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Games Shown at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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All right, Hello, everyone. Welcome to The Block with
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podcast. A great place to play games.
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Be better. I am not Corey Derrig, but I am
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one of your hosts. You know who I am?
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Excellent. 3 Corey Derrig every night.
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Yeah, yeah. Corey Derrig.
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Corey Derrig. Yep, yeah, yeah, really nice
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Pluck some babies. Pluck some puppies.
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Come on. Come on, Corey.
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There we go. There we go.
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Let's go. The.
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Left looks better than the right for some reason, and the right's
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Yeah. PK Power Pat Klein, the hungry
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man himself. Welcome back.
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Damn straight I am back like Jack.
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Hey, we had a, we had a wonderful show last week with,
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with, with Matt and, and why I'm, I'm, I'm not forgetting,
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I'm not forgetting their name. I'm just forgetting how they
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pronounce it. Yeah, right.
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It was Matt, Teddy, Wolfie and. Yes, Yeah, Teddy.
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Yeah, Teddy Wolfie. Yeah.
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Me and you. I thought there was 5.
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Who's the There was. Five.
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There was. Who was?
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Listening. No.
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Nelly wasn't there. No, Nelly couldn't be there.
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There was 5. Oh.
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Nice. Do we not remember?
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Yourselves, yeah. Oh, oh, oh, we're about.
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To. We're about to get Nancy Graham,
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but we had a we had a great show with y'all, so hopefully Y'all
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come back even. Though I don't remember your
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names sounded. Like it was a great show, but
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you. Know what's going to make this
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show a great show? The fact our boy story's back.
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What's up dude? It's always good to be back,
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always good to come back and, you know, make fun of you.
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Laron, OH. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's like that's, that's, that's just my lot in life, you know?
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Thank you that that that was the key right there.
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Making fun of someone it was. Eddie it was.
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Eddie. OK, yeah, he doesn't count.
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We we forgot him on purpose. I don't.
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Even forget Eddie. He was unusually quiet that
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night. He was he.
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He. It was like it was, it was like
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he was on his meds or something. Like it was a little wild.
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He. Didn't talk for 30 minutes on
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how Nintendo game key cards are the way of the.
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Future. Oh, he did.
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He did. Can't.
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Stop him from doing that. Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, boy. He, he's always going to inject
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his Nintendoisms in any conversation.
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You know, we could be, we could be talking about alligators in,
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you know, in Egypt. And he'll find some way to make
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it about Nintendo. You know Budo was an alligator
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and approved. There's the voice, there's the
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voice. I miss that.
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Voice. I miss that voice.
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Know what Nintendo's doing for PAX W?
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What? Well, Nintendo's bringing a shit
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ton of stuff. The PAX W ranging from they're
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doing Pokémon ZA, they're doing the Kirby Air Riders, they're
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doing Borderlands 4, they're doing Silk Song.
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No, they're not. Yeah, that that silk song isn't
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a game. It's not a game.
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Yeah, that's a fig. That's a figment of everybody's
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imagination. Yeah, I know this is a whole.
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Like this is the whole Mandela Effect.
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Everybody thinks this game Silk Song exists, but it doesn't.
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Watch as they just turn around. It's like it's called Hollow
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Night 2 now. Yeah, yeah, no.
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What they're doing though for their Nintendo ones, they're
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doing the the warp pass for those.
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So you have to register on August 21st and it's first come,
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first serve to get a pass to play one of those games at PAX.
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I'm thinking, you know what, that's kind of smart because now
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you don't have to wait 4 hours in that line.
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You're going to have last minute people probably coming up to
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that line like trying to get in. Yeah, for real.
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Yeah, well, that and like Capcom's going to be stacked at
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West, by the way. Yeah, yeah.
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Yep. They're bringing Resident Evil.
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Yeah, yeah. And that Mega Man clone,
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pragmatic Mega Man reboot. Yep, Mega Man reboot.
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That's what it's going to be. That's going to be a twist, and
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it's going to be a Mega Man reboot.
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It's going to end with all of a sudden the main character
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opening his helmet and saying my name is Doctor Light.
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It's going to be a prequel. OK, so.
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What's my name? And he's going to be like your
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role. Yes.
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OK, so since we're talking about Mega Man real quickly, how did
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how did everybody, how did everybody like Mega Man 11?
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I like it. I loved it.
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I didn't use my gear powers enough.
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Me. Neither, me neither, I felt.
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It was cheating. I felt it was cheating.
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In fact, he's like, why are the why are the Doctor Wileyboss is
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so hard? I'm like dude use the gear
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power. Yeah, once I use the gear power,
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I'm like, oh man, this game is easy now.
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Yeah, I just, I just never quite perfected using the gear power
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because I saw the speedruns. I was like, man, how the fuck
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are we doing that? Like, what is what is this?
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Yeah, but but I'm I'm, I'm, I'm never going to be like the
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caliber of a speedrunner. Stephanie, you're about to say.
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Something yeah. Sorry to go back quickly to make
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it back to Nintendo. I'm not sure if it's West or
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games com, but aren't they bringing Metroid Prime 4?
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Games Com. The games com OK.
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Yeah, I don't know why they didn't say W though.
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Like it's Twitter right now is like going Cam on Nintendo
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because they're giving Metroid unfair treatment because, you
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know, Kirby's they're putting in the front right now.
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It's like but Metroid. I.
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Don't know I'm right. I'm right there with them.
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I'm right there with them on that.
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Well, I I'll be honest, I was a little surprised that the Kirby
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Direct was 45 freaking minutes long.
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But I'm also not the biggest Kirby fan, so, you know, I'm
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glad for those that are looking forward to the game.
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The guy literally read the manual, said everything, but yet
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he still left things out because then you got that teaser at the
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end of the trailer. You know, that's like, what's
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this all about? It's like this dark guy on a
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motorcycle. I think he's hinting a story
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mode. Story mode in a Mario Kart
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clone. Him straight.
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I mean. He did it with Smash Brothers.
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That's how you got the the Starlight Emissary.
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Anything's possible. Yeah.
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What? What was I?
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Oh, yo, yeah. Basically I was going to ask
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what the whole Mega Man thing was like, because we were
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talking about Mega Man reboots and everything, right?
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How would you guys feel about Mega Man's 1-2 and three and
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four being being remade in the style of Mega Man 11?
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How would you guys feel about that?
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Do you think just leave it in the past?
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Leave it in the past. OK.
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All right, leave it. Alone.
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That's fair. That's that's, that's really
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fair because I mean, you know, I, yeah, I can see the, I can
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see the reason why we just want to like leave it in the best
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besides, like Capcom remakes so much stuff anyway, like just,
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yeah, just make new Mega Man games.
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We'll be happy. Yeah, you know what?
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I'm kind of getting that. I think that's also happening.
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Well, not that in particular, but isn't Capcom doing a 90
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minute showcase here very shortly?
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I think it's tied to packs to be perfectly honest.
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Like it's a live showcase that they might like.
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People are speculating they might be introducing more
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projects, you know, with this one.
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I know they're doing a panel at PAX, but they're also doing a
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showcase and I think that's a Comic Con either way, but.
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There's they're doing a lot. Oh.
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Yeah, it's a Comic Con. Thank you.
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Yes. Yeah.
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I applied to. I applied for media passes just
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so I could sit in for that. I hope I can.
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Yeah, that's right up. There just for that.
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Just for that. OK, so maybe I want to see Troy
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Baker, but there we go. See, see everybody see,
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everybody has their one. Everybody has their one.
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Because Pat who it's what's it's what's her name from Final
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Fantasy. What right.
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That's that's that was that was yours.
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Brianna White. Yeah, and everybody.
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And if you don't know, but everybody knows Ben Starr for me
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story. Who's your who's your who's
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your? Who's your one?
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Who's that guy that played Starkiller?
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Oh, oh, oh. Deacon.
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Deacon and Deacon Sam Whitworth. Sam Whitworth, I can listen to
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his voice all day. Yeah, I don't know.
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Yeah, yeah. That was that.
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That's another that. Yeah, that's another.
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Good one. Yeah, he's not.
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He's not in enough games like I. That is true.
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That is true. Pops and I think the last I
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heard his voice was in. Clister.
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Protocol, Clister protocol, yeah.
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Clister Protocol. Yeah.
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Like he was a pretty good villain.
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Yes. He was, yeah.
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He has pretty good villain. He.
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Has such good range. He could yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Like he could play, he can play a human bad guy and he could
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play a mutant bad guy like. Like guy that wears a hat
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backwards. Yeah, he could play a
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motorcycle. Guy Oh my God, every guy like.
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His wife every night like his motorcycle.
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There's some there's somebody in the corner at a.
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Time. There's somebody, there's
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somebody in some dark corner of the Internet, like he can beat
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me with a Billy club in. Jail something day on the week.
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Just as long as you talk to me. Talk to me.
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So. This is why Corey needs to come
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back like this. This.
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This show. Slides real quickly when Corey's
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about to talk about. We are going to talk about
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opening Night Live for games.com, which which happened
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today as of this recording. We've got a lot of stuff to talk
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about. There was all sorts of there was
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all sorts of world premieres, like like new trailers, like new
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announcements, all this stuff. And we have like enough content
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to go through from both the pre show, which was a nice, that was
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probably one of the best pre shows that Jeff Keeley has put
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on in a while. Like I mean like it was, it was
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pure content and it just wasn't a lot of like, you know, like
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like like fluff and BS, you know what I mean?
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I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it, the actor.
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Who was the guy that was running the pre show?
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I forget his name, but like, this is like the second or third
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year. He's done that.
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Yeah. Like, yeah, that.
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Dry humor You. Know yeah, yeah, so yeah, so
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Cruz is that guy for sure. But but yeah, like we've got a
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lot of stuff to talk about. We're going to talk about the
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games, we're going to talk about the talent.
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We're going to talk about everything that we thought was a
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hit there because we are going to, we are going to probably
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like put together a best in show real quickly.
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So buckle in because now the hype is peaked and the trailers
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are cured and, and everybody's the gaming world's collective.
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All our attention is on Cologne, Germany.
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Now for the next 4 days. games.com is in effect.
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Well, technically 5 of you include like opening night, but
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we're hoping you all had a chance to check out both the pre
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show and the main event which delivered all the fireworks and
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spectacle of a AAA gaming event. You know what, I talk a lot of
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trash about Jeff Keeley, but I feel like I feel like opening
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Night Live is basically his warm up for The Game Awards, which is
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funny because I feel like he does he does opening Night Live
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better than than the Game Awards.
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Sounds kind of weird to say that you know.
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Because he doesn't run it. I'm I'm wagering probably
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because he doesn't run it. So he can kind of be of this
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little goofy self. Yeah, Goofy is, yeah, even
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though even though I noticed he's he's, he's mellowed out
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over the years. He's mellowed out.
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It's kind of interesting seeing him subdued now he's.
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Not stroking that Kojima ego. Oh yeah.
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No. Kojima whatsoever there.
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What the heck? Yeah, that's that's probably why
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he was so subdued. No, no, Kojima, like, you know,
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like he he was like, he was like man, like I can't fanboy
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tonight. So I just got to, I just got to
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be straight and earn the check. Yeah.
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But yeah. But yeah, he was just strictly
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just moving through. Yeah, yeah, and also also good
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job the shocks as Co host tonight too.
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Like this is her second time doing a games com and I know
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she's a she's a very good she's a very good commentator on the E
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sports scene, especially for for for not StarCraft crap.
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What's the, I hear her voice all the time.
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Is it, is it on Apex? I, I'm, I'm not entirely sure,
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but but, but yeah, she did a wonderful job.
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As a matter of fact, I feel like she did a better job this year
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than she did last year because last year she felt, she kind of
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felt like she was out of her element.
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So like, so like, you know, good job for bringing her back.
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And, you know, like, just she, she, she thrived this time.
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So like, yeah, yeah, kudos. A shock, shock for that, yeah,
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like pre show, main show, opening ceremony, all that
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stuff. We're diving in, we're diving
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into the into the entire experience of that of of the
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night because like it's it was the middle of the day when it
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when it streamed over here, you know, but it was night time over
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there in Germany. So yeah, let's talk trailers,
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everybody. Let's all right, first of you
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know what? I'm going to do this first.
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What were some of your favorite showings from, from either the
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pre show or the main show? What were some of your favorite
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showings? Just everybody just start
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talking. Blah blah blah Oh no one else.
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OK. Silent Hill app.
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Yes. I'll, I mean, I'll, I'll watch
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every trailer multiple times over and over and over again and
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just, I'm really excited for all those creature designs.
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Yeah, I'm really excited for all those creature designs.
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They look so good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I was really feasting on a lot of the horror stuff, so Silent
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Hill F obviously Resident Evil Requiem at the end, which we can
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pick apart later. More on Kronos.
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Did anybody see that trailer that was like I would say a
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maybe 1/3 of the way in and it was like this corridor horror
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looking first person shooter looking trailer and it was like
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the games.com ad. Oh.
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No, I don't remember that one. Yeah, I was watching it.
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I was like, oh, this trailer looks pretty good.
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And then all of a sudden they run a Gamescom ad.
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It's like, hey, you know, in this world you can come to
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Gamescom, come to Cologne, Germany.
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Yeah, yeah, there's. Cosplayers and all this other
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stuff. I was like, it's not a game.
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Oh. By the way, by the way, 'cause
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I'm I'm y'all know me about Monster Hunter like that that
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person that was wearing that that curen armor.
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I don't. I don't.
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I don't get that. In it was the IT was the IT was
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the Asian girl like it like the costume had like a like a very
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small Unicorn horn on it. It was like one.
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It was like one of the first cosplayers because I think the
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next cosplayers they showed was like was like either hell divers
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or Gears of War cosplayers. But she she was like the one of
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the very first cosplayers they showed.
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Oh yeah, now I know you know what you're talking.
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About. Yeah, yeah.
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I'm gonna agree with Nikolia in the YouTube chat that there were
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a lot of a lot of anime games. Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah, there were definitely some
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that was like, OK, is this a cell phone one like or is this?
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Gotcha games I. Don't know, like, yeah, yeah,
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no. And World of Tanks, we saw a lot
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of World of Tanks. Yeah, like.
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Yeah, first, first of all, the World of Tanks trailer like,
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like, like messed me up because like the beginning, like, you
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know, like showing like, you know, like stuff underwater and
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stuff like that. You know, I was like, I was
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like, oh, we're about to get one of those like Ocean Explorer
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games. And all of a sudden this, this
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tank just rolls up out out, you know, you know, out the water.
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And I'm like, huh. OK.
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I mean, I mean, it was World of Tanks that was that was the
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funny part. But they tried.
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Yeah, I think there was like another tank game later on in
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the. By the same, by the same, by the
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same well, by the same group. But not like World of Tanks like
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these. These things are fast acting.
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Yeah. Well, there was World of Tanks 2
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point O and then there was World of Tanks HEAT.
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Yeah, that was. I thought it was.
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I thought it was just called Heat.
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I thought it was just called Heat.
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It was World of Tanks Heat. World of Tanks Heat a 10 by 10
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hero shooter but with tanks. OK.
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OK. Yeah, no, I love all the horror
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games. Like lately, I think horror is
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making a wonderful comeback. Yeah, yeah, the horror games is
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the horror games the last three years have been showing out
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like, you know, like, you know, like, I feel like, I feel like
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honestly, like I feel like the start of like horror games
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getting the Renaissance had to be with the Medium, you know,
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like, I feel like, what was that like four or five years ago at
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this point now? And then all the, you know,
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like, yeah, like, you know, people, people kind of like,
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like, like Gabe Blooper, like, you know, like the Brandon
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Blooper threw the ringer for even though I think the Medium
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was a pretty good game, you know, but but yeah, like, and
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now look, now with these guys like they're they're basically
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helming Silent Hill right now, you know?
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Well, I think Uber even commented that they're coming in
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with a little bit more confidence with Kronos.
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Yeah, because a lot of people were, like you said, throwing
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them, throwing them so much shit for Silent Hill Two remake
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because their last few games were fine, but they weren't like
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great. And you know how crazy Silent
22:19
Hill fans are. So now that Silent Hill 2 came
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out and now everyone's singing its praises, they're like, yeah,
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we are. We're tough.
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We're hot shit now so. You know, and it's and it's well
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deserved. It's well deserved.
22:32
This company literally came in from like with layers of fear
22:36
was their original title that they got and it was a small time
22:40
horror and now like over just the last decade, these this team
22:44
is now like the premiere of horror games like.
22:48
They're making a Silent Hill remake now.
22:51
Yes, right after Kronos. So it's like now, but we said
22:55
these guys are going to be the ones that like get up to that
22:58
Silent Hill level. They're making the Silent Hills.
23:01
They're making something that is Silent Hill meets Dead Space.
23:05
It is absolutely insane just what these guys are doing now.
23:08
Like they they're perfecting their art.
23:13
As the kids say, let them cook and.
23:19
Now we eating good. And for real, yes.
23:23
I'm glad. I'm actually glad because what
23:26
was that? For a long time every game
23:28
wanted to copy the PT formula and it was not working.
23:35
There were a lot of trash PT psychological horror games that
23:39
were just not good. So I'm glad that I think a lot
23:44
of people are stepping out, you know, of that kind of genre,
23:48
that style of game, and now kind of into more combat focus.
23:51
Like, I'm really excited for ILL, that game where you can
23:54
where you could punch a monster baby.
23:56
Oh man, I can't wait for that. Call the Gordon decapitation.
24:01
Yep. Yeah, and the limbs.
24:05
Yeah, that one I might be too scared for.
24:08
Oh, come on, Stephanie. Stephanie, you're a big girl
24:12
now. You're a big girl now, you can
24:14
kick babies in that game. Yeah.
24:20
Yeah, I think a stand out for me was was was seeing more of Ani
24:23
Musha way of the Sword. I think that was definitely a
24:26
stand out for me because like this.
24:30
Yeah, yeah, I'm scared of. It I wasn't scared of it before
24:33
but after seeing this trailer now I'm scared of it.
24:36
You mean scared in like the the primal sense or you're scared
24:39
that, you know, like the project might not.
24:41
OK, OK, the combat. OK, OK.
24:43
Yeah. I mean, I'll be, I'll be fine.
24:46
I'll be fine. Yeah.
24:50
Well, he used to have monster and two, then the two halves
24:53
become. Monsters and then, yeah.
24:54
Tried to stab him but then he grabs the arms and he like flips
24:58
it. Oh, no.
24:59
Yeah. Like where he stabs the one
25:00
monster in the eye, then the monster just, like, flicks him
25:02
around and he's still hanging on to his side.
25:05
Yeah, I was like, oh man, I'm here to this game now.
25:09
That's Gary, so good. It's.
25:10
Going to be a good game. Laurent, what did you think
25:14
about the Monster Hunter collaboration with Final
25:17
Fantasy? OK, first of all, first of all,
25:20
I, I think, I think Pat, you're I think, yeah.
25:23
Pat. Like when rap the Monster Hunter
25:25
Wilds released, I I was like, I was like, I know Final Fantasy
25:28
things coming. I thought it was going to be
25:30
Final Fantasy 16 though. I didn't think they were going
25:32
to go back to Final Fantasy like online.
25:34
I didn't think they were going to do that, but yeah, everybody,
25:37
everybody was like, everybody's like, come on.
25:39
Like when the sacreds first were introduced and everything, I'm
25:41
like, oh, monsters getting chocobos.
25:43
So like, it made sense. It made sense, you know, it made
25:47
sense. They did this.
25:48
And and like, I love that Final Fantasy 14 online is getting is
25:52
getting Guardian Archiveld, you know, and, and our sacreds, you
25:57
know, to to like be the be the substitutes for the for the
26:00
chocobos and stuff like that. I think it's cool and and that,
26:03
that, that monster type. Oh, feel man.
26:06
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel man.
26:09
Like. Happy they brought him Mega,
26:10
like I was worried that they would be bringing the behemoth
26:13
back but they decided to go completely different monster.
26:17
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So no, I, I, I enjoyed it and
26:22
like I, I liked it and it got me excited.
26:25
I just wish they could give me more excited though they could
26:27
just fix the PC release of Monster Hunter.
26:29
Like I, I mean like damn. Like I, I am trying my best not
26:33
to go out and buy APS 5 copy of this game.
26:35
At this point the only thing the only thing that keeps me from
26:40
buying APS 5 copy is there is no cross save.
26:44
Really. Lauren, they give you now level
26:46
9 monsters. That's their picks.
26:50
Yeah, yeah. And you know actually since
26:52
actually. Since you're minimum now cross
26:54
names, what the hell? Yeah, no, no cross save.
26:56
Cross play this time but no cross save.
26:59
Cross play but no cross saves? What the hell?
27:01
Yeah, baby steps, baby steps 'cause there was no cross play
27:05
or cross save at all like last go round.
27:08
Pat, what did you think of Dante's Inferno 2?
27:11
I was super excited. Like I saw that when they
27:14
mentioned Dante Algieri. I'm like, no, no.
27:18
But I think you saw you saw the thorns on his head.
27:21
Yeah, it's like I'm mowed down for another Divine Comedy.
27:25
Like, I love just the whole I I'm fascinated with just the
27:30
whole landscape of hell and hitting like all those layers.
27:33
I was like talking to. Yeah, I was talking to someone
27:35
on Twitter and she was like, hopefully they bring back the
27:39
big titty lady. I'm like as long as she as long
27:42
as she spits babies out of those nipples.
27:44
Yep, and Satan with his floppy Dong.
27:47
Oh man, that giant ass Dong. Yep, yeah, that would be a game
27:53
we would love to show you sometime is Dante's Inferno.
27:57
OK. I'd love it.
28:00
Yeah, the final boss is Satan, and he's, yeah, he's got a
28:04
floppy Dong. That's a.
28:06
Shame. Real shame.
28:08
Yeah, it's almost like a third leg.
28:11
It's a really big. It really is.
28:14
It's hard to keep your eyes off it.
28:17
Yeah, it it makes it for a distracting fight.
28:20
Yes it does. But no, it's like weird because
28:23
it's. Several times during that fight.
28:25
Yeah, it hit me in the face once.
28:27
It was kind of sweaty. Yeah.
28:31
Yeah. How far you want to go with
28:33
this, Pat? I think we're good right now.
28:37
OK, All right. But yeah, it's called La La
28:39
Davina. Yeah, you're right.
28:43
I want you. I want you to fully experience
28:47
that. Yes.
28:50
La DaVita comedia or something like that.
28:52
It looks like just kind of like another.
28:54
Weird weird looking game, very freakish.
28:58
Yeah another like dark soul ish looking game but.
29:02
With more act like it was actiony though.
29:04
So it's like, is it going to be fully Dark Souls or is it more
29:08
of a faster pace? I don't know.
29:12
I'm excited though. Like I hope it's good.
29:14
I hope it's just as good as well.
29:17
Actually I'm interested because they call it the Divine Comedy
29:20
which makes me sound seem like it could be all three.
29:25
Like could they go all like hell, purgatory, and heaven?
29:31
I don't. Probably not.
29:31
They probably just focus on hell though.
29:34
Yeah, I was going to say the other two will be DLC.
29:37
Maybe. Yeah.
29:39
We were supposed to get sequels to Dante's Inferno.
29:43
We were, we were. It was set up for a sequel at
29:46
the end. Good old EA.
29:50
Yep. Didn't make enough money?
29:54
Nope. No, those guys that that was the
29:56
development studio that went on to make.
29:58
That's invisible games. That was that was definitely
30:00
went on to make that this stupid game.
30:02
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so they went on to
30:05
brighter pastures, kind of kind of.
30:10
Then they made Battlefield Hardline.
30:12
That was a weird 1. I actually.
30:14
Liked Hardline? Yeah.
30:16
It was interesting, yeah. It wasn't a Battlefield game.
30:19
Oh, oh, oh, oh, you know, you know, you know, you know, a game
30:22
that got me hyped as soon as I start.
30:24
I saw the trailer and I, I saw like the first like 10 seconds
30:27
of the trailer and I immediately knew what this game was.
30:29
Moonlighter 2. Oh yeah, I saw that too.
30:33
And I love like, I love the, the art direction they took for this
30:36
one. They're like, you know what,
30:37
like it's the same, it's the same, it's the same art that
30:40
you're familiar with, but now it's just like from, from
30:42
completely 3D. Yeah, I like, I felt like GIFs,
30:48
this is Moonlighters 2, but it felt aw.
30:51
Yeah, as well. Yeah, because Moonlighter.
30:52
Because Moonlighter. The original Moonlighter was
30:55
basically like a Legend of Zelda clown.
30:59
OK, and now it's the Diablo clown.
31:01
Yep, yeah. I mean, it looks, it looks, it
31:03
looks great. And like the action looks, yeah,
31:05
it looks like it looks like it's Moonlighter was a very solid
31:08
game, but this looks this looks completely solid.
31:13
Yeah, no, I've I've this is something I will definitely try.
31:17
And according to the note that we're we're looking at the
31:20
GameStop dot or GameSpot dot dot com article, it's gonna be
31:25
included on Game Pass. So yeah.
31:27
Oh, Speaking of, Speaking of, did you like, how did you like
31:31
how they gave us that little, little slick preview right when
31:34
they're introing Moon Lair 2? They gave us a slick preview of
31:36
the Rock Rock Alley X, the Xbox Rock.
31:40
Alley. Yeah.
31:41
Isn't that Yeah. I was like, I was like, I saw
31:43
what you did there. Yeah.
31:46
We'll be getting that announcement here probably in a
31:48
couple days. Whenever, when is the Microsoft
31:51
Showcase that's. Is that, is that not?
31:54
I think it's Sunday. Microsoft always is not on a
31:56
Sunday for some reason. I think it's Sunday.
31:58
Yeah, that sounds about right. Games.com.
32:03
But while he's looking that up, I would say.
32:07
Are you gonna say it? Indiana Jones and the Order of.
32:10
Giants No. Yeah, we could.
32:12
Talk about that one. We could talk about that one.
32:14
There was something else I wanted to talk about, but no, it
32:16
wasn't. I'm I'm always down to talk
32:18
about Indiana Jones. That looks like a beefy DLC
32:22
though. It does, yeah.
32:24
Yeah. Are you gonna get it on the
32:27
switch too, Steph? Hell yeah, yeah.
32:31
Just just like I am with Chronos for the pure fact that I just
32:33
want to push my Switch to, to see what it really can do.
32:37
That's that's why I got it, because I, you know, I have my
32:40
PS-5 and I technically still have my Xbox.
32:42
So it's like, well, you know, I know I could have a guaranteed
32:45
great experience on the Xbox or PlayStation depending on the
32:50
game, but I want to try on my Switch too.
32:52
Yeah. Death by scrolling looks so
32:56
chaotic but it looks fun as hell.
32:59
Oh my God. That gave me anxiety looking at
33:02
it. Yeah.
33:04
Yeah, Oh, anybody that's. Scrolling.
33:08
Yeah. Anybody remembers playing like,
33:10
you know, like, like, like Mario 3 or like or like or like Super
33:14
or like or like ghouls and ghosts where, like, you were
33:17
stuck on those stages that were always moving no matter what you
33:20
did and all stuff. Yeah, That's some real anxiety.
33:23
Plus the fact that the Grim Reaper starts chasing you around
33:26
in certain parts of it. Oh my God.
33:27
Like, yeah. Yeah, and that game was made in
33:31
part by who? Ron Gilbert, who is known for.
33:34
Like Monkey Island? Monkey Island, the original
33:37
Monkey Island guy. Maniac Mansion.
33:40
That was such a good game. Now I want to talk about Lego
33:44
Batman. This is the first time I think
33:45
in my life that I'm really excited for a Lego Batman game,
33:49
or any Lego game, period. No I'm excited too bro.
33:53
Like after the Lego Horizon game.
33:56
Like I was starting to lose my faith in Legos.
33:59
Yeah, but this looks like a tried and true.
34:02
Like they're kind of going with that Batman Arkham Knight,
34:05
Arkham City style combat. I mean, open world exploration
34:09
and even like that. What was it the studio head was
34:11
on stage like? I mean, he was selling the game.
34:15
He sold it 100% with his demeanor and his acting.
34:18
Even Jeff Keeley was like, ah, you sold me on it.
34:22
Yeah, yeah, Smack. Everyone.
34:25
And I also like, I also like, I did call out so like every era
34:29
of Batman from like the, from like the, the, the, the 60s
34:34
Batman to like the Burton Batman to the, to the Nolan Batman to
34:38
like some of the, to like some of the actual like, like, like,
34:41
like like cartoon show Batman's, all this stuff.
34:44
I like how they had all these call outs, so all these arrows
34:46
of Batman and stuff like that. So yeah, I like the word.
34:48
He's really. Poker up by the collar and he's
34:50
like, you want to get nuts, let's get nuts like I'm
34:53
allergic. I'm allergic to nuts.
34:59
Oh. Yeah, at the at the end, that
35:00
scene of Penguin, you know, being chased by Batman and like
35:04
Bat, the Batmobile running through the flames and he's just
35:06
walking, but he's got that like squeaky duck on his feet.
35:11
Pretty good, yeah. Yeah.
35:15
Looks campy and kooky, but also like looks like it's going to be
35:18
a lot of fun. So, so the why is why is Sega
35:23
not just like hurrying up with The Jets at Radio Project, but
35:25
they're giving us Dench Attack? Why, why, why are they playing
35:29
up our emotions? I just want, I just want that
35:34
new Streets of Rage too. I want all their stuff to come
35:36
out. Yeah, yeah, I, I want even even
35:38
the Crazy Taxi thing, which I think the Crazy Taxi one, I, I
35:41
think I think that's going to be the weakest entry out of out of
35:44
all the all the ones. And that's saying a lot because
35:46
like, they're not going to be able to, they're not going to be
35:48
able to get the Offspring, you know, or at least the Offspring.
35:52
They might only get the Offspring to come back to record
35:54
new music, but they're not going to be able to get the original
35:56
the original soundtrack back. Yeah, I know.
35:59
I mean, you could get some pretty good punk sounds, but
36:03
yeah, you want some iconic punk songs?
36:05
Yeah, which I punk isn't as popular now as it was maybe in
36:09
the 90s. So.
36:10
True, true. They need to get Ichiban from
36:14
Like a Dragon to guest star in that game.
36:17
Just because they. Got they got the crazy taxi guy
36:21
in the Like a Dragon games now. I was going to say, isn't
36:26
Ichiban in Sonic that Sonic racers game?
36:29
He is, and he also. Announced the new character
36:32
coming to Sonic Racers Pac-Man. The the Waka Waka man himself,
36:39
yes. Waka waka, this is becoming the
36:43
the Smash Brothers of racing games now.
36:47
That's true, yeah. And and it's got cross play.
36:51
Anybody play that new Pac-Man game that came out?
36:55
No, yeah. Like for India?
36:57
No, no, no, no, no. It's it it.
37:00
Didn't do enough. It didn't do enough for me to
37:01
make me want to play it. It looked interesting, but I I
37:04
did not hear. I heard mixed things.
37:07
That's. Very it It's not remarkable,
37:13
we'll put it that way. OK.
37:15
Yeah, I got my Kitty finally. I will pass on it.
37:21
Yay. Yeah, you know what game I'm
37:24
still very much looking forward to, but I'm kind of just over
37:27
all of the trailers and information, and I hate to say
37:31
it, but it's Ghost of Yote. Oh, Stephanie.
37:34
Scene no, I'm I'm hype for it. Don't.
37:37
Get me wrong, You're just ready for the You're just ready for
37:39
the game, Yeah. We we don't need anymore.
37:42
Well be fair. The fact that they announced
37:44
Legends is kind of a big deal. Yeah.
37:48
That that's their multi. But I'm just saying like, I
37:50
don't know, I just trailer, trailer, trailer.
37:52
Then PlayStation had like a a, not a direct, that's a Nintendo
37:56
term, but like a focus. On Showcase State of Play, yeah.
38:01
I'm just, I'm just, yeah, state of play.
38:02
I'm just ready for it. That that's what I mean by it.
38:04
I'm not like poo pooing the game.
38:06
It's just like. I agree with you, I.
38:10
Kind of feel like the same way with like Silent Hill apps
38:12
because they've released like 3 or 4 trailers just this year
38:15
alone and it's like, OK, all right.
38:17
Yeah, yeah, we're, yeah, we're getting bombarded by a lot of
38:20
Silent Hill right now. But, and I'm not saying that in
38:22
a bad way, but I am one of those.
38:24
I am one of those people. Like, like I, I get to a certain
38:28
point where I start and I start like directly avoiding like
38:31
trailers or like I or like, you know, I tune them out, you know?
38:35
Yeah. Because like, I really, I, I
38:36
really just do not want as much content the game spoiled for me.
38:40
It's nice to see like the like, like the like that the, the hot
38:44
moments and stuff that you know, are in like the original
38:46
trailers. But the same time is like, I
38:48
really want to be surprised by some of this stuff.
38:50
I I want the hype of knowing that this scene is coming, but I
38:53
also want to be surprised by what could be happening.
38:55
You got to do a media blackout. That's what I call it.
38:58
Oh yeah, that's what I'm going to do with Resident Evil Requiem
39:01
is I saw this trailer and I'm like, OK, looks good.
39:05
Media black out the rest of the way till February.
39:07
Yeah, yeah. I want to know what kind of
39:11
monsters we're going to deal with.
39:14
Well, you know what? You'll find that out in
39:15
February, Pat. Or box, I don't know if they
39:22
show the monster or not. I think what was that Alyssa
39:27
Ashford is rumored to be No, I'm sorry, I almost said Ashcroft.
39:35
But the, you know, in the Resident Evil HD remake for the
39:42
GameCube and that stuff, there was that daughter that was like
39:47
tortured and chained. Lisa.
39:50
Lisa. That's Lisa Trevor.
39:52
That's Lisa Trevor. That was it.
39:54
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
39:56
There's a rumor that she's going to be a Manger villain because
39:59
she she's like, literally indestructible.
40:01
She can't die. So you think a nuclear bomb is
40:04
going to kill her? Nope.
40:07
Jumping off the side of a the pit?
40:11
Yeah, probably not. I think, I think they're trying
40:13
to, I think they're trying to retcon that.
40:15
I think they're trying to retcon like it wasn't an actual nuke
40:17
that hit Raccoon City. I think they're trying to retcon
40:19
that in this game. No, there was a big crater in
40:22
the trailer. Come on man.
40:24
Oh, there was. A.
40:26
There was a crater. But it maybe it's like some sort
40:28
of a hydrogen bomb or something. I don't know, like may not
40:34
necessarily be a nuke, but like we have other bombs that can
40:38
create craters like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:41
Because in in the trailer, they did show parts of like an actual
40:44
city, you know, like parts of the Yeah.
40:48
Yeah. Like the police?
40:51
Station broken down Raccoon City building.
40:54
Exactly. The the police station, Yeah,
40:56
exactly. Because I'm like, I'm like, how
40:58
are they going to go back in there?
40:59
Like if it's still in the middle of like radioactive fallout.
41:02
Well, that's been 20 years. Shoot people.
41:07
People are still having adverse effects like messing around in
41:10
Chernobyl. Like, trust me.
41:12
Yeah, right. Yeah, no, that that makes me
41:15
think it wasn't a nuclear bomb. I think it was like a hydrogen
41:19
bomb or some really powerful payload that hit.
41:25
But yeah, I mean that that that trailer was was good.
41:30
Like, I kind of wonder if they're going to play off like
41:34
anxiety or not with this game, Like because it seems like Grace
41:40
was having panic attacks and it's making me wonder like, is
41:45
that going to like mess with us somehow in this game?
41:49
Well, yeah, I mean, she's obviously, I think they're
41:52
trying to dial up the horror a lot because remember.
41:57
When Yeah, there there was like the these offline developer Q&A
42:03
after the announcement of Requiem and they said, oh, Leon
42:07
Kennedy wouldn't be a great candidate for a main character
42:11
'cause he, we really wanted to be more horror and less action
42:16
and he wouldn't be so scared in a game like this.
42:18
So I'm like, all right, so. Mm hmm.
42:21
Yeah, but I'm the I'm the player.
42:23
Mm hmm. Yeah.
42:24
Now I, I appreciate that though, because I, you know, I was
42:28
feeling that like the Resident Evils 5 and 6 went to action
42:33
like those that everyone was established.
42:37
But now like we're getting these characters like Ethan Winters,
42:40
like who aren't military or trained in any sort of regard
42:46
and they're being put in these situations.
42:48
So it makes more sense that it is now more horror to.
42:52
Them. And survival.
42:57
Yeah. Tight.
43:00
I was also I was also digging that Project Spectrum game.
43:04
Yeah, that's. Yeah, that looks like that.
43:07
That looks like a freaky game that that's gonna take on like 3
43:10
different narratives because like, it looks like, it looks
43:12
like they're gonna have you at some point choose Were you the
43:15
bad guy? Are you the hero?
43:16
Or. Or or are you a survivor?
43:20
Was it? They called it a BE?
43:22
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:27
Oh, guys, so we didn't talk about the Call of Duty trailer.
43:32
I was I was saving that. I was saving that for the end,
43:34
actually, but we can talk about it now if we want to.
43:36
Oh, we. We, we, we, we could wait till
43:37
the end. I don't want.
43:38
To talk OK, fine, we'll. Talk about the Ninja Gaiden
43:41
trailer. Yes, let's.
43:42
Ask yes. Yo that was so platinum.
43:46
Oh yeah, I'm. Not going to say yeah, I feel
43:48
like Platinum's about to do their damn thing with this one.
43:52
Platinum's back, baby. Yeah, until the next project
43:56
after it. Avalon 2.
44:00
Oh man, I feel so I feel so bad for Platinum Games sometimes
44:04
because like they they have a lot of, they have a lot of
44:07
talent, they have a lot of talent, but it just seems like
44:09
it just seems like the wrong stuff keeps falling in their
44:12
lap. Yeah, that wasn't their fault.
44:14
Yeah, I know, I know. It's making every other thing
44:16
because before that they also had near automata and you know,
44:20
that was clouded as amazing, yeah.
44:23
So that run, that run when they were truly independent though,
44:27
and like Sago was posting their stuff, that was one that I feel
44:29
like that's one, one of the best runs for like any like small
44:32
studio, you know? Vanquis.
44:35
Leonetta Yeah. Vanquis Bayonetta The the, the,
44:39
the, the game that was the game that was basically like a that
44:46
too. The game, the game.
44:49
The game that had to do with the freaking like chainsaw arm.
44:53
Mad World. Yeah, yeah.
44:55
Was it Mad World? Because I was thinking.
44:56
Yeah, that was for the we only. Yeah, I was thinking.
44:59
I was thinking the freaking the freaking song Mad World, you
45:02
know? Yeah.
45:05
But Nah, Ninja got Ninja got in black.
45:08
Oh my, Oh my. Yeah.
45:11
Yeah, like I'm. Here for it, it looks it looks
45:15
super visceral and I like that it's that like like the areas
45:20
where you're fighting, you know your your enemies are like very
45:24
vast and open. So it leads me to be, there's
45:26
going to be a lot of a lot of dodging, a lot of parrying
45:30
mechanics and you know. And I also like, I also like how
45:35
they're expanding the lore because like they're talking
45:38
about they're talking about the Hayabusa clan in the other in
45:40
the other clan, you know, and talking about how which ones
45:44
who? Ravens.
45:45
Ravens. Yeah, and talking about how
45:48
like, how like both of the plans, like, you know, like
45:50
maintain the balance of power and then, you know, in the
45:52
world, in in the world, you know, between like the
45:55
whatever's, whatever's out there.
45:56
Because like, I'm, I'm like a Ninja Gaiden purist.
45:59
So like I'll I take the lore all the way back to the NES games
46:02
and stuff like that, which, you know, ex.
46:04
Fighter Clan. Yes, yeah.
46:07
Yeah. Yeah.
46:10
So yeah, I'm learning. By Ninja Gaiden lore.
46:14
Yeah. Oh, trust me.
46:16
Did you beat me? I supposed to talk about that?
46:19
Not completely yet not. Completely.
46:22
Yeah, I, I, I've, I've installed Ragebound, but I haven't, I
46:25
haven't started it yet. I've installed it.
46:29
Oh boy yeah. Can we talk about how awkward
46:37
Time Takers was? OK, I thought so too.
46:41
Actually. What?
46:42
What the hell was that? I was like, I was like, you guys
46:44
probably could let this one, like you guys could let this on
46:47
the on the cutting room floor for, for games.com.
46:50
You know, this could have been, this could have been in
46:52
someone's director showcase, you know?
46:56
Time takers. It was like, it was like one of
46:58
those like, I think time. Takers like like a team based
47:01
shooter like third person. Yeah, live service shooter with,
47:05
like, different people from different, you know, eras of the
47:08
world. And apparently there's a monkey,
47:11
you know, that throws bananas at everybody.
47:14
Yeah, it's weird. Yeah.
47:16
It's like why is this company making literally 2 live service
47:20
games right next to each other? Cuz they also did the Fender
47:24
city one as well which I mean better but.
47:28
Which I think they wouldn't say that one said was like an MMO,
47:31
which that's. Yeah, MMO open world
47:33
environment, yeah. I mean, this is, this is a
47:36
Korean team, you know, Korean, Korean, Korean, Korean
47:41
developers always kind of like like March to the beat of their
47:43
own drum. Yeah.
47:50
So what'd you guys think about the musical performance?
47:54
I cried. I was like doing the same thing.
47:56
I was like watching, watching it.
47:58
And I'm like, what the hell is that happening with my eyes
48:00
right now? I I thought it was good.
48:02
And I'm one of those people. I'm one of those people.
48:04
I feel like musical performances like kind of slow down the show.
48:07
You know, I, I, I typically always use that, use that time,
48:11
like especially during the Game Game awards, like go get like,
48:14
you know, like like chips and a drink or something, you know,
48:18
but not, there's some about the, there's some about the clear
48:22
obscure exhibition 33 soundtrack that just is just, it's just,
48:26
it's, it's, it's haunting, it's, it's soul soothing and you know,
48:30
like it, it, it, you know, it, it, it and at the same time, it
48:34
also gets you energized to actually play the game more and
48:37
stuff like that. Like I, I love the soundtrack.
48:39
So yeah, like I had, I had no problems with with that
48:42
performance at all. Yeah, dude.
48:44
Haunting. Her voice is beautiful.
48:47
OK, yeah, I was curious about your opinion because you haven't
48:50
played the game. So does this make you want to
48:53
play the game? Oh hell yeah.
48:57
But I've already kind of wanted to play the game.
48:59
It just adds it definitely adds to it for sure.
49:02
Because I, I really am, you know, music and art really move
49:06
me and they're a big factor as to what, how I enjoy the game.
49:09
And I I've just have to wait till October when I get my
49:14
whatever special edition from GameStop.
49:18
Oh, Monolith Edition. Before the end of the year.
49:22
I was going to say, the Monolith edition doesn't come with the
49:24
game, is it? Oh, OK.
49:27
OK, I think that was I think that was my problem and that's
49:29
how's problem maybe. It's not that.
49:33
Oh, it was. I don't know what it's called,
49:36
but it's from GameStop and it comes with the game in the art
49:38
book. Oh OK, alright.
49:39
No yeah there was like a monolith edition that they re
49:43
released for pre-order a couple months ago.
49:47
I'm still waiting for word on when that's going to arrive.
49:49
That's. The one with the statue.
49:51
Yeah, Yep, the painters statue. It's funny actually.
49:56
I work. I was talking about that with a
49:58
Co worker. Of mine, a break room.
50:02
What I was in. Oh yeah, no, I was in the break
50:08
room talking about with a Co worker of mine and like 1-1
50:12
other Co worker was in the break room and he left.
50:14
He's like, I don't want to I don't want to hear about you
50:16
guys talking about this game because I still have to play it.
50:18
So like he left. It was just him and I.
50:20
We were talking about like, you know the story, this story beat
50:23
the story of that. How about SK of this whatever.
50:26
And then all of a sudden he comes back in like 5 minutes
50:28
later and like we were about ready to drop some big thing and
50:31
then all of a sudden Singing block is like, never mind.
50:38
He's like, you guys are still talking about it.
50:39
I'm like, well. Yeah, it's like there's a lot to
50:43
break down, man. He is.
50:45
God, we could have talked for hours, kind of.
50:48
Yeah. God, we didn't.
50:49
We record a four hour podcast pad about it.
50:52
Three and a half, 3 1/2. Yeah.
50:57
How other worlds too that trailer was?
50:59
That trailer was trippy but but very good.
51:02
And you cannot romance any of your party.
51:06
No you cannot. I like with.
51:08
Them, I like that they made that announcement.
51:10
They said, you know what? I feel like they went back a bit
51:17
on the marketing with this one just cuz the big showcase they
51:21
did for the Summer Games. Like they were trying to push
51:25
this game as being grittier and now it's like, wait, Nope, Nope.
51:29
It it's a fun game. Look at this crazy, you know,
51:32
craziness involved. Look at us.
51:34
We're wacky. Yep, you can't sleep with the
51:37
characters, but they all have personalities now, all right,
51:42
so. Really so really quick for our
51:43
for our for our listeners and viewers out there for the free
51:47
show for games com we had Bubsy 4 announced Battlestar galactica
51:51
scattered hoax's RTS game based on the based on one the popular
51:55
Cypress yeah I love how. Everyone's like, reaction to
52:00
that game is like, really, really.
52:05
We got we got a remaster of the the old Lucas Lucasfilm game
52:10
outlaws their Densch attack would Densch attack, which we
52:15
mentioned earlier. He man the Masters of the
52:17
Universe, Dragon Pearl of Destruction.
52:19
Let's go. Yes, Yes, for real.
52:23
Let's go. Let's go.
52:26
Absalom which got which got in date for October the 9th.
52:29
So like right around the corner long gone Valor Mortis which
52:34
that would. Be fun, Absolutely.
52:36
Yeah, long, Oh yeah, long gone. I feel, I feel like I feel like
52:41
that's probably going to be one of the one of the ones that are
52:43
best in show for me, you know, I just love the whole I just love
52:47
seeing the very beginning, like, oh, dude just got closer and
52:50
closer to the zombie until he got snapped.
52:52
What are you doing, man? And then he loads the gun.
52:58
And then the gun breaks. Then.
53:00
He the gun breaks yeah PVKK, which I'm not going to try to
53:06
announce to to pronounce that and that whatever the name in
53:09
that game was, but yeah like a it's like a like a like a like a
53:13
shooting SIM game basically tower defense game except like.
53:16
You did ever take the goodness scan and known that Commandant?
53:21
Yeah, what? He said routine Swords of Legend
53:27
Road Kings looks at looks pretty good.
53:31
Yeah, there's a for those guys that want to be like truckers
53:36
and, you know, being being, you know, truck Sims and all that
53:38
stuff. I don't know, I feel like, I
53:40
feel like the, I feel like the trailer didn't show us what the
53:41
gameplay is really about. But I don't know, I could be
53:44
wrong. Yeah.
53:46
It's it's Sabre. I mean, you Got Talent behind
53:50
it, but they've never really. Killed it.
53:52
Toxic commando man bro. Damn straight.
53:56
Yep. And then, and then free show
53:58
ended out with the Sonic Sonic Racing Crossroads Pac-Man DLC
54:01
pack plus Pac-Man World 2RE pack.
54:04
So yeah, like like good stuff there.
54:08
And then let's see, I'm going to go backwards because like,
54:11
because like we're definitely saving one of the best ones for
54:13
last year for for for opening Night Live.
54:18
We got Black Black Myth Shanqui RE-9 Requiem, which has a date
54:25
of February 27th, 2026. Ghost Yote 2 is officially
54:30
coming out October 2nd with the Legends DLC falling behind it
54:34
sometime in 2026. World of Tanks heat.
54:38
Thanks for the correction on that one Pat Project Spectrum.
54:42
Yo that World of Warcraft midnight freaking freaking
54:46
cinematic man. Like I I swear Blizzard never
54:50
misses. Blizzard.
54:51
Does good cinematics. Yeah, with their cinematics.
54:54
Oh my God, man, that was that was great.
54:56
And you saw I love how I love how like during the trailer,
54:59
like when when home girl got like the army of the light
55:01
behind her, the the the dark mistress.
55:04
She was like I'm out for. Are you called the lamb fans up
55:11
there? Colt of the Lamb Wool Haven
55:13
expansion coming out in 2026. Dad.
55:16
Yeah, that game still lives on. Zaniness continues Kingdom come
55:22
deliverance to legacy of the forge like nice.
55:25
It's like that's a stand alone game right?
55:28
That's not actually like the a real true sequel to Kingdom come
55:32
deliverance right? Am I right?
55:35
This is like a what? They just announced, Yeah, it's.
55:40
ADLC right, the DLC? Right.
55:42
OK, OK, all right. The PS-5 edition for Age of
55:45
Empires 4, the anniversary edition is coming out on
55:47
November 4th. Oh Kingdom Come Deliverance has
55:50
a date for the Legacy of the Force has the date for September
55:53
9th. We had we had we had a a new
55:57
trailer for Enshrouded as well as a new trailer for Vampire to
56:00
Masquerade Bloodlines 2, which also which also has a date set
56:03
for October 21st. Finally, a lot of a lot of a lot
56:08
of games are coming out in the next two months.
56:10
You know based off of what games com showed us, you know
56:13
moonlighter 2 is hitting early access.
56:15
October 23rd 7 Deadly Sins Origin was was also announced as
56:19
well as a fake trigger which basically is like a whole bunch
56:22
of like cute anime girls going to ham on each other.
56:25
Yeah. I'm not going to lie that 7 the
56:28
seven deadly sins. I was starting to think, Oh my
56:31
gosh, that's this a Nino Cooney? Yeah, yeah, in Zoe Island
56:38
Getaway, they didn't show a lot about that, but there were some
56:41
things about that, like, kind of piqued my interest.
56:43
Like, you know, like the like the like the deflated
56:45
volleyball. That was definitely like a thing
56:47
for like, for like, like Wilson from, from Castaway.
56:51
But it was a cat. It was a cat face, like.
56:56
OK, what's going on here? Outer Worlds 2 is getting
57:00
October 2nd release date Kronos The New Dawn September 5th, I.
57:05
Love, I love the joke that they said about that one though that
57:08
Ben Schwartz says. Like since Grand Theft Auto got
57:11
pushed to or got pushed to Spring 2026, we can officially
57:15
re announce the Outer world's release date.
57:17
Yeah, La Divina comedia. No date on that one.
57:24
Silent Hill F for all you fans out there.
57:26
September 25th. Get ready, Get ready, time
57:30
takers. Cinder City Ninja Gaiden 4
57:33
getting the release date for October 21st Delta Force
57:36
launched. That's the darkest files.
57:39
I did. I did, yeah.
57:41
You did. This is like that detective game
57:44
that takes place in like post war Germany.
57:47
Oh. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.
57:49
I missed that. I'm sorry.
57:50
That's wild one. Was there a date for that?
57:52
Was there a date for that one? No.
57:56
OK. OK.
57:57
TC coming for the switch. I missed that one.
58:00
I missed that one for for all you people that want your next
58:03
free to game, free to play game fix Delta Force launched today
58:07
on on on every platform that matters.
58:10
Fortnite Squid Games season is also launching.
58:13
I didn't see a date for that one though, but I don't think it's
58:15
out just yet though. Honor, Yeah, Honor King.
58:20
Honor King's world looks interesting.
58:23
Looks interesting unbeatable like that that game that
58:26
basically highlighted highlight the Summer Games fest.
58:29
You know, like the the basically like the the rhythm beat em up
58:33
game that you know, like has like all these different sub
58:35
genres in it and stuff like that.
58:36
That's coming out November 6th. I.
58:38
Played the demo of that, it's really good.
58:40
It's really yeah, same. It's really good.
58:42
Never Ness. Everness is awesome.
58:46
Is no date set for that one, but that looks interesting that you
58:49
know especially Never Ness to Everness.
58:52
Never Ness to everness. Yeah, I was wondering, is 20?
58:57
I'm done with these names. I'm done with these.
58:59
Names. Well, it's it's it's it's an
59:00
anime looking title. So there you go.
59:02
I know. I'm yeah, I'm done with the
59:03
entire genre. I mean, it does got a motorcycle
59:05
in it, so like you could fight enemies like a motorcycle.
59:09
So that's kind of cool. 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10 Best game
59:14
Best game of 2025. Yep, 00 parades, Death by
59:19
scrolling. We already talked about that,
59:21
huh? Quick there only cuz we only
59:23
talked about it before the show. But that's the 10 parades.
59:27
That's the one that's made by what's left of help me brain
59:32
fart at the end of the day. We just talked about it.
59:35
Yeah, just go listen. To you, Yeah.
59:38
So this is just one, right? Want to reiterate that the
59:43
concept is intriguing, but the trailer did nothing for me just
59:47
because I was so confused. I didn't know what happened in
59:49
like. Yeah, I didn't, Yeah, I didn't,
59:52
I didn't, I didn't like what they did with like, you know,
59:54
like it looked like it was going to be like a, a full, a full
59:57
blown, like, you know, like like like like 1, like a full blown
1:00:00
game and then wound up looking like, you know, like this go
1:00:02
Elysium and I'm like, what's happening?
1:00:03
You know, I was like, it's hard to describe it.
1:00:06
It's hard to describe what I saw versus versus versus what we
1:00:10
got, you know? John Carpenter's Toxic Commando.
1:00:14
I'm actually kind of thrilled about this.
1:00:16
I don't know why. I don't know why.
1:00:18
Yeah. World World of Tanks 2 Point O
1:00:22
September 3rd, Deadpool VR November 18th.
1:00:25
OK, OK. The comic book, the X-Men comic
1:00:27
book nerd in me was all over this whole Deadpool VR thing.
1:00:31
Too bad I'm never going to play it because it's VR.
1:00:34
And it's Oculus 3. I don't.
1:00:35
I have the PlayStation VR, Yeah. Yep, Indiana Jones in the Great
1:00:41
Circle. We didn't switch to sometime in
1:00:43
2026, but the Order of Giants DLC for Indiana Jones and the
1:00:46
and the and the Great Circle is coming out September the 4th.
1:00:49
So get ready. Fallout season 2.
1:00:53
Yeah, I know right? Fallout season 2 hits Amazon
1:00:57
Prime on the 17th and unfortunately they're not doing
1:01:00
the bench format, which means we got to wait week week by week to
1:01:03
see the show that's. Fine.
1:01:04
Did you see what they have on the preview?
1:01:07
Yes, I saw playing. In the.
1:01:09
Death Claw. Yeah, I saw.
1:01:11
Yeah, yeah. Wow, Rad.
1:01:14
Roaches. My gosh, there was a lot of rad
1:01:16
roaches. Void Bricker had a showing
1:01:21
Daemon X Machina Titanic Scion looked freaking amazing.
1:01:24
By the way, the Daemon X Machina series has come a long way and
1:01:29
and I feel like this is getting better and better with each new
1:01:31
entry. So, so keep up the good work on
1:01:33
that one. Europa Universe Universalis 5.
1:01:38
That's that's tongue twister. Europa Universalis 5.
1:01:41
Yeah, yeah, Ark Knight's infield looks good, looks interesting,
1:01:48
but at the same time, like, what is it?
1:01:50
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Only Mr. Way of the Sword, we,
1:01:53
we know it's come out in 2026. That was the best thing.
1:01:55
That was the best they could give us.
1:01:57
September 2025 for. Are you Monster Hunter Final
1:01:59
Fantasy 14 crossover fans? That's when the events start.
1:02:02
The event on the Monster Hunter side is in September and the
1:02:05
event for the Final Fantasy side is in October.
1:02:07
So be be prepared. Warhammer 40K Dawn of War 4 look
1:02:13
freaking awesome. Yep, look freaking awesome
1:02:16
sometime. In 26 style of game, yeah.
1:02:19
Yeah. Lego Batman Legacy of The Dark
1:02:22
Knight 2026 as well. New anime series based on
1:02:25
Sekiro. A Sekiro No Defeat is coming out
1:02:29
on Crunchyroll. No announced date for that one
1:02:31
as of yet. Lords of the Fallen 2/20/26.
1:02:34
And now, boys and girls, what we've been waiting for Call of
1:02:41
Duty Black Ops 7. Who was waiting for this?
1:02:44
Which one of us is really waiting for this?
1:02:46
OK, I thought we were. I thought we were waiting to
1:02:47
talk about it. I know.
1:02:48
We are. We are, we are.
1:02:50
It's like, I don't know, I, I watched this trailer and I was
1:02:53
just like, what happened to Call of Duty?
1:02:58
I know. Call of Duty lost Call of Duty
1:03:01
lost his identity a long time ago like.
1:03:05
It was starting to kind of steer in the right direction a bit
1:03:07
with the Modern Warfare remake, you know, Modern Warfare 2.
1:03:11
Then we got little glimpses of the future with like, you know,
1:03:15
Black Ops 6 or whatever, or not Black Ops Six.
1:03:19
One of them I don't, I don't remember.
1:03:21
But like, you know, we got to see some more grounded stuff.
1:03:23
And now here we are, back to 2035 with, you know, the future
1:03:27
and weird psychological twists to the levels.
1:03:31
OK, so I'm, I'm going to be real.
1:03:32
I'm going to be real on this one.
1:03:34
I, I kind of, I kind of like the sci-fi like like storylines, you
1:03:38
know, and, and Call of Duty I, I, I, I, I yeah, yeah.
1:03:42
Now that being said, like I will always, I will always flock to
1:03:46
like the Modern Warfare like format, though.
1:03:48
I will always flock to that because I feel because like,
1:03:50
because Modern Warfare is actually how I got into Call of
1:03:53
Duty because I, I didn't like Call of Duty before Modern
1:03:56
Warfare happened, you know, and, and, and honestly, I didn't like
1:04:00
battlefield before Modern Warfare happened because of
1:04:04
course, as soon as Modern Warfare happened, battlefield's
1:04:06
like, oh, we. Can do it too, like wait for us
1:04:08
it's. Like, we're here, yeah.
1:04:11
But I feel like Battlefield, I feel like Battlefield for all,
1:04:14
it's all all battlefields like slips and stumbles over the
1:04:17
years, though I feel like they do it a little more consistently
1:04:20
than than Call of Duty does when it goes in this this sci-fi tech
1:04:23
realm, you know? So like that.
1:04:26
So yeah, I was kind of, I was going to amp for the trailer
1:04:29
though. Like, I like it and I also like,
1:04:31
I like, I also like the whole new aspect of like of like now
1:04:34
the single player has a multiplayer aspect to it where,
1:04:37
you know, like they're basically, they're basically
1:04:40
stealing, they're basically stealing the the, the playbook
1:04:42
from from from Rainbow 6. Yeah, I.
1:04:47
Like that, the campaign's fully Co-op now.
1:04:49
Yeah, yeah, that yeah, good stuff.
1:04:51
And also like I did like because they didn't they didn't show
1:04:54
enough of it during games com, but they actually showed like,
1:04:57
you know, the actual like like the actual actors, like actually
1:05:00
doing some of them they just saw the motion cap, but they
1:05:03
actually saw like the actors like you know, like in full
1:05:05
dress up, you know, for as their characters and stuff like that.
1:05:07
So like it's a good sell and stuff like that.
1:05:10
Yeah, the, the actual character design for the game look great.
1:05:13
For real. Like some of the trippy stuff.
1:05:15
Well, like, you know, like, like, like Los Angeles looking
1:05:18
like, like, like it was ripped from Inception.
1:05:20
You know, that's I, I wonder how that's going to play.
1:05:24
It's going to be interesting because I know they're going to
1:05:27
try to blend a little bit of real world level design with a
1:05:32
lot of the trip. At least that's what the
1:05:33
creative directors were talking about.
1:05:35
Like they were like, yeah, we're doing a mixture of everything,
1:05:38
you know, and we're having fun. And it's like, OK, well, I'm
1:05:41
just curious to see how much of it is going to be grounded in
1:05:44
the real world, you know, levels versus the trippy psychological
1:05:49
stuff. Yeah.
1:05:52
Yep. All right, so So what what say
1:05:56
you guys? What if you were to pick three
1:05:58
games that were like best in show across both either the pre
1:06:01
show or opening Night Live? Which which ones will you picks
1:06:05
story go first? Lego Batman Legacy of The Dark
1:06:10
Knight. I I did that one kind of snuck
1:06:13
up on me because I was like, Oh no, the Lego Batman game.
1:06:16
And then I watched it and I was like, this actually looks really
1:06:19
good and it looks really fun. And then obviously Ninja Gaiden
1:06:24
4, I'm super excited for anything, anything of that.
1:06:30
And then God, what's the Silent Hill laugh?
1:06:33
Obviously. So those, those would be my top
1:06:36
one. Those would be my topic.
1:06:38
Well, you, you left something out, bro.
1:06:40
I know I did, I know I did, and I it's one of those things I
1:06:44
expected it to be like. It's obviously, you know, I was,
1:06:48
I was expecting it, but I think the other three were like
1:06:51
pleasant surprises for me. OK, yeah, it's it's AI.
1:06:57
Don't know, maybe maybe I expected to see more of Requiem.
1:07:01
True. We didn't.
1:07:02
Again, we just saw a back story. We didn't see really.
1:07:06
What is this game about? Yeah, it.
1:07:08
Abruptly ended. We really didn't see combat.
1:07:11
We really didn't see much. We just saw how the movement
1:07:15
played out, you know, saw a guy getting choked with a plastic
1:07:21
bag. That was pretty crazy.
1:07:23
And then got. His throat split.
1:07:25
Yeah, right. He was a nice old man, what he
1:07:29
was. Trying to get the power back up.
1:07:30
What a jerk. Anyway.
1:07:32
Yeah, what will be your 3 picks? Oh gosh, there are so many
1:07:40
things. I know you.
1:07:41
You. Can only pick 3.
1:07:46
Resident Evil for sure. I really liked Kronos.
1:07:59
Every time I see Kronos it's it's getting better and better
1:08:02
in my opinion. And let's go with and why is the
1:08:15
third one always so hard? I'm going to have to go.
1:08:23
I'm strangely excited for a new Black Myth after beating Wukong.
1:08:30
Like game science knows what they're doing, and so I I.
1:08:34
Wanted to see what. I do.
1:08:39
All right, Stephanie. All right, so the first one
1:08:44
obviously is Resident Evil Requiem.
1:08:47
I liked the little bit of back story.
1:08:49
I like story trailers and even though it's definitely not main
1:08:53
gameplay, but you kind of can see like a brief snippet of what
1:08:57
probably might be a playable flashback that isn't too much.
1:09:02
So shook me to my core there. Kronos I gotta say I I agree,
1:09:10
just the more I see it, the fact that they had like someone in
1:09:12
one of those chrono suits, it was pretty cool.
1:09:16
On. Stage.
1:09:18
She'd stayed the Kitty. OK.
1:09:21
Well, that's the thing I saw the thing that kind of going toward
1:09:23
the cat, I'm like, don't you fucking kill that cat?
1:09:25
I swear I will go to the studio and burn it down if you kill
1:09:30
that cat. But then they saved the Kitty,
1:09:31
so I'm like, all right, that's all.
1:09:32
That's all good. And then the Kitty.
1:09:34
Appeared at the end again. I know.
1:09:40
And I'd say Oni Musha way of the sword, although I will give a
1:09:44
like, what do you call it? Like a honorable mention to long
1:09:48
gone because it's not like a super epic realistic trailer,
1:09:53
but it did provide something refreshing and different and
1:09:56
quirky enough that you know, something that's not a AAA
1:09:59
title. Just snag my attention.
1:10:01
So. Nice, nice.
1:10:04
All right, so so these are not in particular order for me, but
1:10:08
Kronos knew dawn. That looks like that looks like
1:10:10
it's going to be my next jam. Like for real Moonlighter 2 and
1:10:16
and the in the third crap. Why why I lose track of it the
1:10:21
third game. Oh, oh, Ani Musha way of the
1:10:23
sword. Yeah, Ani Musha way of the
1:10:26
sword. Audible mention does go to to
1:10:29
Indiana Jones in the Order of Giants.
1:10:32
Honorable mention goes to that one, and and bonus honorable
1:10:35
mention goes to Absalom. Like I, I I'm really do.
1:10:39
Honorable mentions get out of. Here, Hey, I'm the host, I'm the
1:10:45
host, I'm the host of show. I can do what I want.
1:10:46
Sorry you have an honorable mention.
1:10:48
I guess it would be Resident Evil Requiem then.
1:10:52
My honorable mentions the Divina Camida Camida, however you say
1:10:58
it in Italian. And my honourable honourable
1:11:01
honourable Colonel too. You ran out of.
1:11:07
That's like about to choke you through the Internet right now.
1:11:11
Don't make me start talking about tales, Azalea Dreammaster.
1:11:15
Oh, God. Oh God.
1:11:17
OK, yeah, we're we're we're done.
1:11:19
We're we're done here. All right, so with that, another
1:11:24
explosive, another explosive chapter of game games comms
1:11:27
opening Night Live is in the books truth form Jeff Keeley's
1:11:30
production delivered a relentless barrage of world
1:11:33
premieres, release dates and unexpected reveals, effectively
1:11:36
setting the gaming agenda for the coming months.
1:11:39
And when I said the coming months, I basically mean from
1:11:41
September all the way through November because God, once
1:11:46
again, we're at, once again, we're at the gauntlet of like,
1:11:49
is our bank account going to survive?
1:11:51
No, it's not. Once again I've.
1:11:54
Already invested that last week of October.
1:11:57
Where everything. 'S coming out Halloween time.
1:11:59
Or. Like within.
1:12:01
See it Hell week starts for me. Hell week start.
1:12:04
Well, hell, whatever this is starts for me with Metal Gear
1:12:07
Solid Delta. That's when it starts.
1:12:10
Yeah. That that comes out.
1:12:11
That comes out. That comes out next week.
1:12:14
Yeah. Yeah.
1:12:15
And then, you know, like it's, it's just all downhill.
1:12:17
Like, you know, Shinobi Art of Vengeance is coming, Gears of
1:12:20
War Reload Reloaded is coming. You know, like it's like.
1:12:23
Man, you just mentioned come out next week.
1:12:26
All those you just mentioned come out next week.
1:12:29
I know. He's like, he's like, what are
1:12:32
you all? Doing to me.
1:12:35
Well, and you want to just add one one more thing and it has
1:12:38
nothing to do with new games, but I'm flying down to North
1:12:41
Carolina for the limited run 10 year anniversary event and I'm
1:12:45
going as media so you're. Going to the store.
1:12:50
Yeah, and I am going legit as media.
1:12:52
I don't know why I used air quotes but like that'll kind of
1:12:55
put me in a good position to spend way too much money on the
1:12:59
my missing collectibles. Yeah, find out when He Men, He
1:13:03
Men and the dragon Pearl Destruction are coming out
1:13:05
because Limited Runs is publishing that game.
1:13:08
So get us a date on that one, because there was no date.
1:13:12
Will do. Yeah, yeah, so ultimately games
1:13:16
com is definitely a celebration that perfectly capture the the
1:13:19
communal thrill of a Mitch gaming event leading fans like
1:13:22
with a daunting but exciting list of games to that are highly
1:13:26
anticipated at this point now. So there you have it.
1:13:29
Next four days as of this recording is nothing but like,
1:13:33
you know, just stuff on the showroom floor.
1:13:35
Everybody's going to be like salivating over Resident Evil
1:13:37
Requiem as well as some of the other hot titles out there, man,
1:13:41
Like it's going to be crazy. So so definitely keep your eyes
1:13:44
over at bosphorus.net for all the for all the upcoming
1:13:47
articles and all the showcases that are going on over there.
1:13:51
We will probably be back here next week, probably we'll spend
1:13:55
more time next on next week's show just talking about some of
1:13:58
the stuff in the aftermath because it's going to be crazy.
1:14:01
Like I said, there's going to be news for the for the Xbox ROG
1:14:04
Ally X, you know, and so it which I'm definitely excited
1:14:08
for, yeah. Yeah.
1:14:10
And supposedly a game about bugs.
1:14:12
Yo, isn't it wild? Isn't it wild like we, isn't it
1:14:16
wild? We're back.
1:14:17
We're back to having hardware announcements, you know, at at
1:14:20
these at these shows now. Isn't it crazy?
1:14:23
Yeah, so so definitely thank you for that.
1:14:27
Like definitely sound off in our comments like, you know, let us
1:14:30
know how you guys felt about it. Was was energizing enough for
1:14:33
you. I feel like I feel like if I
1:14:34
were to give games com opening Night Live a a great a letter
1:14:38
grade score, it's an A plus his name plus there was something in
1:14:42
here for damn. There was something in here for
1:14:44
everybody, everybody. If you were like in those
1:14:47
obscure Indies, you got it. If you were, if you're, if
1:14:49
you're into games of service, I don't know how you are.
1:14:52
Japanese weed something funny for you in this role?
1:14:57
Like like there was there was RTS games falling up the wazoo,
1:15:00
there was a whole bunch of shooters or, or just lived up
1:15:04
for the night. Resident Evil and Silent Hill in
1:15:07
the same showcase, guys. Right.
1:15:10
Yeah, yeah. I'm to be alive.
1:15:12
What? A thunk it, right?
1:15:15
Yes, we might as well throw them in there now as a Trinity.
1:15:18
Yeah, and we even got some Monster Hunter content.
1:15:23
Maybe we got some I think I think Jeff can played Moscow
1:15:25
honey. There it is All right, so we're
1:15:33
going to take we're going to take a brief intermission from
1:15:35
talking about games Com and Stephanie, you had a you had a
1:15:38
banter that you that you had a banter like up at bat, didn't
1:15:41
you or did you not? Or are we just going to talk
1:15:44
about what we've been playing is?
1:15:47
That what you're talking about? Banter was what ended up being
1:15:49
the pre show. OK, OK.
1:15:51
All right, cool. Cool.
1:15:52
Then let's just go ahead and like slide right into what we've
1:15:54
been playing. And then and let's start doing
1:15:56
our acknowledgements so we can go to bed early tonight.
1:16:02
Yay. All right, All right, so you
1:16:04
know what, Pat, you're up first. I want I I want you to go first.
1:16:08
Yes. You want me to go first?
1:16:10
Yes. You know, you know what?
1:16:12
I'm going to talk about something that always gets us
1:16:15
off topic. Some weird obscure RPG.
1:16:20
No, I don't have one of those on my.
1:16:22
Old game. Does it rhyme?
1:16:24
Does it rhyme with Myanmar? Yes.
1:16:28
Like that, I was just about to say something.
1:16:32
I was going to say I was going to say Minskar, but yeah.
1:16:36
So Mr. Minstar has been really busy this year.
1:16:41
It has a lot of games have come out, including a very small
1:16:46
title, indie almost from Sargon Studios called Dead Take.
1:16:55
It is a horror or psychological? Yeah, we'll call it a
1:16:58
psychological horror game that tells its story through F&B
1:17:04
videos. And I'd liked that they did
1:17:10
because it really helped drive the story along.
1:17:13
It made the the characters in the game insanely human.
1:17:19
This game the the creator, he wants the his games.
1:17:26
He wants to focus on like human emotions and human nature.
1:17:31
He did the exact same thing with the Tales of Kanzari Zao where
1:17:35
he focused on like deep emotions.
1:17:37
But I feel with the when the ones that he was going for in
1:17:42
dead take, he needed to have that video for it.
1:17:47
And it has got an All Star cast. We have Ben Starr, we have Neil
1:17:52
Newborn, we have Laura Bailey, we have Matt Mercer, we have Sam
1:17:57
Lake. Like.
1:18:00
Geez, it was like, it was like, it was like a reunion for some
1:18:02
of these people. We got Commander Shepard and
1:18:04
Liara and Verso in the same game.
1:18:09
Which one was wait, no, Matt Mercer, who was Commander
1:18:12
Shepard? Matt Mercer, wasn't he really?
1:18:15
Or am I? Am I thinking Mark Mirror?
1:18:19
I think that's what you're thinking, Mark.
1:18:20
Mirror. Yeah, it's all start with an M.
1:18:24
You, you got old. You got second generation Leon
1:18:27
in there. Yeah, that's true.
1:18:28
Yep. Yeah.
1:18:28
Mm. Hmm.
1:18:30
He's, he's a pretty good Leon. I'll give him that one.
1:18:34
As well as Heisenberg now or is Heisenberg from president?
1:18:39
I think is. New, new, new, Neil Newbon was
1:18:42
Heisenberg, yeah. Yep, Yep.
1:18:45
So you have all this task you you play as a man, you play as a
1:18:50
actor named Chase who is trying to find his other actor buddy
1:18:55
Vinny, who is Ben Starr, who's kind of gone missing.
1:18:59
The last known thing, the last known location was supposedly
1:19:04
this party that was being held by a very prestigious but very
1:19:09
controversial director named Duke Cain.
1:19:12
They pause for a second. I really wish you hadn't
1:19:15
mentioned this game because I'm looking at trailer now and I'm
1:19:17
like, oh, oh man, oh man, Like I where's my, where's my credit
1:19:21
card? Luckily it's a short game I
1:19:25
beat. It yeah, I know.
1:19:26
It's like it's like it's like 4 to 5 hours according to what I'm
1:19:29
seeing. Yeah, but every they do such a
1:19:36
good job with the acting. Like you can just see the
1:19:40
emotion and that that these actors are going through in the
1:19:44
cutscenes. Like it it dives into some
1:19:47
really dark human human nature territory and like it's you can
1:19:55
see things like fear and insecurity just running through
1:19:59
these characters. Like just even Ben Starr does
1:20:06
such a phenomenal job in this. He even go goes with an American
1:20:10
accent which is absolutely crazy to hear.
1:20:13
Oh boy. Why'd you say that?
1:20:18
I'm I'll be in my bunk. Goodbye y'all.
1:20:28
Like it? It's good.
1:20:29
I, I don't want to go too deep into the story, but it does have
1:20:34
it's, it's kind of like an escape room scenario where they
1:20:39
kind of put you in like a part of the mansion.
1:20:41
You need to find some like items and solve some puzzles.
1:20:45
And then you get the next piece of the puzzle.
1:20:48
And the puzzle is using this video machine to splice videos
1:20:52
together, which then reveals like a whole new like video.
1:20:57
And then you it's rinse, wash and repeat.
1:21:01
But it is very good. It is short.
1:21:05
Like I said there are some jump scares in it, but it is more
1:21:12
like at the end of the game you are just like it makes you think
1:21:17
a lot about just how far humans go and able to like prove
1:21:23
themselves. This is on my wish list so I'm
1:21:29
I'm eagerly waiting. It's it's good.
1:21:36
I also picked up sort sort of the CC today, which is the game
1:21:42
by Giant Squid, the makers of Abzu Journey.
1:21:48
I don't recall Giant Squid making journey.
1:21:50
I don't know why they keep saying that.
1:21:52
Like I thought someone else did Journey but Absu the Pathless.
1:21:59
But yeah, it's definitely got like that journey vibe because
1:22:03
like the world you're in is a giant desert, but it's got Absu
1:22:08
and the fact that you turn like the desert into the sea and it's
1:22:13
got Pathless. That's got such an amazing
1:22:15
traversal system. You're flying around or you're
1:22:19
surfing on a hover sword and you, it's, it's so smooth, like
1:22:25
you're jumping on waves and you learn more tricks as you go
1:22:29
along. So you you're like constantly
1:22:31
jumping and like just performing tricks and using those tricks to
1:22:36
kind of get into higher elevations or a different like
1:22:39
platforming levels. It it's kind of like an open
1:22:42
zone and it rewards you for exploring.
1:22:45
If you see something that looks slightly out of place, I
1:22:48
recommend to go check it out and you will probably be rewarded
1:22:51
for something, whether it be like a collectible or some
1:22:55
currency which you use to then buy more tricks.
1:22:59
That's for the story. I don't know what's going on.
1:23:02
It's a silent game, the the stories in the journey, just
1:23:06
like the how these type of games work.
1:23:09
But from what I understand so far is that something happened
1:23:13
within the balance of like death and like rebirth.
1:23:18
And so like, everything's all dried up and now you have to
1:23:22
like try and fix the order again.
1:23:25
And that seems to be what the water is about.
1:23:27
But I don't know what it's about.
1:23:29
It's a pretty game. It's got a good soundtrack, and
1:23:32
I like the exploration and the traversal factors in this game.
1:23:39
I also beat Mafia, the old country.
1:23:42
I'm still in that. Wow.
1:23:44
Yes it's it's it's a short game. I like the main story.
1:23:50
After the story, I tried the open world.
1:23:53
The open world is very lifeless and almost no point in doing it
1:23:59
other than to get some like collectibles that consists of
1:24:03
newspapers, photographs, St. cards.
1:24:07
Like it's not the Playboys from the prior games that you can
1:24:10
collect, which, you know, made it a little more interesting.
1:24:14
Like, and like I said, the world's dead.
1:24:16
Like there's hardly anyone out there.
1:24:18
There's no like traffic on the roads.
1:24:21
It's it's pretty, but there's nothing going on in it.
1:24:24
So it's like, I don't really feel the need to go and try and
1:24:29
collect everything in this game. But the story itself I liked, I
1:24:33
liked the main character Enzo. I liked the kind of story that
1:24:40
of him, you know, growing up with this, this family that took
1:24:43
him in. It's I like the characters.
1:24:49
There's some good characters in that game.
1:24:50
And I think that's what makes the Mafia game work, is that
1:24:54
it's got this focus story that features these cool characters.
1:25:02
Yeah, I really, I really, yeah, I, I really do 100%.
1:25:05
I think like I said, I'm only like a few hours in it.
1:25:10
It is very much directional, like it, it doesn't allow you to
1:25:14
deviate too much. It's basically like walk forward
1:25:17
to engage this cutscene or walk forward to, you know, engage in
1:25:21
this combat scenario or like do these little side things and
1:25:24
then like all of a sudden, Oh no, now something happened.
1:25:27
And it's like it's very guided, but it's also a very interesting
1:25:32
story and very interesting setting.
1:25:35
Like I, I mean, the worlds and the cities, the towns,
1:25:40
everything that the, that they built around it, it looks, it
1:25:43
looks great, like old vintage 1900s Italy, you know, Sicily,
1:25:49
just so well done, like the graphics and everything.
1:25:52
And then, yeah, the characters, all very good, very interesting
1:25:57
characters. Combat's interesting you because
1:26:01
they seem this game focuses on like boss battles that are night
1:26:05
fights. Yeah, I I, I still haven't
1:26:09
figured out how to dodge yet. It's like you see the attack
1:26:13
coming and it's like, OK, all right, you got to dodge that.
1:26:15
And I hit Perry every damn time. I think I'm still the leftover
1:26:20
from clear obscure. I was like.
1:26:21
Perry well, it's you. When you normally think of
1:26:25
attack, you think of like X or square button and like the
1:26:27
attacks are circling triangle, yeah, and this.
1:26:31
And then your Perry is square and then your dodge is X and
1:26:35
it's like, OK, but then there's also an attack for the shoulder
1:26:39
button. Like the controls are not very
1:26:41
intuitive and they're not super responsive because I know I've
1:26:45
dodged those like super attacks that they do the the red marked
1:26:50
ones, but yet I still get hit. It's like, I that was the only
1:26:55
button I pushed. But yeah, I mean, it's
1:26:59
interesting because it does add a little more dramatic effect to
1:27:03
the, like, major battles when you have these, like, knife
1:27:06
fights going on and they're like yelling at each other.
1:27:09
Yeah, during it. But you know, it's all right.
1:27:14
No, it's it's a good game. It's a fine game.
1:27:16
It's worth $50, I'll say that much.
1:27:19
Yeah, that's me though. Nice.
1:27:28
Lauren, who's next? Well, Stephanie?
1:27:33
Sure, I'll, I'll keep it short and sweet.
1:27:35
I'm still playing through Death Stranding to little by little,
1:27:40
you know, I'm at a point where I'm like, I need to beat this so
1:27:44
I can be ready for Metal Gear Solid.
1:27:47
So I'm like starting to skip the smaller side orders but it's so
1:27:50
tempting. I think I'm on chapter 8 towards
1:27:53
the end of chapter 8 so I know I'm like still barely halfway
1:27:56
through the damn game so. No, you're, you're getting the
1:28:01
last few chapters go by faster. So, OK, yeah, I'd say you're
1:28:06
about 2/3 of Australia now. Yeah.
1:28:11
I mean, it is satisfying for me to like see me mostly kind of
1:28:14
mapping everything out. It's just like crap.
1:28:17
I don't have much time left, but nothing new to say that it
1:28:21
hasn't already been said, You know?
1:28:23
I like taking a lot of screenshots and I love learning
1:28:24
about the world. I did get to play.
1:28:28
You finally did see Higgs though, now, right?
1:28:31
Like in his full glory, yes. Yes.
1:28:34
Yeah, yeah, beautiful. What do you think?
1:28:37
Beautiful man, Beautiful evil man so.
1:28:41
He's so crazy. It's awesome.
1:28:43
Like it's he's so I know. It really is.
1:28:48
Who's like, I'm going to take one of my intestines out.
1:28:54
It's going to choke you. You're going to die a door.
1:28:59
Of. All those kind of illness.
1:29:02
All right. It almost had like tentacle
1:29:07
hentai like vibes in that scene, but you know that that was.
1:29:10
Anyway. Hentai vibe.
1:29:14
Stories like I'm not. I have to play with Outbreak.
1:29:19
I already didn't wanna play this in the 1st place and now I
1:29:22
definitely don't wanna play it. Sure.
1:29:24
I also played Whiskey Mountain Outbreak.
1:29:27
I also played that one. Yeah, Whiskey.
1:29:29
Yeah. Whiskey Mountain, you like it?
1:29:31
I did. Actually.
1:29:32
I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.
1:29:35
Yeah, it's like, it really is kind of like your pixelated,
1:29:39
like kind of sort of tribute to Resident Evil, but it's still
1:29:43
kind. Of that's my favorite genre
1:29:44
right now, Pixel art, Resident Evil, survival horror games.
1:29:49
I guess so, yeah. But no, it's a lot of fun.
1:29:53
A lot of it's randomized. I do feel like the missions are
1:29:57
just pretty much go get the thing.
1:29:59
But, you know, it's more about the fun of kind of, you know,
1:30:03
playing with friends and dealing with enemy hordes and kind of,
1:30:08
yeah, it's been a lot of fun exploring the different levels.
1:30:11
And I think I just said it, the items are randomly generated.
1:30:17
Your specialization, they give you an option of three, but it
1:30:21
could be a randomized 3. So it has a little variety like
1:30:25
that. And I keep in mind that it is
1:30:27
early access still. So you know, Toge is still going
1:30:31
to probably add more to it when it does a full release.
1:30:37
The yeah, I, I get caught with the whole like, OK, I got the
1:30:41
item, I should just go back to the exit now.
1:30:44
And it's like, oh, let me stay and kill a few more zombies, you
1:30:47
know? And then all of a sudden I get
1:30:48
my shit rocked and I'm like oh man.
1:30:50
Yep, Yep. Happened to me at least two or
1:30:53
three times. I was like fuck this game.
1:30:55
When you got to the last level, like how many waves did you
1:30:58
survive? 3.
1:31:01
I got, I think I got up to five, but I, it was near impossible.
1:31:06
I just, we ran through all of our ammo and like, well, I guess
1:31:09
we're just gonna die now. Yep, I was, I was.
1:31:12
I recited to my fate. I was like this is impossible.
1:31:15
I would. I played single player,
1:31:16
obviously so. How was that experience?
1:31:19
Was it? Do you feel like it was pretty
1:31:20
difficult? No, it actually wasn't.
1:31:23
So long as you just keep moving. I think there's obviously power
1:31:27
in numbers and like if you can actually like, you know, cordon
1:31:30
off certain areas and but I was basically running and gunning a
1:31:36
lot, so. All right, nice.
1:31:39
That's good to know. I I still had fun single player,
1:31:42
honestly, like it was it was a blast single player like I'm
1:31:45
pretty sure it's going to be a a ton more fun with multiple
1:31:48
people, but. Steph, when we played it at PAX
1:31:52
East, they had a lot of puzzles. Are there not as many puzzles in
1:31:55
this game now or? Oh, there's still puzzles, you
1:31:59
know you got your unlock the key thing.
1:32:02
Match the wires so the circuit goes through.
1:32:06
Yeah, but we had those kind of puzzles where like we literally
1:32:09
had to work together. Do you remember?
1:32:11
Like I was on the computer to try and figure out a
1:32:14
combination. You were reading me numbers and
1:32:16
I was reading you numbers back to correspond with them.
1:32:19
There, there's stuff we had to work together.
1:32:21
Like there are projectors that have numbers on the walls and
1:32:24
then the other person has to unlock the door in another room
1:32:27
with the number and the way it's oriented.
1:32:30
Or if you want to unlock like someone's locker, someone else
1:32:34
probably needs to find the person with the the tag and redo
1:32:38
that number. So yeah, but it depends on play
1:32:44
style because you know, sometimes I just end up just
1:32:47
taking the picture and then doing it myself.
1:32:49
But OK, it's still like definitely got a lot of inter
1:32:55
interactivity if you'd like. Yeah.
1:33:00
For sure. Which, by the way, you know,
1:33:04
shout out to CG, Danny B and Adam Gumby.
1:33:07
Those were the guys that I played with.
1:33:10
They're very cool people. Very cool.
1:33:12
Oh cool. You met some.
1:33:15
I highly recommend. It's a great game.
1:33:18
Yeah. He's he was at, he was one of
1:33:21
the guests at the expedition. Oh, OK.
1:33:24
Cast. Oh yeah.
1:33:25
Yeah, yeah. He was the other guy.
1:33:28
Yeah, he was the other guy. I remember that guy.
1:33:33
Yep. Good guy, yeah.
1:33:37
Who next? Who next?
1:33:39
That would be me so so yeah, so I, I mentioned this last week
1:33:45
and I and I think I hit my stopping point with with with my
1:33:50
replay of Final Fantasy Tactics were the lions because I I was
1:33:54
doing it to like get myself ready for like the evil E
1:33:57
chronicles. But as soon as I completed
1:34:01
Chapter 1 of Final Fantasy Tactics, which basically, if
1:34:05
people don't know what that, well, the game's old enough at
1:34:09
this point by now, like Ramza and Deleta split up at the end
1:34:13
of this study, this storyline and, and this and this starts
1:34:17
the real storyline of what's going on with the War of the
1:34:19
Lions. Like, like, like, so like
1:34:22
basically I was like, you know what, this is probably the good
1:34:25
time for me to stop now, even though I did want to like level
1:34:28
up my characters a little bit more and get them in a few more
1:34:30
job classes. Because like I just unlocked
1:34:33
like I just unlocked the the monk, which I forgot.
1:34:36
Like you had to go through, you had to go through night to get
1:34:38
the monk. I went completely the opposite
1:34:41
way. And, you know, like wound up,
1:34:43
wound up with wound up some somehow, someway with one of the
1:34:49
magic classes That didn't make any sense.
1:34:51
I was like, why am I here this early?
1:34:52
Like I was in time age and I was like, this doesn't seem right.
1:34:55
Like I where was monk at? Because like monk is one of my
1:34:58
favorite job classes in the game and stuff like that.
1:35:00
So yeah, I figured it out. Like I had to go through night
1:35:03
to get that, which means I could have had that like back in
1:35:05
chapter 3 or 4, not chapter 3 or 4, like by like by like quest 5
1:35:09
or 6 and you know, the game and stuff like that.
1:35:11
But that's, that's me. It's been so long since I played
1:35:13
Final Fantasy Tactics, even though it was my favorite Final
1:35:16
Fantasy game ever, you know? So yeah, so I hit my stopping
1:35:19
point on that and I'm like, you know what?
1:35:21
I'm just going to wait for the for the for the remake to come
1:35:24
out, which is what I want to play and do it from there.
1:35:28
So yeah, that's that's the only thing I've already played this
1:35:30
week besides Tekken. All right.
1:35:37
Stoy, where'd you play? Yeah.
1:35:40
I beat Ninja Gaiden Ragebound couple days ago.
1:35:43
Nice. Were you raging?
1:35:45
Did. You.
1:35:46
I was, I was raging. I yeah, I beat it.
1:35:49
Because I did. You had to go through the game a
1:35:50
second time to beat it. Yeah, if you want to do a full
1:35:53
playthrough because there is a ending choice that you have to
1:35:56
make. And yeah, I'm I'm obviously not
1:36:03
going to not going to spoil what the ending choice was, but you
1:36:07
can go through a second time and probably make a different
1:36:10
choice. But I do.
1:36:14
This game is so good. It's so good.
1:36:19
The the flow of the level design and the enemy placements is so
1:36:25
perfect. They even have those goddamn
1:36:28
flying birds that fly in there and try to attack you by
1:36:31
swooping in and out like this. Whatever.
1:36:34
But I mean, easily dispatched because it's got that like jump
1:36:38
and attack. Yeah.
1:36:41
Mechanic, yeah. Where you can like, actually
1:36:43
just like bounce off of enemies and stuff like that.
1:36:45
So there's some enemies that are placed perfectly where you could
1:36:48
just like go through part of the level, just like jumping from
1:36:50
enemy to enemy to enemy to enemy.
1:36:54
The boss fights are hard, but hard.
1:36:59
But it requires multiple, multiple, multiple playthroughs.
1:37:05
But you learn each bit every time.
1:37:08
You're like, you know, you get your shit kicked in and then
1:37:11
you're like, OK, all right, I'm not going to do that next time.
1:37:13
Or sometimes you get greedy. Maybe I can go for one extra hit
1:37:16
here. And it's like, and you get your
1:37:17
shit kicked in again and then it's like, OK, right, maybe I
1:37:20
shouldn't do that anymore. But yeah.
1:37:23
So that's, that's I, I had high hopes for it to be a good game
1:37:30
because it's the guys that made Streets of Rage 4.
1:37:32
And it's like, I, I knew, you know, playing the demo impressed
1:37:36
me, so I, I was fully in on it. And.
1:37:40
Yeah. It's actually a mix of the guys
1:37:42
who did Streets of Rage Four and the guys who did Blasphemous.
1:37:47
That makes sense. Yeah, you're right, you're
1:37:49
right. The Blasphemous guys did that
1:37:50
too. So, but yeah, I just started,
1:37:55
I'd started another playthrough again and you know, just so
1:38:02
eventually I'm going to, I'm going to get back into it again.
1:38:05
And I know they have speed run challenges, so I'm, I, I don't
1:38:11
think I'm ready for that yet, but go ask.
1:38:14
Ask Frank for all of it. I I got S rank on a couple
1:38:18
levels. I know like you, you know, you,
1:38:20
you pause through, you know, you see all the challenges and I do
1:38:24
at least at the very least two sometimes, you know, some of the
1:38:28
ones where it's like, oh, beat the enemy in less than a minute.
1:38:30
It's like, yeah, no, that's not happening.
1:38:33
Don't get hit by the boss. Yeah, don't get hit by the boss
1:38:36
or like, don't fall into a pit. That's like hit.
1:38:39
The boss 100 times but then get hit once and you're like yeah
1:38:43
fucked. I mean some of them are easy
1:38:45
where it's like kill 20 of this type of enemy or something.
1:38:48
So yeah, magic for gaming in the chat is loving, loving my rage,
1:38:54
my rage bound chat. Yeah, I think that's Josh.
1:38:58
Hi, Josh. Yeah, hi, Josh.
1:39:01
And he's also a fellow Daisy enjoyer.
1:39:03
I'm glad it's not just me, but yeah, so playing.
1:39:07
It on the higher like when you go through the second time it's
1:39:10
a higher. No, no, no, no, no, no.
1:39:14
I want to enjoy my time. Yeah.
1:39:15
I see saying that in cold take he he said the second play
1:39:19
through like to get the true ending you have to go through a
1:39:23
second playthrough and you have to play through it in like hard
1:39:25
mode. Really.
1:39:27
I think so, yeah. That, that, that is interesting.
1:39:30
I like that. The talismans that you unlock,
1:39:34
they there's certain talismans that actually amp up the
1:39:37
difficulty, like where you have one life per level, where like
1:39:42
if you if you die, you have to start all the way over
1:39:44
completely to the beginning, which, yeah, I'm like, why would
1:39:49
you? Why would you want that?
1:39:52
But no, I'm, I'm. You know what Pat life is.
1:39:56
Life is too busy. You know?
1:39:57
My, my, my day is packed enough. I don't want to sit there and
1:39:59
struggle with this damn game. Too old.
1:40:01
I'm fine with those special levels.
1:40:03
So special levels was a nice like you're challenging and it
1:40:06
makes me feel good when I beat you.
1:40:09
Yes, yes, but you're not necessary and you know, it gives
1:40:12
you a, it gives you a chance to like practice your speed running
1:40:14
skills, which is really cool. I know there's some of those
1:40:17
times where it's like I'm going to try to get through this area
1:40:19
as fast as I can, you know, and it's like, let me try to kind of
1:40:22
like duck and dodge, dip and dive and do all this stuff.
1:40:25
It's it's super fun. It's I'm having, I had a blast
1:40:28
with it, but. It is good, those bosses I hate
1:40:31
but I I enjoy pretty much all the rest of the game.
1:40:34
But that, but that's the thing, like the the bosses were like
1:40:37
challenging, but they had it was like that old school pattern
1:40:42
recognition where it's like OK squid.
1:40:44
Woman boss was just a total asshole.
1:40:47
Oh, she's a bitch. Like you had the splash damage,
1:40:51
you had this, the bouncy egg things and while dodging her
1:40:55
tentacles it's. Like, yeah, the hell was that
1:40:57
the one too, where you had to jump on platforms and like slash
1:41:00
her from up top and then have her drop down?
1:41:03
Yeah, that was that was probably one of my she was.
1:41:06
Stationary. I don't recall her moving up.
1:41:08
There was one boss that took me a very long time where it was
1:41:11
like halfway through the boss fight, like they raised herself
1:41:16
and it's like you have to jump all the way up top and you have
1:41:19
to slash them enough times. So maybe that's the final boss.
1:41:25
Yeah, I, I don't think I got to. That yeah, that's the final
1:41:27
boss. That was the final boss.
1:41:30
Took me a long time. Good to know.
1:41:33
But yeah, such a good game, such a good game.
1:41:38
Well done, it's a well done game.
1:41:41
I also beat Doom the dark ages. Nice.
1:41:44
Took a couple days before that. That game was fine.
1:41:47
It was fine. It was, you know, I, I do. 2016
1:41:52
is still my favorite. Yeah, Yeah.
1:41:56
I think I like the battles, like I like the heftiness of the
1:42:02
shield. Oh, the shield, like the shield
1:42:04
feels so. Good.
1:42:05
Shield feels so good. I didn't think I'd like it at
1:42:07
first, but yeah, it feels so good to Perry in that damn game.
1:42:11
Oh my God. Yeah.
1:42:13
And then here's Magnum with the with the flail.
1:42:16
Yeah, oh God, the the sounds in that game are so crunchy and so
1:42:20
deep. Yeah.
1:42:23
You know what I don't like about it?
1:42:25
What I miss from it is the glory kills.
1:42:28
And I know the only way you could do like you could do true
1:42:31
glory kills by actually jumping at the enemy and then hitting
1:42:34
the melee button. And then you can do like glory
1:42:36
kills, like you could take the shield and like, saw them in
1:42:39
half down the middle. But yeah, I miss the glory kills
1:42:44
from 2016 where you just run up to them and break their arm,
1:42:47
smash their face and like, I miss those.
1:42:50
Yeah, I I hear ya. Yeah, but I mean, it's a fun
1:42:53
game. When I say it's fine, I'm like,
1:42:55
you know, it's it's, it does everything right.
1:42:58
And I kind of wish I, I may go back to it because now they have
1:43:03
like kind of like a custom horde mode where you can actually
1:43:06
create, you can actually create your own areas and you can
1:43:10
actually spawn whatever type, whatever enemy types you want.
1:43:14
You can set time limits for yourself.
1:43:18
You could set different parameters, like only use these
1:43:21
guns, only use those guns, whatever.
1:43:24
So it's got this cool update. It's like a free update you
1:43:26
could download right now. I'm curious about that, Yeah.
1:43:31
I think that game's coming with DLC.
1:43:33
I'm I'm curious to know what they'll do with that.
1:43:36
Yeah, I'm curious. More enemy.
1:43:37
Types. I mean, it does the, the, the
1:43:41
game ends with a kind of like a, it, it's open-ended, obviously.
1:43:44
So we're expecting to see Doom more in the future.
1:43:48
But yeah, it's it, it, it does. It does everything right, you
1:43:53
know? It doesn't exceed, but it does
1:43:57
good. It does.
1:43:58
It does it right. You know it's fun.
1:44:03
That's it. Cool, cool.
1:44:07
Well, looks like looks like another one in the bag.
1:44:12
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