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Grand Theft Auto is Rooted in American Culture, But Can it Ever Leave? · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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  Hello everybody, welcome back to the Boss Roast podcast, a great
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  place to play games and be better.
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  I'm one of your hosts, Corey Deer, again alongside me, as
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  always, is PC must raise himself Le Ron Dawkins.
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  Yo, what's popping? Hi, Le Ron.
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  How's it going? It's going all right.
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  Going all right? Yeah.
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  It's a, it's a, it's an interesting Tuesday night.
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  Yeah, it's it's definitely something you.
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  Just have to keep in track of the election.
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  I promise I won't. I promise tonight will not be a
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  will not be a political episode for me.
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  You know, Laurent, it's OK. You can speak your feelings.
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  I can save space. I can, but we're going to talk
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  about video games tonight, so I'm going to, I'm going to keep
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  it. I mean Twitter chat might not be
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  a safe space, but this is a safe space.
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  Got to watch out for all those crazy anime faces and cartoon
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  characters coming at you in the comments, you know what I mean?
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  Speaking of cartoon characters, also here is PK Power Pat Klein.
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  I'm as cart real as AI. Don't know.
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  I don't have anything. I'm animated.
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  Pat, don't say that you have a lot, OK?
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  Yeah, I believe in you. You know, always want more
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  though. Yeah, I know.
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  I don't like, you know, I tell myself, for example, I tell
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  myself I am going to work on a backlog like play something that
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  I have had, that I need to work, that I've had for a while.
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  And you know what? Within like 48 hours later, I'm
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  like buying something new. But that's the fun part.
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  Yeah. It kind of is.
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  We all have that problem. I'm like, I'm like, I'm craving.
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  I'm like, I was like, I'm craving Openworld RPG.
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  So I bought Outer Worlds too. Nice.
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  How's that going? It's.
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  A It's going You want to find out, though, you'll have to
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  listen to the Gamescast. Oh, the Gamescast, that's a
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  newbie. We'll get there.
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  We'll get into that in a minute. It's been a it's been a week
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  already just trying to, you know, make it make it through.
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  It's just still a lot going on. I know there's a lot going on
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  for everybody, but you know, there's a lot going on.
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  But it's OK, we're here. We're here for you, the viewer.
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  By the way, guys, we're almost there.
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  We're almost at 1000. We're almost at 1K on that
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  YouTube channel that they, that they say, you know, we're at,
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  we're at 937. We're almost there, almost
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  there. It's La Ron's fault.
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  He's like. My.
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  Fault 1K or else and I'll be like oh.
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  Yeah, it's because you're wearing sleeves La Ron.
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  Yeah, La Ron won't take and won't take his sleeves off until
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  we hit 1K. Guess what?
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  If we get to 10K, his whole shirt comes off every episode.
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  I think all of our shirts. Came off at 10K.
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  Tell your friends. All of it.
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  Oh man, good times, huh? I love this show.
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  Anybody, Anybody. Anybody, Anybody got anything to
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  plug? Anything?
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  Got any any cool things coming out, Pat?
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  You do. Yes I do.
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  We we officially recorded the pilot episode of the games cast
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  where myself and my old Co host Taylor from the book Boss Rush
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  book club. We talked about the games that
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  we played in detail and then we talked about Silk song.
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  All right, let me just go ahead and say right now, you do not,
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  you do not understand how excited I am that that you're
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  that you guys have lifted that show off now.
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  Yeah, 'cause now LeBron and LeBron can do after dark now.
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  Yeah. No, I'm just kidding.
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  But seriously. But seriously.
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  Yeah, that's exciting. I'm glad.
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  So for for those of you who are wondering what we're talking
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  about, the games cast, the boss watch games cast will be twice a
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  month. If you are a patron, you get it
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  one week early as incentive at any tier.
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  And yeah, basically Pat and various other boss rush people
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  and other friends are going to talk about games, literally talk
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  about games, what we're playing, how they're, how they're being
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  played, mechanics, other fun things.
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  So check it out. It's it'll be out Thursday for
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  patrons and then next week for everybody else.
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  So go check it out. Very excited, very excited to
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  get that out the door. Yep, me too.
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  Yeah. Excited that finally figured out
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  what it was. Yeah, you know, just wait.
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  That was fantastic. Yep, that's pretty much what we
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  did. Yeah, that's all that.
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  That's all you need to do. Ron's eating cookies.
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  Oreos. Are they real Oreos or are they
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  dollar store Oreos like cake stirs?
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  00 Fancy. I'm being a fat kid.
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  Fancy. I miss going to the store today,
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  but that's cool. I'll do it eventually.
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  It just means I don't have snacks lying around now, yeah.
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  Who needs snacks? Who needs snacks?
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  There's so much candy in this house right now, though, because
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  the trick or treat, it's brought home sacks of candy.
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  Let me tell you. Let me tell you.
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  That sounds awesome. I got all I got all this one
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  target for 3 bucks. Because it all went on
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  clearance. Nice.
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  Yes, nice. You know the the candy I've been
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  snacking on isn't exactly a Halloween candy, but I was
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  surprised to see it in the store and I hope it's a permanent
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  thing and not just a limited edition.
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  But or or M&M's brought back my absolute favorite M&M that I
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  have not seen since the Transformer 2 days.
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  The purple M&M. No, no, Back in Transformers 2
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  had those two robots that were like, you know, the two small
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  ones that were kind of like, I don't know, ghetto.
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  That were ghetto fabulous, yeah. And the M&M's came out promotion
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  for those called the peanut butter and Jelly M&M.
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  And basically it's a peanut butter M&M with like a
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  strawberry like flavoring to them.
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  And it is the most amazing thing that has ever touched my mouth.
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  Nice. And they brought it back and I
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  desire them a lot. I desire them.
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  Yeah, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
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  I desire them. That's funny.
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  Well, Speaking of not snacks, Pat.
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  Yep. What are you playing?
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  What are you doing? What are you watching?
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  What are you? What are you doing?
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  Well, I I have to kind of space out my games right now because
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  you know that there's two shows I got to have content for.
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  So I think for this one, we're going to talk about one of the
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  the big hotnesses out there right now, something that kind
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  of came out of left field that is hitting the the world of
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  games by storm and possibly a one of those like hidden last
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  second game of the year contenders.
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  It is a superhero game called dispatch and it's made by the
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  people who were originally assigned to do the wolf among us
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  too. But, you know, with all the back
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  and forth with the Telltale Studios and I'm not able to hold
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  on to a team that the team called Ad Hoc decided to make a
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  different video game. Also kind of, you know,
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  superhero ish, though without magical creatures, it's
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  superheroes. And it's called Dispatch.
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  You play as Robert Robertson and you are Mecca man, a man who
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  you're Mecca man. You are a guy with a Mecca suit.
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  And that's kind of your suit. That's his superpowers.
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  The Mecca suit. He doesn't have superpowers.
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  He's just an ordinary human with a really powerful suit.
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  And the suit gets destroyed. So and able to kind of still be
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  in the game, superhero group comes up to him and says, hey,
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  we can help you repair your suit.
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  But in the meantime, we would like you to be a dispatcher for
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  superheroes, particularly a group of superheroes that used
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  to be villains who are trying to reform.
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  So you now have a group of of misfit superheroes that you have
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  to send off into various little missions depending on their
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  strengths and hope that you don't fail.
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  If you succeed, they level up and then you can add attribute
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  points so that they succeed more missions as well as as you send
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  them out, you get to learn more about them and see any like
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  advantages or superpowers that might unlock because of that.
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  But also it's a Tell Tales game at heart because the game is AI
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  would consider it like an interactive cartoon, like the
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  animation style is very, very animated, a lot more than what a
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  tell Tales game was. And you are given choices and
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  those choices are choices that people will remember or will
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  affect how your relationships go further on in the game.
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  And it's been a really good story.
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  It has had a lot of great humor. I have found myself laughing out
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  loud very frequently during this.
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  But there's also some really like human moments too.
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  It is a, it is a mature title. There will be nudity, there will
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  be language, there will be violence, but it's it's got a
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  lot of heart and it's got a lot of good voice talent behind
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  this. The main character is Aaron Paul
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  from Breaking Bad. And then you also have Laura
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  Bailey plays as one of the main characters.
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  And even Jeffrey Wright chosen like, does his own little
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  appearance in the in the game. Nice.
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  But like a Telltale series, this game is being released
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  episodically. It is going to be 8 episodes
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  long and but it's releasing 2 episodes a week.
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  Each episode takes about 40, I'd say about 45 to an hour to beat.
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  So by the time this recording comes out, I believe all the
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  episodes should be out because episodes at the time of the
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  recording, episodes 5 and 6 come out and then the week after 7:00
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  and 8:00. But it is a $30 game.
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  And if you really missed those old Telltale adventures or
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  thought they were kind of stale and would like something to kind
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  of spruce it up a little bit, this game does a very, very good
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  job at it. Like I really enjoyed the
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  dispatch mini game as well as the story.
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  I I think it's a it's a nice little like strategy touch.
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  I don't think it really affects your story as much if you win or
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  lose, but it's, you know, it's a nice little distraction.
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  It it keeps the action a little frantic and you get some really
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  fun banters and dialogue going on during the dispatch.
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  So. Nice, nice.
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  I, I didn't realize it. I didn't realize it had already
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  come out. Like I need to go ahead and buy
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  this because it was on my wish list.
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  Yeah, no, it's this game I I wasn't planning on like I, I
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  note I had note of it, but it wasn't until like everyone
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  started like mentioning how amazing this game was.
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  I decided to give it a shot and I have to agree, this game is
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  pretty awesome so. That's.
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  Definitely definitely worth checking out.
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  Nice. Other than that, I also picked
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  up What's Upon a Katamari. I've never played a Katamari
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  game before. That is the game where you are
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  the little Prince rolling a ball, trying to gather as much
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  as you can onto that ball, and then it becomes a planet
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  afterwards. What I like about this game is
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  that the mission structures are varied.
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  While your goal is to make the ball bigger.
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  There are like different different levels have different
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  missions missions. So like one level is to get the
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  ball as big as you can within a certain time limit.
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  Another one is to maybe find the most expensive objects on the
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  level and roll those up into the ball.
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  Another one is to find literally all the objects which were like
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  50 and try to gather those up in the amount of time.
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  And you can't just grab whatever you want and put it on the ball.
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  You have to build it up so you can only grab small objects 1st
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  and make the ball bigger so that you can grab bigger objects.
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  The last mission I did was I had to gather as many drinks as
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  possible and you you like enable to be successful.
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  It wasn't just grabbing the drink.
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  You also had to make your ball bigger so that you could do
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  things like climb up a higher ledge that the ball wouldn't
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  have otherwise reached. So there's a little bit of
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  strategy involved with it. The characters are wacky.
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  I don't know if you've ever seen any Katamari art, but the the
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  King of Old Cosmos. Yeah, the King of Old Cosmos is
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  he's he's a big old man child. And now you also have like a
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  million cousins that are also scattered around the map, so.
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  Cousins. Yep, that you can find and
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  collect them all. I tell you, I tell you like the
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  the old school Katamari. Just like, that's such an
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  earworm. Oh my God.
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  Like it was almost it was too easy to get stuck in your head.
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  It's it's a very J pop like chippy soundtrack.
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  So if that, apparently that's like one of the highlights of
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  this game is that it has both old and new tracks in it that
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  you can have play during your levels.
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  Nice. Yep.
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  No, it's a, it's a fun game. It's, it's not something I'm
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  putting a whole lot of effort into, but I wanted to say I
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  finally played a Katamari game and I.
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  Was your first one. First one, Yep.
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  OK. I will say probably my least
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  favorite aspect though in this game is camera control.
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  The. Camera's always been a problem
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  in in these games. I'm actually shocked I'm not
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  sure if they did this. I haven't played this game but
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  based on what you're saying like I'm I'm I'm trying to figure out
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  if they do it. Did they not update it just for
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  nostalgia's sake or what? It has traditional controls
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  where you use both Joyce or both thumb sticks the move the
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  Katamari, but they also do a simplified control where then
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  the second stick kind of becomes a camera.
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  But the problem is it doesn't register unless you're at a full
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  stop. Otherwise it like acts like it's
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  still part of the the traditional controls so.
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  Now that, now that looks nice. So.
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  Yes, it is what it is, yeah. Yeah, but you know, it's a fun
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  little distraction. It's not a full price game.
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  So if you like Katamari, give it a shot.
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  If you're curious about Katamari, maybe give it a shot
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  or wait for a discount. But it's it's a crazy little
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  puzzle game that's cute, adorable, and wacky.
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  The remaster is on sale on switch all the time for like 7
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  or 8 bucks. I've never played a Katamari
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  game. It gives me Donut County vibes
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  though. Oh, it it's, it's reverse donut
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  County for sure. You know, instead of sucking
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  things in a hole, you're building, you're circling,
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  you're getting it caught in a ball.
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  But they're both concepts of you need to go small and build
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  bigger. Go bigger.
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  Yep, and like I said I've also been playing Outer Worlds 2 but
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  I'm going to save that for the games cast because I know
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  Stories played it too and I would love to have a discussion
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  with him on that. Nice.
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  How many or would you say it's on par with the first game?
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  Better. Worse.
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  Same. Similar.
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  Honestly, it's fairly similar. It it's, it's very much an
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  Obsidian game. If you ever played one, it's
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  it's open world, but it's, you know, it's got the Obsidian
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  humor going on with it. And I don't know, it feels like
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  it's a little more directed and a lot more open in how you can
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  solve. Your missions where like I I
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  feel like the first one almost, you had to solve them in certain
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  ways or you only had a few choices.
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  There seems to be a lot more abilities to like work with
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  whatever however you build your character to somehow suit your
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  need to solving various cases. For example, there was a vault
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  that these people wanted to try and get into.
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  You could either build up a lock, you had the ability to,
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  you know, lock pick it, or if you had explosive abilities, you
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  could blow it up. You could try sweet talking
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  someone next to the jail in the jail who might know how to open
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  up the vault. Or if you explore around the the
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  world, you might find a hole up in the roof that you could
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  actually just fall through and then just open it from the
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  inside. Nice, nice, awesome.
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  I like that. I I liked what I played at the
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  Outer Worlds one. I just never stuck with it.
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  But I don't know, it felt like it felt like they took out all
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  the stuff I didn't really care for in like a Bethesda style
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  game and just kind of condensed it into like a tiny format,
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  which was nice. I mean, it you're going to get a
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  condensed format again, like this isn't open world.
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  This is open zone again. Yeah, I don't remember how many
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  zones there are, but it's you can go around explore and do
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  your missions there and eventually you take off and
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  visit another planet or space station.
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  Yeah, faction. So it if you enjoy games like
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  Fallout New Vegas, you'll probably like this one.
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  Cool. They people say it's not
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  Bethesda, it's subsidiants, best open world RPG yet and they've
• 22:19
  been on a roll. Like people really loved vowed,
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  they really like this one. You got your, you got your Team
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  O, or you got your Team O Elder Scrolls and your Team O Fallout
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  all in one year. Yep, man, all these, all these
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  old games coming back, you know? Yep.
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  Fallout 4, huh? Coming back, Is that the one
• 22:48
  people wanted? I don't think so.
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  Actually, they went three right and.
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  Three came back though, that's the thing.
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  I thought 3 came back. I don't this year.
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  But no I got it on. I thought I bought it.
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  No Xbox brought it back. Well, it's back.
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  Remastered. Version remaster.
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  Oh they did a remaster? I know they did Fallout 3
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  remastered. OK maybe maybe it's not a
• 23:30
  remastered. What?
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  I thought they recently did something with Fallout 3.
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  Maybe they just updated it? Maybe, maybe we're on.
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  What about you? What are you?
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  Doing I'll make this simple like I haven't really I haven't
• 23:50
  really. I'm still playing the same thing
• 23:52
  as I'm playing right now like like fantastic Eagles
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  Chronicles. I'm at the I'm towards the end
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  of the year. Well, I'm in the I'm in the
• 23:58
  latter half of the 2nd chapter, which I mean, I guess some
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  people like what the hell is taking them so long?
• 24:02
  I am busy levelling up characters and getting you guys
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  don't understand, like this would be my 5th play through a
• 24:08
  Final Fantasy Tactics, you know, in this form.
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  You know, I played, I played the original 1 on PS1 at least
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  twice. I played the the War of the
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  Lions twice. And yeah, like I'm on this one
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  now. So, yeah, like I have a method
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  to how I play and beat this game, you know, and, and one of
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  my methods is, is that, you know, like the core character
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  classes have to be levelled up by the time we hit the halfway
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  point of the game. The halfway point of the game
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  isn't until Chapter 3 starts. So I'm still working on all
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  that. So yeah, so that's where I'm at.
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  If you, if we're like for just for reference, the Princess is
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  back in our custody, but that really doesn't mean anything
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  because anyone that knows how the story goes, like knows that
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  she's not going to be in our custody much longer.
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  That's right, you're just the mercenary.
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  Yeah, just the. Mercenary Yep, yeah.
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  So yeah, there's that. I am I am also still playing
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  Tekken 8. I have shifted to playing around
• 25:12
  some new characters. I'm actually, I'm basically
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  doing what we call what what we in the fighting game can be
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  called labbing, where basically I am learning the nuances of the
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  characters I'm playing and and and, you know, just trying to
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  get myself honed in the memory, going to, you know, to remember
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  combos and you know, like no advantageous situations, not
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  stuff. So my fans, Tekken, Tekken
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  eight, I will be picking up this batch probably after we get off
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  this podcast, probably after we got this cording.
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  I'll be picking that up, but I won't I probably won't start it
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  until either the weekend or next week sometime.
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  I did start watching the, the Netflix show boots first season
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  of it 8 episodes long. I only watched the I only
• 25:52
  watched the premiere episode so far.
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  Basically it's about it's about this.
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  It's about this High School graduate him and his buddies do
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  the battle buddy program and join the Marine Corps.
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  And this is back in the 90s when don't ask, don't tell was a
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  thing. And of course, because don't
• 26:06
  ask, don't tell is a thing. Of course our main character is
• 26:08
  gay. So yeah.
• 26:10
  So, yeah. So it's him going through boot
• 26:12
  camp right now in the Marine Corps.
• 26:14
  And yeah, like the first episode was super strong.
• 26:19
  And you know, it's wild because like, I'm, I'm, I'm a, I'm a
• 26:23
  military veteran. And, and even though I did not
• 26:26
  go to Marine Corps boot camp, a lot of stuff that goes on that
• 26:29
  that they're going on in portrayed here is definitely
• 26:32
  experiences that I had in Navy boot camp.
• 26:36
  So, yeah, like if you if, if people are wondering how
• 26:39
  accurate it is, it's pretty accurate.
• 26:41
  Even some of the, even some of the BS, this one that's gone on
• 26:45
  because trust me, like in, in the year 2025, you know, we, we
• 26:50
  think the military is, we think the military is supposed to be a
• 26:52
  certain way. And guess what?
• 26:54
  Like it was not a certain way in the 90s and definitely way
• 26:57
  before the 90s. So yeah.
• 26:59
  So yeah, it's good. I'm not sure if I'm not sure if
• 27:02
  I'm going to binge it. Like I was have been binging
• 27:04
  other shows lately, but you know, like some 8 to 10 episode
• 27:08
  seasons really make it really easy to just jump in and binge a
• 27:11
  show now. I see.
• 27:11
  So who knows, Like I might by the time we come back next week,
• 27:14
  I might have had this this entire first season watched, you
• 27:17
  know? Yeah.
• 27:20
  But I like it. I like it.
• 27:21
  And I also started another show called Lazarus.
• 27:23
  It's on Amazon Prime, basically follows a it basically follows
• 27:27
  a, a, a criminal psychologist as he's trying to unravel some
• 27:32
  things that been going on. His father has committed suicide
• 27:36
  and that kind of like turns his and his and his sister's world
• 27:40
  upside down and they're still and he's still trying to cope
• 27:43
  with the with the, with the, with, with the murder of his
• 27:46
  sister back when he was a teenager and stuff like that.
• 27:48
  So a lot of a lot of stuff is like ragging up his past and all
• 27:51
  this stuff. He's and so like he's
• 27:55
  investigating the apparent suicide that his father had.
• 28:00
  He's been looking at some of his father.
• 28:02
  His father is also, he was also was a renowned psychologist in
• 28:06
  the area and he's been in his and he was in his office and
• 28:10
  he's been going through like some of the father's notes and
• 28:13
  stuff like that. And he's starting to have like,
• 28:15
  I'm not going to say it's Deja vu events because like these
• 28:17
  events haven't happened before. But he's literally having
• 28:21
  situations where where like he reads a profile on one of his
• 28:25
  dad's clients and then all of a sudden like that client shows
• 28:28
  up, even though the profile on this client is from decades ago.
• 28:32
  So like it's it's almost like it's almost like he's being
• 28:34
  haunted by like past cases that his father was working on.
• 28:38
  But that was his first episode. So they haven't really drilled
• 28:41
  down what's happening to him yet.
• 28:42
  So we don't know if he's hallucinating or if there's a
• 28:45
  supernatural involved in it just yet.
• 28:48
  And if I'm not mistaken, I think Lazarus is, I think Lazarus is
• 28:54
  a, is a shorter series than is it because it's a, it's a, it's
• 28:58
  a mini series. So I want to say hold on, hold
• 29:01
  on. I'm trying to, I'm trying to
• 29:02
  pull it right now. Hold on.
• 29:03
  Give me, give me just a second. It's on, It's on Amazon.
• 29:08
  And there are a total of, there's a total of 6 episodes.
• 29:14
  So I can probably have this this one in the bag by the weekend.
• 29:22
  Yeah, but I'm I'm liking it. I'm I'm liking it and it's it's
• 29:25
  it's a thing like I I noticed I am consuming a lot more
• 29:28
  television media than I am movie media, which is which is kind of
• 29:31
  bad because like I still haven't seen I still haven't seen the
• 29:34
  recent Superman movie. I also have not.
• 29:39
  I also need to play catch up on a couple of other movies like
• 29:44
  like shoot, what's the other movie?
• 29:49
  Oh, oh, the Jordan, the new Jordan Peele movie him like I I
• 29:52
  I that that's on my list, but I haven't watched.
• 29:54
  I haven't seen that yet. I've.
• 29:55
  Heard that one's not good, and it's not really.
• 29:57
  I've I've heard it's not good either.
• 30:00
  Yeah. I've heard someone else actually
• 30:02
  directed that one. Yeah, and then in the Steven and
• 30:05
  then the Stephen King movie, The The Long Walk.
• 30:11
  Now that one I heard actually is pretty good.
• 30:13
  Well, I've heard. I've heard.
• 30:14
  Really good things about that. Yeah.
• 30:17
  I just haven't. I just haven't.
• 30:18
  Camel's an asshole in that movie.
• 30:20
  Yeah, Yeah. Nice.
• 30:24
  Yeah. So, so that's pretty much,
• 30:26
  that's pretty much what I've been up to this week.
• 30:29
  Yeah. Like, like life is kind of
• 30:31
  lifing right now. So like, so like it's so like
• 30:33
  my, my video game playing as well as my TV and movie watching
• 30:37
  has been, is is being impacted. But I mean, it's nothing.
• 30:40
  It's nothing I can't handle. It's just, just just, it's not
• 30:43
  enough to complain about. Yeah.
• 30:47
  Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.
• 30:51
  It's not an official. Ted Maker, it's a Ted X talk
• 30:54
  we're on. I need to make a Recon Fallout 3
• 30:58
  remaster did not happen. I think maybe I just got really
• 31:02
  interested in Fallout and played Fallout 3 when the TV show hit
• 31:06
  the first episode or first season.
• 31:08
  How dare you? That's a possibility.
• 31:12
  Yeah, but while looking at looking at Fallout news, Fallout
• 31:19
  76 is getting an update and that updates going to take place in
• 31:24
  Ohio. Great.
• 31:29
  Let's see, Apple. It's probably.
• 31:33
  Oh boy, that's a rough place. That's fine.
• 31:39
  What's it called pleasant vet that the actual expansion's
• 31:42
  called? Burning Springs, but I think
• 31:47
  it's located Point Pleasant. Is that a place in Ohio probably
• 31:55
  or no? That's a town in that's a town
• 31:57
  in Fallout. I don't know.
• 31:59
  It's supposed to be like Southeast Ohio.
• 32:03
  Point Pleasant. OH, is it point?
• 32:07
  Pleasant to actually. Fall Out Southern Monroe Town
• 32:10
  Township. It's located southeast of
• 32:13
  Cincinnati. Great.
• 32:16
  I don't know. Cool.
• 32:24
  Well, I guess I'll keep mine short and sweet too, because I
• 32:27
  haven't really been playing a whole lot.
• 32:29
  I've been playing Plants versus Zombies, literally.
• 32:31
  That's kind of it. I don't really know how much
• 32:35
  more I can say about Plants versus Zombies since it's been
• 32:38
  out for 15 years. But you know, it's an amazing
• 32:43
  game though. I had I I did finally Laron
• 32:51
  watch Halo season 2. OK.
• 32:55
  I was like really into it and then I forgot that they weren't
• 32:57
  doing it. That it got that it got
• 32:59
  cancelled, yeah. Yeah, I got really sad.
• 33:02
  I'm like. Yeah, I like the show.
• 33:04
  Wasn't season season 2? Season 2 was a was a very strong
• 33:09
  season it. Was much better than the first
• 33:11
  and I like the first season. I like the first season 2 yeah,
• 33:14
  but season 2 was was season 2 was hot.
• 33:20
  Yeah, yeah, it was. It was really good.
• 33:22
  I really liked it. I wish they were doing a third
• 33:26
  season and it doesn't seem like they're going to even though it
• 33:31
  does. Yeah, and it doesn't look, it
• 33:32
  doesn't look like Netflix is going to do anything with it.
• 33:35
  Well, I just don't think Microsoft's interested in doing
• 33:37
  any other thing. Yeah, it's, it's let's, let's
• 33:42
  not, let's not talk about, let's not talk about Microsoft
• 33:45
  tonight. I think we're going to at some
• 33:47
  point, but I don't know. If we have to.
• 33:53
  But honestly, I and my daughter and I had a had a art party this
• 34:00
  week, this weekend. That sounds fun.
• 34:03
  Where we just kind of drew and and stuff and she made me draw
• 34:07
  her some K pop demon hunters. And so we watched the movie
• 34:11
  while we drew the characters. It was really fun.
• 34:15
  Yeah, you were a you're you're a bit of an artist man, So shoot,
• 34:18
  I'd love to see your I'd love to see your.
• 34:21
  I mean, sure, you want me to draw you like one of my French
• 34:26
  girls, Laurent? No, no 'cause I'm concert
• 34:30
  popular if I'm not a slut. Aww, Dang it.
• 34:36
  We look good with a necklace on, like a blue hearted necklace.
• 34:43
  Oh boy. Anyways, here Laurent, I'll send
• 34:47
  you the one I drew this weekend. OK.
• 34:51
  I that's kind of it though. We didn't really do a whole lot.
• 34:56
  Our power went out on Saturday for like 8 1/2 hours.
• 35:01
  Oh, really? Sucked.
• 35:02
  Geez, was there any explanation? Yeah, someone hit a tree and the
• 35:08
  tree fell on telephone pole and telephone all over and over A5
• 35:12
  lane highway and. Wow, way to go, whoever you are.
• 35:17
  Yeah, so that was cool. It's really neat.
• 35:21
  Good for them people, man. Impressive how those things
• 35:27
  just. Ruin, you know, ruin my weekend.
• 35:30
  Yeah. So anyways, that's kind of it.
• 35:38
  I don't really have anything else, do I?
• 35:40
  Oh, I do have to say Stephanie went to that limited run thing,
• 35:48
  right? She talked about last week.
• 35:51
  She got me the Ninja Turtles VHS special edition.
• 35:54
  Oh nice. So shout out Stephanie and and
• 35:59
  Shante, but Ninja Turtles man VHS tape?
• 36:04
  Super cool Stephanie, you're the best.
• 36:06
  That's. Awesome, I love it.
• 36:09
  I love it. Steel book art book free pizza
• 36:13
  coupon, literally a free pizza coupon from from Pizza Hut.
• 36:18
  You scan it into the app and you get a free pizza.
• 36:22
  It's kind of funny stickers which my kids were excited for
• 36:26
  and they were mad that I told them they couldn't open it.
• 36:32
  It's. Like you open this, you will be
• 36:36
  disowned. Yeah, so, but it's cool.
• 36:41
  I'm I'm my my son also thought it was like a new Ninja Turtles
• 36:44
  game. And he got really excited.
• 36:45
  I'm like, no, I had to sit there and explain it to him.
• 36:47
  That's the one we already play, but it's just a different box.
• 36:53
  And he he couldn't understand. He couldn't understand that I
• 36:58
  kind of felt bad. But also like, I don't know.
• 37:02
  He is what it is. I can't.
• 37:04
  You know I can't. The boys going to learn.
• 37:10
  Yeah, he's got to. He's got to learn sometime.
• 37:14
  Speaking of learning, we learned some things about Grand Theft
• 37:20
  Auto and why it will never leave the United States, apparently,
• 37:24
  according to Rockstar Co founder Dan Hauser.
• 37:31
  But it did. Yeah, so there there are a
• 37:36
  couple interviews this this week, Dan Hauser gave an
• 37:38
  interview and then Todd Howard gave an interview and both of
• 37:42
  them kind of centered around why Grand Theft Auto and Fallout
• 37:49
  won't ever leave the United States.
• 37:51
  I know we got GTA London at one point, but which I kind of think
• 37:55
  like a old school kind of London gangster thing would be cool.
• 38:01
  But that's for another another discussion.
• 38:05
  But basically GTA's essence is steeped in quote Americana
• 38:11
  requiring guns, over the top characters, and uniquely
• 38:14
  American cultural backdrop that wouldn't translate abroad was
• 38:18
  the explanation. Similarly, Howard emphasized
• 38:23
  that Fallout's world is intrinsically tied to the post
• 38:25
  war American idealism and atomic age paranoia, which making the
• 38:32
  US indispensable to the franchise's identity.
• 38:36
  So I kind of want to know what you guys think about these
• 38:40
  comments and if you think that these franchises could exist
• 38:44
  outside of the the United States, because I kind of feel
• 38:47
  like definitely GTAI feel like could.
• 38:52
  Yeah. I mean, there's I, I understand.
• 38:56
  I understand if they're trying to say like there's like a
• 38:58
  novelty to Grand Theft Auto and stuff like that, but I mean,
• 39:01
  like violent video games shift around the world.
• 39:04
  Like, you know, and, and if and if I'm being serious, like, I
• 39:07
  mean, like there is nothing, there's nothing too off the wall
• 39:11
  about Grand Theft Auto that it could not, that it could not be
• 39:14
  released in Europe, parts of Japan, you know, and all the
• 39:16
  other, all the other nations that, you know, like all the
• 39:19
  other regions that, you know, like get like the mainstream
• 39:21
  consoles, right? You know, like I, I, I mean, you
• 39:26
  know, crisis with, you know, if, if you think back to the
• 39:29
  original crisis right there, they had to censor a couple of
• 39:34
  things because because basically it was because like the the most
• 39:38
  of the war zones were in were in Korea.
• 39:41
  You know, they had to censor some of that.
• 39:42
  But ultimately the game still wound up pretty intact when it
• 39:45
  did release over and, you know, over in the East, you know, so I
• 39:50
  don't, I don't know, you know, OK, the Americana part, I get,
• 39:54
  you know, because it's, but at the same time, like, you know,
• 39:57
  like it, I feel like it's kind of it's kind of it's kind of
• 40:00
  ignorant, you know, because we've gotten games like
• 40:02
  Chernobyl Light, you know, and all, and games like that, you
• 40:05
  know, and it's basically talking about, you know, like situations
• 40:10
  that are direct, that are direct fallouts from like real events,
• 40:14
  you know, in like Asia, you know, so like that, you know,
• 40:16
  it's it's kind of it's kind of weird they would say something
• 40:19
  like that. It's like.
• 40:20
  Are you guys, I don't know, I don't want to, I don't want to
• 40:23
  ask the question kind of seem like, you know, like like like
• 40:26
  I'm like I'm the one that's reading too too deep into it.
• 40:29
  You know, I just feel like, I just feel like, you know, like,
• 40:34
  I mean, if they feel like, if they feel like they're going to
• 40:36
  make all the sales they can make off these games just in the
• 40:38
  United States and in parts of Europe and whatever.
• 40:44
  My take is we obviously could get these games outside for
• 40:50
  Grand Theft Auto. Maybe Grand Theft Auto would be
• 40:53
  more specific to America just because it is Grand Theft Auto
• 40:56
  and, you know, the Americana with guns.
• 41:00
  And but the thing about that is that there are other game
• 41:04
  franchises that have taken place in foreign cities.
• 41:07
  Like Sleeping Dogs is a perfect example of a Grand Theft Auto
• 41:12
  outside of America. And then you also had Watchdogs.
• 41:19
  Well, not exactly everyone's favorite.
• 41:22
  You know, the fact that it took place in London was kind of a
• 41:25
  cool thing. Like you can easily take these
• 41:28
  games and have a crime centered world outside of America.
• 41:35
  Like we aren't the only ones with guns.
• 41:39
  Yakuza has even brought that up. Like Yakuza has guns and Japan's
• 41:45
  like super tight with their gun controls I think, don't quote me
• 41:50
  on that. But the thing I feel that the
• 41:54
  Fallout quote however, that's just laziness in the heart.
• 42:00
  I feel that you could easily explore Fallout outside of
• 42:05
  America. Like I agree, I could see you
• 42:08
  can bring the American post war American idealism and
• 42:11
  colonization over to like bring it over to China because that's
• 42:16
  exactly who they were fighting against during the the fall, the
• 42:21
  Operation Anchorage. Like what's what's China doing
• 42:24
  after the the fallout? Yeah, I mean, you could also
• 42:29
  explore like post war Germany, you could explore Japan, right?
• 42:33
  Like like post atomic bomb Japan, right?
• 42:36
  Like you could explore like all that kind of stuff I feel like.
• 42:40
  Yeah, and someone took the Fallout 4 game and made a
• 42:43
  absolutely massive mod and called it Fallout London.
• 42:46
  Yeah. Yeah, and apparently it's like
• 42:49
  really good from what I've heard.
• 42:52
  No, I I think in that case that it's just pure laziness on the
• 42:57
  Fallout team. They don't want to explore
• 42:59
  outside of America. Yeah.
• 43:03
  That means they actually have to come up with new assets, yeah,
• 43:08
  babies and new ideas and can't live off of, you know, the
• 43:12
  coattails that they originally were founded on.
• 43:17
  Yeah, I mean. Yeah, you're absolutely right
• 43:20
  though. Lazy is the way is the way to
• 43:22
  describe it. Yeah, I mean, I I don't, I don't
• 43:27
  know if I don't know if lazy would be what I would call it
• 43:32
  for Bethesda specifically because since they are, since
• 43:35
  they only like work on Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Starfield
• 43:40
  now and those games only come out like every 10 or 15 years at
• 43:44
  this point. Like, I mean, I think I think
• 43:48
  Todd Howard just is like stuck in his ways.
• 43:52
  I would say he's more stuck than lazy, right?
• 43:59
  Like, I don't want to call the developers lazy because those
• 44:01
  games are incredibly large worlds and it takes, you know,
• 44:06
  But I do think that like, you could give it to a.
• 44:11
  Crazy in terms of creativity, yeah.
• 44:13
  Like they don't want to expand outside what they.
• 44:17
  They just want to work with what they've been working with and
• 44:20
  just milk that, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I think, I
• 44:27
  definitely think, you know, fall out.
• 44:29
  I I mean, like I said, GTA could definitely exist outside of
• 44:32
  America. I think.
• 44:33
  I think it is a little bit more selective and Fallout would be
• 44:37
  though, right, Because like I think you have to focus on where
• 44:40
  there's like not crime necessarily, but like, you know,
• 44:45
  I think like when GTA London came out, I think that's a good.
• 44:48
  I think that would be a cool place to revisit of like like
• 44:53
  English, like almost English gangsters or whatever.
• 44:55
  Like I think that would be a cool place or like, you know, I
• 45:01
  don't I I understand like GTA, especially since the rewrite has
• 45:06
  been so placed in America that it's like, man, that's it is it
• 45:13
  is kind of intrinsically tied, but also like be creative, be be
• 45:18
  experimental. Like, you know, even if it's
• 45:22
  like a spin off game or like a small expansion or something,
• 45:25
  right. Like I feel like you could
• 45:28
  definitely, you know, even even go so far as like, Oh well, this
• 45:34
  this GTA takes place in San Andreas.
• 45:36
  So why can't we go to like Mexico, you know?
• 45:39
  Yeah, I mean, they did in Red Dead and I mean, you know.
• 45:43
  I'm also not a fan of how GTA is just basically taking place in
• 45:47
  the same three cities. Same 3 locales, yeah.
• 45:51
  Yeah, it's like you can't. There are more than just Miami,
• 45:54
  New York and San Francisco or Los Angeles.
• 45:59
  Yeah. Like help, maybe bring back, I
• 46:06
  forget what their Vegas was new Las Venturas.
• 46:09
  No, you don't have. I don't have to.
• 46:14
  Bring back Vegas, but. I don't remember.
• 46:19
  Yeah, I don't know that that's one of the things I liked about
• 46:21
  the Mafia series, is the Mafia visited other places, like.
• 46:26
  Yeah. They went to.
• 46:27
  New York, she also, yeah, they went to Italy, they went to
• 46:30
  Louisiana, and I think Chicago and New York were essentially
• 46:39
  the other two, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think it like, I
• 46:47
  think you just have to be more creative and like, yes, you do
• 46:50
  have to be selective, but also like, I don't know, I think I
• 46:55
  think that I understand that. Like, it's, it's almost like,
• 47:01
  it's almost like the George Lucas syndrome for Star Wars,
• 47:03
  right? Where like he, they maybe
• 47:05
  they're too close to these franchises to realize what the
• 47:08
  potential is, right. Like give it to another creative
• 47:12
  to see what they can explore in this franchise.
• 47:14
  And like, yeah, OK, if there's lore or whatever, like in
• 47:18
  Fallout, like, you know, that they, they made sure that even
• 47:21
  the show is Canon to to everything, right?
• 47:24
  But like, OK, well, make sure it fits within the bounds of the
• 47:28
  lore, But like explore something, you know, like, I
• 47:33
  think it's I think it would be really fun to explore and you
• 47:38
  know, I I understand why you don't explore, especially in
• 47:42
  this in 2025 at this moment. But like post war Germany, like,
• 47:49
  you know, like I feel like that would be an interesting Ave. to
• 47:53
  go right. I mean we see it in Wolfenstein,
• 47:55
  but that's a different style of of alternate history, right?
• 47:58
  Like, I don't know, I think it would be really cool to see that
• 48:02
  or like, you know, Eastern Europe or or even Russia even,
• 48:07
  right. Like you could go into like
• 48:10
  Siberia or whatever and and do a really interesting Fallout game.
• 48:14
  And I know some people are going to point to like Metro, yeah,
• 48:19
  Metro or the other one, the. Oh, Chernobyl, Yeah.
• 48:25
  Chernobyl. No, the the stalker.
• 48:30
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sorry, I called it
• 48:32
  Chernobyl. It's a harder Chernobyl.
• 48:34
  That was the second game. And I know, I know people can
• 48:38
  point to that and be like, well, that's kind of fall out ish.
• 48:40
  But not really, you know, like I, I just think that these games
• 48:46
  can be, I think if you make the, the environments interesting
• 48:50
  enough and the story interesting enough and the things you can do
• 48:54
  within the world, I think you can set these things anywhere,
• 48:56
  right? I don't know, it's just just me.
• 49:00
  Or like what if you took GTA to like Dubai or something, right?
• 49:04
  And you could like jump off that huge building, right?
• 49:08
  Or like, I don't know, I think it'd be interesting.
• 49:12
  I think it'd be fun. I think that.
• 49:13
  'D be a good location for a Watchdogs game.
• 49:16
  Yeah, yeah. Oh, watchdog.
• 49:20
  They need to bring watchdogs back.
• 49:22
  Put it. On the Wii U.
• 49:24
  Not make it as. Just not make it as open as I've
• 49:29
  watched Dogs three. Like I actually have a legit
• 49:32
  protagonist. Yeah, that everyone's here.
• 49:35
  Protagonist. Yeah, I feel like everybody
• 49:36
  liked watchdogs too, and they just went around and was like,
• 49:40
  Nah, you can be anyone you want. You can be the grandma on the
• 49:44
  pig mask, you'd be fine. Go break stuff.
• 49:49
  Yep, I I think that, I think we mentioned this in a prior
• 49:56
  episode. The issue with Ubisoft games
• 49:58
  right now is that they're just too damn open.
• 50:00
  Like they need to, yeah, the open world is fine, but they
• 50:03
  need to put some structure into the storytelling instead of
• 50:08
  being like, oh, it's your story to have it told however you
• 50:10
  want. Yeah, yeah.
• 50:16
  Oh. Good times, huh?
• 50:19
  Good times. Any any final thoughts on on the
• 50:23
  GTA fallout thing? Are are are you are you guys
• 50:27
  excited for GTA6? We don't.
• 50:29
  We don't really talk about GTA on this show a whole lot.
• 50:31
  I want to play, I want to play GTA6I.
• 50:33
  I do, but I also know that I I can't play GTA6 the moment it
• 50:38
  comes out because like they're going to release it on console
• 50:40
  and then it's going to take like 3 years for it to come out on
• 50:43
  PC. But you could just play it on
• 50:48
  PlayStation. Come out on PC?
• 50:50
  No, it's Red Dead that never came out on PC.
• 50:53
  They're wait, am I? Am I?
• 50:55
  I think, I think they're, I think they're all out now.
• 50:58
  Finally came out, Yeah. OK.
• 51:01
  Or it's coming out. I don't know.
• 51:06
  I don't know. I bought it on an Xbox and I
• 51:07
  played like 10 minutes of it. I'm like, I can't move.
• 51:09
  So I turned it off. Now I'm I'm excited to see what
• 51:14
  they do with GTA6 at just how open and explorable Red Dead
• 51:21
  Redemption 2 was. Like it can only imagine just
• 51:26
  what Rockstar can do with this game.
• 51:30
  Yeah. But then also I can see them
• 51:32
  just being lazy and not going that route.
• 51:37
  But I don't know. They haven't said anything about
• 51:40
  the game, so we don't know what the world is going to be like.
• 51:50
  It's true, that's true. I'm kind of I'm interested in
• 51:55
  GTA. I just hope it plays better than
• 51:57
  5 did because man, the game play.
• 52:01
  It's the game play in those games just bad.
• 52:04
  The shooting sucks like the movement is bad I don't know I
• 52:09
  try to play GTA5 when they announced GTA6 and I played it
• 52:11
  for like an hour and I'm like I this I can't I don't understand
• 52:14
  why this game controls so bad Oh well it's my opinion I.
• 52:21
  Still need to beat GTA5 a. 150 million people versus me, I
• 52:27
  guess. Who's to say?
• 52:31
  Who's to say? You know what Microsoft says?
• 52:37
  Yeah, that Sony. Sounds like we're ready for a
• 52:40
  hot take. Sony isn't their biggest isn't
• 52:44
  their biggest competition. And the way we go.
• 52:48
  It's TikTok and stuff like and platforms like TikTok oh La Ron.
• 52:56
  Make it make sense. Did you see this?
• 52:59
  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reaffirmed that Xbox's biggest
• 53:03
  competition isn't other gaming platforms, it's short form video
• 53:06
  platforms like TikTok. In a recent interview with TVPN,
• 53:12
  Nadella emphasized that gaming now competes for attention, not
• 53:16
  hardware sales, and that innovation in content and
• 53:19
  distribution is essential to stay relevant.
• 53:21
  He also discusses plans to align the next Xbox console more
• 53:24
  closely with Windows and PC gaming, suggesting a hybrid
• 53:27
  approach that blurs the line between consoles and computers.
• 53:32
  Della reiterates Microsoft's goals of being a publisher
• 53:36
  everywhere, bringing its games all platforms spanning its
• 53:38
  Reach, PC, mobile, cloud and console, etcetera.
• 53:42
  Last week we talked about Halo coming to PlayStation.
• 53:46
  People are really down on that Halo remake apparently.
• 53:51
  I'm like, it's Halo one guys, what do you want?
• 53:54
  It's Halo one. But how do you feel about Xbox
• 53:59
  competing with TikTok and not this?
• 54:04
  Sounds like this. Sounds like the loser to a
• 54:06
  console battle. Yeah, yeah, for real.
• 54:11
  Who's plan had to change drastically when they spent $80
• 54:15
  billion on a publisher man marketing speak.
• 54:21
  But Loron, what are you? What are your feelings on this?
• 54:24
  This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever freaking heard.
• 54:27
  You know, like I, I don't even know.
• 54:30
  I don't even know how to like like like come at it.
• 54:32
  You know, that's the crazy part. You know, like gaming competes
• 54:39
  for attention. No, no, gaming does not compete
• 54:44
  for attention because guess what?
• 54:47
  I am. I am not I am not stopping my
• 54:50
  video game play. Just jump on TikTok, Instagram,
• 54:53
  you know, Twitter, whatever. I'm, you know, I'm not, you
• 54:56
  know, and if I do, like it's literally like it's literally
• 55:00
  like for two seconds to check something because like, you
• 55:02
  know, we're in the content creation space.
• 55:04
  So sometimes we'll get a notification or whatnot, and
• 55:07
  then I'm right back to my video games.
• 55:08
  Like video games does not harm my gaming, my gaming space at
• 55:11
  all. I mean, I'm sorry, social media
• 55:14
  does not harm my video game space at all.
• 55:15
  If anything, social media strengthens my video game space.
• 55:22
  You know, I'm just going to go ahead and say it like I was only
• 55:28
  a fan of Nadella when he came in, and I'm definitely not a fan
• 55:31
  of his now. You know, like I, I, I figured,
• 55:34
  I figured when he came in, he was just going to be a
• 55:36
  mouthpiece anyway. And that's legit what he's
• 55:38
  looking like. Well, I think you, I think you
• 55:41
  did well when cloud, when cloud computing was becoming popular
• 55:46
  and becoming the big thing, right.
• 55:48
  And he rose Azure to what, 3rd, 3rd place 'cause that's where
• 55:53
  Microsoft seems to sit everywhere these days.
• 55:58
  And you know, when he took over, like the big push was cloud and
• 56:04
  Microsoft was all cloud and they were pushing it, right?
• 56:06
  And that's why Xbox stayed around is because they added a
• 56:09
  cloud component, right? But now it's all AI and he has
• 56:13
  no idea what to do because shocking AI and and the
• 56:18
  infrastructure for AI is different than cloud.
• 56:26
  And they also just spent like a ton more money with open AI.
• 56:30
  So expect more layoffs in the coming quarter.
• 56:33
  To Microsoft. Pat, how do you feel about video
• 56:39
  games competing with platforms like TikTok, according to Satya
• 56:42
  Nadella? I get the idea, yes they're
• 56:46
  competing for attention but video games and TikTok are not
• 56:51
  anything related so. Yeah.
• 56:54
  Yeah, I mean, my wife's not. My wife doesn't play video
• 56:57
  games, not because of TikTok. She just does play games.
• 57:04
  That's like, that's like saying Mario's a direct competitor to
• 57:07
  the people who play Call of Duty games.
• 57:11
  You might not see Mario with a gun in Mario Plus Rabbit's
• 57:14
  Kingdom battle. Come on.
• 57:17
  Now competitors against X com Probably not either, but I'm.
• 57:24
  Just being. I'm just being on.
• 57:26
  Yeah, no, it's that I, that guy's already proven that he's
• 57:34
  probably the worst enemy to the Xbox name, so.
• 57:39
  Yeah, I'm into that. Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep.
• 57:46
  It's crazy. So it's just so so.
• 57:50
  What? No, no, it is.
• 57:51
  It's just, it's just such a, it's just such a, it's one of
• 57:57
  these things was like, was like, did you even hear the words that
• 58:00
  come out of your mouth, man, you know?
• 58:02
  I don't think he does some most of the time I don't think he
• 58:07
  does. You know, I mean, I would like
• 58:12
  to think maybe, but I also think that they have to appease
• 58:17
  investors and look, they're just Microsoft has to appease
• 58:26
  investors and you have to spend your spend, spin your marketing,
• 58:30
  speak in a way that makes no sense to investors and sounds
• 58:35
  smart. Guess what?
• 58:38
  Investors aren't the ones that buy the game.
• 58:40
  So. Right.
• 58:41
  I mean, I'm, I'm aware of that, but.
• 58:45
  Are they? I mean, yeah, it's, it's, it's
• 58:54
  something, it's something I don't know.
• 58:58
  I feel like, yeah, I get like everybody's competing for your
• 59:02
  time. But like, like Lauren said,
• 59:06
  games and games and things like Instagram and, and, and TikTok
• 59:09
  or so vastly different types of experiences and types of, of,
• 59:15
  you know, I mean, if I only have like 5 minutes to spend, I'm not
• 59:18
  going to turn on a game and play it, right?
• 59:20
  I'm I'll flip through some Instagram reels or something and
• 59:23
  laugh a little bit or I don't know, every 3rd reels and AI
• 59:28
  something. Microsoft, if you want to
• 59:31
  compete against TikTok and Instagram, make a handheld
• 59:35
  system that actually plays third or first party games and AAA
• 59:40
  titles. Like as good as a console.
• 59:44
  That way they can sit on the toilet and play the video game
• 59:48
  instead of looking at that. TikTok video There you go.
• 59:52
  That reminds me, remember the remember that GameCube ad where
• 59:56
  like it had the toilet and the IT was the wave bird and like
• 1:00:00
  the somebody was sitting on the toilet with the door cracked
• 1:00:04
  with the air on it looking at the TV the wave bird I remember.
• 1:00:09
  I do remember that. Yeah, that.
• 1:00:11
  Was a great ad. It proved the point, you know,
• 1:00:15
  like, what are you doing when you're in the bathroom?
• 1:00:18
  Well, it's not playing wave bird, but like you're on your
• 1:00:21
  phone probably if you're in the bathroom.
• 1:00:24
  Yep. So unless it's like one of those
• 1:00:28
  kind of dire emergencies where you know you're going to be in
• 1:00:30
  there for a while, then you might bring something else in
• 1:00:32
  there that'll, you know, preoccupy your pie of time.
• 1:00:35
  I don't remember the last time I did that.
• 1:00:41
  Well, get a colonoscopy. I mean, I, I meant that long.
• 1:00:47
  I didn't mean like I'm not stuck, Pat.
• 1:00:53
  Well, if you do, it's always good to have a switch nearby so
• 1:00:56
  that you know. Yeah.
• 1:00:58
  At least you wouldn't be bored but being stuck.
• 1:01:01
  Yeah, yeah, fair enough. Well, let us know if you spend
• 1:01:07
  more time on TikTok. I mean, look, I'm sure more
• 1:01:10
  people spend more time on TikTok than Xbox, but that's because
• 1:01:13
  nobody owns an Xbox, so. But everything's an Xbox, so
• 1:01:18
  everyone should own one. It's there.
• 1:01:21
  Good point Pat, good point. Is this can of Red Bull on Xbox?
• 1:01:27
  Yes, it is. You're an Xbox, Corey.
• 1:01:34
  Cool. Once I get that neural link into
• 1:01:39
  your brain, you're an Xbox. Oh God.
• 1:01:42
  You'll be able to play video games through the state of your
• 1:01:45
  mind. I.
• 1:01:49
  Don't like that, or do I? I don't know.
• 1:01:52
  Somebody's going to hack into our brains when we get those
• 1:01:54
  right. And like, that's going to be the
• 1:01:55
  new thing. Hey, I was going to hack into
• 1:02:00
  our brains and they're going to control us.
• 1:02:01
  That's that's how it works. It's true.
• 1:02:08
  All right, let's let's talk about old things.
• 1:02:14
  There's been a new report from Ampere Analysis that reveals
• 1:02:17
  that full game remakes generate more than double the revenue of
• 1:02:21
  remasters, with global spending averaging 2.2 times higher.
• 1:02:26
  Between January 2024 and September 2025, across
• 1:02:31
  PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, players spent a combined $1.4
• 1:02:34
  billion on remakes and remasters, with titles like
• 1:02:38
  Resinue before Silent Hill 2 and Demon Souls leading the charge.
• 1:02:43
  While remasters offer quicker, cheaper returns, remakes command
• 1:02:48
  higher prices and engagement thanks to deeper investment,
• 1:02:52
  development, and marketing. Ampere's data also shows
• 1:02:56
  Oblivion Remastered topping the charts with 7 million players
• 1:02:59
  and $180 million in spending, underscoring the growing
• 1:03:05
  appetite for modernized classics.
• 1:03:08
  Don't forget Final Fantasy 7 remake in there and Rebirth.
• 1:03:14
  So I mean I think it makes sense, especially with the way
• 1:03:17
  that remakes are happening these days, right?
• 1:03:19
  Like you look at Resident Evil 4 and Silent Hill 2 and I mean
• 1:03:23
  look look how modern those games feel and look now right like did
• 1:03:29
  Resident Evil 4 need remade? No, I think that the original
• 1:03:33
  version is probably still relatively serviceable, but I
• 1:03:37
  mean they made it great. Also like La Ron, the Dead Space
• 1:03:42
  remake is like the. It's a masterpiece.
• 1:03:46
  It's the best, it's arguably the best way to play that game now.
• 1:03:50
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, like, I mean, it's funny because like, because
• 1:03:55
  like I just watched some retrospective on on the
• 1:03:58
  original, on the on the O 8, that Dead Space game, right.
• 1:04:01
  And, and they, and they even said, you know, like, like it
• 1:04:06
  was, it's a, it's a hard way to figure out like, you know,
• 1:04:10
  should you play, should you play O 8 and then play the remake?
• 1:04:14
  Or should you just skip it and play the remake?
• 1:04:16
  And it's one of those, it's one of the situations like it's
• 1:04:18
  like, what do you want to what do you want to do?
• 1:04:20
  Because like, because the Dead Space remake basically borrowed
• 1:04:26
  everything from the three main games and, and put it all, put
• 1:04:32
  it all into like something that made enhance the entire first
• 1:04:36
  game totally. Everything from the voice acting
• 1:04:40
  to like the conventions of how the weapons work to like the
• 1:04:43
  nuances of, of, of storyline stuff that, you know, when, when
• 1:04:47
  Dead Space 1-2 and three came out, separate games, like we had
• 1:04:51
  to like get these story elements from those three games
• 1:04:54
  separately, you know, where they were able to.
• 1:04:56
  It's like, OK, this stuff, actually this stuff from Dead
• 1:04:59
  Space two and three can actually fit in Dead Space 1, you know,
• 1:05:02
  and you know, and make it narratively sound and stuff like
• 1:05:04
  that. The Death Race remake, in my
• 1:05:07
  opinion, is going to be, is, is a masterpiece, just like the,
• 1:05:10
  the Resident Evil 2 remake is a masterpiece in my opinion.
• 1:05:15
  There's something, there's something incredible about
• 1:05:19
  remakes. And I'm going to say remakes
• 1:05:21
  more than just remasters, you know, but yeah, remakes you're
• 1:05:26
  looking at a situation where like, you know, like we're doing
• 1:05:28
  this from the ground up for the for the most part, you know,
• 1:05:31
  like these are not just games that are getting rescanned or
• 1:05:33
  whatnot. Like, you know, there's, there's
• 1:05:35
  time, there's input and there's and there's modernization that's
• 1:05:39
  happened. Look at Metal Gear Solid Delta,
• 1:05:41
  you know, like that game is virtually A1 to 1, like a one to
• 1:05:45
  one like copy of the original Snake Eater.
• 1:05:48
  But at the same time, like there's so much, there's so much
• 1:05:52
  into it that actually makes the game feel like a whole different
• 1:05:56
  animal compared to the original 1.
• 1:05:57
  And it's, and it's amazing. You know, yeah, I, I did say a
• 1:06:02
  while back that I was kind of leery of the whole remake train.
• 1:06:04
  And, and you know, like I, and I guarantee you, like there are,
• 1:06:07
  there are, there is an argument for what should companies be
• 1:06:10
  wasting all their time on remix, let's say wasting all their
• 1:06:12
  time. But that's, that's, that's,
• 1:06:13
  that's, that's figurative. But you know, you know what I
• 1:06:17
  mean though. Should they just like how
• 1:06:19
  Hollywood is right now with remakes of, of, of movies and,
• 1:06:22
  and, and, you know, like TV shows and all that stuff, Should
• 1:06:25
  video game community be doing this?
• 1:06:26
  I think the video command, the video game community is doing it
• 1:06:29
  in a way that actually is enhancing, redefining the
• 1:06:35
  enhancing and redefining the experiences and also getting
• 1:06:39
  new, getting a new audience generated for it.
• 1:06:43
  So yeah, kick ass. Keep going.
• 1:06:48
  I think the whole remake, I think the reason why remakes
• 1:06:52
  tend to do better than the remasters is 1.
• 1:06:56
  You are like Lauren says, it is bringing in the new crowd.
• 1:06:59
  But for the older crowd it definitely gives them a reason
• 1:07:03
  to go back and play the game as the remakes tend to add or
• 1:07:07
  change a little bit into their stories I feel.
• 1:07:14
  For example, the Residence Evil remakes, all of those are, I
• 1:07:19
  would say, very different from the original games that they
• 1:07:22
  came from. Even Resident Evil 4 changed up
• 1:07:24
  the scenario a little bit, modernized the controls and
• 1:07:27
  looks, you know, much better on technology that we currently
• 1:07:31
  have in our household. Silent Hill Hue is very much a
• 1:07:37
  different game than Silent Hill or Silent Hill two Remake is
• 1:07:40
  very much a different game than Silent Hill.
• 1:07:42
  There's you can explore the town, you can smash windows and
• 1:07:46
  all the bosses don't lay like they did in the original game.
• 1:07:51
  They have like additional forms I would say, or like stages in
• 1:07:56
  their fights. The Oblivion remastered, like
• 1:08:01
  even though it's called remastered, technically that was
• 1:08:04
  a remake. If you look into it, they built
• 1:08:08
  that game on the Unreal 5 engine.
• 1:08:12
  They updated a lot of different things from the graphics, the
• 1:08:17
  the combat, how the battle system worked.
• 1:08:22
  Like there's I would almost classify that game as actually
• 1:08:27
  being a remake and not a remaster.
• 1:08:29
  And that's why it it's so good. But also it's it's a much older
• 1:08:36
  game that people want to see modernized.
• 1:08:40
  The games. I don't I don't know how well
• 1:08:42
  they did, but I'm curious to know how well the The Last of Us
• 1:08:46
  remakes did because those virtually the only thing that
• 1:08:51
  was different was the engine, but everything else was the same
• 1:08:57
  if I remember. If I'm not mistaken, I think the
• 1:09:00
  last of, I think the Last of Us the, the, the, the remix, I
• 1:09:05
  guess we can call them. I think they just got lost in
• 1:09:07
  the, in the noise of the fact that, you know, like it was way
• 1:09:09
  too soon. Yeah.
• 1:09:13
  So like, you know, now it's hard to now it's hard to determine
• 1:09:15
  like, you know, like what you know, like how they, how they
• 1:09:18
  perform, you know, and that's a shame, you know, because I feel
• 1:09:22
  like, I feel like, you know, like I haven't, I haven't played
• 1:09:27
  enough of either one of them yet to like make a decision, you
• 1:09:30
  know, like I, I, I, I know for sure the last was Part 1
• 1:09:33
  definitely is a, is a lot different experience for me than
• 1:09:37
  than it was when I first played it on PS3 back in the day, you
• 1:09:39
  know, so like that, you know, you know, so I just don't, I
• 1:09:44
  just don't have enough to weigh in on it on both those games,
• 1:09:47
  you know, in general to say like they were, they are, they're
• 1:09:50
  worth it, you know, if you haven't played, if you haven't
• 1:09:53
  played them by now, they're getting the remakes and the
• 1:09:56
  remastered getting, getting those two games and their remake
• 1:09:58
  remastered form is worth it right now to go for it.
• 1:10:02
  Plus the fact that, you know, the originals have been
• 1:10:03
  basically delisted, you know, but you know, if you're one of
• 1:10:09
  those people that has played the originals, you know, like the,
• 1:10:12
  like you're not missing out on much.
• 1:10:13
  So like you're, you're replaying it for the experience or are
• 1:10:17
  you, are you replaying it 'cause you want to?
• 1:10:18
  That's I guess that's the best way I can sum that up.
• 1:10:23
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think, I think at the
• 1:10:30
  end of the day, also like we especially gamers our age, we
• 1:10:35
  are very nostalgic for things, right?
• 1:10:39
  And it's very hard to get into new things when we already kind
• 1:10:43
  of know what we like. And I think remakes and
• 1:10:47
  remasters kind of serve the let's try something new while
• 1:10:52
  also, you know, living, reliving our childhood to the to an
• 1:10:57
  extent, right? Like like, like I said before,
• 1:11:01
  like Resin UL4 and Dead Space are, are the same game, but like
• 1:11:08
  the quality of life differences, the graphical upgrades, the, you
• 1:11:12
  know, being able to move and shoot at the same time in
• 1:11:15
  Resident Evil 4 is like a big game changer, right?
• 1:11:19
  Like these are all things that improve the, the experience.
• 1:11:26
  And also like right now I'm playing plants versus zombies
• 1:11:29
  replanted, right? It's like it's literally the
• 1:11:33
  same game. It's just it, it's just got a
• 1:11:37
  fresh coat of paint on it and it, it's hitting all the right
• 1:11:40
  nostalgia notes, right? It's fun, it's colorful, it's
• 1:11:46
  challenging without me trying to have to like put too much effort
• 1:11:49
  into thinking about things, right?
• 1:11:51
  Like it's just, it's a great remaster.
• 1:11:54
  And then you have companies like Aspire who are essentially kind
• 1:11:58
  of remastering series the way you remember them looking not
• 1:12:03
  exactly like what they used to look like, like the the Tomb
• 1:12:07
  Raider remasters that have been coming out.
• 1:12:08
  Those I think 1/3 were in a package and then 4-5 and Angel
• 1:12:14
  in Darkness, we're all in the package.
• 1:12:16
  Like those games are like literal remasters, right?
• 1:12:20
  Like they look like how you remember them.
• 1:12:23
  They don't look like the PS1 versions, but they kind of have
• 1:12:26
  that aesthetic, right? Or like the the legacy of Kane
• 1:12:30
  collection that came out last year.
• 1:12:32
  Like, I think Aspire does a relatively good job in terms of
• 1:12:35
  their remasters, despite the weird stuff that goes on at that
• 1:12:39
  studio, you know, and then I mean, and now, now we're looking
• 1:12:47
  at Halo being remade next year. And like, it's, it's almost
• 1:12:57
  weird because Halo feels so modern.
• 1:13:00
  But also like, I think in terms of of Halo trying to become
• 1:13:06
  relevant again, I think that a remake of the first game is a
• 1:13:10
  great idea. And I think that's something
• 1:13:12
  that companies look at too, is like, how do we bring back?
• 1:13:15
  Halo's 20 years old, right? It's 25 next.
• 1:13:18
  Year. Yeah, and like there's been, so
• 1:13:23
  you look at you look at Halo, right, and how down that
• 1:13:26
  franchise has been over the last couple entries and just
• 1:13:30
  Microsoft doesn't seem to know what to do with it.
• 1:13:33
  And it it's become irrelevant almost in in the in the modern
• 1:13:37
  space. Like Halo Infinite multiplayer
• 1:13:38
  is still popular, don't get me wrong.
• 1:13:41
  But like we don't talk about Halo like we did in 2007 when
• 1:13:45
  Halo 3 came out, right? Or like even in 2013 or 14,
• 1:13:50
  right? It's just another shooter on the
• 1:13:53
  platform, right? Behind Call of Duty, behind
• 1:13:55
  Fortnite, behind Apex Legends, behind Valor and behind, you
• 1:13:59
  know, all these other shooters that people play that, you know,
• 1:14:04
  they, a remake of the first game could bring a lot of attention
• 1:14:10
  to a franchise that is down on its luck, essentially.
• 1:14:14
  That's a shame when a game just winds up.
• 1:14:16
  That's a shame. That's a shame when a game like
• 1:14:18
  Halo winds up being relegated to like, just another shooter.
• 1:14:20
  That's that's really tragic. I know I was thinking.
• 1:14:24
  I've been thinking a lot about Halo 3 and Reach lately,
• 1:14:28
  specifically for reasons that we say for a different show.
• 1:14:33
  But I just remember how popular Halo 3 was and like the line,
• 1:14:42
  the there were probably 250 people at GameStop that night
• 1:14:45
  waiting for Halo three. I went to the midnight launch of
• 1:14:48
  Halo 3 and I got the Legendary edition with the helmet and
• 1:14:50
  everything. Like I'm telling you, man, I've
• 1:14:52
  never seen so many people together, right?
• 1:14:56
  Like, Halo was huge. Halo 3 was huge.
• 1:15:00
  It was a cultural experience. It I mean, it was it was it was
• 1:15:05
  the game everybody was waiting for, right?
• 1:15:07
  Like it, this was pre Call of Duty Modern Warfare also, right,
• 1:15:11
  like Modern Warfare was coming out what two months later, I
• 1:15:15
  think, but nobody really knew a lot about it because we were
• 1:15:18
  still getting using magazines and like short form previews on
• 1:15:23
  IGN and stuff, right. But like, everybody knew Halo,
• 1:15:27
  right? Finished the fight was the big
• 1:15:30
  the big line. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:15:35
  And everybody was just anticipating it.
• 1:15:36
  And yeah, like Oblivion and Gears have a lot of 360 owners
• 1:15:39
  over. But like nothing hit like Halo
• 1:15:42
  three man, lot of lot of Halo 3, lot of Halo 3 being played.
• 1:15:50
  So yeah, I think, I think remakes and remasters, I'm the
• 1:15:56
  person who will buy. I mean, LeBron, you're playing
• 1:15:59
  Final Fantasy Tactics right now. I mean, that's an amazing game.
• 1:16:05
  It's a good way to make these games available on modern
• 1:16:07
  platforms too. So I don't know, I feel like
• 1:16:10
  I'm. Just going to, I'm just going to
• 1:16:11
  tell you there is a, there is a nice chunk of my library that's
• 1:16:15
  like remakes or remasters like like you know, like you guys saw
• 1:16:20
  how fast I ran and got Metroid Prime Remastered.
• 1:16:23
  You guys saw how fast I got Advanced Wars one and two reboot
• 1:16:27
  camp all the all the Resident Evil remakes 234, you know, even
• 1:16:34
  the original even the original Resident Evil like you know the
• 1:16:37
  one the one that came out on GameCube first.
• 1:16:39
  You know, like, even that, you know, like Dead Space, you know,
• 1:16:43
  tactics, like the list goes on and on.
• 1:16:45
  You know, like, and yeah, like there's a part, there's a part
• 1:16:47
  that can say like, you know, yeah, LeBron is a nostalgic
• 1:16:50
  gamer, but also LeBron likes the quality that they seem to put
• 1:16:53
  out in these types of games, The Front Mission remake games, you
• 1:16:56
  know, like God, like, like I was a big fan of like the Front
• 1:17:00
  Mission series, you know, before, before it became popular
• 1:17:03
  here in the United States. Like I was importing those
• 1:17:05
  games, you know, I was importing those games and could not read
• 1:17:09
  a, a, a drop of like Japanese. He's playing those damn games,
• 1:17:14
  you know, stuff like that, you know, and, and, and as long as
• 1:17:18
  they're doing games that type of justice, like shit, Can you
• 1:17:23
  imagine? Well, I don't know, like you
• 1:17:25
  guys aren't Monster Hunter gamers like I am, but could you
• 1:17:28
  imagine if the Capcom was like, Hey, we're going to remake the
• 1:17:32
  2004 Monster Hunter one game in the in the modern style, you
• 1:17:38
  know, like, like either girl, the style of world or, or, or or
• 1:17:42
  sunbreak, you know, or even, or even Wilds.
• 1:17:45
  Like I'm not throwing Wilds in there just yet because I feel
• 1:17:47
  like Wilds has like Wilds has still has some growing pains to
• 1:17:50
  go through and stuff like that, you know, But imagine, imagine
• 1:17:54
  like the the fallout that would happen if you know, like Capcom
• 1:17:58
  came in today and said, Hey, we're gonna remake.
• 1:18:00
  We're gonna remake Monster Hunter 2004, Street Fighter Two,
• 1:18:03
  The Road Warrior, What else there?
• 1:18:07
  One more game? Oh, the original Devil May Cry.
• 1:18:09
  Just imagine if they said we're going to remake those three
• 1:18:12
  games in like a modern style. People, I can imagine it because
• 1:18:18
  they already are doing it with one of my favorite series.
• 1:18:21
  What? What series is that?
• 1:18:23
  Dynasty Warrior Dynasty Warrior 3 is getting a what they call
• 1:18:29
  the remastered edition which really looks like a remake.
• 1:18:33
  If you look at it it it looks like it's Dynasty warrior origin
• 1:18:37
  style now. Oh, I don't doubt it.
• 1:18:38
  I don't doubt it. Yeah, and I'm seriously looking
• 1:18:42
  forward to that. Another remake remaster that's
• 1:18:48
  coming out soon, Dragon Quest 7 that's getting its second remake
• 1:18:54
  now. It was originally remade for the
• 1:18:58
  3DS and now they're again three. Well, now it's reimagined, which
• 1:19:04
  is they're, they're actually changing up the story this time.
• 1:19:11
  I mean, I, I, I'm OK with these remasters and remakes.
• 1:19:17
  I like new stuff, but I also like my mix of reimagined old
• 1:19:22
  stuff again. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm right there
• 1:19:25
  with you, man. Yeah, me too.
• 1:19:30
  Me too. I know people get angry because
• 1:19:34
  they feel like people feel like it's a cash grab, but also like
• 1:19:41
  I, I think I like it. I like.
• 1:19:43
  Them if you're going to, if you're going to grab, if you're
• 1:19:45
  going to grab cash, grab it like this and you know, like it and
• 1:19:48
  you know, like it's worth it's worth, it's, it's worth its
• 1:19:51
  salt. Like, you know, like I'm not
• 1:19:53
  going to, I'm not going to bitch and complain about Super Mario
• 1:19:55
  RPG coming out the price tag they did on on the switch.
• 1:19:59
  I'm not because guess what, you can go back and play the Super
• 1:20:04
  NES version if you want to. You know, it's a good game, but
• 1:20:08
  you know, like there's, there's some things about that old game
• 1:20:11
  that will piss you off immediately and like this game
• 1:20:15
  the the the remake. Looks amazing, Blaze amazing.
• 1:20:19
  They fix things and they tweak the story.
• 1:20:23
  They took the story to make it, to make it work with modern with
• 1:20:26
  what Mario modern Mario is now. No complaints here. 10/10, 10:10
• 1:20:33
  will do again. Will do again, he says.
• 1:20:40
  All right, well, let us know if you like remakes or remasters
• 1:20:46
  leave in the comments on this on this here YouTube video that we
• 1:20:49
  are posting. All right, let's let's get into
• 1:20:55
  our video game shame and then we'll we'll get on out of here
• 1:20:58
  everybody, video game shame. This is where we bring to the
• 1:21:03
  table a game or franchise that we are embarrassed to say we
• 1:21:09
  have never played. Pat, I'm going your way first.
• 1:21:20
  Oh man, I've been trying to think all night of series that I
• 1:21:25
  haven't played yet because before it used to be Hades, but
• 1:21:32
  now I've officially, you know, played Hades and that's no
• 1:21:37
  longer one of those series. So maybe Dead Cells would still
• 1:21:46
  be something I, you know, I haven't played yet, even though
• 1:21:49
  I have the Castlevania edition sitting sitting in my collection
• 1:21:56
  like it. I'm always weary because it's a
• 1:21:59
  rogue like, but I've also heard it's a very good rogue like,
• 1:22:02
  kind of in the same vein as Hades.
• 1:22:07
  It's I so I've I've played Dead Cells.
• 1:22:12
  Dead Cells, it was the first game I ever covered in terms of
• 1:22:17
  like content like real content creation at pax and like I think
• 1:22:25
  I you guys know how I feel about roguelikes, the combat.
• 1:22:30
  Damn, it's not what I feel. The combat in Dead Cells is
• 1:22:36
  worth playing a little bit of it at least.
• 1:22:39
  Again, I stopped playing it because it's a roguelike and I
• 1:22:41
  got annoyed with it, but the combat is exceptional.
• 1:22:45
  It almost, it makes me wish they would have just made like a full
• 1:22:50
  fully designed game out of it. But yeah, that's, you know.
• 1:22:57
  What I will, I'll also add Kingdom Come Deliverance.
• 1:23:04
  Yeah, just because I recently got announced.
• 1:23:07
  It just got announced as one of the Joystick Golden Joysticks
• 1:23:13
  Ultimate Game of the Year, and I know Steph absolutely loved the
• 1:23:18
  game. I mean, it seems intriguing, or
• 1:23:22
  at least the second one. I don't know if I'd get into the
• 1:23:24
  first one because I hear the combat really was piss poor.
• 1:23:28
  But like it's, it's interesting that you have an Elder Scrolls
• 1:23:32
  style game but actually set in a very much more realistic
• 1:23:36
  setting. And I could see myself kind of
• 1:23:40
  getting into that. But it's something I haven't
• 1:23:43
  jumped into, especially since I'm planning on going to
• 1:23:50
  Scotland and England next year, you know?
• 1:23:55
  Yeah. Maybe that'll entice me to play
• 1:23:58
  it. You should do it.
• 1:24:00
  Do it. Do it.
• 1:24:03
  Got another things, I just started Outer Worlds 2.
• 1:24:07
  Do it. Oh, la Ron.
• 1:24:15
  OK, no, we need. All right, So I'm just going to
• 1:24:20
  admit right now I have not played any Castlevania game
• 1:24:25
  since Symphony of the Night. I'm missing out on a good legacy
• 1:24:32
  the the advance and especially the DS, the Dominus collection
• 1:24:37
  that just came out from limited run that if you were to pick any
• 1:24:41
  Castlevania game up again, pick that one up.
• 1:24:44
  Those are considered the best. Yeah, OK, yeah, like I, I, I, I
• 1:24:51
  called myself wanting to play like the Lords of Shadow games,
• 1:24:54
  like you know, the ones, the ones that came out on PS3, but
• 1:24:56
  just just could never like just could never like get myself, you
• 1:25:00
  know, like in the mood to like even try them out.
• 1:25:02
  Like I have not played, so I have not played a new, I have
• 1:25:05
  not played a, a Castlevania game since Symphony of the Night.
• 1:25:08
  And then it goes all the way to the modern games.
• 1:25:12
  I know I'm missing out some stuff because I've I've heard
• 1:25:14
  nothing but phenomenal stuff about like what was the Shadow
• 1:25:17
  you know when you had? A1 yes, the Mirror of Faith
• 1:25:22
  through the 3DS was good. Two had issues.
• 1:25:27
  OK. Two had a lot of issues with it.
• 1:25:30
  It didn't as much as the idea of the 3D Metroidvania.
• 1:25:34
  Castlevania would have been awesome.
• 1:25:37
  It had story continuity issues and also it had like they placed
• 1:25:43
  Brandon bad guys in like combat situations where you could eat.
• 1:25:47
  Like I literally had like super hard bad guys to fight combined
• 1:25:54
  together when I was like an early level character and I died
• 1:25:59
  and then I went back and then I fought like a different set of
• 1:26:02
  bad guys in that room. It's so it had issues but I
• 1:26:09
  enjoyed the first one and the the 3DS one.
• 1:26:15
  Nice, nice, yeah. I'm not volunteering anything
• 1:26:21
  else because I need to save. I need to save them all for a
• 1:26:23
  future video game Shame episode. Why not?
• 1:26:27
  Why not Laurent? Nah, Nah.
• 1:26:30
  Why not? I don't, I don't, I don't give
• 1:26:32
  away at all in like the in like in like the first try.
• 1:26:36
  But Laurent. What I'm?
• 1:26:41
  Trying to think of games I haven't mentioned before like.
• 1:26:46
  Come on, you. You've got a, you've got a ton,
• 1:26:48
  Corey. Come on.
• 1:26:48
  I know. Yeah.
• 1:26:49
  I've got a I've got a yeah, I've got AI got a ton.
• 1:26:56
  Let's see. Oh my gosh, I'm trying to like
• 1:27:02
  decide. So I as as many games as as I
• 1:27:13
  played on PlayStation two. I never played the Sly Cooper
• 1:27:18
  series. Oh, really?
• 1:27:23
  Yeah. OK, I can't say I played every
• 1:27:25
  Sly coop, I can't say I played every Sly Cooper game, but I did
• 1:27:27
  play 1 and 2. I was really into Jack.
• 1:27:31
  The first one, but played two and three.
• 1:27:34
  I was really into Jack and Daxter and I just refused to
• 1:27:39
  play Sly Cooper and Ratchet and Clank.
• 1:27:44
  I was like waving the Jack flag. I can see, I can understand, I
• 1:27:48
  can understand like, you know, skipping Ratchet and Clank for
• 1:27:53
  Jack and Daxter, and I can also understand people skipping Jack
• 1:27:56
  and Daxter for Ratchet and Clank.
• 1:27:57
  But Sly Cooper, in my opinion, wasn't.
• 1:28:01
  I mean, yeah, on the surface they're like the same game, but
• 1:28:04
  I feel like Sly Cooper was a was a different experience.
• 1:28:10
  Yeah. Yeah, I I liked how the missions
• 1:28:12
  built up a heist and it's like, or at least at least two and
• 1:28:18
  three. One was more of a platformer
• 1:28:22
  with a hubworld in it. But two and three, like the
• 1:28:27
  missions felt like important, like you need to do this, this
• 1:28:31
  and this so you can prepare for one big old heist at the end of
• 1:28:34
  the world or at the end of that hubworld.
• 1:28:40
  And you had awesome characters like the Merc.
• 1:28:48
  He he's a big old pink hippopotamus.
• 1:28:50
  Jeez. So yeah, that's that's mine.
• 1:28:57
  I so like the The thing is like I have also like the last three
• 1:29:05
  times we did this, my picks were Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania
• 1:29:09
  and Mega Man. So like those are like 3 huge
• 1:29:13
  ones and I didn't want to repeat it so I was trying to think of
• 1:29:17
  other ones. I'm sure there's more, but
• 1:29:22
  anyways. That's why you don't throw them
• 1:29:24
  all out at once. I mean it.
• 1:29:26
  Look, man, I there's a lot. There's a lot, you know, but
• 1:29:33
  can't play them all. Can't play them all.
• 1:29:37
  Yeah. But you know what we can do?
• 1:29:39
  We can get out of here because that's the end of our show.
• 1:29:45
  Nice and tight. That's what they say, right?
• 1:29:49
  They're on. Yep, to say goodbye.
• 1:29:58
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• 1:30:00
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• 1:30:02
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• 1:30:17
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