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Let's Talk ROG Xbox Ally X, Xbox Summer Showcase & Summer Game Fest · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

• 0:24
  Hello everyone. His ghost house.
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  Oh no. Hello everyone, welcome to the
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  Bossers Podcast. Great place to play games and be
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  better. I am one of your hosts, LeBron
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  Dawkins. PC must race.
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  You know you know who it is. You know who it is.
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  Are you that that guy that plays PC games all the time?
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  That. Oh, that guy.
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  Yeah, that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  And you're that guy that that plays Xbox games all the time?
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  That that is me. I'm still playing the same one
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  that was playing a while ago, but we'll get there.
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  Later. Are you ready to play Gears of
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  War all over again, though? I am. 500th time sure.
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  Yeah. I'll I'll give it a whirl.
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  Maybe I'll play on the Xbox Ally this time.
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  I've never played it in handheld before.
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  It's supposed to be. It's given a grind, if you catch
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  my drift. Yeah, yeah.
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  And. Like a world.
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  And there's that guy that plays Nintendo games, the wonderful
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  Patrick Klein. Welcome back dude.
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  And PlayStation and you know, I play, I mean.
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  You play, you play it all. You play, you play it all.
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  Actually I. Am a non discriminatory gamer
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  except for mobile. Yeah, you you give.
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  You give Ed a run for his money sometimes.
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  I try sometimes, Let's not get carried away.
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  Yeah, yeah. Listen, Ed's in the drive
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  through a Taco Bell, ordering like $30 worth of food, playing
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  games somehow. Yeah, so, so welcome back to the
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  show, guys. It's great to have you here.
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  How how's how's y'all's last week been?
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  Oh, boy, it's been been, it's been busy.
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  That's a, that's a word for it. It's been busy, it's been a
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  little bit hectic, but overall it's been, it's been OK.
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  But yeah, I don't know. I'm feeling like a I'm feeling a
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  certain way They're on, you know what I mean?
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  Feeling that got a adjust some things in life if you know what
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  I mean. I was about to say you.
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  I was about to say, you feeling that that that post summer game
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  fest glow. Glow snooze dude.
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  Summer game fest man what a man. I don't know if it's just me or
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  not but I that was a snooze fest and 1/2.
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  Yeah, I I can say that based off of because I didn't catch, I
• 3:01
  didn't catch as much of as I wanted to.
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  And but and I was trying to, I was trying to say I was going to
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  catch at least half of it. I didn't catch all that.
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  Like I didn't see the I did see the Xbox showcase.
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  I didn't see some of these, some of the major announcements, you
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  know, but beyond that, like I did not TuneIn at all all
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  weekend. Yeah.
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  I had it in the background, but I don't, I mean there were a lot
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  of good things. It's just, it's definitely an
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  overload of like information to the point where it's like, OK, I
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  remember there were some great games shown at the main showcase
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  in the Xbox showcase, even the PlayStation State of Play.
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  But you know, if you asked me to pick like 5 things.
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  Out of each. Showcase I would not be able to
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  tell you more than maybe 2. The standard play, the the state
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  of play was nice. I mean like like that was.
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  The best one in my opinion. I lost.
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  I lost my shit. When I saw final fancy tactics,
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  I lost it. Yeah, that was a good one.
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  Good, good pool, Sony. Or did you, I guess where in
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  that game? Huh.
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  Did you hear the voice in that game?
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  No, my boyfriend, the run. Oh.
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  Yeah. Oh I'll, I'll buy 3 copies right
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  now. I'm I'm quite excited for that.
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  I know Laurent, this is you're. You're the one known to love
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  this game, but I can't wait for this game either.
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  I love some farm fans tactics. Yeah, it's, it's a good one.
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  It's the OGI mean. Not really, but sort of might as
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  well be. It is the OG because it has the
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  OG. Well.
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  I meant like I meant like there's tactics over and
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  obviously the original Fireman 1 Famicom, but I mean this is come
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  on, this is this is the game that made it put it on the map.
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  Yeah, I just want to know what they're going to do new because
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  War of the Lions added added some new stuff into it.
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  So I wonder what they're going to do for.
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  This and that translation is also in this package, yes?
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  Which is the best version? I don't know if they are doing
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  anything new, I think it's just the the read.
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  Just the just the graphic upload.
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  The recolor, the graphic upload, the voices and probably more
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  quality of life things to make it very excellent.
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  Did I hear that right? All the dialogue, all the
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  dialogue is is voice over now or is it?
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  Or is it still just the just the cutscenes and cutscenes?
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  And by cutscenes I don't just mean like the like the like the
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  animated stuff I'm talking about like the actual like like say
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  you beat a mission and and the talking after that I.
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  Feel like this would be voice acted for most of the game.
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  Yeah. Different, yeah.
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  I mean, I mean. That's a good question.
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  I mean, if, if, if the lunar, if the Lunar Remastered collection,
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  you know, like can pull that off, I don't see why Square
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  wouldn't pull it off, You know what I mean?
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  Yeah, yeah. No, because like every bit of
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  dialogue in Lunar in Lunar Remastered is basically
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  voiceovered. Really.
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  Yeah. Almost every bit, Almost every
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  bit like the small. The small, like the small, like
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  little dialogue boxes, you know, like when you're walking about
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  town. That's not, you know, OK.
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  So talking for like villagers don't.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  Yeah, that's cool. Yeah.
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  Yeah, that's can't wait though. That's extensive.
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  Yeah, yeah, that's another game. That's another game I, I turned
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  on and, you know, started playing and then and then, you
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  know, like other games like, well, another game like took my
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  priority. We'll talk about that later.
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  Look, I'm just, I'm just excited that MENA, the Hollowers finally
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  getting it, getting coming out in October, OK?
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  Yep. You know, they've been they've
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  been, they've been teasing us for so long.
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  It's just like, you know, come on, give it to me.
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  I want the mouse. He wants to mouse like a Mace in
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  the face. I mean, I'll take that too.
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  Like I said earlier, it better kill me if.
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  It doesn't just make you stronger.
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  That was violent. You know what else is violent?
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  Mario Kart is violent. Jesus Trace that game got
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  violent. Like the AI in that game is like
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  what the hell? I know it's like it the man,
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  yeah, the the 24 racers in that game is like, what are you?
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  What are you even trying to do here?
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  Interesting. I mean, it's dude, that first
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  like the first lap or whatever you want to call it this time
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  around is like it's so chaotic. It's like what?
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  What are we even doing here? Then you had those knockout
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  tours, and if you get all the way to like the last round of
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  the knockout tour, it's like you could be in first place but
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  immediately be in last place with just the hip of 1 turtle
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  shell. Yeah.
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  It's horrible. Oh, Mario Kart, man.
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  It's, it's not, it's not. It's not easy anymore.
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  Not for the faint of heart, either.
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  Or when you see all these high blood.
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  Pressure. And then you see all these
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  videos of people wall bouncing and, and grinding and like
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  basically speed running all of these levels.
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  And it's like, Oh my gosh, where you, how do you, how are you
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  even doing that? I'm done going back to Mario
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  Kart 8 like a real person. Really.
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  Like a normal person. Well, I heard, I heard for as I
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  heard, as far as good as the game is like it's kind of
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  lackluster in in in other other regards.
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  Like, it's not it's not as polished as people anticipated,
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  but I'm not sure if that's just because they've been spoiled by
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  Double Dash. Double dash is not good.
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  I don't know why people think that game's good.
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  I'd be first Mario Kart. I hate, I hate double Dash man,
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  that game is not although I'm not a Mario, I I didn't really
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  like Mario Kart until Mario Kart DS.
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  So. I am just not.
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  I'm just not a Mario Kart person at all.
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  Like never. Like never liked its inception
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  of Super Nintendo. Man dude the Super Nintendo and
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  N64 ones are like the worst ones and the Game Boy Advance one is
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  also terrible. It's basically like the terrible
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  Super Nintendo version on a three inch screen.
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  I, I can kind of see a point made by the people there.
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  And like in terms of actual quality courses, I think 8
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  definitely had the better quality courses, but that's
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  because those are designed to be like the primary racing part of
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  the game where world is now you race to track to track.
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  So there's a lot more stuff in the world.
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  And so the courses aren't as super elaborate as when they
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  were just the focus. I, I think that's kind of my, my
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  point, 'cause when you did get a Super Focus course like Rainbow
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  Rd., which is like the best Rainbow Rd. out of any Mario
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  Kart game now, like it's, it's a fantastic course.
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  Yeah, Rainbow Rd. is great. I think, I don't know, I, I, I
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  don't know how I feel about it yet, which is probably telling
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  of how maybe I really feel about it.
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  But you know, it's, it's fun. My kids like it.
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  It's fun to play with multiple people.
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  So, you know, I can't can't, I'm not complaining.
• 10:42
  It's great, but it's not like I don't know if it's my favorite.
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  I I think if I wasn't doing the podcasting thing and Nintendo
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  Power block obviously being the main, my main podcast
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  essentially at this point, like I don't know if I would have
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  gotten a switch to right away. I might have waited.
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  But also Donkey Kong is coming up and it looks cool.
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  So who am I to say? Yeah, I will say this.
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  Can I check the show? Well, no, no, no, no.
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  I will say this. I will say this like the switch
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  to itself is pretty shiny. I like it.
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  Yeah, I like it too. Yeah, it's a solid system.
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  You know, I definitely got to buy, I definitely got to buy a
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  micro SD card though, because jeez, like I did that.
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  I did that port over from my from my original switch and Oh
• 11:31
  my God, like my my Internet, my Internet memory was already
• 11:34
  gasping for air. Dude, I downloaded, I downloaded
• 11:37
  split fiction, Street Fighter, Hogwarts Legacy and a bio cart
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  and and Cyberpunk and like a few other games and it was like we
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  can't download these other games.
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  Like, Oh my gosh. Because my SD card came, I have.
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  1st. Yeah, my micro SD card came
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  late, so I ended up just having to like delete split fiction for
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  a while until until it came over.
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  But it's it's fun. It's it's good time, by the way,
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  cyberpunk. I'm kind of shocked at how well
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  it runs on this thing. Does it really run that well?
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  In the in handheld mode it run it's it looks really good,
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  really sharp in handheld mode. It's when you put it up on, when
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  you put it up on the TV though, like I have a 70 inch TV sitting
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  over here and it's like that's when you're like, OK, this was
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  made for the handheld device, clearly optimized for.
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  You don't mean it. Don't tell me this because like
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  I really. It.
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  I'm playing on my ROG ally. Oh, don't.
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  Just keep playing it. There, but I really want, I
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  really want to see, I really want to see what this what this
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  little thing can do. You know what I mean?
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  Like. That that's the game that has to
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  be. The most exciting thing for me
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  with the Switch too, is being able to see like, you know, like
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  if this is going to be the Big Brother of the switch.
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  Yeah, it's weird, like playing like AI don't want to say like a
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  real game on it, but you know what I mean when I say that,
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  right? It's like, it's weird playing a
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  real game on a Nintendo system for the first time in like, I
• 13:13
  don't know, 25 years. You know, Cyberpunk, Street
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  Fighter Six, Hogwarts Legacy, they run really well on this
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  thing. I'm I'm kind of impressed with
• 13:28
  the power of this thing. Yeah, I I like the speeds that
• 13:33
  it's doing with some of the older games as well.
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  Like I got I have Fantasy Life and I got the switch to version
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  and the load speeds are like 3 times faster on the switch to
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  version and also played a little bit like Captain Toad and it's
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  like you can definitely see the upgrade upgrade from switch one
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  to switch 2. Yeah, it's Zelda too.
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  Zelda was, I mean, I, I pop Zelda on the TV and instantly it
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  was like instantly noticeable, which is great.
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  I I've, I've been wanting to replay Zelda for a while and
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  this is seems like this is the this time to do it.
• 14:19
  I think so. You are using Zelda Notes.
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  I, I didn't play that much. I just ran around and kind of
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  killed some stuff and you know, rode around the world.
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  I wanted to see it run at 60 frames a second and see if ray
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  tracing was really happening and still can't tell HDR is
• 14:40
  happening though. That it is.
• 14:44
  Yeah, I've heard, I've heard people have been really
• 14:46
  impressed by the HDR on the on the Switch too.
• 14:50
  Yeah, HDR though is. I think HDR is only in handheld
• 14:54
  mode though because of the way the dock outputs.
• 14:59
  Yeah, yeah, there there's rumors.
• 15:00
  There's rumors that Nintendo's going to pump out a an update
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  from where? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure they just
• 15:06
  wanted the thing to work at first.
• 15:08
  Yeah. But yeah, it's, it's, it's a
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  great little console. I'm very very happy with it.
• 15:19
  It's funny because on Nintendo Power block, if you listen to it
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  this week I complained that Disney Dreamlike Valley ran like
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  crap on it. There is a there's an update
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  literally the day after we recorded the episode.
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  Not a switch to update, but just like a quality of life update
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  for the Switch specifically and now now it runs fine.
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  Now you have to redact your statement.
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  I'm still not going to redact my statement still runs like crap.
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  But that's just the game in general.
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  It runs back it. It doesn't run very well on Xbox
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  either so. Just play it on your original
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  switch then. No.
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  I will say this, I will say this, This thing doesn't feel,
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  This thing doesn't feel as flimsy as a switch does.
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  No, it feels, it feels like a real tech device.
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  Yeah, it almost. It's funny.
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  I was what I was telling. Who was I talking to?
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  It must have been Ed. I feel like I was telling my
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  wife, but she wouldn't understand so it must not have
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  been her that it feels like going from the Wii U game pad to
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  the Switch is how going from the switch to the switch to feels
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  like. It feels like a real device that
• 16:36
  adults use. The only thing I was like, I
• 16:40
  wit, I like, like the pro controller has the white sticks,
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  right? Like the white sticks under the
• 16:46
  black, like the black. What do you call them?
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  I don't know. Yeah, sure.
• 16:53
  Yeah, for lack of better terms, Yeah.
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  But I kind of wish the the joy cons were white as well instead
• 17:01
  of the red and the blue. Not really complaining, but it
• 17:07
  would be nice. I can't wait for them to sell
• 17:11
  different colors for 90 bucks apiece.
• 17:13
  Only have the little like little pad or stick part being the
• 17:18
  color though. Yep, don't worry, Metroid comes
• 17:21
  out soon and so does Pokémon and Hyrule Warriors.
• 17:25
  I'm sure you'll get at least one of those three games will have
• 17:28
  some sort of special edition joy cons or dock or.
• 17:31
  What's the date for Prime Ford? I don't know yet this fall.
• 17:35
  My guess is October. No, that's Pokémon.
• 17:40
  Oh right, yeah. So I'd say NN or September.
• 17:45
  That might be my, that might be my first real purchase because
• 17:48
  I'm going to get the, I'm going to get the breath of the wild
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  like update. I'm going to.
• 17:53
  I'm going to spend the money for that.
• 17:55
  What's the what's the August game?
• 17:58
  Because July is Donkey Kong. Let's go.
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  To Let's go to Game, Let's go to Game Informer.
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  Let's see what Game Informer says.
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  I think people. Think it's going to be the the
• 18:10
  roller basketball one but they have an official August.
• 18:17
  Game of former has a switch to article that has all the release
• 18:22
  dates on it. Switch to Nope, that's switch to
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  review. Nintendo Switch to game release
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  schedule. All right, August Madden, Kirby
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  in the Forgotten Land, and That expansion.
• 18:37
  That's right, that'll actually be pretty nice.
• 18:41
  Yeah, I wonder when Kirby Air Riders is coming out.
• 18:45
  I will say next year early. There's so many games coming
• 18:56
  out, man. Dude, September is September.
• 18:59
  I'm going to cry in September because if it's Metroid, it's
• 19:03
  like it's going to be Star Wars Outlaws, Final Fantasy Tactics,
• 19:07
  and Metroid Prime 4 all in September for Switch 2.
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  And I've been waiting for Star Wars Outlaws to go on sale, but
• 19:16
  then they announced it for Switch 2 and I'm like, I'm just
• 19:17
  going to wait for Switch 2 because why the hell not at this
• 19:24
  point, Man, I'm actually shocked.
• 19:32
  I'm actually shocked at how many games are out for this thing
• 19:35
  already. I just keep forgetting Street
• 19:37
  Fighter Six. Laron, by the way, runs really
• 19:41
  well on this thing. Oh yeah, it's cool.
• 19:43
  It has the monster literally has the Monster Hunter character
• 19:46
  creator in it. Oh yeah, for the yeah, for their
• 19:50
  for for your world tour mode. What do they call it?
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  Yeah. Yeah, just to get this out of
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  the way, I just want to let everyone know that this is the
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  at bossforce.net. Still there?
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  Yep. All right, so gentlemen, what
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  are we doing tonight? How are we getting this rolling?
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  Hey, Sam Hall, I see you out there.
• 21:25
  I see you out there in the chat. How you doing tonight man?
• 21:30
  I don't know, Ron. How, where, who are, who's
• 21:33
  starting, who is starting. You know what, Pat?
• 21:36
  Pat hasn't been here. I was about to say, let's give
• 21:38
  Pat. Let's give Pat the honorary, the
• 21:40
  honorary position. You have the pole position, Sir.
• 21:44
  I have the pole position. Assume the position.
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  Assume the position on the pole. OK.
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  Are we going to do the Superman upside down with?
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  Makes your legs split open. Oh.
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  God. Whoa, money shot.
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  And speaking about money shots, let's talk about that Switch
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  tour. It'll be 10.
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  Bucks please. Yeah, the Nintendo Switch World
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  Tour, it's, they really did a terrible job of presenting this
• 22:19
  thing at the Direct, because it is.
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  It is much more than just a walk around the top of a Switch too,
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  and watch a little ball go across the screen 30 frames a
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  second. Yes, but it does have those.
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  And not only do. Not only do you get to walk on
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  top of the switch too, you get to ice skate on top of the
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  switch too. Yeah, better because it's shiny.
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  Shiny, he says. Yep, but originally when the
• 22:48
  Switch came out with announcing this or when Nintendo announced
• 22:53
  this, they announced that this would be $10 and that had a lot
• 22:59
  of consumers up in arms that this should have been a free
• 23:02
  game that, you know, Sony put out Astros Playroom, which kind
• 23:08
  of almost does the exact same thing.
• 23:10
  Or at least that's the argument for the PlayStation 5.
• 23:14
  And that one was free. But then Nintendo, of course,
• 23:18
  says technically, you know, we put a lot of work into this and,
• 23:24
  you know, we shouldn't really have this be for free.
• 23:28
  You know, we, we should earn something for this.
• 23:32
  And so they put a price tag of $10.00.
• 23:36
  But still, people like to complain and say $10 is too
• 23:39
  much. So we two of us sound like we
• 23:43
  played it. The other person who hasn't
• 23:45
  played it, I think has a different opinion than what
• 23:48
  Corey and I think. So what do you guys think?
• 23:52
  Do you do you guys think that this should have been something
• 23:54
  that's free or you know, is $10 too much to to ask for this this
• 24:02
  game? In all, in all seriousness,
• 24:06
  'cause I, I kind of joked about this in the pre show.
• 24:08
  In all seriousness, I don't, I don't really feel like it need.
• 24:11
  I don't, I don't feel like it need to be free in in my
• 24:14
  personal, in my personal opinion, Like I get, you know,
• 24:17
  even though it is glorified tech demo that's disguised as, you
• 24:19
  know, like a, a small game pack of a whole bunch of mini games
• 24:22
  and stuff like that. You know, at this point, you
• 24:25
  know, it's there's enough content in here that they could
• 24:30
  have easily asked for 20 or $30. Yeah.
• 24:35
  I mean, they could have probably done that and then people would
• 24:39
  have complained and then everybody wouldn't like remember
• 24:41
  1-2 switch, that was 60. Dollars.
• 24:45
  Yeah, and then they released a sequel because.
• 24:51
  Anybody want to switch? But yeah, I mean, I look, I
• 24:56
  understand that if this was the game that they marketed to us,
• 25:02
  then sure, maybe it should have been a pack in, right?
• 25:04
  But this is more of like a this kind of reminds me of that
• 25:08
  Clubhouse games that they sold for a while where it has just
• 25:13
  like the a bunch of different mini games and demos to try and
• 25:18
  all these other things, right? And so I mean, I think $10 is a
• 25:21
  fair price for this thing. It's, it's to me, it's a
• 25:26
  situation where people just don't want to pay for things
• 25:29
  essentially. And I understand everybody has a
• 25:34
  limited amount of money, but that doesn't mean you get to own
• 25:37
  everything or have everything either, right?
• 25:38
  Like, you know what, we're all fortunate enough to even own the
• 25:43
  system and and kind of have all these things that we kind of
• 25:47
  want or, you know, have eventually.
• 25:53
  And I understand that a lot of people may not be in that
• 25:56
  situation, but that doesn't mean you can, you know, and again,
• 26:02
  this isn't everybody, but, you know, the the loud, obnoxious
• 26:05
  Internet, you know? So, yeah, I mean, that's my
• 26:09
  opinion. I think this game is interesting
• 26:13
  and cool and you know, kind of teaches you things that maybe
• 26:17
  you don't even know about the system too so.
• 26:21
  No, I, I fully agree with you there.
• 26:24
  For me, like I've, I'm probably the biggest tech idiot out of
• 26:29
  all three of us. So when you tell me things like
• 26:32
  60 frames, 120 frames or like what's?
• 26:36
  The difference between. Like Hertz and pixels.
• 26:39
  And you know what, this game is actually teaching me and showing
• 26:44
  me what the difference is on some of these in terms of
• 26:51
  resolution and other it. It's really, really neat.
• 26:56
  And I think just that experience alone that I'm getting this kind
• 26:59
  of education, like a hands on education, while still kind of
• 27:03
  making it fun with many games, even though some of those many
• 27:06
  games make me want to just throw the Switch against the wall
• 27:09
  because God damn, Finger Twister was not meant to be that way.
• 27:16
  Yeah, I like, I've been learning a lot and it's really cool to
• 27:24
  see just all the little intricate details that they put
• 27:29
  into the switch. Things like maybe placement of
• 27:34
  these little rubber like dots to kind of soften vibration so that
• 27:40
  you don't hear like buttons clamour against each other and
• 27:44
  other things like that. Like it.
• 27:45
  It sounds like they did a lot of trial and error to get just the
• 27:49
  right parts for the right things in the switch, and it's really
• 27:55
  cool. Yeah, I I remember the rumble
• 27:59
  specifically on switch one, especially for certain game like
• 28:03
  third party games specifically, it was like it just I was like,
• 28:06
  Oh my gosh, this thing needs to calm down.
• 28:08
  Like it this thing this should this thing should be only
• 28:12
  purchase purchasable by adults. But yeah, I think I think the
• 28:21
  device overall is, is a really nice device.
• 28:23
  And I think that this package kind of teaches you about, you
• 28:28
  know, what's going on inside of it.
• 28:29
  And that's cool. You know, I think, you know, for
• 28:34
  people who don't understand tech or understand resolution or
• 28:38
  frame rates or anything like that, like this really helps,
• 28:42
  you know, refresh rates. And I think I, I really think
• 28:47
  the, the ball, watching it bounce back and forth right at
• 28:51
  different frame rates is really like, that really shows you
• 28:57
  about frame rates. And it's, it's, it's kind of
• 29:00
  neat. And like, I mean, I, I know I
• 29:02
  can definitely tell the difference between 30 and 6060
• 29:07
  and 120. It's a little bit harder for me.
• 29:10
  But, but you know, I, I remember when that, when the glass
• 29:15
  shattered on 60 versus 30 frames for me and I was like, Oh my
• 29:20
  gosh, I can't go back. It was, it was really Destiny
• 29:23
  when they put that upgrade out for Xbox Series X and you could
• 29:29
  run the game at 60 frames and then the and then the
• 29:33
  multiplayer at 120 frames a second.
• 29:35
  And I was like, and then you go back to Xbox One and you're
• 29:39
  playing it at 30 or sub 30. Sometimes it's like, Oh my gosh,
• 29:43
  this is awful. How did I ever play games like
• 29:44
  this? How did I ever play the games
• 29:46
  like this? And I had that.
• 29:49
  I had that same notion with Expedition 33 recently actually,
• 29:53
  because it starts you out in quality mode essentially.
• 29:58
  And it was running at 30 frames and plus it had that nasty film
• 30:02
  grain and motion blur on. I was like, Oh my gosh, this
• 30:05
  just feels awful. This looks awful.
• 30:08
  I was like, how are people playing this?
• 30:09
  And I was like, please have a please have a performance mode.
• 30:12
  And I went in and had performance mode and I turned
• 30:14
  all the extra garbage off and it was like, oh man, it's so much
• 30:17
  better. I'd rather, I'd rather see
• 30:19
  these, these characters blurrier and fly around 60 frames a
• 30:27
  second than, you know, see, see Gustav's mustache at 30 frames,
• 30:33
  but 4K, you know, So, yeah, I, I, I think welcome to, or is it?
• 30:42
  I think a lot of people should maybe check, especially if
• 30:47
  you're a non gamer, real, like a casual gamer or like somebody
• 30:51
  who's thinking about picking this thing up because you want
• 30:55
  to get back into games or something and maybe haven't been
• 30:57
  around for a while or miss certain things, right?
• 31:00
  Like I think this would really help people get back into games
• 31:04
  and showing them what's changed or what's new or what's cool
• 31:07
  about the tech these days. So yeah.
• 31:11
  And plus, honestly, $10 is not a lot in our economy these days,
• 31:15
  $10 is like a cheap meal at McDonald's now.
• 31:18
  I was about to say, I was about to say, like I was about to say,
• 31:21
  you can get some fast food or you can get or you can get this,
• 31:24
  you know? Look, if you're a real fan,
• 31:26
  you'll pay $10. Oh God.
• 31:29
  Damn, no. Oh no.
• 31:32
  Oh no. Not only that, you're.
• 31:34
  Going to respond as well. Sit down.
• 31:41
  Borderlands 4 Come on to Switch 2.
• 31:45
  You're a real fan. You'll buy it at $80.
• 31:48
  Yeah, So, yeah. So ultimately, I don't think, I
• 31:50
  don't think this is I, I don't think this is a big deal.
• 31:52
  You know, it's not big. It's not a big deal to where
• 31:55
  people should be going and crying about it on forums.
• 31:57
  I get it though. I get it though, because you
• 31:59
  know, like, yeah, like for for game of simplistic like this,
• 32:02
  you know, like I don't know if we if we stack it up to indie
• 32:06
  games that are either that same price or like twice the price of
• 32:09
  and stuff like that, you know, like should it have been a pack
• 32:12
  in title? I don't know.
• 32:15
  Yeah. I mean, if if anything should
• 32:18
  have been a pack in title, should it should have been that
• 32:20
  wheelchair basketball game? I think Drag X drive, although
• 32:26
  it's called drag and drive, but there's an X in there.
• 32:30
  So I don't know. I don't know any memory.
• 32:32
  In Japan can't make up its mind like like like most times, most
• 32:36
  times either X or cross and and you know, they want to be, they
• 32:40
  want to be funny and say and this time you know, who knows?
• 32:43
  Yeah, by the way, Pat, I heard somebody call Zenoblade
• 32:47
  Chronicles X the other day. Zenoblade Chronicles Cross.
• 32:50
  I heard that. I've heard that before too
• 32:52
  actually. I'm like they literally say X in
• 32:55
  the direct like it's X guy. It's a freely.
• 33:02
  Abuse. They played astrobot, they call
• 33:05
  it the cross dimension, not the X dimension.
• 33:08
  That's so it's. Well, that's almost like, well,
• 33:10
  that's a play on. Americans and their Z and how
• 33:13
  everyone else calls it is that. Z yeah, mm hmm.
• 33:18
  Well, I also think I also think the cross dimension is also a
• 33:21
  play on on like you know the actual the the X button on the
• 33:24
  on the PlayStation was always referred to as the cross button.
• 33:27
  Mm hmm. That's why.
• 33:29
  That's why the that's why my old PlayStation show is called The
• 33:32
  Crossroads. Yeah, I'm, you know, I think
• 33:38
  everybody just got used to calling it X because it's an X,
• 33:41
  right? And like, but all the manuals
• 33:43
  say cross or like the, the, you know, like the books that come
• 33:48
  with your, your console cross button.
• 33:52
  Weird. Sometimes you just want to smash
• 33:55
  that button like your ex. Oh geez, no comment.
• 34:03
  Not getting me in trouble Pat. Anyways, all right.
• 34:09
  So there it is, there it is. Sound off, sound off either in
• 34:13
  our chat or hit us up. Hit us up over and over in the
• 34:16
  comments section of the this show once it's available, let us
• 34:19
  know what you guys are thinking. Let us know how you feel about
• 34:21
  like the the whole $10 price tag on this game.
• 34:25
  Like I said, I feel like it's not that big of a deal.
• 34:28
  But you know, who am I? I'm not even.
• 34:31
  I'm not even a true Nintendo gamer, So what do I know?
• 34:36
  Not a real gamer, Lauren, You heard it here first.
• 34:39
  I'm a real PC Gamer. Anyway.
• 34:48
  All right, let's go ahead Troller.
• 34:49
  We're going to go ahead and move on to our our next topic, which
• 34:52
  what should be our next topic, Anyone, anyone.
• 34:55
  Guler. Guler.
• 34:58
  You know what, Laron? Why don't you go next?
• 35:02
  OK, All right, well, this would, this would be kind of fun.
• 35:06
  So, So head of the head of the Sonic Team Takashi Izuka
• 35:14
  recently urged fans to pause before spreading leaks, warning
• 35:17
  that exposing unannounced game content doesn't just spoil
• 35:21
  surprises, but could also derail entire license licensing deals.
• 35:25
  If you don't know, this is all coming after this is all coming
• 35:29
  after early footage for Sonic Racing Cross Worlds.
• 35:33
  It's cross, you know, Cross Worlds was revealed that had
• 35:37
  hidden collaborators like a Hatsune Miku and Minecraft
• 35:41
  characters ahead of schedule. So, yeah, let's just talk about
• 35:45
  the fallout of leaks and, and this whole thing about when
• 35:49
  spoilers harm more than just the excitement.
• 35:54
  So it basically for just a little more, just expand us just
• 35:58
  a little bit more. Izuka emphasizes that leaks
• 36:01
  disrupt carefully orchestrated marketing plans and can
• 36:03
  jeopardize licensing partnerships.
• 36:06
  This is not the first time we've heard that argument before about
• 36:08
  this. Because like what was the like,
• 36:11
  like you know, like if we if we look at all the, all the leaks
• 36:14
  that happened, like what was that the one big leak?
• 36:17
  Oh, the NVIDIA leak. Yeah, the NVIDIA leak, yeah,
• 36:20
  yeah, that's. Only one more game.
• 36:22
  Only one more game on that leak that hasn't been revealed yet.
• 36:24
  What's? Left.
• 36:25
  The Final Fantasy 9 remake, Final Fantasy Tactics was one of
• 36:29
  the ones that people were, you know, Yeah, were had on that.
• 36:34
  It's so funny because God of War, God of War PC and Kingdom
• 36:37
  Hearts 4 were on that list and everybody's like, they're not
• 36:40
  making those. Those were like some of the
• 36:43
  first ones came out. Yeah, yeah.
• 36:48
  So, yeah, so publishers work meticulously to stage like the
• 36:51
  announcements for for maximum impact and unexpected leaks can
• 36:54
  can really upset that balance. Furthermore, when licensed
• 36:57
  content is prematurely exposed, it can anger external partners
• 37:01
  and threaten and that and threaten or cancel like
• 37:04
  collaborations. Yeah, 'cause remember when
• 37:09
  Doritos? Wait, was Doritos?
• 37:11
  No, no, no. The Halo, Halo Infinite, was it
• 37:16
  Doritos or was it somebody else? No, it was Doritos it.
• 37:18
  Was Doritos yeah, yeah, yeah. Like they pull out or did they?
• 37:22
  Or did they threaten like legal action?
• 37:24
  No, that what happened was they had already shipped out the
• 37:30
  containers of Doritos and Halo Infinite got delayed, but they
• 37:36
  had to sell the Doritos or they would go bad.
• 37:39
  Yeah. And so like, you know, there was
• 37:42
  some stuff on the Doritos bags that you like.
• 37:44
  There were codes obviously, for redeeming in the game to get
• 37:48
  stuff. And, you know, there, there's
• 37:52
  some other Halo, I don't remember exactly what was on
• 37:55
  there that was spoilery or whatever.
• 37:56
  But you know, they had to sell the Doritos.
• 38:00
  They were going to go bad, OK. So it's not so much not so much
• 38:03
  a leak, but definitely, definitely definitely hurt like
• 38:06
  like marketing and merchandising on that one.
• 38:09
  Yeah, I mean, Call of Duty gets leaked every year because a lot
• 38:13
  of NBA players go play it early before the NBA Finals, and then
• 38:17
  they all wear the Call of Duty hats they got at the event.
• 38:19
  And I mean, that's probably planned leak, right?
• 38:23
  But you know, the Insomniac leak too was like a pretty big one.
• 38:29
  Oh, that was a big deal, yeah. 10 years of Insomniac game, so
• 38:34
  you know, 2 1/2. Yeah, yeah, although fans
• 38:39
  thinking. Of AI was thinking of a leak
• 38:41
  that just happened more recently that people are saying forced
• 38:46
  Xboxes and Atlas's hand. Was the Yuri Lorenthal tweeting
• 38:51
  that he wasn't returning as Jasuke in Persona or Persona 4
• 38:56
  revival? And then people are saying the
• 38:59
  reason why the Persona 4 trailer looks so lackluster was that
• 39:02
  Atlas had to throw something together, you know, to, I guess
• 39:06
  mitigate the fact like, yeah, it it exists.
• 39:09
  Here it is. You know, we'll show you some
• 39:12
  quick little screenshots and say absolutely nothing but the title
• 39:16
  of this game. Yeah.
• 39:20
  And then they made that statement on social media, too,
• 39:23
  one of those famous, we're going to make a JPG with words on it
• 39:26
  because we have too much to say. So that was, yeah, I feel bad
• 39:34
  for that kind of stuff. Right?
• 39:35
  Like, I mean, remember when the Tomb Raider reboot got leaked
• 39:40
  and somebody left there, like somebody was working on it on an
• 39:43
  airplane, right? One of the developers was
• 39:45
  working on it on an airplane and somebody took a picture of it
• 39:48
  that was sitting behind him. And then something else got
• 39:53
  leaked. Something Destiny related got
• 39:56
  leaked because they left the portfolio at the bar.
• 40:00
  They were talking. At that is terrible.
• 40:04
  Can I just remember when Randy Pitchford left the flash drive?
• 40:09
  Yes, I. Remember that.
• 40:12
  They had more than. Just the Borderlands 3 stuff on.
• 40:19
  There, man, it was magical. Remember how magical that flash
• 40:23
  drive was? It was.
• 40:24
  It was magical. Can't you just bookmark it in a
• 40:29
  folder like normal people? You can stream that now, Randy.
• 40:33
  You don't need to take it with you so.
• 40:36
  So there's a, so our game, our, our game links, our game leaks
• 40:40
  as really as, as really as harmless as people think they
• 40:42
  are. You know, like 'cause I mean I
• 40:46
  I've got it. Depends.
• 40:47
  It depends on what leaks they are right?
• 40:50
  Like if it's story leaks and like spoilery leaks, like the
• 40:53
  last of it, like when the last was Part 2 came out and all
• 40:56
  those things started coming out about, you know, Abby and and
• 41:01
  the other person in the game. That's like in like, you know,
• 41:06
  Joel's death got spoiled and like a lot of stuff started
• 41:10
  getting spoiled from. That, you know, like that, you
• 41:12
  know, those leaks hurt the game for me.
• 41:13
  I still have to this to this day.
• 41:15
  I've never played Last of Us Part 2.
• 41:17
  Yeah, it's. I bought the game but I but I've
• 41:20
  never turned it on. Yeah, like those types of
• 41:23
  spoilers are like, come on, that's that's too far.
• 41:27
  But like if like. Ryan, can't you wait till I can
• 41:30
  play it on an Xbox? Oh yeah, you can play it on an
• 41:34
  Xbox soon, right? Like, yeah, man, that's funny, I
• 41:38
  swear. Microsoft.
• 41:39
  Microsoft has gotten down, down right insidious.
• 41:42
  I wonder, man, I wonder if Playstation's going to block
• 41:45
  that somehow. Why would they?
• 41:49
  Why would they? Petty.
• 41:54
  But you know, if it's if it's like 10 seconds of a trailer on
• 41:57
  a cell phone side camera, right, like, OK, whatever.
• 42:03
  Sure. It just, I think it just gets
• 42:04
  people excited, you know, and, and some of these other leaks
• 42:08
  that are kind of coming out around like, you know,
• 42:10
  Assassin's Creed gets leaked every year, right?
• 42:12
  But does it, you know, it's like, oh, it's a samurai
• 42:17
  character. OK.
• 42:22
  I remember Assassin's Creed 3 got leaked pretty hard.
• 42:26
  But like, that was really cool because we never really had a
• 42:29
  game and set in the American Revolution before, so.
• 42:36
  Didn't the lid get blown off of Mass Effect 3?
• 42:41
  Did it? I feel like there was something.
• 42:42
  I feel like there's something going on with Mass Effect 3
• 42:45
  before it actually was was available.
• 42:48
  Maybe, Oh, you know what happened.
• 42:51
  Remember when they released that multiplayer beta for it and
• 42:56
  people were data mining the beta to get things out of the out of
• 42:59
  that? Yeah, that's right.
• 43:00
  Yeah. That those are the worst data
• 43:04
  mining stuff. That's like the big issue with
• 43:07
  Destiny right now is everything gets leaked beforehand because
• 43:10
  they have to put it in the game and then it gets data mined and
• 43:13
  then people leak the data mining.
• 43:18
  So everything all right, LeBron? Yeah, OK.
• 43:22
  Yeah, hopefully we'll have a repeat of last of the last
• 43:25
  episode. Yeah yeah, every everything in
• 43:31
  Destiny gets leaked way ahead of time.
• 43:33
  Like all the next expansion supposedly is already leaked
• 43:36
  online. I mean because it's all if y'all
• 43:39
  want. If y'all want to leak crap throw
• 43:41
  throw me a bone. Leak some Monster Hunter stuff
• 43:43
  out. What do you what do you want
• 43:46
  from the leak? A new new monster.
• 43:48
  I would like, well, I'm, I'm pretty sure like the leak of all
• 43:52
  leaks would be if a new weapon type shows up, you know, because
• 43:54
  like, because like there's been 14 weapon types, you know, in
• 43:57
  Monster Hunter since, since Monster Hunter 4.
• 44:01
  And so everybody, everybody wants a new, everybody wants a
• 44:04
  new weapon type. In my opinion, I feel like 14 is
• 44:06
  more than enough. No, you need nunchucks.
• 44:10
  There's some nunchucks in there with giant sickles on on the
• 44:13
  end. What are those sticks the the
• 44:18
  nightstick things? Oh, the Tonkas Tonkas, well
• 44:23
  Tonkas were Tonkas were in like in Monster Hunter Frontier,
• 44:26
  which was which was all PC version back in the day.
• 44:30
  You know what? Give me knuckles.
• 44:31
  Let me punch a monster to death. That's what I want.
• 44:34
  That's what I want. Like gauntlets or fruits?
• 44:38
  Just like the Akuma preview. Yeah, well, no, the yeah, well,
• 44:41
  no, the akuma thing is it's a real thing, like you can cause
• 44:44
  since since that expansion, well, not expansion since that
• 44:48
  since that add on came out like yeah, you can actually bare
• 44:51
  hand, you know, which is kind of fun.
• 44:54
  But I'm also like, you know what I I carry around big swords for
• 44:58
  a reason. Big swords like I like the dual
• 45:03
  wielding. Oh yeah, the dual blades.
• 45:08
  That's a stylish weapon. Yeah, I'm a stylish person.
• 45:13
  I like to change things up with my change blade.
• 45:17
  Oh yeah, they charged it. Charge blade.
• 45:18
  Switch Axe? Which one?
• 45:21
  Oh, sorry, charge Blade. Charge blade, OK.
• 45:23
  I like to change things up by switching games.
• 45:26
  Yeah, 'cause the Charge blade and the Switch Axe are the 2
• 45:28
  convertible games, convertible weapons in the game.
• 45:31
  And they're they're fun. Like to fill up my vials and
• 45:37
  then just unleash them on to the world?
• 45:39
  Yeah, I, I got one question for you guys before I actually close
• 45:46
  out this topic. With the leaks, with the leaks,
• 45:51
  well, we always know that, you know, like the the developers
• 45:54
  and of course like shareholders and stuff are always going to
• 45:56
  get a little bent out of shape and stuff like that.
• 45:57
  But should they really, should they really get that, that that
• 46:02
  torp about it? Because like it's the nature of
• 46:04
  the beast. Like ever from day one, when
• 46:07
  something gets announced, like there's always going to be this
• 46:10
  the possibility of a leak. Hollywood's seen it, you know,
• 46:12
  like the music industry's seen it, you know, like hell, even
• 46:15
  even like literature seen it, you know, like people start
• 46:18
  writing drafts of books and you know, like someone leaks,
• 46:20
  someone leaks like Maine plot and synopsis of the of these
• 46:22
  books before like, you know, they're even out.
• 46:24
  I guarantee you people are going to know what the final Game of
• 46:26
  Thrones book is about before it before it actually gets
• 46:28
  finished. That's if it gets finished.
• 46:33
  Yeah, I know. Yeah, you said thing like George
• 46:37
  RR Martin's already talking about his next project.
• 46:39
  It's like, dude, you have another project to get.
• 46:43
  No, I I mean, I feel bad because a lot of people have worked
• 46:48
  really hard to get these presentations, you know, and
• 46:52
  like to make these games. And then someone else who just,
• 46:56
  you know, hacked into or data mines, a system comes out.
• 46:59
  It's like this game has this and, you know, now all the hard
• 47:03
  work that the creators put into it are, you know, they done,
• 47:09
  it's ruined. Yeah.
• 47:12
  Now it won't have as much of an impact.
• 47:15
  Yeah, that that is the one thing, right?
• 47:19
  It's like you feel bad for the devs, but it's, I mean, the way
• 47:26
  everything is just just a it's available, right?
• 47:29
  Like I mean, it only takes one slip up to have everything kind
• 47:32
  of out there. So it's, it's funny, I was
• 47:39
  actually like, not that this was a leak, but I was actually
• 47:41
  trying to avoid being online while I was playing Expedition
• 47:46
  33 because I didn't want any of it spoiled for me.
• 47:48
  Like, oh man, that didn't. Spoil.
• 47:51
  Yeah, you can spoil you if you look in the wrong direction.
• 47:55
  I mean even if you look in the right direction the the
• 47:57
  expedition 33 Twitter account, like it tweets out stuff all the
• 48:02
  time. Not spoilers but like even if I
• 48:04
  saw a picture of someone from the game I was like Nope scroll
• 48:07
  close your eyes scroll. I beat it now but I it's funny I
• 48:13
  beat it and I'm on new game plus now but like I still scroll past
• 48:16
  stuff because I just don't want to pee so.
• 48:19
  That's the that's the crazy thing with me, like I'm
• 48:21
  chronically online. So it's getting it, it it's
• 48:24
  super hard for me to like to to be able to like just completely
• 48:27
  miss like rumors and leaks now. Yeah.
• 48:32
  Which is, which is honestly why I like Corey.
• 48:34
  For the longest time I was like, Nope, I don't believe you when
• 48:36
  you were talking about this Final Fantasy Tactics remake.
• 48:39
  Yeah. Well, remaster is more is more
• 48:42
  like it, you know. Yeah.
• 48:44
  Remake would be nice. Let's let's be honest, they just
• 48:47
  zoom the camera out and smudge some Vaseline on it and call it
• 48:50
  a day. I mean, but, but with Square
• 48:54
  Enix, if you guys want, if you guys want to throw me another
• 48:56
  bone, you know, like remaster, remake, Vagrant Story.
• 49:01
  Give me Vagrant Story, give me give me Zeno Gears and give me.
• 49:07
  You know people would be happy with Chrono Trigger, right?
• 49:10
  So just give me those, everybody will be happy.
• 49:12
  Well, there was a big rumor that that Chrono Trigger was going to
• 49:15
  get released this summer. I know.
• 49:17
  I mean, not released, I'm sorry. At least at least announced this
• 49:20
  summer. Games Com.
• 49:22
  Oh the the one of the. Or creative.
• 49:25
  Directors. One of the creative directors
• 49:28
  made a comment about it and it was mistranslated into the wrong
• 49:32
  thing and people thought he was talking about a remake.
• 49:37
  I bet something it's announced at Tokyo.
• 49:39
  I I bet something it's announced at Tokyo Game Show.
• 49:42
  I think it's Corona Trigger's 30th anniversary this year now.
• 49:46
  That I think about it's going to be, it's going.
• 49:48
  To be interesting next year. I think it's this year because I
• 49:51
  thought again, like a website posted the Corona trigger title
• 49:59
  page and people are freaking out about that.
• 50:06
  Yeah, it turns. Yeah, it turns 30 this year.
• 50:10
  Well. Actually, actually just passed
• 50:12
  30 years. It was in March.
• 50:16
  Man be true these games, man they are getting I would I would
• 50:23
  Gears of War Gears, you know Gears is Gears of War is 20
• 50:26
  years old next year like that is a new franchise.
• 50:32
  Is it though? I mean, it's still like, in my
• 50:36
  mind, like it's like you talk about a length of the past
• 50:39
  versus Gears of War and it's like they're like they're closer
• 50:44
  in age than, you know, how old Gears of War is now.
• 50:46
  It's like, Oh my gosh, just make, make it stop.
• 50:53
  All right. Well, we can go ahead and we can
• 50:54
  go ahead and wrap this topic. Up.
• 50:55
  No. OK.
• 50:59
  I mean, you know, leaks might feel harmless, but they do
• 51:02
  actually ruin the experience and build and build even more hype
• 51:05
  for fans. You know, they also carry
• 51:10
  serious consequences for developers deals and the overall
• 51:13
  experience. So just, you know, I, I will
• 51:16
  never, I personally will never be able to truly stop all all
• 51:19
  the leaks that happen and stuff like that.
• 51:20
  But I think what we can do is just try to like, do our best to
• 51:23
  not like, ruin, ruin the story, you know, for everybody.
• 51:28
  And that's the story. I don't mean just like what's
• 51:29
  going on in the game. I mean, like, what's going on
• 51:31
  with the game? You guys remember when Netflix
• 51:36
  was supposed to make a Legend of Zelda series?
• 51:38
  Didn't that technical? Wasn't one of the reasons people
• 51:41
  said it got cancelled was because of the fact it was
• 51:43
  leaked and it kind of made Nintendo sour and decided not to
• 51:48
  do it anymore? I don't remember really what
• 51:52
  happened. I remember that that was the
• 51:53
  rumor was Netflix was doing his all the series.
• 51:56
  But then yeah, I. Remember that rumor?
• 51:58
  It started heating up like, really fast to that rumor.
• 52:00
  And then, I don't know, Nintendo lost control of the message, so
• 52:07
  they cancelled it. Yeah.
• 52:10
  And now it's going to be an awesome movie.
• 52:13
  That that also. Produced by Sony and the main
• 52:18
  producer on that. Did the entire spider man
• 52:23
  villain run like that's the producer on this?
• 52:27
  Oh geez. And and Madam Webb.
• 52:32
  Oh so. So what could go wrong?
• 52:35
  I don't know. He also did Spider Man 2.
• 52:38
  There's a good one in there. He also did spider verse so I
• 52:43
  guess you could throw that in there too.
• 52:44
  Oh well, into the spider verse those movies are great.
• 52:46
  I heard they're good. I've never watched them.
• 52:48
  You never. Watched them, oh man.
• 52:50
  Are you surprised? Loron Well, I am actually
• 52:53
  surprised because I feel like those are right in your
• 52:55
  wheelhouse and and they're current.
• 52:58
  And they're current. He does he does kind of have a
• 53:00
  point. You do you have a son that would
• 53:02
  be enjoy that. Yeah, he doesn't.
• 53:05
  He only likes the the spicy. This kids, this kids all about
• 53:10
  Power Rangers. Yeah, my kids are all about
• 53:12
  Power Rangers now. Pat, you, you haven't been here
• 53:15
  in a while. My son's all about Power Rangers
• 53:16
  now. Cool.
• 53:18
  Yeah, but I was going to say something to you, Laura.
• 53:23
  Now I forget. Oh, Speaking of the Zelda movie,
• 53:27
  the more and more like I watch watch Hunter Schaefer acting,
• 53:33
  the more and more I'm on board. I think she could do it.
• 53:41
  I have. I have nothing against it.
• 53:46
  If they want Hunter Schaefer, I say they get Hunter Schaefer.
• 53:49
  I guess I need to. I guess I really need to sit
• 53:51
  down and watch Euphoria. I watched, I watched Hunger
• 53:55
  Games clips. I felt, I felt like that was
• 53:57
  closer. He wasn't she wasn't in the
• 53:59
  newer the the newer Hunger Games, though, like the like,
• 54:02
  yeah. Is it the fifth one?
• 54:03
  Well, is it technically the fifth one?
• 54:05
  Is it just a? Prequel song.
• 54:07
  Songbirds and serpents, Snakes. Whatever it's called.
• 54:10
  Yeah. Anyways, you know what?
• 54:16
  I did? Watch Laron.
• 54:17
  What's that? Captain America, Brave New
• 54:19
  World. What did you think?
• 54:21
  Did you enjoy it? It was fun, I liked it.
• 54:23
  It was fun. Yeah, it was fun, wasn't it?
• 54:25
  Yeah, I really liked it. Still need to see that one.
• 54:28
  It's on Disney Plus. Cool, that was what I was
• 54:32
  waiting for. Thunderbolts comes to the Disney
• 54:35
  Plus soon too, I hear. That that one I did see in
• 54:38
  theaters. I didn't, I didn't see that one
• 54:40
  in theaters. As a matter of fact, I haven't
• 54:41
  seen AI, haven't seen a Marvel project in theaters in a while.
• 54:44
  But and I and I thought I was going to see Fantastic Four when
• 54:48
  it comes out, but I saw the trailer for yesterday when I
• 54:51
  went and saw Mission Impossible and I didn't like what I saw.
• 54:54
  Like I wasn't expecting, I wasn't expecting a film noir
• 54:57
  style. I wasn't expecting that.
• 55:00
  I've heard people are raving about Galactus though.
• 55:03
  They say that they had done Galactus justice in this movie.
• 55:08
  It's the Fortnite version of Galactus.
• 55:09
  Did you hear that? No, I didn't.
• 55:13
  Yeah, they took the they the Marvel event that happened a
• 55:15
  couple years ago. They took direct inspiration
• 55:18
  from that Galactus case. Anybody cared?
• 55:26
  I don't care. I don't care about the Fantastic
• 55:28
  Four. I.
• 55:30
  I kind of care for my comic book roots.
• 55:32
  I kind of care, but at the same time I was like man, like did
• 55:34
  y'all have to do I have to do this?
• 55:36
  And I'm not spoiling any of it at all.
• 55:39
  So like if you guys want to know anything what I'm talking about,
• 55:41
  just go find the trailer and watch it.
• 55:44
  I've also heard it's kind of Lovecraftian.
• 55:48
  If there's this new Fantastic Four, feels kind of
• 55:51
  Lovecraftian. That I didn't know if I got that
• 55:55
  off of the off of the trailer, but it's a, it's a different
• 55:58
  thing. Like it's, it's different.
• 55:59
  It's different for what Marvel's done lately.
• 56:02
  Look, the only the only period piece I want to see now is
• 56:05
  either Captain America doing the whole returning the Infinity
• 56:09
  stones thing and going back to the the 40s or a World War 2
• 56:14
  movie where he fights Wolverine. I'd watch that.
• 56:19
  It's possible now anyways. Yeah, I'm not.
• 56:24
  I'm not in Fantastic Four. I don't really care.
• 56:26
  I I like Vanessa Kirby though. She's she's something.
• 56:32
  I've never seen her or anything, but she's something nice.
• 56:38
  She seems very nice, especially around Pascal.
• 56:42
  Wait, you didn't watch? You didn't watch Mission
• 56:44
  Impossible? Dead Reckoning.
• 56:46
  I've I've only seen one Mission Impossible movie and I can't
• 56:49
  tell you which one it is. OK, I've seen one more than no,
• 56:54
  no, I guess I technically seen, but I don't remember anything
• 56:58
  about two you. Didn't see Hobbes and Shaw.
• 57:03
  Me. Yeah, I I did.
• 57:06
  It wasn't that. Oh, oh, well then I'm a big fan.
• 57:15
  Big big fan man Idris Elba would have made such a great James
• 57:21
  Bond. Feel very angry that he never
• 57:23
  will be it seems. Man, what?
• 57:28
  Do we guys think about that new James Bond?
• 57:31
  The games good, looks fun. Oh, the game, that game looks
• 57:34
  amazing. As a matter of fact, I was like,
• 57:36
  man, this is, this is this has the possibility of being the
• 57:38
  next Uncharted. I was.
• 57:40
  I was. Getting vibes of.
• 57:43
  Yeah, I was, I was a little thrown off by the by Zoomer
• 57:47
  Bond, the generation Zoomer Bond.
• 57:49
  But you know, it's, I don't know, it looks fun.
• 57:54
  I think it looks, I think it looks cool.
• 57:56
  Yeah. By the way, Speaking of Bond,
• 57:59
  did you see that an announcement might be imminent?
• 58:05
  Well, I saw that Sarah Bond was looking really nice on Sunday.
• 58:09
  She always looks nice. She's.
• 58:11
  Gorgeous. Oh my God, I'm.
• 58:12
  A I'm a big, big fan of that she's.
• 58:13
  Gorgeous and you know, and and and you know, they they
• 58:17
  definitely gave her they definitely gave her the
• 58:19
  limelight this time as compared to like when she was at that at
• 58:22
  that conference last last holidays.
• 58:25
  Oh man. Well, she's she's definitely
• 58:27
  going to take over once Phil's gone.
• 58:29
  Yeah. Which I think will be after the
• 58:33
  next console launch. But yeah, I'm a I'm a big, big
• 58:37
  fan as well. Auron big fan.
• 58:39
  Yeah, I. Mean you guys are talking about
• 58:42
  Sarah, but did you guys look at Phil?
• 58:44
  He looked like he lost weight. He's like he lost weight.
• 58:47
  He's lost like 35 lbs. Yeah, he looked, he looks good
• 58:51
  too. He he actually looked excited
• 58:53
  and not tired and beaten. OK, yeah, I agree.
• 58:57
  By the you know, remember the the rounds of interviews of
• 59:01
  shame that were going around a couple like a year and a half
• 59:04
  ago or whatever he looks, he looks rejuvenated.
• 59:08
  I think, I think this handheld is has.
• 59:10
  Della Della had that hand up his backside.
• 59:16
  Maybe he's working closely with Sarah Bond.
• 59:21
  They're they're shaping it up together.
• 59:25
  Yeah, we shouldn't be talking about them like that, huh?
• 59:27
  No, we shouldn't. That's mean.
• 59:30
  Or is it? Corey, you have a topic, don't
• 59:33
  you? I was, but I was talking about
• 59:35
  James Bond and then I got sidetracked, as you mentioned,
• 59:37
  Sarah Bond, and then I got distracted.
• 59:41
  Did you see that? The watch company that has
• 59:47
  sponsored every Bond since Timothy Dalton and always
• 59:53
  reveals the bottom. That, like always, reveals the
• 59:56
  bond before the actual reveal seems to have revealed the next
• 1:00:02
  bond. No.
• 1:00:05
  Yep, seems to be Aaron Taylor Johnson.
• 1:00:07
  Wait. We're talking about Omega,
• 1:00:08
  right? You know I have.
• 1:00:10
  Wait, there were rumors that there were rumors that he was
• 1:00:13
  being wooed for that? Yep, he he has signed a contract
• 1:00:18
  with the watch company and the first ad with him in it has come
• 1:00:21
  out and he's wearing like a tuxedo shirt with no jacket.
• 1:00:28
  And people are very speculative. Well, I mean, they got they got
• 1:00:32
  their British guy. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:37
  If if he's going to be, if he's going to be Double O 7, they got
• 1:00:39
  their British guy. Yeah.
• 1:00:42
  They got their white guy, which I mean, this is a white guy.
• 1:00:44
  I'm not complaining about like I I still want, I still want
• 1:00:49
  justice for Quicksilver. I I still think Henry Cavill
• 1:00:57
  would have made a good bond too. Yeah, it's a.
• 1:01:00
  Beautiful bond. He's still like, not even.
• 1:01:04
  He's still young, right? Henry Cavill?
• 1:01:08
  Think you'd get like four or five movies out of him.
• 1:01:10
  And maybe not 4, I don't know. Sure, they could pump him out
• 1:01:14
  every two years. Tom Cruise has made 900 Mission
• 1:01:17
  Impossible movies. They can get four or five movies
• 1:01:19
  out of Henry Cavill. I mean, I mean, yeah, that's
• 1:01:22
  also. Crazy.
• 1:01:23
  I was digging, I was digging Henry Cavill and the man from
• 1:01:26
  uncle like, yeah, like that. That definitely, you know, could
• 1:01:29
  have put him in the in the spotlight as a spy.
• 1:01:31
  I. Didn't see that movie either.
• 1:01:36
  Yep. You know what I did see Lil Ron.
• 1:01:40
  And you're right. He's only 42 years old.
• 1:01:42
  Yeah, he's he's he's young. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:46
  You put a movie out every three years, you can get 4 movies out
• 1:01:48
  of him. He'd be 54 by the time 4 movies
• 1:01:51
  come out. Every three years.
• 1:01:53
  Yeah. Yeah, he'd be fine.
• 1:01:56
  Right Henry's 40. Two, yeah. 42 years old, yeah.
• 1:02:00
  He and I are the same age. Yeah, you're basically Henry
• 1:02:03
  Cavill. God damn I'm super mad.
• 1:02:10
  You're white, nerdy, like video games.
• 1:02:13
  And I have glasses. Secret identity, see.
• 1:02:16
  Look what happens if I take them off.
• 1:02:19
  Who am I? Who am I?
• 1:02:22
  You're you're you're someone. Not Patrick anymore.
• 1:02:26
  Wait, wait, wait. There he is.
• 1:02:33
  All right, let's talk, let's talk, let's talk about, let's
• 1:02:35
  talk about this. This here, handheld Xbox, this
• 1:02:38
  is this is, this is what Laron's been waiting for.
• 1:02:41
  He's he's chomping at the bit. Look, I know why, Why, why?
• 1:02:44
  Why must you tease me so? It's no fun if you get right to
• 1:02:48
  it, Laurent. Hey, I'm hey, I'm all about
• 1:02:51
  getting down to business. Why do why do we need for Blade?
• 1:02:55
  What? What's that for?
• 1:02:59
  For, I don't know it's, you know, you know who it's for,
• 1:03:01
  Laurent. Listen down to it.
• 1:03:03
  You know who? You know who it's for?
• 1:03:04
  I want to it's for the people. It's it's for the people who
• 1:03:06
  can't last, OK? That's who it's for. 4 plays not
• 1:03:10
  going to help. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:03:13
  That's what 4 plays for. It's for the people who can't
• 1:03:15
  last. It's going to give them a little
• 1:03:18
  break, okay? A little break to cool it down a
• 1:03:22
  bit. Man.
• 1:03:24
  Making the other person happy. All right, so at the Xbox Summer
• 1:03:31
  Showcase, Xbox revealed that they are partnering with Asus
• 1:03:36
  and Republic of Gamers or ROG for you nerds out there to
• 1:03:44
  release an Xbox. Yeah, I didn't know that either.
• 1:03:48
  I had to look it up at at some point, not recently.
• 1:03:50
  I just figured. It was short for Roger.
• 1:03:52
  I think I looked it up when the original ROG Ally came out.
• 1:03:54
  I was like what does ROG mean? They are partnering with ROG to
• 1:04:02
  have an Xbox branded ROG Ally line called the Xbox Ally which
• 1:04:08
  introduced 2 models, the ROG Xbox Ally and the more powerful
• 1:04:13
  ROG Xbox Ally X featuring a full screen Xbox optimized version of
• 1:04:19
  Windows 11. These devices are powered by AMD
• 1:04:23
  Ryzen Z2 series chips, run a custom customized Xbox
• 1:04:28
  experience interface and come with a dedicated Xbox button set
• 1:04:34
  to launch this holiday season. They support local remote and
• 1:04:38
  cloud gaming, aiming to rival Steam Deck and blah blah blah.
• 1:04:41
  They're Windows based devices. It has better UI integration and
• 1:04:48
  built in easy anti cheat support as well.
• 1:04:54
  So full Xbox experience on Windows, this is kind of been
• 1:04:58
  what they've been working on for a while.
• 1:05:01
  I think they're really trying to enter, make sure that the Xbox
• 1:05:04
  app runs almost identical to an Xbox interface.
• 1:05:10
  They've also been branding this Xbox PC, this line, not
• 1:05:15
  necessarily this line of products, but this app
• 1:05:17
  essentially as well, which is, you know, which is why I said
• 1:05:25
  there's some sort of plan here. It looks like finally, because
• 1:05:28
  they have Xbox console, Xbox cloud, Xbox PC and eventually
• 1:05:34
  Xbox mobile. So it seems like they're finally
• 1:05:39
  putting together that plan, but both.
• 1:05:43
  Everywhere. Anywhere.
• 1:05:45
  Yep, both devices feature a new for Xbox first overlay on top of
• 1:05:51
  Windows 11, creating a console like experience intuitive
• 1:05:54
  navigation, instant access to Xbox game Pass and streamlined
• 1:05:57
  interface for handheld use are removing many of the pain points
• 1:06:01
  of standard Windows handhelds. Now, Pat, this is where you and
• 1:06:07
  I got excited because, you know, as much as I like new tech, I
• 1:06:13
  don't like digging into like the, you know, I draw, I draw
• 1:06:17
  the line and all the PC gaming stuff that you have to dig
• 1:06:20
  through, right? Which is what Laurent's all
• 1:06:22
  about. I wouldn't know how to optimize
• 1:06:24
  this thing. Yeah.
• 1:06:28
  And it seems like that Xbox button, that Xbox overlay seems
• 1:06:30
  to optimize this automatically. So yeah, I mean we talked during
• 1:06:37
  the pre show a little bit, but how are you feeling about this
• 1:06:39
  thing? This is got me.
• 1:06:42
  This is probably the first like handheld PC game system that I
• 1:06:47
  looked at. I'm like, I think this is the
• 1:06:50
  one I need to get this system to because it it, it's designed
• 1:06:56
  more for someone like me who doesn't know all the intricates
• 1:07:00
  of PC and like I said, optimization.
• 1:07:03
  But it's also something that I can finally like, just bring
• 1:07:07
  Game Pass into bed with me and play some of those games that
• 1:07:10
  I've been wanting to do. Yeah, it.
• 1:07:14
  It completes the trifecta of handhelds.
• 1:07:17
  It's true. That's.
• 1:07:18
  Well, yeah, I guess I forgot that the portal exists.
• 1:07:24
  Yeah, this is this is really interesting because not
• 1:07:29
  obviously it doesn't only integrate Xbox and Game Pass
• 1:07:32
  into it, but it also, you know, integrates the other PC stores
• 1:07:35
  into this, which seemingly just integrates straight into your
• 1:07:41
  Xbox interface. The way that when you go look at
• 1:07:45
  your like on an Xbox console, you go into my library and then
• 1:07:51
  it'll it'll kind of have everything is like all games,
• 1:07:55
  Game Pass own games, you know, games with gold, whatever that
• 1:08:00
  style of thing. Basically gave me like tiles.
• 1:08:03
  And yeah, they're going to be tiles at the top.
• 1:08:05
  Yeah, like Steam library, Epic Library, Wizard, you know,
• 1:08:10
  Battle.net will be 1. I think that the Roblox launcher
• 1:08:17
  is also going to be on this thing as well, which is the
• 1:08:20
  first time it's been optimized for some something like this.
• 1:08:24
  So that'll be big with children, I'm sure, and pedophiles
• 1:08:29
  everywhere. Stop it.
• 1:08:33
  Hey, it's not my fault 90 people just got arrested for child
• 1:08:37
  trafficking from Roblox. OK?
• 1:08:40
  I didn't do that or was I? Oh, and obviously like the the
• 1:08:47
  big thing every all the Xbox fans are talking about was like
• 1:08:50
  we can finally play PlayStation games on an Xbox.
• 1:08:54
  It's slow down a little bit. PlayStation puts their games on
• 1:08:57
  Steam, but like it's not the same.
• 1:09:00
  OK, You know it's not. You know, there's always going
• 1:09:03
  to be some type of childish. There's always going to be some
• 1:09:05
  type of childish, like, freaking like, like behavior, you know,
• 1:09:09
  and stuff like that, you know? Yeah, but I'm I'm going to be
• 1:09:13
  honest. So this for me personally, like
• 1:09:16
  with the announcement of Final Fantasy 7 and you know, 7's
• 1:09:19
  coming to switch an Xbox now and 16 is on Xbox and like Horizon
• 1:09:24
  and God of War both on Steam like this kind of gives me a
• 1:09:28
  reason to get rid of my or my PlayStation at this point
• 1:09:31
  because I've been playing with the idea for a long time.
• 1:09:36
  I, you know, with this, with some of the stuff coming to
• 1:09:39
  Switch, I was like, man, this might be the time and now that
• 1:09:42
  this is happening, I was like, it is the time.
• 1:09:46
  So I, I, you know, I, I don't care about a lot of of
• 1:09:49
  PlayStation IPS, but the ones that I do kind of care about at
• 1:09:53
  least a little bit are on Steam. So this might be the.
• 1:09:59
  I'm happy for you, Corey, because I remember last year
• 1:10:02
  when Xbox started shifting to the all platform strategy, like
• 1:10:07
  you were really losing your faith in Xbox and like, why do I
• 1:10:10
  have the system anymore? Now they mentioned the ROG Ally
• 1:10:13
  and you're like, this is the system, this is what I want.
• 1:10:17
  Yeah, and I think I think a lot of that frustration, not just
• 1:10:21
  for me but from fans in general, is because they they, they have
• 1:10:24
  never spelled out the plan. It's always a guessing game, you
• 1:10:27
  know, and it's like, OK, well, what are you saving for Xbox?
• 1:10:32
  Because you said you're going to continue to try to keep
• 1:10:34
  exclusives, but then you put Gears of War out day and date,
• 1:10:38
  right? And then you put Indiana Jones
• 1:10:40
  out three months later, even though you fought the FTC that
• 1:10:45
  you're going to keep it exclusive because Sony had
• 1:10:47
  Spider Man. And there's there's just like a
• 1:10:51
  lot of confusing messaging. And obviously a lot of this
• 1:10:54
  stuff is probably coming from higher up than Phil right at
• 1:10:58
  this point. But you know, with with their
• 1:11:04
  branding kind of coming together with, you know, all the, you
• 1:11:09
  know, all the tendrils from Xbox and them kind of really
• 1:11:16
  seemingly kind of pulling it together, it seems.
• 1:11:20
  I think a lot of this has restored faith in the Xbox fan
• 1:11:25
  base. And I think that's a good thing
• 1:11:30
  because I think I think the industry needs Xbox, not
• 1:11:36
  necessarily as a box, but as a competitor in the space.
• 1:11:40
  And I think this device absolutely helps them even enter
• 1:11:45
  more markets, right? I mean, like you look at I was
• 1:11:50
  just, I was. Just about to ask you about
• 1:11:52
  that. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:11:53
  I mean, you look at some of these markets that are, you
• 1:11:56
  know, Japan, for example, not that this thing will be a huge
• 1:11:59
  hit in Japan, but like, they're all about handheld gaming,
• 1:12:02
  right? I mean, PlayStation 5 doesn't
• 1:12:04
  even sell well over there, which is why Sony is exploring A
• 1:12:08
  handheld, right, So they can try to get back into the end of that
• 1:12:11
  market, you know? I mean it's bad when the DS
• 1:12:17
  outsells Xbox Series X in a year, right?
• 1:12:21
  I mean that's not a 3DS. The DS, which I don't know why
• 1:12:27
  or how they still have those on sale, but here we are.
• 1:12:33
  You can check out a couple episodes ago.
• 1:12:34
  They send a power block for those sales numbers.
• 1:12:38
  But Le Ron, this thing is, let's talk about the the Ally X for a
• 1:12:44
  minute. The Xbox Ally X because you
• 1:12:47
  know, the the base model, the Xbox Ally, that's probably going
• 1:12:50
  to be the cheaper model, obviously like the Series S
• 1:12:53
  version of this thing. Yeah.
• 1:12:57
  You're the tech guy out of all of us.
• 1:12:59
  You're the you're the guy who always digs into these things
• 1:13:01
  and finds the power and finds the optimization and and how
• 1:13:05
  things may or may not run. I want to know how you feel
• 1:13:09
  about these specs. OK, all right, so spec wise, OK,
• 1:13:16
  so I'm just going to let's let's talk about the elephant in the
• 1:13:19
  room here. It's all about the Xbox, the the
• 1:13:23
  ROG Xbox LIX, the the the big daddy one, basically with his Z2
• 1:13:29
  extreme processor and everything like we're looking at 15%, the
• 1:13:33
  15% faster and slight, and I'm going to say slightly better
• 1:13:37
  performance than the current ROG LIX.
• 1:13:39
  So with that which that's one of the things that, you know,
• 1:13:43
  current ROG Ally X owners, myself included, have been
• 1:13:47
  asking for, you know, something a little bit faster, something
• 1:13:49
  that has a little bit more, you know, spec behind it.
• 1:13:52
  You know, we've looked at the ROG Ally X itself, like the ROG,
• 1:13:55
  the Xbox Ally X. There we go.
• 1:13:58
  You know, the Z2 extreme processor, a 2024 gigabytes of
• 1:14:01
  RAM, which is basically what the current ROG Ally X has, but it's
• 1:14:07
  but it's a newer type of RAM. I I thought I had, I thought I
• 1:14:10
  had the thought I had the breakdown of the RAM it had in
• 1:14:14
  it here. 24 gigs. Yeah, it's 24 gigs LPD ER5X8000.
• 1:14:22
  Are you just it's speedier RAM, speedier RAM, So same RAM,
• 1:14:27
  speedier though, so look at that.
• 1:14:30
  Power consumption is still in the 15 to 35 Watt range, just
• 1:14:34
  like the original ROG, LA and LAX.
• 1:14:42
  Crap I'm I'm I'm losing it here yeah like, but basically like I
• 1:14:48
  said, like we're looking at a little bit more better
• 1:14:50
  performance than the than the existing ROG LAX as it is right
• 1:14:53
  now. And so like that, you know, but
• 1:14:55
  also with the with the, with the slimmed down operating system
• 1:14:58
  that plays a huge factor in like, you know, like how gaming
• 1:15:01
  is going to be on these things compared to like what they have
• 1:15:03
  been previously. And when I say I've been
• 1:15:05
  previously, I also mean other like other, other PC handhelds
• 1:15:10
  that have the Z1 extreme ship, the Lenovo, the Lenovo Legion go
• 1:15:14
  for example, you know, same exact ship, you know, as as what
• 1:15:17
  the current ROG Ally has, you know, yeah, yeah, I'm excited
• 1:15:24
  for it because like I've, I've been in the ROG Ally family
• 1:15:29
  since the first one came, since the original 1 came out.
• 1:15:31
  So two, we're going on two years now.
• 1:15:34
  And, and yeah, I did, I did get the wrong LIX, you know, like I
• 1:15:37
  didn't get it right when it came out, but I got it.
• 1:15:39
  I got within a few months of it coming out and stuff like that.
• 1:15:42
  And I've I've been having a blast.
• 1:15:44
  And, and based off these specs I'm seeing, yeah, like could
• 1:15:48
  there have been a little bit more a little bit, you know,
• 1:15:50
  like, I feel like, yes, I do, but I also feel like, you know,
• 1:15:54
  this is a good time and stuff like that.
• 1:15:55
  And, you know, and I've also looked at the dev Diaries and
• 1:15:58
  all that stuff. You know, Microsoft and Asus
• 1:16:00
  came together for other stuff, like all the stuff that they
• 1:16:02
  talked about made sense. Because like what they want to
• 1:16:05
  do is they want to actually enhance the experience in the
• 1:16:08
  same way that the Steam that the Steam Deck OLED enhance the
• 1:16:10
  experience for Steam Deck owners and the Nintendo Switch OLED
• 1:16:13
  enhance the the, the for the Nintendo Switch.
• 1:16:17
  Same thing here of course you know there's no OLED on this you
• 1:16:22
  know because at the end of the day like you know like there was
• 1:16:24
  way too much that had there was way too much of A balancing act
• 1:16:27
  going on that and also would've been more expensive.
• 1:16:29
  It would be much more expensive than what we're speculating the
• 1:16:31
  price tag is going to be for these systems right now and
• 1:16:33
  stuff like that. And and yeah, trust me, y'all
• 1:16:38
  want variable refresherate anyway.
• 1:16:40
  You do you want you want it more than you want HDR. Yeah.
• 1:16:46
  Oh, it's great. Nintendo Switch shows you that
• 1:16:48
  too. Yeah, Welcome tour.
• 1:16:51
  You think that? You think you think the Xbox
• 1:16:53
  Alley will come with a welcome tour?
• 1:16:55
  No, I hope so. No, I paid 10 bucks for that.
• 1:16:58
  No. No, it would be on game pass.
• 1:17:01
  No, it won't. But you know what I think?
• 1:17:03
  I think the devs, I think devs and I think I think homebrew and
• 1:17:06
  independent mining communities will release something that will
• 1:17:09
  actually show like a little bit of what's going on behind the
• 1:17:12
  scenes. Yeah, what what do you, what do
• 1:17:15
  you think? What do you think of the
• 1:17:16
  interface? Is it nicer than what is it the
• 1:17:20
  Armory crate I'm. OK, actually I don't have a
• 1:17:25
  problem with Armory Crate. Now that being said, I don't use
• 1:17:28
  Armory Crate that much. As a matter of fact, 9 times out
• 1:17:31
  of 10 when I turn my ROG Ally on like I like, I like, go ahead,
• 1:17:34
  do it's boot up function and then and then and then Steam
• 1:17:38
  automatically boots into big picture mode.
• 1:17:40
  So I barely even use that interface unless I'm doing
• 1:17:43
  something like running emulators and stuff like that, which
• 1:17:45
  there's somebody out there like why are you so lazy?
• 1:17:47
  Just integrated into steam? Like no, I don't like, I don't
• 1:17:50
  like Steam controlling my emulators.
• 1:17:54
  That's how they get you. I'll tell the Nintendo will find
• 1:17:58
  you. What?
• 1:18:01
  Using Steam or using Steam or not?
• 1:18:03
  Using the using the emulators through steam yeah I mean this
• 1:18:10
  interface looks just like if you go like if you go into the game
• 1:18:13
  pass like app on Xbox, this interface looks just like the
• 1:18:17
  yeah the my problem is I don't. My problem is I don't have an
• 1:18:21
  Xbox so like I I don't ever use the Xbox app.
• 1:18:24
  I know. I assume it looks similar in the
• 1:18:26
  PC app though. You mean you mean the Xbox?
• 1:18:30
  Wait, what do you mean the? Xbox PC app.
• 1:18:34
  'Cause I can open up game bar, you know?
• 1:18:37
  Game bar doesn't exist anymore or it shouldn't.
• 1:18:40
  Well, no Game bar's on Game bar's on my on PC still.
• 1:18:45
  Is it? And I thought they were.
• 1:18:46
  I thought they took that out for a real Xbox app.
• 1:18:52
  I don't know. Well, game bar, game bar in my
• 1:18:55
  game bar in my in my experience and use of it is basically just
• 1:18:58
  a glorified UI. It's not, it's not.
• 1:19:01
  It's not where I launched my games at.
• 1:19:02
  I still go to the Xbox app to launch games if I need to, or I
• 1:19:05
  just run straight to the shortcut on my Windows desktop
• 1:19:07
  to do it. Yeah, I, I just, you know, I've
• 1:19:13
  watched, I've watched, you know, Phil's little presentation
• 1:19:17
  probably about four or five Times Now just to try to like,
• 1:19:19
  figure out what this UI looks like.
• 1:19:21
  And I don't know, it seems really clean.
• 1:19:23
  It seems really nice. I my next question for this
• 1:19:30
  thing would be obviously this is this is kind of aimed for people
• 1:19:34
  who have, you know, the console gamer, you know, I wonder what
• 1:19:42
  the, I wonder how the backwards compatibility situation is going
• 1:19:45
  to affect this thing, which obviously, you know, Xbox 360
• 1:19:51
  games, the next original Xbox games are not backwards
• 1:19:53
  compatible with PC, but they are trying they've verbally said
• 1:19:58
  they are trying to get the digital versions of those games
• 1:20:01
  to be added to PC. It's the licensing that's
• 1:20:05
  causing the issues. Yeah, which a a lot of those
• 1:20:09
  games have been re released are on Game Pass anyway, so it
• 1:20:12
  doesn't really matter. This was this was my argument
• 1:20:15
  for a Gears collection and a Fable collection was to get
• 1:20:18
  those games off of 360 was to just uprise them and put them in
• 1:20:23
  a collection and put them out on on modern hardware.
• 1:20:25
  And that way they'd be, you know, you wouldn't have to
• 1:20:27
  really worry about it because those are out of all the major
• 1:20:31
  Xbox games, those are really like the only ones that haven't
• 1:20:33
  either been remastered or on some sort of service or on
• 1:20:37
  modern hardware, right? Is, is Gears Fable, you know,
• 1:20:45
  the 13? Yeah.
• 1:20:47
  Oh, I was thinking Xbox first party, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:50
  But in Final Fantasy 13's on Steam though, you know?
• 1:20:53
  So it's technically, yeah. Is that is that they were saying
• 1:20:57
  Xbox is the only place you can literally play one through or
• 1:21:00
  all the consoles now on on console.
• 1:21:04
  OK. Yeah, makes sense.
• 1:21:07
  But anyways, regardless, like if they if they can figure that
• 1:21:11
  out, I think more people will be, you know, more accepting of
• 1:21:16
  the of the whole Xbox PC merging play anywhere type thing, you
• 1:21:25
  know, but I think this thing looks nice.
• 1:21:27
  I I was a little worried when that when those prototypes
• 1:21:31
  leaked in the, you know, the handles made it look like a not
• 1:21:35
  a nice looking device, it looked.
• 1:21:38
  It looked gaudy in those leaks. It looked gaudy.
• 1:21:41
  But you know, like after, after watching 'cause I watched a lot
• 1:21:43
  of different, like, you know, like, like some of my favorite
• 1:21:45
  Youtubers, like you know, like retro game core, Linux tech
• 1:21:49
  tips, who else, who else? Dave 2D like I watched a lot in
• 1:21:54
  that actually had ETA prime. Like I watched all of them with
• 1:21:58
  their hands on stuff and, and everything and I was like, you
• 1:22:00
  know what, It doesn't look that bad.
• 1:22:02
  Now I see someone actually has it in their fucking hands.
• 1:22:06
  Wasn't that and apparently it's funny because like, because like
• 1:22:11
  I'm looking at buying like the D brand, the D brand case for the
• 1:22:15
  for the Nintendo Switch too. And and one of the things about
• 1:22:19
  the ultra, the D band ultra kit is it actually has like like
• 1:22:22
  like back grips for the for the joy cons.
• 1:22:25
  And I was like, wait a minute, I was like, that's actually what I
• 1:22:29
  want for the for the wrong ally. Yeah, you know, so I, I don't
• 1:22:33
  think it's going to be a bad thing.
• 1:22:34
  No, I think it I think it's going to be great.
• 1:22:36
  And you know, I I talked to some people who are at summer game.
• 1:22:38
  It just. Looks weird.
• 1:22:40
  It looks weird. Honestly, it looks like, it
• 1:22:41
  looks like It looks like the ROG Ally has a, but that's what it
• 1:22:44
  looks like, yeah. I I said, I said it looks like a
• 1:22:46
  ROG ally with love handles is what I said.
• 1:22:48
  Yeah, I think at some point, but sorry, I'm going to.
• 1:22:52
  Love. I'm going to love handling it.
• 1:22:54
  I'm going to love handling it. I'll put it that way.
• 1:22:59
  I did talk to some people who are at Summer Game Fest, you
• 1:23:03
  know, Cog and Luke lore there and you know, a couple of our
• 1:23:06
  other friends are there and, and they, they all said that it, it
• 1:23:09
  feels like a natural progression of the Xbox controller, Like it
• 1:23:13
  feels like you're playing a hand held with attached to an Xbox
• 1:23:16
  controller. Actually who someone else said
• 1:23:19
  it. And when they said it, I was
• 1:23:20
  like, yeah, I want one. They said, oh, it was, it was,
• 1:23:24
  it was it was retro gaming core. Like Russell from retro Gaming
• 1:23:27
  core. He was like, it was like it's
• 1:23:28
  it's like it's funny. It feels more like a dual sense
• 1:23:31
  controller in my hand. You said that I was like sold.
• 1:23:35
  I'm sold. It does have the haptics stuff
• 1:23:37
  in it yeah, which is funny considering Xbox gamers have
• 1:23:43
  been asking that for that and then normal controller for like,
• 1:23:46
  I don't know, 6-7 years now. Oh well, I don't care.
• 1:23:53
  I don't care about haptics, but T surround I guess anyways, I
• 1:23:59
  just I think this is a nice advice.
• 1:24:00
  I don't really have much more to say about it at the moment, but
• 1:24:05
  I don't know the Ron this, this might be the gateway to PC
• 1:24:08
  gaming for me. That's how they're going to get
• 1:24:10
  me. I, I, we.
• 1:24:11
  We shall see. Yeah, I know.
• 1:24:13
  We'll see. We shall, we shall see, 'cause I
• 1:24:15
  mean price too though. Yeah, yeah, that's the other
• 1:24:19
  thing too. We need to worry, we need to, we
• 1:24:21
  need to wonder about pricing on this.
• 1:24:22
  Like I feel like I'm going to get it no matter what.
• 1:24:26
  But you know like we, we just, we just have to see about
• 1:24:28
  pricing. Yeah.
• 1:24:31
  And I wonder how annualized this device is going to be, too.
• 1:24:35
  You know, like, obviously the Rock Ally has had a couple of
• 1:24:39
  units out within the same number of years at this point.
• 1:24:44
  But I don't see Xbox investing in that sort of cadence for this
• 1:24:50
  particular model. You know, like, would a device
• 1:24:54
  every two or three years makes sense?
• 1:24:56
  What? AI don't think they want I don't
• 1:24:58
  I don't think they want high-powered, high-powered
• 1:25:01
  gaming. And when what I mean by that is
• 1:25:03
  I don't think we're not getting an Xbox Series X in a handheld
• 1:25:08
  form. We're not getting a PlayStation
• 1:25:09
  5 Pro in a handheld form. No, I think that's what I think.
• 1:25:14
  This is why I, like Microsoft, is going to fall back on the
• 1:25:17
  cloud for this stuff, you know? Yeah, and if you, if you really
• 1:25:21
  want that high-powered gaming, you're going to play on console
• 1:25:23
  or on PC. Yeah, but also, but also Asus,
• 1:25:27
  we know Asus is not going to rest in the laurels and stuff
• 1:25:29
  like that. So yeah, they will.
• 1:25:30
  They will of course, like, you know, like like team up with AMD
• 1:25:34
  to make to make more to make more higher powered chips and
• 1:25:37
  stuff like that, you know, and and and get something, you know,
• 1:25:39
  as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, AMD seems to be doing a
• 1:25:42
  lot more than Nvidia's doing these days as far as like
• 1:25:45
  pushing the graphics, of course yeah, NVIDIA has like race
• 1:25:48
  racing and RTX technology and all that stuff and AI, of
• 1:25:50
  course. So, you know, but but AM DAMD
• 1:25:54
  has been going solid, you know, with which is, you know, the
• 1:25:57
  RDNA environment and all that stuff, which basically is a
• 1:26:00
  fancy term for like, you know, like their their own, like like
• 1:26:03
  AI and computational powers and stuff like that.
• 1:26:06
  AMD is not slowing down and not AMD kind of has a corner on the
• 1:26:10
  market and like the PC handheld. I feel like it's, I feel like
• 1:26:13
  we're really going to start seeing things ramp up and you
• 1:26:15
  know, things are going to get better.
• 1:26:18
  You're going to you're going to be hearing a lot more about AMD
• 1:26:22
  if you haven't already in the near future.
• 1:26:25
  Yeah, I haven't heard enough. I haven't heard enough.
• 1:26:27
  I guess I need to. I guess I need to tickle my
• 1:26:30
  sources. You should you should talk to
• 1:26:32
  one of your friends who who works closely with AMD.
• 1:26:37
  OK, I'll shake. I'll shake that tree tomorrow
• 1:26:39
  morning. Next week would be better.
• 1:26:45
  OK, Next Thursday would be better.
• 1:26:47
  OK, I'll take your word for it. I'm excited though.
• 1:26:52
  I'm excited though. I'll put it like this.
• 1:26:54
  If you want raw power, Xbox integration and flexibility, the
• 1:26:57
  Xbox LIX is the is the better choice overall.
• 1:27:00
  Once it's released, once it's released, it will be your better
• 1:27:03
  choice. If you, if you, if you want
• 1:27:05
  simplicity, you know, that's that good old Steam Optimization
• 1:27:09
  and what not. If, if, if you're only worried
• 1:27:11
  about Steam and affordability, stick with your Steam Deck or
• 1:27:15
  just pick up Steam Deck. Like hell, I might, I might
• 1:27:17
  still plot $400.00 down for a Steam Deck real soon sometime
• 1:27:20
  here, you know? But I think I'm going to get the
• 1:27:23
  the the Xbox LIX first though. Yeah, the the big reason why I
• 1:27:27
  hadn't, I haven't gotten the Steam Deck at all yet, is
• 1:27:30
  because Destiny is like a major thing for me.
• 1:27:35
  It's a major sticking point for me to play a handheld and you
• 1:27:38
  can't do that on the Steam Deck natively.
• 1:27:41
  So yeah. I just didn't really want to
• 1:27:45
  switch to a new library, I guess, or you know, launcher in
• 1:27:50
  that sense. But like my profiles are on the
• 1:27:53
  PlayStation, it's on the Xbox, it's on the Nintendo Switch.
• 1:27:57
  I don't really have anything achievement wiser stuff built on
• 1:28:01
  on the steam. So it's like I don't want to
• 1:28:03
  start up another platform to divide my time, but with this
• 1:28:08
  also being integrated into the Xbox, like I can play the things
• 1:28:12
  that come on Steam only, you know, on the same system.
• 1:28:16
  It just, it won't feel necessarily like I'm have to now
• 1:28:20
  move to a different system to play this stuff.
• 1:28:23
  It's connected to my Xbox. Yeah, and you know, on on that
• 1:28:31
  point too, like when I, when I the nice thing about Destiny
• 1:28:37
  specifically is if you whatever platform you own it on, like if
• 1:28:42
  you buy the seasonal content, you own the seasonal content
• 1:28:45
  everywhere. And Destiny is free to play on
• 1:28:48
  Steam. So like I can just even if the
• 1:28:50
  Xbox version isn't compatible with this, the Steam version
• 1:28:53
  will be so I can just continue my progress with the Steam
• 1:28:57
  version and not have any problems.
• 1:29:00
  Plus this integrates the Xbox chat system which I can play
• 1:29:04
  with my friends still. Like that'll be nice.
• 1:29:09
  But yeah, that I think maybe that's part of the reason too,
• 1:29:13
  Pat, why PC gaming is kind of I don't I don't need another
• 1:29:16
  platform to spend money on and build up a profile on
• 1:29:21
  achievements and gamertags and friends lists and going to cry a
• 1:29:28
  little bit, but they're on left. We started talking about we
• 1:29:32
  started talking bad about PC gaming.
• 1:29:34
  They're on left. He's gone.
• 1:29:37
  Don't talk about my steam like that.
• 1:29:42
  You hurt Gabe's feelings now if life 3 is real.
• 1:29:49
  He'll come out, yeah. No, I'm, I'm, I'm just a little
• 1:29:56
  worried about the price point, but I think it would be
• 1:30:00
  something that I would pull the trigger on even if it was say,
• 1:30:03
  800 bucks. Yeah.
• 1:30:06
  I mean, I, I look at my cell phone and that one was over.
• 1:30:10
  I think that one was like $1000. And so it's like it's, it's
• 1:30:17
  could possibly get kind of the same use as the cell phone.
• 1:30:21
  Yeah. And you know, I mean, I'm, I'm
• 1:30:26
  keeping in mind too that it's not just an Xbox and handheld
• 1:30:29
  form too, you know, it is a Windows based PC which I could
• 1:30:34
  plug into a monitor theoretically and and kind of
• 1:30:37
  have APC as well, which I haven't had in a long time.
• 1:30:41
  Not that I would use it, but you know, if I needed one.
• 1:30:48
  So yeah. That also just like work on ATV,
• 1:30:52
  like if I wanted to just plug it up to my TV and then just hook
• 1:30:56
  up a Xbox controller to it. Yeah, Xbox syncs right to it.
• 1:31:03
  It also comes with the dock in the box, Laurent says so, Yeah,
• 1:31:10
  so that's a plus. I don't know.
• 1:31:16
  I the more I look at this, the more I like really want one and
• 1:31:20
  the more concerning the price becomes.
• 1:31:21
  But look, as long as it's not like $1000, I will probably get
• 1:31:26
  one. Yep.
• 1:31:30
  I think, I think $1000 is the, that's the, that's where I say,
• 1:31:35
  yeah, yeah, I'll stick with my switch for now.
• 1:31:38
  And that's where your wife will be like.
• 1:31:41
  I think I might get a new husband now.
• 1:31:43
  Yeah, man, you think you think of my wife divorced me, I would
• 1:31:50
  have to give her half of my joy cons.
• 1:31:54
  At least you have enough joy cons you'd still have a set
• 1:31:57
  somewhere. It's true, I did buy a second
• 1:32:00
  set. Just in case.
• 1:32:03
  Just in case. Smart man.
• 1:32:05
  Yeah, I don't know how you would split the screen though.
• 1:32:10
  I don't know. I'll just I'll give her my my
• 1:32:12
  switch light call today. Feel like it's it's.
• 1:32:17
  The best one? Yeah, it's the smallest you can
• 1:32:21
  put in your purse. You'll be fine.
• 1:32:25
  Oh boy. Good times.
• 1:32:28
  I really wish this was out now so I could take it on vacation
• 1:32:30
  with me, but I'll be doing that switch to I do.
• 1:32:36
  You can take that one on your vacation and try out all the
• 1:32:39
  cool, nifty little upgrades. Yeah, I I got to find a game to
• 1:32:44
  play. I thought about how about
• 1:32:47
  finally tackling A Persona game on vacation because I'm like
• 1:32:54
  coming off of Expedition 33 and I can't take it with me.
• 1:32:57
  So I'm still on that turn based RPG mood, mood.
• 1:33:01
  And I've all I've been wanting to play Persona, actually
• 1:33:04
  wanting to play Metaphor, but also not on Switch to yet.
• 1:33:07
  Yeah. So we'll see.
• 1:33:12
  Did you play Xenoblade Chronicles like oh.
• 1:33:14
  Yeah, I forgot I downloaded Xenoblade yesterday.
• 1:33:17
  I'll play that. There we go.
• 1:33:20
  Did you buy? We're talking about Switch,
• 1:33:24
  right? The Switch too?
• 1:33:25
  Did you buy one of the the SD Express cards yet?
• 1:33:28
  I did. OK, what size did you get?
• 1:33:31
  256 because it's the biggest you can buy at the moment that like,
• 1:33:36
  you know, some children duct tape this together in China and
• 1:33:40
  send it to me. Which?
• 1:33:42
  Which brand? Mario on the package.
• 1:33:44
  Which brand did you buy? I bought the SanDisk specific
• 1:33:50
  the specific one with Mario on the box.
• 1:33:53
  Is that the 77? Wait, that sounds like it's more
• 1:33:55
  expensive than $7077. It was $63.
• 1:33:58
  Oh, was you going to buy? At Best Buy.
• 1:34:00
  OK Walmart. Sorry.
• 1:34:04
  Oh Walmart. Yeah, but I would assume it's
• 1:34:07
  the same at Best Buy. I'll have to check because I was
• 1:34:12
  looking on Amazon. I was like, I was seeing like
• 1:34:14
  $75 some. Somewhere they're not cheap on
• 1:34:17
  Amazon yet. So while we're on, what do you
• 1:34:24
  what do you say we head into some questions?
• 1:34:26
  Unless you want to talk about this some more.
• 1:34:29
  No, no, no, I'm, I'm good. We were.
• 1:34:32
  We're basically, we basically said what we need to say about
• 1:34:34
  the about the Xbox Ally, right? Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
• 1:34:40
  It is. The more I look at it, I'm like,
• 1:34:41
  man, this is a nice looking device.
• 1:34:44
  I got to close this window because I'll just keep looking
• 1:34:45
  at it. I'll just keep staring.
• 1:34:49
  Yeah, it's a, it's a nice looking system and I'm and I'm
• 1:34:54
  excited. You know you can't have.
• 1:34:55
  I'm excited to work. All right, Questions, answers.
• 1:35:08
  Where's the dock at? I have it open somewhere.
• 1:35:11
  Swear I do. Do you want me to read the
• 1:35:17
  questions? They're on?
• 1:35:19
  Yeah, please. All right.
• 1:35:21
  Give me two seconds, because I apparently closed the window.
• 1:35:27
  That's not it. That's the template.
• 1:35:31
  That's not what I want. There it is.
• 1:35:35
  OK, so questions. You can send us questions in
• 1:35:38
  Discord, you can leave them on YouTube, you can leave them on
• 1:35:42
  social media, you can e-mail us. All those ways will be OK.
• 1:35:47
  Our first question comes from loading.
• 1:35:54
  Just kidding, it comes from wait, where are the questions
• 1:35:59
  at? I didn't see questions.
• 1:36:03
  Ron, where are the questions at? I thought you had a.
• 1:36:06
  Question. They were listed here.
• 1:36:09
  Where'd they go? I didn't do anything.
• 1:36:13
  I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything.
• 1:36:23
  Well, I guess, I guess we don't have questions.
• 1:36:25
  I guess we talk about what? We've been playing then OK, let
• 1:36:29
  me, let me. Well, that sucks.
• 1:36:33
  Somebody. Somebody.
• 1:36:34
  Fumble here. I mean, that's just my life now,
• 1:36:38
  Laurent not even fumbling. The ball's already on the ground
• 1:36:41
  and I'm kicking it forward while I'm trying to pick it up.
• 1:36:44
  At least you're moving it though.
• 1:36:46
  You're moving that ball backwards all.
• 1:36:50
  Right. I guess we could talk about what
• 1:36:51
  we've been playing. Pat.
• 1:36:55
  Pat should go first. He hasn't.
• 1:36:57
  He's probably got 3 hours worth of games to talk about because
• 1:37:00
  he hasn't been here in a while. Really could, but you know, just
• 1:37:03
  for the sake of time and you know, the fact you guys probably
• 1:37:06
  already talked about some of them.
• 1:37:08
  Yeah, we have 20. We have we have 20 minutes till
• 1:37:11
  our our our time limit is up for clips so.
• 1:37:16
  Yep. Now, like I'd play games like
• 1:37:21
  Expedition 33 and, you know, for me, that's like my game of the
• 1:37:24
  year right now, yeah. For sure.
• 1:37:27
  I'm pretty sure you guys talked extensively on that, so I don't
• 1:37:31
  need to jump into that, but it's awesome.
• 1:37:34
  So recently what I've been playing is I got Fantasy Life.
• 1:37:40
  I the girl that steals time for the Nintendo Switch.
• 1:37:43
  And then for 250 extra, I upgraded it to the Switch 2
• 1:37:47
  version. And this game, yeah, it's only
• 1:37:50
  250 or up. Yeah, it's like one of those
• 1:37:53
  patches that upgrades a lot of performance.
• 1:37:57
  So it's definitely well worth the the 2:50 to just upgrade
• 1:38:01
  that. And it is a very ambitious
• 1:38:07
  title. Like I am glad to see that Level
• 1:38:10
  5 has come back again because I was worried they said they were
• 1:38:14
  leaving the western markets. But this game is awesome.
• 1:38:19
  Like if this is that cozy RPG experience that has, like a lot
• 1:38:26
  of other video games, all tied into it.
• 1:38:31
  First and foremost, it is an action RPG.
• 1:38:34
  You go around, you smack things with the sword on like an
• 1:38:36
  overworld map. You explore some dungeons, but
• 1:38:40
  you also have so many. One of the things in this game
• 1:38:44
  is that you have a life system or just various jobs that you
• 1:38:49
  can tackle ranging from combat such as sword fighter or Archer.
• 1:38:53
  You can do gatherer, which would be woodcutters, anglers,
• 1:38:59
  farmers, and then you also have a crafting classes, which I like
• 1:39:04
  blacksmith and Taylor and furniture carpentry.
• 1:39:09
  And I think there's like 14 classes and all that you can
• 1:39:13
  choose from and level up. And each class kind of also has
• 1:39:16
  a little story that goes along with it as well as a plethora of
• 1:39:20
  quests to tackle for that those classes.
• 1:39:25
  And also it's got like its own like various dungeon crawling
• 1:39:30
  from random generating dungeons that you can keep going back
• 1:39:34
  down into far more materials to other like more built dungeon
• 1:39:40
  just scattered across like it's gigantic world.
• 1:39:45
  And also it's got it's got the entire Animal Crossing game in
• 1:39:48
  it. You can literally build a town
• 1:39:52
  on an island complete with all different houses.
• 1:39:56
  Give villagers, put them inside you know these houses or have
• 1:40:01
  them like do other things in the village you can.
• 1:40:06
  Way to terraform the land to however you want to make it and
• 1:40:10
  just decorate your island with all sorts of furniture and other
• 1:40:13
  like things that you can find out in this world like it is
• 1:40:19
  huge. Nice.
• 1:40:23
  Yeah, it's it's a lot of fun. Like there's some good moments
• 1:40:26
  in this game that just kind of make you laugh out loud, but
• 1:40:31
  it's like if you want something that's just kind of that cozy
• 1:40:34
  RPG experience or something more the Animal Crossing, but more
• 1:40:41
  honestly, this is this is a really good pick up.
• 1:40:44
  I recommend it. Yeah, it was Ed and I were
• 1:40:49
  talking about it a couple weeks ago because we were kind of
• 1:40:54
  going over some of this stuff that's coming to switch to and I
• 1:40:56
  didn't know this was getting a switch to upgrade.
• 1:41:01
  And it, it looked really like like cozy, you know, like, I
• 1:41:08
  mean, I know there's an action RPG element to it, but it didn't
• 1:41:10
  look like it was some sort of like, it's not like you're
• 1:41:13
  playing, you know, Dark Souls or Elden Ring, right?
• 1:41:16
  Like it just seemed like a simplified.
• 1:41:19
  You can use items to just restore yourself or I I don't
• 1:41:23
  actually know what the penalty is for dying.
• 1:41:25
  You probably just get worked back to town, but you know, it's
• 1:41:29
  it's not that hard and it's not that complicated and the
• 1:41:34
  crafting is super simple. So it's it's not like you're
• 1:41:38
  trying to find like that one super rare item that can only be
• 1:41:41
  harvested during rain time at between this and that hour.
• 1:41:45
  Oh my. Gosh, that's the worst.
• 1:41:47
  Disney Dreamite Valley has that. And it's like, like sometimes
• 1:41:51
  they they ask you to make a recipe with a certain fish that
• 1:41:55
  can only be caught at night when it's raining.
• 1:41:57
  And I'm like, come on, guys. Only during the season of
• 1:42:02
  spring. Gosh, it's awful.
• 1:42:05
  Yeah. And then the other game that
• 1:42:09
  I've been tackling from my backlog is the Black Myth
• 1:42:12
  Wukong. Oh yeah, I also coming to Xbox a
• 1:42:18
  year and a half later. I saw that.
• 1:42:21
  I'm like, wow, that's, that's kind of a coincidence.
• 1:42:23
  I just started playing this game again and now it's coming on
• 1:42:26
  Xbox. But it was one of those things,
• 1:42:29
  it was one of the games that I chose for that backlog
• 1:42:31
  challenge. In fact, I think it's the only
• 1:42:33
  one that I can remember that I chose from the backlog challenge
• 1:42:36
  that we've submitted earlier this year.
• 1:42:39
  And it's, I, I restarted it again and I'm glad I did because
• 1:42:45
  that, you know, I, I got myself more into the combat.
• 1:42:49
  Like I, I feel like clear expedition or clear obscura
• 1:42:53
  Expedition 33 really helped me with my pairings and dodging,
• 1:42:57
  dodge timing, that it made Blackmith little more easier for
• 1:43:02
  me to, to manage. And the thing I really like
• 1:43:08
  about this game versus a Dark Souls game is that the combat
• 1:43:11
  encourages you to be aggressive instead of defensive in this
• 1:43:15
  game. Like they want you to run up and
• 1:43:18
  smack the living crap out of bad guys and then like hit that
• 1:43:21
  dodge button at the right time so that you kind of like slide
• 1:43:24
  out of the way and then you come back and like start wailing on
• 1:43:28
  them again. So it's a faster paced game.
• 1:43:33
  There are a lot of cool enemy designs, a lot of freaky enemy
• 1:43:38
  designs as well. I I literally ran into an enemy
• 1:43:42
  that it's basically like a body of a man tiger, but it's got the
• 1:43:48
  neck of a snake. It's like, what the hell is this
• 1:43:52
  abomination? Yeah.
• 1:43:56
  And there's other like cool just creatures ranging from the
• 1:44:00
  various Chinese mythical, the things that kind of look blood
• 1:44:06
  borne ish as well. It's, and there's a lot of
• 1:44:11
  bosses, a lot of bosses in this game and they're not all hard.
• 1:44:17
  There are some that are very frustrating, but it they are
• 1:44:24
  easy. Like it is something that I find
• 1:44:28
  myself, it's easy to just kind of see their attack patterns and
• 1:44:32
  start like working my way to dodge those.
• 1:44:35
  Like OK, this boss can kill me in three hits, but most of his
• 1:44:40
  combos are three hits. So you know, I just got like
• 1:44:45
  smack, smack, dodge, smack, smack, you know, dodge this hit.
• 1:44:50
  You know, it's going to take a little longer so maybe I can get
• 1:44:52
  an extra smack in and you know, just kind of work it there and
• 1:44:56
  like pick them off but still kind of be aggressive about it.
• 1:45:01
  So you know it it's I think that most I've fought against the
• 1:45:06
  boss was for like 3 hours and that was only like 1 exception.
• 1:45:12
  That is. One everyone else I tend to beat
• 1:45:14
  in like one or two tries. So it, it's, it's a fun game.
• 1:45:22
  I, I, I wish, I do wish there was a bit of an easier mode just
• 1:45:28
  cuz like I don't like fighting bosses for three hours and it
• 1:45:32
  gets me frustrated. But you know, I, I, I kind of
• 1:45:37
  like the direction that like Liza P has gone with the
• 1:45:42
  overture game, like Overture is they just announced that DLC
• 1:45:47
  shadow dropped and I'm excited. I do want to get into that after
• 1:45:51
  black myth. They also overture has an easy
• 1:45:54
  mode on it now. But in all they also added a
• 1:45:59
  hard mode or even harder mode for those who want more of a
• 1:46:02
  challenge. So it's like, I love how these
• 1:46:05
  games are starting to become a little more accessible because
• 1:46:07
  there's a lot of creativity and beauty in these games that I,
• 1:46:12
  they're fun, but I don't want to be that frustrated at times.
• 1:46:16
  I my my time is limited and I don't want to spend it all on
• 1:46:21
  one dude. Yeah.
• 1:46:23
  Yeah, I'm a multi dude person. OK, I need I need to be spread
• 1:46:28
  around. I need to experience it all.
• 1:46:40
  I it's on my list to try. I I've been looking more into
• 1:46:44
  more into lives of P as well. Like I I still kind of want to
• 1:46:49
  play that game. I think it I think that is an
• 1:46:51
  interesting take on the souls genre, if you will.
• 1:46:58
  So I don't know we'll we'll see. I want to I don't know.
• 1:47:03
  I'm I'm too into expedition 33 still right now until like think
• 1:47:08
  about anything else that you missed it.
• 1:47:11
  I went I went like all out. I got the I got that re release
• 1:47:14
  of the monolith edition. I got T-shirts.
• 1:47:18
  I've been I've been scrolling Etsy at like the 3D printed
• 1:47:21
  statues that you have to paint yourself.
• 1:47:24
  Like I got a stop you fell. For this game, hard.
• 1:47:28
  Dude, yeah, it's this what I what I said last week is so I've
• 1:47:34
  I finished it and I can definitely there are things I
• 1:47:41
  need to I want to talk to you about when they're on is not
• 1:47:43
  here because I don't want to spoil anything, but I we talked
• 1:47:49
  a little bit, I think on disc when our phones weren't working
• 1:47:53
  for some reason. We talked a little bit about it
• 1:47:57
  somewhere and I have some thoughts and some theories and
• 1:48:04
  we need to talk about it. I need to talk about it with
• 1:48:06
  someone. And the Ron won't finish the
• 1:48:07
  game. Oh my God.
• 1:48:14
  So it's worth finishing. Well, I will, I will, I will.
• 1:48:17
  I will probably put down what I've been playing and and pick
• 1:48:21
  it back up because because like I because like, the only reason
• 1:48:24
  why I'm not playing X Ration 33 is because I've been hopelessly
• 1:48:27
  addicted to Belatro. So you you're playing one Ben,
• 1:48:31
  you plan on trading 1 Ben star game for another?
• 1:48:35
  Wait, what are you talking about?
• 1:48:38
  Ben Star is Jimbo the Clown and Belatro.
• 1:48:43
  He's the official Jimbo. How?
• 1:48:46
  Have you not seen the? BAFTA awards No.
• 1:48:50
  Come on. I mean, I know he hosted the
• 1:48:52
  BAFTA awards, but. No, he didn't host the BAFTA
• 1:48:56
  awards. He When Bilatro won their award
• 1:49:01
  it the person who went up to represent them was Ben Starr as
• 1:49:06
  Jimbo the Clown or Jimbo the Jester.
• 1:49:09
  Oh OK, that is an. Official role for him now like
• 1:49:12
  he's done commercials. He he is Jimbo.
• 1:49:16
  Oh my God, I did not know that. Is is that is that?
• 1:49:26
  Is that it Pat? Is that?
• 1:49:28
  Oh yeah, no, I'm done. LeBron how's how's Bilatro?
• 1:49:34
  Well, I finally, I finally beat an entire run and that just and
• 1:49:37
  that just made it more addictive after that.
• 1:49:41
  Makes you feel good, doesn't it? It does right?
• 1:49:44
  You know, like, because well, I well, for for like the past
• 1:49:47
  week, when I first week I was playing it, I would make it to
• 1:49:51
  the 7th auntie and I knew and and I was like, I was like man,
• 1:49:55
  like, you know, it was just frustrating because like, you
• 1:50:00
  know, like you think at this point you've got the strategies
• 1:50:02
  and everything, but you know, like, how do you actually get
• 1:50:04
  the money, you know? And so, yeah.
• 1:50:08
  So when I Huh. The gold deck, I think it's
• 1:50:14
  gold. Maybe it's the blue deck.
• 1:50:15
  One of those gives you a lot more money to start you off with
• 1:50:19
  money. Well, yeah, I was yellow deck.
• 1:50:22
  The yellow deck gives you gives you 10 gets you 10 extra extra
• 1:50:25
  creds to start. And then you have to play play
• 1:50:29
  with that because like I was getting the voucher, I would run
• 1:50:32
  the vouchers that I would I always like buy the vouchers
• 1:50:34
  that would give me like plus one hands, plus one hands and plus
• 1:50:38
  one discards and stuff like that.
• 1:50:39
  So, you know, if you want it with five and five, you know,
• 1:50:44
  ultimately, like I just had like the most, I had the best round
• 1:50:49
  of luck with with the Wheel of Fortune card, which basically
• 1:50:52
  gets you hollow foils and so like that, which gets you an
• 1:50:54
  automatic time SIM multiplier. And that's how I actually wound
• 1:50:57
  up like cinching that. Yes, I know.
• 1:51:01
  I played around with. They were like the way I won.
• 1:51:06
  I actually won this just using pairs and I had like some jokers
• 1:51:12
  that kept getting more powerful the more pairs I would use.
• 1:51:15
  Yes, and I had I had that for. Multipliers and yeah.
• 1:51:19
  And so literally, like my hand was just a pair that, like, won
• 1:51:24
  my competition. Yeah, it was awesome.
• 1:51:30
  But. Of course I would do other
• 1:51:31
  things too, like I would play. I think one of the cards was you
• 1:51:33
  had to play. You had to play enough to keep 4
• 1:51:37
  cards in your your hand at all times.
• 1:51:40
  So I would just like waste cards but make sure there's a pair.
• 1:51:43
  But I also have 4:00 so it just like plays on the modifiers.
• 1:51:47
  Like it's very interesting how it's not traditional.
• 1:51:52
  Pope yeah, I was also, I was also manipulating my deck
• 1:51:55
  because there was there was one there, one of the seals like,
• 1:51:59
  you know, give you every time you discard you get a tarot card
• 1:52:01
  and stuff like that. So I was, but not only was I
• 1:52:05
  manipulating that seal card, there was also a card where if
• 1:52:09
  you got a tarot card, there's also there's a joker that if you
• 1:52:12
  get that, you get that it gives you your last tarot card.
• 1:52:15
  You know, like if you if you not this card, if you, it was
• 1:52:19
  something I got, I do. So like I would always like
• 1:52:23
  reroll the same tarot card like 3 times and in like 1 in like
• 1:52:27
  one round. OK, I got.
• 1:52:30
  I can't really use the tarot, but.
• 1:52:33
  I can't remember what it was. If I if I can, if I can
• 1:52:35
  duplicate it again, I'll try to make a screen.
• 1:52:37
  I'll take a try, take a screenshot.
• 1:52:42
  Nice. But yeah, Velacho was fun, but I
• 1:52:44
  guess I do need to like sit down and like and actually get back
• 1:52:47
  in the Expedition 33. I'm not even that far into it,
• 1:52:49
  so I just I just sit down and play it.
• 1:52:52
  I would This is the first time in a long time I've been feeling
• 1:52:55
  like I want to do a spoiler cast on this game.
• 1:52:58
  I. Would I'd, you know, if I can
• 1:53:00
  get more people to talk about it, I would love to do an
• 1:53:03
  Expedition 33. Yeah, which is besides Mario
• 1:53:10
  Kart World, that's kind of all I've been playing seriously.
• 1:53:14
  I did play a little bit of Cyberpunk 2077 on the Switch to.
• 1:53:19
  I got through that first mission, right, You know, kind
• 1:53:23
  of right when you get to your apartment, that's kind of where
• 1:53:26
  I ended to go to sleep to. I think that's when you figure
• 1:53:30
  out that Keanu Reeves is in your head.
• 1:53:33
  OK, so you you did the you did the tech or the core pro
• 1:53:39
  espionage one. OK, that mission.
• 1:53:42
  Yeah, and then Mario Kart World, I've been playing, I've I've
• 1:53:48
  just playing a little bit of a lot, but the game I've been
• 1:53:53
  seriously playing is my new Game Plus run on Expedition 33.
• 1:53:56
  I'm going to try to, I'm going to go for all the achievements.
• 1:53:59
  I think I've been following a guide this time around.
• 1:54:04
  The first time I just wanted to play through it and experience
• 1:54:06
  it and you know, not have to worry about that stuff.
• 1:54:09
  But now that I'm like obsessed with the game, I'm going to try
• 1:54:13
  to get all the achievements so. You know, I've heard a very
• 1:54:17
  interesting, isn't I guess, Easter egg in the new game Plus.
• 1:54:24
  I heard that if you like where if you have your entire party
• 1:54:28
  wear the swimsuits. Yep.
• 1:54:29
  Yeah, I saw that guy. Shows up in the swimsuit too.
• 1:54:32
  I saw that too. Yeah.
• 1:54:35
  Which is funny. Yep.
• 1:54:38
  But yeah, I'm, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a loony stand.
• 1:54:42
  I'm going to, she's my girl. I'm going to keep her around for
• 1:54:46
  a while. Also, I love the way she moves
• 1:54:50
  around the world because she floats and it makes moving
• 1:54:54
  around the world so much better. Now my my party at the end of
• 1:54:59
  the game was Verso, Mayel and Minako.
• 1:55:03
  Minako was a freaking powerhouse for me.
• 1:55:07
  Yeah, I've been. I had to keep him.
• 1:55:11
  Yeah, I've been using him in new game plus just because I think
• 1:55:14
  one of the achievements is unlock all of his abilities.
• 1:55:17
  Yeah, you need all. You need all the abilities,
• 1:55:19
  Yeah. So I've just been using him a
• 1:55:23
  lot, but that's it. That's, that's all I've been
• 1:55:27
  playing. I don't really have anything
• 1:55:28
  else to say about Claire Obscure except that every time I play
• 1:55:30
  it, I become more and more obsessed with it.
• 1:55:32
  Like I've been like, it's been so long since I've done this,
• 1:55:36
  but I've been going online and looking up theories and watching
• 1:55:39
  YouTube videos about theories and you know, the potential for
• 1:55:43
  more and like I'm I've fallen in.
• 1:55:49
  I, Corey, I need to see you in a baguette cosplay.
• 1:55:54
  I I'm look when we do the spoiler cast, I'll, I'll, I'll
• 1:55:59
  wear it. I'll wear the we're.
• 1:56:00
  We're going to get baguettes. Oh yeah, magic baguette suits.
• 1:56:05
  Look when they all showed up at Summer Game Fest in that in
• 1:56:09
  their in their out or IGN Live or whatever that was this past
• 1:56:13
  weekend. Wear the stripy shirts in the in
• 1:56:16
  the the suspenders and the glasses and the berets.
• 1:56:20
  We're going to do it all, yeah. When when I was at PAX and went
• 1:56:25
  to one of Ben Star's panels, like he was looking for
• 1:56:28
  audience, like, questions and then like, running through the
• 1:56:30
  audience, he, of course went straight for the ones that were
• 1:56:33
  wearing Expedition 33 baguette costumes.
• 1:56:36
  Like he's like, no, I have to do it purely out of, you know,
• 1:56:39
  bias. You are being chosen.
• 1:56:41
  Yeah. Yeah, I'm my gosh, I'm so in
• 1:56:45
  love with this game. I I'm like completely.
• 1:56:51
  It's I think the last game I was this obsessed with was probably
• 1:56:54
  Breath of the Wild, and I don't think I was even that obsessed
• 1:56:57
  with that game just because I think Zelda.
• 1:57:02
  I mean, I don't know. All right, we're we're done.
• 1:57:07
  I'm done. We got we got clips to make.
• 1:57:10
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