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Why Gaming Isn’t Fun Anymore and How to Fix It · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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Hello everybody, welcome to the Bossers podcast.
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Play a great place to play games and be better.
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I am one of your hosts, LeBron Dawkins, better known species
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Muscle race, and alongside me this week is of course the mad
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pharmacist Stephanie Klimov. Hello.
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And that guy who's been who's been travelling lately, PK
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Power, Patrick Cline, hey. Damn straight.
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I've been travelling. Hit my, I hit my mid 40s.
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No, not my mid 40s. I'm still early 40s.
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But you know what? I've hit my midlife crisis and
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it's like I have been sitting on my ass and I need to get out and
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I need to see that world and I need to be like world.
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My name is Patrick and I am the PK Power.
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All right, all right. How's everybody doing?
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We haven't had any good week so far.
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So let me tell you my boss, we have this meeting going on at
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work where all the investors are, have come in and my boss is
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adamant that we need to come in in a suit jacket, like super
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dressed up business formal. And like we're pretty sure.
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Like in our group is pretty sure.
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Oh, if they, if these investors do actually come around to our
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office, they're probably just they're literally like step in
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like the entryway and someone could be like this.
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It's a group and then, you know, walk away within like 3 seconds.
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Sure enough, that is all what happened.
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And also we're the we were the only group that was like
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complete in suit jackets. Like everyone else is like, wow,
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don't you guys all look fancy? And it's like, yeah, 'cause our
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boss told us that this was what we had to dress in.
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Even though like the people who are actually with the investors
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are just in business casual. So it's, yes, I got to try out
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my my suit jacket, which I haven't poured for like well
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over a year. And you know what, it fits now.
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Nice. That's good.
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That's awesome. But my white shirt is a little
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too big now. So wait.
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The one I got because I was fat. So like, is the standing dress
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code thing now or or or was it just?
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A particular situation, more for the just a particular situation
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where we were having people give us money, walk around the
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office. So you're supposed to be like,
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hey, look, we're professionals and they didn't even bother and
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come up and say, man, you look snazzy today.
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I appreciate your suit jacket. Oh well, I'm pretty sure you
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were looking snazzy. That was I look damn good.
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Best to impress. All right, and and Steph, so
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how's, how's the marathon prep doing?
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Marathon prep little by little. Baby steps.
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I try not to think about the overwhelm.
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Crushingly overwhelming stakes. I'm in Week 3 and yeah, just one
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day at a time. I loaded up on a lot of podcasts
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to listen to while I'm on my runs.
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Oh, nice. Oh, running to podcasts.
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I don't know. I don't know if I can do that.
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Steph, do you get to eat whatever you want now that
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you're boosting your metabolism up to unhealthy or not
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unhealthy, but on human levels? Almost like I I've, I've
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definitely noticed like my appetites change and I feel like
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scarfing down food like crazy. I just need to be careful about
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the food choices that I make and when I eat them.
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Mm hmm. So, but yeah, I, I have noticed
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that and I'm just, I'm drinking water all the time.
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I'm so thirsty constantly. Which when you get to a certain
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age, you can't really get away with that because then your
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bladder wakes you up in the middle of the night.
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Yeah, oh, oh, yeah. Like that's that's that's that's
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like the curse I live with now. Yep, and I have to stretch more
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and everything's all tight and it hurts.
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So yeah, all good stuff. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. But, but I I think I heard you
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say something about there was something special about your
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hotel arrangements or something like that.
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Oh yes, so for those that do or don't know, I'm running the
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Kyoto 2026 marathon because Nintendo's 40th anniversary for
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Mario was really the only reason that tipped that scale.
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I booked the hotel and I'm staying at what was formerly the
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original Nintendo headquarters. I'll look up the name.
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It's got like the the the Maru Fukuro Hotel.
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So Maru Fukuro Hotel. It's a boutique hotel located in
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Kyoto and the former headquarters of Nintendo.
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So be really cool. Very nice, very nice.
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So it looks like. They have some cool like
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Nintendo like stuff in the hotel.
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I hope so too. So it looks like you're actually
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doing get some enjoyment or some fulfillment out of doing this
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marathon because yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Good God, yeah. I I I could not.
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No, I mean, I'm trying to think about the food and the other
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stuff we'd be doing there. Like unless I unless the odds
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are impossible, I really don't know what the odds are.
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I want to take my son to the Nintendo Museum.
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I want to go there but I believe tickets are still via lottery
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and I don't know the odds of said lottery.
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I really. Want marathon?
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People were getting tickets. I didn't get any.
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I'll double check but I I didn't get any.
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I thought there was like special perks about that.
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I don't know. Perks, perks, merks, This is
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Nintendo we're talking. The only perk I'm getting is
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that that Mario Bibb. I'll stay on top of that.
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You know, at least at least you're getting something.
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Yeah, I'm going to be able to eat whatever I want.
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And taken on son when you're done.
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Yes. Is there?
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Yes, Is there? Is there an authentic food that
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you want to eat while you're over there?
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I mean, I, I have been in Kyoto, so I've kind of already
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experienced the food that I wanted to.
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So now I just want to go back again.
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Like, I just want to have actual real ramen when I'm in.
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We're going to swing by Tokyo on the way home.
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I want to go get fresh sushi at the fish market again, you know?
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Sushi or sashimi? Both.
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Both OK. Yeah, and.
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I like, I like, I like sashimi. I love sashimi.
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And you know, the yakitori, the grilled stuff, just all the
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basics and their desserts because they they do a really
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fun job with their desserts. You said you should try and make
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a reservation to the Kirby Cafe. Kirby Cafe.
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There's a. Kirby Cafe.
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There's a Kirby cafe do. They do.
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They encourage you to inhale your food while you're there.
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Well, they encourage your reservation, otherwise you're
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not kidding all. Right.
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I am going to do that all right. Thank you.
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Done. Boy, boy.
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which is at bosphorus.net. OK, so I kind of like the remix
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that we've been doing a cup for for the past couple of weeks
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here. So let's start with what we've
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been playing the this past this this past week or, or two weeks
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cause 'cause, yeah, we, we, we technically took a week off from
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recording 'cause we had, we had extra episodes down the in the
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pipe. So so I let's see Stephenie, you
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want to go? First, OK, and I everyone feel
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free to jump in on one set. You guys have also been playing.
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But first I'll start off with on my switch to I am playing
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Shinobi art of vengeance. That was going to be my game
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until I get my physical Final Fantasy tactics for the for the
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switch. I like it.
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This is actually see again. This is a lot of first for me,
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my first shinobi game. The graphics are are beautiful.
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I, I love that kind of art style.
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It's Metroidvania, so say it's, you know, it's all right.
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Yeah, I think, and it's, I'm not sure.
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I don't think it's the game's fault.
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I just think that maybe I, I don't want to say outgrow
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Metroidvanias because it's not like an age thing, but I maybe
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I've played so many Metroidvanias that maybe it
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doesn't have the same appeal as it as it had before, but it's
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pretty challenging. Like a metroidvania light.
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I would describe it just because it's level based, but the levels
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themselves allow you to explore. Yeah, and that's what I was
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going to say, that there is something that was that's just
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different enough where I find myself still returning to it.
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So that's good. The the bosses are fantastic.
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So overall great game and I'm enjoying it.
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I'm only concerned that I might lose track and I'm not because
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I'm not enjoying it, but because of games, all the games that are
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coming out and have been coming out and a game that I had
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finished that I know Laurent's been playing, so I'm sure I can
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get have him add to to it later. But I finished Metal Gear Solid,
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Delta Snake Eater and boy, that, that was quite a ride.
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Thanks. Quite a ride.
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I I've enjoyed it. I I've been relisted on.
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Off rush ranking all the solid choice, yes.
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Solid choice. Did I hear my?
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Did I hear my name a second ago? No, yeah, no, I was just talking
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about like you, you know, throw throw in your two cents when you
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when you want about Metal Gear Solid Delta, 'cause I just said
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I finished the game. Oh awesome, awesome.
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How did you like the fight against the boss?
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At first it pissed me off so much I'm like how the hell does
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this bitch? It was like it was clairvoyant.
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Right. And then I did one of those
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things. I'm like, all right, let me
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stop. And I kept trying to like look
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up like how you defeat the boss and I just like couldn't
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understand what they were saying.
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So I left it and I return another day and I don't know, I
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guess it just clicked. Sometimes I just need to put the
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controller down and come back to it.
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And I finally was able to manage the close quarters combat with
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her. So I took her out the non lethal
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way so instead of dying like 20 times I probably died only four
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times and then I beat her. And then seeing the ending made
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it like very rewarding. So looking back on it, she has
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now become my favorite boss fight.
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But I just came into it not understanding because I tend to
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want to brute force everything. Wait, wait, wait.
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I I don't I don't recall there. You could.
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You could defeat her non legally.
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I don't. Recall it is.
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Well, I mean how you would describe it, non lethal kill,
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non lethal kill, non lethal is using close quarters combat and
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then just using the tranquilizer.
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Oh, OK. OK.
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That's what I mean by I mean any boss you take out non lethally
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they still explode at the end so.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That that that's the weird thing about I, I forget, I forget the
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lore about it was like they were like, like they were like they
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were all rigged to explode if if they were ever captured behind
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lines or something like that. Oh yeah, something like that.
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Just what made the Cobra unit so efficient?
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Because, like, they never lost. They never lost like, you know,
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like campaigns. Yeah, so I got confused the
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first time. I think it was the fear where I
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defeated him non non lethally and he exploded.
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I'm like, what just happened? Yeah, but yeah, it's I'm so glad
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I played the game. I'm disappointed in myself that
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I'm so bad at stealth. Like I, I just.
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Couldn't this is the hard This is the hardest game for stealth
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in the Metal Gear series. I well, I feel like this is the
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hardest game for stuff in the other series.
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I have not played Melger solid 5 Phantom Pain all the way through
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so I can't say for sure. Like you know, like if if that
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game tops this, but Melger Solid 4 was not was not bad as far as
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stealth goes because I was. Open enough that you could just
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kind of run away and everyone will forget truth there, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, this is, this was the hardest game as far as the
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stealth mechanic went, because it seemed like, and I think, I
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think honestly, it was just there to pad your time in the
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game. Because like, in all
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seriousness, I feel like, I feel like even when I call myself
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running through the game, I look at, I look at my time and I'm
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like, what the hell. Like I've been playing this game
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for this long. OK, I feel a little bit better
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because in the beginning I sincerely did try.
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I sincerely did. And then at a certain point I
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just said fuck it. I just started shooting
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everyone, so my boss fight against the Sorrow was, well, I
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bet that. Was.
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I bet that was interesting. That was.
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Awful. But yeah, I and I'm really glad
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that I I never was spoiled on the plot.
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So by the time I reached the end and all those scenes play now,
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it was very moving emotionally, so it rough.
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So I did. I really, really loved it.
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I'm so glad to finally play it. I'm, I'm at and this is your
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where you at? I, I, I haven't picked it back
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up since. I have not picked it back up
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since, since, since the last. And I think I, I think I
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resigned myself that when I pick it back up, I'm just going to
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start from the beginning, just just bulldoze my way through it.
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So yeah, like I haven't picked it back up yet because I'm, I'm
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a little disgusted. Yeah.
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Well, just by, by the by the circumstance, because because
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I'm, I, I get busy and I get these, I get these spurts of
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like I just do not have time to play video games or just can't
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get it up to play video games sometimes.
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And so, so yeah, so like that happened.
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Unfortunately, Metal Gear Solid, which I knew I could have beaten
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that before, before Final Fantasy Tactics came out, I knew
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I could beat beaten that. But just that one set back, you
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know, like screwed me over. But that was the set back
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probably did me some good because like, because like I am
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more than halfway through Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
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The first, the first one. Yeah.
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So, so, yeah. So I, I think it was a good
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trade, you know, and I was like, OK, look, I'm going to play.
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I'm going to play because you were out, You were out for a
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little while, Stephanie. But I was playing, I was playing
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the original Final Fantasy Tactics.
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Well, the World Alliance version for PSPI was playing that for a
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while to get to get excited for Fall Fantasy Tactics, the Evil E
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Chronicles. And then and then, and then it
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hit me. I was like, I'm playing this
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game and I'm going to get burnt out and then I'm not going to
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want to play Evil E Chronicles, so I stop.
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What we in the business call a Corey.
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Yeah, so I stopped and I was like, you know what I got?
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I I now have the Final Fantasy bug.
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So like, let me go play Final Fantasy 7 Remake because I have
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not played through it and beat it yet and stuff like that.
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So yeah, so I think I'm going to be playing both those games like
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simultaneously and still like that.
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Given that, given that for the most part, like those games
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don't even like don't even like touch each other, Well, that's a
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lie. That's a lie.
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Yes, they. Do that's a lie?
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I mean, they don't touch each other enough that the story,
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that the storylines for either games matter.
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But yeah. So congratulations on being your
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first Metal Gear Solid. Are you going to go back and
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play one one of the older ones? I would I would recommend
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playing Metal Gear, just Metal Gear Solid first.
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The the first one, actually. Yeah, I actually.
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Need to find. The master collection.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, Do that. Yeah.
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Play the master collection. And and because you played
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technically the prequel game now, now is a good time to
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actually go back and play the first game.
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The the the first game game. He really means the third game,
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yeah. Yeah, yeah, it is the third
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game. But if you include the NES, the
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NES like in titles which are in the collection.
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I'm going to tell you. Right now I'm going to tell you.
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Right now you you think you think No, we just saw it. 3 was
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tough with with stealth, But if you go back and play Metal Gear
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and Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake, you were in for you're you're in
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for a bad time. Oh great.
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So I should just start off shooting everyone but.
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But the storyline, well, yeah, well, that's a good thing.
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You don't get penalized. You don't get penalized for
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killing people. But the enemies respawn when you
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when you leave the screen and come back, they they're back.
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Oh. Man, yeah.
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Yeah, when you leave the screen. And come back, they're back.
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Yeah, that's the only, that's the only hiccup on that, you
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know, but yeah, so I, so I figure, you know, like, I'm
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happy. I'm happy.
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Yeah, I'm very. Happy.
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And I, I definitely will return to that collection.
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Thank you. The game you play you.
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Play a game from my, from my nostalgia, from my, from, from
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my vintage. And even though, even though
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technically I was late to the party beating Metal Gear Solid
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3, 'cause I beat it, I beat it. I beat it on its second round of
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re release. So that was my PlayStation game.
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So the game that I and I beat it just in time, Silent Hill F and
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I can't wait to hear what Pat has to say about it.
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But it's interesting because. Well, first of all.
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I like it. I like it a lot.
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I'm happy. It's my spoopy game and I'm very
20:17
intrigued to see where it's going.
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I have a couple of story theories.
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I'm glad and I'm grateful I wrote a banter on this that you
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know, Konami is trying to shake things up a little bit.
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I do feel like this is the Resident Evil 7 for Konami, like
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they're they're doing taking a little different approach.
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I don't. Feel that Silent Hill needs to
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take place in literal Silent Hill.
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As long as you have the elements there, you know the fog, the
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psychological fuckery. When they say find beauty and
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terror, that is very true. Things are actually so pretty.
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I'm like, it's scary primarily by the sound design and the
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little again, mind fucks. But you know, I kind of
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understand when Pat texted me, he goes not sure if it's really
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as as scary. And it made me thought think
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because I played the Silent Hill two remake last year.
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And if I were to honestly compare to if it's which game is
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which game is scarier just on that one factor alone, I would
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say Silent Hill 2 is way scarier.
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I'm actually playing Silent Hill F in the dark and not like
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needing someone by my side or having to wear a diaper because
21:44
I'm terrified. How scary is it?
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I mean, Pat. You help me verbalize it.
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I, I, there's definitely creepy, spooky stuff.
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The monsters are grotesque. But I, I'm, I'm not.
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I can't put my finger on it. Pat, what do you think?
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OK well it definitely has a creepy vibe with terms of
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monsters and how this mist has starts like combining this like
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fleshy substance mixed in with like floral patterns as well.
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So the atmosphere is there. I think though it doesn't come
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off as creepy because your character for some reason is
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like a ninja when it comes to combat.
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She's. She hits like a tank, she moves
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like a butterfly like she's you have this dodge ability which
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like shoots you way past and generous.
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Dodge. It's a very generous dodge and
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you also have this ability to kind of like slow time it you
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have a third, like you have 3 meters, you have your health
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meter, then you have a stamina meter, and then you also have a
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sanity meter. And the stamina meter goes down
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when you like swing your weapon. And depending on what weapon you
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have, it goes down at certain intervals.
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But the sanity meter is allows you to focus on enemy movements,
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like it kind of slows down time and there are certain abilities
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that the enemies can do that will have them kind of like
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flash this red distortion. And if you hit the heavy attack
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button during this distortion, you actually counter them and do
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some pretty massive damage. However, if they hit you while
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you're in focus mode, you lose all that sanity that you were
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like using. Like otherwise your sanity could
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rebuild again. And then the only way to really
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build that sanity back up is either use some items or find
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the nearest shrine and basically recharge yourself there.
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Yeah, I. Wonder if that's why because in
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the time setting all you really have is melee weapons.
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So I mean, I know resource management is still a thing, but
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I never felt like I ran out of weapons because you can carry up
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to three. And the weapons are fairly
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durable too. Fairly durable.
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You can fix them. Granted I am playing on story
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mode. OK, guys, I'm I'm just going to
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admit it, Steph. Steph, let me tell you
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something. Story mode in this game is
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called normal, yeah. They.
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Don't give. You a normal it's story hard and
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lost in the fog. Lost in the fog you can't even
24:40
get until you actually beat it, I think.
24:44
Actually, I don't even know. No, I think you can start on
24:47
hard if you want to, but you can't start lost in the fog I
24:50
think, until you be hard. But I may be wrong about that.
24:55
Well, I mean. But maybe it's because I and
24:57
because of the battling mechanics, maybe the that makes
25:02
me feel less vulnerable. You know, I don't worry about
25:05
bullets. I feel like all right, bring it
25:09
bitch, I'm going to beat the shit out of you.
25:12
So maybe part of that is why I'm not as scared.
25:14
I'm curious to see what your thoughts on on that on the
25:18
fighting mechanics, because, you know, I appreciate them trying
25:22
to do something different. But I still feel like Silent
25:24
Hill isn't still isn't that strong when it comes to to yeah,
25:29
fight mechanics. I I.
25:30
I still feel like one of the. It still holds one of those
25:34
concepts of if you're if you can run, it's probably better to run
25:41
from the battle than it is to fight.
25:44
Especially during those parts where like all of a sudden
25:47
there's like 5 monsters like coming at you and then you're
25:51
like OK, this clearly is not meant for me to fight.
25:55
They really do want me to just run out of this situation.
26:02
I, you know, at first I was a little off put by the fact that
26:05
she's a good fighter at like age 13 or 15, depending.
26:10
I think that's her age range. But then it makes more sense
26:13
when you find out that she's actually a track star in her
26:18
school or that she's, you know, is in the Sports Club.
26:22
So she is very competitive. When again also her back story
26:27
about hanging out with boys more than girls.
26:31
So she is more capable I guess in those regards.
26:34
So at least there's a reason why she's a good fighter in in those
26:40
in that case. How far along are you, Pat?
26:44
I just finished. I think the place is called the
26:53
worship hall. I think it is.
26:56
It's it's, yeah, it's right after the school.
26:59
It's the the next kind of, you know, otherworldly place where
27:04
I'm. Right there too.
27:05
Just finished that one I'm. Literally right there, too.
27:08
Nice. So yeah.
27:09
And you know what? I hate to go back to art style.
27:12
I should say I hate to. I think, and this is personal,
27:15
the reason why I found Silent Hill too, probably more scary.
27:18
There's just something because it's it's scary ugly.
27:21
You're in like a dilapidated prison.
27:24
You're in a dilapidated apartment and you're sticking
27:28
your hand in a toilet. Whereas like in in in this
27:32
Silent Hill F it's still scary, but like it's actually really
27:36
beautiful. Like, oh, look at the pretty
27:37
flowers, even though it's also got pulsated flesh.
27:41
Look at these beautiful shrines, Even though the in the Inari has
27:46
bering fangs. So like, the beauty is a little
27:48
disarming for me, you know, I just, you know, I do like the
27:54
character. I, I, I probably can relate a
27:57
bit more to her than I can to James because I was a tomboy.
28:01
I would rather play with boys than with the girls.
28:04
And then some of the bullying, a little bit of like this thing
28:09
with the parents of what I know in the story so far.
28:12
I'm not saying my life is a parallel to hers, but there's
28:17
still some things where like at a milder level I can relate and
28:21
so I'm appreciating the story. I do wonder why she seems so OK
28:27
to go along with things in the other world.
28:32
So we'll see. Yeah, it my understanding is,
28:37
and it may be a little bit of a spoiler, but this is a game you
28:45
actually need to play a couple times to get the full story.
28:49
And from what I understand, multiple playthroughs actually
28:52
change up how the story is told. I'm really.
28:56
Not surprised. I'm not surprised.
28:58
Yeah, all right. Like enable.
29:00
To get the true ending, you actually have to beat the game
29:02
twice or three times. Oh man 3.
29:06
Times. Oh man, 3 times.
29:07
I don't know if that that's a lot.
29:09
That's a lot. Of gameplay.
29:11
But but yeah, so overall I am thoroughly enjoying it.
29:17
I don't mind that it's quote UN quote not as scary as Silent
29:20
Hill to because it's scary in its own right.
29:22
It's just different. Different character, different
29:26
setting. There's a lot of lore in this
29:30
game and I think that's definitely one of the strong
29:32
points. And yes, is when she, when you
29:35
go through scenes or if you see something like unique on like
29:39
the map, she writes the stuff down in the journal.
29:42
And it's not just it's like really detailed about all the
29:46
stuff that she goes into My they've got a very good scenario
29:51
writer for this game. So the story is definitely, I
29:57
would say, the strongest part of Silent Hill app.
30:01
Yeah. Thanks for bringing.
30:02
Up the journal. I agree.
30:03
So final note, I'm pissed at GameStop.
30:08
Surprise, surprise number one. I went to pick it up and I said,
30:13
do I get a steel book for pre ordering it?
30:15
Because that's what I was told and they're like, yeah, well,
30:18
they didn't ship us that much, so we don't have any.
30:20
I'm like, what the fuck? So I'm mad that I didn't get my
30:23
steel book that games and I got in the balls on GameStop.
30:27
I got an e-mail later that day, just like a generic e-mail, get
30:30
pre-order Soundhill F and you get a steel book.
30:33
I'm like, go fuck yourself that. Is a freaky lucky steel book
30:37
too. Yeah, and that.
30:39
Guy that rang me out because he did it so fast because normally
30:42
when they ring you out, they asked do you want to protect it
30:45
with this stupid protection guarantee?
30:48
And then I say no and then they don't.
30:50
And then he never asked me that question.
30:53
And then as soon as I paid, he goes and Yep, along with that
30:56
you got the protection. I'm like, oh, is it like
30:58
included now? And I walked out where through
31:00
his seat he rung me up he auto. Rang it.
31:03
Wow. For both my freaking games that
31:06
I got, I was so pissed. I was like you You.
31:09
Should have gone back and be like.
31:10
Remove this. Yeah, I.
31:13
I realized, you know? I was so mad.
31:16
This is one of those, this is one of those rare times when I
31:18
was like, you know, like they still do the survey.
31:22
I think. So, but I didn't get anything
31:26
for yeah, like. There's like, there's a, like
31:28
there's a website you can go to. Like I used to hate that.
31:31
I used to hate that survey because like it was basically a
31:34
customer satisfaction survey for every, every receipt, every,
31:37
every person wasn't because like it was a thing where like they
31:40
were pushing it to where like, you know, like where like you
31:43
had to tell everybody and you had to circle it on the receipt.
31:45
You know, like, hey, go to the go to this website and give us,
31:48
give us some feedback for how we did.
31:50
And so like that and like and like and like we would, we would
31:53
get negative, we would get negative, negative feedbacks off
31:57
the surveys, you know, for like the most random, really dumb,
32:01
like idiotic shit, you know, like shit goes out of our
32:04
control and everything, right. And so like, yeah, like, yeah,
32:08
like, so we'd always be fighting with our district managers and
32:12
stuff because like, you know, these are, you know, because
32:14
this stuff. But I feel like this is one of
32:16
the times when like you have a legit reason to like give a
32:19
negative feedback on the on the on the report.
32:22
Yeah, I'll. Keep my eyes filled because that
32:23
yeah, that rubbed me the wrong way And and just also side note,
32:27
sorry, side tangent also, I was there to this is less offensive.
32:31
It just was annoying when I was being rung out, you know, I was
32:34
trying to make small talk like, oh, I just played Metal Gear
32:37
Solid. And then this girl, another
32:39
employee just popped out of nowhere.
32:41
I think she was like sitting behind the counter to him and
32:43
see her. So she scared me.
32:45
She tried to get in a debate with me about if it was truly a
32:48
remake because she didn't think it was a remake because of this,
32:51
that the other thing like she was getting very animated and
32:56
upset. Was built from the ground up.
32:59
It's a reason remake. It is I.
33:02
Know they used Unreal Engine instead of Fox Engine, but they
33:05
didn't. Actually change any like
33:08
gameplay wait. Wait, wait, actually she needed
33:11
to talk to me because I could tell her all where all the
33:13
gameplay was changed at. CQC is.
33:17
Different. First of all, CQC is different
33:20
like like you now have, you have an aiming redisil for all your
33:24
weapons for whether it's the tranquilizer gun or the machine
33:27
guns you know you had, you now have an aiming redisil that's
33:30
all different, designed for those weapons and stuff like
33:32
that. There's different nuances to all
33:35
the boss battles now, you know, there's all sorts of stuff
33:38
that's different about this game than what it was in the
33:41
original, while at the same time it's still a 1 to 1 remake.
33:44
This couldn't just couldn't add a whole bunch of like fluff and
33:47
other bullshit in there or some stuff to expand the story.
33:49
I guess what they can't expand the story because it's there
33:51
would be a story, you know? Exactly, but OK.
34:00
So. So Last of Us is considered
34:01
remakes? Metal Gear Solid definitely fits
34:06
three, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
34:08
No, and and she just had such a visceral reaction to me simply
34:11
saying I enjoy Metal Gear style of Delta.
34:14
I didn't even say oh like I didn't.
34:17
She just just started. I'm like, I need to get the fuck
34:19
out of here. It's like it was a weird
34:21
experience and I think I'm done with that store.
34:25
I see. GameStop still I see GameStop
34:27
still attracts those type of people as employees.
34:30
Yeah. Because I had.
34:32
My fair, I had my fair share of it back when I was a manager.
34:35
Like I tried my best not to, not to like hire like the Uber, the
34:38
Uber gamer, you know, like, you know, you know, or the snobby
34:42
gamer, basically, you know, I was like, hey, like everybody
34:44
has an opinion, but guess what? You're behind the counter.
34:47
Like you're supposed to be the expert, not the asshole.
34:50
Exactly. But anyway, that's what I've
34:52
been playing. I know I went a little bit long,
34:54
but since we had a little bit of time, I I kind of, I kind of
34:57
like the games I've been playing, so it's good.
35:00
They talk about them. Yeah.
35:02
Talk, talk to us. All right.
35:05
Well. There's not a whole lot more I
35:07
can add to the Silent Hill conversation, but you know it in
35:12
my it doesn't quite hit that same feeling as a Silent Hill
35:18
game to me. But I still appreciate for what
35:21
it is and it's still a good game.
35:26
Well, what I mean by that is I it doesn't hit that creep like
35:29
the pure creepiness that 1-2 and three and especially 4 dead.
35:34
But it is a fun game. It's different.
35:37
But you know what, I like the fact that they are doing
35:41
different things. You know, I encouraged new
35:44
things to be done. That way you can find out
35:47
whether or not you like said new thing or if you prefer old way
35:51
better. Or at least they're trying,
35:54
which is more credit than, you know, Konami's done in a long
35:58
time, so. Yep.
36:03
So Silksong still working through that.
36:06
I have now about 60 hours into this game.
36:12
Wow. Oh.
36:13
Wow, that's a lot of time. Yes, they weren't kidding.
36:17
There is a lot of stuff in this game and I've gotten two of the
36:23
five endings so far. I tried for the what they call
36:28
the curse ending and which is considered like the bad ending
36:32
and I find it weird that they hide the bad ending behind some
36:36
really tough challenges. It's almost like they don't want
36:39
you to get the bad ending but basically there's your
36:46
character. Like you have to do something to
36:49
your character and the prevents your character from healing.
36:53
And so you basically have to fight the boss of, you know, the
36:57
end of that story arc without healing and you only get like
37:03
four hits before like you're dead.
37:07
So it it, it's like I am not going to frustrate myself trying
37:11
to kill this boss because I just randomly get hit by some stupid
37:19
attack and then just keep getting hit by that.
37:22
So I'm not going for the cursed ending.
37:24
I'll still try to 100% the game, which now I'm in the final act
37:32
of it and things definitely change.
37:34
And I imagine the final act is also going to be kind of long
37:37
because of some changes. So it's a long game.
37:44
You think it's going to win Game of the Year?
37:47
I don't know. You know, if you asked me two
37:50
weeks ago, I would probably say it's definitely stood a good
37:53
chance. But what's funny is that the
37:56
next game that I played might just have dethroned it and that.
38:03
Is Dun Dun Dun? I have.
38:07
I am playing Hades too, all right.
38:10
My. Very first Hades experience
38:12
because I never actually played the first one.
38:15
You didn't play the first one. I never played.
38:17
The first one I'm shocked. I.
38:20
Know that was like the one game that everyone played, but I did
38:24
not wow you. Have a you have a video game
38:27
blind spot? What the hell?
38:30
Yes, and that's mostly because of my aversion to roguelikes.
38:35
I do not. Like roguelike games.
38:38
OK, so you and. You and Corey are best friends
38:40
then, Yeah, No. In, in my opinion, like having
38:47
to repeat the same thing over and over again because you
38:50
failed, yeah. Is.
38:53
Like I consider that wasting my time.
38:55
Yeah, I agree. However, I am actually enjoying
39:01
Hades too right now because when I lose I don't feel like I
39:05
wasted my time it the game is very very good at making it feel
39:12
like it's actually a natural part of the game.
39:15
Do I have to go back to the levels again?
39:18
Absolutely. Do I have to fight the bosses at
39:20
the end of those levels? Yes, I do.
39:23
However, every time that I lose, I get sent back to the hub world
39:28
and everyone has their conversations that they have,
39:31
and they may even be specific to how I lost in that world.
39:36
Like I was talking to some guys like, So what did you win this
39:40
time? And you know, my character's
39:42
like, oh, it was one of these creatures.
39:43
And he's like, oh, that's a nasty piece of work.
39:46
This is kind of what you have to do to get around it.
39:49
You know, it's almost like he's offering like his hint of like
39:53
that. Like for me it was one, it was
39:56
this creature that was like shrouded in a dark cloud.
40:00
And so I was always like trying to play defensively because I
40:03
didn't know exactly where like when it was going to hit.
40:05
And According to him, he's like, no, no, you actually go straight
40:09
forward. Just go straight forward and be
40:12
as aggressive as possible towards that creature.
40:15
It's like, Oh well, when I run into it again next time I will
40:19
consider that. Yeah, other characters have like
40:24
many different things to say and they can you can also run into
40:30
them on the battlefield, which can progress different
40:33
conversations as well, because then they talk about it in the
40:36
hub world again. And progression.
40:41
Like I don't feel as weak as going back into the levels again
40:46
because you get all this like loot and like resources, which
40:51
then you can use to like promote incantations, which might add
40:57
like helpful benefits into the level, such as hidden springs or
41:02
calling in a certain character or upgrading like other kind of
41:07
like, I don't know, just like little different benefits or
41:15
maybe getting enough material to make a new weapon or to just
41:21
like upgrade other just kind of like little other things that
41:26
just make you stronger in your next run.
41:32
So I, you know, I, I really appreciate that because now I
41:37
don't feel like I'm wasting my time.
41:38
And I can see the difference from when I made my very first
41:41
run to the run that I did last or just before this podcast
41:46
where I was just one room. When I started the run just
41:53
before the podcast, I didn't beat the second boss.
41:56
That was kind of like the last place I got to was the second
41:59
boss of the game. And by the time I finished this
42:04
run, not only did I beat the second boss, I beat the third
42:06
boss and was just one room away from getting to the fourth boss.
42:12
So like I made some much like greater progress in this one.
42:19
And you know, I I I like that. I like that the game doesn't
42:25
feel like it's punishing me. And so it encourages me to
42:28
actually continue on further in this series.
42:31
That's. What I like to hear, yeah.
42:36
Yeah, for real. Yeah, it's also.
42:38
Got some good voice acting your. Original game had phenomenal
42:43
voice acting like like like honestly like like like people
42:47
were people were like having bisexual panic with with the the
42:52
with the protagonist of the first game.
42:54
Oh, Zagreus. Zagreus, thank.
42:56
You. Yeah, I was, yeah.
42:58
I've got final fancy tactics on the on the brain because I was,
43:00
I was going to say Agrius. Yeah, no, there there's some
43:04
really beautiful people, both men and women in this game.
43:08
And like I love how like the animations are like kind of
43:11
shiny or like they got some like effects going on with them.
43:17
And also the combats very smooth too, like like you get if you
43:24
find a weapon style that you'd like, you know, by all means,
43:27
kind of stick with it. Like I've got four different
43:29
weapons. No, I just got unlocked my I
43:33
just unlocked my 4th weapon before I had three different
43:36
weapons and I was getting partial to the knife and sickle,
43:40
which are more like really fast close up weapons.
43:45
But I just unlocked a giant battle axe.
43:48
So I'm, you know, my next one. I'm obviously going to take that
43:50
out and for a spin and see like if maybe I like that one better
43:54
now. But like if you don't like what,
43:58
try a different the thing the. Thing about oh I'm sorry, I keep
44:01
thinking you're done so. I'm done now, OK?
44:05
Gone. I was just not.
44:05
I was just going to let you know the thing about Hades is that it
44:08
encourages you to like, try out different weapons and stuff like
44:10
that, you know, and each run and stuff like that, you know?
44:14
So yeah, like, sounds like you're having fun.
44:17
Yeah, no, I'm definitely having a lot more fun than I thought.
44:20
I can see why, You know, a lot of people appreciate this
44:24
series. Is it going to be my game of the
44:26
year? I don't know.
44:28
I mean, I I still kind of feel that Expedition is pretty high
44:33
up on that list, but I can definitely see this year's Game
44:38
Awards are going to be very unpredictable.
44:41
There are too many really good titles out there and what's cool
44:45
is that half of them are Indies. For real.
44:51
Yeah, I'm looking. Forward to playing Hades too.
44:53
I'm still waiting for my physical, which comes later.
44:55
Physical. No, that one's a true physical.
44:58
It's going, it's going. To be a while before I play
45:00
Hades too, because it was a while before I played Hades.
45:03
Yeah, nice. Any.
45:07
Anything else, Pat? Nope, those were my primary
45:10
focuses right now. OK.
45:12
All right, all right. Of course I'm.
45:14
Looking forward to this week. Ghost of you.
45:16
OK, Yeah. And.
45:19
Surprisingly, the Mario Galaxy, because a lot of my games have
45:23
been dark and oppressive and it's like I need something
45:27
light. I am trying to figure out, I'm
45:30
going to try to figure out if I'm going to take a stab at the
45:32
Mario Galaxy games this time because like originally.
45:35
When? I when I tried to play them like
45:37
I was getting very bad motion sickness from playing them, from
45:40
trying to play them to the point where I just ruined my
45:42
experience. And I don't know, maybe maybe
45:45
playing it in a on a handheld on a small screen might fix that.
45:50
It's it's. Possible I mean, I've heard some
45:52
good things about this new new sport.
45:55
Obviously it's four Ki, think it's 60 frames.
45:59
And for the motion controls, you can actually use the mouse
46:03
controls for the switch to. I'm just.
46:06
Afraid I'm a spend 70 bucks for this game and I'm not going to
46:09
enjoy it. I'm just afraid, that's all.
46:15
Alright, Mario. It's a meme, Mario.
46:19
Yeah, but. Yeah, but it's my least like
46:20
Mario games just because of just because of what I encountered
46:24
the first time playing them, you know?
46:26
Yeah. So.
46:27
Who knows, Who knows, I might. I might just take the plunge.
46:31
OK, well, as you heard like I crashed and burned them out of
46:35
solid delta because because you know, like the concept of time
46:39
is is not forgiving in this game.
46:43
So I so I had been playing Final Fantasy 7 remake and I'm
46:47
actually really enjoying enjoying that like I'm like,
46:51
what the hell took me so long to play it?
46:52
I guess is the is the is the main thing I I love.
46:57
I love all the nuances of what they've done with all the
46:59
characters and stuff like that. I love.
47:01
I just the music is so freaking good.
47:05
The music is so freaking good. Yeah, it's a good.
47:08
Mix of like new and old and old. Yeah, like, yeah.
47:12
It's like, it's like, you know, they're like, we're going to,
47:14
we're going to, we're going to remix the Evan children's
47:17
soundtrack, which was already a remix of the original Final
47:20
Fantasy 7 soundtrack. And it's.
47:23
Like Oh my God, it's so, it's so good, it's so good.
47:26
Like I even the. Battle theme is just like yeah
47:29
it. Feels so you're like there's
47:32
like there's like so far it's like 5 different versions of
47:34
battle theme that I've that I've heard in this game.
47:37
It's it's it's wild. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
47:42
So there's that. I I am playing Tekken 8.
47:46
I actually, I actually made a breakthrough because I actually,
47:49
I actually got promoted to the purple ranks.
47:51
I actually made nice. I actually made.
47:53
The Tekken King and then got smacked back down the bushing.
47:56
So, so there's that. But yeah, I'm still, yeah, I'm
48:02
still having a, I'm still having a blast plain Tekken, even
48:04
though I know like the the the community is kind of kind of out
48:07
there right now. You know, as far as like season
48:10
2 has not been a good ride for, for like the, for like the core,
48:13
like Tekken people. And, you know, I'm just playing
48:15
it because I'm, you know, and I think.
48:23
There's something. Fun to be had about the game but
48:26
what I do want to talk about is I downloaded the Xbox experience
48:30
for my raw Galax. OK, Yeah.
48:34
Yeah, I downloaded it, yes. And I am going to say this right
48:39
now. That damn.
48:41
Handheld play so much better. It plays so much better, you
48:45
know, because like it basically, it basically like like just
48:49
minimizes like all, all the windows stuff, you know, and you
48:54
guys know me like I'm, I'm an IT guy, like Windows is my Windows
48:57
is my playground and stuff like that.
49:00
I was like, you know, like it's not going to be that it's not
49:03
going to be that vast of an experience.
49:05
It it is a different experience. Like, you know, you turn the
49:08
damn thing on and it immediately looks the Xbox experience.
49:12
So it actually feels like you have an actual console
49:15
experience now. So like that you can still get
49:17
into windows if you need to and you know, like the setup is all
49:22
there for you to do whatever you need to do it.
49:26
You basically have it where you where you launch, where it
49:29
launches straight up and then, but it but all your other like
49:32
launchers like like steam, GOG and stuff like that, like
49:36
they're there just in case you need them or you know, so for
49:40
example, me playing Final Fantasy 7 remake, you know,
49:43
because that's that's a steam purchase.
49:46
Basically all I do is like, you know, it has every game in your
49:48
library that they recognizes and stuff like that.
49:51
So you just select your game, it opens the launcher for split
49:55
second and then you go right into your game and stuff like
49:57
that. You know, it's it I have, I have
50:01
0 complaints about it right now. I'm I'm enjoying it.
50:04
I'm going to go ahead and and add it to my original.
50:07
It's the OG ROG Ally, so I can see how that handles it.
50:11
But basically it's saving you a whole bunch of ram and resources
50:13
and stuff like that. So the game is actually playing,
50:15
the games are actually playing better and little more, little
50:18
more, less, less chunky, let's put it that way, which is good.
50:24
The one thing I will say though, is like is definitely in the
50:26
beta because like you still can't do certain things like,
50:29
you know, you still can't control like all your all your
50:32
wattage and, and, and, and temperature stuff directly from
50:35
the experience. Stuff like that.
50:36
You either have to open up Armory crate, which is part of
50:38
the of of the wrong ally basically anyway, or you
50:41
actually have to jump into windows mode and manage manage
50:44
all your TDP settings. Yeah, TDP is basically like
50:48
your, your thermal, your thermal temps for your like your for
50:50
like your CPU and stuff like that.
50:52
You know, for the people that need to know something.
50:55
But yeah. So I'm enjoying it.
50:59
I'm enjoying it. It's fun and and I think
51:03
everybody's going to have a lot of fun when like when like it
51:06
actually officially gets released for all consoles.
51:08
Of course, like it has to get released first when the ally X
51:11
comes out, when the Xbox Ally comes out and stuff like that.
51:15
Oh, and by the way, for people wondering how do you how do you
51:18
do the Xbox button? You can you can actually you can
51:21
actually set that up in settings through armored crate.
51:23
So you can have. I have to like the macro keys
51:26
like the ones on. The macro.
51:29
Keys like these, these buttons here on the back, I have to wear
51:32
one of the buttons like, you know, like you press the Xbox
51:34
button and actually brings up that the Xbox menu and the game
51:38
bar and all that stuff. So yeah, that's that's that's
51:41
how that goes. It's right here.
51:45
Don't follow. I'm very curious how, Yeah.
51:50
Yeah, so I would say if if anyone's, if anyone's out there
51:53
like, you know, because like it's, it's available for the the
51:57
raw allies, of course, the Legion go, the original Legion
52:01
go and a couple of other systems.
52:04
Unfortunately, Windows itself, like, you know, like Microsoft
52:08
Windows systems, like you can't, you can't do it just yet.
52:11
But but yeah, if you're, if you're able to try it out, I
52:14
would say try it out. The process to actually get it
52:16
done was not that involved. As a matter of fact, it took me
52:18
like 10 minutes. The the most, the most annoying
52:21
thing about it was like you have to make sure all your Windows
52:23
updates are done and you have to get into the developer program,
52:26
which is the beta, which is where the betas are AT and stuff
52:29
like that. But yeah.
52:33
I like it. I like it and it's actually,
52:35
it's actually made me pick up my ally Ally more to play recently,
52:40
which is good. You know, it's like, it's like
52:42
the facelift is needed. Nice SO.
52:46
That's that's everything I've been playing.
52:49
Soon as this soon as this show ends I am jumping on from all
52:52
dances hat. I I was very tempted to
52:55
pre-order the all right. All right, so.
52:58
Let's see. Let's see what we've got here,
53:00
Lauren. Can you hear, Pat?
53:02
Can. Can you hear us, Lauren?
53:06
Can you? Can you hear us?
53:09
I see. Oh yeah, I.
53:11
Don't think he can hear us. All right, Pat, just.
53:18
Say. What you can say?
53:20
So I was very tempted to pre-order the Xbox LIX.
53:25
You know, I the only thing I was kind of curious and I was hoping
53:28
to get La Ron's opinion on it was just kind of how that
53:32
interface worked and whether or not it was like easy to, hey,
53:37
I'm. Back, I'm back plays again.
53:39
OK, cool. Yeah, No, I was trying to ask
53:42
your opinion a couple times on the the interface because this
53:46
is essentially what the Rock, the Xbox Rock LAX is supposed to
53:50
be, right? Yeah, yeah.
53:52
And yeah, I was very tempted even though it was $1000 the the
53:58
high end model. But like, do you think like it
54:03
will be able to play games as well as it should?
54:07
Like I've been hearing some good things about it, like the AAA
54:11
experiences. OK, so.
54:15
I I think it's still going to be a mixed bag on that one because,
54:18
because honestly, like if you look at the, at the hardware
54:21
that's, that's pushing it, it's only like a 20% uplift on what
54:26
was currently in like the the current chips right now as far
54:29
as like, and that's, and that's where all the things, that's
54:31
where all the systems right now, you know, like when the Z, when
54:34
the Z2, when the Z2 like like Z2 AI chip comes out and stuff like
54:39
that, It'll be the, it'll be the the newest standard for what it
54:43
is. But apparently it's only a 20%
54:45
uplift from what's currently out here across all the PC handhelds
54:49
and stuff like that. So I still think it's going to
54:50
be a mixed bag. Now I now I think where like the
54:54
real the real test of the medals going to be is like is like how
54:59
it actually how it actually like deals with like because like
55:04
none more RAM is freed up. Like that's one of the hurdles
55:07
that, you know, a lot of these games they're, they're, they're
55:10
starving, You know, for, for resources are, are, are holding
55:13
the back yet. I honestly should try and try
55:17
Monster Hunter Wilds on this cause Monster Hunter Wilds does
55:21
not play nice on this. And, and actually I have
55:25
expedition 33 and expedition 33 was played, played good enough
55:29
for me to, for me to enjoy it, but it was mediocre at the same
55:31
time. So I was like, oh, there's some
55:33
things about this, you know, like, you know, so it's hard to
55:37
say right now. It's hard to say.
55:39
And I definitely feel like we won't know for sure until like
55:41
the actual product is in our hand.
55:45
Now when it comes to these handheld games, are there like
55:48
tweaking of like stats that you have to do with it kind of like
55:51
a normal PC game or are they same with all set?
55:55
OK. Yeah, for the.
55:56
Most part, but when the one of the nice things about the about
55:59
the Xbox experience, when like it actually when like the actual
56:02
full version is released is like when you download, when you when
56:05
you download games, it's supposed like games are now
56:07
supposed to be able to have like a pre installed shader cache,
56:11
which that's where a lot of like like your slowdowns and like and
56:15
all that stuff happens because like it has to pull like the
56:17
shit. It basically has to load all
56:19
the, all, the, all, the, all the, all the effects and all the
56:21
graphics into the game and stuff like that.
56:23
So it's supposed to do that on your first installed.
56:27
Now I'm not sure like I'm not sure how that happens like,
56:29
because, because of course when updates happen to like the
56:32
systems and stuff like that for your for your, for your graphics
56:34
drivers as well as your your CPU drivers and stuff like that.
56:38
I'm not sure how that handles after that, but yeah, so it's.
56:46
It's. It's too early to tell, let's
56:48
put it that way. And and I really wish well
56:50
actually, even when even the people who had their hands on
56:53
like the hands on the hands on editions like games Com and
56:55
stuff like that, even they couldn't see behind, behind the
56:58
curtain. OK, yeah, I definitely want to
57:02
hear more. Like I am very much on the fence
57:06
with this. Like it won't take me too much
57:08
to push me to actually get one, but I want to be able to know
57:12
that like it's going to be functional, play the games that
57:18
I would like it to play. Basically Xbox or maybe Steam
57:24
exclusive, my Steam exclusive. So it would probably be games
57:27
that just wouldn't be a console game at all, but like it'd be
57:33
able to handle Xbox Microsoft titles.
57:39
So far I can take you to. Bed with me so far.
57:42
My ROG ally. The only game that I've had a
57:46
problem playing is Monster Hunter Wilds and Monster Hunter
57:49
Wilds is already a poorly optimized game for PC.
57:53
But a lot of the games that are built on Unreal Engine 5, you
57:57
know, like we're starting to see all the flaws on Unreal Engine
57:59
5. You know it, it sucks, you know,
58:01
because apparently it's the easiest right now.
58:03
It's the easiest standard for, for all the companies to like
58:06
program for and, and get their games done.
58:09
But Unreal 5 is just not, you know, Unreal 5 is not good.
58:15
You know, that sounds bad. Unreal.
58:18
Unreal 5 doesn't play nice, let's put it that way.
58:24
OK. Well then I will contain to be
58:27
up on the fence until either you say that's a good one or
58:32
something better comes along that might even feel more like a
58:36
better handheld PC. That's kind of counsel ish.
58:40
I'm probably. Drop.
58:41
I'm most likely dropping $1000 for it.
58:44
So. You will know.
58:45
You will know soon I'm on the. Fence with you too.
58:48
Like, I really want to. I mean, part of it is financial,
58:51
like if I had an extra grand lying around, what the hell?
58:53
But since, you know, I have to pick and choose, I'm.
58:56
I'm waiting a little bit. So yeah.
58:59
Now, right, right now, my current play ecosystem is my
59:05
Switch and my PlayStation. Like I I won't lie, I've hardly
59:09
touched my Xbox in a while. Yeah, not since.
59:16
I'm going to say Zoom, I think was the last major.
59:26
No, do more. Expedition 33 was like one of
59:31
the last major things. I finished up on it.
59:37
Yeah, All right. Yeah.
59:41
So there it is. I will, I will keep you guys.
59:44
I will keep you guys posted on that.
59:45
Like I said, like I'm probably. I'm probably.
59:48
Going to get one route the gate probably.
59:51
Wait when is it comes out? Is it?
59:53
Is it next month or November? It's next month, like October
59:56
16th I think. Shit.
59:59
OK. I might not be able to.
1:00:00
Yeah. Might not be able to get that
1:00:03
soon. As a matter of fact, what I
1:00:04
might do is I might, I might see what I might see what the, what
1:00:07
the, what the people who have the truly hands on experience
1:00:11
would say. And then I'll probably try to
1:00:12
have it. I'll probably, I'll probably try
1:00:14
to have it either in November or by Christmas.
1:00:18
And then once and once I play around with it, then I can give
1:00:21
you guys like the real skinny on it.
1:00:24
Right. Awesome.
1:00:24
I just I just. Want to I just want to play
1:00:26
Monster Hunter from the from from my bed.
1:00:31
You hear that? Game developers, just let LA Ron
1:00:34
play his Monster Hunter and you will get a five star review.
1:00:40
And. Accommodations and maybe even
1:00:43
some under the table stuff from La Ron the the keys.
1:00:46
To the city. You can.
1:00:49
Have it all. Yes, you.
1:00:52
Will. All.
1:00:55
Right all right well, well thanks guys for letting me know
1:00:58
what y'all been playing sounds like sounds like everybody's
1:01:01
having fun this these past couple of weeks.
1:01:02
So so let's let's keep the momentum going because I mean,
1:01:05
like we've got some, we've got some, we've got some stuff
1:01:08
coming out like like ball fans, Texas drop the day ball fans,
1:01:13
Texas drops today. Like like like the Digimon game
1:01:16
is is coming on October the third, Mario Galaxies on the
1:01:22
2nd. Ghost of Yote.
1:01:25
Yep. Ghost second?
1:01:28
Yep. Pokémon's.
1:01:30
Coming out, which is big for a lot of people, yeah.
1:01:34
For. All the Monster Runner fans out
1:01:35
there, the third title update is out.
1:01:37
So yeah, you can fight Omega Planetes from Final Fantasy 14
1:01:40
now and fall in there. And also you get Chuckabos now
1:01:43
as your rides, as your steeds, I think.
1:01:46
Maximilian or I think that the big streamer guy, yeah, he he
1:01:51
recently played it and he said that the omegas or the Omega
1:01:56
Monster Hunter fight is probably one of the most fun.
1:01:58
He's had a Monster Hunter in a very long time.
1:02:01
Oh yeah. OK, Yeah, he.
1:02:03
He says that fight is like epic. I may have I.
1:02:07
May have to get back on it. And.
1:02:10
And the Steam Autumn sale is happening around Oh, Markiplier.
1:02:13
That's where I'm sorry, Markiplier.
1:02:15
OK, there's. Markiplier maximally one of
1:02:18
those guys. Played it.
1:02:21
Recently is like this. This is like peak Monster
1:02:24
Hunter. Right, all right, well, hey, we
1:02:29
got a topic to talk about tonight.
1:02:33
This might be this might be a this might be a bad topic, or it
1:02:35
might be a heart. It might be, it might be some
1:02:37
harsh truths, you know, because bad habits are ruining, are
1:02:44
ruining gaming for us, the players.
1:02:47
Not for not for gaming itself. Bad, bad habits.
1:02:51
So. So let's be real for a second
1:02:52
here. Video games are supposed to be
1:02:55
fun. It's supposed to be an escape,
1:02:57
good place to relax, laugh, or challenge ourselves in ways that
1:03:01
real life doesn't always allow. But somewhere along the way, a
1:03:04
lot of us gamers have picked up some habits.
1:03:07
They're quietly sabotaging our whole experience with gaming.
1:03:11
And no, I don't just mean the occasional rage quit, though.
1:03:13
We've all been there. We've all been there.
1:03:16
I'm talking about patterns that just chip away our enjoyment
1:03:19
without us even realizing it. I've got a, I've got a small
1:03:23
list of, of, of things here. Actually, I can # a pretty big
1:03:27
list of stuff. And but I've, I've shrunk that
1:03:31
down just a little bit, you know, into some of the more
1:03:33
specific ones with some of the stuff that I'm guarantee you
1:03:36
like we in like the nearly 3. 100 episodes, 6060% of this list
1:03:42
is about me and I don't like it. Yeah, yeah, in nearly 300
1:03:49
episodes of this of this podcast show, I guarantee you like we
1:03:52
have uttered something like this once, you know, at least once.
1:03:57
So. So let's just I'm just going to
1:04:02
go in a random order. So first thing first thing I I
1:04:07
first bad habit that I want to point out, and I'm kind of
1:04:11
guilty of this is, is like I do this thing of ignoring different
1:04:17
play styles when it comes to games.
1:04:18
Like, you know, like I get into a game AORI check out the game.
1:04:22
I see like what I like and I just immediately go for it.
1:04:24
And it's always something familiar.
1:04:26
So basically always choosing the same class or character loadouts
1:04:29
that out that limits all your discovery and stuff like that.
1:04:32
That's kind of why when monster under Wilds came out, yeah, of
1:04:34
course I jumped in and played with my gun lands.
1:04:36
But but then I was like, you know what, let me pick up a
1:04:39
different weapon that I have not messed with in months.
1:04:41
And I started to mess with the hunting horn and stuff like
1:04:43
that, you know, because it's all about trying something new.
1:04:46
So. And the question is, when was
1:04:48
the last time those gamers have tried something new?
1:04:52
You know, like that stepping outside of our comfort zones,
1:04:54
you know, try being a tank, you know, or healer or, you know,
1:04:59
like stuff, stuff build, you know, something different from
1:05:02
what you're always doing. You know, it's also kind of why,
1:05:05
it's also kind of why when Tekken 8 came out, like I
1:05:08
decided to play the brand new game with a brand new character.
1:05:12
And he's been my main for the whole for the whole time, you
1:05:16
know, and there's even some really cool characters.
1:05:20
Should there's really some cool, really cool characters out there
1:05:23
that, you know, like I'm like, I wanted to get into him.
1:05:26
But yeah, so basically all I'm trying to say is I'm trying to
1:05:32
say, hold on. What happened here?
1:05:33
Oh, that's what happened. I happened something something
1:05:38
happened, something happened to the interface just now.
1:05:40
My bad. You know, try different things,
1:05:44
you know, like like like Pat, do you always do you always find
1:05:49
your comfort zone in every new games you play where it's always
1:05:52
feels like you're just doing the same thing that you were doing
1:05:53
the last game and the last game before that or.
1:05:57
You know, I used to kind of be that way.
1:05:59
Like usually when I get choices I tend to be more the the think
1:06:05
here warrior character and not worry too much about skills or
1:06:11
magic or things like that or even stealth.
1:06:15
But I've I've definitely been experimenting on different play
1:06:21
styles. Even with games like Silk Song,
1:06:26
you can change up your Crest which would change up how your
1:06:29
character moves around and plays.
1:06:33
And like I find myself trying out different tools feature.
1:06:39
I really didn't use too much in the beginning of the game, but
1:06:42
now I'm finding them a hell of a lot more helpful and in fact
1:06:46
maybe even making the bosses a heck of a lot more easier
1:06:50
because I'm doing something I don't normally I'd never really
1:06:54
used before. I would just go around and smack
1:06:57
them with my sword and then back off and heal.
1:07:02
And. And Stephanie like like there
1:07:06
used to be a time when there used to be a time when all you
1:07:08
would play either a Zelda game or a Zelda light game.
1:07:10
So like you have actually diversified your portfolio a lot
1:07:14
used to run from scary games like look at unless she runs.
1:07:18
In scary games, yeah, I've. Embraced the variety and I'm
1:07:23
loving it. Mm hmm.
1:07:25
So what's? It's too bad.
1:07:27
It's too bad you beat the new release spooky game before
1:07:31
spooky season started because like you should you should have
1:07:34
just took the took the entire month play Silent Hill F you
1:07:36
should have but Oh well trust me.
1:07:38
I'll still be playing spooky games because I ordered Kronos,
1:07:42
the New Dawn, the physical version, and that comes out
1:07:45
October 21st. So I'll be going from Silent
1:07:48
Hill F to Kronos, so just. Like I went from Kronos to
1:07:53
Silent Hill F How? About and just just hear me out
1:07:57
here, let me see like like Vexus wrapped the first season of
1:08:04
Alien Earth and there's this game called Alien Isolation.
1:08:13
No, hold on. I played that game 33 Halloween.
1:08:17
Well, three Octobers ago. You can do it too.
1:08:20
That game scared. The shit out of me there's.
1:08:23
Only a few games that I think I just will never play and that's
1:08:26
Alien Isolation and Outlast. Actually.
1:08:31
Actually saying. Amnesia might You might give
1:08:34
Amnesia a shot. OK, not everything.
1:08:39
What? About, I'll wait.
1:08:41
Did you play? RE. 7.
1:08:43
No, I will not play RE-7. I didn't.
1:08:51
Know I would rather. Play RE-7 and then Alien
1:08:54
Isolation well. I think it's the first person
1:08:57
thing that I think really gets me.
1:08:59
That's that's what got it from me for for Alien Isolation, in
1:09:03
all honesty. Like it's the first person
1:09:04
thing. I I like being, I like having
1:09:06
spatial awareness around my character.
1:09:08
Like if I can't, yeah, if I can't see what's surrounding my
1:09:12
character, like it immediately like messes me up.
1:09:14
And also like, you know, like the game, just the game just
1:09:16
bugged me out because like, you know, like a it's just, it's
1:09:19
like the Silent Hill factor for me.
1:09:21
Like I don't like my games to fuck with me.
1:09:23
Like just just come out and scare me.
1:09:25
Don't play with my emotions. You don't want to hear.
1:09:28
A screaming kid in the refrigerator that's chained to
1:09:30
the ceiling. No, no, no, no, trust me, trust
1:09:38
me, trust me. The the aborted sink fetus from
1:09:41
PT still messes with me. Yeah, the the fridge hanging
1:09:46
from the ceiling is also PT. Yeah.
1:09:49
Yeah. Best Silent Hill game we never
1:09:52
got you. Guys had the list in front of
1:09:54
you. Someone pick someone pick
1:09:55
another another one off this list.
1:09:58
I think 1. That I can relate to and I think
1:10:01
it's kind of the downside of the one of the few downsides of
1:10:05
being in the industry as a podcaster and reporter is, you
1:10:09
know, chasing either popular releases or just chasing games
1:10:13
in general. I have pre-ordered exponentially
1:10:17
more games than I really needed to, where maybe I could have
1:10:21
bought 80% of them when they were on sale.
1:10:25
Like I'd get to them eventually, but I don't know.
1:10:28
I have a scarcity mindset now. Yeah, I like to call it the new
1:10:32
and shiny problem because like, basically, basically if it's not
1:10:36
the latest hit or something that, you know, like everybody's
1:10:39
going to talk about, like we're not touching it, you know?
1:10:43
And the problem is it constantly buying the newest hit leaves
1:10:46
like little room for like, like classics, you know, for like
1:10:50
Alien Isolation, for example, Stephanie or, or, or, or hidden
1:10:57
or hidden gems, you know, they're out there and stuff like
1:10:59
that, you know, great experiences often live outside
1:11:01
of the trending charts and stuff like that.
1:11:03
And, you know, I think I think us as podcast gaming podcasters,
1:11:07
like we are, we are always on a slippery slope because like we,
1:11:10
we don't want to be scooped by like our competitors, you know,
1:11:14
so and we don't want to be left behind by our friends.
1:11:16
So like that. So like we're always trying to
1:11:18
get these new releases and stuff like that.
1:11:20
You know, I, I'm guilty of it, even though I feel like I'm like
1:11:23
the slowest of the, of the gamers out of out of the four of
1:11:25
us who are here every week that that are on this podcast show.
1:11:28
It's like that. But yeah, like, but yeah, like
1:11:32
gaming gets his hooks in me too. And, you know, like I gotta,
1:11:34
I'd, I'd, you know, I, I do my fair share of buying day one,
1:11:38
you know, I hate to admit it. It's sad, you know, but yeah, so
1:11:44
basically long story of this one is like you don't have to keep
1:11:47
up with the hype train to enjoy gaming.
1:11:49
You know, as a matter of fact, I think that's why I like a while
1:11:51
back we talked about palate cleanser games.
1:11:53
And I feel like I feel like every now and then I will go to
1:11:56
the well of my palate cleansing games, you know, just like do a
1:11:59
reset of stuff, you know, like I will go play an old NES game or
1:12:03
an old like PS1 game and stuff like that.
1:12:05
You know, a game that only takes me like a couple hours to crunch
1:12:07
through and beat it and get my satisfaction off of it and then
1:12:10
move on and go back to like the the other stuff.
1:12:15
I like. Though, like I'm your topic
1:12:18
point like chasing popular releases and juggling too many
1:12:23
games kind of go hand in hand here for me.
1:12:26
But you know, I, I, I definitely fall under this category because
1:12:32
of the fact that I want to stay up and current with like the
1:12:35
latest topics so that if anyone wants to talk about video games,
1:12:40
it's like, oh, I, well, I've played this, I've also played
1:12:42
that. I've played this.
1:12:43
And, you know, I can have, I can switch my conversation to
1:12:46
whatever, like whatever the game of the the day is.
1:12:54
Yeah. Yeah, juggling too many games,
1:12:57
like, I'm not going to lie, like I have AI, have a jig, normous
1:13:01
backlog. I was at North.
1:13:03
Backlog like, and it's sad because like where there's where
1:13:06
there's steam or the E shop or the PlayStation Store and stuff
1:13:09
like that, you know, like there's so many games in the my
1:13:12
library that it's like, wow, like I spent all this money and
1:13:15
have not and have and have not even touched 5% of these games.
1:13:20
This would. Give that to me this.
1:13:23
Would 100. Percent did that.
1:13:24
To me. It's like, oh, look, I need to
1:13:27
have these physical games because Switch is physical and
1:13:31
I, I'm not going to lie, there's there's some they're still
1:13:34
actually sealed in there and that makes.
1:13:38
Me want to cry a. Little.
1:13:39
It's wild because like, you know, playing 10 games halfway
1:13:42
is rarely as fulfilling as just finishing the one game, you
1:13:45
know? And that's the other thing too.
1:13:47
Like I feel like I'm always in a mad scramble to like beat a game
1:13:49
now, you know? I think it's because I think
1:13:51
it's because Pat gives me the worst case of FOMO.
1:13:54
Like like how many games you beaten this year man?
1:13:58
It's probably close to 40 something.
1:14:01
Oh oh. Wow, you're you're slipping,
1:14:03
man. You, you were way past 40 by the
1:14:05
last summer last year. I.
1:14:07
Know you're I know I it's because I'm juggling too many
1:14:12
games. Who?
1:14:13
Who? Are you and what have you done
1:14:14
with our Patrick? I don't.
1:14:19
I want to play games I like again.
1:14:23
I don't know, it's like juggling too many games.
1:14:24
There might be other underlining issues for this with me.
1:14:29
Examples are maybe I don't want the game to be finished yet, so
1:14:33
that's my problem. That's my problem.
1:14:35
There's there's three games in my backlog that I have not
1:14:39
finished just because like I don't want them to end.
1:14:42
The first one being the first. The, the, the God of War from
1:14:46
2017. That's one spider man, PS4
1:14:52
Spider man, right? The end was not ready for it to
1:14:56
end. And then and then my other, my
1:14:58
other walk of shame, my other walk of shame is, is crap.
1:15:03
It was just my brain and I and I lost it.
1:15:07
But yeah, there's like 3 games out there.
1:15:09
I'm pretty sure. Like as soon as I remember what
1:15:11
the white whale is, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll tell you in a minute.
1:15:14
But yeah, like, and the sad part is I'm at the point now where is
1:15:17
like, if I turn those on, I have to start back over from the
1:15:20
beginning because like I'm, I will have forgotten how to play
1:15:22
the game, which means I need, I need to brush up course and like
1:15:25
in like how the mechanics work and all that stuff.
1:15:27
And then I will have forgotten most of the story.
1:15:29
So I was like OK, I need to start over.
1:15:32
Yeah, well, again, I mean there's that and also the what I
1:15:37
mentioned earlier, I I like to have those conversations ready.
1:15:40
So, you know, that's why I play so many different games is so I
1:15:45
can relate to what other people are playing.
1:15:48
So they, they and I also have what I call the gamer ADHD.
1:15:54
Me too. I I get to that point where
1:15:58
after playing a game for like 40 or 50 hours, I really want to
1:16:04
try to switch it up and play something different.
1:16:08
Otherwise I get burned out. Yeah.
1:16:11
Yeah. Yeah.
1:16:16
I think another problem I have well actually I don't have this
1:16:19
problem as much as some people do, but a problem I do have is
1:16:24
is that I don't like to lose. I don't like to lose.
1:16:28
This is why I don't play a lot of roguelikes.
1:16:31
This is also why I like I get I get really like I get really
1:16:34
anxious playing survival horror games.
1:16:36
Whenever I play a survival horror game, it usually that
1:16:39
game, that game takes me a longer time to beat than just a
1:16:41
regular like action game or whatever, because I hate dying
1:16:45
in those games and stuff like that, you know, like I'm looking
1:16:48
for the instant victory. So like the boss fight, the boss
1:16:51
fight, I better lose. The boss fight once that that's
1:16:54
my only time I better lose, you know, because that I'm just
1:16:57
going to, I'm just going to start getting tilted and it's
1:16:59
going to be a bad day, you know? I like to at least see progress
1:17:04
being made, like when I'm fighting a boss.
1:17:07
So maybe not like I can lose a couple times for a boss, but if
1:17:11
I start seeing myself lose the things that I clearly was doing
1:17:16
good at before, then I start getting upset, yeah.
1:17:20
Blackmith Wukong comes to mind for me.
1:17:22
Like, you know, like those those boss battles, they're fun, but
1:17:25
they are frustrating as hell. And I died quite a few times,
1:17:29
you know, and it's like, and it's like and you know, it's not
1:17:31
even it's not even like get good, get good noob.
1:17:34
You know, it's like it's like wow, like it.
1:17:36
This game is making itself harder which each encounter the
1:17:40
same boss. Steph.
1:17:43
Do you, when you start running into those frustrating boss
1:17:47
fights, are you the kind of person that needs to keep
1:17:49
playing them? Or do you are you the smart one?
1:17:52
That's like, OK, I'm just going to take a break here and just do
1:17:56
something else. I think I I'm.
1:17:58
In the middle I will probably because like part of me is
1:18:02
stubborn, right? Like I will keep at it, keep at
1:18:05
it. I would say if my my my dozen
1:18:09
attempt. And I'm.
1:18:11
Making no progress, I will just put the controller down and come
1:18:15
back another day. And the boss.
1:18:17
The boss final boss fight was a perfect example of that.
1:18:22
Pat. You, you just asked the person
1:18:23
that beat Sifu a while back. You know how they are about boss
1:18:27
fights and, and come on man, Sifu is one of those games.
1:18:31
I was like, oh, I, I need this funny to put this down.
1:18:34
See, if we did that to me, I'm like, oh, I need to stop.
1:18:38
No, for for me, it's Silk song right now.
1:18:40
Like I I the last time I was on here I talked about like.
1:18:45
There. Was a boss that literally took
1:18:47
me like 3 1/2 hours just straight trying to beat the boss
1:18:54
before I finally beat the boss and it left me with just an
1:18:57
absolute sour taste in my mouth. Like I was angry, I was upset, I
1:19:03
felt like I wasted my entire night just trying to do this and
1:19:10
I honestly did not pick the game up.
1:19:12
Like I sat the game down for like 3 days before I even picked
1:19:16
it back up to continue and I was dreading when I picked it up.
1:19:19
Like I told I I I messaged Taylor because we were trying.
1:19:24
We're still trying to get a spoiler cast going on with this
1:19:27
but neither of us have fully beat the game yet because it's
1:19:31
massive and I'm like I don't know if I can keep playing this
1:19:36
game like this. This game is literally making
1:19:39
gaming less fun for me. Luckily like in my like I've
1:19:45
gotten better at the game. I found things that helped me
1:19:48
out more but there are still frustrating boss fights and I
1:19:53
find it so hard. To not.
1:19:57
Just stop when I know I should just stop and take a break.
1:20:05
It's that it's like you said, it's, it's the failure.
1:20:08
Like I don't want to. Like this is one thing I'm good
1:20:12
at. And here this boss is absolutely
1:20:14
humiliating me. And here is all that.
1:20:18
Like I literally spent hours fighting said boss.
1:20:22
If I shut it down now, what did I just do with my time?
1:20:28
You know, the, the IT just it. I beat myself up when it comes
1:20:33
to like, stopping. Yeah, I don't, I don't have that
1:20:38
problem as much. There are there are certain
1:20:40
games that I do get that I do get get pissed off of myself,
1:20:43
you know, if I if I tell myself, oh, I just need to stop, you
1:20:46
know, there are certain games, right.
1:20:48
But, but I think, I think for me, like it's kind of easy for
1:20:52
me to turn around and say like, I'm, I'm gonna let this one go.
1:20:56
I kind of do that with Metal Gear Solid, you know, and that,
1:20:59
and, and that was a, that was, that was, that was a, a mistake
1:21:04
of my own choosing. Like I like I put myself on that
1:21:06
path, you know? Forgetting.
1:21:09
Basic mechanics of the game, like, you know, like, yeah, like
1:21:11
if you don't turn your game on in three days, your food is
1:21:13
going to spoil. That's how I am about pizza.
1:21:20
After. After the second day, it's got
1:21:22
to go in the trash. Yeah.
1:21:26
Yeah, yeah, one one last one here before and we'll wrap this
1:21:32
topic up. Knowing when to stop.
1:21:35
Knowing when to stop. Like in I, I think our pride
1:21:38
gets to us sometimes, you know, like we, we, we, we buy this
1:21:42
game, you know, we buy this game thinking we're going to, we're
1:21:46
thinking we're going to enjoy it and we're not enjoying it.
1:21:48
But you know, we trudge along through it because we bought the
1:21:50
damn game. And like, you know, like
1:21:52
somebody's got to play it and stuff like that, you know, you
1:21:55
know, like, I remember when you guys were talking about how at
1:21:57
this point you were with the plucky Squire and that was a
1:21:59
game that you guys were like raving about, you know, and
1:22:03
it's, and it's, and it's run out to release and stuff like that,
1:22:05
you know, and didn't, and it didn't, it didn't hit all the
1:22:08
bells and whistles for you when it came out.
1:22:09
And stuff like that. Grinding through, grinding
1:22:13
through games for like, you know, that you dislike, you
1:22:16
know, for the money's worth only makes the game seem like work
1:22:19
and stuff like that. And you know, like, I think, I
1:22:22
think our hobbies should never feel like work unless it's
1:22:24
unless it's like good work, unless it's like good work that
1:22:26
makes you feel good about it, you know, but you know, but you
1:22:31
know, like, if it feels like, if it feels like, if it feels like
1:22:33
it's, it's more torture than than than.
1:22:36
Than. Than reward what are we doing?
1:22:40
What are we doing? I will, I will say no one to
1:22:44
stop and, and and just know that quitting is not failure, it's
1:22:48
freedom. It's failure.
1:22:52
Stop it. Stop it.
1:22:55
Stop. It.
1:22:57
I. Just went through this.
1:22:59
I can't. I can't.
1:23:02
It's the one thing that I identify with.
1:23:05
If I can't win video games and what am I winning?
1:23:10
Just just. Remember, you don't, you don't
1:23:14
have, You don't need to win immediately.
1:23:15
You're not entitled. Nobody's keeping score.
1:23:19
Well, maybe you're keeping score, gamer.
1:23:25
And not everything has been new. Everyone.
1:23:27
Beats Silk Song and me not get there.
1:23:34
All. Right, So, so basically the take
1:23:37
away from all this is our our like is like your gaming habits
1:23:40
are probably ruining gaming for you and not just that.
1:23:44
Well, here's the thing about it. It's not ruining the games, it's
1:23:47
ruining our relationship with them.
1:23:50
So you know, when you break some these bad habits, you're going
1:23:52
to realize that you're going to find joy and probably all over
1:23:56
again. You know, you're not just
1:23:58
chasing wins and you're not logging hours and you're not
1:24:01
following trends and stuff like that.
1:24:03
You know, honestly, you know, it's all about like, are we
1:24:07
enjoying our our favorite hobby? You know, because our second
1:24:12
favorite hobby is podcasting and talking about the damn games.
1:24:16
So, so I don't know, maybe the next, maybe the real next level
1:24:19
in gaming is simply just remembering how to actually play
1:24:22
video games and not work through video games, if that makes
1:24:26
sense. Any final takeaways from this?
1:24:32
No, it's just, I know it's easier said than done, but
1:24:34
that's the part of growing up and it's once you kind of learn
1:24:38
to let go of some of those hang ups, it's even more.
1:24:41
Playing video games is even more enjoyable.
1:24:47
Look at, look at. Zelda's just sitting there like
1:24:48
a little Princess. Look, look, look at her.
1:24:52
Oh, she's trying to get chords right now.
1:24:54
Oh. Of course, of course, a little
1:24:57
scamp. All right.
1:24:58
Well. It's it's September 30th, which
1:25:02
means it's the end of the month time, which means that it's time
1:25:04
for our, our monthly segment of added boys and get togethers.
1:25:08
So if if for the people who are new here, basically what it's
1:25:12
all about is, is, is at the end of the month, all the panelists
1:25:16
here, we take a moment to like, celebrate something that, you
1:25:18
know, is being done right in gaming and, and, and ridicule
1:25:21
something that's being done boneheadedly in gaming, Whether
1:25:26
that's from an actual developer, the game itself, a publisher, or
1:25:31
just some, or just some some other influencer out there in
1:25:34
the gaming sphere and stuff like that.
1:25:36
When I say influencers, I mean like reporters or people who
1:25:39
think they're in the know and stuff like that, you know,
1:25:40
because every now and then someone puts their foot in the
1:25:42
mouth. But yeah, so why?
1:25:49
Don't you go first. All right, Well, I would like to
1:25:54
say Attaboy Sucker Punch for making another stellar Ghost
1:25:58
game. I have not played it but I've
1:26:00
heard plenty of other people talk about it and they say that
1:26:04
if you like Ghost of Sushima you will love Ghost of Yote because
1:26:09
it is like playing Ghost of Sushima but with a much improved
1:26:13
story. So you're basically preempting
1:26:17
the Atta boy for them because you haven't even preempting.
1:26:20
This Atta boy, all right. Also, it's nice to, you know,
1:26:24
see a good single player game come out there, especially from
1:26:28
Sony considering they've been trying to focus on that live
1:26:32
service stuff. I mean the last.
1:26:34
The last single player game from Sony was like Astro Bot, if we
1:26:38
consider that, because it's more it's a platformer, but
1:26:40
technically it's a single. Player.
1:26:43
I mean, I guess you could consider Death Stranding too
1:26:46
right now. Oh, yeah.
1:26:47
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, anyways, my Get it
1:26:54
Together is more of a personal one.
1:26:57
So I pre-ordered Trails in the Sky, I pre-ordered the Steelbook
1:27:01
edition from Limited Run. Now I'm not completely blaming
1:27:04
Limited Run here because they have been very transparent that
1:27:11
they have not received the supplies from the manufacturer
1:27:16
of said products and that they've been sending emails
1:27:19
every like within every 48 hours to keep us updated.
1:27:23
And why we have not gotten Trails of this Chicago yet when
1:27:27
we were told we were supposed to get this around release date.
1:27:30
So get it together, Clear River Games for not having the Trails
1:27:34
in the Sky Steelbook edition assembled for release.
1:27:40
Yeah, I know this game. Like, people were looking
1:27:43
forward to this one. And it's like, have you seen the
1:27:47
Metacritic ratings? It's still in the 90s right now
1:27:51
for this for the trail series. And like, I'm seeing so many
1:27:56
posts of people just enjoying it on my Twitter feed.
1:27:59
And it's like that could be me right now, but I can't.
1:28:05
Because. My game has yet to be made.
1:28:08
Oh my God. This is this is almost
1:28:09
flashbacking to like the topic. We just come on fat.
1:28:15
Don't do it to yourself, man. Don't don't do it.
1:28:17
Don't do it. I'm doing.
1:28:22
It all right. I, I, I think I, I'm, I'm
1:28:25
cheating here and I'm looking at the list.
1:28:27
I think Stephanie has like the best, like Attaboy can get
1:28:29
together. So Stephanie, you're going to go
1:28:31
last. You have the best one, you have
1:28:35
the best 1. So I'm just going to say this
1:28:38
because like, because like, I feel like I feel like this is a
1:28:42
much deserved 1 here. Attaboy Konami, like for real,
1:28:48
for real. Like this revival that you guys
1:28:51
have got going on of classics and taking both steps forward
1:28:54
with your recent titles in the past year.
1:28:57
You guys are on point. I, I, you know, and I'm just
1:29:00
going to say it like that, you know, like, yeah, you are
1:29:03
heavily leaning into remix remasters and reboots, whatever.
1:29:07
But you know, several high profile projects have definitely
1:29:10
earned it for you as far as open critic and Metacritic are, are,
1:29:13
are concerned. Metal Gear Solid Delta is at
1:29:16
8085 on, on Metacritic and 87 on open critic.
1:29:20
It's getting a lot of praise for like the excellent visuals, the
1:29:23
overhaul. Yeah, suck it, GameStop
1:29:26
employee. You know, of course, like, you
1:29:30
know, there are some out there that felt like the remake was a
1:29:31
little too conservative, you know, not not enough risks or
1:29:35
dramatic representations, but whatever, you know.
1:29:38
And then we have the Silent Hill remake from 94.
1:29:40
Silent Hill two remake from 94. I'm sorry, 2494 when Silent
1:29:46
Hill, when Silent Hill 2 come out was that was it wasn't 94.
1:29:51
Yeah, it wasn't 92. Wasn't 94, wasn't 94?
1:29:56
Because like the PlayStation One just has 30th anniversary, so
1:29:59
and so 2001. 22. 1001 OK, all right, yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm just
1:30:04
blurting out numbers here for no reason, but yes, the Sonic 2
1:30:07
remake, you know, like this basically, I guess put Konami
1:30:10
back on the map in recent years because like over 86 Metacritic
1:30:14
score and you know, like largely, largely favorable, you
1:30:16
know, on open critics. So like that basically, you
1:30:20
know, it feels like and also and also this is a blooper team like
1:30:25
you know, like they also get they also get some flowers for
1:30:27
this one too, because people were people were really like
1:30:30
anxious about this game, you know, and stuff like that.
1:30:32
So it was great. Did you guys?
1:30:33
Hear from blooper team. They both they just announced
1:30:37
they are fully in are they're in full development mode for Silent
1:30:40
Hill one now. Oh.
1:30:42
Yes. Oh yeah, Yep.
1:30:45
And and Speaking of Silent Hill, staying, staying on track of
1:30:48
Silent Hill, Silent Hill F is also has also gotten very good.
1:30:51
Like, you know, like reviews on Metacritic and open critic 86 on
1:30:54
Metacritic 87 open critics, stuff like that.
1:30:58
What Stephanie said earlier, it's a bold divergent, you know,
1:31:01
new protagonist, new setting, you know, not in the town of
1:31:04
Silent Hill and stuff like that, you know, combat system is a
1:31:07
frequent sticking point like that.
1:31:09
Stephanie also like pointed out and stuff like that.
1:31:11
But you know, for the most part Konami, you're doing you're
1:31:15
doing good. You know, the Suikoden 1 and 2
1:31:17
HD remaster also also rounds it out, you know, also in the 80s
1:31:23
and 89 percentile among open critic titles too.
1:31:26
So yeah, good job there. You know, keep it going Konami.
1:31:30
You know, like we, we love it when like a company that falls,
1:31:35
you know, falls on his face and stuff like that and you know,
1:31:37
and falls out favour with the gaming community.
1:31:39
They actually find a way to get back into our graces and stuff
1:31:42
like that. Konami, if you're not releasing
1:31:45
any more new games, as long as you're doing what you're doing
1:31:47
with these remakes and remasters, we will support you,
1:31:51
No? We won't give us a Castlevania
1:31:53
game, you cowards. I knew.
1:31:57
I knew I knew someone's going to say something about Castlevania.
1:31:59
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Start shoot.
1:32:02
You know, an ambitious project is like, is like remakes.
1:32:07
Castlevanias 1-2 and three from the NES.
1:32:09
Remake them. Remake them.
1:32:12
Give them, give them, oh, I, I don't know, I guess it'd be
1:32:14
harder to give them the treatment that Final Fantasy 7
1:32:16
has gotten. It'd be much harder.
1:32:18
But you know, hey, we can only dream, right?
1:32:23
Back to Merger's team. They did a good metroidvania.
1:32:28
Yeah, they did. Yeah, they did good.
1:32:30
Metroids. They also did good.
1:32:32
I I considered the. That Castlevania game they did?
1:32:37
That was the three Castlevania. Games that they did were good,
1:32:39
yeah, yeah. Yeah.
1:32:43
All right. And I say this, I say this well,
1:32:46
they actually. Did both a Castlevania game and
1:32:48
a Metroid game. Yeah, I know how.
1:32:50
Does that work? Out they they had the
1:32:52
quintessential Metroidvania development.
1:32:56
It's almost like it's almost like we should trust them with
1:32:59
like old Nintendo I PS we should.
1:33:03
Yeah. All right, it it's with a heavy
1:33:07
heart and a lot of laughter that I have to say, get together once
1:33:10
again to Microsoft. For a company.
1:33:15
That seems to not for a company that seems to not be doing
1:33:18
anything for its gaming division and stuff like that.
1:33:22
Increasing increasing the price for your consoles for a second
1:33:26
time in the same year is wild to me.
1:33:30
Is wild to me. Effective October 3rd.
1:33:33
You know. Three days from from when this
1:33:37
from when this spot, this podcast is being recorded, the
1:33:40
price for the Xbox Series S&X are going up again.
1:33:44
The Series S will be $400.00. Wow, we're in a world where the
1:33:48
Series S is $400.00 now. Series S is more expensive than
1:33:53
the Nintendo Switch now the the original Switch not not Switch
1:33:57
too like the same. Price of a system that's
1:34:02
slightly more powerful than it that.
1:34:04
Too. Yeah, yeah.
1:34:07
And. And the.
1:34:09
Series X is now a whopping $650, man, man.
1:34:18
Yeah, this is is all, it's all designed to offset like, you
1:34:21
know, supply chain, supply chain issues and stuff like that, you
1:34:24
know, and, and which was which we just had one of those like
1:34:28
back in May, you know, and also and and not, and not the and not
1:34:31
the not to say anything, but Sony just had a price hike.
1:34:36
Nintendo just had a price hike on the wrong system in my
1:34:39
opinion. You know, So yeah, like, yeah.
1:34:46
And this is, and this is exclusively for the United
1:34:48
States. This is not any other regions.
1:34:50
This is the US. Like all those prices I gave you
1:34:52
was U.S. dollars. That was, that was not like the
1:34:55
yen of the one or, or, or, or the euro or the, or Canadian
1:34:59
dollars, You know, Then again, I don't even know if like, sure, I
1:35:03
guess Canada got spared this time.
1:35:05
They get hammered whenever console console prices go up.
1:35:11
Yeah. Yeah, so wow.
1:35:13
So yeah, yeah. So just looking at it like
1:35:15
depending on depending on what Microsoft console you want, you
1:35:18
can be swinging upwards of $800 because like the two terabyte
1:35:21
series Series X is 79999. And I wonder if the Xbox ROG LAX
1:35:29
was actually supposed to be 900 bucks but they changed it
1:35:32
recently to 1000. Makes me wonder.
1:35:38
I could've sworn. I could've sworn it was like
1:35:40
being predicted at 899. It.
1:35:44
Was. I'll have to check that.
1:35:45
I'll have to check that, yeah. I'll have to check that.
1:35:51
But yeah, that's it. Get together, Microsoft.
1:35:53
I mean, you know, do we still have faith in you?
1:35:58
I, I don't know. I don't know game.
1:36:01
Developer maybe? But.
1:36:05
Game hardware developer. You heard it here.
1:36:07
You heard it here first, Pat's saying.
1:36:09
They're going the way of Sega. You heard it here first.
1:36:14
Separate if. Sega had a streaming service.
1:36:17
They're going the way of Netflix.
1:36:23
They they will make their own videos but and in.
1:36:26
Charge and in charge absorbed in prices for them.
1:36:29
Oh, yeah, and then, you know, then canned them all because
1:36:32
they were too expensive and didn't meet expectations.
1:36:35
Yeah, yeah. All right.
1:36:38
All right, Stephanie, take it home.
1:36:41
Sure, I will say Konami was on my, my short list of attaboys
1:36:47
because again, like, I'm glad that they're crawling out of
1:36:52
the, the, the pachinko machine business.
1:36:55
I know they're still in it, but it's just nice to see them back
1:36:57
in games and they're thriving and they deserve it.
1:37:00
And I'm looking forward to seeing more from Konami.
1:37:03
But for me, my attaboy ultimately is Devin Pritchard,
1:37:12
who will be the first female Nintendo of America president.
1:37:18
Doug Bowser will be retiring at the end of the year.
1:37:21
And I mean, I don't want to be cliche, but I just think it's
1:37:26
fantastic that I think, I think. I think she gets it all around
1:37:32
because she's the first female president of any part of
1:37:35
Nintendo. Oh, yeah.
1:37:37
I mean, I, yeah, I how do I say this delicately?
1:37:43
I would find it hard pressed that the Nintendo proper in
1:37:47
Japan would have a female president.
1:37:49
Yeah, yeah. And this is not like me trying
1:37:55
to sound like I'm holier now. So I'm just going to focus on
1:37:58
the positive and say this is freaking awesome.
1:38:02
Of course, one of the first common they see on like the
1:38:05
social media, someone's like, I want proof that she actually
1:38:10
plays video games. I'm like, I bet you if it was a
1:38:13
man, you would not have asked that question.
1:38:16
Of course so, but did anyone? Check her resume, she's
1:38:21
literally the most qualified person.
1:38:23
She's worked at Nintendo of America for almost 20 years.
1:38:28
Exactly. I just hate like comments like
1:38:30
that. I'm like really Jackass so but
1:38:33
again, staying positive. I think this is fantastic.
1:38:36
Looking forward to seeing you know, hopefully she'll be more
1:38:40
like Reggie and maybe be a more hands on presence.
1:38:46
Not that there's anything really bad.
1:38:48
I I had I had problems with Doug Bowser or anything, but it'd be
1:38:53
nice if we had like a Reggie like involvement, But we'll see.
1:38:57
Either way, I'm happy. So attaboy, Nintendo and Devin.
1:39:02
My get it together is is a little well, it's adjacent to
1:39:07
yours the wrong. But in this case it's just Xbox,
1:39:10
but also the PlayStation fanboys on the Internet.
1:39:14
I don't know if the algorithm fed this to me specifically
1:39:18
because Tokyo Game Show just closed out and so many people
1:39:23
were like, oh, Xbox is now the number one and PlayStation
1:39:28
sucks. And then on the other side,
1:39:29
PlayStation stations like you Xbox, people are just lying
1:39:33
about the ROG Xbox outline selling out worldwide because
1:39:37
it's not. And they were like particularly
1:39:41
obnoxious. And it all started with the
1:39:42
Tokyo Game Show because of Xbox's presence.
1:39:45
And I couldn't. I was like, it was nauseating to
1:39:48
see how how much we call it like tribalism and like Xbox and
1:39:54
PlayStation fans going at the jugular.
1:39:57
I thought like people didn't act like that anymore.
1:39:59
But I was wrong. Shame on you.
1:40:02
Here's the news flash. Like, like Microsoft has such a
1:40:05
big presence at TGS this year is because they are trying to
1:40:08
infiltrate the, the, the Eastern market.
1:40:11
They're trying to do whatever they can to get into the Eastern
1:40:14
market because guess what? Game Pass is not a hit over over
1:40:18
in Japan. It's not.
1:40:21
It's not. But a lot of the fanboys are
1:40:23
saying like taking pictures of like Xbox stands in like
1:40:27
Japanese stores, Like, oh, look, Japan loves Xbox.
1:40:31
I don't know what anyone else is talking about.
1:40:33
Like it was just a lot of like really obnoxious.
1:40:37
I don't know, like it all of a sudden the fanboys are like
1:40:41
puffing their little Peacock feathers, strutting around and
1:40:45
then Playstations attacking them.
1:40:46
And on PlayStation, the company, the fans, I, I don't know, I was
1:40:50
like. I'm kind of curious how well
1:40:54
Steam Decks are in Japan or like handheld PCs because I feel like
1:41:01
maybe that market is still open and Xbox is like, now that we
1:41:06
have the wrong ally maybe people maybe we could convince them to
1:41:11
join up on us as long as they don't have a AS.
1:41:13
Long as they have a dumb ass, you know, and within the company
1:41:16
saying some dumb shit like, you know, like like like you know,
1:41:19
like Japanese gamers have small hands.
1:41:22
So like, this is not going to work for them, you know, like,
1:41:24
as long as they don't say some dumb shit like that, you know,
1:41:26
this time I think they're going to be fine, dear.
1:41:28
Lord, they need to. Do is they need to promote some
1:41:31
gotcha games on that system? Yeah, yeah.
1:41:36
Yeah, you know, at the, you know, and that they're actually,
1:41:41
I'm going to keep it to myself. I don't want to be accused of, I
1:41:44
don't want to be accused of being a Sony pony or a master
1:41:46
racer. Be like hey.
1:41:47
You can play Gentian Impact with thumbsticks.
1:41:57
It's gold, just like that. It.
1:42:00
And this has, I'd never even thought about hand size, which
1:42:03
is kind of weird, but I just kind of thought about it inverse
1:42:08
where it's like, you know, is the Steam Deck too unwieldly?
1:42:13
Because it's even too unwieldy even for me.
1:42:17
Yeah, so like, this is not an exaggeration.
1:42:20
The original Xbox, the first Xbox, the Duke controller was
1:42:23
about this fucking big. And they and someone legit and
1:42:27
like and like Microsoft corporate and Xbox corporate
1:42:31
headquarters was like, yeah, like this is for this is for
1:42:34
American gamers because like we don't have to worry about having
1:42:37
small hands. Wow.
1:42:39
What a dumb ass, yeah. Yeah, and guess what, Microsoft?
1:42:44
The Xbox has never been right with with.
1:42:47
Japan. Since then, and that was right
1:42:50
out the gate, the very first console.
1:42:53
Don't. Insult the Play your potential
1:42:55
fan base. Yeah.
1:42:59
Just don't insult where you can get money from, yeah?
1:43:03
Stop talking about hand sizes. Gosh.
1:43:07
Yeah, anyway. Yeah.
1:43:11
Gotta take the good with the bad and the bad with the good.
1:43:14
Yep. And that's why we have our added
1:43:16
boys and get togethers, you know, like, hey, maybe somebody,
1:43:18
maybe somebody somewhere is listening to us and they're, and
1:43:21
like we're pointing out the mistakes to make sure they don't
1:43:24
make those same mistakes again. Like who knows?
1:43:26
I feel like, I feel like, I feel like Microsoft might just be
1:43:29
back and get it together next month.
1:43:30
Who knows? To be continued.
1:43:34
Yeah, to be. Continued Yeah, we don't have
1:43:37
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1:43:40
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