Latest / Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games / Castlevania, God of War, Metal Gear, & Kena from the State of Play
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- 0:24Hello everybody, welcome back to the Buster's podcast, a great
- 0:26place to play games and be better and one of your hosts,
- 0:28Corey Deer get alongside me as always is the PC must race
- 0:30himself or on Dawkins? Hey everybody, let's pop in.
- 0:33Hey, Le Ron. Bye.
- 0:35What's up? No sleeves?
- 0:36No sleeves today, No sleeves February.
- 0:38Nice The. Memo apparently I I know I
- 0:40didn't I didn't want I didn't want them to riot the last last
- 0:43time I had that very nice snug cozy shirt and I I loved it but
- 0:47you know like I was like if I do if I do sleeves 2 weeks in a row
- 0:50people are going to get mad they're.
- 0:53Going to come after you. Speaking of speaking to come in,
- 0:56also here is PK power Pat Klein. Wow, coming with.
- 1:01OK. She's coming with power.
- 1:05That is the name of my sex tape. Oh God not.
- 1:10Wearing sleeves too, because Lorad told us to not wear
- 1:14sleeves. He did.
- 1:17He did. And Corey?
- 1:20Corey, just go ahead and just go ahead.
- 1:22What do you want close off the? Camera and get a get a muscle
- 1:26cert or a tank top and come right back no.
- 1:29They're all the way upstairs and I don't like them.
- 1:32Get get your steps in. I'm good.
- 1:37I got enough into that. Round one to see my ink so.
- 1:40Yeah, I did. We're showing off some of that
- 1:42ink. It's still, it's still in the
- 1:44progress of being made, but I've just recently did like this side
- 1:48about two weeks ago. We end up doing the.
- 1:53Inside here in about another 2 weeks and hopefully we might
- 2:00even start some color that's. Something very nice.
- 2:05Yep. Nice.
- 2:08I I do not have any color. I'm just I'm wearing, I'm
- 2:12wearing all black as usual, but that's fine.
- 2:17It's OK, It's fine. Never let go of your e-mail
- 2:20phase. I never.
- 2:22I never was. That's the thing.
- 2:24I. You should be.
- 2:30It's good. Yeah, I like it.
- 2:32I don't, I don't know, man. They're, they're sad and mopey
- 2:36all the time and well, I guess we I am too.
- 2:39So sounds like you. Fair enough.
- 2:47Damn, damn, Pat. You're already you're, you're
- 2:49wow, like 3 minutes in, you're already on the roll.
- 2:52He walked into that. I did.
- 2:54I did. My ex-girlfriend did all did
- 2:58want to Pierce my eyebrow and my lip at one point, but I didn't
- 3:04let her so. I don't think I could do that.
- 3:08Yeah, I don't know. Especially the lip.
- 3:12I don't know. Maybe I don't.
- 3:14Know maybe, but the lip, yeah, that, that seems like it hurt
- 3:19and I'd probably just be like, you know, playing with playing
- 3:22with it, like moving it around and just like trying to chew on
- 3:26it. Yeah, plus, like, what if it
- 3:29gets ripped out and it's just gonna, it's gonna hurt.
- 3:32I'm not. Dude, have you ever seen the
- 3:35The? Well, you probably haven't seen
- 3:37the movie Final Destination. I've seen it.
- 3:39I've seen enough. The Bloodlines one has, yeah,
- 3:44has a guy with a lot of piercings and let me tell you,
- 3:48they they did some things with those piercings in that movie.
- 3:52Yeah, the latest one. Yep.
- 3:56Yeah, I don't, by the way. By the way, you know how I know
- 4:03my phone's been listening to me. Speaking of scary movies,
- 4:07somebody brought something up at work the other day and they were
- 4:10talking about Oh, we at at sometimes when I do get a small
- 4:16break, we go into the to our meeting room and play this movie
- 4:20game called movie grid, which we should probably play on that.
- 4:23We could probably play on this show at one point.
- 4:25I think that'd be cool to play on the on the show on the live
- 4:30show. But basically what it'll do is
- 4:34give you like 3 categories and three actors and you have to
- 4:38find like a movie that matches that category with each actor.
- 4:43And like the lower the percentage, the higher your
- 4:46score. Like oh this many people, you
- 4:50know like 2% of people pick this movie so your score will get be
- 4:54higher. But you know, 30% of people pick
- 4:57this movie so your score would be lower.
- 5:00They were like horror movies attached to some of these actors
- 5:03and like it was picking up the movies that we were talking
- 5:07about. Now all I see are like really
- 5:09disturbing horror movies clips on like on Facebook, Like the
- 5:14Facebook reels that come through are like horror movie related.
- 5:17And I'm like, I don't like horror movies.
- 5:21I don't want to see this. Corey, we all live in a horror
- 5:24movie, so yeah, you gotta get used to it.
- 5:31Yeah, well, you know, I'm still trying to get used to everything
- 5:35else. So anyways, Speaking of
- 5:40everything else, we're here. Talk about video games.
- 5:44Let's let's. Anybody been doing anything
- 5:48interesting with their life? Pat, I'm going your way first.
- 5:50What playing or doing or watching?
- 5:53Anything interesting to me different?
- 5:55Well, you know, because of the yeah, I've actually been really,
- 6:00I have been really working hard to make sure that I don't try to
- 6:04buy like every new thing that comes on the market like I it
- 6:09is, it is a test of patience and of will and just telling myself
- 6:15that eventually this game is going to be like 30% off at some
- 6:20point and I can get it done. Even though they may be getting
- 6:25some pretty good reviews. But there are some games that I
- 6:30do pick up because of the fact I need to like Yakuza.
- 6:33Kawami 3 did just come out massive Yakuza fan.
- 6:38So of course, you know, this is one of those games that I'm OK
- 6:44and putting up on the front and, you know, playing it right when
- 6:47it comes out. So how is it?
- 6:52It's you know what, it's not bad.
- 6:56It's not the most amazing game out there.
- 6:59Like it. It feels of a lesser quality
- 7:01than some of the other Yakuza games, maybe because of the
- 7:05voice acting. I'm I am playing it on English
- 7:08this time because it's the first time you can actually play this
- 7:10game in English. And here you kind of has a very
- 7:16he's kind of monotonous and doesn't like put a whole lot of
- 7:20emotion into his voice, which is great when he goes into dad mode
- 7:24because this game has a very big theme on family.
- 7:29What what's happening now is that he's officially out of the
- 7:34Yakuza and he is a he's the head of an orphanage of kids.
- 7:42So he's taking care of like a whole bunch of little kids and
- 7:46you know it there. There's some really good, like,
- 7:50themes that come up and like, touching moments.
- 7:55For example, there's a scene where one of the girls was
- 7:59missing. She turned out to be on the
- 8:01beach, and she was upset because someone at school, you know,
- 8:05made fun of her because she didn't have parents.
- 8:08And Kiryu sat her down and, you know, explained his past, about
- 8:12how he didn't have parents when he was young too, and that the
- 8:17people that meant the most to him weren't even related to him
- 8:21like the person who raised him. And he then, you know, concluded
- 8:26to the girl that, hey, you know, just because I'm not your blood
- 8:30doesn't mean that I'm not your family.
- 8:34And just because you're, you know, brothers and sisters here
- 8:37at the orphanage aren't related to you by blood, doesn't mean
- 8:40that they aren't your family. These are the people that care
- 8:43for you and that, you know, they want you to be happy.
- 8:48And it's like, this is this is good stuff.
- 8:50This is this is one of the things I absolutely love about
- 8:53the Accusa series is that it does have amazing moments of
- 8:58like it those tender moments. It it does tell a very good
- 9:03story. But then when you start doing
- 9:07the side stuff, that's when you get the batshit crazy things
- 9:09going on. One of the side one of the big
- 9:12side missions in this game is a you become the leader of an all
- 9:17female motorcycle club motorcycle gang, sorry, and your
- 9:23job is to stop this takeover of another motorcycle gang from
- 9:30basically taking over Okinawa, Okinawa as well as the whole the
- 9:36entirety of Japan. Apparently, you know, so it's
- 9:41it's a little bit off there. Some of the other side quests
- 9:45involves like fighting a guy in a turtle costume who you know is
- 9:50super fast. He also goes by Master Commie.
- 9:55That must mean turtle or something.
- 9:58I don't know. But you know, the game does have
- 10:02some controversial things going on with that.
- 10:05It's kind of had a history when they first announced it that
- 10:09they announced. One of the voice actors in the
- 10:12game is actually a known sex offender in Japan.
- 10:15Is that is that what happened with four also?
- 10:19I don't know what happened with four, unfortunately, that might
- 10:24be before my time before I got into the series.
- 10:27And I haven't played 4, but this one had someone like, it's like
- 10:32it's photographic proof this guy assaulted women.
- 10:35Oh, and yeah. And they still hired him.
- 10:40Like there was a whole like campaign to try and get him
- 10:44removed and they, the company finally acknowledged the guy,
- 10:50but they acknowledged him in almost a promoting way by
- 10:53saying, oh, this actor is great. You know, the he, the way he
- 10:57portrays his character is just so creepy.
- 11:00Like you meet this guy in real life.
- 11:02He's just so creepy. And he just portrays that into
- 11:05the character that he's, you know, playing.
- 11:08It's like, I don't know if this is quite the flex that you
- 11:12really want this to be. Yeah.
- 11:17So that it it it's kind of marred in that history.
- 11:21Apparently there's they also kind of reckoned some stuff in
- 11:24the game as well as this game was a very long game for the
- 11:30when the original was, they had well over 100 side quests and
- 11:34apparently they cut it down to like 30 something.
- 11:38So they they trimmed a little bit of the fat.
- 11:40And so some people are like, I don't know if that's a good
- 11:43thing. Personally, I think that's all
- 11:46right because there were too many side quests to begin with.
- 11:50Well, plus they're on plus they're on like the eighth game
- 11:53with like just as many spin offs and I'm sure to get people into
- 11:57the series. They know people are replaying
- 11:59these games, you know, or playing these games for the
- 12:02first time because they're just re releasing on modern
- 12:05platforms. So.
- 12:07Yeah. No, I I remember trying out
- 12:10Yakuza 3 after I'd be Kwami 2 several years back and going
- 12:15from Kwami 2 to Yakuza 3 was really hard because Three I
- 12:20believe was still a PlayStation Two game.
- 12:24Maybe it might have been like early generation PlayStation 3,
- 12:28but it was hard to look at. The controls were kinda iffy it
- 12:35it, it didn't feel as good as like the later Yakuza's have
- 12:40felt. So Kwami 3 is refreshing to me,
- 12:45and hopefully I can go from three and then actually move on
- 12:48to four and hope that that one's a little bit better.
- 12:53Are you going to play the remaster version of four or are
- 12:55you going to wait for the kwami version?
- 12:57Even though they kind of came out and said they aren't going
- 12:58to do kwami four and five, which is like you've come this far,
- 13:02you might as well might as well. The way what they meant is that
- 13:06it wouldn't necessarily be a Kwame game, it would be a new
- 13:09series or something. And I think that's kind of what
- 13:13they were trying to do with if if the rumors are true and how
- 13:16they Recon three. I think that might be the way
- 13:19they're going is that it might be kind of a redirection with
- 13:23some of the original. Because in the history they
- 13:28tried Yakuza 4, they tried to move on to a new protagonist in
- 13:33Yakuza 4, but they still had Kuru in it.
- 13:37And then Yakuza 5 I think had four different characters that
- 13:42you could play as in that game, like 4 different stories.
- 13:46So they had tried to get rid of Kuru.
- 13:50In fact, Yakuza 6 was really supposed to be the last one with
- 13:53Kuru in it and that's why they moved to Seven with with Ichiban
- 13:59Kasuga. But they also brought in Kiryu
- 14:04there and that's why we now have him in #8 which also they are
- 14:10tried to get rid of him by giving him cancer.
- 14:16Can't, can't beat that dragon. No, that's, I mean, you can try
- 14:20to beat that dragon, but man, that Dragons just gonna bite
- 14:23back. Yeah.
- 14:25I never, I never, I never got into Yakuza the way like the way
- 14:28like I guess I should have, because I mean, like everybody,
- 14:31everybody basically flocked the flocked the Yakuza series
- 14:34because like it was filling a void that shouldn't be left
- 14:36behind. And I just never I just never
- 14:39quite saw it that way. So I just never got into it.
- 14:41And now it's like this long expansive, like, you know, like
- 14:44like like game, you know, series, which is, which is not
- 14:47bad, you know, like I looked at I looked at it and you know,
- 14:50like it's very it's very entertaining.
- 14:51Like I've watched people's let's plays and walkthroughs and all
- 14:53that stuff and it's very entertaining.
- 14:55I do like I do like to get the like a dragon, like the actual
- 14:59like a dragon game. They can't before they
- 15:01rebranded. The whole thing is like a
- 15:03dragon, you know? Yep.
- 15:06Yeah, Now that was the original Japanese.
- 15:09Yeah. Yeah, I know.
- 15:11Yeah. They thought it was a good
- 15:14chance to rebrand it because it was a whole new hero.
- 15:17So the Like a Dragon series. Well, now I can't really say
- 15:21that because they also called the samurai one Like a Dragon,
- 15:26Ishan, and they called the cure you like a dragon.
- 15:30The man who? Erased his name.
- 15:34Yeah, the man who erased his name.
- 15:37So I can't really say that they tried to rebrand it strictly off
- 15:42of Kasuga. Yeah, but then those games come
- 15:44out before or after 7. But before 8, wasn't that kind
- 15:48of why they went that direction? Yes, Yeah.
- 15:52Well, the Ishan was actually a remake off of a beta game, so
- 15:58that one they just kind of brought the name with it.
- 16:01But the the man who erased his name was definitely after 7.
- 16:05And then you have like a dragon pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
- 16:11So I think they want to keep the Like a Dragon name.
- 16:15But of course, Yakuza was what this game was named for in
- 16:21America. So it's Yakuza Kwami 3.
- 16:23Yeah. And so Like a Dragon Kwami 3.
- 16:31Well, I know little Kwami, but. You know, Oh, well, you know
- 16:36what I mean. What are you going to do?
- 16:38Yep. It's like, it's like, it's like,
- 16:41it's like when Resident Evil 7 came out and they called it
- 16:44Biohazard and then in Japan it was Biohazard 7.
- 16:47Resident Evil. Yeah, that was.
- 16:50Actually kind of cool. And then they still just decided
- 16:52to keep it as Resident Evil after 8.
- 16:55Yeah. Like we can play with this.
- 16:59Yeah. But yeah, it's I'm enjoying it
- 17:02so far. I'm getting caught up in the
- 17:03side stuff. Other than the motorcycle gang,
- 17:07the other side quest is running the orphanage.
- 17:09So you build up relationships with the kids.
- 17:12You do sewing projects. You can garden, make food, catch
- 17:18bugs, fish, and then trade them off to the village or to other
- 17:24neighbors in the town to build up your daddy rank.
- 17:30Daddy rank, yeah. Got to love that Daddy Rank name
- 17:33of the episode this week by the way.
- 17:35Daddy rank all. Right.
- 17:38Right now I'm daddy ranked #2 doing his dangest daddy or or
- 17:45trying his dangest daddy. Better than dangling daddy, I
- 17:49guess. Or not.
- 17:52That might be rank 8, I don't know.
- 17:56Well, you'll have to let us know how your daddy is dangling when
- 18:00when you're done, said and done. Stop it.
- 18:05Stop it. Also, because of the the state
- 18:10of play, several demos came out that I, you know, decided to
- 18:14check out, one being Mina the Howler, and that's some good
- 18:20stuff. Yacht Club is cooking with this
- 18:24game. Yeah, bigger than every Shovel
- 18:29Knight game put together, apparently.
- 18:32What? Yep.
- 18:33Celia keeps, you know, posting on social.
- 18:35So yeah, she scares me a little bit.
- 18:39She's. I've talked to her a little bit.
- 18:42She's super excited for this game.
- 18:44Like it's stressing her out, but she's also like really excited
- 18:48to get this game out there and that it is their most ambitious
- 18:54title to date. The demo unfortunately is only a
- 18:5930 minute demo. So you don't you really only get
- 19:01to fight 2 bosses and like dabble in the very beginning of
- 19:05the game when you land onto the island.
- 19:08But I think you know it, it was good because it got kind of
- 19:12taught you a little bit of the traversal puzzles that you're
- 19:15going to run into, as well as the combat, because most of the
- 19:20bad guys were typically fine. And then you get to the bosses
- 19:24and the bosses kind of had that Dark Souls quality to them where
- 19:27they will probably kick your ass if you don't learn.
- 19:30There's if you don't step back and kind of see what they can do
- 19:33first. But it's a I'm looking forward
- 19:38to it. Did you guys have a chance to
- 19:41check out the demo yet? I think so.
- 19:43It's the same one that was on the switch.
- 19:45Yeah, that's, that's the one that I played was the one on the
- 19:48switch and switch to. And what did did you kind of
- 19:51start from a ship and then land on?
- 19:54Yeah, OK. Yeah, yeah, it was good.
- 20:00It's it's kind of hard. I kind of forgot how like hard
- 20:03GBA games are. Considering I'm playing one
- 20:07right now, I mean Game Boy Color, I mean this I guess is
- 20:12technically going for a Game Boy Color esque look, but still,
- 20:17it's I just that era of games was man, but I'm looking forward
- 20:23to it. Also, like I, I know it's trying
- 20:26to be like a mix of Zelda and Castlevania and a couple other
- 20:29things. At least that's what a lot of
- 20:32the gameplay in the trailers looks like, right.
- 20:34I've kind of tried to stay away from a lot of things.
- 20:37I just kind of want to go in and, and, you know, sort of
- 20:41unaware of what's going on. But, and I was never a 2D Zelda
- 20:47or a Castlevania person. So like, it's all going to feel,
- 20:51you know, some people can jump into like any Metrovania that
- 20:54comes out because they played Symphony the night in Super
- 20:57Metro and you're like, Oh, I know exactly what to do, you
- 21:00know? And then if I don't know the
- 21:02one, I'm like, I have no idea what I'm doing.
- 21:03I'm just lost already. I mean, luckily.
- 21:07That first level I don't. Care.
- 21:11Luckily that first level was pretty straightforward.
- 21:14I don't know how the rest of the game's going to work.
- 21:16Like I kind of get a hint just based on how the islands set up
- 21:20that you have your choice of where to go.
- 21:22So it probably comes becomes open and a little more non
- 21:26linear at some point. Yeah, yeah, which is which is
- 21:30cool, which is, you know, seems a little bit more.
- 21:33I mean, I'm sure there's going to be like a ton of guides and
- 21:37I'm sure they have enough in there to tell you where to go
- 21:39and, you know, all that kind of stuff.
- 21:41They're smart, they know what they're doing.
- 21:42But initially it's just like, oh man, this is like this.
- 21:47This feels way different than, you know, anything that I've
- 21:51been even I was playing at the time and now recently to like I
- 21:56got to get I got to get ready for a non turn based game.
- 21:59Pat, you know how long it's been since I played a non turn based
- 22:02game. Come on.
- 22:06While actually. So.
- 22:09Unless we're talking about Disney dreamlike Valley that's
- 22:12not turn based. Wow right you still playing?
- 22:14I mean the way the the way the switch version runs it might as
- 22:18well be. But don't worry, Switch 2
- 22:20version coming in March. Are you still playing that?
- 22:24Yes. You are you still playing
- 22:26Monster Hunter currently, right? No.
- 22:29Currently no. Here you are.
- 22:33You're just on a break. You're just on a hiatus.
- 22:35OK, yeah, hiatus. I'll take that.
- 22:37You're just on a hiatus. The other demo I played was
- 22:42called Darwin's Paradox. It's a Konami original IP where
- 22:46you play as this little octopus named Darwin as he is basically
- 22:52just trying to escape I feel, but I this demo was tied to.
- 23:00The. Yeah, this demo I believe was
- 23:04specifically tied to Metal Gear Solid.
- 23:07And I don't know exactly if that's actually going to be in
- 23:10the game or not, or if it they just did it that just to kind of
- 23:13showcase the demo. Because it there are Metal Gear
- 23:17things going on in the background and little callbacks
- 23:22such as the cardboard boxes and your octopus actually gets a
- 23:28little headband that he wears during the mission.
- 23:33And bad guys do the the little explanation point when they spot
- 23:39you. It feels it's cute.
- 23:45There's a lot going on on the screen, though not necessarily a
- 23:51bad thing. It's very chaotic, almost like a
- 23:55cartoony kind of chaotic going on.
- 23:58And it's it's fun to watch just seeing what all the mayhem that
- 24:02this little octopus is kind of causing around the environment.
- 24:06But the game basically is a limbo style game, Limbo inside
- 24:12where you are trying to like sneak past things, try not to
- 24:16die, use your environment to progress a little more forward.
- 24:24But it's cute, it's cartoony, and you play as an octopus.
- 24:31Nice, nice. Yep.
- 24:40Well, cool. There's a man.
- 24:44There's a lot of that say to play.
- 24:45I'm excited to talk about it. Actually, I haven't really.
- 24:48We talked a little bit about it on Power Block, but I mean, we
- 24:51were getting started to play. Y'all talked about.
- 24:53Y'all talked about it on Power Block, Y'all y'all.
- 24:55Well, 90% of the 90% of those games are coming to Switch too,
- 25:00so. Oh, yeah.
- 25:01Well, there, there's that. Like, like you'd see, see, I
- 25:04told, I, I told you people like nobody, everybody doubted me.
- 25:06And I was like, I'm like, I'm like, we're getting into a more
- 25:09and more, more and more inclusive ecosystem where all
- 25:12these games. They were all third party games
- 25:14though. I mean, it's not.
- 25:15It's not like God of War is coming.
- 25:17Yeah. Well, yeah, true, but it might.
- 25:20It might. I mean, I'm, I'm actually kind
- 25:21of surprised that the 2D1 isn't, but we'll talk about that in a
- 25:27minute. Lauren, what are you?
- 25:29What are you doing with your life?
- 25:31Still playing front mission 3 remake.
- 25:33I am, I think, I think I clocked it.
- 25:35I'm halfway through the the Elisa campaign of the of the
- 25:38mission. Like just something that so
- 25:42front mission front mission was of like when when it first came
- 25:45from mission 3, when it first came out on the PS on the PS1.
- 25:48Like I I immediately picked it up because like I said, I'd
- 25:51already imported like, you know, like like, you know, like the
- 25:54front mission 2 and the and the other one for Famicom.
- 26:00And I was just and so like I basically am playing it exactly
- 26:04how I played like it originally the remake.
- 26:07I played the the the first game, the original game.
- 26:11And so, yeah, so like I do the least submission first, which I
- 26:14don't know, like looking online now, everybody, everybody hates
- 26:17them. Everybody hates that mode.
- 26:18And I'm like, there's nothing bad about that mode.
- 26:20Like, you know, like, maybe I'm just sympathetic because like,
- 26:22you know, like there's a early in the game, there's a choice
- 26:25you make that sets the path for which way you go.
- 26:28And for a lot of people, the first time they ever played
- 26:31Front Mission 3 back in PS1 days, like, you know, like you
- 26:34didn't even know, like you didn't even know like what, what
- 26:37triggered the split? Well, now we know, you know, I
- 26:40mean, at this point, at this point, now we know.
- 26:41And of course, strategy guides, you know, helped us out that
- 26:44stuff like that. So, you know, so, yeah.
- 26:46So like I always go that path 1st and then I play the, the
- 26:49Emma, the Emma campaign, which online, like everybody like
- 26:53they're like, that's the, that's the, that's everybody's
- 26:55favorite, you know, mission. And I'm like, it's all right,
- 26:58you know, but but yeah, like I'm about halfway through it.
- 27:03And yeah, I'm still doing the thing.
- 27:05I'm still doing the thing where I'm like, I'm trying to unlock
- 27:07as many skills as I can. Because here's the thing about,
- 27:10here's the thing about this game, everybody can, everybody
- 27:12can get all the skills. So think almost like how Final
- 27:16Fantasy 10, think like Final Fantasy 10, like with the with
- 27:19the, with the grid, with the grid system, everybody can
- 27:21learn. Everybody can learn all the
- 27:22skills and all the traits. Not stuff because.
- 27:24Pro tips and you know, through the black magic sphere grid.
- 27:28Yeah, yeah, because it's, it's all based on, it's all based on
- 27:31the on the mechs you use. So like you can you throw
- 27:33everybody into a mech and everything.
- 27:35And the only thing that basically like, you know,
- 27:37determines like how effective they are, you know, is like is
- 27:41like if you start a character off, there's like there's so
- 27:44many different, there's there's not so many different weapon
- 27:46types. There's a few different weapon
- 27:47types in the games. You have you have shotguns,
- 27:51machine guns and and sniper rifles that do Pierce type
- 27:56damage, impact damage, like you guys is like is pure melee
- 28:00stuff. So like anything that you know,
- 28:01like from bashing them with your fist to having like basically
- 28:05the games version of brass knuckles to mesas to battle axes
- 28:09and stuff like that. Even you're, even if you have a
- 28:11shield equipped that can be that's considered a melee weapon
- 28:15that's impact. And then you've got fire, which
- 28:18is unique because fire is like flamethrowers, grenades and I
- 28:23believe laser weapons also like fall into the fire category.
- 28:29But basically as you, as your characters are getting their
- 28:33mix, like, you know, they can get proficiencies in like these
- 28:36different, these different types of weapons.
- 28:37So for machine guns and shotguns to, you know, to, to melee and
- 28:40stuff like that. And that's the one thing that
- 28:43kind of dictates how well your player is.
- 28:45So for example, like if you got if you got your players like,
- 28:49you know, setting all these skills for let's actually the
- 28:51main character. I always like to use him with a
- 28:53shotgun, but I also mix him up, you know, because I like I said,
- 28:56I want to learn all these skills and stuff like that.
- 28:59So he's heavy, he's heavy as a shotgunner and stuff like that.
- 29:03So, so essentially when I put him in a mech that, you know, is
- 29:09more designed for like rocket launchers and stuff like that,
- 29:11you know, his proficiency is not that good, even though he still
- 29:14has like battle skills that can help him out with that, you
- 29:16know, so like there is a little bit of of playing around with
- 29:20and stuff like that. It's really fun.
- 29:21But you know, like if you're, if you're trying to get them, if
- 29:24you're trying to get the most of it, yeah.
- 29:25Like have everybody like switch out weapons from time to time,
- 29:29get different mechs, learn different skills and stuff like
- 29:31that. If you're just trying to go in
- 29:32there and just beat it down and stuff like that, whatever
- 29:35weapon, whatever weapon the character you get starts with,
- 29:37keep them with that weapon and just run through the game.
- 29:42That's my, that's my advice for that's what my advice for the,
- 29:44for the people who are new here to front Mission 3, of course,
- 29:47like this is the third, this is the third remake of the, of the,
- 29:50of the front mission remakes. The Square Enix is put out and
- 29:54and and I knew I knew I was going to love Front Mission 3 as
- 29:58soon as it came out because Front Mission 3 is my favorite
- 30:02out of it. And the only reason why I say
- 30:03front mission 3 and not front mission 4 is because like I
- 30:06played front mission 4, but I've never but I didn't beat it.
- 30:09And I'm kind of hoping that Square Enix has something in
- 30:11mind for for the remake of that. You know, of course, of course
- 30:14the remakes are being are being done by, you know, like like
- 30:17like third third party companies for Square Enix.
- 30:20So like that which that's also been like a a point of
- 30:23contention. You know, online people, people
- 30:25are really hating that, you know, like square, square
- 30:27basically like, you know, like, like off, you know, like off.
- 30:32Somebody else. The thing that they don't like
- 30:33is that this company uses Gen. AI for certain things.
- 30:37Yeah, for certain for certain assets which.
- 30:39Which also most people, most companies do and just won't tell
- 30:43you because they're afraid of the negative publicity.
- 30:44I'm going to tell you that right now.
- 30:46Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which, yeah, I know, but I'm
- 30:48going to be honest with you. Like, like the AI stuff does not
- 30:52bother me. Like some, yeah, I'll be serious
- 30:54with you. Like, you know, like if you, if
- 30:56you do a side by side comparison of Front Mission 3, the PS1
- 31:00version that came out and this, you're kind of happy they did
- 31:04something that for like, for upscaling the artwork and stuff
- 31:07like that. You know, I, I, I feel, I don't
- 31:10know, like the, the purist wanted the game to be what it
- 31:14was Then just go play the damn PlayStation or the, or the, or
- 31:17the PS classics version of this game.
- 31:18You know, don't you know, don't don't be mad about the game that
- 31:22didn't even that that isn't even being charged like the premium
- 31:25price that games are charged at right now.
- 31:27These games could easily came out fifty 60-70 dollars.
- 31:30These games like 30-40 bucks, you know, so I mean, I mean like
- 31:35what are you bitching about? You know.
- 31:38He will just want to get angry about everything.
- 31:41Yeah, but here's the thing about it.
- 31:42There's nothing, there's nothing really.
- 31:44There's something we're wrong about it.
- 31:45And even though it's called, even though it's called Front
- 31:47Mission Remake, well, Front Mission first remake, first
- 31:50Front Mission, Front Mission 2 Remake, Front Mission 3 Remake,
- 31:53these are more remasters, you know, like, so you know, like,
- 31:56yeah. Like, you know, like they didn't
- 31:57have, they didn't have the time and the resources to pump all
- 32:00these assets and, you know, into development, which, you know, I
- 32:03respect. You know, if they did, you know,
- 32:05then yeah. Like, yeah, we wound up with
- 32:07$6070 game, you know? Yeah.
- 32:10Yeah. But also a side a side tangent,
- 32:14everybody's favorite game last year, including mine, used Gen.
- 32:20AI in their game. So.
- 32:22Yes, it is. I I not to be like harping on
- 32:29that train or anything, but like.
- 32:31It's. Well, it's just out there, you
- 32:34know. So I I understand like the
- 32:37backlash for AI because it because in all serious, like AAI
- 32:40is not AI is not doing what like the companies like you know,
- 32:44that trotted it out are saying is doing and stuff like that.
- 32:47In all seriousness, AI like it feels like it's putting people
- 32:50out of jobs. It's, it's making.
- 32:52It's, it's not it's, it's not it's.
- 32:56This is This is what I kind of compared it to.
- 32:59I was talking to my boss about this the other day.
- 33:03Well, not the other day. It was probably 6 months ago at
- 33:05this point. But like when all this stuff
- 33:07started popping up in like a real major way, I started
- 33:11talking about like, look at look at how animation has changed
- 33:17over the last 30 years, right? Like how many, how many artists
- 33:22were scared when the computer was introduced?
- 33:25Oh, right. Right.
- 33:26Damn near, damn near all of them.
- 33:28I mean, now, now you can't find a hand drawn movie because the
- 33:31skill set changed, right? And the things you needed to
- 33:34learn changed it. It's not necessary.
- 33:36Like, yeah, AI is probably going to theoretically eliminate
- 33:43certain jobs because it's going to make other jobs more
- 33:46efficient, but that doesn't mean like jobs won't be available in
- 33:50other areas, right? Like, I, I think, I think
- 33:53there's just nuance to it again, right?
- 33:57Like the ways some of these companies want to use AI.
- 34:01Yeah, OK, that's probably not great.
- 34:05But also like the, the, the reality of the way that
- 34:10artificial intelligence is being used and should be used isn't,
- 34:16you know, I mean, how long, how long have people, how long have
- 34:19companies been using things like speed Tree or Havoc, Right?
- 34:24That's AI. It's just.
- 34:27That was. Actually they don't use that
- 34:28term because it was Jedi. It's featre is Jedi I from like
- 34:3320 years ago. Yeah, that's actually what?
- 34:34Olivier was using it. That's that's what I was getting
- 34:37ready to say. Like AI has been here longer
- 34:38than you thought. AI just became like this lexicon
- 34:41of, you know, like our vocabulary in the last five
- 34:43years. But AI has been around for like
- 34:44freaking forever. Yeah.
- 34:47So it's just I understand concerns in certain ways,
- 34:52whether there other ways, just like everything else, that I
- 34:55feel like certain things are being blown out of proportion.
- 34:57And anyways, yeah, I don't know, front mission though, sounds
- 35:04cool. I'm I would like to play those
- 35:08at some point. Did you ever play?
- 35:10Did you ever play Into the Breach, Laurent?
- 35:13No. People try to compare that.
- 35:15It's like a rogue light front mission.
- 35:19People were obsessed with it. Like probably, I don't know,
- 35:22probably 7 or 8 years ago at this point.
- 35:24Into the breach. Yeah.
- 35:28I remember, I remember seeing this.
- 35:31I and I'm, I'm, I'm waiting for what's gonna call it.
- 35:33What's the freaking? Creek front.
- 35:36Thank you Creek front tactics. Thank you.
- 35:38Like what's going on with that? It's a new.
- 35:41Developer so they they don't necessarily get everything like
- 35:46they it takes time for them to make their games.
- 35:49Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I mean I'm not.
- 35:51Do you recommend AI Pat? Do I recommend AI?
- 35:55I'm just going. Only for certain things.
- 35:58I remember, I remember this game, this game, this, this game
- 36:01struck me like Advanced Wars. It's it's not really advanced
- 36:06wars. It's very like it's like 12 by
- 36:0912 grid like mech combat. But yeah, I, I don't know, I, I
- 36:15didn't, I didn't care for it because it's a rogue like so.
- 36:20Yeah, it's $14.00 on Steam. That's too much dude.
- 36:23It's like too, it's like $1.99 all the.
- 36:25Time 00, is it? Oh, OK, yeah, OK.
- 36:27If it's like that, then yeah, I'll, I'll just look for, I'll
- 36:29just look for that type of sale. I'm, I'm shocked somebody isn't
- 36:32giving it away with something else at this point.
- 36:35You know, like it's, it's that old and like people just they, I
- 36:39think that company has released two games since.
- 36:41Oh, wow. Shoot, it really released in
- 36:422018. Yeah.
- 36:44I, I I I think I I vaguely remember this game.
- 36:47Yeah. Yeah, Matthew Keel made me buy
- 36:50it, actually. Oh.
- 36:52That guy. I mean, I mean I.
- 36:54Miss that guy? I mean, Matt and I have a very
- 36:56have a very similar taste. Like we love like we love like
- 36:59giant robot stuff. So like, yeah, like, yeah, like,
- 37:02you know, we get we get nerd boners talking about this stuff.
- 37:04We're we're both waiting for creeks front.
- 37:06You know what you should play La Ron.
- 37:08What's that? Have you played the game RAD for
- 37:14PlayStation 2? Yes, yeah.
- 37:18The giant like remote controlled robot game where you're like
- 37:22these little kids like standing on top of buildings fighting
- 37:25with giant robots. Yes, I remember that game.
- 37:27I remember that game. Yeah, yeah, the game.
- 37:30Was rad stop? I tried RAD.
- 37:36Anyways, I don't know, I thought of that game just now for some
- 37:39reason. Yeah, but yeah, like, and, and I
- 37:44just want to go ahead and apologize to everybody that was
- 37:46listening to us last week. I guess I told you guys a lie
- 37:49like I was, I, I had every intention of starting the
- 37:52monster under three stories, a twisted reflection trial.
- 37:55And I have not, because Front Mission is dominating my life
- 37:58right now. You suck.
- 37:59Lauren, we're never going to trust you again.
- 38:02OK. Hey, yeah, you know, hey, like
- 38:04that's, that's me. Hi, I'm Lauren.
- 38:05I come up with a ton of trust issues.
- 38:08How long you know? You win some, you lose some.
- 38:13It's fine and it's fine. It's all fine.
- 38:17Besides, besides, Corey didn't want to.
- 38:19Corey didn't want to take my challenge.
- 38:21Your challenge? Yeah, let's.
- 38:23Yeah, let's play Monster Hunter stories too.
- 38:26Right now, no Laron though you'll be.
- 38:28You'll be really proud of me. I did redownload Monster Hunter
- 38:31Wilds for on on my. Expedition.
- 38:35Oh, OK, yeah, not not all, not all the content's out.
- 38:41Yeah, now that it runs. Now that you have a complete
- 38:43game. Yeah, glad I waited.
- 38:47It feels like I waited. It feels like I waited too
- 38:50because like I just turned it on like last week.
- 38:53Speaking of waiting on complete games, did you did you get the
- 38:59e-mail I attached you to, Lauren?
- 39:01Yes, OK. Yes.
- 39:04Did they reply to you? They replied to me.
- 39:08Maybe they didn't reply all. I saw one reply and I think it
- 39:11was more like a thanks reply. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 39:15OK, Yeah. We're being, we're being, we're
- 39:19being really cryptic because we cannot tell anybody what it is,
- 39:23not right now. Apparently not me either.
- 39:25So just it's cool, it's fun. You know, Pat, we, we are, we
- 39:32can't talk about it. It's marathon.
- 39:35We're going to, we're getting review codes for marathon, for
- 39:38tower, for tower casuals. But we needed a third person and
- 39:42somebody that was not on console I.
- 39:45See, I, I see. So.
- 39:46Oh, I, I, I, I was invited to be you.
- 39:49Fill the void, Laron. Thanks.
- 39:50Oh, I I bet I filled the. I bet I filled the void.
- 39:53I bet I did. You did.
- 39:57You check all kinds of boxes for us, Laron.
- 39:59Thanks. That's racist or sexist or I
- 40:06don't know what you call. It I definitely, I definitely
- 40:08felt objectified and I'm not mad.
- 40:12I'm not mad about it. Speaking of objectifying,
- 40:14everybody's like thirsting over Glitch now, so it's fine.
- 40:18Over what? Glitch the one female character
- 40:21in in in marathon. So hey man, you do you I guess.
- 40:35Anyways that. Look at Punch the Monkey.
- 40:37OK, there's a pink cat. Bring some.
- 40:41There's a pink cat in there. I do a choice make a cat pink
- 40:48but. There's a video that came out
- 40:50recently for Crimson Desert that showed all the types of animals
- 40:53that you can interact with. It looked so good.
- 40:56It like just went from a game that had almost no interest in
- 40:59whatsoever to like really high interest.
- 41:02Is this a game that you're going to buy day one or is this one of
- 41:04your wait and play later games? Let's probably give me a wait
- 41:08and play later games. And the games probably gave me
- 41:10way too damn big. Probably because it was supposed
- 41:13to be an MMO at one point I think, right?
- 41:15That was the thing. And then they made me a single
- 41:17player game because the other Crimson like something is a
- 41:20black. Desert is MMO.
- 41:22Yeah, desert. And I think they really intended
- 41:25this one to be a single player so, but it just kept getting
- 41:32bigger. But you can grab the kitties,
- 41:37you can hug them and hold the kitties in that game.
- 41:43Meow. Awesome.
- 41:44Meow meow. Also you can like throw.
- 41:47You can throw like big pigs over your shoulder.
- 41:52Yeah. Speaking of single player games,
- 42:00I don't know where to go with that.
- 42:01What are you playing? I so last week I finished Fire
- 42:06Emblem Path of Radiance and I thought I should play something
- 42:10in between Fire Emblem games. So what I did was I chose a new
- 42:15Fire Emblem game to play. I mean.
- 42:20I'm Jackson. I'm.
- 42:22I'm not, I'm not mad. I'm, I'm playing Fire Emblem the
- 42:27the OG GB A game which is the the, the blazing blade for those
- 42:36keeping count and non American versions of this game.
- 42:41It's so also we were talking before we started recording
- 42:45about the campaigns and how they separate and how confusing it is
- 42:49because there are so the first 10 chapters are based around the
- 42:55character Lynn, who is a sword fighter type character.
- 43:02She's in the in the opening. So it's weird because in this
- 43:07game, you as the player are a character in the game.
- 43:12Like you are the tactician for the team and they address you
- 43:17like, directly instead of, you know, not acknowledging you at
- 43:22all, which is something I wasn't used to in these games.
- 43:27And you wake up with amnesia. Shocking, but Lynn saves you and
- 43:34you are resting in her Hut in the village that she lives in
- 43:38and you find out that her entire village except for her has been
- 43:46murdered by bandits and somehow she survived and she's been
- 43:49living on her own for a long time.
- 43:53So you go on this quest to find her grand grandfather who is
- 43:58like the like essentially like the king of this one region.
- 44:02They don't call them kings, but he's essentially the king.
- 44:04Starts with an MI forget what the word is called, like a map
- 44:06map mask or something. Yeah, that thank you.
- 44:10The marquee. Yeah, that guy.
- 44:14And so like the 1st 10 chapters are all about going to find him
- 44:19and and you know all that. And then at Chapter 11, it
- 44:24changes to the character Ellie Wood, who becomes the main
- 44:29protagonist of the game. And for those who have played
- 44:34Fire Emblem Engage or even Fire Emblem Heroes to an extent, you
- 44:39might recognize the name Hector. He is involved in this game as
- 44:43well as like the right hand man of of Ellie Wood.
- 44:49And I just got to chapter 16 and I have found Lynn and our old
- 44:56companions from that, the 1st 10 chapters and we've kind of
- 45:00joined forces at this point. So that's that's where I'm at.
- 45:06So there's apparently 30 chapters, but you can play
- 45:09Chapter 11 through thirty, 3132 twice.
- 45:16Once as Ellie Wood is the main character and once as Hector is
- 45:19the main character. I don't know if I'm going to go
- 45:22through as Hector or not, Depends how much it.
- 45:25Was it was worthwhile back when back when I played it because I
- 45:28I love the original Fire Emblem Game Boy bands one.
- 45:32I mean, you know. Yeah, I'm really enjoying it
- 45:34too. I just, I want to see like, you
- 45:38know, it, is it worth playing a second?
- 45:41Yeah, you know. Yeah, you, you, you'll, you'll
- 45:43figure, you'll figure out exactly like what, what you want
- 45:46to do by the time you get, by the time you get to the end of
- 45:49this campaign. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause because
- 45:54this was the GBA version, it was the first, was the first time
- 45:58I'd ever like, like played a Fire Emblem game.
- 46:01And I really, I really enjoyed it.
- 46:02Like it actually got me into Fire Emblem.
- 46:04You know, I didn't like the sacred stones the follow up that
- 46:07much. You know, it had it had it had
- 46:10more intricate like things with the with the with the with the
- 46:12job classes and stuff like that. But but I definitely love the
- 46:16Fire Emblem. The GBA one is sacred.
- 46:20Sacred Stones is Erica's games right?
- 46:25And her brother, Erica and. Yeah.
- 46:29The brother. Yeah, I, I, yeah, like, and, and
- 46:34of course, like, you know, like I continued down with some, with
- 46:37some more of the firemen games, of course, leading up to Three
- 46:39Houses. So yeah, so also it's worth
- 46:47noting that Ellie Wood, the his son is Roy from Smash.
- 46:56So I haven't gotten to that part.
- 47:00I don't think that happens in this game.
- 47:03I think that happened with. Son is Roy.
- 47:05Yeah. Yeah, so that means this is a
- 47:09prequel then to? The Blazing Blade which is which
- 47:13is the third Game Boy Advance game that never came out here,
- 47:19which is crazy that I I wonder if those things I was thinking.
- 47:23That one came out first and then we got the second and third one.
- 47:27Never mind. Oh no, the Binding blade is the
- 47:30first one. The binding blade, Sacred
- 47:32stones, Blazing blade is the order that they go in.
- 47:37And then the DS game that came out, Shadow Dragon, is a remake
- 47:40of the first game, which we never got here.
- 47:44OK, but binding Blades the Roy game?
- 47:47Binding Blade is Roy's game. OK, so that yeah, I so the later
- 47:59game is a prequel then? Yeah, I don't know.
- 48:06I don't know anymore. There's the binding blade and
- 48:08the blazing blade. There's a 2 separate games.
- 48:11Don't, don't get me the lying. I, I, I don't know.
- 48:13I just, I just played these games.
- 48:15I I don't know. Yeah, it's fair, Roy.
- 48:21It's also DLC and firearm Awakening, by the way.
- 48:23So now that you can download it now because the 3DS is gone
- 48:29forever, never existed, but. Funny, I still have one.
- 48:38Anyways, let's let's move along. I'm really enjoying the game.
- 48:43I really think the characters are really fun.
- 48:49The two nights that are kind of Lynn's companions.
- 48:52I always forget their names, but Sane is one of them and he's
- 48:57kind of an idiot. He tries to flirt with like
- 48:59every girl that jumps into your party.
- 49:02Like literally everything that comes out of his mouth is like a
- 49:04flirtatious, you know, somewhat almost harassing statement.
- 49:12And then the the other night, who I am not remembering his
- 49:18name at the moment, but he kind of tries to keep him we're.
- 49:23Talking about Kent, Kent. Kent's like the stuck up.
- 49:26Well, not stuck up, but he's he's by the book.
- 49:29Yeah, he's the by the book 1 and then and then sane is the is the
- 49:33crazy flirtatious 1. I'm sorry my man, my man.
- 49:37Irk though. Irk man, he's he's powerful
- 49:41though. Yes he is.
- 49:43Yes, he is. Tell you what man, Irk is great
- 49:46and the the Archer that you get at one point will I think is his
- 49:51name. Oh.
- 49:52Yeah, yeah. Is really good because if one
- 49:56when you equip one of the bows and you level up his like weapon
- 50:03ability or whatever, like he he constantly shoots 2 arrows which
- 50:08is so nice. Yeah, so nice.
- 50:11I also I also love Florina. Oh, the the the kind of like the
- 50:16sidekick girl, the vomit Pegasus night.
- 50:19Yeah, she's kind of like the shy.
- 50:22Yeah, man. Like there's been a couple of
- 50:25times where like, where like she got murked and I immediately
- 50:27like, we start the mission. I was like, no, I will not stand
- 50:30for this. Yeah, she's.
- 50:35Because I can't remember, there's a there's a weapon she
- 50:37gets that make that turns her into a bad ass.
- 50:41Yeah, I was reading about that. It's it's later than where I'm
- 50:45at right now, obviously. But yeah, she's I, I like using
- 50:52her because the Pegasus Knight can move around like very.
- 50:55Easily, yeah, like they they have the most range besides the
- 50:58is it the Rangers? The Rangers.
- 51:01The ones. That the ones that are on
- 51:03horseback or is that the Knights?
- 51:04Those are the Knights. The Knights.
- 51:06OK, OK. Yeah, and that there's also the
- 51:09Paladins, which are the Knights with the Shields essentially.
- 51:12So yeah, I'm just, I'm really enjoying it a lot.
- 51:17It's really, it's really crazy to go from like 3 houses and
- 51:22engage and keep going backwards to like the GameCube where it's
- 51:26like, oh man, 3D graphics really.
- 51:28You know, it's interesting to see where the, this franchise
- 51:31went with its first 3D entry. And then you go all the way back
- 51:34to GBA and it's like, Oh my gosh, man.
- 51:36Like, and then you put it on either pixel perfect mode or the
- 51:39retro mode that's on there. And it's like, this is, this is
- 51:42how we used to play games. I was like, I just need to
- 51:45shrink my Switch by a screen and by about 5 inches and we'll be
- 51:50good to go and turn all the lights out because then I can't
- 51:52see it. Get one of those worm lights.
- 51:58Real worm lights. Yeah.
- 52:01Drain the battery so damn fast to your system.
- 52:04Yeah. Yeah, the Blazing Blade has some
- 52:07really memorable characters, Yeah.
- 52:09Yeah, I, I just, it's like, you know, every Martha's always like
- 52:15the character that pops up, right?
- 52:17Because Martha's like the first hero of Fire Emblem, right?
- 52:20But like, all these other characters pop up and, you know,
- 52:24you never really know until you play the games where they come
- 52:27from. And I just, I've become such a
- 52:30big fan of the series over the last decade or so that since
- 52:35Awakening really, that I just wanted to go back and, and play
- 52:39them and see. Like.
- 52:42You know, it's, it's, it's I'm doing what I've wanted to do
- 52:46with Zelda forever. But like that, man, Zelda on NES
- 52:50is so hard that I'm just like, I don't really want to.
- 52:51And then Zelda too, you have to jump that hurdle.
- 52:54And it's like, you know. Yeah, I can't.
- 52:56The furthest back I can go Zelda now is linked to the past.
- 52:59I can't. I can't go back.
- 53:00I cannot go back to the NES versions now.
- 53:03Maybe maybe Nintendo will throw us a bone for like the
- 53:05anniversary and like they have a re a remake or remaster of these
- 53:09coming up. Actually, actually a remaster.
- 53:12I I could probably do, but but there's been so many.
- 53:14There's been so many like, like, you know, like fan projects, you
- 53:17know, that have come out that, you know, like, I'm like, you
- 53:20know, Nintendo's probably like, fuck it, we're not going to do
- 53:23that, you know? I would really love a Lynx
- 53:27Awakening style remake of 1 and 2.
- 53:32Right. Like that's what that.
- 53:33Ain't happening for two. Except if I can say one thing,
- 53:36because I I did love the Lynx Lynx awakening remake.
- 53:41They just need to speed it up. A they need to they need to
- 53:44speed up, they need to speed up. They need to speed it up like
- 53:48the same way like like Metroid 0 emission speed up Metroid.
- 53:55Yeah. Yeah, the game just needs to
- 53:56play just a little bit. It just needs to move a little
- 54:00bit faster, you know, in All, in all aspects, story, story wise
- 54:03as well as like gameplay and animation.
- 54:07Yeah. Thank God, like I don't know,
- 54:11they can find. I watched, I watched someone do
- 54:14a do a, do a, do a let's play of the original Legend of Zelda.
- 54:17And I was like, man, did we switch back and forth to the
- 54:19menu this much Like we need to, we need to check, we need to fix
- 54:22that. Yeah, plus like there's that
- 54:24whole, like the whole thing where you go and get all the
- 54:28stuff before you go into the first dungeon now, right?
- 54:31Like it's been a thing for a while now.
- 54:33And it's like, man, do I do that?
- 54:36Or do I just kind of go through and I don't know, I kind of want
- 54:39to like, I want the whole experience, but I don't want to
- 54:42like cheat myself out of an experience, you know what I
- 54:44mean? So plus it's just so freaking
- 54:49hard that I just don't want to. Like every time I die in that
- 54:52game, I'm like, I don't, I don't want to.
- 54:53Restart. Nothing hard I feel like.
- 54:56I just, I just don't have the muscle memory for it and like I
- 55:00what I need to do is just like sit down and play it.
- 55:03You know what I mean? Like just sit down and like I've
- 55:04been doing a firearm. Just sit down and shut up and
- 55:07play it. Yeah.
- 55:08I. Don't know, I feel like I feel
- 55:09like Zelda games don't get hard until like linked to the past.
- 55:14See, I think they get easier. Yeah, they they got easier,
- 55:20except for they got hurt again. Breath of the Wild.
- 55:24See, I don't, I don't I guess. I guess I forget how I forget
- 55:30how hard Breath of the Wild was at the beginning.
- 55:31Also, it wasn't that be hard for me because I had so many amoeba
- 55:34that I just kept scanning them and it was fine.
- 55:38I kept getting things, kept rewarding me for buying their
- 55:42toys. Anyways.
- 55:48Fire Emblem on the GBA, it's a really great game, really
- 55:54enjoying it and I look forward to playing the next one after
- 56:00this. So I don't, I don't know if I'm
- 56:04going to go directly into Sacred Stones.
- 56:06But I also said that from what I wish they would do is put the
- 56:09Wii one on Switch now because like that's the sequel I want
- 56:13because it's a direct sequel to Path of Radiance plus like in I
- 56:19get that Wii. NSO that you know is rumored to
- 56:22one day appear. We can get it.
- 56:26Yep. Yeah, that'll be, that'll
- 56:28probably be one of the first games on there, I would think.
- 56:32Nah, they'd hold that one off, you know?
- 56:35I don't know. They put they do.
- 56:36With fire or path of radiance. I don't, I don't know.
- 56:39I mean the Path of Radiance was the 7th, 6th or 7th game on
- 56:42there. I mean, that's pretty early in
- 56:45my opinion, but just because I want it now, they're going to
- 56:49wait. They're going to be like, Nah,
- 56:50pass or they'll or they'll try to sell it to me for $70 later
- 56:53down the line. Yeah, with like some sort of.
- 56:57Do you want to play some Mario Galaxy 1 again?
- 57:05Yeah, I remember how we packaged it in with three other games the
- 57:07first time for $60.00. Now it's only with one other
- 57:10game for 70. Here you go.
- 57:12Happy birthday anyways, not important, but that's, that's
- 57:18all that's all that's all I've been playing is that I'm I'm
- 57:23working on another. Oh, what I did get I got my
- 57:26virtual boy package in the mail sitting on the table over here.
- 57:32I did not open it yet, but I look forward to burning my
- 57:37retinas with that black and red nasty screen while I'm playing
- 57:42Warioland. Yep, also confirmed not to work
- 57:48on TV apparently so RIP. That sucks, I know.
- 57:54I really wanted, I really wanted to play Tetris 3D on my 70 inch
- 57:59TV, you know what I mean? I don't blame you.
- 58:03Dude, I I saw that game being played and that game just gave
- 58:06me a massive headache. I was like what is happening?
- 58:09I do not. Anyways, that's all I've been
- 58:15playing though I have been really enjoying diving into the
- 58:20the old backlog honestly. Like going through the the
- 58:24GameCube and N64 and GBA games specifically, just kind of
- 58:29scrolling through and kind of blinding up.
- 58:32I also want to play Golden Sun. That's another one that's on my
- 58:35list to be like I want to play these.
- 58:38At some point you're going to have a lot of fun playing that
- 58:40game, trust me. And, and it's got a really good
- 58:43story. Yeah, that's, that's why, that's
- 58:46what I keep hearing and that's why I want to play it is because
- 58:49like, I'm like, man, everybody, always, every, you know, the
- 58:52three people who bought this game really love this game.
- 58:54You know, it's the same with Earthbound.
- 58:56But I just like to make fun of Earthbound, you know?
- 58:59But I, I do, I should probably give all these games a fair
- 59:03shake at some point. And you know, stop making fun of
- 59:06them because the three people who play these games, you know,
- 59:12man, I wish, I wish I would have had the had the knowledge of
- 59:16like remember when Earthbound was sitting in every Toys-R-Us
- 59:21clearance bin for like 20 bucks? Hey.
- 59:24Hey, Corey. Hey, hey, what?
- 59:26Question When did Bladey and the Tramp come to Dreamland Valley?
- 59:32It's the newest update, so either today or next week or at
- 59:36some point. OK, that's one of my favorite.
- 59:39That's one of my favorite movies from the from the classic era.
- 59:42Yeah, it's part of the Puppy Love update.
- 59:45Also basically the basically the play on Valentine's Day.
- 59:50Yeah, you actually go to the restaurant.
- 59:51I think you have to cook their meal, and I didn't, and then
- 59:55they end up moving into the valley with you.
- 59:57And you can put Tony's restaurant in your valley, too.
- 1:00:03That's so sweet. Yeah, I haven't I haven't played
- 1:00:07in in a while, but I saw that trailer today on the Nintendo
- 1:00:12YouTube channel actually. So where were we?
- 1:00:18All right, let's Speaking of games, Speaking of Disney Dream
- 1:00:22Live Valley, let's talk about some games and some games that
- 1:00:30were announced at recent showcase type things.
- 1:00:33Don't call it a showcase. They say sorry, State of Play
- 1:00:38and Nintendo Direct. We kind of already did a direct
- 1:00:41recap show. Well, we did do a direct recap
- 1:00:43show, but we kind of already talked about it at length.
- 1:00:47So we'll probably just go over that, kind of skim over the top
- 1:00:53of it. What were our favorite
- 1:00:54announcements from that? But I I do want to talk about
- 1:00:57the state of, oh, wait, hold on Laron, your favorite segment.
- 1:01:01We can't forget to do this yet. I mean, well, last week, last
- 1:01:05week we did towards the end of the show like I mean.
- 1:01:07I know, but we should. Do it now.
- 1:01:08I feel like it's a float. We should do it now and.
- 1:01:11Is this more than what's coming out?
- 1:01:13This one? It's just like next week's List
- 1:01:17It. Well, this episode comes out on
- 1:01:19Monday, so. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:01:22So that makes sense. That makes sense.
- 1:01:24We just we just travel forward a week.
- 1:01:25Yeah, yeah. All right, Well, well, here we
- 1:01:28go. Games look out for the for the
- 1:01:30upcoming week. So let's get right into this.
- 1:01:33This is everything that we are anticipating, show hosts are
- 1:01:36anticipating for you. This our list might not be the
- 1:01:38same as your list, but here we go.
- 1:01:40On February 24th we've got the Fallout Anniversary edition
- 1:01:43coming to switch to. Basically as a Sole Survivor,
- 1:01:46you fight for survival, explore post nuclear Commonwealth and
- 1:01:50decide its fate in one of the most celebrated open world RPG's
- 1:01:53of all time. Coming out on the 25th of
- 1:01:57February 1st. Squadron Phoenix also on the
- 1:02:00Switch. Who put this on here?
- 1:02:03Who recommended this? I took the list straight from
- 1:02:05Game Informer. It's Game Informers list.
- 1:02:09In First Quadrant Phoenix, you embark on an action-packed
- 1:02:12adventure in this on Reel Space shooter.
- 1:02:14OK, you got my attention as a pilot in training you, you
- 1:02:17battle in Strange in strange virtual worlds, master your
- 1:02:21ship, upgrade your skills and protect the Federation from an
- 1:02:24imminent threat. Are you ready for the for the
- 1:02:26challenge now? I feel like, I feel like 'cause
- 1:02:29they keep saying Federation, people are going to think this
- 1:02:31is like strangely attached to the Metroid universe.
- 1:02:35But yeah, no, no, I don't think. I don't think anybody are.
- 1:02:42Are you trying to tell? Like are you trying to open up
- 1:02:44to us that you're a furry? No, I I just listed all the
- 1:02:49games that were coming out this week on Game Informers website.
- 1:02:54Oh I always, I always do the notable ones.
- 1:02:57OK, Carrie, there's no shame in it.
- 1:02:59It's. Notable to someone.
- 1:03:01Yeah, No, no judgement. No judgement here.
- 1:03:03Yeah, that's fine. All right, so February 26th,
- 1:03:06we've got we've got we've got a handful of titles here.
- 1:03:08We're going to start with no sleep for Konami date from AI
- 1:03:12the Somnium Files, which comes out on PlayStation, the PS-5,
- 1:03:18and PS4. Iris has been abducted by
- 1:03:21aliens, finding herself on board mysterious UFO and tasked with a
- 1:03:24It was complete. It was completing A bizarre
- 1:03:27escape game. Iris knows there's one person
- 1:03:30who she can always count on for help.
- 1:03:32Konami date the cincher. Yeah, Cincher.
- 1:03:36Sinker. Sink, Yeah.
- 1:03:37Cincher sinker. Sinker OK, yeah, that that
- 1:03:41works. That works.
- 1:03:42Also on the 26th, the Disney Afternoon collection coming to
- 1:03:45switch and switch to you know what it is?
- 1:03:47You know what this is guys? Can you feel a buzz?
- 1:03:50Travel back to the 90s with characters from Disney Afternoon
- 1:03:52programming in this collection of retro Disney NES and Super
- 1:03:56NES games now available for Nintendo Switch and switch to
- 1:03:59the Nintendo Switch to Switch exclusive written.
- 1:04:04Kind of Weird update to the 2017 collection adds 2 new games,
- 1:04:10Bonkers and Goof Troop, to line up for a total of eight games
- 1:04:14including DuckTales, DuckTales 2, Chippendales Rescue Rangers,
- 1:04:16Chippendales Rescue, Rangers 2, Tailspin, and Darkwing Duck.
- 1:04:20Remember, these are all the NES games, so some of these games
- 1:04:23that have actually been redone, like DuckTales for example, like
- 1:04:27you're not getting that one. Just remember it's the NES
- 1:04:29experience, which in my opinion the original DuckTales stands up
- 1:04:33just as well as like it's it's remake version did.
- 1:04:37So yeah, it's definitely worth it.
- 1:04:39This is the first time that Goof Troop and Bonkers have been
- 1:04:42released anywhere. Also the 26 Tiny Garden for the
- 1:04:46Switch Tiny Garden let's you grow a pocket sized garden
- 1:04:49inside a magical toy, pass down through generations, nurture
- 1:04:53plants, trade them for furniture and customize your space in this
- 1:04:56relaxing mix of farming, puzzles and strategy.
- 1:04:59No scores of time limits. Just let your creativity bloom.
- 1:05:03We and then on PS-5, we've got Tokyo extreme racer That's a
- 1:05:07that's a goody one. That's a that's a classic
- 1:05:10Turkish stream racer is a racing game set in the blocked off
- 1:05:12future Tokyo where players aimed to be the fastest by driving
- 1:05:16their best cars on the highways that weave through the city.
- 1:05:20And also lastly on 26 we have tower Born for PS-5, Xbox Series
- 1:05:25and PC. Tower born is an exciting side
- 1:05:28scrolling action RPG brawler. As an immortal warrior, you
- 1:05:32journey across a crumbling world, uncover the mystery of
- 1:05:35the fallen city of numbers and push back the corruption
- 1:05:38threatening humanity survival. OK, now this is where we get to
- 1:05:43the good stuff. The 27th big day, big day for
- 1:05:47gaming. Starting with FEAR Effect 2,
- 1:05:50Retro Helix for PlayStation, Switch and PC.
- 1:05:54The FEAR is back return to 2048 Hong Kong in the groundbreaking
- 1:05:58survival horde that defines style and mature storytelling
- 1:06:01for a generation. I know a lot of, I remember a
- 1:06:05lot of perverts that were playing that, that were playing
- 1:06:07the original game back in the PS1 day.
- 1:06:08They're going to love this one. That was the first.
- 1:06:10It was a lesbian sex scene in the elevator come.
- 1:06:13On Yep Yep. That was the first game I like.
- 1:06:18Remember seeing anything like gay or lesbian related?
- 1:06:23Yeah, yeah, me. Yeah, Yeah.
- 1:06:25Honestly, me too, Yeah. Like, because like, I mean,
- 1:06:29we've all we've, we've talked about where I grew up and how I
- 1:06:32grew up and this stuff was not common anywhere.
- 1:06:36Oh. Yeah, you, you.
- 1:06:37Live in that repressed childhood.
- 1:06:40Seeing, you know, two women together was not exactly
- 1:06:46something I had seen every day. Yeah.
- 1:06:48In marketing for it like they were, they were all entangled up
- 1:06:50on. Oh, they were pushing that hard
- 1:06:52in marketing. Also on the 27th, we've got
- 1:06:58Lisara Summit Kingdom for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PS4,
- 1:07:05PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and PC.
- 1:07:08There we go, I'm going to condense it whenever whenever I
- 1:07:12see is on all platforms like that.
- 1:07:14All right, in Lisara, you build and expand your own settlements
- 1:07:17in high in the high mountains, carefully planned production
- 1:07:20chains and satisfy various needs of of your 3 caste society while
- 1:07:25dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and
- 1:07:28avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make
- 1:07:30your town thrive? We've also got Tales of
- 1:07:33Bristeria Remastered coming on the 27th to PlayStation 5, Xbox
- 1:07:37Series, Switch in PC. Tales of Presaria returns with
- 1:07:41enhanced playability and and quality of life enhancements
- 1:07:45joined Velvet on her journey for vengeance along with her cast of
- 1:07:48eccentric companions as they sail through the archipelago
- 1:07:51which comprises the Kingdom of Midgand.
- 1:07:56All right, so. This is the one where you plays
- 1:07:58the villain, right? I mean, that's pretty much,
- 1:08:00yeah. Yeah, I, I, I got lost.
- 1:08:03I got lost on the Tales on the Tales of Like game series after
- 1:08:07the third one. I'm pretty sure the only one
- 1:08:10I've ever played all the way, the only one I've ever played
- 1:08:13all the way through was Symphonia.
- 1:08:15Yeah. Gosh, shoot, I did really listen
- 1:08:18to Episode, I think 3 or 4, either one of the games cast
- 1:08:24where we talk about the 35th anniversary of Tales.
- 1:08:28I I'll check it out. I did enjoy Tales of a Rise a
- 1:08:34lot, I just got distracted. By something, yeah.
- 1:08:36Tales yeah, I haven't finished Tales of a Rise and I and I
- 1:08:39bought the and I bought the expansion when that came out a
- 1:08:43couple of years ago, but I just, I just.
- 1:08:45Beyond the Dawn. Yeah, yeah, All right, so the
- 1:08:4927th is a big day if you're if you own a Nintendo Switch too,
- 1:08:52because Resident Evil 7 Biohazard and Resident Evil
- 1:08:55Village are coming to the Switch too.
- 1:08:57And Resident Evil 7 fear and isolation seep through the walls
- 1:09:01of an abandoned southern farmhouse. 7 marks the new
- 1:09:04beginning for survival horror with the isolated view of the
- 1:09:07visceral new first person perspective.
- 1:09:09And then of course, in the Village, which is the follow up
- 1:09:12to Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, you experience survival horror
- 1:09:15like never before. In the eighth major installment
- 1:09:18of the of the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil Village
- 1:09:21with its detailed graphics, intense first person action, and
- 1:09:23masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more
- 1:09:27realistic. And then the big one, the number
- 1:09:31one, the reason why everybody's been looking forward to
- 1:09:33February. If you are a gamer and you love
- 1:09:35Capcom games, particularly Resident Evil.
- 1:09:37Resident Evil Requiem, the 9th game in the franchise, The ninth
- 1:09:42official game in the franchise is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox
- 1:09:46Series consoles, the Switch to and the PC.
- 1:09:50Requiem for the dead, Nightmare for the living.
- 1:09:54Prepare to escape death in a heart stopping experience that
- 1:09:58will chill you to your core. We already know our Golden Boy
- 1:10:02for Resident Evil, Leon's Kennedy, is coming back along
- 1:10:05with along with a new protagonist.
- 1:10:08But apparently there's a lot of like surprises coming up because
- 1:10:12there's because like this is all this is all talking about the
- 1:10:16six survivors of the original Raccoon City incident.
- 1:10:19So there's a lot of surprises in there for people who are
- 1:10:23definitely like fans of the Resident Evil series.
- 1:10:25There you have it. There you have.
- 1:10:26It I wonder if they're going to try to.
- 1:10:28I mean, I know the blonde girl Ashcroft is tied to Code
- 1:10:33Veronica right? Her mom is the protagonist there
- 1:10:37in Veronica her. Mom's.
- 1:10:40Outbreak. Her mom's one of the her mom's
- 1:10:42one of the scientists. The game Reasonable Outbreak
- 1:10:47talks about the six survivors and her mother was one of the
- 1:10:50main characters in that game. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:10:54You're thinking, you're thinking the Asfords, you're thinking the
- 1:10:56Asfords. Veronica, Veronica Ashford and
- 1:10:58Alfred Asford were were were inheritors of the of of the
- 1:11:02Umbrella franchise. Sorry, my my my Resident Evil
- 1:11:08lore knowledge is a little rusty, you know I haven't.
- 1:11:12And it just means you have to play Resident Evil 7 through 9
- 1:11:14now. So here's the thing.
- 1:11:16I did reinstall the first game, the, well, the the remake of the
- 1:11:22first whatever HD remake of the first game on my Switch.
- 1:11:26So maybe I'll play through that at some point, but this is
- 1:11:29another series I want to play through.
- 1:11:30I'm telling you, this is a backlog year for me.
- 1:11:33I said that last year, but I'm I'm for real this time.
- 1:11:37You know, it is. That's funny because that's
- 1:11:40funny because I, because I installed, I installed RE-1.
- 1:11:46Yeah, I installed RE-1. Yeah, I, I and it's it's when
- 1:11:52you get into like 2 when it starts getting really like
- 1:11:56creepy and like, I don't know, for some reason I don't have any
- 1:11:59problems with one or zero as Lauren disappears.
- 1:12:05I don't have any problems with one of these.
- 1:12:07Got him. Yeah, the zombies got.
- 1:12:10Him. The umbrella.
- 1:12:11Umbrella's got him, yeah. Zombies got him.
- 1:12:14Sorry, I sorry, I glitched. I glitched.
- 1:12:19What I was what I was telling Pat Leron is like I don't have
- 1:12:22AI don't have any problems with one or zero really, even though
- 1:12:260 is like thinking about like the the claustrophobic nature of
- 1:12:29the train cars and switching characters is like really
- 1:12:33stressing me out just talking about it.
- 1:12:34I had. Well, 00 stressed me out.
- 1:12:37Zero stressed me out playing it the first time.
- 1:12:39My first time through, as a matter of fact.
- 1:12:41Truth be told, I never finished Resident Evil 0.
- 1:12:45Was it the inventory management system?
- 1:12:47Did that, no, the inventory, well the inventory management
- 1:12:50system, I I felt like that took a big step backwards compared to
- 1:12:53the compared. To of course.
- 1:12:56Yeah, but I did like, but I did like the fact that you know like
- 1:12:59you could just drop something out of your inventory and it and
- 1:13:01it would be right there where you left it.
- 1:13:05Unless you left it on the far side of the universe and then
- 1:13:08all of a sudden, oh, hey, you know that crank that you didn't
- 1:13:11think you needed anymore? Yeah, you need it.
- 1:13:13The last area. Now.
- 1:13:16You should have brought that sucker with you.
- 1:13:17Now go back to the train. That's how they get you.
- 1:13:21That's how they get you Anyways, yeah.
- 1:13:28So anybody getting that switch to Pro Controller for Resident
- 1:13:32Evil? That's 100 and 499 for some.
- 1:13:35Reason. Yeah.
- 1:13:38Yeah, not either, no. Maybe though.
- 1:13:44Instead went with black on black.
- 1:13:46Maybe if they did like another color on black maybe.
- 1:13:52Yeah. But you can hardly see a damn
- 1:13:55thing that's on that controller. Yeah, that's that's kind of a
- 1:13:59whiff on their part. I wonder man, I have some
- 1:14:04complaints about Nintendo's controllers in the last decade
- 1:14:08or so, but we can talk about that on another episode of
- 1:14:10Something You. Mean you don't want to talk
- 1:14:12about the the new colors of Pro or Joy con controllers.
- 1:14:17Mean the pastel Joyce and everything else is the same.
- 1:14:21Yeah, sure. Yeah, the the little.
- 1:14:22Teeny the little stick and you know 100 bucks for this.
- 1:14:26I mean, look, I don't I I want they should have just made the
- 1:14:31joy cons white at this point like not the not the not the
- 1:14:35body, but just the sticks to match the pro controller at this
- 1:14:38point. But whatever, I don't know,
- 1:14:43Nintendo's doing some weird stuff.
- 1:14:48All right, let's let's let's let's talk about the state of
- 1:14:51play guys. There's a lot of cool stuff
- 1:14:53announced here at the state of play.
- 1:14:56Yeah, it was. In my opinion, I think it was
- 1:14:59probably Sony's best state of play ever.
- 1:15:02Maybe. I gotta say it was it was one of
- 1:15:05the more solid ones in the past few years.
- 1:15:07I I will say that. They they set the bar so low
- 1:15:11that it was very pleasant to experience.
- 1:15:15Well, I didn't think that. I didn't think, I didn't think
- 1:15:17the the last state of play was that bad, but it definitely
- 1:15:19wasn't as exciting as this one. Yeah, this one was.
- 1:15:23This one was very good. I don't.
- 1:15:26I don't remember if these are not the this list I have here.
- 1:15:29I don't know if this was in order of announce or not.
- 1:15:32I don't think it is. It might be, I don't know.
- 1:15:35It looks like it's in order. But it looks like it's, it looks
- 1:15:37like it's in order of the announcements.
- 1:15:40But I I do, I do like that we are getting a sequel to Cana
- 1:15:46Bridge of Spirits with a Cana Scars of a Kosmora.
- 1:15:51Yeah. Which Amber Labs studio Who made
- 1:15:57the first one is also doing this?
- 1:15:59They said in partnership with PlayStation Studios.
- 1:16:01So I don't know if Playstation's partially funding this or you
- 1:16:05know, kind of doing the death straining thing where they like
- 1:16:07are publishing it until XYZ date.
- 1:16:11I thought PlayStation. Studios I.
- 1:16:13Thought they did that with the original too.
- 1:16:16The original is on Xbox. Well, yeah, after, yeah, like
- 1:16:19after, after like 2 years. That's what I'm, that's what I'm
- 1:16:22saying is like they, I just, I don't know if Sony's more
- 1:16:25involved with this one or not. And I doubt this one will come
- 1:16:30to Xbox because why would it at this point?
- 1:16:37Side tangent. If Microsoft doesn't care, why
- 1:16:39should Sony care? Side tangent, Laron, you saw the
- 1:16:43screenshot of that e-mail I got from Xbox, didn't you?
- 1:16:46Yeah. They offered to buy my Xbox from
- 1:16:50me for a Microsoft PC or accessory.
- 1:16:57What? I'm like why are they offering
- 1:17:00to buy my Xbox? I asked you the question before.
- 1:17:02I'm like, what are they doing? First of all, $135 Microsoft,
- 1:17:08come on. That's a slap in the face.
- 1:17:09I'm like you're literally charging $800.00 for an Xbox
- 1:17:12now. Like I'm like, I'm like, shit,
- 1:17:14y'all are, are are are y'all basically going to partner with
- 1:17:17GameStop Because like that, that's that's.
- 1:17:19I know that's a GameStop, yeah. Maybe that's maybe that's the
- 1:17:25next plan for everything to become an Xbox is Xbox, but now
- 1:17:29becomes a brick and mortar store and.
- 1:17:30Here, and here's my thing, right, Here's my thing, right?
- 1:17:33If Microsoft, if Microsoft is valuing that trade in, is that
- 1:17:36much, that's how much they should be selling those consoles
- 1:17:38on the market right now. It's just shocking that I got a
- 1:17:44e-mail offering my Xbox offering to buy my console from me.
- 1:17:47I'm like it's. Like it's like you're one of
- 1:17:52the, it's like you're one of the last few people that are
- 1:17:54actually enthusiasts for, for, for Xbox and they want to take
- 1:17:57your Xbox back from you. They want my RAM for their AI
- 1:18:00data centers. Yeah, that's the way it.
- 1:18:05Is it's. Cheaper to buy it from gullible
- 1:18:09fans than it is to buy it on market, jeez.
- 1:18:14Yeah, so anyways, yeah, Cana scars of Cosmora looks great.
- 1:18:22It the combat looks much more fluid.
- 1:18:27It almost has like a horizon esque feel to it.
- 1:18:30It looks like no little. The wolf or the fox or whatever
- 1:18:36it is. Yeah, and there's no little
- 1:18:38like, rot Pikmin things floating around either.
- 1:18:43I kind of miss them all really. There's got to be.
- 1:18:46I know there's. Got to be the Rot's, got to be
- 1:18:48coming back. She's got to have one as like a
- 1:18:50companion, right? Like a little old guy that
- 1:18:52follows her like sneaks away in her little pouch purse thing.
- 1:18:56That was like the whole thing about Kenna was the rot and how
- 1:19:00the rot like brings like decays the world so that it can regrow
- 1:19:05again. Yeah.
- 1:19:08Yeah. I mean the.
- 1:19:10File just. Technically rot.
- 1:19:13Well, the, well, the. Premise.
- 1:19:14It's got the little rot things on its head.
- 1:19:16Yeah, well, the premise of this is that is that, you know, like
- 1:19:19she's in this new region and she's and she's coming to find
- 1:19:21out that, you know, like, like, you know, like, like, you know,
- 1:19:25like what she was doing was just like a precursor for what?
- 1:19:28Like her actual, I forget what they call her, what they call
- 1:19:31the people that do the stuff that she does, but but this is
- 1:19:34this is actually what her destiny's supposed to be.
- 1:19:36So like basically basically like the first game, I mean, yeah,
- 1:19:40technically it was an origin story, but basically it was her
- 1:19:42whole start into this. Was it spirit guides or
- 1:19:46something like that? I can't remember.
- 1:19:48Yeah, something like that. Yeah.
- 1:19:49I. Hope they go.
- 1:19:50I hope they go a little bit more into her a bit, because I mean,
- 1:19:57I'm kind of a little bit of spoiler.
- 1:19:59You didn't know if she was alive or dead by the end of the game.
- 1:20:04Yeah. It almost hinted that she was a
- 1:20:07spirit herself. But obviously she's not cuz
- 1:20:11she's older in. This guy, she this definitely
- 1:20:15has a this is a sequel with a bigger budget.
- 1:20:19We're going to do some new things in here and kind of maybe
- 1:20:22flush it out a little bit type thing.
- 1:20:23Like, I don't want to use the Assassin's Creed one to two
- 1:20:27comparison, but this feels very much like it has that potential
- 1:20:30of like, you know, could be a bigger, better sequel that
- 1:20:37actually flushes out a lot of things.
- 1:20:41No, I I expect good things from this one.
- 1:20:46Yeah, me too. I I can't wait.
- 1:20:52The next game on this list was Ghost of Yote Legends, which is
- 1:20:57the multiplayer kind of quote UN quote game is a service update.
- 1:21:01It's free launching with patch 1.5.
- 1:21:04For anyone who has purchased the game.
- 1:21:08You will be fighting supernatural versions of the OTE
- 1:21:116 and there will also be raid patch into the game in sometime
- 1:21:21in April. I think they said so cool and
- 1:21:25that mode seems really cool and this seems like something they
- 1:21:29could sell. I don't know why they don't sell
- 1:21:32it, but good on them for continuing to update their games
- 1:21:35for free with extra content. I know.
- 1:21:38I wonder how that works in George.
- 1:21:39Legends. Well, I remember the original
- 1:21:42one a lot of people like. So this is just essentially this
- 1:21:46sequel with the original Yeah concept.
- 1:21:49Yeah, I heard Ghost of Gote. Very good.
- 1:21:56Very, very good. It is good so.
- 1:22:00You should play it. I might at some point.
- 1:22:04Yeah, now that you have an actual functioning PlayStation.
- 1:22:07I know, but the whole time I was playing Ghost of Sushima, I was
- 1:22:09just like, I wish I was playing Assassin's Creed the whole time.
- 1:22:14Like, I'm just like, this is literally just everything,
- 1:22:18everything everybody complaints about in Assassin's Creed,
- 1:22:20people love about this game. It's like pick a lane, guys.
- 1:22:22It's the same game. Story was a little bit better
- 1:22:29written, but in terms of like the the game itself, it's like
- 1:22:32this is the same but not important.
- 1:22:37Whatever. I'm glad that ghost CEO tastes
- 1:22:38old. Well, and yeah, Speaking of
- 1:22:43games that sold well, Death Training 2 on the Beach is
- 1:22:46coming to PC on March 19th. It's going to have a full super,
- 1:22:52ultra widescreen support, unlocked frame rates, dual sense
- 1:22:56features, frame generation, etcetera, etcetera.
- 1:23:01Nexus is porting this. So Lauren, are you going to you
- 1:23:06going to play Death Stranding on the Beach in ultra wide frame
- 1:23:09Gen. Super duper 437,000 frames a
- 1:23:13second. On your ROG ally.
- 1:23:17Yeah, I still, I still need to play.
- 1:23:19I still need to play the original.
- 1:23:20Like, I like, I like, I, I have both versions of that game
- 1:23:24because like I was, I was a fool and got the original version.
- 1:23:27And then, of course, the director's cut came out, you
- 1:23:29know, So I'm like, damn it. Yeah, I got the director's cut
- 1:23:32when it came to Xbox. It was like 1499 when it came
- 1:23:36out that week, so I was like, I might as well.
- 1:23:41Yeah. Little did I know this console
- 1:23:44was not going to exist. Whatever, I'm still salty about
- 1:23:50all this. I tried to remain optimistic and
- 1:23:52it's just the more optimistic I tried to be.
- 1:23:55It's coming out now as as anger and vengeance so.
- 1:23:59Anger and vengeance. Anger and.
- 1:24:03Vengeance so the next game for loop, which is the kind of looks
- 1:24:12like a little bit of Left 4 Dead mixed with some other games as a
- 1:24:18service style things. Everybody, everybody's saying
- 1:24:22this game looks like it's going to be bad, but I don't know.
- 1:24:25I'm kind of interested in it. I don't it doesn't look bad.
- 1:24:27It just looks generic. I, I, I don't want to say it
- 1:24:30looks bad because it definitely doesn't look bad and the people
- 1:24:33behind it definitely have some chops, right?
- 1:24:36But also. Go to the.
- 1:24:38People behind Concorde and so do the people behind Concorde, but.
- 1:24:42But history has shown time and time again this market is not
- 1:24:46sustainable for this type of game.
- 1:24:49Well, that is true. That is true.
- 1:24:50But but basically all I'm saying is like, I'm interested enough
- 1:24:53that that I'm probably going to try it out.
- 1:24:58Yeah, I see. The thing is, is like Marathon
- 1:25:02is coming out and so like, if I'm going to play a shooter like
- 1:25:05this, it's probably going to be that true.
- 1:25:07Yeah. Yeah, because I mean, between
- 1:25:11bungee shooting and the visual aesthetic of marathon alone,
- 1:25:15like, you know, I don't know. All I'm going to say is Corey
- 1:25:21and Josh, be prepared to carry my ass.
- 1:25:23Just be prepared. I mean, I already told Josh to
- 1:25:27get a bigger backpack because he's going to carry us both.
- 1:25:34It's all right. Well, our that'll be our clan
- 1:25:36name. Team backpack, backpack
- 1:25:39marathon. I don't know.
- 1:25:44No, it'll be fine. I, I have faith that we will do.
- 1:25:47OK. So also it was just announced
- 1:25:51today that Bungie's Destiny 2 update that was supposed to come
- 1:25:55out the week Marathon comes out is now delayed until mid June 3
- 1:26:041/2 months. Makes perfect sense though.
- 1:26:08I don't know man, just they, they need to just put destiny
- 1:26:13into maintenance mode and at this point, like I'm, I'm sorry,
- 1:26:16like I, I, I, you're talking to somebody who loves destiny,
- 1:26:20right? I mean look at this look at this
- 1:26:21freaking shelf behind me. It's all destiny, but like come
- 1:26:25on guys start the Star Wars expansion didn't hit.
- 1:26:29Nobody likes what you're doing with the portal.
- 1:26:31Just put it away. It's OK.
- 1:26:35It's OK. Speaking of OK, well, you.
- 1:26:42If you say OK with this next game.
- 1:26:45Pragmata. It's coming.
- 1:26:47A new trailer for Pragmata. Dude, this game looks crazy.
- 1:26:52This game looks really. Cool.
- 1:26:53It's starting to shape up, Really.
- 1:26:55Nicely, I'm excited to see what this this game looks like.
- 1:26:59Like Japanese Dead Space almost essentially like like against
- 1:27:06robots instead of creepy slimy aliens people.
- 1:27:09That you got to hack. Yeah.
- 1:27:13Yeah, I really do need to play this demo.
- 1:27:17Yeah, I I downloaded the Switch version but I haven't played it
- 1:27:23yet. I downloaded a lot of demos on
- 1:27:25my Switch too. Recently.
- 1:27:26It was this Final Fantasy Adventures of Elliot and
- 1:27:31something else demo wise but I forget what.
- 1:27:34The other one was so pragmatic. Looks cool.
- 1:27:39They showed more Resident Evil Requiem.
- 1:27:40I don't know how much more we have to say about that except
- 1:27:44that Leon has a little something something going on.
- 1:27:46His hand in there doesn't look good.
- 1:27:50Little bit of a little bit of rat to happen in there.
- 1:27:54A little little something. I wonder.
- 1:27:58I wonder what it is? Yeah, he'll be fine.
- 1:28:01He's he's been infected so many times.
- 1:28:04That's probably just like immunity.
- 1:28:07Yeah, maybe maybe it's like because he's been infected and,
- 1:28:12you know, cured so many times that it's that that's eating
- 1:28:14away at him instead of the. So anyway, spoilers I guess for
- 1:28:20the trailers for Resident Evil 9, Brequium, whatever legacy of
- 1:28:25Kane defiance remains. OK, Corey.
- 1:28:27Corey, it's OK. Steph will cure him.
- 1:28:30Steph will cure him. She'll she'll just have his
- 1:28:34babies and that baby will be the next protagonist of Resident
- 1:28:36Evil 12 his. Line will live on some way,
- 1:28:39somehow, whether it be some. Grace, Ada, Claire, Somewhere,
- 1:28:48Jessica. Maybe all three.
- 1:28:50Maybe all of them. Jessica was the president's
- 1:28:53daughter, right? I I keep forgetting what the
- 1:28:54hell her name was. No man, I don't know anything
- 1:28:57anymore. Wait, wait, I'm sorry.
- 1:29:00I I I was busy trying to find the pragmatic demo.
- 1:29:04Like what were we talking about? Resident Evil 9 and Leon.
- 1:29:07All the babies Leon was going to have with all the females that
- 1:29:11he's been with. Oh, oh, you.
- 1:29:12You're talking about Ashley Graham, the president's.
- 1:29:14Daughter. Oh, thank you.
- 1:29:15Ashley Graham. Yeah.
- 1:29:16Ashley. Ada, Claire.
- 1:29:20No, no, no, he never hit. He never hit that.
- 1:29:21He never hit that. He never hit those two actually,
- 1:29:24Ada and Claire, that never happened.
- 1:29:26Not on screen. Yeah, it could still happen.
- 1:29:29We don't know what happened between then and now.
- 1:29:32Yeah. So what are you saying?
- 1:29:34Whatever's going on with with Leon in his hand and you saying
- 1:29:37that's one big STI, Is that what you're trying to say?
- 1:29:39It's it's something. Could very well be possible.
- 1:29:41It's an St. something St. something.
- 1:29:48It could be AC, could be AD, could be A, who knows.
- 1:29:51STC What the? I don't know STC.
- 1:29:55I don't know, Moving on. God, Oh my God, we find.
- 1:29:58Out that the virus was sexually transmitted the entire time.
- 1:30:03I've got it. Yeah.
- 1:30:04We don't call it the the virus for nothing.
- 1:30:10All right. Legacy of Cain Defiance
- 1:30:13Remastered. It's coming it.
- 1:30:16Was awesome. Yeah, it looks cool.
- 1:30:19Aspires doing this right? And then also the there's like a
- 1:30:23prototype of the game that never came.
- 1:30:25Out doing this one. They're not.
- 1:30:27They did the other two right I think.
- 1:30:28I know they did the other two, but I don't think they're doing
- 1:30:31this one. Interesting.
- 1:30:33I think this is someone else. Interesting.
- 1:30:38But they also announced that there will be a prototype of the
- 1:30:45game that never came out that's playable on this that's
- 1:30:47supposedly something around like 80 to 90% complete, actually.
- 1:30:53But also there's a new 2D entry to the series also coming.
- 1:30:58Looks great, looks cool. It's like, why didn't they
- 1:31:01announce that on the state of play?
- 1:31:03How hard would it have been to have two Legacy a King game
- 1:31:06shown? I mean, not Yeah, I know.
- 1:31:09Especially because like they showed another 2D game from a
- 1:31:13franchise people love about vampires.
- 1:31:16Maybe they didn't want to get them confused I guess, I don't
- 1:31:21know. It looks cool though.
- 1:31:22I think Legacy of Cane I think is a is a man.
- 1:31:27I feel like if if somebody tried to make a legacy of Cane today,
- 1:31:31it would be like Darksiders essentially almost.
- 1:31:35Yeah. It would like have that vibe.
- 1:31:38I can see that. Which, by the way, where's
- 1:31:41Darksiders 4? Where is that game?
- 1:31:43Darksiders is officially dead. No it's not.
- 1:31:45They announced a new one. What did they do?
- 1:31:48I thought. I thought Darksiders was dead.
- 1:31:50No, they announced a. New one like 2 years ago.
- 1:31:53I'm not I'm. Not I'm not last.
- 1:31:56Year. Yeah, some at some point.
- 1:32:00I feel though that they wouldn't be releasing this demo of the
- 1:32:04long lost game that they didn't have a plan to possibly.
- 1:32:08Make a new. Game.
- 1:32:10Well, no. Just bring that game to
- 1:32:12fruition. Yeah, like if, if this sells
- 1:32:15well, maybe they like finish it and then in an update they like
- 1:32:18put it in this one or like come out with a different box copy of
- 1:32:22it or something. Because that people have been
- 1:32:25wanting Legacy of Cain to come back and Soul River did well.
- 1:32:32Yeah, I think so. Reverted.
- 1:32:34Yeah, maybe we might. We might.
- 1:32:37We might just. Testing the waters.
- 1:32:39This is testing the waters. We need a true conclusion to the
- 1:32:44Legacy of Kane series. They cannot end it the way they
- 1:32:47end defiance. It's too damn cliffhangery.
- 1:32:52They kind of did though. They just kind of left it
- 1:32:54dangling there. It's.
- 1:32:56Because it was supposed to continue.
- 1:33:00Amy Hennig went to go do Uncharted.
- 1:33:02I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.
- 1:33:04Wait. This was an Amy Hennig game.
- 1:33:07Yeah, this, this was like her, like first big series that she
- 1:33:12worked on. Damn, I didn't know that.
- 1:33:15Yeah, this next one, Pat. This looks right up your alley
- 1:33:21and tangentially kind of looks like kind of up my alley.
- 1:33:25At this point. Brigadine Abyss looks sort of
- 1:33:30firing on me. I heard there's a bit more
- 1:33:34strategy involved with these games.
- 1:33:37Yeah, like it isn't. Just a tactical RPG.
- 1:33:39There's a There's a sieves element to this.
- 1:33:43Yeah, this. Yeah, there's like a It looks
- 1:33:46really. It looks fun though to be honest
- 1:33:50it looks really great. It scares me.
- 1:33:54It scares me. I it's.
- 1:33:56Big man, don't don't scare me with big things, Pat and I.
- 1:34:02It's so big though, 100 different classes, 6 stories and
- 1:34:11then like 30 different clans you can choose from.
- 1:34:17Yeah. It's a it's a big game.
- 1:34:20It looks it it looks really pretty though.
- 1:34:22I I like the way like the on field stuff looks, the ink like
- 1:34:26the in battle stuff looks cutscenes look good.
- 1:34:30I'm interested. So this is actually what the
- 1:34:33third game in this series? There's one on PS1 and there's
- 1:34:37like APS 3 version of some. One on PS1 and I think it's a
- 1:34:43switch version. I I think the second one
- 1:34:45actually came on a switch. Did it?
- 1:34:48Yeah, I'll have to look for that.
- 1:34:53This this is also coming to switch too, though.
- 1:34:56Yeah, not coming to switch to Dead or Alive 6.
- 1:35:03Last round, jiggly. More jiggly than ever.
- 1:35:09I was sad it was not beach volleyball 4 Who's with me?
- 1:35:16It's OK, we didn't even get beach volleyball 3.
- 1:35:20I know you had to import that. It was too jiggly for America.
- 1:35:24Perverts. It's OK, Story has.
- 1:35:27Story has his copy. Well, he didn't share.
- 1:35:34Rude. Yeah, I'm not really interested
- 1:35:38in this. I don't.
- 1:35:39The last Dead or Alive I played was the one on the original Xbox
- 1:35:42when they put Master Chief in it.
- 1:35:45Was that DOA? I think it was 3, must have been
- 1:35:483. That game was like a, that game
- 1:35:52was like a real spectacle. We, we used to, we used to throw
- 1:35:55a copy of that because that was back when I was in the system
- 1:35:57manager at GameStop back in those days.
- 1:35:58We used to throw a copy in the Xbox and just and just like have
- 1:36:01it like just have the just have the computer fight itself.
- 1:36:05Yeah. Yeah, it was, it was.
- 1:36:07And it was nice seeing like all the little dynamic changes in
- 1:36:09the camera angles and all that stuff.
- 1:36:10Like it was a it was a spectacle.
- 1:36:12It was the X, It was the Xbox versions Xbox version of like
- 1:36:18Fight Night for 360. Remember when Fight Night round
- 1:36:213 came out for 360? How amazing that game looked.
- 1:36:23Yeah. Oh my gosh, that game was
- 1:36:25incredible looking. What else is incredible looking?
- 1:36:30Control Resonant. Yeah, that does look good.
- 1:36:33That came with some Inception stuff going on in there.
- 1:36:40It looks really good. I am a little like, I don't want
- 1:36:45to say turned off because I'm not, but like the melee combat
- 1:36:48stuff. Like I was really looking
- 1:36:49forward to like the third person shooting mixed with the powers
- 1:36:53again. Also like I missed, I missed
- 1:36:56Jesse. I don't want to play as the
- 1:36:59brother, I want to play as Jesse.
- 1:37:00Where's Jesse at? Are we going to get a dual
- 1:37:02protagonist thing like we did with Alan Wake too?
- 1:37:07I mean, Jesse was in the lake house.
- 1:37:10Yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I didn't play Alan Wake Two,
- 1:37:16though, so I don't know what I'm even trying to talk about.
- 1:37:20Gosh, I hated Alan Wake one. Dude, I was so excited when that
- 1:37:24was over. I tried though, man, I I
- 1:37:27finished it. I gave it the old college try,
- 1:37:31as they say. But let's see here.
- 1:37:37What's next on this Crimson Moon, Half human, half Angel
- 1:37:43protagonists? Is that good at?
- 1:37:451st when I saw this I was thinking this was Dante's
- 1:37:49Inferno or at least the Dante game that was supposedly
- 1:37:54announced like last year. Don't.
- 1:37:58Remember Dante's Inferno game announcement?
- 1:38:00Yeah, there they there's a remake or not a remake, but
- 1:38:05there's I think it was called The Divine Comedy.
- 1:38:09Oh. OK.
- 1:38:12Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:38:15I don't remember that. I like Dante's Inferno, Yeah.
- 1:38:18Well, they're making the Dante's Inferno remake.
- 1:38:23That's not that. Doesn't the one that?
- 1:38:26There's only one remake announced at this thing that
- 1:38:28really matters, and we'll get there in a minute, but which?
- 1:38:33I texted La Ron instantly when I saw that, 'cause I feel like
- 1:38:38he's the only one that's just as excited as I am for that.
- 1:38:41But I am I, yeah. Yeah.
- 1:38:44We'll get there. Yeah, Beast of Reincarnation
- 1:38:48also shown. I don't really have much to say
- 1:38:51about that, Fluffy. Dog.
- 1:38:56Here's a fluffy dog. There is a fluffy dog.
- 1:39:01Maybe it's. I think it's going to do good.
- 1:39:03Maybe Pokémon Gen. 10 will look this good.
- 1:39:06No it will not. People are there's there's like
- 1:39:1130 seconds. This trailer probably cost more
- 1:39:15than the entire last three Pokémon games.
- 1:39:20I know a lot of people were looking at the Monster Hunter
- 1:39:23Stories 3 and they're like, OK, Game Freaks, what do you have to
- 1:39:27say about it now? Because it just looks so much
- 1:39:30better. Yeah man, it's just I man, don't
- 1:39:40there there's been like 6 times tonight I could have gone off on
- 1:39:42a tirade in this Pokémon conversation was one of them
- 1:39:45like let's all right, I'm moving on now.
- 1:39:50Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition is, is out now.
- 1:39:54Actually, I really liked this game.
- 1:39:56I had the Game Boy Advance version of this.
- 1:39:58I really liked it. It was really hard, but I
- 1:40:00really, really loved it. Well, you get you get 120 new
- 1:40:05levels with this one. I know there's 120 new levels.
- 1:40:08There's five versions of the game, right?
- 1:40:10There's the PS1, Saturn, GBA, and then there's like that
- 1:40:17prototype Super Nintendo version.
- 1:40:22I think they said what Gameboy Color?
- 1:40:24Version, yeah. Yeah.
- 1:40:27So that's exciting. I I will be playing the Gameboy
- 1:40:30Advanced version because that's the version I know and.
- 1:40:33I yeah, I'll get there eventually at some point, but
- 1:40:40it's, I think it's it's 2990. 9 I think the anniversary
- 1:40:44collection as I saw on switch. To so for you Rayman fans.
- 1:40:51It's very exciting. Mean of the Hall work out a new
- 1:40:54trailer there's a demo out on. PS.
- 1:40:56Five, no, no release date yet, but it does say spring 2026.
- 1:41:01So look, I just I want this game, I want them to take all
- 1:41:06the time they need and can take on this and then it sells well
- 1:41:09and everybody cheers for Yacht Club like we did every time a
- 1:41:13new Shovel Night expansion came out.
- 1:41:14And then I'll buy the Amiibo when they come out and the plush
- 1:41:19and the things. And we'll all be.
- 1:41:21Happy Neva prologue story expanding DLC for last year's
- 1:41:30Neva which was a great game from Nomada Studio.
- 1:41:33They also did Gree which was a game that I really really loved.
- 1:41:39That DLC is relatively cheap too.
- 1:41:41I think it's only 499 Yako Shinobi OPS.
- 1:41:48That 4 player. Stealth game that everybody
- 1:41:50thought was 10 shoe for the first. 10 seconds of the
- 1:41:52trailer. Until they said it wasn't.
- 1:41:53I've got my eye on that because like, it has the potential to be
- 1:41:56like the successor. Yeah it looks cool.
- 1:42:00I wonder how Co-op that's. Going to be or if you can play
- 1:42:04that without, you know, single player E without having to, you
- 1:42:10know, join other people. But it looks cool.
- 1:42:12Definitely the isometric. Stealth thing looks.
- 1:42:15Really interesting project. Windlass the chicken game.
- 1:42:25Never knew I wanted to be a giant chicken beating thousands
- 1:42:28of people. Yeah, where do I do?
- 1:42:31Just wait for the Peter Griffin mod on.
- 1:42:34PC so this is this is based off a Korean folk.
- 1:42:42Tale, apparently. So this is kind of like their
- 1:42:44Blackmith Wukong essentially that this is the the bird that
- 1:42:50drinks tears is the story. But I don't.
- 1:42:54I don't really know the story out of 1000 people.
- 1:42:58Yeah, but definitely be drinking some tears, Dick.
- 1:43:02I mean that. That's one thick chicken.
- 1:43:04That's all I got. To say, Oh my gosh.
- 1:43:07One would say that was one big cock.
- 1:43:10Yeah, that's a. Big juicy.
- 1:43:13Big and juicy. You guys just couldn't help
- 1:43:14yourself, could you? You know la Ron Gobble.
- 1:43:18One of us had to say it. It.
- 1:43:21Looks really cool though. I'm.
- 1:43:22Like. I never knew I wanted a musso
- 1:43:24where you play as a giant chicken, but here we are.
- 1:43:27This is crap craft on Montreal. So a Canadian team making this
- 1:43:35cashing, cashing in on the, on the, what's it gonna call it,
- 1:43:38the. Black Myth.
- 1:43:39Wukong 'cause. That that definitely, it
- 1:43:41definitely had a stylistic like that.
- 1:43:43Well I you left right when I said this, but it's based off a
- 1:43:47Korean folklore. Yeah, that is kind of seems
- 1:43:53similar from a. Combat.
- 1:43:54Perspective seemingly apparently so It looks cool.
- 1:43:59Can't wait. I will hopefully be playing this
- 1:44:02at some point. Star Wars Galactic Racer our our
- 1:44:07pod racing fans who are excited for Ben Quadronero being shown
- 1:44:13at the end with Sebulba and pod and pod racers.
- 1:44:17So that's cool I guess. I wish they would have just made
- 1:44:20a pod racing game. There's no way Sebulba's still
- 1:44:23alive, is he? There's no way, right?
- 1:44:25Sebulba's. Sebulba's in the sequel.
- 1:44:26Trilogy I think, right? Is he not I?
- 1:44:30Don't remember if he is. He was definitely a cameo.
- 1:44:34Yeah, I mean, he wasn't like a major character or anything, but
- 1:44:37he was definitely in there somewhere.
- 1:44:38I think. I don't.
- 1:44:39Remember, unless it wasn't him, it was just a different alien of
- 1:44:42that race. But I don't know, I wish they
- 1:44:46would have just made a pod racing game, but at the end of
- 1:44:48the day, who cares, it's Star Wars.
- 1:44:50Racing. It looks nice.
- 1:44:51There's a lot of burnout in that drive the pod.
- 1:44:56Some of us will drive speed bikes.
- 1:44:58It's true. That is true.
- 1:45:02They showed another trailer for a.
- 1:45:03Double O 7 first light looks cool.
- 1:45:06I really want to play that game. Yeah, This is looking like this
- 1:45:10is looking like it's going to fill my.
- 1:45:12Fill my need for an Uncharted game.
- 1:45:15Yeah, it definitely has an Uncharted feel to it, yeah.
- 1:45:20Nice story driven single player shooter.
- 1:45:23Yeah, I'm interested. I'm.
- 1:45:25Interested to see how much hitman is implemented.
- 1:45:27Into this game and. And plus, like, this is like a
- 1:45:30really cool iteration of James Bond.
- 1:45:33Yeah, it's the. It's the guy.
- 1:45:34The guy who plays him is the guy that plays Dexter in that
- 1:45:36prequel series on. Showtime.
- 1:45:40So I wonder how much I don't know.
- 1:45:43I wonder. I wonder if that's why they are
- 1:45:46waiting. To announce who the next bond.
- 1:45:48Is for the movies. I mean, I'm sure they don't want
- 1:45:52to tie this game. To the movies they want to yeah
- 1:45:55I. Don't think.
- 1:45:56Yeah, I don't think the. Game is I don't think the game
- 1:45:57has any bearing on the movie right now, it seems.
- 1:46:00Like Aaron Taylor Johnson, they don't know what they want to do
- 1:46:03with the movie series to be. Perfectly honest, they should
- 1:46:06have just cast Aegis. Alba and gotten 3 movies out of
- 1:46:08them and and then we would still.
- 1:46:11Be in the same position we're in now.
- 1:46:14Now Daniel Craig changed Bond way too much that.
- 1:46:17Like if they went back to Campy. Bond, is that even going to be
- 1:46:21like, are people going to enjoy that anymore?
- 1:46:24Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, no, they can't do.
- 1:46:26They can't do Campy Bond. They they got it.
- 1:46:28They got to do. Like basically.
- 1:46:30They got basically do super cool bond.
- 1:46:32Yeah, I don't know. I still think.
- 1:46:35I still think was I still. Think you could.
- 1:46:38I still think if you did like Henry Cavill, you could.
- 1:46:41Get away with doing. Both Henry Cavill doesn't even
- 1:46:44look like James, doesn't even look like James Bond.
- 1:46:47See. I think he looks like the.
- 1:46:48Ideal Bond and he was, he was the runner up that Craig.
- 1:46:52He was going to get it if he was turned it down.
- 1:46:54Yeah, yeah. So I don't know it.
- 1:47:00Doesn't matter, they'll pick some British guy that.
- 1:47:02Nobody knows who. He is until.
- 1:47:04You know, people know who he is. There's a there's a very heavy
- 1:47:08hand to people think. Is the next bond.
- 1:47:11I mean the the last rumor I saw was Aaron Taylor.
- 1:47:16Johnson, But that was the last rumor I saw because he's the one
- 1:47:20that actually had. Like.
- 1:47:22Apparently the the watch company almost always chooses the next
- 1:47:27band and he was seen sporting that watch.
- 1:47:30Yeah, Yep. Anyways, those having first
- 1:47:36light may looks good. Where am I at here?
- 1:47:43All right, so Metal Gear, this is.
- 1:47:45We're starting to get into some of the Konami stuff.
- 1:47:49Metal Gear Solid Master Collection 2 is finally
- 1:47:51announced. Guns of the Patriots and Peace
- 1:47:54Walker people can now play Guns of the Patriots as well as the
- 1:48:00game. Boy game Babble ghost.
- 1:48:04Babble, I think is what it's called, right.
- 1:48:05So that's part of it. That game was so good.
- 1:48:07Yep, it was, yeah. So that's.
- 1:48:10Coming as well. Darwin's.
- 1:48:13Paradox, Pat. Already talked about that.
- 1:48:16Pat talked about it earlier in the show.
- 1:48:19Castlevania, Belmont. 'S curse, dude.
- 1:48:21I'm not a Castlevania person. I would like to be.
- 1:48:24Someday dude. This game in my opinion visually
- 1:48:30was the best looking game of the show in my opinion.
- 1:48:33Visually. That's strong words, I thought.
- 1:48:38The art. Direction was so strong in this.
- 1:48:41And like that finishing shot. With the castle and, and the
- 1:48:46fact that they're going with motion twin and what was the
- 1:48:49other company Evil empire right to do this was like, Oh my gosh,
- 1:48:53that's a no brainer dude. That's this game is going to
- 1:48:55sell. This game is going to be so
- 1:48:57good. Like right off the bat.
- 1:48:58I can tell you I you guys know how I feel about roguelikes.
- 1:49:02Dude. I put like 20 hours into Dead
- 1:49:04Cells because the combat was so good.
- 1:49:07So that was like something. No, it's we probably should have
- 1:49:13seen it coming when they. Gave.
- 1:49:15That team, the Castlevania expansion, yeah, but they also
- 1:49:20gave the Vampire Survivors guys Castlevania stuff too, so.
- 1:49:26Oh, and the rumor is this isn't the only Castlevania
- 1:49:30announcement we're going to get this year.
- 1:49:32I know, Where's my Lords of Shadow 3?
- 1:49:37Nobody wants that and that happening because Lords of
- 1:49:39shadow God. Completed with two.
- 1:49:42I know no and. And nobody wants, nobody wants
- 1:49:44that, although I would like. Some like Castlevania 3D game
- 1:49:49collections at some point or I'm sure those N64 ones will pop up
- 1:49:53on NSO some at some point we need to get the N64 ones and we
- 1:49:58need to get the PlayStation 2 ones back the.
- 1:50:01PlayStation 2 ones were amazing. The Lament of Innocence and The
- 1:50:04Curse of Darkness, those were good games.
- 1:50:10Yeah, I'm, I'm excited to see what they do with Castlevania.
- 1:50:12Konami, man, they're they're pulling up.
- 1:50:14They're pulling up. They're they're pulling some
- 1:50:16Atari stuff right now when they're making smart, good
- 1:50:19decisions, in my opinion. You know what?
- 1:50:21I can almost forgive them for abandoning me as a child.
- 1:50:27Well, you know, people change path.
- 1:50:32You know, it's like they just came back now that I'm an adult
- 1:50:35and they're like. Son, I know you're rich now and
- 1:50:38you can take care of me, so let's let's regain this like
- 1:50:42relationship that we once had. Here's another Castlevania game
- 1:50:46and another Silent Hill and some new IPS that look freaking
- 1:50:52awesome. Yeah, it, it looks, it looks, it
- 1:50:58looks. Solid Silent Hill townfall also
- 1:51:01coming in 2026. Man, Silent Hill really really
- 1:51:06hills having quite the revival. Like if you, if you told, if you
- 1:51:09told me, we'd. See like 5 Silent Hill titles?
- 1:51:11In like, in like less than five years, I'd be like, you're
- 1:51:13crazy. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:51:18And then? Rev Noir had a was announced and
- 1:51:21that had like a real near meets like, you know, that had a real
- 1:51:28nearby to it. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:51:32So that I thought, I thought that game looked really cool.
- 1:51:35It looked phenomenal. Yeah.
- 1:51:39Untitled. There was an untitled.
- 1:51:40John Wick game it was just called.
- 1:51:42John Wick, but Keanu Reeves reprising his role the the ultra
- 1:51:49violence in that trailer alone was like, OK, I want to play
- 1:51:53this. Yeah.
- 1:51:55And at the end, he's just like, yeah, it just flashes.
- 1:51:59To John Wick. That's cool.
- 1:52:02They showed a new trailer for Marathon.
- 1:52:05The server slam is February 26th.
- 1:52:08The game is out is out March 5th.
- 1:52:11It looks much better than it did during the alpha phase.
- 1:52:16I mean, that's expected, but definitely lot of positivity
- 1:52:21going into this game, which you know, wasn't something I would
- 1:52:24have said three or four months ago considering everything this
- 1:52:27game is gone through critically. But it looks it looks good.
- 1:52:32It's coming out of the time where arc Raiders is kind of
- 1:52:34down in player count. It looks it looks good.
- 1:52:40Marathon looks good. I'm not.
- 1:52:42Just saying that because. I'm a bungee fan.
- 1:52:45I'm saying it because it looks looks good.
- 1:52:48So they gave they gave us some PlayStation Plus updates.
- 1:52:54Spider Man, 2A, Tekken, Dark Resurrection Time Crisis are all
- 1:52:59being added soon. Big Walk, which is like a
- 1:53:06cooperative hiking adventure. They showed off more of Ceros.
- 1:53:13The X-Men are coming to Marvel. Tokan fighting souls.
- 1:53:18Which man? Dude when they dude when Storms
- 1:53:21started talking, I'm like that's Storm instantly, instantly
- 1:53:24recognizable. She looks awesome too, by the
- 1:53:27way. So it's Storm Wolverine.
- 1:53:29Magic and danger. Are all joining the roster and
- 1:53:34then I love how I love how they created a whole brand new
- 1:53:37character with danger because basically.
- 1:53:39Danger is just like a personification of the Danger
- 1:53:42Room. Yeah, but it's I'm.
- 1:53:47I'm. Really excited to see how the
- 1:53:49X-Men. Fare in this, Yeah.
- 1:53:52And then they ended on two God of War announcements.
- 1:53:57One the God of War trilogy, the entire trilogy being remade,
- 1:54:05which was I dude I the first game has been rumored to be be
- 1:54:10remade for a long time. I was like, OK, this is the
- 1:54:12remake of the first game and they had the one, they had the
- 1:54:15one, they showed the one, and then they showed the two and
- 1:54:21then they. Showed the.
- 1:54:21Three with the with the Omega symbol in the middle.
- 1:54:25So are they just putting it all? Are they?
- 1:54:28Are they basically doing a legacy collection?
- 1:54:30Like what they do with Uncharted or Nope from the ground up.
- 1:54:33Remake the entire trilogy, that's what I meant.
- 1:54:37Though are they putting all three in one bundle?
- 1:54:40Yeah, yeah. I mean, those games are short.
- 1:54:43They're only. Like 8 hour games.
- 1:54:45That first, that is. True, that is.
- 1:54:47That is true. You're right about that.
- 1:54:49And like you could kind of really tie.
- 1:54:51All together you got the snare and everything.
- 1:54:54All written so it's not like yeah, I doubt.
- 1:54:57They're adding anything new to. This unless they want to try and
- 1:54:59gear it towards this rumored Egyptian direction that they
- 1:55:04want to go next yeah, I and we'll we'll see I this was.
- 1:55:10This was like the. Most excited, I think I've been
- 1:55:13for a PlayStation announcement in a long time, probably since
- 1:55:17The Wolverine announcement, honestly.
- 1:55:19And then God of War, Sons of Sparta, the 2D pixel art prequel
- 1:55:25starring Kratos. And demos, demos, demos, demos,
- 1:55:30demos is out now. And that game looks really.
- 1:55:35Those are very fun. Yeah.
- 1:55:37Metroidvinish. Yep.
- 1:55:40So. Good on, good on Sony.
- 1:55:42I heard it's huge too. Like a lot of people say, they
- 1:55:45spent a lot of time on it and only gotten.
- 1:55:47Like a small percentage done. Yeah.
- 1:55:51Which is good because I mean it's it's relatively.
- 1:55:54Cheap too, I think it's. Only $30 Yeah, 30 bucks so and
- 1:56:00shout out, shout out to seeing that OG.
- 1:56:01Kratos TC. Carson like.
- 1:56:03Like like host. That whole second, Oh my gosh,
- 1:56:06he was like trying to seduce me during that announcement.
- 1:56:09I thought I was like, what? Am I still watching the state of
- 1:56:12play or is this some? Did I?
- 1:56:13Did I change channels on accident?
- 1:56:15Is this is this? Is this state of play after
- 1:56:17dark? What's happening?
- 1:56:21So yeah, that was that was your state of play.
- 1:56:26I We're not going to get to the Nintendo Direct tonight, but
- 1:56:29that's fine. Trust me.
- 1:56:30That was That was a good 70 minutes well spent last week if
- 1:56:33you caught it. Yeah, it was definitely their
- 1:56:35best say to play, and maybe ever.
- 1:56:39Yeah, when they said yeah, when the announcement was like over
- 1:56:42an hour's worth of of content, I was like.
- 1:56:44Wait, what? Yeah, we're usually used to
- 1:56:48getting like 40 minutes at best. Of like mediocre.
- 1:56:52Content they gave us, they gave us 70 minutes.
- 1:56:55Like what's like? What's happening?
- 1:56:57Yeah. It was great at the Konami
- 1:56:59revival. Yeah, that was like 20.
- 1:57:02Minutes. Otherwise it would just.
- 1:57:03Been a normal state of play. Well, I'm glad that they
- 1:57:06announced the. The Metal Gear Legacy collection
- 1:57:08too, you know. Like that's another series that
- 1:57:11I am incredibly not. I've never really played them so
- 1:57:18and they added patches to the to the original legacy collection
- 1:57:21for Metal Gear Solids 3 and. What was the what was the one?
- 1:57:25What was the first one? I think yeah, yeah, 50 frames.
- 1:57:29Yeah, it fixed. The frame rate.
- 1:57:30It fixed the frame rate. Yeah.
- 1:57:32But they also, but they also like, they also enhance.
- 1:57:34Enhance the graphics of of a nugget Solid Snake eater.
- 1:57:40Yeah, So good on them. Good on Konami, good on.
- 1:57:44Sony stay to play, go watch it, but that's it.
- 1:57:49We are we are out of time everybody.
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