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Did Nintendo Find their Princess Zelda in Hunter Schafer? · Boss Rush Podcast - A Podcast about Video Games

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You're. Live.
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Well, well, well. Hello everyone, welcome to the
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Buster's podcast. A great place to play games and
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be better. I am one of your hosts, the
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birthday boy LeBron Dawkins better nosed piece of muscle
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race himself. Hey, how's it going everyone
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tonight? I'm glad you're all out here
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watching and or listening. Yes, please, please, you know,
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shower me with the adoration. Please.
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I want to go ahead. I want to go ahead and introduce
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our, our, our Co host tonight. And you all, you know her, you
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love her. The Med pharmacist, Stephanie
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Kleemov. How's it going?
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It's going just trying up a little different setup for my
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for the podcast and I'm struggling a little bit, but I
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am here. Hello exciting week and happy
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birthday. Thank you.
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Thank you. And also back on the show, the
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the man that we love to hate with the most controversial
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takes, Mr. Corey Derrig. Whoa, I didn't know Ed was on
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the show. You're filling in for him
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tonight, didn't you? Know yeah it's funny because Ed
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and I have a inside joke going where any time I say something
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like him I'll just send him a meme that says I love being
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black but it's me because I'm clearly you know, pasty white
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paste so. Corey, we're going to have a
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conversation after the show's over.
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They call me White Chocolate Laurent.
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Oh my gosh. Well, did you know white white
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chocolate isn't real chocolate? I know.
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That's. Yeah, that's like, I'm not a
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just like I'm not a real. It's just like I'm not a real
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black person. I love you guys.
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This makes me happy and. Back with us for another
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wonderful exciting fun filled show is my dear friend, my
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fellow, my fellow Crossroads Rd. mate, wonderful Nelly lot
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welcome back. Hi, thank you.
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Happy to be here as always. Oh my.
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God, glad to see you. Yeah, see you.
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Everyone. How's everybody, how's everybody
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been? Like?
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I, well, I'm, I'm pretty sure Nelly and Stephanie are down
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because there's no, there's no cons going on.
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There's no, there's no, there's no packs, There's no, there's no
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conventions. There's there's no place,
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there's no place that Stephanie can raid for swag right now.
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Wait I know I'm getting withdrawals?
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, hold on, hold on.
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Nelly's got something. We have Spooky Empire that's
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coming up this month. OK, I will be there.
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And then we had what? Is that what is that?
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It's a. Focus around horror.
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Nice. Well, it's like a horror
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convention. OK, well.
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Simon Pegg So I have to go. Simon Pegg is gonna be there.
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What was it, Simon? Was it promoting?
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Was it promoting? Mission Impossible, right?
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It doesn't have another horror movie coming out, no.
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So Shine of the Dead is one of his biggest ones.
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They're gonna do a movie night. So is that?
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Is that really horror though? I mean it's.
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Kind of horror parody. Yeah, Yeah.
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It's horror comedy, right? Yeah, yeah.
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Then there is GCX, which is another game of convention that
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I've never heard of, but I'm gonna go and see what's up.
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And then there's a another convention called Animate and
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it's focused around animation. So it's going to be voice actors
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and gamers and cosplayers there. And then there's that's in
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August. And then there's PAX West.
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Are you going? Are you going to all that?
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I'm going to try. That's awesome.
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Never say die so. Yeah.
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How, what? What are you supposed to say,
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Lauren? What are you supposed to say
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instead of that? I don't know.
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Never say die. You know, like that's the
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spirit. Yeah.
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War nights, I want to go to that too, but that's not a
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convention. Universal is bringing back their
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Last of Us thing this this year I guess.
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They're and they do it Five Nights at Freddy's.
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Oh boy. Right now, since you open the
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door, what's your favorite scary movie?
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Oh. I don't really have one.
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Scary Movie. I mean, Regina, Regina, Regina
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Hall is what make that movie work.
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Make those movies work. Exorcist.
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Wait, who? Regina the the the the black
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girl. I've never, I've never seen that
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movie. You haven't seen any of the Oh
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my I I can't? Yep.
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Are you really that shocked, Laron?
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Come on. It's not that like, come on,
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like you've been on the Internet long enough, though.
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You've seen the memes. Yeah, but I don't know what any
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of them mean. Random random black girl, random
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white girl running from a skeleton and the and the white
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girl trips. You've seen this.
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I don't think I have. Actually, I'm.
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Sliding up the aliens again. Man 2 for 1:00 tonight.
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God, Oh my God. Oh my God, my my favorite scary
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movie has got to be aliens like the James Cameron the James the
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James Cameron one. Not the, not the.
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I thought that. Was an accident.
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Is that not like action it? Was it was horror for me back
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when I saw 11 years old. That was horror.
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I know, right? Yeah.
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Someone please. Someone please help.
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Corey I. Hate horror movies so the my
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favorite horror movie is 13 Cloverfield Lane because it's
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like horror light like psychological mind F.
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Yo, John Goodman played a very good bad guy.
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Yes, he did. Oh man.
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He's like the chills. Yeah, like, man, like talk
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about, talk about an actor that has range when you when you
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don't really when you don't, you know, sometimes you can look at
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someone and, and like, and like, man, I didn't think they had
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that much range. Like John Goodman is one of
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those actors. OK, Corey, check your blue sky.
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I I see I have like 8000 notifications on blue sky though
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I need to turn those off. Mine are more important.
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Lauren disappeared. He doesn't like me anymore.
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Well, time to take show back. Lauren, sorry.
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Yeah. Let's see video games, huh?
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Switch to this week. Very excited.
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Very, very excited. So how, Stephanie, did you
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pre-order any games or did you are you just going to try to buy
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some on the day of? Oddly enough, I did not
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pre-order any games because I couldn't friggin make up my mind
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if I wanted to buy them digitally or in person and I
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wanted to somehow trick myself into thinking I wasn't spending
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a lot of money when I pre-ordered my console.
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So I'm just going to go to a store on Friday and just pick up
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what I have there because, you know, I pre-ordered the the
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console and that was like kind of the, the most important thing
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to make sure I could secure. Yeah.
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Core you know what Corey, actually before, before I do
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this, before I do this, let me just go ahead and get this out
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Said it I. Said please stay.
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Now that got that out the way, Corey.
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Yes. I want to ask, I want to ask you
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this and I want and I and I want to ask you this being really
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serious right now, have all the launch titles for Switch to
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what's the one I should pick up? What if I can only pick up one?
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What's the one I should pick up? Why are you asking him?
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I'm going to ask you next, Stephanie, I'm going to ask you
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next. Please, it should be lady.
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Corey Corey, he was Corey host. It's in the PAL block.
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So I'm giving him. I'm giving him the right of way.
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Stephanie's there sometimes and launch titles.
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OK. And also think about and also
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think about me playing it. I know I am.
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I am. I am, so I wouldn't say
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cyberpunk 'cause you need that. You want that to look shiny
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clean. You want that sweat coming out
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of. My I might I might double dip
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though 'cause I'm. I'm getting it for Switch 2.
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Cause honestly, honestly, the switch is a grand, the switch 2
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is a grand experiment for me. Like I just want to see what the
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hardware can do because like we, we've lived in that, in that
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phantom zone of, of switch for like 8 years now.
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You know, I just want to see what the successor to the switch
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can do. Yeah.
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I mean in terms of like launch things.
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Don't you dare say Mario Kart. No, like I'm not.
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Here's the thing, I'm not really bad excited for Mario Kart.
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It's just the the launch game and I'm going to get it anyway.
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So I just got the bundle right but.
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While he's thinking I'm just going to jump in anyway because
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I wrote a boss rush banter on this because I am.
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People tend to be on both ends of the spectrum, but I'm in the
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middle. Like I'm excited for Switch to
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it is a decent launch lineup of games.
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It's not my favorite launch lineup.
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Like there's none that I'm actually like, let's go like for
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the Switch with Breath of the Wild.
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Like for me, I'm like, it's all right for me again, it's for me.
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So no. No, no, I'm liking where you're
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going because like I, I feel like more people need to temper
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expectations. I really do.
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Yeah, I. Like it, like Mario Kart is a
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safe, just general bet. But what I chose Cyberpunk in my
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article because I want to test the limits of the Switch too.
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And I think that might be something that you might as
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someone who's interested in specs and seeing how far a
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system can go. But I also think too, I don't
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know, like I know you're more of a Tekken guy.
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What do you think about Street Fighter 6?
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I, I OK, I do like Street Fighter six, but I, I feel like
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I've moved so far past Street Fighter, like Street Fighter.
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Street Fighter did something when St. when Street Fighter 4
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came out that really like kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
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Not saying, not saying the game is bad, like it just, it just
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really messed with my like sensibility for what how Street
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Fighter plays because like I've been playing Street Fighter
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since like, you know, like the Street Fighter two days and
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stuff like that. You know, back before, back when
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there's only 8 characters in the roster.
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And so like that, you know, and then, you know, and Street
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Fighter 4 comes out and Street Fighter 4 was a wonderfully
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looking game played well. And so like that.
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But just a lot of conventions about Street Fighter Four, I
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just never wrapped my head around.
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And they, and of course they've continued, you know, from 4:00
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to 6:00 and stuff like that. You know, so I don't have any
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real disrespect for Street Fighter, Street Fighter Six or
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just Street Fighter in general at this point, But it's just
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more like, you know, like I would I it's just, it just did
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something to me that I, I'm not going to say I can't forgive,
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but it, it was enough to break my break my immersion into the
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into the game series and stuff like that.
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Now, that being said, Street Fighter six, though, like I, I
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can see myself playing that. Like I just don't know which
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system I played on. I played on PC or what I
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actually played on switch, you know, because I didn't have the
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demo on my my rock ally and it played fun.
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It played fine, you know, stuff like that.
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But you know, I was like, man, I, I just really played Tekken.
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It's not a disc though. It's not a disc.
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I, I have, I think fighting games, it's just really hard to
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like improve on them at this point.
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I mean, there it's kind of like racing games, right?
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What you can only do so much before, like, you know, you're
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going to have to either make something brand new that not a
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lot of people will go to because it's not recognizable, or you
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just have to keep pumping out the same thing, right?
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And it's like, I mean, look at Mortal Kombat 1, right?
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There wasn't anything really wrong with Mortal Kombat, but
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like they just put out Mortal Kombat 11.
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So like, you know, it's kind of the same thing and that is going
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to hinder a franchise at some point.
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Like I mean, look at Forza, right?
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That has had diminishing returns for almost 2 decades at this
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point. But it's it was so good when it
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came out that like, you know, you play it now, it still feels
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the same. But what do you do to a racing
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game or a fighting game to change it up?
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You know, I mean, you can always introduce new characters, I
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guess, but ultimately you can't introduce too many because they
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have to balance with the the already existing characters.
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So I don't know, that's always kind of been a thing about
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fighting games for me is like, I don't know how you I mean, I
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mean, even look at smash, right? Like sure, you get the hardcore
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people who are like, oh, Mario moves at 1.0005, the speed of,
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you know, whatever, but like it's been the same since the
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GameCube essentially. Like what do you do different?
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So you just bring everybody back, I guess.
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All right, so after buying you some time, Corey, what's your
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recommendation for La Ron? So I, I'm, I'm looking on here,
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I think like, I feel like La Ron.
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I mean, Yakuza 0 Director's cut might see man, this is tough.
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This is tough for La Ron because there's nothing on here that
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screams La Ron. See.
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Yeah. I mean, a fast fusion might.
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Actually I know Nintendo was that switch to World tour?
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I I pre-ordered it, it's 10 bucks.
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Did I? Even pay attention to that. 50 +
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50 plus mini games. Very excited.
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Do you get to milk a cow? No, not this time.
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You can't even milk the original cow.
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The joy the the infrared sensor doesn't work on switch to.
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Dang it. So that cow is gone to pasture,
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as I say. Let's see I so I would say that
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or maybe Hitman might be interesting to play on the go.
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Kannutsugami is coming to Switch to which might be the place that
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game finds an audience. Honestly to me, like the Switch
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to launch doesn't even start until Donkey Kong comes out.
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And then like, you know, you look at the follow up games
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like, you know, Kirby Air Riders and you know, Metroid Prime 4
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and Pokémon. Like there's a lot coming out
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after Donkey Kong that's like, Oh my gosh, slow down.
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Like I don't have that much time.
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But until Donkey Kong comes out, it's like, well, yeah, I mean, I
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guess I could play these third party games, which don't get me
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wrong, I'm excited for I, I, I have Hogwarts Legacy coming
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there 'cause it was a $10 upgrade and I bought it on the
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Switch to talk about it on Palblock.
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So that's cool. And Cyberpunk is a definite yes
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for me. But like, these are games I've
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played, right? And there's a lot of stuff on
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this list that just aren't, you know, split fiction.
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I'm excited for Split, split fiction 'cause I didn't buy it.
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And that was a bicycle, yeah. This is how I wish Cousin was
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on. We could talk about that game
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all day. So I'm going to, I'm going to
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level with you, Lauren. I think it's either Fast Fusion
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or Yakuza for you. OK, Stephanie, what's your
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verdict? Was it Street Fighter 6?
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No, I, I was just, that was more of a think out loud.
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I was thinking of Cyberpunk and honestly and I I'm not just
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saying because Corey said I was debating Yakuza, but I just
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couldn't recall if you were a fan of the Yakuza franchise so.
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I like the Yakuza franchise. I don't give them enough love.
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Like I mean like I I haven't played, I haven't played the
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games enough, if that makes any sense.
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I like it though because because because because the Yakuza
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series was filling a 88 and it's Shinmu left behind.
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Yeah. So I would I would agree with
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Corey's recommendation. And then just cyberpunk, that
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was kind of my primary one. Yeah, like it feels like it
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feels like cyberpunk probably is the way to go.
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Like given that invite Tears of the Kingdom on the on the on the
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Switch, I will probably get that.
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But I'm not, I'm not a big hurry to get that because I'd never
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beat Breath of the Wild. So I might just go ahead and get
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both of them even though I own Breath of the Wild on the
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Switch. Hey, well, might as well.
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I mean, I'm excited to play. I'm not sure if I'll play both,
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but I'm definitely going to play one.
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The first thing I'm going to do is hit the field on fire and
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watch like it, not chug for once, you know?
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Yeah, yeah. I was, I was talking to Ed.
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I was like, I think the game I'm most excited to play is Breath
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of the Wild again because I want to see it with, you know, ray
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tracing and HDR and 60 frames a second and, you know, my Switch
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not sounding like it's going to blow up after 20 minutes of
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playing it. And so plus I've been wanting to
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replay that game for a while and this seems like a better.
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Time. Ever so.
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Well, I've got, well, I've got, I've got four games, then I've,
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I've, I'm, I'm, I'll probably take Corey up on the Yakuza 0
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Director's Cut. Stephanie.
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I'm definitely, yeah, like more likely I for me to test out what
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the system can do, definitely Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition.
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I just need to see, I just need to see like, you know, like I
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need to be able to play around with their, with, with this
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version of DLSS, all this stuff going on, you know, like I need
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to see like load times how that stuff goes.
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And then I'll probably just get like, it'd be nice if they made
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a Breath of the wild tears, the King bundle.
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But you know, I doubt, I doubt they're going to do that.
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Oh, Lauren. If they if they, if they did it,
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it would be what, like what, like $160?
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I guess you know 'cause they they nobody will get a discount
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for buying the bundle. Maybe, I don't know, I can't
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math right now. I can't math anyway.
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Ask me to do it on 4 hours of sleep and 12 months.
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It was like, it'd be nice if you bought both games, it'd be like
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$120.00. But you know, we can only dream.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, I, I people are mad that
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they're not including the DLC with Breath of the Wild.
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So you know. That's not a.
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They can get over it. Yeah, I know.
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That's what I said. Wait wait wait, was the Breath
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of the Wild DLC even worth it Is the question.
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Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, get the motorcycle and
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I'll hold a new dungeon. And.
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That's what, like an extra $40 though that was an extra $40.
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I'm not. Saying was 1999 it.
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Was only $20. OK, Yeah, OK.
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Yeah. Yeah, I liked it though.
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It was. I mean, it was, it was good.
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It wasn't amazing, but you can probably play the game without
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it and be fine. But.
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OK, so I'm just going to I'm just going to randomly pick a
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topic here and we're going to go ahead and start this off talking
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about Summer Games Fest 2025. Yes, yes.
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So, so Summer Game Fest begins this weekend along with a
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recently announced state of play, which is premiering June
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the 4th tomorrow as of this recording.
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But by the time you're seeing this in the future, it will
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already pass. So hope hope you catch it.
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Summer Game Fest will include an Xbox showcase, A wholesome
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games, data devs and more. Stephanie, I'm going to turn
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this over to you because this is your topic.
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Yay. Thank you.
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I'm very excited for this. Yeah, so like you mentioned, La
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Ron, there's a bunch of different showcases all peppered
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around this time. It's basically the not E 3, E 3.
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So again, we have Sony's State of Play Day of Devs, we have a
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Devolver Direct, IOI, wholesome women LED games, Latin American
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games, Southeast Asian Game Showcase, Xbox Game Showcase and
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so on and so forth. So a couple things to kind of
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touch upon here. I believe they already had.
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Was it called the Unreal Showcase where they showed off
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The Witcher 4 which I haven't had a chance to check out yet
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but I'm really looking forward to watching footage of The
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Witcher 4. It looks really good, but it's
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clearly running at 3030 frames a second.
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Sorry, Laurent, it's. Alright, it's alright.
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You know this, you know the three stuff is you know how that
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goes. Yeah.
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So I have a couple talking points, then we'll wrap up with
23:34
a couple over and unders for predictions, just a couple.
23:37
I don't want to take too long. Is anyone looking forward to any
23:41
particular showcase the most out of all of this?
23:47
I mean the Death Stranding premiere.
23:52
Yeah, I, I, I'm looking forward to the Xbox showcase just
23:55
because I feel like, I feel like it's about time we see something
24:02
new from them. I mean, like, I know we've we've
24:05
seen a lot from them that's not out yet, but like it's been 2
24:09
like a year and a half since they showed something brand new.
24:14
I know the rumors, the Halo 1 remake, but I don't really want
24:19
to see that. I don't dude.
24:20
I've played so many, so much Halo 1.
24:22
I don't need to replay it. So I don't I don't know what it
24:27
would be though at this point, right?
24:28
Like Double Finds, new games supposed to be there supposedly.
24:33
I don't know, maybe we'll see more State of the State of Decay
24:39
or Ever Wild or something. Right?
24:41
Like games we haven't seen in a long time.
24:43
Perfect Dark Fable. Like Fable's rumored to be like
24:48
the big showing there. Aside from The Outer Worlds too,
24:52
because they're doing that whole direct afterwards, which I don't
24:55
really care about that either. But yeah, I'm excited to see
24:59
what Xbox has to show. They're also supposed to show
25:02
new hardware, which I don't know what that means particularly.
25:09
Yeah, like who's new hardware? This is an Xbox.
25:13
This is an Xbox. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
25:22
IA lot of people are thinking it's going to be an elite Series
25:25
3 controller, which is what people want really bad because I
25:30
apparently the elite series 2 controller is really bad, but
25:35
it's they're going to supposedly add like haptic feet,
25:38
essentially like a dual sense edge controller, but shove an
25:41
Xbox shell. I think it's what they're going
25:45
to try to do. So I'm actually really
25:49
interested to see if Xbox announces anything for other
25:52
platforms at their show, right? Because like that's clearly
25:56
their whole strategy now, even though they were still refused
26:00
to say it. So I it would just be
26:04
interesting for them to say PlayStation or Nintendo on their
26:08
in their press conference, right?
26:13
You know, like I got to say I I too, I'm most looking forward to
26:16
see what Xbox has to show, because even though I'm more of
26:19
a Nintendo and Sony person, I know Sony does have, albeit
26:26
timed exclusives on the horizon like Death stranding 2 and ghost
26:30
of Fiote. So at least like I kind of I'm a
26:33
little and and I'm sorry, Metal Gear Solid, of course, satiated,
26:38
so to speak. I I'm just like dying for like
26:42
new Xbox stuff and Fable and perfect dark is a great start.
26:46
So I'm really looking forward to that and no surprise, I'm just
26:51
I'm very excited for the indie ones, specifically Day of the
26:55
Devs and Wholesome. I am a sucker for indie games
27:01
and especially Day of the Devs, they, they curate a lot of great
27:04
indie titles. So I usually find a lot that I
27:06
end up playing from from either of those directs.
27:12
Yeah, I, I got to tell you though, right now is like the
27:17
best time to be a Game Pass member if you play a lot of
27:21
games, you know, I mean, they've had what, 7 first party titles
27:27
this year already. So, so and then you go all the
27:33
way back to last year, right? I mean, starting essentially
27:36
with Indiana Jones and whatever their that October game was, I
27:40
forget what it was, but you know, I'm, I'm looking forward
27:45
to seeing what they're doing. I think Obsidian has another
27:48
project in the works too, which would be really interesting
27:52
because they have four teams over there.
27:54
I wonder what, you know, they have two smaller teams and then
27:58
two larger teams. Obviously one was working on
28:02
about and one was working on the outer world.
28:05
So like are they going to have another grounded size project or
28:08
another Pentamid size project? That would be really interesting
28:12
to see what a small team over there can do.
28:17
How about you, Laura and Nelly? Is there anything in this lineup
28:19
that you're particularly eyeing? Yes, I want to see daily deaths
28:25
because I've been wanting to get more into indie games.
28:27
I feel like as a gamer, I never really gave them a chance, but
28:34
it's like now that I went to PAX East and talked to some of them
28:38
and, you know, seen them and experienced it, I was like, I
28:41
want to get more into indie games so.
28:43
Yeah. Yes, of course, stay to play for
28:49
me, 'cause you know, I'm a PlayStation guy, you know are.
28:53
You you guys. Dave the dad's for sure.
28:56
I'm also curious in the Latin American Games showcase as well
29:00
as the black whistling gaming. Maybe black whistling gaming,
29:03
though, if I'm not mistaken, isn't that just like a talking
29:04
panel and not so much like, you know, like premieres and, you
29:08
know, like, like spotlights on games?
29:09
How? Much I'd have to.
29:13
I feel like, I feel like the last time I checked it out,
29:16
that's what it was just like. Very similar to the women LED
29:18
game showcase. Let's see to to do this is a
29:23
nonprofit. Don't know.
29:25
It puts it, to be honest, spotlight on.
29:27
I haven't. Really been paying attention to
29:30
Healey's birthday party guest list.
29:32
I'm not gonna lie. I'll be, I'll be honest with
29:34
you. If if Stephanie hadn't said
29:35
anything about it, I wouldn't even realize it was happening.
29:39
It is a nonprofit organization putting a spotlight on titles
29:43
created by black game developers.
29:46
OK. They said you could expect world
29:49
premieres, dope interviews and bold voices pushing the culture
29:53
forward. Dope.
29:57
Not mine. Their words, not mine.
30:00
I don't want to sound like a poser.
30:03
Dope, we should bring that back. Speaking of bringing something
30:09
back, something that's being brought back into the gaming
30:12
sphere is IOI, who finally dropped the name.
30:16
I think of their Double O 7 game First Light, and they will be
30:20
showcasing it. What do you think it'll take for
30:23
a game like this to be successful?
30:26
Like as as big of a franchise it is, at least in the in the
30:30
cinema verse. I mean, I think I think people
30:36
are just expecting double O 7 Hitman to be honest with you.
30:40
I think the hitman style like not necessarily Hitman, but just
30:45
like the way you can kind of do things with gadgets and kind of
30:49
create your own fun within that world, right?
30:51
I think that would be interesting.
30:53
I'm a little confused by the name though, because they said
30:55
he's, if this is his training to become double O 7.
31:01
And I'm like we had that. It's called Casino Royale came
31:04
out 15 years ago. So I'm a little confused by
31:08
that. But I mean, as long as it's fun,
31:13
I guess. I don't know.
31:15
I guess it's I just want to wait and see.
31:17
It's clearly not going to be a shooter though in my opinion.
31:24
I think they were leaning way more into the spy gadget aspect
31:27
of it. Yeah, I'm wondering if it'll be
31:33
compared a lot to Hitman, but we'll see, We'll find out.
31:37
But. I'm pretty sure they're looking
31:40
for the similarities. I'm pretty sure.
31:42
I'm, what I'm really interested to see is if they model this
31:47
character and announce the Bond, the new Bond at the same time.
31:51
That would be like, you know, because, you know, because
31:54
during the GameCube era, they modelled Bond after Pierce
31:59
Brosnan because that was the Bond at the time.
32:01
And then Activision modelled all their Bonds after Daniel Craig.
32:05
So I wonder if they're going to try to do something like that or
32:08
if this is like, you know, just their own version of Bond.
32:12
Interesting. Good point.
32:15
I mean my my guess is is this is just their version of Bond, but
32:18
I think it would be cool if they had the new bond come out and
32:21
announce the game while they announced the new bond.
32:24
That would be awesome. That would be sweet.
32:26
That would be, yeah, epic. Yeah.
32:30
What might not be as epic is Nintendo is actually cited as a
32:33
partner in Summer Games Fest. I was a little surprised.
32:37
This is a first. I think like active quote UN
32:42
quote participation listed in many years.
32:46
I personally think it's probably just going to be not ads, but
32:50
like a commercial for like their switch to and maybe like a
32:53
little bit of an existing announcement.
32:55
But I wanted to see what everyone's thoughts are with
32:57
Nintendo as a technical participant this year.
33:04
I mean, my, my thought honestly is that they're just whatever
33:08
they're showing at Keely's thing is probably some sort of partner
33:12
obligation, like third party partner obligation and anything
33:16
Nintendo related will be something that's already
33:17
announced because they want, they want to hold all their
33:19
stuff close to the chest. I think they just want the
33:23
switch to in front of as many eyes as possible at this point.
33:28
So they're going to be there with the switch to, I don't know
33:31
if it's necessarily anything new unless it's third party or like
33:37
a second party agreement with like I don't know if Platinum or
33:42
whoever decides to make Astral Chain 2, maybe that's their
33:46
whatever. I don't want to get anybody's
33:48
hopes up, but that'd be dope, as they say.
33:53
Dope. Dope.
33:56
Yeah, La Ron Nellie. Any thoughts about Nintendo's
33:59
involvement? It'll be interesting.
34:04
It'll be interesting to see for me, like, I don't really know
34:06
what to expect, you know, 'cause, 'cause I'm pretty sure,
34:10
like, you know, isn't there like a tree house, like coming
34:12
anyway? So there I saw a tweet X,
34:18
whatever you want to call it, citing Nate the hate, and he is
34:22
unaware of any upcoming direct or related thing.
34:26
But who knows what will come in time.
34:33
Usually there's something around now, though, but maybe
34:36
Nintendo's just waiting for all this to be over and then
34:39
surprise, yeah. They all, they usually try to go
34:42
last. Yeah, I think they usually try
34:46
to go last, right? Because like all this stuff
34:48
happens and the Nintendo's last, and then that's all anybody can
34:50
talk about, right? That's why I'm so confused that
34:52
Sony's going first, right, Right.
34:54
Because all their stuff's going to be forgotten about in 10
34:56
minutes. And I mean that's just an
35:02
opinion, but still I don't have and like.
35:05
I don't have an answer for why they're doing it, or I don't.
35:08
I mean, the the big thing was supposed to be marathon at this
35:11
state of play. I know that for a fact it was
35:14
supposed to be marathon, but obviously no.
35:20
Right. So I mean, I they're probably
35:24
show Ghost of Yote and and Death Stranding a little bit before
35:29
the Death stranding major reveal, right?
35:31
Because I don't think they're going to have a state of play
35:34
when they're kind of funding and Co publishing the game, right?
35:39
And not show it at least a little bit.
35:44
Maybe they'll show fair games. The game's already improved.
35:49
They replace the dollar sign at the end with a regular S already
35:53
improved. Now I'm interested, by the way,
36:00
did you know the last game Jade Raymond was credited on was Far
36:03
Cry 4? Far Cry 4, you know how long ago
36:09
that was? Because then she left Ubisoft to
36:12
go to Google, and then Stadia closed down and then now she Oh
36:16
my gosh, I don't even know what's going on with her now.
36:23
All right, well, to round this out, I just cherry picked, oh, I
36:27
already talked about one of them a couple of like random
36:31
announcement guesses and I want you to provide me an over under
36:36
on whether you think it's going to make an appearance.
36:39
So the first one is Wolverine. Will Wolverine be showcased at
36:44
the well, I guess it would be tomorrow at the state of play.
36:48
Will we see him? No, not at the State of Play.
36:54
I if they're going to show it, it's going to be Achilles thing,
36:56
I think because Disney and Marvel want that game in front
36:58
of a lot of people and I feel like.
37:02
OK, well, if, if then yeah. So what's the over and under I?
37:08
Would say I actually think the chances are likely that game has
37:13
been in development forever. Right.
37:19
I'm going to, I'm going to say over.
37:21
OK, I'm gonna say slightly over. I'm giving it a 6040 chance.
37:25
It'll appear in Summer Game Fest Nelly.
37:34
Probably over. OK.
37:37
Next Silk Song, which technically made an appearance
37:41
at the last Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Direct.
37:45
But you know, like actual like, hey, this is dropping, I'm just
37:49
making this up. July 31st, blah blah blah, over
37:53
and under on Silksong. Here, here's a hot take.
37:57
Here's a hot take. So it's coming to date Game Pass
38:01
day one, right? It's going to shadow drop on the
38:04
Game Pass during the Xbox event. You know, I could see it
38:09
happening. I don't know, Xbox likes the
38:12
shadow drop at least one game every year and they've been
38:16
awfully quiet. Isn't.
38:20
It That's hollow night, isn't it?
38:25
Yeah. Oh, Hollow Night is pretty hot
38:27
though, so go ahead. Yeah, I'm sorry.
38:36
I feel like it's not make an appearance.
38:38
It's got to because I mean, you know, like it's, it's, it's a
38:40
hype train for gamers at this point.
38:46
Because I'm be honest, I never played it so or.
38:49
No, you don't need to. It's fine, yeah.
38:51
I've never played it either. I'm just kidding.
38:54
I like to be, I like to be a jerk about Hollow Knight.
39:01
I'm sorry everybody out there that likes Hollow Knight.
39:05
My bad. Over and under.
39:07
It's just like, what are your odds about thinking if something
39:11
is more likely to happen or not? Just percentages.
39:14
Like I I think it's a 60% chance Wolverine will be announced
39:18
during summer game fest or explained or whatever.
39:22
Sorry. I'd say there's an 80% chance
39:25
for silksong then. Here's my theory about
39:29
Wolverine. I think they want to get The
39:32
Wolverine game out because Wolverine is popular again,
39:37
right, with X-Men 99 and obviously Deadpool or 97 and and
39:41
Deadpool and Wolverine and he apparently he's coming back for
39:44
Doomsday. But I think they want to get
39:47
that game out so they can start work on the the X-Men game that
39:49
they're working on and have that out in time for whatever the
39:55
next movie is. Because apparently after these
39:58
new these new Avengers movies, they're Kevin Feige has a 10
40:02
year plan for the X-Men. So.
40:04
Jeez. Oh wow.
40:06
I swear. Well, given you say that, I, I,
40:11
I'm starting to feel a bit more likely about it.
40:13
Or at least something, right. It's been many years since we
40:16
got that itty bitty tiny little teaser, so.
40:19
Yeah, the mouse likes his synergy.
40:22
Yes. And then last but not least, I'm
40:26
thinking about Capcom a lot and I know we're it's the year of
40:29
Monster Hunter, but do you think we will see either Resident Evil
40:34
9 or a remake of a older game? Both.
40:40
Both I don't. Know if I'd see I I I feel that.
40:43
I feel that, yeah. Here, here's how it's going to
40:45
happen. They're going to show the
40:46
remake. They're going to show a trailer
40:48
for the remake. I think it's going to be.
40:52
I I would say it, don't you say it for people.
40:54
Like that Code Veronica? No, no.
40:58
No, here's the thing. I think a lot of fans want it to
41:01
be Code Veronica. I do.
41:03
I think it's going to be 0 because that's.
41:06
Been a rumor. I don't that's been that's been
41:08
the rumor for like a year and a half.
41:10
If they fix a lot of the gameplay mechanics for Zero that
41:13
made it just. You know, they're going to make
41:16
it like 2 and three I think is the plan.
41:21
But at the end, at the end, they're gonna put a Stinger for
41:27
9:00. OK.
41:30
Nelly as the as the as the resident Resident Evil like like
41:33
fanatic here like like like what did?
41:38
What do you think the odds are for for a 0 remake?
41:44
That's one of the most hated Resident Evil games cause a lot
41:47
of people say it was broken. I wouldn't mind remake of it.
41:53
You know, honestly because well, I liked 0 back in the day
41:59
because zero definitely like monopolized off of RERE remake.
42:04
It monopolized off of off of the off of the engine.
42:07
It did some things new and different for it and stuff like
42:09
that. And, and yeah, like there is a
42:12
good affinity for it. But you know, ultimately, like I
42:14
feel like the game suffered the game and the game and the only
42:16
reason why the game suffered, game suffered because of because
42:19
of gameplay and not storyline, you know, 'cause I think it had
42:21
a really, a really good story. I thought you just want to say
42:24
it sucked because of Billy. No, actually I feel like I feel
42:28
like Billy was a very interesting character.
42:30
You know, I, I really do, you know, as, and you know, it's
42:33
funny because like I just, I just, I just rewatched like,
42:38
like, like I, I, well, I finally finished the, the Resident Evil,
42:41
the Resident Evil the, the, what was it?
42:45
The, the four part series that was on Netflix.
42:47
I just finished that actually. And then I was like, you know
42:50
what, I'm feeling pretty nostalgic.
42:51
So I watched Resident Evil death island and I was sitting here
42:54
thinking I was like, man, like duck Island basically had like,
42:57
you know, like all the like the top tier, the top tier players
43:00
in that movie. And then I got to wonder.
43:02
I was like, I'm like, Rebecca is in his.
43:05
Is this the third movie Rebecca Chambers has been in?
43:08
Where the hell is Billy? But.
43:13
I don't even wanna get started on Resident because this is
43:15
gonna be a long topic. A lot of people are quite upset
43:21
that Jill hasn't been well in the games for a while.
43:26
So that's why I'm like, I kind of hope that she does appear in
43:29
Resident Evil 9, but who knows? Oh, you mean?
43:32
Like actually, you know, in a starring role.
43:36
Wasn't the rumor which really is not based on any fact.
43:40
Obviously the the returning characters for 9 would be Leon
43:46
and Jill for some weird messed up reason, but again I there
43:49
that. Wasn't a rumor that was that was
43:51
a speculation from from from from the gamers out there, which
43:56
I think, I think honestly, it's because they because like if you
43:58
watch Resident Evil death island, the movie like they they
44:01
play played well off of each other because they were they
44:04
were the they were the team up in in that movie.
44:07
And remember how we saw a like a placeholder and play Asia for
44:12
Resident Evil 9 and everyone's like, oh, that looks like Leon
44:15
or oh, this looks like Jill. So I don't know.
44:17
We'll see. I mean, the only way we'll know
44:19
is when it gets announced. I'll be honest with you as as
44:22
much as as much as I love Nick Apostolides and that's, that's
44:24
my boy and everything I'm tired of.
44:26
I'm tired of Leon. I will never get tired of Leon.
44:31
How dare you. How dare.
44:33
You I'm, I'm team. I'm team Chris Redfield.
44:36
Gross, gross. Get out of here.
44:38
All right. Well.
44:40
You never know what he's going to look like.
44:46
Because I got a question. I'm not hating on I'm not hating
44:51
on Leon. I feel like Leon just got just
44:52
got it, it it, but I also feel like I also feel like it's
44:55
because of Japanese gaming, like they like they like younger
44:58
protagonists and stuff like that, You know, which is why,
45:01
which is why Leon definitely works, even though I feel like
45:03
now he's a little long in the tooth, but whatever, you know?
45:06
Yeah, he's like 25 now. He's way too old.
45:08
I've got a high school kid in there.
45:09
I. I I really thought when they
45:11
introduced Piers, like Piers is going to be the next the next IT
45:14
guy for Resident Evil, but then we saw how that turned out.
45:18
They did him so wrong, I don't even want to talk about that.
45:20
I know, right, I know, right. But yeah, like he was a he was a
45:23
really cool character. He was a really cool support
45:24
character. You know, it almost feels like
45:27
it almost feels like they were, they were trying to like make up
45:29
for for how they did Sheba. Another great character who
45:33
needs to come back with. Yeah, what's that game?
45:38
Hey, what if it's? Hey, what if?
45:39
What if we get? We need.
45:41
What if we get a Charlie's Angels version of of
45:44
residential? Where, where, where's like
45:48
where's like Jill, Claire, Sheva, Rebecca and and Ada?
45:53
Yep, I was about to say the same thing.
45:56
Like literally word for word. Yes.
46:02
Our thoughts are one. Oh, that would be.
46:09
See, knows like, yeah, I'm, I'm digging this.
46:12
I'm because, because you know, because you know, of course Ada
46:16
would be, of course Ada would be like the jerk of the entire of
46:19
the entire team Ada and of course, like Ada and Jill would
46:22
have problems with each other, you know?
46:25
Oh no, because then we get then we get the fanboys like asking
46:29
for like $8000 worth of costumes for each character and the.
46:33
Mess come on with mods they'd be they would just they they would
46:37
just call the game resident gooner that that's how it would
46:40
be. And you know the PC version
46:42
would have like 1,000,000 mods that you know are all not safe
46:45
for work. Oh, you mean like the stellar
46:47
blade ones? Did you see that story?
46:49
Yeah, yeah, I've seen it. I've seen it.
46:52
Not not the mods themselves, but the the Stellar Blade account
46:56
retweeted some not safe for work images in the.
46:59
No, no, I did not see that. Yeah.
47:04
Oh, who would Bosley be? Question for the audience.
47:07
Who would Bosley be OK if we had to throw a male character in
47:10
there? I would.
47:11
I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
47:12
I wouldn't nominate Barry Burton.
47:15
Yeah, yes, yes. Another character doesn't get
47:20
enough that doesn't get enough Love Who?
47:23
Maybe he runs a deli in their secret bases inside the deli and
47:27
he makes or or. I forget.
47:29
I forget his name. Who's who's Wesker Junior?
47:30
What was his name like? Jake Something?
47:32
Jake Wesker? Yeah.
47:34
There you go. No, that's who called him that.
47:38
Who called him that in the game? Like they call him your Wesker
47:40
Junior. Who called him that?
47:43
I don't, I don't know. I can't remember.
47:45
Court you're you're failing me. Like Resident Evil 6 was your
47:47
game. Like you're failing me.
47:49
That's not true. I said I played through it once,
47:52
say it was my game. I said I wiped it.
47:55
OK. We ran this segment way too
47:57
long. I don't remember it it's.
47:58
Going to be a long segment. Dude, that was hundreds of you.
48:02
That was hundreds of games ago. I don't have no idea what's
48:04
that. Mean there.
48:06
Sorry my bad for bringing up Resident Evil, but thank you
48:09
guys. Yeah, Oh yeah, yeah.
48:12
Fun topic. Fun topic.
48:15
I I do think Fresno will be there in some capacity though.
48:18
I think so too. I think it's.
48:20
Been a hot minute. It's been a hot minute all.
48:25
Right. What's next?
48:27
All right, so Corey want to talk about about 100 state letter as
48:35
in the in the in the Zelda movie.
48:37
So Corey wants to take it away. Yeah, let me get the dock here.
48:41
All right, Let me pull it over here.
48:43
OK, so it's, it's funny because like, I read this, if you read
48:48
this Forbes article, it doesn't even mention at all what's going
48:53
on here, right? But so, and I had no idea who
48:57
this person was and Ed actually informed me on everything that's
49:01
going on. So essentially there's a there's
49:04
a lot of rumor and speculation going on right now that Hunter
49:08
Schaefer actress is going to play Prince of Zelda is like the
49:13
front runner to play Prince of Zelda, right?
49:17
She is in Euphoria, she's in The Hunger Games prequel.
49:24
She's also got like a couple other things in the works, I
49:27
guess going on. But it's making headlines.
49:31
I mean, obviously it's making headlines because it's a Zelda
49:33
movie, but she is also a transgender woman.
49:40
And that is getting the other side of the Internet really
49:44
angry. And like, I do want to touch on
49:49
that part of it, but I just want to know really, I just want to
49:54
talk about like is would she make a good fit for Princess
49:57
Zelda? All right, so let me, let me,
49:59
let me, let me preamble this right now.
50:00
Trans women or women so like so like I'm.
50:03
I'm aware, no. No, I'm not talking to you.
50:05
I'm talking to that vocal part of the audience that's going
50:08
that's going to say otherwise and stuff like that.
50:10
And by the way, you already know my social so at me at XS8O3 if
50:13
you want to have a conversation about this.
50:15
And by the way, nobody's had a conversation with me about this
50:18
stuff. So apparently it's not that bad
50:19
of a take if you, if you guys, if you guys are, are, are are
50:23
opposingly disagreeing with me and stuff like that.
50:25
Like it's never happening, yet they have, huh?
50:29
They're afraid of you. They must be.
50:31
They must be. But yeah, but that's, that's
50:35
what I'm going to say about that, you know, so we can get
50:37
actually get to the actual topic of like the casting of of of of
50:41
this, of this person. Yeah, I think there's like 800
50:45
other things you should worry about this movie besides who's
50:48
playing Zeala, right? Now, right, that's my question.
50:53
Well. Here here's the thing which this
50:55
is part this is part of my thing I want to go into in a minute,
50:59
but I don't know if you guys know who she is or if you think
51:03
she would make a good fit as Princess Zelda.
51:06
She clearly she looks like if she was Zelda, they would be
51:11
aiming more towards like a somewhere between Ocarina and
51:15
Twilight Princess aesthetic, right?
51:18
She definitely has like the the face shape of of the Twilight
51:22
Princess version of Zelda. She's tall.
51:26
She she has, you know, like the she has this look of like
51:31
elegance and, and has, you know, I can just imagine her in the
51:38
Twilight Princess gown and that long sword that she carries.
51:41
And like, I can totally see that with her.
51:44
My original pic was Florence Pew to play Zelda, but that would be
51:50
a different, you know, if I was thinking something like Breath
51:55
of the wild or Wind Waker style Zelda or something.
51:58
But I don't know. The more I because like I had no
52:02
idea who she was. So once after we talked about
52:04
it, I like listen to a couple interviews.
52:08
I watched her on Jimmy Fallon. They showed some clips of her in
52:11
The Hunger Games and she I think she would actually make a really
52:16
great Princess Zelda. Like the way she like the way
52:21
she like kind of carries herself and delivers lines in The Hunger
52:24
Games. Like I was like, yeah, I feel
52:26
like that could work. So I don't know.
52:31
I just and I know the the transgender thing is going to
52:34
throw a lot of people and like it's I don't.
52:40
The other thing too, right, is, is Sony and Nintendo are two
52:44
very Japanese centric cultures that really look down on that
52:50
too right historically. And so I think if they did cast
52:59
her that this would make some sort of multi like international
53:04
cultural statement and generally.
53:08
So I don't know, I don't know what you guys would think about
53:11
all that. Laron, I'm not going to ask you.
53:14
You usually have a lot of things to say about this topic.
53:18
OK, OK, so First off, I don't really know a lot about Hunter
53:23
Schaefer as far as like as and I I've been meaning to start
53:29
Euphoria for like forever. You know, like maybe I will
53:32
start it before season 3 actually happens.
53:34
You know what, not but, but so I don't really know a lot about
53:38
Hunter Schaefer, but I just basically went through the IMDb
53:42
and the Wikipedia reel for her and, and yeah, the more I look
53:47
at some of the comparison stuff like that, she does have like a
53:50
a look that could fit the aesthetic for Princess Zelda.
53:53
You know what? You know what it reminds me of
53:54
actually is Cate Blanchett and Lord of the Rings a little bit.
53:58
Like I could see a Zelda esque figure kind of looking like that
54:02
with her in that role. Yeah, I'm still kind of, I'm
54:09
still kind of trying to like I'm still trying to bring myself on
54:12
board with the fact that there's a Legend of Zelda movie coming
54:15
because like, I don't, and you know, like, I don't know, like I
54:20
feel like, I feel like there's a part of me that wants to take
54:23
this seriously. But at the same time, like, like
54:25
Legend of Zelda is such a revered franchise.
54:28
It's it's completely it's a completely different macrocosm
54:30
from like from like Super Mario and Metroid, you know, and I
54:34
think it, I think because one of the main things is like it
54:37
doesn't have like a real like going back If like you pay
54:42
attention to the pre show topic. I was talking about how long
54:44
I've been playing video games, stuff like that.
54:46
And there was a time when we thought that, you know, the
54:49
Lesnar Zelda games like from from Legend of Zelda to Zelda 2
54:52
to link to the past and stuff like that.
54:54
We thought these games were in some type of chronological
54:56
order. Then then everything gets turned
54:57
on its head by the time we get awkward in time and, and, and
55:00
Majora's Mask to find out that, you know, like there's, there's
55:03
no like set continuity. Some of these are some of these
55:05
are taking place in completely different, like iterations or
55:08
dimensions of like, of like the high rule universe and stuff
55:11
like that. And so like, so like, I feel
55:13
like this, I feel like there's a ticking.
55:15
I feel like this could be like a landmine waiting to be stepped
55:19
on because like it, it, it, it definitely will open the door.
55:23
It's like for like continuity freaks.
55:25
The fonts in the latch on. When I say continuity freaks,
55:28
I'm talking about I'm talking about moviegoers here, you know,
55:31
like moviegoers and people who watch serialized television.
55:34
We are all about Canon and stuff like that.
55:37
And you know, like we're we're possibly putting like one of the
55:40
most disruptive elements in there.
55:42
Not saying it's the rest disruptive in a bad way, but
55:44
just one of the most disruptive elements in there because people
55:47
are gonna want to be able to like they're gonna use this
55:48
movie as the origin point. And then let's say a sequel
55:51
comes out and like it's taking place in a different like
55:53
iteration or interpretation or fantasy of high rule and stuff
55:56
like that. People are.
55:57
Just going wants it to be a trilogy so.
56:00
OK, well if it's a trilogy, then maybe there will be a set cannon
56:02
as far as that goes and stuff like that.
56:03
But you know, for the most part, you know, like I feel like I
56:06
thought it was the way like Zelda is looked at the The
56:09
Legend of Zelda, the franchise is looked at as a whole by the
56:11
gaming community. I feel like this is going to be
56:15
a gift and a curse. So like, that's kind of why I'm
56:17
not 100% on board with like the Legend of Zelda movie.
56:20
Not saying not saying if it comes out, I won't watch it
56:22
because like, I sure as hell ran this for the Mario brothers
56:26
movie. I ran for that one.
56:30
Yeah. But I as far as like, as far as
56:34
like Hunter Shaffer's casting, though, like I don't see a
56:37
problem with it, You know, like it's it.
56:39
I feel like, I feel like, I feel like it's one of the better
56:43
castings in my opinion, as far as like movie castings go, you
56:46
know, especially in this day and age, because like sometimes
56:48
we'll sometimes we'll see people cast, you know, for, for
56:50
characters and they're like, what were you thinking and stuff
56:52
like that. But you know, I don't see, I
56:54
don't see any real problem about this.
56:55
And you know, if there's going to be like some, some socio
57:00
political like element here, you know, for this casting and stuff
57:03
like that, I'm always going to do what I tell people to do get
57:05
over it. First of all, you know, you
57:08
know, because, like, because like Hollywood's going to spend
57:11
the money on what it wants to spend the money on, who it wants
57:13
to spend the money on and how it wants to spend the money on it
57:16
and stuff like that. You know, so we got, we got to
57:18
take it or leave it. Like, you know, and the best
57:20
way, like, and the best way to say like, whether or not like,
57:24
you know, like take it, we're going to take it or we're going
57:26
to leave it is if we actually show up in the movie theater to,
57:28
to watch the movie and stuff like that.
57:30
You know, and of course, like some people are going to be
57:33
definitely misinformed or misunderstood about like what's
57:37
going on. Like not every, not every movie
57:39
casting is a political statement.
57:41
And you know, like, if you're going to use this person's like,
57:43
you know, like, like a firm gender, you know, as a political
57:46
statement, you probably already missed the boat on what's going
57:49
on as far as like the movie, because Hollywood ultimately is
57:53
about making money. And, you know, like I, I feel
57:56
like I feel like casting Hunter Schaefer in this role versus
58:01
like a Scar Johansson, a Scarlett or, you know, a
58:04
Florence Pugh. Not saying anything bad about
58:06
either one of those actresses. You know, I feel like this is AI
58:09
feel like this is a better bet because like, it doesn't feel
58:12
like it's a silly type of move. You know, you know, like it's
58:17
really easy. Like this cast, like the, you
58:19
know, the the IT girl, you know, like, you know, like it could be
58:22
really easy just to cast like, you know, let me see somebody
58:24
who would who would also fit like a Princess Zelda look that
58:28
I can think of. Actually, I can't think of I
58:32
can't think of anybody off the top of my head.
58:33
I'm being honest. Yeah, he'll be, he'll be, he'll
58:38
be Link or the king or something.
58:41
So that that you know, Oh no, I'm going to have.
58:46
Zinda is on one tonight. Yeah, Linda wants to be in the
58:49
Zelda movie. Stephanie, what do you what do
58:51
you think about it? You're the you're the queen.
58:54
Zelda fan here. I am, I mean, all right, so as
58:59
far as the choice of actress, I I don't know her as an actress
59:04
very well other than my quick brief research.
59:07
And my bottom line is as long as she it, she's good at what she
59:14
does, which it sounds like it and she.
59:17
Has she can act. Yeah.
59:19
So then I I have I have no issues with the whole
59:23
transgender thing. That's a bit more delicate that
59:26
I always tend to be afraid to comment on because I risk
59:28
pissing off both sides. But I can see.
59:33
Piss them off. Piss them off.
59:35
Join join my side. No, no, piss them off.
59:38
I tend to be, I tend to be like when I say sit in the middle.
59:41
You'll hear what I'm saying in a minute.
59:43
I can see some people correlating it a little bit to
59:48
transgender women in sports, for example, like kind of drawing
59:52
parallel lines to it. But for me, I, I, I see him as a
59:56
bit different because with sports you're looking at, you
1:00:01
know, actual, you know, like physique when in that
1:00:06
competition relying on physique. And that could lead to very
1:00:09
complicated discussions. Whereas for cinema, I think it's
1:00:13
actually easier because we're looking at talent and talent is
1:00:17
not defined by gender in my opinion.
1:00:20
You know, you know what I'm saying?
1:00:21
Like or like your physical bill, like how, what's your muscle
1:00:25
mass like? None of that actually really
1:00:26
matters for for cinema, it is your skill in portraying A
1:00:31
fictional character. So for me, I don't see too too
1:00:38
much of AAAA political socio political issue for me.
1:00:41
I just know that unfortunately it will generate that
1:00:44
conversation. I can only hope that it is a
1:00:46
loud minority, and I do think it's going to be that, you know,
1:00:51
based on the people in charge, I feel that if they were to go
1:00:54
with Hunter Schaeffer, I don't think it's going to be a
1:00:58
patronizing. We're doing this because we want
1:01:00
to be progressive and look at who we chose.
1:01:02
I think that whoever they pick as Zelda, which includes the
1:01:05
possibility of Hunter Schaeffer, it's going to be who they truly
1:01:07
think will best assume the role of the Princess.
1:01:11
Yeah. So I hope that kind of makes
1:01:13
sense. You mean kind of like how you
1:01:15
mean kind of like how Disney casts Halle Bailey is as Ariel
1:01:21
Because they said, they said they picked, they said that they
1:01:23
picked the person who was who was the best fit and who had the
1:01:26
best everything they need, they need someone that could sing.
1:01:28
They need someone that could act.
1:01:29
You know they need someone that can actually convey the sense.
1:01:33
If, if Disney was genuinely meant that, then yes.
1:01:36
As long as that they genuinely meant that, yeah.
1:01:40
I feel like for that one they gently meant it.
1:01:41
I think for everything else, like for everything else
1:01:43
following that, I think they're full of shit because like, look
1:01:46
at Snow White. Yeah, yeah.
1:01:49
So yeah, it's an it depends situation.
1:01:52
So to. Be fair, neither of those movies
1:01:54
are good. I mean I I.
1:01:56
I haven't seen Snow White, have you?
1:01:58
Have you seen Snow White, Corey? It was so bad we turned it off.
1:02:04
Of course you, of course, of course you watch that one.
1:02:07
I have two small children, Laurent.
1:02:09
Do you know how into princesses a six year old girl is?
1:02:12
Yeah, but it took you, it took you half of your life to watch
1:02:15
Ghostbusters. I I had no interest.
1:02:18
In going from 1980s four. Yeah.
1:02:23
Anyways, back to I think, I think there's AI think there's a
1:02:28
lot of weight to to this character, right?
1:02:33
I mean, Zelda's one of the most iconic video game characters of
1:02:38
all time, right? I mean, she's going to be the
1:02:42
face of this of this franchise for at least A at least a decade
1:02:47
or longer, right? I mean, maybe even longer if
1:02:50
it's a hit. Like you look at Lord of the
1:02:51
Rings. I know I keep going back to
1:02:53
that, but that's the only thing I can really comprehend kind of
1:02:57
comparing this to like those those I mean, what's his face?
1:03:04
Oh my gosh, Elijah Wood is still the face of is still Frodo and
1:03:08
he's hasn't played Frodo in 20 years.
1:03:10
You know, like that's just. The, the, the kid who played,
1:03:16
not a kid anymore, but the, the kid who played is Harry Potter.
1:03:20
You know, he we've been trying to break out of that, that.
1:03:23
He broke out of it. Well, yes, but it took a while.
1:03:26
It took a while. Yeah, so they they cast the new
1:03:29
Harry Potter kids, by the way, I don't know if you guys saw that
1:03:32
either. Oh, you know what?
1:03:34
I have a complimentary question for your topic, Corey, because I
1:03:38
forgot to ask. What do you guys think?
1:03:40
The odds are they'll be some sort of Zelda movie information
1:03:46
announced either at Summer Game Fest or at a Nintendo
1:03:48
presentation around Summer Game Fest time.
1:03:51
Like a cast or I don't know, probably the next step would be
1:03:55
casting. I think it's, I think it's too
1:03:58
early. It was.
1:04:01
It was about two years before the Mario movie came out when
1:04:04
they announced casting, and it's supposed to come out the summer
1:04:05
of 2027 I think. They're going to play a little.
1:04:09
I think they're going to play a little bit closer this time than
1:04:12
than than they did the Mario movie.
1:04:14
Yeah, it's especially because it's live action and it's less
1:04:17
controlled, right. The sets are less controlled and
1:04:19
and you can't really keep a lot of secrets, but yeah, yeah, I so
1:04:25
this this brings me to my next point and we can kind of be
1:04:28
quick on this and I don't know, Nelly, do you have any anything
1:04:32
to say on this this before we move on to the my next kind of.
1:04:38
I feel some type of way about video game movies, so that's why
1:04:42
I'm a little quiet right now. She's still thinking.
1:04:44
I love it. Good answer.
1:04:45
Still thinking of Leon. No.
1:04:49
No, Leon's not. Leon's not Leon's not Nellie's.
1:04:53
Nellie's boy. And in Resident Evil, it's it's,
1:04:57
it's the new and improved Chris Redfield from the village.
1:05:02
What was that nickname you had? Chris Thickums.
1:05:07
Yikes. So I have, I have a pitch for
1:05:13
the Zelda movie that I think they should focus on.
1:05:16
And hear me out. Link should not be in the first
1:05:20
movie. I think this has to be a a focus
1:05:27
on Zelda and the rise of Ganondorf from the, you know,
1:05:34
the boy who was born in the Gruto Valley to the King of the
1:05:37
Thieves and then his rise to power to take over high rule.
1:05:41
And I think it's got to be some sort of political thing that
1:05:45
ends in like this. I don't, I imagine it would end
1:05:47
in some sort of like Hyrule warrior style battle, to be
1:05:50
honest. But I think.
1:05:51
I did. Like that this is going to be.
1:05:53
AI think it's got to be a political kind of almost almost
1:05:58
Game of Thrones esque with less violence or less visible
1:06:03
violence I guess. If there's going to be a
1:06:05
trilogy, I can see that working, but I feel like they're going to
1:06:07
want to make it. They're going to want to make it
1:06:11
like like as much as less than Zelda as they can be, you know,
1:06:15
like make it like Hallmark, you know, So like you got to have
1:06:18
you got to have Link, you got to have Zelda, you got to have
1:06:21
again and you got to have the Tri force of wisdom, power and
1:06:23
courage, you know. Well, maybe they're looking for
1:06:25
the Tri force of courage, right? That's links.
1:06:30
Maybe this is The thing is they're looking for the Triforce
1:06:34
of Courage and they both find it and that's how the trilogy
1:06:36
concludes as they find it. But it's Link and he's there
1:06:41
right at the end. Like I think Link should only be
1:06:44
in this movie for like or this trilogy for like 5 minutes or
1:06:49
like the final battle or whatever.
1:06:52
He's like, but he's the hero of the story.
1:06:54
I know, I know, I know. And like, I know they got it.
1:06:57
They're going to do the iconic Master Sword pool and they're
1:06:59
going to do the whole we've. Got to get our fan service.
1:07:04
But I, I think like you could do all that, like do the fan
1:07:08
services stuff like the, the Deku tree and the big Goran and
1:07:11
stuff with Zelda as the main character.
1:07:14
At some point. I I know the master sword is
1:07:18
going to be the link iconic pull, right?
1:07:20
But I don't know, I feel like you could do some of these
1:07:23
little things. No, they want to give us some.
1:07:25
They want to give us some fan service like Zelda has to like
1:07:28
take on the chic persona some somewhere in the movie she's.
1:07:31
Just thinking that. I mean, maybe that's how she
1:07:33
maybe, maybe they're on a on a mission to infiltrate the Garuda
1:07:38
Valley and she turns in the chic and goes out with the whatever,
1:07:43
you know? Chic was so bad ass.
1:07:44
I love chic. I don't know what what do you
1:07:48
guys think this movie should or this trilogy should be about?
1:07:52
No, I'm not taking a stab at that.
1:07:54
I'm. Why not?
1:07:56
What if? What if a portal opens in these
1:07:58
because. Because I want to be like, I
1:08:01
want to be like link to the past or 4 sorts of ventures or, or or
1:08:05
the Minish cap or links awakening you, you, you kind of
1:08:10
see my, you kind of see where I'm going with this, right?
1:08:13
I would have loved like a Wind Waker style animated movie that
1:08:16
would. Have been I I was thinking like,
1:08:17
you know, like they're they could be really safe, you know,
1:08:19
after this gets off the ground and make a Wind Waker movie, you
1:08:22
know, and you an animated movie, because I I was thinking more of
1:08:25
a was a Tetra right, that version of of of of Prince of
1:08:29
Zelda. Yeah.
1:08:31
I wish I would have dated like how they did the Mario movie and
1:08:34
animated it, but that's just me. It's, it's almost like, it's
1:08:39
almost like they're trying to swing for the fences with this
1:08:41
one, which is not, which is not saying it's a bad thing, you
1:08:44
know, like, you know. Also not really Sony's strong
1:08:48
suit in the last couple decades. Animated.
1:08:52
Not just movies in general, aside from like maybe Spider
1:08:56
verse which was animated, right? Like I don't know, have you seen
1:09:00
the Spider man villain movies? That's the producer of this
1:09:03
movie, so. I I have.
1:09:10
No guesses to the plot, but I will only say this because I
1:09:14
should have went with my gut when they tease Tears of the
1:09:16
Kingdom. When they first tease tears of
1:09:19
the Kingdom, I listened to the music and I'm like man that
1:09:22
sounds a really familiar. And then once I played the game,
1:09:25
it dawned on me that it was very similar, if not the same as
1:09:30
their Dragons theme, or at least the instrument usage.
1:09:34
And I'm like, oh, that, you know, if I had picked up on
1:09:37
that, they were kind of hinting at there's a dragon in the game
1:09:40
When? And so Nintendo's very
1:09:42
deliberate with that stuff. So when Nintendo dropped the
1:09:45
Legend of Zelda movie date in the Nintendo Today app, they
1:09:49
used the Chiptuny OG music. So I'm thinking that whatever
1:09:55
plot they end up choosing, it's going to hark back to kind of
1:09:58
like the original Zelda sense of adventure, traditional type
1:10:03
story. I feel like they're going to
1:10:04
really try and stick to like an old school Zelda theme and not
1:10:09
necessarily like, oh it's going to be a cookie cutter of
1:10:11
Twilight Princess for example. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I, I yeah,
1:10:20
you're right. You're I don't know, I just, I
1:10:24
want this movie to be at least a watchable.
1:10:28
I don't need it to be amazing. I just need it to be watchable
1:10:30
right like that to for it to be successful.
1:10:33
Now you know what US Monster Hunter Hunter fans were were
1:10:36
were at when? Oh, come on, You knew what
1:10:38
you're getting into with Mila Djovic and that director, right?
1:10:41
You knew it was going to be Resident Evil with Dragons.
1:10:43
See, I'm going to be, I'm going to be 100% honest with you.
1:10:45
The Monster Hunter movie was not bad.
1:10:47
The monster move is not bad at all.
1:10:49
And I'm saying this as a as a lifelong Monster Hunter player,
1:10:54
Monster Move is not bad. I feel that so long as Nintendo
1:10:59
is involved with the making of their movies, which they will,
1:11:02
it'll at least be tolerable. I can't see Nintendo accepting a
1:11:06
complete stinker. It might not be the best, but I
1:11:09
just feel like they they'll hold some standard.
1:11:15
Well, I, I, I, I, I respect that because like, because like
1:11:21
Capcom acts also had a lot of like pulling direction with
1:11:24
Monster Hunter and, and I don't know, like, I kind of believe, I
1:11:28
kind of believe a lot of stuff Miliovic and Miliovic says, she
1:11:33
says she actually plays Monster Hunter.
1:11:35
So like that. So, you know, like, so, you
1:11:37
know, like she wanted to be as as plugged into it and stuff
1:11:39
like that, You know, to the point where she even got her
1:11:41
husband, Paul WS Anderson, you know, who's the director of the
1:11:44
movie to also start playing the game and stuff like that.
1:11:46
And and that's when he got and that's when he got the draw to
1:11:49
actually want to do something in the project, you know?
1:11:53
So yeah, like, I feel like, I feel like a lot of times the
1:11:55
companies do have like some some input and what, you know, like,
1:12:00
to this to your stuff is like, you know, also I do know
1:12:03
Nintendo can be pretty anal about this stuff.
1:12:05
So there's that, yeah. Especially with something, I
1:12:08
mean, especially with Mario and Zelda, right?
1:12:10
Those are like the two things they hold on the pedestal the
1:12:13
highest. I tell you what though, like
1:12:16
when I think about the Mario Brothers movie though, I swear
1:12:18
like the whole like Donkey Kong thing was that whole scene was
1:12:22
just just as epic. I need a Donkey Kong movie.
1:12:26
It's coming. It's coming.
1:12:28
I did like that little anime series back in the day.
1:12:32
Oh, no, anyways, I, I don't really have anything else to
1:12:42
say. Like I, I have an idea of what I
1:12:43
want the plot to be, but I'm not smart enough to kind of pitch it
1:12:48
in a 5 minute window. I just, I hope they get it
1:12:54
right. I hope they take the time to,
1:12:57
you know, really, you know, kind of I hope Nintendo has their
1:13:01
hands on this and and makes it watchable.
1:13:07
So who's going to as as Stephanie put it, and when we
1:13:14
were texting the other day, Stephanie, who's going to play
1:13:16
Daddy Dorf? Yes.
1:13:19
Oscar Isaac or do we want somebody?
1:13:27
I have a little more buffer Butch.
1:13:29
I have AI have a take Idris Elba.
1:13:34
Please. You know what, I'm here for it.
1:13:38
I'm here for it. But of course, of course, the
1:13:42
same people that were all like butthurt about about the the
1:13:46
possibility of him being cast as James Bond will be just as just
1:13:49
as vocal. Dude, he would be such an
1:13:51
awesome James Bond. He would, yeah.
1:13:54
Like I'm one of those people who's like, you know, I'm going
1:13:58
to somebody's going to yell at me on the Internet for this.
1:14:00
But I'm kind of opposed to a a female James Bond because it's,
1:14:06
you know, the whole character's male personas, like what draws
1:14:10
people in? But like, Oh my gosh, Elbow
1:14:12
would be awesome. Is asinine.
1:14:14
Is asinine For there to be a female James Bond?
1:14:17
There can be a female double O 7.
1:14:20
There is one. It's the the the the black girl
1:14:25
in the in in the last movie. Moneypenny.
1:14:28
No, not Moneypenny. The other one, the wait wait,
1:14:31
wait. Am I missing 1?
1:14:33
Yeah, it's the oh. I am missing one I I did not
1:14:35
watch. I did not watch the final, final
1:14:37
Daniel Craig. Sorry, I didn't mean to spoil it
1:14:40
for you if you were looking forward to it, but the James
1:14:43
Bond? James Bond retires and ends up
1:14:45
doing. I know that.
1:14:47
And like the new Double O 7 is as a black woman and people were
1:14:51
freaking out. Oh yeah, I know, I know he
1:14:53
retires. I know.
1:14:55
I'm like, it's not even James Bond, he retired.
1:14:58
You need to replace the number. Who cares?
1:15:01
Shut up. I'm a big fan of Moneypenny in
1:15:04
those movies though by the way. Me too, big fan.
1:15:07
I don't think we're this fan, was it?
1:15:10
Naomi Harris. Naomi Harris, right?
1:15:13
Yeah. Big fan.
1:15:15
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
1:15:16
Oh. Yeah, I love her as I just love
1:15:17
her as an actress. Wait, where were we?
1:15:23
Talking about Aegis, Aegis Elba is Gannon.
1:15:25
Who's going to play Gannon? Oh oh.
1:15:26
Oh, I, I, I like it, but I, I, I, I stand with my Oscar Isaac
1:15:32
thing even though like, he's basically like, like, like like
1:15:35
Baron Frankenstein in his upcoming Frankenstein movie.
1:15:38
Yeah, here's the thing. As long as they don't make him
1:15:41
look like Apocalypse in X-Men, it will be fun.
1:15:44
Yeah. All right, you got it.
1:15:49
You got. By the way, gamers, you also
1:15:51
stopped lusting after video game characters.
1:15:52
It's sickening. It's sick.
1:15:53
What? Especially the especially the 15
1:15:57
year old girl, the 1000 year old witches that look like.
1:15:59
As I go find my Capcom's Resident Evil like swimsuit
1:16:03
issue from back in. The day Hold on, hold on, don't.
1:16:10
Complain words You you upset No. We no, no.
1:16:13
No, no, no, there are some. There are some absolutely.
1:16:16
Like, I'm, I'm, if it wasn't the fact that Grand Theft Auto 6 was
1:16:20
not day one on PC, I'd be a day day one because Oh my God, those
1:16:24
characters are hot. Oh my.
1:16:26
Goodness. Yeah, What's going on with those
1:16:27
characters? It's like.
1:16:29
First of all, they look too realistic.
1:16:31
Yeah, I don't I it makes me feel things.
1:16:36
Let's move on. Hey, there's a reason why it's
1:16:41
called Header flexible, Corey. Listen.
1:16:45
Care about the dude in that game.
1:16:50
No. You said those characters, you
1:16:52
said you just said those characters make me feel certain
1:16:54
things. So I there's a lot of.
1:16:55
Characters in that trailer of. Course there's a lot of
1:16:57
characters in that trailer, but I'm pretty sure you weren't
1:16:59
talking about the mob boss. It looks like it was like he
1:17:02
eats way too many roasted hoagie sandwiches.
1:17:07
I I'm sure you weren't talking about that guy.
1:17:09
What's wrong with a good hoagie sandwich, Lauren, you got
1:17:11
something. But there, there's something
1:17:13
wrong. If you like, you're eating 10 of
1:17:14
them a day, flip table. They are.
1:17:22
You thought you were going to be the one that that caused like
1:17:25
the the audience to flip out. I'm the one that's causing the
1:17:27
audience to flip out right now. All.
1:17:32
Right, get me, Get Me Out of this topic.
1:17:33
What's the next one? Around well, there's I have an
1:17:38
original topic tonight as we you know, OK, I'm going home.
1:17:48
My bad. You are home.
1:17:51
You know what I mean? Taking my ball and going home.
1:17:55
Yeah. OK.
1:17:56
So I brought an original topic here tonight, So it's not
1:17:58
something that really picked off the headlines or anything like
1:18:00
that. But but, but all the digital
1:18:02
sales are going to come back. As a matter of fact, we've
1:18:04
already got teasers to Sony's, to Sony's online sales and all
1:18:07
that stuff. So I want, so this topic is this
1:18:11
topic is definitely like something we've kind of tread on
1:18:13
before, but I want to take it in a different light here.
1:18:16
And it's all about digital game ownership, you know, and is it
1:18:20
about convenience or, you know, control overall?
1:18:24
So essentially this is what we got here is like, and, and, and,
1:18:30
and I'm looking at this from a point of the sales and stuff
1:18:32
like that because I mean, let's, let's be honest, man, like some
1:18:34
of these sales are freaking amazing, you know what I mean?
1:18:38
Like, I mean, like you can literally get like, like AAA
1:18:41
games sometimes we're below $5 and stuff like that.
1:18:45
But, but The thing is though, like, you know, are, are digital
1:18:48
sales, are digital sales getting to a point where like, you know,
1:18:51
like it's actually ruining the physical market?
1:18:53
Or was the physical market already cooked to begin with?
1:18:58
I think that I think since, especially since the pandemic,
1:19:03
right, like the rise of digital sales has increased, you know,
1:19:09
it's it's it's to the point where the it's a higher
1:19:11
percentage of digital sales on consoles at least than physical,
1:19:14
right. I know P CS been digital
1:19:16
forever, but you know, I think I can.
1:19:19
Imagine I can no longer get box original box art for my PC games
1:19:23
like they're, you know, like I I was already I was already part
1:19:26
of the problem because like I I remember buying Battlefield
1:19:29
2042. Is that the that the sci-fi RTS
1:19:33
one? You're asking the wrong person.
1:19:36
Yeah, and I remember, I remember getting the box with just the
1:19:38
code and there was no disk at all and stuff like that.
1:19:40
But I was like, yeah, I got the box style stuff.
1:19:42
And so yeah, I'm I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a part of the problem.
1:19:47
You have. You have me.
1:19:48
To thank for why you only where you barely get a slip of paper
1:19:51
in your games in your in your game box now.
1:19:54
Here's here's the reason why I started doing digital games and
1:19:57
I'm actually thinking about it for Switch 2.
1:20:00
Almost exclusively except for like the certain franchises that
1:20:03
I absolutely love, like Zelda, right, whatever that next one
1:20:06
is. But you look at the especially
1:20:10
the way that Microsoft is doing. I'm not 100% sure how Sony does
1:20:13
it, but you know, third parties do it too.
1:20:16
You essentially stick the disk in and you have to still
1:20:20
download most of or all of the game and then there's updates
1:20:25
and then there's the day one update and then there's the
1:20:27
patches and then there's the, the, you know, the extra content
1:20:30
that comes later that's not considered DLC.
1:20:32
And then you have the like, it's just not to me, it's not worth
1:20:37
owning essentially a coaster in a box.
1:20:42
You know, I, I love physical games like I, I, I wish things
1:20:47
were different. And I think this is where
1:20:49
companies like limited Run and Super rare and I am 8 bit are
1:20:53
going to actually grow as digital games become more and
1:20:58
more prominent. These companies will stop making
1:21:01
discs, but they'll make deals with these.
1:21:03
They'll become boutique, right? Like essentially the way that
1:21:06
cassette players, cassette tapes and and vinyl are now, right?
1:21:10
And I'm sure C DS will be in like 20 years, even though
1:21:13
they'll be silicon decayed and whatever.
1:21:16
But you know, I mean, you, you even look at PS1 games are
1:21:20
starting to degrade now. Like you can't even play them
1:21:22
because the discs are so old and dried out because back then
1:21:27
discs were new and they didn't have any of those protective
1:21:29
layers or the, you know, the wax sealing on them or anything,
1:21:32
right? Like they just made discs and
1:21:36
you can play them and you there are literal PS1 games that don't
1:21:39
work anymore because they weren't well taken.
1:21:42
You know, of course, ones that are well taken care of are will
1:21:45
work, but like if they're just sitting around like they're not
1:21:48
going to work because they're degrading and they're not being
1:21:50
used. So that for me, that's that's
1:21:54
why digital games are just like I, this is fine, right?
1:21:58
It's, it's fine for me. Like I bought, I bought
1:22:01
Expedition 33 physically, right, because that game is supposedly
1:22:05
all on the disk and I really loved that game.
1:22:09
So I wanted to support the developers and buy it even
1:22:11
though I played it on Game Pass. Hal Blade is another one.
1:22:17
But you know, even limit, even limited go.
1:22:22
Ahead, finish your thought. Finish your thought.
1:22:24
I was just going to say even limited run is dabbling in the
1:22:28
game key card for Switch 2 and I know that's for non numbered
1:22:34
versions of the games, but like that's like their whole model is
1:22:38
physical media and they're still doing the digital key card
1:22:41
things for some things, right? Like that's that.
1:22:44
I think that just tells you where this is at.
1:22:48
Well, here's just to play devil's advocate, because I, I
1:22:51
was, so I'm pure, I'm a physical fan, you know, but I mean, just
1:22:58
to start here, I mean, I, from what I've read, I believe for
1:23:02
the switch to, for example, game key card ones, you can still
1:23:06
resell those, right? That's my research.
1:23:10
So I'm like, well, that takes one part, one, not all.
1:23:14
One part of the whole digital gaming kind of drawbacks is, you
1:23:20
know, whether or not you could resell something that you own
1:23:23
just digitally. But if you have a switch to game
1:23:27
that is a game key card, even though it's not quote UN quote
1:23:30
100% physical by definition, you can still resell it.
1:23:36
But again, I know that's just like one tiny part of this whole
1:23:39
discussion. You know, I, I cared a lot more
1:23:45
about physical media when it actually came with more than
1:23:49
what's what's net, what's now available like manuals.
1:23:52
And well, they still have box art, but that's why I'm drawn to
1:23:56
physical games, you know, box art, anything else they might
1:23:59
come with. And I will have to say I agree
1:24:02
with Corey that on one hand, digital sales shot up in COVID
1:24:08
and during COVID and will continue to be that way.
1:24:12
But there will be a strong niche for physicals, especially for
1:24:18
maybe lesser known titles and Indies and stuff.
1:24:21
So that's just my little little take.
1:24:27
I think it's more convenient, that's why I like digital.
1:24:31
But at the same time, I always worry like a eventually this
1:24:35
might get pulled from the library.
1:24:40
So that's like my please worry. But otherwise, I mean, depending
1:24:46
on the game as well, if it's something that I really know
1:24:50
that I'm gonna play constantly, I'd rather have a hard copy of
1:24:54
it rather than going with the digital again, copyright.
1:25:00
So just to be on the safe side, I kind of, I guess I do both.
1:25:11
Yeah, yeah, I just especially for like Switch to like I
1:25:18
realized part way through the Switches life cycle that it's
1:25:20
just annoying to open the cartridge slot and get a game
1:25:23
out and put it in right. So like, you know, I just I
1:25:28
would, I would love to be the person that has this huge game
1:25:31
collection and have it displayed behind me at all times, right,
1:25:34
like like Stephanie does back there.
1:25:38
But it's just not that part is not realistic.
1:25:43
And like, it's just like these games just aren't, you know,
1:25:47
especially on Xbox and PlayStation.
1:25:49
It's just not worth having this dead plastic on my shelf.
1:25:52
I'm I'm a poser like I will buy. I will buy the freaking like the
1:25:57
the the the the cases and print myself the the sleeve art and
1:26:02
call the day like Yep, I got Yep, I got these games.
1:26:05
People sell their boxes their their boxes on eBay for like 15
1:26:09
to 20 bucks apiece. I don't need the OEM box.
1:26:13
I don't. I don't need it a.
1:26:14
Good color printer. You know, I mean, you look at
1:26:19
even collector's editions don't have the games in them sometimes
1:26:22
anymore. You know, like I mean,
1:26:24
Expedition 33 is re releasing their collector's edition with
1:26:27
no disk, with no game, not even a code.
1:26:30
It's just the the steel book and the monolith, which I want
1:26:33
really bad by the way. Now that I've finished the game
1:26:35
and understand it, I'm like, Oh my gosh, I want that so bad.
1:26:39
But I just enough on the Nintendo Switch to that I can't,
1:26:47
just can't. Oh my gosh, I would sell one of
1:26:52
my children for that. Consumerism, my man.
1:26:55
I won't tell you which one. We all know.
1:27:01
We all know it's the first born. We all know this.
1:27:04
Yeah, well, my son likes games, so I can't be him.
1:27:13
I'm just kidding. No, you're not.
1:27:16
No, you're not. Stop.
1:27:18
You're lying. It's fine.
1:27:26
I'm, I'm at this point, like I'm, I'm the digital I, I'd
1:27:31
like, I'm morally, I'm more digital than I am like like,
1:27:35
like physical, which is, which is weird because like I used to
1:27:39
be one of those people. Like I, I absolutely have to
1:27:41
have the game, You know, I actually, I have everything that
1:27:44
that's associated with the game. So the box art, the, the box
1:27:48
art, the, the, the instruction manual, like the disc, like all
1:27:51
the little like Knick knacks and all that stuff, you know, and
1:27:55
it's definitely got to be the original, like freaking like,
1:27:58
like box art. It can't be like, like how like
1:28:01
PS1 wound up like later on getting reprints, no greatest
1:28:04
hits and they have that green like label or whatnot.
1:28:06
So with that, you know. Gosh the greatest hits labels
1:28:09
were so bad dude. I know, right?
1:28:11
I know. But that's how.
1:28:12
But I mean, like every company's done it like Nintendo.
1:28:14
Nintendo does it like like Microsoft tried to do it.
1:28:18
Remember when remember in the GameCube had that nasty yellow
1:28:21
strip at the top? Yeah.
1:28:23
Oh, so gross. Yeah.
1:28:26
I gotta say the Xbox 360 platinum hits with the great
1:28:31
with the silver cases. Those were some sexy greatest
1:28:37
hits. It's amazing.
1:28:41
Yeah, I think you're right. Although they're the the cover
1:28:44
art, never, they like they just can't make a decision on their
1:28:47
cover art. By the way, for three
1:28:49
generations. They're like, I don't know what
1:28:51
how to make the cover art. We don't have a template.
1:28:54
Steve left and he took the template with them.
1:28:56
We got to figure it out. Anybody have a anybody have a
1:29:00
Canva account? We got to got to whip something
1:29:03
up. It's awful man, I want to like
1:29:13
Xbox so much more than I do and I like Xbox but God figure it
1:29:18
out. Get it together.
1:29:23
Oh, here it comes. Actually, it's not that hard.
1:29:29
You know what? That might be a great segue
1:29:30
actually might be a very great good segue for our four.
1:29:34
Are we, are we we moving on to this topic?
1:29:36
Are we done? Yeah, I'm satiated with that
1:29:39
topic, Loron. You're satiated.
1:29:41
Oh boy, I'm ready to get off this podcast so I can go eat
1:29:46
some of my birthday cake. Yeah, what kind of cake?
1:29:52
It's it's, it's Oreo cake. Oh.
1:29:55
Yes. Not an actual, not an actual
1:29:59
frozen one. Like it's an actual, like actual
1:30:02
cake. Iran by the way.
1:30:05
Yes, you just, you just reminded me.
1:30:08
I'm driving through Virginia in like 2 weeks.
1:30:11
The cake will be gone by then, no?
1:30:13
I'm not asking for cake. Oh, you mean hang out?
1:30:15
Oh yeah. This guy.
1:30:24
Oh, by the way, get together. Stephanie, thank you for my
1:30:29
birthday present. Yeah.
1:30:33
It's my it's my boy Victor for It's my boy Victor from Tekken
1:30:37
8. Like, yeah, like.
1:30:39
I like see. Actually got me to turn the game
1:30:42
back on last week. You know how that got?
1:30:47
Like when I go to packs, I hang out with packs arena sometimes
1:30:51
because they do do the E sport tournaments.
1:30:53
Oh my God. And those folks be in there like
1:30:55
fighting for their life. Yeah, the techno crowd.
1:30:59
The techno crowd's amazing. Yeah.
1:31:07
All right. So, so we're going to go ahead
1:31:09
and move into our as promised, as promised.
1:31:12
I, I, I, I mentioned it last week when we closed out the
1:31:14
show. It's time for added boys and get
1:31:16
togethers. Now basically, if you don't know
1:31:18
what the segment is all about, basically each one of us here on
1:31:22
the panel are going to pick are going to pick one thing from
1:31:26
like it's in the industry, whether that is what let me get
1:31:31
my words right. Let me get my words right.
1:31:32
My bad. We're gonna pick a person, a
1:31:35
company developer, a game or something else to shout out as
1:31:39
either being done great attaboy or something that is being done
1:31:44
very badly getting together. And this is all recent gaming
1:31:50
industry related or otherwise. So if I were to use an example
1:31:55
right now, if I were to use an example right now of a, of a, of
1:31:59
a, of an attaboy, I would say as a matter of fact, my Attaboy and
1:32:05
get together are going to be all for the same company.
1:32:10
Attaboy Capcom. You guys are doing the damn
1:32:12
thing. You guys are doing the damn
1:32:15
thing. Like you guys are doing, you
1:32:17
guys doing well, you know, like you're another year, another
1:32:21
year of like, of like fortuitous profit and stuff like that.
1:32:24
But you got to get together 'cause that it, it was at the,
1:32:27
IT was at the misfortune of the Monster Hunter Wilds gaming crew
1:32:32
and some of the Resident Evil gaming crew.
1:32:35
You know, because like I understand, we understand, like
1:32:38
you guys want to actually get you guys actually want to get
1:32:41
your games out. You guys want to like nail in
1:32:44
that, you know, that that fiscal year and stuff like that.
1:32:47
But you know, putting some of the games out that you did is
1:32:51
going to tarnish your reputation for why you're you've been
1:32:54
winning year after year after year on stuff like this.
1:32:57
And so that's all I'm gonna say about this.
1:32:59
Like, you know, I love monster runner Wilds, but you guys know
1:33:02
exactly what y'all did with this game.
1:33:04
You guys know exactly what y'all did y'all, y'all, y'all fumble
1:33:07
at the finish line. And and it's a shame because
1:33:10
like Capcom, you're not the only company that does this like a
1:33:13
whole bunch of other companies have done this, Sony's done it,
1:33:16
Microsoft has done it. You know, like a whole bunch of
1:33:20
companies have done this and it's, you know, for a company
1:33:24
that gets celebrated for a lot of a lot of the stuff they do, a
1:33:26
lot of the good stuff. You know, like we had the
1:33:28
conversation last week, Corey and, and Corey mentioned how
1:33:31
like, you know, like the money that they get in all these in
1:33:34
all these record sales and stuff like that is what is what, you
1:33:38
know, like gives them like the, the, the cadence to actually
1:33:42
like release like lesser known games.
1:33:44
Like instead of releasing a AAA game, they'll release a AA game
1:33:47
or, or even like AAB minus game, you know, because like they've
1:33:52
got the money to recoup from it with their with their major
1:33:54
projects and stuff like that. But at the same time, it's like
1:33:57
when you're when you're forsaking your major products
1:33:59
and projects and stuff like that, Like what are you doing?
1:34:03
What are you doing? I loved you guys and Capcom.
1:34:07
You're the only company you know.
1:34:08
Yeah. You know what it does is like
1:34:10
Ubisoft does this, Konami does this, EA does this.
1:34:16
Do you know how badly I would have riot if a Dead Space came
1:34:19
out broken? The Dead Space remake?
1:34:21
Oh, I still would have played it, but I'd have been, I'd have
1:34:26
been very upset. Oh sorry Loron, it was great and
1:34:33
they didn't make the sequel. Yeah, I know, I know, it's a
1:34:37
Capcom attaboy, but also get it together.
1:34:41
Jeez. OK, that's my soapbox.
1:34:43
Who's next? Me Alright, attaboy for for
1:34:51
Rockstar, we get another geeky game.
1:34:56
We know, we know. We know somebody.
1:34:58
We know somebody who's day one, day one adopter.
1:35:02
Listen, I am making sure I take a vacation that week.
1:35:05
I'm not going to work, already got it planned out but y'all
1:35:12
have pushed it back yet again so yeah, get it together with that.
1:35:18
You know, if y'all posting it back, if y'all post it back
1:35:20
2026, y'all can have the PC version ready at the same time
1:35:23
as the console version. That's all I'm going to say.
1:35:24
Get together, Rockstar. Get together Rockstar.
1:35:27
I still love y'all though. Grand Theft Auto 6 coming to
1:35:34
Switch 2. You heard it here first.
1:35:36
Oh, that. 'D be a while.
1:35:40
It's going to it's going to run at 480P at 21 frames a second
1:35:45
and. I was going to say.
1:35:49
Memory card for a texture pack. If if any if any game were to
1:35:53
make the switch to explode, it would be that.
1:35:58
Wow enough I wouldn't even thinking like that.
1:36:00
I was thinking like a about the violence in it because I know
1:36:05
the trailer man was released for we and I was surprised because
1:36:11
that's a Nintendo console and I'm like, Nintendo is family
1:36:16
friendly. But when I heard that, I was
1:36:18
like, OK, Nintendo kind of stepping out.
1:36:22
Yeah, well, family friendly until you see all those like
1:36:25
waifu hentai games that you see in the E shop.
1:36:28
So hey. To be fair, they've been
1:36:32
removing some of them. OK, well step in the right
1:36:36
direction anyway. They said they were Miyamoto's
1:36:39
harvesting them in his in his closet.
1:36:43
Oh my gosh. Well, Speaking of Nintendo, I
1:36:47
know it's cliche, but I want to give credit where credit's due.
1:36:50
My Atta boy is Nintendo. Because you're releasing a new
1:36:53
console and as of this recording, two days.
1:36:56
So congratulations. Watch when we watch when we when
1:37:01
we come back to the end of the month, stuff is going to be like
1:37:03
get together. Nintendo.
1:37:05
What was his launch? Probably I don't know, but I'll
1:37:10
give him credit now. What is the Cyberpunk?
1:37:18
Sorry everybody. Family friendly until dollar
1:37:20
size. Everybody mark Laurent's words
1:37:24
and let's revisit the next Get Attaboy get together.
1:37:28
I will laugh so hard just. Oh man, I love it.
1:37:31
I love it. This is such a fun show and you
1:37:34
guys still be taking my take. Take the night off for my
1:37:36
birthday. You guys told me this well.
1:37:39
We're thinking about you. I love you too.
1:37:43
My my get it together and I feel like sometimes my get it
1:37:45
together is just an angry lash out to like obnoxious trolls on
1:37:50
the Internet. This time it's for people that
1:37:53
have threatened have called Ramsey, the actress that plays
1:37:59
Ellie from the Last of Us TV series, literally the worst
1:38:03
actor, actress, whatever in Hollywood.
1:38:05
I mean I believe she's turned off all her social media.
1:38:08
Like the backlash for her is in so ugly and don't get me wrong,
1:38:15
like her character really annoys me from time to time, but like
1:38:18
the backlash is just so freaking disappointing.
1:38:22
So disappointing. Shame on you people out there
1:38:25
who are doing that. Hey, you know what Shame,
1:38:29
Stephanie? Shame.
1:38:31
Did you watch the entire second season?
1:38:34
I am on episode I finished episode 3 so I'm not done yet.
1:38:37
Let me know when you finish. We're gonna get together, do a
1:38:40
do a sit down. We're gonna do a book club.
1:38:41
Cool. We're gonna do a book club
1:38:44
because I OK, cool. Yeah 'cause yeah 'cause yeah
1:38:47
'cause yeah, 'cause I, I finished season 2 and, you know,
1:38:51
and, and and here's something there's the only thing I'm gonna
1:38:54
say about this. So I don't so I don't take away
1:38:56
from like your whole like get together segment segment.
1:39:01
I've watched season 2, which is basically the the first half of
1:39:06
like the Last of Us Part 2 of the game.
1:39:08
I haven't even played the game. So I'm doing something different
1:39:10
this time. Like I, I played I played the
1:39:13
first one to deaf and was all for the series, you know, when
1:39:16
it first started and stuff like that.
1:39:17
But I did not play the second one until and then I was like,
1:39:21
you know what? I'm I'm just gonna wait.
1:39:23
I'm gonna see how the season goes and then I'm gonna play the
1:39:25
game, the second game, start the second game.
1:39:28
So yeah, that's my SO. I'm doing a reverse take on this
1:39:31
one. Interesting.
1:39:33
Might, might give me trouble when I actually play the game,
1:39:35
you know? Well, it'll make for a good
1:39:38
conversation. Yeah, I'll definitely know when
1:39:39
I'm done. I'm trying to get caught up.
1:39:41
Like I said, there's, I mean, I struggled with the personalities
1:39:46
of some characters in two anyway.
1:39:47
But to play devil's advocate to myself, I think that's
1:39:50
intentional story writing. But regardless, one should not
1:39:55
be so vicious to attack. An act of a talented actress for
1:40:02
her role to the point where she needs to shut off her social
1:40:05
media and be called the worst actress.
1:40:07
In Hollywood, it's so funny because like when Bella Ramsey
1:40:10
was played like Lady of Mormont in in in Game of Thrones, people
1:40:15
were eating that shit up. Yep, Yep.
1:40:17
And look what happened now. And people were eating that shit
1:40:21
up. And my whole thing was like,
1:40:22
this is like, look at this little upstart.
1:40:24
Like I think she was supposed to be like a nine year old girl in
1:40:27
that in, in, in Game of Thrones. But you know, like she was, she
1:40:30
was basically like the lady of her land because like she was
1:40:33
the only surviving heir to the to the family line, you know,
1:40:36
and they were eating that. They were eating that stuff up.
1:40:38
And I was like, man, I don't like this character.
1:40:39
But you know, Bella Ramsey, when they, when they were cast for
1:40:43
Ellie and the Last of Us the series, and like I actually
1:40:46
started watching the series, I was like, hey, like they're
1:40:49
doing a great job. I'm saying they because like
1:40:51
Bella Ramsey's they, they them pronouns, they're doing, they're
1:40:55
doing a wonderful job. No, no, no, no.
1:40:56
Bill Ramsey's has has come out and said that, you know, like,
1:40:59
like you, they are good. Like, you know, if people want
1:41:01
to say like, you know, like say like she her or they them and
1:41:05
stuff like that. Because like, you know, like
1:41:06
when it comes to conventions of Hollywood, there's always going
1:41:09
to be a a best actor and a best actress, you know, So yeah,
1:41:13
yeah. So they're, they're, they're
1:41:15
cool with it, huh? Somebody might want to tell Neil
1:41:17
Druckman that because in the interview he said she and her
1:41:20
the whole time. And.
1:41:22
That's an app interview I listen to.
1:41:24
Well, yeah, that's, well, yeah. That's because like, she's she's
1:41:27
OK with it. But I think, but you know what?
1:41:29
I also want to say something in this, and this is probably a
1:41:32
this is probably an added way to Bella Ramsey.
1:41:35
The fact that the fact that they understand that sometimes people
1:41:41
just do not wrap their heads around it as quickly or or
1:41:44
better than other people is wonderful Because like I because
1:41:48
like I try my best not to miss gender people, especially when
1:41:51
people are are talking about like, however someone wants to
1:41:55
be identified, you should respect and pay attention to
1:41:57
that and stuff like that. Whether it's whether it's I'm
1:42:00
identifying as he, him, his pronouns or whether I'm saying,
1:42:04
hey, my name is Leron and you need to call me Leron and not
1:42:07
Leron. You know, it's the same, it's
1:42:08
the same difference. Like don't if, don't misrender
1:42:13
me in the same way that you're not going to mispronounce my
1:42:15
name on purpose, you know, because like.
1:42:17
You. Better you better not get.
1:42:24
The letters right in your name. People call me Cody all the time
1:42:28
and it's annoying. Cody, how do they get that?
1:42:32
I don't know, it annoys me so much.
1:42:35
How do they get that? No, no, no, I, no, no, I, my, my
1:42:38
name has been mispronounced even when I, even when it's spelled
1:42:41
out in front of them. It's been mispronounced so many
1:42:43
times. You know, and I understand there
1:42:44
are some, there are some common ways that my name can be
1:42:46
mispronounced, but at the same time, I'm like, my name is 5
1:42:49
letters. How'd you get like like 4
1:42:51
syllables out of it? Oh no.
1:42:55
Lebaron. I've had that.
1:42:59
I've had that. You.
1:43:00
You were you. You think you're joking, but
1:43:01
I've had that. Yeah.
1:43:04
But anyway. But anyway, going back to going
1:43:06
back to Billy Ramsey and you know, like I don't, I've watched
1:43:09
the entire season 2. There's nothing wrong with their
1:43:12
acting in this. I think people, I think people
1:43:16
are just feeling like, you know, when we think of when we think
1:43:19
of Ellie in the game from well, from the game, we think of
1:43:23
Ashley Johnson. That's what we think of.
1:43:26
We we think of Ashley Johnson and we think of this and we
1:43:29
think of this character that was rendered in the game.
1:43:31
That was almost Elliott Page. You know, that's what they
1:43:36
think. And by the way, you know, like
1:43:38
the like the inspiration for the inspiration for for Ellie, you
1:43:42
know, also just hasn't been a transgender person.
1:43:44
So you know, I am suck it. I'm sorry.
1:43:51
I I hijacked your attaboy get together.
1:43:53
I'm so sorry, Stephanie. No, you added a lot of color to
1:43:56
it so that that was it. So.
1:44:00
People be tripping. Mm hmm.
1:44:04
I would say bitches be tripping but then I will be misgendering
1:44:06
certain people. How dare you?
1:44:17
I guess it's my turn, huh? Yeah, give together, Corey.
1:44:21
I know I'm dude, I'm trying so hard right now.
1:44:24
Corey's like I'm gonna. Try to Virginia just to punch
1:44:27
you in the face in two weeks. So my my attaboy, I don't
1:44:36
remember if I use this or not but they deserve another one if
1:44:38
I did. Is Sandfall interactive and
1:44:42
Kepler for just providing us with a gem of an experience in
1:44:49
Expedition 33? I finished it at 2:15 this
1:44:53
morning because I couldn't stop playing it.
1:44:55
You, you were addicted or you were just, did you have any
1:44:58
problem with it? Did you have any problems?
1:45:00
Because I heard about the final battles basically like, like how
1:45:03
well are you at Perrying? Did you have a problem with
1:45:05
that? Dude I was so powerful that I
1:45:08
like 01 hit the final loss in every phase.
1:45:11
Look at this guy. He took his testosterone shot
1:45:14
today. I was so powerful.
1:45:16
How? You see all this hair on my
1:45:18
chest from playing, from playing and beating this game.
1:45:20
I I conquered this game. I so I rushed, I actually rushed
1:45:25
through the ending because I I wanted to finish it before
1:45:28
switch to came out. So I like rushed through it and
1:45:31
I knew I wasn't going to be able to do it tonight or tomorrow.
1:45:34
So I was like, no, I got to do it tonight and I wish I would
1:45:38
have taken my time, but I'm going to play through New Game
1:45:40
Plus so it doesn't matter. But or you're going to play it
1:45:43
again when it comes out and switch to.
1:45:45
Yeah, I will play it again. Then when it comes out to switch
1:45:47
to yes, I will probably buy the physical there and trade in or
1:45:50
sell my Xbox copy. But I just, I really think they
1:45:56
really make you question a lot of things in that game,
1:45:59
especially in the second-half. I think the character dynamics
1:46:04
and relationships are really, you can feel them.
1:46:08
You can really like, I don't know, the great, great
1:46:12
performances, great act like it's just wonderful.
1:46:16
I, I, I found myself laughing, getting angry and crying.
1:46:23
And within this game, like there's this part I got to last
1:46:26
night where I literally laughed out loud.
1:46:30
I'm not going to spoil anything, but there's this, there's this
1:46:34
one character who's like very sarcastic.
1:46:37
And this character challenges another character to a duel.
1:46:42
And then a third character is like, don't make me participate,
1:46:47
but what other characters like, please help me.
1:46:50
It's it's I, I had to pause the game because I was laughing so
1:46:53
hard because of the delivery. And it's just like, Oh my God.
1:46:56
Plus, like, you know, the bond between these characters already
1:46:59
from playing for so long that it makes it funnier.
1:47:03
So it's just it's a great experience and I'm like itching
1:47:11
to play it again, which is something I rarely say I think
1:47:18
at this point. So Attaboy sand fall.
1:47:26
Oh, I hope, I hope this is a one off though, not going to lie, I
1:47:30
hope this is just a one off. They don't try to shove and
1:47:34
sequel in or force a sequel. I mean, if it comes naturally to
1:47:37
them, if it comes natural to them and they find a way to make
1:47:41
a sequel, then fine. But I just really hope it's a
1:47:44
one off. I think it's a special
1:47:46
experience. What was my question for you?
1:47:50
Because I. Get it together.
1:47:55
Yeah, right. Yeah, like, yeah, like keep your
1:47:57
thoughts. Oh, oh, you, you muted yourself
1:48:01
and then you came back. I feel like one of us says this
1:48:08
every single week, but get it together Xbox with your with
1:48:14
your strategy. What is it?
1:48:16
Tell people what it is. People get anxious when you
1:48:18
don't tell them things, even though that's blatantly right in
1:48:20
front of them. You need to tell them because
1:48:23
like they, they put their their proprietary handheld on hold so
1:48:28
they could better. Laurent disappeared so they
1:48:34
could focus on a Windows 11 mobile experience on like ROG
1:48:39
ally devices and and partner branded devices.
1:48:42
And it's like, Oh my gosh, like just tell everybody that you're
1:48:46
going to do that. Like don't make people guess.
1:48:50
It's annoying. It's really annoying when you
1:48:52
have to guess. Like it's one thing if like
1:48:55
Playstation's planning a new console and speculating that
1:48:57
it's fun. And of course I'm not going to
1:48:59
tell you that. But like when Xbox is doing what
1:49:02
they're doing and they're like seemingly ripping the Band-Aid
1:49:06
off while also duct taping your arm at the same time, like it's
1:49:10
just really annoying. And I don't care that they're
1:49:15
putting games on other on other consoles, but or like trying to
1:49:19
focus on APC experience. It's just like their
1:49:22
communication has always been awful.
1:49:24
I saw Aaron Greenberg tweet out another controller you can't buy
1:49:27
yesterday and that seems to be the only thing they market is
1:49:31
things you can't buy. And it's, they're just terrible
1:49:36
communicators and the people that do communicate are always
1:49:40
overruled by, you know, Microsoft as a whole.
1:49:44
And it's just been a really frustrating fan experience
1:49:51
because I really do like Xbox. I love the experience.
1:49:53
I love their run of games in the last year, like whether it's,
1:49:59
you know, first party or something that they've found and
1:50:02
put on Game Pass or something like in that aspect, they do a
1:50:06
great job. But like, tell us, you know,
1:50:11
just just tell us what you're doing, what your plan is.
1:50:15
Give us a road map, give us what you're thinking.
1:50:17
Like, I know that everybody that's leading Xbox right now is
1:50:23
going to be out by the time the next console comes out.
1:50:26
I don't think that's a secret to anyone.
1:50:29
Like Phil's going to be gone after this next box comes out.
1:50:32
I think whether he's forced out or he quote UN quote retires or
1:50:36
moves on or whatever, but you know, I just feel like the
1:50:43
people that want to do interesting things are hamstrung
1:50:46
by being a part of Microsoft because they spent $80 billion
1:50:50
on Activision and that court case.
1:50:54
So anyways, that's my get it together.
1:51:01
I like to complain about them even though I like them.
1:51:06
I complain because I love you. Don't talk to me.
1:51:12
Let's move along. We have 7 minutes to talk about
1:51:17
what we've been playing to get. Our clips are on.
1:51:22
Yes. I don't know what do you think I
1:51:24
am Stephanie? Then then I will be the sassy
1:51:30
pants I like. I like sci-fi better anyway.
1:51:34
Sassy pants balloons. So La Ron is here, but he can't
1:51:41
hear anybody for some reason or or yeah, his mouth is moving but
1:51:48
I can't hear him. So what's wrong with your mic?
1:51:51
Are you muted? Can.
1:51:54
You hear me now did. You change?
1:51:57
Yeah, I. Wasn't muted, but I, I, I
1:51:59
basically muted it and unmuted it and that seemed to work good.
1:52:03
I I guess I get the outro the show.
1:52:05
Well, La Ron. The only thing I've been playing
1:52:07
is Blachro. Well, no, no, I'm lying.
1:52:09
I'm lying because I did get back on Monster Hunter.
1:52:11
I didn't get back on Monster Hunter.
1:52:13
I had to play the I had to play the the akuma event quest in
1:52:16
Monster Hunter Wilds, which is pretty fun.
1:52:19
And also I had to get the the freaking the the sealed dragon
1:52:22
claw to get that get that strider looking scarf that you
1:52:25
may see some people running around playing in in Monster
1:52:27
Hunter stuff like that. But beyond that, like I've been
1:52:29
playing Oh. Yes.
1:52:31
I've been playing a lot of Blatchro, like shoot, like it's
1:52:33
been. It's way too addictive.
1:52:36
It's way too addictive. Yeah, it's funny because like,
1:52:42
I'm getting a much better respect for poker now.
1:52:47
It's fun. It's fun.
1:52:48
I I you only told me about a year after it was I released to
1:52:51
play it. But yeah, here I am.
1:52:57
OK, Well, I guess it's time to wrap up the show, Right.
1:53:02
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1:53:04
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You. I will.
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All right, you guys. Corey, Steph, thanks.
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Thanks you guys. You guys may have a birthday
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evening. Very, very fantastic.
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Spectacular, all that, all that stuff.
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Stephanie, thank you. Thank you for the T-shirt.
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I love it. Corey, thank you for being my
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friend. And just before I sign up, I
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want to thank you all again for watching Andrew listening.
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We will see you next time for an all new episode of the Foster
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podcast, the one and only flagship show for the network.
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So long. We'll see you later.
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If you want to see how you can become a Patreon producer, head
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on over to patreon.com/boss Rush Network.
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The Patreon producers for this month are Adriel Munger, Austin
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Campbell, Celeste Roberts, Sana Dyrig, Francisco Santilla,
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Matthew Keel, Retro Story, and Christian's.
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Thanks for your continued support of the Boss Rush
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Network.