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- 0:24Hello everybody, welcome back to the Boss Horse podcast, a great
- 0:26place to play games and be better.
- 0:27I'm one of your host Corey Deer. Get alongside me as always is PC
- 0:31muscle race himself. We're on Dawkins.
- 0:35Let's pop in times 300. Yeah, yeah.
- 0:40You're not AI generated, are you Laurent?
- 0:44Yeah, the script told me I'm not allowed to answer that question.
- 0:47No, I'm sorry, they they you need to re prompt.
- 0:54Somebody needs to re prompt re prompt so it gets confused and
- 0:58answers. The go to a different node.
- 1:03I'm going to use Google Gemini instead of ChatGPT.
- 1:08Oh, by by the way, everybody, everybody that's listening and
- 1:11or watching, we didn't get 1000 viewers.
- 1:16That's why I'm completely covered up completely covered
- 1:19long sleeves tonight. As a matter of fact, I'm also
- 1:22I'll even put the I'll even put the hood on the night too.
- 1:24Like, you know, like Hey, y'all are being punished because
- 1:26remember what we said 22 episodes ago?
- 1:29Thousand 1000 followers on YouTube before episode 300
- 1:35there'd be no shirt you you can see all this skin for.
- 1:38Free. For free.
- 1:40For free. But no, you ruined it.
- 1:43We're almost there though. Try again next year.
- 1:47We're at 964 I think. Let's see what happens around
- 1:51episode 500, because I'm not. I'm not teasing this for 400.
- 1:56500 that's like 4 years from now exactly.
- 1:58Exactly. I know exactly.
- 1:59What I'm doing? I know exactly what I'm doing,
- 2:02it's calculated. I mean fair.
- 2:07Speaking of calculated, also here PK Power, Pat Klein.
- 2:13Sure, I've been calculated to the 300th degree.
- 2:16Yep. How's it going, Pat?
- 2:20You doing all right? I'm hanging in there, you know,
- 2:23it's, it's been a busy work week, but Thanksgiving's around
- 2:28the corner. It's going to be a perfect time
- 2:30to just literally do nothing but play video games.
- 2:33Yeah. And I got a lot of video games.
- 2:37I need to do lots. Yeah, I got a lot to do.
- 2:47It's fine. It'll get done.
- 2:49Maybe Stephanie's not here. Stephanie's birthday is today,
- 2:56so everybody go wish Stephanie a happy birthday on them social
- 2:59media platforms that we all happy birthday.
- 3:05Yeah, that's that's it. We did it.
- 3:14That's the. Run Pat, what are you playing?
- 3:19Oh my gosh, what am I playing? I am playing games right now.
- 3:25I've actually been like, I've looked and I'm feel bad that I
- 3:29have not been playing as many RPGs as I told myself I was
- 3:33going to play. Fact, I think I told myself that
- 3:36I, yeah, I, I wanted to play how many, how many clear all the
- 3:44selections. I'm looking at my list now.
- 3:47I have only played 18 RPGs. Only 18 I guess.
- 3:55I guess. That's more than 10, but I've
- 3:57only beat four of them. That's sad.
- 4:05That's very sad for me. Got to get those numbers up.
- 4:07So yeah, I wanted like at least 10 RPGs.
- 4:12So I, I beat what you call it Tales.
- 4:18I went and I played the DLC for Tales of a Rise Beyond the Dawn.
- 4:23And you know, it's good to replay that game.
- 4:26That game though, like it was good to revisit the characters.
- 4:30However, it had a lot of, it was a lot of going back and forth in
- 4:36like the same 5 areas of the game and only had like 3 actual
- 4:42new dungeons in it. So it, it started getting a
- 4:46little bit repetitive in the 25 hours that the game DLC was, but
- 4:53the combat's still really fun in that game.
- 4:55That's like, I would love to see that combat system continue on
- 5:01to a future Tales game. But I was able to finish that
- 5:06and picked up or continuing on another backlog RPG, Dragon
- 5:12Quest 3. Because you know, Dragon Quest 1
- 5:15and 2 came out and I really want to play Dragon Quest one again,
- 5:20but I really need to beat 3 because technically 3 is the
- 5:25prequel to 1:00 and 2:00. It's a dilemma, but it's it's
- 5:33going pretty good. Like the game is absolutely
- 5:35gorgeous. Like I feel like they took the
- 5:38two DHD and just complete like made it even prettier in the
- 5:44Dragon Quest games versus the the current Octopath Traveller
- 5:48series or even Octopath 0 that's coming out here very soon.
- 5:52Like I feel there's more detail in the Dragon Quest world than
- 5:56there is in the Octopath world. Both have like really stunning
- 6:01environments going on or like stunning like special effects
- 6:04like the water and the light reflections.
- 6:09But in terms of actual like, I guess details on like the the 2
- 6:151/2 D portion of the game, it's I feel there's more quality in
- 6:20the Dragon Quest series than there is right now in the
- 6:24Octopus series. The story is really minimal, but
- 6:31I do see a lot of additions to it because these are old NES
- 6:39games. NES games didn't have a really
- 6:43long story or very involved story.
- 6:45It was just kind of you take going on a quest to rid the
- 6:49world of the Arch Fiend and that was the whole goal.
- 6:53And nowadays people don't have the attention spans to just kind
- 6:56of like go to town to town on this journey to rid the arch
- 7:01fiend, unless there's other things kind of happening or
- 7:04developing the motivation of why your character is trying to take
- 7:08over the Arch Fiend or defeat the arch fiend.
- 7:14But you know, it's finally picking up.
- 7:16I finally am more focused on the main quest now.
- 7:20Right now they have me going to find these colored orbs so that
- 7:26I can wake up the ever bird in the game.
- 7:30The ever bird, huh? I know it's it's get old
- 7:36colorful Mac guffins. What would a what would a RPG be
- 7:40without them? Just nothing.
- 7:43It would be nothing. It would be nothing, it would be
- 7:46pointless. You'd just go straight to the
- 7:48arch fiend and win. You know?
- 7:51Now there's a way that the game blocks you from going to the
- 7:54arch fiend because you have to find 6 colorful circles that
- 7:59give you the ability to go find the arch fiend.
- 8:05That is how you pad something nice I.
- 8:11Love the RPGs, I love the padding.
- 8:14Gotta love that padding. Otherwise they just would be.
- 8:19They wouldn't really be a role-playing game, it'd just be
- 8:21a playing game. Stop saying.
- 8:23Stop saying that phrase like that.
- 8:26What you're. Making it sound so.
- 8:27You gotta love that padding. Make it sound dirty.
- 8:31I mean, little padding's good sometimes.
- 8:38Keeps things protected. And finally, I have been playing
- 8:47Hyrule Warriors. How's that padding?
- 8:53How's that padding? There is a lot of padding in
- 8:58this game, I'm not going to lie. There's like there was one point
- 9:05where after I finished the mission, I swear there was like
- 9:0830 icons just magically appeared on the map.
- 9:12And as a person that needs to see these icons go from orange
- 9:16to blue, that is a lot of clicking and a lot of missions
- 9:20that I had to partake before I could go on to the next story
- 9:23mission. And then my character was like
- 9:27immensely overpowered by like 10 levels by that point.
- 9:32Oh, this is an RPG too. Kind of.
- 9:35It's it's more action than it is RPG.
- 9:39There isn't. That was being done.
- 9:42No, I mean some of them they can have like a level system and
- 9:46like skill points and stuff. This one is like some of the
- 9:51reasons you take out those icons on the map is that they get let
- 9:54your character become more powerful, whether adding more
- 9:57attacks to their combo string or maybe adding a heart or even a
- 10:03new ability. Otherwise, you go through a
- 10:08little map mission or little the the thing that really feels like
- 10:12filling the game is that the battles kind of take place on
- 10:15the exact same maps that you dealt with.
- 10:19And it's usually a combination of get to 3 points, fight like a
- 10:25enemy commander each of these three points.
- 10:28And that's the gist of the the mission.
- 10:33But the story missions themselves, those that are
- 10:35actually been pretty fun. The game has introduced a whole
- 10:39slew of new characters, some very forgetful, like the human
- 10:44helions that they've kind of thrown into the mix are like,
- 10:47who are you? Why are you important?
- 10:49Why are you on my team? Oh, you're just there to pad the
- 10:52team a little more. Sorry, Lauren, got to.
- 10:57Got to love the padding of the team team padding at.
- 11:01This point it's whatever. Yeah.
- 11:04But then then you also have like the one set they really focused
- 11:09on in the commercials, namely the Korak Camalo.
- 11:14And he is immensely overpowered for being a little guy.
- 11:20Like this guy is fast. He hits really hard and his
- 11:26special attacks can use any of the elements that any enemy are
- 11:32weak to. So he will throw electric, he
- 11:35will throw fire, he will throw ice, he will throw bombs, and
- 11:40you know, basically just completely decimate enemies that
- 11:44way. Like the guy is Oped.
- 11:48And of course his companion, the mystery Construct as the game
- 11:52calls it, AKA Construct Link because that's what it's
- 11:58designed to look like, is also immensely overpowered.
- 12:03He is the only one that has the ability to use fused weapons,
- 12:08which you know, hit really strong.
- 12:11He also has the ability later on where you can attach Zoni or his
- 12:16attacks have Zoni device infused abilities.
- 12:22So some of my attacks now can end with him like setting people
- 12:27on fire if he wants to. So like there there's a bit of
- 12:32customization and how you can set your attacks up on these
- 12:35people to like whatever buttons or triggers there.
- 12:40A lot of the attacks have a counter ability, so if an enemy
- 12:43comes at like charging, you might want to use a certain
- 12:46attack that blocks the charge. Or if they jump at you, you use
- 12:51an attack that's kind of meant to knock them out of the air.
- 12:55You can also there's attack for repelling and also an attack for
- 12:59shield breaking. And also there's Zoni artifacts
- 13:05that you can equip and these have various elemental
- 13:09properties. Like you have all the elements
- 13:11that you can shoot. There are other ones like rocket
- 13:14power which lets you go faster, Fans let you deflect attacks,
- 13:20cannons allow you to shoot. So a lot of different ways you
- 13:26can customize your characters in this.
- 13:30The voice acting in the story is also been really good.
- 13:34There have been some, like I've seen some of the cutscenes that
- 13:37have gone on from Tears of the Kingdom, but I'm kind of at the
- 13:42point now where the war has like gone full, like the war is like
- 13:48in full scale now. So now they can kind of focus on
- 13:51the story bits that Tears of the Kingdom did not touch on because
- 13:56they kind of did the whole this is what's happening in the
- 13:59beginning or how the war starts, and then this is kind of how the
- 14:02war concludes. But there's been a whole lot in
- 14:04the middle. And that's what I feel this
- 14:05story is telling you is what's kind of happened, you know, from
- 14:10beginning to the end. And all the middle stuff is the
- 14:14reason to have the game. Nice.
- 14:18Now this this is like the story is kind of the story when Zelda
- 14:27goes back in time, right? And then kind of tells that
- 14:32story that the flashbacks are like, yes, it's that, right.
- 14:37OK, I thought so. I just, you know, sometimes
- 14:41they're like, whoa, it's Canon, but it's not like the last time.
- 14:45The the last one. From what I understand, Age of
- 14:49Calamity was a what if story, so it's not actually Canon, but
- 14:54from my understanding, this one actually is Canons.
- 14:57This is like they won't derive or make a link somehow, you
- 15:04know, saves everyone from their fates on the the sacred or what
- 15:09you call those not the sacred beasts.
- 15:11Are they the sacred beasts? Yeah.
- 15:14The machines. Yeah, yes, Yeah.
- 15:17How like somehow this little Droid, you know, let's link
- 15:21know. Hey, your companions are all
- 15:23going to die, go save them first and then have like a whole lot
- 15:28of story. That's not the case with this
- 15:30one. This is telling you the story of
- 15:33the actual war that Zelda had to live through in the the past
- 15:39with Rahu and the Champions. And there's also like Starfox
- 15:49parts in this game too. Unreal's like shooters parts.
- 15:55Oh, oh, oh, oh, OK. I was like, what?
- 15:57Like actual like like things that actually reference Starfox.
- 16:02No, it the Link construct can turn into an eagle and so Calamo
- 16:09the Korok rides the Link construct and you have these
- 16:13like flying shooting segments in some levels.
- 16:19OK, I was like, man, Star Fox, That's that's quite the joke,
- 16:22no? It is the best Star Fox to come
- 16:26out since the last Star Fox game that long.
- 16:32Well, the last Star Fox game wasn't very good, so.
- 16:36I don't know, I've never played the last one.
- 16:38Very good. Although the Ubisoft one that
- 16:42wasn't really a Star Fox game but was a Star Fox game if you
- 16:45bought the Switch version was pretty good.
- 16:51But. Yeah, that's cool.
- 16:58I'm I'm excited to play. I got it.
- 17:00I just haven't played it yet. Yeah, now like I said, a lot of
- 17:05filler in between, which can kind of get annoying because of
- 17:10the fact it took me like 2 hours to clear out all those icons to
- 17:17get to the next story mission. But it it's enjoyable for what
- 17:21it is. Like it's it's not going to be
- 17:24the most mass like mass. It's not absolute cinema, but if
- 17:29you played a Warriors game you know what you're getting into
- 17:32and it's nice to see the the Tears of the Kingdom world get
- 17:36fleshed out more. Yeah, that's, that's like the
- 17:41thing I'm like with the next Zelda game, I hope.
- 17:44I wish they would keep these versions of Lincoln Zelda but I
- 17:47know they're not right like this is this is the end right
- 17:50supposedly. If they keep them, they need to
- 17:53get. Out of my room, yeah, that's,
- 17:54that's a new setting. I mean, there, there's a ton of
- 17:57places, I mean they can go to terminal, they could go to, I
- 18:01mean there are quite a few places they could probably go.
- 18:04Right What? What is the name of the What is
- 18:06the name of the world that The Legend of Zelda takes place in?
- 18:12Because you know, I always, you know, I, you know, in my head it
- 18:15was, I always, I always, I always hear the Kingdom of
- 18:17Hyrule. But in my head, I'm always like,
- 18:20Hyrule is the world. No, Hyrule's the Kingdom, yeah,
- 18:26but they never, like, go outside of it.
- 18:30I wonder, I wonder what's I wonder what's going on the other
- 18:33surrounding territories around. Is it?
- 18:36Is it all just like some utopia where there's no, there's no
- 18:39class or there's no there's no, there's no strife or discord or
- 18:43is or is shit really getting fucked up out there?
- 18:47It's all it. It's all it's, it's, it's all.
- 18:50It's all done. It's all gone.
- 18:52Like Zelda probably step out, out step, step outside the the
- 18:55Kingdom and he immediately come back like Nope, Nope,
- 18:57automatically no. Yep.
- 19:01Oh man, oh man. Yep, it's so bad that link just
- 19:07comes back every so often to high rule because it just never
- 19:12changes. Just just just imagine, just
- 19:15imagine. She goes out.
- 19:16She goes out and she comes back and she's like, and she's like,
- 19:20for some strange reason, everybody was just like, excuse
- 19:23me, Princess. God I hope that line's in the
- 19:27movie. What's that?
- 19:30That line better be in the movie.
- 19:34You want that? You want that, don't you?
- 19:37I I mean, I think the movie's going to be bad anyway, so they
- 19:39might as well just do something fun with it.
- 19:42Gunstar was actually just in a recent interview and they were
- 19:45talking about The Legend of Zelda and they said that it
- 19:48would be hilarious if, you know, they tried to have Link talk but
- 19:53every time he tries to talk he gets interrupted so you never
- 19:57actually hear him speak. Yeah, I mean, my, my whole thing
- 20:00is like they shouldn't have like Link shouldn't even be in them
- 20:03in like the main part of the movie.
- 20:05Like he shouldn't even be the main character.
- 20:07Zelda should be the main character and it should be like
- 20:09a political like Game of Thrones.
- 20:12Lord of the Rings esque movie and Link is like the savior that
- 20:17comes in at the end of the movie or whatever.
- 20:22I don't know maybe it's maybe they'll go a trilogy route here
- 20:26which I think would be cool if they focus on like 1 aspect of
- 20:31like the triforce in each trilogy.
- 20:34Like maybe this is wisdom then the second one because you know
- 20:38the second parts of the trilogy's are we starker would
- 20:40be the power and then courage to focus on Lync for the final one.
- 20:48I think you're, I think you're putting too much faith in.
- 20:50Yeah, yeah, that was I am. I am turning this into a Luca
- 20:54verse. OK, this is going to be a Star
- 20:58Wars style movie. Oh no, I don't like this.
- 21:01No, no, no. You mean in like 1515 or 20
- 21:06years they'll just add a bunch of CG to it and call it a
- 21:10special edition? And.
- 21:11Extend the lore about how Link had the special blood in him.
- 21:15Instead of being a special boy, he had the blood.
- 21:18He had aquarium. No, the the Minish Chlorians,
- 21:22the the Minish Chlorians, the the Chlorians.
- 21:26OK, that's the that's the Korakians.
- 21:28Let's let's. Move on.
- 21:29Let's. Move on.
- 21:31Oh my gosh, this movie sounds terrible.
- 21:36And then Link, he's gonna be a little boy, but Zelda's gonna be
- 21:39like, like almost a grown woman. Oh, God.
- 21:42And Link's gonna be like, I'm gonna marry you someday.
- 21:46I mean, I think the girl that they cast as Zelda is older than
- 21:49the kid they cast as me. I think she is actually.
- 21:54That's strange. I.
- 21:54Think she's like 16 and he's like 13.
- 21:57That's. Strange, this movie's going to
- 22:00be bad, isn't it, Laurent? It'll.
- 22:06Only be as bad as you make it. I only have I only have one, I
- 22:11only have one game to talk about tonight and this Final Fantasy
- 22:13Tactics, this Final Fantasy Tactics the evil least
- 22:16chronicles. No, I am not in chapter 3 yet.
- 22:21I'm not because like I am, I am legit just like I'm just running
- 22:25random quest, just trying to like level up like 'cause,
- 22:29'cause the thing they do in Final Fantasy, Texas Eva's
- 22:32Chronicles, if you're playing on the enhanced edition versus like
- 22:34the original game is like you kind of get previews of the
- 22:38skill of, of the, of the job class trees.
- 22:40So, and you can, and you can check and see what all, what you
- 22:44can check and see what requirements to hit, You know,
- 22:46so you don't just magically appear on the tree and on the
- 22:49tree, right. So, yeah, I'm legit right now.
- 22:53I've got, I've got, if you don't include the guest characters
- 22:58that I have in my, in my, in my roster right now, I've got 10
- 23:02characters. I've got 5 that are, that are
- 23:06well, well, I've got 5 that are that are basically they're five
- 23:09and five like magic users versus versus like, you know, melee
- 23:14users, right? But this, this say like the Venn
- 23:18diagram. So like some of those magic
- 23:20users, slash and, and just melee users are actually, you know,
- 23:24capable of using magic as well and stuff like that, you know,
- 23:26and vice versa, you know, So yeah, like that's it's it's
- 23:33it's. Paladins and Warlocks and.
- 23:35As a matter of fact, I am trying to make, I'm trying to make a
- 23:38paladin and I'm trying to figure out, do I want him to just be
- 23:41like, do I want him to be like a swordsman paladin or do I want
- 23:44him to be like a Dragoon paladin?
- 23:48No, Dragoon Paladin isn't really paladin though.
- 23:52I know, I I know, I know. I'm it's more like a hybrid.
- 23:54I know, but yeah, like, but yeah, like, but, but, but I am
- 24:01getting to a point where I need to just go ahead and continue
- 24:04playing through the story because I'm going to mess
- 24:06around. I'm going to mess around.
- 24:07When I get to like some of those bosses, they're going to be OP
- 24:10because because it's going to power scale versus where I'm at,
- 24:16so I need to start moving. But I'm just having so much fun.
- 24:19Just like unlocking the trees and just like getting stuff
- 24:21done. Nice.
- 24:24Yeah, I need to start that too. Yeah, that's, that's that's
- 24:28that's all. Everything I've been playing in
- 24:29nutshell. I did not play any Tekken at all
- 24:30last week. What?
- 24:33But I did play, I did play some Monster Hunter.
- 24:36How'd that go? We don't.
- 24:39Not bad, not bad. But I tell you what, that Omega,
- 24:43that Omega planetis that new boss not fun.
- 24:50And by not fun I mean I mean my ass kicked.
- 24:53So what happens when it takes time off, Laurent?
- 24:55With a full party, No, no, no, I'm better than that.
- 24:58I'm better than that. There I there's no, there's no
- 25:01such thing as like take time off, get ass beat like not with
- 25:04me. OK, sounds like you.
- 25:11I'm overcompensating. Something sounds like you need
- 25:16some padding. We're not Speaking of monster
- 25:20hunters, they actually just announced title update 4 did.
- 25:25They announce out on the scene to play.
- 25:28Very briefly, yeah. Well, I know Doug Mazzio's is
- 25:31coming from from from Monster Hunter 4.
- 25:35Yeah, that that's basically what they're talked about.
- 25:37It's. I like that title.
- 25:39Update 4 and you've got A and you've got a featured monster
- 25:41from the 4th Monster Hunter game.
- 25:43I like that. Yep, Yep.
- 25:48And then of course, new Quest cosmetics, titles, all the stuff
- 25:53that you can buy. Let's actually see if I can find
- 25:58a real actual article on this. This piece alongs with new End
- 26:04Game Focus progression system and the Winter event.
- 26:12Cool, huh? Yeah, sounds.
- 26:17Yeah, yeah, ultimately though, like, I mean, like, see, cause
- 26:22the Monster Hunter kind of like really like rubbed me the wrong
- 26:25way because because honestly, the the PC version was poorly
- 26:31optimized and it's and it took a while.
- 26:35I think all versions were poorly optimized.
- 26:38Yeah, except for PS-5 Pro Edition.
- 26:40Well, if you play it on PS-5 Pro, Yeah, but but strange thing
- 26:44happened to me on the way to playing Monster Hunter.
- 26:47The game played fine. You know, I guess I was the, I
- 26:52guess I was performing badly. User air what?
- 26:57That sounds like the run you were sucking.
- 27:02There's a lot of sexual things going on in this one sentence.
- 27:07I I wasn't not in that direction, but.
- 27:10Just just a smidge. That's OK.
- 27:11I'm going to be I'm going to come back stronger, harder and
- 27:14faster next time. It'll be our pleasure.
- 27:20Yeah, I mean, I'm a, I'm a I'm, I'm, I'm a quaff mega demon
- 27:25drug, you know, you know, just just just just ram it right
- 27:28home. Jeez.
- 27:30OK, going back to this Monster Hunter monster GOG Mazio.
- 27:34I beat. Ultimate.
- 27:36I beat Ultimate 4 but I don't remember this guy.
- 27:39Gog Mazios was that was the that was the basically the sludge
- 27:43monster, the the the big sludge elder dragon.
- 27:47Like you can only fight him in like the not like the arena but
- 27:50like basically a battlegrounds area.
- 27:53Oh, wait, so he wasn't. Yeah, OK, now I think I
- 27:56remember. Yeah.
- 27:57He was like a super optional. Usually when I think of Elder
- 28:02Dragons, I think of like title character.
- 28:06Like do I remember it being the one that was cursed and then
- 28:10became like this light dragon? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 28:14yeah, yeah, yeah. You're talking about you talking
- 28:17about how Gore Magala became Sagaru Magala.
- 28:19Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I, I, I I never
- 28:23actually thought GOG Mizagio because I never.
- 28:26Oh, you just never, you just never, you just you never
- 28:28touched. Toughed it out because GOG
- 28:30Mazios. I think GOG Mazios was story.
- 28:33But for the most part, like once I feel like everybody, like once
- 28:37everybody got beat, the ultimate form of of of Sagaro Magala,
- 28:41they were like, OK, we can put the game down now.
- 28:43Yeah. He's he's pretty cool though.
- 28:49Like, I kind of like the whole talons kind of sticking out of
- 28:54his arms. Yeah.
- 28:57And like, almost like the whole decaying look of him.
- 29:00Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be. Yeah, it's gonna be, it's gonna
- 29:03be. I think it's gonna be fun.
- 29:04Like it's. I love, I love throwback.
- 29:07I love throwback like monsters, you know, like monsters have
- 29:10been in previous games that we hadn't seen for a while.
- 29:12Good GOG Mazios has not GOG Mazios has not been around in
- 29:15like the last the last 2 1/2 games basically.
- 29:21Yeah. Interesting.
- 29:25The guy be getting pretty close to the big expansion here that
- 29:29most likely will come out. I feel like we have another
- 29:33year. I, I feel like we have another
- 29:35year before the expansion is, I'm not going to say announce,
- 29:38but we have listened to the year before.
- 29:40Like, you know, any, any real traction happens on that.
- 29:42Because I mean, I think, I think Monster Hunter world had six
- 29:48title updates before, you know, and I think by around the time
- 29:53the six title update came out, that's when the announcement for
- 29:55the expansion happened. And given that, you know, I
- 29:58have, I have a very bad feeling that, you know, like the Monster
- 30:02Hunter team is not going to fix the problems, the optimization
- 30:05for for for Wilds. They're just going to use the
- 30:08expansion to do that. And they might open a whole new
- 30:10can of worms doing that. They could well.
- 30:21I'm trying to be. I am trying to be optimistic
- 30:24though. I am.
- 30:26Are you optimistic though? Or do you really feel optimistic
- 30:29or you just trying to be? I'm trying to be.
- 30:33I have never gotten my character strong enough to be able to
- 30:36handle or do one of the expansions.
- 30:40I couldn't do an Iceborn. I didn't get to Dawn break is
- 30:46dawn break. Sunbreak.
- 30:48Sunbreak. Sunbreak yeah, I can't even beat
- 30:53the final, final boss of. Iceborn.
- 31:00Rise, rise. Yeah, the the one that came in
- 31:04later, the Super form of the the Thunder Dragon.
- 31:09Oh Malzino woof. No, not, not.
- 31:13Not Malzino. Not the not the final form of
- 31:15Malzino. The fat one, the final boss, but
- 31:19the final boss that eats her mate.
- 31:22Oh whoa, whoa, now we're Nabucci.
- 31:25Yeah, Oh. Oh, you just.
- 31:27I just got really freaking long and every time I join, every
- 31:32time I join parties like we always ended up dead like 20
- 31:36minutes later. OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, I'm
- 31:40following man. Like honestly, like once you
- 31:43learned all the little nuances about it, like the battle is
- 31:45nothing like, I mean people were like running back and forth
- 31:48like, you know, like it was nothing like that, you know.
- 31:51But the all mother, the all mother Narwhal was was pretty
- 31:54trippy. She she had some pretty OP
- 32:00bullshit moves, especially towards the end of her life.
- 32:03Yeah. Yikes.
- 32:05That was that was the thing too. Like like, yeah, I do remember
- 32:07that like like the all mother would like just go into this
- 32:09ramp up mode. Like, it's like, it's like, it's
- 32:11like you knew you knew you're getting ready to kill it because
- 32:13like, it was starting to go nuts.
- 32:16Yep, and then everyone died and or someone would have died their
- 32:21third time and that was it. Yeah.
- 32:29Nice. I'm a horrible hunter.
- 32:33It's OK. You're fine, You're fine.
- 32:37You're fine. Just just when you, when you,
- 32:39when you start to get back in it play with me.
- 32:41I I got you. I got you do.
- 32:45You like the switch version? That's the version I have.
- 32:52I'm talking about Wilds. That's what I I meant Wilds, but
- 32:55I mean like I I can go back to the switch version, but but I
- 32:59mean like I have to buy Sunbreak for the for the switch.
- 33:04Yeah, the Switch. Version.
- 33:05Yeah, don't do that. It's.
- 33:06On sale right now, in case you're wondering.
- 33:08No, I'm not. I'm not.
- 33:10No, I'm not. I'm not.
- 33:11I'm not going back to like console Monster Hunter if I can,
- 33:14if I if I can avoid it. OK, if you say so.
- 33:21Even though console version, it's the superior version now.
- 33:24It feels like it. I mean, OK, so going into 2026
- 33:30we need companies to stop building the games for the
- 33:35console first. You can build the games for
- 33:36consoles and PC at the same exact time, which means that
- 33:39they have to delay the product. We are fine with that.
- 33:45I think, I think Lauren's upset. Keep that shit in time I think.
- 33:48He just gave Todd Howard the excuse to delay Elder Scrolls 6
- 33:54for another 10 years. Well, you know, I don't care
- 33:56about. Elder Scrolls 6 at the same
- 33:57time. I don't care.
- 33:58I don't care about Elder Scrolls 6 the way a bunch of other
- 34:01people care about Elder Scrolls 6.
- 34:02So, you know, if Todd Howard takes my advice, that's on him.
- 34:06That's on him. I didn't.
- 34:07I didn't give him carte blanks to do that.
- 34:09I mean, he can. He can do whatever he wants.
- 34:12I don't really care about Elder Scrolls 6.
- 34:16It's funny because when they announced Elder Scrolls 6, I
- 34:19said to people that is a title card.
- 34:22They have nothing planned for this game.
- 34:25It was a pretty fleshed out animation of a fly over of some
- 34:30random fantasyland. OK.
- 34:32It was a mountain and a name. Yeah.
- 34:35That is all it was and I'm like they have nothing planned.
- 34:39They literally said this to appease people like where's
- 34:41Elder Scrolls 6? So now they can go but back and
- 34:45be like well where's Elder Scrolls 6 now?
- 34:48Yeah. Which Todd Howard said is still
- 34:53a ways away seven years later. Which also makes me think they
- 34:59haven't done anything yet. I mean, they've been fixing
- 35:02Starfield for PlayStation players.
- 35:05Have they? I have not heard anything about
- 35:08Starfield anymore. Yeah, they, well, they have one
- 35:10more DLC to release and then they're going to, they're
- 35:13probably optimizing it for PlayStation.
- 35:16I did not know Starfield had more content coming.
- 35:18Yeah, there's a whole nother expansion coming and they are
- 35:21also apparently reworking the entire like combat system
- 35:26because people think that, think it sucks and quest structures
- 35:30and everything. They're like rebuilding the
- 35:31entire game, essentially. I mean, the six hours of it I
- 35:35played, yeah, combat kind of sucked.
- 35:38I went through that game twice. I played it for like 5 hours and
- 35:44I was like, I'm done. This is This is everything I
- 35:47hate about Bethesda games in one package.
- 35:50You're not the you're not the first person I've heard I've
- 35:52heard say that. What?
- 35:56Just about the whole Bethesda games and you're like, it's
- 35:58every, it's everything they, they, they remember they hated
- 36:01about Bethesda games. Yeah, I don't.
- 36:05Like to explore all the world's? I'm just not a, I'm just not a
- 36:08Bethesda person. So I, I mean, I understand that
- 36:13people like them and why they like why they exist and why
- 36:17people like, really love them, but not for me.
- 36:22You know what, I was just having a conversation with the crew
- 36:25over at the games cast on the last episode and we were talking
- 36:30about The Outer Worlds 2 and I think I understood why.
- 36:36After listening to another games cast, the kind of funny Games
- 36:39cast, I think I understood why I have trouble with those games at
- 36:42times. It's 'cause I don't.
- 36:45Those games are meant to be role played like you're supposed to
- 36:49design A character, you're supposed to put stat or like
- 36:53points into various stats and you're supposed to like play the
- 36:57game like you're some kind of character.
- 37:00Not like try to literally do everything and fill up all your
- 37:03stats cause the game's not going to let you do that.
- 37:06You can't be really a Jack of all trades.
- 37:08You go in and be like if your character is an asshole, your
- 37:12character needs to be an asshole that maybe knows how to pick
- 37:15locks but can't win a conversation for shit and then
- 37:19play the game that way. Sounds like a sounds like a lot
- 37:25of work. It requires multiple
- 37:28playthroughs, which is kind of daunting, but people say it's a
- 37:31lot more fun when you actually play a game as a character that
- 37:35you design with the intention of this person's going to be a
- 37:43maybe a sneaky Archer, you know, and they will do things as
- 37:46sneaky Archers will do, which probably isn't going to be
- 37:49conversations, you know, or, or like made school.
- 37:54They're probably going to be like thieves Guild, Assassin's
- 37:58Guild. And, you know, I guess that
- 38:03might be their play. I.
- 38:06Very interesting. I'm more, I'm more of a I'm
- 38:11going to create my own character for Mass Effect style thing and
- 38:15just let Commander Shepard be my favorite character on the
- 38:18Citadel. OK, That's that's what we're
- 38:20doing. Let's do it as a paragon.
- 38:26Except I'm going to punch the reporter in the face.
- 38:29There you go, make the character your own.
- 38:34Be the asshole. Yeah, I remember the one time I
- 38:37was trying to play as a paragon the whole way through, and
- 38:39there's this one part where, like, you're fighting someone
- 38:41and I think it's Mass Effect 2, and then you end up pushing them
- 38:44out the window if you choose the Renegade option.
- 38:47And I was just like, I didn't mean to and I accidentally
- 38:52pushed the person out the window.
- 38:55Wait, that was that was that was in the same area when you run
- 38:59into Liara, right? I think so.
- 39:05I, I could just see Corey like, Oh my gosh, I got a reset.
- 39:09Yeah. You know, you know, Corey just
- 39:11had a had a moral crisis when that happened.
- 39:15I mean, I kind of did. I was like, oh shit.
- 39:20Everyone's going to remember that now.
- 39:22I can't remember because I think I, I, I think in the first Mass
- 39:25Effect game I shot what's her name in the face?
- 39:27The, the chick that was trying to take over the syndicate.
- 39:30I, I just saw her in the face. I was like, wait, I didn't want
- 39:32to do that. And my save file was so far
- 39:37back. It took me an hour just to get
- 39:38back to the conversation with her, to let her go.
- 39:44Wow. Shot her in the face.
- 39:46It was with me. Imagine what the playthrough
- 39:49would have been like afterwards. She got what she deserved.
- 39:54Separate in the corners like what did I do?
- 39:57What did I? Do I live with that guilt for
- 40:00the rest of the game? I saw an old lady in the face.
- 40:03What I do? Please, the suicide mission.
- 40:07But because he wasn't, his head wasn't there, he just paid.
- 40:11Caused everyone else to die. The suicide mission, Mass Effect
- 40:15too. He remembers that he's like,
- 40:16okay, just just take me. I already know what death feels
- 40:20like. Doesn't just do it all over
- 40:22again. It's time how it come back in
- 40:27Mass Effect 3. Wait wait, Bain's side mission?
- 40:30Was that the was that the mission Retro X podcast?
- 40:35In their chat, they mentioned that Thain's side mission was
- 40:38that the was that the one in Mass Effect 2 that Corey was
- 40:42talking about? I think so.
- 40:43Oh, is it Thain's? I thought might be they might
- 40:46be. I thought it was AI thought I
- 40:48thought it was Liara's thing, but it could have been because,
- 40:52well, actually, no. It's not the Shadow Broker deal,
- 40:55No, no, no. No, no, no, no.
- 40:57Remember you do have a mission with with Liara.
- 40:59Yeah, I, I know. That's not the Shadow Broker.
- 41:02Right. Yeah.
- 41:06Yeah, they're saying, they're saying it, it was stay inside
- 41:08mission. Why am I having a hard time
- 41:11remembering that? But I do, I do remember seeing
- 41:13like I do remember because I, I, I watch, I watch Mass Effect
- 41:16YouTube videos all the time. And I, and I love seeing like
- 41:19the like people posting, like the alternate dialogues and, and
- 41:22outcomes for, for crucial stuff. And and I saw that chasing up
- 41:31the tower trying to beat Thane to his target through a window.
- 41:39And yes, retro XP is story, by the way.
- 41:42Story. OK, that's story.
- 41:45Yep. OK, OK, what's up, brother?
- 41:47It's story. Yep.
- 41:53Thanks for thanks for lurking and not not telling me who you
- 41:56were bro Thank you. He just want, he just, he wants
- 42:01to be anonymous. Mm, hmm.
- 42:03Mm hmm. Well, your boy, well, your boy
- 42:08pet like like how did you bro? I am promoting him.
- 42:17Go check out the retro XP cast by my former Co host or Co Co
- 42:23host companion from Exp cast story where he talks about all
- 42:26things retro. Well, now I just want to go play
- 42:33Mass Effect. Me too.
- 42:35Me too, Corey. Yeah.
- 42:37I just have a good night. Corey, I just installed it on my
- 42:40ROG LIXII just installed it late last week.
- 42:43Like I, I, I'm getting, I, I got the wild hair.
- 42:46Like I want to play it, but there's a part of me that's also
- 42:48like, I don't want to play ME1 all the way through.
- 42:51So should I just should I just, should I just go online and and
- 42:55and get A and get a scum save file?
- 43:01I mean no I don't know. I don't know the the the
- 43:06legendary edition fixed Mass Effect 1 though like.
- 43:10Yeah, but I've also been, but I also played Mass Effect 1 and
- 43:14I'm like, there's a little bit, there's there's some stuff that
- 43:18there's some stuff that you know, it it, it's desired.
- 43:22I mean, yeah, but also. It's not bad.
- 43:25It's not bad though, like I just Mass Effect one was slow to me
- 43:29that's just the problem. It's because it's the only one
- 43:31that's like a real RPG. A real RPG, yeah.
- 43:37I, I don't know, I really like Mass Effect one.
- 43:40I I think it has the best story. Out.
- 43:42No, I I like Mass Effect one. I do.
- 43:44I do. There wasn't a one, there
- 43:47wouldn't have been a 2. Which was the best one?
- 43:52I mean, I still I'm not. Going to argue.
- 43:53I'm not going to argue with you. I'm not going to argue with you
- 43:54on that one, Pat. I'm not.
- 43:57No. I mean, I still really like 3.
- 44:01I don't know why people don't like 3.
- 44:04I like 3, but I feel like actually actually like looking
- 44:07back on some things Mass Effect 2 was.
- 44:09Mass Effect 2 actually has more flaws than people want to give
- 44:12it credit for. And and, and and because, but
- 44:18because like people were jaded about Mass Effect 3's outcome.
- 44:21They overlooked. They overlooked the flaws that
- 44:23Mass Effect 2 has. I think people really like Mass
- 44:27Effect 2 because your choices were really freaking mattered in
- 44:31that game. Like that last mission was
- 44:33something else if your crew wasn't at top like top form and
- 44:39you didn't do everything right. You didn't do you didn't do all
- 44:42the loyalty missions before. You didn't do all the loyalty
- 44:45missions before you got to that point because I think, I think
- 44:48the only loyalty mission that you could not do at that point
- 44:53was is I think you can't do. I think you can't do Jacobs
- 44:56until after after after what's after the after the collector
- 45:01event, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong.
- 45:04I could be wrong. Oh.
- 45:10I don't know. I don't remember.
- 45:13It's been so long, it's been so long.
- 45:15And, and I hate, I hate to admit this, but I played Mass Effect
- 45:17three more times. I played Mass Effect 2, but I
- 45:21haven't played. But just to keep it in
- 45:22perspective, both playthroughs and Mass Effect two and three
- 45:26are both single digits. So it's not like, you know, like
- 45:28I've played Mass Effect 3 like 17 trillion times, like, like I
- 45:31played Mega Man 2, you know? I mean, if it makes you feel
- 45:34better, I played Mass Effect 3 three times on the Wii U.
- 45:40OK, Stoy's saying. I thought.
- 45:42Stoy's saying he thought Jacob's one of the first ones you got.
- 45:45I thought Jacob. Jacob in Mass Effect 2 you wake
- 45:49up and Jacob is like the first person you meet and Marianne
- 45:55Jacob's in after Jacob I think. They they have the typical male
- 46:00female romance partners that you mean at the beginning.
- 46:03Well, yeah, we're talking about the loyalty missions.
- 46:05I, I, I didn't think maybe maybe I just, maybe I just skipped
- 46:08around, you know, because I. Wasn't.
- 46:12You don't have to do them in a specific order.
- 46:14Yeah, you don't have to. Yeah, you don't do them in a
- 46:15specific order, true, but but it wasn't like I disliked Jacob
- 46:20like yeah, he is 1 The he is probably the most boring
- 46:23character in like the entire trilogy.
- 46:24You know, as far as like the main cast of characters and
- 46:26stuff like that. I don't know what I don't know
- 46:28why I don't know why I neglected his story mission.
- 46:31He's. White bread, OK, he's playing.
- 46:35He's white bread. He's playing.
- 46:39Yeah, but I, I definitely, I definitely took my time like
- 46:42with his stuff. And then, and the sad part was
- 46:44his loyalty mission was actually, his loyalty mission
- 46:46was actually pretty good. And so, you know, his loyalty
- 46:49mission was actually pretty good.
- 46:50And then he kind of like just just shat all over it, you know,
- 46:52a mess. When we meet up with a Mass Spec
- 46:543, it's like, look, we just, we just corrected a whole bunch of
- 46:58things, you know, that were done wrong in your loyalty mission
- 47:01and you're making the same mistake.
- 47:06Look at me. Look at me.
- 47:07Not giving out any spoilers. Well, yes, 2000.
- 47:10That's this 20 year old franchise.
- 47:17Now if you want to get into real Mass Effect, let's talk about
- 47:20Andromeda. No, I'm just kidding.
- 47:22Which I still need to which I still need to beat.
- 47:26Same actually. I liked Andromeda, I got so far.
- 47:30I got a part but. I I I stopped playing because of
- 47:34destiny expansion came out I think I'm pretty sure is why I
- 47:36stopped playing. It's the only reason.
- 47:40And then I never went back because, well, got busy.
- 47:46Got busy, people said bad things about it, made you not want to
- 47:50play it anymore. No, people were already talking
- 47:53about it before I started playing it.
- 47:54I bought it on sale for like $7.00 on PlayStation so I was
- 48:02like oh pretty good $7.00 and. I like the steel book I got with
- 48:08that one. Pretty nice, like N7 helmet.
- 48:11Oh, it came with the steel. Book on it, the version I did
- 48:15have. Let me go grab it.
- 48:17I bought it visually, I guess I wouldn't have known what kind of
- 48:19case I'd gotten, but. Yeah, my, my first, my my first
- 48:26bio, the Mass Effect trilogy was the was the was the collected
- 48:30edition. So like all three games?
- 48:34All three games in one collection?
- 48:36Yeah, that was a nice box set. It was a really nice box set.
- 48:46I would love to like stream Mass Effect like we do like a
- 48:52playthrough of the entire series, but I don't know when
- 48:55that's going to happen. Hey, like I'll, I'll, I'll
- 48:58shotgun with you. That is a nice deal book.
- 49:02Yeah, that is a really nice deal.
- 49:03I'll be your, I'll, I'll be the vicarion to your shepherd.
- 49:11Or we can just switch off. We can just switch off.
- 49:13That way, you know, we keep it, we keep it fresh, actually.
- 49:17How will we do that? I mean, one of us would have to
- 49:20play and one of us would have to just be the the guy.
- 49:24Be the, be the be the color commentary.
- 49:26Yeah. So I don't know.
- 49:31We'll figure it out someday. Yeah.
- 49:36We'll get to it. I feel good about it.
- 49:39If I let you buy my steelbook, I wouldn't have anything to put
- 49:42the game in. Some of the game, I'm sure he
- 49:48I'm sure he needs a coaster for his beverage.
- 49:51He plays the other Wow trilogy. I'll have you know he enjoyed
- 49:56this game because it is Mass Effect.
- 49:59Maybe not as much as the other ones, but.
- 50:03You know I'll be. I'll be honest with you, like I
- 50:05actually, I actually when I played Andromeda, I actually
- 50:10enjoyed. I was actually, I was actually
- 50:12invested in the story. I was investing in the story.
- 50:15I was investing in most of the characters.
- 50:16Like, yeah, I was being like a bisexual slut because I was like
- 50:19flirting with everybody. Oh yeah, I always play as I
- 50:26always play as female character in that game in Andromeda and
- 50:33and any Mass Effect in any game really, actually, if there's a
- 50:36choice. OK, trying.
- 50:39To remember was the character named Ryder?
- 50:43OK, that's right. Because she'd be riding
- 50:46everybody. Hey, oh, hey.
- 50:52Anyways, As for me, I've been playing Plants versus Zombies.
- 50:58Still, it's kind of kind of it. Nothing new to report on.
- 51:06I've also been drawing a lot so. Yeah, we did see we saw that
- 51:13post on the the interwebs. Which one?
- 51:18The one. That one, well I posted 2 so.
- 51:22Wow. OK, Zelda.
- 51:24Wow, Yeah, I did. I did do that.
- 51:28I also did Rumi from K Pop Demon Hunters, because that's what my
- 51:33daughter wanted me to draw. And I said, OK, so if you
- 51:39haven't seen the movie, don't look at the picture because it's
- 51:42spoilers for the movie, but it's fine.
- 51:48Whatever. Nobody watches it for the story.
- 51:50It's all about the music. Speaking of music, oops.
- 51:59Let's let's let's talk about some some of these topics here.
- 52:03Let's go back to Mass Effect. We we are going to talk about
- 52:06Mass Effect. Should we just talk about that
- 52:08first, then the Amazon, Let's just.
- 52:10Talk about Mass Effect. Let's get it on.
- 52:12Let's get it on. The TV, the TV series and Mass
- 52:15Effect TV series, well, of course, in seven day was as of
- 52:21this recording, what, four days ago, five days ago, four days
- 52:25ago, they they announced that the Amazon's Mass Effect TV
- 52:31series will be a brand new story set after the original trilogy.
- 52:35So BioWare revealed that Amazon's upcoming Mass Effect TV
- 52:40series will tell a brand new story set after the original
- 52:43trilogy, meaning Commander Shepard won't appear.
- 52:46The show will explore new characters and events within the
- 52:49same universe rather than retelling existing stories.
- 52:53Executive producer Mike Gamble also confirmed that BioWare is
- 52:56still fully focused on the on developing the next Mass Effect
- 53:00game, promising a rich new adventure that expands the
- 53:02universe when it's ready to be shown.
- 53:07He even showed a new concept art and it looks like Civil War's
- 53:11happening, baby. So they're going to have to pick
- 53:18a canonical ending to this, right?
- 53:20That pretty much, yeah. That's pretty much what it is,
- 53:22yeah. I feel like especially like with
- 53:26the TV series being Canon and the new game taking place
- 53:30clearly. Yeah.
- 53:33I don't know. I mean, that first trailer
- 53:34showed Liara, right? That's we all assume that's
- 53:36Liara, right? So like.
- 53:38Yeah, yeah. What are they?
- 53:41What's the canonical ending like?
- 53:43How do you tell a new story after the trilogy without
- 53:46picking a canonical ending? The story think this the destroy
- 53:50so all the synthetics are probably dead now.
- 53:57Is that, is that how you tell the story though?
- 53:59Like is that what you want to do?
- 54:01I don't know. I mean it would get rid of the
- 54:04reapers. Yeah, Leron, you're the Mass
- 54:10Effect guy. How am I the Mass Effect guy?
- 54:16I have AI have a so I get. To put in here, we need to talk
- 54:19about this. Yes, yes, Jump on and join us.
- 54:26I do feel like, I do feel like the Destroy ending is probably
- 54:28going to be the Canon ending, you know, because like the Civil
- 54:31War thing, you know, like if the Civil War is the theme that
- 54:34we're going with, then yeah, 'cause you know, like everything
- 54:38that happened after the Reaper invasion and stuff like that is
- 54:40going to definitely fracture. Like what's left for the
- 54:42universe, especially what's left for the universe that may or may
- 54:46not have access to mass relays. You know, because like, it
- 54:52looked like the mass, the mass relay network was being
- 54:54destroyed, but we don't know for sure if every single mass relay
- 54:59was affected. But if the if it was to destroy
- 55:04anything one that automatically destroyed them all or would it
- 55:08not? See, that's that's what we don't
- 55:11know. Because the mass relays who
- 55:14created mass relays, it wasn't it wasn't the proteins.
- 55:17No, no, no, no it. No, it was the ones before the.
- 55:23It was the ones before the Prothean cycle.
- 55:25Yeah, yeah. Would that be the?
- 55:28Would that be the Guardians then like that?
- 55:30Like that be the Leviathans. It must, I mean.
- 55:32It must be right, I mean. Yeah, maybe.
- 55:37Maybe because the because the asari.
- 55:40The asari were barely crawling out of the the like.
- 55:43According to Javik, they're barely crawling out of the muck.
- 55:48The Reapers built the master. OK, so.
- 55:52It's. Yeah, it's hard to say.
- 55:56Well, that's, I mean, that's how the that's how the Reapers, I
- 55:59mean, that's how the Reapers wiped them out the first time,
- 56:02right? Like the Protheans out?
- 56:07Oh yeah, I think the Reapers instilled the plants the
- 56:11Protheans. So technically it was the
- 56:13Reapers, but the Protheans were the ones that made it.
- 56:17Yeah. And then the reapers you used to
- 56:20add against them. I got to, I got to, I got to get
- 56:25back into it because like whomever created the Citadel is
- 56:28the is responsible for the the mass relays.
- 56:34It was, it was. It was the cycle.
- 56:36It was before the the Protheans. I don't know, I guess.
- 56:48I guess. Mastery License by common
- 56:50beliefs were created not by the Proteins, but by the Reapers as
- 56:54David Hood by Sovereign. The proteins were merely one of
- 56:56many sentient species to find the Relays and the Citadel and
- 57:01take advantage of them. So Reapers.
- 57:08OK, you know, that might, that might, that might, that might
- 57:11track because the because the Reapers were an AI construct
- 57:14created by the created by the Leviathans, you know, to they
- 57:19were created by the Leviathans to solve a problem.
- 57:21And then somehow the reapers, you know, assume that you know,
- 57:24hey, like organic life is the is the real problem.
- 57:28Organic life creates synthetic life, synthetic life, synthetic
- 57:31life, you know, gets gets to evolve and organic life, you
- 57:34know, like takes measures to curb synthetic life.
- 57:37And then that starts that starts cycles of wars and stuff like
- 57:40that that, you know, would wipe out, would wipe out the would
- 57:43wipe out the the civilizations, not realizing the reapers
- 57:47themselves, not realizing that they are the next they are the
- 57:50the AI construct that's wiping out civilizations, even though
- 57:53like, you know, they're doing it to a point where it just resets
- 57:55everything. You know, they're not wiping
- 57:57everything out. They're just like, hey, like
- 57:59you're spacefaring and you got smart enough to create
- 58:02artificial intelligence. So guess what?
- 58:06Yeah. Well, they kind of, it's,
- 58:07according to this wiki, this, this relays and the Citadel were
- 58:11kind of used to trick people into advancing their
- 58:15civilization faster so that it would give them less time or it
- 58:20would, you know, shorten the time between reapings.
- 58:27Yeah. So it they kind of, you know,
- 58:29gave them the technology and said, here you go better
- 58:35yourself without the realization that they were doing it because
- 58:39that's how they, you know, survive.
- 58:45Yeah, I, I, I commend them for making new original story,
- 58:49though, you know, not doing a retread, you know, because I
- 58:53feel like, I feel like honestly, there is no way like the
- 58:57retelling of like the of any part of the trilogy would, you
- 59:02know, like would, would like do what they want to do.
- 59:05I don't, I don't, I don't believe it.
- 59:06I don't believe it would I feel like it is best that you create
- 59:09a brand new story, you know, or, or finish the story of
- 59:15Andromeda. But that's a hot take because I
- 59:17don't because I feel like more, I feel like I feel like the fan
- 59:20base is more is more connected to the trilogy than they are
- 59:24Andromeda, even though like guys like me want to see Andromeda's
- 59:28story finished. Yeah, I mean, I mean Andromeda
- 59:34story was finished. You got to read the comic book.
- 59:38Read. I have to read.
- 59:39No, let me stop. I read.
- 59:42I read. I read stuff all the time.
- 59:43Let me, let me stop. Let me not encourage it.
- 59:46Let me not encourage somebody to not pick up a book.
- 59:50All right. And to go back to Did the mass
- 59:53relays get destroyed? Yes, the mass relay.
- 59:56So were destroyed. But.
- 59:58So the Mass Relay network, Oh, they were rebuilt.
- 1:00:02Yeah, they. Survivors.
- 1:00:03Rebuilt them. You're, you're saying we were
- 1:00:05that smart to rebuild the Mass Relay network?
- 1:00:08Well, then they well, they, they reverse engineered like
- 1:00:12civilization reverse engineered technology from the mass relays
- 1:00:16to build their ships and stuff. So I mean, I would assume that
- 1:00:20that it exists somewhere, right? I have.
- 1:00:23A funny feeling though, like just just hear me out on this
- 1:00:26one. So there's going to be a civil
- 1:00:28war, right? But I also have a funny feeling
- 1:00:30that one of the one of the subplots of this is to find out
- 1:00:33what happened to the Normandy. Because they'll, they'll figure
- 1:00:37out, they'll figure out from all the debris and stuff that's
- 1:00:39scared by the Galaxy that there's been no galactic,
- 1:00:42there's been no debris from the, from the s S, from the S S from
- 1:00:45the Normandy SR1. And they're going to be like,
- 1:00:48OK, we need to find out what happens with Normandy.
- 1:00:50So that that's probably going to be set up for a future season.
- 1:00:56I don't know if they will do that for the TV show.
- 1:00:58I feel like the TV show is going to follow the route of Fallout
- 1:01:02because Fallout while very connected to the world, like has
- 1:01:07no characters from the Fallout world in it.
- 1:01:12So but it it's doing a great job like it.
- 1:01:16I I would be totally fine with a Mass Effect universe story,
- 1:01:21especially one set in after the events, kind of like how the
- 1:01:24fallout show is Fallout. I think it's like one of the
- 1:01:27most latest things events that's happening in the timeline.
- 1:01:35Yeah, I wonder if, I mean, I wonder if they're going to try
- 1:01:37to like lead this into the new game, right.
- 1:01:41Like, I don't know if that would be smart or not.
- 1:01:48I'm just, I'm just trying to think of like, how do you do
- 1:01:52this after the original trilogy? I think it would make more sense
- 1:01:55to like do a prequel almost in my opinion.
- 1:02:01This isn't the first time an EA franchise though has done has
- 1:02:04done expansion content like this though.
- 1:02:06I know. Remember Dead Space.
- 1:02:08Yeah, they did that anime and the and the rail shooter for Wii
- 1:02:11and the you. Know and the digital comics?
- 1:02:15Yep. Yeah, I'm just like, I feel like
- 1:02:18they like first the first contact war I feel like would
- 1:02:22have been interesting or like, I don't know, man.
- 1:02:28The the problem with the first contact war is like I I think if
- 1:02:31they did the first contact war it would be the same exact
- 1:02:33problem that the Halo TV show had.
- 1:02:36I just watched it. Started treading into game
- 1:02:38territory. And I really, I really liked the
- 1:02:40second season of Halo, by the way.
- 1:02:42Oh I love the second season of Halo.
- 1:02:48Yeah, You know, I, I like source material.
- 1:02:52I think they could benefit from, you know, what the material
- 1:02:57contains, but I would like to see original ideas instead of
- 1:03:01just retreading or retelling a story on a different medium.
- 1:03:07I think that's kind of the issue that The Witcher fell through.
- 1:03:10It was the Witcher started off retelling the stories, but then
- 1:03:14wanted to try and go in its own direction.
- 1:03:16But because, you know, they, it, it was too close to the stories
- 1:03:22to start off with, they couldn't.
- 1:03:24And that's why everyone lost interest in season 3 and season
- 1:03:274. It's because it went off the
- 1:03:30rails and just kind of became a timeline that just did not exist
- 1:03:35in the Witcher lore. Although I heard people really
- 1:03:40like I heard people like the four, the new season of The
- 1:03:43Witcher. I don't know, I've heard mixed
- 1:03:47honestly. People think it's still too far
- 1:03:51out there, that it has nothing to do with the actual Witcher
- 1:03:55story, and that all the things that people liked from like
- 1:04:00season 1 and season 2 have basically just turned into an
- 1:04:04action show. I mean the Witcher was half of
- 1:04:08Witcher sex and they got rid of that in season 1.
- 1:04:13Half of it is sex and they got rid of it.
- 1:04:17I mean, you know, you know what, never mind.
- 1:04:21I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I'm not going to add.
- 1:04:24Come on. Say.
- 1:04:26It maybe. Maybe Henry was tired of being
- 1:04:28viewed as a piece of meat. Maybe.
- 1:04:31I mean, Liam Hemsworth, if I had that.
- 1:04:33Body. I would not be tired of being
- 1:04:35viewed as a piece of meat. I have that body specifically to
- 1:04:39be viewed as a piece of meat. Apparently he's being eyed to
- 1:04:42play Batman and and the James Gunn first.
- 1:04:47Well, I mean, yeah. Well, you know, I actually read
- 1:04:49something about, I actually read something about that that, you
- 1:04:51know, James Gunn, James Gunn really, really thought that he
- 1:04:55was going to be able to to get to get get Warner Brothers
- 1:04:59signed on to like getting getting Cavill back into it.
- 1:05:03So like, so like he basically gave Cavill promises about like
- 1:05:06getting him, you know, he'd be back as Superman and then, you
- 1:05:08know, like WB didn't go with it and stuff like that.
- 1:05:11So he, so he's basically trying to find a way to make it up to
- 1:05:13him. Yeah, well, I, I don't, I I go
- 1:05:22either way. I don't really care.
- 1:05:23I don't really care. I didn't see Superman yet.
- 1:05:27I yeah, I. I the new guy's good.
- 1:05:29I like him. I keep putting it.
- 1:05:31I keep putting it off. I, I've been telling myself for
- 1:05:33weeks that I was going to see it, especially after, you know,
- 1:05:35after the finale of, of Peacemaker.
- 1:05:41What was the finale of Peacemaker?
- 1:05:43What happened? Well, there's, there's stuff
- 1:05:48going on in, in the last two episodes of, of the Peacemaker
- 1:05:50series that was heavily leaning into events from, from, from the
- 1:05:56Superman movie because like, like Lex Luthor showed up.
- 1:06:02Lex Luthor showed up and, and yeah, like talked about like the
- 1:06:05shenanigans that was going on in the movie.
- 1:06:06And I was like, whoa. And then I was like, whoa, did I
- 1:06:09miss something? You know?
- 1:06:10And I was like, oh, I haven't seen the Superman movie yet.
- 1:06:13Did they explicitly say that it takes place after the Superman
- 1:06:16movie? It's it's, it's heavily implied
- 1:06:19because basically, basically what?
- 1:06:24Was it, I remember they were trying to recruit or he was
- 1:06:27trying to be recruited into the Justice Gang?
- 1:06:30Lex Yeah, you know, or. Not Lex Peacemaker.
- 1:06:34Peacemaker. Well, yeah.
- 1:06:36Well, yeah, that was, well, that was the whole thing for Suicide
- 1:06:38Squad too. Like, well, the Suicide Squad, I
- 1:06:42guess you can call it the second movie.
- 1:06:45Like he was in the he was in the Task Force X, which, you know,
- 1:06:49you know, but the Injustice gang, that's, that's like,
- 1:06:52that's I, I, I guess. But you know, basically
- 1:06:57basically like when Lex Luthor shows up in like the in like the
- 1:07:01episodes of Peacemaker, basically the stuff that gets
- 1:07:05talked about is basically stuff that directly correlates the
- 1:07:08Superman movie that just came out.
- 1:07:12Yeah, I just. I just I haven't seen the actual
- 1:07:15Peacemaker show either season because I don't have HBO.
- 1:07:18It's. Really good.
- 1:07:20It's. But I do remember seeing.
- 1:07:22I do remember seeing previews where like Peacemaker sitting in
- 1:07:27a room behind like one way like a one way mirror and on the
- 1:07:31other side of the mirror is green Guy Gardner.
- 1:07:35Guy Gardner, hot girl. Fantastic.
- 1:07:37Yes, yeah, yeah. That that was in the very first
- 1:07:40episode of season 2. Yeah.
- 1:07:44Interesting. And the and in the finale of
- 1:07:46season 1, like like in the finale of season 1, like like,
- 1:07:50like, like a like Aquaman, Aquaman, The Flash and somebody
- 1:07:55else shows up in the finale of season 1, but they're more like
- 1:07:59Cambias. Superman, I thought.
- 1:08:00Right. Was it?
- 1:08:02Was it man? Well, they no, it was, it was
- 1:08:05like, I think they were like silhouettes of, of the Justice
- 1:08:09League. And I think, I think Aquaman was
- 1:08:11like the only one that showed up, like for real.
- 1:08:13Yeah, yeah. OK, because I know they replaced
- 1:08:19the silhouettes with the newer characters.
- 1:08:22Yeah, I mean, James Gunn did. James Gunn is based off of what
- 1:08:27I've seen. James Gunn has done a really
- 1:08:28good job with with with like, picking up the pieces of like
- 1:08:32that, that whole debacle that was DCEU.
- 1:08:37I have faith in his vision. I think it'll be, I mean, we
- 1:08:42still have more movies to happen here.
- 1:08:45I think the next one's Supergirl.
- 1:08:48Yeah, I just need them. I just need them to do something
- 1:08:50when the next season of. I just need them to do something
- 1:08:52with the next season of Young Justice.
- 1:08:53Like I really, and as a matter of fact, and as a matter of
- 1:08:56fact, if Young Justice gets to season 5, this needs to be the
- 1:08:59final season because I'm tired of the show going into limbo,
- 1:09:04you know, because like, because like some shake ups are
- 1:09:06happening, you know, like, like, you know, the, the, the Warner
- 1:09:10discovery, like merger happened and, and like, you know, like
- 1:09:13season 4, Justin a Young Justice and we're back in flux again.
- 1:09:17And I'm like, come on, this is like this is like this is like
- 1:09:20the end of season 2 all over again.
- 1:09:21We don't see the show again for like 10 years.
- 1:09:25Yeah. Yeah, and, and the only reason
- 1:09:28and the only reason why I'm like, you know what they need to
- 1:09:30go ahead and do this. They need to go ahead do Season
- 1:09:325 and end it at Season 5. Like in the series at season 5
- 1:09:37is because like they of course, they left us on a cliffhanger
- 1:09:40and Supergirl was coming. And I'm like, Supergirl is I, I,
- 1:09:45I want, I, I want to see the world where there's Superman,
- 1:09:49Superboy and Supergirl and, and, and young Jonathan Kent.
- 1:09:53I want to see that universe. You what?
- 1:09:56About crypto. That's a lot to ask Ron.
- 1:10:01I mean, I mean, but but in the Young Justice universe, Young
- 1:10:04Justice, by the way, is a cartoon for anyone that that's
- 1:10:06not paying attention or, or hasn't or doesn't even know what
- 1:10:09I'm talking about. Young Justice is the cartoon
- 1:10:10that basically started off following like following like
- 1:10:13the big supers and their sidekicks.
- 1:10:15So thank, so thank Robin, Robin, Miss Martian, you know, Kid
- 1:10:21Flash and all those people. You know, Superboy shows up,
- 1:10:24Aqualad, you know all that stuff.
- 1:10:26And then when Season 2 happens. The sidekicks also right that
- 1:10:31show Titan. To an extent, yeah.
- 1:10:33Titans was more like the was more like the live action
- 1:10:36version, which I also have to watch that 'cause I heard very
- 1:10:37good things about that one. But but wow, I'm being a nerd
- 1:10:42tonight, man, nerd. This, this is amazing.
- 1:10:45But but then season 2 happens of Young Justice and now like, you
- 1:10:50know, like there's been a five year time jump.
- 1:10:51So now most of the sidekicks are no longer sidekicks.
- 1:10:53They're actually part of the Justice League now, you know,
- 1:10:57they, while some of them still being the covert team, you know,
- 1:10:59and stuff like that. And yeah, it just, it just grew
- 1:11:03into its own thing and man, and like, it's been amazing seeing
- 1:11:06like all these all these characters who were essentially
- 1:11:09side characters in the in the comics universe becoming like,
- 1:11:12you know, mainstream storyline, storyline heroes and stuff like
- 1:11:15that. And yeah, so, yeah.
- 1:11:18So by the time we get to where we're at in season at the end of
- 1:11:21season 4, like Lois and Clark have actually have actually have
- 1:11:26Jonathan Kent now, like he's a toddler now and stuff like that.
- 1:11:29And we've got, and we got Superboy and they discovered and
- 1:11:32they, and and you know, like the, the, the dark sides, people
- 1:11:36found Cara Zorrell, like, floating around in space after
- 1:11:39the events of Krypton. And they brainwashed her.
- 1:11:43She's basically a fury. Yeah.
- 1:11:45So, yeah, I don't know a lot about the DC Comics universe,
- 1:11:50but the DC Animated universe. I know.
- 1:11:53I know a ton. Wow, to be fair.
- 1:12:01Thanks for allowing me to nerd out.
- 1:12:02I did enjoy the the the arrow verse when that was on.
- 1:12:09Which I need to get back on the arrow verse kind of when you say
- 1:12:12the arrow verse, you talking about all the shows contained in
- 1:12:14that universe or just. No, I'm talking about, I'm
- 1:12:17talking about all the shows, but mostly, mostly Arrow in the
- 1:12:21Flash and Supergirl were the ones that I kind of paid
- 1:12:23attention to. I know there were other ones
- 1:12:24later on, but those were the ones I really cared about.
- 1:12:28I felt like I had to watch the other ones though when the like
- 1:12:32the crossover episode started happening.
- 1:12:33I'm like, I don't know who these characters are.
- 1:12:36What do you mean? What do you mean I have to watch
- 1:12:38this? I don't want to watch this, so I
- 1:12:43want to see stressed out Oliver Queen cry over something because
- 1:12:49that's all that show started becoming.
- 1:12:54It's fine. It's not important.
- 1:13:00So Mass Effect show, huh? Excited.
- 1:13:04I'm excited. I'm excited.
- 1:13:06Yeah, I'll check it out. I have Amazon Prime.
- 1:13:09I'll check it out. Hey I I would love to see James
- 1:13:12Vega and it'd be nice if Freddie Prinze Junior who voiced him
- 1:13:16like plays the role. But that means Freddie Prinze
- 1:13:18Junior would have to pick up like £50, you know, of Mass.
- 1:13:22You know, and like and like de age himself by like 30 years.
- 1:13:27Yeah, yeah. Freddie Prince Junior does not
- 1:13:29look like Freddie Prince Junior anymore.
- 1:13:30Like he, he, he looks, he's very mature now, which is good.
- 1:13:33But he does not look like, like that, that that heartthrob that
- 1:13:36you know, everyone used to know him from like all those teen
- 1:13:38movies. I mean he's still a good looking
- 1:13:40dude. Oh, he's still a good looking
- 1:13:41dude. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:13:42I mean him. I mean him and his wife serve
- 1:13:44Michelle Gellar. You know, like they're, they
- 1:13:46look like a power couple. I mean, yeah.
- 1:13:50That's his wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they yeah,
- 1:13:53they are married. They.
- 1:13:55They started, they starred together and I know what you did
- 1:13:57last summer and they were in. Scooby-doo and they did the do.
- 1:14:04Yeah, Linda Cardellini's also in scooby-doo, which, you know, I'm
- 1:14:10just going to point that out. That's the only reason why I
- 1:14:13attempted to watch that movie. Guess it's not important, you
- 1:14:20know? What is important though,
- 1:14:22apparently, is Marvel's love fest with Insomniac.
- 1:14:28We should probably talk about that a little bit.
- 1:14:29I don't know if you guys saw that interview or not, but
- 1:14:33Marvel Games General Manager Heluk Mintez discussed the
- 1:14:39studio's deep partnership with Insomniac Games, calling it the
- 1:14:43model for Marvel's creative philosophy.
- 1:14:47After more than a decade of collaboration on Marvel Spider
- 1:14:50Man titles, Mintez said the teams have developed a natural
- 1:14:55shorthand built on shared values and trust, making Insomniac the
- 1:14:59clear choice to bring Marvel's Wolverine to life.
- 1:15:02He described the project as a culmination of their long term
- 1:15:05creative alignment, combining Insomniac's storytelling
- 1:15:07expertise and Marvel's commitment to authenticity and
- 1:15:10bold, character driven experiences.
- 1:15:13Also, it's worth noting that the Insomniac leaks have them
- 1:15:16working on a Marvel slash X-Men games through 2035 South.
- 1:15:28So, two more games. Yeah, well, I don't know,
- 1:15:32Insomniac pumps them out. They've been pumping them out
- 1:15:35pretty regularly. I guess.
- 1:15:38They did cancel all that Spider Man 2 DLC though.
- 1:15:42Oh yeah, yeah, I wasn't aware of that.
- 1:15:45Yeah, I was supposed to get. I didn't even know what was
- 1:15:47happening. I was supposed to get like I
- 1:15:49guess the the same amount as spider man 1 did.
- 1:15:54So it would have got it would have gotten 3 and possibly an
- 1:15:56expansion game. Well, it's still going to get
- 1:15:59the Venom expansion game apparently.
- 1:16:01OK. Which is the kind of thing
- 1:16:04they're working on alongside The Wolverine, I guess.
- 1:16:10But yeah, I mean, I, I think, I think The Wolverine game looks
- 1:16:15awesome. I was a little skeptical at
- 1:16:17first, but like after that trailer, I was like, OK, man, I
- 1:16:20need to like figure out how and when I'm going to play that
- 1:16:24because it looks, it looks really good.
- 1:16:27You're going to buy PlayStation and you're going to play it on
- 1:16:32release day. I mean I'll replace my
- 1:16:34PlayStation eventually but I just don't really need it right
- 1:16:38now but. You're going to take time off
- 1:16:41and you're going to play this game and then you're going to be
- 1:16:44on a games cast or a spoiler cast about it.
- 1:16:46I mean, I'm not going to take time off to play it, but I will
- 1:16:49definitely. Yes, you are.
- 1:16:50You're going to be a gamer here, Corey.
- 1:16:51We are turning you into a gamer, and a gamer takes time off on
- 1:16:56games that they're really looking forward to.
- 1:16:58Yeah, I haven't done that in a long time.
- 1:17:01I should probably do that more often, huh?
- 1:17:06You should. But children make that kind of
- 1:17:09impossible. That's why you take the time
- 1:17:11off. Your children will be in school
- 1:17:15or should be. I don't know have have your wife
- 1:17:18take them somewhere. Yeah, OK.
- 1:17:21I'm sure she'd be real thrilled to say, you know, Hey, will you
- 1:17:25take the kids somewhere while I play this game?
- 1:17:29Yes. You'll be fine.
- 1:17:31I mean, you would you would do it for her, yeah.
- 1:17:40Yeah, I guess I don't know, we'll see.
- 1:17:43But how do we, how are we feeling about Insomniac
- 1:17:47basically being Marvel's pet studio at this point?
- 1:17:52Hey. Hey, I'm here for it.
- 1:17:56Let me ask you a question. OK, When when Marvel Spider Man
- 1:18:00came out on PS4, did you think, did you think at that point like
- 1:18:06any game could have captured that same type of magic that the
- 1:18:09old Activision Spider Man games had done?
- 1:18:13And I see the old Activision ones, I'm talking about the ones
- 1:18:15in the PS1 Xbox era era. You mean like the never soft?
- 1:18:21Man 2 wasn't bad. I think.
- 1:18:27I think. Spider Man 2 and Ultimate Spider
- 1:18:29Man were both pretty good in my opinion.
- 1:18:32We're talking about the ones on PS3 at that, but well, PS2 and
- 1:18:34PS3 at that point, right? Yeah, I.
- 1:18:37Mean the movie tie in game is what I like.
- 1:18:40Spider Man 2, the movie tie in game is the one I usually think
- 1:18:42of. OK.
- 1:18:44I, I was, I didn't really, I didn't really like them.
- 1:18:46As a matter of fact, I'll be honest with you, I did not like,
- 1:18:48I did not like 90% of all the movie tie in stuff that was
- 1:18:51plaguing PS2 and three back in those days.
- 1:18:54Well, yeah, most of it was bad, but I mean like the swinging and
- 1:18:56stuff felt is like what? Yeah, Spider Man really reminded
- 1:19:00me of and like what I hope this reminds me of.
- 1:19:03I don't know if you guys played Raven's X-Men Origins Wolverine
- 1:19:07game, but I hope I. Remember that game?
- 1:19:10I've. Heard of it?
- 1:19:11I hope that that gives me the same.
- 1:19:13I hope that gives the same. I hope this gives off the same
- 1:19:16kind of vibes because that game was really great.
- 1:19:20Like it was way better than it had any right to be.
- 1:19:23But also like the game got delayed because the movie got
- 1:19:27delayed. So they had time to like Polish
- 1:19:33it, but like, it was really cool and like, I don't know, I, I,
- 1:19:38I'm a big fan of Wolverine. I'm not the biggest Spider man
- 1:19:41fan, but I really do like X-Men and, and Wolverine.
- 1:19:45And so like, whatever they do, I, I'm kind of bought in at this
- 1:19:49point for those characters. Also, I'm kind of shocked they
- 1:19:56went with the full on yellow suit.
- 1:19:59I mean, I know they were probably going to at some point
- 1:20:02eventually, but like as the main suit, I'm kind of happy that
- 1:20:05they did that. I thought they were going to do
- 1:20:08some kind of like Fox movie, you know, We're just going to have
- 1:20:12Logan dressed in like normal street clothes and, I don't
- 1:20:16know, smoking cigars and stuff. They could have gone the spider
- 1:20:20man around and given him a whole new costume.
- 1:20:24Or a whole new face. You know, the white spider
- 1:20:28costume is like, pretty cool. Yeah, I like the I, I, I think
- 1:20:34the Spider Man out costume is pretty cool.
- 1:20:37I like, I like the Miles Morales suit too.
- 1:20:41I think that's pretty cool. And the Adidas one.
- 1:20:43No, not the Adidas one, not the one that you get, not the one at
- 1:20:46the end of the yeah. Apparently the the actor hated
- 1:20:53that one too. He's like, no, Miles would not
- 1:20:56wear. This I know.
- 1:20:57I heard that too, but yeah, you. Would wear the Bodega 1 though.
- 1:21:05Do you, do you think they'll go, do you think they'll get through
- 1:21:09like the X-Men games that they were talking about in like the
- 1:21:12Venom game? And like, what does that even
- 1:21:14look like at this point? Venom I Would I I feel like they
- 1:21:20have to be struggling with Venom, especially since the
- 1:21:23actors passed away. Yeah, but they they recorded
- 1:21:26like I guess something like 80% of the lines he recorded weren't
- 1:21:30used in the in Spider Man 2. So like they must have recorded
- 1:21:34lines for the Venom game? Also, like, I don't like, I
- 1:21:42don't know, I, I, I wonder how that would just tie in to the
- 1:21:47spider verse right now. Like I feel like Venom had his
- 1:21:51place and now that story is done, we need to move on to the
- 1:21:55next one. Green Goblin.
- 1:21:59Is the Venom story over though? I don't.
- 1:22:06Maybe he'll come back in some form, but I feel like, I don't
- 1:22:10know, I feel like he would be the side, a side character now.
- 1:22:17Yeah. Kind of like how Mr. Mr.
- 1:22:20Negative became a side character.
- 1:22:23Doctor Octavius, I don't know exactly how big of a role he's
- 1:22:28going to have in the third one, but clearly the third one's set
- 1:22:31up so that it's Norman Osbourne. Yeah.
- 1:22:35Yeah. Yeah, it's clearly set up for
- 1:22:37that. I don't, I mean what?
- 1:22:42I mean what, what else would you even do at that point, right?
- 1:22:44I mean they clearly that end credits scene is clearly set up
- 1:22:47for that. Then they killed off like all
- 1:22:51the other villains. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:22:56I mean, you still have, you still have Cletus.
- 1:22:58Cletus could be around, sure. Carnage.
- 1:23:06Yeah, I'm, I'm just trying to think of what other villains
- 1:23:09there would even be this point. I mean, I guess you could start
- 1:23:12pulling in the Miles Morales villains, like those versions of
- 1:23:17the characters or even other Marvel villains at this point.
- 1:23:25But I, I guess it all depends on which villains are in Wolverine
- 1:23:30too, 'cause they all take place, This takes place in the same
- 1:23:33universe, apparently. So I'm.
- 1:23:36Yeah, they wouldn't use the Spider Man villains though I
- 1:23:38feel they would stick more with. Obviously they'd stick with The
- 1:23:42Wolverine centric ones like Silver Samurai and.
- 1:23:46Sabretooth. I'm sure Sabretooth will
- 1:23:48probably be the main focal point of this first one, right?
- 1:23:54Yeah, because I if this game doesn't take, I think the second
- 1:23:57game will take place in Japan. That'll be cool.
- 1:23:59That would be cool. Wolverine game set in Japan and
- 1:24:06that would be Silver Samurai, obviously.
- 1:24:08But then like, do you lead it into an X-Men game?
- 1:24:12Like man, this is just so they're starting to do the the,
- 1:24:17the Marvel gaming cinematic universe thing and it's not it's
- 1:24:22not lining up for me. I don't know.
- 1:24:24I don't like this. I don't like this, especially
- 1:24:28because we know the X-Men games exist now.
- 1:24:32I mean, I'm not complaining, I mean like.
- 1:24:34You would have to hold off a lot of those X-Men characters for
- 1:24:38the X-Men game, right? No Magneto, No Juggernaut.
- 1:24:45And like will the will the X-Men games be multiplayer?
- 1:24:47Like will you get to pick which X-Men you are or they all have
- 1:24:50their own missions? Like how does that even work?
- 1:24:53Oh man, you would have to pick like a couple X-Men and focus on
- 1:24:58them right? Like you would if it's a single
- 1:25:00player game. Like you would just have to pick
- 1:25:02like, oh you can be Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine and Gambit.
- 1:25:09I don't know. But that good, good point.
- 1:25:16It worked well for Spider Man 2 because they essentially had the
- 1:25:19same power. Yeah, I mean.
- 1:25:21So traversal would be kind of crazy for.
- 1:25:25You would have to design the levels around their powers,
- 1:25:27right? I mean that I assume you would
- 1:25:29have to do that especially because like Storm, Storm and
- 1:25:32Rogue can fly, right? And like Cyclops.
- 1:25:36Wolverine could climb, at least. Yeah.
- 1:25:39But. Yeah, I don't know.
- 1:25:43It's going to get weird. I mean at least though for
- 1:25:46mission wise, like everyone can have their own like mission in
- 1:25:51it, like kind of how they did in Spider Man 2 where like there
- 1:25:54were specific mild Morales missions and specific Peter
- 1:25:58Parker missions, right? But yeah, in terms of having an
- 1:26:04open world, is Wolverine supposed to be open world?
- 1:26:07No, it's level base. OK, so that's all right.
- 1:26:10So maybe that's how you fix it. You just make X-Men level based.
- 1:26:13Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's probably I mean, that's just
- 1:26:18probably going to have to be how you have to do it at this point.
- 1:26:25I don't know. I just, I hope I, I don't, I
- 1:26:27think this Wolverine game looks awesome.
- 1:26:30I my concern is how do they handle this, you know, going
- 1:26:34forward trying to merge these universes?
- 1:26:38So I don't know, I think I, I mean, I have faith in the
- 1:26:46Insomniac to make great games. It's the merging of the
- 1:26:51universes and having multiple characters to focus on is what
- 1:26:54I'm kind of looking at now and being like, how do you, how are
- 1:26:57they going to do that, you know? So any final thoughts on the
- 1:27:03Marvel Gamer Matic universe they seem to be building here?
- 1:27:10Yeah, you know, I'm fine with Insomniac doing it.
- 1:27:13I'm fine with other people doing it.
- 1:27:15You know I'm I'm sure the the Captain America Black Panther
- 1:27:22Nazi game is Gary fine Sure the Blade one will do fine too if it
- 1:27:29over comes out I. Forgot Blade was in development
- 1:27:32too, jeez. Guardians of the Galaxy did just
- 1:27:38fine. It it Guardians of the Galaxy
- 1:27:41was awesome. That game was great.
- 1:27:44If you haven't played it, you should play it everybody.
- 1:27:46It's like 5 bucks all the time. Idos Montreal shout out.
- 1:27:54Great game. Great game.
- 1:27:56Way better than that Avengers game.
- 1:28:00That you put a lot of hours into.
- 1:28:02Me. Yeah.
- 1:28:04No, I didn't. You played a, you played a ton
- 1:28:06there. I played through the story.
- 1:28:08That's all I did. That's a ton.
- 1:28:10I mean fair because you have. To get through the story too.
- 1:28:16I played way more of that game than I should have, I'll give
- 1:28:19you that. The single player parts of the
- 1:28:23game were good though. Like Kamala's story was cool and
- 1:28:27then they just ruined it by making it a loot game.
- 1:28:32And they turned Modoc from a comical villain to, you know,
- 1:28:36one that was actually kind of serious.
- 1:28:39And then they reversed out in the movie or in the Ant Man
- 1:28:42movie and made him comical again.
- 1:28:44Yeah, what a ridiculous movie that was.
- 1:28:49Yep, man. Good times.
- 1:28:54All right, let's let's do some 20 questions.
- 1:28:59We're going to we're going to play a game of 20 questions here
- 1:29:01and you guys have 20 questions to guess the game that I have
- 1:29:06picked out and I hope you don't get it because then I'll feel
- 1:29:12really good about myself so. All right, Pat, we're let this
- 1:29:16one, we're going to kick this one in the ass.
- 1:29:18Questioning begin. We're going to get in.
- 1:29:23Under 13 yes or no questions are these.
- 1:29:27They are all yes or no questions.
- 1:29:30OK. So we can't have you be like, is
- 1:29:33it this, this or this? It has to be, yes.
- 1:29:40That wasn't a question, by the way.
- 1:29:43I I I I figured I got that. All right, I've got, I've got
- 1:29:47pad and paper ready to like start counting our counting our,
- 1:29:50our, our, our questions or misses.
- 1:29:52To this guy, he's taking it serious.
- 1:29:55Pat, you go first. You go first.
- 1:30:05Did this game come out after PS2 era?
- 1:30:12After the PS2 era. Yes, after the PS2 for the P.
- 1:30:18OK. Yes, after the PS2.
- 1:30:31So that cuts down your generation, but or that cuts
- 1:30:34half the games? Yeah, yeah.
- 1:30:45OK, so after PS2 era, OK, so we're in that we're in a
- 1:30:49slippery slope now. So my question is, was it
- 1:30:53console exclusive or was it or was it on the OR was it was it
- 1:30:57console and PC? No.
- 1:31:00It has to be. Asked yes or no.
- 1:31:02So was it console exclusive? OK.
- 1:31:04Was it console exclusive? Was it console exclusive
- 1:31:07initially or was it console exclusive?
- 1:31:10If it wound up being, if it wound up being console
- 1:31:13exclusive, I mean, if it wound up becoming exclusive on on PCI,
- 1:31:16don't really care. Like, was it?
- 1:31:18Was it initially? Was it initially a console
- 1:31:20exclusive game? When it yes, yes, just trying to
- 1:31:26help you out. Just trying to give you trying
- 1:31:30to give you a little. I have a funny feeling I might
- 1:31:33already know what it is. You do.
- 1:31:37Yeah, yeah, I will. I will know for sure.
- 1:31:40I will know for sure when it's my turn to ask ask another
- 1:31:42question. I will.
- 1:31:49I don't know. I don't know if you're going to
- 1:31:50get this or not. I think you will.
- 1:31:57Is this game developed by a first party?
- 1:31:59No. OK, being real studious over
- 1:32:11there taking notes. OK, Yeah, yeah, All right.
- 1:32:17Was this game? Was this game produced by
- 1:32:20Rockstar? No.
- 1:32:22OK. All right.
- 1:32:23Then I'm back to the drawing board on that one.
- 1:32:30Council exclusive post. Also, was this game rated?
- 1:32:39Oh, go ahead. Was this game rated done for
- 1:32:42mature? Yes.
- 1:32:47Also, if you if you guessed the game before you're 20 questions
- 1:32:50are up, you automatically lose. What the hell?
- 1:32:54What? If you.
- 1:32:57If you. Take a guess.
- 1:32:58If we throw, if we throw our name, if we throw our.
- 1:33:00I was like, what are we talking about here?
- 1:33:06OK, so as PS2 era initially a council exclusive third party
- 1:33:10not produced by Rockstar, it has an M rating third party after
- 1:33:19PS2 era. OK, so we need to get a little
- 1:33:24more specific with the with the timing that this game was
- 1:33:27released. OK, so.
- 1:33:33I believe in you, Lauren and Pat.
- 1:33:36I believe in you too, Pat. I'm.
- 1:33:48I'm thinking here I'm. Thinking here, get a timer out
- 1:33:51for these questions, no? No, no, no.
- 1:33:53We, we, we got plenty of time here.
- 1:33:55Hold on, hold on. We got plenty of time here.
- 1:33:57You don't need to. You don't need to rush this just
- 1:33:59yet. I'm not.
- 1:34:02I'm not rushing anybody. All right, Was this was this
- 1:34:12game? Was this game released after
- 1:34:15after the year 2010? Yes.
- 1:34:21OK was this game released on the Xbox?
- 1:34:30No. So not on Xbox.
- 1:34:36Nope, I had to double check that release date.
- 1:34:40I knew it was after 2010, but I want to make sure I know what it
- 1:34:43is in case you ask another release date question.
- 1:34:45OK release after 2010 now on the Xbox.
- 1:34:49So that leaves that leaves Sony Nintendo rated M.
- 1:34:58Echo. I need to frame this question a
- 1:35:09proper, a proper way 'cause I'm I think I'm back, I think I'm
- 1:35:12back in the game here. I think, I think I'm back in the
- 1:35:16game here, but I need to ask this question in in a in the
- 1:35:19right way so. Better ask it correctly, Leron.
- 1:35:24You never know did. This game's did the game's main
- 1:35:28character have a sidekick character with a a companion
- 1:35:33character with them for the majority of the game?
- 1:35:39Sidekick character, like as a as like a character that helped you
- 1:35:46out in combat. That type of sidekick, no.
- 1:35:49Yeah, no. No.
- 1:35:52OK. So no, no MPC sidekick, I'll
- 1:36:00just put it like that. OK.
- 1:36:03All right, Pat, that was that was question #8.
- 1:36:16Was this a PlayStation exclusive?
- 1:36:19No. All right, that means it was
- 1:36:22Nintendo. Rated M Nintendo game around.
- 1:36:27After 2010. It was ready to M and it was on
- 1:36:36Nintendo. Most rated M games were horror
- 1:36:40titles. So was this a survival?
- 1:36:41Was this a horror title or survival war?
- 1:36:44No, Nope. OK, not horror.
- 1:36:49OK. Was this a platformer?
- 1:36:53No. All right, that was question #11
- 1:36:59not platformer. It's not a conquer.
- 1:37:03Yeah, not horror, not platformer on Nintendo, no sidekick
- 1:37:10characters released after 2010 M rating.
- 1:37:18There are no Rockstar games on on Nintendo.
- 1:37:21So Yep, third party. It was initially a console
- 1:37:28release and then wound up. All right, was the was the hero
- 1:37:57character of female? Yes.
- 1:37:59Female hero, OK. I think I'm back in it now.
- 1:38:09He's back in it, he says. I.
- 1:38:11Think I'm back in it. Back in it, he says.
- 1:38:24How to word this without making it the gang?
- 1:38:28Yeah, this is, this would be the 13th question, by the way, the
- 1:38:31one you're getting ready to ask. Yeah.
- 1:38:33OK. So we still have we.
- 1:38:36Still have. We still have 8 right now.
- 1:38:41Was this female a witch? Yes.
- 1:38:47I was already Pat. You want to take a stab at it
- 1:38:49because I already because like, because I was already going in
- 1:38:52that direction. But you know what?
- 1:38:54Hold on hold. On it's just the second game in
- 1:38:57that series. Yes.
- 1:39:04OK. There's a Bayonetta 2.
- 1:39:05It sure is. Sure is Bayonetta 2 there?
- 1:39:10We go, there we go, there we go. Released on September 20th, 2014
- 1:39:18on the Wii U in Japan. And.
- 1:39:22October 2014 in North America it later.
- 1:39:27Under 13 guesses, but it wound up being 15.
- 1:39:30It later came to the Nintendo Switch in a dual pack with
- 1:39:35Bayonetta 1 and then yeah, talk about a series that needs a
- 1:39:42switch to up update cheese. But yeah, band of the two third
- 1:39:51highest rated game on the on the Wii U at this point.
- 1:39:55So good for them, good for Platinum, and good for us
- 1:40:01because we made it to the end of the episode, everybody.
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- 1:40:06this episode of the Boss Rush Podcast episode 300.
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- 1:40:29Ron, you look like you want to say something.
- 1:40:31You leaned in like you wanted to say something.
- 1:40:35La Ron just wants those 1K Subs. No, y'all, Y'all missed it.
- 1:40:40Y'all missed it. Talk to me again.
- 1:40:41We hit 1500. You know, actually, I'll be
- 1:40:43nice. Talk to me again.
- 1:40:44We hit 1100. I don't think so.
- 1:40:49Give y'all some, give y'all some fanservice.
- 1:40:51Fanservice. I kind of want to play bayonet a
- 1:40:53three now since I haven't fully beat that one.
- 1:40:56I I haven't even started that game.
- 1:40:58I heard it runs really well on the switch too because it has an
- 1:41:02uncapped frame rate. Well, it's first party, so it's
- 1:41:05first party. So is it a?
- 1:41:06Is it part of the sale? I don't know helpful.
- 1:41:11I really I really don't know the answer to that to be honest with
- 1:41:13you. That's more.
- 1:41:15Of a. 2nd party is this the E shop sale or is this Is this the
- 1:41:18E shop I? Think it's a physical, I think
- 1:41:19it's a physical game sale because it says at participating
- 1:41:22retailers. But Best Buy is not
- 1:41:26participating apparently because I looked at looked them up and
- 1:41:29they are not on sale at Best Buy so.
- 1:41:32Then the, then the fuck. OK, whatever.
- 1:41:34I don't know anyways. That's why that's why I usually
- 1:41:36buy all my games at if I buy physical nowadays.
- 1:41:39Yeah, I know. Cuz target, I'm sorry, target
- 1:41:43selection is ass. Yeah, target's not not great.
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