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- 0:24Hello everybody, welcome back to the Boxers Podcast.
- 0:26A great place to play games and be better.
- 0:28I'm one of your hosts, Corey Derrigan.
- 0:29Alongside me, as always, is PC must race himself.
- 0:34Laurent Dawkins. Everybody, what's poppin?
- 0:37Hey, Laurent. What's up, Corey?
- 0:40Not a not a whole lot, just a lot of work.
- 0:43You know work working a lot, you know doing doing some work and
- 0:49then you know working some more. There's a lot of that going
- 0:51around, yeah. Hey, you know, got to, got to
- 0:57feed the kids and whatever else people call it, right?
- 1:02You got to do the things, do all the things, got to pay the
- 1:04bills, got to do it all, kind of do it all.
- 1:12But I don't. I feel like it's been a while.
- 1:13Oh yeah, we didn't record last week.
- 1:14I was like, I feel like, yeah, we didn't, I saw you, but yeah,
- 1:17we didn't. Record last week we didn't.
- 1:19Record last week, so it's all right.
- 1:21We got a dose of Laurent on pow block so it's fine.
- 1:24Yeah. Everybody got their PC muscle
- 1:27race on their Switch block, whatever you want to call it.
- 1:31Switch block I. Don't know man, I don't know.
- 1:35I just work here, man. I just work here anyways.
- 1:42Anything else interesting happening in your life?
- 1:44Just no. Get it out of the way, No.
- 1:48No, no, just. You're boring.
- 1:49Just. Just don't work.
- 1:50Yeah, Yeah, I'm boring. Yeah.
- 1:52Just been working. They've been busy.
- 1:55What is that fancy bottle you have next to your computer right
- 1:58there? Also, aluminum Deer Park water
- 2:00bottle. Oh, it's from.
- 2:02It was from the, IT was from the All Star game, the 2025 All Star
- 2:06game in Atlanta. Oh, so it's cold water?
- 2:11Well, no, I mean I just reused the bottle.
- 2:14No, it's fair. That's fair.
- 2:17My bottle. My bottle is not a bottle.
- 2:19It's a can and it's disposable. It's got energy in it because I
- 2:23need it. This time of night, dude.
- 2:26Damn, yeah man. I think this that's this.
- 2:29This is part of your sleeping problem.
- 2:30Well, not part of your sleeping. Your energy problem.
- 2:34I know. You're hopped up on caffeine
- 2:37like like 4 hours before you go to bed and then you and then
- 2:40you're. Yeah, it's fine.
- 2:41And then? You're and then you're sleeping.
- 2:43You're sleeping for shit. Yeah, it's fine.
- 2:46I got work to do anyways, so it's fine though, you know.
- 2:57OK, I'm done doing. I'm done doing.
- 2:59I'm done doing all the YouTube dashboards.
- 3:01He says he is everybody. Stuff over here yeah, I'm, I'm,
- 3:04I'm done like I'm not I'm not gonna monitor chat tonight.
- 3:06So like it it is, you know, like whatever happens, happens.
- 3:10Whatever cheese that's dangerous, that's dangerous.
- 3:13Speaking of Speaking of dangerous, LeBron, let's, let's,
- 3:18let's, let's talk about what we've been playing, watching and
- 3:21doing. You've been watching a show that
- 3:22I actually just finished up the third season.
- 3:24You're finishing up the second season.
- 3:27Yeah. You're you're you're watching
- 3:29the night agent on that their Netflix.
- 3:33Oh yeah, it's a good show. Like the Night Agent.
- 3:37The Night Agent was one of those shows like I kind of like
- 3:39stumbled upon it, like, you know, like, like I just happened
- 3:42to be like flicking through Netflix and, and, and like the
- 3:45when the first season was debuting, like it, it, it showed
- 3:48up on my feet and I was like, OK, I'll check out an episode,
- 3:50see what happens. Yeah, it showed up.
- 3:54It actually showed up on my feed because I watched Halo of all
- 3:56things. It said it said things you might
- 4:01like if you liked Halo and said The Night Agent and I was like,
- 4:04sure, why not? So wait, you just started
- 4:06watching it? No, this was like a couple
- 4:09months ago. Like, I don't know.
- 4:11I mean, Halo hasn't been on Netflix.
- 4:13Long it's been on since like, Thanksgiving.
- 4:16OK, OK, well what are you? What are your thoughts?
- 4:20I, I mean, I like it. I feel like it's, I feel like
- 4:23it's an easy watch, like I don't have to pay too much attention
- 4:27to it if I'm doing something else, but then I can still like
- 4:29figure out what's going on if I. Yeah.
- 4:32Will leave the room for 5 minutes and come back right.
- 4:34So I I like it. I I really like the setup for
- 4:42it. Like this kind of secret only
- 4:45the president knows about these agents kind of thing going on.
- 4:52And I like the setup where like, especially in the first season,
- 4:55spoilers for the first season, the opening episode of the first
- 4:58season, I guess where like the aunt and uncle of the of the
- 5:05girl are night agents, right? And and like now she's on the
- 5:10run because she knows somebody's after them or, you know, it was
- 5:14cool. And then, you know, obviously
- 5:16what's his face is, is charged with protecting her, right,
- 5:22Because they're after her now. And I I I'm I'm.
- 5:26I remember, I know her name is Rose.
- 5:28I cannot remember his name to save my life.
- 5:30I know I keep wanting to call him Jack, but it's not.
- 5:31It's not. Jack is.
- 5:32It give him the most, give him the most common name ever.
- 5:37Gosh, what is it, Peter? Right, Peter?
- 5:39Peter, that's it. That wow, that's almost as
- 5:42common as Jack. Yeah, I know.
- 5:46But yeah, I I really like it. I think it's got a lot of good
- 5:49action. I think a lot of the there's a
- 5:53lot of chase scenes in like car chase scenes in it that are
- 5:57pretty cool. Yeah.
- 6:00And then there's a lot of like, stealthy, let's hide and take
- 6:03these people out sort of thing. I really like it.
- 6:06I Yeah. I like the fact that they're not
- 6:09making Peter out to be like he's some type of Jason Bourne type
- 6:11character. Like he's just, he's just some
- 6:14unassuming guy that has training, you know?
- 6:16Yeah, which is cool, right? Like, 'cause like, we have
- 6:19enough. We have enough James Bonds and
- 6:21Jason Bournes and, you know, Reachers and all that.
- 6:25He's just kind of like the guy. Like, yeah, he's a military guy,
- 6:28but he, like, stumbles into everything.
- 6:31So wait. You mentioned Reacher.
- 6:32Are you? Do you?
- 6:33Are you? Do you watch that?
- 6:35Yeah. How come when you hold on, I I
- 6:39swear it feels like, it feels like we're just two ships
- 6:41passing in the night on because like, I, I swear like I, I feel
- 6:44like, I feel like you don't watch enough TVI.
- 6:47Know I don't. And then and then you just
- 6:49happen to coincide like we watching some TV that I'm
- 6:51watching. This is this is wild.
- 6:54Yeah, I reached us coming back in like a month or like a month,
- 6:57yeah. Yeah, the boys, just the boys
- 6:59just started, started. Back the boys is a little too
- 7:02violent for me. Boys is a little.
- 7:05I want to say it's a little too violent for me too, but but but
- 7:08I'm, I'm invested. I see I'm I love the premise of
- 7:12the boys like I I think the premise of the show is awesome.
- 7:15I just like man, there's just an over over abundance of blood
- 7:19and. Violence, yeah.
- 7:21It's a it's a gory, it's a gory show.
- 7:23Yeah, I don't know. I got I got to the I got to the
- 7:27episode where like the fake Ant man explodes inside some guys
- 7:33butt and like. Yeah.
- 7:36Wait, wait, wait, wait. Like he sneezed or whatever.
- 7:38Wait that was wait that was the boys Gen.
- 7:41V? Cause Gen.
- 7:41V kind of had something similar. I don't know, I didn't watch
- 7:45Gen. V so.
- 7:45Oh, you need to watch Gen. You need to watch all of Gen.
- 7:48V before you watch if you're going to start season 5 of The
- 7:51Boys. Oh, I didn't.
- 7:52I don't think I watched Season 4 of The Boys.
- 7:54I think I'm two seasons behind. But I'm just saying like if if
- 7:57you're gonna if you're gonna if you're gonna start season 5, you
- 8:00need to you need to watch both, both seasons of of Gen.
- 8:03V Honestly, I think Gen. VI think Gen.
- 8:05V is a stronger show. If if if if I'm being.
- 8:09Yeah, and then they're doing the the the Soldier Boy spin off
- 8:12prequel right too. Yeah, with Jensen Ackles coming
- 8:16back, so. Yeah, that's, yeah, that's
- 8:17supposed to be. I thought that was actually
- 8:19going to debut before like this season, but I guess not.
- 8:23I think it was supposed to, and then they did some rewrites and
- 8:25then they ended up like he was. He's doing something else too
- 8:30now, but I forget. I forget what it is.
- 8:32What is it? He's doing something.
- 8:33Yeah, he's doing something. He's in something else now too,
- 8:35though, so not 100% sure what it is, though.
- 8:40I'm not gonna lie to you, but yeah, man, I, I, I, I really
- 8:46like the Night Agent and I really like Reacher.
- 8:49I'm really into both of those shows so.
- 8:52Yeah, and the Night Agent, The Night Agent has a lot of twists.
- 8:57It's like, it's like sometimes I, I got to say it's probably
- 9:01The One Show that, you know, like it's The One Show in a long
- 9:04time where I can't, where I couldn't predict stuff because I
- 9:06have AI have a very bad habit of predicting how like, how like an
- 9:10episode's going to go or how the season's going to turn out.
- 9:13Yeah. And like, and there was there,
- 9:14there was some really nice twist in Night Agent.
- 9:17Are you? So how what?
- 9:19What happened to the night agent that you just stopped watching?
- 9:21Like where you are at? No, I just, well, no.
- 9:24I just finished the season and season 3 hadn't started yet.
- 9:27You just finished Season 2. I watched, I, I watched, no,
- 9:30well, I didn't just watch season 2.
- 9:31I watched season 2 when it was when it was new.
- 9:34So right. And I think, I think it was, I
- 9:35think it came on back in December.
- 9:38While Season 2. Yeah, I know season season 3,
- 9:41just season 3 came out like a like a like a couple months ago.
- 9:44I just haven't sat down to watch it yet.
- 9:47But but yeah, I watched, I watched season 2.
- 9:49I watched season 2 on Christmas break, 'cause 'cause I went
- 9:52home. I went home to visit my mom, my
- 9:55mom and my sister and I turned on Netflix and it just debuted.
- 10:03Cool, Yeah, it's a it's a really good show.
- 10:05I I actually really liked the third season.
- 10:07Also there's you think there's twists in the first two seasons,
- 10:10man, there's there's some, there's some wild stuff that
- 10:13happens. Yeah.
- 10:15OK, yeah. Like there it's like there's a
- 10:18couple things that happened where you're like this, this
- 10:21storyline is probably going to go on for like 3 seasons and
- 10:24then something happens and you're like, Oh well I guess
- 10:27that's over. The only thing I want, the only
- 10:30thing I want to know because like based on how season 2
- 10:32ended, is Rose actually in the season.
- 10:35In the third, no. No, OK, OK, that's but they I, I
- 10:41well, I kind of figured I kind of figured she wouldn't be
- 10:43because it because it seems like.
- 10:45Sorry, go ahead. No, I was just saying I figured
- 10:47she wasn't going to be in the season because of because just
- 10:50of how how it ended and what they said they were doing with
- 10:53him, his Peter's character. Yeah, I mean, I, I feel like
- 11:00there's potential for her to come back for this last or
- 11:02fourth season, last season, whatever it is, but I I don't
- 11:08really know, honestly like it. I guess it depends on what that
- 11:12actress is doing. But I, I, I from what I was like
- 11:17reading, she wasn't even supposed to be in the second
- 11:18season. People just really liked her.
- 11:20They liked her character. Yeah, yeah.
- 11:25Yeah, I, I, I really thought she added a lot to this the show
- 11:29actually, because of like her, like it added a different
- 11:32dimension than just like boys with guns.
- 11:36Boys with guns. You know, for a lack of better
- 11:39terms, I guess. But yeah, I, I, I thought, I
- 11:44thought, let's see the so the, you know who the broker is then,
- 11:50right? The broker.
- 11:52Yeah, the the, Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
- 11:58Yeah, that's a pretty good storyline for the third season.
- 12:05So I I'm excited for you to watch it.
- 12:08Yeah, like, yeah, I guess I, I guess I will.
- 12:11I guess I will try to like watch that 'cause I mean like it's a
- 12:14the I don't, I'm not usually a binging person, but it's a, but
- 12:18it's a, it's a, it's a fast watch for the 'cause I, I, I
- 12:22think the pacing of the seasons are just so the pacing for the,
- 12:25for the, for the episodes in each season is just really,
- 12:28really nice. So it's like, so like you don't
- 12:30realize like, oh wow. Like I'm, I'm 5 episodes in now.
- 12:33You, you don't realize it, even though technically, you know,
- 12:37technically, yeah, you, you, you know, you know, like you're
- 12:40pressing play on the next episode.
- 12:42Yeah, there there's also like a really cool like Side Story
- 12:47going on in in the third season of like all I'll say is there's
- 12:52like a a bounty hunter in it and it's a really cool kind of like
- 12:58third part to this story. OK, interesting.
- 13:03Yeah, it kind of, I don't know if you like this part of the of
- 13:08the Bourne movie or the Bourne movies was cut from like they
- 13:12left out of the movies from the books.
- 13:13But there's the character called the Jackal in in the in the
- 13:19Bourne books who was like the a secondary character who was like
- 13:22hunting Jason Bourne essentially.
- 13:25Didn't know anything about it because I've never read any of
- 13:27the books. Yeah.
- 13:29And it kind of kind of reminds me of that a little bit.
- 13:32But yeah, you you need to watch it.
- 13:36It's really cool. I'm actually not a big fan of
- 13:39like, spy books. I'm.
- 13:41I'm not. Yeah, I mean, I read it because
- 13:44I was really into those movies and I was like, I wonder what,
- 13:48you know, is that it was at a time when, like everybody's like
- 13:50the books better than the movie, you know?
- 13:52And people always said that and. Yeah, they always, they always
- 13:56say that which is, which is not a problem.
- 13:58You know they always say that. It is a problem because they're
- 14:01always wrong. You know why?
- 14:02Because the movie is a movie. The movies are fun.
- 14:06Books are. You, you don't have to.
- 14:09You don't have to devote as much brain power to like to like a
- 14:11movie. Yeah, that's my.
- 14:13Eyes not my brain. Good times, Good times.
- 14:22What? What?
- 14:23What else are you watching there?
- 14:26I just well, I just finished. I just finished season 1 of the
- 14:30of Memory of a Killer. That what's that on that was is
- 14:37that on Fox? Yeah, that's that that was that
- 14:39was that was on Fox. It's an episode.
- 14:41No, wait, wait. Not even 10 episodes, 8
- 14:43episodes. No, no, no, no, no.
- 14:44I think it's 10 episodes. Hold on, hold on.
- 14:46I can find, I can find out. Really.
- 14:47Really. He's.
- 14:49Got a look? 10 episodes.
- 14:50Yeah, 10 episodes. Yeah.
- 14:52I was like, I was actually watching an episode by episode
- 14:55cause cause of course, like it's on broadcast television.
- 14:57It's like they only show every new episode once a week.
- 15:00But yeah, it stars. It stars.
- 15:04What's his, what's his name? What's his name?
- 15:06What's his name? Patrick Dempsey.
- 15:07Me. Dreamy Yeah.
- 15:10Stars Patrick Dempsey, Michael Imperioli, basically, basically
- 15:15Dempsey Dempsey plays a character named Angelo who's a
- 15:19hit man and and and he's and he's and he's inheriting the
- 15:25family, the family curse of Alzheimer's.
- 15:28He's, he's, he's in the, he's in the, he's in the stages of early
- 15:31onset Alzheimer's and it's, and it's starting to, it's starting
- 15:34to like dissolve the line between like, like his work as a
- 15:38hit man in his regular life and all that stuff.
- 15:40And, and it was a good season. Gina Torres is also in it as an
- 15:45FBI agent and stuff like that. You know, she's trying to, she's
- 15:47trying to track him. She's trying to track him down
- 15:49because like some of the, some of the, some of the hits are,
- 15:52you know, like are, is like was what's landed on her table to
- 15:56investigate and stuff like that. It's a really good season.
- 16:00I will also say I will also say, just like with the night agent,
- 16:03the pacing of the episodes is really good.
- 16:06You get you get your dose of violence, your dose of drama,
- 16:09your dose of your dose of excitement and action and all
- 16:12that stuff. And you know, like it just it
- 16:13just plays out pretty well. Not really a ton of filler
- 16:16episode, which is good because I think we're being a 10 episode
- 16:19season. I think smaller seasons cut out
- 16:24for all that filler. I'm going to say that.
- 16:25But also, I do appreciate, I do appreciate like, you know, like
- 16:28shows that have a like a 131415 episode run because then it
- 16:34feels more tangible for a season.
- 16:35Like this thing came on for 10 weeks and it's probably going to
- 16:38be, it's probably going to be off for like the next like 48
- 16:40weeks, you know, before the new season comes back, you know?
- 16:43Yeah, this kind of, it kind of almost sounds like that show.
- 16:49It's on Netflix, that miniseries with Robert De Niro.
- 16:52He's not a hit man, but he's like a, he's like a former
- 16:56president that becomes the head of like the cybersecurity
- 17:01whatever. I know what you're talking
- 17:02about. I just I I I know for sure I
- 17:05have not seen that zero. Day I think is what it's called.
- 17:08Yeah, that's, yeah, that's, that's it.
- 17:09That's what it is, actually. It was a really good.
- 17:11That was a really good show, let me tell you.
- 17:13Yeah, that show was great. I will take your word for it.
- 17:19Like, I'm not sure if I'm not sure if I'm going to watch it
- 17:21unless you really really want me to watch it.
- 17:24I mean, you can. I'm not, I'm not going to.
- 17:28I'm not going to force. You.
- 17:31I'm not going to, I'm not going to, you know, force you to do
- 17:33it. But it's pretty good.
- 17:35I was actually surprised at how much I liked it.
- 17:37So Oh yeah, yeah. OK yeah.
- 17:44Yeah. So yeah.
- 17:44So yeah. Memory of a Killer And yeah,
- 17:50Memory of the Killers was like I said, I just finished that.
- 17:53It's really good. Like, I mean, I think it's, I
- 17:55think it's worth making an investment into it if you're 1,
- 17:59if you're into those types of shows.
- 18:00And are you there? Can you hear me?
- 18:04Yeah, I'm, I'm listening. OK, 'cause the screens went
- 18:07blank on the on the HUD. There we go.
- 18:09We're back. OK, yeah.
- 18:13And and yeah, that's that's as far as as far as TV, that's the
- 18:19only thing I can say I successfully finished because
- 18:21there's other stuff I am currently watching like I'm
- 18:23currently watching. Excuse me, I'm currently
- 18:28watching Paradise like like that like show on Hulu.
- 18:32Show on Hulu that the 7th. The second season just wrapped
- 18:36but I'm on the 7th episode of the first season as stars
- 18:39Sterling K Sterling K Brown. That just got renewed for a
- 18:44third season, I think. Yeah, I did.
- 18:45Yeah, Sterling K Brown and James Marston was in the first season
- 18:49he playing the president of United States and it's basically
- 18:53a post apocalyptic thing. You know, it's got that going on
- 18:57and there's some really intriguing stuff behind what's
- 19:01happening in the storyline. I yeah, I'm on the 7th episode.
- 19:05There's one more episode left in that season and then I can start
- 19:07season 2. But, and Paradise came highly
- 19:10recommended from a bunch of friends of mine and they're
- 19:12like, they're like, you should at least watch the first
- 19:14episode. You don't like the first
- 19:15episode, then you don't have to watch it.
- 19:16And I was like, OK, I watched it and I was like, I need to see
- 19:20what's happening. I need to see.
- 19:21I need to keep going. They knew what they were doing
- 19:24when they said that to me. They knew.
- 19:25They knew. They knew.
- 19:26They knew. They knew.
- 19:27Unless unless the unless the premiere episode is absolute
- 19:30trash like I'm usually going to watch, you know?
- 19:35Yeah, you know what, You know what show I wanted to love and I
- 19:39just couldn't it because it's an awesome premise for a show, but
- 19:42it's the the first half of the first season was so bad that I
- 19:46just couldn't stick with it was, Oh my gosh, Designated Survivor
- 19:52with Kiefer Sutherland in it. I OK, so I enjoyed the first
- 19:56season, the second season, really like the second season
- 19:59really lost me and then it got cancelled in the third season.
- 20:01But I did watch. I did want to watch.
- 20:03Well they they put 2 new they put they is Netflix renewed it
- 20:08I. Think yeah, Netflix, Netflix
- 20:10picked it up because ABC wasn't going to continue with it.
- 20:13Netflix picked it up and did two seasons.
- 20:16In the second season, I'm I'm pretty sure there was something
- 20:18going on, but but basically in the second season was almost
- 20:22like a reset because they killed a lot of the major characters
- 20:25that were players in the first season and then the third season
- 20:28just seemed so disconnected from everything and.
- 20:31Yeah, the the third season seems like, I thought they like the
- 20:35third season almost seemed like a reboot.
- 20:37It felt, it looked like, yeah, essentially.
- 20:40Yeah, that's honestly what it felt like.
- 20:44But well, LeBron, I am also watching the night Agent.
- 20:55I finished season 3, it was really good.
- 20:56But I'm also watching Daredevil Born Again, mid season, the mid
- 21:01season, the season's away 8 episodes which is weird.
- 21:06Usually they're like at least 9 or 12 or something.
- 21:09Daredevil's usually longer. But well, this is Disney, this
- 21:12is Disney Plus, so some shoot, sometimes you're lucky if you
- 21:15get 6 episodes. Yeah, but this season's like,
- 21:18the season's really good, man. Like I, I'm like, man,
- 21:22Daredevil's so good. It's definitely the best Marvel
- 21:26show, like maybe ever. It's so good.
- 21:31So here's my question, man, because, because I think, I
- 21:35think we talked about this back when we were doing standard
- 21:37definition and we were talking about the, the Marvels, the
- 21:39Marvel shows. And, and I remember, and I think
- 21:42I remember telling you that I, I, I stopped watching, I stopped
- 21:48watching the, the Netflix, the Netflix outings for for the
- 21:53Marvel stuff because because they.
- 21:56Started getting bad. Well, no, I, I stopped watching
- 21:59before they started getting bad. Like I stopped watching them
- 22:01because watching they weren't acknowledging like the ABC
- 22:04television shows. So they weren't acknowledging
- 22:07Agents of SHIELD and, and Agent Carter.
- 22:10And I was like, no, like if, if, if it's not going to be, if it's
- 22:13not going to be cohesive, I'm, I don't want to watch it.
- 22:15So I guess my question is, should I, should I at least
- 22:19watch Daredevil? Well, it's it's MCU now.
- 22:23So you saw they just, they, you saw that that set leak where all
- 22:27the defenders are back. Yeah, yeah.
- 22:29Except for the girl. The girl from Iron Fist.
- 22:33What I'm asking you is, should I watch it?
- 22:35Should I? Should I watch it or can I
- 22:38start? Watch Daredevil.
- 22:40Yes. The original Daredevil not not
- 22:42this one. I'm planning on watching this
- 22:44one, but do I need to watch the original?
- 22:48So you don't have to, but it is a continuation of the Netflix
- 22:54show, the show you need to watch.
- 22:59Before this, the two shows you need to watch are Hawkeye and
- 23:03Echo are the two shows you need to watch.
- 23:04OK, I've seen Hawkeye. I I loved Hawkeye, I did not
- 23:08watch Echo and I'm not even sure why I haven't watched Echo.
- 23:12It it was fine. It was fine.
- 23:16But those are the those are the shows that lead into this so.
- 23:19My problem is I'm MCU D out. That's my problem.
- 23:21I know I'm so I'm so I'm so fatigued.
- 23:25Every time I every time I like. There are so many things in the
- 23:28MCU that I've missed already. Like I haven't.
- 23:31I dude, I'm so I'm suited out that I haven't watched X-Men 97
- 23:34and I've been wanting to watch it for like years.
- 23:36You need to watch that. I love like I love X-Men and I'm
- 23:40just like, I can't muster up the just the like to watch it.
- 23:44Corey, you need, you need to watch that.
- 23:45First of all, they're not even hour long episodes.
- 23:47You need to watch that. I know, I know.
- 23:51But like to me it's like Daredevils different for some
- 23:54reason. No, I don't.
- 23:56I have no idea man. It's just different.
- 23:59And X-Men 97 is more coherent than the original X-Men animated
- 24:03series because the original anime series is all over the
- 24:05place. Well, that's how all animated
- 24:07series were in the 90s. True, Yeah.
- 24:10So, you know, the fact that you know, like the fact that they're
- 24:12actually they're actually keeping it solid, you know, and
- 24:16also acknowledging all the stuff that happened prior, you know,
- 24:20that's the cool part about it, you know, But no, you need to,
- 24:23you need to watch that. Yeah, I I know, I know.
- 24:27I need to. I just need to put on my big boy
- 24:31pants and just watch it. Yeah, I, yeah, I don't, I don't
- 24:34even know why you're running from that like.
- 24:38But like, I haven't watched. I haven't watched Iron Heart
- 24:40yet. I haven't watched like I
- 24:42haven't. Finished Iron Heart.
- 24:44The That Eyes of Wakanda show I haven't watched.
- 24:48I haven't watched any of the I don't think.
- 24:50I think Eyes of Wakanda like really needs to be watched.
- 24:53I don't think so. I didn't watch it, but I don't
- 24:57think it really needed to be watched.
- 25:00Does that make sense? Yeah, what else haven't I
- 25:04watched? There's there's a couple other
- 25:05things I haven't watched. I just, I just haven't like, I
- 25:09don't know, man. And like I want to be excited
- 25:10for Avengers Doomsday because like they're bringing Captain
- 25:13America back and I'm like, yeah, Captain America can't wait.
- 25:16But then it's like. And they're pissing me off of
- 25:19that. I'm going to be, I'm going to be
- 25:20for real with you. They're pissing me off with
- 25:22that, you know, like they're bringing back, they're bringing
- 25:25back the old stars, which that's not the really the part that
- 25:28pisses me off. You know, like I, I, I, I will
- 25:31any day. I will any day.
- 25:32Love to see like, you know, more Chris Evans, more Robert Downey
- 25:34junior knowledge stuff. But at the same time, I'm like,
- 25:37this is what you guys are doing because like you, you, you
- 25:40flubbed the ball so hard with, with, with, with the, with the,
- 25:44with the previous stuff. Yeah, I know right?
- 25:48Like I, I don't know, but like it.
- 25:50It bothers me too because like Anthony Mackie only got 1 movie.
- 25:52It's Captain America, and they're like Nah and.
- 25:54Now Captain America's back. Yeah, I mean, maybe they'll just
- 25:59have 3 Captain America's, I guess.
- 26:01Or four I guess 'cause. I mean, yeah, 'cause you got US
- 26:04agents. Yeah, you have Bucky and IT,
- 26:08Captain. You know, Captain Carter.
- 26:12Potentially so. Yeah, like, I mean, not the
- 26:17major problem. The major problem with the with
- 26:19the MCU is that is that they really just try to cram
- 26:23everything down our throats. Yeah, I just, I don't know how
- 26:27they're going to do this, man. Because they like, they're going
- 26:30to put the X-Men in here too. And it's like.
- 26:32Yeah, yeah. Like I like it.
- 26:35It's. I'm and then Secret Wars is also
- 26:37coming and it's like, how are you going to do both of those
- 26:39storylines back-to-back? Like how are you going to how
- 26:41are you going to do that? You know which I mean, I guess,
- 26:45you know, it could just be a name like, you know, civil war,
- 26:48right, Like civil War wasn't really civil war, right, But I
- 26:53don't know they're. Just they're just done too much
- 26:55in my opinion. You know, like they've done too
- 26:57much. They've done, they've done too
- 26:58much. And I, I can't, I don't want to
- 27:01say I've done it too fast, but they've just done too much.
- 27:04And like, you know, like the the IT was a novel idea, you know,
- 27:08for what's Mccaller for them to like do the the TV shows, But I
- 27:14feel like the TV shows should not have been so.
- 27:18There's too many. Yeah.
- 27:20There's too so well, it's not that there's too many.
- 27:23Well, I guess there's too many, There are too many properties
- 27:26and there's too many, There's too many one offs, right?
- 27:29There's not enough continuation. Yeah, yeah.
- 27:31And like, OK, so I'm supposed to watch Falcon and The Winter
- 27:35Soldier before I watched Captain America.
- 27:37Brave New World. I'm I'm supposed to do that?
- 27:40Yeah, that's that's how it feels.
- 27:41Right. What about the people who don't
- 27:42have Disney Plus? Like, what about the people who
- 27:44just want to go watch a fun action movie, which they do tie
- 27:47it in, right? I mean, you can't watch it
- 27:49without watching the show. But like, there's just like, OK,
- 27:56I guess, who's this guy? Who's this new guy with wings?
- 28:00You know, like. Yeah, I think that's the major
- 28:03thing, right? Like it like it hangs on the
- 28:05fact that you have to watch this stuff, you know which, which you
- 28:08know, before I got before I got MCU doubt, like I was fine with
- 28:14that. Like I was, I was soaking up all
- 28:16of that, all that content, like, you know, like phase, phase
- 28:19four, when phase four happened, you know, like I watched all
- 28:22that stuff like like Wanda Vision, Falcon and Winter
- 28:25Soldier was I, I, I, I will stand on Falcon and Winter
- 28:28Soldier being the being one of the best projects that they've
- 28:32done stopping Winter Soldier, Loki.
- 28:36I I haven't even finished season 2 of Loki.
- 28:38Yeah, I just, I just watched it 'cause I felt like I had to.
- 28:41Right. Yeah, that's literally how tired
- 28:43I am right now. Yeah, plus there's like other
- 28:46stuff I want to watch, you know, and there's games I want to play
- 28:49and there's, you know, I don't know, jobs I have to do and life
- 28:53I have to live. I don't want to.
- 28:56Everything, everything is a full time job now, right?
- 28:59Like it's, it's like, gosh, can we just can we just relax for a
- 29:03second? Everything is so, oh, it's such
- 29:09a full time job, everything. Right.
- 29:12But, and like, I was like, man, the MCU, OK, you get like one
- 29:17movie every three months. OK, I can do that.
- 29:19I can do 2 hours every three months.
- 29:20And then you start getting these shows and you know, then they
- 29:23started doing the same thing with Star Wars and, and Oh my
- 29:27gosh, what are you? What are you doing?
- 29:28It's. Just it's just, it's just nuts.
- 29:30And then like every, every, for every show you don't like,
- 29:33there's another show that you you want to like, but then you
- 29:36have to go back and watch the show that you don't like.
- 29:38It's like, Oh my. Gosh, like I had, I had
- 29:40everybody all over me, oh, watch Moon night, watch Moon Night and
- 29:44I'm like, no, why should I watch Moon Night for #1 like I never
- 29:47had any connection to Moon Night in the comics.
- 29:51Back when I was reading comics, my opinion Moon Night wasn't
- 29:55very good. I'm glad to hear.
- 29:57I'm glad to hear. I'm glad to hear somebody say
- 29:58that. I really AM.
- 30:00It, I don't know man it. Just feels like, it just feels
- 30:05like it got forced on me. I I haven't finished Miss Marvel
- 30:08and Miss Marvel is actually good.
- 30:10Miss Marvel was awesome that that's like, I think that might
- 30:12be like, not secretly, but like it might be one of my favorite
- 30:16MCMCU shows. Like it was so much.
- 30:19You did not say MCU. You did not.
- 30:21I didn't mean to it, it, it, it came out wrong or right or
- 30:27whatever you want to say it, but I.
- 30:29Because you, because you, you know, you, you know, like you
- 30:32just valid, you just validated, you just validated somebody by
- 30:35saying that. Yeah, whatever.
- 30:38It's fine, everybody. Everybody likes women, Laurent.
- 30:42OK. I'm just too afraid of no, no,
- 30:45no. No, no, I mean, I mean, I mean,
- 30:49no, there's a, there's a, there's a section of people out
- 30:52there that, that, that believe that the Marvels is what killed
- 30:55the franchise. And I'm like, no, the Marvels
- 30:56did not kill the franchise. No, The Marvels was good too.
- 31:00Marvels was a fantastic movie and I.
- 31:04People, People need to get over themselves, man.
- 31:06People. People are jackasses.
- 31:09The Marvels was fun, Yeah. I liked it.
- 31:11I liked it. People are people are jackasses
- 31:16or or they or they just want a bandwagon so much, you know,
- 31:20like it's like, it's like. You enjoy anything anymore,
- 31:22Laurent? That's the.
- 31:23Problem. It's like you guys literally
- 31:25heard somebody say something and now and now all you're doing is
- 31:28parroting that bullshit. Yeah, nobody.
- 31:31Nobody can just enjoy anything anymore, you know?
- 31:34I just want to, just want to live, just want to live my life
- 31:38and watch things that nobody else likes and move on with my
- 31:42life, you know? That's it, that's all.
- 31:47Is that too much to ask? Apparently it is.
- 31:49It is. Yeah, it is.
- 31:52You know, it's too much to ask, you know?
- 31:54I mean, you know, you liked, you liked that Star Trek show nobody
- 32:00likes. Who cares, right?
- 32:01Who cares? Actually a lot of people liked
- 32:03it, but it just. Well, the Internet, according to
- 32:07the Internet, nobody likes. It according to the Internet,
- 32:09nobody liked it. But then again, like, you know,
- 32:11like it's always, it's always the biggest naysayers that
- 32:13always have the loudest fucking voices.
- 32:17Yeah, that's enough. That's like they have no life
- 32:21and no profile picture. That's another thing that chaps
- 32:23my ass these days. Wait, what?
- 32:30What chat? What?
- 32:32Yeah, Like, yeah, like inane bullshit, you know, from people
- 32:35that, that don't, that, that, you know, they don't enjoy
- 32:38something so much that the, you know, like it's their mission to
- 32:41just like, you know, go online. Yeah, exactly.
- 32:45Yeah. Yeah, stupid people suck.
- 32:48You don't need to find hobbies man.
- 32:50Like. They touch grass.
- 32:52That's that's what they need to do.
- 32:55I mean, or they can just go, I don't know, crawl on their table
- 33:00and cry to themselves I guess. I don't know.
- 33:05Anyways, yeah. It's, yeah, it's it, it, it's
- 33:08weird. People are.
- 33:09I don't want to go there tonight.
- 33:12Do it go there. People are fucking dumb.
- 33:15Yeah, he said it. Proud of you.
- 33:23Proud of you, Ron. You know what else I did?
- 33:25What else do you? Finish Super Metroid.
- 33:29You finish Super Metroid? Yeah, Yeah.
- 33:31All right, it's the third Metroid game this this year.
- 33:35Finished. Done.
- 33:36Nice. Yeah, play them in order.
- 33:40Now I don't know what to play. I do have to say the the only
- 33:49part of the game that I didn't like was the area where there's
- 33:52all like the sand, like the sand jumping like the sand walls and
- 33:55stuff and like trying to get to that boss was really annoying.
- 33:58But other than that like I really enjoyed my time with it.
- 34:03I still think 0 mission is the best one but that's, you know,
- 34:0912 years newer and had some quality of life changes and
- 34:13updates and stuff. Wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait,
- 34:14wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- 34:16Did you stay? Wait. 0 Mission came out in
- 34:22what, 2003? Four.
- 34:23You beat, you beat. OK, so you beat Metroid 2 since
- 34:27the last time we talked. Yeah.
- 34:30Yeah, 'cause you said sand jumping in for, and I do
- 34:32remember, I do remember sand jumping in Metroid 2.
- 34:35Well, yeah, Sand jumping in Super Metroid?
- 34:38Yeah, that's because that's because Super NES physics were
- 34:41wonky. Yeah, so I, yeah, I've, I've
- 34:48beat Metroid 2. Metroid 2 was fun, man.
- 34:50I enjoyed my time in Metroid 2, although I did play in Game Boy
- 34:54Color mode and I did have a big old map to look at so that's
- 34:58probably why my time with it. I remember, I remember, I
- 35:01remember you mentioning that, yeah.
- 35:03If I had to play in in piss yellow and green and no map then
- 35:08I don't think I would have liked it as much.
- 35:11Well, let me let me ask you this.
- 35:13So, OK, so you've played well, you played Zero Mission, you
- 35:17didn't play Metroid, right? You didn't play the original
- 35:19Metroid, right? I mean, I have I that's the
- 35:22that's the only Metroid game I've finished before this run
- 35:25of. Metro Games All right, so you
- 35:26Metroid 0, Mission, Metroid 2, and now Super Metroid.
- 35:32So far, which one? Which one is looking to be your
- 35:35favorite? 00 mission is my favorite still.
- 35:38OK, All right, all right. So nothing's changed yet.
- 35:40Now, Super. Yeah, now I love me some Super
- 35:44Metroid but man, like 0 mission. I feel like 0 mission like set a
- 35:48bar. It definitely set a bar that is,
- 35:52I don't know if Fusion's going to hit.
- 35:54I'm not going to. Lie to you.
- 35:57Let's. Oh, you know what?
- 35:58I'll. I'll wait.
- 35:59I'll wait for you to come back to that one.
- 36:00I'll wait. I'll wait for that one.
- 36:02I have heard that fusion is more linear than the than the other
- 36:04ones though. Fusion is very linear.
- 36:07Which is fine, right? I mean, that's fine with me.
- 36:09I'm tired of getting lost. But.
- 36:12Fusion is very linear. I'm excited to play it.
- 36:15I don't know if I'm going to play it next, though.
- 36:17I feel like I need, I feel like I need a a palette cleanser, you
- 36:20know, like I, I need that. Oh, I've got I've I've got a
- 36:24pellet cleanser that I've been playing this week.
- 36:26Oh boy, what's that? What is it?
- 36:28DJ Max Respect V Music game Music game.
- 36:33Gotcha game. Nah, it's a music game, but
- 36:37yeah, like, but yeah, that was my, that's my palate cleanser
- 36:40for this week 'cause I still have not finished Front Mission.
- 36:43It's not that I've gotten burnt out on it.
- 36:45It's just that I'm like, man, like I just need to sit down and
- 36:48like plow through the rest of these missions and and beat it.
- 36:51Yeah, but it's. Just like, it's just like, I
- 36:53don't know, like right now it just feels like I, I can't get
- 36:55it up to actually like, wow. Word choice.
- 37:03I wasn't even thinking to say that and it just came out of my
- 37:06mouth. Wow.
- 37:08Wow. I mean it just keep just keeps
- 37:10going. Yeah, but yeah, like it's a
- 37:16music. It's a music game.
- 37:17As a matter of fact, DJ Max has had a long history.
- 37:21Like it started off as a, it started off as like an online
- 37:24like rhythm game. Like I think, I think it was in
- 37:27the vein like games like O2 Jam and stuff like that.
- 37:29I know you don't know what you know what I mean about that
- 37:31stuff, 'cause I think, I think the only music games like you,
- 37:34like you're familiar with is like Guitar Hero, you know that
- 37:38stuff. Actually, I mean, I played a lot
- 37:40of DDR, Mario Mix, Lauren. OK, it's, it's more in my
- 37:45opinion is more, is more Guitar Hero than it is than it is DDR.
- 37:52But yeah, DJ Max like has been around for a while.
- 37:54Like I, I got on DJ Max train when the first game came out on
- 37:58PSP and then I got and then I bought every, I imported every
- 38:03game from Korea that came out. I imported them and I bought
- 38:08every US version that came out on the digital store.
- 38:10So, so in the US, in the US we got 1-2, We got 4 DJ Max games
- 38:16in the US on the PSP and then I got the corresponding 4 + 3
- 38:24others that never came to the States.
- 38:28Yeah. And then, and then DJ Max
- 38:31evolved into a, into a, into a touch screen game.
- 38:35So evolved from DJ Max, DJ Max Technica and Technica was fun.
- 38:41There was only one version of it that came out on the PS Vita and
- 38:44it was great. I as soon as they announced it,
- 38:46I pre-ordered it because I, you guys know me.
- 38:49I love rhythm games. What?
- 38:51Yeah, yeah. So, so DJ Max, so DJ Max respect
- 38:56comes out and they and they they announced it for PS4.
- 39:00I think it's on I think it's on Xbox One, I think, but I don't
- 39:02think it's pop. I don't think it's that popular
- 39:04on Xbox One, but they announced on PS is they announced it on
- 39:08PS4 and they went back to the old school DJ Max route, which
- 39:12makes sense because like nobody's got touch.
- 39:15Nobody's got touch screens and stuff like that.
- 39:16Oh, I haven't bought DJ Max. I even bought DJ Max Technica Q
- 39:20on the on on mobile and and bought every song pack and
- 39:27everything until and played that game until they shut that server
- 39:30down, which I was so heartbroken.
- 39:32I was like, man, I spent all this money.
- 39:35That's how they get you, man. And I can't, and I can't even,
- 39:37and I can't even play it. And here's the sad part, right?
- 39:39Like I feel like eventually DJ Max, DJ Max respect V has been
- 39:43out for a while. Like I want I hazard to say it's
- 39:47been out for about 5 years. Five years.
- 39:51Jeez. Let me see.
- 39:53Yeah. Because I mean, like, yeah,
- 39:54like, when did it come out? Hold on library DJ Max respect
- 40:02V. What was the release date for
- 40:05this? Of course, doesn't tell me right
- 40:08there. But yeah, like this game has
- 40:11been out. This game has been out for a
- 40:12while. Let me see.
- 40:18It launched on it. It launched.
- 40:20It launched March 2020 and I didn't buy, I didn't buy it when
- 40:24it came out or initially I did buy, I think I obviously bought
- 40:27it during, well, 2020. Like that's damn near the
- 40:30pandemic. Like I didn't buy it at launch.
- 40:31Still I but I eventually bought it, you know, and, and I bought
- 40:35sound pack. I bought song packs, but I
- 40:37bought them only when they're on sale 'cause I'm not stupid,
- 40:42stupid. But yeah.
- 40:46But yeah, like the game, the game is great.
- 40:48If you like these type of games you can play, you can play, you
- 40:50can play on the keyboard, which is probably recommended, the
- 40:53recommended way to play. Like I play, I play it for
- 40:55controller, which 'cause I'm used to playing it that way from
- 40:59the PSP in the PS Vita era. Every now and then, every now
- 41:02and then when I'm like, OK, man, I just want to get, I just want
- 41:04to get like a higher percentage on, on a song I will play, I
- 41:09will play on the keyboard. But but yeah, like I say, check
- 41:13it out. I think, I think there's AI
- 41:14think there's a demo version you can play.
- 41:17I think the demo is still available on on on the on the
- 41:21marketplaces. Interesting.
- 41:25Maybe I'll give it a give it a whirl.
- 41:28But that was my, that was my palate, that was my palate
- 41:30cleanser game. And, and actually it was, it was
- 41:31kind of refreshing. Nice.
- 41:34Cool, yeah. Nelly, Nelly's in.
- 41:39I know Nelly's in here now. He's going to whack me with a
- 41:44wooden spoon, y'all? Yeah, she's she's coming for
- 41:50you, Laurent. Wait.
- 41:53That came out wrong too. Yeah, I know.
- 41:55I know, right. Yeah.
- 41:56Like dude, you just did. Just.
- 41:57Stop talking. Why do we?
- 41:58Why do we do this? After Dark is rebooting on its
- 42:06own. I know whether we whether we
- 42:09wanted to or not. Yep.
- 42:12Well, look, that's what that's what happens when they leave us
- 42:13alone. Laurent, this is what happens.
- 42:19Oh, good times, though. Let's see, what else am I
- 42:25playing? Oh, marathon, I guess is the
- 42:27last thing I'm kind of dipping into.
- 42:30Although I didn't play that much this weekend because of we were
- 42:33out of town. So we went to the went to the
- 42:37zoo. That was fun.
- 42:40Saw some, Oh yeah, some animals and some, you know, other
- 42:46things. So that was cool.
- 42:48That was fun. And then I went to a funeral on
- 42:53Saturday. That was also not fun.
- 42:55But I'm sorry. Yeah, it's OK.
- 43:00Were you? Were you close to the person
- 43:02that passed? Well, it's kind of complicated,
- 43:07but basically, like, I mean, it was my uncle, but we hadn't
- 43:12communicated in a long time. But I was close to his daughter.
- 43:19So my cousin, we were close when we were younger and we haven't
- 43:22talked to each other in a long time.
- 43:24So like, on one hand, it was really good to see her, but it
- 43:28was in a, you know, bad situation.
- 43:31So I don't know, but it was, it was sad, but I'm glad I went
- 43:43because, you know, I, I don't see that side of the family
- 43:46often. So, you know, it's a positive
- 43:51and a negative, but it happens. Yeah, but it just.
- 43:59Makes me sorry for your loss man.
- 44:02I mean, it's, I mean it's not, not really my loss, you know,
- 44:07but appreciate it anyway. But it's, I don't know, it just
- 44:14makes you realize that you need to take care of yourself, man.
- 44:17And like to really I don't it put a lot of different things in
- 44:23perspective, you know, as we tend to get older specifically
- 44:30our family's gene pool of heart conditions, which is not great.
- 44:36Is that is that what he passed? From yeah, his heart just
- 44:40stopped in the middle of the night.
- 44:42Oh man, so. But other than that, I guess we
- 44:51should probably talk about the what's what's coming out La Ron,
- 44:56what's what's on the DL as we say it's.
- 44:59On the DL, what's? What a dumb name for a segment.
- 45:03I was like, you know what would be cool?
- 45:04If we named a segment and then we name it and I'm like, yeah.
- 45:07No, no, I like it because I like it because like if you download
- 45:11games on on Nintendo now it's it's.
- 45:14Cheaper. That's true.
- 45:16It is cheaper. Well, not starting in May.
- 45:20We gotta we gotta make that preference.
- 45:21Yeah. So it's like, so it's like
- 45:22you're being punished for one physical product.
- 45:26Physical suckers. All right, so these are the
- 45:28games in digital storefronts this coming this this week.
- 45:35There's so many weird ones. You.
- 45:39Should watch the trailers to some of these man, they're just.
- 45:41I I I think I will. All right, so let's go ahead and
- 45:44get started here. All right, Coming to PS-5, Xbox
- 45:46Series, consoles and Nintendo Switch and PC.
- 45:49We have Before I go and before I go, you explore the Galaxy.
- 45:54You explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of
- 45:56Before I go A yeah, you know what?
- 46:00I guess I shouldn't ad Lib this. I, I, I need to read this, you
- 46:03know, a certain way, so it comes off right.
- 46:05All right, so starting over before I go explore the haunting
- 46:09dreamlike fantasy world before I go, which is a punishing
- 46:13metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child
- 46:15on an allegorical odyssey towards death, death acceptance.
- 46:22Yep, the end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey that
- 46:26comes out on that comes out on the 13th.
- 46:28So next Monday coming out on the 14th of April, we have Dosa
- 46:33Divas one last meal, which would be available on PS-5, Xbox
- 46:37Series consoles, Switch. And then if I say Switch, just
- 46:42just no, I'm including well, I can't do that.
- 46:45Switch is no, that doesn't sound right either.
- 46:47Just say switch and switch to. Switch and switch to.
- 46:50Switch one and two switch one switch.
- 46:52One switch, switch and switch to and the PC.
- 46:55All right, Yeah. What Laurent said.
- 46:57All right, battling evil fast food empire in a spicy narrative
- 47:01turn based RPG. Two sisters and her upgradable
- 47:04spirit. Shut up, Corey.
- 47:06It's just so funny. Two sisters and her upgradable
- 47:10spirit met cooked delicious meals.
- 47:12Fight corpose, build up your reputation with local
- 47:16communities and reconcile with loved ones again.
- 47:21That comes out on the 14th. Also the 14th of of April we
- 47:25have Hades 2 coming to PS-5 and Xbox Series consoles.
- 47:28Battle beyond the underworld using dark sorcery to take on
- 47:33the Titan of time. And this bewitching sequel to
- 47:35the award-winning roguelike dungeon crawler is available for
- 47:3930/29/99 U.S. dollars on the on the on their respective
- 47:43consoles. Also on the 14th of April we
- 47:47have replaced coming to PSPC I'm sorry PC and Xbox Series
- 47:52consoles. In this game, you expose the
- 47:54sinister secrets of Phoenix Corporation as reach REACH an AI
- 48:02trapped in a in a human body set in alternate 1980s America
- 48:07starred by nuclear catastrophe. Navigate a dark cyberpunk
- 48:11thriller in this narrative driven 2.5 D platformer,
- 48:15blending cinematic exploration with the with fluid free flow
- 48:19action. Sounds pretty good actually, I
- 48:21think. Wait, didn't we see a trailer
- 48:23for that? And yeah, that's what I thought.
- 48:26OK, I do remember this OK. Yeah, it was cool.
- 48:30I I was like, man, I remember this.
- 48:31And then I went to the Steam page and I was like, Oh yeah,
- 48:33this one all right. And and also and then then
- 48:37lastly coming on the 14th of April is We Got to Go, which is
- 48:41not related to that before I go game that I just talked about.
- 48:45We Got To Go as a Co-op horror comedy to scare the crap out of
- 48:49you literally team up to reach the only bathroom in a haunted
- 48:53house in a Haunted Mansion before your bowels betray you,
- 48:58scavenge for items, fend off, fend off ghosts, and fight
- 49:03through cursed halls together in a desperate hunt for sweet
- 49:05relief. We Got to Go is coming to PC on
- 49:10April the 14th. Oh my God.
- 49:14All right, Next up on April 15th, we have Industrial 2
- 49:16coming to the PC. Industrial 2 is a narrative FPS
- 49:19adventure about a woman stranded in a parallel dimension.
- 49:23Explore, scavenge, and fight your way through a mysterious
- 49:25boreal landscape. Boreal and yeah, boreal
- 49:28landscape consumed by an ever hungry artificial intelligence
- 49:31to find a way home. That's like the third that third
- 49:34game that's talked about AI. Probably, yeah.
- 49:38Every game is AI now. All right, Yep.
- 49:41And then like again, Industrial 2 is coming out April 15th.
- 49:44On the April 16th, we've got 12345678 G's 123-4567.
- 49:50Yeah, eight games starting off with Cthulhu, The Cosmic Abyss
- 49:55coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles and PCA mining
- 49:59station in the Pacific. Abyss is no longer responding as
- 50:02an investigator of the occult unraveled the mysteries of the
- 50:04deep. Test your wits.
- 50:05And Sandy in his Lovecraftian thriller.
- 50:08I might want to check that out. Hmm, I may have to check out the
- 50:10trailer for that just to make sure.
- 50:11It might be something I can put on my list.
- 50:14Also on the 16th is Areben. Areben Airborne Airborne.
- 50:20Yeah, it's gotta be Airben Airborne Shadow Legacy for PS-5
- 50:23Xbox Series consoles. Airben Shadow Legacy is a
- 50:27fast-paced stealth platformer game where you become Ayana, the
- 50:31last descendant of a forgotten race.
- 50:33Harness mystical shadow powers, high tech gadgets and avoid or
- 50:37kill to uncover the truth about your past and the key to saving
- 50:41a dying, morally great universe that's coming to PlayStation 5
- 50:45and Xbox Series consoles for $20.
- 50:48Also on the 16th is Ground Zero. Fight through post apocalyptic
- 50:54South Korea in this retro survival horror, uncover the
- 50:57truth behind the devastating meteor impact that left the
- 51:00country in ruins and turned every living Organism into a
- 51:03terrifying monstrosity. Fight soft puzzles, upgrade
- 51:06gear, make every bullet count. Ground Zero will be available
- 51:10for PS-5, Xbox Series, consoles and PC again on the 16th of
- 51:16April. We have Mouse Pi for hire.
- 51:20Everybody seems to like this game, like the way it looks.
- 51:23Is there is there a buzz about it?
- 51:25Yeah, it's like a first person like classic.
- 51:29It kind of has like the the whole thing is like they
- 51:31premiered it when Steamboat Willie went into public domain
- 51:37and it kind of has that classic Mickey Mouse looking.
- 51:41So oh, oh, I know what you're talking about.
- 51:43I know what you're talking about.
- 51:43Yeah, this does look pretty good actually.
- 51:45Yeah, Nick from WASD and beyond actually has talked about it
- 51:49quite a bit. All right, so in this game you
- 51:53you join private investigator Jack Pepper on a guns blazing
- 51:56jazz fueled adventure and the Mouse Pi for hire.
- 52:00Mouse combines the charm of hand drawn rubber hose animation
- 52:03inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930s with the adrenaline
- 52:07and action of an explosive first person shooter.
- 52:11Mouse for Hire will be available for PS-5, Xbox Series console,
- 52:14Switch and Switch 2 and the PC for 2999 U.S. dollars.
- 52:18It's a good that's cheap. I thought it was.
- 52:20I thought I could have. I thought it could be.
- 52:23That's what I was thinking too. 3999 was the way I was thinking.
- 52:25But you know what, this is one of those ones you guys snap up
- 52:27and if it's coming to Steam, check cause Steam usually has
- 52:30like an early discount, like usually like 10% off.
- 52:33So you know, save an extra $3. But I would, I would check that.
- 52:36Don't, don't, don't hold me to it.
- 52:37But Steam lately has been giving people like early discounts if
- 52:40you get like the first week of launch or something.
- 52:42Yeah, Switch does that too. It's like sometimes it's like up
- 52:45to 20% off. All right, man, man, we're still
- 52:50on the 16th of April. OK, Next up, the Syntopia.
- 52:55In Syntopia, manage hell, manipulate the overworld, build
- 52:59the resurrection business of your dreams.
- 53:00In Syntopia, you're tasked with managing the bureaucratic
- 53:03administration of hell, reeducate the sinful, generate
- 53:06profit, play God, and expand your hellish empire.
- 53:10All part of a day's work at the Hell Incorporated and Syntopia
- 53:14will be coming out on PC I'm pretty sure.
- 53:18I'm pretty sure the Switch version will be months behind
- 53:20it. If at all.
- 53:23I don't know if you saw. By the way, Speaking of Switch
- 53:25versions, I don't know if you saw that Double O 7 has been
- 53:28delayed indefinitely on the Switch too.
- 53:31I wonder why? I don't know.
- 53:35I feel like I feel like there is.
- 53:36There would be a player base for the game on the Switch too.
- 53:38I feel like there would be. But yeah, well, the the Hitman
- 53:43engine doesn't run very well on the Switch too, like at all.
- 53:47Like because Hitman World of Assassination, the the
- 53:52collection or whatever when they released it on Switch 2 had like
- 53:54all kinds of issues running. So that engine, whatever that
- 54:01proprietary engine is, just doesn't run well on the console
- 54:03at all. Oh well, Oh well.
- 54:07This is why. This is why you always have a
- 54:08backup console. Yeah, that's why the run buys
- 54:12PC. All right, let me see.
- 54:18Next up, on April the 16th, The Day I Became a Bird, join Frank,
- 54:23an awkward young boy, as he discovers newfound feelings for
- 54:26his classmate Sylvia, who also has eyes for birds.
- 54:30Explore, collect, and solve puzzles as Frank attempts to
- 54:35catch her attention with a homespun, feathery
- 54:37transformation in this warm and nostalgic return to childhood.
- 54:40I had to make sure I was reading the synopsis for the right game
- 54:43'cause I was like, it says the Day I Became a bird.
- 54:45And I was like, wait, this, this is nothing like like, you know,
- 54:50it it all, it all came together at the end.
- 54:53Yeah, it's a, it's a. It's a weird one.
- 54:55Yeah, the day I can't, the day I became a bird is is coming out
- 54:58on PS-5, Switch and the PC. Next up is Tamagotchi.
- 55:03Life, living the dream. Freaks me out dude.
- 55:08Become the caretaker of an island full of silliness, drama,
- 55:11love, and other surprises. Observe I'm sorry absurd
- 55:16situations await as you populate your island with me.
- 55:20Characters based on yourself, family, friends, or original
- 55:24creations. Get to know them, design A world
- 55:26for them to explore, and watch them come to life.
- 55:29And Tomodachi life, living the dream, coming for the Nintendo
- 55:34Switch. This this game freaks me out
- 55:37dude. Everything from the way they
- 55:39look to the voices to the way they walk.
- 55:42It's the voices, man. It's those voices.
- 55:45They creep me out, man. Tomodachi life living the dream
- 55:52will be is coming to switch and it'll be it's price 5999 U.S.
- 55:57dollars. Have fun.
- 55:59Have fun, he says. All right now last are the last
- 56:03two games I'm going I'm going to mention here and I are both
- 56:05coming out on April the 17th. Starting with Generation Exile,
- 56:09in this game you rebuild settlements entirely within a
- 56:11colossal generation ship. In this turn based city builder,
- 56:15expand your city, manage limited resources, and optimize for
- 56:19production chains as you navigate difficult choices about
- 56:22humanity's future among the stars.
- 56:24Generation XL will be coming to PC for 2999 U.S. dollars.
- 56:28And lastly on the 17th, and I think this is the one we were
- 56:31waiting for, Pragmata is coming to a console and APC near you.
- 56:39They moved it up a week. Yeah, it did.
- 56:41It did. Capcom's newest IP, Pragmata
- 56:44Pragmata Pragmata, however you want to pronounce it, is an all
- 56:47new science fiction accident adventure with his own unique
- 56:51hacking twist. It's it is the near future and
- 56:55protagonist Hugh and his Android companion Diana must work
- 56:57together as they make their way through the cold Lunar Research
- 57:00Station. Pragmata will be coming to
- 57:03PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles, Nintendo Switch 2 and
- 57:07the PC. And there's you've got deluxe
- 57:10edition for 6999 on PC. You've got deluxe Edition on
- 57:14consoles for 7999. That's weird.
- 57:18That's weird. And then the base, the base
- 57:20edition is available for 5999. Why is it?
- 57:24Why is the console edition more expensive?
- 57:26It's it's always like that. Console versions are always $10
- 57:29more than PC. Versions I never I never.
- 57:31I never pay attention because I always buy PC.
- 57:33Yeah, I know. I always.
- 57:34Buy PC unless it's unless it's a console exclusive.
- 57:37Is the console exclusive? I wait for a sale.
- 57:39I actually think the switch the switch two version is 5999 also
- 57:44which is weird, but that's weird.
- 57:47But that's all. That's all your games.
- 57:49There's a there's a boatload of stuff to play.
- 57:51Pragmata Pragmata's on my list of course.
- 57:55Mouse PII definitely want to check that out.
- 57:58Ground Zero looks like it'll be fun and Cthulhu, the cosmic
- 58:01Abyss like might also be on my radar now.
- 58:04Yeah, I'm really excited for Pragmata.
- 58:06Did you see the April Fools, The Mega Man April Fools joke they
- 58:09put? Out.
- 58:09I did. I did.
- 58:11I knew it was immediately April Fools.
- 58:12I knew it. Yeah, but I just, it's just
- 58:15like, man, come on, come on. It's like, where did you even
- 58:21try? Yeah, but what are you?
- 58:24What are you gonna do? I guess.
- 58:29Alright, games, let's. Well, it's time to get to the
- 58:31news, I guess. I guess I turn the hosting
- 58:33duties back over to you now. Yeah, let's let's talk about
- 58:37what's going on in the industry. Let's talk about the PlayStation
- 58:406. You've heard of it that that,
- 58:43you know, supposed next console from Sony.
- 58:44They haven't announced that people insist on continuing to
- 58:48talk about and insist on coming out next year.
- 58:53PlayStation 6's biggest hurdle isn't power, it's claimed It's
- 58:57convincing PS-5 owners to upgrade.
- 59:02While Sony's next Gen. console is expected to push boundaries
- 59:05with advanced rage, raising machine learning upscaling
- 59:08through future PSSR iterations. Industry voices like Alderon
- 59:14Games founder Matthew Cassell's suggest the real challenge lies
- 59:20in adoption, especially among current PlayStation 5 users.
- 59:23The significant portion of players still haven't left the
- 59:25PlayStation 4, and those users may only upgraded the leap to
- 59:29PlayStation Six. It feels dramatic and reasonably
- 59:32priced. However, convincing PS-5 and
- 59:35PS-5 Pro owners to spend $700.00 or more for incremental visual
- 59:41improvements could prove more difficult.
- 59:45Cassells argues that Sony may need a smarter launch strategy,
- 59:49potentially including a lower cost companion device, to
- 59:53accelerate adoption. Without strong without strong
- 59:57uptake, the industry risks prolonging the cross Gen. period
- 1:00:01with which historically holds back game development and delays
- 1:00:04full realization of next generation capabilities.
- 1:00:09Yeah, I mean, the fact that so many people are saying this
- 1:00:12means we probably don't need a PlayStation 6 next year.
- 1:00:16Yeah, unless they're going to put the handheld out early.
- 1:00:19But you know, like that's, that's a story for, you know,
- 1:00:27that's a different story altogether.
- 1:00:28I feel like the handheld is a great idea, but if you put that
- 1:00:34out before the main console, are you going to sell the main
- 1:00:37console or are you just going to sell this handheld to be a
- 1:00:39companion to the PlayStation Five?
- 1:00:41You know, you think you think this is you think adoption is is
- 1:00:49is going to be difficult. Laron.
- 1:00:52I think so. I think so, like, and you, you
- 1:00:56kind of hit the nail on the head there.
- 1:00:57Like the PS-5, the PS-5 had a hard time, you know, getting a,
- 1:01:01getting a early adoption. Like, I mean, like, yeah,
- 1:01:04they're the enthusiasts. Got it.
- 1:01:05Like I'm one of those enthusiasts.
- 1:01:07I got it. I got it launch day and all that
- 1:01:08stuff. You know, like there's, there's,
- 1:01:10there's Lily times. I'm sitting here thinking like,
- 1:01:12wow, did I really need to get it on day one, considering all
- 1:01:15things considered? You know, I did have fun with my
- 1:01:18PS-5, you know, on launch, you know, but, but I don't even
- 1:01:22have, I don't even have what should be, what should even be
- 1:01:24called the library of games. Like I think, I think I, I, I'm,
- 1:01:29I moved in January. So when I unpacked things, I
- 1:01:32literally only had like 5 games in cases for PS that were PS
- 1:01:36five games. Yeah, because I bought, because,
- 1:01:39because let me see, I bought, I bought Miles Morales, I bought
- 1:01:43Returnal, I bought Jack and Daxter, I bought God of War and
- 1:01:48I'm missing a game. I'm missing a game.
- 1:01:53It'll come to me. But basically all what I'm
- 1:01:55saying is is that, you know, like I don't have that many
- 1:01:58games for PS-5. And, and part of it is because
- 1:02:01like, you know, like, you know, like they were releasing
- 1:02:04PlayStation exclusives on the PC.
- 1:02:06You know, they were, they were kind of struggling.
- 1:02:08Oh, Kane and Bridge of Spirits, That's the other one, Yeah.
- 1:02:12You know the switch to this last week?
- 1:02:15Yeah, shout out to Emberlab. Yeah.
- 1:02:17But the major problem, the major problem is, is I, I think it's,
- 1:02:20I think it's twofold, twofold. There has not been the library.
- 1:02:27The library for PS-5 is not as strong as it as PS4 was and it
- 1:02:31definitely was not as strong as PS3 was.
- 1:02:33And everybody knows it will PS-5 and every other console
- 1:02:37generation sense will never be as strong as PS2's library will
- 1:02:41never be that you know, which that's not a big deal.
- 1:02:44But I think the major thing is, is that is that and, and is not
- 1:02:48just Sony in the PlayStation brand, that's that that has this
- 1:02:51problem. I feel like every console
- 1:02:54currently right now, including the Switch and switch to there
- 1:02:58is an identity crisis about what these things are supposed to be.
- 1:03:02So I just, I feel like we're on the, we're on the, we're
- 1:03:10definitely on the fence of like diminishing returns, especially
- 1:03:14with the way that PSSR works on, you know, the, the current
- 1:03:20generation of Playstations, right, 'cause they, they are
- 1:03:22patching it into the base PlayStation 5 model.
- 1:03:26Plus, you know, they they've already upgraded PlayStation 5
- 1:03:30Pro into PSSR 2 like if you're looking for graphical
- 1:03:35improvements like you're not going to need a new console
- 1:03:39because it's going to upscale everything right?
- 1:03:41I mean that's, that's, you know, what DLSS does for PCs is it
- 1:03:45saves you, you know, you know it saves saves you on how do you
- 1:03:51say that Laron it it, it basically like makes your PC
- 1:03:56work less hard to get better performance right.
- 1:03:58So like, it's, I mean, in the stage that we're at, like I
- 1:04:04almost feel like, and not to like keep Tooting Nintendo's
- 1:04:09horn or anything, but I almost feel like they, they're the ones
- 1:04:11that like figured it out and like, OK, we're just going to
- 1:04:14put out, you know, the next console, I guarantee you will be
- 1:04:17a Switch 3 because they're like, we found something that works.
- 1:04:21People want to take their libraries and own their
- 1:04:22libraries on every console moving forward, even though they
- 1:04:26were late to the, you know, essentially the backwards
- 1:04:29compatible. I have a Nintendo account thing,
- 1:04:32right? Because they're always 10 or 15
- 1:04:34years behind. But like, I just, I just feel
- 1:04:38like they know who they are and the other two companies are
- 1:04:43especially Xbox is trying to figure it out right?
- 1:04:45Like like they, they have no idea what they're doing half the
- 1:04:50time it feels like. Yeah, it is so wild now I think
- 1:04:53about it. I, I feel like we, we've been,
- 1:04:56we've, well, when I say we, I mean, I mean guys like me.
- 1:04:59I've been dogging Nintendo for so long and it seems like
- 1:05:02Nintendo might have the magic bullet.
- 1:05:07I think I think moving away from traditional consoles, right was
- 1:05:10the move right, Like Ed and I always talk about the Wii U and
- 1:05:14like how novel of an idea one of they just got it backwards where
- 1:05:18like this the the console should have been in the screen and not
- 1:05:22in, you know, not streamed to this to the tablet.
- 1:05:26Yeah. You know, the Switch was like
- 1:05:28the Wii U fully realized essentially.
- 1:05:31And then also like moving into one console instead of
- 1:05:36separating everything between two or three.
- 1:05:39You know, they always had two or three consoles on on the market
- 1:05:42at the same time, right? Like Game Cube, Game Boy,
- 1:05:44advanced, DS3, SDS, Wii, you know, they, they always did that
- 1:05:48until the switch. And even then, like you look at
- 1:05:51the Wii U and it was like, oh, the Wii U, the three DSL we're
- 1:05:54going to experiment with these mobile games and it's like
- 1:05:56mobile games. Yikes, you know, although Iron
- 1:06:02Hero is still really good but. Yeah, yeah, well, well, I, I, I
- 1:06:06think technically though when I say like a a lot, the consoles
- 1:06:09have lost their identity. Like it seems like the Switch
- 1:06:12too feels more of a it. It feels like it's meant to be
- 1:06:15played more doc than it is than it is hybrid or handheld now.
- 1:06:20Yeah, well, I think I think it's a better experience doc than the
- 1:06:24first Switch, but I still, I feel like there are definitely
- 1:06:28games that you're supposed to play on your TV and there are
- 1:06:30definitely games that you're meant to play in handheld mode.
- 1:06:33Like I just feel that way with the Switch 1.
- 1:06:38I feel like everything was supposed to be played in
- 1:06:40handheld mode and like, oh, I guess I'll play it on the TV
- 1:06:42because I'm at home, right? Yeah.
- 1:06:46But then you look at the Switch 2 and it's like, Oh well, Zelda
- 1:06:51running at 4K60 frames with like this beautiful lighting.
- 1:06:54And yeah, I I get it. It's a Wii U game, but like it
- 1:06:57looks still looks amazing or like the Xenoblade improvements
- 1:07:01or I mean, the fact that Cyberpunk runs on it is crazy.
- 1:07:06You know, like some, I mean, I know there are definitely better
- 1:07:11places to play third party games, but like Nintendo is is
- 1:07:15championing the the console that's like, hey, we're cheaper,
- 1:07:20you can take us with you. I'm telling you man, if I didn't
- 1:07:23have my if I didn't have a ROG Ally, I would have bought
- 1:07:26Cyberpunk on the Switch too. Yeah, it's it's plus like, you
- 1:07:30know, the CD project Red has done this great thing where like
- 1:07:34the PC version and the Switch version talk to each other so
- 1:07:37your saves transfer. That is.
- 1:07:40That is wild. I didn't even know about that.
- 1:07:42That is. Wild it started with the Witcher
- 1:07:443 like a month after the Witcher 3 came out on on the switch 1
- 1:07:48and they're like, Oh yeah, by the way, we're we're going to be
- 1:07:52able to put your cloud saves from P your the PC version into
- 1:07:55your switch version if you want it.
- 1:07:57That is man, I have no words. Yeah, and like, I think, I think
- 1:08:04if you have a Ubisoft account, you can do the same thing with
- 1:08:06Assassin's Creed Shadows where like you can play your Ubisoft
- 1:08:12club account on everything, right?
- 1:08:14Because like you have to have an account for every company now
- 1:08:16apparently. But but the fact is is like even
- 1:08:22if you don't want to switch to like you can still buy a Switch
- 1:08:24light for 220 bucks or whatever. And like it plays Mario and
- 1:08:30Zelda and Animal Crossing and he's you look at you look at
- 1:08:34like the PlayStation 5 Pro and you're looking at it now and
- 1:08:38it's like 800 dollars, $900.00 for the PlayStation five.
- 1:08:41It's like, OK, well, yeah, I want high fatality games, but
- 1:08:47also like my wallet is crying. And I could buy, as you know, a
- 1:08:51Switch to in a couple games or Switch Light in like 10 games
- 1:08:53for the price of this PlayStation.
- 1:08:55Yeah, for real. You know, and even the Steam
- 1:08:58Deck is, is cheaper. I mean, it's sold out now,
- 1:09:01right? Like that, That cheap version of
- 1:09:04the Steam Deck is totally sold out.
- 1:09:06Yeah, well, not even just sold out.
- 1:09:08I thought that was the one they were discontinuing once they did
- 1:09:10sell through all the product. No, I'm talking about the the
- 1:09:13second tone 1. We're talking about.
- 1:09:14OK, so we're talking about. 12 gig LCD one right?
- 1:09:17OK, so we're now talking about the actual the the one that is
- 1:09:20the the new base system. Yeah, the one that's worth
- 1:09:22getting. OK, but hold on, because I just
- 1:09:27realized. I just realized talking about
- 1:09:31talking about this stuff, right? Dang it, I just lost it.
- 1:09:35I just lost it. Crap.
- 1:09:36He lost it everybody. No, no, no, kudos, Kudos to
- 1:09:39Sony. Sony is trying to make, trying
- 1:09:41not to like, make make that price point like like
- 1:09:44outrageous. You know, they're, they're
- 1:09:47trying to, they're trying to be cheaper than like their
- 1:09:49competition. Well, they're trying to.
- 1:09:50They're trying to come out saying they're going to be
- 1:09:51cheaper than their competition because they're only going to be
- 1:09:53cheaper than whatever the steam, the Steam Deck that the Steam,
- 1:09:56the Steam Machine is going to be.
- 1:10:00Yeah. And I also feel like the the
- 1:10:01PSSR stuff and like a lot of the things that they're implementing
- 1:10:05with the AMD deal is going to save them on components, right,
- 1:10:10Because it essentially the AI is going to make up for what it
- 1:10:13would cost to put those components in some of them.
- 1:10:16But man, at the end of the day, like an SSD is an SSD, man.
- 1:10:21And like, you're still going to need RAM and, and, and, and all
- 1:10:25these other components to, to make that thing work.
- 1:10:29You know, it's not going to work with AI alone at this point.
- 1:10:35I mean, I think, I think PSSR and, and DLSS are very
- 1:10:38impressive. I mean, look at look at I talked
- 1:10:41about this what, a couple weeks ago, but look at Resident Evil
- 1:10:43Requiem on the switch to that thing runs internally at like
- 1:10:47360 P or you know, it's definitely sub 44 EP and like
- 1:10:54it's upscales to 1080P and it's like that's crazy.
- 1:10:57And it runs at 60 frames. That's crazy.
- 1:11:01Yeah, yeah, that's, that's one of those, that's definitely one
- 1:11:04of those, the one of those feats of feats of I don't know.
- 1:11:09Yeah, Capcom Magic is what they call it, I think, right?
- 1:11:13Where was that magic at for fucking Monster Hunter Wilds?
- 1:11:17It'll be on switch to sometime later this year.
- 1:11:20Don't, don't, don't mess with me.
- 1:11:22I'm not messing with you. I'm telling you.
- 1:11:24It's coming to switch to. I'm telling you.
- 1:11:28We, we going to fight. You can fight Capcom.
- 1:11:32I didn't I didn't say it I was going to play it on Switch to.
- 1:11:35I'm saying I might play it on Switch to though and then we can
- 1:11:38play together. It's cross play, right?
- 1:11:40Still. Yeah, yeah, it should be.
- 1:11:42Yeah. It's cross play, yeah.
- 1:11:43Yeah, see now, now I have a reason to to play it.
- 1:11:47You try to hit me if I gotcha. Hey, man, I'm.
- 1:11:50I'm, I'm just, I'm just doing, I'm doing what I'm trying to do,
- 1:11:53you know. So, yeah, I don't, I don't know,
- 1:12:00man, that the fact that consoles are going to be like this much
- 1:12:03money at this point, it's like, man, if these consoles get any
- 1:12:06more expensive, I'm not, I'm, I'm the person who's like, I
- 1:12:10don't want to buy APC, but like spending that much money, you
- 1:12:13might as well just buy APC. I tried to tell you.
- 1:12:22So I don't, I don't know what do you, how do you, you have
- 1:12:25anything else to say about the, the PlayStation 6 components and
- 1:12:28how much this thing is going to cost and adoption and all this
- 1:12:31stuff? No, no, no.
- 1:12:33But if $700.00 is the price point they're they're going for,
- 1:12:37I had to, I had to, I had to remember like the PS-5 came out
- 1:12:41four 9999. I don't know why.
- 1:12:44Well, the PS-5 disc was for when it was 399.
- 1:12:47Yeah, I don't know why I've, I've been running around for
- 1:12:50like over over a year and some change saying it was a $600.00
- 1:12:54console. It was a $600.00 console like a
- 1:12:57year or so later, you know, but, but yeah, I, I, I keep
- 1:13:01forgetting that I, I don't know how I forgot that I spent just
- 1:13:04$500.00 for that system. Yeah.
- 1:13:08I mean, I replaced mine over the holiday and it was it was 450 or
- 1:13:14No, it was, it was 500, but it was $100 off.
- 1:13:18So I got the disk version for 400 and now, now the disk
- 1:13:23version is what is it, $700.00 now?
- 1:13:26Yeah. PlayStation 5 Pro Insane.
- 1:13:30So so stupid man. Like.
- 1:13:34This is, this is a, this is a weird time we're living in, man,
- 1:13:38Because like, I swear, like we're living in a time where old
- 1:13:41consoles are increasing in price instead of going down like this.
- 1:13:44Yeah, dude. Like this in 2019 when they were
- 1:13:48when they were getting ready to market this thing and like
- 1:13:50getting ready for the big marketing push, you know, they
- 1:13:53were planning on on the PlayStation 55 being $300 by
- 1:13:56now. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:13:58You know they were planning on it being 300 bucks by now.
- 1:14:01Yeah. And you know what else is going
- 1:14:03to kill adoption too? Like not just the pricing, but
- 1:14:06like if the PlayStation five runs GTA 6 just fine for normal
- 1:14:11people, nobody's moving off, you know, as long as it keeps
- 1:14:15getting Madden in Call of Duty in FIFA, in GTA.
- 1:14:20And you know, the the the big games that that that you know,
- 1:14:23the normies play quote UN quote like.
- 1:14:25Normies. They're not.
- 1:14:26They're not moving off. True, true, you know.
- 1:14:30You're right. You know, I mean, if, if this
- 1:14:33rumor is true that that 2K is trying to get the get this game
- 1:14:37to run on the switch to, there's no way they're moving off of
- 1:14:40PlayStation 5 to play it on something better.
- 1:14:42Yeah, why would they? Yeah, so man, I'm, I mean,
- 1:14:51there, there's a real chance, and I said this the the other
- 1:14:54day when we were talking about that handheld, but like a month
- 1:14:57ago at this point. But there's a real chance
- 1:14:59PlayStation can have 3 or 4 consoles on the market at the
- 1:15:01same time. Yeah, and still manufacturing
- 1:15:04them and still selling them because of the games that are
- 1:15:08out on them. I mean, I I don't know if you
- 1:15:10saw this today, but Genshin Impact just ended support for
- 1:15:12the PlayStation 4 today. Well, no, they announced they
- 1:15:15announced it was ending support a while back.
- 1:15:17Yeah, they did I. Just saw, yeah.
- 1:15:19It finally happened, yeah. So I mean, as soon as something
- 1:15:23like Fortnite or Call of Duty move off, like, you know, that's
- 1:15:27when people are going to start moving over.
- 1:15:28But like, when the PlayStation 6 comes out, are people just going
- 1:15:32to move to PS-5 off the PS4, you know?
- 1:15:35Like. Because it'll be cheaper, maybe.
- 1:15:37Or maybe it won't be. Maybe maybe they're raising the
- 1:15:40prices for this one so the PlayStation 6 can be cheaper.
- 1:15:44I don't know. I don't know, man.
- 1:15:47But the fact that the Series X and the PlayStation 5 cost $800
- 1:15:50now is like insane. It hurts my brain.
- 1:15:55So I thought $500 was expensive. When the Series X came out, I
- 1:15:59was like, man, I don't, I don't know, man.
- 1:16:02You know, I think we all, I think we all thought the prices
- 1:16:04that we saw were going to were, were, were just that, you know,
- 1:16:07like expensive. And we even tried and we even
- 1:16:11tried to play it off like, you know, like that it was that, you
- 1:16:14know, like it's like we we're like, yeah, inflation, you know,
- 1:16:18like things are going on, you know, like, yeah, you know, but
- 1:16:23now it's just now it's like, it's like one of the hardest
- 1:16:25pills to swallow now. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:16:28It's insane. Good thing we got ours when it
- 1:16:32was cheap. Yeah, yeah, 'cause yeah, 'cause
- 1:16:36I might, I might legit have to do an online venture to get the
- 1:16:39next ones. Yeah, I mean, I may, may skip
- 1:16:43the next one until it's cheap, cheaper, cheap enough.
- 1:16:47How we're going to how we're going to do our jobs.
- 1:16:50I mean, I run a Nintendo podcast, my next Gen. console's
- 1:16:52already out, so you know. I have AI, have APC, technically
- 1:16:58I can do my job. Yeah, see, we're fine and all
- 1:17:03those games are going to be cross Gen. anyway.
- 1:17:04This. Is this is going to be crazy
- 1:17:06like Corey? I'm looking at I'm looking at an
- 1:17:08era where I might not take a PlayStation on day one.
- 1:17:13Yeah. I mean, that's a.
- 1:17:14That's a real possibility. I've gotten every Sony console
- 1:17:18on day one with the exception of PSVR of course I did.
- 1:17:24I I have not. I have not bought AI have I've
- 1:17:28never bought a pro system. I didn't see the point of it.
- 1:17:30It's and and and there was only no point of it once.
- 1:17:32I once I became like a a a tried and true PC Gamer.
- 1:17:37Yeah, I don't. I don't think there's any point
- 1:17:40to getting the PlayStation 5 Pro, in my opinion.
- 1:17:42I don't think it does enough for me at least.
- 1:17:44I bought every PlayStation console on launch there was,
- 1:17:47there's not a single, there's not a single one that that that
- 1:17:51launch window had closed that I didn't have a PlayStation.
- 1:17:55And I think PS 6 might be the first.
- 1:17:56I'm probably going to get the PS the PlayStation handheld.
- 1:18:00Oh yeah, I'll definitely get that.
- 1:18:02Yeah, it'll probably, it'll probably be like 5 or $600.00
- 1:18:04still though, right? I mean, I assume.
- 1:18:06I, I, I hope, but you know what if I, if, if I have the, I have
- 1:18:11APC. So I am willing to risk not
- 1:18:14getting a getting a true bill console at launch.
- 1:18:19Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I have a switch
- 1:18:22to, I have APC, I have APCI, have AI, have PC handhelds, you
- 1:18:27know. Yeah, maybe I'll just start
- 1:18:32selling feet pics or something, I don't know.
- 1:18:35I. I I told you there was money in
- 1:18:36it. I told you there was money in
- 1:18:39it. You keep, yeah, even, even even
- 1:18:41busted feet. Like there's, there's, there's
- 1:18:43money in it. And nobody wants to see these.
- 1:18:47I don't even want to see them. That's why I wear socks all the
- 1:18:49time, even to bed. And the only time I don't wear
- 1:18:52them is in in the shower. You know what I mean?
- 1:18:54So man, speed of showering, hope everybody's gonna take a cold
- 1:19:03one for this one. Shift Up has acquired Shinji
- 1:19:08Makami's new studio Unbound, and Creative Power Move, one of
- 1:19:14gaming's most influential creators, has found a new home
- 1:19:17and a powerful partner to bring his next vision to life.
- 1:19:20Korean developer Shift Up, known for their sexy action game
- 1:19:25Stellar Blade, has acquired Unbound, the Tokyo based studio
- 1:19:29founded by Resident Evil creator Shinji Makami after his
- 1:19:34departure from Tango Game Works. Established in 2023, Unbound is
- 1:19:38a roughly 50 person team currently developing a new
- 1:19:41original IP for console and PC. The DLCS Shift Up, taking full
- 1:19:45ownership and committing to publishing and supporting all
- 1:19:48future Unbound titles while preserving the studio's creative
- 1:19:51direction, Both Makami and Shift Up CEO Liang Tae Kim, That's how
- 1:19:57I Said it and you say it, emphasized a shared philosophy
- 1:20:01centered on strong creative leadership and high quality
- 1:20:04execution. With Unbound continuing its dual
- 1:20:08approach of smaller experimental projects alongside a major
- 1:20:12flagship game, the partnership signals a strategic push by
- 1:20:15Shift Up to expand its global development presence, while
- 1:20:19giving Makami the backing to focus fully on ambitious new
- 1:20:24projects. I don't know about you, but this
- 1:20:29feels like a they feel like they go together.
- 1:20:34Right, I think so. I I.
- 1:20:36Good match. Yeah, I think this, I think this
- 1:20:40is going to be a good marriage or whatever you want to call.
- 1:20:43It Yeah, I I wonder how many sexy zombies slaying games we're
- 1:20:48going to get out of this. You know, like resident Stellar
- 1:20:56blade. I don't know, President Stellar.
- 1:20:59I don't know what was what was the evil within That was that
- 1:21:02was the eve within. Am I right?
- 1:21:07Eve. Oh. 00.
- 1:21:12Oh Yikes HR help. Yeah, right.
- 1:21:17Yeah. I need adult.
- 1:21:20I need adult. Laron, we are the adults.
- 1:21:23I have bad news for you. Somebody left us in charge.
- 1:21:31Yeah. I don't know.
- 1:21:32I I feel like, I feel like this seems like I feel like there's
- 1:21:37going to be a lot of creative endeavors come out of this.
- 1:21:41I feel like this is a good, good match, right?
- 1:21:43This is a. Good, this is a good fit.
- 1:21:47Yeah, I I wonder what they're going to do together.
- 1:21:49I wonder if they'll like like obviously shift up owns them,
- 1:21:53but now, but I wonder if they'll be any collaboration for
- 1:21:56anything in the future. I'm sure there will be like will
- 1:22:01will this Jill Valentine stand and get seller Blade costumes or
- 1:22:07something? I don't know, man.
- 1:22:11I don't know anything else about Seller Blade except for the the
- 1:22:15girl, because that's all that I ever see.
- 1:22:19Yeah, I did play the demo. It was fun.
- 1:22:21But yeah, yeah, I I need to pick up the PC version, but I'm away
- 1:22:24for I'm away for a sale. Yeah, it's probably a good call.
- 1:22:28Like I've been waiting for a sale too.
- 1:22:29It's just never on sale. But I mean, I guess, I guess
- 1:22:34when it sells that well, why would you need to put it on sale
- 1:22:36so. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:22:37It is selling pretty well. So I mean, you know, like
- 1:22:39there's, there's the argument for that, I guess.
- 1:22:41Yeah. Do you think, what do you think
- 1:22:47Makami's next game is going to be?
- 1:22:48Do you think it's going to be a horror game or do you think it's
- 1:22:50going to be something? Different, it might be something
- 1:22:53different because I think, I, I think I remember reading
- 1:22:55somewhere that Makami wanted to flex for a little while and he
- 1:22:57was also, I think he also said he was kind of tired of a, he
- 1:23:00was kind of tired of doing what he, what he was doing.
- 1:23:03Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that's why they
- 1:23:06did high fire Rush instead of Evil Within Three, right?
- 1:23:08Is because he wanted to do something different.
- 1:23:10Which? To be fair, that was very
- 1:23:12different. Right.
- 1:23:14Yeah. High fight rush, man that was a
- 1:23:17good game. High Fight Rush was a good song.
- 1:23:18It was a good song, good game. Jeez.
- 1:23:20Wow. Wow.
- 1:23:24Yeah, I, I'm excited to see what comes out of this.
- 1:23:27I hope, hope this works out. I feel like, I feel like Shinji
- 1:23:34Makami has been hasn't had a major hit in a while.
- 1:23:40So good for him, though. Good for him.
- 1:23:47All right, Laurent's hit this last story real fast because I
- 1:23:53saw a really funny, not funny tweet today about this.
- 1:23:57But Gunzilla Games faces backlash as developers allege
- 1:24:00months of unpaid salaries. I saw a tweet today that said I
- 1:24:08wonder if Game Informer heard about this 'cause this is their
- 1:24:10parent company. A growing wave of developers is
- 1:24:15speaking out, claiming they've gone months without pay.
- 1:24:18Gunzilla Games is under scrutiny after multiple current and
- 1:24:22former employees alleged on LinkedIn that the studio has
- 1:24:24failed to pay salaries for months, with some claiming
- 1:24:27they've gone unpaid since late 2025.
- 1:24:31Talent acquisition The lead, Anna Savina, first raised
- 1:24:34concerns about significant outstanding wages and a lack of
- 1:24:37communication from leadership, prompting others, including
- 1:24:40artists and QDA staff, to share similar experiences of missing
- 1:24:44payments and broken promises. One employee described being cut
- 1:24:49off from company systems after requesting proof of payment.
- 1:24:52These claims emerge amid broader financial struggles at the
- 1:24:56studio, including layoffs and underwhelming performance of its
- 1:25:00NFT supported Battle Royale title.
- 1:25:02Off the grid. Shocking and NFT title didn't do
- 1:25:05well. While the allegations remain
- 1:25:10unverified, they paint a troubling picture of instability
- 1:25:13that could have serious implications for the studio's
- 1:25:16future. Not good.
- 1:25:19Not good when you don't get paid for the work that you do.
- 1:25:24This is disastrous. Yeah, this, this feels bad.
- 1:25:27Not gonna lie to you, Laurent. This feels not.
- 1:25:30Great. And like that tweet said, I
- 1:25:33wonder if game informers heard about this.
- 1:25:36Yeah, because that was like the big thing is like when Game
- 1:25:39Informer came back, they were kind of promoting heavily that
- 1:25:42that Gunzilla was, you know, had bought them and they were, you
- 1:25:47know, going to be like they were all getting paid way more than
- 1:25:52than GameStop was paying them. And this was such a great
- 1:25:56purchase and everything, which cool.
- 1:25:58I'm I'm glad everybody at game former got their job back right.
- 1:26:01But this is still a troubling like.
- 1:26:03Yeah, this is a development. Yeah.
- 1:26:07That's the easiest way to describe that this is a a
- 1:26:08development. I wonder how long, how much?
- 1:26:12I wonder how long we're going to be talking about this moving
- 1:26:14forward. You know, like.
- 1:26:15Oh, I feel like, let's see, it's it's April.
- 1:26:18It's April 8th right now. We'll probably talking to this
- 1:26:20well into the fall. Yeah, this feels, this feels
- 1:26:24rough, man. Like this feels, this feels like
- 1:26:28it's going to end badly. Yeah, so, well, Ron, it's time
- 1:26:37for our weekly rotating segment. This is this is this is 1 I
- 1:26:41picked out just for you, Laron. Oh yeah, this is the video game
- 1:26:46listicles. This segment we go down a list
- 1:26:50of games or items or something from either Boss Rush or another
- 1:26:57website and share our own opinions on this list.
- 1:27:02Now we're on this is open critics top rated PC games of
- 1:27:06all time I need. Top rated PC games of all time?
- 1:27:11OK. Yeah, so I'm going to I'm going
- 1:27:13to go down this list Laron and I I, I, I want to hear your
- 1:27:16opinion. Now, granted, some of these are
- 1:27:18older and obviously Metacritic and open critic have had, you
- 1:27:21know, ups and downs on various generations, right?
- 1:27:24Like, you know, our created time being the the highest rated game
- 1:27:30ever, right, But there's like what was it like 3738 reviews or
- 1:27:36something for it when it came out?
- 1:27:38And and you know, a recent game has like 2 or 300 reviews.
- 1:27:42So grain grain of salt, but I thought this would be fun.
- 1:27:48The open critics best rated PC game of all time or on his
- 1:27:52Ballers gate 3 number one. You know what?
- 1:28:00I, I don't find fault in that. I, I, I, I don't find fault in
- 1:28:07that. I don't feel like I can really
- 1:28:09argue about that. There are some, I, I would say
- 1:28:13Balder's Gate 3 would be in my top.
- 1:28:15It'd be in my top 20. I'm not sure if it'd be in my
- 1:28:17number one. I'm not sure of that.
- 1:28:20So that's number one. Should I?
- 1:28:21Should we start at #20 and go backwards?
- 1:28:24Do that. OK, do that.
- 1:28:26Oh geez #20 Laron, Are you ready for this?
- 1:28:31Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom pain #20 with a 93 on Open
- 1:28:36Critic. A 93 on open critic.
- 1:28:41I'm not going to argue open critic on this one.
- 1:28:44I'm not. #19 Final Fantasy 14 and Walker.
- 1:28:52I feel like people really like that expansion, I think.
- 1:28:55I feel like that should be lower.
- 1:28:57Also, this is it's an expansion. I feel like that should be.
- 1:29:00I say flip Metal Gear Solid 5 and and Font Fan and that and
- 1:29:06that expansion, but we'll find out.
- 1:29:09We'll find out what's what's what's ahead of it. #18 The
- 1:29:12Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. Oh well, for how old that game
- 1:29:19is number 18, I can probably see it now.
- 1:29:23Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- 1:29:26Open critic. This is these are these are the
- 1:29:28ratings back then. This this is this is the ratings
- 1:29:33that they gave these games right now.
- 1:29:37I mean this I mean this is probably like a a concurrent
- 1:29:40score of all time reviews, right?
- 1:29:42So. OK, keep going. #17 metaphor re
- 1:29:47Fantasio. Oh, 17.
- 1:29:51Yep. You know what?
- 1:29:55I'll say this metaphor Reef Fantasio definitely edges out in
- 1:30:00my opinion. It edges out Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
- 1:30:03it it edges out from in my opinion.
- 1:30:06So I can kind of, I can kind of see how this tracks.
- 1:30:09You're going to be shocked at #16 they're on, I think.
- 1:30:12Is it about to be fucking Expedition 33?
- 1:30:15Nope. Uncharted for a Thief's end #16.
- 1:30:24Actually, actually, that's not bad.
- 1:30:28That's not bad. I am a little shocked, but
- 1:30:30that's not bad. I'm actually shocked that's in
- 1:30:31the top 20. I, I, I feel like all of these
- 1:30:37games on this list are recent. Very recent.
- 1:30:44Most of them are at least. All right #15 Maron Half Life,
- 1:30:49Alex the VR game. For a game that for a game that
- 1:30:57nobody plays, I don't know how this is that high.
- 1:31:01I mean, if only three people were reviewed it and then, you
- 1:31:03know, they gave it a 92, a 93 and a 94 then.
- 1:31:07That's the I guess. I guess so this is and this is
- 1:31:09not me hating on Half Life Alex. I don't have Avi don't have Avi.
- 1:31:14I'm not VR. I don't have VR headsets.
- 1:31:17So I can't I can't play it. So I I can't even speculate on
- 1:31:20it. You know what I mean?
- 1:31:22But like I but but like I said, though, considering that you
- 1:31:25know, like like you know, only a certain amount of people have
- 1:31:28played this game. Yep.
- 1:31:31I think I think honestly it's rated so high.
- 1:31:34Actually I've seen I've seen like video of the game.
- 1:31:37It looks good. It looks impressive and stuff
- 1:31:38like that. You know it it is the ultimate
- 1:31:40first person game though, because it's VR game.
- 1:31:44It does look good. I think I think this got such
- 1:31:48high scores because it is a half life game.
- 1:31:50I think I think honestly, these scores, these scores should have
- 1:31:53been muddied, but kind of fact that you have to have VR to play
- 1:31:56this game. I really feel like this this
- 1:31:58game should not be 15 in the all time list.
- 1:32:03Well, it is it is 15. I almost feel like half life 2
- 1:32:06should probably like I want to see a list of like voted like
- 1:32:11like outlet voted thing, not like a not like a score related
- 1:32:17one, but just like a like if an outlet vote, like what are the
- 1:32:21maybe we'll maybe we'll do some more of these.
- 1:32:23Yeah, I get what you're, I get what you're saying. #14 is
- 1:32:27Undertale. No.
- 1:32:33I can't do anything for me, No, I know people like it, but.
- 1:32:37No, no, I'm, I'm like Palpatine, right?
- 1:32:40No, no, no. Jeez.
- 1:32:46Oh my God. Right before, right before he
- 1:32:48started shooting force lightning at everybody.
- 1:32:50Oh my gosh jeez #12 is the house in Fate Morgana?
- 1:33:01Fun fact, that is the highest rated Nintendo Switch game of
- 1:33:04all time. I've.
- 1:33:05Never. I've never even heard of this
- 1:33:06game. It's a.
- 1:33:07Visual novel, I think. Oh, what is a oh, I those old
- 1:33:12novels like Oh my God, man, they.
- 1:33:15People love them, man. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:33:17I'm, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not hating on them, but these old
- 1:33:20novels are like, wow, yeah. I, I prefer my visual novels
- 1:33:24like, you know, like Detroit Become Human or Heavy Rain, you
- 1:33:26know? Yeah, let's see #11 Journey,
- 1:33:33that's our second PlayStation game on here.
- 1:33:35Oh shit #11. Yep.
- 1:33:38I respect that. Yeah, people.
- 1:33:42People really like Journey. Yeah, I respect that.
- 1:33:45What else we got? That was another game that
- 1:33:47didn't do anything for me. I got no idea.
- 1:33:50Here we go, the top 10. #10 Divinity Original Sin 2.
- 1:33:55Nope. Nope. #9 Elden Ring, Shadow of
- 1:34:00the Herd tree. The expansion is higher than the
- 1:34:06original. Well, actually the expansion
- 1:34:08did. Oh I I just assumed the
- 1:34:14expansion's up there, which means like the like that means
- 1:34:16that the other, the original is like lower on the totem pole.
- 1:34:19Nope. It's it's higher.
- 1:34:21It's much higher actually. All right, but divinity Now, as
- 1:34:24a matter of fact, divinity should be.
- 1:34:26Divinity should be where, what? What was number?
- 1:34:32I think metaphors should be where divinity is at.
- 1:34:36Interesting you up in the SWAT places.
- 1:34:41Let's see, number 8 is Hades 1. 80s one.
- 1:34:47OK, I can. I can respect that. #7 is
- 1:34:53persona 5 royal. People love.
- 1:35:01People love their persona. Let's keep moving.
- 1:35:03Let's. Keep moving.
- 1:35:07No, Personified Royal is a good game, but I feel like, I feel
- 1:35:10like, and maybe This is why they've redone Persona 4 so many
- 1:35:15times. I think that kind of killed it
- 1:35:17because I think Persona 4 set the standard for Persona games.
- 1:35:22Yeah, well, Persona 4's coming back soon too, Laurent, so let's
- 1:35:28see, where was I? Oh, number six got a four.
- 1:35:34PSPS 4I I I I respect that. It's a little high.
- 1:35:42You guys a little high. I I don't like the new God of
- 1:35:45four games. That's right, you don't.
- 1:35:47I think. I mean, I like them, I don't
- 1:35:49love them. Or aren't you?
- 1:35:51Aren't you glad for the trilogy remake or the OR the original
- 1:35:55remake? Because technically the trilogy
- 1:35:56remake is four games, not not not 3.
- 1:36:00I mean the the quote UN quote trilogy remake is like six games
- 1:36:036. Games 'cause are they doing the
- 1:36:06PS? They're doing the PSP games.
- 1:36:07They got to do the PSP games too, right?
- 1:36:09Yeah, you got to do the PSP games, you got to do Ascension.
- 1:36:12I mean heck, throw the dumb like flip phone mobile game in there.
- 1:36:17Played T9 word God of War. T9.
- 1:36:22I bought that game. That was the first mobile game I
- 1:36:24ever bought was God of War. I forget what it was called but
- 1:36:29it was it was a side scrolling pixel art hack and slash game
- 1:36:33that you played with the keyboard on AT9 Word.
- 1:36:36Flip phone wasn't very good but it was God of War so I played
- 1:36:44it. All right.
- 1:36:47Where am I #5 Hades 2. Damn.
- 1:36:54I know. Maybe I need to play Hades too.
- 1:36:56Like I'm, I'm not in a hurry to play Hades too.
- 1:36:58I like, I like where Haiti, where Haiti's got it's where
- 1:37:02Haiti's got. It's, it's, it's pointless
- 1:37:04though. I respect that.
- 1:37:05But maybe I need to play Hades too?
- 1:37:07Yeah, I feel like mechanically people like Hades too, better.
- 1:37:10But I feel like people like Hades one more and and more ways
- 1:37:16than one. All right #4 Elden Ring, it's on
- 1:37:25here 12. Elden Ring Elden Ring should not
- 1:37:27be in the top five. Top ten.
- 1:37:28Yeah, top. Wait, actually wait, hold on
- 1:37:32before I make OK, so. You're gonna anger a lot of from
- 1:37:35Soft fans. I probably am.
- 1:37:38I probably. We already, we already angered
- 1:37:39them at one point. Here's somewhere, here's my,
- 1:37:42here's my thing though. Here's my thing though.
- 1:37:44And I think, and I think everybody should, I think
- 1:37:46everybody should pay attention to when I say this, games that
- 1:37:49are just hard for no reason should not be garnering the
- 1:37:53scores that they get. Can I say something
- 1:37:57controversial, la Ron? Sure.
- 1:38:01I don't think From Software games are that hard.
- 1:38:06I I'm not going to say From Software games that hard like I
- 1:38:09like, I love it. Armored.
- 1:38:11Fires Rubicon. I think the I think the
- 1:38:14difficulty OK, I should say I don't think souls this From
- 1:38:17Software Souls games are hard. I haven't, I haven't played the
- 1:38:22the I haven't played far as Rubicon or or I haven't played
- 1:38:26Armored Corps in a long time. But I think the patient, if
- 1:38:32you're impatient, that's what makes it hard.
- 1:38:35And once you learn that you need to be patient, then the game
- 1:38:39just becomes. Well.
- 1:38:41Infinitely easier in my opinion. Well, here's, well, here's the
- 1:38:43question then, because that difficulty is there to pad time.
- 1:38:48Let's say, let's say we decrease the, let's say we decrease the
- 1:38:50difficulty of that game. How long will the game take to
- 1:38:51beat? Let's see, I beat Bloodborne in
- 1:38:56like 20 hours, so I don't know 15.
- 1:39:00You think 18? I don't know.
- 1:39:02I also played that game. I.
- 1:39:03Think it was. I think it'd be.
- 1:39:04I think it'd be shorter. I think it'd probably be 12
- 1:39:06hours. Maybe, I mean, maybe it would.
- 1:39:07I don't. I don't, I don't know.
- 1:39:09I played through it once and I was like, OK, that's enough.
- 1:39:11Oh and by the way, this is not me bitching about games.
- 1:39:14They're just, they're just soul crushingly hard.
- 1:39:16Like shit, I I played the Ghosts and Goblins series, you know?
- 1:39:22I played Ninja Gaiden on NES. I know, I know, a hard game when
- 1:39:24I played one. Like I like, like I, I can
- 1:39:28actually, I can actually brag and boast to my, to my friends
- 1:39:30that I actually beat like ghouls and ghosts in the arcade with
- 1:39:35$2.00. Jeez, I mean if you beat any
- 1:39:39arcade game in the in the 80s and 90s, you're you're no.
- 1:39:42No, no, no. This is an adult.
- 1:39:43This is an adult. Well, I mean like any like you
- 1:39:47mean. From that era.
- 1:39:48From that era, yeah, yeah. Like, yeah, there was a, there
- 1:39:51was a, there was a vintage arcade out here in Virginia
- 1:39:54Beach. Oh yeah.
- 1:39:57I've, I think I've been there, there.
- 1:39:59It was was there the last time I was there too, I think.
- 1:40:02You've been to Virginia Beach. Yeah, I've been there a few.
- 1:40:04Times Flipper Mccoys. Flipper Mccoys.
- 1:40:06That's the name of the place. Yeah, yeah, Yep, yeah.
- 1:40:09It's, it's no longer a vintage arcade.
- 1:40:11They basically became a. They basically, they're still
- 1:40:13Flipper Mccoys, but they're basically at Dave and Buster's
- 1:40:15now. Dang, really?
- 1:40:17They have all that. They have all that bullshit
- 1:40:19arcade games in there now I. Don't like that?
- 1:40:23Yeah. Dang.
- 1:40:26All right. No, I beat.
- 1:40:28No, I beat A. No, I beat ghouls and Ghosts
- 1:40:30with $2.00. Dang, that's crazy.
- 1:40:34Yeah. Remember that, Remember the
- 1:40:39first time you played it and you and you finally beat it with
- 1:40:41like $50 a quarters and you realize you have to start over
- 1:40:45like the game is continues. Yeah.
- 1:40:48Yeah, 'cause you know what, I beat golden ghosts ever before I
- 1:40:51ever beat ghosts and goblins. So I didn't know about, I didn't
- 1:40:53know about the RE loop. Yeah.
- 1:40:56And then and then and then heaven forbid you re loop and
- 1:40:58you didn't, you didn't get the part where you had to get like
- 1:41:00the special weapon. Yeah, 'cause you have to loop it
- 1:41:03again. As a matter of fact, they won't
- 1:41:05even let you get to the final stage if you don't have the
- 1:41:08weapon in hand. Yep, you're you're screwed and
- 1:41:14you can't do anything about it. So pop more quarters then?
- 1:41:19Oh man, Capcom was on one back in those days.
- 1:41:23Yeah, Capcom, man, they, they know what they're doing, though
- 1:41:29let's be honest, they've been, they've been hitting quite a bit
- 1:41:32lately. I'm a, I'm a big fan of Capcom,
- 1:41:37all right? Not Capcom #3 is Grand Theft
- 1:41:41Auto 4. 4, not 54. 4. Weird, weird.
- 1:41:48Game had a lot of mod support and a lot of like weird fun mod
- 1:41:52support I think. Shit, where the hell is 5?
- 1:41:56Not on the list. Grand Theft Auto 5 is number 23.
- 1:41:59I'm, I'm looking at the list now.
- 1:42:00Grand Theft Auto 5 is number 23. Grand Theft Auto.
- 1:42:03Oh, clear, Obscure expedition is 24.
- 1:42:08OK, All right, let's do the last two.
- 1:42:11And then I'm gonna, I'm, I'm looking, I'm looking at the Top
- 1:42:1440. And I'm gonna tell you, some
- 1:42:15games I think should actually have replaced some of these
- 1:42:17games in the top 20. OK, all right #2 Red Dead
- 1:42:23Redemption 2. Man, somebody has a hard on.
- 1:42:30Wow, Rockstar. Wow, a game from 2019 is is
- 1:42:35ranked #2. I mean, a game from 2023 is #1.
- 1:42:41You're right. Well the 2023 is more recent
- 1:42:44than 2019. OK 20/19/2019 Feels like that
- 1:42:48was 10 years ago the way my brain is with video games.
- 1:42:53I mean, it was seven years ago. Oh, we're rounding up, right?
- 1:43:00Gross. Yeah.
- 1:43:02OK alright, so I'm just going to rattle off a few games here.
- 1:43:06These are these are games that are that are ranked #21 through
- 1:43:0940. Near Automata is 39, Celeste is
- 1:43:1336, Balatro is 34, Disco Elysium IS325.
- 1:43:22No I'm not going to do Final Fantasy 7 but final.
- 1:43:24But Resident Evil 4 remake is 27.
- 1:43:28The RE2 remake is 26. So.
- 1:43:31So Resident Evil was literally fighting for two spots here.
- 1:43:35Expedition 3324, GTA 523. I'm going to tell you right now
- 1:43:44knock off #19 Final Fantasy 14 and Walker and put, and I'd say
- 1:43:50put one of those games like probably near Automata right
- 1:43:53there, right? Let me see Half life Alex.
- 1:43:56I, I, I feel like Half Life Alex should not be 15.
- 1:44:00And what should be 15 should probably been clear, obscure
- 1:44:02Expedition 33. Where are the classic games man?
- 1:44:09Like shit. Where's Roller Coaster Tycoon
- 1:44:12at? Where's Mist?
- 1:44:13Where's Doom? Where's, where's, you know,
- 1:44:16like, where are these games at? You know what I mean?
- 1:44:19Like. Some of this stuff is crazy,
- 1:44:22like, I mean like, shoot. I just I'm I'm.
- 1:44:28I'm I just, I just ran, I just ran 41 through 60.
- 1:44:31I don't see a classic game yet. Yeah, I mean, this is 60. 161
- 1:44:36through 80 this this list. This is still a current game.
- 1:44:42Dark Souls. No.
- 1:44:43Dark Souls 3 is 2016. Nope, never mind.
- 1:44:45This list is very recency bias. I'm not.
- 1:44:48Yeah, it is. Not sure I'm feeling it man.
- 1:44:51I'm doing one more damn monster in the Wilds is 81.
- 1:44:55I mean, that's high. That's high, that's high.
- 1:44:58Considering considering what what went on in this game?
- 1:45:02Yeah. Yeah, like the oldest freaking
- 1:45:09game, I think, I think we mentioned tonight was from 2008.
- 1:45:13That was Grand Theft Auto 4. Yeah.
- 1:45:19Yeah, like I'm, I'm going to do yeah so I, I just, I literally
- 1:45:22rent, went through everything to #100 and there's nothing older
- 1:45:26than GTA4. Jeez.
- 1:45:29It's. Crazy.
- 1:45:35Yeah, you are right about the recency bias though.
- 1:45:37I I, yeah, I feel that. But.
- 1:45:39At the same time, these must be games that have just been around
- 1:45:41since open credit has been the thing.
- 1:45:43This is a. Discussion piece I think we
- 1:45:45should have in like a bonus show.
- 1:45:47We need to talk about. We need to talk about how like
- 1:45:49how like reviewers are skewing reviews.
- 1:45:52We need to talk about that because did you hear that?
- 1:45:54Did you hear that? What's McCall the the that one
- 1:45:57that one games that IGIGNIGN wants to go back and re review
- 1:46:04this game. It's a new game.
- 1:46:06It's a new game. What the what the hell is that
- 1:46:07game? Crimson.
- 1:46:09Doesn't do that one that one. Yeah, well they patched it like
- 1:46:114 times in one day or something. Ridiculous now and and now they
- 1:46:15want to and now they want to go back and now that now IGN wants
- 1:46:18to go back and re review it and I'm like well they.
- 1:46:20They've been re reviewing games for a long time though.
- 1:46:22They they've been, they do that. I, I respect re reviewing a game
- 1:46:27like, you know, like in a post mortem, you know, like once the
- 1:46:30game has lived its life cycle, you know, it's made all the
- 1:46:33sales is going to make it all the stuff like I would love to
- 1:46:35come back and like, you know, like I, you know what I might, I
- 1:46:39might do a post mortem Monster Hunter Wilds once the expansion
- 1:46:42comes out, you know, but yeah, but yeah, like you don't, you
- 1:46:47don't just retro, you don't just retroactively like because like,
- 1:46:51remember, like reviews, damn near every review is given off
- 1:46:55of based off of a review copy or an early access copy.
- 1:46:59You know, that's why you know, like we haven't put our review
- 1:47:04yet for marathon because we were waiting.
- 1:47:06We're waiting for the for the content.
- 1:47:07They told us we need to wait for it.
- 1:47:11Yeah, I mean, it's that that content's out now.
- 1:47:14It's just it's really hard to get to.
- 1:47:16Yeah, which Josh is. Thank God Josh plays this game
- 1:47:19all the time 'cause like, he's already gotten in and and done
- 1:47:22it. He's like almost done with his
- 1:47:25review. I got to send it in but
- 1:47:27basically. But basically what I'm what I'm
- 1:47:29saying is is that, you know, you shouldn't be reviewing the damn
- 1:47:32game like, you know, like within a month there's a release.
- 1:47:35Like you need to stand on what you said, you know, like,
- 1:47:38because, because that's like, it's, it's like, it's like
- 1:47:43giving forgiveness for, for something, you know, like if
- 1:47:46there was a like, like I'm not, I'm not going to forgive Monster
- 1:47:50Hunter Wilds for the condition it, it launched in for PC.
- 1:47:52I'm not going to forgive that. But I can definitely turn around
- 1:47:55later and do like A, and do like a post a post launch review, you
- 1:47:59know, now the game is in a different state, you know, and
- 1:48:02that's Capcom's fault because it's a damn near a year from the
- 1:48:05to basically make the game playable even for people with
- 1:48:09high end systems. And I I consider myself someone
- 1:48:12who has a high end PC. Yeah, that's I don't that.
- 1:48:16I don't I don't have a 5090 in my system but shit I do have AI
- 1:48:19do have a 40 series. Well, that's your problem.
- 1:48:21You know the 5090. I'm not trying to spend $2600
- 1:48:25for a game. 25090 is to run DLSS 5.
- 1:48:28Come on. Yeah, but you know, but but
- 1:48:33there's also other things because like even playing this
- 1:48:35game at even playing this game at like what I'm going to call
- 1:48:38crushed settings, I guess. So to turn frames in on to, to
- 1:48:41not have it stutter and frames in.
- 1:48:45That's that's the topic for another show.
- 1:48:50All right, Speaking of other shows, we're gonna we're gonna
- 1:48:52get on out of here and prepare for the next 1.
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- 1:49:10tonight, as always. It's always fun.
- 1:49:13We, I have some ideas, Ron, now that we're kind of driving,
- 1:49:19driving the train, as they say. Got some, I got some fun ideas.
- 1:49:24I think that we can try because we're, you know, I want to talk
- 1:49:30about some, some tech. I want to talk about some, you
- 1:49:33know, Hey. This is you and me now.
- 1:49:34We can do whatever the hell we. Want.
- 1:49:36Yeah, it's true. It's true.
- 1:49:38We don't have, we don't have 3rd, 4th and 5th voices, you
- 1:49:41know, like in our in our ears like no, don't do that.
- 1:49:44You know what I don't feel I don't want to do that.
- 1:49:46No, that doesn't sound fun. Nah, Nah, it's fun to us.
- 1:49:49It's. True.
- 1:49:52That is true. And by the way, I'm not saying
- 1:49:54any of our Co hosts were like that.
- 1:49:55So don't. Jeez, you're going to get us in
- 1:50:01trouble. Laurent No, I'm not.
- 1:50:03No, I'm not. I know, just kidding.
- 1:50:05Because all of our all of our all of our former Co hosts know
- 1:50:07we love them to death. Yeah, and they're, they're just
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- 1:50:19Y'all are wusses. Oh boy, yeah.
- 1:50:26Oh, I can't. I can't.
- 1:50:27I can't wait to wake up tomorrow morning to my DMS. Maybe I'll be
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