metal song that I absolutely love.
• 1:24:41
  Like, not death metal, but a metal song that I really love, uh, by a
• 1:24:44
  band called Theater of Tragedy, and the song is, "And When He Falleth."
• 1:24:50
  And it is The Mask of the Red Death.
• 1:24:53
  Kearns: definitely hit a big current spot with that one, buddy
• 1:24:56
  Jon: yeah.
• 1:24:56
  Yeah.
• 1:24:57
  So th- this is Edgar Allan Poe, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price.
• 1:25:02
  story's pretty straightforward.
• 1:25:04
  Castle of Prince Po- Prospero has become a refuge for nobles
• 1:25:07
  fleeing the Red Death plague that's ripping through the countryside.
• 1:25:12
  Prospero has also taken in a peasant woman, and he introduces
• 1:25:16
  him, her to his satanic world.
• 1:25:20
  But can the castle keep the plague out?
• 1:25:26
  Probably not.
• 1:25:27
  Probably not.
• 1:25:28
  I… Aside from the movie, this comes with a, strong, strong
• 1:25:32
  recommendation for the song.
• 1:25:34
  It's an epic.
• 1:25:35
  It's, you know, it's got the growly-voiced guy and the operatic female vocal.
• 1:25:41
  It's, it's just wonderful, and then you get the, the Vincent Price
• 1:25:45
  and Jane Asher excerpts mixed in.
• 1:25:49
  So good.
• 1:25:50
  So, so good.
• 1:25:52
  my number two is a Hong Kong movie we've definitely talked about before.
• 1:25:58
  it's will remain probably forever among the grossest movies I've
• 1:26:06
  ever watched, bloodiest, grossest movies, and it's The Sadness.
• 1:26:10
  Um, you know, we talk, we talked about a couple are separated at the outbreak of
• 1:26:16
  an infection that causes victims to act on their most depraved and violent impulses
• 1:26:24
  while retaining most of their mind.
• 1:26:27
  Um, be prepared to things you never imagined, to see things you never
• 1:26:33
  imagined you would see in a movie.
• 1:26:35
  It's not for the squeamish.
• 1:26:38
  Um, it's a very limited audience that this movie is shooting for with the
• 1:26:44
  gore and the blood and the gross,
• 1:26:46
  Kearns: He, that
• 1:26:47
  Jon: it works on…
• 1:26:48
  Kearns: me
• 1:26:50
  Jon: That disclaimer is for everybody.
• 1:26:54
  Like, do not go into The Sadness thinking this is just a zombie movie.
• 1:26:59
  It's, it's a zombie movie essentially, but ooh, it's a ride.
• 1:27:06
  Ryan: I'll be sad at the end of it basically
• 1:27:09
  Jon: I mean, yeah, it is d- it's also not a happy ending, but
• 1:27:15
  A getting to that unhappy ending will change a person
• 1:27:22
  And my number one, I mean, we all know I can't resist the opportunity
• 1:27:27
  to throw George A. Romero into things.
• 1:27:30
  I already wedged him into this episode, and I'm gonna wedge him
• 1:27:34
  in at number one, because my number
• 1:27:38
  one is George A.
• 1:27:39
  Romero's The Crazies.
• 1:27:40
  I threw the remake in a couple weeks ago.
• 1:27:43
  I'm throwing in the Romero one this time.
• 1:27:46
  man-made virus escapes and takes over a, a small Pennsylvania town.
• 1:27:51
  The military has to try to contain the outbreak, and they are in- vi- vigorously
• 1:27:57
  enforcing a quarantine on the town.
• 1:28:01
  a group of residents are determined to escape, but is anybody able to
• 1:28:06
  escape this quarantine zone without being sick or offed by the military?
• 1:28:14
  Not likely.
• 1:28:16
  And that's The Crazies, and that's five more illness, virus-infected people movies
• 1:28:24
  Ryan: It's a
• 1:28:24
  Kearns: Nicely done.
• 1:28:25
  Nicely done.
• 1:28:27
  All right, gentlemen.
• 1:28:28
  Well, I think this wraps up our Raccoon City Welcome or Not episode.
• 1:28:35
  like I said, it's worth the watch, just for the nostalgia factor if you guys
• 1:28:39
  wanna go out and take a look at it.
• 1:28:41
  it was a movie that is called
• 1:28:43
  Jon: Mmhmm
• 1:28:45
  Ryan: Yep
• 1:28:46
  Kearns: and it is more Resident Evily than the other Resident Evil movies
• 1:28:50
  Jon: Mm-hmm.
• 1:28:52
  Yeah.
• 1:28:54
  That's a, that's a reasonable description
• 1:28:57
  Kearns: All right, everybody, we're getting out of here.
• 1:28:58
  We'll see you next time, all right?
• 1:29:01
  Ryan: Take a journey to Raccoon City
• 1:29:05
  Jon: There you go.