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Halo on PlayStation, Limited Run Turns 10 & Microsoft’s Next Xbox · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hello everybody, welcome back to the Boxers Podcast, a great
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  place to play games and be better.
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  I'm one of your hosts, Corey Derrigan.
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  Alongside me, as always, is PC Muscle Race himself, the Ron
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  Dawkins. Hey, what's poppin?
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  Hi, Leron. Was that a question?
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  Was that there was an upward inflection?
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  It's a. Question.
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  Yeah, what's happening? I don't know.
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  What's good with you dude? I don't know working.
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  Besides the fact besides the fact that I don't return your
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  text messages. Yeah, that's Yep, you don't, you
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  know, I send you pics and you don't send me anything back.
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  It's. Just like every It's just like
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  every other relationship you've ever had, right?
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  I know, I know, you know. Actually is every other
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  relationship I've had actually, because it seems like I'm always
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  blowing somebody off and I said blowing them off.
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  I mean, you, you do whatever you feel like you want to do,
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  Laurent. Nobody's here to judge you, OK?
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  You do. You joyous action sometimes.
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  Yeah, blow somebody off? Hell yeah.
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  Speaking of joy, it's like. It's like leave me the fuck
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  alone. Speaking of joyous actions, also
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  here is the mad pharmacist herself, Stephanie Klimov.
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  Hello, I spent the last 10 minutes complaining about bodily
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  injuries and a stupid decision to go running.
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  So hi, I guess we're talking about video games.
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  Yeah. Are we though?
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  Do we ever? Really?
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  We do, but do we really? Please hit reset.
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  Speaking of resetting, also here is PK power Pat Klein.
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  Well, if life is a video game, maybe I should test for fire
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  damage. What's going to say?
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  Like this Super Nintendo? Like if everybody's lives.
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  Doing video games. If everybody's lives was a video
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  game real quick, what genre would it be?
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  Would it be horror, RPG. First person shooter.
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  God, I mean probably a a life SIM.
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  A really boring life SIM, like a four out of 10 life SIM with
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  like the occasional like when you're The Sims and you take
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  away the ladder from the pool and they can't get out.
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  You know what, mine's going to be one of the genres I struggle
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  the most with, and that's a rogue like because I just need
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  to keep starting over and over again, hoping to be better.
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  I like that answer. I like that answer.
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  Yeah, it's a good answer. Good answer.
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  Good answer. Like Family Feud.
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  Good answer, you know. Oh gosh, stand the feud it is.
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  Oh, oh, I was, I was going to say, I was going to say mine's
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  definitely going to be a platformer because it, it always
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  seems, it always seems like, you know, like like I'm, I'm, I'm
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  going through one hurdle after another just to get, just to get
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  into a better place in life. Sounds like a puzzle game.
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  I had to think between, I have like 3 choices here.
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  The correct answer. It's it's, it's a horror.
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  But you know, the honest answer or the more positive answer.
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  It's an RPG because I grind to try and level up and there's
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  somewhat of a story in it with characters involved, and there's
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  some great greater force that is trying to hold me back and I am
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  desperately trying to fight it. Yeah, nice.
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  Oh well. Everybody out there, what life
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  is your genre? Let us know.
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  Genre is your life. Genre is your life.
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  Whatever, the same thing. It's the same if you are have a
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  Metroid vain your life. I really want to hear your
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  story. Gosh.
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  Oh my gosh. That would be that might be
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  terrible. You've unlocked this light of
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  this like valuable asset. Now you must go back, retrace
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  all your steps. Oh no.
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  And find all the little little secrets that will help increment
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  your life, mana or give you special skills.
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  Special skills? I have special skills.
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  No, I don't. That's leading this podcast.
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  All right, What are we playing? What are we doing?
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  Stephanie, you haven't been here in a while.
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  What are you? What have you been up to in your
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  life? I don't know if you wanted to
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  start with me, but OK, well, I'll make sure.
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  That they're. Short and sweet on my Switch.
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  I'm playing Pokémon Legend ZA and I don't like.
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  That's not my favorite. What?
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  I'm it's not. I actually like I like Archaeus
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  much better, to be honest with you.
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  I like Scarlett and Violet better, but I know they're two
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  different types of games, so I try not to compare the two.
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  I don't dislike it. I don't know.
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  I just find it just I'm already. Compare them.
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  I want to know why you don't like this.
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  I want to hear reasons. No, no, I, I, I'm generally
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  curious. I'm not trying to like say,
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  well, that's stupid. I I generally want to know like,
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  because I personally think this is like one of my favorite
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  pokemons. So like, I'm just kind of
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  flabbergasted that I feel like it did better than it has.
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  So I kind of want to see why you feel like it's not at its peak
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  you. Know probably because we might
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  have different desires and expectations of Pokémon.
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  I liked Archaeus because I like just more of the experimentation
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  aspect. Like I it's been a while since I
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  played it, but it's I liked exploring.
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  I personally like the outdoors exploration.
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  I don't like the city. And that's I know that's purely
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  personal preference because what I will give you credit.
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  That is valid. That is valid.
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  I will give ZA credit that, you know, they're hidden Pokémon
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  very well in the city. Like I'm surprised and impressed
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  the different ways they can hide them.
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  But I prefer a nature environment, different quote UN
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  quote biomes versus like, oh, you have wild zones, OK, you
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  know, and I like the different like research aspects.
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  You know, you feed Pokémon, you see what you know, you fill out
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  that little thing in addition of battles course in legends, yeah,
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  you have Mabel's research, but it's like, oh, catch 10 normal
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  types, solve a certain number of mysteries, break 100 mega
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  crystals and same thing with all like those little mini quests.
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  The intro was a bit long and belabored for me and just again,
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  this is I strictly a personal preference.
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  The current the the list of Pokémon.
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  I haven't caught them all yet, but so far, and I did take a
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  peek of the full list. It's it's you know, it doesn't
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  have as I don't know, I'm just not as emotionally invested into
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  the list of Pokémon that are available and I don't know, Mega
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  Evolution really doesn't do it for me.
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  I prefer the Terra in Scarlet and Violet.
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  I don't know. What about that star me?
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  Or is it star you Star me? Char me with the weird human
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  knees. No, I'm good.
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  The freaky ass meme that comes around with it now, yeah, he's
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  like chasing you. I.
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  Don't want to know? So and I don't know, like other
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  than maybe one of the ranked battles, like only one of the
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  ranked battles gave me a really hard time.
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  The rest I just like screamed everyone.
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  I literally bulldozed my way and I'm currently at rank C and I
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  know most Pokémon games aren't really supposed to be known for
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  their difficulty and I'm keeping that in mind.
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  So again, I can I I see what ZA does.
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  Well. It works great on my Switch too.
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  In fact, the loading time is so fast that I can't even have time
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  to read the tips in between because it loads that quickly.
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  It'll the tip will pop up and then it'll pop away just as
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  quickly. You're telling me something
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  about C moves? So there are a lot, a lot of
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  things I appreciate about the game.
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  I know my son's going to love the hell out of that game.
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  But just as a personal preference, if I were to ever do
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  a ranking of Pokémon someday, personally I like Arceus or
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  Arceus, whatever much better. I, I can see your, your valid
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  reasonings. RCS definitely had more of that
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  research side to it where you said, yeah, Mabel's research is
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  kind of a, a just, it's almost like an afterthought.
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  You don't even have to put effort into Mabel's research
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  unless you're strictly trying to get the shiny, the shiny,
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  whatever thing at the end, the amulet.
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  I think it's an amulet, but basically it increases the rate
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  of shinies and apparently that's huge in this game because
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  everyone wants to be a shiny hunter.
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  But yeah, honestly though, I think for me it's the battle
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  system in this Pokémon. Like I like that it's more
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  action based and that it's it feels more like Xenoblade
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  Chronicles where it has that cool down feature to its
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  abilities versus having only like 5 flamethrowers.
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  I can use flamethrower whenever the heck I want now, but I just
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  have to wait for it to cool down to reuse it again.
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  And also the fact that there's a bit of strategy now with how
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  where your Pokémon has to position themselves and able to
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  get said move. So like if your opponent is
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  winding up for a close attack, you can like almost completely
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  step out of the way and have them miss.
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  I think that's actually pretty, pretty cool.
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  Like it, it feels more like what I think an actual Pokémon battle
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  would be like instead of a Pokémon just standing there and
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  getting smacked and then doing its turn and getting smacked
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  like traditional turn base. So.
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  That's what I like. Oh, go ahead, I was.
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  Going to say I do acknowledge those two things.
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  OK, I also like the story with it, like most for me, a lot of
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  Pokémon characters are very forgettable, but I'm actually
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  really enjoying the group of friends that you have with this.
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  Like they feel like they are very close knit and you know,
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  more relevant to like, I guess the story or at least to like
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  your personal growth as a character or at least you're
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  involved with their personal growth as characters rather than
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  just randomly appearing. Be like, hey, my Pokémon are
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  like 5 levels higher, let's battle.
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  Oh man, I still got ways to go. Next time you see them, hey, I'm
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  the champion, you know, let's do battle kind of.
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  It just feels more natural. So I, I, I like that feature.
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  I like that too. And plus the characters, even
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  the MPCS, in my opinion, have some very weird things to say.
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  So even the side quests I particularly enjoy in this one,
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  just to see what kind of little stories is going on in the city.
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  I I think that's why I like it. Oh, and because the battles are
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  faster, I also like the the fact that you level up faster and you
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  can experiment with different abilities and swat them out.
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  Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
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  Mm hmm nice. Yeah no, I I'll give credit to
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  the the different combat types, but I will say I'm not good with
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  moving my Pokémon. I don't know if like, like, I
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  don't know if I'm not doing it right, but nine times out of 10
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  I don't really execute it very well.
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  I'm still playing it but everyday my son's asking me when
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  I'm done. Yeah, no, I I wish you could
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  move the Pokémon a little bit better in the game.
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  Like you almost have to tease it by either using moves or like
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  running and having your Pokémon basically chase you.
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  Yeah, but I I think it's a red. I think it's in a good
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  direction. So that's a big chunk.
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  I technically put Kronos A New Dawn, but I really didn't get
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  really very far because I also got it for the Switch because I
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  want to see how it'll run. So I have to kind of pick and
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  choose Ghost of Yote. I'm in the throes of it.
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  Ghost of Yote. No, the the Kronos have you?
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  I literally only played like 5-10 minutes.
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  Yeah, it's I just can't have it. Seems like it seems like one of
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  those games that was like pretty underwhelming in terms of sales,
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  but it seems like the people that played it like really loved
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  it, like almost like a Dead Space esque kind of experience,
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  so. I'm excited I'll but I will have
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  to yeah, I'll have to report back.
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  It's too soon for me to tell, but at least want to like throw
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  that on there to be like I'm have my headset on continuing
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  it. I love Bluebird team as much as
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  I'm not. I guess I'm I shouldn't I should
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  no longer say I'm a weenie anymore because I'm playing a
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  lot more horror games. But I I've never been
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  disappointed by a Bluebird team game yet that I've played Ghost
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  of Yo Tam in the middle of playing.
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  I wrote a banter about it which who did it better.
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  I personally so far am team Ghost of Sushima over Ghost of
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  Yote. Damn yes but I still love Yote.
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  I'm not again Like it's the same thing with my Pokémon like
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  conversation. Like I don't hate ZA, I don't
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  hate Yote, but I just prefer Sushima so far.
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  Oh no. Sounds like you hate it.
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  Sounds like the internet's gonna say you if you.
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  Don't like it? Then you hate it.
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  That's how it all works. OK, so I know, I I know I'm
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  making this longer, but why Shima over?
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  Yeah, Why Shima over Yote in your opinion?
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  Primarily it's because of the theme in the story resonates
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  with me more with Tsushima. I am not a male from the samurai
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  era, but the overall conflict other than the like the main
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  Mongols are invading the fictional Japan.
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  But it is the fact that and maybe it's like my Asian
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  heritage. I fully understand the intensity
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  of which you must honor whatever tradition you have.
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  Like if you do anything outside of how you were raised, it's
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  completely unacceptable, absolutely unforgivable.
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  Like you are out of the family. So when he is faced the
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  situation where he's one of the last survivors, his uncle's
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  taken captive and he knows that if he keeps practicing fighting
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  back the way of the samurai, it's he's just not going to
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  succeed. He will fail and he has to do
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  what culturally is unacceptable by using these like ghost or
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  guerrilla warfare combat to to save Japan, which he does.
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  But in the end spoilers has to confront his uncle and then you
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  have the decision in the end blah blah blah.
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  For me, that internal conflict of do what is expected of me
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  tradition versus doing what is necessary to achieve a certain
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  end resonates more than a revenge story, which it's still
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  a good revenge story. Like seeing your family being
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  murdered and then being pinned to a tree with a sword is
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  intense. And I know I will cry and I've
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  cried and again. So it's nothing to do with me
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  saying, oh, Yote shocks. It's boring.
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  I still find it very intriguing. But between the two, like
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  revenge story or I don't know, like the the Sushima theme
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  resonates with me more. And then when we talk about
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  overall gameplay, I I noticed the differences.
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  But to me the differences aren't sufficient enough for me to be
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  like, holy shit, they just reinvented the wheel with Yote.
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  So Yote is good? Yeah, it's good.
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  Do you want? Throws more weapons in there so
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  that that at least in terms of gameplay, but there isn't a
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  whole lot of difference in the gameplay.
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  And I, I think the reason Yote resonates with me, actually,
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  it's almost the same reason why you resonate with Yoshima is
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  Atsu's story. Now, I'm not exactly seeking
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  revenge against my family, but for me, it's how, like, I feel
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  like a lot of what I am became because of, you know, a crappy
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  childhood. And the game is constantly
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  trying to challenge that by making her see and like inject
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  humanity into her again. Like people are always like kind
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  of hinting. Are you sure this is really the
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  route that you want to go? You know, there could be other
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  things like what happens once you give revenge?
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  What is your life going to be like?
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  It it it's constant. It's that challenge to change
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  her mindset. And I feel like that's kind of
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  been resonating with me, especially in these days, is
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  trying to change a mindset that has been instilled in me for a
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  very long time. OK.
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  Lauren. Do you show?
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  One of those PlayStation games that you've played or is it one
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  of those on your? It's the one of the ones.
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  It's the one of the ones I've been trying to play.
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  Like where am I at in the storyline?
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  I think I, I think, I think I'm when he was talking about Lady
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  Yatsu, like I think I was actually like getting ready to
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  finish out that, get finished out that storyline because it's
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  very intriguing to me. I like, I, I kind of like, you
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  know, like her revenge element, you know, like it's like, it's
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  basically, it's like, it's, it's basically like pushing her along
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  because it's the last thing she has at this point now, you know,
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  so it's the only thing she's got left to hold on to, you know,
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  and I don't know, I feel like there's a, there might be a
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  tragic story behind it, but I'm thinking like, you know, like I
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  haven't seen how it resolves yet because I haven't finished the
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  storyline yet, but I'm thinking it's acting like, you know, like
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  it, she's going in there like knowing that she's not going to
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  walk out with her life, but she's going to get her revenge.
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  I, I don't know though. So I have because I haven't
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  completed the scenario. You're you're referring to
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  Sushima and Lady Keshi, right? Oh, is that?
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  Is that the one? I thought I'd choose the hero of
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  Yote. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was, I'm
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  sorry. OK.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, OK. I'm, I'm, I'm so sorry.
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  That's who I was talking about, though.
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  Like in the in the original Sushima.
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  So that's that's funny. Looks like there's like a
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  parallel story that, well, I guess the hero story is
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  paralleling a side character's story from the first game.
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  OK. Well, that's a good reminder
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  though. We're on.
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  Yeah, well, it's a good reminder of of that, that story.
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  Yeah. Were we going to say something?
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  Yeah, I was just going to ask if, like, you think Sucker Punch
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  should do a third game in this series or if you think they
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  should move on to something different now that they've done
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  this twice. Well.
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  They. Could it's kind of like the
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  whole, and I'm going to use you as the example because I know
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  you couldn't get an Ogosa Sushima or you just didn't get
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  the hype because you have played Assassin's Creed and you're
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  like, you know, Sucker Punch could do a third one.
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  But they would just have to be very careful with the story they
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  choose and how they do it or else it's going to turn into
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  kind of like Assassin's Creed. How there's just kind of
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  sometimes a little bit too many and might seem like too much.
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  I do like the anthology type nature that it has, you know,
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  given that Sushima and Yote are two different time periods.
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  But I don't know, I think I will become less feverish as they
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  release more because like I said, with Yote, they changed
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  some stuff up, but it wasn't so drastic that I think it might
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  get Sammy after a while. So that's all to say is Sucker
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  Punch could do it, but they have to have another very interesting
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  character and a new theme, you know, And so far it's all been
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  in Japan, just different time periods.
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  And Yotei, they're introducing firearms at this point.
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  So like we're we're inching closer to more Modern Warfare.
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  So. Yeah I I agree with Steph in
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  this regard too. While they could go for a third
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  row or third game for their popularity, I don't know how
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  they would do it without it being almost a complete rehash
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  of something in Sushima. Like both of the games are good
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  however I would honestly like Sucker Punch to either go back
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  to a different series like Sly or infamous.
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  Or maybe like if they wanted to try and figure out a ghost is a
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  Shima route they have to try and figure out how to do it with a
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  different culture. Which means maybe change up the
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  gameplay. Like maybe they could do a spy
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  themed one or like a secret agent.
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  That way they kind of keeps up with their ghost, but you know,
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  instead of it's instead of sort of just now gunplay it it it'd
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  almost be a completely different game, but by then.
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  Yeah. What if they did a cyberpunk
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  one? Like a futuristic cyberpunk
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  samurai? That'd be cool.
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  I mean that would be I would. Love for Oh, go ahead.
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  Go ahead. No, go finish it little round.
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  I was saying I would love for them to revisit infamous, but I
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  but after playing like after playing like the well, let me
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  see, I never beat, I never beat a yeah, the third, the the one
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  on PS4 second son. So I don't know how that
• 22:58
  resolved, but the first two stories in my opinion, were
• 23:02
  golden. You know, I feel like, I feel
• 23:04
  like it closed off like the like the storyline, you know, of
• 23:07
  course I played part in the beginning of this of, of second
• 23:10
  son. So I know that, you know, it was
• 23:12
  more like a, a dormancy thing for all those powers versus
• 23:14
  like, you know, like the all the conduits got shut off, you know,
• 23:19
  but yeah, like I would say, I would say it'd be nice to see a
• 23:23
  return to that, to that, to that universe.
• 23:25
  But I also understand like if they feel like it's a little too
• 23:27
  far, too far along for that, you know?
• 23:30
  Because we're still begging, we're still begging, We're still
• 23:33
  begging, insomniac for, for freaking resistance.
• 23:38
  Yeah, I, I feel that I would like, I like how Sucker Punch
• 23:45
  approaches open world. Their open world, as I think I
• 23:48
  talked about last time, it feels more purposeful than say an
• 23:53
  Assassin's Creed open world where, yeah, it it's got, it is
• 23:58
  kind of big, but it has like, you have reasons to go to these
• 24:03
  places versus like, oh, here's a town and a map that may or may
• 24:07
  not have any relevance to the story whatsoever.
• 24:10
  You know, it, there's more cluttered, more, I guess
• 24:15
  impactful, more purposeful. The maps are designed in a way
• 24:20
  that you take a path and you can kind of traverse through it to
• 24:23
  get to your destination. It's that's what I kind of
• 24:29
  appreciate with go see yo tie versus, say a Ubisoft title
• 24:34
  right now. All right, all right, moving
• 24:40
  along. I'm sorry like this is what
• 24:41
  happens when Corey, you make me go first Silent Hill FI love
• 24:46
  this game. I love this game.
• 24:47
  I love this game. This is the first game I ever
• 24:51
  done new game plus. I've never played a new game
• 24:53
  plus before. I mean it's different, like I
• 24:56
  replay awkwarding of time because I'm nostalgic and I want
• 24:59
  to play it first time ever I immediately hit replay.
• 25:03
  I wanted another ending. Yes, it's still scary.
• 25:07
  I would say Silent Hill two remake is technically the, in my
• 25:11
  opinion scarier game, but I thoroughly enjoyed Silent Hill F
• 25:17
  so much. I love the game.
• 25:19
  I love it. I love it.
• 25:20
  I love it so. It's supposedly sold like really
• 25:25
  well. I'm glad.
• 25:28
  Better than two initially did so.
• 25:31
  I'm glad because I think the way the reviews came out, like
• 25:35
  critically, it was reviewed well, but I think the fans, it
• 25:38
  was kind of like a bit divisive, probably because fans, we, they
• 25:41
  don't know what they really want and they're probably used to the
• 25:44
  traditional Silent Hill and the setting.
• 25:46
  I don't know, but I think it. They want a remake of the Silent
• 25:50
  Hill 2 remake. Yeah, I just, there was
• 25:53
  definitely some controversy with the it's a Silent Hill game that
• 25:57
  has no reference to Silent Hill. Yeah, and I understand that.
• 26:02
  But you know what? Not that I'm a Silent Hill
• 26:05
  connoisseur, but given what I've like heard on podcasts and my
• 26:10
  research, it carries the same essence.
• 26:12
  That's that mental psychological fuckery.
• 26:16
  And maybe again, it hits me more personally as a female Asian
• 26:20
  culture. I didn't grow up in 1960s Asia,
• 26:23
  but I understood like what she kind of felt that pressure to.
• 26:29
  I was a tomboy. I preferred to play with the
• 26:32
  boys and the girls and there's like certain ways you were
• 26:35
  treated and stuff. So love that game.
• 26:40
  The next two on my list are real quick, but I want to give them
• 26:42
  shout outs because they're indie games.
• 26:44
  Pocket boss. It's great.
• 26:46
  You play as a remote worker and your boss is constantly
• 26:49
  harassing you to fix these like charts or excel files and all
• 26:55
  you do is you just like change the bar graphs.
• 26:58
  So it's like kind of like you're cheating.
• 26:59
  You're just like bullshitting your work and it's hilarious.
• 27:02
  I love it's a very quick jaunt. Very well done.
• 27:05
  It's a lot of fun. And Kari Mara beneath the for
• 27:08
  Lauren limbs. Very excellent spookyish indie
• 27:14
  game you play as like, it must be like some French folklore.
• 27:18
  You're like a gnome like creature, but you can't speak.
• 27:21
  So you need to use the power of like pictures on cards to elicit
• 27:26
  questions from characters or creatures.
• 27:28
  And you're trying to solve a mystery at the bottom of a
• 27:30
  house. And it's like kind of freaky,
• 27:34
  creepy kind of horror, but not like piss your pants horror.
• 27:39
  I think I played it in like an hour.
• 27:41
  I loved it. It was a wonderful time.
• 27:43
  I highly recommend Karimara. Oh, that's what I've been
• 27:47
  playing. And I shy save all the stuff
• 27:50
  that I bought from Limited run. If I do, I promise I'll flash
• 27:53
  them wicked quick as my I. Mean you can show them an hour
• 27:58
  when we talk about your trip to limited run.
• 28:00
  Doesn't matter. Super quick limited run 10 year
• 28:04
  anniversary shirt. Yeah, that's cool.
• 28:11
  Penny's Big Breakaway, Shante, Risky Revolution, Night in the
• 28:18
  Woods, Persona 3 on the Switch. The Lollipop Chainsaw Re Pop.
• 28:26
  Nine years of Shadows Switch. Pentamist Switch 4 in one.
• 28:33
  Award-winning games on Switch, in Stars in a Time because I
• 28:39
  couldn't get it on Switch. Risk of Rain because I couldn't
• 28:44
  get it on Switch. Jesus like a Mary Poppins bag.
• 28:48
  This one's for Pat, but I'm still showing it off.
• 28:50
  I got him a like a collector's edition of the house in Is it
• 28:55
  Fatah or Feta Morgana? It's not a Magana.
• 28:58
  Thank you. So there's that funny story
• 29:01
  about that, Pat. Is everyone like freaked out
• 29:03
  when I, I pulled it, brought it to the register like, oh, we hit
• 29:06
  it and we were like betting how long it would take for someone
• 29:09
  to buy it. Castlevania Dominus collection
• 29:13
  on the switch, Shantae and the Seven sirens because I couldn't
• 29:16
  find on the switch. Dr. Ester because I couldn't
• 29:18
  find it on the switch. Pans are paladin on Xbox.
• 29:22
  I'll explain why it's on Xbox. Limited runs Doom 1 and Doom 2
• 29:27
  on this thing for the switch. A limited run 10th anniversary
• 29:32
  hat and I got my RZ. Jewels are far more autographed
• 29:37
  and then I have a pin somewhere. Jeez. 8 of these games were free
• 29:45
  and I'll get into that. Let me discuss my experience.
• 29:50
  Free is good. Free is good.
• 29:52
  All right. I'm done.
• 29:53
  I'm finally done. Sorry.
• 29:55
  Ah. You know what, Let's keep this
• 29:58
  ball rolling. Pat, what are you playing?
• 30:01
  I have been playing power wash simulator.
• 30:03
  Of course you have. Are you, are you surprised?
• 30:06
  You, you warned, you warned us. You you warned us that that was
• 30:10
  going to be the thing. I mean, I, I've also been doing
• 30:13
  my best to make sure that I'm not completely like, I'm trying
• 30:18
  to space it out a little bit and try and play some other things.
• 30:22
  But I, I think I got at least 15 to 20 hours in Power Wash
• 30:25
  simulator too. And already it's, it's, it's
• 30:29
  what I want. It's it's got all the good stuff
• 30:33
  of Power Wash Simulator and then they have improved things more
• 30:37
  by adding like more equipment. So now you have, I don't know
• 30:43
  what it's called, but it's like this lift that it attaches to
• 30:48
  like a, it's almost like one of those hanging lifts that you see
• 30:51
  on like buildings for like window washers, except for it's
• 30:56
  not that big and it's more like a swing.
• 31:00
  You have some you have, I think it's like a sailing or something
• 31:03
  is what it's called. But I forget.
• 31:05
  I don't know if that's the technical, the technical term.
• 31:09
  You also have a power lift now, which is kind of cool.
• 31:14
  Like the, the advantage of the power lift is that you don't
• 31:17
  have any like bars in your way when you can shoot and you can
• 31:21
  shoot in like all angles versus the scaffolding.
• 31:24
  But they've also massively improved the scaffolding too.
• 31:27
  So they have ladders on the side the scaffolding, so you can just
• 31:31
  climb up the ladders instead of you going around this like
• 31:34
  staircase to get to your top. And then they have new nozzles.
• 31:43
  They have an adjustable nozzle now that can like you can change
• 31:47
  like how big your stream is instead of switching between one
• 31:52
  of the four other nozzles. And they also have this like
• 31:56
  power, like a surface cleaner, which looks which looks kind of
• 32:00
  like it's like a circular disk. And it just like cleans up a big
• 32:06
  area as long as the area is flat.
• 32:08
  And it's been a godsend whenever I have to clean floors in the
• 32:12
  game. And then just like the movement
• 32:17
  is so much better. It the one thing that threw me
• 32:19
  off was that they changed up the control scheme in the game so I
• 32:24
  constantly was having my memory like click a button and now it
• 32:27
  does something completely different.
• 32:31
  But I also feel like this control control scheme is
• 32:34
  better. There's a lot more quick
• 32:37
  shortcut buttons instead of having to hold something and get
• 32:42
  a radial dial to choose your like equipment.
• 32:45
  There's a lot more like push up arrow will change your what
• 32:51
  nozzle that you have or if you pushed in your directional pads.
• 32:55
  If you push left or right you can change the different.
• 33:01
  Well if it depending on whether or not you have the adjustable
• 33:04
  nozzle or the just the regular ones that you can change, it
• 33:09
  would change the size of your nozzles.
• 33:12
  Triangle changes what gun you're actually using, down arrow
• 33:18
  changes the attachment for distance.
• 33:20
  It's like it's a lot easier to just kind of cycle through now
• 33:25
  rather than going into a menu and changing things physically
• 33:28
  that way. What else is really cool about
• 33:32
  this game? Gosh, are there like the the
• 33:38
  missions are definitely like I there's some really tall things
• 33:43
  that I've had to clean. I've had to clean a rock
• 33:45
  climbing park just recently. So it it it's a lot it they they
• 33:52
  you take a lot more opportunities to use the new
• 33:55
  tools. You have a base that you can now
• 34:00
  that you can now kind of like customize.
• 34:04
  And the cool thing about that is that as you get new furniture,
• 34:07
  you have to clean the furniture before you can actually place
• 34:11
  it. So it's like a little a little
• 34:13
  game in the game. And then they're cats that you
• 34:18
  can pet. But the animation kind of sucks
• 34:20
  I thought. You're going to power wash the
• 34:22
  cats, not like to. Do.
• 34:23
  That. The game will purposely lock the
• 34:28
  the power wash before it can like hit a cat.
• 34:31
  So you tried to you tried to spray a Kitty.
• 34:35
  You know what? I.
• 34:37
  I just wanted to see. What the I love?
• 34:39
  I was like, you know what? I love how I love how you
• 34:42
  started off. You know what?
• 34:44
  Yeah, it's the same. It's the same.
• 34:46
  Theory as when I why I test for fall damage and fire damage,
• 34:49
  it's like to see if what the developers actually did with it.
• 34:55
  It's got a. It's got.
• 34:56
  A good story going on with it. It is a continuation of the
• 34:59
  story from the first one and you do have returning characters
• 35:03
  texting you and they have great personalities and they had this
• 35:09
  like little. Communal like.
• 35:10
  Chat that you know a bunch of people start chatting on and
• 35:13
  like giving off different theories about the plots that's
• 35:16
  going on in the game and it's just been over all like I I.
• 35:22
  Love this game. It's a great game.
• 35:26
  I need more power wash simulator as.
• 35:28
  Soon as I'm done with it like I need.
• 35:31
  All the DL. CS I need to power wash
• 35:34
  simulator. 3. They announced 3 to start off.
• 35:39
  Like I imagine if this is anything like Power Wash
• 35:41
  Simulator 1, it's probably going to have two to three years worth
• 35:47
  of DLC while they're making Power Wash Simulator later 3.
• 35:52
  And it's going to be a mixture of both the paid and the free
• 35:55
  DLCS as well. And I they probably will have
• 35:59
  like holiday packs in there as well, kind of like what they
• 36:02
  did. I I imagine it's exactly the
• 36:04
  same game plan as they had last time.
• 36:09
  But yes, power wash. Simulator is freaking amazing.
• 36:13
  Play power wash simulator. Play power wash simulator too.
• 36:16
  Like these are the perfect Zen games.
• 36:19
  You can just completely get yourself lost and just cleaning
• 36:22
  things. And then I also picked.
• 36:26
  Up a switch there a game called Corpse Party because I saw a
• 36:32
  news article referring to AI guess a collector's pack that
• 36:37
  might have gotten cancelled for American shipping.
• 36:40
  So I wanted to see what this game is about.
• 36:42
  This is a This is a game about the high school students who are
• 36:47
  trapped in a haunted elementary school.
• 36:50
  And it is a horror game, very 16 bit pixel RPG style graphics,
• 37:01
  but it's a it's it's it's gory. There are some there's some
• 37:08
  creepy things going on in this school and it's it's good for
• 37:13
  this poopy season. Nice.
• 37:17
  Nice. Yeah, Yeah, this is I, I.
• 37:25
  Love the games that kind of focus on like Japanese horror.
• 37:29
  So hearing about this game and finding out it's like a haunted
• 37:34
  school where it's like a bunch of like elementary school
• 37:38
  students were like killed in a very.
• 37:41
  Brutal way. And that curse kind of rising up
• 37:44
  and now you're trying, you're trapped in trapped in it, and
• 37:48
  you're trying to figure out how to get out along with like it's
• 37:52
  like a group of nine people that get trapped.
• 37:55
  So the game kind of takes focus on different stories and your
• 37:59
  actions can lead you to a false ending, in which case you would
• 38:03
  then reboot your last save point and you know, try and like do
• 38:08
  something a little different. Or you can use a walkthrough and
• 38:10
  try and collect all the endings yourself.
• 38:13
  Usually the false endings results in some members of your
• 38:17
  care or some members of your party dying in gruesome ways,
• 38:21
  and then the correct ending leads you to the next chapter,
• 38:24
  which it almost treats itself like an episodic game.
• 38:27
  Each chapter kind of is its own, like little contained story, but
• 38:30
  it also continues on from the prior one.
• 38:34
  But it has. Like its own save.
• 38:36
  System. So I guess that way if you want
• 38:39
  to find something that was in a particular chapter, you don't
• 38:43
  necessarily have to like worry about.
• 38:47
  Not. Having it saved because each
• 38:49
  chapter is individually contained.
• 38:52
  It's unique, but. It's not bad.
• 38:58
  I like Jeff and then I built. Yep.
• 39:02
  And then I built the My Game Boy.
• 39:04
  Lego set because I love that set.
• 39:06
  Did you? Like it?
• 39:08
  I did. It's a.
• 39:09
  It's a. Very pretty set.
• 39:12
  I like the unique pieces to it, and I just kind of like how
• 39:16
  authentic it sucks to the Nintendo Game Boy.
• 39:22
  It was a lot of fun. It does look.
• 39:23
  Very authentic, and I honestly think it's a great price point.
• 39:26
  Like I think this is like in a sense like an ideal Nintendo
• 39:30
  type of a set. It's great.
• 39:33
  How much is it? Like 70. 60 I thought it was 60.
• 39:38
  $60.00 Yeah. Yeah.
• 39:41
  It. Took about.
• 39:43
  Two hours to. Build.
• 39:45
  It's not a super huge set, but it it the way it's built is
• 39:49
  pretty fun. Cool.
• 39:53
  Thought. About getting it.
• 39:54
  Maybe I will. You should I.
• 39:57
  Personally think it's worth. It.
• 40:00
  Maybe I will. You know what else?
• 40:03
  Is worth it. La Ron, la Ron, your games are.
• 40:07
  Worth it? What do you?
• 40:08
  Plan. I'm playing.
• 40:10
  I'm playing the same stuff I was playing.
• 40:11
  Last week. So so fall fancy tactics, the
• 40:13
  evil E Chronicles. Of course I am.
• 40:16
  I am almost I'm almost where I want to be as far as like my my
• 40:19
  character's job placements and stuff as I get into the later
• 40:22
  chapters into the later battles in chapter 2.
• 40:25
  Yes, I'm still in chapter 2. Honestly, the honestly, the
• 40:29
  beginning of chapter 2, in my opinion, it has some of has some
• 40:32
  of the has some of the best battles, especially as far as
• 40:35
  repetitive battles that you can do, you know, to actually like
• 40:37
  level up your characters and stuff like that.
• 40:40
  Like I, I've got for a few of my characters, I've got practically
• 40:45
  all the all the, the the swordsman or melee class jobs
• 40:48
  open. And for other characters, I've
• 40:51
  got basically all the magic using stuff open for the jobs
• 40:55
  and stuff like that. So now I'm getting ready to not
• 40:58
  so much min Max, but now I'm getting to the point where, you
• 41:00
  know, like I can kit out some of my characters and just make them
• 41:03
  like, you know, like ultimate ultimate characters, you know,
• 41:06
  to get me through chapters 2 and three.
• 41:08
  Because you know, for anyone who doesn't know, like, you know,
• 41:11
  you're going to start getting named characters that join your
• 41:13
  team. And when I say named characters,
• 41:15
  I mean people characters who are actually part of the storyline.
• 41:18
  So like that, So you know, like take advantage of the.
• 41:22
  Characters that you've been. Using in the beginning, because
• 41:24
  like, unfortunately, by the time you get to like the waning
• 41:27
  chapters of the winning battles of the winning missions in
• 41:31
  Chapter 4, which is the final chapter of the game, you're
• 41:34
  going to have to start parting ways of some of those
• 41:35
  characters. So get the most fun out and
• 41:37
  enjoyment out of the characters that you've been building up in
• 41:40
  all this time. Because trust me, the characters
• 41:42
  that come in that you're going to want to have are, are just as
• 41:45
  fun, if not more delightful to play with.
• 41:47
  So yeah, that's, that's that Tekken 8, you know, still still
• 41:52
  playing along with that Stephanie, I've hit a plateau
• 41:57
  with. Victor.
• 41:58
  So I'm I am. Getting ready to move on to a.
• 42:01
  Different character I've made, I've made the Tekken Emperor,
• 42:03
  which is the highest ranking that I've ever made in any of
• 42:06
  the of the rank of the of the Tekken games since they started
• 42:09
  the ranked combat, online combat for La Ron, Yeah.
• 42:13
  Tekken Emperor. I mean I.
• 42:14
  Mean next. Is next.
• 42:15
  Next is Tekken God, then then Tekken second God, then I think
• 42:20
  it's. I think it's one more for God.
• 42:23
  Yeah, there's one more after God and there's God of destruction.
• 42:25
  So basically they're like, OK, we're we no longer have like
• 42:28
  ranks that we can that we can use based off of like, you know,
• 42:31
  Japanese mythology and stuff like that.
• 42:33
  So now they're just going Dragon Ball Z with God's destruction.
• 42:37
  So what do you? Think will be our next.
• 42:39
  Character then actually, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
• 42:42
  Go, I'm gonna go back to one of my one of my original
• 42:44
  characters. I'm, I'm, I'm debating whether
• 42:47
  it's gonna be Oskar Kazama, Oscar Kazama, Anna Williams or
• 42:52
  or armor King because armor King just released at with this, with
• 42:56
  this latest update. Armor King is fun.
• 43:00
  Well, armor King was always has always been fun for me.
• 43:02
  I feel like he's, he's, he's not as he's not as like like like
• 43:07
  like move set heavy as like King is, for example, like King has
• 43:11
  like King has like so, so many like like multi throws and all
• 43:15
  this stuff that's like, Jesus Christ, dude.
• 43:17
  Like, like, like you don't know which way is up sometimes
• 43:19
  fighting this guy. And we're armor King.
• 43:21
  Armor King's much more simplified, but he's also got
• 43:23
  his own like diversity and you know, like uniqueness to like
• 43:26
  his move set and stuff like that.
• 43:27
  And I've always like armor King. Armor King's just a He's a
• 43:30
  bully. He's just.
• 43:33
  He's just a bully and I like it. Yeah.
• 43:35
  So yeah, that's that's it. I did start labbing.
• 43:39
  I did start labbing Oscar Kazama because like Oscar was has been
• 43:42
  my main since she since she arrived in Tekken 5.
• 43:45
  And I noticed I was like I was playing.
• 43:48
  Her, I was playing her hardcore. In Tekken 7 and she.
• 43:54
  She's a different character. Now like she's more, she's more
• 43:56
  technical execution heavy and stuff like that.
• 43:58
  And I was like, man, like I'm getting old because like I'm
• 44:01
  having a hard time doing the execution part of like the combo
• 44:04
  generation and stuff like that. I'm getting old.
• 44:07
  Like these games are starting to wear me out.
• 44:11
  Yeah, so that's all. That's all I've been playing.
• 44:13
  I didn't pick up, I didn't pick up anything new.
• 44:15
  So nothing to report on that. I did finish the entire, the
• 44:18
  entire season of NCIS, Tony and Ziva.
• 44:22
  That was a that was a good, that was a good show, especially if
• 44:26
  you're NCIS fans, especially if you're, you're fans of like the
• 44:30
  old school team that consisted of Gibbs, Tony, Zeva, McGee and
• 44:35
  all that stuff. You know, like this was a great,
• 44:39
  this was a great like one shot. I'm not sure if they're going to
• 44:42
  renew it for a second season like this.
• 44:45
  Like the show kind of like is, is open and shut as far as like
• 44:48
  the storyline goes. It was a great season, like 10
• 44:51
  episodes. Yeah, I basically watched it,
• 44:53
  watched it all in the week and, and it was, it was a fun, nice
• 44:57
  little show. And it definitely, if you, if
• 44:59
  you have any investment on those characters, Tony and Ziva
• 45:02
  specifically, like you're gonna, you're gonna love seeing like
• 45:05
  the growth that's gone through with both these characters since
• 45:08
  they both exited the NTIS series 'cause I think NTIS is on like
• 45:11
  season 23 now or something like that.
• 45:13
  I'm, I'm not sure. I kind of, I kind of bowed out
• 45:16
  as like some of the more established characters started
• 45:18
  leaving the show and so like that.
• 45:19
  So you know, like so I don't know what NCIS is doing right
• 45:22
  now, but all I know is NCIS, Tony and Ziva it it hit all the
• 45:26
  buttons for me. Nice.
• 45:29
  Yeah, and that's it for me. Nice.
• 45:32
  Well, now that they've left us, Laron, they don't.
• 45:37
  They don't care what I have to say about plants versus zombies.
• 45:41
  Yeah. I've been.
• 45:44
  So. Last night I.
• 45:46
  Finally have I was. Finally, like caught up to a
• 45:48
  point where I like, I felt like I could stop doing things and
• 45:52
  just kind of hang out for a little bit.
• 45:57
  So I was watching the Monday Night Football game, which was
• 46:02
  not very good. Did you did you walk away?
• 46:06
  Did. You walk away.
• 46:06
  Aggravated. No, I don't.
• 46:09
  I just like to watch the game. I don't really care about the
• 46:12
  teams who are playing. It was it was the Washington
• 46:16
  Commanders and the Kansas City Chiefs last night.
• 46:18
  So, but I was like, you know what, I'm going to I'm going to
• 46:22
  put on the football game. I'm going to lay here on the
• 46:24
  couch. I'm going to play some Plants
• 46:27
  versus Zombies. Dude, the football game is over.
• 46:31
  I was like, you know what, I'm going to play a little bit more.
• 46:34
  So I was like, I'll turn, I'll turn on a movie.
• 46:36
  So I was scrolling through Netflix and I was like, man,
• 46:39
  that new ninja. Turtles movie is on.
• 46:41
  Here, maybe I'll watch that. So I threw it on I.
• 46:45
  Kept playing Plants versus Zombies.
• 46:46
  And I played from like 9:30 until like 2:00 AM jeez.
• 46:53
  I was like, dude, I. Love Plants versus Zombies.
• 46:56
  And I'm like, I don't know what anybody's talking about because
• 46:58
  they everybody's like, oh, it's so broken.
• 46:59
  It's bit you can't play it. I'm like, I don't know, seem
• 47:03
  fine to me for 5 1/2 hours. I don't know, maybe you guys are
• 47:06
  just playing it wrong. Maybe I'll suck it wrong.
• 47:12
  Oh my gosh, it's so good though. Like the strategy you need for
• 47:15
  that game is so like. You know every level you unlock.
• 47:20
  A different plant. And at some point you unlock so
• 47:23
  many plants that you have to like start picking and choosing
• 47:25
  which ones you take into each level.
• 47:27
  And you have to like, kind of decide if you want to be
• 47:31
  offensive or defensive or kind of like, you know.
• 47:35
  Kind of risk. A lot of, you know, risk things
• 47:40
  to to kind of capitalize on other things.
• 47:42
  And so like, I don't know, it's just so good.
• 47:45
  Like I talk about we, we talk about, you know, how crappy
• 47:51
  mobile games have gotten over the last, you know, decade and
• 47:56
  1/2 or so. But like man, this just reminds.
• 47:59
  Me when like. Mobile games were amazing, like
• 48:01
  it was like Angry Birds this and like Threes.
• 48:06
  And. Bejeweled and like you know,
• 48:09
  probably a few others at this point, but.
• 48:14
  Yeah, Plants versus Zombies. I can't recommend it enough.
• 48:17
  It's like in in terms. Of like favorite.
• 48:20
  Games of all time, It's up there for me.
• 48:22
  It's like, it's interesting. It's like, it's like.
• 48:26
  It's. Really up there with like Tetris
• 48:28
  and like, you know, a couple of these other fun puzzle games.
• 48:33
  That are just. Amazing.
• 48:36
  I can't recommend it enough. No, it's just power.
• 48:39
  Defense like they're. You're playing since exactly
• 48:42
  like defending something. Right.
• 48:44
  Yeah. So basically.
• 48:45
  The main mechanic is like you have to like fend off the
• 48:51
  zombies from like they enter like basically at the beginning,
• 48:55
  they give you a house and a yard and at the, and like you have to
• 48:58
  fend off the zombies from the edge of your yard from getting
• 49:02
  to your house, right? That's kind of the goal.
• 49:05
  And and there's like a meter at the bottom that fills up and
• 49:08
  once the meter is full, you move on to the next level or next
• 49:11
  round or whatever. There are safeties, so.
• 49:15
  Like if a zombie. Makes it to the end to your
• 49:18
  house. There's like lawn mowers at that
• 49:21
  you can use to like run them over, but you only get one per
• 49:25
  row and you have 5 rows to place plants.
• 49:29
  So like there's 5 lawn mowers that you can kind of use as
• 49:32
  safety Nets, but like. One of the mechanics is like, Oh
• 49:38
  well. You can either plant these
• 49:40
  flowers, the sunflowers, or these mushrooms to gain
• 49:45
  sunshine's essentially and like they spit out like. 1520. 5 or
• 49:51
  50 sunshines and like you know like the the main kind of
• 49:56
  shooter plant is like 100 sunshines right So like overtime
• 50:01
  they'll just keep spitting them out and spitting them out and so
• 50:03
  like you the the goal is to like.
• 50:06
  Manage those and. Be like, OK, well, if I save up
• 50:09
  to 200, I can get the double shooter plant or if I get 175, I
• 50:13
  can get the big purple plant that like eats a zombie, but
• 50:16
  will also be vulnerable while eating a zombie.
• 50:19
  Or, you know, there there's these little like coconut
• 50:23
  looking things that are I guess they kind of just be rocks, I
• 50:27
  guess, But like they act as like walls and the zombies will like
• 50:31
  try to tear tear it down, but you place it and it's like, OK,
• 50:34
  well, I can place this here and I can place shooter here, right.
• 50:39
  And then, you know, then the different zombies have
• 50:41
  different, have different, you know, attachments to them that
• 50:46
  you have to use different plants to attack them.
• 50:48
  So the zombie that's holding like the screen door, right?
• 50:54
  OK, well, regular pellet shooter won't hurt them, but there's a
• 50:58
  there's a mushroom that you can plant that sprays this gas that
• 51:02
  will kill it and it goes through the screen door, right?
• 51:05
  So there's different mechanics. Like that?
• 51:10
  And then eventually you get like this really, really tiny, weak
• 51:13
  peashooter that doesn't cost any any sunshines, but like one or
• 51:20
  two hits and it's done right. But it's more of like a I'm in a
• 51:24
  pinch. I really need to play something
• 51:25
  here and I don't have enough sunshine.
• 51:26
  So I'm just going to place this here while I wait sort of thing.
• 51:32
  But it. It's it's.
• 51:33
  Really. Really.
• 51:34
  Fun and then like you get a shovel that you can like dig up
• 51:38
  plants if you're like Oh well there's these zombies coming you
• 51:41
  can kind of like see which zombies are coming and I don't
• 51:45
  have the. Right plants.
• 51:46
  And my row is full so I can dig one up and place a different 1
• 51:50
  here. And then there's like cherry
• 51:53
  bombs which has like a three square radius that you can blow
• 51:57
  up multiple zombies at the same time.
• 52:01
  It's so fun. I I love it.
• 52:02
  So much it's 20 bucks. Well worth it in my.
• 52:06
  Opinion. It's a perfect Switch or Steam
• 52:08
  Deck game. Might have to check it out I've.
• 52:14
  Never actually played Plants versus Zombie games, it's so
• 52:17
  good. It's so good.
• 52:20
  I. It's like I said, it's like up
• 52:23
  there is one of my favorite puzzle games with Tetris and and
• 52:25
  Angry Birds. Like it's so good.
• 52:30
  That's kind of all I've been. Playing I just was like I had I
• 52:34
  had to play it because I bought it and I was had time last night
• 52:37
  and then I spent too much time playing it, but worth it I'm.
• 52:43
  Actually, probably going to play.
• 52:44
  A little bit when we're done. Recording.
• 52:49
  And then there's like. Like there's like an adventure
• 52:52
  mode, like a story mode that you go through and Crazy Dave is
• 52:55
  like your crazy neighbor that gives you stuff and you can buy
• 52:57
  stuff off of him to like upgrade your upgrade.
• 53:01
  Stuff. But then there's like a
• 53:04
  challenge mode where they have different challenges for you to
• 53:07
  do that makes it, you know, just an added thing.
• 53:12
  I'm sure on PlayStation and Xbox you use that to get achievements
• 53:15
  and and trophies and stuff. But I'm not dealing.
• 53:19
  With that playing on. Switch so and like I said, I
• 53:25
  watched, I sort of watched the that new Ninja Turtles.
• 53:29
  Movie. It was OK, it was good.
• 53:34
  I got a question. I got a question for you.
• 53:35
  Wait, yeah, Corey, you don't. Well, you have a Switch, so
• 53:41
  technically that's that that is a handheld.
• 53:43
  Do you? Are you one of those people
• 53:44
  that, you know, like you like you have a handheld device like,
• 53:48
  you know, gaming and there's something on the background like
• 53:51
  like TV? Are you 10?
• 53:52
  Are you one of those zero people?
• 53:53
  How about you, Pat and Stephanie?
• 53:54
  How about how about you guys? No, I will still want to.
• 53:57
  Be fully immersed in my game, even if I'm handheld.
• 54:00
  OK. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:02
  I'm I'm one of those people. Like I have something in the
• 54:04
  background. It depends on what the game is
• 54:06
  though. Right.
• 54:06
  Like Plants versus Zombies. I don't need to like hear it or
• 54:09
  listen to it or like, yeah, I need to pay attention to it, but
• 54:12
  I don't really need to pay attention to it.
• 54:14
  And if it's something that I need to like, really pay
• 54:17
  attention to, like a story game, I'm playing it on the TV.
• 54:20
  So yeah, I. Just listen to the soundtracks
• 54:24
  too, though that's just me. A weird thing that I like and I.
• 54:29
  Think for me it's. If there's something on the TV,
• 54:32
  it's on the TV because I want to pay attention to it.
• 54:35
  So it's the opposite where I feel like if I was playing a
• 54:39
  game, then you know, I wouldn't be able to pay attention to
• 54:44
  what's on the TV. And we talked about this, I
• 54:46
  think again last week. I read subtitles to listen to
• 54:50
  what I'm hearing. Otherwise I'm not hearing it.
• 54:55
  That's fair. Which is very.
• 54:56
  Weird, I don't get it. Like yes, I can hear the word
• 54:59
  just fine, but I hear it when I actually read it.
• 55:05
  I don't know. How else to describe it well and
• 55:12
  otherwise I'm? Questioning whether or not I
• 55:13
  heard it. Correctly.
• 55:16
  Yeah, that's fair. All right.
• 55:21
  Well, now that we've gone through all that you can.
• 55:25
  Check out the very. First episode of the Boss Rush
• 55:28
  games cast very soon. I remember you get it a week
• 55:32
  early on Patreon if you are a paid subscriber.
• 55:38
  Stephanie, you did something. Really.
• 55:41
  Cool this weekend. As you showed us a little bit
• 55:45
  ago, but you actually. Went to.
• 55:48
  The 10th anniversary event. For a limited run, I sure did.
• 55:54
  And you wrote a bunch of. Articles on the website about
• 55:56
  it. I sure did.
• 56:01
  You wanna? You wanna?
• 56:02
  You wanna share your? Experience, yeah.
• 56:06
  Yeah, I I sure do. I.
• 56:09
  I definitely thought I was. Done with events for the year,
• 56:13
  primarily due to financial reasons, but I figured this was
• 56:17
  a quick plane ride away and I wanted to work on our
• 56:23
  relationship with Limited Run and learn more about them
• 56:28
  because I've heard many negative things about them, but I also
• 56:33
  hear really positive things about them.
• 56:35
  Like they're one of the aspects in the gaming industry where I
• 56:38
  feel people are extremely like on one end of the spectrum about
• 56:43
  how they are liked or disliked. I don't know what, I just
• 56:46
  thought it'd be cool. I wanted to do something to
• 56:49
  further my journalism career at Bossrush, so flew down Friday.
• 56:55
  The 10th anniversary was Saturday and it started at 10.
• 57:01
  I got there and there were people that have been waiting in
• 57:04
  line since Thursday. And here I am like, oh, I'll
• 57:08
  just. Get there at 9:30 and I'll, I'll
• 57:10
  be in line because I did ask like, should I be in line or
• 57:15
  not? And what I really loved about
• 57:17
  working with the marketing person was like, well, we want,
• 57:22
  we want everything to be fair. So, you know, you do your media
• 57:26
  thing. If you are doing your work, you
• 57:29
  can come in and out of the store anytime you please bypass the
• 57:32
  line. But if and when you want to buy
• 57:34
  something, you know, maybe do it after all that, send me a list
• 57:39
  of games. I'll see what's available.
• 57:41
  But we got to give people who've been waiting in line a fair
• 57:43
  shot. And I really appreciated that
• 57:45
  integrity. And I just want to throw that
• 57:47
  out there as kudos to them. But yeah, people have been
• 57:51
  waiting like overnight more than one night.
• 57:55
  It was a very long line. Pat, did you?
• 57:58
  Were were you with Story when he went to Limited Run?
• 58:02
  OK, I have to. I think I was.
• 58:05
  I think I was out. Of town for that I remember he
• 58:09
  said that there was a. Line too.
• 58:10
  I just, I guess I underestimated it, but it was cool.
• 58:13
  I decided to like go and harass some people in the line and ask
• 58:16
  them, you know, Hey, what, what are you excited for?
• 58:21
  Do you know a lot about limited run?
• 58:23
  You know, I asked him a bunch of questions.
• 58:24
  I got answers, like all over the place.
• 58:29
  I also asked them, what's your preferred platform for
• 58:32
  physicals? 100% of the time it was Nintendo
• 58:36
  Switch 100% of the time. And you know, it was #2 this
• 58:40
  shouldn't be hard, PlayStation. And.
• 58:43
  Every single. Time it's sorry, Xbox is last,
• 58:46
  Xbox last, Xbox last. I'm like, oh gosh, like, but
• 58:51
  well, it's because they don't care about.
• 58:52
  Physical. Like Xbox doesn't care about
• 58:54
  physical. That's the Oh yeah, I know.
• 58:56
  That's not as surprising. And I guess the Nintendo thing
• 58:59
  doesn't surprise me, but it's very validating to hear from
• 59:01
  people they're like, this is a, this is a real thing like
• 59:05
  Nintendo, you know, Anyway, so they, they, I will also give
• 59:09
  limited run credit. They are very organized.
• 59:12
  They had a line wrapping around the complex down the stairs and
• 59:16
  they let people in and out without it overcrowding because
• 59:19
  the store proper is kind of small.
• 59:22
  And before they let gamers in, there is that blockbuster
• 59:28
  popcorn smell that I enjoy dearly.
• 59:31
  It's great. It's the stores awash in pink
• 59:33
  neon. To the left.
• 59:35
  There are even a section of collectors cards.
• 59:38
  Then there are the books. I wish I had all the money in
• 59:42
  the world so I would have bought a ton of books.
• 59:44
  They had like a book on the help me brain fart.
• 59:49
  Nintendo's gonna come out with a their own version of it and they
• 59:52
  only published like 30 games. The thing?
• 59:56
  The thing what was? Announced from the game they had
• 59:58
  Virtual Boy, then a book on the Virtual Boy.
• 1:00:01
  I was lost. See.
• 1:00:03
  This thing. I'm sorry.
• 1:00:04
  Brain fart. Nintendo's publishing a book.
• 1:00:07
  No, no, no and like. Just.
• 1:00:11
  You know and. You know, NES works and there's
• 1:00:13
  a book on NES endings and then there's.
• 1:00:17
  I got that one. Yes, that.
• 1:00:19
  That looked really. Good, forgot to get one signed
• 1:00:22
  by Jeremy Parrish. I was so pissed.
• 1:00:25
  Then there's Switch, Playstations in the middle and
• 1:00:28
  then Xbox and then I didn't know, but it was partially a
• 1:00:31
  used store, like used game store.
• 1:00:33
  So there's also just various Wii, Wii U games, Genesis games,
• 1:00:38
  like really old school games that are just there.
• 1:00:40
  So overall kind of relatively small set up in the back of the
• 1:00:43
  store. They have the physical vault.
• 1:00:47
  Josh. The president made sure that
• 1:00:50
  there was at least one of every single numbered limited run game
• 1:00:55
  in that vault. He even said because they don't
• 1:00:58
  reprint, despite what people think, he went on eBay for the
• 1:01:02
  games that he could. He didn't have like that, just
• 1:01:06
  the little bits that he didn't have left.
• 1:01:07
  And he actually bought the games off of eBay so we could stock
• 1:01:11
  it, which I again, like, I know people have their thoughts
• 1:01:13
  about, but I just thought it was cool for the event.
• 1:01:15
  I thought that was awesome. That's quite a.
• 1:01:18
  Gesture. Honestly, it was to do that.
• 1:01:22
  And. It's.
• 1:01:24
  Every $250 you spend, you get a ticket into the vault, which at
• 1:01:27
  first you're like well man, that's a lot of money.
• 1:01:29
  But as you know, if you go to shop at Limited Run or any, if
• 1:01:31
  you're a physical collector and you're going into a store to buy
• 1:01:33
  physical stuff, that's like 3 collector's edition.
• 1:01:36
  I was going to say like like 2. Tickets.
• 1:01:38
  Pretty quickly and. What happens is the ticket, you
• 1:01:42
  go in and you get 60 seconds and it's all randomized.
• 1:01:47
  It's not in numerical order, it's not on platform order.
• 1:01:50
  It's just everywhere. And they had like Switched
• 1:01:55
  PlayStation, Xbox, they even had PS Vita games or like published
• 1:02:00
  on the Vita. Think there was like a Genesis
• 1:02:03
  game, a game that they published for the Genesis on it there.
• 1:02:09
  It was so cool. I didn't get to enter the vault
• 1:02:10
  till the end, which I'll just skip to that now.
• 1:02:13
  So they lowered the threshold toward the end as well.
• 1:02:16
  So out of all that I got, I was able to get 8 tickets.
• 1:02:21
  I split it up into two sessions. So I go in and I'm trying to
• 1:02:25
  skim all the switches because I just want the Switch
• 1:02:28
  collections. But by the end of the day, the
• 1:02:29
  Switch collections were pretty depleted.
• 1:02:32
  So that's why, for example, I got like the Xbox copy of I
• 1:02:37
  already forgot already, but because I just wanted that game
• 1:02:40
  and I can only find the Xbox physical.
• 1:02:45
  But man, what a rush. The guys like listen, you have
• 1:02:48
  60 seconds. I recommend just grabbing a
• 1:02:51
  bunch of shit because when the 60 seconds up you can like
• 1:02:54
  choose to put back stuff. So I think that was incredibly
• 1:02:59
  fun creative idea. As far as?
• 1:03:02
  Special guests. There were a lot there.
• 1:03:07
  I interviewed Jeremy Parrish who is in charge of the press run
• 1:03:11
  books line and he also helps create a lot of the pack in
• 1:03:14
  content. So for the Contra Galuga, he
• 1:03:20
  helped create a lot of the stuff that's in there, the art books
• 1:03:24
  and guides, the strategy guides for Tomba and he's going to be
• 1:03:26
  working on Tomba too. So if you get collector's
• 1:03:30
  editions of some limited run physicals and you see the
• 1:03:33
  packing content, he might have been responsible for some of
• 1:03:36
  that retro wear was there and then a couple of other.
• 1:03:45
  Special guests. Like one of them was like an
• 1:03:48
  illustrator for the Pokémon comics.
• 1:03:51
  And then goodness help me out. Shoot, there was another.
• 1:03:59
  Oh yeah, Yuzo Koshiro and then Mitsuhiro Arita, which is cool.
• 1:04:04
  I got to like rub shoulders with them.
• 1:04:06
  I didn't have time to like get to interview.
• 1:04:09
  Them because they were very. Busy, but they were there and
• 1:04:13
  then I got to interviewed the head, the president of Limited
• 1:04:17
  Run himself and I observed. Him.
• 1:04:22
  Throughout the event, because I don't know, usually when I think
• 1:04:27
  of a president of a company, I'm like, they might not be in the
• 1:04:31
  weeds as much. I don't expect them to.
• 1:04:34
  But he was there the whole time. He was engaging with all the
• 1:04:36
  customers. If someone's like oh man, I
• 1:04:39
  can't seem to find X game, he will go in the backroom and see
• 1:04:43
  if there's any left. You know he will go out of his
• 1:04:46
  way to try and find what exactly what they're looking for.
• 1:04:51
  If it's something that would have gone to the vault, he'd go
• 1:04:53
  in and like hide the game in the vault and mix stuff up and then
• 1:04:56
  send the person to go in and try and find the game.
• 1:05:01
  I interviewed him. Seemed pretty down to earth.
• 1:05:03
  I got to talk to him about like, can you explain, please explain
• 1:05:06
  the Embracer thing because a lot of people kind of didn't like
• 1:05:09
  the fact that, you know, Embracer had acquired them.
• 1:05:12
  If you want to know more details, please check out my
• 1:05:15
  interview on bossrush.net just because I don't want to put
• 1:05:18
  everyone to sleep here unless you want to know more about it.
• 1:05:21
  But overall it just seemed like a very down to earth person
• 1:05:27
  they, you know, really truly valuing, you know, creativity
• 1:05:31
  and just, you know, physical media.
• 1:05:33
  The Co workers are awesome. I don't go on all over the place
• 1:05:37
  by now, but overall the event I believe was a success.
• 1:05:42
  It was well organized. It was a lot of fun.
• 1:05:45
  The customers seem to have a good time.
• 1:05:46
  The Co workers had a great time. The special guests were
• 1:05:49
  wonderful. And now they're going to have
• 1:05:54
  limited run three LRG 3 tomorrow with some important game
• 1:06:00
  announcements, which I don't know yet myself, but I'm very
• 1:06:02
  excited. Would they have the Grandia
• 1:06:08
  collection? At 1:00.
• 1:06:11
  Point I mean. Maybe.
• 1:06:12
  Maybe at the beginning? It is very possible, but by the
• 1:06:15
  time I got around to asking it wasn't there.
• 1:06:21
  Yeah, I might just have to cave. In and buy one for 130 bucks or
• 1:06:26
  you? Can or I could go You can wait
• 1:06:31
  till. Another event.
• 1:06:33
  And then I could try get it again, but they don't know when
• 1:06:35
  they're gonna do something like this again.
• 1:06:37
  You can wait for their 20. Year anniversary dude.
• 1:06:40
  This switch, the 20 year. The switch.
• 1:06:42
  Stuff went. Quick, that's why when I showed
• 1:06:44
  you like in stars in time, I was eyeballing them, but you know, I
• 1:06:46
  was on my best behavior. You know, I'm going to honor
• 1:06:48
  like, hey, don't go pocketing stuff yourself later on with
• 1:06:51
  work. So I I did and I missed out a
• 1:06:53
  lot of switch physicals, but that's OK.
• 1:06:56
  I'm still very happy with what I have.
• 1:06:58
  I'm very grateful for the opportunity and like I said, I
• 1:07:02
  got to understand their business better.
• 1:07:05
  I understand that their production time is pretty long,
• 1:07:10
  given what I've learned about their workings with Embracer.
• 1:07:14
  They have improved their warehouse.
• 1:07:17
  They did say that their warehouse was one of their pain
• 1:07:20
  points. Like fully acknowledge that
• 1:07:24
  Embracer has helped them cut down warehouse times by like, I
• 1:07:29
  think three to six months. And and this is yeah, and this
• 1:07:33
  is personal. OK.
• 1:07:34
  So like personal opinion, I shouldn't say personal that when
• 1:07:38
  I look at a couple of other physical site, like physical
• 1:07:42
  collector edition sites, not all of them, but one of them I'm
• 1:07:46
  ordering like a special Allen week physical like kind of like
• 1:07:50
  a book or something. I won't see that till next year
• 1:07:54
  and I prepaid for it. So maybe I'm used to it.
• 1:07:57
  I'm used to this long turn around time.
• 1:07:59
  And I'm not saying that's how it should be or is acceptable.
• 1:08:04
  I'm sure there are people who have ordered something and it
• 1:08:06
  should have come in and didn't come yet.
• 1:08:08
  That wasn't my experience. But I don't know.
• 1:08:12
  I just, I've come to understand the company a lot more.
• 1:08:15
  And again, check out out my interview boss rush.net.
• 1:08:19
  I don't know. And like I said, I just, I'm,
• 1:08:21
  I'm, I'm glad they're here, but I also hope that there are a lot
• 1:08:23
  more people that come to appreciate physical media in
• 1:08:27
  general. Cool, I.
• 1:08:34
  I'm glad. That it turned out to be a.
• 1:08:36
  A good experience. I was sometimes like, sometimes
• 1:08:40
  you get. There and there's like a ton of
• 1:08:41
  people. There and you're like, I don't
• 1:08:43
  know. And it's like a small space and
• 1:08:45
  you know what I mean? Like, I don't know, I was kind
• 1:08:48
  of like, I hope it's OK. But it seems like.
• 1:08:51
  It turned out OK and better than OK actually they let me use the
• 1:08:55
  employee. Backroom because I couldn't
• 1:08:57
  handle being, you know, me, I'm an introvert.
• 1:09:00
  Like that drains my social battery like crazy.
• 1:09:02
  So like, I would go out, do my pictures, talk to some people,
• 1:09:05
  hide in the employee backroom, come back out, hide in the
• 1:09:09
  backroom. So, you know, I don't know if
• 1:09:12
  they'd really listen to, but shout out to Jeremy, shout out.
• 1:09:16
  Oh, there's two Jeremy's. Shout out to Josh.
• 1:09:19
  Shout out to every single one of those employees.
• 1:09:22
  I had so many awesome conversations about video games
• 1:09:25
  with those people. They were so welcoming, so kind,
• 1:09:29
  so much fun. So shout out to everyone that I
• 1:09:32
  met and spoke to at the Limited Run 10th Anniversary event.
• 1:09:38
  That's cool, hopefully. We'll, I mean, it sounds like,
• 1:09:42
  you know, they are good people at least and like, you know.
• 1:09:49
  Regardless of what? People say including me at at
• 1:09:52
  points, like it seems like the, the people there are good and
• 1:09:57
  that's, you know, kind of the main thing, especially at these
• 1:10:00
  types of things, it's important to have.
• 1:10:03
  Constructive criticism, and that's what Jeremy Campbell, I
• 1:10:06
  believe his name is, had told me.
• 1:10:08
  He actually pulled me aside before I really went to work.
• 1:10:11
  And he says try and get a lot of feedback from the crowd.
• 1:10:14
  Don't hold back. If there's something they have
• 1:10:16
  something to complain about, come tell me.
• 1:10:18
  Like just tell me everything. The good, the bad, whatever they
• 1:10:22
  have to say. Feedback.
• 1:10:24
  We need to know so we can be better.
• 1:10:26
  And again, while they're not a perfect company, I think that
• 1:10:30
  shows a lot of integrity that the intent to be better is
• 1:10:33
  there. No.
• 1:10:37
  I I think. Like.
• 1:10:39
  Like you mentioned, like even with the whole embrace are in
• 1:10:41
  trying they they understand that their production time is not the
• 1:10:46
  greatest and that they are constantly trying to improve
• 1:10:49
  that. I know the switch to situation
• 1:10:52
  with the game cards hasn't been exactly helpful for them too,
• 1:10:56
  which is you know why. I definitely appreciate when you
• 1:10:58
  got that article out and even though got a lot of shit from
• 1:11:03
  the randos on the Internet like it it's it's still very
• 1:11:07
  informative to know exactly what limited runs policy was that
• 1:11:10
  whenever they will release a numbered game for the switch to
• 1:11:14
  it will always be on a physical card.
• 1:11:20
  Yeah, I think that's that's. Important too, so we'll see.
• 1:11:26
  Thank you for letting. Me talk about it, guys.
• 1:11:28
  It was definitely a very memorable experience.
• 1:11:32
  Your interview is great. Yeah.
• 1:11:36
  Yeah. It was a great interview.
• 1:11:39
  Yeah, I wish I could have gone too.
• 1:11:42
  I just. Life.
• 1:11:45
  Yeah, way to let me down. Corey.
• 1:11:47
  Gosh, I know, I know. Kidding.
• 1:11:50
  And. You know what?
• 1:11:50
  I. I thought I.
• 1:11:51
  Had way less PTO than I do and now I'm wondering how.
• 1:11:57
  Shoot I need to use this up before I lose it, which is
• 1:12:01
  weird. That never happens.
• 1:12:04
  Never. Happens, he says.
• 1:12:07
  Never happens. You know what else never
• 1:12:09
  happens? Segway.
• 1:12:13
  Xbox. Games on PlayStation, except,
• 1:12:17
  except now. They are that never.
• 1:12:19
  Happens. No, I just before we get to add
• 1:12:25
  a boy and get it together, I kind of want to talk about this
• 1:12:28
  weird. Like, I mean, I guess it's not
• 1:12:31
  weird because they've been heading in this direction for a
• 1:12:35
  long. Time at this point, but.
• 1:12:36
  Like Halo? Campaign.
• 1:12:39
  Evolved, the remake of the first game, is coming day and date to
• 1:12:43
  PlayStation, as well as Xbox and PC, and it's.
• 1:12:50
  Just kind of crazy like this was.
• 1:12:52
  To me, like, OK, yeah, Gears Reloaded was like, OK, day and
• 1:12:56
  date. It's a remaster.
• 1:12:59
  This game's been on Xbox for, you know, five years at this
• 1:13:02
  point. Six years or whatever, right?
• 1:13:05
  Longer than that. At this point, you're starting
• 1:13:07
  to put games. Over here I'm.
• 1:13:09
  Like OK, the real test is like when the next Halo game comes
• 1:13:13
  out will it be exclusive? Will it be a time exclusive or
• 1:13:17
  will it be multi platform day and date?
• 1:13:20
  Turns out, right now what? Will it be well?
• 1:13:25
  They already announced it's day and.
• 1:13:27
  Date. OK, well.
• 1:13:30
  I guess we don't need to. Pull anymore.
• 1:13:34
  Yeah. So Halo.
• 1:13:36
  Campaign Evolved is a full on Unreal Engine 5 remake of the
• 1:13:39
  first game Campaign only. They are fixing the.
• 1:13:46
  Thank God, they're fixing the library, and they're adding
• 1:13:48
  three new levels to the game with a.
• 1:13:53
  Re recorded. Dialogue from the first game.
• 1:14:00
  Original cast is returning which is cool.
• 1:14:03
  Steve Downs. Getting up there though.
• 1:14:05
  Can't imagine he's going to be playing Master Chief too much
• 1:14:07
  longer. He's like, he's like, almost. 80
• 1:14:12
  years old. 70 years 7577 years old so.
• 1:14:19
  Crazy though. I mean, obviously there's also
• 1:14:24
  another story here that like Xbox's next console is going to
• 1:14:27
  be the console PC hybrid. So like they are very clearly
• 1:14:30
  just this is the the console. PC.
• 1:14:33
  Hybrid. Is this the console?
• 1:14:35
  Or just. A PCI thought the Series X was
• 1:14:38
  was, was. Console, PC, hybrid.
• 1:14:40
  What's going on? No, this is going to.
• 1:14:42
  Add no Adelaide Series X was a console.
• 1:14:45
  PC, handheld, hybrid. What's going on?
• 1:14:50
  I mean. Well.
• 1:14:53
  Let's let's talk about. Halo first, though, like you
• 1:14:55
  guys feel about Halo being on PlayStation?
• 1:14:57
  Like, is that weird? Like as somebody who played who
• 1:15:02
  just Halo is Xbox, like Xbox wouldn't exist without Halo, you
• 1:15:06
  know what I mean? Like, yeah, it is a bit jarring.
• 1:15:10
  I'm just going to quickly go first because I might have the
• 1:15:11
  least experience, but I will say just even the most basic level
• 1:15:16
  of understanding that people might have is associating like
• 1:15:20
  Xbox Halo. Like if I say a word, you say
• 1:15:22
  the first word that comes to mind usually, you know, So for
• 1:15:25
  me it's Xbox Halo. So it's all I had to do a double
• 1:15:29
  take when I saw that announcement come out.
• 1:15:32
  I personally, I mean, I'm all about Access and I think that's
• 1:15:36
  cool. Obviously you see a bunch of
• 1:15:38
  people having fits online about it but I don't care about how
• 1:15:42
  they feel but but it is a a weird thing to get used to
• 1:15:46
  seeing. Yeah, it was weird when.
• 1:15:52
  Gears came over, but like that they had already had Gears, the
• 1:15:57
  Gears trilogy running on PlayStation 3 at one point
• 1:16:00
  before Microsoft just totally bought it outright.
• 1:16:04
  So like, wasn't that it wasn't that weird, but like seeing
• 1:16:09
  Halo. With.
• 1:16:10
  PlayStation button prompts and the Xbox people wearing
• 1:16:13
  PlayStation shirts at Halo Championship series and like.
• 1:16:19
  I don't know man, it's weird. I mean, I don't again, like if
• 1:16:23
  this is the direction Xbox is going, that's fine.
• 1:16:26
  It's, it's just like, it's just, it's all it's.
• 1:16:30
  It's just. About as jarring as the first
• 1:16:32
  time I saw Sonic the Hedgehog on Nintendo console.
• 1:16:34
  Right? Like when when Sonic.
• 1:16:37
  Adventure 2 came. To GameCube.
• 1:16:39
  It was like, Oh my God, what is happening?
• 1:16:40
  This is weird. This is so weird.
• 1:16:42
  Oh yeah. It's like saying Oh my.
• 1:16:44
  Gosh, the. Next Legend of Zelda game is
• 1:16:46
  going to be available on Xbox and PlayStation.
• 1:16:48
  It's a little like mind fuck. Oh my gosh, it wouldn't be a bad
• 1:16:52
  thing. But you.
• 1:16:54
  God. Wow, that would never happen.
• 1:16:58
  Yeah. Nintendo's too stubborn.
• 1:17:02
  But just what they're doing. It's just kind of.
• 1:17:07
  Like. I, I I just I wonder.
• 1:17:11
  What their strategy is going to be now, though, because like, if
• 1:17:14
  they're remaking this game. Are they going to go?
• 1:17:18
  Straight into like Halo 7 and skip all the games in between
• 1:17:21
  because like, we know Halo 7's in development too.
• 1:17:26
  With Unreal. Engine and like this is this was
• 1:17:29
  the big question with gears is like are they going to go
• 1:17:31
  straight to E day or are they going to put out the rest of the
• 1:17:33
  games first like you know. It's it's.
• 1:17:38
  It's weird. I don't know.
• 1:17:41
  I just. It's just weird seeing.
• 1:17:45
  Xbox prompts on on a Halo game or PlayStation prompts on a on a
• 1:17:49
  Halo game. It's just strange.
• 1:17:52
  But I just I didn't know if you guys thought that was crazy to
• 1:17:54
  see or not. Maybe I'm just too it it really.
• 1:17:59
  Just kind of says. The end of a Xbox era, I mean at
• 1:18:05
  this point. Like, really?
• 1:18:06
  What I guess what is Microsoft? Are they just now that they say
• 1:18:12
  they're making a console? But why?
• 1:18:17
  Why do you what's scare be so special about their console if
• 1:18:20
  their goal is to get all their games and even X their Game Pass
• 1:18:25
  on everything? Yeah, I mean, that's that's the
• 1:18:28
  thing. Right is like why would you buy
• 1:18:30
  an Xbox unless you're a game pass subscriber?
• 1:18:32
  That's literally the only reason to own one now right?
• 1:18:34
  Like I. I don't know it's.
• 1:18:38
  It's weird. And Satya Nadella came out today
• 1:18:40
  and said that like, Xbox isn't competing with PlayStation, it's
• 1:18:43
  competing for your time, for things like Instagram and
• 1:18:46
  TikTok. And it's like not.
• 1:18:50
  So. Xbox.
• 1:18:51
  Is a social media platform now they tried.
• 1:18:54
  That's weird, I don't know if you remember.
• 1:18:56
  That they. Did try that.
• 1:18:57
  With clubs and. Social space and.
• 1:19:00
  All that stuff super quick because I miss being.
• 1:19:02
  On the pod for a few. I do like seeing what did anyone
• 1:19:04
  here? Get an Xbox.
• 1:19:06
  Raw galley. I did not.
• 1:19:12
  Nope. Too expensive?
• 1:19:15
  Not. As powerful as I wanted to be.
• 1:19:19
  Still struggles with major games.
• 1:19:23
  I'm just, I don't. Really care about it at this
• 1:19:27
  point, it's too expensive like I just.
• 1:19:32
  I can't. Justify it especially like.
• 1:19:36
  Especially with Xbox going in the direction.
• 1:19:37
  That they're going. I just can't justify it, you
• 1:19:40
  know? I've had a hard time even
• 1:19:44
  turning. My Xbox on recently lately
• 1:19:46
  because I'm just like I don't know man this is I just don't
• 1:19:49
  want to invest anymore until I really.
• 1:19:52
  Know what's going? On here, you know like it's just
• 1:19:59
  AI don't know. Yeah no mines.
• 1:20:01
  I was trying. To sell it.
• 1:20:02
  I still haven't sold it and it's sitting in its box.
• 1:20:06
  Now I have. Panzer Paladin or whatever, you
• 1:20:10
  have a game to play on it now. I.
• 1:20:14
  Do I mean you could just leave it sealed and.
• 1:20:16
  Play it on Switch or Steam Deck where it's like $3 all the time.
• 1:20:22
  Problem. But yeah, I yeah, Xbox.
• 1:20:29
  Speaking Speaking of their next console, Microsoft's next Gen.
• 1:20:34
  Xbox aims to merge. Console and PC gaming into one
• 1:20:37
  unified open ecosystem, which we kind of have been debating
• 1:20:42
  whether or not that was going to happen.
• 1:20:43
  And they claim that you're going to be able to play your entire
• 1:20:48
  Xbox library on this console slash PC hybrid.
• 1:20:52
  It's also going to run Windows 11 and have stores like Steam,
• 1:20:56
  Epic, and Battle.net on it, so it's kind of like having a
• 1:21:00
  gaming PC. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:21:05
  And it's like, you know. I don't know, like I have an
• 1:21:08
  Xbox app. Thing on this.
• 1:21:10
  Laptop that I never use. I have a Steam app on this
• 1:21:13
  laptop that I use. I don't know.
• 1:21:16
  Yeah, it's just like I, I don't know how they're going.
• 1:21:19
  To like pull this. Off La Ron.
• 1:21:20
  You're the tech guy. How are they pulling this off?
• 1:21:22
  How they doing this? Yeah, he thinks.
• 1:21:29
  I don't know. First of all, like.
• 1:21:31
  Like I haven't even done the. Research on this cause like,
• 1:21:35
  like I, I guarantee you they're being really dicey about it.
• 1:21:39
  I'm pretty sure they're, I'm pretty sure there's some type of
• 1:21:41
  agreement going on with AMD. We just don't know what
• 1:21:44
  architecture is going to have. Like, you know, the amount of
• 1:21:46
  VRAM, what not. You know, if we if we base
• 1:21:48
  anything off of like the the the Asus ROG, Asus ROG Xbox ally,
• 1:21:54
  Jesus Christ, I'm so tired. I'm so tired of these naming
• 1:21:59
  schemes. Every I don't know Xbox is the
• 1:22:02
  best namer they need. To be better, be better,
• 1:22:06
  Nintendo. Nintendo needs to be better
• 1:22:08
  Xbox. Needs to be better.
• 1:22:10
  Only people who's getting it right is Sony and unless it's a
• 1:22:13
  handheld, the only people are getting it right.
• 1:22:15
  You know what's wrong with the Switch too?
• 1:22:20
  There's nothing wrong with the switch.
• 1:22:21
  There's. Nothing on the switch too.
• 1:22:22
  Honestly, there's nothing on. The switch there's a new.
• 1:22:24
  Super switch. I I really I really.
• 1:22:27
  Wish, I really wish it would have called the switcheroo.
• 1:22:29
  But you know, that's, that's they could have called it the
• 1:22:32
  the Wii U, they could have called it the Nintendo.
• 1:22:35
  Snap. God.
• 1:22:37
  That, yeah, but. But but yeah, but basically I,
• 1:22:39
  I, you. Know like the?
• 1:22:41
  Yeah, but but Microsoft takes the cake with it, with the
• 1:22:43
  naming system and you know, like they're being so they're being
• 1:22:46
  so dodgy about this stuff. But we know, we know they're
• 1:22:48
  going to be in bed with AMD because NVIDIA doesn't want it.
• 1:22:51
  NVIDIA does not want to do anything with hardware.
• 1:22:54
  You know, the only thing, only thing NVIDIA really wants to do
• 1:22:56
  hardware nowadays is just graphics cards.
• 1:22:58
  And those graphics cards, you know, they, they all have ends
• 1:23:01
  to a means. It's all it's all too perfect
• 1:23:03
  AI, you know, like, yeah, like we can game on them and
• 1:23:06
  everything, but yeah, like they're these graphics cards now
• 1:23:09
  are by by by NVIDIA are just to help get AI to where they want
• 1:23:15
  to be. Thanks, Jensen Wong.
• 1:23:16
  Yeah, but yeah, like I don't I don't know.
• 1:23:21
  And the and the release is what for next year or 20 or 2727?
• 1:23:26
  OK, so I mean, you know, like we know for sure NVIDIA is going to
• 1:23:29
  have some some fresh. I'm sorry, AMD is going to have
• 1:23:31
  some fresh new hotness with their chips or what not, But I
• 1:23:36
  will also say this, you know, like if they're building it, if
• 1:23:39
  they're building it with as a, as APC gaming system in mind,
• 1:23:43
  like, yeah, we're we're expecting something high end.
• 1:23:45
  So you guys thought the ROG Ally, the Xbox ROG Ally was was
• 1:23:49
  expensive. Like get ready.
• 1:23:51
  This is going to be about as expensive as a gaming PC anyway.
• 1:23:56
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:23:58
  Essentially, you're paying for. A gaming PC.
• 1:24:00
  That also can. Play your Xbox games,
• 1:24:02
  essentially is what this is going to be, Yeah.
• 1:24:05
  Which I mean, which I mean, for all intents and purposes, APC.
• 1:24:08
  Right now can play all your damn Xbox games.
• 1:24:12
  Not your 360, your original Xbox games.
• 1:24:14
  True. But I mean, but I mean not
• 1:24:16
  honesty. The only, the only, the only
• 1:24:18
  thing that's holding. That back is Microsoft
• 1:24:19
  themselves. Microsoft and Xbox are holding
• 1:24:21
  holding that back like we could have been playing 360 games, you
• 1:24:24
  know, on on PC. Oh, it's it's actually the
• 1:24:27
  licensing for 3rd party games is what's holding it back.
• 1:24:30
  Oh. I mean, if we're going to, if
• 1:24:31
  we're going to quibble semantics here, then yeah, I'm going to
• 1:24:33
  say like, but that's. Such a small slice of the pie.
• 1:24:35
  I don't know if the three. 60 games are worth the the dollar
• 1:24:40
  price tag because at this point in 2027, La Ron, you might
• 1:24:43
  finally see me with a the gaming PC because for me, I would have
• 1:24:46
  way more value that yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I agree.
• 1:24:53
  As the resident PC guy here for boss rush, I agree everyone
• 1:24:57
  should have. You don't even have to have like
• 1:24:59
  the best gaming PC, but you know a mid range gaming PC will take
• 1:25:03
  you far. You know we'll take you far.
• 1:25:06
  We'll enhance your experiences and all and all.
• 1:25:08
  This. Stuff and and you can actually
• 1:25:10
  get your games much cheaper. And I'm not talking about
• 1:25:12
  pirating video games either. You can get your games much,
• 1:25:15
  much cheaper because like all these marketplaces on the PC
• 1:25:18
  side have phenomenal freaking sales.
• 1:25:20
  Like shit like, you know, like like if you missed it, if you
• 1:25:23
  missed it, see if stars drop, see if stars drop below 20 bucks
• 1:25:27
  for for a weekend on one storefronts, you know, not
• 1:25:30
  saying the game was not saying the game was super expensive to
• 1:25:32
  begin with, but most people were holding back, you know, not
• 1:25:35
  spending $40 on on one on a game of the year contender, you know,
• 1:25:41
  Yep, like, yeah, if they're. If, if if this is going to be.
• 1:25:45
  A PC. APC console hybrid, you know
• 1:25:49
  like there are there are definitely some perks, but
• 1:25:52
  there's also definitely some there's some pros and some cons
• 1:25:54
  let's just put it that way you know like I I got to see what
• 1:25:57
  the hardware I got to see what the hardware's pushing because
• 1:25:59
  like the the the Xbox ROG ally left me disappointed, especially
• 1:26:03
  for the price price tag yeah it's just especially if like all
• 1:26:08
  those features are already. Coming to the one that you
• 1:26:10
  already have. Right, because you have the X.
• 1:26:12
  So that's like what's that the the X somewhere between the Xbox
• 1:26:18
  Ally and the Xbox Ally X, right? It's kind of like sits in the
• 1:26:21
  middle of those, right, If I'm not mistaken.
• 1:26:25
  Yeah, it sits in, It sits in the middle.
• 1:26:27
  But the but the funny part? Is like the funny part.
• 1:26:29
  Is if, if, if this is the X, if this is the the the wrong the
• 1:26:35
  Xbox ally X and this is the Xbox ally If we if we put where the
• 1:26:41
  if we put where the where the aces wrong ally is at.
• 1:26:45
  It's basically right about here and it's $200 cheaper.
• 1:26:52
  Yep. Well.
• 1:26:56
  Yeah, I mean, I was, I was disappointed like I was, I was
• 1:26:58
  going to be a day one. Adapt adapter.
• 1:27:01
  You know of the of the of the Asus Xbox ROG Allyx, you know,
• 1:27:05
  but but this is not this is this is not this is more of a a.
• 1:27:11
  Hard a hardware refresh. And not even a not even a, a new
• 1:27:14
  generation, you know. So why are we?
• 1:27:17
  Why are we playing games? I mean, I mean, I mean not why
• 1:27:21
  we the gamers. Are playing games.
• 1:27:22
  Why are Why? Are the manufacturers playing
• 1:27:24
  games right? Yeah, yeah, I need more.
• 1:27:29
  I need more news. About about the specs of like
• 1:27:31
  this. Thing, you know, like, of course
• 1:27:33
  Microsoft's going to do what they always do.
• 1:27:35
  They're going to, they're going to like wait to like leak out,
• 1:27:38
  trickle out this news to the last possible minute, you know,
• 1:27:41
  you know, build up some type of interest and then, you know,
• 1:27:43
  like have that interest so, so flowing that people are going to
• 1:27:47
  are going to be like, oh, well, I don't want to lose.
• 1:27:49
  I don't want to like not pick it up because I might miss
• 1:27:51
  something. Yeah.
• 1:27:52
  And then they might miss everything because they did pick
• 1:27:55
  it up. Yeah.
• 1:27:58
  Well, you know. You know, for.
• 1:28:01
  For. I'm not going to.
• 1:28:04
  I'm not going. To mince words here.
• 1:28:05
  Like, you know. Like like it was always.
• 1:28:07
  It was always PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox in my pecking
• 1:28:10
  order back when I was a console gamer.
• 1:28:12
  And then it became then it became PlayStation, PC and then
• 1:28:15
  Nintendo, you know, in my gaming order as I as I evolved as a, as
• 1:28:19
  a, as a gamer and a tech person. And now it's, he's better than
• 1:28:23
  all those console gamers. And now it's and now.
• 1:28:26
  It's and now it's. Now it's PC.
• 1:28:29
  And probably hard stop because. Because the only reason why my?
• 1:28:33
  PS-5 even got to work out is because my little brother came,
• 1:28:35
  came, came home from overseas and I, I loaned it to him for a
• 1:28:38
  month Oh wow, yeah, I loaned it to him for a month you know so.
• 1:28:43
  Because. Because he.
• 1:28:44
  Had he? Had nothing to do, you know, I
• 1:28:46
  was like, I was like, I was like, you know, I tried to sell
• 1:28:49
  you my rock my my old rock Ally, but this thing is no longer my
• 1:28:53
  old rog Ally is no longer for sale like.
• 1:28:56
  Like there's. Value in the fact that you know,
• 1:28:58
  like I have the original ROG Ally Yeah, so so yeah, I mean
• 1:29:03
  so. We just got to see what we just
• 1:29:05
  got to see. What this thing is, what this
• 1:29:07
  thing is about like I guarantee you like this is going to be
• 1:29:09
  definitely more powerful and more and much more flashier than
• 1:29:13
  the Xbox ROG Ally X. You know, it is, you know yeah
• 1:29:17
  'cause AM DS gonna have some some new Zen architecture in it,
• 1:29:20
  you know, which is based off of based off of like Ryzen CPUs
• 1:29:24
  that actually go in like actual computers and stuff like that.
• 1:29:27
  But, you know, we, we still, we still gotta see, you know, Yeah.
• 1:29:33
  Feels like. Feels like we're getting fleeced
• 1:29:35
  and I and I. Definitely feel for, I
• 1:29:38
  definitely feel for, I definitely feel for all the
• 1:29:40
  Xbox, the Xbox fanboys out there.
• 1:29:41
  I do. And I'm saying I'm saying
• 1:29:43
  fanboys. I'm saying fanboys not in a in a
• 1:29:45
  in a demeaning way either. You know, I I understand, you
• 1:29:48
  know, GameStop came out and said the console war is over.
• 1:29:51
  You know what, that whole like whatever this shit was going on
• 1:29:53
  with the Master Chief, GameStop and the White House thing, you
• 1:29:56
  know, you know, yeah, the console war is over because like
• 1:30:02
  Microsoft and Xbox kind of like just rolled over, showed their.
• 1:30:05
  Belly and didn't even think. The way of the white flag.
• 1:30:09
  Yeah, they they sure. I don't know man, it just.
• 1:30:16
  I think they're using the white flag to wipe their tears.
• 1:30:18
  I think that's what it is. I don't know, I think they're
• 1:30:22
  wiping something. Else off their face they're.
• 1:30:26
  Using the the white flag to Polish the door.
• 1:30:29
  Handle to give Phil Spencer the boot.
• 1:30:31
  When the next? Console comes I, I, I'm I'm
• 1:30:35
  sorry. I'm sorry, I guarantee the
• 1:30:38
  comment train when when this when this when this video goes
• 1:30:40
  live on VOD. It's going to be like Lauren's
• 1:30:42
  being mean to Microsoft and Xbox.
• 1:30:44
  You know, I I don't know, but I mean, but I mean mean to
• 1:30:47
  everything I've. Actually been very.
• 1:30:53
  I've actually been very good tonight.
• 1:30:55
  I've been very. Good.
• 1:31:01
  Well, shall we get into? Get it together and.
• 1:31:05
  Attaboy and then we can get on out of here.
• 1:31:07
  Sounds good. Get on out of here, Laron, I'm
• 1:31:11
  going your. Way first.
• 1:31:13
  OK. You know what?
• 1:31:14
  I. I do not have a get together for
• 1:31:17
  tonight. Like it's I, I don't.
• 1:31:20
  I I don't like, there's nothing. OK.
• 1:31:22
  So for the last two months in a row, like I've had I've, you
• 1:31:26
  know, Xbox has been my punching bag and and I literally said
• 1:31:31
  this before we rolled, we rolled the recording on on tonight's
• 1:31:34
  show, you know, the stream that you know, like, man, like we
• 1:31:36
  just got, I just got through like, like lambasting them, you
• 1:31:40
  know, last month and not even three days later they're like,
• 1:31:44
  hold our beer, you know, so no, I'm not going to I'm not going
• 1:31:47
  to do it. I'm not going to do it, not
• 1:31:48
  tonight. I'm hanging free to you.
• 1:31:51
  Exactly, exactly. I mean, there's other there's.
• 1:31:53
  Other things going on, I mean like.
• 1:31:55
  Like, shit, Amazon just laid off.
• 1:31:56
  Like, like how many people you know?
• 1:31:59
  14,000 people, yeah, you know. I'm I'm.
• 1:32:05
  I'm I'm not, I'm not participating get.
• 1:32:07
  Together tonight, but I am. Going to give an attaboy to my
• 1:32:09
  boy Shuhe Yoshida that man that dude is living his best life and
• 1:32:13
  he's talking about everything we always wanted to freaking no I
• 1:32:17
  mean every time this guy every time this guy you know does he
• 1:32:20
  needs to do a freaking he needs to write a book and do a book
• 1:32:22
  tour at this point, you know I I mean because like every
• 1:32:26
  interview always comes out with something with something new
• 1:32:29
  something juicy and something that you know lets us know that
• 1:32:33
  you know hey, you know this man must not sign any NDA's on his
• 1:32:37
  way out the door or something because.
• 1:32:38
  My God. Like he's, he's telling, he's
• 1:32:40
  telling all the state secrets for Sony.
• 1:32:42
  Not all of his like, putting Sony in a bad light either,
• 1:32:45
  which is the crazy part, you know?
• 1:32:47
  But the stuff he is saying is the stuff that we want to hear
• 1:32:51
  from, from from people in the industry who make these
• 1:32:54
  influential decisions, who are doing things to help enrich our
• 1:32:57
  lives as gamers and stuff like that.
• 1:32:59
  And it is amazing. Like I, I wonder what makes
• 1:33:03
  Shuhei so special, you know? I.
• 1:33:06
  Don't mean that. I don't mean that saying the
• 1:33:07
  man's not special, but what's making him so special that that
• 1:33:11
  that none of the ninjas and Sony have run, have run and shut him
• 1:33:14
  up. You know what I mean?
• 1:33:16
  He's got dirt on the mall. He's like he's got dirt on the
• 1:33:19
  mall it. Almost makes me wonder.
• 1:33:21
  It almost makes me wonders. Jim Ryan going to start.
• 1:33:23
  Saying some stuff. Like, I would love to hear from
• 1:33:25
  that dude because. Because Jack Tretton, Jack
• 1:33:28
  Tretton also did a tour where he started telling, telling stuff
• 1:33:31
  and, you know, like, oh, we understood.
• 1:33:32
  Like, dude, you really were hamstrung by the powers of be at
• 1:33:35
  Sony. You know, we understand because,
• 1:33:36
  you know, like, it seemed like all Jack Tretton was was a
• 1:33:39
  mouthpiece when he was with Sony.
• 1:33:41
  But I tell you what it's like as soon as he became a free agent,
• 1:33:44
  man, like that week he was on that, that weekend he was on
• 1:33:47
  Keely's. I think it was one of Keely's
• 1:33:49
  first summer game shows and stuff like that.
• 1:33:51
  Man, that guy had a lot to say. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:33:56
  So I mean. Yeah, Come on.
• 1:33:58
  Yeah. I.
• 1:33:58
  Don't know if you read Reggie's book or not?
• 1:34:00
  Reggie Fizeme's book or Not, but.
• 1:34:01
  He says he has a lot of stories in there too.
• 1:34:03
  Nothing, nothing. Reggie's also another cool one
• 1:34:06
  too. I'm not I'm not.
• 1:34:07
  I'm not going to discount them either.
• 1:34:09
  No, I know I'm just nothing like Shoehay's been talking about on
• 1:34:11
  like podcasts and and. And stuff.
• 1:34:13
  But like, Reggie's got some stuff in there that like yo,
• 1:34:16
  like yo shoot Shuhei's, Shuhei's fire.
• 1:34:21
  About the industry is. Almost is almost.
• 1:34:23
  Is almost parallel to Hodeo Kojima's fire when like, you
• 1:34:27
  know, like he was separated from from Konami, like man like, like
• 1:34:32
  and you know, and you know, Shuhei just Shuhei just retired.
• 1:34:35
  It wasn't like he was asked to step down.
• 1:34:37
  It wasn't like he was forced out or whatnot.
• 1:34:39
  You know, he just, he just retired.
• 1:34:40
  Just like who's gonna get up and claimed his award for, you know?
• 1:34:46
  What? He won, Yeah, but like who's the
• 1:34:50
  who's the other guy? The.
• 1:34:52
  The, the guy from the from PlayStation Europe, who I, I'm
• 1:34:55
  forgetting his name because he's also had like some, some very
• 1:34:58
  interesting stuff to say since he left.
• 1:35:01
  The name's escaping me, man. But yeah, like, like Attaboy
• 1:35:06
  shoe. Hey, like keep, keep giving us
• 1:35:08
  these tidbits, these this, this insider look into the into the
• 1:35:11
  industry, you know, because in all honesty, it's fascinating.
• 1:35:15
  We want to hear about it. We want to hear about the the
• 1:35:18
  bad as much as we want to hear about the good and all the in
• 1:35:20
  betweens and all this stuff, You know, like, you know,
• 1:35:23
  unfortunately, you know, like, like there must be, there must
• 1:35:26
  be a blood packed for everybody over at Microsoft.
• 1:35:28
  Because like the couple of people, the couple of people who
• 1:35:31
  have tried to say something about, you know, about what was
• 1:35:33
  going on at Microsoft, They they had, they had to have all the
• 1:35:37
  outlets say, hey, like we want to talk about this anonymously,
• 1:35:40
  you know, and stuff like that. And you know, that's how, you
• 1:35:42
  know, some bad shit's going on, you know, but we want to hear
• 1:35:45
  about this stuff. And you know, like, so, so this
• 1:35:48
  is an Addy boy to shoe. Hey, but this is also an Addy
• 1:35:49
  boy to basically, I'm just going to call him the, the, the
• 1:35:52
  insider, the insider whistleblowers.
• 1:35:53
  That's what I'm going to call it Addy boy, Addy boy to all those
• 1:35:56
  people, you know, because we get on this podcast show every week
• 1:35:59
  and, and I feel like, I feel like the going theme for like, I
• 1:36:02
  feel like the going theme since February of this year for the
• 1:36:05
  bossers podcast has been what the fuck is everybody doing?
• 1:36:08
  You know, like layoffs. Wild.
• 1:36:13
  That's wild. That's acquisitions.
• 1:36:14
  And mergers you. Know like like.
• 1:36:16
  Like Studio. Closings, you know, and I say
• 1:36:17
  studio Closings because some studios closed, but there were
• 1:36:20
  no layoffs. You know, they just got folded
• 1:36:22
  into other, other places of companies and stuff like that,
• 1:36:24
  you know, like, like Rust releases, botched console,
• 1:36:28
  botched console launches, things that things of that nature.
• 1:36:31
  Like AIAI is like usurping like our gaming space and stuff like
• 1:36:34
  that. You know, and then we've got and
• 1:36:36
  then we've got all the stuff going on and it's, and it's
• 1:36:39
  always great to hear like, hey, This is why this stuff is going
• 1:36:42
  on. This is what this is what we
• 1:36:43
  were able to do as, you know, execs in the industry.
• 1:36:46
  And what we could not do as execs in the industry is because
• 1:36:48
  we had to answer to hire people and stuff like that.
• 1:36:50
  So keep this shit coming. Actually, you know what?
• 1:36:55
  Get it together. Video games industry if.
• 1:36:58
  You if you can only risk somebody being transparent, you
• 1:37:01
  know, once they leave your company, something is wrong in
• 1:37:04
  your house. There you go.
• 1:37:08
  Well, Laurent, do I have news for you?
• 1:37:12
  Let me have it. I'm just kidding.
• 1:37:17
  You're next on my screen, by the way.
• 1:37:21
  By the way, one last thing, I. Love Sarah Bond.
• 1:37:23
  I I I love. Sarah Bond, but my God, I feel
• 1:37:26
  like I'm I'm starting I'm starting to wonder exactly how
• 1:37:30
  much power she has Zero. I love her.
• 1:37:32
  I think they, I think Satya Nadella has proven.
• 1:37:35
  That nobody at Xbox has any power anymore, including
• 1:37:38
  himself. And all went to the.
• 1:37:43
  AI, Yeah. Let Cortana run.
• 1:37:48
  Run Xbox at this point. Jesus Christ, I'm talking about
• 1:37:50
  Cortana. That comes on Windows 10, and
• 1:37:53
  I'm talking about the Cortana comes on Windows 10 and 11 PCs.
• 1:37:57
  Next you're going to say we should all do this on Skype.
• 1:38:00
  Speaking of dead tech instead of teams.
• 1:38:04
  Instead of teams. But whatever.
• 1:38:06
  Let me stop. Let me stop.
• 1:38:07
  I'm going to roll. Let me stop.
• 1:38:09
  Yeah. We only have 11.
• 1:38:10
  Minutes left. Leron.
• 1:38:11
  Oh shoot, is that good? This is.
• 1:38:13
  A really good brand. Attaboy.
• 1:38:17
  Future. Labs the.
• 1:38:19
  Developer of. Power Wash Simulator 2.
• 1:38:21
  Not only did they release a very successful sequel, they did it
• 1:38:26
  without the support of a publisher.
• 1:38:28
  They self published this game this time.
• 1:38:31
  So that is the success story in my books.
• 1:38:35
  No Square. Enix.
• 1:38:36
  Money on this one, all self funded and my first.
• 1:38:42
  Get it together. Is GameStop in the?
• 1:38:44
  United. States government, what the hell
• 1:38:46
  is wrong with you? Seriously.
• 1:38:50
  Donald Trump is Master Chief. You telling them both power to
• 1:38:54
  the player? The government has not given
• 1:38:58
  power to the player. They have been the cause for all
• 1:39:01
  raises and everything in the gaming world.
• 1:39:06
  You're giving less power to the players.
• 1:39:08
  So get that spilf out of your mouth, all right?
• 1:39:11
  Yeah, they're yeah, they're on some BS with that, because guess
• 1:39:14
  what? Guess what?
• 1:39:15
  This. Administration's tariffs are
• 1:39:17
  why? Like, you know, console prices
• 1:39:19
  are, are ridiculous right now. And guess what?
• 1:39:24
  And guess what? The last Trump.
• 1:39:25
  Administration's tariffs, actually.
• 1:39:26
  Hurt the launches of Xbox Series consoles and PlayStation 5 S and
• 1:39:32
  you saw it put Nintendo into a state of flux with the Switch
• 1:39:35
  too. So there you go.
• 1:39:40
  Speaking of flux. Yeah, my other one is.
• 1:39:44
  Tied with Steph. So Steph can probably do our
• 1:39:46
  Atta boy and then we can take team this last, get it together.
• 1:39:51
  Yeah, sure. And my attaboy was super quick.
• 1:39:54
  Because I spent what, 20? Whatever minutes talking about
• 1:39:57
  it, but my attaboy is limited run purely based on my
• 1:40:00
  experience. Congratulations on 10 years
• 1:40:03
  honestly and genuinely and I am looking forward to their next
• 1:40:08
  set of announcements and I hope they can continue to do better
• 1:40:13
  with, you know, executing their physicals.
• 1:40:17
  But I. You want to say Attaboy because
• 1:40:20
  of their true commitment to physical media and just creating
• 1:40:25
  stuff that people want. I will say this, Josh had told
• 1:40:30
  me one thing that he does is whenever they hire a new
• 1:40:32
  employee, they ask what their favorite video game it is and if
• 1:40:36
  it is within their actual power, Josh will make sure that they
• 1:40:41
  can make a physical out of the game that they like.
• 1:40:44
  So it's I think that is very, I don't know.
• 1:40:49
  I think that's just wonderful coming from the president of a
• 1:40:52
  company might get it together. As Chad alluded to, for me, it's
• 1:40:56
  PlayStation for their cancellation of their concert.
• 1:41:01
  Listen, I know shit happens. Maybe it's a sale thing, but my
• 1:41:06
  issue is that they announced it. I got tickets and didn't last
• 1:41:10
  too long until it got cancelled. I found out from social media
• 1:41:14
  before I was notified of the cancellation and they were not
• 1:41:17
  transparent with why. People can guess why, but it
• 1:41:21
  it's really a pet peeve for me when there's a lack of
• 1:41:24
  transparency and clarity as to why something happened.
• 1:41:28
  Pat, what do you got to say about that?
• 1:41:30
  Yeah, I was planning a trip on this PlayStation concert I was
• 1:41:34
  going to. Go see it with a friend in a
• 1:41:35
  different state. And you know what?
• 1:41:38
  That's not happening now, is it? Thank you, PlayStation.
• 1:41:43
  Get your shit together. Yeah.
• 1:41:45
  I don't know if it was the way it's marketed or I think it was
• 1:41:47
  like Corey or Laurent, like maybe it was too.
• 1:41:49
  Broad, but as far as like there is good music to be had from
• 1:41:54
  Sony PlayStation based games. So I don't know what they did.
• 1:41:59
  I don't know if it was just poor planning or whatever, but it's
• 1:42:02
  it's unfortunate because I do think it would have been a
• 1:42:05
  wonderful experience for fans. I I think so too.
• 1:42:12
  Yeah, I. Know I enjoyed the Final Fantasy
• 1:42:14
  concerts. Yeah, it's it.
• 1:42:19
  Sucks dude they have stardew valley based concerts OK if
• 1:42:23
  stardew. Valley can have a concert, a
• 1:42:25
  successful concert, you'd think. You'd think Sony could, but
• 1:42:29
  whatever. You would think, but.
• 1:42:36
  So my get it together. Is shocking is going to be Xbox.
• 1:42:44
  Because they. Continue to say one thing and
• 1:42:50
  then do another. Or talk out one side of.
• 1:42:53
  Their mouth and something else completely happens differently
• 1:42:57
  or comes out the other end. It's just like.
• 1:43:03
  Come on. So yeah, Xbox, get it together.
• 1:43:10
  Come on. But I'm going to have a
• 1:43:13
  surprising attaboy. And.
• 1:43:15
  This is going to shock most of you, I think out there.
• 1:43:18
  Ox Attaboy. Bungie.
• 1:43:26
  For now. I didn't get into the marathon.
• 1:43:30
  I didn't apply for the. Marathon test because I just was
• 1:43:37
  busy and I didn't think I was going to have time to play it,
• 1:43:39
  but I know a lot of people. Who have been playing it?
• 1:43:41
  And they seem to have fixed a lot of the issues that people
• 1:43:45
  had during the first alpha test. It looks prettier.
• 1:43:53
  New voice. Acting the.
• 1:43:54
  Voice actor who plays Arthur Morgan has joined the cast of
• 1:43:59
  Marathon. Yeah, nice.
• 1:44:03
  They. Seemingly are pulling it.
• 1:44:07
  Together for marathon. Which?
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  You know, can I ask you is is, you know, promising for the
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  studio, a studio? That needs a.
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  Win badly their Star Wars. Expansion for.
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  Destiny is coming. Out soon.
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  Which is also looking promising. So attaboy, Bungie, I.
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  Know, I know there's been some. Big hits on them lately,
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  including from me and Josh over on Tower.
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  Casuals have been very critical of, of Bungie over the course of
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  the last six months or so. But you know, it seems like they
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  are they're, they're figuring it out.
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  And. I'm happy to see that.
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  There you go. Give credit where credit's due,
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  you know? Yeah.
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  So. On that.
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  Note we're going to. We're going.
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